Chapter 8: Magpie 05
Mo Beibei and her friends ultimately failed to win the entrepreneurship competition. They were very disappointed and decided to come to our bar to have a drink and relax.
It is inevitable to encounter setbacks and failures in life. What is more important than the results is the experience.
This game was originally a test for them, and it was good enough to be able to enter the semi-finals.
I was sitting on the train on my way home, listening to Mosquito telling me on the phone about Mo Beibei and the others coming to the bar to play, and looking at the birds flying outside.
Mosquito has become much more cheerful. She is no longer as cold and depraved as she was , nor is she as weak and simple as the one I knew when I was a child.
Mosquito was telling me about the things happening in the bar. I had to go home during the winter vacation, and I had originally wanted to hand over the things there to Xiaoba, but Mosquito said that she would not go back, so the store would let her take full charge.
In fact, I don’t hate this kind of mosquito. I think she is much more capable now than the mosquito I was familiar with when I was a child. It’s just that her thoughts are more difficult for me to understand.
After talking about Mo Beibei and the others, Mosquito talked about his plan to expand the bar business.
Li Wei's bar has been doing much better business in the past six months, and with Mosquito's sophistication, the bar's performance has been even better in the past few months that she has been in charge.
Mosquito took a fancy to a nearby Internet cafe and decided to buy it, turn it into a branch of the bar, and hire a group of people to take charge of it.
By the time I found out about this, Mosquito had already bought the store, and now all he was telling me about was the store's decoration and staff allocation.
It’s not that I don’t like money, everyone wants to make more money, but this store is not mine, it belongs to Vivi.
Mosquito once asked me where Li Wei had gone.
In fact, I really want to tell her that we are living a free life here, but Vivi is in jail.
But I couldn't. Once I told a lie, I had to keep telling it. Everyone knew that Li Wei went to France with her boyfriend. Everyone told Mosquito that, so I could only tell her that. After all, Ji Yusheng and his friends often came to the bar to play, and I didn't want Mosquito to accidentally tell Ji Yusheng after knowing the truth.
I promised Weiwei that I wouldn’t tell anyone, not even a mosquito.
Mosquito excitedly told me about the layout of the bar chain, and I rubbed my temples habitually to relieve the pain in my head.
I really want to tell Mosquito that Li Wei opened this bar not to make money, but just to give her brothers who followed her food, to give them a safe haven like home, to give them something to do, and not to let them go out and cause trouble. Nowadays, Li Wei's bar is doing very well, and Xiaoba's group of people are all very well-behaved. Everyone likes this kind of life, so there is no need to fight for another market.
What we want is love and a stable life, not money or greater benefits.
Opening up a new market requires a price. Who will pay? Who will manage the store? Who owns the store? Does she know whose money she used to open the store?
It belongs to Weiwei! All the money earned in the bar, except for the salary paid to everyone, belongs to Weiwei. She decided to use the money to open a shop without my consent. I have nothing to say, but I just want to tell her not to forget who the owner of the shop is. Xiaoba and the others can forget who they are following Big Sister.
Since Mosquito helped them make money, they called her Sister Wen, just like they called Li Wei, calling her Big Sister.
They can forget Vivi, but I can't.
I have heard such a story since I was a child. The turtledoves cannot build nests, so they often occupy the magpie's nest. Hence, there is an idiom "Jiu Zhan Que Chao" to describe occupying someone else's house or position. When I hung up the phone, I only left one sentence for Mosquito.
Don't learn from the cuckoo that takes over the magpie's nest.
That bar is neither mine nor hers, it belongs to Vivi. One day, the magpie will return to its nest.
I think mosquitoes will understand what I mean. Don't take things that are not yours. Whether we are friends or not, we must do our duty well.
When I got home, I went to see Aunt Li first, and then went to the detention center .
I haven't seen Weiwei for a long time.
It was very different from the first time I saw Weiwei in the detention center. Everyone seemed to have changed. Before, when we were together, Weiwei always talked more and I just listened. But now, I talk more and she just listens.
Li Wei's hair had grown longer, reaching her shoulders, and she looked a little shy like a little girl. She said, Ye Zi, you seem to have gained weight. I said, Wei Wei, you have become thinner. Then the two of them held the microphone and laughed through the glass in the middle. Li Wei said, time flies so fast, there is still half a year left before I can go out. I said, time doesn't fly so fast, I count every day, and there is still half a year left. After a few words, the time was up, and Li Wei was taken away again. I told Li Wei about the bar, about meeting Mosquito again, and about the school, but I didn't tell her that Ji Yusheng was together with Leng Yuting.
I later found out that Weiwei knew everything. Li Wei had a cellmate who was released half a year earlier than her. After she was released, the girl went to City A to find her boyfriend. Coincidentally, her boyfriend and Li Wei were from the same school. One time, the girl came back to see Li Wei out of nostalgia. She talked about her boyfriend and her boyfriend's roommate, saying that his roommate had a girlfriend who was even more wild and domineering than Li Wei, named Leng Yuting, and that roommate was called Ji Yusheng.
No wonder Weiwei kept asking me that day if I had anything else to say to her.
Weiwei kept asking me if everyone believed my lies.
She kept asking me if anyone missed her.
No wonder her smile that day seemed so forced.
It turns out that Weiwei is also a child who likes to hide her sadness in her heart.
