Kunming, who will you forget tonight

Chapter 146
"Too late?" Su Yubing still didn't understand what "too late" meant.

I said softly: "My grandfather left last night. According to local customs, he will go to cremation tomorrow morning. There is no direct flight from Kunming to Hailar. Even if I go back now, I have to go to BJ first, and then transfer from BJ to Hailar. I have to take a bus for about four hours after getting off the plane, and now I can’t even attend the funeral when I go back. What does it mean to attend a funeral? There are no people left, and I haven’t seen the last face.” Speaking of this, I felt infinite remorse in my heart, and said to myself: "If I asked a few more questions yesterday, if I promised my mother to go back early, maybe grandpa would be able to stand up again..."

Su Yubing leaned towards me, grabbed my hand, looked into my eyes and comforted me and said, "Birth, old age, sickness and death are a normal part of life."

Life is a long or short distance. Everyone has their own end point, but some people's end point is closer, while some people's end point is farther...

Going back to Amy’s bar and sitting in the corner that belongs to me, sometimes I really can’t understand why I left myself in a foreign land, my relatives are not around, this strange city does not belong to me, what remains is Memories that I don't want to mention.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Su Yubing, who was sitting opposite me in a daze with me, answered the phone and said to me, "Qiu Han... are you okay?"

"Hmm." I said softly, "It's just a little sad, and it's not really stimulated by anything. You don't have to worry about me."

"I'm going to the company. I won't go back to eat at night. Don't be too sad. Call me if you need anything."

"Go and get busy." I lay my head on the table and looked out of the window, as if time stood still.

The bar attendant tried not to disturb me when cleaning. After Su Yubing left, Amy came to sit with me. At about 04:30, Zhuo Lan drove her Porsche to the bar and saw me and Amy Sitting here, walked straight to this corner, sat next to Amy, and complained: "Qiu Han, what happened to you today? Why are you still arguing with Luo Xin? She is clamoring for you to apologize to her."

"Okay." I whispered, "Where is she? I'll go and apologize to her now."

Amy said in a commanding tone: "Sit here, you can't go anywhere."

Zhuo Lan found that Amy was also a little upset, and asked, "What's the matter? What did Luo Xin say that was exciting? She was spoiled by her family since she was a child..."

Amy interrupted Zhuo Lan's words and said: "Lanlan's matter today has nothing to do with Luo Xin, Qiu Han's grandfather passed away."

Zhuo Lan covered her mouth and stopped talking, Amy explained: "Luo Xin was talking to him when I received this news, and then..."

Zhuo Lan sighed softly and said, "I can imagine that Luo Xin's speech was already annoying, and Qiu Han was also in a bad mood, and then he yelled at her."

Amy asked: "Do you still want Qiu Han to apologize to her? Yesterday he received a call from home and couldn't go back due to work reasons. He worked really hard for your investment promotion work. You shouldn't blame him anymore gone."

"Well." Zhuo Lan said: "I know what Luo Xin is like, Qiu Han, don't feel bad..."

"I'm tired." I got up and said, "I want to go back and sleep for a while."

Amy got up and said, "I'll take you back."

"No, I want to walk alone."

I passed by the pharmacy and bought a box of sleeping pills, otherwise it would be difficult to fall asleep tonight, so I went home and boiled some water, took two pills and threw the rest of the sleeping pills on the coffee table, and went back to my bedroom and fell asleep on the bed.I thought I would sleep better after taking sleeping pills, but it turned out that I didn’t sleep for a long time. Someone shook my body desperately, accompanied by eager shouting, and felt difficulty in breathing at the same time.

Opening her eyes in a daze, she saw Su Yubing riding on me, with her hand still on my nose, seeing me open her eyes, she wept with joy, and said happily: "Wake up... you Finally woke up..."

"What's wrong?" I asked, "Why did you wake me up?"

Su Yubing was still riding on my belly, her left hand was on my right shoulder, her right hand was covering her mouth, her face was very excited, and she taught me: "What can't you think about it? As for this? Who hasn't been born, aged, sick and died, why are you still looking for short-sightedness?"

"What?" I frowned and said, "What suicide?"

"You still don't admit it, I've seen the sleeping pills in the living room..."

I was very speechless, and explained: "I was afraid that I would suffer from insomnia, so I took two tablets. I finally fell asleep, and you woke me up again by shaking me."

"Oh!" Su Yubing said in a low voice: "So that's the case, I thought you couldn't think about it..."

I was so angry and funny, I looked at her and asked, "How long will you be sitting on my stomach? Do you feel very chubby and comfortable?"

Su Yubing smiled embarrassedly, and said, "It feels pretty good."

"what time is it?"

"Eleven o'clock." Su Yubing said: "Qiuhan, I know you are in a bad mood, and you can't mourn the old man in a different place. I bought you a Kongming lantern, and I will accompany you to put the Kongming lantern, a little good sustenance. "

I stared into Su Yubing's eyes for ten seconds, sat up suddenly, and said, "Let's go."

Su Yubing instinctively hugged my neck with both hands, and complained with a blushing face: "You are going to die, you can't wait for me to get out of bed before you get up, almost fell down."

I got up and carried Su Yubing off my bed. Like a koala, she wrapped her legs around my waist and hugged my neck tightly with her hands. I stood on the ground and said, "You How long are you going to hang on me?"

Only then did Su Yubing let go of her hands, stood on the ground with both feet and said proudly: "It's fun, you can change your clothes first, I'll wait for you in the living room."

I looked down at my beach shorts. It was late at night, and I really couldn’t wear them out. I found a pair of jeans and put on a hoodie, and went out as simple as that. Su Yubing bought a lot of Kongming lanterns and reminded me I remember bringing a lighter, and we walked to Amy's bar first, and got the car keys from Amy.

Amy asked me where I was driving so late?I said to go to Haigeng Dam to release Kongming lanterns, Amy explained to the manager of the store, and then drove to Haigeng Dam with Su Yubing and me.

Beside the Haigeng Dam, facing the cold wind blowing from the water surface of Dianchi Lake, accompanied by Su Yubing and Amy, all the Kongming lanterns were released. Perhaps it was because they had sustenance in their hearts, but it was not so sad. Sitting on the Haigeng Dam I lit a cigarette, looked up at the Kongming lanterns that were gradually fading away, and listened to the rhythm of Dianchi water slapping on the embankment... my mood calmed down.

Amy stood beside me and reminded me: "Go back, it's very windy here late at night, don't get cold."

"Sit for a while." I pointed to the Kongming lanterns in the sky and said, "We will leave when they disappear."

Su Yubing looked up at the sky and said softly: "Turning into a flying Kongming lantern, carrying people's good wishes, looking at the world from another angle, maybe everything will be different."

"Fairy, I ran away after answering the phone in the afternoon. Is it because of work?"

"Ah."

I followed up and asked, "Is it related to Brilliance Department Store?"

Su Yubing hesitated for a moment, and then said: "I didn't want to tell you at this time, but it's good to divert your attention, because there is a large LED advertising screen in the city center that is a pure advertisement, and today I received a call from the marketing department According to the news over there, the people in the production department are required to work overtime and produce the video files overnight, Brilliance Department Store has indeed adopted a strategy of reducing rent and extending the rent-free period, and the advertisement should be released tomorrow morning."

I looked at the time, it was 12:45 in the middle of the night.

I said to Su Yubing: "Publish the advertisement, print it overnight, and replace all the advertisements in several streets as quickly as possible."

"Now?" Su Yubing looked at me with wide eyes and asked, "Qiu Han, have you not thought about it carefully? Are you really going to do this?"

"Yes." I said to Su Yubing very affirmatively: "Just do this. This matter is my fault. There was no need to be in such a hurry. If I didn't go back to sleep in the afternoon, I couldn't miss the time to change the advertisement. It’s not too late, we can only work hard for the people below, overtime pay is ours.”

Amy leaned over and asked, "Why is the advertisement so urgent?"

Su Yubing seemed to grasp the last straw that could persuade me to give up, and said to Amy: "Sister Mi, I think Qiu Han is a bit too risky this time, he had expected that Brilliance Department Store would not be able to compete with Yinglan Building. Under certain circumstances, he will reduce the rent and extend the rent-free period to attract merchants, so he asked me to make an advertisement a few days ago. The content of the advertisement is exactly the opposite of Brilliance Department Store. The lease period, and there is also a notice in the advertisement that customers who sign up after August 8 will increase the rent. I know what this advertisement means, but I always feel that it is too risky."

I explained: "The reason for raising the rent is to meet the needs of the merchants. Just imagine, the rent is a bit higher, but there are no more shops, and they are all high-quality shops. The rent is indeed cheap, but there are many vacant shops. Any consumer would not want to shop and spend in a mall with few people, right? Merchants also know what customer traffic means. In this case, merchants will be more inclined to open stores in shopping malls with a lot of traffic. Is the rent of [-] yuan really important to a merchant who can open a store in a large shopping mall?"

Su Yubing said emphatically: "Your analysis is correct, but I still think it's too risky."

I changed another cigarette and said to Su Yubing: "Let me tell you a story, after listening to it, you will believe that I did nothing wrong."

(End of this chapter)