Why it never ends

Putting down the menu, Hesta noticed a few strange looks.

The guests sitting at several tables near her were looking towards her in unison, and when she looked back, they quickly looked away and reinvested in their own conversations.

A waiter came up to Hestad with a soft drink and dessert - it was the girl Hestad met at the optical shop in the afternoon.At this time, she tied up her long crimson hair with two wooden hairpins. After putting down the exquisite cups and dishes, she hugged the dinner plate to her chest and stared softly with her light blue eyes. He looked at Hesta and bowed slightly.

"Please enjoy."

Hesta laughed dumbly, and she suddenly realized the absurdity of the whole thing: in a place of enjoyment with the theme of "Hesta people", how could there be real Hesta people coming here to consume... …

Will anyone spend money to enjoy the "fun" of being watched?

Hesta did not touch the desserts or drinks. Amidst the continuous music and rose-red lights, she sat leaning against the back of the chair for three to 10 minutes.
During this period, Hestad's eyes always fell on the waiters in the restaurant on the second floor.The movements of these waiters are really not very skillful, and their responses when talking to customers are also a bit jerky... Hesta remembered what the young man said at noon, "Aren't you also Mrs. Kajia's guest?", and suddenly came up with an inference - - Could it be that the customers he was referring to were these young men pretending to be Hestads on the second floor of the cafe tonight.

...However, among the many faces, Hesta waited for a long time and could not find the man who was in a hurry at noon.Maybe he doesn't serve in this area, or maybe, just like last time, he was kicked out mercilessly by Mrs. Katja.

The time pointed to nine o'clock. First, Eucalyptus sent a list of names of nuts and fruits, asking Hesta if there was anything he was allergic to or didn't like to eat. Hesta glanced at it and quickly replied "no"; shortly afterwards, Ding Yuqing messaged and asked, "Why haven't you come back yet?" Hesta gave a general answer, "It will be a little later today."

She clutched her phone and pondered for a long time, hesitating whether to start the topic she had written down yesterday with Eucalyptus, but finally gave up - it was really not a good time at the moment.

Not long after, the screen came on again. This time it was Yu Xuekun. She wrote a letter asking Hesta if she wanted to order persimmons: She knew that a nearby small farm picked persimmons and dried them every year, but they did not sell them on the market. They only sold them in her own small farm. Ask around in the circle who wants it this year, and they will make as many as they order.

Hesta looked at the screen, and suddenly had a very strange feeling - she couldn't tell at what specific moment it started, and her mobile phone would occasionally receive messages as frequently as now.

Hesta mentally calculated the people she wanted to send to: "Okay, I'll order ten boxes."

"...A person can order up to three boxes at most. If you order more, I won't be able to handle it."

"Then three boxes. Is it convenient for you to tell your fortune now?"

"Convenience, what's the point?"

"I'm waiting for someone in a place right now. I've been waiting for more than half an hour. I'm a little tired. Please figure out whether I can wait tonight." Hesta raised her head and randomly counted the number of small tables on the second floor. , the number of spotlights and the number of customers whose faces she could see clearly, and reported the numbers, "16, 51, 36."

After a while, Yu Xuekun replied: "Dihuo Mingyi, Shangliu...where have you been?"

"You will never guess." Hesta typed quickly, "What does this hexagram mean?"

"It means to let you leave quickly. In the Ming Yi hexagram, the earth is above and the fire is below, which is the symbol of the collapse of light. The last six chapters are over, 'first ascend to the sky, then enter the earth', you will not get good results if you wait... …Where are you now? You didn’t go home so late and started running around outside again?”

"I'm waiting for Mrs. Katya at the café."

As soon as the news was sent out, Hesta's phone rang almost immediately - Yu Xuekun dialed directly.

"Hey--"

"Get out of there right away." "But..."

"No buts, leave now. Call me when you get out."

A busy signal came from the other end of the phone. Hesta slowly put away the phone and leaned back in the chair with a normal expression.

After sitting for about half a minute, she got up and walked towards the stairs.

"Jane?" The waiter who was standing at the top of the stairs came over and blocked Hestad's way. "What's the matter, can't you wait?"

Hesta didn't speak, just looked at her gloomily, "Get out of the way."

The waiter was startled by Hesta's eyes and quickly took a step aside.

Along the way, Hesta returned to the first floor smoothly. The smokers in the corner of the first floor had disappeared. The empty cafe was dimly lit. The valet heard her footsteps and said hello. He opened the glass door for her.

Hesta stepped out of the cafe without looking back. It was raining outside, and the scattered raindrops were slightly cold on her body.

She called Yu Xuekun again. After two rings, Yu Xuekun answered the phone, "Are you out?"

"Come out," Hesta replied, "What's going on... It was you who suggested that I come to Mrs. Katja to play chess before -"

"I mean go during the day, during the day! When Ding Yuqing took you to the cafe before, wasn't it also during the day?"

"...Is this divided into day and night? The last time I asked Mrs. Kajia to meet was on Sunday night, but I was in a bad mood that day, so I didn't keep the appointment——"

"Fortunately, you didn't keep the appointment! Why did you ask her to meet at night? You are a student, and you have to go back to your dormitory at night - to your host family," Yu Xuekun interrupted Hesta, "and the cafe is closed at night. , all the restaurants open are upstairs, didn’t you notice?”

Hesta grabbed the phone and turned around slowly.

On this rainy and gloomy night, Mrs. Kajia’s cafe stood in the darkness.At the entrance of the cafe, a hanging orange street lamp was reflected in the water on the ground. Hestad suddenly thought of the overhead lanterns that angler fish use to lure food.

Hesta vaguely felt that she had been cheated by Yu Xuekun.

"Every time you made an appointment to meet at night, didn't the waiters there reject you?" Yu Xuekun asked, "Didn't they tell you that it would be better for you to go there during the day, just like Ding Yuqing did?"

"...I basically didn't set the meeting time," Hestad took a deep breath and closed her eyes to recall, "Every time they gave me an appointment, it was at night, Friday night, Sunday night...there was no daytime. "

On the other end of the phone, Yu Xuekun suddenly fell silent.

"Hello? Are you still listening?"

"Here." Yu Xuekun whispered, "...whenever you are free tomorrow, I will go to school to find you."