The Story of the Caf é in the Cafe

Gu Yue was 22 years old and was a handsome little boy in Chongqing Vector Cafe. In his world, everything is new and unknown.

In the summer of 2008, he met Marie. She is over 60, dressed in a suit, slightly fat, but elegant. She looks very kind, especially when she purses her lips like a lovely child. Gu Yue recalled her, silent eyes immediately had waves, he said with a warm smile, Marie has a pure childlike innocence. In the time when Marie appeared, the change she brought to him must have been a lifetime.

Marie, a Frenchman, is the headmaster of a French-speaking union in Chongqing. When she leaves school, she will go to a quiet place to deal with other large and small documents at work. Vector coffee has become her regular resting place. When she closes at night, she is always the last to get up and leave. Every time she says hello to her colleagues in the cafe with a friendly French "Bonjour". Gu Yue likes French, and he begins to say hello to Marie with the raw "Bonjour" pronunciation. Gradually, they changed from strangers to friends, and a young boy in his 20s and an old man became old friends.

Marie knew that Guyue's cafe was so busy that he was so busy that he always had no time to visit the places he wanted to visit. For a boy who grew up in the south, Gu Yue yearned for Beijing, and the place known as the "imperial capital" has always attracted him. One day, Marie inadvertently knew that a salon that Gu Yue liked would be held in Beijing. She bought him a ticket from Chongqing to Beijing. She smiled and said to Gu Yue, "go and see the city you don't know." Gu Yue did not expect that the first time in her life to take a plane was with the help of Marie. On weekdays, Marie is very busy at work, but it is important to know that Gu Yue likes French and she takes time to teach him French every week. Gu Yue began to master the basic language of French from the beginning of her astringent pronunciation. Until one day, Marie said to him, you don't have to come to class anymore. Your French should be all right.

At this point, I saw that Gu Yue's eyes were filled with tears and her eyes were red. He tried to restrain his emotions and said faintly that he did not know when France and other countries were no longer the same strangers to him. France is beginning to get warmer. From then on, when he thought of France, he couldn't help reading French, and his heart was warm. Yes, a lot of things are different because of Marie.

Marie's assistant once secretly told Gu Yue that Marie was actually a workaholic and sometimes grumpy, but every time Gu Yue learned that Gu Yue was coming to school to learn French, the whole school teacher did not have to be criticized that day. At this point, the assistant girl laughed mischievously. "We wish you would come to school every day."

Gu Yue said that there are differences between foreigners and Chinese in their treatment of many things. The emergence of Marie always inspired him, and he began to reflect on himself from Marie.

He told a short story about Marie. One day, the vector cafe had a gourmet activity, and the glass for making gourmet food was completely transparent, and everyone could see every step of the process. There was a little girl standing on the transparent glass outside the door, her hands on her eyes, her forehead and body lying on the glass. She kept staring at the rows of delicious and sweet cakes in the glass of the cafe outside. How long she has been standing, no one knows, everyone is too busy arranging activities to care about. Only Marie saw the little girl. She took a plate full of snacks, walked out quickly and handed it to the little girl. The little girl stepped back a little in amazement. She bowed her head in embarrassment and said in a low voice, "I don't eat, my hands are dirty." Marie touched her head warmly. The little girl smiled...

Marie and Gu Yue have not been in touch for some time, Gu Yue said. Every time Marie goes to China, he will contact him and call him. The last time Marie left China, Gu Yue knew that Marie was sick, but she didn't know what was wrong with her. When Marie calmly answered him "Cancer" in English, Gu Yue immediately burst into tears. Fortunately, Marie's disease is positive.

Gu Yue knows that no matter what happens, she will still smile like a warm child, moving everyone around her. Now, Gu Yue has left the vector coffee, but all the memories about Marie are in his heart, silently, warm, taking root and sprouting.