Cat Mint Bar - the cup of elegant and delicious sake in memory | Mio (Mio)

I got to know him because of work, but that's all there is to it. He is taciturn, except for business, he will not talk about other topics. Even when everyone is chatting and joking, he will not interrupt, at most he will only show a slight smile, which is simply withdrawn!

It's just that I didn't expect that in the future, my life and this lonely man would start to cross lines. It was an overtime day when I worked late, and it was the beginning of my ice breaking with him.

The man who doesn't come home after working overtime

It was close to ten o'clock in the evening, and the work finally came to an end. Everyone hurriedly packed up their things and prepared to go home, except him.

"Why don't you leave? The building will close in half an hour." I asked him puzzled while I was finishing work.

"Hmm...I'm going to find another store to stay, and I won't be home until later."

"Why? It's very late and you have to go by yourself? Otherwise, I'll go with you! Please help me to confirm the contents of the document!" I found out that he was in a bad mood, and I felt that it was disrespectful to ignore him, so I thought of a reason go with him.

stories in the tavern

Then we came to a tavern in the East District. After sitting down and ordering a few small dishes, I opened the Notebook and asked him to help me confirm the file again. After the meal was ready, my work really came to an end, so I started chatting with him while eating.

"I don't have to face such a tense atmosphere before I go home after my family has gone to bed." Maybe it was because of a few cups of yellow soup, but he actually started talking about himself.

He is the only son in his family, a happy little foreign student who has been with his parents since he was a child. After graduating from university, he came back to work in Taiwan alone by chance. His parents who have settled in Canada have often traveled back and forth between Canada and Taiwan to look after their son. They have always been loving and filial until recent years. waves.

"My parents returned to Taiwan last week. My girlfriend bought a famous cake to accompany them for dinner two days ago, but their attitude was very cold. After my girlfriend left, my mother complained that the cake was not delicious, and there was a lot of garbage in the packaging of the cake. I In a moment of anger, I quarreled with her."

Tsk tsk tsk, the partner in front of me who always maintains a cold image is indeed a child! Mom doesn't like her girlfriend, so it can be reversed by carefully arranging performance opportunities, but he actually used a must-kill stunt - quarreling to defend, this move will definitely make mom hate her girlfriend even more!

While comforting him, I also offered some tricks hoping to help him save his girlfriend's position in his mother's heart. He listened quietly without saying a word, but he drank more and more wine, and his face began to turn red slowly because of the alcohol, and this redness still couldn't erase his depressed mood.

"Mom is also a girl, she needs to be coaxed, please be patient!" I tried to say something to make him relax.

real trouble

" They don't like my girlfriend, "she" is a boy ." After finishing speaking, he drank the glass of wine in front of him in one gulp.

From now on, I will quietly listen to him talking about the little things between him and his girlfriend, as well as the conflicts encountered when facing his parents.

From my point of view, a multi-family family is also a family, and there is nothing wrong with it; from a traditional thinking point of view, I can understand the impact on my parents. This matter is indeed a life problem for both him and his parents.

He admires his father for teaching him to have a practical scientific mind and a brave attitude to face life since he was a child. He is also very grateful for his mother's meticulous care all the time, but his parents' attitude towards the one he loves makes him feel uncomfortable. This emotional problem has been around him for many years, coupled with the unfriendly work environment, he has been in a state of refusal from others. The only way for him to relieve his mood is to drink. In this way, he talked and drank until the store closed and he still didn't wake up.

Every time I go back to my hometown, my parents will remind me: a girl should not come home too late, and don’t drink with others outside... I still can’t take care of my parents’ words at this time. He left it on the streets of the East District, right? ! So for the first time in my life, I hung out in the middle of the night after drinking, just to take him to the park when he was drunk, and wait until he was sober enough to get in a taxi and tell the driver the full address, then I took a taxi by myself car home.

Sake knocks on the door of friendship

The next day after get off work, he said he would treat me to dinner to thank me for staying with him so late yesterday. In addition to eating delicious food, he also ordered a bottle of beautiful sake - Mio. He said that this is a sake he likes very much, and he hopes I can try it too.

Even though I don't like sake, I fell in love with Mio at the first sip. The smell of mio is elegant and unique, with a strong taste in the throat but with a freshness on the level, which is completely different from ordinary sake.

He says he never trusts anyone he meets at work, and I've been the only exception since last night. Since then, we have become partners who absolutely support each other at work, and we have also become good friends.

He moved back to Canada a few years ago to start his own business, and his girlfriend flew over to help and became his most reliable work partner. At the beginning of his career, he rarely returned to Taiwan. Later, due to the epidemic, we have not seen each other for many years, and only occasionally messaged to care about each other's recent situation.

After the heavy rain, the sunny day ushered in

A while ago, he received the good news that he and his girlfriend had completed a lifelong event and lived with his parents ! Is there anything more joyful than seeing a lover become a family member? After all, parents still love their children! Maybe the other half of the son is not what they imagined at the beginning, and it does not meet the traditional expectations, but the son's happiness and happiness are much more important than the tradition! Happy for him as a friend.

Now I still don’t like sake, except Mio’s unique wine. Because it added a special good friend in my life, it is a special wine.