Business at the shop had been slow lately.
We had over thirty property listings sitting unsold.
For several days running, not a single client had come to view a property.
With nothing to do, we could only go out and hand out flyers, but that brought very little in the way of results.
Ever since we returned from Lin City, Song Xiaotian had gone back to avoiding Pan Xiaorou. He would not even answer her calls, so I was getting calls from her every day again.
The day before Old Master Song's big birthday celebration, Pan Xiaorou came to our shop again.
But this time was different from the previous visits. Pan Xiaorou had a strange expression, and after greeting us, she called Song Xiaotian outside.
Once she had called him outside, we had no idea what the two of them were saying. Whatever it was, things seemed rather unpleasant.
They did not talk for long before Pan Xiaorou handed Song Xiaotian a sheet of paper. We did not know what was on it, but after reading it, he seemed to turn to stone.
Then Pan Xiaorou got into her car and left.
Meng Yifan and I watched with some anxiety, unsure what was going on between them now.
Actually, we both hoped Song Xiaotian and Pan Xiaorou would get together. It was not that we wanted to benefit from the connection. Mainly, Pan Xiaorou was a good person. Aside from her having been married before, we even thought she was out of Song Xiaotian's league.
As for having been married before, in this day and age, that was hardly an insurmountable obstacle.
"Could Pan Xiaorou have had enough of his cold shoulder and broken up with him?" Meng Yifan looked at me.
"Surely not," I said. "Pan Xiaorou likes