Small Times 3.0 Golden Age

Chapter 2 CHAPTER 01

Chapter 2 CHAPTER 01
After January passed, the arrogance of winter weakened a lot.

After February passed, Spring faintly lifted a little of her charming skirt.

With the arrival of March, the sky in Shanghai has finally lost its leaden gray appearance in the cold spring. The blue sky has no impurities, just like a child who has no intentions, turning it pure and beautiful. The face is exposed in front of everyone unobstructed—"the sky of history has an ageless face", yes, it is really young and clean, not like our group of doomsday girls: deep-minded, She has a thick skin, heavy makeup, and short skirts. She longs for immortality, and worships those fairies with childlike faces and big breasts in "Journey to the West" from the bottom of her heart.

Do we like such a blue and cloudless sky?like.But only and always only when it appears in novels and movies, we have the courage to appreciate and look directly at it.However, in the real world, such a few hours of naked exposure to the sun, in Gu Li's words, is "Oh, please help me, you might as well just put your own body on your body if you walk naked under the sun for several hours. The date of birth on the ID card should be changed to 1978! And it’s better if you were born in Africa! You’ll hear a non-mainstream person with emerald green hair call you ‘auntie’ heartily on the street! Help! Please help."

Speaking of changing the identity card, my good sister, Gu Li, has been messing around with this matter recently, trying to change her date of birth to be three years younger...but it's just been unsuccessful, but to be precise, based on my treatment of her The understanding is only a "temporary" attempt.I have no doubts about her hands-on ability, so if she wants to make up her mind, I think she can change the gender on the ID card.

Her surging and amazing hands-on ability sprouted from a handicraft class she took in the third grade of elementary school.At that time, with the body of a nine-year-old girl, she made a toy sheep inlaid with iron sheets, screwed tightly, and battery-operated. She called that thing a sheep, but in our eyes, that thing Looks more like a Baba Dad - since then, this manual ability has never declined and has increased day by day.When she was in the sixth grade of elementary school, this ability evolved to become even more unattainable.That year, our class teacher gave a boy named Li Xu the only "little red flower" in the class and did not give it to Gu Li. For this reason, Gu Li used 10 minutes between classes to run Go to the office, sit in front of our class teacher, and give a speech on the theme of "Who is the safflower to me, I deserve my name" calmly and heartily, giving examples, presenting facts, telling stories, telling The truth is, from the bend of Liuyang River, I have been talking about a few girls in the class who have menstruation recently (...), the sky and the earth, talking about the past and the present, for a month, five days a week, three times a day, 10 minutes each time... 11-year-old Gu Li looks solemn and calm like Miejue Shitai, like an old woman who sees through the world but is extremely paranoid, sitting on the stool in front of the desk of our head teacher every day, with gray temples Fingers black.In the end, our dear homeroom teacher broke down. With trembling hands, she tore off the little plastic red flower from Li Xu's chest, and tremblingly pinned it to Gu Li's newly developed chest—for this reason, Li Xu got angry and "hey" and "hey" in his own home for a week, and refused to call our head teacher "Mom".

The sun shone fiercely on our faces, as if God was slapping us gently.Nan Xiang had already gone into the house to look for sunscreen, and I was exposed to the scorching sun with a sad face, waiting for Nan Xiang to come out of the house to rescue me like a vampire who was about to explode in the sun.

But Gu Li, who was sitting next to me, raised her face, which was as precious as the land in Jing'an District, without moving, and faced the blazing sun in March calmly and openly. Worried that the high-intensity ultraviolet rays will damage her delicate face that needs to be painted for hundreds of yuan every morning.I looked at her with an extremely anxious expression. She turned her head to look at me and gave me a smile that was as comfortable as death. Her smile came from the mask that welders usually wear on her face Through the tea-tinted glass, I could feel her saying to me, "I wanna play a game."

Half an hour ago, we responded to Gu Li's call (actually a threat) that "the willows will grow in spring, and the girls go out to bask in the sun." There are [-] square meters of lawns that are trimmed and watered by gardeners to soak up the sun.The grass is lush green and looks golden in the early summer sun.A shiny brass sign next to it clearly states the noble pedigree of this lawn in both Chinese and English: Creeping horseshoe gold and stepgrass are planted in a mixed ratio of three to seven.Gu Li is particularly obsessed with this sign. When she found this sign quietly standing on the edge of the lawn, she was as excited as if she had found her mother's little tadpole, with tears in her eyes.I can understand her very well. You must know that there are two types of leisure books she likes to read most in her life: one is the instruction manual introducing the formula content of various substances on the back of the outer packaging of skin care products, and the other is the company’s financial information. report.

Because of this bronze medal, she firmly believes that she is renting in an expensive neighborhood, even though she recently moved into this alley and used various old villas to open literary bookstores, literary coffee shops, literary flower shops, and literary perfume shops There are more and more literary and artistic youths, but she still went to renew the lease with the landlord for another two years.In fact, she doesn't need to rely on this bronze medal to confirm that she has rented an expensive residential area. She only needs to take a little time to glance at her monthly rent bills to confirm without hesitation—that seems to be equivalent to six years of my life. monthly salary.

In fact, apart from the bilingual bronze medal, there are many things to be proud of in this community, not just its rent.For example, one day, Nan Xiang said to Gu Li who was doing yoga on a blanket spread out on the lawn: "Do you know that Zhang Ailing used to live here too." She squinted her eyes half-closed, and made a faint breath from her white fangs: "Who? Zhang Ailing? This woman is quite rich. What kind of movie has she been in?"

Nan Xiang: "..."

However, no matter what, not everyone has the courage to open up such a piece of green space belonging to the community in such an area where every inch of land is so expensive in Jing'an District.You know, even if you build a thatched shed on it, it can be worth a beautifully decorated two-bedroom and one living room in Xinzhuang—of course, the property is not that stupid, the wool comes from the sheep, and the land of these lawns The value and daily maintenance costs are all counted on the heads of the owners.Do you think that the property fee of one month is donated to the children of Hope Primary School?
Not long after we lay down on the recliner, in the distance, two handsome men with slender stature and deep facial features came towards us with several cups of takeaway coffee on a cardboard tray.You know, on the streets of Shanghai, there are generally two types of people walking with cardboard trays: one is the human beings in front of them who live strictly according to the advertising model in fashion magazines, and their paper shells contain cups of Coffee; and the other is the down-to-earth aunts of the neighborhood committee, holding a dozen fresh eggs in the paper shells in their hands.

If you have paid attention to our life two years ago, you will definitely guess at this moment that Jian Xi and Gu Yuan, two beauties, walked over shoulder to shoulder.They carry tennis rackets in the same way as guitars, like two male peacocks with their tails open all the time.

However, if you have paid attention to my latest recent situation, you must also know that Jianxi has disappeared from my life. After he left a letter that made me miserable After the wedding march ended, the ground, which was still wet just now, was scorched by the scorching sun and returned to its original state in a blink of an eye, without a trace.

So who do you think it would be?

Gu Yuan and Xi Cheng?
──Thank you for your rich imagination. You should snatch the megaphone from Zhang Jizhong's hand and take his place in the new version of "Journey to the West". In the past, you would have wondered how China's censorship system was suddenly loosened, and even tertiary movies could be broadcast on stars.

Wei Hai and Sogo?
──Thank you for your endless screenwriting ability. You should grab Guo Jingming’s home computer and write "Little Times" instead of him. I believe it will not take long. The "Little Times" series will be released to 10.0, which is better than antivirus Software updates are fast.

Gong Ming and Lan Jue?

──Thank you for your incredible ability to innovate, you should go to the Ministry of Defense to develop a satellite, and then put it in the sky as a kite.

Two handsome guys stood in front of us. If Neil, who is of mixed British temperament, and Gu Zhun, who looks like a pale young god of death, were not enough to make me and Nan Xiang scream, then, at this moment, there is a two-year-old boy among them. The little boy Jimmy, with his big watery eyes and long eyelashes flickering, is lying on Neil's broad and strong chest and looking at us. The picture in front of him has appeared in my sleep with Nan Xiang many times. What a harmonious family of three.

The two of them sat down next to us, the sun shining on Neil's blond hair, his mixed-race features and his blue pupils, bringing the cold breath of the vast ocean, the kind of transparent and sharp young boy beautiful.And Gu Zhun's dark eyebrows set off his pale skin, revealing the aristocratic beauty of the vampire in "Twilight" in the light, vampires basking in the sun, what a new thing.

"It's really lively around here." Because there were no extra reclining chairs, Gu Zhun naturally sat down on the armrest of Gu Li's reclining chair, "Coffee shops are opening one after another, STARBUCKS has opened three, and there is a COFFEE BEAN , a Costa, when I just passed the corner of the street, I saw that McCafe was about to open. In a few years, the faucets in the neighborhoods around this area will be full of coffee pulp when you turn it on, right?" Thanks to his slender and light body , so I was able to sit on the armrest of the reclining chair in such a natural and charming posture. If Tang Wanru was replaced, the reclining chair would shatter with a click.

"Mc Cafe? Menstrual coffee? Real or not?" Tang Wanru put her hand on her chest.

Gu Zhun's pupils trembled violently a few times, but he managed to maintain his composure.I believe he was terrified inside, because when he entered our life, Tang Wanru, this monster, was still wandering outside.And now, yes, she's back.Once again she was reintegrated into our lives, seemingly seamlessly and seamlessly, as if a piece of plasticine kneaded itself into a piece of chewing gum.

"Mc is McDonald's." I answered her feebly.

"Oh, let me tell you, I was thinking, what's wrong with all the manufacturers in the world, they are trying to compete with menstruation, menstruation coffee, my god, those who dare to drink it are real warriors. Tell me a book The magazine is called "At that Time Menstruation" and it's crazy enough, but Gu Li, who reads it." Tang Wanru hasn't seen him for a few months, and he has learned to be sarcastic.

"Don't McDonald's make chicken, why is it also involved in the coffee business?" Nan Xiang hysterically applied sunscreen on his face, while continuing the conversation.

"In these days, who can't cook a chicken?" Tang Wanru sneered and uttered a warning motto.

When Nan Xiang and I were bowing our heads and pondering how Tang Wanru had such a high degree of perspective and analysis of this society, and was good at using associations and metaphors, she suddenly half sat up, feeling a little woke up, and suddenly realized: " Oh, I was wrong, I mean, who can't make coffee these days?"

I don't know if it was frightened by Tang Wanru who suddenly sat up, but Jimmy suddenly started crying softly.Gu Li stretched out his hand as quickly as lightning, ready to hug Jimmy: "Oh, Jimmy, don't cry, my sister will take care of you."

However, before Gu Li could kill him, Gu Zhun hugged the little Jimmy who was crying on Neil's chest in advance. He gently hugged Jimmy to his white shirt chest, and said to Gu Li: "Sister, Listen to me, it's no use wrapping him in a Hermès blanket and putting him in a safe."

Gu Li's face was flushed, as if she had been humiliated, she said angrily, "You haven't tried it, how do you know?!"

Under Gu Zhun's comfort, Jimmy stopped crying after a while. He lay in Gu Zhun's arms with an innocent and lovely expression, like an angel.

Once again, Gu Li was thwarted, and her face was full of disbelief.

"Sister, it's nothing strange. Being able to lie on Gu Zhun's chest muscles and smell the lavender softener smell from his shirt fabric, if it was me, I wouldn't cry." Neil was very heartbroken Looking at Gu Li carefully, he analyzed, and cast envious and jealous eyes at Jimmy while talking.

Nan Xiang and I nodded solemnly in agreement.

Gu Zhun turned his dark pupils into his eyebrows, leaving us with white eyes.

"It feels great to be back in Shanghai." Neil had no place to sit, so he sat down on the lawn.He has sculpted his muscles every day in the gym with his blood and blood. If he also sits on the handrails like Gu Zhun, it will be a tragedy in the world.Under the baking of the sun, the charming scent of mixed blood on his body became even more alluring.He sat on the grass with his long legs half bent, propping his body back with his hands, showing a kind of lazy delicacy.The weather had only just turned a little hotter, and the little guy couldn't wait to put on his shorts, and the sun shone on his shaggy golden calves, looking like a powerful college student.He has always had the ability, no matter where he appears, he can instantly turn the surroundings into a scene in a French romantic movie with golden light, stirring up a hormonal atmosphere like a ecstasy.His older sister, Gu Li, also has this ability, no matter where she goes, she can instantly turn her surroundings into a live news room of "First Financial Channel".At the moment, the female anchor is wrapped in a mink coat. The clothes she and Neil have successfully portrayed each other as psychopaths, one is not afraid of the cold, and the other is not afraid of the heat.

According to this logic, for Gong Ming, no matter where he appears, he can instantly turn his surroundings into the catwalk scene of Milan International Fashion Week.For Nan Xiang, no matter where she appears, she can instantly turn the surroundings into a moving picture scroll of "Daiyu's Burial of Flowers".For Tang Wanru, no matter where she appears, she can instantly turn her surroundings into a studio where "you can't know it if you don't see it, the world is so wonderful"—of course, sometimes it also becomes the scene of the 2010 "Spring Festival Gala".

In the past month, Neil left Shanghai and went back to New York.The high-end apartment that his father bought for him on West 44th Street in Manhattan was taken by a wealthy man and he was going to buy it with a lot of money.He was going back to New York to go through the transfer procedures, and then returned home with tens of thousands of dollars in glory.Of course, before he left New York and returned to Shanghai, he had entrusted all the procedures to an intermediary company, and he could do it remotely.The reason why he wanted to take the transoceanic flight back with his own hands was because he heard that the buyer named Luc was not only wealthy, but also young and beautiful, with strong muscles, and he looked like Jude Law who had not started to lose his hair when he was young, and loved to travel. , is proficient in home design, well-dressed, likes to listen to opera, loves modern art, and is also obsessed with classical oil paintings. The most important thing is that he likes Mariah Carey and Madonna very much-it sounds like he didn't wear a chest with "" Nobody knows I am gay" T-shirt.

"Why did you come back so soon? According to your love theory, haven't you always followed the long-term investment and infatuation route?" Gu Li still wore the welder's mask that looked like Frankenstein, looking mysterious Feeling happy again, a bit like Voldemort who said in a cross talk, "You should not be back until three months later! (Neil: ...) It's only been less than a month."

"The deal is cancelled." Neil curled his lips.

"The other party didn't like you?" Gu Li's eyes were naked with a mocking light.

"That's not true. He's really young, and he's very handsome, and he really looks like Jude Law—like Jude Law, who's starting to lose his hair. But when I went back, I found out that it wasn't him who bought my house, but His girlfriend." Neil shrugged his shoulders in the sun, took a sip of his latte, then stuck out his little tongue to gently lick the cream off his lips.Nan Xiang and I both swallowed when we watched his action.Whatever the damn stunner does feels like it's in slow motion from a movie.If Barbie knew it, she would hate him to death, she would take off her high heels and hit him with disheveled hair, and at the same time yell at Neil hysterically: "Don't grab a man from me, you little slut!"

"Hum I am sorry." Gu Li's tone was very sincere, heart-pounding, but the expression on his face was about to die of laughter, like a mother-sang with a prosperous business.

"I am sorry, too!" Neil turned his gaze to everyone, and said with the exaggerated expression and tone he learned from childhood abroad, "When his girlfriend just appeared in front of me, I held her hand affectionately:' You must be Luc's grandmother, right?' 'Oh no, I'm not,' I was answered graciously, 'Also, the deal is off and we'll stop here.'"

"Woo..." We each let out a profound sigh.

"What do you think Luc is up to? As the saying goes, 'An old and beautiful girl, no matter how beautiful she is, is a loofah', every night she sleeps with a big loofah in her arms, what is she up to?" Tang Wanru interjected with a righteous face. .

"Forget it, let alone others, we have to be vigilant and demand ourselves with high standards. The loofah is just the loofah. When I slept with you before, didn't I wake up screaming in the middle of the night? I thought I Holding a golden cudgel, every family has scriptures that are hard to recite, you have to be forgiving and forgiving, be good!" Gu Li was very sincere, and kindly pulled Ruru's strong and tough arm, stroked it, and said " Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite."

"..." Tang Wanru's eyes were empty, as if he had just sat down on the spot.

"Drinking strong coffee, smelling the fragrance of the grass, getting together with friends, and basking in the bright sunshine, this is called life." Gu Li was expressing her feelings with her gas mask on, looking so happy , After she finished speaking, she reached out to take the coffee that Gu Zhun handed her, then carefully took off the welder's mask on her face, brought it to her lips and took a deep sip, and then hurriedly put on the mask in shock.

Nan Xiang was sitting across from me, laughing wildly. While listening to a group of psychopaths chatting, she was not idle at the same time. She continued to steal a tube of Armani sunscreen from Gu Li's makeup cabinet, and put it on one layer. It was applied to her fair and delicate face again and again, with an elegant and charming light technique, which seemed to be glazing a white ceramic.

And Tang Wanru, who was sitting next to Nan Xiang, also began to apply a can of something that I couldn't tell what it was, but logically inferred that it should be sunscreen (...), but judging from the outer packaging, sunscreen is generally not With such a big stick, I kind of suspect that she grabbed the wrong thing.With her equally elegant and alluring lightness, she looks as if she's grouting an adobe wall.

Neil looked at the few of us who were busy working non-stop, and was very puzzled: "Are you girls really so afraid of getting tanned? I quite like basking in the sun."

"You are a foreign devil. With your albino-like skin, how can you compare yourself to us and scare anyone? Why don't you provoke Snow White! Even if you were sunburned in the sun, you would only turn into a pool of deluxe That's all, but Nan Xiang and I will be turned into a bowl of tea, Lin Xiao will be turned into a cup of cappuccino, and Tang Wanru will be turned into a bucket of asphalt." Gu Li said softly from behind the mask.

"I'm not a foreign devil, I also like to bask in the sun." Gu Zhun was beside him, helping Neil with a smile.I don't know why, but his smile always makes me feel awkward. Although his smile is exquisite and indifferent, revealing a kind of self-cultivation produced by strict family education, but his smile always stays on the face shallowly, and the smile does not enter the eyes. .His pupils always looked like two black diamonds wrapped in ice.The unmelting cold.To be honest, I have never liked him very much. Under the surface of this dislike, I am actually a little afraid of him.

"But I advise you not to expose yourself too much." Gu Li looked at Gu Zhun's delicate face with red lips and white teeth, and continued to spray her venom behind the mask, "I'm afraid we will have a good chat later, and you will be here with us." After a few squeaks, it silently melted into a few puffs of white smoke." Gu Li obviously watched a lot of vampire movies recently.

"No wonder you are wearing a mask, sister. It turns out that you are afraid that it will turn into a few puffs of white smoke. I understand." Gu Zhun drank his coffee, staring at some unknown place in the distance. After a pause, he raised his well-trimmed thick eyebrows, and added another stroke, "No wonder I said why you are so afraid of the range hood in the kitchen."

I heard Gu Li take a deep breath behind the mask, then stretch out his claws and pinch Gu Zhun's chest forcefully: "You are going to die!"

When it comes to sun protection, it's not unreasonable for the few of us, including Tang Wanru, to be so cautious.Our hysterical sun protection attitude comes from the shadow that Gu Li once left us in high school.

For a while in high school, Gu Ligui was obsessed with pursuing Lao Shizi's "wheat-colored skin" and becoming Lao Shizi's "chocolate beauty", so she arranged for us to book air tickets and hotels during the summer vacation. Called us all to the beach in Sanya, and then the four of us lay straight on the beach like corpses and exposed to the sun for seven days. In Gu Li's words, this is a story about "two mermaids (she and Nan Xiang) and a picker. The beautiful legend of the clam girl (me) and a large sea cucumber (Tang Wanru)"──It is a mystery whether others understand it this way. During the period, because we were lying too straight, a passing aunt I was so scared that I almost screamed and called the police.At that time, how did we, who were young and inexperienced, know such a wasteful thing as sunscreen, and the inhuman Gu Li only remembered to apply it all over his body, but forgot to remind the three of us.The ending is that when Nanxiang and I returned to school, we got two nicknames instantly. Although the two nicknames were aimed at our darkened skin, Nanxiang was somewhat buffered because of her beautiful face. Her nickname is "Black Snow Princess". As for me, because I am a little inferior to Nan Xiang, I got a similar nickname: "Silkie".

The most shameless one was Gu Li. Under the protection of various sunscreens, she only turned a little bit darker, just reaching the chocolate color she wanted, looking healthy and well-proportioned.She saw me and Nan Xiang after being tanned at school, bent down, and laughed like no one else for 3 minutes, and the bra buttons were loosened.Tired of laughing, she raised her back, and said with a considerate and aggrieved expression: "God is so unfair, the person who wants to get a tan the most is me, but I just changed a little bit, but you two You picked up a big deal, look at you, you two are as dark as two old eggplants."

Fortunately, I'm young and strong, otherwise I'd be damned almost out of breath.

As for Tang Wanru, she was the worst one.Because every time a young muscular man in tight swimming briefs walked by the beach where we were, she quickly escaped from the umbrella area, chasing after the body exuding male hormones, rolling her eyes and shaking her tongue all the way. She sprinkled her saliva all over the place as a marker along the way—the same reason as walking into the forest and spreading bread crumbs along the way, both to find the way home.But to be honest, it looks more like a burly Labrador running recklessly on the beach.

Therefore, Tang Wanru, who ran freely on the beach in Sanya and was liberated by nature, returned to Shanghai with his skin ripped apart and his whole body shed, just like "Legend of the New White Snake".Lying on the bed, she kept kicking her limbs, screaming with her big mouth open, her voice was hoarse but loud, and the frequency was very fixed, and because her teeth were always very large and extremely neat and dense, I felt in a trance. She's a laboring horse.

I was proud of my wonderful metaphor, and Gu Li frustrated me with an understatement.She pointed to the white molt on Tang Wanru's chest, accompanied by Tang Wanru's continuous groans of "ohhh", she said, "Doesn't it look like two 'ohhhh' 'milks' that have just been peeled off and the sugar coating has not been torn off?" 'Don'."

Nan Xiang on the opposite side raised her thumbs up with a solemn expression.

I looked at Gu Li's proud expression as if enlightened by enlightenment, and felt that there was a layer of Buddha's light on her forehead. I thought, when Newton was hit by an apple, it was like that.

I came back to my senses from my memory, and the young people in front of me, each with a good face and wearing gold and silver, suddenly felt a little dazed.The surrounding air was rippling under the bright sunlight. Is it 2009 or 2010?I'm a little confused.

Ever since graduating from college, I've felt like the time around me has been utterly chaotic.When we are still studying, there are countless coordinates for us to refer to the passage of time. Every day, there is a schedule to remind us that every day of our life is divided into 45-minute segments, and then composed of different semesters and different school years. , We have different grade numbers, winter vacations, summer vacations, spring outings, school celebrations, etc., to remind us of the passage of time.

But after graduation, it seems that every day is exactly the same as the past day, but it seems to be different from any previous day.

Time is chaotic into a thin light and shadow under the defocused lens, sticking to everyone's forehead.

Closing my eyes, I recalled myself a few months ago with incomparable clarity.

During that time, except for going to work, I shut myself in the room every day.I was bored and hopelessly looking at the rolling snowflakes outside the window. They crackled and shattered on the window glass. The steaming air-conditioning wind in the house scorched the window glass. Embarrassed, it flows down the window sill.

At that time, there was a chilling snow scene outside the house, which filled people with despair.It was as if the world had been smashed into a big hole, and the blizzard surged from the hole, blowing across the whole world in the blink of an eye, and the cold and hard wind was blowing against the chest of a person, without any effort, the heavy and heavy The warm heart was blown into cold crumbs.

Day after day, I leaned against the glass window and felt silly, sometimes weeping, sometimes not, but my eyes were always stinging like iron sand. From time to time, I still felt that time was stuck on the day when Jianxi came back, only But he didn't come back that day to be with me again.He came back again to pack up his things and to leave more thoroughly.

At that time, every night when I couldn't sleep, I would sit in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows with a cup of hot water wrapped in a blanket in a daze. I always felt in a trance that Jian Xi was still packing his things in the bedroom. The boring and thick biographies of European historical figures, the CDs he bought to listen to me together, his cashmere sweaters of almost the same style but in different colors.His white shirt and his washed jeans.Slowly but irresistibly, he went through all the preparations for moving out, sometimes pausing to take a sip of water, and then going on.I leaned against the door and asked him if he needed help, but he didn't stop what he was doing, but just said to me through his back: "It's okay, there isn't much." His voice was low, warm, with The same smell as his body, like a handful of boiled sand.He even hugged me quietly for a while when he finally left.His arms are still habitually bent upwards in an arc, so that his broad palm can just hold my butterfly bone.His chest was still hot and filled with my familiar smell.

At that time, Nanjing West Road was covered with red lanterns.The blushes swaying in the wind and snow echoed the frozen red faces of passers-by.It's the Chinese New Year, and all the shopping malls seem to be full of enthusiasm. In contrast, the cold hatred on the faces of the people who are still busy before the Chinese New Year. In the misty wind and snow, I rushed to the year-end bonus not far ahead.

At that time, the whole world was bathed in such a once-in-a-century cold current.The news in Beijing and Shanghai will predict the arrival of a new cold wave every few days.At the Copenhagen meeting, those meteorologists who expressed bitterness and bitterness expressed their opinions one after another, saying that the "greenhouse effect" has disappeared, and the earth has entered the Little Ice Age again—you see, everything looks like a farce. Especially when the Italian geological expert suddenly jumped to the table with a red face, picked up the microphone and kept hitting his head.

And now, the cold snap has passed.It's passed.Shanghai has regained its beauty in early spring.The Bund, surrounded by high construction site walls and green scaffolding and isolated from the world for more than two years, finally revealed its new look, which is extravagant, charming, classical, cutting-edge, ostentatious and domineering at the same time.Like an aristocratic girl in a luxurious dress, she lay down gently along the bank of the Huangpu River, her graceful waist and buttocks bent to form the moving skyline of the Bund, her snow-white thighs stirred the ardent dreams of countless financiers, her The corners of the eyes and brows, the hair and skin of the body and even the soul of the surname are all up for sale.

However, no matter how it is renovated, no matter how it is remodeled, no matter whether or not the Bund has erected a new peninsula hotel that can’t wait to be covered with gold walls, no matter how fascinating the new windows in the flagship stores of Chanel and Prada are, no matter whether the Bund has grown from the ground. The brand-new Milan International Center has been built, and the former British Consulate has also been converted into a financier club. All these shining new radiant luxury have never, never will, and will never be able to take away the desolation that belongs to the Bund. , indifference, and an irresistible aura of doom.

It is the decadent beauty that can only be possessed after hundreds of years of being violently blown by the river wind and eroded by rain for hundreds of years.As if in a dilapidated old castle, the rusty and declining family crest, it records the glory, and also records the ruthless passage of time.

Now we seem to have returned to the college days again.The return of Tang Wanru brought us back to the days when four of us walked together like wolves and tigers.Talking about the process of Ruru's reintegration into our collective is really difficult to talk about.When people around us asked about it, Nan Xiang and I recounted the experience over and over again with difficulty.

Of course, this legendary thing must have happened at Gu Li's birthday party.Yes, in these years, it seems that every year, God will leave an indelible imprint on our lives on the day of Gu Li's birthday party, let us remember that a year has passed, and it looks like A series of equidistant stakes driven into our cerebral cortex.Every birthday of Gu Li marks the opening of a new chapter in our lives: On the day of Gu Li’s birthday in 2008, Gu Li’s father used his heavy stiff corpse to kill Gu Li brutally and brutally. I was pulled out of the university life in the Garden of Eden where there was no need to worry about food and clothing, and thrown into the tropical jungle where poisonous scorpions were rampant, together with me, Nan Xiang, and Tang Wanru, the three of us who had lived with her since we were young. The flowers in the three greenhouses were also uprooted from the warm and humid soil of the Garden of Eden, and thrown on the asphalt road to be exposed to the cruel sunlight.Since that day, we have all matured beyond imagination.

All kinds of things worth talking about happened at Gu Li's birthday party this year, and these jokes became gossip circulating in the Shanghai Bund for a while.

For example, the celebrity who is known for her oval face and is called a vixen by the public also appeared at Gu Li's birthday party. Of course, she didn't know Gu Li. She just stopped by to see Gong Ming. The flashing lights flickered out of control.

For example, Neil generously changed into white triangular tight-fitting low-waisted swimming trunks, and lay down in the jacuzzi swimming pool in the middle of the sky terrace. His expression was extremely lewd and full of temptation, and all the female animals present at the scene were dumbfounded. If we hadn't tried our best to hold Tang Wanru, she would have thrown herself into the pool to drink with Neil on the spot in her dress.

For example, when the model Lu Shao, who is now extremely popular in the Shanghai fashion circle, appeared, no one knew that he was Zhou Chongguang, a writer who was once famous all over the country—except me.

It was as if there was a monster with fangs and claws in my chest, and I was firmly enveloped from beginning to end by the tension that was ready to come out at any time.Several times on the way, he secretly looked at me, his eyes still had a strong bloody smell of unknown origin, so hot and enthusiastic, like a scorching spring, it made people feel chest pain.

Of course, the most remarkable thing is Gu Li.After not eating any rice for a whole week and only relying on photosynthesis to maintain her vital signs, she finally stuffed herself very proudly into the little black dress borrowed by the company and designed by Beckham's world-famous wife Victoria. inside.Of course, throughout the entire birthday party, she was unsmiling throughout, and she even threatened us at the beginning: "From now on, I can't laugh, cry, take a deep breath, or swing wildly, because my skirt is very tight and will always be Blow up. If you dare to make me laugh, or prepare any surprises to get me emotional, I will strip you down to a thong and hang you upside down into the wind tunnel on top of the World Financial Center!" She When she said this, her expression was fresh and elegant, her eyes were empty and far away, and her whole body remained motionless, like a nun caught in deep memories──I absolutely believe that she can maintain this state of stillness until the end of this birthday party , I have confidence in her abnormal control.

She even had control over whether she was drunk - no one ever knew when she was drunk and when she was still sober.You know, as long as she is willing, even if she drank almost to the point where she needs to be sent to the hospital for gastric lavage, she can still maintain the calm posture of a nun and chat with you about futures trading and the principle of leverage.

Of course Tang Wanru was on the list of drunks that night.She didn't know where the courage came from, like a Buddha, she sat down next to Gu Li with a puff, then looked at Gu Li with red eyes and said, "Gu Li! To tell you the truth, it's like three autumns if we don't see each other for a day! After finishing speaking, he raised the knife in his hand, and with awe-inspiring righteousness, he took out two Nu Bras from his chest with a bang, and with two crisp bangs, he threw them on the champagne tray in front of Gu Li, looking like a steaming dish ...

Gu Li trembled, frightened, and his two black eyeballs trembled like an electric shock.However, after a few seconds, Gu Li calmed down. As expected of a person who has seen strong winds and waves, she turned around and took a large piece of wrapping paper left after unpacking the gift from behind, and wrapped the two Nu Bras carefully and calmly. stand up.

During the packaging process, countless passers-by were shocked by this scene and asked, "Is this a gift?!" Of course, Gu Li handled it with ease and refurbished every time.

When Neil, who was wearing white swimming trunks, passed by dripping, he asked in confusion: "Is that a gift?"

Gu Li replied: "Yep, for your grandma!"

When the dollish Nan Xiang passed by, blushing from drinking, he asked shyly, "Is this a gift?"

Gu Li replied: "Oh no, it's a stolen item."

When Lan Jue, who was still sober and extremely serious, came over to try to help, he asked a little awkwardly, "Is this...a gift?"

Gu Li replied: "Oh no, this is an organ."

When Gong Ming, who was like a moving iceberg, passed by, he silently asked with his eyes: "Is this a gift?"

Gu Li replied: "Oh no, this is a weapon."

After packing, all of Gu Li's sober mind was exhausted.From being fully awake, she instantly entered a state of being completely drunk.Half awake and half drunk, I watched her stubbornly stuff her business card into the hand of the waiter in a tuxedo. The waiter was very embarrassed holding the wine bottle, and I didn't know whether to continue to help her refill the wine or pinch her. , and Gu Li showed her classic fake smile, and said to the waiter: "Oh, Manager Liu, you are indeed a salesman, so heroic! Just drink from the bottle! I will do it first as a respect, little girl! "After speaking, he raised his head, poured the empty glass with no wine in his hand to his mouth, then pretended to raise his hand, wiped the corners of his mouth, and puffed up his cheeks to pretend to swallow it hard. Damn, the acting was real. It's the same, my waist hurts watching it next to me.

She walked away calmly under the embarrassing gaze of the waiter. She walked quietly towards the toilet with steady steps, clear eyes, and an elegant expression as she stepped on 14cm awl high-heeled shoes. drunk.When she was awake, she must have kept rolling her eyes, and then commented on everyone's ugliness like a machine gun, how could she be so calm.

When it was almost twelve o'clock, she slipped out of the toilet with bright eyes, and she must have vomited no less than eight times.Like the one ear in "Black Cat Sheriff", she glanced around cunningly with her eyeballs dripping, and after confirming that no one found that she was drunk, she walked proudly to the small place where the birthday cake was placed. In front of the ceremony stage, he took off the microphone on the stand and shouted like a rich man: "Listen to me, all of you!"

Everyone was shocked: "..."

She looked at the frightened people contentedly, and continued to deliver her shocking birthday speech: "Let me start with the ugly words first. I, Gu Li, have grown up since I was a child. The thing I hate the most is when people throw birthday cakes in my face." Put it on or rub it on someone else’s face! Listen, think about it, what a vulgar behavior! Don’t think it’s a fashion thing, so, let me tell you, no matter who it is..." Speaking of the word "who" She stopped, and then with a fierce sneer like Miejue Shitai, she pointed the tip of the cake-cutting knife in her hand to the faces of the guests surrounding her one by one—pointing to Gong Ming’s face in the middle She trembled a bit when she went up, but she calmed down immediately. After all, she had seen the world, she continued to point out one by one, and then said, "Whoever it is, I will use this knife to drain his blood." Fill this pool."

Everyone present, including the waiter and the aunt who was waiting at the door of the toilet to clean up the garbage, was threatened one by one by her with the tip of a knife, and she was content to cut the cake. At this time, Tang Wanru appeared out of nowhere. She came out, shaking her head and falling from the sky, she walked to Gu Li, looked around in a daze, she obviously didn't know what happened, she was so drunk that her mother didn't recognize her, and she couldn't even stand still, she pointed at Gu Li. Li said delicately: "I really drank too much." She glanced at the huge six-story birthday cake towering into the sky beside her. When I recalled it afterwards, I felt that she must have regarded the cake as a wall, otherwise she would Won't say while reaching out his hand to help it, and then fell into the cake without reservation.

The whole scene collapsed in an instant, and there was silence.

Except for the dumbfounded Gu Li, the microphone in his hand made a continuous whistling sound that resounded throughout the night sky of Shanghai Beach.

Nan Xiang and I looked at Tang Wanru who was screaming and struggling in a pile of butter, worried.Nan Xiang asked me tremblingly in my ear: "Do you think Gu Li will directly insert the knife in her hand?"

I frowned: "I'm not sure, this stimulation is a bit too much for Gu Li."

However, in the end, Gu Li still showed her highly educated female self-cultivation. She didn't insert the knife in her hand. She picked up Tang Wanru and walked to the toilet.

Nan Xiang and I quickly followed, fearing that Gu Li would make a big fuss.

As soon as Nan Xiang and I pushed open the door of the toilet, Nan Xiang screamed, and she calmed down only after the two of us focused our eyes.Obviously, she was frightened by the horrifying picture that just hit her eyes.Tang Wanru bent down into the toilet and vomited non-stop, because she drilled too deep, her whole head disappeared into the toilet, so Gu Li, who was helping her hair to prevent it from hanging into the toilet, looked It looked like a murderer who just crushed Tang Wanru to death in the toilet.

At this moment, Gu Li looked like a nun shrouded in the light of maternal love, with kind eyes and warm expression. She stroked Tang Wanru's back with one hand, and brushed the strands of hair on her forehead with the other. Both Nan Xiang and I were moved by the scene before us.It’s like the warm and beautiful time when our university just started. Every day during the day, the four of us go to the library hand in hand, read books, store up knowledge, and prepare to contribute to the four modernizations of the motherland. They went hand in hand to the bar in front of the school, and then got drunk.

Just as Nan Xiang and I were immersed in our beautiful youthful memories, a tragedy happened.

After Tang Wanru vomited, she lifted her head up. Just as Gu Li was about to bend down to ask for warmth, the vomit in the toilet bowl was full of vomit floating under Gu Li's eyes. Gu Li's stomach twisted. Two seconds later, she suddenly opened her eyes. He opened his mouth wow la la la la la la la la la la la la non-stop to Tang Wanru's head.

Quiet.

Dead silence.

harmonious.

The air in the entire bathroom froze, as if the pause button had been pressed while the DVD was playing.

The four of us looked at each other in blank dismay, each harboring a ghost, not daring to act rashly.

At this moment, Tang Wanru, who was drunk, didn't know that Gu Li vomited dinner on her head just now, and her hair was tied in a very elegant bun today, like a blooming lotus flower - "cupware" What's more, the heart of this lotus flower is like a small bowl at the moment, holding Gu Li's half-digested dinner.Accompanied by Tang Wanru's shaking, the bowl of "dinner" was also shaking, always on the verge of falling.The eyes of the three of us were firmly attracted by the bowl of things on top of Tang Wanru's head. I couldn't turn my eyes away. I suddenly felt that Tang Wanru in front of me was like those acrobats performing on TV to keep balance with a bowl of water on top of their heads.

Standing in front of Gu Li, Tang Wanru was very moved. She said, "Thank you Gu Li, you are still willing to take care of me. I thought you didn't want to talk to me anymore."

Gu Li's pupils were staring at the bowl of things trembling up and down, "..."

Tang Wanru: "When you stroked my back just now, don't mention how touching it was."

Gu Li's pupils kept jumping: "..."

Tang Wanru: "Really, thank you!"

After finishing speaking, she made a 90-degree bow to Gu Li.

Gu Li watched the bowl of "porridge" on top of Tang Wanru's head coming towards her, she closed her eyes in despair, and then felt hot liquid rushing into her chest.

Nan Xiang and I saw that our legs were weak and our knees were on the ground.

(End of this chapter)

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