At seven o'clock the next morning, the sound of radio gymnastics was heard from the balcony of Lao Fan's house next door as usual. I got up and went to the balcony, turned on the treadmill and jogged, and Lao Fan, who was doing radio gymnastics, said to me loudly: "Lao Xu, you sent me back last night?"

He then said, "I'm broken, do you remember who I drank with last night?" I stopped the treadmill, turned to look at him, and said, "Your wife told you you were drunk?" He said, "Yes, you sent me back, thank you!" I felt a slight ripple in my heart and said, "It's okay, I met you alone on the bench on the way, and I sent you back by the way." Lao Fan smiled and said: "Yes, yes, after all, it's an old buddy, I know that you are the same as my wife said, you are a person who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside." I smiled and didn't speak, turned around and went back to my bedroom, changed my clothes, washed up and went to work.

The whole day I was bathed in Lao Fan's very abnormal enthusiasm.

At noon, when Xiao Wang saw Lao Fan sandwiching the ribs in his bowl into my bowl, he stopped his chopsticks and looked at me and Lao Fan carefully, laughed out loud, pulled the food in the bowl with chopsticks, and said, "Brother Fan, you want to steal business with me! What should you do with your wife? My sister-in-law's figure is unbeatable." ”

Lao Fan smiled and said: "Lao Xu and I are old buddies, we worked together when you were still runny, we have a good relationship, and we can wear a pair of pants." What you usually see is appearances, do you understand appearances?"

I put down my chopsticks and said, "I can't eat this meal, it's disgusting!" Xiao Wang was already laughing and trembling, covering his chest with one hand, pointing at Lao Fan with chopsticks in the other, lying on the table and unable to speak.

At the end of the day, I escaped from Lao Fan's entanglement and drove to the other side of the city. There's a bar street there, and Lan Coco's bar is right there.

When I walked into Bar Street, I counted the numbers on the house number, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60. Without number 57, I was shocked. I turned my head and went into the small supermarket next to me, bought a pack of cigarettes, and asked casually when I was paying: "Boss, why don't you have No. 57?"

The boss looked at the cigarette in my hand and said, "Yes, in the small alley at the end of the street, this one turned out to be a big house, No. 56, and the small alley at the end of the street is another big house, and the whole alley is one, No. 57, which is the last number of the house." Later, the urban renovation was demolished in a mess, and the owner of No. 56 sold the house and moved away, but No. 57 heard that it was still the original family, but the front yard was split into a lot of facades, and the house number was No. 57, and No. 56 was re-split into a lot of pieces, just because it was a different owner, and the house number was newly added from 58 to 60. ”

Walking out of the small supermarket, I let out a sigh of relief. Walk towards the alley at the end of the street. When I saw the signboard of Kuaiyifang's Jianghu cuisine, I laughed silently, walked briskly forward, and walked to the end of the alley, passing by Yihong Mansion, Cuifang, Ziyu and other bars, but I didn't see the bar called "Lan Keke".

By this time, the sun had already set, and a cool wind blew at the end of the alley, rolling up a few small pieces of yellow paper. I faltered in the alley, unsure whether to ask someone or turn away.

At this time, a voice sounded behind me: "You're early!" I turned around and saw Lan Keke, wearing a small lilac cheongsam, standing in front of me.

I followed Lan Keke to the end of the alley, through a ten-meter road, a pitch black gate suddenly appeared on the wall, I looked up at the top of the gate, the aluminum alloy signboard dyed black by the years can vaguely see three big characters "Lan Keke", surrounded by a circle of transparent LED light band.

Pulling back the curtain at the door, I walked straight to the bar and sat down on a high chair. Lan Coco had come out of the bar and stood still, putting on an integrated apron.

"What do you want to drink?" she asked. "Whatever, it's not too strong. I said.

She turned to take out a few bottles of wine, poured a little each into the shaker, shook it slightly, and poured it into the glass in front of me. I picked up my glass and drank it down. It's a little spicy, but it's not very irritating to my throat, just at a level I can live with.

"What's this wine called?" I shifted the angle of my glass, and saw the expressionless face through the glass.

"Yesterday again. Her short, thoughtful reply was tinged with a hint of indifference.

"Do you have a story?" I said, smiling.

"I only have wine. She gave me a blank look and said, "I don't know you well." ”

"I feel familiar, at least I think we see each other a lot. I laughed.

She turned and walked into the room, and I laughed and turned to look around the bar. The whole space was not very large, and there were five or six tables on each table, each with a chandelier, which fished down from the ceiling of the black hole, emitting a faint light, illuminating the small glass vase on the table and the tulip in the vase.

"Bang", a slight sound was heard, I turned around, and a bowl of noodle soup with a few green onions floating in front of me appeared, on which lay a poached egg and a green vegetable leaf.

"How do you know I didn't eat dinner. I smiled and picked up my chopsticks.

"Drinking this on an empty stomach will make your face red. She said.

I leaned down and ate the noodles, and as I ate, I looked up and said, "What if I see you excited?"

"When a person is lying, there is a slight difference in the expression of the expression that is normal from the usual, such as raising the eyebrows or looking away. She said lightly.

"Uh!" I said, speechless, burying my head in my noodle.

After eating the noodles quickly, she took the dishes and chopsticks and put them in the dishwashing sink beside her. I took the two bottles again, poured them into glasses, and placed them in front of me.

I picked up the cup, shook it gently, and playfully said, "You should explain to me about yesterday." ”

But she crossed her hands together, lay on the table, put her face in front of me, and said seductively: "You are quite bold, and you are worthy of the man I fancied." ”

I leaned back, stared at her face carefully, and said, "The way you look reminds me of someone." She straightened up, giggled, and said, "Like?"

I laughed too, and said, "Your name is Lan Coco?"

She said, "My surname is Wang." ”

I was stunned, staring at her face carefully, the face hidden by the makeup became clearer and clearer.

"How is that possible?" I said.

But she said, "What could be impossible?"

"Are you her sister?" I asked tentatively.

"I don't even know what you're talking about. She said disdainfully, her eyes looked like my crayon Xiaoxin leader.

I lowered my head, slowly sipped the wine in the glass, and said leisurely, "You really killed someone?"

She laughed and said, "I just killed a shadow." ”

"What is a shadow?" I asked.

"It's an image projected by someone at some point in time in the future. She said.

"I don't understand. I said, she didn't answer, and stood behind the bar and looked at me quietly, like a friend I hadn't seen in years.

"What's the situation with Lao Fan?" I asked.

"A little trick to change memory, and in ten years everyone will be able to buy this little thing online, even though it is illegal. She said calmly.

I laughed and asked, "Why can't you tell your story?"

She didn't answer, pursed her lips and thought for a moment, then suddenly raised her head, as if she had made up her mind. Then he raised his right hand and wiped it in the void.

I looked up and saw a deep void, with a little light flickering from time to time.

"I'll go. I was amazed to see the alien space that looked like a piece had been wiped off a piece of a drawing board.

"I'm running out of time here, but it's really, really nice to see you again, it's really, really worth it. Her expression suddenly became slightly agitated, and her right hand moved, but there was no more movement.

"You're magic?" I asked, calming down a bit.

She laughed: "The wine is real, the noodles are real, you are also real, and everything else is a shadow." ”

"You mean you're a traverser?" I asked, straightening up as I tried to keep my composure.

"I like you to be so serious and don't know how to pretend to understand. Lan Keke, no, it should be Wang Keke who said with a smile. The sound became more and more ethereal, as if it had traveled through a distant time and space before entering my ears.

"You killed someone, and you won't be in trouble?" I asked.

"I told you that I killed a shadow, and if there is a little trouble, he will sue me, and I am afraid that I will become poor, but I am not afraid, you can remember to raise me in ten years. She laughed, her eyebrows fluttering with her smile, as if she had passed the days when she had put on her clothes and reached out for food.

"Why did you kill him?" was the last question I asked. Because she disappeared, yes, she disappeared right before my eyes. It only took a few seconds for me to watch her gradually become transparent, and then disappear into the air little by little with a smile, as if condensed into a dot in the air, and then disappeared so abruptly.

I turned around, and the vase on the table, and the tulips inside, vanished in an instant, and suddenly darkness fell around me.

I pulled out my lighter and lit it, and found myself standing in the empty bar lobby, the liquor in the wine cellar still there, but there was nothing on the bar and table.

I stood up, opened the door to the bar and walked out. The alley was still empty, as quiet as a silent mountain on an autumn night. took out his mobile phone and dialed Xiao Wang's phone, but the prompt was that the user had turned it off.

As soon as I arrived at the office building the next day, I got the news that Xiao Wang suddenly resigned. According to the cafeteria evening news report, the reason written on the resignation letter was to go home to inherit the family property, and Crayon Xiaoxin happily signed and agreed. And the news that Lao Fan passed on to me at the next table is that everyone agrees that the internal reason for Xiao Wang's resignation is that she frequently courted me but did not get a response, so from today onwards I have a nickname that shocks the past and the present: scumbag.

Soon Crayon Xiaoxin talked to me, first praised my contributions to the unit for more than ten years, and then told me earnestly that there is an African project that needs a cadre with rich work experience and strong vitality to be the person in charge.

As always, I humbly expressed my obedience to the leader's arrangement, thanked the leader for his trust, and said a bunch of nonsense that represented the excitement of gratitude and excitement such as resolutely completing the task and never disappointing the trust of the leader and comrades. Then I drove to school to say goodbye to my son. The next day, I boarded a plane to Africa.