Also a month later, on the afternoon of the Chinese New Year's Eve, he appeared again, and I saw him when he was looking in at the door, and I hurried to the door: "Good New Year, Happy New Year, please come in." "His shoes are clean today, but they are still the same pair. He arched his hand to me and said, "Happy New Year, are you alone today, am I coming early, are you still open?" I replied to him: "They went to buy New Year's goods, today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, let's prepare first, and Luo Luo and his family will come over after eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner." He let out a soft "oh", and I saw him standing at the door in a daze, and quickly said, "Come on, come on, come in." He walked into the bar and sat down in his corner, and I asked him, "Aren't you going to celebrate the New Year with your family today?" He smiled and shook his hand, a little helpless in his smile. I fetched him another glass of lemonade and went back to work.

Lin and the landlord bought a lot of side dishes for hot pot, and as soon as he entered the bar, the landlord shouted excitedly: "Hey Li'er, let me tell you, you are blessed today, we have been in Guilin for more than three months, we have turned over three vegetable markets today, and found this sheep and scorpion, let's make a hot pot tonight, I want to die of this." Smiling at him, he turned around and saw Lao Liangtou sitting in the corner, and said to Lao Liangtou: "Hey uncle, are you also here, let's be together tonight?" Lao Liangtou did not agree, nor did he refuse, but his face was a little embarrassed and embarrassed.

In the end, Lao Liangtou couldn't resist the invitation of the three of us in turn, and sat down to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner with us, we don't know why Lao Liangtou appeared in the Chinese New Year's Eve, and we don't know why he finally stayed with us to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but just like the three of us, if it weren't for the lonely and miserable, who would want to be left out on the reunion night, not to mention an old man who was over half a hundred years old, naturally wanted to laugh with his wife and daughter. We didn't ask him, we just thought it was a friend we hadn't seen for years, drinking and chatting together.

Lao Liangtou was also very silent during the meal, and we knew very little about him from this meal, only that he was a truck driver, and we only knew that his surname was Liang. As for why he only came once a month, he said that he was only paid, and that when he came to the bar every month, it was the day when his salary was paid. I also asked him why he always kept the money, and he only said that the rules could not be broken. The landlord had a very good impression of him, and kept talking about "bureaucracy" and "exquisiteness", and kept praising "gentlemen".

After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Lao Liangtou came more often, no longer limited to the day of salary, it may be that after a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, we are all familiar with us, and every time we no longer worry about how much a pot of water is, we also occasionally invite him to a glass of wine.

10 March 2018

The last time Lao Liangtou came to the bar.

When he came this time, he put on new clothes and new shoes, and instead of sitting in the corner, he came to the bar, and Lin and I were sitting and chatting at the bar. The first time he ordered wine at the "bitter tea", he asked for a glass of "godfather".

"This is the last time I've been here. He took a sip of his wine, put down his glass and said a word, and then took another sip. Lin and I were also silent. After a long time, I asked him, "What's wrong?" He drank the glass of wine in the third siping, chewed the orange peel in his mouth, and said lightly: "Keep the clouds open and see the moon." ”

The four of us older men had one last drink that night and slept in the bar. We also know the Chinese New Year's Eve of Old Liangtou.

Lao Liangtou also had a wife and a son, and he was not as lonely as we thought. But it was also "was". Like Lin, he also had a lot of money and no worries about food and clothing, or in other words, he was very similar to Lin's father, but Lao Liangtou's son was still young and had never been contaminated with vices.

Lao Liangtou used to be a butcher and opened a butcher's shop. Their life is to send the pigs to the slaughterhouse at three or four o'clock in the morning when others are invisible, and then send the sorted pork to the butcher shop in the vegetable market at five o'clock in the morning, and some restaurants or people who want to hold banquets will come to buy, and this time period lasts until eight or nine o'clock. After this period of time, he fell into a short period of leisure, and the owners of three or two butcher shops got together to play poker, and Lao Liangtou also met a lot of card friends, these card friends are always so few are not satisfied with the fun of small tables, and Lao Liangtou has also come into contact with gambling. At the beginning, Lao Liangtou gambled more and more, but his luck was still good, and he made a fortune because of it.

However, even though Lao Liangtou's family was enough at that time, he couldn't stand the instigation of the gambler's demons, not only lost all his money, but also owed a huge amount of gambling money, so he had to leave his hometown.

It wasn't until the day he left that he knew that it was gambling that made him rich, that it was gambling that made him lose his mind, and that in the end it was gambling that took everything away from him. He didn't believe in cause and effect, but he fell into disgrace because of cause and effect.

To be honest, in fact, my impression of gamblers has never been very good, countless people have died because of a table, Lin and his father are like this, and Lao Liangtou is also the same, but I can't be disgusted with people with a clear conscience, they don't deserve sympathy, but they shouldn't be discriminated against.

I have never seen how gentle and elegant people at the table are in their daily lives, nor do I know the gaffes of people who are extremely self-disciplined like Lao Liangtou at the gaming table. I haven't experienced their thrilling, and I don't know the ups and downs of their lives, as an ordinary ordinary person, I am not qualified to talk about, sympathize, comfort them, in fact, sometimes, when they need it, handing over a glass of wine may be the greatest help that I, an ordinary person, can do.

After that night, Lao Liangtou returned to his hometown, he said: "This person, when he is old, he still wants to return to his roots, and he can't float for a lifetime, he has saved a lot of money over the years, and he can pay back some of it, and take a look at the rest." ”

After Lao Liangtou left, the bar was still open, and he was just a guest to us.

Lao Liangtou also sent us WeChat later, and his son has grown up. He showed us a picture of his son, much like him. If his son had reached his age and had begun to be blessed, we might not have recognized him when he stood with him. As long as his son doesn't lose his hair like he does.

His ex-wife didn't like him to be in contact with his son, and his son secretly kept in touch with him. The ex-wife said that she hated him and hated him for ruining everything. His son once comforted him: "You are my father no matter what, even if you do everything wrong." "Old Liang Tou also told us that it was good that his son had no resentment against him.

His son, who later came to the bar, said that he hated Lao Liangtou, but not him, but the things he did. "He's my father anyway. He kept saying that. It's just that before leaving, we asked him if those accounts were not paid, how could Lao Liangtou go back.

"I'm also grown up, and I have some debts, so I'll carry them for him, and he's my father anyway. These were the last words he left.

We met Rolls-Royce on the second day of the bar's opening. My landlord and I are not superstitious, and the ceremony of setting off firecrackers and other things is basically waived, except for inviting some friends who used to be in Guilin. Lin was a gambler, he was superstitious, and after we rejected the rituals he proposed on the grounds that "firecrackers disturb the people" and "it is not safe to set off braziers", he appeared dressed in red.

The second day is often not as lively as the first day, or it can't be said to be lively, the first day friends come to cheer the market, and the second day is very lonely. The landlord's vintage clock struck the door at twelve o'clock, and when midnight was still empty, the three of us decided to drink ourselves.

", you!" we were about to open a bottle of whiskey at the bar when we heard an angry curse outside the door. In our shock, a mobile phone smashed into the threshold of the bar, smashed on the ground, and the fragments also splashed a little beside us, and Lin's face, who had been wearing red for two days in a row, also appeared red, only he was scratched in the face by a piece of splattered plastic.

Before we could react, a girl with messy hair recklessly barged in, looked down at the mobile phone board on the ground, looked at the three of us, and hurriedly walked up to us and apologized again and again.

The girl wears a black turtleneck sweater, black leggings, and a pair of black high-top canvas shoes. The only thing that wasn't black was burgundy hair, which was also messy at this time, and the green spotlights were shining, and the messy hair was a little yellow. There were still tears in the corners of her eyes, the eyeshadow had been spent, and the lipstick was also wiped on the sleeves to the corners of her mouth, and I saw the traces of lipstick on her cuffs. She still smiled and apologized to us, her nasal voice was very nasal, but she still wanted us to see her smile, but she didn't want us to see her eyes, her sea covered it, she didn't use her hand to pull it away. But her stay in the sea seemed to disappoint her, and I could see it from the interval between her hair, and so could the landlord and Lin.

The three of us were still in shock and didn't wake up, and we didn't know how to respond to the girl's apology, in fact, more, I think we were amazed by her, although the makeup had been spent, and her face was a little haggard, but her temperament was addictive. She has an attraction that makes people fall in love at first sight, and she has a magic that makes people more and more fascinated the more they look at it. I suddenly came to my senses, pulled out a piece of paper from my hand and handed it to Lin, who took the paper and wiped the blood from his face, but his eyes were still fixed on the girl.

The girl cautiously pointed to Lin's face: "That, it's okay." We woke up instantly, I opened the wine on my hand in a panic, and the landlord also looked down to find something, Lin looked down at the bloodstained tissue on his hand, and replied in the same daze: "No, it's okay, scratch it." The landlord bent down and picked up the fragment that had just injured Lin, and there was still a little blood on it, and he handed it to the girl: "That, beauty, this is yours." ”

The girl took the fragment and lowered her head: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, it's better like this, you see how much you have to lose." She groped around her body again, apparently the only thing in her body that she had smashed. She raised her head embarrassedly: "I'm a student at a nearby university, my name is Luo Luo, I didn't bring a bag today, I didn't bring a student ID card and ID card, I'm a junior this year, can I send you money tomorrow?"

Lin hurriedly said, "It doesn't matter, don't you go back so late?" Luo Luo heard Lin's question, lowered his head, and played with his fingers. I felt a little embarrassed, quickly poured a glass of wine, and pushed it in front of her: "Hello Luo Luo, that, you are eighteen years old." She looked up and saw the wine I pushed over, and the landlord hurriedly pulled out a bar chair: "Come, sit, sit, you're welcome." Rollo smiled and nodded, and sat down in the bar chair, holding his glass in both hands. The four of us sat at the bar and fell silent again, and the three of us were a little flustered, apparently unprepared for this late-night visitor.