Chapter 2: Family Dinner
"Get up, get up, get up, get up. Get up, get up......"
Jin Shiyu lazily swiped the charging mobile phone on the bedside cabinet up, the mobile phone ringtone was still, and then put the quilt over his head again.
"Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up......"
The quilt was fiercely pushed away, Jin Shiyu impatiently pulled the phone off, swiped the phone up again, did not open his eyes the whole time, and then threw the phone into the bed, just pulled the quilt that accompanied him for the longest time in his life and the most loyal, the ringtone rang again, "Get up, get up......
Jin Shiyu was finally reluctant to open his eyes, "I'll go! It's not an alarm clock......
"Hey, auntie, what's the matter?"
"You kid, what are you doing, hang up the phone three times!"
"I thought it was an alarm and didn't pay attention to my phone. ”
"You! You know how to sleep every day, and you don't want to go out to find a job, I'll see what you do when you starve to death! By the way, at six o'clock in the evening, in the Haidilao 206 private room, your nephew has been admitted to the civil service, and the family comes out to get together, remember not to be late!"
"Okay, you need me to ......" Before he could finish speaking, a beep came from the other end of the phone.
Jin Shiyu has almost forgotten the last time he saw his so-called family members, since he was seven years old, a fire took away his mother, and his father also left him half a month later, and he disappeared. Twenty years have passed, and apart from occasionally caring about whether they were starved to death before the age of sixteen, and when they showed outsiders how much they valued their feelings, they called and let them eat like props, and there was no contact with them.
On his father's side, he has never seen any relatives, even his father, he has only been with him for a short time when he was young, and he has almost forgotten his appearance, as if his so-called father has always been a mystery.
After a short pause, I clicked on my phone, and the clock was fixed at half past eleven. Jin Shiyu sat up, put on his slippers, first went to the toilet, then went to the kitchen, boiled some boiling water, cooked a bowl of instant noodles, and solved the two major events in his life so far.
I turned on my computer and had to start my day early because of the dinner party in the evening: the web novelist. This profession, which seems to have no future in the eyes of others, but is actually unpromising, is all the source of Jin Shiyu's monthly income.
Every time he started writing, Jin Shiyu would experience a rare sense of existence in his life, as if there was nothing else to prove that he had ever come to this world except to write something. A few hours passed, and the time came to five o'clock when Jin Shiyu got up every day, rubbed his eyes, looked at the fruits of more than five hours of hard work, sighed softly, and was about to wash his face and head when the phone rang.
"Yo, our great writer got up, and he only made one phone call and got through. ”
"There's a dinner party at home in the evening, and I'm about to wash up and go out, what's the matter?"
"It's nothing, just watch you get up...... What are you talking about? Are your relatives looking for a dinner party with you, which is rare to see in a century? Are they going to sneer at you again? Do you need your brothers to help you support the field?"
"It's not a big deal, besides, I'm just you and the fat man's two friends, and it's not enough for them to taunt me. ”
"Shi Yu, if you can't do it, you won't go at night, anyway, it can't be that their conscience will find out, and they are going to compensate you for something, and they don't want to contact them for any feelings, why bother?"
"After all, it's my mother's brothers and sisters, and it's just to go to dinner, and I can count myself as filial piety to my mother. ”
"You said so, call me and the fat man if you have something, and my brother is on call. ”
"Okay, hang up. ”
Think about it carefully, when you live so big, there are only two people in your life circle: Dahua and Fat.
After washing, I changed into a decent set of clothes, went out, took a taxi, arrived at Haidilao, entered the door, and the long-lost "welcome" sounded in my ears, and there was a feeling of being in a different world. I asked the waiter where 206 was, and went straight to my destination. At the door of 206, Jin Shiyu heard the laughter and laughter from time to time inside, adjusted his mood, pushed open the door, and met his aunt's face full of heavy makeup.
"Oh, Shiyu is here! Come, in-laws, let me introduce you, this is my nephew, my parents died early, he is an online novelist, his monthly income is half of your future son-in-law, and every month our elders give him some living expenses, and he can be regarded as growing up eating hundreds of family meals. ”
Jin Shiyu saw the three strangers sitting in the innermost part of the box, and listened to the aunt's own words, so he deduced that these two should be the aunt's youngest son, his brother's future wife and father-in-law. Accustomed to appearing as a prop, he smiled and sat down at the outermost part of the box by the door.
The whole process of the dinner, in Jin Shiyu's view, is like a fragment of a novel, he was used to set off his brother's excellence, and the familiar feeling of being left aside, occasionally should say a few "yes", "yes", "haha", and nothing else.
Full of wine and food, each went back to his own house, and each looked for his own mother.
was a little drunk, facing the cold wind of December, on the deserted road, Jin Shiyu took out a cigarette, and the lighter seemed to be in line with the situation, and it couldn't catch fire.
At this moment, Jin Shiyu deeply felt the meaning of a word: the walking dead.
Wandering through the streets at night, I don't know what I was thinking, but when I came back to my senses, it was already 12 midnight. Raising his head, his body turned 360 degrees in place, and lowered his head: "Alas......" touched his pocket and shook his head helplessly. I took out my phone and dialed the number I was familiar with.
"Dahua, where are you?"
"I'm in KTV with the fat man, the fat sister found a few little beauties, the water is smart, it looks like the thief has a feeling, what's wrong, the dinner is over?
"I'm lost, can you two come and pick me up?"
“...... You... Lost?"
"En......"
"How many times have I told you, don't stay at home and write some novels, go out for a walk, find a girlfriend, don't write novels stupidly one day. ”
“......”
"Do you have any landmarks over there?"
"Three 8-storey houses, one 11-storey house, one 13-storey ......"
"Stop! Ask the passer-by where you are. ”
Leaning slightly, "Dongshan Street Park North Gate." ”
"Take it with you there, I'll pick you up with the fat man in my car now. ”
Twenty minutes later, Jin Shiyu saw a black Toyota flashing at him from a distance, and slowly stood up, probably squatting for a long time, his feet were a little numb, the car stopped beside him, and the slightly bloated fat man who got out of the car first was followed by his sister who did not match the fat man's figure, and the fat man walked quickly to Jin Shiyu's side.
"Shi Yu, how did you get here?"
"I just want to walk around, and I'm walking and walking here. ”
Dahua stepped forward and put his arm around Jin Shiyu's shoulder, "Brother, go to my house for some wine?"
Jin Shiyu knew that Dahua saw that he was not very happy in his heart, and smiled at Dahua:
"Good!"