Chapter 10 Chasing Old Men
It was another silent night
I couldn't sleep I got up from the kang, carried a few bottles of beer that my father used to entertain Zhang Zhuzi in the afternoon, sat among the grasshoppers and looked up at the starry sky, the stars in the sky were shining, it was so mysterious and beautiful, no matter how great a person was, it seemed so small under this eternal boundless galaxy, modern civilization brought people a lot of convenience and joy, but it also made people lose a lot.
My grandfather loved to look at the night sky at night, and in the torn green cloth pocket he usually carried with him was a nature book that I used to go to school when I was in elementary school, with the simplest imaginary drawings on it, and every month my grandfather would take out the book that had flown off the edge and look at the starry sky carefully.
I sometimes wonder if my grandfather may not really be interested in this starry sky, but a kind of nostalgia for his own life, looking for his own home after death, maybe every time my grandfather lies in the dark house, he will think about whether his relatives will remember him after he dies, and whether he will really have a soul in this world, and can continue to see everything he has cherished.
When people are young, people only know how to squander their youth, they are ignorant of death, and even full of contempt, which is why the armies of many countries require the age of soldiers to be about 18 years old.
I haven't called my grandfather for a long time, I picked up my phone and looked at it, it was already more than twelve o'clock in the evening, my grandfather was old and had little sleep, he shouldn't have slept yet, I wanted to call my grandfather, pressed a button, hesitated for a moment or put down the phone, or don't bother grandpa, otherwise he will miss me all night.
I grabbed a bottle of beer and was about to drink it, when a light came to the courtyard with the sound of a motorcycle engine, and I built a shed with my hand over my eyes, and as far as I could see, it was the beautiful girl in the white shirt and jeans.
She was also taken aback to see that there were still people in the yard so late, and looked at me with one foot on the motorcycle, and then got off the motorcycle.
"It's so late and you don't sleep," she said, turning off the lights and brushing her slightly loose hair with her hand.
By the hazy moonlight, I saw her bright red lips curled up, obviously smiling at me.
"It's hot in the house, I can't sleep" I put down my hand and jumped out of the car.
"Isn't it cool to drink at night!" I thought she was going to leave after saying hello to me, but I didn't expect to come over and say a word to me.
The first time such a beautiful woman spoke to me and me, I couldn't help but feel my heart pounding, trying my best to control my nervousness.
"It's not cool, I used to drink like this at school" After saying it, I regretted it a little, I felt a little embarrassed, I went to school for so many years, but I was ashamed to dig the earth here like I didn't go to school.
"Usually it's so late in the city and only the barbecue restaurant is open," she smiled disapprovingly, as if she didn't notice my embarrassment.
"Yes, are you drinking?" I suddenly said when I didn't know what to say. I feel very stupid, and in the middle of the night, I carry a few bottles of broken green stick beer and invite a beautiful woman to sit in this environment and drink, which is really an idea.
"Okay!" she didn't expect to agree.
I was stunned for a moment, then picked up a bottle of beer from the car and handed it to her.
Before she could do anything, the lid of the beer was opened.
"My name is Xiaoyu, what's your name?" she sat in the grasshopper's driver's seat with her beer.
"My name is Shin Jiushige"
"Hehe! Jiuzhong, wine worm, what a weird name, who gave it to you, it looks like a name in a martial arts novel, is it that the person who chooses the name likes martial arts novels very much" Xiaoyu laughed lightly, and her bright eyes were full of charming.
I remember when I first went to college, I accidentally saw a book in the school library, the title of which was "A Study on the Four Great Sacred Books of Ancient China" , If I borrowed the treasure for a month, I studied it all night, which said that some women are born with charming bones, and there is a style between movement and stillness, Zhao Feiyan, who was able to dance in the palm of her hand, is this kind of woman, I heard that this kind of woman is not happy with men, and more men are born with a body odor, this kind of smell is not smelled by ordinary people, but it can arouse women's hormone secretion, like a colorless and odorless drug, cologne has this effect, but its taste is a little pungent, which will make the men around you uncomfortable。
A woman who is born with a charming backbone, if a man is infatuated with it, he will take a man's life, and a man who can attract a woman, a woman will be infatuated with a woman's life, these two kinds of people are the most unwanted.
"I heard that you college students are boyfriend and girlfriend at school" Xiaoyu raised her head and took a sip, and she drank half a bottle of beer from 250 ml in one gulp.
"Some have, some don't, there are more, some are less, different schools have different situations," I thought about it and replied seriously.
"Hehe, you're talking like a tongue twister, it's dry," she smiled and picked up the bottle to me.
"It's a bit of a twist," I picked up the bottle and touched it with her, and then drank the rest of the bottle.
I was hesitating to take a bottle when she put down the empty bottle in her hand, tilted her head and smiled, "Do you have any money, can you lend me some?"
"Huh?" I couldn't help but be stunned.
"No, forget it, I'm figuring it out," she said, pulling out a box of cigarettes from her trouser pocket, pulling one out of it and tossing it to me, lighting one herself.
"Thanks, I don't smoke, how much do you want to borrow," I said in a low voice, giving her the cigarette back.
"Two hundred, no hundred," she stared at me closely, and the cyan smoke rose on her face, swirling and dissipating without a trace.
"Okay, I really don't have more" I smiled slightly, reached out and fumbled in my clothes for a while, and took out a hundred-dollar bill, which was my living expenses in college, and on the way here, I didn't give up flowers, and I only nibbled on a few mouthfuls of bread when I was hungry on the train, and I didn't even have a bottle of mineral water, so I used my own cup to catch the half-baked water on the train and drank it.
"Thank you" She obviously didn't expect me to actually lend her money, and I could see a look of surprise in her eyes when I handed her the money.
"It's okay, everyone has a problem" I smiled, and my excited heart calmed down.
"I'll pay you back as soon as I can," she said lightly, slipping the money into her pocket.
I smiled and nodded, not saying anything.
"Thank you for the wine" she suddenly leaned over and kissed me on the face, the feeling of being electrocuted or stunned after being kissed by a beautiful woman for the first time in the novel, I didn't feel it at all, the smell of tobacco and alcohol made me a little uncomfortable.
When her face left me, I saw a look of mockery and disgust in her eyes.
She turned around and rode a motorcycle and disappeared from my sight, perhaps in her eyes I was a toad who wanted to eat swan meat, and she was a phoenix in distress, and had to kiss the pig.
I haven't seen her since then, and I've never heard anything from her, it's like this person has never appeared in my life, we have been from elementary school to junior high school, to high school and college, and even in the workplace, there have been many, many people around us, but these people who once knew their names, and a few people's faces have appeared in your memory, looking back at the life we have spent, there is another day that can make you remember the bits and pieces of that day, the years are really a flowing river, it will wash away everything that has passed, and people cannot step into the same river twice, life will not come back。
I opened the rest of the beer and leaned on the car pocket and drank it, the night air was really a little cold, the cold was not the temperature, but the ice that seemed to be in your heart, even if you swallowed all the spirits of the world in your stomach, it could not melt the cold that flowed through the blood through the body.
I drank the remaining half of the bottle in one gulp, turned to go back to the house, a blinding light imprinted my figure in front of me, and I turned to see a very burly young man getting off the motorcycle.
He seemed to be between twenty-four or five years old, his short hair was covered with a light layer of gray, his eyes were small but bloodshot, and under the bridge of his nose was a thin lip, he was wearing a tracksuit, and at his feet was a pair of worn sneakers, the white uppers were dirty.
"Who are you?" the man leaned over, his chin raised, and his squinted eyes were full of defiance.
"I'm renting a house here, who are you looking for?" I replied softly when I saw him in such a polite tone.
"Oh, the old lady's granddaughter isn't here," he asked, looking me up and down with a careless look, then glancing in the direction of the house.
"I don't know, I came back late from work, and the landlord's house was already sleeping" I thought in my heart, guessing that this man might be that Xiaoyu's ex-husband.
As soon as the other party heard me, he ignored me and strode directly to the house.
It's none of my business, he wants to find the landlord, what's the matter with me, I didn't make a sound, I got out of the way, but when he passed me, I smelled a body of alcohol
The man opened the door and went straight to the landlord's house.
"Bang, bang!, Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu, you come out, I went to your house just now, you're not here, I know you're here, you come out, come home with me" The man pulled the landlord's hanging door and shouted at the open throat.
Both the landlord and my parents were woken up, and the lights in both rooms came on almost simultaneously. Xiao Huang, who was shrunk in the nest, also crawled out and sniffed with his nose, maybe Li Quan used to come here often, Xiao Huang was familiar with his smell, and did not call Li Quan, walked around, and went back to the nest to sleep.