It's the beginning of August, and it's not yet out, so it's still a long day, and the sun hasn't set at six o'clock.

Walking out of the hotel, a hot breath came to his face, and Zhuang Yan felt that his back was instantly sweating.

The streets are bustling, the voices in his ears are noisy, and the place where he lives is completely different worlds.

This is the first time he has come to the city center, and he has also been to Jinling in the previous life, but the Jinling at that time is completely different from now, even the street he is on now has not been heard of in the previous life.

Compared with later generations, this Jinling, a bustling city, has more antique buildings, and you can feel the sense of history of this city at a glance. Relatively speaking, Zhuang Yan still prefers the current Jinling, which has at least many other things besides reinforced concrete, which can highlight the difference between this city and other cities.

But the hot weather is not a good time to watch the scenery, and he has already eaten at this point, and now he feels a little hungry, so he decided to go back to his residence first and settle dinner.

But before he took two steps, Zhuang Yan heard the voice of a duck from behind: "Ah Yan, you wait for me." ”

Zhuang Yan turned around in surprise and saw the duck trotting all the way, and said in surprise: "Why did you come out?"

The duck's health is not very good, and after running two steps on this hot day, he is a little panting, and after taking two breaths, he said: "You are all out, what am I doing there." ”

"You're out, what should I do if the editor-in-chief Liu is inside?" Zhuang Yan pointed to the hotel and said.

The duck waved his hand in a dashing manner, "Leave him to the ball, if it weren't for your business, I wouldn't bother to slap him up, uncle." ”

Zhuang Yan raised his eyebrows, Duck is a network engineer, and it stands to reason that he rarely goes out to socialize. But Duck is a network engineer who is different, he not only loves to socialize, but also he is always the first to rush over the business trip projects in the company.

According to what he said, he is young now, and he has not yet started a family, so he has to go out more. When the company travels on business, not only can you go out to see the world and make more friends, but the salary is basically two or three times that of usual.

He really doesn't have to deal with the editor-in-chief Liu for the work he does, but he has many friends and many roads when he goes out, and when he runs out of it today, it is equivalent to cutting off one of his own roads.

To be honest, although Zhuang Yan knew that he was replacing the previous Zhuang Yan and bearing the righteousness of the duck, he also knew that since he had replaced the other party, he should inherit this friendship.

"But today I blame me for being too abrupt, I should have asked you what you mean beforehand, otherwise this kind of thing wouldn't have happened. The duck said apologetically.

Zhuang Yan smiled: "I don't blame you, you are also good for me." As long as you don't blame me for leaving and losing your face. ”

The duck laughed and hugged Zhuang Yan's shoulder: "You, now you know how to save my face, you don't know how domineering you were just now, that old bald man was angry like a toad." Okay, okay, let's go to dinner. ”

Zhuang Yan nodded, "Okay, what do you want to eat?" Why don't you get some barbecue and drink two cups?"

As soon as these words came out, the duck looked at him in amazement, and turned around beside him in a thoughtful manner, "Tsk, it's amazing, as soon as this person graduates, he really changed a lot." I remember that you never drank alcohol before, even if you ate barbecue, you drank fruit oranges. But then again, can you drink with your bones?"

Zhuang Yan was also not sure, he had not drunk with this body, so he could only say vaguely: "It should be fine to drink some beer." ”

"Okay, there happens to be a barbecue stall nearby, it's not bad, buddy will take you to see it, and I will also try your drink. With a wave of his hand, the duck opened the way in front of him.

Facts have proved that drinking alcohol still has a lot to do with physical condition, Zhuang Yan drank less than a bottle of wine, he felt red and dizzy.

Zhuang Yan shook his head uncomfortably, feeling a little depressed, you know, in the previous life, he was a pound and a half of liquor, and the master of beer was poured casually, but he couldn't imagine that today, he was put down by a bottle of beer.

The duck looked at Zhuang Yan's state and said with a smile: "I said you, it's also reckless, I still remember one time in our high school, I got a few beers, you just drank a few sips and you couldn't do it, but you slept all afternoon." ”

Zhuang Yan leaned back in the seat, took out the cigarette case from his pocket, skillfully popped out a cigarette and held it in his mouth, flicked another one and handed it to the duck, and then lit the cigarette by himself.

The duck took the cigarette in a daze, and the person was like a fool, and only after a while did he say, "How can you be like an old smoker, you used to smell smoke and vomit." ”

Zhuang Yan spit out a smoke ring and said with a smile: "People, they will always change, don't you also change?" I remember when you used to go to school, you liked a girl in the class, that can be called an infatuation, every day to send love letters to others, send breakfast. At that time, we didn't have much living expenses, only three or four hundred yuan a month, but you were good, we all went to buy breakfast for others, and we were hungry. But now, you change a girlfriend a month, sometimes you can change two a month. ”

This memory is Zhuang Yan just searched out from the memory fragments of his predecessor, the duck can speak well, whether it is a boy or a woman, he can play, but in high school he was more innocent, he liked a girl, and he loved him to death, but later he learned that the girl had a boyfriend in another school, and he realized that he was being played.

After that incident, the debauchery of the duck was turned on, and he never had a girlfriend seriously, he was all acting on the spot, and he was dumped after playing.

Zhuang Yan talked about this, the duck seemed to be touched, his eyes were a little stunned, and finally sighed: "Indeed, people will change, speaking of which, I would like to thank you at that time, I have all the money to buy breakfast for that woman, and I rub your food every day, so that you can't eat enough every day." ”

"I'm just a friend of yours, who am I not helping you?" Zhuang Yan felt that he had said what he had in front of him.

The duck shook his head and changed the subject: "Don't talk about this, let's talk about today's things, I finally got you an editing job, why don't you want to do it, you said that you made a little money by writing books, how much did you earn, is it enough to live?"

Zhuang Yan smiled: "You haven't paid attention to my dynamics in the literary and artistic world for a long time." ”

The duck nodded: "You know that I am usually not interested in literature, and I rarely have time to read it, why, listening to your tone, I have made a lot of money?"

Zhuang Yan stretched out two fingers, and the duck nodded: "Two thousand, it seems that it is enough for you to eat, but you have to pay the rent, do you have to pay the rent for the two thousand?"

"What two thousand, you also underestimate your brother, it's 200,000, I earned more than 200,000!" Zhuang Yan said with a smile.

The duck was taken aback: "What, more than 200,000 yuan, are you sure you earned it by writing books, not robbing it?"