Chapter 1: The White Night Stalker
At four o'clock in the morning, the lights on the ghost street were almost all extinguished.
It's a bar street that sells indulgence, pleasure and renunciation at nightfall.
There is no young person in S City who does not know about the ghost street. It is called Ghost Street, because in the first year of the establishment of the Bar Street, this place was rumored to be haunted, and the owner of a bar did not believe in evil, so he invited a Taoist priest from the deep mountains to stay in the bar street for seven days and seven nights.
In the end, the Taoist priest boiled his eyes black, and swore that this street was very clean, and it was all rumors from competitors in the West District, and according to his observation, there was not even a single drunkard on this street!
There was such a fuss back and forth, the bar street was on fire, but no one called the original name, and the young people in S City were all shouting "ghost streets and ghost streets", and they all drilled into the depths of this neon as soon as it was dark.
But the lights were still on at four o'clock in the morning, and on this street, there was only one Bai Yexing.
This bar has a strange name and sings strange songs.
Other bars are all energetic to create an atmosphere, and the subwoofer laser light can stun people, but the white night walk is not, and the white night walk is always a low-chanting love song, just like the red sign at the door of the store.
"There's a story, come in.
No story, come in.
I want the story to happen, come in. “
Piles of young people go to the white night shop, and those who come late generally don't have a place, and they have to stand and drink and listen to songs, but this is nothing, who hasn't thought about it in their hearts?
Therefore, on the whole ghost street, it is the last to close the door in the white night, because everyone listens to the song and talks, and the air becomes sticky.
Someone left a message on Dianping: "White Night Walking is like a time capsule, you can close your eyes and travel through any era, see anyone you want to meet, hug him, or smile." ”
Later, it was said that the owner of the white night walk simply signed an agreement with the local fire department, and the store could flexibly control the closing time and pay double the fire security deposit every month. The reason for this concession turned out to be that the head of the fire brigade was also a die-hard fan of White Night Walk.
Tonight is a typhoon day, and S City has been blown to pieces in the tore wind and torrential rain all day, but it still can't stop the popularity of late-night white night walking.
Some of the guests were dressed in raincoats, and some had been soaked several times, but no matter how dangerous the orange rainstorm and thunder warning outside was, everyone still did not want to leave.
"It's the last song, let's go back after listening to this song, today is a special day, I want to sing the encore in person. ”
A slender figure stood on the stage, very different from the dress of the resident singer, and the regular customers recognized this as the boss of the White Night Walk at a glance, Zhou Shiyi.
"It's not easy for Boss Zhou to go into battle in person!"
"It's a wedding anniversary?"
"Birthday, happy birthday!"
The guests below shouted enthusiastically, but none of these guesses seemed to be correct.
"Today is the day when a person leaves this world, and this person is very important to me, very important. Half of my life, so to speak. With this song alone, dedicated to my sister. ”
The audience instantly fell silent, and the boss, who had nothing to do on weekdays to serve a glass of wine and the guests to push a glass and change the lamp, looked particularly deep today.
"In the northern village, there lives a southern girl, her watery eyes look at the mysterious time......"
"Southern Girl" was extremely sad by Zhou Shiyi.
At the end of the song, the guests stood up and applauded, and then dispersed in an orderly manner.
"Brother Zhou, we withdrew, don't you really need us to finish?"
"No, I'll do it myself today. ”
"Good Chinese boss, see you tomorrow night. ”
"Go back quickly, and stay safe on the road. ”
Zhou Shiyi sent all the employees away, turned off all the lights, sat alone in the dark, and lit a cigarette.
It's been five years.
Five years ago today, it was the most painful day in Zhou Shiyi's life.
At that time, he was still a hairy boy, relying on his brain to be active, and his skills were good, and he was stunned in the rivers and lakes where swindlers were like clouds, and he made a lot of money by defrauding scammers.
Seeing the first 500,000 in his life, Zhou Shiyi excitedly took his sister to Thailand for a ride. On the beach in Phuket, my sister Zhou Shiyun happened to be on her birthday, and the little girl stared at Zhou Shiyi after making a wish seriously.
"Brother, promise me one thing. ”
"You say, as long as my brother can do it, I will pick the moon!"
"Brother, don't do that, okay?"
Zhou Shiyi was stunned, the incident in his sister Shiyun's mouth was exactly what Zhou Shiyi thought was the fastest and most rewarding thing. But he also understands that he is facing a deranged liar all day long.
Most of those who cut off people's money and money do not end well.
"Okay, Xiaoyun, brother promises you, if you earn enough 10 million, brother will wash his hands in gold. ”
Zhou Shiyun smiled, behind her was the white waves beating the reef, Zhou Shiyi looked at it as if she had drunk honey.
Zhou's parents died early, and Zhou Shiyi has always been a father and a mother, with only one relative, that is, his baby sister Zhou Shiyun. Everything he did, everything he desperately wanted to get, was to protect his sister.
However, five years ago today, Zhou Shiyun, who had kidney failure, closed his eyes forever in the hospital.
That morning, Zhou Shiyi was still on the phone with the nurse, and everything was fine with her sister. He was dealing with a gang of jewelry scammers and was preparing to fight a big battle to earn some money to take his sister to the United States for treatment.
But at dusk, the hospital called, and Zhou Shiyun left.
He didn't remember how he rushed to the hospital, and when he arrived at the ward, Zhou Shiyun's two knees were full of blood, but he didn't feel any pain anymore.
"Xiaoyun Xiaoyun!" a heart-rending cry, Zhou Shiyi hugged his sister's body and almost cried into tears.
"Mr. Zhou, this is your sister's last death. ”
Zhou Shiyi trembled and took the note handed by the nurse: "Brother, promise me, don't do this anymore." Do a serious business, and come to my grave to tell me stories in the future. Small clouds. ”
These two lines of words stung Zhou Shiyi, and he rarely felt pain after that day, and all his perception of pain was on that day five years ago, when he went with his sister.
After handling Xiaoyun's funeral, Zhou Shiyi never touched the old business again.
He opened a bar in a ghost street, selling alcohol and singing at night, and relieving people's worries during the day. This bar occupies almost all the "weird" in the mouths of his peers: the audio equipment is the most expensive, purely imported from Germany, the red wine is the most authentic, Bordeaux Manor Air Direct, and the singer is the most expensive, which is 30% higher than the average market price!
The peers on the ghost street all said that Zhou Shiyi was crazy, he had a lot of money, but he also spent a lot of money, it seemed that he was doing this business, just to be comfortable!
At this time, Zhou Shiyi snuffed out the last cigarette, looked at the sky with a white belly, pressed a button at the door, and the signboard of steel and iron bones shook with a "squeak", and then slowly rose, and then sank into a groove.
Then, another sign, "Cluck, Squeak", rose and landed firmly above the store's entrance: the Exchange Office.
Zhou Shiyi walked out of the house, raised his head and stood on the deserted street in the early morning, raised his head and said softly: "Xiaoyun, you always say that all living beings are suffering, and my brother's heart is too hard. Actually, brother is not such a person, don't you like to listen to stories, brother helps you collect stories, brother solves the suffering for all sentient beings for you. ”
"Xiaoyun, brother misses you. ”