In the days of recuperation, Gu Bei lived very comfortably.

Every day at six o'clock in the afternoon, Nuo Nuo went home, boiled egg noodles, and the two of them ate together, always paste, always put less salt, until Gu Bei could stand up, and the livelihood plan of cooking and cooking fell into his hands.

During the day, Nuo Nuo went to school, Gu Bei was alone in the yard watering flowers, basking in the sun, reading books, and writing articles, his mood was quite peaceful, a little detached from the mundane and cut off the taste of red dust, sometimes, devoting himself to a metaphysical thing, then everything in reality became insignificant.

On May 20th, Li Xiaojing came to the courtyard of the Red Mansion to find Gu Bei, with a sample book of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Exquisite Ancient City".

Gu Bei flipped through it and didn't say anything.

Li Xiaojing said that Atlantis University Press wanted Gu Bei to hold a national signing event.

Gu Bei refused, saying that his leg was broken, what would he sign for sale?

Li Xiaojing thought to herself, even if your leg is not broken, you won't sign it, right?

Of course, she didn't tell Gu Bei about this, originally as the author of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", Gu Bei, who is young and runs the company's diamond king, has a big gimmick, which is very beneficial to the sales of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", but Gu Bei doesn't care about the publication of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", let alone this name, and he also strictly prohibits everyone from publicizing the fact that Nord North is his pen name, so although the name of Nord North is very famous in the popular literature circle, no one knows the real person.

Li Xiaojing didn't know what Gu Bei thought, and said Minister, you don't want to sign the sale, it's always okay to get some autographed books, right?

Gu Bei smiled and nodded.

Li Xiaojing said then I'll go, I'll bring you lunch later.

Gu Bei hurriedly said: "Wait a minute, Xiaojing, let me ask you something, how are you and our handsome and dashing Ma Ye?"

Li Xiaojing's freckled face turned red, and said Minister, you don't care about you anymore!

Gu Bei smiled and watched Li Xiaojing leave.

The next day, Li Xiaojing came again, with Ma Rulong.

Gu Bei thought to himself, you girl still don't let me say, obviously she is in love with Renma Yelang, no!

Li Xiaojing brought Gu Bei 500 copies of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", Gu Bei's hand to sign was about to break, it was particularly painful, although this book belonged to him, and also helped him earn the first pot of gold, directly promoting the establishment and development of the "Solo Singer" magazine, but he did not have any sense of achievement, of course, there is no sense of guilt, any writer, the first lesson must be to steal the teacher, as Quentin Tarantino, the director of "Vulgar", said, works of art are the result of plagiarism and patchwork, and those who do not admit it can only be said to be dishonest.

When signing the autograph, Gu Bei pondered writing a literary work of his own.

Reborn to the present, pinching his fingers and calculating for a year, he has never been rich and rich, and has made some small achievements, he is not an ambitious person, he never thought that the power is rich all over the world, limited to ability, it is a bit unrealistic to do Ma Huateng's business, he knows that without ability, even if he fully copies Alibaba, he will not be able to become Ma Yun.

People, you have to be down-to-earth.

In his previous life, he was a writer, his biggest hobby was nothing more than dancing and writing, in order to support his family and improve his living conditions, he worked hard to earn money in the field he was not good at, and now his leg is broken, he is free, he picks up pen and ink to write some words he wants to write, nothing else, just to make up for the regrets of his previous life, and to commemorate that lonely creative years.

When he was a sophomore in high school, Gu Bei came into contact with two crucial books, one called "I Will Return and Open", written by Li Ao.

The book filled him with doubts about the world, about political textbooks, about what teachers were saying in their hearts. This led him to embark on the road of literature, many years later, he read the book again, the feeling was mediocre, and he could no longer find the original passion, in fact, "I Will Return and Open" is just a very inconspicuous collection of essays in Li Ao's works, and his main work "Qianqiu Review" Gu Bei did not have time to read it in the future.

Another book is Márquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera", the Latin American magical realist literary grandmaster exhausted all the possibilities of love through a love epic spanning more than half a century, the male protagonist Alisa's concept of love is separated from the soul and body, which is an eye-opener for Gu Bei, he can raise a 10-year-old young girl, he can make love in public with a married man on the beach, or he can wait for half a century for his beloved woman, from a young man to a gray-haired old man. This view of love directly influenced Gu Bei's writing style.

At the end of May, the vigorous World Cup in Japan and South Korea kicked off.

During that period, XIZE University was much quieter, Gu Bei heard Ma Rulong say that during the World Cup, the professors basically did not name names, and the roll call was useless, and the students still skipped classes, and the TVs in the dormitory of XZAWA University were all green lawns, and the boys could often be heard cheering and the girls screaming.

As a senior fan, Gu Bei also huddled in the small courtyard of the Red Mansion all day to watch the live broadcast.

The livestock in the 168 dormitory did not watch the live broadcast in the dormitory, Gu Bei has food, drink and sleep here, it is definitely the best place to watch the game, the big guys gather here, beer, barbecue, brothers, and with the quadrennial World Cup, it is not too cool.

The Chinese football team reached the World Cup finals for the first time, which is highly anticipated.

It is difficult for Gu Bei to cheer up for the Chinese football team, he has felt the crazy atmosphere of the 2002 South Korea-Japan World Cup, the Chinese team that lost all three games and swallowed 9 bullets hurt the patriotism of this group of college students, but what hurts even more is that this egg-swallowing team turned out to be the last glory of Chinese football, the sunset of the old A generation.

Others don't know, Gu Bei knows that Yan Shiduo came to power last year and served as the full-time vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, heralding the darkest decade of Chinese football.

Gu Bei is an authentic Bharty brain-dead fan.

Throughout the World Cup, he only focused on the Pampas Eagle, who had created countless tragic heroes.

In 1994, the United States World Cup, the heroic Maradona led the dream team with Caniggia and Redondo all the way, but the urine test was positive at a critical moment, and at the Rose Stadium in Los Angeles, the banned Maradona witnessed his team being tragically eliminated by Romania, and he buried his head in the arms of his wife Claudia and cried bitterly.

In the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Messi of the World Footballer took the lead in reaching the final with Higuain, Aguero and Lavic. When receiving the Golden Globe Award, the briquette king gazed at the Hercules Cup affectionately, and Gu Bei will never forget it in his life.

The dead are gone, but the future is coming.

Whether it is Maradona, who is far away from the World Cup, or the briquette king who has not yet arrived, they are not the protagonists of the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, and the eternal god of war in Gu Bei's heart is Barty! Although he already knew the tragic fate of Argentina, from the perspective of the prophet, reliving the scene when the Argentine team, the favorite to win the championship, went all the way and was finally forced to draw and be eliminated by the Swedes, he watched the god of war Barty squatting on the sidelines and burst into tears, and his heart was broken again.

Ma Rulong said that on that day, many girls at Atlantis University cried.

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PS：

I'm going to write this chapter tonight very willfully.

I want to write what I want to write.

Sorry, I'm too tired to go to work, it's late for the update tonight, and I'm trying to code another chapter.