The first time Huo Bai saw Changsheng was at the end of May, and the weather was very good that day......

At ten o'clock in the evening, there was only one table of guests sitting in the food stalls.

"Hey, why didn't you go back today. Looking at the somewhat weak Changsheng carrying a black backpack on his back, he stood in front of a table with three people sitting and asked.

The yellow-haired man who was sitting drinking with his friends looked back at him, pulled the corners of his mouth and turned back.

Changsheng was silent for a while, "You and your friends are drunk and dreaming of death!" I don't know where the courage came from, Changsheng's hands tightly tugged on the backpack straps, raised his leg and kicked the table where they were sitting.

The beer bottles on the table were almost smashed.

"Hey, you kid, what's the matter!

Huang Mao heard the movement, quickly put down the cup in his hand, stood up and pulled the man's arm and said with a smile: "What are you talking about with the little hairy child, come, sit down and continue to drink." ”

The man glared at Changsheng, who was standing, and sat back, and after sitting down, he snorted coldly, "Little hairy boy." ”

"A second-rate person is a second-rate person. Changsheng stood in place and muttered quietly.

Huang Mao was very close to Changsheng, and listened to all his muttering, "College student, why are you staying with me, a second-rate person, if you don't come home so late?" he reached out and flicked the empty wine bottle.

"You ......" Changsheng opened his mouth and just wanted to say something, but Huang Mao blocked him back, and he said impatiently: "She didn't ask me to go back, what are you talking about." ”

Indeed, as Huang Mao said, she ...... I didn't plan to call Huang Mao back today. Coming to Huang Mao was completely his own idea.

"Get out of here, I'm annoyed when I see you. Yellow Fur waved his hand with his back to him.

Changsheng lowered his head and stood for a while before leaving, his footsteps as soft as nothing.

Huang Mao listened to the almost imperceptible footsteps in the distance, lowered his head and smiled silently.

He and they are no longer the same people. They were all literate people, and he ...... It's just a second-rate kid who almost didn't finish junior high school......

"Brother Chang, who is that kid? do you know?" the other person poured a glass of wine for Brother Chang, who was Huang Mao, and he couldn't help but ask curiously.

Huang Mao took the cup that had been refilled, "My brother." ”

"Huh, your brother?" the man in the floral shirt looked surprised.

Huang Mao took a sip of wine, "What?"

"Hey, I thought Changzi you were alone without a father or mother. It's so tightly concealed, it should be punished! Come, these three bottles belong to you!"

The three bottles of wine were all opened, lined up in front of Huang Mao, "Okay, drink!"

Huang Mao reached out and picked up a bottle and blew it directly into his mouth, and after a while, a bottle went down. Seeing that Huang Mao drank so crisply, the man in the flower shirt couldn't help but applaud, "Refreshing! Changzi, you have a lot of alcohol!"

After a while, the other two bottles were empty.

"I'm so happy with you, I'll help you with what you said!" The man in the flower shirt reached out and patted Huang Mao's somewhat thin shoulder.

After drinking three bottles of wine in a row, Huang Mao's head was a little dizzy, and when he heard the man promise to help, he quickly thanked him with a smile, "Then thank you first...... Thanks, wait, wait, wait...... I'm done, it's done...... Certain...... ...... by all means."

Huang Mao said and lay his head on the table, the man in the flower shirt reached out and pushed him, but there was no reaction at all, the man frowned and didn't believe it, "It's broken?"

"He's so bad?" the man turned to the other person, who shook his head to show that he didn't know, "Well, he's broken, so let's go first." ”

"Boss, let the knot on the table. After saying that, the man and the man named Keiko smeared oil on the soles of their feet, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

After the others left, Huo Bai took a glass of honey water and put it next to Huang Mao's head, "Get up, the person is gone." ”

After Huang Mao heard Huo Bai's voice, he raised his head and reached out to scoop up the honey water and drank it slowly one by one.

After drinking, he exhaled a long mouthful of wine, "Huh, fortunately, the place I chose today is Boss Huo." ”

Huang Mao, who was still a little dizzy, yawned and asked, "Boss Huo, what time is it?"

"Five minutes and eleven o'clock. ”

"Don't be busy, I'll get the bottles. Huang Mao stretched out his hand to stop Huo Bai's hand collecting the wine bottle.

Huo Bai stretched out his hand and turned to do something else.

Huang Mao stood up, reached out and took all the beer bottles on the table into his arms, walked to the basket where the empty wine bottles were released, and squatted down, and carefully placed them one by one, "Tsk, these baskets are enough for me to drink for a year." ”

At this time, Huo Bai was standing in front of the stove to wipe the pot, and he didn't look back and said, "You drank these for eight days." ”

"Eight days...... Huang Mao squatted in front of the basket and counted the bottles one by one, "It's terrible! The living expenses are gone for two months!"

"Hey...... Poor...... Boss Huo, let's fry snails for me......" Huang Mao sighed and stood up on his knees again.

"Put more green onions. After ordering, Huang Mao pulled a plastic stool nearby and sat down, quietly watching Huo Bai fried snails.

Huang Mao likes to eat fried snails with heavy sauce and green onions, and the taste must be salty.

Huo Bai skillfully sprinkled seasonings into the pot, stir-fried, and turned the pot, and the yellow hair sitting on the side stared directly at the snails evenly coated with thick sauce, "Why can't I make the same taste if I put the same seasoning?"

"Not enough experience. Huo Bai threw the word Huang Mao, and a plate of fried snails was put into a plastic packaging box by a fried spoon.

Huang Mao took the packing box and smiled, "Boss Huo really understands me." ”

After all, anyone who likes to eat up the snails every time they order fried snails, and then pack up the remaining green onions and sauce to take away, will remember it deeply. Besides, if you can wash one less plate, that's one.

Huang Mao, who found a table to sit down, opened the packing box and ate slowly one by one with a toothpick.

It wasn't until nearly twelve o'clock that Huang Mao finished eating all the snails, and all the snail shells were piled on the table with the lid of the packing box.

"Boss Huo, get me another lid. ”

"Give. ”

"Thank you, the wine and food money will be settled together at the end of the month. Huang Mao slowly walked away with the green onion segments and sauce that had been put into the bag with the lid closed.

"Scared!"

"Which turtle grandson is pretending to be a ghost! Come out!" Huang Mao walked in the dim alley, startled by a white figure that he accidentally glimpsed.

The figure walked out of the darkness, and when Huang Mao saw who the person was, the whole person was about to explode, "At this point, why are you still outside!"

That person was none other than Changsheng, who had left early, and he turned his head to look at the dusty cement wall on the side, "I can't go home or not, what do you care about, who are you and me." ”

"Lao Tzu is your brother!" Huang Mao rubbed his head irritably.

"You're not my brother!My brother won't be a second-rate kid like you!" Changsheng turned his head and stared at Huang Mao with a pair of eyes that weren't too big.

Huang Mao was stunned for a moment, "Forget it, I don't care about you, you go back quickly......"

"If I don't go back, you won't go back, why should I go back?" Changsheng didn't listen to Huang Mao's words.

Neither of them spoke, and at this moment, a car passed by outside the alley, and the passing of the car brought a brief light to the dim alley.

A white light flashed across Changsheng's face.

"Brother...... Don't be a second-rate son, come back......"

Huang Mao's answer to Changsheng was silence.

"You really make me look down on you!What are you doing badly, why do you want to be a second-rate son!My little sister and I are embarrassed to say that you are our own brother!" Huang Mao's repeated silence made Changsheng can't help but explode.

Huang Mao raised his head, "Look down?" He took two steps forward, "Mom can't look down on me, where is your turn?"

Changsheng craned his neck and refused to bow his head, Huang Mao raised his hand and pressed his head down, regardless of his struggles, and leaned into his ear and said: "Look down on me? The money you and your little sister pay for school, the daily pocket money, and the mother's medical expenses are all earned by me! Every penny you spend is earned by me, the brother you look down on!"

"Tell me, how can you look down on me?"

Changsheng stopped struggling, his voice narrowed, "No...... Don't you still have your father's deposit......"

Huang Mao snorted, "The deposit? ”

"Then you are also a second-rate son!"

"What's wrong with me being a second-rate child? Do you think I want to?! I don't want to sit in the classroom, I don't want to mess around with my friends, I don't want to go to the high school I was admitted to, I don't want to take the college entrance examination? I don't want to find a serious job!

"But...... They all said, you are second-rate, and my little sister and I will not be a good thing in the future......"

Huang Mao let go of the hand that was pressing Changsheng's head, and leaned back against the rough concrete wall with his hands on his chest, "They, heh, they know a fart......! Tut. ”

"Brother......

"Go back. ”

“…… Brother ......"

"I don't understand people, I'll tell you to go back!"

In the end, Changsheng obediently went home.

Huang Mao, who was not at ease, followed behind Changsheng and did not leave until he watched him enter the gate of the community.

"Boss Huo, do you mind if I stay here until you close?" Huang Mao, who had not left the food stall for a long time, walked back again.

"Don't mind, just sit down. ”

After Huang Mao sat down, he reached out and touched his somewhat deflated stomach, "Boss Huo, do you still have white rice?" ”

"Yes. ”

"That'...... Let's have a bowl. ”

Huo Bai filled a bowl of white rice and served it to Huang Mao, Huang Mao took the rice, opened the packing box, and ate a whole bowl of rice with the green onions inside, and there was not a single grain of rice left in the rice bowl.

After eating, he put the lid back on the box.

"Is there anything you want to ask?" Huang Mao looked up at Huo Bai, who was a little curious.

"Are the green onions so delicious?"

Huang Mao was stunned, he didn't expect Huo Bai to be curious about whether the green onion was delicious or not?

"You just want to ask this?" Huang Mao was a little unconvinced, what ordinary people wanted to ask should not be this......

"I'm just a cook. This is Huo Bai's answer to him.

"It's delicious. Of course it's delicious. Huang Mao looked at the packing box and smiled, "It's much better than my mother's cooking......"

"Oh. ”