Chapter 15: The Pupil of Twilight
At my instigation, Soy Sauce changed into a small French floral skirt with a thick velvet cardigan, so that she was innocent and a little playful, plus a pair of fluffy earrings, carrying a straw bag, it looked like Little Red Riding Hood carrying a basket to deliver snacks to the forest, which made people want to commit a crime. In order not to look abrupt, I reluctantly found a red polka dot A-line skirt, put on a thickened cowboy jacket, and casually stuffed my mobile phone and napkins into the left and right pockets of the skirt. As for Babao, she wrapped a silhouetted flight jacket around her thick sweater, and wore black sweatpants with sneakers, which already looked fat, and because she was afraid of the cold, she was round like a ball.
The first floor of the building is full of dessert shops, coffee shops and milk tea shops, the second floor is full of restaurants, the third floor is mostly functional shops, such as 24-hour laundry, second-hand bookstores and flower shops, and the fourth to eighth floors are offices and classrooms for various travel agencies, study abroad agencies, postgraduate examination institutions, and extracurricular certification training. On the ninth floor, there are several gyms with different functions, which are mainly engaged in yoga, boxing, spinning, etc., and do not choke on each other. The destination of this trip is on the top floor of the building.
We walked into the elevator plastered with small advertisements, pressed the button on the tenth floor, and in an instant, the three of them flew upwards with the growing vines like children in a fairy tale of magic beans. Soy sauce and Eight Treasure's faces were filled with excitement, and I, forcibly smiling to hide my loss and tiredness.
The elevator door opened, and I saw a handicraft shop, a cake classroom, an archery hall, and a board game hall, each occupying a corner, and the 'Twilight Pupil' was located in the far corner, and the lights were dim and quite atmospheric.
"Twilight Pupil" is a clear bar, with retro freshness as the main tone, on the luminous sign at the door, in English, Japanese and Korean three languages written today's recommendation, the font is beautiful and atmospheric, won my heart. Pushing open the door, we were greeted by the girl's shallow singing and chanting, accompanied by the strings of the acoustic guitar, like the wind blowing a pool of spring water, rippling from the heart. The wooden walls of the bar are covered with old photographs, and on each table are small lamps in colored glass, with delicate patterns and a Mediterranean flavor.
From the bar to the stage, from double seats to booths, plus the staff, there are only 10 people, quiet and quiet, especially suitable for solo drinks or double dates. The shelves behind the bar are filled with vodka, tequila, brandy, gin, whiskey, rum, and in addition to that, a few bottles of shochu, rice wine, and plum wine. The bartender's little brother is shaking a shake glass to make a margaret. On the stage, a long-haired girl in a short red skirt is holding a guitar, sitting on a thin chair, leaning on the microphone stand, playing and singing to herself.
The waiter guided us to a booth for four people and gave each of us a menu. The menu for 'Twilight' is a book of cowhide bags with the names of drinks and side dishes written in three languages. When he walked away, Babao said disappointedly, "I thought the bar would be like the one on TV." β
"Which?" asked Soy Sauce.
"It's-" Eight Treasure lifted the soy sauce's chin with one finger, "Hello beauty, you, are you lonely?"
Soy sauce smacked off Babao's restless hand with a black face.
I took a sip of the boiled water and said, "If this is really that type of bar, it would have been reported by the school to eliminate the anti-pornography crackdown." β
"Everyone is an adult, what are you afraid of?" Babao disagreed.
"People want us to study hard in college with a clean heart, and then get married and have children quickly as soon as we graduate, just like instant chicken, from small eggs to big chicken, it can be served on the table in 45 days. "Soy sauce is rarely cynical.
"Otherwise, why would they set the calculus so hard? Isn't it like we stayed up late to revise, and the pimples on our faces, and what boy would dare to chase after us?" Babao said, raising his hand to beckon the waiter to order.
Despite all that said, Babao doesn't take men's pursuits too seriously. In high school, she was still a big baby with long hair and waist, slender waist, and she pursued others and was pursued by a bunch of boys, but now, she is like an unmoving paper person, addicted to comics, novels and games. She told us that she wanted to make up for everything she hadn't played in the past 18 years, so that she wouldn't waste her precious time in childish love pushes and pulls with college boys.
Babao was dragged by her mother to learn Latin dance since she was a child, and she was beaten on the back by the teacher because her movements were not up to standard. Until now, the place where she was beaten will still be sore when it rains. She said she had been forced to laugh and dance for too long, and now she didn't want to laugh, she didn't want to be in the spotlight again, she wanted to be her true self, with a tattered loose jacket and flip-flops. And her mother, after countless arguments and crying, finally fulfilled her promise of "I don't care if you live or die after you go to college", and let Babao rot in the dormitory.
The waiter came and asked what we needed.
I looked at my phone, and the screensaver said 7:40.
"I want a Long Island iced tea. Eight Treasure pointed to the menu and said to us, "I always see it on TV, and today it's my turn, and I want to try it too." β
"You should watch less junk TV series," Soy Sauce looked at the menu for a long time before looking up and said, "I want a cup of Baileys, thank you." β
"I want a draught beer. "I didn't hesitate long and returned the menu to the waiter.
After the waiter and we decided on the menu, he walked away, and after a while, he brought a plate of fried peanuts and persimmon peanuts and placed them in the middle of the table. Babao and I ate peanuts like chickens pecking rice, while Soy Sauce turned on Meitu Camera and frantically started taking pictures of the glass lanterns.
By the time the baileys of soy sauce was served, we had already wiped out half of the peanuts.
Lala-la-la/A first love stole her heart/She said thousands of love words to him/Hoping he could understand. The young lady in red changed to a cheerful blues song, sang English lyrics softly, and her little hands plucked the guitar strings, as if playing a percussion instrument. On the TV screen behind her, a music video of the song was playing.
Soy sauce held his own Baileys liqueur, changed the front camera and started to take a selfie, sometimes lowering his eyes and saying nothing, sometimes looking into the distance, Babao and I looked in our eyes, smiling silently. The low, bud-shaped glass contains a brown liquid, and in the middle of it is a spherical ice cube, crystal clear, which is particularly tempting. It took five minutes for the soy sauce to bring the glass to his mouth and take a gentle sip.
Baileys is a kind of coffee liqueur, with a strong aroma of coffee milk, with ice cubes, rich in the mouth with refreshing, mixed with milk or ice water, the degree is low, very suitable for girls who are not strong enough to drink. The soy sauce took a sip and let out a "huh?" sound, "Wow, sweet, not bad." β
The wine of me and Babao also arrived as scheduled, I picked up the wine glass, Babao picked up the wine glass, and the two of them clinked glasses. Eight Treasures took a sip of Coke as he usually drinks, and then frowned.
"Waiterβ" She held her hand up.
"Is there anything you can help me with?"
"Your wine is so strong, can I ask for a glass of ice, as big as her glass." Babao pointed to the draft beer in my hand, and the soy sauce rolled her eyes.
The corner of the waiter's little brother twitched and went to get her a cup, I drank two sips of beer, licked the beer foam off my lips with my tongue, looked at her and said, "Bao, can we not be ashamed to come out to play?"
"His wine is too brewing, I can't drink it," Babao took a bunch of ice cubes handed over by the waiter, and poured the Long Island iced tea into a full cup of ice cubes, turning the amount of one cup into a bunch of weight. Soy sauce and I each sighed, let's go, this is the eight treasures we know, the baby bump in our bedroom.
The wine was strong and intimidating, half a glass of soy sauce was in the stomach, her eyes began to become foggy, she took my hand and said, "Little Lizi, what happened to you in the afternoon?"
I drank a beer, threw a peanut into my mouth, and told them how Wei Lin rejected me and explained my 'good popularity', but omitted the sentence that made me a chicken feather. As I spoke, I drank a beer, and after a while, a mouthful of beer poured into my stomach, and my mood became refreshed.
"Xiao Lizi, he's a scumbag, you still defend him like this!" Babao took a straw to drink her increased version of Long Island Iced Tea, like a dwarf holding a normal version of the wine glass, which was particularly funny, "He is clearly in the management of the fishing ground, picking fat and thin, do you really think he is a love saint! Are you stupid or not?"
"You see that people just say a few words, just obey what you say, and reflect on whether they have caused him trouble, so they almost nodded and apologized, this position is really high. "The soy sauce floated and began to say dirty words.
I shook my head with a wry smile and asked the waiter for another glass of sparkling plum wine, the sour liquid mixed with the foam rolled down my throat, and I only felt my face start to heat up.
Soy sauce continued to stroke my hand and said, "Little Lizi, in fact, you are very cute, but you are stupid, you can't find your own advantages, you always feel that you are so humble, and you owe others if you like others." In fact, you owe no one, you are the most worthy person to find happiness and pursue happiness, you should not be afraid. She took out the key ring I gave her last year from her straw bag, and on it hung a small pink dinosaur of my own design, with big round eyes, short hands and short feet, and a round butt like a little corgi, which was cute. "You see you can cook and make these gadgets, how clever you are. If I were a boy, I would like you. β
I took a sip of plum wine and waved my hand: "People are chicken soup for the soul, you are soy sauce for the soul, and you are the soy sauce for the soul, which killed me." β
"Listen to the words of someone who has come by, grab the tail of youth, and talk about a reckless love. "Soy sauce grabbed my hand again.
I smiled and didn't say anything, all I wanted was someone who cared about me, cared about me, and knew what I was thinking, all I wanted was someone with whom I could play cats and dogs, play games, watch movies, and be crazy with me. As for falling in love, that's the most trivial thing for me.