I try not to write the story too hard, but life is not meant to be explained word by word.

I remember that as the saying goes: it takes three years for a person to learn well, and it only takes three days to learn badly.

But how can a bad outrageous person learn well?

My answer is seven friends, seven friends whose names I can't name.

One by one, they walked ahead of me and fell into the abyss for me.

Only then did I know that I was lost and knew how to cherish what was in front of me.

If it weren't for those seven friends, I might be a complete villain right now.

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Q: How did I meet Brother Dead?

Let's start with my best friend, because my dead brother is my dead friend's brother.

The surname of the dead friend is Yang, and I dare not say my real name.

The other day I said I was going to write about his brother, and asked him why he was called if he didn't let him say his real name.

He smiled and said to me, "Call me Yang Dalong." ”

Yang Dalong's name was obtained by his grandfather, and he changed his current surname because he was too vulgar.

Yang Dalong's grandfather was a soldier and fought.

Stationed on the island for more than ten years, after coming back, he was exceptionally banned as a party member.

In the early years of serving as a public cadre in the neighborhood committee, none of them had read much.

Yang Dalong's grandfather was even more fifteen or sixteen years old when he was just sensible and was a soldier, and not knowing a single big word was the thing he regretted the most in his life.

When Yang Dalong was born, it was customary to take the name of the elders.

Grandpa naturally became the most senior.

At that time, I thought that my grandson's name had to be simple.

When I heard Yang Dalong tell me about this process, I put myself in the shoes of Yang Dalong's grandfather.

It is true that the illiterate grandfather, how difficult it is to choose a good name.

It's already very good not to call Yang Yi and Yang Er.

Yang is a surname that cannot be changed, and that year is the Year of the Dragon.

The two words have been finalized, and the dictionary has been flipped through for a long time.

Fill in the word "big".

My first reaction at the time was, if it wasn't the Year of the Dragon.

Call me Yang Da Chicken in the Year of the Rooster?

Call me Yang Big Dog in the Year of the Dog?

Call me Yang Da Pig in the Year of the Pig?

Well, congratulations to Yang Dalong for having a good physiognomy, which is much better than mine.

After solving Yang Dalong's name, the next thing to talk about is his brother.

Brother Dead is not Yang Dalong's own brother, so he is not surnamed Yang.

As for the name, I really don't know, I have a huge admiration for him.

Of course, if Brother Dead is the same as a normal person, then I don't need to say so much.

That year, Yang Dalong and I were in our first year of high school.

And Brother Death was twenty-five years old and above, and he opened a game console store in the downtown area.

That's right, handheld consoles have it all.

After never going to the arcade again, I shifted my focus to handhelds.

At that time, I probably had the same dream of growing up as my dead brother.

Open your own game console store, sell game consoles and play game consoles.

Zhengda Guangming uses money to buy the latest machine, and Zhengda Guangming works day and night at home.

Dead Brother's shop is in the city center.

I had a time when I had doubts that I had such a good relationship with Yang Dalong.

Eighty percent of it is because of the game hall of the dead brother, and Yang Dalong can be rubbed in the dark with him.

Brother and brother are a kind of magical bond, of course, I don't say that you can also think of that stupid Oudoudou sense of déjà vu.

I succeeded again and again through the identity of Yang Dalong's best friend.

Rubbing cheap cassette tapes and free sodas.

Occupy this counter display machine and try it out like crazy.

It's almost become our summer routine.

That's when I learned about Nintendo, Sony, and later Microsoft Xbox.

Of course, before I talk about this, did I forget to mention that the dead brother has jet-black hair.

The dead brother's legs and feet are not very convenient, resulting in him almost all the year round only two points and one line of the store and home.

This long hair was raised like this, really before the first time I met Brother Death.

Yang Dalong kept telling me: "Don't be surprised to see my brother, his hair is a little long." Your legs and feet are not very good, so don't stare at them. ”

I didn't really think much of it, my first reaction was interest. After all, I also want to grow up with long hair and highlight my artistic aura.

But when I really saw the hip-length black hair, I was not good.

What's a little long of this? It's all on the ass, okay?

The fourth brother is of medium stature, although the front is very masculine. Of course, the word masculine must be removed from that long hair, and the back is simply ecstasy.

That's right, the term back killer has always been a shadow of my childhood.

Of course, because of Yang Dalong's advice, I didn't dare to ask or think about it.

I only think that people have no personality at all, and there is no difference between salted fish.

But every time before seeing his dead brother, Yang Dalong would always mention not to talk about his brother's hair and feet.

Of course, the more things you don't let mention, the more curious you will become, and finally in a daily inquiry. Yang Dalong told this story, and the dead brother found out that he had a disease at a very young age.

Hemophilia is an inherited bleeding disorder in which the deficiency of certain clotting factors in the blood causes patients to develop severe blood clotting disorders.

At the time, I didn't understand why hemophilia was associated with the feet, but I later learned that one of the common conditions that accompany hemophilia is easy disability and muscle atrophy. Especially after the age of 30, it is inevitable that there will be some physical disabilities.

At that time, we were playing games in Dead Brother's shop, and I could often see Dead Brother stretching his left foot on the equipment next to him.

And inadvertently, I can observe that the dead brother gets up, especially when he gets up and changes his seat, he always struggles. Occasionally, when I stepped forward to receive the package, I also walked a little limp, which was extremely uncoordinated.

It's embarrassing to say, but there are a lot of games in the dead brother's house. But at that time, I was really poor, and I couldn't squeeze out the money to buy a game console. So I'm actually quite remorseful for not giving my dead brother any help.

Although I don't know if Brother Death really likes us, he always greets us warmly every time he sees us coming. I also tried not to mention the problems with my dead brother, or even to look at his long black hip-length hair.

We usually play until five or six o'clock in the evening, until the dead brother talks about his plans to close the door and leave work.

At the beginning, the time to get off work was not set by my dead brother.

The dead brother's father, that is, Yang Dalong's uncle, would drive to pick up the dead brother from work.

We would all watch as the dead brother closed the shop and got on the bus, and then Yang Dalong and I took the bus home.

Yang Dalong and I are neighbors, but my dead brother's home is on the other side of the city.

At that time, I heard that Brother Die's parents, that is, Yang Dalong's aunt and uncle, hated Brother Death's long hair.

He had tried many tricks but had not been able to reduce it, and even heard that his uncle and aunt had almost disowned this son because of this incident.

And I asked Yang Dalong when his dead brother's hair started to grow longer.

Yang Dalong just shook his head vigorously, and he told me that since he can remember, his dead brother has long hair.

Moreover, his uncle-in-law and aunt have also asked Yang Dalong to persuade his dead brother many times to shave off his long hair. After all, hip-length hair is beautiful on a woman, but it is nondescript to be a man.

I remember that since the beginning of high school, we have been in the dead brother's shop, and we have been rubbing it off and off until the second year of high school.

Brother Dead is a very particular person, and on the front wall of the store in the PS2 era is Sony's 50-inch monitor.

At that time, tens of thousands of yuan was something that I couldn't even think of.

Brother Dead also often said something that I remember vividly, such as Sony's PS3 and his own monitor are a perfect match.

So in my current understanding, Sony is the best display brand in the world. Until now, when people ask me what brand I choose for TV, I will shout Sony without hesitation.

Later, of course, Brother Dead bought a new toy.

Logitech's racing grip.

It is said that it is a handle, which is more like a tool for simulating racing cars.

At that time, the 50-inch Sony monitor was reverted to Brother Die, and Brother Death often played GT cars on it day and night.

And we can only watch from the sidelines, and I have a bad impression of GT cars.

Because it's a racing game based on real cars, you don't have to hit the brakes honestly before you see the corners. Then he swayed the steering wheel and lightly stepped on the accelerator.

And the fast-paced driving skills, those gorgeous throttle brakes hit the direction of drifting. It's a joke in GT racing, it can turn the person you hit on their back.

Growing up playing Mario Kart, I thought it was always a joke to simulate reality in games.

But obviously, I later realized that I was wrong.

Started with the dead brother, playing the game in order to escape reality.

Later, the dead brother was forced to play the game.

But at that time, I really didn't know why, and Dead Brother was always happy to play GT racing.

The third year of high school is very busy, and we rarely visit Brother Die's shop.

Even Yang Dalong and I rarely see each other.

This rush went straight to the freshman year, and it felt so good in college.

At this time, I can still remember what the principal said at the opening ceremony of the new students.

He smiled and said how to spell English in college? university.

How to pronounce it? The pronunciation means: you play for four years.

University is equal to playing by you for four years, and that's true.

And I found out that my school was not far from the time when my dead brother's game console store was around.

I was going to go and see it alone, only to find that the dead brother who was originally with long hair and hip-length hair had become a short hair.

I didn't feel comfortable with it, I didn't enter the store as soon as possible, but called Yang Dalong.

And what Yang Dalong told me made me a little surprised.

How do you think you can force a man to cut off his long hair for more than ten years?

The answer is a down payment on a car.

When I hung up the phone, I found that there was a Toyota parked in front of the game console store.

I can recognize Toyota at a glance as the car of the dead brother, and the reason is that it is covered with painful stickers.

Yes, yes, it's all a variety of cute girl stickers.

Yes, yes, it's all over the place where it can be seen.

At that time, my first reaction was that my dead brother's feet could actually drive.

I didn't go into Brother Die's shop that day, but chose a weekend to visit Yang Dalong with him.

It is said to be a visit, but in fact, it is a rehash.

Coincidentally, that day was actually the birthday of the dead brother.

It is estimated that even Yang Dalong doesn't know what day it is.

We didn't say a word as usual, sitting on the couch in the store and playing Street Fighter 4 with a 50-inch Sony.

It wasn't until the evening that the takeaway guy brought us a cake that we understood something.

By the way, there were no takeaway brothers in those days.

Taobao has just started, and the express delivery industry is booming.

And the cake should be ordered separately by Brother Die, ready to celebrate his birthday alone.

That's right, Yang Dalong and I are cheeky, and we both rubbed it.

I'm also very shameless, rubbing two pieces.

And when Yang Dalong was eating cake on the side, I was fortunate enough to finish a few street fights with Brother Die.

I really know what it means to have people outside of people, and there are people outside of heaven.

Although I'm a newcomer, I also think that the KOF series has played a lot.

And the three fights with my dead brother that day, I lost them all.

I fired all the firepower, and the dead brother only used one right hand.

While pushing the remote sensing, I was beaten to the ground with a single heavy foot.

I remember that day, Brother Dead picked up "Video Game Software" and said, "This is the last issue of the video game journal, and the company seems to have gone out of business." ”

Yang Dalong, who didn't understand anything at the time, said with a hippie smile: "Brother, lend me this book." ”

Of course, Brother Dead borrowed it.

When he went back, Yang Dalong read the book hastily on the bus.

In the end, it fell into my hands.

I only knew that this was the last issue of Video Game Software, and I only knew that it was my dead brother's birthday.

But what Yang Dalong and I didn't expect was that this was also the last day that the dead brother game store opened.

Don't think I'm going to show you tragedy, the story may be more inspirational than you think.

Half a month after this incident, I found out by chance that the game store was closed.

At that time, my first reaction was to call Yang Dalong.

Yang Dalong said: "If you sell genuine Japanese game consoles and cassettes in China, you will never be exposed to piracy. Sooner or later, it will go out of business, and faith will only be faith after all. No matter how good Nintendo and Sony are, they will be covered with dust and cannot be sold. ”

I know that such meaningful words must have been uttered by Brother Death.

When I asked where the dead brother had gone.

Yang Dalong said solemnly: "I drove to Tibet." ”

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Here are a few words that I hope you can relate to.

Game otaku, left foot handicap, loan painful car, self-driving Tibet.

By the way, when I knew the news.

The dead brother should be on the way to Tibet by car.

That's right, Dead Brother sold all the consoles. Including that Sony monitor, exchanged for money and necessities.

All the way to the west, we drove to Tibet.

When I heard Yang Dalong tell me about this, I felt unbelievable.

Dead Brother left us, left the virtual game.

He may have matured and found his hobby.

I haven't seen my dead brother since.

The only news came from Yang Dalong's dictation half a year ago.

Yang Dalong said: "Do you know about rallying?"

Dead Brother became a driver in the China Rally Championship (CRC).

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(It's a small long story, about seven chapters.) It's also the rhythm of writing only one chapter at a time, which I should have written a long time ago. Write along with "Mountain, Sea". It's just people and things to talk about, and this is the first time I've written about this narrative. I try to be as true as possible, but if there are any similarities, it is purely coincidental. You don't have to guess, these seven stories are taken from seven different people who confide in me. ）