Chapter 19: The Iron

I think of him often, and people who know him are willing to call him Iron. Tall, muscular, like an iron tower, I met him a long time ago, when I was in high school, and he was the one at the same table.

Of course, at that time, he was not called Tie Lu, he was a black fat man, and it was very crowded to sit at a table with him, so my classmates were not with him, and I had to be assigned to him because of my poor grades. He loves to talk and laugh, and his slightly darkened round face reflects very white teeth.

After three years together, I know his habits, eating, sleeping, and reading magazines are all his preferences. And unlike us, he reads very special magazines. Not novels, not comics, but military magazines, and I remember that he had a book of firearms, and I fell in love with the Desert Eagle at first sight.

At that time, many people were making fun of him, saying that he still wanted to be a soldier with his figure. In fact, at that time, the military was a very cool profession in our eyes. He ignored them, but always repeated his dream of becoming a soldier with a straight face. Later, in the end, I even felt a little brainwashed and convinced of his dream of becoming a soldier.

At that time, I believed that opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared, and I think he is really well prepared. His family conditions are not very good, and most of the money he brings for lunch is saved to buy magazines. So I can only eat half of my lunch.

So I said to him, "Don't blame me if one day you don't make it to the army because of your weight." He nodded wildly while eating, and said that after that, I will give you an umbrella whenever it rains, he has a big black umbrella, and I didn't like to bring an umbrella at that time, because it was too troublesome.

He's an interesting person, and I personally think that most of the chubby people are a bit entertaining, and they sing quite well. Sometimes when he's in a good mood, he'll hum a tune from his hometown. I really like to listen to it, and I like it a lot. Sitting in class, wandering around the world, fantasizing about what kind of people we will all be in the future.

He was standing next to me when the graduation photo was taken, and when the photo was printed, I found that I was squeezed by him with only half of his face, but he was smiling brightly next to me.

We had a meal together before we parted with him, and he said that it was time to treat me to a meal after eating so many of my meals in the past few years. At that time, I had just touched cigarettes and alcohol, and I had a bitter taste when I smoked and drank alcohol. Some drunk, he was still swearing to me about his dreams, he said that I was suitable to be a writer, he always thought that my ideas were very original, and it just so happened that the two of us would be good to have a literary and martial arts.

I don't remember what I said at the end of the wine, and the feast will always be broken up in this day. I didn't see him again for five years. I am very happy to hear from him that he has achieved his dream.

When I saw him again it was five years later in the summer, when I met him at the train station and returned from the army. He called out to me, looked back at the muscular man who was a head taller than me, and finally recognized him.

Then we sat down and drank again, and he talked a lot less. He drank a lot better, and I smoked a lot more. After drinking for a long time, he opened his mouth: "How have you been in the past few years?" ”

I smiled: "It's okay, make do with life, why did you come back, this is a discharge?" ”

"Hmm. Discharged. "He asked me for a cigarette, but obviously he didn't smoke much." It's nice to see you when I come back. He continued.

"There's nothing new on my side, tell me about your soldiering. Seeing that you have lost weight, the whole person seems to have been reborn," I re-lit a cigarette and asked him with interest.

He still didn't have that kind of look in his eyes, but said with a wry smile: "Except for the fat in this body has lost weight and the strength has increased a lot, there has been no growth." Then he fell silent again.

I didn't ask any more curiously: "Anyway, you're back, our brothers are together again, if you're unhappy, let it go in advance, I'll get married next month, and you will be my best man." "I patted him on the shoulder, and it was very firm.

He looked up at me, his big mouth and two rows of teeth were still so white, I knew it, he was very happy for me.

After three rounds of drinking, and after settling the bill, we took advantage of the night to turn over to the high school campus. His movements over the wall are very neat and aesthetically pleasing, and he runs and jumps with one hand to support a very graceful arc at the head of the wall, which is two meters high. I was a little surprised and flipped over. The momentary force made me gasp for breath after not exercising for a long time.

He waited for me in the wall before I noticed that he was standing straight in the moonlight. The high school is still the same, the old buildings are newly painted, and the distribution of various places is still the same. When we came to the playground, I pointed to the horizontal bar area not far away with a cigarette in my mouth, and said to him: "We used to be unhappy and we always came to replace the horizontal bar, but it hasn't fallen down for so many years, but it is very strong." ”

He nodded, walked over, stood still, stepped out, a very casual kick, but very imposing, it turned out that there was really momentum to say this, and then the horizontal bar made a muffled sound, and the iron pipe with a thick arm bent down in an instant. I was indeed a little surprised, and the cigarette almost went out: "I'll go, are all the soldiers so fierce." ”

He shook his head: "None of them are as good as me. I was a little puzzled, "There shouldn't be many skills like you in the army, shouldn't you focus on cultivation?" ”

He sighed and shook his head: "It was like this, but... ”