Nanjing is 300 kilometers away from Shanghai, and it was already dark halfway through the drive. The cars with automatic lights on the road have their headlights turned on one after another, making the whole world seem to be constantly fighting between the real and the unreal.

I turned down the volume of the car's stereo, lit a cigarette, and looked at the Yangtze River under the bridge. I don't know why, although the lights dotted on the boat are very small, but at this moment, in my eyes, they have become a vast landscape, and I seem to have become a fallen leaf, following those lights floating on the river...... At this moment, the wind blew the smell of gloom and depression of the night, and the world degenerated into a huge black hole with insufficient light.

Qiao Ye slowed down, then raised two fingers at me and asked me for a cigarette. I took out a cigarette and lit it for him, and he squinted and took a puff, and the ash was blown away by the wind, falling on my clothes and drifting into my eyes.

I rubbed my eyes and scolded, "Fuck, smoke and watch." ”

"How bright you are, I have to watch you when I drive and smoke!"

"Don't smoke it quickly, it really affects driving!" As I spoke, I took the cigarette from Qiao Ye's hand and pressed it into the ashtray.

Qiao Ye raised the speed of the car again, and after the wind overtook a heavy truck in front of him, he said to me: "It's so boring! Let's talk for a while. ”

"You say."

I was mentally prepared for him to talk to me about Su Han, but I didn't want him to ask me, "When are you and that girl named Xiao Ai going to get married?" ”

"Marriage ?!!"

Qiao Ye glanced at me and replied, "We're both the same age, but I've been married for three years, and even if you get married tomorrow, you'll already be left behind." ”

"I didn't even think about getting married."

Qiao Ye asked casually again: "Where have you come with her, have you ever had a relationship?" ”

"Let's stop talking, it's boring to talk to you."

"I'm asking this for your own good...... You say, if I cooked raw rice with Su Han three years ago, wouldn't there be so much now...... Humans are animals that are too smart, and when it is time to make up their minds, they are lucky...... Alas! Forget it, Su Han has done this to me, and I still think about what she is doing! ”

I don't have words, and the reason for this is precisely because I know too much. Although Su Han couldn't have a child with him three years ago, he has it now, but it's too late. In the eyes of Qiao Ye's parents, I am afraid that Qin Miao's children are orthodox, and Su Han's is disgraceful, so Su Han, who saw through this, chose to leave.

I thought of myself and Xiao Ai again, even if I have the courage of a bear heart and a leopard, I don't have the confidence to create a child with her at this time, because the environment we are facing now is much worse than that of Qiao Ye and Su Han back then, at least they don't have any financial burden, and we are almost displaced.

It was impossible to talk about things during the trip, so Qiao Ye and I, who only had the motivation of passing time, did not continue to talk about the topic in depth. We exchanged a few words at a service station, and after I drove by, it was already completely dark, and Shanghai, a city more luxurious than Nanjing, was just separated by the lights of several cities, flickering in my mind.

……

At around 8 o'clock, Qiao Ye and I arrived in Shanghai.

They made an appointment to meet at a very upscale KTV. After sitting down, the table was full of valuable foreign wines, and it was the first time I had the pleasure of seeing how extravagant the young people were, I secretly calculated that there were already more than 100,000 of the various wines on the table alone.

Qiao Ye said to a man who was about the same age as him and had a very energetic hairstyle: "Xiaobin, you see that my brother is reliable, I said to buy your car last night, and I came today." ”

This man named Xiaobin put his arm around Qiao Ye's shoulder, and then personally poured a glass of foreign wine and handed it to Qiao Ye, and another person next to him also poured me a glass of wine, even if we knew each other.

Xiao Bin drank it all, still hugged Qiao Ye's shoulder, and said to Qiao Ye in a lonely and invincible tone: "One of us is in Shanghai and the other is in Nanjing, and we are both losers in other people's mouths. I thought, I basically have no opponent in Shanghai, but if we are in the same city, it will be difficult to say...... Speaking of losers, others must think of you Young Master Qiao first, not me Wang Bin. My only regret for so many years is that everyone can't understand that when the loser reaches a certain point, there will be a feeling of loneliness for the master...... Surely that's what you think, right? Haha......"

Qiao Ye drank all the wine in the cup, then smiled at the people around him and said, "Hehe, I still love to joke so much!" ”

The crowd echoed and laughed......

I attached it to Qiao Ye's ear and asked in a low voice, "Is this person reliable?" ”

Qiao Ye didn't answer immediately, he picked up his glass and toasted with Wang Bin, and then said to me: "It's quite reliable, people have invested in the entertainment industry with the money he gave Lao Tzu in the past few years, and they have not only turned over the cost but also made a lot of money...... He just deliberately ran me off. ”

I made a look of surprise and said, "Then your grandson is really patient." , I've been so squeezed by others, and I'm still calm. ”

Qiao Ye didn't respond to me, he lowered his head and poured a glass of wine, and then drank it all again, I looked at him like this, and I really didn't feel good in my heart, but this person was really not angry, so that I, a brother, didn't have the confidence to say a few words for him to go back.

When the wine was almost drunk, Wang Bin finally took out a car key from his pocket, and then threw it to Qiao Ye and said, "You take the car, when will you give me the money?" ”

Qiao Ye seemed to be prepared, and he took out a notebook from his pocket. At first glance, I thought it was a check or something, but after thinking about it, how could Qiao Ye have such a thing. Sure enough, Qiao Ye said to that Wang Bin while writing: "I'll give you an IOU of 9 million, and the extra 200,000 yuan is counted as if I invited my brothers to drink today." ”

The audience was silent, and the flickering lights falling on everyone's faces were so funny!

I almost squirted the wine out of my mouth......

Wang Bin took the IOU and looked at it, then handed it to the others around him, and then laughed again. I was inexplicably angry in my heart, so I kicked Qiao Ye below, signaling him to end this farce quickly, because it was really embarrassing!

Qiao Ye took out his mobile phone from his pocket unhurriedly, then dialed a number, he turned on the speakerphone, and Qin Miao's voice came from inside: "Where are you, I called you so many times, and I didn't answer any of them!" ”

Qiao Ye replied: "I'm in Shanghai and I'm drinking with Wang Bin. ”

Qin Miao's tone was full of questioning: "Why are you mixed up with such a thing?" ”

Wang Bin's face sank, and then he approached Qiao Ye's phone and said, "Little sister, I can hear you talking, but this time your husband took the initiative to come to me." He wanted to buy my second-hand 918, but this guy was so good at things that he even gave me an IOU...... Damn, what the hell, I, Wang Bin, live so big, and I've seen it for a long time today! ”

Qin Miao on the other end of the phone was silent for a while, and then replied, "I was talking too impulsively just now...... I Qin Miao admits to buying a car, you give him the car, and I will transfer the money to your account after completing the transfer procedures. ”

"Okay, it's easy to say that, what kind of IOU!"

Qin Miao didn't respond, but asked again, "At what price did you sell it?" ”

"8.8 million, but your husband sent me an IOU of 9 million, saying that the extra 200,000 was to invite the brothers to drink."

Qin Miao on the other end of the phone was silent for a long time......

I felt inexplicably depressed in my heart, and finally Qin Miao replied: "I recognize everything." ”

……

In the standard room of the hotel, Qiao Ye and I each slept in the same bed, and he kept playing with the car keys he had just gotten from Wang Bin, at least judging from his expression, he didn't feel the slightest sense of regret for doing this.

I sighed in my heart, and then said to him very seriously: "Qiao Ye, don't play Qin Miao like this, okay?" …… She's just a woman who likes you and gets pregnant for you! ”

Qiao Ye replied nonchalantly: "Did I play with her?" …… Why didn't I feel it? ”

"Listen to some persuasion, okay?"

Qiao Ye turned his head to look at me, and said for a while: "I'm like this, isn't that what they want?" …… Besides, I think it's worth 9 million to buy such a big toy...... When Wang Bin's fool bought it, it was more than 14 million! ”

This is the third time I have faced Qiao Ye today, and I have a feeling that I have nothing to say. I simply left the bed, opened the curtains, and looked out at the world outside the hotel.

At this moment, my eyes saw the most prosperous night in this country, and I also saw the state of human beings who were so small that they were not worth mentioning that they were divided into two extremes on this night.

Yesterday, Xiao Ai was really angry with me for a 300 yuan dress; Today, Qiao Ye is playing with a 9 million supercar, but he says it is a toy!

Only then did I truly understand that there are clear springs flowing through this world, and there is also gold everywhere...... The land I am staying in has irreversibly entered a great era under the impetus of external forces.

In this great era, although there is no flesh-and-blood war, the uneven distribution of wealth is no less than a war, and the kind of people represented by Qiao Ye are not necessarily the final beneficiaries of this war.

I would like to advise him to be cautious and keep a low profile......

But in the end, I still gave up this idea, because compared to persuading him, I strive to improve myself to be more realistic, I don't want to squander millions of dollars at a time, but I also hope that I can have a deposit of hundreds of thousands in my hand, and then let me have the confidence to find the entrance to the next part of my life.

……

I don't want to suffer from the same indifference that Chen Yi's father gave me, I don't want to be like a snail, treating my solitary courtyard as a paradise; I want to pick up my grandmother from the nursing home, and I want to marry the girl I love......

Also, I miss my mother, in this restless moment when the lights are brilliant and the world seems to be shaking, I really miss Yang Jin...... I was unwilling to let her stay in my world for only 8 years and then leave quietly.

I'm even more unwilling, everything has changed, but Tulip Road is still called Tulip Road!