The vanishing wedge
(The wedge originally written, has been removed from the text)
The weather has just turned cool, the wind blows cool after nightfall, the night is like water, the car turns from the Outer Ring West Road to Qingnian Road, from the Mingcheng Hotel to the south to Jinyi Lake stretching for several kilometers, everywhere you can see the street girl throwing winks to the passing men.
Zhang Ke slowed down, cigarette in his mouth, and looked at the street girl who walked back and forth on the sidewalk after nightfall, her breasts and thighs like snow exposed to the greedy and dim street lamp. Du Fei squeezed his eyebrows beside him and said with a smile: "You said that there are also shemales with super good figures, how can you see it?" A few girls came around, stretched out two fingers and shook desperately, and couldn't hear the words of their red lips through the glass window, Du Fei almost stuck his eyes to the window glass: "It's only two hundred yuan a time, and it's really a good thing." β
"That's what you have to do with ......them," Zhang Ke said with a smile.
"Fuck you," Du Fei burst like a nerve when he heard Zhang Ke say this, "Lao Tzu's chastity that has been guarded for half his life is ruined in your hands." β
Zhang Ke laughed.
Zhang Ke and Du Fei have been close friends for seven years. After graduation, Zhang Ke was lustful and profligate, while Du Fei was still a virgin until the last year of graduate school. This is an era of being ashamed of being a virgin, Du Fei was in his last year of graduate school, and he couldn't stand his virginity anymore, so he asked Zhang Ke to take him to Miss, with the 5,000 yuan project reward that his mentor had just given him in his pocket. At that time, Zhang Ke was the account manager of Longyu Group, and due to business needs, he knew everything about Haizhou City, so he took Du Fei to the prosperous youth bar that was said to have the most beautiful lady in Haizhou, ready to help Du Fei get rid of his embarrassing virgin status. Halfway through, Zhang Ke excused himself to go to the toilet, took out a cigarette and put it in front of Du Fei, the filter was facing outward, and pressed the cigarette case on the cigarette, Du Fei didn't know that this was a sign of being a cowherd in Haizhou City, and peeked at the gorgeous and sexy girl in the bar, and was worried, he really didn't have the courage to go and talk, so he had to wait for Zhang Ke to help him find a young lady. Before Zhang Ke returned to his seat, a sexy and glamorous girl came over to talk, Du Fei only had time to change his eyes with Zhang Ke who came out of the toilet, so he went to the hotel with the girl to untie his clothes, and when he got up in the early morning and was hesitating how much money should be paid to the girl, the girl took out a stack of banknotes and threw it in front of him, Du Fei was surprised and forgot to stop the girl to ask what was going on. came back and asked Zhang Ke, Zhang Ke danced and said the reason, Du Fei began to look angry, and it didn't take long for him to discuss with Zhang Ke how to spend the money.
Zhang Ke and Du Fei are so close.
Du Fei is definitely not an ugly man, otherwise Zhang Ke's trap would not have succeeded, the reason why he was still a virgin in the last year of graduate school was because he had a sad past in high school, and then he met the paid one-night stand girl again by chance, and had a relationship. Later, after learning that the paid one-night stand girl was the second wife of the CEO of Haizhou Fengmao Group, Du Fei agreed with Zhang Ke's outlook on life that "men are born to have fun", but he continued to maintain that relationship with the paid one-night stand girl.
The car arrived at the captain's bar, the Popeye on the signboard was leaning on a huge anchor, Du Fei jumped out of the car, stood behind the car and commanded Zhang Ke to reverse the car into the parking space, Zhang Ke felt the position, Du Fei was still shouting: "Down, down, down, don't stop." Zhang Ke pulled out the key and got out of the car, and looked at the back of the car: "It's you*, and you still want to frame Lao Tzu, don't you have the heart to die?" β
"Isn't there a gap of five centimeters?" Du Fei smiled, for the shame of Snow Cowherd, he didn't use his brains less, but Zhang Ke, a ghost-like character, was never deceived.
Zhou Xiaolu received a call from Du Fei, and walked to the door of the bar at this time, with a plump figure, a delicate face, and smooth skin and tender flesh; Zhang Ke couldn't help but look at it twice, thinking that if Du Fei didn't invest any feelings, he would enjoy it. Zhou Xiaolu is Du Fei's paid one-night stand girl, Zhang Ke's eyes stopped on Zhou Xiaolu's body for a moment, and then drifted to the seemingly innocent girl standing behind Zhou Xiaolu. After Zhang Ke got along with his ex-girlfriend for three months, he was physically and mentally exhausted, and he only recently succeeded in falling out of love.
Today, this seemingly innocent girl is called Zhang Jing, with long legs and a thin waist, Tingting Yuli, a slender neck that Zhang Ke likes, wearing a chiffon shirt with a pleated lapel, she can't see the size of her chest, her eyes are long and charming, some like Tang Jing, and her name is the same, which makes Zhang Ke quite excited. The skin is white and greasy, although he is dressed as a white-collar worker, Zhang Ke doesn't believe it in his heart, because Zhou Xiaolu often pretends to be a white-collar worker and dresses up vividly, and he is no worse than Zhang Ke when he speaks English.
When drinking, Zhou Xiaolu exposed Zhang Ke's old bottom, and counted the girls Zhang Ke had dumped since she met Du Fei. Du Fei swore to Zhang Ke that Zhang Jing was a high-minded and arrogant beauty from a good family, and mocked Zhang Ke for definitely losing his way in front of Zhang Jing.
Zhou Xiaolu was still there to tell Zhang Ke's past, Zhang Ke grabbed Du Fei's neck and pulled him under the table: "You two adulterers and adulteresses are too tasteless, the game hasn't started yet, just tear down my platform one by one, how can you play?" β
"This can also allow you to soak in it, so as to reflect your level, how about it, do you have the courage?" Du Fei stretched out his hand, "In the prime of life, five times of consumption, gambling or not?" β
"Go, little meaning, there is no challenge at all, Lao Tzu slaps her, and she can't help but fall in love with me."
"If you really dare to start, the five consumption years of the prosperous era will be cashed out." Du Fei looked disdainful, of course he didn't believe it. Zhang Ke didn't care about him, and the two of them returned to the table and continued to drink. Zhou Xiaolu proposed to play truth or dare, Zhang Ke shook his head and refused, Du Fei smiled and said that Zhang Ke didn't dare to confide in him, Zhang Jing's little smiled and didn't speak, it was really a little tempting.
Zhang Ke took a sip of wine, changed his serious demeanor, and said, "Truth or Dare, we won't play, I'll tell you a rather tragic story," paused for a while, and waited for Du Fei to also sit upright, "There used to be a girl and a boy, who grew up together since childhood, went to kindergarten together, went to elementary school together, and later went to junior high school and high school together, until they went to college together, and the two almost never left each other's sight. The boy is emotionally quite passive, and although the two are together, they carefully hide their emotions, let alone make a direct confession. Now that we look at it, the boy is a bit silly, but when we think about our teenage years, we were so naΓ―ve about emotional issues. The girl also liked the boy in her heart, although the boy had always been by her side, she preferred the boy to show his heart directly. I've been waiting, spending my high school career, and the same is true of my four-year college life......" Speaking of this, Zhang Ke stopped, his eyes narrowed, his eyes fell on Zhang Jing's bright eyes, smiled, and said, "Four years of college life, girls are getting more and more dazzling, but boys are a little ordinary, perhaps because of this, the more boys come later, the less courage they have to confess." Even if you know the girl's mind, the boy will have a lot of concerns, about this, Du Fei has experience, you talk to him......"
Du Fei slapped Zhang Ke: "Tell me your story, what's ...... about me?"
"Say it quickly, ......say it quickly," Zhou Xiaolu urged beside him.
With a smile on the corner of his mouth, Zhang Ke said: "During this period, that girl rejected many people who were in love with her, until a man appeared. A very persistent and patient man. In fact, the girl is a little disappointed in the boy, and she can't resist the passionate pursuit of this man, this man is also very good, almost as good as me......"
"How can you be so shameless?" Zhou Xiaolu interrupted, "Yes, we know how rubbish this man is, skip this ......"
"Skip it?" Zhang Ke smiled, "The girl became this man's girlfriend." At this point, the boy realized the pain of losing the girl, and confessed to the girl when the girl and the man were about to leave the city together and return to the man's hometown. The girl returns to the boy and ends up getting married and having children......"
"What's so miserable about this, isn't it a reunion?" Zhang Jing opened her black and white eyes and tilted her head to ask.
"Isn't the story tragic for that man?" Zhang Ke took a sip of wine and let the wine slide down his throat, "That man also loves the girl very sincerely, but his sorrow is incomprehensible to others, because he is a supporting character in this story." β
The three of them were slightly stunned, but Du Fei came back to his senses first, laughed and said, "If you can squeeze out two tears, it will be even more amazing." β
The four of them continued to drink until midnight, Zhang Ke was a little emotional, and drank a little too much, but his consciousness was still quite clear, and when he went out, Du Fei stretched out his hand and gestured in front of Zhang Ke's eyes. Zhang Ke knew that he was asking himself if the gambling contract before drinking was counted. Zhang Ke grinned, turned to the side, waved his hand to Zhou Xiaolu and Zhang Jing behind him, but hit the glass door in front of him. The tempered glass was strong, and Zhang Ke sat on the ground with his buttocks. The drinkers in the bar clattered the bell, causing the audience to laugh. Zhang Ke looked at the people in the bar in a daze, and asked indistinctly, "What are you laughing at?" "I put my hands on the ground and tried to stand up, but my feet went limp, and my whole body hid on the ground.
"He drank too much, what he just said was the truth, as soon as he was emotional, he was prone to drink too much," Du Fei stretched out his hand to pick up half of Zhang Ke's body from under his armpit, dragged him out of the bar like a corpse, and said to Gu Qing, "I'll send him back, you can take a taxi back, lest he vomit on you, help me help me first......"
Du Fei handed Zhang Ke's dead body to the two women, and he took out the car keys to open the door.
"Where is this?" Zhang Ke raised up, glanced at the wine in confusion, and his eyes almost stared at Zhang Jing's face, "Who are you?" With a wave of his hand, it seemed to be unintentional, but with a "snap", it hit Zhang Jing's face, "Get out, Lao Tzu never looks for a young lady......" Zhang Jing slapped this slap, and as soon as her hand was loosened, Zhang Ke didn't finish speaking, his body lost support, his head rushed to the glass window of the car, there was a loud bang, and he sat on the ground again, but his body did not sit still, he was crooked on the cement, motionless.
"It's okay," Du Fei was startled, and hurriedly came over to apologize, "This muddy boy drank too much, he really treats you as a young lady, and when he wakes up, I will definitely ask him to apologize to you." Du Fei hurriedly stuffed the drunk Zhang Ke into the carriage, drove halfway through, felt a hand scratching his neck behind his back, startled, and looked back, Zhang Ke was sitting there, how could he be half drunk: "Five prosperous years, including the cost of finding a young lady, you wait to go bankrupt." β
", you've got it."
"It's called a surprise win." Zhang Ke smiled proudly, exchanged with Du Fei, drove him to the company's dormitory, and returned to his kennel It was almost one o'clock in the morning, and the city fell into a quiet night, Zhang Ke turned on the computer player, clicked on "bossanovababy", took out a bottle of beer from the refrigerator, and gently swayed his body in the vicissitudes of Elvis's singing voice, following the beat of the music. As soon as I was halfway through the beer, the phone rang, and when I answered the phone, it was my mother's voice: "What's the matter, it's almost time, and you're calling so late?" β
"Your dad is playing cards, I'm accompanying him, I'm bored anyway, see what time my son will return to the kennel late at night."
"Neurotic, you just take care of my dad, persuade him not to stay up late to play cards, he thinks his body can still compare with his son and me?"
"Your father's temper, it would be nice to listen to my advice......"
Listening to his mother's sigh on the other end of the phone, Zhang Ke felt a little sad in his heart, not angry at his father's gambling addiction, but at the sadness of his father's encounter. Zhang Ke thought to himself: If it weren't for the 14 years of unjust imprisonment that affected my father, my father would probably be the mayor and secretary of the municipal party committee of a certain place, how could he become the gambler now?
Fourteen years ago, the case of Ding Xiangshan, secretary of the Haizhou Municipal Party Committee, framing Vice Mayor Tang Xueqian, caused a sensation across the country when the truth was revealed a few years later. Fourteen years ago, Zhang Ke's father, Zhang Zhixing, was the deputy secretary-general of the Haizhou Municipal Government, and was promoted by Executive Vice Mayor Tang Xueqian. When Tang Xueqian was framed, he asked someone to bring a message to Zhang Zhixing and asked him to take shelter outside. Unexpectedly, Zhang Zhixing left Haizhou and became a fear of crime and absconded, which also became one of the proofs of Tang Xueqian's guilt. A few years later, Tang Xueqian, who was wrongfully imprisoned and almost mentally collapsed, couldn't remember that he had found someone to talk to Zhang Zhixing at that time, and Zhang Zhixing's escape was of course regarded as the most shameful betrayal.
Zhang Zhixing was smart all his life, but he mistakenly took the person who brought the talk, he couldn't turn over all his life, he was depressed, he was less than fifty years old, he had gray hair, and he spent his will on the gambling table all these years. For people who are extremely smart, Zhang Zhixing is naturally playing what is fine, and it didn't take long for very few people in the surrounding neighbors to be willing to play cards with Zhang Zhixing again.
Zhang Ke knew the depression in his father's heart, and it was true that his father rarely lost money, but the money he won has become a remittance slip for out-of-school children over the years. Dad is not addicted to gambling, he just uses this way to show his heart, only in this way does Zhang Ke feel even more unfair for his father's fate.
Zhang Ke hung up the phone, drank the beer, pushed open the window, threw the can from the height of the twentieth floor, and prayed with a serious expression: "God of the dog's day, I hope I can hit the BMW of the dog's day that I have long looked down on." A moment later there was a dull thud, and the can fell to the concrete floor. Zhang Ke dispelled the hope of smashing the car with a hammer, wanted to smoke, took out his pocket, and then remembered to take Du Fei away on the wine table, hesitated to go downstairs to buy cigarettes, and remembered the girl with a pimple on the face of Sujie Convenience Chain, Zhang Ke immediately dispelled this idea, quickly washed up, sat on the bedside and took out a book, and soon stayed up until two o'clock in the morning to sleep.
Sleep is very shallow, and in the early morning, he will fall into some chaotic and mixed dreams, waking up to the sunlight shining on his face in the morning, Zhang Ke looked at the plain ceiling for a while, and couldn't remember the dream he had just experienced.
In front of the mirror, Zhang Ke straightened the blue twill tie of the whole lake, picked up the briefcase, changed his shoes, stood behind the door and waited quietly for some time, only to hear a click outside the door, which was the sound of opening the door to the door, Zhang Ke also quickly opened the door, a beautiful girl wearing a red short windbreaker was locking the door with Zhang Ke on her back, heard the voice, turned around and smiled sweetly, and said: "I just went out at the same time as Mr. Zhang." β
"Oh, really?" Zhang Ke raised his hand and looked at his watch, "I went out at this time, which can only show that Miss Luo is also a punctual person." β
"Is there one?" The girl's gorgeous face showed a confused look, "I thought I was going out late today, and I was in a hurry, so I didn't dare to comb my hair, so I pricked it by the way, and it was messy." The girl pulled a wisp of her head and raised it, looking a little shy.
"Want me to be honest?" Zhang Ke's eyes were raised a little, looking at the girl's beautiful eyes, "It looks messy, but there are some very clear layers, Miss Luo doesn't say it, I still plan to praise your hairstyle, but it really sets your face shape......"
"Really?" The shyness on the girl's face was even stronger, and she walked into the elevator with Zhang Ke, Zhang Ke began to pray that the elevator could suddenly lose power at this moment, squinting her eyes and thinking for a while, the elevator door suddenly opened, which was really disappointing.
"Ha, Miss Luo," a young man with oily hair and a pink face poked out of the blue BMW and beckoned to the girl, "I'll take you to the company." β
The girl waved her hand at Zhang Ke and slipped into the BMW car in small steps. Zhang Ke was quite annoyed at this time why he didn't use a hammer to smash the BMW into a hole last night, and thought about changing his strategy, getting into the Jetta car, starting the car, and driving to the company. Zhang Ke is the branch manager of Longyu Group, and his work starts at nine o'clock in the morning. He was still in the car at this time, listening to the morning broadcast on the radio, there was no special news, approaching the Hongjiang intersection, the mobile phone rang, it was an unfamiliar mobile phone number, but it was a familiar voice, Zhang Ke couldn't remember who came at once.
"Remember me?"
"Why don't you remember, it's just weird that you remember me?" Zhang Ke was pulling nonsense.
"It's only been one night, and you've got amnesia when I do? Are you sober? β
It turned out to be Zhang Jing, the girl who was with Zhou Xiaolu, thinking of her long and charming eyes, Zhang Ke almost whistled, and smiled lightly: "I really want to thank you, when I woke up at four o'clock in the morning, I found that I was sleeping in my own bed, I really want to thank you, how about inviting you to dinner at night?" β
"Why do you want to thank me, invite me to dinner, you have to give a reason, right?"
Zhang Ke smiled, thinking in his heart about how to consume in the prosperous world to make Du Fei bankrupt, but his mouth was not sloppy: "If you weren't there, Du Fei and Zhou Xiaolu, two adulterers and adulteresses, could throw me on the street, do you want to thank you well......" Zhang Ke looked up at the traffic light at the intersection and just jumped the green light, hit the steering wheel with one hand, and the piercing brake sound suddenly sounded......
"God ...... this dog day" Zhang Ke didn't even have time to complain, and the feeling of death was a huge black hole hanging upside down above his consciousness, sucking Zhang Ke's obscene soul into it......