After eating and returning to the inn, Brother Jiu hadn't slept well for a few days, and at this moment, he put down his mind and fell asleep.

When I woke up again, the sky was full of colorful clouds, and the sun had almost set.

He got up and washed his face, and went back to see what Sjepan was doing. As a result, the guy didn't do anything, sitting in bed in a daze.

"What is this?" Brother Nine looked at him, "Hungry?" Find a good place for dinner. I really didn't eat that meal at noon, and the level of the restaurant in the small place was still too poor, worse than the KFC burger you brought. ”

Sjepan didn't move.

"You don't have to pay for it this time, let's go to the county magistrate's house during the day! Let him bring out all the delicious food! ”

"I'm not going, you can go by yourself."

Brother Nine sighed: "What's the matter?" Are you not happy to have something good to eat? ”

Stepan leaned his head on the head of the bed and said with a stunned expression, "Actually, you don't have to stay here with me. ”

"Look, it's here again!" Brother Jiu also sat down, "Anyway, it's okay for me to go back." Just came out to play for two days. ”

Sjepan glanced at him: "You came out to play for two days, and the whole county was not at peace, and there was not even a figure on the street, do you know?" At the moment, this inn is just me and you. ”

Brother Nine was surprised: "Huh? The rest of the guests are checked out? ”

"What checkout?" Sjepan didn't have a good breath, "It's all gone!" ”

Brother Jiu thought about it, given the extent to which they didn't even let go of that dog during the day, it was indeed not strange that the customers in the store would be chased away.

So he persuaded, "Isn't it?" That's why I told you not to live here anymore, and see how much inconvenience you have caused to the local people! ”

Sjepan laughed angrily, "Is that the inconvenience I caused them?" You're the culprit! ”

"If you stay at home, I'll come here!" Brother Nine glared at him, "This is obviously your fault!" ”

Sjepan was silent.

Then, he suddenly whispered: "Yinyu, I'm at a loss, I don't know what to do in the future." ”

"Well, of course you have to be at a loss and don't know what to do. But even if you go back to Russia, you don't know what to do - what can you do? I suspect you don't understand Russian today, so what can you do? To be a male favorite of Empress Ekaterina? You can't even do that. ”

Sjepan was embarrassed: "Don't mention that, okay?" ”

"If you really stay in Daqing, there is a way to make your life fuller." Brother Nine said, "I'll recommend a game to you." ”

"Games?"

"Hmm. There are many levels with complicated patterns, the prizes are super luxurious, you can form a group or play alone, the points are valid, and you can finally meet the big boss, once you are invincible, you will not have to worry about eating and drinking in this life. ”

"What a game!"

"Imperial examinations."

Sjepan laughed, "The last big boss is your dad, right?" ”

"Not really." Brother Jiu said with a smile, "Earlier, I wanted to make a game of scientific research, which is a desire precipitated in the genes of Chinese." ”

"Forget it, I'm still doing scientific research like this, I can't get my hair gray, and I'm still a child."

Brother Nine was surprised: "Huh? You know a lot. ”

"I've heard the story of Fan Jinzhongju," Sjepan paused, "it was Shen Peilun who told me." ”

As soon as Shen Peilun was mentioned, the atmosphere between the two became subtle.

"Are you still thinking about him?" Brother Nine snorted.

Sjepan shook his head, "No. I don't miss him as much as I used to. ”

"Actually, I really don't understand you. If you are an ordinary person, you have already entered the second spring, and you can't imagine that the third spring and the fourth spring have passed. What about you, after so many years of stagnating, he threw you there, and you really stayed there and didn't move the nest - is it so difficult to find a boyfriend again? ”

The light in the room slowly dimmed, and Sjepan's voice became quiet: "...... I'm a person with a bad personality. It's easy to rely on others, and after a long time, you unconsciously frame your life on others. In this way, once you are trapped, it is very difficult to pull it out, and pulling it out again is as uncomfortable as dying. It's not that I don't have lessons from the past, and of course I have to learn a lesson. ”

When he said this, Brother Jiu couldn't help but think of the frost-covered refrigerator, blackened water heater, and air conditioner that couldn't be cooled in Sjepan's house......

He shook his head: "What about you, if you are a heterosexual, then this problem is too easy to solve: find a girl who does her duty, she loves you with all her heart, you eat and do housework every day when you go home, and you can live a good life." But you don't have to like men, and it's too difficult to ask a man to be unambitious and single-mindedly pounce on you. If you are a little unlucky, and if you bump into Shen Peilun's ambitious person, you will be a drag. ”

As soon as Brother Jiu said this, he also regretted it a little, he just said that he would not drag Sjepan down, and now he said that he was a drag.

So he quickly changed his words and said, "Oh, I don't think you're a drag." ”

Sjepan laughed for a moment: "You're not a man, are you?" ”

"You're not a man!"

"But you don't quite like them." Sjepan thought for a moment, "I've been in Daqing for so long, and I haven't seen you seek any fame and fortune, nor have I seen you keen on conquest......"

"That's because my starting point is too high." Brother Jiu rolled his eyes, "How else can I seek fame and fortune?" The family's money is piled up, and Hongxi's grandson can't use it up, if you want to talk about status, no matter how hard you work, you can only be the emperor, and I don't want to be the emperor. ”

"Why don't you want to be the emperor?"

"I wasn't born with that interest." Brother Nine said lazily, "My starling brother is very interested, since he is interested, I will help him." Anyway, it is good for me that he is the emperor. And according to the previous trend, the possibility of him becoming the emperor is the highest...... Forget it, it's not interesting to talk about this now, who would have thought that the throne would fall into the hands of the fourth child? ”?

When it came to Yinzhen, Si Jiepan was a little worried: "Fourth master, are you still angry with me?" ”

Brother Jiu glared: "He dares to be angry with you!" If he dares to be angry with you again, I will break off my friendship with him! ”

Si Jie Pan panicked: "Hey, Yinyu, this is not good!" That's how you ......"

"Gotta get it!" Brother Jiu interrupted him, and he stood up, "You don't have to worry about me!" It's not early, eat! ”

"Where are you going to eat?"

"Didn't you say that? Look for the prefectural order. Brother Jiu smiled, "Let's go, let's scourge that dog official!" ”

That night, the "dog official" was really harmed by them, and the county commander saw that Brother Jiu brought foreigners to the door, so he panicked and quickly ordered his subordinates to kill pigs and sheep, prepare the best meals to entertain, and called out the youngest girl to serve, and the family was so nervous that they looked uneasy, for fear that Brother Jiu would not be satisfied.

Brother Jiu was not dissatisfied, he didn't come to find fault, he just came to eat mixed meals. Since the county order is so hard-working, he is happy to accept it.

During the banquet, the county magistrate advised him to drink again, and Sjepan shook his head and said that he did not drink.

"I'm allergic to alcohol."

The county order doesn't understand, and I don't understand what alcohol allergy is.

"It's just that if you get drunk, you will go into shock and die."

The county magistrate was immediately frightened, and slapped himself in the mouth again and again, saying that he was "damned".

Brother Jiu smiled: "How can you have such a serious alcohol allergy?" Isn't your dad a wine merchant? ”

"yes, not to mention how disappointed he was." "What else can he expect from a son who faints when he gets drunk?" Every time he introduced me to someone, he said, 'My son is a scientist,' pause, and he added, 'A scientist who doesn't drink anything.'" ”

"Where is he now? Are you still a wine merchant? ”

"Well, but he rarely goes back to Moscow, and spends most of his time wandering around the world." Sjepan sighed, "He must not have imagined that his son would be in Daqing." ”

"What about your mother?"

"Still in Moscow." Sjepan was very stunned, "She's terrible, she's always been addicted to alcohol, and she has been sent to quit several times intermittently, but it didn't work." ”

Brother Jiu was taken aback: "How can this be?" ”

"My parents have been at odds for a long time. Otherwise, my dad wouldn't be out all the time. When I was in college, my mom said they were going to divorce, and after so many years, they didn't leave. I wish they had divorced sooner and each sought happiness again. I told them a few times, but my mother blamed me and told me not to interfere in other people's marriages. ”

It turns out that his family is like this, Brother Jiu thought to himself, no wonder his own life is so messy.

"It's ironic, isn't it?" Sjepan smiled slightly, "My dad is a wine merchant, but I'm allergic to alcohol, and my mom is an alcoholic." How do you find a place to go? This family of three is so ironic that it can be written into Gogol's book. ”

Although several candles were lit during the banquet, the light was still very dim, and the county magistrate shrank in a corner of the banquet, listening in surprise, wanting to ask questions but not daring.

Brother Jiu put down his chopsticks, and he sighed softly: "You, you are indeed a fool." With so many things in your heart, but you don't find someone to talk to, do you think that you can escape all the problems by working wholeheartedly? With so many things in my heart, can I feel good? Even if you find a psychiatrist. ”

Sjepan silently looked at the plate in front of him.

"When my mom was younger, she danced ballet." He whispered, "The principal dancer of the National Ballet is very powerful, in "Swan Lake", she plays the black swan Ogilia. By the way, Shi Suo's mother is also in their group, and she plays the princess who becomes the white swan Odetta. ”

He said, laughing: "When I was a child, I went to see my mother's performance, and there were posters on the wall with my mother's name written on them, close-ups, and I would say to other children, look! That's my mom! ”

In this way, his mother got married and had children at a very young age, Brother Jiu thought, otherwise he wouldn't have stayed on the stage for so long.

"But Yinyu, you know? When I went back to Moscow last Christmas to visit her, I couldn't go home, I went to a rehab center. Her face was covered with red rashes from drinking, her hair was about to fall out, and she looked like a swan. More scary than a witch in a fairy tale. She had a number of small colored ropes tied to her arms, which were worn by the volunteers at the rehab center, and they called her, and when she was addicted to alcohol, she clung to the colored ropes, and memorized the mantra of quitting alcohol, and she had to hold on to it—where could she hold on? Just a few days after I went back, she was drinking again, she was so drunk that she threw up in the streets, and I got a call to rush to the hospital, and she was in the emergency room, convulsed like electricity. I was so frightened that I thought she was going to die, so I called my dad, and he yelled on the phone: "Can't you give up on her!" ”

"Your dad isn't home for Christmas?!"

"yes, he's not coming back for Christmas." Sjepan smiled, "I can see why he won't come back, my mother is really terrible like this." ”

"Then she's ...... now"

"I want to bring my mom to China, but she won't, she said, do Chinese supermarkets have vodka?"

Brother Nine shook his head slightly.

"She is still in the detention center, which is already very serious, so she is cared for all day, and she is no different from a prisoner. Financially, my dad is burdening it, and he can afford it. But he would rather pay for it than go to see my mother himself. "I used to think that I should bring my mother to Daqing, but she couldn't find a bottle of vodka here, and she had to quit drinking if she didn't want to." But then I thought about it, if she really wanted to drink, even if it was to climb, she would crawl back to Russia by herself, could I stop her? ”

Did he say this to Shen Peilun? Brother Jiu suddenly thought for no reason, is Shen Peilun a person willing to listen to him say this? Even if he is willing to listen, then in the five years he has been away, who can Sjepan tell his pain to?

If no one can say, then how should he live his life? (To be continued.) )