Three years ago. Christmas Eve. Wu Ji hot pot restaurant on Tianyaoqiao Road.

Winters in Shanghai are very cold, although they are not knee-high snow like in the north, and the plain land is covered in silver to give a sense of what real winter is. However, the winter in Shanghai also has its own unique style, the oncoming cold wind that makes people's faces like pins and needles, even if it is not the cold and snow, but everyone has to be willing to hide in the fully heated room and curl up without going out.

This kind of weather, it should have called a group of pig friends and dog friends to eat seabucks in the hot pot restaurant, if you add that this group of friends are like-minded otaku otaku, belong to the same guild, and open up the wasteland together in a game, it would be perfect.

Therefore, we at the "JR" Guild chose such a time to start our guild meeting. Traditionally, the so-called Christmas Eve should be the best opportunity for a group of couples to go around the world to watch a movie and then go to a hotel to open a room and naturally overthrow it, but unfortunately, in our guild, which is basically composed of a group of dead and dead, the faint sadness of the so-called couples is completely insulated.

"The ink is hairy! If you want to drink, you can drink it! Icewing rampage through the table with a glass of beer in his hand.

Lao Hei made a bitter face, looked at the cat for a long time, and finally drank it all with his neck raised.

Everyone immediately applauded: "Old black real masters!" ”

That's right, that's the only way to have that atmosphere that belongs to our JR Guild.

The JR Guild, in fact, is the English abbreviation of "sluts", and this great name is also due to the inspiration of the former president, who is now also caught in the little trouble of love and no longer attends the event. In recent years, more than 30 of us have united under the banner of this great guild to fight in various games.

After drinking the beer, Lao Hei's face flushed a little, and he quickly picked up a large piece of tofu and stuffed it into his stomach. And just as I was about to take advantage of the victory to pursue and complete the unfinished goal of Ice Wings - to pour Lao Hei down, Lao Hei suddenly took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket with a bitter face, and then "Ah! Good! …… Hmmm......" After a while, he closed his mobile phone, and the old black man confessed to everyone at the table with a face: "I'm sorry, brothers, my wife urged, she was having dinner with someone in Ganghui, and asked me to go over to meet guests, sorry...... Flashed ......"

Seeing Lao Hei's figure disappear from the store, everyone's hands holding cups could only be put down one after another.

"One more ......," Ice Wing said thoughtfully.

“……”

"Last year I was the president, this year I was the old black," I said, holding up my glass and smiling, "It seems that our guild is going to change its name from JR to Wedding Blessing." ”

"Yes, JR has two less main members, but one more pair is caught in family entanglements...... Bing Wing laughed, and suddenly he seemed to see something, and suddenly closed his mouth.

Following his gaze, I saw the old cow sitting across the table.

Lao Niu is also an old member of our guild, the same age as me, and he is also a member of the otaku group who loves to play games.

Lao Niu is kind-hearted, and his parents are also very good people, every time I go to his house, Niu's father will take the initiative to take Niu's mother out to buy vegetables together, leaving our own friends to live at home and happy.

Lao Niu has five cats, two cages of hamsters, and four tanks of fish.

These animals were picked up by the old cow himself, the cat was a wild cat in the community, and the hamster was a nest of hamsters raised by children in the alley and gave birth to seven or eight of them. The fish is even more crying and laughing, it is a small yellow croaker bought by Niu Ma in the vegetable market, which was originally intended to be fried fish, but in the end it became a domestic pet for some reason.

Lao Niu is really a very good person.

Unfortunately, Shanghai is not a city where good people can live as they wish.

Lao Niu's house is an old Shikumen house in Shanghai, which is a semi-historical monument of Shanghai folk architecture that existed in Shanghai before the middle of the last century. Today, when the Shanghai government is paying more and more attention to the construction of this kind of old Shanghai folk customs, the residents of the old Shikumen house for generations only have the right to live in the house, but have no ownership.

That is to say, if you live in this kind of old Shikumen house, then there is no problem, and after decades, it is no problem to continue to live in it for your children.

However, if you want to sell, sorry, no.

Because the old Shikumen house is already part of the historical and cultural protection of Shanghai, it is forbidden to transfer and sell.

And Lao Niu's family has lived in this kind of alley-style old Shikumen house since his grandfather's generation. In fact, there is nothing bad about the Shikumen house, although it is a little darker, but it is better to be warm in winter and cool in summer, and the neighbors do not get along with each other because it is not a unit building, and the old Niu family is very popular, so the relationship between the neighbors is also extremely harmonious.

Therefore, Lao Niu's family has never felt that there is anything wrong with the old Shikumen house.

However, the day the chaos appeared, the world was turned upside down.

Ah Ran and Lao Niu are half-childhood sweethearts, since high school, Ah Ran and Lao Niu are sitting in the front and back rows, plus handing each other a note between exams, bringing breakfast in the morning or something, come and go, when a boy meets a girl, the love story of this world starts like this.

After graduating, Lao Niu was not close to Aran's university, but Lao Niu took a bus from Yangpu to Nanhui every week, rain or shine all year round. Then I caught up with Lao Niu and Ah Ran who had similar interests, and finally joined our JR guild together.

Therefore, we all think that among the members of the JR Guild's couples who go to die, Lao Niu should definitely be the first member to leave the group.

It's a pity that this world is not the imaginary love stories deduced in Japanese dramas or Korean dramas.

Here, it's Shanghai.

Soon, Lao Niu and Ah Lan reached the point of talking about marriage. Ah Lan's parents are also open-minded, and they did not specify that Ah Lan must marry a returnee elite or sit on a large sum of 20 million. However, Ah Lan's mother told Lao Niu's mother very tactfully: There is no problem for the two little guys to get married, but you can't plan to get married and let our family live in Shikumen with you, right?

Because the people of the whole country know about it, Shanghai has long eliminated the housing prices below 10,000 yuan per square meter, and all houses, whether new or old, are all 10,000 yuan upward...... Therefore, generally speaking, if ordinary working families in Shanghai want to buy a house, most of them choose to sell their parents' house, and then use the money from the sale of the old house to make a down payment for the new house, and then repay the loan in 30 years, and then use the new house to get married, one for parents and one for the newlyweds.

However, the Shikumen houses in Shanghai cannot be bought and sold.

As a result, Ah Ran and Lao Niu failed to hold anyone's hand in the end.

Although Chaos did not leave the JR Guild after that, he was almost never on the line, and it is said that he was busy with a blind date......

Lao Niu did not leave the JR Guild later, but he devoted himself to the cause of the game......

Occasionally, when the guild gathers, she will symbolically call Ah Chao, but she basically refuses, and Lao Niu, Lei can't move, and he must arrive at every game.

At today's meeting, Ah Chao routinely did not attend, and Lao Niu customarily chose to drink there alone.

Ice Wing and I looked at each other, no longer talking, I moved my chair and sat down next to the old cow. Bite open a bottle of cold beer, touch him, and pour it up.

That night, we were all very drunk.

When the meeting was over, everyone dispersed, and I pulled the old cow to hail a taxi on the road.

The old cow drank high, and was agitated by the cold wind, so he couldn't help but squat on the side of the road and vomit. I patted him on the back from behind him and was silent.

After a long time, Lao Niu suddenly turned around and asked me, "Am I not good at anything?" ”

I froze, not knowing how to answer.

"I didn't get to work, I didn't get any results when I talked about friends, and even when I played games, I was the one at the bottom!!" The old cow turned his head and began to vomit again.

I don't know what to say.

Lao Niu is the kind of person who is more honest and honest, whether in reality or in the game. In the game, he is often deceived by the simplest scam to deceive all his belongings, and even in the guild collective leveling, he is also the person who can't keep up with the rhythm of the big army.

"It doesn't matter," I comforted him, "playing games or something, there's nothing to worry about, and it's the happiest when you're together." ”

The old cow ignored me, his shoulders heaving.

I silently handed him a tissue and asked him to wipe the liquid from the corners of his eyes and mouth.

"You...... What are your plans for the future? I finally couldn't help but ask the sentence that had been suppressed in my heart for a long time and wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask.

"I ...... I don't know," the old cow turned to look at me and smiled bitterly, "I think, I can't even play the game well, and I can't do anything else." ”

I didn't know how to comfort him, so I couldn't help but look away.

"What about you? What are you going to do in the future? Lao Niu suddenly asked me.

"Me? I'm going to be an admirable G! "When it comes to ideals, I suddenly feel bright.

Lao Niu looked at me and suddenly laughed: "Xiaofeng, you must be a great G!" ”

I nodded desperately and smugly.

"At that time, you have to help me get some good equipment, so that I can also be majestic!" The old cow also smiled very brightly.

"Okay, okay, the more you talk about it, the more outrageous it becomes! The car is coming, you live in Xinzhuang, let's go first. I tapped him on the shoulder and shoved him into the taxi.

The old cow looked at me gratefully, and then sat down.

Suddenly, the old cow poked his head out of the car window and stared at me.

I was a little hairy by him, and I was about to ask him what his nerves were, and he spoke.

"Little Wind...... You say, cats, can you play games? ”

I was puzzled and said, "Huh? Cat? Playing games? ”

By this time, the taxi driver had already started his engine and drove away with the old ox.

This is the last time I have seen Lao Niu. Later, I finally got my wish and joined the game company as a game customer service, and Lao Niu became a complete otaku, throwing himself into the game all day long, like a chaos, and never participated in our party again.