Chapter XII

They are the ones who hit and went to Gui Street. When they got there, it was not yet dark, and the houses had already lit their lanterns. The pavement was full of people, mostly waiting for dinner. Lele took a number and was told that he would not be able to eat until half an hour later. He asked if everyone would wait. Shi Song said: "Let's go further, this street is full of restaurants, and there are many time-honored shops in front of it." Shi Song's words drove everyone forward for half a stop. They stopped and stopped until they finally found a restaurant with free seats.

Coincidentally, there was a table for five people in that restaurant, and no one arranged it, so Lele and Shi Song consciously sat together, and the strange man and Chen Liru sat down opposite them, and Chun Yan had no choice but to sit in the corner. When everyone was seated, the strange man asked, "What do you eat?" Eating hot pot? Or do you want to eat stir-fry? ”

Chun Yan said, "I can eat anything, you can watch it." ”

The strange man said, "Then eat hot pot, you're not afraid of spicy, right?" ”

Lele said: "Wouldn't it be all taken care of by a mandarin duck pot." ”

The strange man turned his head and said to the waiter, "Then bring me a mandarin duck pot." ”

The waiter put away the recipe, changed the list of hot pots for them, and walked away. The strange man looked at the list and said, "I really can't do it with this eye, this word looks too hard, so you should order it." ”

Lele took the list and asked Shi Song, "What do you like to eat?" Shi Song tilted his head and said, "I like to eat meat, so let's have two portions of lamb and two portions of fat cows." The two were discussing, and they would use a pen to sketch out the list of what they had chosen. What did they order? The strange man didn't know anything, he just chatted with Chen Liru, and when he heard them ask what to drink, the strange man turned his head over, "Niu Er, let's have a bottle of white Niu Er, and two more bottles of beer, who likes to drink what they like." After speaking, he turned his head and continued to chat with Chen Liru.

Shi Song asked curiously, "Have you known each other for a long time?" ”

Chen Liru said: "We grew up together since childhood. ”

Shi Song said: "No wonder, I said why are you talking so speculatively, what are you talking about?" Can you tell us about that? ”

Chen Liru said: "Talking about the things when you were in school, it's a freshman in high school, right? The teacher asks you to hand in the composition textbook, and you hand in a stack of manuscript papers------"

The strange man said: "It's the first year of high school, and the first half of the first semester of high school." ”

Chen Liru continued the previous words: "When the teacher saw him hand in a stack of manuscript paper thicker than a brick, he asked him: 'Are you writing an essay?' How not to write as text? I saw his lips moving, but I couldn't hear what he was saying to the teacher, and I only learned later that he didn't hand it in as an essay at all, it was a novella. When the teacher returned the novella to him, he also made a comment in front of the whole class, saying that his novels were all about the naughty things of students, did not talk about class struggle, did not highlight politics, and did not meet the needs of the current situation, and the novels of that era were all linked to politics, and there was not even a class enemy in his novels, so he would definitely not be favored by the teacher, and the teacher said that his writing was not bad, but he lacked life accumulation, and persuaded him not to write novels for the time being, and it was not too late to write again when he had a certain amount of life accumulation. I read the novel he wrote later, it was written in a hardcover book, and I wrote four or five hundred pages, and the one he rewrote highlighted politics and talked about class struggle, and he almost didn't the teacher to death, and the principal was furious about it------"

Chun Yan was also interested, and asked anxiously, "What's the matter?" What did he write? ”

Chen Liru took a sip of water and said: "He arranged both the teacher and the principal, and wrote our homeroom teacher as a beautiful spy, and the principal became the person in power who took the capitalist road------"

"Don't talk about it, the wine and food are all up, let's start rubbing." Lele held up the wine bottle and said, "Drink the liquor, bring all the glasses." ”

Chunyan said: "I drink beer, what do you drink, eldest sister?" ”

Chen Liru said: "I just drink water, just drink plain water." ”

Chun Yan said, "You want a beer too, right?" Cheer everyone up. ”

Chen Liru saw that Chun Yan was going to pour her beer, but she didn't stop her, and said with a smile: "Then I'll make an exception and have a drink with everyone." ”

Seeing that everyone had wine in their glasses, he raised his glass and said, "Let's touch it first, I have something to say after drinking this glass, and everyone will raise their glasses." ”

Lele touched glasses with everyone, dried the glass of wine in one go, he lit a cigarette and said: "There is something I want to tell you, originally I wanted to say it when singing, I was afraid that her husband would come to find trouble with Shi Song in winter, so everyone would be implicated, so I didn't dare to say it in the song hall, now it seems to be fine, I'll tell you, today is my birthday, I will say two points, the first point is to thank you for coming to celebrate my birthday, I am very happy, thank you all here; Another point I want to say is that I will invite you to this meal today, and none of you will fight with me------"

Chun Yan interrupted him and said, "Why? We said that if the AA system is good, you have to AA system, if you want to change it without permission, I will get up and leave, I will not eat this meal. ”

The strange man played the round and said: "Lele, don't be a big head, we are an activity organized by the group, do things according to the rules, say good AA system, AA system, we all put up the wine glass, I wish Lele a happy birthday!" ”

Everyone picked up their wine glasses and shouted: "Happy birthday to Lele!" ”

Chun Yan proposes to buy Lele a birthday cake.

Lele waved his hand at Chunyan: "No, I don't like sweets, and it's a waste to buy it, no one eats it." ”

Chun Yan said: "Then let the waiter add a bowl of noodles, a bowl of longevity noodles." ”

Shi Song echoed: "I love longevity noodles, come to five bowls, one bowl per person." ”

Shi Song got up to call the waiter, and the strange man waited for Shi Song to turn back, then raised his glass and said, "Happy birthday to Lele again!" ”

They clinked glasses again.

Lele took a deep sip of wine, wiped his eyes with a napkin and said, "I'm really grateful, thank you from the bottom of my heart." He took a bite of the dish and raised his wine glass again, "I also toast everyone, thank you for coming over to cheer me on, brother is so polite." ”

All five of them reached over and clinked glasses with Lele.

Lele clinked glasses with everyone, took a sip of wine, got up and said, "I'll go and make it easier." ”

The strange man said to Shi Song: "You can't let him go, he has to go to the checkout and stop him." ”

Lele pushed Shi Song and said, "I'm not going to settle the bill, I'm going to the toilet, you're going to suffocate me." ”

Shi Song still refused to let him go, "As soon as you start eating, you run to the toilet, no, you hold back for a while, and I'll accompany you in a while." ”