Ye Shenxi didn't stay in the orphanage for long, and after chatting with Dean Han for a while, he planned to leave and go back to the city.

The orphanage didn't have a room for him to stay overnight, so he couldn't squeeze into the bunk bed with a bunch of children, or sleep with the old director.

Dean Han didn't say anything about coming back to see it often, he never wanted these children to make this place their home, it was better not to make this place their home, he wanted them to build a home by themselves.

When they walked out of the courtyard gate, several children chose their own gifts and ran over to say thank you to Ye Shenxi one by one, and Ye Shenxi also waved goodbye to them.

He could see that everything was fine here, and he left the town.

Ye Shenxi felt that he sometimes envied Dean Han's state, you seem to think that he has no desires and no desires, and even thinks, how can there be no people with desires in this world.

They are not simply giving up material privileges to manifest or flaunt spiritual satisfaction, and sometimes you may feel that they may not even have spiritual needs.

Many people also live their lives in obscurity and plainly, but most of them are just limited to their abilities, and they want to go further but they can't get it, and finally they have a helpless compromise on fate. After experiencing the cruel baptism of life, after stumbling and bumping, he passively gives up resistance, and then becomes numb, or says something like "If you have suffered, you will know that all living beings are suffering; If you have attachment, let go of attachment; There have been concerns, but there are no worries. Such self-soothing words.

But Dean Han is not, or only he knows, what kind of meaning of life they are seeking.

He himself was genuinely enjoying it.

It may not be appropriate to say envy, or curiosity.

Anyway, Ye Shenxi felt that he couldn't do it.

He has desires and wants to do things, and he originally had no worries, but in the process he has more and more concerns.

……

……

Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and the capital is almost empty in the evening.

A large number of migrant workers returned to their hometowns for the New Year, leaving behind an empty city in the neon, and the occasional sound of firecrackers made people feel a little New Year's flavor.

From 1993, the Spring Festival ban on fireworks and firecrackers in the whole city of Beijing was implemented, a ban was 13 years, and it was finally lifted in 2006, and the long-lost sound of firecrackers finally returned to the city.

At half past five in the afternoon, it was almost dark, in a small restaurant on the side of the road, the owner Chen Chen was preparing to close, mopping the floor and wiping the table, the daughter-in-law in the kitchen was preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and the five-year-old son was sitting on a small stool watching TV.

A person walked in outside the door, and Chen Chen said, "It's closed, let's come back another day." ”

The man said, "Ready for Chinese New Year's Eve?" "The sound is somewhat familiar.

Chen Chen followed the sound and looked up and saw a young man standing at the door, nodding to him with a smile.

"Hey, why are you here?"

Ye Shenxi walked in, put the bottle of wine he was holding on a dining table and said, "Come and see you." ”

"Hey, I don't think you're going anywhere, right?" Chen Chen said with a smile.

Chen Chen's daughter-in-law came out of the back kitchen and asked, "Old Chen, have you finished cleaning, come in to help." ”

Then I saw Ye Shenxi: "Huh? Are you Ye Shenxi? ”

Ye Shenxi raised his hand and said hello: "Jian Hong, long time no see." ”

It's all knowing.

When we were working together on indie games, Chen Chen was a program, and Jian Hong was an artist.

Jian Hong knew that she didn't want Lao Chen to help: "You can sit casually, I have vegetables burning in the pot." Then he went back to the kitchen.

Ye Shenxi looked at the child on the side: "Your son? How old is it? ”

"Five years old. Xiaohan, called uncle. ”

"Hello uncle." The child turned his head and shouted perfunctorily, and continued to watch TV, very distracted.

……

Chinese New Year's Eve rice leaf Shenxi is rubbed here by Chen Chen.

Anyway, it's just a matter of having more pairs of chopsticks, after all, Chen Chen runs a restaurant, and there are a lot of chopsticks.

And the dishes are also very generous.

The table in the store is just big enough for four people.

"What's the matter, how are you doing with your little life?" Ye Shenxi unceremoniously stuffed vegetables into his mouth and asked Chen Chen.

Jian Hong interjected: "Generally, it's okay, the child will go to primary school next year, and the tuition should still be able to pay." Then he looked at Ye Shenxi: "Have you made a lot of money?" ”

She paid more attention to this, but Chen Chen reprimanded: "What are you asking!" ”

"It's okay, it's a lot of money." Ye Shenxi said with a smile.

"Well, we just kept doing it with you." Jian Hong regretted it a little.

"No one can say for sure at the beginning, but looking back now, I don't think it will be good to continue doing it. You're getting married again, and you should find a stable job. ”

"You see, I didn't stick to it, and I switched to online games." Ye Shenxi snorted.

Jian Hong thought about it, and asked again: "Alas, your company is still recruiting...... Forget it, I've almost forgotten how to use Photoshop. ”

Chen Chen also said: "Actually, it's pretty good now, this shop is enough for our family of three to live, although it can't be compared with you, but it's enough, I'm quite content." ”

"It's good to be content." Ye Shenxi nodded.

"Hey, you said you would come back to see us, but you didn't expect to wait for eight years." Chen Chen opened the wine brought by Ye Shenxi: "Tut, Maotai, come and drink some?" ”

Ye Shenxi said: "I'm here to drink." ”

So the three of them talked without saying a word, most of the time reminiscing about the days when they used to play games in the basement of the suburbs.

I recalled that there was a time when the three of them added up to a total of thirty-one fours, and then laughed and said, what a coincidence, pi. Well, then the three of them ate steamed buns for eleven days.

said that Jian Hong bought a bag of instant noodles that winter, but there was no seasoning package in it, so she went to get some salt and put it in, crying while eating.

Said that the project was about to be completed at that time, but the computer memory was broken, and there was no money to repair it and no money to buy a new one, so I walked five kilometers to find an Internet café and stole a memory module to use it first, and then returned it to people after the game was packaged and copied to disk.

Chen Chen said: "When you left the capital, I asked you if you would see each other again, do you remember?" ”

Ye Shenxi said: "Remember." ”

"I said you wouldn't forget us, you said no, you said you would come back to see me later, and I had already opened a big hotel by then. Jian Hong is cooking, you will bring wine, I said too polite and then take you to visit my house. At dinner, you have to praise Jian Hong's cooking skills, and then you have to give me a trench coat, you say that I must be very decent to wear. ”

……

"By the way, I forgot about the trench coat." Ye Shenxi thought about it.

"I don't have a house yet...... Ha ha. Chen Chen said: "I later found out that this is a line from a movie!" I was so impressed,. ”

"Hahaha......"

"Haha......"

Chen Chen's son didn't know why the adults suddenly burst into laughter, and he didn't care, so he ate the meat by himself.

Ye Shenxi said: "It's okay now." ”

Chen Chen said: "Yes, it's actually quite good. ”