It was humid and muggy in Nanjing, and even in the evening, it was not easy. In addition, the thunderstorm that has been promised for several days is gone, and the low air pressure makes people's chests tight.

After dinner, it was already past nine o'clock.

I lay leisurely on a wicker chair blowing a fan, guarding this small shop with the only source of income. It's an ordinary small supermarket, some of the shelves are dusty, and some of the products are almost past their expiration dates.

There was a lot of traffic on the road, and I picked up an animal encyclopedia at hand and flipped through it casually.

This shop is the only thing I have to do with my parents, not because they left me any relics, but because they threw it at the door of this shop when I was not a full-term student.

Listening to Bai Ye, early that morning, he heard the barking of a dog in his sleep, and thought it was a dream several times, until he was so noisy that he couldn't continue to dream in spring, so he walked downstairs with a scolding mother, and turned around several times in this small shop of about 20 square meters, and finally touched a broom, which was barely used as a dog stick.

He pulled the roller shutter door open in a daze, and the genius was bright. As soon as Bai Ye raised the broom, he found me who had been placed at the door of the shop. There were no letters, no personal belongings, not even swaddling clothes.

"Such a big dog barking has been noisy in my ears for so long, which baby hears a few heart-rending crys, you kid is good, there is not a single tear on his face, lying there naked, looking like he is being raised by others." Bai Ye rubbed his mustache as he spoke.

"So, you're saying you're my destined person?" I picked up a small green vegetable and dipped it in the soy sauce on the side of the bowl.

Stir-fried vegetables are Bai Ye's best, as long as it is a green dish, fried by his hands, it is a must.

"Phew! Bad fate! Bai Ye glanced at me with disgust, "I didn't let me worry when I was a child, I got sick at every turn before I was a year old, and the doctors and nurses in the hospital all knew you!" Every time I see you, I have to count me down, saying that I can't take care of the child, I have no sense of responsibility, and let me quickly find you a stepmother......" said and filled himself with a glass of wine, "But it's also strange, you never cry when you get an injection, I wonder if there is something wrong with your kid, once I couldn't help but ask the doctor, and finally I was pestled by the doctor and said that I have a problem, and it's not good if the child doesn't cry......" Bai Ye took a sip of wine and just wanted to continue.

I plucked out my ears and said impatiently, "And when I was two years old, I poked the socket with the key, and my fingers were burned black and I sat there crying, that was the first time you saw me shed tears, and you knew that I also had tear ducts." When I was three years old, while you were asleep, I fished out the goldfish you raised from the fish tank and put them in a row at the door of the store, and when you woke up, you beat me up, and I said to you with a look of grievance......

After I finished speaking in one breath, I raised my eyes and looked at Bai Ye, "Old man, I can memorize all of this, don't you have any good memories of me?" I ate a peanut and continued, "Besides, what kid wasn't naughty when he was a child, that's a manifestation of active thinking." ”

Bai Ye threw several peanut shells at me, "Active fart, active fart!" When I was a child, I made a mistake, and I didn't let me worry when you were older! Did the birds I raise for a few years also be released by you, a stinky boy? You were 7 years old, 7 years old! Is it still small? Since then, our family has never raised a living creature except you. I wondered, you can't tolerate the presence of life around you, can you? I'm so worried that you'll solve me again one day. He rubbed his mustache again.

Maybe it's because of my age, every time Bai Ye gets drunk, he will talk to me about my childhood, and he will say the same thing.

That was the last time we had a small talk, about three months ago.

After that, Bai Ye disappeared and was nowhere to be found.

I have long been accustomed to Bai Ye suddenly disappearing and appearing like this. Except for this time, the longest time he has disappeared is two months.

Every time the old man appeared, he was dark and thin, but after a week of raising, he came back to life.

I asked him many times about where he was going and what he was doing during his disappearance, and he either pretended to be asleep or just wandered around and sketched. It's been a long time, and I don't bother to ask. It is estimated that she is going to spoil the girl again, and when someone comes to the door, the truth will naturally be revealed.

I even thought that one day, a woman would come to the door, and then pointed to Bai Ye and said to me, "Son, in fact, he is your turtle father...... but this idea was dispelled by me in an instant, the reason is very simple, I am much more handsome than Bai Ye.

In fact, Bai Ye can barely be regarded as having good facial features, and he looks like a dog. It's just that Bai Ye doesn't know what's wrong, sometimes he suddenly freezes on one side when he speaks, and his mind is highly concentrated, and then his eyes begin to gurgle, and there are words on his mouth, just like being evil. Sometimes he would go out of the door and come back after a long time, and when I asked him later, he didn't remember anything like amnesia, and he probably pretended to be confused with me.

I have been with Bai Ye for more than 20 years, and I don't know how old he is or what his full name is.

Several times I wanted to find an opportunity to get him drunk, just to get something, but in the end, it was me who broke the piece, and I gave up after suffering a few losses.

For so many years, I have never seen him celebrate his birthday, let alone any friends and family with whom he has dealings. His mobile phone rang, except for 10086, which was a scam advertisement, and in the end, he didn't know where he threw the phone.

About Bai Ye, I have the impression that he is suspicious, calculating, fond of women, timid and afraid, treacherous and slippery, and loves to run the train with his mouth full. I like to rub his mustache when I have nothing to do, and my mouth is not idle, either eating or talking. Half of his ten sentences are true, even if he has a heart-to-heart with you.

One afternoon a few years ago, Bai Ye suddenly put a hand on my shoulder and said to me, "Stinky boy, this small shop will be handed over to you to take care of in the future. ”

I squinted my eyes and looked at Bai Ye with suspicion, thinking in my heart, could it be that this old man provoked some terrible girl outside, people are going to cut down the door, is he going to bring me to the store with others?

After thinking about it, it's impossible, this small dilapidated shop can't even sell the goods together for a D of mine

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。 Besides, can a terrible girl take a fancy to him? Isn't it a love debt, this old man offended the underworld, and the trouble is not small, and he needs to run away?

Bai Ye seemed to see through my thoughts, and slapped me on the back of the head, "Is the stinky boy done lewd?" ”

I rubbed my head, still looking at Bai Ye with a high degree of vigilance.

He took a sip of tea, lay on the rattan chair and said unhurriedly, "Your old man is retiring, and I want to start enjoying the rest of my life and wandering the world." ”

"So you haven't retired for so many years? I don't think you will be able to enjoy the rest of your life. What's the matter, there is no room for you to sketch around Nanjing, and you still have to run to the end of the world? ”

Bai Ye fanned his fan and said, "You know a fart!" Even if I went out before, my heart was in Hanying and in Cao! This time, I'm going out to enrich myself thoroughly! ”

I glanced at his folding fan, and it was actually written crookedly with a brush that read "Xuehai without teeth".

I shook my head helplessly, "That's in Cao Ying's heart in Han!" Don't you feel like talking backwards? Said serious old man, if you really want to enrich yourself, I will pay you to enroll in a study interest class, we are not in a hurry to take our time, start learning from primary school, first get drunk with your cultural atmosphere, save you from being embarrassed outside when you go to the end of the world. ”

Bai Ye didn't think so, closed his eyes and hummed a little song, I squinted at the old man, and said in my heart that I couldn't be careless.

Later, I observed Bai Ye for another week, and after confirming that there was nothing abnormal, I was relieved.

The handover ceremony of the small shop is simple and crude, with only a cash register and a rattan chair. The right to use these two things together is a symbol of the boss's status.

"You can also change the door, and replace 'Bai Ye Shop' with 'Bai Yi Shop'." Bai Ye pinched his waist with both hands, stood at the door of the store and looked up at the light box.

"No need, when you die, everyone will naturally call me Bai Ye."

"I think you're tired of being a stinky boy!" Bai Ye rushed over with an arrow step, stretched out his hand and slapped him, I had expected it to be like this, and as soon as I lowered my head, I dodged it.

Bai Ye never keeps accounts, let alone takes inventory, my experience with this small shop is quite similar, I grew up free-range.

After that, I made a symbolic inventory, and after a few counts, I found that the store either lacked ham sausages or meat floss every month, and there were quite a few of them. I asked Bai Ye, and he didn't care about playing with me haha, talking about things and things.

This is very strange, Bai Ye is a vegetarian, so it can't be that he eats it, could it be that it was given to Sasha in the foot massage shop opposite?

Until later, one day at about two o'clock in the middle of the night, I was woken up by the sound of the siren of the electric car outside the window, got up and closed the window, and accidentally saw Bai Ye squatting downstairs next to the street lamp, he was still squatting at his feet with two or three kittens eating, and a few empty packaging bags were thrown next to him.

After that, I observed for a few days in a row, and it was probably at this point in time, and the squatting at Bai Ye's feet were either wild cats or wild dogs. I didn't expect this old man to have a soft place in his heart. It's just that he has his back to me, otherwise I really want to see if he will show a fatherly look at that time.

I looked at this back for a long time, and suddenly felt the tiredness and old age of Bai Ye. There were no vehicles on the road, no pedestrians, and the street corner that used to be bustling with people seemed to have become another strange place.

It turned out that the door of the store at two o'clock in the morning was so desolate and lonely.

I wanted to ask Bai Ye about this matter, but after thinking about it, forget it, with Bai Ye's character, such a big thing as changing a light bulb and repairing a bicycle will be chattering for a few weeks, and it is rare that this old man wants to do something good silently, so he will follow his wishes.

After that, I don't remember when it started, and I didn't bother to take inventory again. As for later, whether the store has less meat and ham sausages every month, and whether Bai Ye still insists on meeting small animals privately at two o'clock in the middle of the night every day, I didn't pay attention to it anymore.

It's just that after the handover from the small shop, Bai Ye's disappearance has become frequent, sometimes once every three or five days, sometimes ten days and half a month.

Bai Ye gave me the feeling that he was always standing in the fog, he was by no means just what I saw, but the more I thought about it, the more blurred it became, maybe I couldn't see it clearly, it was his original appearance.