The north gate of the old city

I walked out of the "Sky City", blended into the crowd and rushed to "Send my son to Fengqiao". The distance was very short, and I came to the opposite side of the bridge, and suddenly my whole body was weak, and I did not dare to take half a step again. I stopped where I was, lit a cigarette, and the tourists around me cast disgusted glances at me. One cigarette was quickly smoked, and then another was lit, and I don't know why there was a mysterious mixture of fear and anticipation. It wasn't until my throat was sore and phlegm was stuck that I walked slowly towards the bridge. There were very few people on the bridge, and her appearance began to play like a yellowed film in my memory. Still has short hair, pink butterfly hairpins, a light cyan dress, she has learned to put on makeup, delicate lips, a faint blush, but the eye shadow is surprisingly heavy, and her eyes look at the slow-flowing river under the bridge with affection. She overlaps with me in my memory. Maybe it's because of time, or maybe it's because of my growth, but I always feel that I'm too thick-skinned, and I feel a lot more relieved when I get close to her, and the fear I felt at the beginning disappears.

"Miss Xia Yao, I haven't seen you for a long time, yes, it's getting more and more slim." I tiptoed up behind her and said.

She slowly turned her head, smiled at me, and then covered her nose and said, "Xiao Chenzi, why are you getting uglier and uglier the longer you grow, the smell of smoke on your body is so strong, are you pickled by the smoke?" I was stunned, it was completely different from the ex-boyfriend ex-girlfriend encounter scene I had envisioned.

"I'm not ugly, how can I set off your beauty, besides, no matter how beautiful you are, you haven't been arched by my pig." I said it with righteous words and pretended to be solemn.

"Hahahaha, you're still as poor as before." Xia Yao blushed instantly, and laughed, her voice was like a shell wind chime.

"What are you blushing?" I'm cheeky and don't plan to let her go.

"You care about me, it's hot, and my face is red." Xia Yao pursed her lips and turned her head to look at the river.

There is a passage in "Camel Xiangzi": "There are not many truths in this world, and a woman's blush is better than a long dialogue." But later with rouge, I couldn't tell whether it was true or false. I stood behind her and said in a deep voice.

"Alright, alright, as long as you read a lot." Xia Yao rolled her eyes at me.

"Actually, I didn't expect that you really wanted to see me, and I was really sorry before." I leaned against the bridge railing with her, watching the river flow, I lit a cigarette, the smell of smoke filled the air, into her snort, she frowned slightly, slightly dissatisfied, then shook her head and smiled bitterly, which reminded me of the days when I cried and laughed in order to make me quit smoking, and I was ashamed to say that such a girl who had been dead to me was bruised.

"Actually, I didn't expect that a cynical person like you would remember me." Xia Yao's tone was obviously squeezed and unpleasant.

"You and the fireflies have two things in common, both of them glow in my eyes, and at the same time, I haven't seen them in years." I extinguished the cigarette butt and put it in my bag, when she caught a glimpse and handed me a piece of paper: "After all these years, you still don't like to carry paper on your body." I used to be very addicted to smoking, wherever I went, I lit a cigarette, sometimes on the side of the road after smoking but there is no trash can, I put the cigarette butt in my pocket, after a long time, the pocket is full of cigarette ash, and the body is also disgusting smoke smell, and later with Xia Yao, she will always hand me a piece of paper to wrap the cigarette butt when I put the cigarette butt in the pocket, at that time, of course, I am ashamed to say: I will give her my cigarette butts in this life. And she would laugh happily and hold my arm and say, "Well, if you give cigarette butts to other women in the future, I will cut off all your lungs." But the mountain alliance and sea vows between lovers have always been just a manifestation of the rise of insulin between couples, maybe for a kiss, maybe because of a love word that you want to hear, where can it stand the test of time. The years do not live, and the seasons flow. But when does the west wind come, and it will not be secretly changed for years. The two of them didn't speak, and the atmosphere instantly cooled down.

"People don't know the city bridge, and a star is like a night to see for a long time." This is how to describe sending a son to Fengqiao. Founded in the 48th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty and rebuilt in 1997, its shape and structure are unique, suitable for tourism and viewing, and is one of the important scenic spots in Xitang. "In order to avoid embarrassment, I moved to the Fengqiao to try to open the topic.

"You still know a little bit about everything, but you just don't want to be motivated." Xia Yao looked at the dark clouds gathered in the sky and whispered.

The town is quiet as the evening comes, and the red lanterns create thousands of fireworks. Watching quietly on the bridge, the bright lights, flickering and flickering, slowly burning. The haze gathered in the sky of the ancient town, and the drizzle gathered and dripped, and they fell down, hitting the small potholes on the ground, breaking the river, splashing a little splash, breaking and scattering and gathering. So after a while, the sky on the eaves and the ground under the eaves were shrouded, and a confused white seemed to envelop the whole world.

"Let's go!" Xia Yao looked up at me.

"Where to go, it's raining, I'll get you wet later." I looked at her thin skirt.

"It's not like we haven't been drenched in rain before, why are you afraid of rain now?" Xia Yao pouted and questioned. Every time this expression came out, I knew that her decision could never be changed.

"Let's go!" The two broke into the rain.

We took refuge all the way in the eaves of the Xitang wooden house, bought an umbrella, from beginning to end I didn't learn to play an umbrella, so I gave the umbrella to her to support, out of Xitang, there are no ancient buildings and blue bricks and ancient stones in Xitang, there are restaurants standing next to the asphalt road, most of the buildings here are old, this is a slow-paced town. We went all the way to the north, and finally found a restaurant that meets the taste, the hotel is very large, the difference is that the hotel does not have small private rooms and compartments, people who come and go find their own places and sit down, waiting for the restaurant to serve the food. Xia Yao ordered, and I ran to the trash can outside the store to smoke.

There was a sudden noise in the shop, and the noise was like a swarm of flies vying for droppings. I returned to Le Yao and looked at the noisy place. A group of people were drinking, and a big-bellied greasy boss in a suit and leather shoes was already flushed, and he was calling a fledgling young employee to shout: "Xiao Wang, today you dry this bottle of wine, I will agree to sign this contract, if you don't do it, you will be negotiated, this list is a fragrant glutton, and there are several companies staring at it like wolves and tigers, you don't want to have people." The big-bellied greasy boss glanced at the young employee contemptuously, while the young employee was staggering, obviously having drunk to the limit, and he looked at the person in the same suit and leather shoes on the side with an embarrassed face, who should be the boss of his company. The boss of his company saw the young man's eyes asking for help, and then whispered: "Xiao Wang, you see that everyone Mr. Long has spoken, Mr. Long is a busy person and it is rare to appreciate this dinner, you must do this glass of wine, this is Mr. Long can afford you to drink, today you drink the wine and win the contract, tomorrow I will give you two days off when I return to the company, and I will give you priority for promotion and salary increase in the future." After speaking, the boss poured wine and got up, and flattered the greasy man: "Mr. Long, don't worry, Xiao Wang, this employee is very clever, he will definitely drink the wine you ask him to drink, come on, come, I'll toast you first." The greasy man didn't speak, he looked at the young employee with a playful face, the boss's cup paused in the air, and there was an embarrassing taste in the air, the boss still held the cup with a smile and said: "Mr. Long, I'll drink this glass of wine, I'll toast, you are free." The boss sat down after drinking, the greasy man raised his glass with disdain, put down the cup again, and then looked at the young employee, and the employee's boss also looked at the employee with hatred on his face. The young employee was in a dilemma, and then he picked up a bottle of liquor on the table and drank it. The employee drank very hard, and even vomited several times, and finally drank the wine in the bottle, and the employee said: "Mr. Long, Manager Zhang, I'll go to the bathroom." The greasy man nodded, and the employee's boss also laughed and said, "Go, go, Mr. Long agreed." The young employee left his seat, and everyone at the round table laughed, and the employee's boss smiled with a gloomy face. The boss asked in a panic: "Mr. Long, do you see that this wine has also been drunk and eaten, what is the matter of the contract?" "Since you know so much, then sign it." The greasy man laughed, and the surrounding employees laughed in unison.

Xia Yao looked at this scene with a face full of disgust, and looked at the employee who had just come back from the toilet vomiting and staggering back with his stomach covered, but his face was full of distress and pity. Xia Yao finally took the initiative to speak: "You always liked to drink when we were together in the past, and every time I blamed you for drinking, you said that it was to practice your drinking, and you would have to socialize at work in the future." It turns out that this is true. "Uh-huh." I replied perfunctorily and didn't say much, basking in the memories of lying in her arms and babbling every time I was drunk.

"Hey, Xiao Chenzi, are you dumb now? Talk to me. Xia Yao was obviously angry at my sudden cold appearance, rolled her eyes and looked at me, deliberately pretending to be angry.

"Okay, okay, Miss Xia Yao, what topic do you want to talk about?" I replied with a smile.

"Xiao Chenzi, you said it's just a contract, why is that Uncle Long so aggressive?" Xia Yao is a simple girl, and her cognition of human nature obviously comes from Mencius's theory of sexual goodness.

"The dragon is always trying to crush the small company, to show the pleasure of power, to satisfy his vanity and possibly to make up for his lack in some way. To be honest, if one day I am Party A, you may ask even more excessively. I looked into Xia Yao's eyes and said word by word, with a fierce tone.

"Xiao Chenzi, don't scare me like this. You used to tell me about human nature, money and material power can distort people. Xia Yao pretended to be afraid and looked at me with affection in her eyes, if it weren't for the fact that I knew that she had a special skill to shed tears at will, seeing such a weak girl, I couldn't wait to take her into my arms and give her warmth.

"This is the most real, in fact, if you continue to improve yourself, you will find that you have not improved yourself at all, you have just entered a new circle, a new communication, a new game, a new personality. You are a boss worth 10 million, I will be very temperamental when I talk to you, I am with another boss worth hundreds of thousands, we may just talk about girls, burst foul language, and laugh and laugh. In fact, no matter what height a person reaches, he will not be as serious as in the TV series, only the people above his own strength will be serious. In our society here, science and technology are underdeveloped and do not need much smart minds, money is not difficult to earn, but you need relationships, magnified to say, a project 300 million, what kind of brain technology do you need? It's all about reading to manage, one person is in charge, you only need to show your strength and relationship, or buy it, the root doesn't need to use your brain, does it take an intelligence test to win a project? It's not that complicated, and there are all levels of simple human nature. I answered Xia Yao as I didn't ask, and then I thought about whether I would bow my head and admit defeat in a few years, sleek and sophisticated. Soon, the food was served on the table, and Xia Yao and I buried our heads in eating.