"Recently, due to the influence of the heavy rainfall of the July monsoon, rocks have loosened in many mountains in Guizhou Province, which is very easy to induce a large number of surface landslides, collapses, landslides and other disasters. Today's geological hazard monitoring personnel judged that the debris flow is very likely to occur in many places based on the monitored rainfall data and the abnormal phenomena of on-site inspections, and residents around the country are requested to take precautions and maintain a high degree of vigilance............"

Walking to the first floor of the inn, the young proprietress of the inn sat at the front desk with her chin in her hand and was bored watching the bloody Korean drama, and the inn radio was broadcasting the stone flow warning news. On the afternoon shuttle, I can also rest in Yusu Ancient Town for half a day, which is exactly what I want.

There are still few tourists in the ancient town, a few couples walk hand in hand, the old man walks on the green brick road with a birdcage humming a small song, and there are a few small wooden boats in the river, but because of the sparse flow of people, they stop on the shore and scatter ripples. Two pairs of couples traveling together and the damp couple were ready to board the boat to play, sitting on the shore and smoking the dry tobacco The old man put out the pestle, the cigarette stick was pinned to his waist, the old man got up and walked towards the wooden boat, and the old woman who was sitting on the side was also ready to accompany the boat, but was stopped by the old man.

He complained with concern: "Didn't you say that you don't need to bring me food?" Your body is getting weaker and weaker, stay at home and watch TV, listen to songs, why do you come all the way to this river? ”

"As long as I live, I'll send you a day's food." The old woman said that she wanted to get on the old man's wooden boat again. The old man was reluctant to let her go up, and the couple who were about to board the boat on the side looked at the old man and smiled, obviously they were envious of the love of each other at such an age, and even at this moment they had begun to fantasize about their old life.

After the old man asked the old grandmother to leave the thermos box, he urged her to leave quickly, and the old grandmother looked at the two couples and nagged "Who said that when I was young, I would support the boat for a lifetime", "When I was old, I didn't want to take his boat". Only then did he wave his hand and brush the few gray hairs that were messed up on his forehead, and he reluctantly left. The old man looked at her back and complained with a smile: "This old woman, when she was young, she was still so tough when she was old!" The warmth of that moment touched me and made me blurt out: flowers have a day to bloom, people are no longer young, they will be them in the end, and they have been them.

Before the afternoon, the cold gray clouds unexpectedly obscured the sky, the wind howled from the other side of the mountain, and the trees and grass swayed and moaned all over the mountain. Thunder shook the clouds, lightning tore through the sky, rain poured down, the world was in chaos for a moment, the air was filled with the smell of fresh earth, and the smoke mixed with the chirping of chickens and ducks echoed in the heavens and the earth. Tourists stepped on the blue bricks and ancient stones, jumped under the eaves of various roofs to return to the inn, and the umbrella shop of the small shop was doing a brisk business. Because of the advent of heavy rainfall, I was worried about the hidden danger of landslides and landslides on mountain roads, so I left the traffic in Yuzhi Ancient Town, and I was forced to stay in Yudu.

It was already dark, and the rain was gradually turning into a drizzle. After eating dinner at the inn, walking out of the inn, the rain stopped and the river swelled, washing the ancient stone bank, and flowing yellow to the outside of the town. The red lanterns that stopped raining lit up, swaying in the reflection on the potholed bluestone pavement, and the shadows in the water were like thousands of Kong Ming lanterns, scalding out thousands of holes in the dark night.

I lit a yellow fruit tree, walked out of the inn, drenched in light rain, and walked to the southwest of the ancient town where the rain stopped, to see Cafe 31 tonight. The dim and warm light emanated from the café window and was imprinted on the wet bluestone pavement. I pushed open the door, and most of the tables, chairs and benches in the café were still there, except for the paintings on the walls that Robben had cleaned up, and I lamented that this unique café full of sad stories could not resist the reality and would disappear like a flash in the pan at night in the ancient town. Robben sat by the window, Qiao Yuan sat opposite Robben smoking a cigarette, and the two didn't say a word and looked out the window.

"Yo, you haven't come home yet?" Qiao Yuan shouted at me.

"Haven't you set off for Sichuan yet?"

"Hahaha, the news says that there is heavy rainfall and mudslide today, and I am afraid that I will be buried in the mountains of your Guizhou halfway." Qiao Yuan took out a cigarette from the cigarette case on the table and handed it to me. Then he said: "I have to say, this yellow fruit tree in your Guizhou really smokes well, it is strong, and the smoke is full."

"This smoke is called scrub in Guizhou, hard currency." I pulled out my lighter and lit it. Robben turned his head and said, "There are still some coffee beans in the store, what do you want to drink?"

"It's still the city in the sky, this coffee is quite charming."

"Good!" Robben smiled and got up and walked over to the coffee machine. I sat next to Qiao Yuan. Qiao Yuan is a rugged and bold man, without the gentleness of a Shanghai man.

"When will you leave for Sichuan?"

"Wait a few days, the road conditions are not good in the past few days of heavy rainfall, and I'm really afraid that I will be accidentally buried in the soil." Qiao Yuan said with a laugh. Qiao Yuan's honesty and love of laughter won my favor. I'm a great fan of being friends with unpretentious people.

"It's not a big problem, if you get buried in the ground, I'll dig out your motorcycle first. As for the people, it depends! Hahahaha! I burst out laughing.

"Yes, my motorcycle accompanies me on the map of China, and he is more like my other soul than a motorcycle." Qiao Yuan smoked a cigarette and looked at the motorcycle outside the store, at this moment, it seemed that the motorcycle had a life, and communicated with Qiao Yuan through the space in the dark night.

"Come, coffee for both of you, it's free today!" Robben walked over with three cups of coffee and placed them on the table. Qiao Yuan couldn't wait to pick up the coffee and take a sip, and then blurted out in surprise: "Robben, today's coffee is a little sweet, it's like a 'city in the sky'!" I also took a sip of coffee when I heard this, the coffee was smooth in the mouth, and the strong milk flavor moistened the taste buds in my mouth, "Yes, yes, today's coffee is different from yesterday!" ”

"You two are here to tout the business, don't tout it sooner, don't tout it later, just wait until Cafe 31 can't open before you tout!" Robben laughed twice, took a sip of a cup of coffee, and looked at the couple walking by holding hands and holding umbrellas on the windowsill. The three of us are also like acquaintances at first sight, interesting friends of the soul, bull heads talk to the horse's mouth. Later, I saw such a sentence: the so-called interesting soul is actually the person's knowledge density and information level are much higher than yours, and they are willing to bend down to listen to your unnutritious nonsense and communicate with you, put forward some opinions that you have not heard, and subvert your three views. Indeed, Robben has his own hard and unforgettable stories that make me feel sorry for life, Qiao Yuan has seen the great rivers and mountains that make me yearn for it, and the youth of the new era of youth I have also made them laugh.

"Robben, isn't Cafe 31 really going to open? Maybe in a few years, the rain stop will become famous, and there will be more tourists, and your café will really stand out here. Qiao Yuan looked at Robben, with expectation and uncertainty in his eyes, I think Qiao Yuan hopes that Cafe 31 will continue, just as I also hope.

"If it doesn't open, I'll transfer the store out in a few days, and then I'll go back to An'an, Zhejiang to find a job and stay with my parents." Robben said lightly.

"Alas, life is like this, everyone has their own path to follow, to face this fucking life." Qiao Yuan sighed, looking around at the warm twenty-square-meter café full of pity.

"What's the matter, you still want to come to me for coffee after you come back from Tibet!" Robben joked.

"Your coffee has no sugar, but it has a sweet aftertaste!" I interjected as I drank my coffee. Robben looked around at Cafe 31, after all, it was a place where Robben had been for several years. Robben suddenly looked sad, and then said, "Drinking? I still have a few bottles of Moutai! "Drink!" Qiao Yuan and I blurted out in unison. Immediately got up Robben walked into the storage room, while Qiao Yuan and I turned around and ran out of the café.

Luckily, there are still a few delicatessen shops open on rainy nights like this. Qiao Yuan and I bought a lot of peanuts, chicken and duck meat in sauce and animal offal, obviously, Qiao Yuan and I are not particular people, and Moutai is about to be ruined by us. Qiao Yuan is a cheerful person, and he doesn't bargain for the price, and the shop owner also paid the odds he wiped for him to the shop uncle who looked old and smoked dry cigarettes.

When Qiao Yuan and I returned to Cafe 31, Robben had already put the wine on the table. Robben opened the bottle and poured the wine in one go, in an instant, a smell of sauce and wine lingered in Cafe 31, the three of us picked up the wine glasses, ready to clink glasses, out of the usual drinking etiquette, I naturally lowered my cup to Robben and Qiao Yuan, after all, Robben and Qiao Yuan have graduated from college and struggled in society for many years, obviously they have reached the age of standing, and I am just a fledgling student who has just entered college, and it is necessary to respect them.

Robben saw me clinking glasses like this, and said to me, "Raise the cup, and the three of us won't engage in the same kind of hypocrisy in society, just clink glasses like friends and buddies."

"Yes, yes, yes, lift the cup, be polite to the two of us, pretend to be a big-tailed wolf!" Qiao Yuan said with a smile. I also smiled in response, still refusing to retreat and said: "Brother Robben, Brother Qiao Yuan, you two are older than me, I must be a little lower." Robben and Qiao Yuan saw that they couldn't move me, and they actually lowered their respective cups at the same time, clinking glasses at the same level with my cup, and then the two of them raised their heads and drank it all, and I shook my head and smiled bitterly, and drank it all. Under the stomach of a glass of wine, Moutai is really elegant and delicate, mellow and fragrant, and soft in the mouth. And I'm already starting to blush and sweat slightly. The three of them pushed cups and changed lamps in the small space of Cafe No. 31, and then talked about the three of us as far as the Three Emperors and Five Emperors and the national history, astronomy, geography, metaphysics, science fiction, ghosts, monsters, and secret histories.

Although Qiao Yuan usually looks very arrogant and bold, with the roughness of a northern man, his alcohol consumption is an authentic southern girl. After half of the wine, Qiao Yuan was already blushing and his neck was thick, babbling nonsense, leaning back on the seat like a big white goose with his neck stretched out.

"Robben, actually, actually, I'm honest, I'm also quite miserable, for love, I also have one, really, so far there is only one northern girl I can't have." Qiao Yuan staggered and stretched out his hand to dance in the air.

"Oh?" Robben struggled to straighten his posture on the seat, picked up the yellow fruit tree on the table, handed one to me, handed one to Qiao Yuan, and then lit it and handed it to me, saying, "What about your northern girl?" Wouldn't it be a good journey to Tibet with her on the way to Tibet? I lit my cigarette and handed the lighter to Qiao Yuan, Qiao Yuan took the lighter, picked up the chopsticks and rummaged through the chicken and duck meat on a table, like a person with difficulty in choosing, and finally picked up a piece of kidney and was about to put it in his mouth, but in mid-air, the waist slipped off. Qiao Yuan put down his chopsticks, lit a cigarette, took a deep breath and said: "It's okay, it's okay, it's all lonely after traveling for so long, it's rare to have the two of you tonight, so I'll open my heart and tell you about my northern memories." Anyway, tomorrow everyone will go their separate ways, and maybe we will never see each other again in this life, so let's just let me lose my words after drinking! Qiao Yuan laughed stupidly and muttered.

"Listen up!" I smoked a cigarette and grabbed another piece of my waist and put it in my mouth. "Wait, wait, Robben, turn on the stereo in the store and bring me a song of Yao Thirteen's "Queen of the North!" Qiao Yuan commanded Robben. Robben got up and went to the front desk, and the prelude to "Queen of the North" slowly sounded, refreshing the soul like a trickle, echoing in the café. Yao 13 is a native of Guizhou Zhijin, a folk singer, as for "Queen of the North" is his first personal original single, I have naturally heard his songs, and Robben has been running No. 31 Cafe in Guizhou for many years, so he is naturally slightly familiar. So the three of them sang along, and the three of them were out of tune but thought they were affectionate under the paralysis of alcohol:

I would drink a gentle glass of wine every soft twilight

It doesn't matter if he's right or wrong, whether he's worried or worried, as long as you're still in my north

Suddenly it rained in autumn here, and my hair was wet

I think all I can say to you is all I have

………………

Qiao Yuan smoked a cigarette and crossed Erlang's legs and said: ""Queen of the North" is about a wanderer who met a girl he liked during a trip, and that girl knew the wanderer like a queen and handled it properly. The wanderer listened to the queen very much, and obeyed the queen very much, telling her that she would be a slave for the rest of her life, and they were very happy together, and at night the slave poured hot water for his queen every day, and made bed covers and quilts was commonplace. But they never rested in the same bed. Happy times are always short-lived, and their dreams are destined to wander the world, so after the happy times, the two separate and wander separately. Halfway through Qiao Yuan's speech, he suddenly picked up the wine glass and stretched it out into the air, and Robben and I also collided with each other and drank it all.

Later, on a panicked night, the wanderer saw his former queen drunk alone in the streets. They looked at each other with haggard eyes, and the queen smiled weakly and reluctantly asked, 'Are you married?' The wanderer had nothing to say, just smiled like a knife, and he secretly thought in his heart, I think you must not be able to get married, the years are ......" Qiao Yuan narrated, and the story of which Robben and I both felt extremely miserable and sighed.

There is always such a passage in the folk song circle: the warmest and best sister, the most vicissitudes of Song Dongye, the most aggressive Chen grain, the most distressed Zhao Xiaolei, and the most affectionate is Yao Shisan. Yao Shisan's song is indeed like this, the first time I heard it, it was funny, the more I listened, the more I couldn't restrain it, from funny to quiet, to the sour in each center, like entering a Gu, the deeper and deeper I fell in, and it was difficult to extricate myself.

"From the moment I was born, my mother died in childbirth, and my fisherman father was also buried in the sea, and relatives and friends avoided me. Most people think that Shanghainese are quite rich. It's a pity that my poor family is surrounded by walls. I am in the suburbs of Jinshan District, Shanghai, and the Xuhui District of Lujiazui that you usually see on the Internet is a world of difference. Jinshan District borders Zhejiang Province and is surrounded by toxic gas plants and artificial green belts. Desolation, poverty, disease, even the pungent smell of chemicals in the air. Fortunately, just in time for the demolition, my grandfather and I had the capital to live on a tight footing, just like that, I studied all the way to university, and for the first time left my grandfather to go to the north, and met my so-called northern girl at Shandong Normal University. Qiao Yuan told his story calmly, and Robben and I felt surprised and sympathetic, such an optimistic and cheerful Qiao Yuan, but grew up with his grandfather in a tragic childhood of losing his parents.

Robben sighed, then picked up the wine bottle and helped us fill the glass, Robben lifted the glass, Qiao Yuan and I also clinked glasses with Robben, and then drank it all, letting the alcohol burn in the throat. The Huangguoshu on the table was only soaked with empty cigarette boxes and glasses of liquor, I groped in my pockets, and finally found a pack of unopened Huangguoshu, opened the cigarette case, and handed it to Robben and Qiao Yuan, and the three of them began to spit clouds and smoke again.

"And then? What did you encounter in college, and what about your girl? Robben asked, apparently fuelled by the amplification of alcohol.

"Her name is Mu Wanqing, a girl born and raised in Jinan. Her family is very wealthy, and her family has been in business for generations, and she has always been able to go to various high-end entertainment venues, be invited to various drinking parties, and always meet various social elites in business activities. To her, the usual food is an unattainable drunken gold addict to me. At that time, I had low self-esteem with her, and most of the people around her were glamorous, and I often felt ashamed and overwhelmed by myself. So, I treated her like a queen. I only dare to eat vegetarian food at school because of my poor life, and Mu Wanqing will always take me to eat in a restaurant with beautiful decorations. Although I usually wear clean clothes, I don't have a business dress that I can handle, Mu Wanqing bought me an Armani suit, before that, Armani's clothes were completely unimaginable to me. Our relationship has always been unequal, and she can always solve the problem that bothers me with a lot of money. And I have achieved nothing, all I can give is worthless companionship and tenderness, when she is drunk and she goes to the hotel to wash her, when she is tired to massage and relax, we have not looked at and kissed, but I have never been able to take a step towards union, for me, it seems that going further with her is the biggest stain on her. My relationship with her was never promising, and they all said it was destined to be an end-of-the-box experience. Obviously, they were right, after graduating from university, I had to go back to Shanghai to accompany my sick grandfather, while she stayed in Jinan to continue her studies. Three years later, my grandfather left me at the end of his life, and my northern girl couldn't escape the family's marriage arrangement to marry a son of a wealthy family in Jinan. I heard from friends in college say that Brother Gongzi is gentle and elegant, kind to people, terrible with high academic qualifications, knowledgeable after returning from studying abroad, and can cope easily in the intrigue of the shopping mall. I have low self-esteem for the talented and beautiful couple, I deleted all the connections with Mu Wanqing, and since then I have returned to the sea of people. Later, I found out that my grandfather passed away, and I was already alone in this world after losing Mu Wanqing, to be honest, instead of struggling in Shanghai's land where every inch of land is valuable, it is better to live a free life of traveling around happily. No matter how I say it, I am also a graduate of the Normal University, and I am going to go to Tibet this year to stay there to teach, to the city in the sky, away from the hustle and bustle of the city. After Qiao Yuan finished speaking, he picked up the yellow fruit tree and smoked it, took two puffs, he bit the cigarette butt, filled the wine glasses for me and Robben, and then raised his glass, Robben and I didn't say a word, and we were still surprised at how Qiao Yuan, who once had inferiority complex in the north, turned into this man full of confidence and light in front of him. Robben shook his head a few times, propped up on the edge of the table, and walked to the storage room.

"If you don't have money, don't touch love, love needs to have a material foundation. When you're alone, your dinner is just the difference between a loaf of bread and a steak, and when you meet that girl, you have a huge inferiority complex because of your loaf of bread. Isn't all any emotion material? I said to Qiao Yuan drunkenly, like an old-fashioned little adult.

There was a sound of debris falling to the ground in the storage room, and Robben staggered out with a bottle of wine, and he put the bottle on the table and lay down on the chair with a sense of relief. "Drinking, I don't have any nostalgia for Cafe 31 except for those paintings, Xiao Chen, you can take those books on the bookcase tomorrow, and they should be given to you as gifts." Robben said. "That's a good relationship, Brother Robben, I want "The Moon and Sixpence" and "I'm Jinse, You are the Flowing Year", I really love Bai Luomei's books!" I yelled. Qiao Yuan laughed and said: "The gentlemen read some books about men and women who love men and women, can you ............ a little bit?"

"After many years, you are still traveling alone, there is no loneliness as you imagined, you can eat and drink with confidence, get in touch with strangers, laugh and play, see the vast scenery, mountains are still mountains, water is still water, not because of your sadness, let alone because you can't let go of the meaning. You will eventually understand that disappointment is a pair of colored glasses, and what has made you lose in those years is just your own unrealistic expectations! Robben smoked a cigarette and looked out the window, a couple were kissing passionately in the drizzle, perhaps, Robben once again remembered his vitex, the beautiful woman in the sky city.

"Excuse me, do you still have coffee?" The crisp and pleasant girl remembered that Qiao Yuan Luo Ben and I followed the prestige, and the door of the café was pushed open a crack, and a woman jumped in. The sky blue skinny jeans make her figure look slender, and the loose sweatshirt on the upper body can't hide the pride of her figure, the woman is very beautiful, there are residual raindrops on her hair, and in the dim light, the woman looks like a beauty in the painting, delicate.

It is the nature of men to look intently at beautiful women. The beautiful woman looked at me a little shyly, and the six of us salivated eyes. The three of us retracted our eyes.

"Girl, Cafe No. 31 is going to close, you see that the boss is sad here, where is there coffee, of course, there is wine here, do you drink it?" Qiao Yuan flirtatiously teased.

"Yes, yes, yes, there is no coffee only wine, do you dare to drink it?" I learned from Qiao Yuan to look like a hooligan.

"Oh? Drink? Whoever is afraid of whom, drink and drink. Such a beautiful girl blinked her big eyes and was not to be outdone, Qiao Yuan helped her pour good wine, the girl took the wine glass and drank it, rubbed her delicate lips, and said: "The southern one really deserves its reputation, the empty cup is fragrant, dry and mellow." Another drink. The girl sat down without seeing it. Robben Qiaoyuan and I stared at each other and smiled helplessly, it seemed that they had met a wine bottle.

"Beautiful girl, hello, let me introduce myself, my name is Qiao Yuan, a native of Shanghai, dare to ask the girl's surname?" Qiao Yuan was obviously drunk and promiscuous, and began to talk shamelessly nonsense.

"Ye Wei, a native of Shandong, a native of Jinan." The girl was not ambiguous, and replied while picking up a piece of duck meat with the chopsticks Robben handed over.

"No wonder, I met a bold girl from the north!" Qiao Yuan muttered quietly. Ye Wei sneered after hearing this: What's the matter, although our northern girls are bold, they also have a gentle side. When Qiao Yuan heard this, he didn't say anything, he should have remembered that his northern queen might also be a gentle and virtuous lady.

"Miss Ye Wei, you are too bold, dare to drink with us when you meet us in Pingshui, if you get drunk and do something worse than a beast, you are afraid that your intestines will be repentant." I said unashamedly as I ate the braised vegetables.

"Bah, how old are you, look at you like this, you are also a student, your hair has not grown, I am afraid that you are not, and then look at this Qiao Yuan is obviously a cup of pour, who will kill the deer is not certain, as for this Robben's man, I see that he is a gentle and elegant man, sister, I have never seen anyone in the north and south." Ye Wei was full of pride and raised her eyebrows at us.

"Going north and south? Where have you been? I looked at her with disdain, deliberately to tease her.

"Shanghai, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, anyway, I have traveled all over the coastal cities, and now I have come all the way from Hubei, my sister is going to Tibet!" Ye Wei said, her eyes full of pride.

"What? You're going to Tibet? Qiao Yuan raised his head fiercely and looked at Ye Wei incredulously.

"Of course, don't you think it's incredible, I'm a girl who dares to travel around. However, I have heard many travelers say that going to Tibet is particularly dangerous, and to be honest, I am both scared and looking forward to it. Ye Wei said.

"Let's go together, the day after tomorrow, I read the weather forecast, there will be no rain the day after tomorrow, I will also go to Tibet, I will go there to teach, I can take care of you." Qiao Yuan said abruptly.

"Are you sure? Why should you take care of me, I can do it myself, and besides, we just know each other, and we go together, in case you have other intentions for me? Ye Wei hurriedly shrank into her sweatshirt and looked at Qiao Yuan pitifully.

"Don't worry, I don't have wolf ambitions for you, but I think you are very much like an old friend of mine, an important old friend, and she is also from Jinan, Shandong." Qiao Yuan said seriously, his eyes were sincere. "Alright then!" Ye Wei generously agreed. Then I, Qiao Yuan, Robben, and Ye Wei exchanged WeChat respectively, and we are still lying in our respective WeChat lists to this day.

That night I looked out the window, the rain had stopped, the road in the ancient town was full of people, the two pairs of emotions during the day were still playing with strong affection, and I think the uncle who set up the boat and the grandmother who delivered the meal were also watching TV and listening to the song, most of us passed by in the same space, maybe there will be no intersection in this life, we are different in the No. 31 café, and there are thousands of feelings in the dark when we meet, just like Luo Ben and I will meet in Zhejiang a few years later, and Qiao Yuan and Ye Wei continue to stage a story of a northern girl.