A year later, Chongqing.

In a small bar, a young owner was cleaning something at the bartender. The bar wasn't huge, with just four or five tables, and there weren't any waiters. The owner, the waiter, the bartender are all doing it alone by this young man.

The young man looks like he is twenty-two or three years old, but he can't see a trace of young immaturity in his body, but there is some mature man's temperament, that young face has a vicissitudes different from his age, and a pair of eyes reveal his weathered past.

At half past seven o'clock in the evening, the small bar officially opened, the boss opened the door, and then quietly returned to the bartender to stand, a few scattered customers walked into the bar, they each ordered what they wanted to drink, and the boss smiled and mixed them one by one.

The owner's bartending skills are very good, many cocktails can be mixed with different flavors in his hands, and many of the people who come here are some elderly middle-aged people, they are not drinking wine, they are drinking with vicissitudes in the wine. No one knows where the owner came from, or why he opened such a bar on this street.

This bar is unlike any other bar, he doesn't have DJs, no rock music, just a "Southern Girl" that hasn't changed for thousands of years.

"In the northern village lived a southern girl, who always liked to stand by the road in a dress with flowers". The song slowly played on the stereo in the store, and the owner stood behind the bartender with a smile on his face.

It's just that many times, there will be a trace of nostalgia on his face, and many people can see from his eyes that he has his own story, but he has not told this story to anyone.

Late at night, the customers in the store left the bar in twos and threes, and the owner silently cleaned up the table alone, and at this moment another customer came to the store.

The man was wearing a black trench coat and was about thirty-two or thirteen years old. After he walked in, he skillfully lit a cigarette for himself, and then silently walked over to the boss and helped him clean up the table. After cleaning up, the owner poured him a glass of wine.

The middle-aged man and the boss sat in front of the bartender in front of the bartender, the middle-aged man looked at the owner of the bar, took a puff of cigarette, and said slowly: "Li Hao, haven't you put it down yet?" The boss smiled and slowly poured himself a glass of wine, and after drinking it all, he looked at the middle-aged man and said, "What do you mean to put it down?" What does it mean to not be able to let go? I think it's good to live like this. ”

The boss slowly walked to the door of the bar and held on to the door frame with his hand to look at the crowd on the street, and the endless flow of vehicles on the street, and muttered to himself: "Maybe I won't let go of this life, but I will live in another way, not only for myself, but also for her who is long gone." ”

The boss looked back at the middle-aged man and said slowly, "Brother Zhang, let's go, I'm going to close the door." ”

The middle-aged man drank the wine in his glass, looked at the boss and did not speak, stood up and left the bar. After walking out of the bar, the middle-aged man turned to look at the boss: "Li Hao, I'm going to Miaojiang in a month, are you going?" The boss shook his head: "Go ahead, I won't ask about yin and yang in this life." ”

The middle-aged man nodded and did not speak, and then left the bar. The owner closed the door and turned around and went to the back of the bar.

Yes, this bar owner is me, I came back from the underworld a year ago, and after returning to Chongqing, I still can't let go of the attachment in my heart, I didn't go back to Fuqingtang, and I didn't tell Zhang Mu and Tengu. Instead, he hid here alone and opened a small bar.

I hid in this bar, thinking about the past, I didn't get out of this circle for a long, long time, and there was always a shackle in my heart, which locked all my hearts, locked my feelings, and locked my enthusiasm for life. I'm alive, but I'm alive like the walking dead.

Doing the same thing day after day, bartending, guarding the door, welcoming guests, sending guests away, cleaning, closing doors, sleeping. This is my life in a day, and it is also what I have been doing every day for the past year, I quit smoking, and I rarely drink alcohol anymore, so I was alone in this bar, after hiding for half a year, suddenly one day, Zhang Mu found here.

He looked at me in amazement, but when I saw him, I was not surprised, I did not tell him everything I had done in the underworld, nor did I tell him that I had gone to Cen Si. I just told him that I didn't want to do it, and from now on, I wouldn't ask about the Yin and Yang worlds again, and asked him to take good care of the tengu, and it was good for me to stay here alone.

After Zhang Mu listened, did he persuade me anything? He just told me that he was happy to see me the way I was, at least I wasn't as numb as I used to be.

That night, the two of us drank a lot of wine, but no one mentioned the past, just blindly drank and drank, both of us were drunk that night, I was very drunk in the bar, I hugged Zhang Mu and cried.

Since then, Zhang Mu has come to my bar almost every night! But he didn't come when the guests came, but after the guests had left, he stepped into the bar on time, didn't say anything, just sat there with me for a drink, and then slowly left.

I lay on the bed, looking straight at the ceiling, not the slightest drowsy, although it was already past one o'clock in the evening, but I had no idea of falling asleep, I had been living this kind of day for a year, and I had to rely on sleeping pills to fall asleep almost every night.

After returning from the underworld once, my own spirit is not as good as before, probably because my heart is dead! Now I have a numb mentality for everything, if I hadn't promised her to live well, to live for her, to take good care of myself, and not to let her worry about making him worry, maybe I would have ended my life a long time ago.

It's just that for the sake of that agreement, I also want to live, but I'm not happy. I took sleeping pills and fell into a deep sleep.

In the corner of the room, a worn-out backpack, covered in dust, had been bitten by rats with a hole, through which a few yellow pieces of paper could be faintly seen. Next to the backpack, there was a box for fishing rods, which was also covered with dust.

After dawn, I continued to repeat my daily work, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, I woke up from my sleep, got myself a bite to eat, and began to prepare what I would need for the evening.

At half past seven in the evening, I opened the door of the bar on time, and the customers entered the bar again, and I was still smiling and making them drinks, and just as I was mixing, a girl came into my shop, this girl was wearing a pink T-shirt, light blue jeans, and a pair of white sneakers.

It's just that the girl is still wearing a hat, and the girl slowly walks to the bartender: "Boss, have a cocktail." After hearing this voice, I was slightly stunned, but quickly returned to normal, smiled at the girl and said, "Okay, please wait." Soon I mixed the wine and gently placed the glass in front of the girl.

The girl didn't drink the wine glass, but looked at me silently: "Li Hao, are you the most good?" After the girl finished speaking, she slowly took off the hat on her head, and a delicate face appeared in front of me, the girl was very good-looking, but it was difficult for my heart to make any waves again.

I smiled and looked at the girl and replied slowly, "It's okay." The girl looked at me and shook her head: "No, you're not having a good time, I know." I heard Zhang Mu say that you are no longer the same person you used to be. I haven't seen you for three years, I didn't expect you to become what you are now, I still remember you when you were a child, so much danger appeared in front of you, you never flinched, why are you sitting here, slumping. The girl looked at me with distress.

I also looked at the girl and gently tapped the table with my hand: "I didn't slump, I just felt that this kind of life was dull, it was the life I wanted, and I thought this kind of life was good." ”

After that, I left the bartender, smiled and walked to the guests, brought the cocktails to their tables, and then stood at the door of the bar, also looking at the people coming and going on the street, and the endless flow of vehicles.

It was as if I had been abandoned by this prosperous earthly world. "Li Hao, are you short of people here?" The girl jerked up behind me and asked abruptly.

I was stunned for a moment, and slowly replied, "Not lacking." But the girl didn't pay any attention to me, but took off her hat and stood behind the bartender, gently scrubbing the table with a rag.

Seeing this scene, I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know how to say anything to get rid of this girl. I had to stand silently at the door and watch the girl do these things.

Not far away, a Mercedes-Benz car stopped opposite, and a middle-aged man in the car sat inside, holding a cigarette in his hand and looking straight into the bar, looking at me standing at the door of the bar. After taking a puff of cigarette, the middle-aged man said slowly: "Brother, I can only help you here, I hope you can come out early." ”

After saying that, the middle-aged man drove away from the door of the bar, and I looked at the Mercedes Benz in the distance and glanced at the license plate. The Mercedes-Benz is Zhang Mu's car, and I watched the Mercedes-Benz go away with an expressionless face, and I felt a little sad in my heart for a moment.

Looking back at Yu Dan who was in the bartender, my heart was as calm as a pool of stagnant water.