Chapter 17: Being a thief is weak
"Mr. Wang of the trading company last time, do you remember?"
In the KTV private room, Ah B's voice pulled me back to reality from my memories of college.
"He took a fancy to the fakes and wanted to use them as gifts, and he accepted the price I quoted." He unscrewed the canned beef in his hand, poured it onto the plate on the coffee table, opened the remaining half bottle of Moutai, and poured it for me, "Hurry up and eat some, why are you in such a bad state?" ”
Today is a high school reunion, and less than ten people came. Officer Li was on duty tonight and couldn't come over for the time being, so he entrusted Ah B to bring two bottles of Moutai to everyone. I came late alone, and as soon as I entered the private room and greeted everyone, I was dragged aside by Ah B to sit down and talk about things.
"It's not Xia Yun's......
I took a sip of the wine in my glass, and the hot line rushed down my throat.
Ah B was stunned for a long time, shook his head, sighed, filled my glass again, picked up the wine glass in front of him, and touched it with me. "This kind of thing, I really can't help you much, buddy is inexperienced......" He took a sip of white wine, smacked his lips, and glanced at me, "I heard Li Anbang say that you are checking a license plate?" What's the matter, I found Xia Yun's match? ”
"Why does that sound so awkward." I drank it dry in another sip.
"Slow down, drink slowly, don't drink stuffy wine with Moutai, spoil good things." He looked reluctant, frowning and persuading me, "Guess who will come over in a while?" ”
"Whoever he is." I don't have any old classmates who meet and have deep feelings, and if Chen Yiyao comes out, I don't care who comes or not.
"It's really Chen Yiyao!" Ah B laughed.
His voice was a bit loud, and several of his old classmates turned their heads at the sight of the name. A female classmate named Liu Xue frowned, looked at me, and had a kind of reminiscent curiosity in her tone: "Chen Yiyao? Lu Yanchen, are you two still in touch? Didn't she go abroad? ”
"How many years has this been, what is the connection?" Ah B interrupted her with some gossip questions, "She contacted Li Anbang, it seems that she has just returned to China and wants to go through some formalities at the police station, so she asked Officer Li for help." ”
"What a coincidence." Liu Xue glanced at me, "Then where has Chen Yiyao been all these years?" Is it time to return to China temporarily or to come back and settle down? ”
Ah B shrugged: "Where do I know so much." ”
"When the old classmates meet, we can have more drinks." Liu Xue said with a smile, "I have to ask her, do you regret abandoning our talented people?" ”
"Don't mess around with mandarin ducks, sing." I said it angrily.
Speaking of this, someone remembered something and said, "Ah I remembered, Lu Yanchen, have you been punished because of Chen Yiyao?" At that time, the loudspeaker of the whole school also announced. ”
"I remember that." Liu Xue interjected: "You were still there at that time, Painter Bi?" And Li'anbang, the three of you fought with the gang on North Street at the time, and then they all went to the school playground. The boys in our class are going to help you, right? ”
"I copied the school motto a hundred times." Someone added.
"How many years have passed?" Liu Xue sighed, "If anyone fights for me back then, I promise to pounce on him and give birth to him!" ”
"Liu Xue, you wrote me a love letter back then." Ah B laughed out loud.
"That's a cheat sheet for the exam, okay? If you want to send a love letter, you won't be given it! Liu Xue scolded with a smile.
Everyone began to coax along with Ah B's topic.
I stood up and said, "I'm going to the bathroom." With that, he pushed the door open and went out.
When I came back from the bathroom, in the hallway, a woman walked over and seemed to be looking for the room number.
I saw that she was a little familiar, and she saw me too, and I stopped.
She was holding her bag in front of her with both hands, looking at me quietly, there was a kind of tranquility in her eyes, as if she had nothing to do with the noise around her, she was as white as a daisy, like a big girl next door.
I stood in the doorway and looked at her, feeling my desires quiet in her eyes, which I knew. Some people have never met each other before, but when they meet for the first time, they will feel familiar; And some people haven't seen each other for many years, but those eyes often appear in their memories in their dreams.
"Lu Yanchen." She smiled and called me, "You're going to stand here with me all the time?" ”
"That's not bad either." I laughed, "Chen Yiyao, long time no see." ”
Time ticked by minute by second, there was a faint intoxication in the air, I didn't know how I went back to the private room with Chen Yiyao, and I didn't know how I drank the rest of Moutai cup by cup, in the middle, Ah B seemed to go out to make a phone call, and after a while, he came in with two bottles of liquor and a case of beer.
I didn't sing a single song before she came, but since she came, I've been singing one song after another. A few old classmates surrounded Chen Yiyao and asked this and that, although I was singing, my ears were pricked up, listening to their gossip about the things over the years.
Chen Yiyao has been nesting in the sofa, sipping a beer, occasionally staggering his eyes with me, and then moving away at will. But I know that she is watching me all the time, completely transparent to me, and there is nothing to hide. This feeling is very strange, sitting in front of the woman I first loved, I was like a child, I didn't dare to say love anymore, or even dare to speak, but in my heart I would rather go on like this.
"That is the purest love in my life, as if in the warm light, warm roots, warm sprouts, warm growth. Even if we will grow old one day, even if the hands dancing on the keys will stop, even if the beautiful music will eventually stop, but the memory will not pass, it is in our hearts, a dusty little box, even if only a small crack is exposed, the warmth of those jumps will be overwhelmingly pierced into the heart, forever. ”
Before I got married to Xia Yun, I decided to burn the letter that I had written to Chen Yiyao but did not send it, Ah B saw the text on the letter, and unexpectedly, he did not pout and laugh at me, but silently closed his eyes. We drank a lot of wine that time, and Ah B didn't say a word all night, just sat on the balcony and looked out the window at the night sky, and when I looked away from the stars in the sky, I noticed that his face was full of tears, and I knew that there was a soft scar deep in his seemingly cynical strong heart.
That scar is related to the little sheep.
Chen Yiyao and I didn't talk much throughout the night, it felt like a child playing a game, competing with each other to see who could hold back the most. I was singing all night, and when it was close to two o'clock in the middle of the night, she finally ordered a song and sang softly:
"Like a drizzle of rain fell on my heart
It felt so mysterious
I can't help but look up at you
And you don't show a trace
Although it is not silent, it is hard to forget
That's your eyes, bright and beautiful
Ah~ I am full of joy in the world of love"
Her lazy and beautiful singing voice made me deeply intoxicated, and what made my heart flutter even more was that she sang this song, which corresponded to my mood at the moment.