ephemeral
Before you meet the right person, you feel that this life is long; Until she appeared in the rest of your life, and in the rest of the days, you learned to seize every minute and every second to live, and in the end it was more like living for the people you loved......
Wu Tong pulled down the roller shutter door of the coffee shop, and the clanging sound melted in his mind, until he could no longer see her lying on the rattan chair in the store, Wu Tong patted the ash on his hand and drove away.
Wu Tongqian slanted his head, holding the steering wheel with one hand and walking slowly between the mountain roads, the twilight in the mountains is very heavy, only the red tail lights are the people who can accompany Wu Tong, just like the only one who can accompany you all along.
I remember that when Wu Tong was a student, there was a girl who always chattered about the future she was looking forward to, she was a Leo girl, Wu Tong was a Scorpio boy, she was very domineering, Wu Tong was very indifferent, so she said, Wu Tong listened......
"Huh! Kiri, do you think I can be a fashion designer in the future?"
Wu Tong's face was expressionless, he pondered for a long time and said, "Your painting is too ugly, not suitable for ......"
The girl's face was gloomy, but she held back, and continued to ask, "Then what do you say I want to do as a piano teacher?"
Wu Tong frowned, grabbed the girl's wrist and said, "Your fingers are too short to play the piano......"
The girl didn't say a word, took out a pen from her pencil case and poked it on Wu Tong's thigh. Wu Tong stared at each other with big eyes, hugged his thighs and shouted.
The girl squinted and smiled with satisfaction, and Wu Tong suddenly realized that she did not have herself in her future, although she was a little disappointed, Wu Tong knew that a set of parallel lines could be extended indefinitely to the future, but there would never be a day when they would intersect......
Wu Tong thought about the memories of the past, his eyes were dyed red for a moment, he tried his best to inhale a breath, turned his head to look out the window, he didn't want such a person to cry for memories.
The red tail lights flashed and went out in the mountains, and in the sleepless summer night, Wu Tong drove alone to walk all over the road in the dark night......
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In the morning light, the cool wind swept away the summer heat, Wu Tong set up breakfast early, closed the door and left the house. Yu'er hugged Wang Yi's head and pillowed it on the mat, and the leisure of the weekend was a summer gift.
Wu Tong's work is without a day off, after all, the work in the store is not much, but the salary is not low, so Wu Tong will not have too many complaints without vacation.
"It's coming!" Boss Mo stood on the counter and wiped the glass in his hand, and said to Wu Tong.
"What about the girl?" Wu Tong asked, pointing to the empty row of seats by the window.
"I'm back......" Boss Mo talked with a smile.
"Oh......" Wu Tong responded lightly, grabbed the apron on the table, tied it to his body, and buried himself in taking care of the store.
"The girl said thank you for your clothes!" Boss Mo pointed to the thin blue coat hanging on the hanger.
Wu Tong realized that she was still a little sober last night, at least she knew that she had put on a coat for her.
"Stinky boy, didn't you say you wouldn't do it yesterday? What's the drop, it's cheeky again today? Boss Mo looked at Wu Tong with a smile on his face and asked.
"Cut! Why lose your job for a girl you don't know, it's not worth it! Wu Tong shook his hand and said.
Boss Mo no longer teased Wu Tong, took out a palm-sized radio from under the counter, pulled out the antenna and put it on the counter to sound.
"Hangzhou 91.8, happy morning peak!"
In Wu Tong's eyes, Boss Mo is really a person of the next generation, the slow pace of life, and boring topics, so that Wu Tong is almost suffocated when he works here.
"Why did you come to work for me...... Boss Mo asked as he lay comfortably on a rattan chair.
"Want to hear the truth or falsehood?" Wu Tong stopped cleaning and said.
"Falsehood."
"Because the boss has a charismatic personality and a high salary......"
"Oh?" Boss Mo raised his eyebrows and looked at Wu Tong.
Then he listened to the radio with his eyes closed as if nothing had happened, and fell asleep with a pu fan in his way.
"Don't you want to hear the truth?" Wu Tong suddenly paused and said.
"If you want to tell you, you've already said it, why wait for me to ask......" Boss Mo pursed the corners of his mouth and fell asleep.
Wu Tong turned his face sideways and listened to the cicadas on the big tung tree outside the door, smiled warmly, and said to himself, "Yes......"
"Okay, the next song to bring is Jacky Cheung's "Kiss Goodbye" ......" The small white and green radio came out of the radio anchor's voice.
Wu Tong leaned the mop against the wall, leaning his head against the floor-to-ceiling window and listening to this old song.
"I kiss you goodbye at night...... The thoughts you want to give you are like a kite with a broken string
It can't fly into your world, and it can't warm your eyes
I have seen a tragedy unfold
There is no joy at the end of the play, I am still hiding in your dreams
There is always some understanding in an instant
What has been said will not come true. ”
The old song hooked people's thoughts, Wu Tong wiped the corners of his eyes, held his chin with both hands, and inexplicably remembered a certain moment.
"You said you were so understanding, no one must love you, right?" The girl asked Wu Tong.
"You said that you are so hypocritical, there must be a lack of someone to take care of you!" Wu Tong asked rhetorically.
"There is no shortage!"
"Damn!"
Wu Tong thought about it and laughed, the midsummer sun crawled all over the wall of memory, the light and shadow were mottled, we couldn't pick it up and couldn't piece it together.
Wu Tong has always clearly remembered that there is a text in junior high school called "Lonely Journey", which is one of Cao Wenxuan's "Grass House".
"Ding-ding-jingling...... Wu Tongwu grabbed the mobile phone on the table, it was a video call sent by Wu Shenao.
"Wu Tong Wu Tong! Look! This is the theater where I work! As soon as he connected to Wu Shenao, he walked around with his mobile phone, and it seemed that only he could experience the excitement.
"Remember to come and cheer when you have time!" Wu Shenao shouted with his nostrils on the screen of his phone.
Wu Tong smirked, his eyes were white, and he hung up the video call directly, disdainfully saying, "Waste my traffic!" ”
Wu Tong doesn't want to get involved in other people's lives, he always likes to stay out of things and be indifferent, because he can see it clearly. But more importantly, Wu Shenao's singing is really too boring......
"Wu Tong, go and water the flowers outside...... Boss Mo tossed and turned, pointed to the flower garden outside the window with the fan in his hand.
Wu Tong got up and braved the pale yellow sunlight outside, and broke into a sea of gold.
The flower garden outside the coffee shop was planted by Boss Mo himself, and he specially named these four flower beds, wrote them on a wooden board and hung them in front of the flower garden - Four Seasons Flower Language Hall.
Wu Tong bent over and watered every piece of flowers and plants, the delicate white jasmine, the starry blue snow dan, the trumpet-like Xia Jin, the inconspicuous Xia Bufu, there were many flowers, but Wu Tong didn't like them.
Crystal droplets of water tumble and swirl between the leaves, like beating sunlight. Suddenly, Wu Tong's eyes bumped into a blue butterfly, which was lying on the ground, its wings fluttering with difficulty, but fortunately it was not drenched in watering.
Wu Tong put down the kettle in his hand and carefully picked it up in the palm of his hand, walked into the store, Wu Tong took two tissues and put them on the table, gently put the butterfly in his hand on it, and lent it half of the sun by the way.
Putting down the little guy in his hand, Wu Tong got up and continued to do his work.
Summer work is always reluctant, sweat is sticky, heat waves hit the face, and ultraviolet rays split the clouds in the sky into blocks, as if everything was a purgatory-like ordeal. Killing his work time like this, Wu Tong felt extremely bored......
Slowly, time pressed the sun back into the mountains, and the burning clouds on the horizon represented that the time to get off work had arrived, and Wu Tong had nothing to do in the store, and it was a day without a single customer. Usually when he is bored, Wu Tong will go to a live broadcast room of station B to pass the time, there is no anchor in this live broadcast room, only pure music that is played back and forth. Room number Wu Tong has always remembered that it is - 157901, when he used to write homework, Wu Tong would go to this live broadcast room, listen to pure music, brush up on questions, and when he encountered a big exam, Wu Tong would go to the live broadcast room to make a wish to invest a coin and bless himself with a good result. But everything is very monotonous and boring, just like pure music without lyrics and only melody, sometimes used to this bland state, even if there is no wave for a day, Wu Tong can still run Xiao Ri well.
Approaching the end of work, Wu Tong squatted at the door of the store as usual to watch the sunset in the distant mountains, the red-dyed sky was magical and dreamy, like a grand flame in the world.
Wu Tong felt that the root of his left ear was very itchy, as if a worm stopped on the pinna, Wu Tong picked up his mobile phone and took a picture of his left ear, which turned out to be a butterfly. Wu Tong picked up his finger to point at the butterfly, which seemed unwilling to leave. Wu Tong suddenly remembered the butterfly he had saved at noon, and ran to the table to see that there was nothing but two white tissues.
"You're the butterfly I saved?" Wu Tong guessed while shining on the glass next to the table, and sure enough, it was the ice-blue butterfly.
Wu Tong put a finger under this butterfly, it is also human, and actually stepped on Wu Tong's finger, he carefully put the butterfly in front of his eyes to look at it carefully, its starry wings are really "eyebrows and eyes." ”
"Boss!" A clear voice wakes up the summer night, and the store finally welcomes the first order after a long absence.
Wu Tong patted his numb thigh, stood up and turned to look, recognized the guest at a glance, pointed at the man and exclaimed, "It's you again!" The one who slapped me! ”
"You...... You...... You're the one who got fanned by me! The girl's two shallow dimples immediately spun up, and she looked at Wu Tong and responded.
Today's sober girl looks more energetic, wearing a refreshing white shirt with a black pleated skirt, which is really a rare clear stream in this era.
Boss Mo handed the list to Wu Tong and said, "Go back after finishing the last order......
Wu Tong grabbed the list, stepped on heavy steps, and reluctantly walked to the man's side and asked, "Miss...... What do you want ......?"
"The coat you put on me yesterday smells so sweaty!" The girl sat down and looked at Wu Tong and said.
Wu Tong patted his forehead, and said sharply, "Miss, hurry up and order, don't delay me from getting off work!" ”
"Yo! There's a butterfly on my shoulder! The girl teased again.
Seeing that this girl deliberately embarrassed herself, Wu Tong suddenly felt ten thousand unhappy in his heart.
"I'm quitting, old Mo!" Wu Tong took off his apron and threw down the order to leave.
Boss Mo sat in front of the bar, pulled down the frame of his glasses, picked his eyes and said, "Then this month's salary will be deducted ......."
As soon as Wu Tong walked to the door, he was stopped by this sentence, and it seemed that he was struggling, and the door became Wu Tong's "ghost gate".
Wu Tong turned around and re-tied his apron, picked up the list and walked to the girl's table, asked with a fake smile, "Honorable Miss, what do you want?" ”
"Eh, I ask you, how old are you this year." The girl asked, leaning her neck.
Wu Tong stared at the girl expressionlessly, and then replied in a good voice, "Miss, hurry up and go alone?" ”
"A glass of blue mountains, can you answer me?" The girl placed a random order and then focused on the previous question.
"22, just graduated......" Wu Tong turned his head and shook off a sentence in reply, turned around and was about to walk towards the bar.
The girl held her chin and looked thoughtful.
At this time, the butterfly on Wu Tong's left shoulder fluttered its wings and flew to the pocket of Wu Tong's right chest.
"Huh? How about you being my bridegroom? The girl grabbed Wu Tong's right hand with one hand, making it difficult for him to walk away.
"Holy! It's so flirtatious! Wu Tong said with his palm against his head.
"Little sister, don't you make fun of me?" Wu Tong became more and more impatient.
"Little sister? I'm as old as you! Call me sister? The girl's eyebrows furrowed, puzzled.
"What age are you! Even the young lady doesn't understand! Wu Tong reluctantly turned around and looked at the tag on her chest.
"Zhejiang Daily - Chen Xiaoxiao"
As a newspaper editor, he can't even keep up with the trend of the times, and Wu Tong lowered his eyes on these literary moments.
"Am I old? Or do I look like a liar? The girl asked, pointing to herself.
Wu Tong brought the coffee on the bar to the girl's table, and said thoughtfully, "I don't understand, there are really flowers that like to be inserted in the feces, maybe I have enough nutrients!" ”
"Miss, your Blue Mountain coffee." Wu Tong officially put the coffee down, and then immediately unbuttoned his apron and ran out of the door, Wu Tong really didn't want to stay in this boring ghost place for a moment.
"Lao Mo, I'm off work! Bye! Wu Tong said goodbye to Boss Mo hastily, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
The Blue Mountain coffee on the table in front of the girl was steaming, and her eyes reflected Wu Tong's distant back.
"I'll come back to you later!" The girl stood at the table and shouted at Wu Tong.
I don't know if it's been a long time or if I've been abused enough, Wu Tong turned his head and put aside his hand, just as a joke.
"Bang!" Wu Tong closed the car door tightly and sat in his seat for a long breath. Then turn on the interior lights and adjust the in-car radio to FM93.
"FM93, the voice of Zhejiang, it's seven o'clock in the evening."
Just as Wu Tong was about to fasten his seat belt, the butterfly took off again and broke into Wu Tong's sight, and Wu Tong suddenly realized that the butterfly had been staying by his side.
Wu Tong carefully caught it with his fingers and put it on his right shoulder, it seemed that all Wu Tong's actions were because he became light-handed, he didn't dare to make a big move when he turned the steering wheel, and he stepped on the accelerator gently, driving the car as delicately as Lin Daiyu.
"Here's a song from a listener - "Empty""
"All the stars have perished,
Getting by and getting by is what I'm sketching now,
It doesn't matter if the pain overlaps,
I've been ignorant for a year,
The year doesn't seem to have changed,
Guarding the world after you leave,
Empty.
Wu Tong raised his hand and put the ice-blue butterfly next to the car tray and asked, "Does the little guy understand?" ”
The ice-blue butterfly flapped its wings, its tiny feet rubbing against each other several times, but there was no response.
"I don't understand!"
"Yes, you can't hear it......"
Wu Tong muttered to himself again.
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Wu Tong understood that when he began to talk to himself, it was nothing more than loneliness and occupied his heart.
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"I'm on my period, my stomach hurts!"
"Come up, I'll carry you!"
"Damn, you're so heavy!"
"Really? Then I'll get down and walk myself! ”
"Hold on, let's go!"
"Hmmm! Good! ”
At that time, we always loved duplicity, obviously caring about each other, but we didn't care, because this is the stupidest and truest manifestation of my care about you.
Many encounters are like Wu Tong and Chen Xiaoxiao, there is no beginning and an end, the inadvertent joke at the beginning, but later it runs through every moment of Wu Tong's life.
"Guarding the world after you leave, it's empty." The song on the radio station was finished, and Wu Tong also drove out of the mountains......