Among the many prestigious late-night places such as Shahe Street, Riverside Tou, and Labor Square in the area around the South Gate, the cold dish dish on Xueyuan Street is the first signboard, and we often go to a small shop called "Brain Shell".

A store with a unique style has an owner who complements it, and the huge skull is such a unique signboard.

His head is really big, Qian Cheng may be as big as a basketball, but it is not because of water or eating Sanlu milk powder, it is purely genetic, he is very smart and witty, he likes to joke a few jokes with guests, and everyone likes to listen to his strategy.

The origin of the name College Street is probably inseparable from the fact that there was originally a Xingsha Mansion School Palace nearby, and the common people used to call it the Xiwen Temple. Now there is a nearly 100-year-old Huxiang famous school on this street - Changjun Middle School, which has been in a continuous context, and the elders of the family have taught or studied here for several generations, and it is also the alma mater of me and my cousin, familiar and cordial. It's just that the people who come here today are no longer scholars who eat books, and now more people are diners who come to eat "sweet and sour pork ribs".

When I was in elementary school at Dagudao Lane, the cultural cinema in Xueyuan Street was still there, and directly opposite was the Dengying Bridge, which was later simplified to Dengren Bridge. There is a Tianfei Palace in the street and alley of Dengren Bridge, in fact, next to the Tianfei Palace is the Song Dynasty famous minister Zhendexiu Temple.

Later, Huangxing South Road was changed to a pedestrian street, and a large number of old buildings on the west side of Huangxing South Road, such as Demaolong, Nanbeite, and Wu Damao, and those decades-old plane trees, were all removed. The buildings on the east side of Dengren Bridge were also demolished, and in the end, only one Tianfei Palace was left in the way. I remember that the monks and nuns wanted to protect the temple at that time, but the monks and nuns were also organized people at that time, and there was no such thing as violent resistance to demolition at that time, so when I was in junior high school in Changjun, Tianfei Palace had long been gone, and finally I heard that the relevant departments negotiated to move Tianfei Palace to a new shop or where, and then I didn't inquire.

Eating here gradually increased after getting to know Don Juan, whose family lives in a place called Xia Lijiapo in the depths of College Street. In the Qing Dynasty's "Xingsha Place Names": I wish to live in old age, and I wish to live a long life to call Song. "Yao Ling" is this Lijiapo Lane, so the place is inhabited by people with the surname "Li", and it gets this name.

Xialijiapo Lane leads directly to Du Fujiang Pavilion by the river from the mouth of Gutan Street, which is a prosperous place in the old Star City; Before the Anti-Japanese War, there were Qu Zi Ancestral Hall, Huaguang Temple and other historic sites on this street, and there were institutions such as the Provincial Highway Administration, Zhejiang Jinjiao Hall, the Provincial Geological Survey, the Mining Bank, and the Confucius School, as well as private mansions such as Dehou Hall and Xiong's Ancestral Hall; Unfortunately, it was reduced to ruins in the Wenxi fire, and now it has become an old alley full of smoke and fire in the central city.

Stepping on the somewhat dilapidated imitation granite road, the lanes on both sides are vertical and horizontal, the path is winding and narrow, the old site remains, a kind of humanistic atmosphere of the old era is quietly permeated, and time seems to be frozen in this small alley. The storefronts and stalls here seem to be out of place in this era, but they are full of the style of another era. At that time, when Don Juan's mother was still a teenager, she may have permed her fashionable hairstyle in a relatively trendy shop at the time.

The deeper you go, the more you go under the shade of the ancient trees, the shops on the side of the road are lined up one after another, and the voices of people are noisy, and there is a breath of life in the market. During the day, when the weather is good, there is always an old man sitting at the door of the house with his grandson in his arms, feeling the gentle sunshine of spring while chatting with the neighbors.

When I was a child, I used to run around in alleys like this, playing hide and seek with children my age, hiding in inconspicuous corners, and when I looked up at the sky, I felt that the dense threads in the sky were like a net that kept me here.

Passing by the ancient well, a stone gate that has experienced the baptism of the years can vaguely distinguish the word "Dehouli", the mottled and broken stone wall is the evidence of time, and the sentence on both sides of the stone gate "Since ancient times, there have been many hardships, and there have never been young great men" always reminds people that they are also inspiring. The old star city's famous "withstanding" mop old craftsman Master Li hid in Dehouli Lane. I heard that a mop pierced by the veteran Master Li can be used for 8 years, I think it won't be bad at all, no wonder the business is not very good.

Don Juan's house is an old-fashioned apartment building with little natural light, a traditional matchbox building in the early 80s. He passed by College Street every day, so he became acquainted with the boss "Brain Shell".

Later, we went to the "brain case" to say more, there was a chat, the brain case smiled and said that there is another reason for the good relationship with Don Juan, within a radius of dozens of miles, ranked according to the size of the braincase, the first place is himself, the second is Don Juan's father, and the third is Don Juan, so he felt intimate when he saw Brother Juan for the first time.

He went to Don Juan's house a few times, and his father was a vice president of the famous Qiyiwen Group Company in the province, and now he has become one of the tens of millions of laid-off workers.

Whenever I go to his house, I will always hear his long sighs, his worries about the various problems existing in today's state-owned enterprise reform, and the expectation that his only son will "hope that his son will become a dragon". When I saw Tang's father for the first time, I thought his head was really not small, one yard bigger than Don Juan's, according to Huang Turtle himself, when he was a child, his father turned out to be "not very big in the braincase, but he was angry with him later".

And Tang's mother looks like a very typical guest with the temperament of Xingcheng, and her words also reveal her love for her son, which should be a strict father and mother-like family.

Qian Cheng called Don Juan and called him out, and Don Juan whispered on the phone: "I promised my mother that I wouldn't go out today, I can't come out, you come to call me something, I'll find an excuse to come out with you." ”

So we had to pay a visit, and it was his mother who opened the door.

"Auntie, we are here to call Don Juan to testify, Qian Cheng's mobile phone has just been stolen, and we have reported the case. He bought the same one with Don Juan last month, and the police station asked us to call him as a witness. ”

I don't know if her mother deliberately didn't expose our clumsy lie, she just said okay, come back early.

Before going out, when Don Juan was changing clothes, she asked Qian Cheng and me: "How is Don Juan behaving in the unit?" ”

We all said, "That's great, he's doing better than we do." ”

"What a miscellaneous ghost, I only know how to turn money outside, I see a penny into the house, and I see that I buy something for my father and mother when I go to work."

"Hehe, I want to invest some money in the early stage, we have only been in this industry for a long time, and we have no foundation." I quickly answered.

"Xiao Lu, you are a good man, I heard that you are doing well on satellite TV, you have to help me more in my house. Qian Cheng is not bad, not as ignorant as the Huang guy in my house, who is dancing all day long. ”

At this time, Tang's father came out of the back room and complained to his mother: "It's not that you are used to killing him, I didn't agree to tell him to buy a motorcycle before, and I will cause more trouble." You also said that he paid the bulk of his own salary, and you only sponsored a few hundred yuan; For a long time, he took the gold necklace to the pawnshop and exchanged it for 2,000 yuan. You see it's a loser. ”

We didn't know what to say, we just laughed, that gold necklace was indeed a bit of a pity for Don Juan.

He used to have a gold necklace that was still thick and had been with him for a few years, and later saw that Qian Cheng had made a gold-wrapped jade pendant that was also good-looking, so he asked his mother for a pair of earrings and a ring together, and also went to make a gold-wrapped jade pendant.

It was her mother's dowry many years ago, and at that time, this gold-wrapped jade was still quite popular on the streets of Star City, most of which were wrapped jade Buddhas or round jade rings. It's a pity that he only brought him for less than half a year, so he replaced him with a more practical and stylish motorcycle.

"He said that it was needed for work, and I saw that Lu Tu bought a car, and he did a good job." His father went on to count.

"He does satellite TV, mainly on business trips to other places, and we mainly run in the city, the specific situation is different." At this time, Don Juan came out of it and pulled us to hurry away, "You are difficult to do, I'll go out for a while." (Difficult home is the colloquial language of Star City, a modal word for the elderly)

"You're just a mouthful, and you have a reason to ...... anything," said his mother, "and come back early." ”

We sat at a cold vegetable stall on College Street and reflected.

Qian Cheng said: "I have only bought my Motorola mobile phone for more than 1 month, more than 2,800, and the money is still a trivial matter. “

"yes, there are so many suspicious things in my mind now, oh that stupid back then?" I sighed.

Qian Cheng will not be able to figure it out for a while, this old man has hurt him very deeply.

Don Juan said: "This guy is clearly a veteran of careful planning and knows a lot about the mentality of us young business people. ”

Later, we learned that the room he ordered was an hourly room of 40 yuan, and it was only opened for less than an hour, and there may be an accomplice who cooperated to open the room here.

I suddenly remembered that when the channel held a meeting a few days ago, I had said that the female saleswoman of other channels had been deceived by her mobile phone during dinner, and reminded us to pay attention to these cheats on eating, drinking, and cheating money. At that time, I thought that I was laughing and talking, but I only laughed at others for being too stupid, and I never thought that it would happen to me today.

I said, "The first time I saw him, I felt that he was not good-looking and had an obscene temperament", but I immediately refuted myself in my mind that "people should not be good-looking", and there is an old saying in Star City called "Blessing is on the side of ugly people".

Afterwards, I recalled that "Mr. Hu" was carrying a black artificial leather handbag, and his wrinkled suit looked like a senior migrant worker at a glance. Everything from meeting to talking about business was so suspicious, but at that time, we explained in our hearts that it was thrifty, realm, and low-key and connotative.....

Sure enough, the connotation is very deep, how can there be such a good thing in the world? We have actually been deceived by ourselves, blinded by greed.

There is one thing we still admire**, he told the story of those old friends and so-and-so bosses on the wine table, and after many years, we understand that it is basically in line with the facts, it seems that this liar said that he also made some preparations behind learning to sing.

It's okay, on this occasion, let those of us who think highly of Xingcheng Man know that he is not an "old sparrow in Dongting Lake"!

Don Juan said: "Forget it, the old doesn't go and the new doesn't come, you are a big boss, and the others are rich." If it weren't for that, my machine would be refunded with a discount of 500 yuan", he played with his new MOTO flip phone, "Anyway, I bought this machine with you, and it is better maintained than yours, so I'll buy a new NOKIA phone to play."

Qian Cheng said: "That's right, Lao Tzu himself doesn't know how to change to other new machines to play." After saying that, he poured half a bottle of beer in one go.