297 Gathering

The Hilton Hotel is the most popular place in the city center, Ye Wei parked the car at the door of the hotel, the man pursed his lips silently, but he didn't mean to get out of the car at all, to be honest, he didn't want to participate in today's class reunion, if it wasn't for Yin Dixiao forcing him, he would never be here.

In the past, Ye Wei had also participated in such gatherings, and most of the time, he sat silently at the wine table alone, listening to their extremely kitsch words on the side, he couldn't help but have a kind of sternness.

But since I've come here, there's no way to go back.

Quite helpless, the man glanced blankly at the lenses on the roof of the car, in the mirror he looked a lot older, and there were two ugly nasolabial folds on his cheeks. Thinking about his handsome face when he was young, Ye Wei couldn't help but feel funny, and he didn't know what he had experienced, that face had become so vicissitudes.

However, everyone is like this, there is nothing to hide, the man thought and couldn't help but sigh, he opened the car door.

When he got out of the car, he couldn't help but straighten his collar, saying that he was here to attend the class reunion, he just hoped that it would not ruin his previous image, and as for other things, he didn't have too many ideas. He hated the sharp eyes of his peers, pointing at everyone as if they were commodities, as if a person's worth must be used as a bargaining chip.

Maybe he's just here to eat, and he doesn't mean anything else. The man thought, and the dark eyes walked in with a slight indifference.

"Welcome." The hostess of the hotel greeted him quite politely, but Ye Wei's face was still very long, and he really couldn't be interested in such a thing as drinking hard pay.

As a result, it is also exhausting. But the lady of the Hilton Hotel didn't care about the man's cold face, "Sir, may I ask which box you are in." The young woman standing at the front desk asked enthusiastically.

"Bamboo Garden." Ye Wei spit out two words lightly, and he didn't look at the front desk of the hotel, he didn't hide that he didn't like the environment here.

"Yes, sir, please come with me." The young lady in the dress turned around and walked towards the side of the hotel, "Sir, Zhuyuan, please come here." The front desk led him to a large box for thirty people.

As soon as he pushed the door in, Ye Wei saw several middle-aged men sitting at the dining table, and a few female classmates were sandwiched between them, and he didn't know who shouted, "Yo, Ye Wei is here." ”

This person is none other than Yin Dixiao, he hasn't seen Ye Wei for a long time, so he is extremely excited, "Come on, come on, sit here with me." Yin Dixiao said, stood up from the wine table, and greeted him enthusiastically.

Speaking of Yin Dixiao, he was Ye Wei's best brother in college, at that time, these two people had nothing to talk about, and they couldn't wait to wear a pair of pants, even if they saw him again now, Ye Wei would have an inexplicable sense of intimacy.

"Yin Dixiao." There was an unusual smile on the man's cheek.

"You're really no different from when we were in college." Ye Wei's face softened, and he didn't mean to compliment him at all, on the contrary, Ye Wei was tired of false pandering, so all the man's words came from his heart.

Hearing his former friend praise himself like this, Yin Dixiao looked very happy, "Really? He smiled a little casually. They all say that time is a knife to kill pigs, and I am also old, but it doesn't look so obvious. ”

The man said, a casual smile on the corner of his mouth, he hadn't laughed like this for a long time, since he graduated, he hadn't been so happy for a long time, and the days after that were really too rushed, and there was no time to rest.

"Hey, how are you doing?" Yin Dixiao grabbed a piece of sugar from the fruit bowl and put it in his mouth, and his eyes were a smile that was not easy to detect.

Ye Wei originally didn't plan to confide in anything, but now that he saw Yin Dixiao asking himself like this, he felt that it didn't matter if he told him.

"Me?" Ye Wei smiled a little self-deprecatingly, "What else can I do, it's just a life of opening a piano shop and being a gangster, and I don't have much lofty pursuits." He told the truth, but he was a little derogatory.

"Look at what you're saying." Yin Dixiao smiled and shook his head, "It's good to open a piano shop, what else do you have to do?" ”

He had sugar in his mouth, a little bit of the naughtiness of his youth, "Aren't you also doing what you like?" He looked at the boy's eyes very seriously, just like the clarity of his eyes when he was a student.

"That's it." Ye Wei was not so interested, he was silent, and sighed unconsciously, but found that he had made the atmosphere of the party a little gloomy, and he looked a little embarrassed.

"Don't just talk about me, how are you doing?" He threw the question to Yin Dixiao, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Me?" The man licked his lips, "I've been teaching piano at school since I graduated." Although the monthly salary is not high, the work is relatively easy, and I am happy to do it. He grinned like a child.

"I think that's not bad, though, it's not what I imagined, but I'm satisfied." Yin Dixiao said with a kind of relief that was light and breezy, and there was no meaning to complain at all.

Seeing that he said this, Ye Wei didn't want to comment on anything again, but he didn't know why, there was an indescribable sadness in the man's eyes.

"Do you remember Chen Xi? I don't know where that guy is now? Ye Wei's lips were a smile but not a smile, giving people a thoughtful feeling.

"Of course I remember, isn't he the president of the school music club? I also pursued our school flower back then. Yin Di said with a meaningful smile on his cheek, "What's wrong?" Isn't that kid coming to today's class reunion? ”

At this time, the door of the bamboo garden was suddenly opened, and a man in a suit and leather shoes with a big belly squeezed in from outside the door.

The people at the table that had just been quiet couldn't help but cheer again. "Yo, Chen Xi, you're finally here, you don't know, we've been waiting for you for a long time."

The former university class president enthusiastically stood up from the dinner table. The big-bellied Boss Chen smiled, his eyes became a line, and the classmates at that table suddenly became lively.

"Chen Xi, you are finally here, you don't know, I just told Di Xiao about you, we are not here today for you." Ye Wei looked at him and was quite pleased.

"How so? I've been in the city since I graduated from college, and no matter how busy I am, I can still spare a few hours. Chen Xi did it next to the two, but unconsciously, he felt a little more rusty.

"How's it going?" Yin Dixiao didn't know what to talk to him about, so he could only ask politely.

"Hmm." Chen Xi silently spit out the cigarette roll in his hand, and actually felt exhausted.

"I opened a tavern, and the business was not good, but I could barely get by." The man smoked the cigarette in his hand again as he spoke, and suddenly there was a little more cloudy smoke in the air.

"Why did Brother Chen think about opening a tavern?" The classmates on the side all thought it was very strange, they looked at the man sitting in front of them with a beer belly stupidly, and they didn't know what this person had to do with the handsome young man in their impression.

"You think I want to. I didn't know what I could do anymore, but when I was young, I liked to drink, and at that time I always thought that if I could open my own tavern in the future, I could drink freely every day without any constraints, which would be a happy thing. The man laughed as he spoke, as if mocking himself.

"Now I have my own tavern, but I don't think it's any fun. The bar doesn't close until three o'clock every day, and I stay up late every day, so when you work in the middle of the day, I always spend it in my sleep, black and white upside down, and my body collapses, but I don't know when such days will end. ”

Chen Xi was inevitably a little sad when he said it, everything in life was as unpredictable as this. Exhausted the blood of his youth, he was tired and tired, and when he wanted to take a good rest, he found that he couldn't help himself.

The hot dishes had already come up, but no one had any intention of moving the chopsticks, everyone was silent, not saying a word, and seemed to be thinking about something. In the end, it was the squad leader of the year who broke the deadlock.

"What are you doing here? Use your chopsticks, don't be stupid here. "Hearing what the squad leader said, everyone started to act.

Yin Dixiao picked up the chopsticks, but he didn't have any appetite, just took a mouthful of cucumber and put it in his mouth. "Do you remember when we dreamed of forming a band?" Ye Wei's words made Yin Dixiao's chopsticks stay in mid-air.

"Remember, but what happened? How many walls we hit, it turns out that we really aren't that fast. His tone was nonchalant, as if he were talking about someone else's past.

"But I still miss the days of college very much, at that time, although I suffered a lot, I always felt that life was expected. Now, I have my own family and my own career, but such a stable life always seems to be missing something. ”

Ye Wei couldn't help but sigh as he spoke, "Thinking about it now, this is also my own choice, and there is no regret medicine to take." In the past, I always wanted to start a family, but now I can't help but think of the time when I used to study in school. ”

Chen Xi sat silently on the side, he didn't say a word, just raised his head, and a glass of wine poured into his stomach again.