"Boss, add twenty more skewers of mutton."

Gu Tao shouted and poured himself a glass of wine: "Actually, I really didn't know that the band broke up later, but it's been many years." ”

"yes, it's been ten years, and the calluses on my hands are gone."

When the mutton came up, neither of them said anything, nor did they eat, they just sat there motionless.

"How did we know each other at the time?" Gu Tao suddenly asked, "I don't remember clearly." ”

"At that time, we were singing on the street, and you didn't pay a dime and squatted next to it for an afternoon, and then it happened that the lead guitar of our band went back to my hometown to get married, so I handed you the broken guitar and asked you to try it, and you tried it well, so I asked if you wanted to join us, and you said okay."

"Yes, you still asked me to call you Sister Hong, but in fact, I found out later that you are younger than me." Gu Tao patted his head: "You took advantage of half a year in vain." ”

"Hahahaha, when I Hong Xin walks the rivers and lakes, everyone has to call me Sister Hong." Hong Xin slapped the table very domineeringly: "But at that time, business was really not good, and it was not profitable to sell songs." ”

Speaking of this, the two fell silent again, and Gu Tao's mind was full of pictures of the past. At that time, business was not good, and it was common for five people to earn 20 yuan a day, and everyone curled up together in unfinished buildings, bridges, caves, and parks, lighting a bonfire in winter, holding a cup of hot boiled water, wrapped in a blanket and sitting there to write songs, poor and rich.

A group of young people in their early twenties laughed freely in the worst living conditions, caught thieves together, stole chickens and dogs and pulled turnips, wrote songs and sang together, and occasionally wrote a good song, and everyone would happily use the few dollars to go to the food stalls or buffet to eat a meal as a celebration.

"Later, did you write a song?" Hong Xin lifted her hair and glanced at Gu Tao: "None of us have any artistic talent, so you're okay." ”

Gu Tao pursed his lips and shook his head a little apologetically.

"It's normal, people...... It's always time to eat. Hong Xin smiled: "Look, I have long hair." ”

Yes, Hong Xin, who was still a girl back then, was a really punk person, she had a shaved head, tattoos on her left arm, nose studs on her nose, black lipstick, purple eye addiction, perennial cigarettes, and passionate drumbeats on her hands. And now, she has long hair, although her eyebrows are still the same as they were back then, fine lines have appeared at the corners of her eyes, and her eyes have become gentle, and there is a gentle taste in it after a little powder.

"How many of them?" Gu Tao picked up a string: "I didn't say goodbye back then...... They all blame me. ”

"No, no one said anything. Chubby also left on the third day of your departure, and went home to take the civil service exam. Xiao Hei was the third to go, he went to the capital and opened a barbershop. I went back later, and went home to buy a clothing store, and I got married here three years ago. Now I plan to have children, and I have quit smoking. ”

Gu Tao laughed, lit a cigarette and took a puff: "Oh? Is it? ”

"You man!" Hong Xin pulled down the cigarette in Gu Tao's hand, put it on his mouth and took a deep breath, the expression was not smoking but smoking powder: "Whew...... I haven't smoked it for a year. ”

"You don't write songs now?"

"I don't have that talent." Hong Xin took a deep puff of cigarette and looked at Gu Tao through the thick smoke: "After saying so much, you haven't said yourself yet." ”

"I'm an alien, what can I do?"

Hong Xin threw the edamame shell on the table at Gu Tao: "Speak well!" ”

Gu Tao dodged the edamame shell: "I'm a teacher now." ”

"Yo, that's good. Is there a formal establishment? ”

"Yes."

After Gu Tao finished speaking, he suddenly felt an inexplicable sadness, the punk girl whose aura exploded back then, the first thing she did when she opened her mouth and closed her mouth now was to ask if she had made it up. It seems that every teenager tells himself that I will not be changed by life, but in the end, looking back, everyone is inevitable.

Why? Maybe it's getting older, maybe it's the parents getting older, maybe it's the eyes of others, maybe it's the burden of the family, the high-spirited person died like this, and the bouncing punk girl died like this.

"Do you live here now?"

"Well, yes. Live around here. ”

Hong Xin nodded, but did not say the exact location. That instinctive vigilance is still full of friends who used to live in Qiaodong, and in the end they are still rusty.

"That ......" Hong Xin took out his mobile phone and glanced at it: "Add a VX." ”

Added her WeChat, Hong Xin settled the account with the boss, and then said goodbye to leave, but at this time it was still late at night, Gu Tao offered to give her a ride, Hong Xin shirked for a while, and then it was not easy to insist.

"You're so cautious, are you really afraid of what I'll do to you?" Gu Tao smiled: "No, no, no, I'm not that kind of person, I don't have a good waist." ”

Hong Xin snorted and burst out happy: "Why haven't you changed at all over the years?" How? ”

"Probably because of ......" Gu Tao pointed to his chest: "I'm still a teenager." ”

Hong Xin slowly restrained her smile, walked forward with her hands behind her back and her head down, and her appearance of not saying a word made the atmosphere look awkward and dull.

"That's right." Gu Tao put his hand into his arms, and then teleported one of his small books, he took out the small book and flipped it twice: "This is for you." ”

Hong Xin looked at the shabby soft-sided copy, and then took it in her hand and turned it over, but when she turned the first page, the whole person was stunned, she turned the page by page, and tears flowed out involuntarily, these are all the broken songs written by her band back then, in the current eyes, it is hypocritical, making up words, no artistic conception, they are all bad songs and saliva songs, but these rotten things have obviously different meanings to her, she quickly turned over, and when she turned to the last page, there was a group photo of the year that was glued to it, The five people in the photo, Hong Xin stood in the middle, smiling with a cigarette in his mouth, behind him was a noisy crowd and pigeons flying in the square.

As if in an instant, time went back to many years ago, by the fountain in the square.

"You...... Keep it all the time? ”

"I can't afford to throw it." Gu Tao laughed: "I have a lot of precious things, no matter how heavy they are, they are very reluctant." ”

Hong Xin's tears flowed down her cheeks, and she wiped her tears hard to prevent it from contaminating the soft copy and the old photos on it, and the naming eyes were full of tears, but she still forced herself to laugh: "Mine is gone." ”

"It's gone, it's gone, mine is for you." Gu Tao made an OK gesture at her: "I've scanned it." ”

And just when they were about to arrive at the community where Hong Xin lived, a person appeared in front of Hong Xin, he was a little drunk, grabbed Hong Xin's arm, and said fiercely: "Where did you run so late!" ”

Gu Tao was confused by this sudden appearance, he wanted to step forward and want to say something, but before he could step forward, the man rushed over, grabbed Gu Tao's collar and yelled at Hong Xin: "I worked hard to make money to support my family, so you hooked up with Xiaobaiyan behind my back!!??? ”

Gu Tao: "??? ”

"She's my friend! What are you crazy about! ”

Hong Xin rushed up and broke his hand, and then smiled apologetically at Gu Tao: "This is my husband, he drank too much." ”

Gu Tao didn't speak, just smiled, waved at her, and turned around to leave, but just after two steps, there was a crisp slap behind him, Gu Tao turned his head and saw Hong Xin standing there with his face covered, while her husband raised his hand as if to hit him a second time.

"It's a bit too much to hit someone."

Holding his raised hand, Gu Tao frowned and protected Hong Xin, but Hong Xin just covered his face, pinched the soft noodles in his hand, bit his lip and lowered his head silently.

"Brother, as a man." Gu Tao exerted a slight force, and lifted him up with one hand: "If you can't even fully trust the people close to you, then it will be a matter of time before you cuckold." Judging by your proficiency, it's not the first time you've hit someone, right? This is your family matter, and I am not qualified to ask, but as my sister Hong's mother's family, I will give you a piece of advice, and next time, I will be angry. ”

"Tao, forget it." Hong Xin smiled sadly: "It's not easy for him. ”

"It's not easy." Gu Tao put Hong Xin's husband down: "This is a matter of principle. Sister Hong, I can't help you anything, I just hope you can get back to the posture you had back then, you are a bird, you shouldn't be like this. If you have any difficulties, come to me. ”

After speaking, he put down Hong Xin's husband, then turned around and handed his business card to Hong Xin: "Remember to remember, if you have any questions that you feel are uneven, you can come to me." ”

"Hmm."

"Be sure to remember! I had a friend before...... Forget it, don't mention it. Gu Tao turned his head and pointed at Hong Xin's husband, who no longer dared to move: "There is no next time." ”

Who is Gu Tao? Although he usually looks like a scumbag, he is a person who can slap the table and scold people at a meeting of thousands of people, and Gu Tao, a sect boss who can point at people's noses and lose his temper in front of those sect bosses who are regarded as immortals in the eyes of ordinary people, that kind of aura is really not something that an ordinary person can bear, even if he doesn't know what his identity is, but when the whole person pokes there, it gives people a different impression.

"I'm leaving."

Frowning, he walked forward, and then suddenly turned back and pointed at Hong Xin: "Your drum kit is the most handsome drummer I've ever seen in my life!" Not one of them. ”

Hong Xin looked at Gu Tao's distant back, broke into a smile, lowered her head and looked at the soft copy in her hand, and then looked back at her husband, she squinted her eyes and raised her chin, and said in a light and contemptuous tone: "There will be no next time." ”

"You!"

His husband wanted to say something, but when he saw that Hong Xin had already taken the brick in his hand, he suddenly felt that his wife was extremely strange.

"You may not know what kind of character the old lady was back then! Hit me, right? Hong Xin rushed up and shone on his head, and then looked at his head full of blood: "Divorce!" ”

And Gu Tao was standing on the roof of the building in the distance at the moment and watching the scene below, smiling with his hands behind his back, then slowly turned around, jumped off the armor of the high-rise building and galloped away, just that brick, it was really Sister Hong back then, the old man came back, and Hong Xin back then was really not the person who could be bullied by the man who was a nest.

Gu Tao doesn't know what happened to her, maybe it's forced by life or maybe it's willing to fall, the punk girl of the year has become what she is now, but at least now that she's back, everyone's life is their own choice, Gu Tao is not qualified to help others choose, the only thing he can do is to tell others what kind of people they are.

This is a small episode of his life, it has nothing to do with all his goals and plans, but it doesn't matter, he is not a very ambitious person, if he is immersed in the reincarnation of fighting monsters and leveling up and wearing equipment all day long, then he feels that he is no different from those social animals who work 9 to 5 all day long, and are terrified and unknowable all day long. Why did he build the secret ecosystem? Why decentralize? Isn't it just to avoid turning himself into a social animal, he just wants to do what he likes to do, what is the main task, there is a fucking main line in life, lay the framework well, control the direction, and then live as he likes, isn't this a person's lifelong pursuit?

Gu Tao was said to be a tuba who practiced waste, is he really wasted? One of the people at the top of the pyramid of centaur civilization, at the age of fourteen is already a hot rising star, and learning for him is like playing a toddler's game, mastering all the core skills and having a talent that makes people jealous. The reason why he became what he is now is because he stubbornly chose the path he wanted to choose, maybe this road is not satisfactory, maybe this road is bumpy, but he doesn't care, it is difficult to buy Lao Tzu is happy.

"Satania, let me ask you a question, what do you think it would be like if I were the most ordinary earthling?"

"Captain, I can't answer your question, but I think you might be a not-so-good artist and a not-so-good husband and a not-so-good father."

"And now?"

"Oh, you're not even a good person right now, you're looking more and more like a scumbag."

"Where did Lao Tzu offend you?" Gu Tao hovered in mid-air: "Will I die if I praise it?" ”

"You're going to be inflated, and I have to do everything I can to avoid triggering a flaw in your personality."

"Forget it."

Gu Tao sighed, his body turned and went straight to an altitude of 35,000 meters, the city on the ground at this height turned into a devastated spot of light, the moon above his head was extremely huge, he lay flat, looking up at the infinite universe.

"The starry sky is really beautiful." He pointed to a distant place: "My hometown is there, but I can't go back." ”

After speaking, he untied his battle armor, retained only the insulation layer, and then began to fall freely, and at this moment, a bright light suddenly flashed in the distance, and Gu Tao's battle armor instantly went up, but at the moment of flashing, the light directly hit him...... And Gu Tao felt that his eyes were suddenly dark.

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In the second half of the night, I went to the hospital today to hang up and didn't come back until 9 o'clock, gout made me start to hate the world.

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