The person who came was my father and mother, they were standing next to Xiao Qing, my mother was unstable on her feet, supported by her father, her face was full of anxiety and uneasiness, there were tear stains on her face, there were a few more strands of white hair between her sideburns, and wrinkles were engraved on her cheeks, so I couldn't bear to look at it directly, I only felt that I was a complete bastard.

My parents are getting older year by year, I haven't started a family yet, I don't care about the affairs of the family, I don't care about it, and I don't do anything outside, causing trouble, thinking of this, my heart hurts like being cut by a knife.

My father is completely old, he has a rickety body, his hair is completely pale, he is old, and his thin figure carries the top of the family, while I, the son, are hiding in a haven called dreams, evading the responsibilities of life and shirking the trivialities of the family.

"Hey, what are you looking at, come in with me."

The old policeman turned around and saw me stunned, shouting dissatisfied.

It's still the suffocatingly narrow office, but today's blinds are open, and a ray of sunlight shines through the window, casting a faint light on the corner of the desk, and the blue-gray tabletop.

"Sit down."

The old policeman's attitude was much kinder than yesterday, he sat down, took out a box of cigarettes in the drawer, unpacked it, took out one and stuffed it into his mouth, lit it, he took a deep breath, and showed a very happy expression.

"This morning, the bureau held a meeting on your case."

He puffed on his cigarette lightly, squinted his eyes, and leaned back in his chair in a very pleasant manner.

"Maybe you two have some misunderstanding about my way of handling cases."

He raised his eyelids, glanced at me and Sun Kai, pursed his lips and said: "I have always enforced the law impartially, and I have been a policeman for so many years, and I am a good police officer that all my colleagues in the bureau can see. ”

He began to put on a top hat for himself.

"Fighting, disrupting public order, disrupting public order, injuring people and hospitalizing people, these crimes are enough for you to eat a pot."

He flicked the cigarette ash, crossed Erlang's legs, and continued: "So, if you two know the current affairs, get up and open the door, go back to your own house, turn big things into small things, and turn small things into small things, don't be entangled in this case, so that it will be good for you and me." ”

When the fat boss heard this, he stood up with a hula, shook his hands, and said with excitement on his face: "Lao Chen, it's better for you to do things safely, I think it's best to do this, don't make things too big." ”

"Sit down."

The old policeman shouted, then frowned again.

"What are you excited about? You gathered a crowd to beat people, and you also called your accomplices to participate in a vicious fight, this kind of situation is very serious, this time you can't get out of it, go to the detention center to squat for a while. ”

"What?"

The fat boss's face changed suddenly, his eyes widened, and his huge beer belly rose and fell like a big ball of over-inflated.

"Lao Chen, can you let the two of them go out first, I want to tell you something."

He stepped forward, an elusive smile on his lips.

"No, this matter is not negotiable, it was decided by the bureau, and some customers reported that the sanitary conditions of your early shop are too poor, and the quality of the food is not up to par, and colleagues from the industrial and commercial department have gone to your store this morning to check, and they are ready to rectify it."

The old policeman snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand and slowly stood up, his expression could not be seen clearly in the smoke.

"You two go back first."

He walked to the door of his office, opened it, and motioned for us to go out.

Sun Kai and I glanced at each other, feeling that this matter was too simplified, and we hadn't adapted to it for a while.

I looked at the fat boss who was stunned in place, his face was extremely bad, his eyes were dull, and his previous majestic posture was gone.

"What? Don't want to go? ”

The old policeman looked at me and Sun Kai with some surprise.

After walking out of the office, my parents greeted me, and I was a little afraid to face them, because I always felt that I owed them too much.

"Son, are you okay, are you hurt, why are you fighting again, you are in a hurry to kill your mother, woo..."

My mother held my hand, and the big string of tears slipped down uncontrollably like beads with broken threads.

I felt guilty and bowed my head deeply, like a heinous sinner, ashamed of my family's expectations of me, ashamed of my friends' concern for me, and ashamed of all my relatives and friends who had ever had hope for me.

Dad patted his mother's shoulder, looked at Sun Kai and said: "Xiao Kai, your dad has not been in good health in recent years, and there is always something wrong with his heart, you were very obedient and sensible when you were a child, why do you have to fight outside when you grow up, your dad doesn't know about this yet, everyone is worried about his body, so he is silent, often go home to see him in the future, don't just make money outside, you have a successful career and a happy marriage, but you can't live up to your father's expectations of you, he doesn't want to see his son fight and fight in prison, understand?" ”

Sun Kai lowered his eyes, the corners of his eyes were moist, and he looked fixedly, under the tall and straight figure, it seemed that a soul who did not grow up lived, his expression was sad, his body trembled, and in this dull atmosphere, he looked more and more cool.

Xiao Qing walked over, took out a stack of facial tissues from his bag and handed it to him, and comforted him softly: "Xiao Kai, I don't blame you for this, but you have to restrain your temper a little in the future, and you will have to pay a price for everything." ”

Sun Kai took the tissue and nodded slightly.

A few of us walked out of the public security bureau, Sun Kai needed to go to the fat boss's breakfast shop to pick up the car, Xiao Qing and Jin Chen and I insisted on going with him, and my parents took a taxi home first.

Jin Chen proposed to wash the dust for me and Sun Kai, he booked a fish pot restaurant, in order to ease the atmosphere, on the way to the hotel, he opened the chatterbox, gushing about the new clothing design concept, as well as the design highlights of international fashion.

Sun Kai and I didn't know anything about costume design, and he said to himself, and we were as sleepy as if we were listening to a book from heaven.

Sun Kai parked the car in front of a restaurant called Diaoyu Village, walked into the store, and what attracted his attention was the humorous decoration of the layers of wooden frames, a semi-circular tree stump bar, which was exquisitely carved and extraordinarily gorgeous, and the walls of the restaurant on the first floor were inlaid with this imitation bark, and the whole body was clear gray, as if coming to a large wooden house.

The rafters on the roof are laid tightly together, well organized, the square timber is vertically down, and a fishing lantern is fixed at the bottom end, because it is daytime, the brilliance of the fishing lantern is golden yellow, very dazzling.

The waiter led the four of us to the box on the second floor, pushed the door in, and was stunned by the rustic furnishings inside, there was only an ordinary wooden table, six bamboo chairs, and a small window one meter wide and one meter long.

On the wall, there are straw hats, all kinds of fishing rods, fishing baskets, and near the window, there is a bamboo rocking chair with a layer of mats on it, as if you are a guest in a fisherman's house, giving people a sense of leisure and comfort.

A hole the size of an iron pot was cut in the middle of the wooden table, and there was a gas stove underneath, and after a while, the waiter brought in a stainless steel iron pot with prepared ingredients, and after sitting in it, he opened the fire to boil the soup.

When everything was ready, the waitress handed each of us a menu, and she held an ordering device in her hand and asked softly, "What kind of fish do you want to eat?" ”

"Uh, here are two snappers."

Jin Chen looked down at the menu and muttered.

Sun Kai didn't order any food, he leaned back in the chair, his eyes were dull, his expression was wooden, and he rubbed his eyebrows from time to time, as if he was under a lot of pressure, and he couldn't show the slightest interest in eating.

After Xiao Qing glanced at him, she sighed softly, she put down the menu and didn't order anything.

Seeing that the atmosphere was awkward and everyone was preoccupied, I said to the waiter, "Two more barracudas, two bream." ”

"Yes sir, do you need some drinks?"

The waiter has a kind attitude, a smile on his face, and is wearing Hanfu, with fair skin, giving people a pleasing feeling.

When I saw that everyone couldn't lift their spirits, I said, "Two bottles of liquor." ”

"Okay."

The waiter bowed down and exited the room, and I said to Sun Kai, "Xiao Kai, will you return tomorrow?" ”

"Well, I'm going to go back tomorrow anyway, it's too long to delay here."

"Okay, I'll leave tomorrow too, drink some good today, and go home and sleep well."

I took out a cigarette, handed one to Sun Kai, lit it, and took two puffs gently, since last night, I haven't smoked, and I was a little dizzy in the smoke.

"Xiao Tao, if there is nothing important over there, you can stay for a while longer, now that Jin Chen and I are in China and don't plan to go abroad, I can accompany you more."

Xiao Qing leaned forward and rested her hands on the wooden table, a bit like the posture of elementary school students in class.

I spit out a smoke ring and said with a bitter smile: "The goods I bought in the flea market haven't been sold yet, they are all summer clothes, and now the weather is cold, and if I don't sell them, I will probably press the bottom of the box." ”

"Then it's going to be sold next year."

Jin Chen added, he straightened his glasses and said with a smile.

"Big brother, you are still engaged in clothing design, next year's style will definitely be more novel and bright, my old goods at the bottom of the box will definitely be unwanted, and when the time comes, I will lose money and sell it, am I not asking for my own hardship."

At this time, the waiter walked in with two huge white porcelain plates, she put a few fish into the pot, added some spices to it, and after closing the lid tightly, she asked me again: "Sir, I forgot to ask just now, what type of liquor do you want to drink?" ”

After I heard this, before I had time to think about it, Sun Kai said: "Moutai, come to two bottles." ”

"Okay sir, wait a minute."

The waiter walked out of the box with a graceful posture, and after gently closing the door, Xiao Qing asked in surprise: "Xiao Kai, you can't drink two bottles of liquor." ”

"I can't drink it."

Sun Kai got up and took off his cotton clothes, hung them on the hanger, and said with a smile: "I don't advise alcohol today, tomorrow Xiaotao and I will return, drink more if you can, anyway, the weather is cold outside, and you can't do anything when you go out, just drink a little to warm up, go home and sleep with him, and forget about these headache trivialities." ”

"It's good, you have to have this kind of awareness."

I clapped my hands and grinned.

"I'm afraid you'll make trouble after drinking."

Xiao Qing gave me a blank look, picked up the teacup on the wooden table, and took a sip gently.

"You and I are troublesome, if people don't offend me, I won't offend people."

I defended myself.

"Cut, long hatred is not as good as water, wait for the waves on the flat ground, know no."

Xiao Qing put down the teacup, leaned back, crossed Erlang's legs, and said a poem by Liu Yuxi, the corners of her mouth were raised, her eyes were bright, Xiao Qing after marriage became more and more soft and charming, and the dark fragrance hit people.

The waiter brought the wine, Jin Chen got up, and filled the wine glasses for everyone, including his own, it seems that he is very good at things.

The four of us drank from nine o'clock in the morning until more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and the two bottles of liquor were quickly eliminated, Xiao Qing drank a lot, her cheeks were red, her tongue was straight, her eyes drifted away, and she always mentioned the past of life when she was a child, and the hurried years that she couldn't look back.

"Hey, you two, do you remember?"

Xiao Qing's body shook, her hair was scattered on her forehead, she looked at me and Sun Kai directly, and after burping, she said: "Once, Xiao Kai was bullied by others, and his pants were ripped off, hahahahaha." ”

She laughed loudly, laughing without sorrow and trouble, laughing without heart and lungs, laughing tears sliding down, laughing bitter and unspeakable.

"You're embarrassed to talk about me."

Sun Kai held a cigarette in his mouth, held a wine glass in his hand, and teased: "Once you climbed up a tree, and when you came down, you stepped on the emptiness, and your clothes hung on the branches, like a piece of bacon hanging on an iron hook." ”

When I heard this, I pointed at Xiao Qing and bent over with a smile.

Xiao Qing put on an indifferent expression, she patted Jin Chen's shoulder, and said with a drunken smile: "Husband, do you see, my childhood was spent with these two bastards, full of shadows." ”

Jin Chen shrugged his shoulders, looked at Sun Kai and said, "When I was a child, I also used to climb trees. ”

"Well, tell me your story."

Sun Kai flicked the cigarette ash and looked at Jin Chen with a relieved face.

Jin Chen coughed lightly, and Nuo Nuo said: "When I was a child, I was small, my classmates always bullied me, the school is a bungalow, there is a big banyan tree growing outside the playground, they always let me climb the banyan tree to look at the wind when they skip school, sometimes stay in the tree for an afternoon, very miserable." ”

"And then."

Sun Kai spit out a smoke ring, still looking at Jin Chen.

"And then it's gone."

Jin Chen spread out his hands and made an expression that was scattered at the end of the song.

"Damn, this is the most concise childhood story I've ever heard, haha."

Sun Kai laughed, threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, he picked up the wine glass, stood up slowly, and said loudly: "My dearest friend, I should be generous, I will never forget my worries, how to solve my worries, only Du Kang, dry this glass of wine." ”

I glanced at his wine glass, and most of the liquor was dry, and I couldn't broadcast it live.

I slowly stood up, knocked my glass with everyone, drank the wine in the glass, and saw that everyone's faces were full of happiness, satisfaction, arrogance, and bitterness, but I burst into tears, mixed with joy and sorrow.