Chapter 21: The Dog Says
Dr. Lin got out of the car, and Zhou Ze also came over, but the two of them had a tacit understanding, neither spoke, and silently walked to the other end of the mall.
This shopping mall is already "dead", except for Zhou Ze and Xu Langqing's small shops are still open, and there is only a cinema and a buffet restaurant left.
Of course, due to the impact of the overall situation, in fact, the theater should also operate at a loss, and few people go here to watch movies on weekdays, so you can easily charter a ticket to watch it.
However, during the Chinese New Year, most people are on vacation, and it has become common for a family to go out to watch movies together, which can be regarded as adding a touch of extraordinary popularity to this already deserted theater.
It's just that this kind of excitement seems to Zhou Ze to be a kind of flashback.
The building is about to collapse, which can be regarded as a kind of nesting without eggs.
Zhou Ze went to buy a ticket, bought a couple package, looked at the time, and walked into the theater with Dr. Lin.
Because it was a little late, Zhou Ze bought the latest show, so the good seats were gone, and Zhou Ze and Dr. Lin could only sit in the first row.
It's not that you can't wait, but there is nothing else to visit in this mall, and this "Detective Neon Street 2" is a 2D movie, and sitting in the first row does not have a big impact.
Dr. Lin didn't talk much along the way, but at this time he sat very quietly next to Zhou Ze, gently put up his long legs, and looked up at the screen.
Zhou Ze handed over the popcorn, and Dr. Lin shook his hand, signaling that he would not eat it.
Zhou Ze sighed, for a self who was an old bachelor in his previous life, how to chase girls is really an unfamiliar subject.
The laughter of the movie is not bad, Zhou Ze can also smile occasionally, and Dr. Lin also laughs from time to time, but her laughter doesn't make much sound, it is very subtle, and it is also very good-looking.
But for Zhou Ze, the atmosphere of this movie is still a little different from what he expected.
It's a bit bland, and I don't have the feeling of salt.
After the movie ended, Zhou Ze and Dr. Lin walked out side by side, it was only seven o'clock in the evening, which was not too late, but after walking out of the theater area, the rest of the mall was already pitch black.
Dr. Lin continued to be silent, just walking.
Zhou Ze wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to say it.
Yesterday I said that I wanted to end and say goodbye, but now I am too enthusiastic, will people think of myself as a psychopath?
"Go to my bookstore ......"
"Go to your bookstore and sit ......"
Both of them seemed to be trying to find a way to break the embarrassment at this moment, and then thought of a piece.
Back at the bookstore, Zhou Ze found that the noodle shop had closed, and the roller shutter door was rarely pulled down, and he didn't know if Xu Qinglang was still in the store.
Dr. Lin chose a magazine and sat down on a chair behind the counter, while Zhou Ze also took a book and sat next to it, flipping through it casually.
Two cups of hot tea are placed on top and smoke rises.
Zhou Ze suddenly felt that he didn't seem to have the face to mock Xu Le anymore, because he found that it was rare to make his first date so literary and respectful!
It's so rare that I can't wait to give myself a slap as a reward!
"Now, not closing?" Dr. Lin asked, in fact, the implication was that she wanted to leave, after all, it was night, as long as Zhou Ze closed the door, she could say goodbye.
"Oh, I'm usually open at night." Zhou Ze didn't hear the meaning of the words, he was telling the truth.
Dr. Lin was dumbfounded for a moment, so he could only smile, gently smoothed the green silk on the side of his earlobe, and continued to look at the book in his hand.
"Squeak......
The door of the bookstore was pushed open, and two men and a woman entered.
The three of them were not very old, they were in their early twenties, and the two men were obviously drunk, and one of them was even on his head, and his whole face was flushed.
"Boss, do you have any water?" The woman asked.
Zhou Ze pointed to the water dispenser on the other side of the wall.
The woman went to pour a few glasses of hot water and handed them to her friend, then walked to the counter and asked:
"How much?"
As she spoke, the woman took out her mobile phone, apparently ready to scan the code to pay.
"Thirty." Zhou Ze replied.
"You boss, you can't rip off customers like this during the New Year, it will take thirty to drink three glasses of pure water from you." The woman laughed and scolded, but still scanned the code to pay, then turned to her two male companions and said, "Just rest here and read the book." ”
They use this bookstore as a temporary resting place, and Zhou Ze's charge of 30 yuan is a bit like the minimum cost of entering a teahouse for them, which is understandable.
"Reading a book? What books to read? ”
Some drunken men shouted in a somewhat high voice at this time,
"I want to read ghost stories, horror novels, are there any in this store?"
The man laughed to himself as he spoke.
Zhou Ze sighed, took out two horror novels from under the counter, walked up to the man, handed them to him, and inadvertently touched the other party with his fingers.
Well, it's a human, not a ghost.
Tonight's date has been a failure,
If Dr. Lin is allowed to experience the "Hundred Ghosts Night Talk" similar to the five migrant worker brothers last time, it will be absolutely amazing, and Zhou Ze doesn't want to do this.
It's human, it's good, it's cute to look at, even if he's drunk.
For the other two, Zhou Ze didn't go to touch them again, and it was inconvenient.
The drunk man sat down, and his two friends, a man and a woman, also sat down on the plastic bench, and the three of them flipped through the books while playing with their mobile phones.
Purely so, the minimum consumption of 30 yuan must at least be worth spending on face.
"What the hell is this ghost story?"
The man threw the book right next to the water dispenser.
The woman went to pick up the book and found that the cover and inside of the book were wet because she had just poured some water and spilled some water.
"Boss, how much?"
"The list price is 20% off." Zhou Ze was happy, the quality of these three young people was quite high.
Of course, Zhou Ze hoped that the drunken man would quickly throw away all the books on his bookshelf, and all of them would be soiled, just to help him clear the goods.
The woman was a little helpless to scan the code to give money, and then walked up to the drunk man,
"Let's go, don't go crazy."
"Where is this ghost story, the person who wrote the story must have never seen a ghost." The drunken man stubbornly said.
Zhou Ze said softly, well, you should have seen a ghost, right in front of you.
"I'm not going back, absolutely not! I'm not going to sleep tonight! The man continued to go drunk, "I'll see hell when I go home, and hell when I sleep, I might as well just read a book in this bookstore all night,
At the very least,
There will be no ghosts! ”
"............" Zhou Ze.
Dr. Lin also put down the book in her hand at this time and looked at the drunk man, obviously, she found this incident quite interesting.
"Yo, Brother Liu, do you have a ghost in your house?" The man who came in with the drunk man joked at this time.
The woman glanced at him and motioned for him not to talk nonsense.
"Fuck off! You're only got a ghost in your house! ”
The drunken man stood up,
"Damn, that ghost only knows to catch me and spoil me every time it comes to the New Year, and the others don't care, my three brothers, plus a sister, plus my parents and my grandparents, don't get any of them, just get me!"
"Female ghosts?" The companion man said again.
"If only it were a female ghost, it's a female 、、、、 dog!"
"Poof!"
Both of the drunken man's companions laughed subconsciously,
Even Zhou Ze and Dr. Lin lowered their heads and coughed a few times, but they were really funny.
Especially when the drunk man said that it was not a female ghost, it was a female 、、、、 dog.
The baby's heart is bitter,
Baby is drunk and wants to talk!
"Every Chinese New Year, a few days before and after, it comes to me! As soon as I sleep, it comes,! ”
Although the drunk man is drunk, he can still control it, and it doesn't make people feel terrible, but it makes people think that he is funny.
"Since seven years ago, to now, every New Year's Day, it comes on time, more punctually than my parents gave me New Year's money!" The man held his head, squatted directly on the ground and began to cry, "Damn, I can't live this day!" ”
"What the hell is going on? That dog, do you know? The companion man asked.
"It was my dog in the past, because I got the money that my dad put under the bed and bit it up, so we killed my brothers and ate meat."
"It must be that dog who is not convinced, and has come back to take revenge." The companion man analyzed.
"I just don't know why I'm just the only one to fucking me? When I first killed the dog, it was me, my brothers, my father, and my grandfather!
When eating dog meat, it is also eaten together as a family, purely as a dish for the New Year!
That dog lost 5,000 dollars, and deserved to be eaten!
But why do you hate me alone? ”
The drunken man almost cried: "I asked, my brothers, including my father and my grandfather, have nothing to do, why do they focus on me?" ”
"You're drunk, let's go, I'll send you home." The woman lifted the man up and motioned for her companion to come and help.
The group walked out of the bookstore,
The excitement just now suddenly became deserted.
"Why, you say?" Doctor Lin looked at Zhou Ze, not caring whether it was true or not, and purely chatting after hearing a story, "That dog, why is he only playing tricks on him?" Is there something about him that is different? ”
"You're interested in this?" Zhou Ze said with some surprise.
"Hmm." Dr. Lin nodded.
Zhou Ze smiled, "Actually, it's very simple, a dog, if you want to figure out its thinking, you first have to substitute it into that dog." ”
"How?" Dr. Lin smiled, "It's hard to substitute." ”
Yes, how do people substitute for a dog's thinking?
"The ghost of the dog comes back to take revenge and play tricks on people because it has a grudge." Zhou Ze explained, "This should be the same as people. ”
"Then why doesn't it take revenge on the rest of the family?"
"Perhaps, because of that money, the dog was naughty and bit part of it, but some of it may have been stolen by this guy who was not old at that time.
So the dog felt very unfair, it tore up the money, was punished, was killed, was eaten meat, it felt justified and deserved.
But on what basis,
That man also stole the money, lost some of it, and didn't do anything?
So it doesn't accept it, it doesn't take revenge on the rest of the family, it goes to retaliate against him. ”
Dr. Lin shook his head and said with some surprise: "It's a drunken story told by a drunken man, and it feels like a real thing when you analyze it like this." ”
Zhou Ze walked to the place where the gang had just sat and found a wallet on the ground, he picked it up and walked to the door of the store.
At this time, the companion woman trotted over.
"Sorry, there's a ......"
Zhou Ze handed over the wallet.
"Thank you!" The woman bowed to Zhou Ze to express her gratitude, "If this guy loses his wallet and documents when he goes back tonight, he will have to scold his family again." ”
"It's fine." Zhou Ze waved his hand.
The other party also waved his hand at Zhou Ze, and then turned around to catch up with the partner in front.
In the moonlight,
When the woman runs,
Under the coat,
It was as if a fluffy yellow tail was wagging gently............