The road back to Beijing was unexpectedly smooth, and it was not yet six o'clock when I arrived at the place where Jianwai SOHO Lele had a class, and the piano lesson had not yet ended.

I walked around SOHO Modern City and couldn't find a suitable parking space. Seeing that there were still twenty minutes left, he simply parked the car on the side of the road and turned on the four emergency lights.

Pushing open the door and jumping out of the driver's seat, he stood on the curb of the road and stomped his feet, boredly lighting himself a cigarette. He bought the lighter for a dollar at a small roadside store. Since I lost the old "Dupen" lighter, I have bought a few new ones, but I haven't used them for more than two weeks, and I either lost them or were taken away by friends. Since then, he has been using this disposable one-time to save trouble.

It was very inconvenient for the injured hand to be wrapped in gauze, and the performance of the disposable lighter was not designed to be so humane, and he worked clumsily for half a day to achieve his goal. When I looked up again, I saw a girl in a white down jacket not far in front of me, carrying a huge hiking bag on her shoulder, standing on the side of the road and looking around, as if waiting for a taxi.

Rigorous "ouch", quite an unexpected surprise.

This girl is none other than the proprietress who opened a beauty shop, Ji Xiaoou, a big-mouthed girl. When I met Ji Xiaoou on my birthday, I fell in love with her two long legs at first sight, and specially entrusted Xu Zhiqun to inquire about her name and address, and then entrusted the flower shop to send flower baskets for ten days according to the address, and presented my name and contact information on the last day.

Rigorously chasing girls, he has always pursued the strategic offensive principle of the Soviet army in World War II, that is, to find a breakthrough and concentrate firepower to the maximum extent in the decisive stage for large-scale bombing. If the other party is also interested in him, he often hits it off, and if he is not interested, he immediately implements a strategic retreat. He hates the kind of girl who likes to resist and welcome the girl the most, wasting both his time and his feelings.

According to past experience, after ten days of intensive bombardment of flowers "*", even if it is just to satisfy curiosity, the girl should call back quickly. But this time, he waited for a week without any news. was about to explore the reasons for the failure, so he was forced to leave the genuine beauty behind and deal with the "little beauty" in Tianjin. But fate is fate after all, and I met here today!

Rigor was overjoyed for a while, threw half of the cigarette butt into the peel box, coughed and cleared his throat, then pulled his coat, and shouted at Ji Xiaoou: "Ji Xiaoou-"

Ji Xiaoou seemed to hear it, turned to the side slightly, turned to the direction of the strict, as if he glanced at him, without any change in expression on his face, and turned his gaze back to the direction of the car.

I thought about it rigorously, but I was afraid that the police would copy the license plate for illegal parking. After fighting for a while, he finally gritted his teeth, locked the car door and walked towards her. Unexpectedly, as soon as he took a step, the mobile phone in his coat pocket began to vibrate.

Of course, the caller is still my sister Yan Shen. She was so anxious on the phone that she shouted, "Brother, have you arrived?" ”

"Didn't you say six o'clock?"

"Can't you just leave class early? Come on, Lele is so frozen that his snot comes out! ”

Rigorously looked back at Ji Xiaoou's slender figure, and was really reluctant to leave. He turned his back and whispered one of the most out-of-the-box lies that Beijingers often tell when they are late for dates: "I'm stuck in traffic, and it will take a while to get there." ”

"Why are you so unreliable? It's rare to ask you to do something! ”

"Are you that stupid? Can't find a fast food restaurant, take Lele in to warm up for a while? Okay, okay, be cautious, you're still far from menopause, why are you just as chatty as our old lady? Can I go over as soon as possible? ”

Just when the Yan family brothers and sisters were arguing on the phone, Ji Xiaoou was also attracted by a rigorous loud voice, and was looking at his car curiously. She is a little short-sighted, and she refuses to wear framed glasses for the sake of beauty, and she refuses to be wronged by contact lenses, preferring to be so vague. At this moment, although the sky had darkened, and his eyes became more and more difficult, he could also see that it was a black off-road vehicle, nearly two meters wide, like a train car parked on the side of the road.

Ji Xiaoou has no research on the model of the car, just like she never cares about the brand of clothes, so she doesn't know that the black behemoth is the Land Rover Discovery series known as the Rolls-Royce in the SUV, but she simply feels that driving this kind of car in Beijing City, which is jammed with traffic every day, is too "two", which not only occupies a parking space but also costs gasoline, except for being more popular, there is really no other benefit.

But the back of the car owner firmly stuck to her sight. The man was answering the phone with his back to her. A khaki Russian military suede jacket, the legs of jeans tucked into high-top marine combat boots, and his car seem to belong to the same series, the two stand together, almost the same height, the same straight and neat, and the temperament reflected is simply the same.

Ji Xiaoou was also a die-hard fan of the TV series "Soldier Assault", and he had an extraordinary love for everything with military logos. That back inevitably made her think about it, and made her silently speculate in her heart: If the guy opposite turned around, would he be a little more like the commander of the Seventh Company, or would he be closer to Yuan Lang's charm?

Over there, Cheng Cheng had temporarily stabilized his sister and nephew, hung up the phone and strode over.

"Ji Xiaoou, what a coincidence!" Rigorously called Ji Xiaoou's name as smooth as a classmate in elementary school, this is his usual self-cooked trick to pick up girls, and when the other party is defenseless, his careless charm penetration has actually begun. "Where? I'll send you there. ”

But for Ji Xiaoou, being suddenly called by a stranger on the street was not an ordinary greeting anyway. She was first frightened, then confused by the other party's calm attitude, and began to search for the other party's information.

But it was like encountering a bad hard drive, and she seemed to have a vague shadow in her heart, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't remember where she had seen this man with tanned skin like dark chocolate.

"You're ......," she said, her eyes wide in the twilight.

"Don't remember me?"

"I'm sorry. I can't remember. ”

Rigorous self-confidence suffered an unprecedented heavy blow, and the disappointment was overflowing, but in the face of temporary setbacks, he did not flinch, reached out and touched his jacket pocket, and finally found a business card that slipped through the net and handed it over.

Ji Xiaoou took the business card, and with the remaining daylight, she saw a familiar business card, a familiar name.

"Yan ...... Preciseness? ”

"yes, on Valentine's Day, oh no, we met at the hotel on the second day of Valentine's Day, remember?"

Ji Xiaoou restrained her smile and opened her mouth slightly, countless fragments were connected into a line, and she thought of those beautiful roses and the chance encounter in the hotel elevator.

The Valentine's Day encounter really made Ji Xiaoou remember it deeply, and he couldn't forget it. Speaking of the cause, it was an old customer named Fang Niya in the beauty shop, but on the night of Valentine's Day, her husband was on a business trip, and found Ji Xiaoou out of boredom, saying that she had an invitation to a bachelor party, and asked Ji Xiaoou to go with her to see if she could meet a single "rich and handsome" of the right age. She persuaded Ji Xiaoou like this: "Even if you can't find a man who can be a husband, at least you can find someone who is qualified to support you!" ”

"Phew!" Ji Xiaoou spat her and said, "Who is qualified to support me?" When I have money, I plan to support others! ”

Having said that, she dressed up according to Fontia's dress code, which was that the collar of her blouse must be low enough to show the "career line" and her skirt should be ten centimeters above her knees, and followed Fontia to the hotel. Unfortunately, although the party was called a bachelorette party, most of the guests were brightly dressed women, and a few men occasionally appeared, either with a big belly or a suspiciously young and attentive person. The two felt extremely disappointed, and when they were about to retreat, they found that returning home had become an elusive thing - on the night of Valentine's Day, there was a traffic jam all over the city, and it seemed that millions of motor vehicles in Beijing had chosen to travel on this night. In desperation, Fang Niya funded the opening of a standard room, and the two simply slept in the hotel for one night, and when they checked out and left, they met Cheng Cheng in the elevator.

Because Ji Xiaoou, who had been standing face-to-face with him at the elevator door at that time, did not see the appearance of another person, but the ambiguous conversation between Rigor and him could be heard clearly - in the early morning after Valentine's Day, in the hotel elevator, two disheveled men, especially Rigour, only tied the middle two buttons of his shirt, his beard was not shaved clean, and the expression on his face was called a muddy one, and there was an evil aura inside and out, obviously not a serious person, but he had to admit that he was very evil. There is also the scene of the final payment, ouch, it doesn't work if people don't want to be crooked.

Afterwards, Ji Xiaoou and Fang Niya discussed for a long time, and finally the two of them expressed the same emotion: on the one hand, movies and television are full of fair-skinned and thin beautiful men, on the other hand, the hard-core male stars they liked came out one after another, and in reality, men who are full of masculinity like Rigorous are also people in the closet!

Fang Niya said: "My three views have been subverted! ”

Ji Xiaoou said: "My three views have not only been subverted, but they have been destroyed to the point that there is no scum left!" ”

Compared with Fang Niya, Ji Xiaoou's feelings have another reason. For she remembered the biblical account of the city of Sodom, the city of sin that was destroyed by God's desires.

From the age of five or six, when she couldn't read all the words, Ji Xiaoou learned to read the Bible to her grandmother, and she still remembers the story of God's destruction of the city of Sodom with fire and sulfur. And the city of Sodom was destroyed for only one reason, and in that city that indulged in male sexuality, it was full of evil deeds that God could not forgive—homosexuality.

Whenever the Old Testament is opened, the passage is striking: "And the LORD sent fire and sulphur down from the LORD in heaven, to Sodom and Gomorrah, and destroyed the cities and all the plains, and all the inhabitants of them, and all that grew on the earth...... The smoke rose from the place, like a kiln. ”

Years of education have allowed Ji Xiaoou to calmly accept people who are very different from herself, and not to regard homosexuality as perverted, but her exposure to the Bible and Christianity since she was a child has made it impossible for her to approach this group of people with a normal heart.

Suddenly thinking of the story of Sodom City, Ji Xiaoou's heart suddenly became vigilant, a polite smile appeared on his face, but his body subconsciously moved a step.

"Oh, oh, what's that...... You are...... You...... Hello! ”

The elevator scene completely destroyed all her impressions, like a "no parking" sign on the side of the road, and her strict face had been painted with a big red cross on it, which read: Danger is not close!

"Do you remember?" Rigor didn't notice the detachment in her tone, but misinterpreted her panic as shyness, so he stepped forward in relief and patted the big bag on her back: "What's in here?" It looks pretty heavy. ”

Ji Xiaoou took a step back: "It's nothing." ”

Rigor took another step closer to Ji Xiaoou without a look: "Unload the bag, I'll hold it for you." ”

"No thanks! Myself...... Ouch......" Ji Xiaoou stepped on the edge of the road from the edge of the road, and his body suddenly lost his balance, and he staggered to the side.

Rigorous body reactions are always faster than his thinking, and subconsciously stretched out his arm to hug him, and Ji Xiaoou had already fallen in the crook of his arm. He only felt that the slender waist under the palm of his hand was soft and elastic, and suddenly the warm fragrance of nephrite was full of arms.

The two faces were extremely close to each other, almost nose to nose, lip to lip, maintaining a strange posture, not moving for a long time, like a DVD player had pressed the pause button.

The first to come to his senses was Rigour, and in the face of a pleasant opposite sex, his male instinct immediately prevailed, pursed his lips without thinking, and pecked lightly on the slippery, cold cheeks. In fact, what he especially wanted to kiss was her rosy lips, but at the last moment when the skin touched, he changed his course weakly and went to the cheeks.

It was six o'clock in the evening, and the day was already long, and the sun had just set and left the last trace of red on the locust treetops on the roadside.

In the twilight, Ji Xiaoou only saw a pair of sparkling eyes close at hand, and two rows of neat white teeth, and under the mixture of shame and anger, the rolling red tide surged onto her cheeks. She couldn't help but raise her arm and slap it on the smug face with a "snap".

It didn't hurt, but it was loud, and both of them were startled.

Ji Xiaoou grew so big, it was the first time in reality that she really slapped someone, the crisp sound made her completely unprepared, and she was stunned for a while, not understanding what she had done, that hand seemed to have been completely out of her control and became a life independent of her body.

Rigorous and enthusiastic was slapped back to room temperature by this slap, and after pondering for a while, he came back to his senses and let go of his hand, but he was also ashamed and annoyed, but after all, he was a man, and no matter how angry he was, he couldn't see it like a woman, and he couldn't slap it back.

Touching the slightly hot cheeks, he gritted his teeth and smiled: "Ouch, it's really amazing, what's the matter, what should you play next?" Comrade Liu Hulan is unyielding? Do you want me to carry a guillotine for you again to match the scene? ”

In fact, Ji Xiaoou felt that he had overreacted, and he was a little sorry, but there were no steps to go down at the moment, and when he heard him say it was completely out of tune, he could only throw his face aside and spit out two words: "Hooligans!" ”

Rigor didn't expect that what she blurted out was such a funny two words. Instead of getting angry, he was happy on the spot. The girl's reaction was always not in line with his expectations, which made him find it particularly interesting and full of challenges, and the little annoyance that he had just been angry suddenly flew out of the clouds. So he replied with a grin: "Ah, yes, I'm a first-class scoundrel, you have such a good eye!" ”

Ji Xiaoou glanced at him fiercely, and moved to the side to stay away from him. I only hate the empty taxis that are usually all over the street, but now it is like encountering a black hole in time and space, and I have disappeared collectively.

Rigorously took out the cigarette case, took out a cigarette, lit it slowly, and then continued unhurriedly: "You know, the hooligans like to find two kinds of people, one is a very beautiful girl, and the other is ...... That's what you...... Such a special ......" in fact, what he really wanted to say was, "It's you, looking at the back and fascinating thousands of troops, turning back and shocking the millions of heroes." But he changed his words in time, afraid that Ji Xiaoou would be in a hurry and give him another slap. His mouth was closed, but his eyes refused to be honest, and he slid around with ulterior motives in the area below her nose.

Ji Xiaoou's cheeks swelled up with red tide again. It's okay when she smiles, but once she laughs, her mouth is exposed, which has always been the biggest hate in her life, and what she hates the most is to be said to have a big mouth. However, when it comes to bickering, as a Beijing girl, Ji Xiaoou is not a good stubble. Suppressing the anger in her heart, she sneered and sneered: "If I were you, I would hide at home and walk around the streets less, and you wouldn't be afraid of encountering the police, and I would post a fine note to you when I came up?" ”

I knew that it was not a good word, but the word was fresh inside and out, and I wanted to know the following, so I asked cooperatively: "Why?" ”

Ji Xiaoou raised his face, and his voice was as light and crisp as a small bangzi: "There is a kind of person who looks like *, and he will disturb the social order when he goes out!" ”

Rigor laughed, laughing so much that his cigarette almost fell to the ground, although he felt extremely cheap while laughing. was slapped first, then scolded as a hooligan, and then squeezed to look ugly, but he still felt quite enjoyable, isn't this a cheapness?

Ji Xiaoou never expected that she would inadvertently succeed in making a crow's mouth.

The two of them only cared about the words, and no one noticed, a motorcycle was quietly parked on the side of the road, and a traffic policeman came down, his helmet pulled low, and his face was completely invisible. He took pictures, registered, and copied the plates of the rigorous car, and the whole set of actions was as smooth as a cloud. When he twisted his neck, a "Illegal Parking Notice" was already pasted on his windowpane.

Rigor shuddered. Afraid of something, it only took five or six minutes to turn off the engine, and it really attracted the traffic police. You must know that just two months past this year, his driver's license has been deducted six points.

"Hey, buddy, slow down, slow down, people are here." He hurried over in a vain attempt to turn the tide.

The traffic police pushed the helmet, and in the shadow of the police helmet, the lower part of the face was exposed, which was an extremely young face: "Your car?" ”

"Yes, yes."

The traffic police pointed to the no-parking sign on the side of the road and asked him: "You didn't see such a big sign?" ”

"It's not a problem with the car, I'm waiting for the 4S shop to tow it, you touch it, the engine is still hot!" Rigorous self-awareness, hanging a sincere smile.

The traffic police looked at him suspiciously, really touched the hood, and then looked at Ji Xiaoou behind him who was biting his lip and smiling, obviously not believing his words, and his voice was still very stern: "Then you can't knowingly do it!" Can you see your driver's license? ”

"Comrade traffic police, I didn't run a red light, and I didn't merge in violation of regulations."

"Did I say you violated the rules? License! ”

"I'm not drunk either, comrade."

"Driver's license!"

Rigor showed a bitter face, "Do you know that we are in the old revolutionary area, life is hard, and there is no money...... It's not easy to make some money now! Prices are soaring, oil prices are soaring, housing prices are rising even more ridiculously, do you treat the revolutionary masses like this, can you bear it? Is it implementing the party's policy of a harmonious society? ”

Ji Xiaoou burst out laughing, feeling that it was a pity that the Oscar for Best Actor was not awarded to him.

The traffic policeman was uninteresting, not only did he not laugh, but his face was lengthened: "Are you handing over your driver's license, or do you want me to tow the car away?" ”

Strict frowned as if he had a toothache, and the smile disappeared.

He did not show his ID, but asked the traffic policeman: "It seems that the political commissar of your traffic management bureau has promised the citizens that the traffic police are not in a standard manner when they are on duty, and they can directly call his hotline to complain, right?" ”

The little traffic policeman was stunned for a moment when asked, and he couldn't figure out his origin for a while, so he squinted his eyes and asked in a tough tone: "Why am I not standardized?" ”

"Article 6 of Chapter 2 of the Code of Conduct, what should be done and what should be said when inspecting the driver of a motor vehicle?"

The traffic police quickly realized that they had encountered a thorn in the head today, and at the same time realized their mistake.

It is said that the traffic police in Beijing are basically the traffic police with the best attitude in the country. Because there are 5 million motor vehicles running on the roads of the imperial capital, who knows what the background behind the owner of each car is? Even if you don't have a background, being complained about by a more serious driver to 122 will affect the performance of the traffic police to some extent.

This traffic policeman is obviously also a ruthless character, so he saw that he had a humiliating expression on his face, and raised his hand to pay a fairly standard salute to Rigor and Rigor said: "Hello! Please show your driver's license and driving license. ”

This is the first salutation and standard language in the regulations.

The second salute reads: "Your illegal parking behavior violates the provisions of Article 93 of the Road Traffic Safety Law, and you are hereby fined 200 yuan according to law, please pay the fine to the fine collection agency specified on the notice within 15 days." If you have any objections, please file an administrative lawsuit in court within three months. ”

Rigor folded his arms and said with a smile: "Hey buddy, your procedure is not right, in addition to going to the court, I can also apply for administrative reconsideration within 60 days, right?" You obviously didn't memorize the book well, and you were sleepy and lazy when studying, right? ”

The traffic policeman's Adam's apple rolled up and down a few times, but he couldn't speak. Because it was true that he was right, he did miss this one.

In fact, there are other details that can be added to the omissions of the traffic police. For example, the amount of fines for illegal parking varies from 20 yuan to 200 yuan, and others do not leave, so the bargaining range for fines is quite large. But when he caught a glimpse of Ji Xiaoou standing next to him and laughing gloatingly, squeezing out two deep dimples next to his big mouth, he became happy for no reason, and waved his hand very generously: "Forget it, I am the most law-abiding good citizen, admit punishment!" But you have to remember, that's a lot of me, I don't care about you, forgive your bad law enforcement attitude......"

The traffic policeman was so angry that his face turned pale, but he held back his anger and saluted the third time: "Thank you for your understanding, please drive away as soon as possible, don't obstruct the traffic, thank you for your cooperation, goodbye!" ”

He said goodbye and wanted to leave, but he didn't intend to finish, pointing to an Audi car with an armed police license plate across the street and asking: "That car is also illegal, why don't you punish it?" ”

The traffic police replied: "People are on a mission." ”

"How do you know it's on a mission?"

The traffic police looked up and down a few times, raised their chins and said word by word: "This is a state secret, there is no need to tell you!" ”

Rigor was choked, and sharp teeth were completely useless under this sentence of "state secrets".

The traffic police finally avenged the revenge, let out a bad breath, turned around and stepped on the motorcycle in all directions.

Ji Xiaoou laughed loudly on the side, his vigilance unconsciously relaxed, and he almost forgot about the quarrel between Fang Cai and rigorous. The hostile atmosphere between the two, because of the addition of this traffic policeman, inexplicably became harmonious. So when she invited Ji Xiaoou to get in the car again, she hesitated for a while, and seeing that the possibility of waiting for an empty taxi in a short time was almost zero, she untied her mountaineering bag and sat in the passenger seat.

Anyway, it is the same as hitchhiking, and it may be safer to get on a rigorous car.

Because it's not women who like it—it's men!

Of course, rigor can't see the little Jiujiu in Ji Xiaoou's heart. The fragrance of the girl's hair and body beside him made his heart feel as if a kitten's paw was gently scratching, scratching his mood like wine to a slight drunkenness, fluttering and comfortable to the point of being incomparable, and even ignoring the pain of his left hand.

He asked Ji Xiaoou while changing gears and starting: "Where are you going?" ”

"Postmodern City."

"Huh?" The engine's voice stopped abruptly, and Yan turned his face sideways, "Are you kidding me?" ”

Ji Xiaoou sat up straight with his bag in his arms, just inexplicable: "What do you mean?" ”

The two thick eyebrows were exaggeratedly crowded together, "Modern City, isn't this a modern city?" ”

Only then did Ji Xiaoou understand, she glanced at him with a smile, and said in a long voice: "Yo, dare to love your stepmother and mother?" ”

Rigor suddenly woke up after a short period of confusion, he was distracted for a while, and he showed his timidity in front of Ji Xiaoou. The place where Ji Xiaoou is going is the post-modern city near Baiziwan Road, and here is the SOHO Modern City on Jianwai Street.

He frowned unconsciously. Because he found that as soon as he met Ji Xiaoou, it was like meeting a nemesis, and his brain couldn't turn around, just like the allusion to 010 last time. That's not a good thing!

From Jianwai Street to the post-modern city, when there is no traffic jam, it is only a ten-minute drive. Ji Xiaoou took out a hand-drawn map from her coat pocket, pointed to a place on it and told Yan that this was the destination of her trip.

Judging from the map, Ji Xiaoou's destination is quite close to the postmodern city. But strictly following the instructions on the map, she turned around for nearly half an hour before she found her target far away from the south of the postmodern city.

The scenery outside the car window made Rigor widen his eyes.

This is a seven-storey brick and concrete building, which looks like a product of the early 80s, and has been washed by wind and rain for more than 20 years. Standing alone in a barren clearing, it stands out against the shadow of the tall buildings nearby. On the left hand side of the old building is a narrow alley, with dilapidated bungalows on both sides crowded together, low and cramped windows, and the light is as muddy and dim as roadside sewage.

The streets are bustling with grocery stores, restaurants, hairdressers, bookstores, and stalls selling baked sweet potatoes and stinky tofu.

Yan Zheng looked at it carefully for a long time, and then turned back with a confused face and asked, "Is this Beijing?" How do you look like you've been to a county in another place? What are you doing here alone at such a late hour? ”

It is no wonder that Rigor was surprised, blame only for the "difference between the north and the south" in the minds of Beijingers, after Chang'an Avenue seems to be two completely different worlds, although Rigor was born in Beijing and grew up in Beijing, but on weekdays really set foot outside the South Second Ring Road, and as today as deep into the residential area, the opportunity is simply a handful.

The Baiziwan area, located outside the southeast third ring road, was once a traditional factory and dormitory area in Beijing's eastern suburbs, and since the pan-CBD plan was introduced in 2001, most of the old state-owned factories have been evacuated from here. At this moment, in addition to the glittering new modern communities, there are construction sites, abandoned factories in the dark, and dusty potholes. No matter how he looked, he couldn't connect the desolate scene in front of him with the sparse and atmospheric city of Beijing in his mind.

Ji Xiaoou didn't seem to understand the rigorous question, but just took out three ten-yuan bills from his wallet, put them on the driver's platform, said "thank you", and was about to push the door and get out of the car.

His sister and nephew are still looking forward to themselves in the café, such a big sacrifice is just to take the opportunity to get close to the beautiful Fangze, how can he let her go so easily? The eye was quick to get down the central lock, and he stopped Ji Xiaoou: "What do you mean, what do you mean, what do you mean by chilling me?" ”

Ji Xiaoou looked at him, his eyes were as pure and innocent as a white rabbit, and his tone was sincere and serious: "Why should I scold you, I should thank you!" Oh, you think thirty bucks is a little less, don't you? But if I take a taxi, the number of kilometers will be less than more! Can it be cheaper, master? ”

These words made Cheng Cheng stare at her condescendingly, grinding his teeth secretly, and he couldn't wait to bite on the white and tender cheeks in front of him.

Looking at Ji Xiaoou's eyes, his vicious expression was not like a big bad wolf, but it was a pity that there were two rabbit ears shaking on his head, which became a sign of lust and inwardness.

Of course, Rigor will not know that after an entanglement in the elevator last time, in Ji Xiaoou's eyes, he can no longer escape the suspicion of "Rabbit Lord", and the two looming rabbit ears on the top of his head are like being welded with a professional argon arc welding machine at high temperature. Ji Xiaoou just didn't understand what his purpose was, how he got the address of her shop, and he couldn't confirm whether today's encounter was a deliberate result or just a coincidence?

The two looked at each other for a moment, Ji Xiaoou shrank back, as if he was frightened, and his expression became more and more pitiful: "Master, don't be angry, or I'll add another five yuan?" ”

Rigor was completely defeated by this expression, and leaned down on the steering wheel and began to laugh.

Ji Xiaoou didn't smile, she had never dealt with someone like Rigor before, she was still a little nervous, and she didn't know if the trick against ordinary men was just as effective when used on Gay.

She clutched her backpack and began to fumble up and down for the location of the lock.

After laughing easily, he wiped his face, and immediately changed to a dignified and serious face, he asked Ji Xiaoou: "Sister, do you think my brother looks like a bad person?" ”

Ji Xiaoou replied without thinking: "Like, what's wrong?" ”

Rigor choked for a moment: "...... Do you think brother is a bad person? ”

Ji Xiaoou shook his head: "It's hard to say, I don't know my heart if I know people." ”

Rigor glared at her again: "Are Beijing girls as unpopular as you?" ”

Ji Xiaoou smiled: "It depends on who is right." ”

Rigorous completely gave up the attempt to quarrel with her, and asked bluntly: "How about leaving me a mobile phone number?" There was time to go out for a meal together. ”

Ji Xiaoou finally unlocked the car door, and she replied while pushing the door: "I'm sorry, I don't have a mobile phone." ”

"Do you mind calling your store?"

Ji Xiaoou had already stepped out on one leg, and when he heard the words, he retracted and sat down. Of course she minded, very much, she didn't want to associate with someone whose sexual orientation was unknown, but this person had obviously had a lot of information about her, and she had to put a careful end to it.

After pondering for a long time, Ji Xiaoou opened his mouth: "What's that...... I think...... I don't think it's okay to be different from others, really...... It's not your fault, it's just that you're not like everyone else, unlike most people...... That one...... Cough...... I mean......"

The rigorous eyebrows are habitually wrinkled together, tangled into a "Chuan" character in the center of the eyebrows, like the third eye of Erlang God.

"What the hell are you trying to say?"

"I mean, I mean...... Homosexuality......" Ji Xiaoou gritted his teeth, and finally spit out that unspeakable word, and then it was logical, and his words gradually became fluent, "You just happen to like the same sex, it's nothing, it's not your fault...... But I can't, I can't accept homosexuality, because God is against it, oh, even though I'm not a Christian, someone in my family is, you know? Please forgive me and stop harassing me in the future, thank you, oh, and thank you for your flowers! ”

She jumped out of the car and ran. The 64-liter climbing bag behind her was half a man's height, but she didn't feel heavy, and her steps were fast, as if she was trying to avoid the plague behind her.

Rigor was stunned and stunned, and it took a long time to sort out her words.

He actually became gay!

held back in place for a long time, and held back his words: "Gay, damn Lao Tzu is gay, because ...... Because I want to × your uncle! ”

He drove back, full of anger and didn't know who to vent to.

Ji Xiaoou's misunderstanding of him is obviously the sequelae of the prank on his birthday. In his heart, he almost greeted the whole family of the initiator, Officer Xu Zhiqun.

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and finally smashed a punch on the steering wheel and swore fiercely: "Okay, dead girl, watch me put you on the bed one day, teach you a good lesson, and let you know what homosexuality is!" ”

As mentioned earlier, strict chasing girls have always liked the way of indiscriminate bombing, as for how he imitated the Battle of Shangganling that year, smashing 1.9 million shells into the land of projectiles like a storm, in order to fulfill his oath, this is a later story.

only said that Ji Xiaoou shook off the rigor, and after asking passers-by, he confirmed that the address was correct, and then carefully touched the west unit of the seven-story old building.

It was a factory dormitory building, with six households per unit, no elevators, no street lights in the corridors, it was dark, and the only light was at the corner of every staircase, and a slender window was faintly lit through the street lamp.

Taking advantage of this glimmer of light, Ji Xiaoou stumbled around the countless debris in the corridor, panted and climbed to the seventh floor of the top floor, knocking on the door of one of the households.

A narrow line of light poured out from under the crack in the door, but no one responded from inside. After a long time, the door suddenly opened, and the light in the room suddenly poured out, making Ji Xiaoou in the dark quite unaccustomed, and he could only adapt to the sudden arrival of light by closing his eyes.

Inside the door stood a woman with crutches, her hair disheveled, showing a thin silhouette against the light.

"Hello, Aunt Zhao asked me to come." Ji Xiaoou said.

The woman nodded, leading the way with her crutches in front. Her legs seemed to be completely limp from her hips, and she was almost dragging on the ground to walk. Ji Xiaoou watched her slowly move to the side of the bed, leaned her crutches on the head of the bed, sat down slowly, and covered her chest for a long time, then raised her head and smiled weakly: "It's so late, I have to trouble you to come over." ”

In the slightly bright light of the room, the woman's haggard and withered face was startling, her back was already rickety, her two rugged shoulder blades were high, and her sideburns were gray, and her real age was completely unrecognizable. After a few more conversations, the careful Ji Xiaoou found that she would turn her head slightly to the other party when she spoke, her gaze drifted, and she seemed to have a problem with her eyesight.

Ji Xiaoou peeked around, extremely compact one-bedroom and one living room, plus the kitchen and bathroom, which is about 20 square meters of usable area. The white floor tiles at his feet had long since been broken in many places, and the walls were too old to make out the original color. There are a few pieces of furniture, the texture and color are made up of old furniture of different ages, except for a small TV in the bedroom, there are basically no other electrical appliances in the house. Because of poor ventilation, there is an inexhaustible unpleasant smell in the room, which is produced by people who have been sick for a long time in the home.

Although Ji Xiaoou had been mentally prepared, the simple and dilapidated home furnishings around her still exceeded her life experience and made her feel shocked.

She came here to visit a sick old sister at the behest of a parishioner of her grandmother's lifetime. This parishioner, Aunt Zhao, was paralyzed because of a sudden stroke, so she found Ji Xiaoou to replace her.

Aunt Zhao told Ji Xiaoou that the old sister and she used to work in the same factory, but because the efficiency of the unit was not good, they were unemployed and laid off in the same year. It used to be able to earn a little subsidy by doing odd jobs everywhere, but a few years ago, he unfortunately became seriously ill and completely lost his ability to work, and now he can only rely on a monthly subsistence allowance of more than 400 to maintain the minimum standard of living.

Ji Xiaoou's backpack was filled with old clothes, old bed sheets, and old towels donated by the parishioners...... When she filled these new things into her backpack, she was very unimpressed, feeling that it was too cold, and she would never be able to take it out of her hands. At this moment, I realized that even if it was cold, these old things were the necessities of life that the family urgently needed.

She pulled out everything and the woman sat on the edge of the bed, looking at her with a smile on her face all the time. But this smile is just a smile, and I haven't seen any change in the expression muscles on my face for a long time, which makes people feel weird, and I can't see any traces of joy. Ji Xiaoou almost forgot his politeness for a while, staring blankly at the face that had been devastated by time and disease, and his heart was sour.

The woman did not notice her gaze, and moved a small enamel basin next to the bed in front of her: "Girl, you can eat." ”

The enamel basin used to be about white, but now it is like a towel that has not been washed for a long time, turning into an ambiguous and unclean yellow, and the basin is greasy with a circle of stains. There were apples, pears, and oranges in the pot, but none of them remained intact and were more or less partially cut off by a knife.

Ji Xiaoou was stunned for a long time at the pile of strange things, and finally realized that this was probably the rotten fruit that was disposed of as garbage in the farmers' market every afternoon, a large plastic bag for one dollar.

Out of politeness, she carefully picked up a petal of orange and held it in the palm of her hand, but she couldn't overcome the psychological barrier and put it in her mouth. Ji Xiaoou remembered the crystal fruit bowl on the dining table at home, on which were stacked whole plates of purple and red cherries - one hundred and twenty-one kilograms of imported cherries from his father's patient.

Sitting on the bus on the way back, Ji Xiaoou couldn't help crying. Under the influence of her grandmother, she developed a charitable personality since she was a child, especially when she did not see others suffering. No matter how many reports I read about the living conditions of low-income people, I can't match the psychological impact of this personal experience.

She wanted to inquire about more details, and Aunt Zhao sighed on the phone: "That illness, it's really a sin, the disease is cured, but the sequelae are terrible, what is it called osteonecrosis?" ”

Ji Xiaoou's parents are both doctors, and she still has basic medical knowledge, recalling the woman's symptoms, she asked tentatively: "Femoral osteonecrosis?" ”

"Yes, that's the word."

"Can't you have surgery?"

"Alas...... Where's the money, girl? Those of us who retired early are not yet old enough to get a pension, and no one pays three insurances and one housing fund, so we can only die if we are sick. Everyone is not well-off, and there are not many places to help her. ”

Ji Xiaoou was silent for a moment, and asked another question softly: "Does she have no family?" ”。

"It's been a long time since I got divorced." Aunt Zhao said, "Only her son follows her, and he is still in school, and college students are the time to spend money." ”

Ji Xiaoou didn't sleep well that night, and what lingered in front of him was the woman's almost numb smile. Speaking of which, femoral osteonecrosis is also one of the difficult diseases in modern medicine, and the damage caused by osteonecrosis is irreversible. In advanced cases, patients can only rely on crutches and wheelchairs for mobility, and the lifeless femur will continue to collapse like a fragile plaster cast until the patient dies. That numbness may be a surrender to the impermanence of life.

Ji Xiaoou can't imagine a lonely osteonecrosis patient, knowing that life is coming to the end day by day, how to spend the rest of her time? Do you lean on the head of your bed every day, expressionless, hopeless, waiting for the darkness to engulf the last light in the room?

After a long time, she finally got up and wrote about today's news on her blog. Ji Xiaoou's blog is called "Nowhere to Say Goodbye", and she has been running this blog column for more than three years, because the text is light and lively, there are many fans, and she is very famous on the Internet.

She usually writes fast on the keyboard, but today's blog post is extremely difficult to update. The text of a few thousand words took her nearly an hour, and at the end of the post, she carefully typed in a paragraph.

I always thought that God knew everything, but the reality was that He did not know the facts described in this way. I have never been like today, I longed to live in a place where everyone has a guarantee of survival, there was no fear of hunger, there was no helplessness to treat diseases, and every passerby who passed by had enough security in his heart and a heartfelt calmness and smile on his face.

Later, for more than a week, no matter what she did, in a casual moment, Ji Xiaoou would always think of that woman and the bitter smile on her face. Even at the moment when she dreamed back in the middle of the night, the wisp of bitterness was tightly wrapped around her, lingering.

Ji Xiaoou knows that this is her biggest weakness, she has been protected too well by her elders since she was a child, so that her heart is too soft and sensitive, and she can only accept fairy tales and illusions on the positive side of the sun, but she can't withstand the impact of truth and reality. A few years ago, she tried to volunteer in a private organization for the adoption of abandoned babies every week, but in the face of the tragic and cruel side of life, her psychological tolerance was seriously insufficient, and she only worked for half a year before she had a precursor to depression, so she had no choice but to quit. This incident has always been an indelible guilt in her heart, and every time she thinks of those innocent little faces, she feels that she should do something more to make up for the regret of escaping halfway.

Taking advantage of a morning when there were fewer guests to make reservations, Ji Xiaoou first went to the mall to buy a silk quilt and other daily necessities, and relied on his memory to touch the place he had been to that night.

She didn't say hello in advance, and when the woman came to open the door for her, there were obvious signs of surprise on her face, and then she changed to a grateful smile. But this time, perhaps in the light of the day, behind the numb smile, there was clearly a hidden despair.

The woman didn't say much, because every time she said a long sentence, she had to press her chest and pant for a long time. However, rubbing the brand-new silk quilt, her dry eyes seemed to light up, and she said a bunch of words in one breath: "My son came back from school and kept saying that he wanted a new quilt, the bed that was originally given to him was too thick, the child was strong, and the school heating was too hot, I was worried, now it's okay, girl, thank you!" ”

Speaking of her son, she was obviously excited, her sallow face was miraculously dyed with a halo, and most of her dark complexion was removed. Ji Xiaoou's eyes swept over the old quilt on the bed that was knotted with cotton wool and stains, and he didn't make a sound for a while, but secretly despised it in his heart, a twenty-year-old young man, he didn't worry about his family, but opened his mouth to ask for something, obviously an ignorant child.

The woman did not notice the subtle change in her expression, but took out a plastic frame from under the pillow and held it up to her: "Look, this is my son." ”

It was a color photo of a single person, in the photo was a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, in a white shirt and blue pants, standing in front of a flower garden, a little far away from the camera, the eyebrows were not so clear, but it could give people a fresh feeling, it was a child with clear eyebrows.

The woman said: "In my life, my life is very heavy, I go to the mountains and the countryside, I am laid off, and I have caught up with all the unfortunate things......"

Ji Xiaoou listened to her talking in her ears, but she was completely distracted when she looked at the photo. She felt that the young man's eyebrows and eyes were somewhat familiar, and she suddenly remembered someone, but she couldn't believe that there really was such a coincidence in the world.