Since Lin Jiali's family left the Warm Time Hotel, Tang Long has never been to Wuyou Lake again. Two years later, when he was in the first year of junior high school, with the help of some high-ranking people in Xianning City, the Dawulei Village Committee contracted Zhengdaoshan to a cultural tourism company in Wuhan to develop a tourist attraction, and Tang Qiang's Hot Spring Time Hotel was also forced to close. So, Tang Qiang and Jin Yuhua entrusted Tang Long to Tang Long's grandparents, and they came to Shenzhen, Guangdong Province to work with two big backpacks, and since then, they have taken root in this southern metropolis.

Six years later, Tang Long was admitted to Shenzhen University and followed in the footsteps of his parents and came to Shenzhen. After coming to Shenzhen for so long, he has never integrated into the city, although Tang Qiang bought a house in Shenzhen, he does not feel at home. Shenzhen is not heaven, Shenzhen is not hell, it is just a human theater where people laugh, people cry here, people gain here, people lose here, people realize their dreams here, people dream shattered here, the sea remains unchanged, day and night noisy, quietly watching all this, everything is like a play directed by impermanence.

Bars, nightclubs, KTVs, clubs, DISO and other night clubs that fall asleep in the bright sun of the day, at night, like a dancer who participates in a masquerade ball, are full of energy and radiance, attracting people to approach her with various enchanting dances, just like a burning bonfire attracting flocks of moths. The rows of high-rise buildings are as blatant as the continuous musical notes that compose the deepest desires of people, and the landmark of Shenzhen, the Ping An Building, soars like a giant snake and soars into the sky, proudly towering the worship of material and fertility in the sky. Under the cover of night and moonlight, the sea was turbulent and turbulent, constantly beating against the heart of the city, and the sound of the rapid and disordered heartbeat, mingled with the evil moisture, penetrated into the muscles and bones of everyone who rushed in the city.

When he walks down the street, when he is in the middle of the city, when he walks through the crowds, he is always so anxious and unable to calm down, as if he has lost his soul. A looming shadow clings to him, unable to get rid of it, covering him like a huge transparent glass teacup, sometimes making his heart beat faster and breathless. Only by returning to the deep and beautiful campus, or only at this moment, back to home, alone in his room, silent and deep in thought, the claws of the beast that stretched out from the depths of his soul would let go of his body, his mind, his nerves, and let him enjoy true peace and serenity.

Tang Long lay on the bed, quietly pondering, I don't know how long it took, he sank into the dark blue dream deep sea with some kind of expectation, he saw himself turn into a blue whale, aimlessly, lonely swimming, in front of him, he found a hazy light, so he waved the fins on his tail, driving his huge body to separate the sea water, and moved towards the light. Suddenly, a huge octopus appeared in front of him, obscuring the light, with seven huge heads, six large eyes that rolled slightly, and ten huge tentacles. The ten tentacles stretched out to him together, and he shuddered with fear—he woke up, the sun shining through the cracks in the blue printed curtains, the birds singing in the trees below, and it was another fine day. He took out his phone and saw that it was almost seven o'clock.

He got up, brushed his teeth in the bathroom, washed his face, found a pair of army green beach pants, a black vest, and a pair of briefs in the closet, and put them in Jin Yuhua's cleanly washed backpack, and then took out a construction bank card from the drawer under the wardrobe, the money he earned from sending wine was basically stored in this card, if he remembered correctly, there was still 11,000 yuan in this card, which was all his deposit, although it was not much, but it was enough for him to pay tuition. He put his mobile phone and Shenzhen Pass into the trouser pocket of the cow's house pants, carried his backpack on his back, stepped on his slippers, and tiptoed through the living room to the door. He put on the half-new, half-used ANTA basketball shoes and went downstairs excitedly in the elevator.

Since March 2018, he finally doesn't have to deal with crates of beer bottles early in the morning on weekends. He finally didn't have to feel heavy and anxious about the heavy physical work of the day that had to be completed, he didn't know how Tang Qiang went from a wine delivery worker to the director of the company step by step, he didn't want to imagine it at all. When I just walked downstairs to the swimming pool, someone behind me shouted: "You stubborn guy, you ran away without saying hello, really don't go to work in the company?" ”

Tang Long looked back and saw that there were two heads crowded on the window, and Jin Yuhua's hair was thick and fluffy, hanging down on his chest. Tang Qiang's hair was short, getting thinner and thinner, his head was bright and round, Jin Yuhua looked at him with a smile, Tang Qiang's face was filled with anger, his eyes were staring at him tightly, and his lips were pursed tightly.

"Yes, see you in the evening!" Tang Long waved his palm at them and said with a smile.

Jin Yuhua retracted her head back into the room, while Tang Qiang continued to stand stiffly in front of the window like a sculpture, silently looking at Tang Long's back as he walked away, until Tang Long, who was walking like a fly, disappeared from his sight.

He walked to the door of the community, bought a glass of milk and a cake, and after eating the cake with milk, he took the No. 822 bus station, came to the Baigelong subway station, took the subway to Tianbei Station and transferred to Line 7, sat at Chegongmiao Station, and then transferred to Line 1 and sat at the north gate of Shenzhen University. After leaving the station, he rode the Minions to the Pengqiang Fight Club, and when he walked to the door of the club, it was already half past eight.

At the front desk sat the little girl I saw yesterday. In the smoking area sat a young man with dyed yellow hair, broad shoulders, thick arms, and a black monkey-eating eagle with sharp beaks and claws tattooed on his back, smoking and looking at his phone.

Tang Qiang said hello to the girl at the front desk and walked in directly, in the No. 1 training area, there was a coach who cooperated with Coach Liu to teach the students of the amateur class last night, and was chatting with several children in training clothes, some children were seven or eight years old, and some were in their teens. In the fitness area, Coach Liu is running on a treadmill.

He walked lightly to the fitness area and said hello to Coach Liu, and after Coach Liu saw that it was him, he nodded to him and said morning, let's go change clothes first.

Tang Long came to the locker room, took out the slippers from the backpack, took off the shoes and put them on, packed the back into the cabinet, and came to the row of big black sandbags in the No. 2 training area, and hit the sandbags hard according to the boxing method taught by Coach Liu yesterday.

"Morning, young man." Someone shouted at him in the hallway.

Tang Long looked back and saw that it was the cleaning uncle who knocked out the man in black last night, he was wearing a black Pengqiang Fight Club training uniform and a black cap, and strode into the training hall.

"Good morning, uncle." Tang Long gasped and looked at him.

"Good morning, lad! It's best to find a pair of 12-ounce gloves and put them on, but don't break your hands. ”

"Okay, thank you, uncle."

"You're welcome." Uncle said.

He found a pair of blue No. 12 gloves in the cabinet and beat them hard against the sandbag. After a few minutes of fighting, one after another fighters walked into the club, all soaked and sweating profusely.

"Tired?" Coach Liu, who had finished running, came over and asked him.

"Not tired, it's nothing."

"Relax when boxing, don't stiffen your arms, and you forgot what you told you last night to turn your waist and shoulders when you punch." His face was flushed and sweaty.

Tang Long smiled awkwardly and didn't dare to punch. The pride and passion of the punch just now disappeared in an instant.

"It's okay, don't worry, let's go to the lounge and sit down first!" Coach Liu said.

Tang Long took off his boxing gloves, put them in the cabinet, put on his shoes and socks, and followed Coach Liu to the lounge. The man sitting in another lounge smoking looked away from the screen of his phone and glanced at him with a very sharp and determined gaze that is characteristic of highly trained fighters. This gaze made Tang Long feel a little flustered, and he smiled at the man who was looking at him, who nodded and looked back at his phone.

"That's the boxing coach of our club's professional team, named Ma Long, from the Philippines, before coming to China, he has been training with world boxing champion Pacquiao, and once won the WBC intercontinental boxing championship belt, and his Chinese words are slippery."

"So awesome?" Tang Long said in surprise.

He knows the name of the greatest active boxing champion in Asia - Pacquiao, known as the "Asian destroyer", known as Genghis Khan, the second man to conquer the West, and has won countless honors in his life, from the first sleeping bridge, the homeless boy who ate the last meal but did not eat, to becoming the world boxing champion and Philippine parliamentarian, his life is inspirational and legendary, infecting many people. He and the undefeated boxing champion Mayweather in Las Vegas caused a sensation around the world, but on July 15, 2018, Pacquiao returned, he knocked out his opponent three times in a battle with WBA welterweight champion Matthey, won by knockout, and also rose to No. 3 in the world ranking of 147 pounds in BoxRec, shaking the world world again.

"And the uncle who knocked out the man in black with a sacrificial kick yesterday is our vice head coach. He's very good, he's a very good person, we call him Coach Zhang, and when you called him Uncle yesterday, I couldn't laugh or cry, this is the first time someone calls him Uncle in the gym. Coach Liu couldn't help but laugh again.

The uncle who cleaned up last night was the club's deputy head coach? Tang Long was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.