When I went out in the evening, the sun came out again, shining golden on the road, and the humidity brought a rare earthy smell in the city. I passed by a school where the flag was being lowered, and the students stood on the wet and shiny stage to salute, and remembered Haruki Murakami's words, why can't the national flag flutter in the night wind? The state still exists at night, and the republic still exists on weekends.

It seems that someone has said that people who like the village tree of Harugami are basically superficial, and this kind of person generally only understands works at this level, and most of them are pseudo-literary youth. This is ridiculously arbitrary, it would be good for someone to be willing to study these days, and what are the three, six, nine and so on. If there must be a few coffin writers and philosophers who have been dead for at least twenty or thirty years that ordinary people can't name, then they should leave the title of Wenqing to themselves. At least I prefer the kind of guy who can say a few paragraphs that everyone can understand, and likes to hear and see the best quotations related to the lower body, and use the depth of the pre-ambush to please a superficial person like me, and finally complete the great cause of life together.

Of course I don't like Haruki Murakami, the Japanese who pretend to be too forced.

When I turned the corner, I met the intermediary Xiao Wu again, riding a bicycle, flattering the girl behind him with a shy face, I don't know if it was one of the new intermediaries in the morning, the dog both men and women smiled and showed their gums, heartless.

Suddenly there is some envy for such a life, a little joy can bring great satisfaction, under the golden sun, never look for shadows. Jiang He's smile rose up again from the bottom of my heart, inexplicably moved, every little detail she left me was a stroke on the canvas of my pale life, even if she didn't care.

There is a good Xinjiang restaurant on Changming Road, and I sat in it and waited for Shi Ting.

People say that three years old looks old, I don't know if it's right, my second aunt's cousin said that a person's basic habits are stereotyped at the age of twelve or thirteen, especially eating habits, which are difficult to change, but I think there is some truth. Let me have a treat, and I easily chose a restaurant in Xinjiang to eat mutton. Although I arrived in Xiamen at the age of 11, I tried to change my accent but couldn't change my appetite, and I still didn't like fish and shrimp anymore, of course, this has something to do with my mother's disability to cook fish and shrimp, but the main thing is that I already have a Xinjiang stomach, and I like the aroma of chili cumin mixture. I don't care about the fat of mutton, my second aunt once sent us a jar of mutton fat at my request, I brought pancakes and ate them with my mother for half a year, and my father couldn't eat a bite.

It didn't take long for Shi Ting to come, his tutor was still good, and he was rarely late for appointments. I haven't seen him for more than half a month, and after the funeral, he stayed with me almost every day, carefully looking at my face every time, as if he was worried that I would die of grief and vomiting blood. Later, I asked him if he wanted to stay with me until I couldn't bear it anymore, and he said yes very sincerely, so I called from time to time to say hello.

I don't see much difference between the girl I brought today and the one who broke up with him half a year ago, she is delicate and beautiful, her eyebrows are picturesque, more than one meter and six points, almost a head lower than him, basically the same as his other girlfriends. And it's not a native of Xiamen, and Xiamen can't produce this type of beautiful girl. I once asked him why he liked to look for such a girl with black eyebrows, and he smiled and his eyes glowed lewdly, so I stopped him from explaining further.

Shi Ting and I once had an agreement, if anyone has a girlfriend, they will bring it out to the other party, and whoever is single will have a dinner with him, and he will bring his girlfriend, then the old bird will be a treat. We don't seem to have considered who pays for the situation where both of us have long-term stable girlfriends, which is a question worth pondering. I've forgotten why I was stupid enough to agree to this agreement in the first place, and my girlfriend who has paid to appreciate him has spent a lot of money in the past few years. I also discussed with Shi Ting about changing the rules, and he rolled his eyes and said, "Change it to me taking my girlfriend out and spending money to invite you, an old bachelor, to dinner?" Do you want to entertain you with a 3P? ”

His girlfriend's basic template is exactly the opposite of himself in all aspects, forming a gap between beauty and beast. I said that his standard of picking a girlfriend exposes his deep psychology of self-denial. Sometimes I even wonder if he has really changed his girlfriend, and he won't be just changing his clothes and hairstyle to show me and trick me into paying for it. And he rarely seriously told me the girl's name, and I didn't ask, it was like some kind of tacit memorization, no need to remember unimportant things.

Shi Ting's personality is the opposite of me, where he is always full of vitality, the atmosphere is lively and vulgar, he is energetic, always naïve, and he talks endlessly. Sometimes I wonder if the reason I like to play with him for so many years is the same as those good-looking girls, and this association makes me feel sick.

"What have you been busy with these days? The beard was not shaved either. Shi Ting spoke without a head or a brain, and took a photo of me with his mobile phone as he spoke: "Wait for Lao Tzu to send you a circle of friends, you look like you are jerking off too much!" ”

I greeted the girl with a smile and stretched out my hand to shake my hand, but Shi Ting opened my hand: "Don't shake his hand, his hand is his girlfriend." The girl ignored him and shook me formally.

I know that Shi Ting's joke is a bit deliberate, but I have slowly come out of the haze of family affairs, and I may be able to live up to his kindness. Shi Ting is still the same, introducing our acquaintance in general terms, only mentioning our surname, and omitting our first name. I like it too, otherwise I have to explain why I have such a quirky and literary name every time, and it would almost tell me half my life. The girl's surname is Ding.

Not long after she sat down, the girl went to the bathroom. Shi Ting sneakily came over and asked me how the girl was.

"What else, the good cabbage has been arched by you, and you didn't say you wanted to bring a new girlfriend to dinner today." I interrupted him from smoking and signaled that there was no smoking here. In fact, this halal restaurant has become secularized, smoking and drinking are not allowed, and the signs on the wall are just a formality, but many customers still consciously abide by them. I remember when I was in elementary school, a local classmate in Xinjiang told me that his grandfather was an expert pig farmer, and now I think about it is really incredible.

"I'm used to eating, I forgot to say it." Shi Ting looked in the direction of the toilet, lowered his voice and said to me: "This time I am serious, don't give me the bottom when I can speak." I said I was in a relationship for the second time. ”

"Pull it down." I also looked towards the toilet, as if I could see a squatting girl: "Your love is technology, in terms of your business proficiency, do you say it makes sense to fall in love for the first time?" I was embarrassed to say the word serious, but the chairman was not happy to hear it. ”

I can't help but think of the girl's delicate appearance under this animal, a little worthless for her, I understand their old Xiamen concept of marriage and love, marriage is basically like to find locals, outsiders are very ostracized, I don't know where the narcissism comes from. Before the 80s, Xiamen was poor and dangerous, and I never thought that there would be such a day when I would be qualified to look down on outsiders. He didn't even dare to take his girlfriend home to show his parents before, and his other skills are not easy to say, and his ability to make people unable to get off the stage is absolutely unique to his neighborhood committee.

"Anyway, don't do what I say. She could see that it wasn't the first time I had been in a relationship, that my IQ was normal, and she could see that I was so experienced that I wasn't a good bird. Actually, I'm really serious this time, and I quit supper for her. I won't say what kind of electrocution, electrocardiogram or anything, I said that you don't understand physics if you don't read much, all in all, do you know what it's like to fall into a pit? I don't know? I was afraid that she would throw me away and run away, or bury me on the ground! ”

Shi Ting talked about it with a serious face, it really didn't look like a performance, I almost believed it. I swallowed back the yellow joke I wanted to say to save some face for him. I wondered why he thought I would be interested in ramming his girlfriend.

"This girl is also a foreigner, right? Aren't you afraid your mother will shoot you to death as a headless fly in heat?"

Shi Ting was a little stunned by me, and blinked for a long time before saying, "No matter what the does, what can you do with me, can she really kill me?" The tone was already clearly bottomless.

It's rare to hear this kind of struggle from his mouth, I can't bear it, and I don't continue to talk about it, and change the topic to say that I have been holding back for a long time: "Remember my good friend Jiang He in Xinjiang that I mentioned to you before?" The girl I've been looking for, we met today, she came to Xiamen! ”

Shi Ting's expression was very exaggerated but in place, as if he got rid of the frustration just now: "This is great, it's not in vain that you have been looking for so many years, how about it, it's not crooked, is it a beauty?"

"Your concerns are quite real, and you look good, I didn't recognize it at first."

"For a while I thought you were gay, to be honest, I was really afraid of provoking you, every time you looked at me, I thought you were going to confess, promise you, I can't stand it, refuse you and can't bear it, I don't dare to bend down in front of you, I'm afraid that you will be a beastly overlord and a hard bow. It's rare that you also have a woman who is pleasing to the eye, or you are good-looking, I am relieved, tell me what is the beauty method? ”

I thought about it for a while: "The jade body is clear, quiet and quiet." ”

Shi Ting looked at me thoughtfully, and said for a long time: "You have a crush on my grandmother?" You're not talking about my grandma. ”

The two of us grinned heartlessly, and I remembered the image of his old lady leaning against the window listening to the rain.

I told him in detail about my meeting with Jiang He, and even described my crazy psychological state and incoherent speech, as well as my mother's turn of face and incoherence. Shi Ting listened very carefully, and then said: "This is too nonsense and dramatic, why do I think you two are acting in a local Taiwanese drama!" Fake. ”