In the winter of 2012 in Hangzhou, two weeks before the Chinese New Year, I tightened my clothes and continued to lie on the computer to start the day's work. I am a part-time fiction writer, every day I have the habit of writing something on the Internet, at that time I was preparing a novel, the readers' response was very enthusiastic, I was also happy to communicate with them, the readership of 3,000 people quickly filled, because there are too many people, so I generally do not accept this kind of thing in private chat.

I was in good shape that morning, and I was about to take a break after writing two chapters in a row, and I opened the messenger as usual to talk to the readers for a while, only to find that someone was adding my friend. I've set it up.,Only people who know my mobile phone number can add it.,Is it an acquaintance? Looking at the avatar should be a woman, and it feels like it should be a beauty, and I've always felt very intuitive about this kind of thing.

The process of chatting was very pleasant, the other party was very direct, asked me if I had time to say that he wanted to ask me a few questions, the location was in a tea room in the Xixi Wetland, that tea room I had heard of, the consumption is expensive, not people like me can consume. In order to show that he still has a little taste, he specially changed into clothes that he thought was passable, took a taxi and went straight to Xixi.

When I arrived at the tea room, I vaguely saw a woman in a pale green sweater sitting by the window, and through the foggy glass, she still couldn't stop the delicate curves, and intuitively, I guessed it was her. The moment I strode through the door, she smiled and beckoned to me, "Is it Mr. Xia?" ”

I was right, it was really a big beauty, and I secretly had some chances, and it should be a pleasant afternoon to chat with such a woman.

"Yes, are you the Pirate Queen?" I laughed and said, "That's a weird name, you look like you should be called a Disney princess." ”

"Are writers so flamboyant?" She gently turned the cup in front of her, looking at the skillful technique This should be a woman who is proficient in the tea ceremony, my gaze swept over her attractive face unabashedly, she gently pushed the cup forward and said: "I guess you often stay up late and your stomach must not be very good, this is a cup of black tea made with Longjing tea, a friend of mine only developed it last year, and I want to ask me to identify it before it goes on the market." I added a little brown sugar and ginger slices, and drinking it on such a cold day not only warms the body but also regulates the stomach, try it. ”

I didn't know much about tea, so I pretended to appreciate it and took a sip and then said some compliments, nothing more than admiring how delicious the tea was in her hands and how thoughtful she was. However, I was not so carried away by the beauty, and after a few simple small talks, I took the lead in cutting to the topic: "Then Miss Queen, what questions do you want to ask me?" ”

"I think Sir's writing technique is very interesting, and I have a subject here that Mr. may be interested in, and I would like you to take the time to see if you can put it together in a book."

So that's the case, and to be honest, it's not the first time I've encountered something like this, and it seems that everyone wants to turn their experience into a novel, and then one day in the future take the novel and say to their friends and children: "Look, I'm a living novel!" "Writers are not a noble profession in the current society, meager salaries and perennial occupational diseases have made this industry no longer have the strong bookish anger of the past, we also pursue business, and choose whatever subject matter is hot, as long as one can be popular, maybe this life is enough. I've seen too many requests like this, but a beautiful woman can't help but give face, you can refuse, but don't be so direct.

"Tell me?"

"Do you know Wang Zhi?" She asked me.

"Wang Zhi?" I quickly searched in my mind for the person with this name, he seemed to sound very ordinary, could it be the latest Hong Kong and Taiwan star? Or maybe it's a business leader who just rang the bell on the NASDAQ? Or is it a famous professor at a university in China? I shook my head helplessly and said, "I don't know, please give me advice." ”

You'd better not pretend to understand a smart woman, because maybe after two more rounds you'll lose and let her label you as a hypocrisy, so I'm honest. There are so many things in this world that we don't know, such as why there are so many plane crashes in the Bermuda Triangle? Not knowing does not mean that there is no knowledge, on the contrary, it can also provide a better opportunity to communicate with beautiful women.

"He's a pirate." The woman took a sip of tea and added, "The most powerful pirate of that era, a legend who shocked both the court and Westerners, and a person whose life experience is legendary. ”

It's kind of funny, I looked at the woman and thought to myself, did you just buy another local literature stall from somewhere, and it should have a slogan such as "China's Top Ten Pirate Kings" written on it, and the text in it is so exaggerated that it wraps a man who has long been sealed in the dusty heap of history as if he was a god.

"Are you going to ask me to write a story about this Wang Zhi?" I said: "To tell you the truth, this kind of biography of historical figures is not easy to sell now, especially this kind of profit, now young readers like to watch some urban romance, harem battles, tomb robbery and exploration, if this king is incarnated as a Somali pirate in the Indian Ocean to fight with people, I am afraid you can also make some stories as a selling point, you are an ancient person is indeed a little difficult." ”

Seeing that she didn't speak, I continued: "Of course, Miss Queen, I can tell you that I am interested in this matter, and then exchange it for your next date, after all, it is a pleasure to be with a beautiful woman with a temperament like you." But I don't want to do that, because one lie needs to be fulfilled by countless lies, and that would be a disrespect to you. ”

She laughed, "giggled" and pursed her lips, I don't know if she was laughing or amused by me, I was a little at a loss, and the salesperson in the store looked at the only two customers in the hall with their eyes focused on it, which made me feel a little embarrassed.

But fortunately, the laughter didn't last long, she finally stopped and said to me seriously: "Your speech is very interesting, at least more interesting than your article, Mr. Xia, I think you will be interested in my story, because it is more thrilling and tortuous than the themes you have said, your "The Last Taoist" is a little frightening to read, and it also arranges a lot of suspense, but my story is more real and outrageous than it, okay, get to know me, my name is Wang Jiahui, Jiaxing's Jia, the flower of flowers. ”

"Good name!" I praised: "The mountain has Jiahui, Hou Li Hou Mei, your ancestor must have been a literati, so he took the name in this Book of Poetry, this sentence should be from "What is the Valley Wind?" "At such a time, I will never forget to show off my literary standards, and she came to me because of my article, so why don't I take this opportunity to make a good impression on her?"

"Half of the answer is right," Wang Jiahui said with a smile: "My maternal great-grandfather was indeed a literati, and my father also had the opportunity to become a literati, but unfortunately he missed it because of the relationship of that era." By the way, are you from Hangzhou? She asked me.

I shook my head and said, "I can only be regarded as a new Hangzhou person, but my hometown is not far from here, an hour's drive, Anji in northern Zhejiang, the famous Zhuhai, if you are interested, Miss Wang can go and enjoy the beautiful scenery there." ”

She kept nodding her head, and said with a mischievous smile like an elf: "In this way, you are the guest and I am the host, and I originally thought that you would pay for this meal, but now it seems that I have to pay for it myself." ”

"What do you mean?" I smiled and said, "I've never been in the habit of having a lady pay for a party." ”

"Because my ancestors are from Hangzhou, old Hangzhou, the kind that lives in the alley, do you know the children's alley?" She asked me.

Forgive my ignorance, I think I have lived in Hangzhou for ten years, but as long as a Hangzhou girl speaks Mandarin, I can hear that she is from Hangzhou, but this girl I really didn't expect that she would be an old Hangzhou, in my mind she seems to be more suitable to come from Beijing, that kind of authentic Mandarin is not what southerners are good at.

"You know, that's a good place, the price is 30,000, right?" When I said this, I suddenly regretted it, how could I throw out this kind of topic at this time, it was just a bad scenery, a man who opened his mouth and closed his mouth to talk about money for the first time was quite ungraceful. It's just that the damn high housing prices in Hangzhou are really about to drive me crazy, and I am looking for a suitable real estate these days, and I can receive calls from real estate consultants every day, and I am a little used to it.

"I don't know," she smiled, "I won't be back for a few days this time, I'm leaving soon, so let's contact online in the future." ”

"Let's go? Where are you going? ”

"America," she said, "Actually, I'm an American now, my father is from Hangzhou, an old Hangzhou, and he told me that our hometown is in that place called Children's Alley, and I asked the taxi driver to take me there the other day, and I took some pictures to take back to him." Also, you think about what I'm talking about, because I think it must be an incomparable novel, with everything the public wants to see, it has blood and tears, there is crime and justice, there is history and unknowns, there is a lot of money and touching love, and more importantly, it is very real, because the protagonist of this story is my father. ”