Some dimly lit rooms, slightly blurry images, in the end, are just the effect of the camera, and you can't ask for too clear.

It's just that Zhou Zheng's slightly sad expression in the picture also tugged at my nerves, he shouldn't be involved in these things, what is his purpose?

Zhou Zheng is not a person who talks much, so the picture started for half a minute, and there was still silence, and even his expression was like a freeze frame.

I unexpectedly calmed down, there was no such anxiety, but the whole person fell into some kind of memory, in fact, among the three of us, the most talkative is Chen Chong, and the most favorite to express feelings between brothers is also Chen Chong, Zhou Zheng and I once thought that if we have our own family in the future, the only person who will be biased towards brothers in the focus of life is only Chen Chong.

Who would have thought of this result?

I lowered my eyes slightly, covering my emotions, and it was a sad and stupid thing to express my feelings in front of someone who was already completely heartless.

At this time, the picture finally changed, it was Chen Zhong in the picture who opened the drawer and took out a pack of cigarettes that are basically extinct on the market.

The cigarette was not expensive, but it was the cigarette we were exposed to when we first learned to smoke.

Nowadays, it is definitely not easy to buy it.

"Do you smoke?" Chen Chong's voice from the TV was somewhat unreal.

Zhou Zheng originally wanted to refuse, but looked up at the package in Chen Chong's hand, couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, subconsciously took the cigarette in Chen Chong's hand, and let Chen Chong light it for him with a beautiful lighter.

The sound of Zhou Zheng smoking came from the picture, Chen Chong didn't smoke, just looked at Zhou Zheng, and his deep eyes covered all his emotions.

"Emerald smoke, very choking. At that time, it was only two yuan and five packs, and you were a little stingy, I thought you would at least have Chinese cigarettes to greet me. Finally, Zhou Zheng spoke, although he said so, but when he spoke, he took two puffs of cheap cigarettes in his mouth, looking a little drunk.

That's really hard to smoke, very choking, the smoke is very strong, it's not the kind of old smoking gun that can't 'appreciate' such a strong cigarette at all.

It's just that because it's affordable, it has accompanied us for a long time as a teenager.

Zhou Zheng's economic conditions are good, what good cigarettes have he not smoked? How can a mere jade make him intoxicated? What may have intoxicated him was the memories of the past.

Facing Zhou Zheng's words, Chen Zhong smiled and said lightly: "If I am really stingy, I will entertain you with China." Do you know how hard it is to get a pack or two of jadeite these days? ”

Zhou Zheng didn't say anything to Chen Chong, but stretched his body before saying to Chen Chong: "I've been absent from work for a long time, and when I come back, it doesn't matter if I lose my job, I want to live a new life." ”

"Need my help?" Chen Zhong didn't look like he was joking.

"No, you know I'm extreme, when I find that the world is not what I think, exploring this world is much more important than money or something, I don't value material life anymore, everything used to be like a dream for me." Zhou Zheng rejected Chen Chong's kindness.

"Explore the world?" Chen Zhong lowered his head slightly, and he didn't know what he was thinking? just opened the drawer again and fumbled for a while, took out a delicate pen and a notebook from it, quickly wrote something on it, and then ripped off the paper and handed it to Zhou Zheng.

Zhou Zheng took it suspiciously.

Chen Zhong played with the pen in his hand and said casually: "500,000, even if you don't need to do anything for the time being, you can go to many places." To explore the world, you have to walk and see more. I heard that there are still many mysterious events in Huaxia, you can go to see it, you can go abroad to see it, I have something to do with it."

Zhou Zheng's face became weird, and he gently put the check in his hand on the table, and then pushed it in front of Chen Chong.

Chen Chong's face changed slightly, and then said: "Don't be polite to me, once the three of us would be divided into three parts, if it was money" Speaking of this, Chen Chong suddenly paused, and his tone suddenly increased: "I can spare no effort to help you, and even ask me to pay all the money." ”

The TV picture was played here, Chen Chong suddenly glanced at me, I turned my head slightly not to look at him, but I knew that this sentence was a kind of 'warning' from Chen Chong to Zhou Zheng, and it was also informing him that he had a certain bottom line.

However, Zhou Zheng didn't accept it!

He said: "I won't come to the door solemnly because of money, it may just be a phone call, a text message." And, Chen Chong, are you pretending to be confused? Exploring the world is not a travel show, nor is it any wilderness survival. I also know a lot these days. ”

"Haha, it's a little darker, too." Chen Zhong snorted haha.

But my heart kept sinking, and I knew that since Zhou Zheng didn't accept it, there was no room for maneuver.

However, that strange calmness surrounded me, allowing me to continue watching quietly, instead of kicking the TV over and grabbing the collar of my shirt like before.

Chen Zhong glanced at me, stood up, and walked to the desk, not knowing what to do.

On TV, the conversation between him and Zhou Zheng continued.

In the face of Chen Chong's understatement and haha attitude, Zhou Zheng's expression, which had been relaxed before, suddenly became a little serious again, and in the seriousness, he was a little confused, perhaps because he couldn't understand the meaning of Chen Chong in front of him, so he chose to say directly: "Chen Chong, I'm not joking with you." I don't need any bullshit money to explore the world or anything, I want to live a new life, I want to leave everything mundane behind. Originally, I was going to return to the secular world in at least two years, after I was sure that the third child was fine. ”

"Hmm." Chen Zhong looked a little absent-minded, and he didn't know if he was listening?

I understand the meaning of Zhou Zheng's words, when I was separated from him, I was seriously injured, to be exact, extremely close to death.

Since that time, we haven't seen each other again, and even if we have contacted, there are only a handful of contacts, and that is not a direct contact with Zhou Zheng, but Qin Hainian who has been contacted, but Zhou Zheng knows my news, and I am very strange.

Chen Chong's attitude made Zhou Zheng a little discouraged, but Zhou Zheng still continued unwillingly: "Since I am back, I have also dealt with some secular things. I also made a special trip to the factory and mining area, which is like a forgotten corner, our city is changing every day, but the factory and mining area has not changed for many years. ”

"Of course, it's not completely unchanged! There's a big warehouse there, but it's not a good place. It was once not a good place, remember when you were a child, and that experience that almost turned our lives upside down? When Zhou Zheng said this, the hand on the desk squeezed it tightly, and it seemed that he had not forgotten the shadow until now.

Chen Zhong raised his eyebrows, and there was no interface.

"It's the same everywhere except that place. It's just that it's not the same as it used to be, just like the field where we used to catch frogs when we used to catch frogs is still there, no one planted it, and it has become a wasteland where we often go to swim in the river, which used to be clear and you can see the bottom of the river, but now the water is a little muddy, and I heard that it is still like this after the treatment. Before, it was about to become a stinky gutter. ”

"The bamboo forest is still there, that's the place where we worship, it's strange, the bamboo forest is still there." Zhou Zheng didn't say any more, but looked at Chen Zhong fixedly.

Chen Zhong said vaguely: "Hmm, then when will I go to see." ”

"Don't wait, I took a picture and you can look at it now." Zhou Zheng suddenly took out a mobile phone from his body, it is very simple to take pictures in this era, this should be the only thing on his body that can feel a little modern, he said, and handed it to Chen Chong.

Chen Zhong blocked it with his hand: "It's better to see it with your own eyes." ”

"Then you might as well take a look at it first." Zhou Zheng was very stubborn and wanted Chen to rewatch it.

Chen Zhong frowned, and finally had a trace of impatience, and the force of pushing was a little stronger, and the mobile phone fell to the ground with a 'snap', and both of them froze for a second.

At this time, Chen Chong suddenly walked over, pressed the pause, threw a bag of things in front of me, and said lightly: "There is no reason to give Zhou Zheng a smoke, not for you." See the beer on the table? A taste that will not change for thousands of years"

I don't speak, the old XX beer, people in the factory and mining area love to drink, from the 80s to the present, it is indeed a taste that has not changed for thousands of years.

In front of me was a packet of jadeite, I opened it and smoked it, uncontrollably intoxicated as Zhou Zheng, the taste of the past.

I once dreamed of the rivers and lakes, dreamed of going back but found that the most nostalgic thing was the years when I thought I was trapped in the past, and the most tangled place in life is that in the best years, you don't have that enlightened state of mind, when you are old, with that enlightened state of mind, the years have passed in a hurry.

There is only one gift left that makes you more miserable, and that is memories.

"Why fast forward?" There is nothing to see in the picture, the focus is on their dialogue, which is naturally inaudible under Chen Chong's fast forward.

Chen Zhong threw the remote control on the sofa casually: "You and I are both people who value time, don't waste the so-called feelings to see anything, I think you can't wait to know the result, right?" ”

I took a deep puff of cigarette, and the only thing that remained constant was the old things and the smell of the old days.

In the picture, Chen Chong held the wrist of Zhou Zheng, who stood up, and said word by word: "I gave you a final bottom line, that is, don't mention the matter between Ye Zhengling and me in front of me." You don't care about anything, don't meddle in anything, I promise you'll live well in this life. ”

Zhou Zheng in the picture looked so desperate and incredulous, and that expression was familiar to me, just like when I saw Chen Chong in the forest bar.

"But you really shouldn't have interfered! I know everything, from the moment you left that place, I knew your whereabouts, I didn't plan to use you, but you should never have repeatedly tried to touch my bottom line, really, you shouldn't. ”