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"Why are you here? I told you not to move after half past four," Shen Yu was crouching behind me and looking at me, smiling and joking, and I looked at him motionless without saying a word.
"What's the matter, don't be stupid, I can't imagine you're so cowardly," he said, though it sounded sarcastic, but I could read from his eyes that he didn't believe it at all.
"What is this place?" I wiped the sweat from my face, my hair was sticky, and now I don't want to mention how embarrassed I am.
"It is said to be the junction of yin and yang, and this road is called the Netherworld" He stood up and looked at me condescendingly, and I also stood up, although my legs were very numb, and I shivered a few times when I got up.
Shen Yu laughed at me unabashedly, and after laughing, he comforted, "After staying here for a long time, you will get used to it."
"Is there such a thing in the world?" I struggled to move my legs, pressed with my hand, and finally returned to normal.
"Yes, and it's more than that" Shen Yu slowly lowered his head and looked at me with his unobstructed eyes, as if he wanted to see through me.
"Since they're all out, it's still early, I'll invite you to dinner" Soon, he raised his head and twisted his neck again.
"Okay," I wiped my forehead, relieved my nervousness, and readily agreed.
Shen Yu walked in front, and I followed him.
"This torii is equivalent to a signpost on this road, and if you want to get out of the netherworld at night, you have to walk through the torii all the time, and you can't turn back," his voice echoed in the empty street.
"Oh," I replied, and as I walked past the torii, many strange sounds sounded in my ears, and I thought that if this was really the way to the netherworld, then it would be a veritable ghost crying wolf.
Finally, the street became normal, the lights of each house shone on the street, the smell of food overflowing from the window, the children laughing and playing, and the still ordinary Wuyang Road, everything just now suddenly seemed like a dream.
Shen Yu took me through the streets, the outside world is still bright, bustling commercial pedestrian streets, men and women dining in elegant environments, and couples on the street sweetly sticking together and whispering.
And Shen Yu, who walked in front, and my wet hair, proved that I had indeed gone to a completely different world just now, and that world was cold and lonely.
Walking down the streets, we stopped outside a bar.
It's here again, this bar without a name, the bar where I came with Lin Xin last night.
"Didn't you say eat, there's food here?" I asked.
"Don't say it's a meal, there's a big meal, let's go" Shen Yu had already strode in.
Tonight's bar is still scattered with a few people, but the lights are turned into cold colors, but the mood is not affected, but a kind of long-lost tranquility immersed in the ice and snow world.
There's magic to this bar, and that's what I felt when I stepped into it yesterday.
"Sam, let's have a D set" Shen Yu had already walked to the bar and greeted the handsome bartender, who waved at me when he saw me, "You're here"
It sounded a little awkward to me, because he greeted me as if I had been to this place several times, or as if he knew me well, and I waved at him and said, "Well, here we are"
Shen Yu ordered a glass of Margaret and was about to drink it, when she suddenly laughed, Sam also smiled and poured me a glass of water, and after a while, he brought out a large plate and put it in front of me.
It was a great meal, and I looked at the chicken curry and fruit platter on the plate.
"Boss, that young lady ordered Chopin's G minor today," Sam said, glancing into a corner, a sentence that almost made me spit out the chicken in my mouth.
Shen Yu walked past me, I continued to eat as if nothing happened, and when he was gone, I looked up and asked Sam, "He's the boss here, too", Sam wiped his glass and nodded in affirmation.
He had gone to the stage, skillfully opened the lid of the piano and sat down to play, and when I looked at him again in the haze, I knew that he was the one who played the piano last night, and the beauty of the melancholy to the climax turned to silence, although I did not understand music, but I felt it deeply.
After playing, a girl has stood in the audience, she clapped her hands, only to see her golden figure, long wavy hair, wearing a lace gauze skirt, a nude coat, a pair of white fluffy boots, big eyes, a high nose bridge, beautiful atmosphere.
"It's been a long time, it's been five years," she said on stage, and Shen Yu also stood up.
"Hey, boss's girlfriend?" I finished my meal to the music and turned to look at Sam. "No, as far as I know, the boss doesn't have a girlfriend yet," Sam said, then gathered his dishes and walked into the kitchen.
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Soon, everyone else in the bar was gone, and there were only three of us left in the lobby, and I looked at the two people on the stage and felt like a light bulb of several kilowatts.
Shen Yu didn't talk to the girl, he walked off the stage and walked to me and said, "You go back", I nodded and turned around and walked out.
"Hey, wait a minute" The girl stopped me, it should be us, because when I turned my head, I found that Shen Yu was also behind me, "I haven't had time to go home after returning to China, and the car is not easy to take this night, can I go to your place for one night?"
"You ask her," Shen Yu glanced at me and walked out of the bar. The girl looked at me at this, and of course I nodded without an opinion.
"My name is Yin Zhen, what about you" she dragged her suitcase to me.
"Qi Lu", Yin Zhen is not very stunning, but it is 100% dazzling, this dazzling is like the sun surrounding, which makes people look up and cannot be blasphemed, her beauty is clean and pure.
"How long have you been with Shen Yu" Out of the bar, we were walking on the road, she suddenly asked.
"Ahh
"Well, I thought you were his new girlfriend," Yin Zhen smiled, "How come?" I shook my head again and again.
"It's nothing, it's just that five years have passed, I still don't know what he thinks in his heart, changing girlfriends is like changing clothes, and it will be separated in a few days" After passing through the bustling commercial street, I entered Wuyang Road.
"Why?" I catered to her topic, "It's weird here," Yin Zhen dragged his suitcase and looked around, "Shen Yu is also weird, how can an ordinary girl bear it......"
Back at No. 51, Yin Zhen seemed to be very familiar with this place, and he poured water in the kitchen, which saved me a lot of trouble.
It's just that she didn't ask me again why I lived here after asking me if I was Shen Yu's girlfriend.
Late at night, the 51st was quiet except for the occasional bell sound.
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Early the next morning, there was movement downstairs, when I got up, Yin Zhen was no longer in bed, I washed up, Yin Zhen was very kind, knowing that I didn't change my clothes and gave me a set of her clothes, I thought she would hate me.
Walking downstairs, I saw Shen Yu elegantly eating breakfast at the dining table, bread, fried eggs, milk, looking very hearty, and Yin Zhen brought two servings from the kitchen, like a housewife.
When she saw me coming down, she smiled and said, "Qi Lu, come, how about you try my craft?"
As soon as I heard this, I hurriedly came to the table and sat down to eat unceremoniously, and after eating a few bites, I noticed Shen Yu sitting next to me, he was wearing a very formal today, a black suit, a snow-white shirt inside, and the whole person looked more elegant and attractive, but he had a good figure, a good face, and everything he wore was perfect.
And Yin Zhen quietly glanced at Shen Yu and said: "Today is a cocktail party held by the business community, Ou Qin will also go, he grew up with us since childhood, something happened to him recently, I hope you can help him"