Volume 1 Prelude Chapter 1 The Curtain Falls
It's not so much a novel as a memoir. I thought about it for a long time before telling his story, and I didn't know if my clumsy writing could portray the greatness of this man, or how many people would be willing to believe what Makujin did, but I decided to write about him anyway.
The protagonist of the memoir is called Zhou Feng, before going to the parallel world, he was still worried about food and clothing, just like us, just an ordinary to a little decadent man, no, maybe he is even more miserable than us. And the beginning of changing all this has to start with the catastrophe two years later.
This year, Zhou Feng was 22 years old, living in Chengdu, like all people who work in a foreign land, he got up early to wash up, and asked for a bowl of handwriting and two steamed buns in a shop on the street.
Sichuan's copying hand, which is what we call wontons, scooped a spoonful of spicy seeds and added them, and he ate them slowly.
In the past six months, Zhou Feng has experienced setbacks that he has not experienced in the past 21 years------ his mother died, he broke up with his father and ran away from home, and his girlfriend left. At this time, Zhou Feng was living in a state of confusion in this strange city, not knowing when and where the disaster would befall him. Blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular. He has just graduated from college, even if he is young and vigorous, he has been smoothed out by the rules of life. In his eyes, there was a little less unruliness, a little more gloom and confusion.
This is the low point of life, Zhou Feng thought in his heart.
Unconsciously, he had finished eating, and he glanced at the buns that had not been touched, and he really had no desire to eat them again.
"Boss, settle the bill. Zhou Feng shouted.
"You know, you take the money. The boss spoke Sichuan dialect and said to the woman next to him, this is the proprietress of the store.
The proprietress wiped the sweat on her hands, she didn't know what she complained about, she walked over to Zhou Feng with a smile, looked at the bowl on the table, and said to him: "8 pieces of hand, 2 pieces of buns, a total of 10 pieces." “
Zhou Feng took out the money, packed a few more buns, said thank you to the proprietress, and walked outside the store.
"Walk slowly. The proprietress said politely.
Zhou Feng smiled at the proprietress and nodded.
Sichuan people always give people a sense of intimacy when they speak, especially Chengdu dialect.
It's morning, foggy, it just rained yesterday, the road is still a little muddy, he bypassed the bus stop platform, avoided the puddles on the ground, passed the hospital, in front, is the building where Zhou Feng's current company is located.
The company is on the fourth floor, and the elevator has been broken since the day before yesterday, so he can only climb the stairs, Zhou Feng is in good health, and it is nothing to climb the stairs.
The entire floor of the fourth floor was rented by their company, and he was currently in the financial management business, and Zhou Feng was just an ordinary migrant worker here, occasionally helping to run errands and deal with customers. He has only been working in this company for more than half a month, and he is not familiar with people, so he came early every day, and nothing went wrong.
Other people in the company also came one after another, and Zhou Feng was sorting out the manuscripts that were printed yesterday. Suddenly, a "plop" broke the company's tranquility.
The people were stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter, like a splash of a stone on the calm waters, and the fish began to stir up.
Zhou Feng also looked up, only to see a man in a white shirt and light blue jeans at the door falling on the floor tiles that had just been mopped, and there were faint water stains next to him.
"Aunt Zhang, you don't need so much water to mop the floor. The man who fell was called Wang Zhenlun, and he complained while rubbing his buttocks. The Aunt Zhang in her mouth is the cleaning aunt of their company, and after helping her up, she saw that Wang Zhenlun was fine, and she did not show weakness: "How can you mop the floor without water, you are also careless." ”
Wang Zhenlun stood up and straightened his trousers, there was no anger on his face, he squinted his eyes, and said to Aunt Zhang: "Then you use so much water, I'm afraid you don't want to wash us away!" Then there was another burst of laughter in the office.
Wang Zhenlun is such a person, he is very kind, I have never seen him lose his temper, and he can bring some joy in this lifeless company.
He is characterized by thick eyebrows and thick lips, and is about 175 tall, and his ancestral home is from the north. Not fat or thin, single eyelids, long face, changeable expression, and very energetic, but always hairy.
Wang Zhenlun is one of the few people in Zhou Feng's company who can talk together, and his nickname is Wang Tiezhu. Speaking of this nickname, there is also a history, it is said that once Wang Zhenlun's grandmother came to him, and shouted Iron Pillar Iron Pillar when he entered the door, the picture of grandma and grandson meeting each other is naturally very touching, but since then, Wang Tiezhu's nickname has spread and endured.
Tie Zhu sat next to Zhou Feng, Zhou Feng looked at him and knocked on the partition: "Are you okay?"
Tie Zhu saw that it was Zhou Feng, moved the chair straight over, rubbed his hands, and said, "It's okay, it's okay, it's not in the way, have you watched yesterday's game game, our Chinese team is the first!"
Zhou Feng smiled awkwardly, there have been so many things recently, how can you have any intention to watch the game. "No, I went back to sleep after working overtime yesterday, what, tell me about it?"
As if waiting for this sentence, Tie Zhu began to talk endlessly.
Zhou Feng looked at his performance of dancing eyebrows, and was speechless for a while. After a while, the boss also came, and Tie Zhu hurriedly interrupted their conversation, returned to his place and began to "work" seriously.
In this way, the company changed back to a lifeless appearance.
Before he knew it, it was almost 12 o'clock at noon, and after a busy morning, Zhou Feng could finally make time to rest for a while, he stretched his arms out and stretched his waist for a long time, and began to close his eyes for a short time.
There is an hour and a half lunch time at 12 noon, and the company does not have a canteen, so everyone goes out to eat or order takeout.
"Hey, Zhou Feng, do you want to go down and have a full meal?"
Zhou Feng looked at the buns packed in the morning and said to Tie Zhu: "No, I packed something in the morning, let's eat it here." ”
Tie Zhu moved the chair over again, poked Zhou Feng's bun, and said, "The things you packed in the morning are cold now, let's go, let's go, I'll treat you and take you to eat boiled skewers, how about it? ”
Zhou Feng really couldn't resist him, so he decided to go.
The two of them tidied up their things and walked downstairs, and just as they reached the staircase, they saw two girls in their twenties also going downstairs.
A quiet, about 162, wearing a white professional shirt and black professional skirt, flesh-colored stockings, black high heels, average looking, but looking very easy to get along with. Another indifferent face, tall, cold, wearing a white dress, wearing a platinum necklace with a few small diamonds around her neck, her eyebrows are almost twisted together, she has a melon seed face and big eyes, although her appearance is eight or nine points, but this expression is really trying to scare away passers-by, the woman with a cold expression is sitting on the low windowsill next to her, taking off her blue high heels, rubbing her feet, as if she has walked dozens of miles of mountain roads.
"Xiao Liu in the warehouse today is really angry with me!" the woman with a cold expression complained while rubbing her feet.
"What's wrong with her?" asked the quiet girl.
"I told her that I was going to dye my hair gray in a few days, and she actually ran to the WeChat group and said, Oh my God! The boss's daughter is so cool, she wants to dye her hair gray!
The girl in the professional skirt didn't hold back her laughter: "Hahaha......."
These two people are quietly called Wu Hanya, they are our colleagues, they are not familiar with Zhou Feng, but they are very familiar with Tie Zhu. The one with an indifferent face is called Liu Yuan, the boss's daughter, who studied in the United States, is a little arrogant, and always looks down on her, and the people in the company don't like her very much, she is Wu Hanya's best friend.
Tie Zhu saw that it was Wu Hanya, his happy mouth couldn't close, and he stepped forward and said with a smile: "Wu Liuqi, do you and your girlfriend want to go out to eat boiled skewers together, I know that the family is particularly delicious." “
Wu Liuqi is the nickname given to Wu Hanya by Tiezhu, Wu Hanya is a foodie, she naturally will not refuse such a statement, but they are two people, so she turned back to Liu Yuan and asked, "Yuan, are you going?"
Liu Yuan looked at the iron pillar and looked at Zhou Feng again, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything. said coldly: "You go, I don't eat, I'm with you, I'm losing weight." “
When Wu Hanya heard this, Liu Yuan didn't eat here, and it was not easy for her to go, so she said to Zhou Feng and Tie Zhu embarrassedly: "Then we won't go, I'm really sorry, you go first!"
Tie Zhu hurriedly played a round game: "There is a porridge shop next door to the skewers, I can go and buy a bowl of porridge for Liu Yuan at that time, what do you think?" Liu Yuan saw that Tie Zhu said this, and it was not easy to say anything more, so after discussing it, everyone decided to take a taxi together.
Chengdu in June has been very hot, but the two years of heat is particularly unusual, sometimes yesterday was more than ten degrees quite cold, the next day it was more than 40 degrees, and after a few days began to shiver cold. Not only in Chengdu, but also in the whole country and the whole world, the winter is very cold, the summer is very hot, and some places do not rain in one season, and it will rain heavily in another season.
People can't find a reasonable explanation for the abnormal climate, and they are not even worried, the upper class continues to live the life of the upper class, the ordinary people continue to be busy looking for food and have no time to take care of it, life seems to be as plain as before, and occasionally a few kind reminders from a few people have also been annihilated.
As everyone knows, a huge cataclysm is quietly brewing.
Getting back to the point, a group of four people took a taxi to the destination, Chengdu is known as the capital of food, worthy of the name, if there is a food street in other places, then Chengdu, every street is such a street.
Ten minutes later, they came to the boiled skewer shop that Tie Zhu said, the name of the shop is Tao Ji Chuanchuan Xiang, the name is not loud, and the location is even a little remote.
The four of them got out of the car and entered the store, but there were quite a few people, there were about twelve or thirteen tables in the whole store, ten were full, and two were empty. I chose a table by the window and sat down, and an older lady in her forties came over with a menu and said to them with a smile: "Eat what you want, it's good and cheap." ”
Tie Zhu took the menu and looked at the various dishes.
Zhou Feng stood up gently, put his mobile phone between Tie Zhu and Wu Hanya, and said to them: "You order food first, I'll go next door, remember to help me get my share." After speaking, he smiled, patted Tie Zhu's shoulder, and went out.
Tao Ji boiled skewers next door to a porridge shop, Zhou Feng decided to go in and buy two bowls of porridge for them to take back, the porridge cooked very slowly, half an hour later, he returned to the store with two bowls of packaged porridge, and before he reached his seat, he was already dumbfounded.
The three of them have already finished ordering, all kinds of boiled skewers have already been served, a shabu-shabu in the middle, all kinds of soup ingredients are red and hot, red peppers are naturally the protagonists, dozens of skewers are inserted in the shabu-shabu like green onions, and the boiled little face is flushed, as if waiting for someone's favor, some easy-to-mature or early-maturing skewers have been fully cooked, and they are put on a plate by the three of them, or dipped in the sauce, or handheld, and they are feasting, and our Miss Liu Yuan is the most energetic to eat.
Zhou Feng saw it in his eyes, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, it seemed that he ran out to buy porridge was really a superfluous move.
When Tie Zhu saw Zhou Feng coming back, he hurriedly beckoned him to sit down.
Zhou Feng took the porridge and asked, "Does anyone want to eat it?" I heard that this can lose weight?"
After speaking, he looked at Liu Yuan meaningfully.
Liu Yuan glared at Zhou Feng: "Miss, I'm not going to lose weight today! ”
Wu Hanya's smile trembled, and said to Zhou Feng: "I like to eat meat, you can drink porridge by yourself." ”
Looking at their eating appearances, Zhou Feng not only didn't feel disgusted, but was actually a little warm.
In this way, a few people finished their lunch like a storm.
As everyone was ready to check out, the silence was shattered by a noise outside the store.
People seemed to be talking about something, and gradually the noise got closer and closer, and finally it had evolved into agitation, some people shouted, some people screamed, and more people asked. The crowd kept pointing at the sky, and the chatter broke the peace of the restaurant.
The four of them were also curious, and looked up at the window along the finger, only to see a disk-shaped black curtain in the southern sky, as if tearing the sky, the black curtain continued to grow, and if you looked closely, it was like a hole in the sky, and the darkness made people tremble and make people frightened. This is something that the whole world has never heard of, people have been talking about UFOs, USOs, but they have not been able to come up with real evidence, as if it is just people's imagination, and now, what is it in the distant sky? What they have seen is either a miracle or a disaster.
Zhou Feng pinched himself, it hurt, it was not a dream, the two girls had already run out, Tie Zhu hurriedly ran to check out, Zhou Feng didn't care about being polite, glanced at Tie Zhu and ran out. The streets were already full of people, people running, speculating, and more often than not, taking out their mobile phones and taking pictures of the sight they had never seen before.
"It's a black hole!! a black hole!!! "A young man yelled.
"We're going to be sucked in! The world is going to end!!" shouted a fat man in his thirties.
Then there was an even louder shout, anger and fear, and screams. The black hole in the southern sky opened wider and wider, and in less than ten minutes it had taken up a quarter of the sky like a curtain. Everyone was speechless in surprise, what is this?
At the end of the author, there is a poem: "Winter is like spring, summer is like autumn, ten thousand people are happy and one person is worried; before the wind and rain come, the thunder is made, and the blood is not seen." ”
(End of chapter.) )