A small coastal city seems to have recently been given special care by terrorists, just like the United States. In just two weeks, there have been more than a dozen unexplained bombings in the city, killing and injuring more than 100 innocent people.

Since graduating from college the year before the fight, Zhou Shu has been at home for two years. 'It's so dangerous out there!' he said as he gloated as he watched the television, making such cowardly remarks and finding a plausible excuse for his shameful act of staying at home.

In this era when college students are unemployed after graduation, Zhou Shu, a strange student majoring in English and American literature in college, naturally can't find a satisfactory job. When he first graduated, he was also full of ambition and wanted to become an elite in society. After several months of struggling to find a job in the publishing world, his ambition was exhausted. I forgot what the opportunity was, in short, now he has joined the gnawing old family, and has been idle at home all day long, for nearly two years. Zhou Shu himself is not as smart as he seems, but he hides his stupidity very well, and only occasionally shows it and does something whimsical.

In a country like China, there are so many things that can be called whimsical. For example, young people who vainly try to focus on game competition are grasping in this country, and Zhou Shu is one of them. It's only natural that he would have this thought, as playing games is one of his few strong points. At present, he is being sought after by a considerable number of gamers, because his strength has reached the national level. He was worshiped as a great god in some forums and QQ groups, and he had an illusion that as long as his strength could be a little stronger, he could really rely on playing games to eat. So, to achieve this, he just completed a marathon intensive training session. At this moment, he had just finished a week-long training and was about to watch TV to relax and go to sleep.

Among the few strengths of Zhou Shu, the strongest one is undoubtedly staying up late!

At this moment, he has not closed his eyes for seven days, and most of the time is contributed to the computer. If it were an ordinary person, I am afraid that it would have been on the local news for sudden death, and it has become a typical example of criticism by Professor Yang Yongxin and Professor Tao Hongkai. But what about Zhou Shu? It's okay, and he's rummaging in the refrigerator looking for food that can be used for breakfast.

"Mom has eaten all the things she saved before her business trip...... Can I eat that much?"

I remember my mother piled up a refrigerator full of food, why are there only two carrots left now?

Zhou Shu nibbled on a radish and looked at his face in front of the bathroom mirror.

Well, dark circles are a little bit, but they're very mental. He stretched and looked up to the sky and shouted, "It's great to have a special ability that doesn't matter if you don't sleep for hundreds of hours!!"

Because of this strange characteristic, when Zhou Shu was a child, his mother thought that Zhou Shu was suffering from some strange disease for a while, and she also took Zhou Shu to the hospital for examination. The doctor said that the child was normal, and was much healthier than ordinary people except for a little myopia. Zhou Shu still remembers that his mother, who was a reporter, was skeptical, did not trust the doctor's diagnosis at all, and was very convinced that she had some rare disease, and was anxious about it. I also remember that my deceased father would comfort my neurotic mother every time, so that she didn't have to worry, and meaningfully predicted that she would definitely get ahead in the future.

Zhou Shu expressed doubts. You don't have to sleep, you don't have to sleep, but you can't make money to support your family by relying on this alone. And the guy who didn't sleep for the longest time in the Guinness Book of World Records lasted 11 days. Zhou Shu knew that he didn't sleep for a week at most, and he was far from being someone's opponent.

Although Zhou Shu doesn't have to sleep, he still has to eat. Chewing carrots didn't do anything, so he hastily washed his face, put on a T-shirt and went out to buy food.

It's the height of summer, and it's the season for little girls to show off their bodies. Dressed in an outfit that Taobao evaluated as economical, Zhou Shu came to the nearby vegetable market, pinched the only one Grandpa Mao and considered whether to buy some instant noodles to store, and to eat some pork ribs for luxury.

Anyway, I've gone to the vegetable market, so let's buy pork ribs. You can buy instant noodles or something right from home, and I didn't go so far in vain when I bought that back?

Zhou Shu used his own thinking circuit to get the answer, and the remaining property shrank by half.

On the way home, he was in a good mood and was suddenly tapped on the shoulder from behind.

"Which grandson?" Zhou Shu turned around and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was Wang Hongfei, a high school friend he had lost contact with for a long time. "Oh, you kid! You tmd, oops, I want to die!"

"Isn't that me!" the person who came was a young man in a suit and leather shoes, with a somewhat handsome appearance. "Come, don't you hug it?"

Wang Hongfei and Zhou Shu were the best friends in high school. During college, due to some reasons, Zhou Shu changed his high school mobile phone number and QQ number, so he lost contact with this friend and his classmates.

Zhou Shu hugged his old friend, stroked Wang Hongfei's back with an easily misunderstood action, and the ribs in his hand splashed red liquid one by one.

"Big brother, don't do this. Wang Hongfei awkwardly pushed away his old friend for many years, and regretted joking with him. Unexpectedly, he really dared to hug a plastic bag of ribs. "My object is still there, what are you doing so ambiguously. ”

After Wang Hongfei finished speaking, he took the hand of a beautiful woman beside him and pulled her in front of Zhou Shu. "My girlfriend, Liu Ying. Beautiful, right?"

Girlfriend, who is still a virgin, Zhou Shu was a little unhappy when he heard these two words. If the other party is not his friend, I am afraid that he has cursed him in his heart. Especially his girlfriend is still so beautiful, it's a little familiar, but I've definitely never seen it.

Wang Hongfei's girlfriend Liu Ying looked up and down at Zhou Shu in a casual dress without any scruples, and looked a little uncomfortable with him. As a woman, he naturally compared the man in front of him with his boyfriend. The conclusion is: taking it out is simply an insult to your boyfriend!

My boyfriend is dressed in business suits, watches, tie clips, and belts, all of which are brand-name goods. Even the underwear is hundreds of pairs. Look at the other side again. The money used by himself and his boyfriend overnight can buy him.

Zhou Shu's T-shirt and casual shorts are really miserable, and he is also wearing slippers.

Out of human feelings, Liu Ying greeted Zhou Shu with a very commercial smile that can often be seen on the faces of McDonald's employees, and introduced herself in a polite tone. The latter was not an idiot, and he sniffed out the other party's contempt with his knees.

Alas, Lao Wang is such a good person, why didn't he open his eyes to find such a philistine woman? He really thought so, not out of jealousy. However, these words are not easy to say, and brothers can say anything between them, but they can't discuss the rights and wrongs of each other's women, and it is easy to misunderstand.

"Oh, it's so nice to run into you, it's just providence. Come on, phone number!" Wang Hongfei took out his mobile phone, which was the current arcade machine, Apple.

Zhou Shu glanced at this foreign brand with disgust, and chicly found out his patriotic brand from his body, ZTE! exchanged numbers and QQ with his friends, and he also took a few photos of Wang Hongfei and his girlfriend in the chaos.

"Alright, done. Lao Wang, let's go to my house for a meal, and I'll make your favorite pork ribs for you. ”

Liu Ying rolled her eyes in disgust. "No, we're on our way to work. Wang Hongfei nodded on the side.

"Go to work?" Zhou Shu looked at his watch. "Ten o'clock in the morning, are you on a hairy class?"

Wang Hongfei scratched his head embarrassedly, "The front Municipal Bureau of Statistics." I'm a deputy researcher, and my mom got it for me. You know, not much to say. ”

"Oh~" Zhou Shu suddenly said, "One of the four free." Zhou Shu vaguely remembered that the mother of the goods in front of him was the leader of the city. "I didn't expect you to embark on such a road of no return, Lao Tzu envied you. ”

"Hehe, it's nothing. Idle is idle, but there is no further possibility. The salary is okay. ”

Zhou Shu was very grateful that his old friend didn't ask about his current situation, otherwise he would really not be able to answer. Wang Hongfei is also more or less an agency officer, and he can see that his old friends don't seem to be mixing very well, so he doesn't have much to do in front of his girlfriend. If you want to ask this kind of thing, you have to ask it privately.

But not all the personnel of the agency have Wang Hongfei's eyesight. Liu Ying and Wang Hongfei belong to the same unit, out of comparison and vanity, she cruelly asked Zhou Shu: "You look very casual." Where are you going to be high?"

Can I sue you for taking 400 yuan of pocket money from my mother every month?

Wang Hongfei pushed his girlfriend away and punched his old friend in the chest in embarrassment. "Liu Ying and I are going to get married at the end of the year. What about you, boy? ”

"Yes. "There's a yarn. "I'm a househusband now, and I'm supported by my partner. I don't know what kind of vain nerve it is, Zhou Shu casually made up a nonsense that was not very serious. After speaking, he glanced at Liu Ying provocatively. Since he was not good at lying since he was a child, these arguments were completely unconvincing. Liu Ying was pushed by her boyfriend, and found that it was her bad problem that came up with her mouth, and she looked at Zhou Shu with unfriendly eyes under the guilt...... Still instinctively glared back.

"Really, are you targeting men and women?" Wang Hongfei didn't know if he was really stupid or to save face for his old friend, so he followed the topic and asked, mostly ridiculing.

Zhou Shu slammed a row of bones at his old friend and joked: "Woman, beautiful." I know you were thinking about Lao Tzu's beauty when you were in school, but Lao Tzu still likes women, you are a good person!"

"Alright, don't make a fuss. Wang Hongfei, who was issued a good person card, looked at the time, "I'm almost late for work." It's good to meet you by chance, and it just so happens that we have a class reunion the day after tomorrow this weekend. Self-drive to the next city x city to eat seafood and soak in hot springs, three days and two nights, can you come? ”

"yes, bring your girlfriend. Liu Ying answered on the side, "I have to go with me too, it's good to have more girls." Although she said this, the expression of her eyebrows fluttering was obviously the meaning of 'if it is a good horse, it will be brought out and walked'.

"I can't ......" I have 50 yuan in my body, and my mother will not come back until next week. And I don't have anyone to bring.

But people specially called me, no matter how I look at it, I'm an idler, and it's really not good to say that I don't go......

Zhou Shu held his forehead and looked embarrassed, "Well, it seems that it can also be." He changed his words, "Look, call me tomorrow and ask me." Maybe I can go. "I'll go home and figure out how to get some money together.

"Well, that's it. So far, we have contacted 20 students from our class, and they can target 30 or 40 people. I'll call again tomorrow, whether you come alone or bring someone to say, and arrange a parking space for you at that time. Actually, I was in charge of borrowing the car. ”

Zhou Shu answered casually, and then said goodbye to the two civil servants who were busy clocking in at work. As soon as he got home, he had a hard time dropping the ribs. "TMD, in addition to killing people, setting fires, robbing houses, pouring gasoline into people's houses, selling usury, where else can I get some money?"

Fifty dollars in your trouser pocket is obviously not enough. For three days and two nights, a party between adults, how can it cost more than 1,000 yuan, right? Don't think about bringing a girlfriend or anything, the beautiful women I know usually only appear on TV, and it is no fun to make a fake one.

Zhou Shu wasn't very hungry at the moment, nibbling on the last carrot in the refrigerator and grinding it around the house.

"Sold my PS3?" No, it's so sad. And Lao Tzu is reluctant to have those perfect archives. "So what else can you sell?"

Zhou Shu's gaze swept back and forth in the room, from the TV to the computer to the wardrobe and glove box. "Do you want me to borrow money?" "If you think about it, I don't have any friends who can lend me money at all! Forget it, don't go, I'm a failed person better not participate in that kind of pretending meeting. In case someone over there chatted about something, 'Oh, I just came back from my PhD in the United States, and when I come back, I can't stand the air of this motherland.'" ''Oh, the market has been smashing down again, and in a few minutes, I'm out of hundreds of thousands, but I'm worried to death.'' I guess I can't resist the urge to beat up these people. But if I don't go, what will I do with my face? People call me......

Just when Zhou Shu hesitated, his gaze moved to the glove box again.

"Lao Tzu remembered that my father seemed to have left a jewelry made of gold, which was very precious and never let me move. "When I was a child, I took it out to play once, and I was almost beaten to death by him. "That thing should be in this box, and instead of leaving it there to fall into the dust, maybe we should sell it while the price of gold is not falling?"

The balance in Zhou Shu's heart weighed which side was more important, his father's relics and participating in the pretending meeting, and came to the conclusion: find out the things first!

There are a lot of things in the glove box, most of the albums and business cards that have long been useless. A delicate wooden box left by Zhou Shu's father was placed at the bottom of the pressure box. The unfilial son took it out and shook it. There was a rattling sound inside. Opening the box, a golden key the size of a fist appeared in front of him.

It was a big key with a very contemporary and heavy feeling, like an ornament displayed in a jewelry store. Although I don't know how long I didn't take it out in the box, it was very clean and as good as new.

Could it be that when my mother is lonely, she will take out this thing to wipe it?

Thinking of this, Zhou Shu didn't have the heart to sell it for money at all. In case it is discovered by my mother, the scumbag level of the gnawing old clan in my mother's heart will be increased again.

Zhou Shu was playing with the key, and suddenly his stomach growled. He regretted why he didn't buy something that was easy and time-saving to make, and then complained that he went into the kitchen to wash the ribs and stew them in a pressure cooker, and the golden key was thrown aside by him.

When the pork ribs were cooked and put on a plate with sweet and sour sauce, and the rice was also hot from the rice cooker to the bowl and served to the table, the door of Zhou Shu's house was suddenly knocked on.

Who's so annoying.

Zhou Shu went to open the door, only to see Uncle Wang standing in front of the door.

"Oh, Uncle Wang. You came just in time, I just made sweet and sour pork ribs, have you eaten?Come in and have a drink with me?" Zhou Shu has been at home alone for a long time, and loneliness has made him hospitable.

"Oh no, Uncle Wang. Your Parkinson's is cured, why don't your hands shake?"

Uncle Wang smiled slightly at the door, and then a voice that made Zhou Shu break out in a cold sweat rang in his ears. The sound seemed to be that of a pigeon, and it was very eerie. What's even more terrifying is that this voice was made by Uncle Wang in front of him, and he can understand what this gurgling means.

“...... You?" Zhou Shu had a pain in his head, sat on the ground with his buttocks, and looked at Uncle Wang with the horror of looking at a zombie. “...... Who are you?"

"My name is 'Saint'. Hello the remnants of the Great Library. ”