The second one to come to see me was Li Yin.

The night after my father came to see me. I received a padded jacket and two pairs of cotton shoes and socks from the iron door in the blue vest.

"Your friend, surnamed Li, gave it to you. What's her name? "The foreign worker asked me.

For a moment I really didn't know who sent it to me, and I didn't say the right names either.

He asked again: "Woman, say it's your friend, surnamed Li, what's your name?" ”

I thought for a while and tried to ask, "Is it Li Yin?" ”

Once you've checked it, sign a list.

It didn't take long for the blue vest to come again, this time pushing a small cart with a machine similar to our college cafeteria clock-in. shouted at the door of the seventh prison: "Zhou Shaoqing, come and get the money." ”

"What's the name of your friend, surnamed Li?"

Now I know it must be Li Yin. So he signed another form.

Li Yin gave me 2,000 yuan, in addition to the cost of 10 yuan for the IC card, there were 1,990 yuan on the IC card in my hand. At this time, Liang Fang came over to me and said, "Zhou Shaoqing, you can only use the money on your card for 1,000 yuan, and you have to pay 200 yuan in provident fund." ”

"CPF?" I asked, puzzled.

"Yes, CPF, 10 percent. Used to buy public supplies in the number, toothpaste, toothbrushes, washing powder, toilet paper, soap, stools, ......" After explaining, Liang Fang took out a toothbrush from one of the rows of cabinets hanging on the wall in the ventilating room and gave it to me, "Give it to you, give me the old one, you use this one." ”

I know, the toothbrush I've brushed — I don't know how many people have done it before, and I'll use it in the future. In fact, it's not just a toothbrush, many things in the number have been used many times.

On duty at night, I was assigned to the first shift, and a few people were very unconvinced after reading the duty arrangement, and asked Brother Du: "Why can he be on the first shift now with a new mouth?" ”

Du Ge glanced at it and said slowly: "He is wearing shackles now, how many shifts do you want him to be on?" Do you want to wait for everyone to fall asleep and let him get up and jingle everyone to wake them up? ”

It wasn't until later that I realized that in fact, I could get such treatment not only because of the shackles, but also because now I have people outside me who send me money, and the biggest one in it is RMB.

In the first shift, except for a few people who were tired from doing a lot of work during the day, everyone didn't sleep. According to them, there has been no fight in the Seventh Prison for a long time, and it has always been a civilized prison. So after the fight the day before, everyone seemed to be excited, and they all lay down and leaned against the wall and chatted.

"Zhou Shaoqing, who is that friend of yours? It takes you a long time to think about it. ”

I had no idea that Li Yin would remember me and come to see me.

I came to this city in 1999 to study at university. After half a year of baptism, I slowly wore away the youthfulness when I first walked from the countryside to the city, and gradually integrated into the rhythm of the city.

It's a sick city, and not just the climate.

There are not many powerful enterprises in this city, and people's wages are not very high. However, the city has a surprisingly large number of bars and other types of entertainment venues, and the costs are high, and they are almost full every day. All star hotels are also everywhere, KTV, and the foot-washing city is even more substantial.

I met Li Yin in a comprehensive bar called "Entertainment Family" in the city center. On a weekend near the end of the second half of the semester in 1999, a friend invited me to drink, and when I walked up to the bar on the second floor, I was frightened by the loud music, the bizarre lighting effects, and the strange shapes of red men and green women. Entering the door is a performing arts bar, in the middle of a stage there is a young girl dancing pole dance, the men and women in the audience are coaxing vigorously under the noise of the host, shaking their heads, with beer bottles, dice cups to the rhythm of the music keep knocking on the table.

We walked through the performing arts bar, walked to the slow swing bar inside, found a seat in the corner, and sat down. The friend also brought two of his other friends with him. In the middle of the slow shake bar is a circular bar, where a few young people with strange hairstyles are fiddling with all kinds of wine bottles, and the men and women sitting on the seats outside the bar are basically holding wine glasses in one hand and lighting cigarettes in the other, shaking their heads to the music. There was a small dance floor, not large, and there was a small platform against the wall, where three or four girls were squirming and leading the dance. Luckily, the music is still within my reach. The people on the dance floor were shaking their bodies with their eyes slightly closed, most of them in casual clothes, and a few in suits and ties.

After a few friends, they also went to the dance floor to relax after a few drinks, but I still couldn't get used to such a place, so I sat alone in the corner drinking and smoking and watching the demons dance in front of me.

"Brother Deng, call a few girls to play together!" My friend said to the person named Deng Lei who he called.

"Okay, I'll call and call four people!" After Deng Lei finished speaking, he got out of the crowd with difficulty. In less than half an hour, he came to the seat with four girls. They seemed to know each other very well, and after asking the waiter to add seats and order wine, everyone mingled.

Deng Lei didn't introduce to everyone, after drinking some wine, he took a girl to dance, my friend also took a girl to the performing arts bar to watch the show, and the other took two bottles of wine and took a girl to a small private room to chat, leaving me and Li Yin to sit there and drink.

"What's your name? Is it Brother Deng's friend? It was Li Yin who broke the silence first.

"Oh, yes, my name is Zhou Shaoqing, what about you?" I guessed that the Deng brother he was talking about was Deng Lei.

"Li Yin, what do you do, are you also doing things with Brother Deng?"

"Oh no, I'm still studying, what about you?" At that time, I didn't know what Deng Lei did.

"I teach at Daye Primary School."

Li Yin and I didn't leave our seats that day, we kept drinking, and occasionally she asked me for a cigarette.

"After a busy day, it's very relaxing to smoke a cigarette when you're tired. Do you think it's bad for girls to smoke? Li Yin asked when he first asked me for cigarettes.

"It's okay, men and women are equal." I didn't think women couldn't smoke when I watched my grandmother smoke since I was a child, and I also helped her cut the tobacco.

Li Yin was very quiet, but the amount of alcohol was not ordinarily amazing, and the two of us eliminated a dozen and a half beers and half a bottle of "Jack Daniel's" whose name I couldn't even pronounce at the time. During this time, she taught me to play "big talk" - two people take turns to call the number of dice in two dice, one point can replace any point, the number can only be added up, until one person does not believe it, the other person can drink, if it is right, the other person drinks, if it loses, drink it yourself. She could tell that I was playing for the first time, so she let me go a little, and it was basically two people who drank all the wine in half under her release.

By the time the bar closed, none of our friends showed up.

"Where do you live? I'll send you home. Standing on the street, I asked.

In the cold wind, Li Yin's face was crimson, but her lips were pale, and she tightened her coat and said yes.

Getting into the taxi, she gave her address and fell asleep on the back of her chair.

For the first time, I sat in a taxi and watched the night view of the city, with street lights, the shadows of trees, and the occasional figure flying back from the car window. There is a beautiful woman next to her, and she can be called a strange beauty.

After arriving at the destination, it took a lot of effort to wake up Li Yin, and when he got out of the car and was blown by the cold wind, Li Yin vomited at once. "Take me upstairs, the third floor." She handed over the key.

Li Yin lives in a one-bedroom house by the river. It is a private house near a university town, and most of the homeowners here have bought houses in the city. Therefore, most of the people who rent this place now are college students in the neighborhood or young people who have just graduated and started working and do not have much money. At that time, I thought that Li Yin should be a graduate of Normal University, and he worked and rented a house to live in a place he was more familiar with.

After Li Yin got home, she went straight to bed, and after helping her take off her shoes and coat, cover the quilt and close the door, I was ready to go back to school. At the moment of going out, I thought that this is the westernmost part of the city, and my school is in the easternmost part of the city, if I go back, I have to cross the whole city, two rivers, there is basically no bus in this city after ten o'clock in the evening, and it is difficult to find a taxi here, I guess I am not so lucky to catch the bus that sends passengers over and back, and the taxi fare from here to my school is also a large expense for me. So I decided to wait until dawn before leaving.

There is a sofa in the small living room, so you can spend the night.

The winter in this city is very perverted, and the house where Li Yin lives is right on the riverside, lying on the sofa and covering his padded jacket, I still shiver from the cold.

If you don't sleep well, it's easy to be woken up, I was woken up by the sound of rushing water, I got up and saw that the light in the bathroom was on, and there was the sound of water in it, it should be Li Yinjiu who woke up a little and went to take a bath.

When Li Yin came out with a bath towel, I was sitting on the sofa and smoking.

"Qing'er, help me blow off my hair." Li Yin walked over to me, "I'm older than you, so you Qing'er has no opinion, right?" ”

Li Yin has short hair, and I turned on the hair dryer and carefully helped her blow it with both hands.

"Grab it with your hands, evenly, and the wind must swing all the time, otherwise you want to burn me?"

This process can be described as terrifying, and when her hair was dried, fine sweat oozed from my forehead, and the palms of my hands were damp.

"You go take a shower and take a hot shower so you don't catch a cold."

When he came out of the bathroom, Li Yin was standing at the door of the bathroom, holding a set of pajamas in his hand, "My pajamas, you can change them, don't sleep on the sofa, there is an air conditioner in my room." ”

Seeing my hesitation, she smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't eat you." ”

"Qing'er, is this the first time you've slept with a woman?" Lying on the bed, Li Yin asked me.

"It's not." The first time I slept in a bed with a woman, my whole body was stiff, and I struggled to spit out.

"What? Got a girlfriend? You still want to lie to me, and it took so long to answer. ”

"No, I slept with my mom and sister when I was a kid."

Li Yin turned over and sat up on his side and punched me, "I didn't expect you to be so flamboyant, I really didn't see it." ”

I'm not Megumi Yanashita, lying on the bed with a bright face dangling in front of me, and I don't need to be taught to do anything.

Later, when I talked to Li Yin about that night, she asked me what I thought at the time.

I said that the first thing I thought of was a game called "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", after Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Linger got married on Xianling Island, the game screen slowly dimmed after the two hugged in bed, and a few words appeared: A night has passed......

The night has passed, and after the night has passed in the game, it should be Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Ling'er who say goodbye. After I thought about coming, the night should have been over and she should have gone to work and I had gone to school.

When I woke up, it was already past eleven o'clock. Li Yin was not around.

I had a problem with drinking, no matter how much I drank on the first day, the next day I had a splitting headache. This time was no exception, I sat up with a few thousand needles in my head.

There was an unopened toothbrush on the bedside table, which should have been bought by Li Yin in the morning.

When I rinsed my mouth, I smelled the smell of vegetables, Li Yin was cooking in the kitchen, and when she saw me getting up, she immediately turned off the fire and asked, "Do you see a toothbrush?" I bought it in the morning, you wait a minute, you can eat right away. ”

I haven't fully reacted yet, I haven't known Li Yin for more than twenty-four hours, but so many things have happened, which I never expected.

I didn't dare to look at her during the meal, the taste of the food made it possible to imagine that she hadn't cooked much of her own food.

"Don't you have to go to work today?" I'm curious, it's Monday, can the teacher not have to go to work?

"It's okay during the day today, and I only go to work at night." Li Yin replied.

"Qing'er, have you ever been in love?" Li Yin asked me with a smile.

"Do we count?" I asked rhetorically.

"If you think about it, I'm asking you if you've had a girlfriend before this?"

"We talked about it, but we didn't talk about it."

"Forget it, don't talk about this, I have time to go to your school to play, are you welcome?" Li Yin opened the subject.

"Okay, why don't you welcome it, call me on your weekend, take No. 110 from the train station to the terminal to our school, I'll pick you up." I told Li Yin the phone number of our dormitory.

On the bus back to school, I kept thinking about what happened between me and Li Yin, and what kind of relationship we had between us, but I still couldn't figure it out until I got to the end and returned to the dormitory.