Thinking of this, the madman shook his head helplessly, and then lit a cigarette and played a boring game.

……

After work at night, the madman walked on the road with his roommate and even Lili, and the big city is getting colder and colder, and even the crowds on the street, and even the traffic flow, which has suddenly decreased, giving people the feeling that the originally bustling and noisy big city suddenly seems to have become an empty city, and the whole street and alley are lifeless, only the whirring cold wind, and from time to time there are a few plastic bags, or other things.

But fortunately, the small shop at the entrance of the alley of the ancient town, which was opened by the locals, that is, the old man who was still sitting in the shop at this time, the old man was holding a purple sand cup in his hand, and there was a bamboo decoration on the lid, but the whole purple sand cup was a little blackened, giving people the feeling as if it was covered with vicissitudes of life, just like the wrinkled skin on the old man's face, giving people a sense of endless vicissitudes.

The madman just stood at the door of the small shop, and before he could speak, the old man had already taken out two packs of cigarettes and a bottle of strong Beijing Erguotou liquor. The madman just smiled when he saw this, and immediately paid the bill, but one of the madman's roommates said, "You don't have to talk when you come to buy things?" ”

The old man smiled slightly: "I already know what he wants, what else is there to say?" ”

Then the roommates also bought cigarettes, or also chose a bottle of liquor, but the madman suddenly said: "Are we not going to work tomorrow?" ”

No one knew who the madman was asking about, and if he was asking his roommate, the person he was facing was the old man of the shop, which also made the old man look confused.

However, someone still answered the madman's question, it was Lili, and she said, "Well, didn't our boss notify you in the morning?" ”

The madman just sighed, and then saw some hand-rubbing cannons on the floor of the shop, that is, match cannons, the madman used to like this kind of thing very much when he was a child, but it was too expensive, so he could only see other people's children playing during the New Year, and he could only silently envy on the side.

At this moment, the madman resolutely picked up several large boxes of matchsticks, and then paid for them and shared them with everyone, and of course gave them to Lili. As for the roommates, they didn't say anything, just held it in their hands and looked very happy, but Lili said that she had never touched such a thing before.

The madman was immediately sad, and recently because the madman was Lili's master, and Lili had recently become cheerful, so when she was working, she would also mention some of her own things to the madman.

Lili's hometown is living in a very remote mountainous area, a total of three children in the family, the other two are her brother, one is her younger brother, but the family is Lili she studied well by herself, so she went to college, but she has not graduated from college, her brother committed something, and then went to prison, all of a sudden it was originally a very financially poor home, it became even more difficult, so Lili dropped out of college for half of the time, with nine hundred yuan, his family said, the number nine is auspicious, so far she went out alone, Come to the big city and look for tomorrow.

The fare of more than 160 yuan, plus some others, cost about two hundred, there are seven hundred left, I was deceived by three hundred, there are four hundred left, I eat by myself, usually steamed buns or something, so I spent about 100, and there are 300 left, and before entering the network company, she even went to this big city for more than ten days, did not stay in a hostel, at most spent the night in an Internet café, but she did not pay to surf the Internet.

In the end, her situation was learned by a kind intermediary boss, so the intermediary boss took her ID card, let her owe the intermediary fee first, and then sent it to the Internet company, and the boss of the intermediary also told the boss of the Internet company about Lili's situation, so the boss of the Internet company arranged for Lili to be taken by a madman.

The whole process is so simple, but it makes people feel so sad, at this moment Lili is twenty-three years old, and she has never played with matchsticks? Although she is a girl, in fact, the madman's own family background is also very bad, it is simply terrible! But even so, I haven't played with matchsticks, this is impossible, after all, the madman's father came back from prison, but he was very fond of him, but because the madman always made mistakes, he was always beaten.

The madman opened his own liquor in a daze at this time, drank a few sips, then took out a box of matchsticks, began to demonstrate to Lili, and threw the rubbing matchsticks into the moat on the edge of the ancient town, and after a while there was a small muffled sound, because it exploded in the water, and some of the match cannons of several roommates exploded on the ground, so the sound was very crisp and loud.

Lili herself began to learn to be a madman, and at this moment her face was full of charming smiles, although the cold wind blew her face red.

But the madman understands that the next thing is Lili's biggest difficulty, because she doesn't have much money in her pocket, and the company has taken more than ten days off and has not paid her salary, so she must have a hard time in the past ten days.

The madman was thinking about this, and one of his roommates proposed, "Madman, let's go back first?" See you at the Internet café every day? ”

Before the madman could agree, the group of roommates left here with strange laughter on their faces, and all of a sudden, there were only madmen and Lili left, and the madman looked at the terrible thin pair of men's old sneakers on Lili's feet, and suddenly said: "It's the New Year, I want to buy a pair of shoes, you accompany me?" ”

She may feel that the madman at this moment is a little inexplicable, but she said that she is okay anyway now, whatever. The madman didn't know what she was thinking when she said this, but the madman took out his phone and saw that it was almost twenty-one at night, and was there still a store selling shoes open at this time?

The madman didn't know, he just carried his own wine bottle, and she just followed, and from time to time he also wiped a matchstick, looking very happy, but the madman would use the sunset-colored light to see that her hands were frozen, very red and swollen, and it was estimated that the room where she slept at night was very cold, right? Or is it cold on the way to work? Then her feet must be colder.

So the madman just lit a cigarette and hurried towards the shoe store in his memory, and on the way, the madman asked her stupidly, do you drink? She just pursed her lips and shook her head, signaling her not to drink, but after shaking her head, she said again, you drink less, I haven't seen you drink a day.

The madman just smiled, and she asked the madman about his family situation, which was the first time she had asked the madman such a thing, and the madman just took two sips of wine and suddenly grinned: "Me? Well? There is no home, and there is no home for me. ”

Isn't it strange to say something crazy at this time? Lili, who went to college, couldn't figure out what the madman was talking about, and Lili wanted to figure it out, so she asked the madman why, but the madman just lit a cigarette and replied softly while a cold wind blew, "Don't ask me this question." ”

Lili immediately stopped talking, as if she felt that she had done something wrong, and even lowered her head.

And when I arrived near the shoe store, almost all of them were closed, only the howling cold wind was frozen, but there was such a shoe store, which would still be open, but it seemed that someone was eating hot pot inside?

Seeing this, the madman suddenly said to Lili next to him: "Your luck is so good, I really envy you." ”

Lili didn't know what the madman was talking about, and then she just followed the madman into the shoe store, and there were four or five people in the shoe store, both men and women, and they were indeed eating hot pot, and in the middle of the store, the shelves on both sides were full of shoes, all kinds of things.

Lili didn't even look at the shoes, maybe she was still thinking about what the madman Fang Cai meant by the phrase "you are so lucky", right? Maybe it's just feeling the warmth of the air conditioning in the shoe store?

As for the madman, the two of them were also warmly received by the owner of the shoe store, and the boss asked the madman what kind of shoes they wanted to buy, and the madman directly said: "Shoes to wear in winter, keep warm, she wears them." ”

The madman directly pointed at Lili with the wine bottle, Lili's whole head seemed to be short-circuited, looking at the madman in a daze, and even she had pursed her lips and bit her own lip, and there was a mesmerizing and heartbreaking light in her eyes at this moment, and the madman finally knew what the light flashed in Lili's eyes at this moment.

That's right, it was at this moment that the madman suddenly realized, and he finally understood that this light was sincere! The purest sincerity, and the most beautiful light of a person's heart, is revealed from his eyes. Is it any wonder that when I was a child in school, my teacher always told us that the eyes are the windows of the soul. It turns out that from this window, you can also see the soul!

The madman shook his head stupidly and smiled, but no one knew what he was laughing at at the moment, but at this moment the people in the shoe store saw that the madman had lit a cigarette, and he didn't even pay attention to Lili, or even the owner of the shoe store, he just sat on a small plastic stool in the corner of the store, smoking a cigarette.

Soon, the owner of the shop opened his mouth and said to the madman, one hundred and fifteen yuan, and the madman looked up and smiled, without saying a word, just took the money from his pocket, paid the bill, and then used the tote bag of new shoes, carrying Lili's old shoes.

The shopkeeper would talk and walk slowly, and Lili might want to say something, but she wanted to say something and stopped, and followed the madman on this lonely long street. Only then did the madman use the street lamp to see Lili that she had a pair of white sneakers on her feet, with thick cotton, which looked quite warm.

She only spoke at this moment: "I will pay you back when I pay my salary." ”

The madman just took a sip of liquor, very casually: "Whatever." ”