Maybe you really don't know what to say, right? So the madman brought everyone to a hot pot restaurant that looks like it's still very well decorated, but that's it, right? It's just that there's a red carpet on the ground at the door.

This hot pot restaurant does not just sell hot pot, it is generally in places with a dense migrant population in big cities, and the existence of restaurants is also to adapt to the public, so there are many dishes in it.

Another is that if it was a year ago, the hotel should be overcrowded at present, after all, everyone wants to come to the restaurant to have a meal to celebrate the Spring Festival or something, but it is currently a year later, so it is relatively deserted, there are about a dozen glass-faced tables, and this will only be two or three deserted tables.

The madman thought that he would listen to everyone's opinions and see what hot pot he wanted to eat, but the roommates, and even Lili, said that you ordered it yourself, and they ate whatever the madman ordered.

The madman picked up the menu, looked at it for a long time, and ordered a fish hot pot, according to what the madman meant to everyone, wishing everyone more than enough in the new year. Then, according to the madman's meaning, everyone ordered a dish, that is, whatever they liked to eat, then order one.

This is a madman with some coercion, right? In short, everyone was twisting and kneading, and the dishes finally ordered were all vegetarian, and they looked very cheap, and the madman had no choice but to order four or five plates of meat. The waiter took the written menu and began to prepare.

In this spare time, everyone seemed to not know what to talk about, and the madman went to get a bottle of wine, and a large bottle of drink, of course, the boys basically drank, and Lili could only drink drinks.

It's just that, even so, everyone is still a little embarrassed and doesn't speak, but the madman can't speak, because he is not good at enlivening the atmosphere at all, he is a very taciturn person.

Then fortunately, it was one of the roommates who pulled the topic away, mainly to say that he was going to play games in the company tomorrow, but everyone's mentality is very good now, and there is no pessimistic direction to open the topic at all, Lili is also listening quietly and drinking drinks.

After the hot pot was served, everyone began to add vegetables to it, in this cold winter, the cold wind outside the hotel was howling, and even mixed with some cold rain, and the madmen in the restaurant were eating hot, and all of them had happy smiles on their faces, but the meat food was consumed quickly, and the madman finally asked for several plates of meat, in fact, the madman understood that if the roommates were to call for meat, they would definitely not want to, but they felt embarrassed, right?

In the end, the meal was okay, the madman felt very happy, and everyone was very happy, maybe the madman just wanted the people around him not to go to work hungry, right? Maybe not, but no matter what the madman thinks, in short, the money actually spent on this meal is not much for the madman, only more than 160 yuan, and the roommates said that they must invite the madman to eat another meal or something if they have the opportunity in the future.

He just smiled when he heard these madmen, because the madman understood that this meal was very strange, and there was no coriander in the dishes ordered by everyone, because they knew that the madman did not eat coriander, and according to what the madman knew, he was the only one who did not eat coriander.

But anyway, now everyone is full of wine and food, in fact, this time the madman has drunk, but very little, because if he drinks, his esophagus and stomach really hurt, and he thinks about whether to go to the hospital to see, but he also thinks, maybe quit drinking for a while? That's not a big deal, right?

When everyone went out of the restaurant, they talked and laughed, because everyone was very warm at this time, maybe they had just eaten hot pot, and their hearts were warm, right? In short, the cold wind howling on the street, and even the scattered icy rain that hit, have lost their original biting feeling.

And when he walked to the gate of the ancient town again, the madman bought a few more packs of cigarettes, and then continued to walk back, and after returning to the dormitory, the madman gave everyone cigarettes, and then he himself quietly lay down in the quilt again, and began to record, recording the short-term happiness of Fang Cai, and the most important record was: no coriander was found in any dishes.

The roommates continued to chat, smoke, because they were happy, so the topics they talked about were also happy topics, in short, they talked about a different topic from the morning when they came out of the Internet café, and now they talked about the yearning for a better tomorrow, and the madman also silently recorded all this.

Just like yesterday, the madman is just a corner of this world, like the most pious recorder, and like the owner of the small shop at the mouth of the alley of the ancient town, his old body, holding a purple sand cup full of vicissitudes of life, day after day, year after year, always quietly expecting something, as if he was not expecting anything.

This is another extremely cold night, and it is a night that is crossed by heartache, the madman picked up the phone again, looked at the time on it numbly, at one o'clock in the morning, opened the text message, and saw the message sent by Yuhan with only a dozen words, silently, as if he wanted to send Yuhan another text message, but he didn't seem to want to, everything is so plain and full of waves, maybe this is life, and it is also what people call love, right?

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The next day, the madman went to work as usual, and the boss also gave everyone a red envelope, 100 yuan per person, saying that it was to start work and be auspicious. In fact, there are not many people going to work today, at most a few dozen, right? Except for a few people, all of them looked drunk and hazy, as if they hadn't woken up yet, and they looked extremely tired.

Everyone discussed how the New Year was spent, and almost all of them were spent in Internet cafes, yes, almost no one went home, only a few people talked about their hometown, about their hometown, the goose feathers and snow in their hometown, the ground was full of snow, he had a snowball fight with his brother, or played cards with his buddies in his village, and of course, went to the Internet café with his buddies to play games, and even went online to Red Alert or Half-Life.

As for the room where the madman is, it's still dead silent, the fat man next to the madman, his hair is messy, it seems that he hasn't washed it for more than ten days, right? And there is a strange smell on the body, it is really a strange smell.

The madman gave the fat man a cigarette, and the fat man didn't even look at the madman, but took the cigarette in numbness, lit it mechanically, and then smoked the cigarette, looking at the game character on his own computer screen in a daze, yes, the fat man he was currently in a daze.

The madman asked the fat man softly: "How did you spend your year?" ”

The fat man grinned and sneered: "It's just a few boxes of instant noodles, I didn't go out, I watched TV in the hostel, and I knocked over the instant noodles, and I got half of my body, damn, I went to buy a few clothes at night, and I also had to buy a mobile phone." ”

The madman may understand that the fat man's mood is not very good, and the fat man will also take out his mobile phone, which is a straight mobile phone, but it is a Nokia with a color screen, this is very expensive, and there is a camera behind it, but at present, this mobile phone can see the circuit board inside, obviously in the past ten days, this has been tortured by the fat man.

I guess the fat man was calling his family and got angry? So you just smashed this phone at random? But in short, the quality of Nokia's mobile phone is very good, and it can be beaten like this by a fat man, which shows how angry the fat man was at that time.

As for the madman Lili next to him, it seems that there is no change from before? No, Lili has changed, she no longer looks very shy and scared like she used to be, she even occasionally plays games with her legs crossed, she can't sit up straight, and she can even look at her own computer screen and say a few words to the madman.

But the topic of Lili talking to the madman is a bit outrageous, because he is always hinting at the madman that he talks about Yuhan, for example: Lili will suddenly ask the madman if he has Yuhan's phone on his mobile phone, since he misses people so much, why don't he make a call?

What's more, when Lili asks about the topic of madness, the fat man on the side seems to have a light in his eyes, and begins to ask Lili, who is Yuhan? He said that he had not heard anything from the madman at all.

As for the topic of this kind of talk, the madman would always tell the two of them in an angry attitude that they were not allowed to discuss such topics, but the two of them would laugh out loud. Although the madman understands that the two of them don't have any malicious intent, it's just that the madman really doesn't like these two people discussing the topic of Yuhan, first of all, the two of them don't know anything about Yuhan, and then the other must be the madman who doesn't want to think of Yuhan.

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But anyway, in any case, the matter of going to work still began, and after returning home at night, the madman would still pick up his own notebook, and then record some trivial things that happened during the day, of course, it will also record that the current roommates said that they were unlucky today, and they didn't get any good equipment, but they were smoking cigarettes and drinking liquor, and even gave the madman a cigarette, the reason was that the boss gave each person a hundred yuan in cash during the day.

Maybe life is like this, some people think that life is boring, and even some people think that life is immutable. But no matter how we understand life, or how we understand the lives of migrant workers, in short, the existence of time always seems to only move forward, and what leaves people with the most is the confusion after the passage of time, and perhaps it is also a new hope.

But why does time give us new hope? Actually, it's not that hard to understand. For example, the madman and their company have been in operation for three or four days now, and everything seems to be very peaceful, originally just some old employees who have gone home have only arrived in the past few days, but a group of dreamers who are full of infinite hopes and fantasies for their future life and even for their future life have come to this company.

This is the boss's publicity through the intermediary, and then recruited a large number of new employees, about dozens of people, and among the new employees recruited this time, there are not only boys, but even quite a lot of girls, at least seven or eight girls.