January 1995, Huaguo, Beiping, Chaoyang.

"What the hell is going on?"

A teenager sitting on the steps of a rental house has short hair, the neckline of a white shirt is slightly open, the cuffs of the shirt are rolled up to the middle of the arms, revealing wheat-colored skin, and a dark gray cotton coat is covered outside.

The boy took a hard sip of the cigarette in his hand, his eyes full of confusion and confusion.

The young man's name is Gu Bei, 16 years old, a native of Pengcheng, Guangdong Province, his family is not well-off, but he is also passable, his father is a middle school teacher, his mother is a piano teacher in a private music college, Gu Bei is also a leader in the school, and he has excellent academic performance and plays a good piano.

At the end of the 20th century, such a happy family of three was half a first-class family.

Originally, Gu Bei should have been reading his books peacefully in school, but God made a joke.

In the first half of 93, Gu Bei's parents had an accident, and a car accident made Gu Bei an orphan.

However, after his parents left, he left Gu Bei with a house of more than 100 square meters, a deposit of nearly 20,000 yuan, and a few thousand yuan of compensation for the perpetrator, as well as a few hundred yuan of the school's pension.

Gu Bei has money, but a fourteen or fifteen-year-old child who is hit like this can't be filled with this money.

Gu Bei, who is already half an adult, can't go to the orphanage, and Gu Bei doesn't want relatives or friends of his parents to take care of him.

After all, it is an outsider, no matter how close it is, it is also under the fence, and he can take care of himself at the age of fourteen or fifteen.

barely finished his sophomore year of high school, and when he was 15 years old, Gu Bei had no choice but to drop out of school, after all, it was already difficult for a person to survive by breaking his brain.

After his parents left, all the tediousness of life seemed to be agreed, and he pressed Gu Bei in one go, and Gu Bei was out of breath at the same time, how could he still have a lot of energy to study.

After sitting at home for a month or two, Gu Bei also decided to go out and break through.

Beipiao, probably a word that became popular in the early nineties, Gu Bei also wanted to stay away from this city full of sympathetic eyes - Pengcheng in Guangdong Province, so he bought a train ticket, sold everything he could sell at home, and went to Beiping with a passbook of nearly 35,000 yuan in his pocket.

I didn't finish high school, but junior high school students are also rare people, Gu Bei plays the piano well, and he could have found a good job, but he is underage, minors are not used in most places, and there are only two places where he dares to use Gu Bei, where the liar and where he recruits zero-hour workers.

After nearly a year and a half, Gu Bei was deceived twice, once for a month's work for others, and once for 50 yuan, fortunately, Gu Bei is not stupid, he knows that his wealth is not exposed, and he has not been cheated out of much money.

Gu Bei also said that he was 19 years old, fortunately, Gu Bei's nutrition was good since he was a child, and his genes were good, he had a height of 1.7 meters at the age of 15, and he was a little thinner, but no one doubted that he was 19 years old, and it didn't matter if you were really fifteen years old.

It's hard at first, there are no acquaintances, I don't know the road, it's already good to be able to find a zero-hour job in a week, but after a long time, Gu Bei also has his own small circle, and there are more and more jobs.

Tired is a little tired, but it can be regarded as able to maintain a life, and after a year and a half, Gu Bei has also been mixed until he is 16 years old.

In the past two years, Gu Bei has done hundreds of jobs, such as water delivery, hotel room tidying, temporary security in shopping malls, concert stage construction, nursing, leaflet distribution, bookkeeping, temporary pet fostering, delivery, printing, dishwashing, venue cleaning, ......

Gu Bei, who was joked about once by God, gradually ushered in his own light, life was no longer cumbersome, his income gradually stabilized, and he gradually gained a firm foothold in the metropolis of Beiping.

Well, it's kind of standing firm.

In the past year and a half, Gu Bei has matured a lot, has done hundreds of jobs and is used to seeing all kinds of life, although he has not learned any lofty skills, but Gu Bei has become a person who is very familiar with and even proficient in all aspects of life.

When Gu Bei thought that life would get better and better, God joked with Gu Bei again, just the night before, Gu Bei had a long, long dream, the dream was another person's life, and after waking up, Gu Bei found that the memory of that period of life in the dream was actually lingering in his mind, and he even felt that he was the person in the dream.

The person in the dream is very handsome, and he is an online novel writer living in the future, called HC Old Demon, who specializes in writing entertainment novels.

HC Old Demon is unknown, but in the process of writing novels, he checked a lot of information about the entertainment industry, and the books he wrote are not famous, but he has enjoyed countless classic works, and the movies and music he is interested in are repeated over and over again.

"How did he appear in my dreams?" Gu Bei lit another cigarette and thought incomprehensibly, "What did he go through?" Will it really happen? ”

"By the way, he seems to have been stabbed by a grumpy reader because of the interruption." Gu Bei kept looking back on the life of the HC old demon, "He's dead?" And then it appeared in my dreams? But why does his memory, his life, continue? ”

"Am I Gu Bei? Or is it an HC old demon? Gu Bei frowned and thought for a long time, and was suddenly stumped by this question.

"Smack!"

Gu Bei was thinking about it, when he suddenly felt that someone slapped the back of his head fiercely, and then there was an extremely obscene old male voice: "Little guy, didn't you work today?" ”

An old man in a cotton coat sat beside Gu Bei.

Gu Bei took out a cigarette and handed it over: "Think about something, take a day off by the way." ”

"Yo, you kid can also think about life?" The old man put the cigarette that Gu Bei handed over in his mouth, snatched the cigarette that Gu Bei was smoking, lit his own cigarette, and directly stepped on Gu Bei's cigarette.

"I'll go! Old man, I just took two puffs! Gu Bei looked at the cigarette that was extinguished by the old man with a distressed expression.

The old man took a puff of Gu Bei's cheap cigarette, and while spitting out the smoke ring, he said with great enjoyment: "You are young, you don't learn, what do you learn to smoke?" ”

"Cut, you're sixty or seventy years old, embarrassed to say me?" Gu Bei directly gave the old man a roll of his eyes, "You don't want to smoke and die one day." ”

"You handed me the cigarette, I smoked it to death, you are murder." The old man and the old god were there, and he raised Erlang's legs, and he was humming an unknown song in his mouth.

"Yes, I can't afford to mess with it, so I won't send you cigarettes in the future."

"Uh...... Xiaobei, grandpa is just joking, no. ”

"Stop! My grandfather was gone years ago! ”

"What are you talking about! At my age, can't I be your grandfather? Besides, for more than a year, do you dare to say that I don't treat you as my own grandson? ”

When Gu Bei heard this, he didn't refute it again, the old man was Gu Bei's landlord, Gu Bei had lived in Beiping for a year and a half, and basically lived in the old man's place.

Seeing that Gu Bei didn't speak, the old man laughed like a winner, but this pride was accidentally choked by the smoke.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"

Gu Bei patted the old man's back lightly, and said with "disgust": "The old man still smokes less." ”

"You're underage, you smoke less! cough cough cough ......"

Gu Bei was afraid that others would say that he was too young, but the old man was afraid that others would say that he was old, and different ages had their own different pleasures.

Gu Bei thought for a while, this smoking is really not good, so he said to the old man: "Either the two of us make a bet, let's bet to see who quits smoking faster." ”

The old man's eyes narrowed, his interest came, and he nodded in response: "Okay, what are you betting on?" ”

Gu Bei pondered for a while and said, "If I lose, I will call you grandpa, and if you lose, I will call me eldest brother." ”

"Shhh...... It sounds like I'm taking advantage, but something doesn't feel right. The old man frowned, but quickly relaxed, "But your grandfather is done." ”

Not to be outdone, Gu Bei said, "I'll wait for the day when you call me big brother." ”

The old man and Gu Bei sat and chatted for a while, and suddenly there were gorgeous fireworks outside, and one old and one young looked at the sky through the window, realizing that the new year was coming.

Today, January 7, 1995, there is about a month to go, and it will be the Spring Festival.

"Little one, aren't you going home for the New Year this year?"

"If you don't go back, your salary will be a little higher after the Chinese New Year."

The old man glanced at Gu Bei and said, "I've never seen you talk to your family on the phone, you worked outside during the Chinese New Year last year, and you plan to work outside this year?" Don't want to be at home? ”

"Yes." Gu Bei didn't think about it, and directly gave an affirmative answer, and immediately said that he rarely mentioned his life experience to others, "I am an orphan." ”

"No wonder ......" The old man felt a little more unbearable in his heart, but looking at Gu Bei's increasingly resolute figure now, there was a little more relief.

Without asking about Gu Bei's life experience, the old man asked instead, "You haven't said what you were thinking just now?" ”

Gu Bei stared at the fireworks in the sky for a while, and then said in a daze: "Last night, I had a dream, I dreamed that there was another soul living in my body, old man, would this be true?" ”

"Silly? If you come, you will be safe, go back and sleep well and it will pass, what lives another soul, you have watched too many movies? ”

"Yes, if you come, you will be safe, anyway, it's a dream." Gu Bei thought about it for a day and didn't come up with a reason, so he sighed naturally, "Okay, old man, I'm going to sleep, it's hard to take a day off and sleep a little longer." ”

"Wait!" The old man stopped Gu Bei, got up again, found a note and handed it to Gu Bei, "This is the address of Sunshine Kindergarten and the contact information of the dean, Sunshine Kindergarten has a drill tomorrow, I want to find someone to play the gangster, I will introduce you to it." ”

"Kindergarten? How did you get involved with kindergarten? Besides, wouldn't they just find a teacher to play it? ”

"The children all know those teachers, and they are looking for strangers for the sake of effect, and I happened to go back for a walk, so I found out about it, so I introduced you to it."

"Go back for a walk?" Gu Bei glanced at the old man in surprise, "You graduated from that?" Does Sunshine Kindergarten have such a long history? ”

"Get out!" When the old man heard Gu Bei's words, his eyes immediately widened, and he said angrily, "I used to be the director of Sunshine Kindergarten!" ”

"You? Dean? Gu Bei was even more surprised now, and looked the old man up and down, "Isn't this a misguided child?" ”

"Get out!"