Chapter 16: The Bar
Four o'clock in the morning, late at night bar.
Two teenagers sit at the bar and drink the cheapest beer. Stacks of peanuts and a small piece of lime on the mouth of a beer bottle.
They have forgotten how many bottles they have drunk, they are a little fluttery, and their voices unconsciously begin to become louder, and some of them even speak illogically, but they can be regarded as very funny jokes, which make them laugh.
In a noisy bar, no one would pay attention to two drunken youths, unless some sexy-dressed young lady would tentatively glance at them.
There is a stage next to the bar filled with instruments needed by various bands. Sometimes professional DJs come here to DJo. Today, however, only drunken guests sing of sad emotions, hoarse, and howling wolves.
A piercing voice, frequent out-of-tune, is allowed in places where the sad gather, and few people will mind, because by the time the white-collar worker in the suit finishes singing, anyone present may take the microphone in his hand and start singing unpleasantly, or not at all. Maybe someone really couldn't listen to it anymore, and for the sake of the ears of all the guests present, he inserted a song of Wu Yilin's tears with a confident and beautiful voice.
At most, it was a young man in his twenties and thirties, still in college, or just graduated. Many people have speculated that he may have attended a conservatory.
He sings well, but no one thinks it will be better than the original, it is a voice that cannot be overridden. The white-collar worker who had just stepped off the stage and walked back to his seat was not defeated, because he had already come to react without any hurry to start vomiting with a black trash can with a white plastic bag, and tomorrow he would wake up in his bed and forget a lot about what happened tonight.
The scene is very chaotic and complicated, the bar is full of scenery, in every position, in every corner, you can find different people, and hear different stories, about the past of youth, love and friendship, family troubles, children going to school, dad hospitalized, employees changing jobs, bosses have nothing to do......
You'll hear a lot of stories about the past, usually the ones that make you happy or very sad, happy together, or sad separation.
Stories often begin with such a statement, do you remember? I want to be at the beginning. Or maybe it starts with a sigh.
You will see some people laughing and talking about the happy times of the past, and then suddenly their faces are expressionless, and you will find that the things of the past have changed over time, and happiness has turned into sadness, and sadness has been reduced to indifference. You will find that the most painful expression is expressionless, and the saddest thing is the happiest.
"Do you remember when we were just in elementary school? I was the same then as I am now, like a child with a terrible flu, everyone stayed away from me, I didn't have a table mate at that time, and the teacher thought I was a strange child, afraid that I would bring anyone in the class, we were only in the first grade at that time, on the contrary, there was always laughter around you, all the children revolved around you, even the teacher was trying to please you intentionally or unintentionally. Jingxi drank the beer in one gulp and immediately burped. The intimate barmaid handed over two more bottles of beer, and put a piece of lime on the mouth of the bottle with the lid open, and after doing this, she heard the needs of the other guests.
"Wait, I'll be right away." The barmaid's voice was very rough, very different from her petite appearance. As she spoke, she poured a bowl of peanuts from a plastic jar, put it on the bar, and slowly pushed it in front of Jingxi and Kaiwei, saying, "Drink less." As she spoke, another voice urged her, and he patiently replied, "Coming, coming." Unfortunately, her rugged voice doesn't do a good job of her friendliness and customer-oriented professionalism.
Kai Wei squeezed a whole lime from the mouth of the bottle into the bottle, and suddenly the bubbles surged, he took a small sip and said: "The reason is very simple, because the family has money, there is a driver who drives a luxury car to and from class every day, which is very stylish, and I was loved by everyone when I was a child." ”
"It's quite pleasing to the eye, but can you tell me, what has happened to you over the years, when others grow up, their eyebrows have expanded, why have your eyes grown smaller and smaller, and your mouth has become thicker and thicker, the key is, when did this mole on your upper lip grow?"
"Small eyes are charming, you know what? This mole is a gift from God to my sensuality, don't you understand? Do you know how many little girls wrote me love letters at that time? ”
"I know, I know, you read it to me a lot, I can memorize just a few words back and forth. Even if you've received love letters to me, you won't read outdated jokes on the Internet to me. ”
"No one writes love letters anymore, and if a woman wants to get a man, their beauty, youthful vitality, are more lethal and effective than those ethereal talents."
Jing Xi shook his head and said, "I think the word man is too early for us. ”
"Boys always have to grow up......," Kai Wei continued. However, Jingxi only listened to Kai Wei, "The boy has to grow up", and he couldn't hear what he said later.
Boys are going to grow up, boys are going to be big, boys are going to be big...... It was as if someone was shouting at the cliff inside him, echoing like the waves of the sea, more like a sharp sword at both ends shuttling back and forth on both sides of the heart wall. He felt pain, he was scared, he didn't want to grow up, he didn't want to face it. At this time, a handsome young man in a black uniform held his little hand, and he felt that he had found a support.
After the rain of tears was sung, some people in the bar applauded. As soon as the prelude to the next song sounded, Kai Wei noticed Kyung-hee's strange silence. He had no choice but to stop his tirade and concluded that women's ** is the door to a new world for men.
Kai Wei shook Jingxi's body lightly and said worriedly, "What's wrong?" ”
Jing Xi was shocked hard, as if he suddenly encountered a terrible earthquake and suddenly came back to his senses, and the image in front of him was like a person's movie theater suddenly lost power, falling into a dead silence and darkness, and the appearance of a little boy and the handsome young man holding his hand were gone. With the sound of a wine bottle falling to the ground, Jing Xi saw the scene in the bar again.
Many people looked at them and saw that there was no conflict, and they didn't bother to pay any more attention. However, Jingxi became extremely sensitive at the moment, and he felt that the people around him were staring at him with bad intentions.
The petite waitress at the bar summoned an obese staff member, who passed by the white-collar worker who was still vomiting, with a broom and a bucket in his hand.
"Thank you." Kai Wei thanked the bar lady, took out his wallet, took out a few large bills and put them on the table, and said with a smile and politeness: "Don't look for it, give you a tip." ”
"Thank you, come and sit here often." As she spoke, the barmaid also raised an eyebrow at Kai Wei.
Kai Wei nodded noncommittally and said to the unusual Jingxi, "Let's go." ”
"Where are you going?" Kyung-hee is like a helpless child.
"Go home."
When the two left, a few more middle-aged people came to this bar. The barmaid shouted enthusiastically, welcome. They walked to the door and went up the street in the autumn wind all night.
Kai didn't reach out of his pocket to unlock the car keys for the SUV parked on the side of the road. It was a very ordinary car, and at his age, a rich second generation with a family as rich usually drove a luxurious and high-end limited edition sports car. He opened the co-pilot's position for Jingxi, walked to the driver's door again, and got into the car in a hurry.
The first thing Jing Xi said when he got into the car was, drunk driving.
"Don't worry, after I finish drinking, people are more sober. Just like I usually play games, if I don't hesitate to be an alcoholic and play every qualifying match, then I will definitely be able to get up to the big heroes. ”
Jing Xi is not afraid, sitting in the car, he feels very safe, he feels that the world in the car and the outside world are two worlds isolated from the outside world, even if Kai Wei is really drunk at this moment, he can't tell the position of the brake and accelerator, or the car roars towards the cliff at a speed of 200 miles per hour, even if it is a car that will break down at any time and burn and explode, as long as Jing Xi thinks that it is a car, then he will be ready to live and die with the car. The bus does not give Kyung-hee any sense of security because he has to sit in the passenger seat, and the bus does not have a passenger seat.
"When I was a child, you were often like this, suddenly silent, and then put on a stinky face that popped out of the, and the children around you all thought you had a problem with your brain, and they were talking about you in private, and they were all discussing to stay away from you, a dangerous guy, and some people also said that your family was a loan shark, I don't know where they heard it or they said it themselves, saying that your family is full of ruthless characters with scars on their faces who don't frown when they stab people to death." The car drove to the intersection, and Kai Wei stretched out his neck to look left and right as he spoke, carefully observing the surrounding situation.
Kyung-hee didn't speak, caught up in his own thoughts, but he was listening.
"When I was in the second grade, we were still in the same class, and one day, I suddenly had a fever in my head, so I decided to sit next to you with my school bag on my back and become your tablemate who had been absent for a year. The rebellious period is usually when I am a teenager, but I am already very rebellious by that time. I refused everything my parents had arranged for me, I didn't let the housekeeper take me to and from class every day, I said I had feet, I would walk by myself, there was a bus to school, and I really wanted to experience what it was like to ride the bus. They thought I was just a child, ignorant, and didn't understand their good intentions. They slowly realized that my temper was worse than the two of them combined. They had no choice but to respect my decision, unless they wanted to see me starve to death. Of course I won't force myself to die, I secretly hid water in my room, I checked on the Internet, assuming that people don't eat and only drink water, how long can they live at most, there are a lot of words on the Internet, and there are many people who have tried and some are in trouble, and the real events that are forced to happen, the shortest of which is also 7 days, I think even a child can barely hold on for four or five days, and medicine is so developed, if you faint, you will be sent to rescue it. Who knew my parents would compromise the next day. At that time, it was as if I had suddenly grown up and learned about the thing called freedom and autonomy. ”
"Why do you suddenly want to sit with me, I didn't give you a good look, and I often told you to fuck off.".
"Because you're different, when everyone is around me, you're the only one sitting there quietly, and I'm curious about what magic seems to be around you."
"If there's any magic, all the kids should revolve around me."