"Boss, another chicken wing."

"Okay!"

The barbecue master stands in front of the grill, holding a handful of lamb skewers in each hand, flipping back and forth.

Tender gravy dripped down the stove with a sizzling sound, accompanied by exuberant smoke.

Such barbecue stalls are very common in the city, with a few tables and chairs at the door, air conditioning inside, and wind outside.

In front of a small square table at the entrance of the barbecue restaurant, Yun Feng was sitting with his friends Liu Lei and Zhao Yina.

After Liu Lei finished shouting to the master, he smiled at everyone and said, "I added another chicken wing, you must give me good food and drink today." ”

He wore a shirt and leather shoes, combed his hair neatly, and looked to be in his early thirties.

Zhao Yina next to her teased: "I think you are difficult to come out of middle age, you want to find an opportunity to indulge, your wife will not let you eat like this at home." ”

Zhao Yina wore her hair tied and wore professional clothes, looking very intellectual.

Liu Lei smiled bitterly: "Don't make fun of me, isn't Yunfeng coming back today, our old classmates haven't seen each other for a long time, what's wrong with having a meal, believe it or not, I'll call my wife now, you see if she agrees." ”

The two of them were in a good mood, but Yun Feng sitting opposite was different.

Yun Feng's face had never seen a smile from beginning to end, it wasn't that he was unhappy at the gathering of friends, but he was really unhappy when he came back from out of town in embarrassment.

Yun Feng squeezed out an ugly smile and said, "You two eat, I'm full." ”

After speaking, he picked up the wine glass on the table, filled the glass with another glass of wine, and then picked up the wine glass and was about to drink it all, Liu Lei stopped him.

"Don't drink it, you've drunk four bottles of hard work for half a day, what's going on, tell us about it." Liu Lei asked.

Yun Feng sighed and said, "It's okay, I'm just tired, so I'll come back." ”

All three of them were college classmates, majoring in art, and went their separate ways after graduating from college.

Liu Lei went to work in the company, Zhao Yina chose to stay in school to continue her studies, and only Yunfeng plunged into the entrepreneurial team of college students.

Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the three of them have already crossed the year of establishment.

Liu Lei's tone was sincere: "If you have anything, just say it, if you need help, just ask, my brother will definitely help if he can help, and it will definitely be unambiguous." ”

Everyone has been together for all these years, and their tempers are almost touched.

Yun Feng was a social bull at school back then, he could talk to anyone, and he was always happy, but I haven't seen him so depressed for so many years.

"That's it, they're all in their thirties, what's there to hide, aren't we still there?" Zhao Yina also persuaded.

Yun Feng let go of the wine glass at this time, his face full of unwillingness.

"Failed, there is nothing, I am a waste now, people have nothing in middle age, what a joke."

As he spoke, Yun Feng's eyes were a little red.

"What's the matter, isn't your company doing well?" Liu Lei wondered.

Yunfeng shook his head: "Bankrupt." ”

Liu Lei and Zhao Yina were both shocked and said in surprise: "How come? ”

Yun Feng was speechless and drank the beer down.

He was very active in college, and he had a good relationship with his teachers and classmates, and in his senior year, he opened a small restaurant near the school and started his entrepreneurial journey.

Business is booming, and a lot of money has been saved in the past year.

He didn't want to stay in Xi'an, so as soon as he graduated from university, he went south to Guangzhou to start a business.

At that time, Yunfeng felt that he had a bright future, and he was successful in his first business, so how could he make a name for himself when he went south.

But how can things be as good as they should be.

Guangzhou has been stumbling for ten years, how much hardship has been suffered, how many tears have been shed, I don't remember it, but in the end, the company still failed to open, and after ten years of struggle, it turned into smoke in a blink of an eye.

The Internet market is turbulent, and a little carelessness may be swallowed up by the wave.

On the day the company closed, he sat on the ground in front of the company all morning.

This morning, what he was thinking about was not the life of starting a business in other places, but when he was a child running in the countryside.

At that time, the summer wind blew the wheat waves, the crickets chirped in the fields, and the banana fan was fanned back and forth in the hand, but the mosquitoes still flew non-stop, and the body was bitten by mosquitoes and scratched a cross with their fingernails to stop itching, and when they wanted to take a bath at night, they found a big basin, boiled a pot of hot water in a big pot on the stove, and finally they must pour some flower water in the basin......

Thinking about it, he cried.

Homesick.

So in the afternoon, he packed his luggage and went back to Shaanxi.

But he was unwilling after all.

Young and ambitious, see all the Chang'an flowers in one day.

Now people are middle-aged, but they have nothing.

Yun Feng felt that he was a failure, the kind of failure very much.

Yun Feng told about his past experience, Liu Lei and Zhao Yina listened, and neither of them interjected.

As he spoke, tears flowed down his face.

"I didn't even have time to look at my grandparents when they died! I regret it! I shouldn't have gone south! Yunfeng muttered.

At that time, he was busy with his career, and his family was afraid that he would be distracted, so they did not tell him about his grandparents' illness, so that they did not even see him for the last time.

Zhao Yina took the tissue and handed it to Yunfeng.

Yun Feng picked up a tissue and wiped his eyes, and smiled, "Let you see the joke." ”

"What are you talking about, let's just say it, you have us, it's definitely not desperate, besides, your kid did business in his senior year and made so much money, but we are envious, I think you can do it, and sooner or later you can get up again."

Liu Lei comforted.

He wasn't telling a lie, he really thought Yunfeng could.

Zhao Yina also joked: "I still remember in my senior year, when you were in a professional class, you debated with the teacher, and in the end, the teacher said that he won, and the teacher directly gave him this course, if you want to say that you can't do it, I don't believe it first." ”

Liu Lei patted the table and said with a smile: "You said that I remembered, when we first entered the school, we would go to the playground to play at night, and you kid grabbed a teacher and talked to people about the school situation, and then waited for the opening ceremony to know that the teacher was the principal, but you were not embarrassed at all, and then chatted with the principal, like a relative." ”

"Have you done less of this kind of thing?"

As soon as the two sang and harmonized, the atmosphere at the table seemed less depressing.

Yun Feng looked at the two of them, and a smile appeared on his face.

How far is college life?

It seems like it's been more than ten years, right?

Sometimes in retrospect, it feels like it was a dream, not like something you really experienced.

"I still have this picture."

Liu Lei took out his mobile phone and opened a photo.

The photo is somewhat blurry and not in high definition.

In those days, it was good for mobile phones to be able to take pictures, and don't expect it to be very clear.

In the photo are six boys, with immature and youthful faces.

Six people stood in front of a large gate, arms over their shoulders, smiles on their faces.

"This is the first time that our dormitory has a dinner at the school gate, but it's a pity, now that several other people are out of town, and the children are all in school, it will be difficult to get together again." Liu Lei sighed.

Zhao Yina looked at the photo curiously and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to be a nostalgic person." ”

Liu Lei sighed: "Actually, I wasn't like this before, I guess I'm getting older and more and more nostalgic." ”

Yun Feng looked at the photo, and the person in the middle of the photo was him.

With the most fashionable hairstyle of the time, and a somewhat pompous pose, in short, how attractive is how to come.

At that time, I had just been admitted to university, and I was in high spirits, as if the world was in my hands.

"It's really hard to get together again." Yun Feng also sighed.

Liu Lei pointed to the screen of his mobile phone and asked, "Yunfeng, look at you in the photo, what did you say you had at that time?" ”

"At that time, it was only the beginning of the freshman year, and I had to rely on my family for food, so I was poor and white." Yunfeng laughed to himself.

Liu Lei slapped the table and said loudly: "Then you say, you didn't have anything at that time, but four years later, you became the best of our professional mix, right?" ”

Yunfeng nodded.

Liu Lei is not wrong, he did not delay his university studies, but it is not very good.

But he likes to toss, running all kinds of outreach in the student union in his freshman year, doing various part-time jobs outside in his sophomore and junior years, and saving enough money to rent a shop in the school and open a restaurant in his senior year.

At that time, takeaway was not yet popular, so he ran errands and delivered takeaway every day and made a lot of money, which gave him the confidence to start a business in the south.

It's a pity that life is like a dream.

Liu Lei said in an impassioned tone: "No matter how miserable you are now, you are better than you were at that time?" Now you have to have experience and experience, you have to have a vision, if you really start a career again, you will definitely regain your strength. ”

Zhao Yina bowed slightly: "People always have to encounter a few hurdles in this life, there is nothing that cannot be overcome, when we encounter a hurdle, we will stop and rest, recuperate, and then set off, we are only in our thirties, and we have a spiritual head." ”

Liu Lei said with a smile: "Yunfeng, I hope you can cheer up a little bit, you just came back now, don't think about anything else, clean up your mood first, wait for us to adjust and then set off, do a big job, I believe you will definitely do it, when you become a big boss, I will go to your job and be a second-in-command!" ”

Yun Feng was also amused by Liu Lei's words.

Zhao Yina teased: "I think you just don't want to work hard, you want Yunfeng to support you, right?" ”

"Don't tell me what I'm really thinking." Liu Lei laughed.

Zhao Yina glanced at Liu Lei, and then looked at Yunfeng.

"Yunfeng, you might as well go around here recently, you haven't come back all these years, our Xi'an has changed a lot, the environment is much better than before, the economy has developed, and there are many opportunities."

Yunfeng nodded: "Yes, it's really time to walk around and relax." ”

"That's right, rest and rest, you can earn money anytime, really wait for you to start work, but there is no chance to be idle." Liu Lei said with a smile.

The three of them raised their glasses and touched them together.

Zhao Yina said with a smile: "I wish our Yunfeng classmates a good time!" ”

"Yes, have fun, eat and drink!" Liu Lei also said.

"Thank you." Yunfeng smiled slightly.

The trio drank the beer in one gulp.