The small yellow building is only named because of the color of the exterior wall, and the content inside is still very harmonious, which is a game hall.

When I was still in elementary school, Bai Lu and Zhang Xiao often came on weekends, and it has been almost 20 years, and this place has not gone out of business, but it has changed from eight game coins per dollar to one dollar, and a lot of large game consoles have been added. Business doesn't look as prosperous as it did more than ten years ago, but Bai Lu guessed that the boss had probably made enough money a long time ago, and he couldn't have bought the owner of this two-story small building.

"Lao Bai, do you remember my dream back then?" Zhang Xiao watched the game end and turned his head to look at Bai Lu.

"Can you forget that?" Bai Lu was happy when he heard it. "Then you said you would buy this place when you grow up and invite the whole class to play with it."

Zhang Xiao took out a cigarette from his pocket and gave it to Bai Lu, but Bai Lu didn't answer: "It's good not to smoke, it's expensive to smoke." ”

Bai Lu asked curiously, "When did you start smoking?" I saw you last time you hadn't smoked yet. ”

"More than two months ago." Zhang Xiao stopped playing, turned sideways, and rode on the bench to talk to Bai Lu. "A good news or a bad news, which do you listen to first?"

"Good news." Bai Lu thought for a moment and said. "Listen to the good news first, and then listen to the bad news, and then it doesn't feel so bad."

"The good news is." Zhang Xiao smiled. "The good news is that buddy gets married early next month, and you have to come and be my best man, and by the way, bring your Lincoln to me as the first car."

"Aren't you?" Bai Lu was surprised. "When did you find it? I haven't seen you for three months, you haven't found a girlfriend, and you're planning to get married? What's the bad news? ”

"My dad has terminal lung cancer." Zhang Xiao said calmly.

Bai Lu was silent for a moment and patted Zhang Xiao's shoulder: "I'll contact the hospital for you, you don't have to worry about money...... You are also good enough, why didn't you say such a big thing earlier? If I don't call you, don't you know to look for me? ”

"What are you talking to you about? Don't worry, if I am really short of money, I will definitely borrow from you. Zhang Xiao smiled. When they were found out, they were all at an advanced stage, and they all spread. At first, I couldn't accept it, so I squatted in the hospital toilet and cried, making the security guards cry. It was my dad who comforted me and gave me a cigarette. ”

Bai Lu asked, "Incurable?" ”

Zhang Xiao shook his head: "I plan to treat it, the doctor said that if you treat conservatively, it will only be a year or two at most, and it will cost a lot of money, hundreds of thousands." My dad told me that it was better to enjoy yourself than to spend so much money and end up dying. Then I took my dad out to play for more than a month, and when I came back, I introduced a girlfriend to the family, who was very nice, the doctor of the second hospital, isn't this just ready to get married, at least let my dad see me get married. ”

"I'll go see Uncle Zhang tomorrow." Bai Lu nodded and asked, "It's the twenty-sixth, when will you get married next month?" ”

"Seven."

"Okay, I'll be there early in the morning."

Life is not about the large intestine and the small intestine, but the impermanence of the world, Zhang Xiao and his father also have a physical examination every year, this disease is not just coming, and it is serious as soon as it comes, and it will not give you a chance to remedy it at all.

The two played in the game hall for an afternoon, at five o'clock, Zhang Xiao said that he was going to pick up his girlfriend from work, and left early, Bai Lu also went out, and before he got in the car, he seemed to think of something, and turned around and walked back, and when he came out again, it was almost six o'clock, and Chen Jiang also sent a message to the address, it was a barbecue restaurant.

According to the address, Chen Jiang had already arrived: "Bai Lu, what about this." ”

"Brother Chen, are you alone?" Bai Lu looked left and right, and there was indeed only Chen Jiang alone.

"And who else do you want?" Chen Jiang asked with a smile, and then handed over the menu. "Just order whatever you like."

The two ordered food and chatted casually, seeing that Chen Jiang wanted to speak several times and stopped, Bai Lu asked: "Brother Chen, if you have something, you can say it, your expression is like constipation, I feel sorry for you when I look at it." ”

Chen Jiang pointed at Bai Lu with a smile: "You mouth, when did you lose it so much." ”

After a pause, Chen Jiang scratched his head a little embarrassedly: "What, Bai Lu, what about me, I want to borrow some money from you, I don't know if it's convenient for you?" ”

"What do you want to borrow money for?" Bai Lu remembered something. "Don't have enough money to buy a house?"

"Yes." Chen Jiang was helpless. The landlord agreed to sell, but he didn't agree to take out a loan, he was in a hurry to sell and wanted to pay the full amount in one go. borrowed some from relatives, and there is still a gap of 300,000. ”

Bai Lu took a sip of water and said puzzledly: "Just take a fancy to that house?" Do you want to think about anything else? ”

"I've thought about it too." Chen Jiang nodded: "The school district house is expensive, and it's not that you can't buy it, it's just that the pressure is a little great." The main reason is that the landlord is going to sell it this month, and if I don't buy it, I will have to move, and it will be another toss. ”

"What does this landlord do?" Bai Lu couldn't understand it. "How short of money is he? The loan is only a month at most, so can't wait? It's not a few days left in the month, isn't it embarrassing? ”

"So I can't help it." Chen Jiang said. "If it's inconvenient for you, forget it."

"Hey, Brother Chen, don't get me wrong, I'm inconvenient." Bai Lu waved his hand and said. "You give me a card number, and I'll transfer it to you directly, is 300,000 enough? Aren't you still planning to buy a car? ”

"And buy a car with a." Chen Jiang was speechless. "Let's take it slow."

He looked at Bai Lu gratefully and said, "Bai Lu, thank you, you Brother Chen and I can't help it, wait for me to write you an IOU, and the interest will be calculated according to the bank, you can see it?" ”

"What interest is not interested." Bai Lu waved his hand.

"That's not going to work." Chen Jiang insisted. "My brother is still settling accounts, we are colleagues, and the relationship is not to borrow money, it is you Brother Chen and I have a big face, and I have opened this mouth with you, besides, according to the interest rate of the bank, I am taking advantage of you...... Okay, don't say more, that's it. ”

Bai Lu didn't insist anymore, and transferred 300,000 yuan to Chen Jiang with his mobile phone, and the two chatted about the company's recent changes.

"After you left, we recruited two more people, both of whom are fresh graduates, a man and a woman." Chen Jiang said hesitantly. "Ouch, don't say it, how easy it was to take you at the beginning, as soon as you say it, you will understand, as soon as you teach it, you haven't let me worry about you Sister Tang, these two children are ...... Your sister Tang has said that it is not difficult to teach his son mathematics without teaching these two. You don't know what makes your Sister Tang angry these days. ”

"Take your time, I was also quite nervous when I just graduated, which means that I met you and Sister Tang, and I was willing to take me."

"That's not what I said." Chen Jiang sighed. "I am willing to take anyone, I am willing to teach, but I have to be able to teach, this benzene, I feel that my blood pressure is going up."

After chatting for a while, and eating almost, Chen Jiang got up and went to check out, saying that he would not let Bai Lu knot, and finally Bai Lu said that he would talk about it, and Chen Jiang said that next time he would gather to call Tang Tang and eat Bai Lu, a big family.