Chapter 1: Hello, Shenzhen

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"Horn", a crisp sound of glass breaking suddenly sounded on the street in the middle of the night. I raised my heavy eyelids and glanced at Wu Kai, who was sitting across from me, and saw that a bottle of "Old Qingdao" that had just been opened and drank less than two sips was already generous. And his eyes were already foggy at this time, and his mouth was still vaguely continuing the "great achievements" of his youth.

I can't help but be dumbfounded, I don't know how many times this is the N+ time the two of us have drunk on the streets of Shenzhen together. This is one of the tiniest of Shenzhen's many unknown urban villages, so small that none of them have an exact name. Half a year ago, Wu Kai spent a huge sum of 650 yuan to rent a 10-square-meter mansion on the top floor of a handshake building where the sun can't see sunlight all year round, thus ending his love-hate entanglement with his company's group of "dick" colleagues in the dormitory.

Looking at Wu Kai who was dancing, I didn't say anything to stop it, but silently took out another bottle of wine from the box next to me, which was no longer cold, and bit it open with my teeth and handed it to him. Looking at the hops under his feet that have not yet been dispersed, he can't help but feel pain and secretly scold this loser.

Looking at the glass stubble scattered around, he slowly stood up against the railing by the flower bed, and his body shook for a while. I shook my head, took a deep breath and calmed down before slowly walking over and picking up the glass stubble on the ground and throwing it into the trash bin not far away.

When Wu Kai saw my action, he said teasingly: "Sage Xiao, why are you so virtuous, and you still don't forget your moral restraints?" ”

I didn't defend anything, just smiled helplessly. Then he picked up the wine bottle in his hand and touched it with Wu Kai, then raised his head and poured the slightly warm wine into his mouth, the wine slowly slid through the esophagus along the throat, and the moment it entered the stomach, he only felt that his stomach was overturned.

Feeling that something was wrong, I rushed to the trash can where I had just thrown the glass stubble, and threw up. The chicken bits and pieces that I ate in the middle of the night have already been vomited out, and now the only thing I can spit out is the beer I just drank in my stomach. Wu Kai took out his mobile phone with a lewd smile on his face, and then clicked a few times, without thinking about it, he knew that tomorrow's headlines in the circle of friends would probably be me who was holding the trash can and vomiting at this time.

In this regard, I think those friends in the circle of friends have long been accustomed to it.

After vomiting, I finally felt a lot better, so I wrung up the wine bottle again and touched the bottle in Wu Kai's hand, and drank it again. Wu Kai had a clear expression, and he also raised his head and drank all the wine in the bottle. This guy has a huge contrast between the amount of alcohol and the amount of alcohol, once set a record of one person drinking down two tables of people, and then staged a striptease farce on the streets of Shenzhen at four o'clock in the morning.

Seeing his calm appearance, I really wanted to rush up and punch his thin face, and beat his handsome face that he often boasted about into a pig's head.

And I, as the hero of my obscenity, didn't realize it at all and bit open the bottle of wine and handed it to me, and then said with a gloomy expression: "The last two bottles are one person and one bottle, and no one takes advantage of them, and I don't know when the next time I drink it." ”

Looking at his suddenly solemn expression, my heart unconsciously became sad. Weakly touched the bottle with him, and then took a symbolic drink, holding it in his mouth to appreciate the feeling of hops rising in his mouth and the trace of bitterness.

This is the eve of the 11th long holiday in 2017, five hours ago, Wu Kai, who received a notice from the boss that as long as he completes the assigned task, he can receive a three-day holiday, excitedly gave me WeChat, informing me to take leave with the "leader" to prepare for an all-nighter.

Yaoyao has always hated me for going out to drink, and the only one who can let him out to drink is Wu Kai.

Our two high school classmates, Wu Kai, is an atypical rich second generation. Both parents used to be great soul engineers, and later followed the footsteps of great men in the Special Economic Zone for more than ten years of hard work, and successfully gained a firm foothold in Shenzhen.

was originally going to end Wu Kai's rural left-behind life, but Wu Kai had long been accustomed to being his left-behind child, and after politely refusing the advice of his parents, he chose to continue his left-behind life.

For three years, he has been helping me who is living below the subsistence line. In the three years of fighting, we have formed a deep fighting friendship.

On the day I got my parents' grain and grass at the beginning of each month, taking me to the city for a tooth sacrifice almost became our regular program. Similarly, at the end of the month, the days when we picked the cigarette butt in the corner of the bed bracket together also had the figure of our common struggle.

Wu Kai is 185 tall, emaciated, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and developed sports genes. Whenever there is a sports day in school, he becomes a class pet, and he seems to have no shortcomings in sports, and he has won various trophies. In addition, his parents have always used material materials to make up for his emotional debt to him, and he has a heroic personality and is generous, so this guy has always been favored by male and female classmates, especially female classmates.

There are even girls who are jealous and do not hesitate to fight, but his love affair never seems to have been opened. I didn't even see him show the slightest affection for any of the girls beyond friendship, and I wondered for a moment if he had any thoughts about me that went beyond friendship.

In order to avoid the girl's crazy pursuit, this guy has always pretended to be stupid, and he really can't avoid pushing me out to block the gun for him. In the midst of such laughter and scolding, the best three years of our lives quietly left us.

After July, I gave up my plan to continue my studies early and successfully failed the list. This guy is good, he scored more than 200 points in the test with full firepower, and he actually took the trouble to fill in a brochure in a city with a very awkward name, which looks very magnificent and the university volunteer.

After receiving the admission letter and seeing a long string of zeros behind the tuition fee, he finally let go of his unrealistic thoughts, and led me to Shenzhen to join his parents with all his belongings.

Although many years have passed, I still clearly remember the Phoenix intersection of National Highway 107, another new starting point in my life. When the long-distance bus driver ruthlessly threw the two of us on the edge of the roadside green belt and kicked the accelerator away, Wu Kai and I coincidentally gave the driver a standard national scold in the thick black smoke spewed out of the rear of the car.

The enthusiasm of Shenzhen in August is like fire, and the high temperature seems to prove the special situation of the Special Economic Zone, ruthlessly drilling into the body from every inch of unwrapped skin. In just a short time, we have already begun to miss the bus air conditioner that we scolded for a day and two nights.

Ten minutes before we got out of the car, Wu Kai's mother had just told us in a slightly anxious voice that they had been in a car accident on the way to pick us up, and although it was not serious, it would take time to deal with it. Let's wait patiently for them at the drop-off point, they will come as soon as possible.

We pulled the two schoolbags and suitcases we carried with us to the foot of a tree with long "beards", sat on the flower bed under the tree, and Wu Kai took advantage of the situation to throw me a "red panda". Then he lit it with a click, took a deep breath, and spat out an extremely round smoke ring. I blew at the smoke ring with bad intentions, and the smoke ring was blown away in an instant.

In the past three years, I have smoked countless nicotine, but I didn't learn this trick, and I was often ridiculed by Wu Kai, and hard work is not as important as talent. For my small action, Wu Kai has long been accustomed to it, and he didn't squeak. I started to look around, and following his gaze, I started to look around.

I saw that on both sides of the national highway, it was densely packed with the kind of trees with long "whiskers" (forgive my loneliness, I really didn't know that it was a banyan tree until many years later, and the gap between it and the banyan tree in "Bird's Paradise" in the language book is too big.) )

Behind the trees, puffs of smoke emanated from the rows of neatly aligned blue and white houses, with a pungent smell (the smell of plastic, which has been with me for countless years, has a penetrating power that has been ecstatic to the bone). Entering from the nostrils, it is slightly spicy, and as the nasal cavity enters the brain little by little, the feeling of instantly tightening the nerves is really fresh in people's memories and cannot be forgotten for a long time).

On the blue tin roof, iron bumps like mushrooms are spinning desperately. Through the window, you can see many people wearing uniform blue overalls and blue overalls shuttling between various machines and equipment, walking in a hurry, revealing a solemn and solemn feeling.

There are also neat rows of dormitories behind or next to the factory fronts, and the corridors or windows of the dormitories are full of colorful clothes, which are fluttering in the wind. It seems to be waving to their busy master in the workshop, and it is like the flag behind the battlefield in the workshop is grinning.

The downstairs and downstairs of the dormitory were empty, which formed a huge contrast with the endless flow of people in the workshop. Probably because of the high temperature, there were few pedestrians on the road, and the bus occasionally dropped a few passengers and hurried away, hurriedly submerging into the huge factory buildings around. It's like a swarm of bees going out to forage for food, hurriedly bringing the pollen back to the hive to feed the queen bee.

"Damn, I didn't expect Shenzhen to be so hot." Wu Kai threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, picked up the T-shirt on his hand and wiped the sweat on his face.

In just a few minutes, sweat was already running down his forehead and down his neck. The strands of hair on his forehead were already soaked with sweat, and strands were tangled together.

I also smiled bitterly, I had done my homework before I came, and I knew that Shenzhen was very hot. But the heat in my head and the heat I was experiencing in front of me, he seemed to be a little different. The heat pervades every hair in the body and enters the body, and there is a stinging sensation of pins and needles.

And sweat is also like being attracted by the heat wave, constantly overflowing from the pores, forming small sweat droplets on each pore, when the two small sweat drops successfully converge to form a large sweat droplet, it will flow down with gravity little by little. Along the way, other sweat droplets converge, forming a stream of sweat rushing down the skin, and every time you scratch a little bit of skin, there will be a little itching sensation to the brain.

It didn't take long for the clothes on his body to be soaked, sticky and wet on his body. That feeling, even if the Chinese language is broad and profound, I really can't think of a good adjective to describe it.

The two of us, who experienced this kind of weather for the first time, sat under the big huge banyan tree, looking at each other, and could only look around, hoping that Wu Kai's parents would appear early and save us from fire and water.

In this way, after almost an hour of our eager anticipation, Wu Kai's parents finally drove their Audi A6 and slowly stopped in front of us.

At this time, we are like two fish stranded on the beach, with dry mouths and weak bodies. Wu Kai also stopped his scolding and scolding fifteen minutes ago, his eyes looked vacantly in the direction where the traffic was coming, the expectation in his eyes had disappeared, and he just looked ahead.

When I saw a sudden glimmer of light in his eyes, and it grew warm, I knew that our hope was approaching.

Before the car stopped, Wu's mother had already pushed open the co-pilot's door and jumped out of the car, rushed to her son with an arrow, and said with a little anger: "You two fools, don't you know how to find a shady place to wait?" It's such a hot day, it's hot, isn't it? ”

He turned around and yelled at Father Wu, who had just come down from the driver's seat: "I told you, don't talk to him, he wants two hundred yuan, can't you give it to him?" Look at them for Kai Kai and they're hot. ”

Dad Wu probably knew that he was wrong, or he was a little afraid of guilt, so he could only mutter: "He suddenly rushed out and hit me, why should I give him money?" ”

Although he was retorting, he didn't stop under his feet, took three steps and did two steps, went around the front of the car, and came to us.

He smiled at me and said, "Xiaoyuan, the heat is broken, right?" The ghost weather in Shenzhen is about to blow a typhoon, so it's very hot today, and it's not usually so hot. Before I could react, I picked up the suitcase we had thrown on the ground and walked towards the back of the car.

As he walked, he turned around and said to Wu's mother, who was pulling Wu Kai to ask long questions: "Don't say it, let's talk about it when we go home, hurry up and let Xiao Kai and them cool off in the car." ”

Mother Wu woke up like a dream, and said with a little apology: "Yes, yes, look at me." Kaikai, Xiaoyuan, you hurry up and get in the car to blow the air conditioner. ”

Wu Kai and I had time to interject, and I hurriedly greeted Wu's father and Wu's mother: "Hello uncle and aunt, I'm coming to make trouble for you." ”

Wu Kai also said with a dissatisfied face: "Parents, if you come later, we will almost be dried." ”

Mother Wu, while pulling Wu Kai to push me into the car, looked at Father Wu, who was closing the trunk door after putting the suitcase: "It's all your father's fault, I talked there with a motorcycle driver for a long time, otherwise we would have waited for you here first." ”

After speaking, I didn't want to give Dad Wu a warning look, I watched Dad Wu subconsciously shrink his neck, and my heart was sour. I haven't seen this kind of scene in a long, long time.

When I was just in junior high school, in order to change the conditions of my family, my parents went south to Zhejiang to work, and in order to save the round-trip fare, I haven't been back to my hometown for five years. Although I have been to Zhejiang twice to reunite with them in the middle, their appearance has gradually blurred in my heart.

Even in those days when the family lived together, it was only filled with their endless quarrels. This kind of warm moment has been rare in my eighteen years of life.

The sound of Wu's father starting the car pulled my thoughts back, and Wu's mother sat in the passenger seat, half-turned around and looked at us with concern and asked, "You guys are still on the road, are you not suffering from motion sickness?" ”

Obviously, she was extremely uneasy about our two-night long journey, in fact, Wu's father and Wu's mother had already booked a ticket for him to come to Shenzhen when they received the notice that Wu Kai was coming to Shenzhen. But in order to take care of my emotions, Wu Kai had to insist on taking the bus with me.

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