Zhou Xu is still as happy and optimistic as before, even if he has broken up with Liu Lili now, but his optimistic personality has not changed, when he sees Liu Lili, his expression is still very natural, and for me, he is still as enthusiastic as before.

"It's not you, don't be sentimental." Liu Lili's tone was unceremonious.

Zhou Xu still smiled and said: "It's okay, I'm thick-skinned, and I'm always ruthlessly annoyed by amorous feelings." ”

Liu Lili snorted disdainfully: "Sure enough, her skin is thick enough." ”

"By the way, how is Brother Zhou feeling now?" Zhou Xu turned to me casually and said to me.

"It feels okay, I can't die for a while." I laughed.

"That's good, Bao Lina said that you are overworked, Brother Zhou must take care of your body." Zhou Xu's concern was beyond words, and he said, "This is the first time I have come to the hospital to see you, and I hope it will be the last." ”

I think he has something to say, is he wishing me a speedy recovery?

I said, "People who eat whole grains will inevitably fall down and get sick or something, and I hope it will be the last time I am overworked." ”

Zhou Xu put away his smiling face, and suddenly said with some sadness: "I'm leaving Hangzhou, I originally wanted to have a good drink with your brother Zhou, the eldest brother doesn't like to smoke, but he likes to drink, but unfortunately I heard that you can't even drink now." ”

"What? Are you leaving Hangzhou?"

Before I could react, Liu Lili was already screaming from the side, her face clearly showing unexpected shock. Perhaps, there will be a moment of regret, but after a moment it will return to normal.

"yes, I'll never bother you again." Zhou Xu regained his smile, and in my opinion, this smile was as innocent as a child's smile, without a trace of artificiality.

"The cheeky guy who pretends to be amorous is finally leaving, and it's quiet now." He said self-deprecatingly.

"Where are you going?" I asked, in fact, this was also asked for Liu Lili, and it was obvious that Liu Lili was also looking at him with inquiring eyes.

"My sister asked me to go to the United States with her." Zhou Xu sighed and said, not seeming to be happy.

"Oh my God, it's all over the side of US imperialism." I sighed too.

"What do you mean by running all over there?" Zhou Xu looked at me puzzled.

"Nothing." I said it casually, and I couldn't explain much to him for a while.

In fact, what I think of in my heart is that Han Meiling, as well as Zhou Xu's sister Zhou Tenglan, and now Zhou Xu, all three of them went to the United States, and they will all be Chinese Americans in the future, and it is indeed not easy to see each other again.

I said, "I haven't learned the guitar yet, so you're going to run first, it's not interesting enough." ”

Zhou Xu grinned and said proudly: "You are so smart, you don't need me to teach you after two or three months of learning, have you practiced guitar recently?"

I said, "I haven't practiced much, but at least I can play the green sleeves." ”

Zhou Xu was stunned for a moment and said, "Green sleeves? Why play that tune, it's too hard. ”

"I think it's okay, it's not hard to play."

"I don't like songs that are too sad." Zhou Xu said, and suddenly said with a strange expression, "Brother Zhou, I have been to the bookstore recently, and I bought a few books there, guess what kind of books they are." ”

"Oh, you're not going to tell me a story, are you?" I said with a smile.

At this time, Liu Lili, who had been sitting quietly on the side, interjected: "Okay, I want to listen to the story." I've been sitting here for fifty minutes, suffocating. ”

Zhou Xu grinned and said, "Lili, with me and Brother Zhou, you are still bored?"

I hurriedly interrupted him: "Familiar, don't talk nonsense, you are a living treasure, I am not." ”

Lili giggled and said, "What you two say, I don't understand, it's weird." ”

Zhou Xu said: "The story I tell is weird." I recently read a Borges novel, and it's a very weird story. By the way, doesn't Brother Zhou also like Borges's novels?"

As he spoke, he gave me a meaningful look.

I was shocked, and I thought to myself, how could Zhou Xu read Borges's books, and how did he know that I also liked the bizarre stories that Borges told?

"Tell me, which novel is it?" I asked.

Zhou Xu thought for a while and said, "Well, I forgot the title of the novel, anyway, the title is weird." ”

Then he began to tell his story: "The novel is about a man who was captured by the enemy during the Latin American civil war, locked up in a huge prison, and waited to be shot the next morning. Before waiting for his time to die, he suddenly thought of many of the most regrettable things in his life, and then prayed to God that he would turn back time and let him live again, maybe not this is the end. ”

As a result, God did not simply turn back time, but stopped time, and suddenly let him leave the prison and continue to live for a while with the help of someone else's body, well, like the ancient Chinese saying of "parasitic soul". It's just that the other person happens to be the person who looks exactly like him, he uses someone else's body to live his own life, and uses such a body to achieve things he has not done before, and his life is more colorful than in the past, just when he was proud, he suddenly woke up one morning, only to find that he was still in prison, still waiting for the morning execution. That is, he just had a dream, and then, and then ------"

When Zhou Xu said this, he deliberately slowed down his voice, looked at the anxious expressions of the two of us, and said with a smile: "That person found out that there was another person who walked on the execution ground, a person who looked exactly like him, and that person was locked up in the same prison!"

That is, someone else died for him! He's still alive. However, he was not happy at all, because he could no longer figure out whether the one who died was the real him. ”

Zhou Xu let out a long breath and said, "Ha, I'm done, isn't this story weird and interesting?"

Suddenly there was silence in the room, so quiet that you could hear a pin drop on the floor.

After a while, Zhou Xu smiled awkwardly and said, "It seems that my storytelling level is too bad, so let's give me some applause and encouragement." ”

Liu Lili opened her mouth and said: "No noise is allowed in the ward. Speaking of this story, I think it's a little boring, I don't even know what it says. ”

I smiled and said, "This story illustrates the truth that God always has a reason for what he does. ”