Return to Singapore 1995

Before going to the market for dinner, Li Xiaofan passed by Uncle Singh's grocery store and bought a pack of cigarettes.

After taking the cigarette, Li Xiaofan looked at the large-frame sunglasses sample he provided hanging on the wall and asked, "Uncle Singh, how is my sunglasses business?"

"Not so good, I sold two pairs of your sunglasses in two days!"

"Oh, two pairs were sold. What kind of customer are they?" Although it was not as good as expected, Li Xiaofan was still a little happy that two pairs were sold.

"Two tourists from the UK who came to Changi Beach to ride on the beach bought it this afternoon..."

"Wow, are you still a British guest?"

"Well, they are a father and son, probably coming to Singapore for vacation."

"How much did you sell it to them?"

"Haha, trade secrets..." Uncle Singh smiled mysteriously, "Li, anyway, I will settle the settlement with you according to the three yuan of new coins as originally agreed, right?"

"Well, that's right!"

"Li, let's wait until the weekend and see! We have a lot of tourists on the weekend. We'll see how the business goes then. If we can't sell on the weekend, then our business is probably going to be bad..."

"OK!"

In the evening, Li Xiaofan went to the NTUC Club Resort for Muay Thai training and returned to the townhouse.

After taking a shower, the two girls were quietly watching a VCD disc.

The movie "Sunny Day" played today is Jiang Wen's first independent director's work, adapted from Wang Shuo's novel "The Ferocious Animals". The main actors include Xia Yu, Ning Jing, Tao Hong, Geng Le, etc. At that time, these young actors also gradually became popular because of their participation in this movie.

The background of the film is a group of children living in a military compound during a special period of ten years, spending their youth among the dazzling sunshine and red flags everywhere. In the story of stream of consciousness, there is the impulse of love and sex, the naive and failed revolutionary spirit, and the story of growth...

Everyone has their own unforgettable youth. Seeing this movie again made Li Xiaofan inexplicably recall his own boyhood.

The story of this movie about recalling youth is very exciting, and Guo Hanyue and Liu Mengchen were also very engaged in watching it.

"Xiaofan, every one of these VCD movies you brought is wonderful! You have such a good sense!" Guo Hanyue praised.

At this time, the movie was showing a long scene in which Ma Xiaojun hid under the bed and watched the heroine Milan, played by Ning Jing, changing clothes.

His young and slightly green and urgent eyes suppressed the urge to release youthful hormones in his heart. Along with the beads of sweat rolling down his face, he followed Milan's movements and became more and more eager and suppressed. with...

"Li Xiaofan, have you ever spied on girls when you were studying?" Liu Mengchen teased maliciously.

"Yes! A gentle lady is a good gentleman. Normal men like beautiful women. When they see a beautiful woman, they usually take a few more glances!"

"Then have you ever spied on me and Sister Yue?"

When Liu Mengchen asked Li Xiaofan what he said, Guo Hanyue's cheeks turned red inexplicably. She remembered that the last time Li Xiaofan came to place her luggage without saying hello, her door was not closed properly, and she wore a particularly transparent and sexy pajamas, which Li Xiaofan could see. A light...

Li Xiaofan laughed at Liu Mengchen and said, "Haha, do you need to peek? I have turned a blind eye to you two beauties every day!"

"To be honest, do you have feelings for us two beauties?" Liu Mengchen chased after her.

"I feel nothing! We are together every day and turn a blind eye to it. There is nothing new anymore!"

Liu Mengchen threw a cushion over: "Li Xiaofan, you are such a good guy. It is said that men are a group of animals that like the new and dislike the old!"

"Oh shit, please don't attack such a big group, okay! Liu Mengchen, how many boyfriends have you had, and you actually have such a prejudice against us boys!"

"As you said, have you never eaten pork or seen a pig running?"

"Then how many pigs have you seen?"

Guo Hanyue became impatient due to the quarrel between the two of them, so she waved her hand and said, "I asked you two to be quiet for a while, so that I can finish watching this movie with peace of mind!"

At this time, in the movie, Milan was celebrating the birthdays of Liu Yiku and Ma Xiaojun. Ma Xiaojun's dormant emotions finally broke out after being touched by Milan. Ma Xiaojun broke the wine bottle and stabbed Liu Yiku several times in the chest. After poking and poking, the wine bottle in Ma Xiaojun's hand disappeared. His memory seemed to be confused. Ma Xiaojun had never been brave at all.

What really happened was that nothing bad happened on the birthday, everyone was happy and drunk. The impulse hidden under Ma Xiaojun's rationality broke out one afternoon. He ran barefoot and quickly into Milan's house, but he was also cowardly, and his youthful impulse and timidity were completely naked in front of Milan.

And Ma Xiaojun was eventually isolated by everyone...

"Li Xiaofan, have you ever chased a girl?" Liu Mengchen asked again.

"Mengchen, why do you ask so many questions! Are you interested in Li Xiaofan?" Guo Hanyue said angrily.

"I'm not interested in this guy!" Liu Mengchen said loudly.

Li Xiaofan lit a cigarette, blew out a smoke ring and said: "I have never chased girls, girls have always chased me!"

"Tch, don't be so pretty! You might be like Ma Xiaojun in the movie, you love to daydream!"

"Haha, no one can take away our freedom to dream!" Li Xiaofan quoted a sentence from Melville's "Moby-Dick".

The three of them laughed and brought the movie to its finale:

Ma Xiaojun, wearing the swimming trunks Milan gave him, climbed up the diving platform with a serious expression. He looked at his old friend with mixed feelings, then jumped into the water.

He struggled to swim to the shore, and everyone reached out to him. Ma Xiaojun thought everyone had forgiven him.

But in fact, it was not his hands but his feet that were stretched out. Whenever he stuck his head out, he was kicked back into the water by the people on the shore. In the end, everyone left, leaving only the desperate Ma Xiaojun floating like a corpse in the middle of the swimming pool...

Liu Mengchen asked again: "Li Xiaofan, what would you do if you can't get the girl you like?"

"Get on the bus first and buy the ticket later!" Li Xiaofan laughed.

Another cushion flew over: "Oh my god, you are so insidious and vicious!"

...

The next day, after work, Li Xiaofan was summoned by the sales department to a "joint after-sales service group" meeting.

In fact, this "joint after-sales service group" only has three people.

The team leader is Song Annie, the sales director of the sales department. She is a Singaporean who graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia two years ago. She is a tall and thin beauty.

Another team member is Chen Qingxian, an assistant engineer from the QA quality assurance department. He graduated from Nanyang Polytechnic last year and is a fat man wearing glasses.

After introducing each other, Song Annie said to Li Xiaofan: "Xiaofan, get ready. After work in the afternoon, we will go to COMPAQ to provide after-sales service!"