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The author has something to say: Note: short, tragic, and depressing.There are four chapters in total, and Chapter 2 will be updated tomorrow.

The age in this article is calculated as one year old, 24 years old is 23 years old, and 27 years old is 26 years old.

During the rainy season at the end of June, the sticky air in Shanghai is suffocating.

It didn't rain that day, but the ubiquitous damp water vapor penetrated the clothes and adhered to the skin, and it couldn't be shaken off. It made people feel that they were forcibly invaded by the rainy season, and they felt disgusted from the bottom of their hearts.

The old underground parking lot is unspeakably hot and filled with a strange smell that lingers all year round.

This parking lot has only one floor, and the ground is an unfinished building.The wall skin is peeling off in pieces, covered with mildew, and there are countless bump marks on the four corners of each pillar.It won't be a good car parked here, and the car owners won't feel bad if they bump into it. Cheap parking fees are what they care most about.

A broken car that should have been scrapped a long time ago drove down the ramp.

The roof and bonnet are rusted, and the glass of the old car vibrates and makes noise when driven by.The car passed the toll booth, turned a corner and headed deep into the parking lot, and finally stopped in a remote corner.

After stopping, a short-haired woman opened the car door, stuffed the parking ticket into her pocket, and got down to lock the car.

This person is close to 1.7 meters tall, very thin, wearing black short sleeves and dark blue denim trousers that have been washed and whitened at the knees. Muscle lines can be seen on the exposed arms, and the skin of the hands is a bit rough. Small scars left by the operation.There is also an old scar at the end of her left eyebrow.

She is in a good mood today, with a faint smile hanging on the corner of her mouth, relaxed and walking steadily towards the exit.

The entrance and exit of the parking lot are the same, the car drives down, and the person walks up.The toll room is next to the entrance and exit, the door is closed, and two windows are opened on the wall facing the parking lot. There is only one person inside, sitting next to one of the sliding windows.

The faint sound of music still leaked through the closed windows, like a female Cantonese song.

The short-haired woman heard it as she walked through the toll room, slowed down her steps, and glanced into the window.

Facing the desktop computer sat a young girl wearing a mask, her long hair was tied behind her head, she was reading a book with her head down, revealing a fair neck.She was wearing a white long-sleeved blouse, which had a gray feeling because it had been worn for too long, and the cuff fabric lost its elasticity and drooped loosely on the table.

She was holding a book in her hand, and next to her was a mobile phone with a blue plastic case, and a small fan that shook its head was placed on the side to blow on her.The neckline, which is also inelastic, will swing slightly when the fan is turned, and will not blow open completely.

Sensing someone looking at her, she turned her head and looked up.

The mask covers the part down the nose.She has a small nose, not too straight, her eyes are neither too big nor too small, slightly resembling phoenix eyes, the ends are upturned but slightly rounded, her eyebrows are gently curved, and the edges are neatly trimmed.

The short-haired woman met her questioning gaze, moved in her heart, put her hands on her thighs, and bent close to the window.The left side of the girl in the toll room was facing the window. The short-haired woman approached and found a small black mole on the end of her right eye.

She smiled and knocked on the window with her right hand.

The girl hesitated for a while, and seemed to think that this person was not dangerous, so she pushed the crescent lock and opened the window from the inside and asked, "Is there something wrong?"

When she spoke, the mask moved with her chin, covering her voice inside, with a soft Jiangnan accent.

"Do you know me? I think you are destined." The short-haired woman said, "My name is Chen Dao, I'll be here soon."

The girl was surprised. After thinking for two seconds, she pulled off the mask to reveal the lower half of her face. Her attitude was soft and somewhat curious: "My name is Pan Shi. What do you do?"

"From the logistics company, do you know the 'Su Chi' that is two streets away?"

"I know." Pan Shi smiled unsuspectingly, picked up her phone and added Chen Dao's WeChat.

Pan Shi got off work at [-] o'clock in the evening, and when she walked near her home, she heard the sound of "crackling" playing mahjong, mixed with Pan's mother's sharp voice: "You really shouldn't be playing that seven cakes!"

The area of ​​Pan Shi’s house is full of old houses from the last century, which are very densely built. People who live here are very familiar with each other. In summer, there are always many people playing mahjong in the limited open space downstairs, and the lights are on until midnight.

She walked by and said, "Mom, I'm back."

Her provocative eye tails are inherited from Pan's mother.Hearing this greeting, Pan's mother squinted at her: "The voice is so low, who can hear it? Don't you know how to call so many aunts here? You are really a debt collector, and you can't do anything. Go, go, Don't get in my eyes here."

Pan Shi gave a "hmm" and said, "Goodbye, aunts."

When she walked into the building, she heard other people persuade Pan's mother, and Pan's mother complained that Pan Shi's personality was not like her at all, and it would be nice to have only one child.

Pan Shi's family lived on the second floor, with three small rooms. Pan Shi didn't move out of the room she shared with her elder brother Pan Kai until she was 19, and lived alone in the smallest room.

Pan Kai works in the criminal police team, and he hasn't returned from working overtime today.Among the young people in this area, few have better jobs than Pan Kai. In Pan's mother's mouth, those few who have good jobs are not good, and they are not as good as Pan Kaiyuan.

Pan Shi knew the reason why Mama Pan didn't look good. The last blind date didn't work out. Mama Pan thought she couldn't speak, wasn't enthusiastic enough, and didn't do what she told her to do, which made the man look down on her.From the age of 21 to the age of 24 this year, Pan Shi couldn't remember how many times she had kissed. It seemed that if she couldn't get married soon, she would be a sinner in this family.

A suddenly raised voice came through the window: "Yes, my Kaikai's girlfriend is very sensible, and she will come to see me again this weekend. I haven't finished eating the donkey-hide gelatin she bought for me last time! Are you getting married? Next year Knot, Kaikai promised me that she will get married next year."

The phone vibrated, and Chen Dao asked her if she was free tonight.

Pan Shi: I'm free.

When going out, Mother Pan frowned and asked, "Where are you going at night?"

Pan Shi said, "My classmate asked me to have supper."

Mother Pan sneered: "It's a female classmate again? Are all your male classmates dead? If you're not married, don't you know who to contact?"

Suddenly Pan Shi didn't know what to think, and blurted out: "It's a male classmate."

Pan's mother was startled, her face softened: "Go, go, come back and tell me who you are." Then she hurriedly called her, "Don't you have a long skirt? Change your skirt."

Pan Shi regretted that she had lied, so she went upstairs sullenly and changed into a long skirt.

During the college entrance examination, she was hospitalized with burns on her legs. Because the family was struggling to provide for Pan Kai's schooling, Pan's mother didn't let her repeat her studies.In fact, her grades are good, and her grades in several mock exams are all above and below the second line, but she has no chance to know whether she will have the opportunity to go to school in other places if she takes that exam.

She has never left Shanghai since she was born.Countless people flocked to this city with dreams, but she just wanted to escape from the damp alleys and go anywhere.

Chen Dao invited her to drink "a little bit" of milk tea.

Milk tea is very sweet, and Pan Shi knows that this brand once caused a sensational queuing scene, but now there are only two or three people waiting under the green signboard, and there is no excited expression on their faces.

Chen Dao asked, "Does it taste good to you?"

Pan Shi thought for a while: "It's quite expensive."

Chen Dao laughed.Pan Shi glanced at her, and found that she had two beautiful lips. When she smiled, the lip lines were flattened, and the corners of her mouth felt like they were flying.

She was inexplicably a little nervous.

As long as she remembers her character, she doesn't please Pan's mother. She thinks her character may follow the father who left early.Listening to Pan's mother cursing, Pan Shi knew that that man also made Pan's mother hate him.Fortunately, there is Pan Kai, who is the only hope in Pan's mother's life.

This personality also makes it difficult for her to make friends, and those who still keep in touch are her former classmates.The parking lot toll collector works in two shifts. She sits from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] pm every day, and has no chance to meet strangers.She felt that she didn't need many friends, that her life was too dull to talk to.

Before Chen Dao knocked on the window, she hadn't made any new friends for nearly a year, except for a blind date.This night, she was unconsciously worried that Chen Dao would soon find out that she was bored.

"How long have you been doing this job?" Chen Dao asked.

"Three years."

Chen Dao was surprised: "Aren't you bored?"

Pan Shi lowered her head and said, "I don't think so."

Chen Dao smiled: "You have such a good personality. Why didn't I know you earlier?"

Pan Shi was a little overjoyed, and said, "Why didn't you stop here before?"

"Before," Chen Dao said with a strange expression, "It was different before."

After parting with Pan Shi, Chen Dao returned to the parking lot.

The toll collector on duty at night is an old man who sleeps on the table.Chen Dao walked to her dilapidated car in the corner and opened the trunk. There were two black garbage bags and an empty black backpack inside. She packed a bag of things on her shoulders and carried it on her back. Awake.

After leaving the parking lot, Chen Dao chose a direction at random and started her walking.

The night was extremely silent, and there were hardly anyone on the road.She walked from late night to early morning, and before the city woke up, she threw the contents of her backpack in a weedy wasteland, and returned the same way with an empty bag on her back.

The next day, she also looked for Pan Shi.

Chen Dao likes women, gentle women with long hair.After she came to Shanghai, she had two girlfriends, both of whom were gentle and had long hair, and they both broke up with her.The reason for the breakup was that she had a bad personality, and Chen Dao himself felt it too. They used to like her very much, but they were often unhappy after they became friends.

She didn't plan to talk to Pan Shi about friends this time, she didn't have time or thought about it now.

The next night, she repeated what she had done the day before, but in a different direction, and walked for three hours, leaving her belongings at a suspended construction site.

Pan Shi wears a long skirt every day, which is close to the ankle length.On the fifth day, she wore the one she wore on the first day, and on the sixth day she wore the one she wore on the second day. Chen Dao knew that she had four long skirts in total, two half-length skirts were white and blue, and two skirts were white. The whole body is apricot and pink.

It was nine o'clock at night on the sixth day, and they were sitting on a park bench talking.Chen Dao asked, "Have you ever been in love?"

She had no other thoughts when she asked, it was just strange.She thought that Pan Shi should like men, but today Pan Shi suddenly put on eyeshadow, blush, and lipstick.The makeup is a bit fluffy, it was just put on before coming to see her.

"We've talked a few times, we met each other on a blind date." Pan Shi said.

"You're still young, so you're on a blind date?" Chen Dao was a little surprised.

"24, not too young." Mother Pan was always annoyed that she couldn't get married. After she broke up with a blind date after talking for half a year, she added a word to make people lose money for nothing.After listening too much, she also felt that her age was very tense. Mother Pan said more than once that when she was 25, she would get out before she got married.

Chen Dao said: "I'm already 27, so you say, I'm not an old lady?" After she finished speaking, she smiled, then squinted her eyes and thought about it, and suddenly became happy, "Yes, I'm an old lady , Live enough!"

Pan Shi startled her and looked at her blankly.

Chen Dao didn't look at her, he looked forward at the shadows of trees under the dim street lamp, sighed with satisfaction, and calmed down.

The two were silent for a while, and Pan Shi asked her, "Have you talked about friends?"

"I talked to two of them, both are good people," Chen Dao smiled as if recalling, "I have no regrets."

Pan Shi felt that her tone of voice was strange, but looking at Chen Dao's face, her heartbeat seemed uncontrollable.Pan Shi couldn't explain clearly, whenever she met Chen Dao, her skin would tremble a few times, as if infected by Chen Dao's excitement at certain moments.Pan Shi has never known anyone with a fierce aura, and her friends are all as plain and well-behaved as her.

When she was in a trance, Chen Dao suddenly asked: "When I first met you, what song were you listening to?"

Pan Shi suddenly met her gaze, and flinched inwardly, feeling a little flustered, lowered her head and hurriedly took out her mobile phone to answer: ""Barbs"."

She found the song and played it at a moderate volume.

"As picturesque as poetry, intoxicated and ignorant..."

Chen Dao closed his eyes and listened.She hadn't read the lyrics and didn't know what the song was singing at all, but she really liked the melody of the song, and her body even had an urge to move along with it.

As time passed, the rhythm of the music intensified.An invisible hammer struck her heart, quietly disrupting her heartbeat.

The female singer's voice seemed to come from far away, weeping in unfamiliar words.She fluttered the wings of her nose twice, and felt a sudden soreness, followed by a stuffy nose. Many blurred images flashed through her mind chaotically, and she couldn't see clearly.Chen Dao frowned like a nightmare. He swallowed hard, feeling that he was being dragged into a dark abyss. So nervous that I have a desire to vomit.

Finally, after the 4-minute song was played, Chen Dao looked up at the sky, and slowly opened her eyes. At this moment, her face was gloomy, and her eyes showed a rage that was close to madness and the pain buried deep in her body.The dark blue night sky was reflected in her pupils, stained with traces of blood.

"Chen Dao?" Pan Shi put away her phone and called out cautiously.

She couldn't see Chen Dao's expression, but she couldn't help becoming cautious. This was her body's reaction to smelling danger, but she didn't understand it.

After a few seconds, Chen Dao's eyes fell on her face, his expression had recovered, and he said, "This song is very exciting."

Pan Shi was inexplicably relieved, and said with a smile, "I think so too."

After a long time, Chen Dao really relaxed and said to her, "I never asked, how many people are in your family?"

Pan Shi didn't want to talk about this topic, but when Chen Dao asked her, she still answered truthfully: "I still have my mother and brother at home, and my father passed away unexpectedly when I was a child."

Chen Dao sat up straight curiously: "Is your mother as gentle as you? How does she treat you?"

Pan Shi's voice lowered: "My mother is short-tempered, she treats me well."

When Chen Dao saw that she didn't want to talk, he stopped asking her and started talking by himself: "My mother should be very gentle, and she also left very early."

After a pause, Chen Dao continued, "I came to Shanghai just to see her again."

Pan Shi thought that Chen Dao's mother had also passed away when she heard the first sentence, but only after hearing the last sentence did she realize that she must be divorced.She asked, "Then did you see it?"

"No." Chen Dao said, "I don't know where she is. Shanghai is too big and there are too many people."

Pan Shi followed her regret and comforted her: "I will see you later, she must also want to see how you grow up."

Chen Dao shook his head in silence, and said after a while, "Forget it." With relief.

When I came home that day, Mother Pan was cooking supper for Pan Kai standing at the stairs on the second floor. There were stoves and kitchen utensils on the table leaning against the corner of the wall. This was the kitchen.Seeing that Pan Shi came back empty-handed, she scolded unhappily: "Stinger, you haven't given anything away for a week, do you want to sleep in vain and not give money? Can you serve a snack and hint that you don't know? If he doesn't The idea of ​​getting married was cut off early!"

After Pan Shi stood and listened, she met Pan Kai coming out of the room and called "Brother". Pan Kai didn't look at her with a "hmm" and asked impatiently, "It's not ready yet? I'm very hungry."

Pan's mother hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, I'll be fine soon."

Pan Shi went back to the room and sat down expressionlessly, thinking in her heart, it would be great if Chen Dao was really a man.Immediately afterwards, she seemed to be frightened, her whole body tightened, her mouth opened slightly, and her eyes stared in a panic.Just now, when that thought came to her mind, a few fantasies floated in her mind.

She clasped her hands together and squeezed vigorously, not daring to think again.