windy city rainy season

On Friday night, Tao Yu contacted Liu Jingyang, the one whose online name is "Three Misses and One Perennial".

Master Liu's biggest hobby in his life is playing mahjong. The enlightenment education of Chinese characters starts from the whitening of the east, west, south, north, and middle. He wants to develop a fancier relationship with everyone he meets.

As soon as the phone was connected, Tao Yu heard the voice of four barrels of Dongfeng in the microphone, and knew that he was at the poker table again.

"Master Liu, I, Tao Yu, would like to ask if you have time to meet me?"

Liu Jingyang's voice sounded very excited: "Grandson! Seeing the caller ID, I thought your number was stolen! When did you come back?"

"The day before yesterday, I'm leaving tomorrow. Come out and have a meal, I'm at Jianguomen Chunjiang."

After Tao Yu finished speaking, he heard Liu Jingyang pushing the cards and saying that he couldn't play anymore. The buddy came back, and then hung up the phone amidst the accusations of all the fanciers.

Ten minutes later, Liu Jingyang appeared in the private room of Tao Yu and Chang Zheng.

Tao Yu pulled away the chair beside him and greeted, "Why are you so slow, I can't wait for you, I ordered the food."

"Master, this is the capital city. It only took me 10 minutes to get here from the North Fourth Ring Road on Friday, and you still want me to fly here!" Liu Jingyang sat down next to Tao Yu and said, "Why do you think of this place?" , don’t you like Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine?”

"My friend's ancestral home is in Nanjing, and he has never been back. Take him to try the hometown dishes." Tao Yu introduced them to the two.

"Finally meeting a real person, Dr. Chang." Liu Jingyang leaned forward and shook hands with Chang Zheng and said, "The first time I saw him posting a photo, I knew it was tricky. This kid still doesn't admit it, he insists that he is a roommate."

"You were indeed just roommates when you asked." Tao Yu thought guiltily, and inexplicably developed into a dating relationship that night.

Liu Jingyang turned to Tao Yu and asked, "Did you see your parents?"

"I only saw my mother, and my father has gone to other places."

"Let me tell you, if I met your dad and you two could still sit here and eat together, then I really have known your old man for so many years." Liu Jingyang told Chang Zheng, "When we were young, we lived together Burning ping pong balls outside the cafeteria, who would have thought that the ping pong balls would ignite and bounce around, burning the quilts used to store Chinese cabbage for winter. When the fire was extinguished, the top layer of cabbage would be burnt, and the bottom layer would be cooked .His father was eating in the cafeteria at the time, and even I would not let him go when he was caught and beaten. After that, I didn’t dare to visit his house for half a year.”

When Liu Jingyang spoke, the flavor of Beijing was even stronger. Chang Zheng understood roughly, and looked at Tao Yu with a smile: "So you were so shopping when you were young."

Liu Jingyang saw that there was no fish in the dishes on the table, so he said: "This restaurant has a signature dish rice cake dipped in yellow croaker, how about adding one?"

Tao Yu said casually, "Forget it, Chang Zheng doesn't eat fish."

"Let's eat, you don't have a place to eat when you go back to America." After Tao Yu couldn't speak, Liu Jingyang went out of the private room to ask the waiter to add more dishes, and brought back a case of beer by the way.

Tao Yu looked at this posture: "You don't want me to sleep until I get on the plane, right? I have to go home tomorrow morning."

Liu Jingyang couldn't help filling everyone's glasses, and said to Tao Yu: "Can't a case of beer be solved by three people? I didn't even drive the car. You finally came back. Is it justified not to drink?"

Liu Jingyang is his own boss, he can talk and drink, Tao Yu is not his opponent, so he drank his glass obediently, put down the glass and told Chang Zheng about Boss Liu's business.

"To put it bluntly, he sells information. For example, if you are a sewage equipment manufacturer and you want to know where your equipment may be needed, his company will help you do research. Where is the new sewage plant built? Which plant needs to be updated due to aging equipment? He Collecting information and selling it to you is basically an empty-handed white wolf. According to my mother, it is not a serious business."

Liu Jingyang drank two cups in a row, took a bite and said, "I am an industry that was rationally born in the information age. In your mother's eyes, except for civil servants and state-owned enterprises, everyone else is not doing serious business."

"Stop bragging." Tao Yu said disdainfully, "Selling news has been a business since ancient times. Is that old turtle in Lu Xiaofeng's house your uncle?"

Liu Jingyang shook the empty wine bottle: "Can you still talk happily!"

Chang Zheng sounded fresh, so he couldn't help asking a few more questions: "In addition to the information about the sewage plant, what else do you do?"

Liu Jingyang said: "It's mainly similar commercial buying and selling information. In fact, it is no different from selling buildings and cars. It's just that others sell tangible things, and I sell invisible and intangible information."

"It's similar to pimping." Tao Yu added, "There is buying and selling, and he is in the middle."

"A lot of information cannot be obtained online." Chang Zheng asked, "How did you obtain it? How do you ensure the accuracy of the information?"

Liu Jingyang said: "There are real and fake things on the Internet, and the most useful channels rely on personal connections. Accurate information is the hallmark of this business. Isn't selling false information ruining one's job?"

Tao Yu said, "What do you think he makes appointments with poker all day long? His poker friends have all kinds of teachings, and the poker table is also his information distribution center."

Chang Zheng originally wanted to ask Liu Jingyang how to obtain detailed patient information, but after listening to Tao Yu's words, he realized that he was out of his mind. This kind of information must be established by establishing contact with the hospital, spending time and energy sorting out cases and classifying them. Archive summary, no speculation.However, Tao Yu's job of sending children is quite interesting. If the fund expands to China in the future, maybe Liu Jingyang can be hired to do some information collection work.

The three chatted while eating, and unknowingly ran out of a box of wine, Chang Zheng didn't drink much, most of it was killed by those two.It’s been a long time for Tao Yu to drink and chat happily—no matter how good Chang Zheng is, he can’t talk about everything like the friends he grew up with since he was a child. His life experience and environment are different, and sometimes joking with Dr. Chang is like chicken and duck speak.

Tao Yu got up to go to the bathroom, wiped his face with cold water, feeling fluttery, but still conscious.Someone pushed the door behind him and came in. He was about to leave, but when he looked up, he saw an unexpected person in the mirror above the sink.

The other party was also stunned, and the two looked at each other through the mirror for a long time, until Tao Yu called out: "Wei Wei."

In the few months after the breakup, Tao Yu thought about the countless occasions when the two met by chance, thought about rushing up to beat each other up, thought about ridiculing each other with harsh words, thought about passing by pretending not to care, and also thought about it. I thought about shamelessly begging him to change his mind, but unfortunately all the ideas were just his one-man show, living in the same city, but the two never met again.

He left later, and only stayed for a few days when he came back. In such a big Beijing, God ironically arranged a meeting.

Tao Yu turned around and leaned against the sink, smiled with the corners of his mouth, and said to the person in front of him, "You're getting fat. After thirty, it's easy to gain weight. You should also pay attention to it."

The other party was a little embarrassed, staring at him without saying a word.

"I heard that you are married..."

The word congratulations was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't say it no matter what, he didn't intend to make a futile farewell. The moment he saw the other party, he knew that he had bid farewell to the past.

The door of the bathroom opened again, and Chang Zheng leaned half his body in. When he saw the two people inside, he faintly felt that the atmosphere was not right.

Tao Yu passed by Wei Wei, grabbed Chang Zheng, and left without looking back.

After dragging Tao Yu home, smelling of alcohol, Chang Zheng threw him on the bed, went to the bathroom and wrung a towel to wipe his face.

Tao Yu closed his eyes and suddenly sighed: "Doctor Chang..."

Chang Zheng leaned over and asked, "What?"

"...Don't break up with me."

Chang Zheng took a closer look, not sure if he was still awake.

"One more time..." Tao Yu's voice became lower and lower, "I have no choice but to leave Earth and go to Mars..."

Chang Zheng: "..."

He finally knew who Tao Yu met just now.