four year itch

Xu Ruibai followed the route the girl pointed out to him, and walked to an alley. The shop door was small, and the yellowed light sign at the door read the words "be slow in the past".

When he walked into the store, he had to say that it was a very cozy store. As soon as he entered the door, he saw two large bookshelves, and the walls beside the bookshelves were covered with various postcards.There is a piano by the window, along with a guitar and a bass.The store was dimly lit, and a few young people were huddled on the sofa watching a movie on the projection screen. It was a very niche literary film. When they saw him coming in, they raised their heads and gave him a friendly look.

Rather than saying that this is a store, it is more like a living room of a large family.

"Is there any room here?" Xu Ruibai didn't see the cash register and didn't know who the owner was, so he could only stand in the middle of the living room and ask.

"We only have beds here." Omega on the bar put down the book in his hand and stood up.

The Omega was about 40 years old, with straight black hair, reflecting a circle of light under the lamp, and then disappeared with the movement of her getting up.She is not the kind of very delicate beauty, and you can see the faintly visible scars under her eyes when you look closely, but she has a deep attraction that has been sculpted by the years, warm and soft, just standing there without talking, It is already a mysterious story.

"30 yuan a night?" Xu Ruibai asked.

"Yes."

Xu Ruibai walked to the bar and put the [-] note on the table, "Can I stay for two nights at [-]?"

"Ahem." Another short-haired Omega on the bar coughed softly, and knocked on the blackboard on the wall with a cold face.Xu Ruibai followed the other party's movements and looked over. On the blackboard, there were check-in instructions written in flamboyant chalk characters. The first one was: "Don't bargain with the proprietress, the proprietress will soften her heart."

Xu Ruibai didn't know how to bargain, and he didn't know who the proprietress was.

The long-haired omega scolded the short-haired omega and said to Xu Ruibai with a smile, "Handsome guy, you can get a discount if you stay longer~"

Now Xu Ruibai guessed that the person in front of him should be the proprietress.

"I don't have that much money, can I pay the room fee once a day?" And he seems to be born to negotiate terms.

The proprietress looked puzzled, as if she didn't quite believe that Xu Ruibai would make such a request, after all, the Alpha in front of her really didn't look like she had no money.

But after all, the store has been open for a long time, and this is not the first time she met a strange person today. She quickly cleaned up her expression, turned on the computer, and said with a smile, "Then please show me your ID card."

"I didn't bring my ID."

"Then please provide your ID number."

The other party entered the ID number into the computer according to the number reported by Xu Ruibai. After a while, her expression became a little strange, "Please report it again."

Although Xu Ruibai was puzzled, he said the same number again.

"You... your ID number doesn't exist? Did you remember it wrong?" The proprietress cast a helpful look at the short-haired Omega.

"What do you mean?" Xu Ruibai almost blurted out, but soon he understood that it was too easy for the Xu family to erase his existence.He just didn't expect Bai Zhuyu to do such a great job.

Xu Ruibai saw the hand of the short-haired Omega tightly pressing on the phone, and knew that he was arousing suspicion. He lowered his eyes, smiled awkwardly, and said, "Sorry for the interruption."

After speaking, he turned to leave.

"Wait a minute." The proprietress suddenly said, "Are you that Alpha who saved someone at the subway station a few months ago?"

Seeing that Xu Ruibai didn't speak, the other party was even more sure. She turned on the phone and tried to find the news on BP with the keywords in her memory, but only found an exclamation point: "Can't find relevant information."

The proprietress was stunned. She subconsciously glanced at the Omega next to her, and the atmosphere became a little weird. She even began to wonder if there was a mistake in her memory.

Xu Ruibai obviously also saw her mobile phone page, but he didn't show a surprised expression, he was just a little sad, he felt as if he was about to disappear from this world, like a town covered by high-rise buildings that never existed , he is the center of everything surrounded by nothingness, becoming a pile of ruins that no one cares about.

"You can live here first, there is still a vacant bed in the boys' room here." The short-haired omega stood up, ready to lead him into the room.

Xu Ruibai was surprised now, and looked at her silently, as if he didn't understand what she meant.

Omega frowned, showing a rather impatient expression, "Can't stop?"

"Stop." Xu Ruibai quickly followed her pace.

The other five beds in the six-person room are already occupied by people, most of whom are young people who are traveling.Cheng Jun led him to look at the bathroom, hugged the bed and gave him a clean quilt, and reminded him to try not to make any noise after eleven o'clock before leaving.

Xu Ruibai glanced around and stopped him: "Excuse me, do you have instant noodles?"

That Omega glanced at him, took a box of instant noodles from the shelf and threw it to him: "Six yuan."

Xu Ruibai climbed onto the bed, and awkwardly put the quilt into the quilt cover, obviously he was not good at this kind of thing, and it took a lot of effort to make the quilt into a smooth shape.

Then he took a shower and made a bucket of instant noodles, and turned on BP while waiting for the instant noodles. He hadn't logged in to this website for a long time.Sure enough, he could no longer log in to Southwest Wind's account.

The account of Xi'an Feng still exists, but all the photos about Xi'an Feng no longer exist.Then the southwest wind may or may not be Xu Ruibai.

As long as the southwest wind "can't" paint anymore, and "can't" talk anymore, then all this will be a matter of course.

For the first week, everyone was talking about him, feeling sorry for him, and speculating about why he left.

In the second week, not many people mentioned him anymore, and maybe there were still a few sporadic people who were stubbornly resisting, but in the end, nothing happened.

In the third week, no one remembered him, and new painters changed over and over again. The most indispensable thing in the world is talent.He disappeared peacefully, and the world seemed to be exactly the same as before.

That's the end of it, he no longer exists.

People will doubt their own memory, no matter how clear the memory is, how many people will firmly believe that their memory is correct when there is no trace of memory in reality?

He was alone, his past dead and his future unimaginable.It can only be counted as a day, and a week is counted as a week.

Maybe one day he will actually go back.

Xu Ruibai bought some painting materials, set up a small stall on the side of the street to paint during the day, and went back to the past at night, paying 30 yuan rent to buy a bed.Cheng Jun and Fang Fangwen didn't chase him away, so he just stayed there pretending to be stupid.

His business is not bad, and he can earn hundreds of dollars when the weather is good, but it’s rainy in summer and the weather is hot. There are not many days when he can set up a stall. Most of the time, he can only paint a few pictures on the square in the evening. Hour.

In the past, Slow seems to be a hotel with a good reputation. There are always all kinds of young people who come here for a short stay, leave one or two interesting stories, and then leave.They were all very interesting people, most of whom would never see each other again, they just met each other by chance.But it is precisely in this way that they appear more romantic and enthusiastic.

He would stay as slow as before when he was out of the stall, so he also heard some stories about this place in a few words.For example, the long-haired Omega is called Fang Ziwen, and the short-haired Omega is called Cheng Jun. For example, Cheng Jun has her own band, and she is the guitar and lead singer; for example, Fang Ziwen's piano is no worse than him; for example, The scars on the corners of Fang Ziwen's eyes are evidence of her ex-husband's domestic violence; for example, Fang Ziwen and Cheng Jun are lovers.

Sometimes Fang Ziwen would invite him to watch a movie together, or invite him to taste a plate of dim sum. He seldom spoke or refused. The gift he gave in return was a painting he drew.

Fang Fangwen liked his paintings very much, and even set aside a wall to hang his works, and called him "the slow royal painter in the past" with a smile.

But Cheng Jun and Fang Ziwen never asked him about his story.

Fang Fangwen said that the stories of the old man come from all over the world, each of them has its own uniqueness, but the same thing is that they are all left by themselves.

They are strangers, remembering each other in order to leave something behind before the world forgets.

When the weather was bad, Xu Ruibai would close the stall and go downstairs to Ye Jia's to smoke a couple of cigarettes. Sometimes he happened to see Ye Jia go to work or leave work, and he would leave after the other party disappeared from his sight; but he His luck is not always so good, most of the time it is Shen Qingchuan, Chen Lang or Bai Xiaoyu who are waiting.

He never thought of disturbing Ye Jia's life again, it's just that the distance between seeing him occasionally is enough.

Xu Ruibai thought that Ye Jia was doing well, or he hoped that Ye Jia would be doing well.But when he saw Ye Jia leaving Shen Qingchuan's house with a bag on his back, he seemed to have sensed the other person's loss, and he followed.

It turned out to be bad.

I can't tell whether it's sad or happy, it's a more complicated emotion.He looked at Ye Jia standing quietly under the eaves, leaning against the wall and smoking a cigarette, his white T-shirt was slightly transparent after the rain, his back was thin, his side face was cold and expressionless, his eyes were dull and tired.Ye Jia shouldn't be so still and desolate.He should be the boy in the white shirt when we first met, with an unmodified natural taste, stiff and clean.

Xu Ruibai wanted to do something for Ye Jia, but he found that he was the chief culprit of all this. The root cause was that he put all the pain on Ye Jia.

So at least, you can give him an umbrella, so that he can get through this rainstorm for a short time.

Xu Ruibai originally wanted to put the umbrella by Ye Jia's side and leave. He didn't intend to disturb him, but he couldn't restrain the urge to approach.

Ye Jia handed over the cigarette and asked him, do you want to smoke?

——Marlboro, the one he smoked most often.

Xu Ruibai felt that his eyes were sour, and he couldn't tell whether it was tears or rain on his face.

A distance from a convenience store, less than 5 minutes, an unanswered question, this is the closest contact they have had in the past two months.

In the end, Xu Ruibai ran away anyway, he was afraid of seeing Ye Jia like that, and he was even more afraid that he couldn't help but hug him.

"Xiaobai? How did you get wet like this?" Seeing that Xu Ruibai was completely soaked, Fang Ziwen hurriedly stood up from the sofa.

Xu Ruibai didn't speak, he put the drawing board on the shelf by the door, took off his mask and hat, and hung them on the door to drain.

"Why didn't you buy an umbrella by the side of the road?" Cheng Jun said as he took out a dry towel and handed it to him.

"Thank you." Xu Ruibai said with lowered eyes, but did not answer Cheng Jun's question.

"Go take a shower first, I'll make you some hot tea." Fang Ziwen also said with concern.

Xu Ruibai replied "Yes" but never moved. He wanted to register a BP account with his current mobile phone number, but he stopped when he pressed the verification code.

"Sister Jun, can I use your mobile phone number to register a BP number?"

He may never be able to defeat Bai Zhuyu, but some types of defeats are always better than others.

Cheng Jun looked at him calmly and asked, "What are you going to do?"

It's not that she doesn't trust Xu Ruibai. When she was running with the band in the early years, she met all kinds of people on the fringes of the city. Xu Ruibai was not the strangest person she had ever met.

But she still couldn't help being curious, during the time she spent with Xu Ruibai, she also got to know something about this not-so-talkative Alpha.

He should have received a good education, and his gestures reveal a calm and good upbringing, and he can convey his emotions through his own temperature without speaking. Of course, he has no emotions most of the time.

But there is always a faint sense of fragility and restrained madness in him, which makes you look at him unconsciously and feel sorry for him.

"Atonement." Xu Ruibai smiled reluctantly, he paused and said, "Help a person I have hurt to return to a normal life."

Cheng Jun was silent for a while, originally wanted to ask something, but seeing Xu Ruibai's painful expression, he stopped asking.She took out a piece of paper, wrote a series of numbers on it, and threw it to him, "I don't use BP very much, this is a useless number, the mobile phone number has been canceled, you can see if you can log in."

Xu Ruibai took the slip of paper and thanked Cheng Jun gratefully.The other party waved his hand, indicating that he should not take it to heart.

When entering the account, Xu Ruibai's hands trembled uncontrollably, but luckily he could still log in.According to the name in his memory, he found an account named [Chaou Xuejuan], and sent the first message to the other party.

He knew that it was the account Ye Jia posted the article on.

So, in a whole new world, they have, a whole new dialog box.

【CX330】After reading all Dafa's articles on BP, how can it be so good!Do you really have no plans to write a long story?