[Old Paoer] Feibo colleagues - Strangers

"This is Tan Xiaofei!" Zhang Xiaobo pointed at Tan Xiaofei, "He is the big boss of this bar."

With a cigarette in his mouth, Pinball stared at the ground with his foot on the ground, his buttocks half-drawn and still hanging on the bicycle, and looked up at Tan Xiaofei in a ruffian way with his head up: "Isn't this the one you rowed? What's the matter? You use the bar to repay the debt?" Pinball has met Tan Xiaofei, because he helped send Master Liu to the hospital last time, so his impression of this man is not too bad, but he is habitually unforgiving .

Tan Xiaofei didn't say a word, but Zhang Xiaobo took out the cigarette from his mouth as soon as he raised his hand: "If you don't learn well at a young age, who told you to smoke."

"I said, how can you be as virtuous as Master Liu!" Pinball said quite unhappy, "I'll let it go if Master Liu says I am, I'm not much younger than you, why can't I smoke?"

Mentioning Zhang Xuejun, Zhang Xiaobo's eyes dimmed, and then he came back to his senses, and flicked a pinball on his forehead: "How old are you, you don't smoke and drink, and you don't read books well. wandering around."

"If I'm good at reading, then I'm going to read it!" Pinball curled his lips, he was most afraid of being asked to read, because with his brain, he still needs a computer to calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.He rolled his eyes and quickly changed the subject, "I said Bo'er, you've been back for so many days, why don't you go and see Liu Ye?" Zhang Xiaobo has been home for several days, but he hasn't been to the cemetery once. Pass.

"Isn't this busy?" Zhang Xiaobo vaguely said, and then said to the pinball: "I think you should stop wandering around all day, wait for the bar to open later, come and do it with me."

"Let's talk about it after you drive it!" Seeing that the topic change failed, Pinball immediately adopted the strategy of escaping, slid a few steps forward thinking about it, got on the car and disappeared in a flash.

"Little bastard!" Zhang Xiaobo cursed softly at his background.

Tan Xiaofei watched from the side as Zhang Xiaobo remained silent. Seeing that the pinball had left, he asked, "I'm free today. Do we want to..."

Tan Xiaofei wanted to ask if he wanted to go see Master Liu, but Zhang Xiaobo interrupted him before he finished speaking: "Why don't we go to Panjiayuan today? There are still a lot of things to buy in the bar!"

Tan Xiaofei narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhang Xiaobo for more than ten seconds before he nodded and said, "Okay."

Zhang Xiaobo entering a second-hand goods market is like a mouse entering a rice vat, diving headlong into a pile of old furniture.Although the previous decoration of the bar that Tan Xiaofei rented was usable, it was too featureless.Zhang Xiaobo was born in a courtyard house and grew up in an alley. The bar he owns must have a Beijing flavor!He had thought it all out, set up a few tables for the Eight Immortals, long benches, and a grand master's chair on the main seat, with a tiger skin on it, and a wooden plaque at the door, with three large characters on three sides - "Juyi Hall" !

Zhang Xiaobo and Tan Xiaofei wandered around the second-hand goods market until evening, before they considered collecting everything. They rented a delivery truck and wobbled to the bar.

The bar was not yet staffed, so the two bosses did everything by themselves, and it was already dark when they finished tidying up the furniture they had bought.

"Your idea is quite novel." Tan Xiaofei sat on the grand teacher's chair, crossed his legs and said, "This is not a Beijing flavor, you are trying to occupy the mountain as king!"

"Yes, I am the King of the Mountain here." Zhang Xiaobo raised an eyebrow at Tan Xiaofei, "You are my Mrs. Yazhai!"

Tan Xiaofei looked at his tricky little appearance, and felt even more curious. He stretched out his hand and pulled it suddenly, and Zhang Xiaobo fell on his lap.Zhang Xiaobo wanted to stand up, but Tan Xiaofei wrapped his arms around him tightly in his arms, rubbed his earlobe lightly with his lips and said softly: "I am your Mrs. Yazhai? Then you are my little Pang's son." !"

Zhang Xiaobo blushed from embarrassment, and struggled to stand up from his embrace: "What nonsense have you learned all these years in Beijing?"

"I've learned a lot. If you want to hear it, I'll tell you one sentence at a time!" Tan Xiaofei pointed out something, his eyes kept rolling to Zhang Xiaobo's lower body.

"You're not done yet! I didn't realize you were so poor before!" Zhang Xiaobo gave him a fierce look, "Let's go, I'm hungry, let's go eat!"

Tan Xiaofei stood up from the teacher's chair, leaned over and gave him a light peck on the corner of his lips: "It's better to eat you."

"Tan Xiaofei!!"

The corner of Tan Xiaofei's mouth curled up into a light smile, he liked to see Zhang Xiaobo look ashamed and annoyed, like a kitten with teeth and claws.

The two of them strolled back to the courtyard from the bar all the way, and Tan Xiaofei stopped when they passed by a Beijing-style stir-fry: "Why don't you just eat something here?"

Zhang Xiaobo glanced at it, then subconsciously quickened his pace: "If you're not used to it, you'd better find another one."

Zhang Xuejun used to like to eat noodles at this restaurant. A bowl of noodles cost ten yuan, and he also ordered a plate of peanuts, fried two small stir-fries, and sat for half a night with Erguotou in his mineral water bottle.

"I just want to eat here!" Tan Xiaofei couldn't help saying, and walked into the room.

Zhang Xiaobo had no choice but to follow him in.

"Two bowls of noodles." It was past meal time and there were not many people in the small restaurant. The two sat down in a corner, and Zhang Xiaobo said to the proprietress.

"No, two bottles of wine first. Erguotou!" Tan Xiaofei said, "Let's have a drink tonight."

"Okay!" Zhang Xiaobo laughed, "Miss Boss, cook two more appetizers!"

"Okay!" The proprietress' voice came from the kitchen.

The wine was served quickly, Tan Xiaofei took a look at the small wine cup, he used to drink foreign wine in crystal cups, and it was the first time he drank with such a small wine cup.Zhang Xiaobo picked up the wine bottle and poured him a cup, and poured a cup himself. He picked up the wine glass and realized that there was no toast. He raised his head and asked Tan Xiaofei, "For what?"

"So that we can sit together and drink today!" Tan Xiaofei raised his glass to "knock" him, and drank it all in one gulp.It was Tan Xiaofei's first time to drink Erguotou, but he didn't expect the wine to be so strong. He drank it all at once, and the acrid taste of the wine made him cough and tears came out.

Seeing him like that, Zhang Xiaobo was immediately amused: "I'm calling you an asshole!" Then he picked up the cup, and he was also bored.

Tan Xiaofei managed to catch his breath. Seeing Zhang Xiaobo's foolish expression, he wiped the corners of his mouth that were still hot, picked up the wine glass, poured another glass for each other, and drank it down with his head up. On the table: "This is exciting!"

Naturally, Zhang Xiaobo refused to admit defeat, and drank it all in one gulp, then swung the rim of the wine cup downwards, looking provocatively at Tan Xiaofei.

Tan Xiaofei laughed and poured another glass for each other: "Xiaobo, I wish I had known you earlier."

"It's good to know each other now." Zhang Xiaobo said shaking his head.

"Not good." Tan Xiaofei shook his head, feeling a little dizzy with the strength of the alcohol, and reached out to touch the woolen cap on Zhang Xiaobo's head, "I don't like you getting hurt."

"..." Zhang Xiaobo was silent, and took another big gulp from the wine cup.

"Xiaobo, there is actually something I want to tell you." Tan Xiaofei looked directly at Zhang Xiaobo with deep eyes, "Actually, when your father left, I was in front of him. He has something to say, I think you should want to hear it... ..."

Hearing about Zhang Xuejun, the expression on Zhang Xiaobo's face instantly turned serious, and he writhed his neck and went straight back: "I don't want to hear it."

"Whether you want to hear it or not, those are your father's last words." Tan Xiaofei said, "Your father will be most worried about you..."

"I told you I don't want to hear it!" Zhang Xiaobo suddenly slapped the table, interrupting Tan Xiaofei.Tan Xiaofei raised his eyes and saw that his eyes were full of blood. The two looked at each other for a while, and Zhang Xiaobo stood up and was about to leave.

Tan Xiaofei grabbed him, paused and said, "Okay, don't listen to this, let's talk about something else. You moved the photos on your dad's desk, right?"

Tan Xiaofei got up in the morning and saw Zhang Xuejun's photo turned upside down on the table. He thought it was the photo turned upside down, so he helped him up and went out the door.But when he bought breakfast and brought back some fruits, and was about to change the things on the sacrificial table, he found that...the photo was locked again.

"What's wrong with me moving? He's my dad, and I can move as I like."

"The dead are honored. That is your father's photo. You can't treat your father like this."

"Tan Xiaofei!" Zhang Xiaobo suddenly yelled, "Don't you fucking think you can control me now! It's not up to you to talk about our family affairs!" He looks terrible now, with big eyes staring like Just a ruthless beast.

"Xiaobo, your father is gone, you have to accept the fact." Tan Xiaofei's voice was still steady, even if he knew that Zhang Xiaobo was messing up, he didn't feel any anger in his heart, only distressed instead.He knew that Zhang Xuejun was a cancer in his heart now, and he had to dig it out.

Zhang Xiaobo twisted his neck and said nothing, but the circles of his eyes suddenly turned red.

"Xiaobo, it's okay." Tan Xiaofei got up and sat beside him, put his head in his arms, and said softly, "You still have me!"

Tan Xiaofei's words hit the softest part of Zhang Xiaobo's heart. His heart was like a balloon with a hole in it. Angry and wronged, he ran away in an instant.Zhang Xiaobo stretched his hands through Tan Xiaofei's coat, and gently put his arms around Tan Xiaofei's waist, and said in a muffled voice from his chest, "Someone will see."

Instead of letting go, Tan Xiaofei hugged him even tighter: "If you see it, you will see it, I don't care."

The two hugged each other as if no one else was around, and it took Zhang Xiaobo a long time to murmur, "I know he's gone...but I just can't accept it."

"I know."

"Every time I saw him, I quarreled with him, and never had a good word with him... If I knew that he was leaving so early, I would have followed him in everything..." Zhang Xiaobo continued.

"I know……"

"Actually, I don't hate him..."

"I know……"

"Actually, there are Taishi chairs in the bar, and the name Juyi Hall means Zhang Xuejun...Zhang Xuejun, I really don't want you to leave." Zhang Xiaobo's tears flowed down Tan Xiaofei's neck and into his clothes, icy cold slide down.

Tan Xiaofei hugged him tightly, and his heart throbbed with pain.He understood Zhang Xiaobo, the two of them had similar experiences, and both grew up longing to be loved.It's just that Zhang Xiaobo was luckier than him. At least, Zhang Xuejun had really risked his life for him.Therefore, he could understand Zhang Xiaobo's inability to accept that Zhang Xuejun had left.

Tan Xiaofei kissed Zhang Xiaobo's head lightly, leaned into his ear and whispered, "From now on, I will always be with you. If you kick me, I won't leave."

Zhang Xiaobo nestled in his arms, suddenly collapsed, and burst into tears...

In the years that followed, Zhang Xiaobo never mentioned that one night in a small restaurant, he lay in Tan Xiaofei's arms and cried like a child.It's just that whenever someone asked curiously, when did he become convinced that he could live with Tan Xiaofei for the rest of his life, he would always think of that winter night when Tan Xiaofei's embrace was warmer and safer than anyone else's.From that moment on, he knew that this was a place where he could hide for the rest of his life...