in the center of the universe

At seven o'clock in the morning, it was minus twelve degrees, and the window panes were covered with a layer of frost.

He wiped the windows repeatedly in the car, staring at the old neighborhood in front of him.My family's old house is here. I have lived in it for a few years, and I changed houses when I started elementary school.Someone is laying red paper on the manhole cover and pressing it with bricks.There are happy words on both sides of the corridor door, and firecrackers have been placed all over the floor.

"Sleep for a while if you're sleepy, and I'll call you when you come," Guan Zang said.He shook his head and drank the coffee Guan Zang bought for him from the thermos.I got up at five o'clock, afraid of missing the hour, so I waited until now.

At 07:30, the wedding car arrived.He frowned when he saw it: "It's so fucking vulgar, who chose the car?!" The eight-seater extended Lincoln, the front of the car is decorated with heart-shaped flowers, and red balloons are floating on the rear of the car. "Not as good as your Volvo!"

Guan Zang thought it was very fun, so he stretched his neck to look hard, and even drove the car forward a little.

Wang Qiu got out of the car in a suit, holding a bouquet of flowers, smiling so hard that his teeth could not see his eyes.He was thin and tall, and his clothes didn't fit him well. His sleeves and trouser legs were a bit short, exposing his ankles.Like a bean sprout, he bent over to enter the door, followed by a bunch of groomsmen.

Guan Zang was so curious that he wanted to follow up and watch: "Are they going to pick up the bride? Why are there so many people?"

"The bridesmaids block the door, and the best man breaks in. They either answer questions or give red envelopes; you have to find shoes when you enter the door—"

"Looking for shoes? What kind of shoes? Why are you looking for shoes?

"Wedding shoes, the bride has to hide her wedding shoes for the groom to find, put them on for the bride after finding them, and carry the bride into the car, because the bride's feet can't touch the ground."

"Why can't it touch the ground?"

Guan Zang was like a hundred thousand reasons, and he was not angry, he sneered: "I don't know, why don't you study it another day?" He found it interesting to see Guan Zang's appearance, "No, you have never attended a wedding since you were young?"

"No, I have attended many funerals."

"You have no relatives to marry?"

"Yes, don't let me go." I don't know what happened above, no one came down for a long time, Guan Zang was in a hurry.He suddenly said, "Go and see."

"is it okay?"

"Don't let them see, anyway, the door is open, and no one knows you."

Guan Zang got out of the car and ran away.

After eight o'clock, someone finally rushed down to light firecrackers, and they exploded.A bunch of people came down and waited on both sides, and the wedding car also drove to the door.Guan Zang came back with him, and said that Wang Qiu had been looking for shoes for a long time, and Yan Ren was anxious to find them.

Wang Qiu went downstairs with Yan Renjing in his arms.He suddenly frowned, lowered his head and covered his face: "Stupid!" Yan Ren insisted on wearing a dark green overcoat over Jingbai's wedding dress.Brand new, looks expensive.

He knocked his head on the window of the car: "Crazy! Wearing green for marriage? You're so sad!" After cursing, he whispered, "—I knew I would buy red."

"Keji, are those your parents?"

He raised his head, lowered it again, and covered his eyes: "Yeah." The two of them had flowers on their chests and wore brand new coats.His father dyed his hair on purpose, and his mother changed into a floral dress.

The firecrackers were still going off until everyone got into the car and drove to the restaurant.Guan Zang followed closely behind.

On the LED screen of the hotel, there are scrolling words of congratulations: Mr. Wang Qiu and Ms. Yan Renjing are married, wishing a hundred years of happiness and happiness forever.There was another burst of firecrackers and salutes at the door, which was deafening.The ceremony started, Guan Zang went to pay the gift money to sign, and went in to play a video for him to watch the live broadcast. When his father took his sister's hand and handed it to Wang Qiu, he stuttered.After the banquet started, Guan Zang brought out a pack of wedding candy, got into the car and gave it to him, and the two ate it separately.

After toasting, eating, and group photos, the guests went home one after another.When it was almost over, Yan Renjing went to change clothes, and Guan Zang called Wang Qiu out for him. Wang Qiu didn't seem surprised, and said, "Your sister said that you must be messing around somewhere."

He cut it, took out a red envelope and stuffed it to Wang Qiu: "I really don't know which temple you are a reincarnated Buddha, dare to marry Yan Renjing." Wang Qiu laughed, "I just like Xiao Jing's straight temper."

"Is she straight-tempered? She is violent-tempered! She can send people to the hospital!" He touched the back of his shoulder casually, "I have scars left on my body from being poked with a compass!"

Wang Qiu still smiled, he sighed, and then smiled, looking at Wang Qiu: "Brother-in-law, please, I am different, I will send everything to the crematorium directly."

"Ah?" Wang Qiu didn't react yet.

He straightened Wang Qiu's bow tie, and said with a smile, "Brother-in-law, let the ugly words come first: I can bully Yan Renjing, but others can't. Yan Renjing has a bad temper, and her brother has a bad temper than her."

Guan hid in the car and laughed.Seen by him, he sent Wang Qiu away and gave him a good beating.

"You two have such a good relationship."

"You are blind and go get it fixed." Wang Guanzang was still happily observing the staff tearing down the flower pillars at the entrance of the hotel, when he suddenly asked, "How many times have you attended funerals?"

"Four times. Grandma, parents and sister."

"Sister—how old was Alice when she left?"

"Seven years old, her funeral was Western style. Wearing a small dress, like Alice in the picture book. I went to the yard to pick the flowers that my mother planted. Although I didn't take good care of them, Alice loved them. With ribbons Tied up, still with dirt, in her hand, as if she was going to play in the wild."

"What color ribbon?"

"Blue, the same as a small dress." Guan Zang replied.

"I remember you said that you also raised a rabbit. Did the rabbit still exist?"

"The rabbit left before Alice, and it ate the wrong food. Alice was very upset and didn't want to keep it anymore. So when she left, I bought a stuffed rabbit. I think she will like it very much." Close Zang compared the size, it was the size that a seven-year-old girl could hold in his arms.

"You prepared all Alice's things? How old were you at that time?"

Guan Zang thought for a while: "15 years old, Uncle Ma also helped." He didn't speak for a long time, Guan Zang asked softly: "What does Keji want to confirm?"

He turned his head to stare at Guan Zang, looking into his eyes.

"Are you sad?"

Guan Zang looked ahead, thinking for a long time in silence, until he thought Guan Zang was in a daze, and then he heard the answer: "I'm not sad, every funeral is, and I don't know why I should be sad."

"no feeling?"

"Yes, lonely, very lonely." Guan Zang asked him again, "How does Keji feel now?"

"sad."

"Why? Isn't marriage a happy event?"

"I don't know why I'm sad." He guessed that Yan Renjing was about to finish changing, and said, "Let's go." Guan Zang drove out of the hotel parking lot.

"Why don't you go to the wedding? I'm afraid you will go crazy and kill someone suddenly?"

"Probably so, or I don't think it's very auspicious." Guan Zang laughed for a while, "Does Keji think I'm particularly pitiful?"

"It's so pitiful, lonely and rich, so pitiful." He touched Guan Zang's head and played with his chin with his fingers, "Little poor, I will accompany you, and then help you spend some money, okay?" ?”

"Okay!"

He asked Guan Zang to take him to eat lobster, "the kind that needs to be airlifted from the United States, and open a bottle of red wine. He is older than me."Guan Zang was delighted to hear that, so he went to the western restaurant below the five-star hotel, waited for the foreign lobster to arrive on the table, and said, "Keji, can you buy a new dress later?"

He dug out a large piece of lobster meat with a fork, stuffed it into his mouth to chew, looked at Guan Zang with raised eyebrows, and waited for a reason.

"I just want to buy it for you to wear."

"Then watch me take it off, won't you?" He greeted Guan Zang with a fork, bumped heads, and said in a low voice, "If you dare to buy it, I will dare to wear it." He drank the red wine in the glass in one go.

Guan Zang's eyes sparkled because of this.