The world is cool

I have to say that people are really a kind of animal with a lot of forgetfulness. Otherwise, how can the old saying always talk about remembering to eat and not remember to fight, selectively ignoring bad things, it has been human nature throughout the ages.So when the business of the Sichuan restaurant was booming, and the daily life was filled with running books, I gradually forgot the subtle guilt towards Huahua in this enrichment, and even got used to having an extra bed in the living room, alone.

On the day of the winter solstice, a few of us elders also made a fuss, inviting Axiu, Sister Zou and Wang Yong to make dumplings at home, making the atmosphere harmonious and joyful, like a family.As the evening approached, just as the dumplings were out of the pot, someone knocked on the door outside. Sister Zou enthusiastically helped to open it, but I didn’t see anyone coming. I listened to her calling, boss, your new TV is so magnificent!

I don't care how Sister Zou can see the style of the TV through such a thick cardboard box, what I care about is the consignee - Nima little lunatic is spending money again!The dead child is plausible. The real quality of life lies in the quality of life. You must know that what you save is paper, and what you spend is money.Listen, is there anything more nonsense than this? If Zhou Cheng hadn't stopped him and revealed that the home appliance market, especially the price of TVs, has plummeted recently, so it wouldn't be a disadvantage to buy it.

Huahua ignored our mess, and focused on watching the delivery person unpack, install, and debug, and listened carefully to the use precautions conveyed by the other party. After the person left, he became a professional, tuned the channel, locked the , Sorting, playing more and more smoothly, exhilarating.

In fact, Huahua is very smart. Whether it is comprehension ability, hands-on ability or reaction, etc., his only and most fatal weakness lies in his lack of formal education.Although I am also half-baked, at least I have read the compulsory education sparsely. I know the order of writing strokes and strokes. I know that there are 26 subtitles in English. Know that plants have cell walls while humans only have cell membranes, know that water can be decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen, know when China became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, and know how long it takes for a swimming pool with a water inlet and a drain to simultaneously enter and drain Ability to fill up... This is not to drop the book bag, nor to show off how superior you are, but a person's achievements are largely dependent on his height.I am at the bottom, Huahua is lower than me, I am very envious of the little madman's mind and Zhou Cheng's insight into the world's wisdom, I believe that Huahua will only be better than me, if not worse.

I have thought about this more than once, what would Huahua become if he received education when he should have been educated?Still working in the back kitchen of an unassuming small restaurant?I don't think so.Maybe he can't start a company like a lunatic, and he can't trade stocks like Zhou Cheng, but he may be a good technical backbone, or an engineer or something. He has the carefulness and hard work that ordinary people don't have.

I know these "what ifs" don't make sense, but I just can't help thinking about it, and by the time I finish thinking about it, the crowd is already sitting on the sofa watching TV.

It was only then that I discovered that the little lunatic bought an LCD, which looked exactly like my brother and sister from the one in the prison.I joked, did you do it on purpose, remembering the past?The little lunatic didn't take it seriously, he could only watch the news back then, but now I have the final say on what to watch.I suddenly realized that this is spending money to buy happiness.But I still say the same thing, it makes people feel uncomfortable, and in the end they have to adjust it to four to three, so they take off their pants and fart, which takes a second time.The little lunatic rolled his eyes, what do you know, they are starting to switch to digital signals now, and sooner or later the mainstream signal will become [-] to [-].Zhou Cheng interjected lightly, and moved a few more small benches, it was exactly the same as before.The little lunatic and I looked at each other, and we could clearly hear each other's heartfelt words - there was no way to answer these words!

Zhou Cheng is reliable most of the time, except for a sentence that makes you wonder if it is a serious sentence or a cold joke from time to time, which is really tangled.

To say that everything was harmonious that day, except for Sister Zou's hints from time to time which caused headaches, and Axiu and Wang Yong also helped to beat the side drums.Unexpectedly, I pretended to be too successful. Sister Zou thought I was stupid, so she pointed it out directly and asked openly: "Boss, have you ever thought about finding a woman to start a family?"

Now the fool is embarrassed to be stupid anymore.

Zhou Cheng tilted his head slightly, and the corners of his mouth were slightly curved; the little lunatic's eyes were shining, and he looked like he was watching the show; I secretly glanced at Huahua from the corner of my eye, and he was eating dumplings with his head down, as if he didn't hear him.

I'm in a dilemma, say I don't want to, I don't believe it myself, there is no man who doesn't want a woman, I didn't dare to think about it before, but now I have the condition, and I'm about forty, and I haven't refilled the incense for the Feng family. Can you be in no hurry?But if I want to say yes, it's not in Sister Zou's arms, I'm not afraid of losing face, I'm really afraid of this eldest sister from the bottom of my heart.

With an idea, I came up with a general idea: "Hey, this thing is not like a business. Maybe you have worked hard for a long time in vain, and when you turn around, you will meet the right one. Let it go."

In fact, I meant a bit of rejection, but Sister Zou still didn't give up: "Then what do you like, boss?"

When it comes to this point, I can only rack my brains to respond: "Uh, nothing specific, just... a nice person, kind, family-friendly... Hey, actually, if you really see the right thing, there are so many things to pay attention to. You'll know it when you see it, haha!"

Sister Zou couldn't hide the disappointment on her face, but she still smiled generously with me. Wang Yong and Axiu were a little embarrassed, but my deity had already repaired the steps for them, so they naturally borrowed the slope to go down the donkey and began to talk about the inn. thing.I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, and wanted to lower my head to take a sip of the dumpling soup, but I always felt as if someone was looking at me, so I turned my head subconsciously, and met Shang Huahua's calm eyes.

This time Huahua didn't hide or cover up, she just looked at me straight, like a calm observer, trying to dig out all my hidden information.

In fact, I have nothing to hide. The reason why I don't reveal it is because I am afraid of hurting, whether it is Sister Zou or him.But I don't know why, I just feel guilty. There is no reason for this guilt, but it is directly manifested in my inability to look at him for more than five seconds.I like women, I will form a family of my own sooner or later, how sonorous and powerful, but my mother just can't say it out, even thinking about it in my heart, I feel fucking guilty.

It is obvious that he has a problem, why does he fall like I made a mistake?

I don't know how long Huahua has been observing since then, but anyway, I tried my best to ignore it, and started eating to my heart's content.

I thought that Huahua would say something to me after seeing off Sister Zou and the others, but after I finished washing and slipped around the living room in the name of drinking water, Huahua didn't respond at all, and just sat on the spring bed and cut fruit. The cut was focused and devoted, and I didn't dare to get close. Based on the movements and sound effects alone, I deduced that the knife should be raised and lowered cleanly.

After that, I was a little wary, in fact, it was not appropriate to be defensive, after all, he didn't do anything, and he didn't even have any signs of doing anything, but I just pulled up the protective net in my heart, and it was related, everyday Behavior is also a bit restrained. For example, I used to hook my shoulders and back, pinch my face and rub my hair if I didn’t understand it. Now I try to avoid it, even if I miss the curly feel.

Huahua didn't seem to notice it, she was still diligently helping out in the back kitchen, and she still obeyed me, as if everything was still the same as before.

As the end of the year approached, sister Zhou Cheng came to find her only younger brother to go home for the New Year.At that time, Huahua and I were in the restaurant, and only the little lunatic witnessed the whole process.Tell us that Zhou Cheng insisted not to return, the reason was that my sister was going to my brother-in-law's house, and it was unreasonable and embarrassing for him to go with a brother-in-law. In the end, the woman didn't say anything about her brother, and took the lucky money that her brother gave to her nephew, and left not too happily. up.I told the little lunatic to let it go, it's better to pretend it never happened, so as not to embarrass Zhou Cheng.The little lunatic snorted and said, does he have that fine nerve? You underestimate that guy too.I voluntarily retreated to avoid being affected by the flames of war.

After the Spring Festival, the shops in the commercial street closed one after another—even if the boss is local, the part-time workers have to go home—but the crowds of people shopping for New Year’s goods in the commercial district are getting more and more surging, so that the supply of restaurants exceeds the demand , Business is booming.Axiu, Sister Zou, Wang Yong also returned to her hometown a few days ago, but I was a little bit reluctant to do business these days, so I summoned Zhou Cheng to stabilize the little lunatic, while Huahua resumed her old job in the back kitchen and became the chef. Even though his cooking is not as good as Wang Yong's, it can be regarded as passable.

This day is the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, and the sky has been snowing profusely since the early morning.Fortunately, the snow was not heavy, and it was trampled by pedestrians before it fell to the ground.

Maybe it was due to the weather, or maybe it was not time for dinner, and there were almost no customers in the store.Huahua Mao didn't know what to do in the back kitchen, and I was sitting at the cash register with the little lunatic to calculate the running water for the past few days. Zhou Cheng had nowhere to go, so he pulled a chair and sat down at random, and made a hard book like a magic trick. Paper book, bow your head and read.

squeak--

There is a huge temperature difference between indoors and outdoors in the north in winter, so even those who are open to welcome guests don’t dare to open the door of my house. It is usually closed tightly, and guests can just push the door by themselves.During the second renovation of the hotel, I was afraid of spending money, so the door was not changed. It was the same as before. Because of the age of the hinged shutters, there will always be a very distinctive friction sound when opening and closing, so when you hear this sound, it means someone is pushing the door.

"How many guests are there?"

As soon as I raised my head, Zhou Cheng had already stood up to meet him.If it weren't for my fear of being overqualified, I would really want to hire him as a permanent waiter.

The visitors were two men about our age, one in a leather jacket and the other in a business trench coat, looking very stylish, one of them was dangling the keys to his BMW.

But even if he drives a Porsche, the contribution he can make by coming to a store like mine is limited—if he wants to get a lot of money, he has to form a reinforcement team.So when I saw that Zhou Cheng had greeted me, I didn't go forward.

"What kind of broken place are you looking for!" As soon as he entered, the man in the leather jacket was not very happy.

The business windbreaker said unhappily: "It's good to have something to eat, who told you to come out in such a bad weather."

"Fuck, I can't wait to try the new car, I have to pay tribute to my father-in-law tomorrow."

"He's lost all his teeth and still drives a sports car?"

"I'm going to die."

The two of them ignored Zhou Cheng's question at all, and just found a place to sit down on their own, and the breath of nouveau riche came over their faces.

In the past, Zhou Cheng must have remained calm and composed, and would continue to exchange my sincerity for your smile.But today, he was a little abnormal. Seeing the two of them sitting down, he just stood there and didn't go forward, let alone ask the other party what he wanted to eat.

This is not like Zhou Cheng, I frowned slightly, and just about to speak, the leather jacket became impatient: "Hey, waiter, you are so stupid, order!"

An imperceptible emotion flashed in Zhou Cheng's eyes, and before I could realize what it was, he had already walked over calmly: "Guests, here is the menu, what do you want to eat?"

The leather jacket took the menu and began to flip through it rudely. The moment the business windbreaker and Zhou Cheng looked at each other, they were stunned.

"Zhou... Cheng?" In the uncertain tone, there was more surprise and disbelief.

The leather jacket raised his head when he heard the words, his expression was exactly the same as that of the business windbreaker at first, but soon turned into a strong hostility.He threw the menu away, smiled strangely, and said mockingly: "Hey, when did you come out, why didn't you tell me in advance, my brothers can pick you up."

Zhou Cheng nodded slightly: "Thank you, this kind of heart is enough."

The leather jacket smiled even more happily, but the smile didn't reach his eyes. Looking closely, he turned cold: "I heard it's a mess inside, can you still use the back of it now?"

Zhou Cheng sighed, and said unhurriedly: "Is Xu Ke okay, I heard that he got AIDS later? Well, look at you, you have to play it safe."

The leather jacket changed his face, and Teng stood up, knocking over the stool with such force: "Damn it, believe it or not, I'm going to have someone smash your shop right now!"

Zhou Cheng laughed: "Well, I believe it."

"Laugh at your mother to make you laugh!"

"Tsk, why haven't you made any progress for so many years?" Zhou Cheng shook his head regretfully, and suddenly leaned over and asked very kindly, "Is your child going to junior high school?"

The leather jacket was alert almost reflexively: "What do you want?"

Zhou Cheng shrugged: "No reason, I just think that your father-in-law who retired from the city court might not like your romantic history too much."

The leather jacket's face turned ugly for a moment, and he stared at Zhou Cheng bitterly for a long time before gritting his teeth and said, "You're a shame, the prison didn't even punish you!"

Zhou Cheng smiled: "To each other."

The business windbreaker judged the situation, and stood up at this time, and said to the leather jacket: "Let's go, I guess you have lost your appetite."

The leather jacket is so useless, he kicked the door open without looking back.

The business windbreaker sighed, and looked at Zhou Cheng again with a complicated expression: "If you have time to pay homage to Dapeng, you two will have a good time."

Zhou Cheng restrained his cynicism, and asked quietly: "Are you sure he wants to see me?"

The voice of the business windbreaker is very low, but firm: "He loves you the most in his life."

Zhou Cheng slightly raised the corner of his mouth, as if he heard a joke that was not hilarious but also made people feel happy: "So now every time it is cloudy and rainy, my bones hurt."

The business windbreaker was stunned: "It still hurts?"

"The doctor said that the root cause of the disease has fallen, and there is no cure."

After the uninvited guest left, Zhou Cheng's mood was a little subtle, not depressed, but certainly not happy, it should be said that he suddenly looked like a flower, sitting quietly in a corner, immersed in his own world, thinking about things that only he knew secret.

I have known Zhou Cheng for many years, but I have almost forgotten why he was imprisoned in the first place.

Now that I think about it, the Dapeng that Business Windbreaker was talking about was probably the one that Zhou Cheng accidentally killed.Then the leather jacket and business windbreaker should be friends of this so-called Dapeng, or Zhou Cheng's former friends.I suddenly discovered that I actually knew almost nothing about Zhou Cheng or we knew nothing about Zhou Cheng. I couldn't even imagine what kind of things could drive him out of control or even kill him.

But even though my head is about to explode with a hundred thousand whys, my mouth still can't ask, because I have no position, and I don't know where to ask.

"Who are those two? Your former friends?"

With my kind of thinking and worrying, there is naturally a little lunatic who doesn't care about all taboos, no matter what your emotional position is, everything is just a cloud, I suddenly admire him a little bit.

After a few seconds, Zhou Cheng hummed.

He was expressionless, but I just thought he was in a bad mood.

"What kind of broken person do you know! And that Dapeng, how did you abuse you back then, sexual abuse? Why did you find a pervert!"

I threw myself on the cash register, feeling the urge to vomit blood, if the little lunatic hadn't finally stopped, I would have wanted to cover his mouth.The area of ​​this guy's cerebral cortex that manages the sophistication of the world must be a wasteland, and it has not been developed at all!

Zhou Cheng looked over quietly, I held my breath, praying that his calmness could break through the peak of my imagination.

Finally, Zhou Cheng's lips moved, one word, in a low and soothing voice, but inexplicably cold: "Get out."