madness

There are a lot of red images in the dream, climbing to the cliff and growing and spreading, watermelons the size of fingernails grow from the branches, and the watermelons with round heads and brains fall on the corpses full of sharp knives, and the juice is mixed with blood and flows all over the ground.

Su Zhiyun woke up at the urging sound of paying the bill, and slowly opened his eyes. The afternoon sun reflected the eyelids into a transparent and bright flesh pink. Sleeping for too long made his brain confused, and even felt a little dizzy.

The fan whirled and creaked, sending a few miserly cool breezes. Su Zhiyun was so hot that a thin layer of sweat broke out on Su Zhiyun's back. He belatedly felt stuffy.

There is no sun outside, but the clouds are heavy, and the dizzy hair ends make the face even colder and paler.

"Little handsome guy, your store is so hot, why don't you even have an air conditioner?"

The young man was wearing a colorful coat, a white vest inside, and a string of gold necklaces as thick as a thumb around his neck. He lowered his head and lit a cigarette, spitting away the betel nut dregs in his mouth.

Su Zhiyun felt thirsty, and drank more than half of the glass of water in the ceramic jar in one gulp, before speaking slowly.

The ceramic jar was given by the owner, half old but not new.

"34.6."

The man took out a stack of bright red banknotes from his trouser pocket, counted them for a while, and then took out a fifty-"Don't look for it."

"I said handsome guy, are you interested in developing a side business?"

The man was not in a hurry to leave after shopping, but stood where he was, looking at Su Zhiyun with interest.

Su Zhiyun raised his eyes slightly, and the man passed a cigarette over with interest. Seeing Su Zhiyun lit it, a little eyelashes were drooping in the lingering white mist.

"How many days can you make a day in this shabby shop? There's not even an air conditioner, it's so hot."

The business in the store is deserted, and the wages are very low. They just include food and lodging for convenience.

Summer in this county is very hot, and there is still a lot of rain, making it suffocating.

He didn't light a single mosquito coil in the store. Su Zhiyun told the mosquitoes to bite a lot of bags. When he was bored, he even counted them, eleven on one arm and fifteen on the other.The mobile phone he is using now is a clamshell discarded by the boss, and he has applied for a temporary card. The mobile phone can only store 200 messages, all of which are greetings from the business hall.

I should change my phone.

Su Zhiyun calculated the remaining money on hand, and raised his eyes: "What side job?"

……

It is very crowded at night. Turning from a dilapidated dirt road into a small alley, you can see many small and cramped old shops inside. The shops are all dark, only the signs outside the shops change. With colorful colors.

Women are white.

Greasy and white, with slightly wobbly thighs, it looks like he can't stand still, the clothes are so tight that he can't breathe, his face is heavy with makeup, and he trembles when he laughs.

They leaned against the door, smiled tremblingly, and leaned forward eagerly when they saw a man.

Along the way, many women greeted young men, all with earnest expressions.

Su Zhiyun asked the young man to take him upstairs. It was obviously not the first time the man had come here, so he opened the door with ease.

After he went up, he asked Su Zhiyun: "Will you fight?"

"meeting."

"Then stay here, and don't ask anything." The young man smiled: "You should also be able to see what I do."

"You get off work at [-] o'clock in the evening. You can come here at that o'clock. You don't need to do anything. Just stand outside and help take a look. Occasionally, you will help drive away when you see trouble. There are a group of women in this room. It is inevitable Something happened."

Su Zhiyun agreed, and the man said that his name was Li Ge, and he also provided Su Zhiyun with a phone, saying that he could contact him anytime if he needed anything.

Before leaving, Brother Li blinked at him, and pointed to a curly-haired girl who climbed up: "If you have needs, you can go to Yanzi, she sometimes doesn't charge money when she's in a good mood."

The girl was wearing a tight skirt, her lips were painted red, her eyes widened when she heard this, and she said coquettishly: "What are you talking about? When did I ever do such a loss-making business!"

"Didn't you confiscate my money last time..."

Brother Li lowered his voice, leaned over and squeezed her waist, as if scratching an itchy spot, which made the girl giggle.

The girl named Yanzi hugged the man's neck, and leaned forward to kiss him on the mouth, but was pushed away by the man.

"It's a bad thing for my girlfriend to see it. You also know Xiaoxiao's temper, so you won't tear you apart."

"Am I afraid of that shrew? She is just a nouveau riche because she has some money at home."

The two of you tugged and tugged for a while, Yanzi always wanted to get close to the man, but the other party just half pushed and half accepted, playing hard to get, quite enjoying it.

Su Zhiyun stood leaning against the corner, the lights in the shop dimmed, making him sleepy again.

The scene in front of me was bizarre, and the dilapidated attic had a slight musty smell during the rainy season.

In order to avoid falling asleep, Su Zhiyun lit a cigarette.

Someone approached in the white smoke, a pair of big eyes with exaggerated false eyelashes, and a layer of gaudy pink on the eyelids, bling bling, very eye-catching.

"Can I have one?"

Swallow said.

"No."

Su Zhiyun looked around and saw that Brother Li had already left.

Yanzi pursed her lips, acted coquettishly, and repeatedly rubbed her chest on Su Zhiyun's arm. She knew how to exchange her body for some small favors.

"Why not? Why not?"

"expensive."

Su Zhiyun took a step back, Yanzi thought he was shy, so he got worse and bullied him.

"I heard what you just said to Brother Li. How can you have no money if you work two jobs a day?"

Yanzi was sprayed with a lot of low-quality perfume, which made people's noses itch. Su Zhiyun didn't like people getting too close, and couldn't handle it, so he stuffed his half-smoked cigarette into the other's mouth.

As if she had found a treasure, the girl smoked the remaining half happily, then remembered something, and suddenly yelled: "So we are kissing indirectly!"

Su Zhiyun only felt that she was noisy, so he lit another cigarette and put on his earphones, pretending that he couldn't hear her.

Seeing that he ignored her, Yanzi started talking to herself again: "This shabby shop, the men who come here are all poor and picky, some of them turn their faces and deny them when they are done, some are perverted, pinch and slap Pinching, it hurts my mother to death. When I save enough money, I will go to work in a big city like Sister Qingqing."

"Don't tell Brother Li about this, he will definitely find someone to beat me up if he finds out."

As she said this, she squinted her eyes and smiled, her red lips curled up, and her cheap black eyelashes blinked, making the light in her eyes very bright.

She looked so happy and full of hope.

Su Zhiyun didn't speak.

Swallow acquiesced that he agreed.

Everyone knows that Yanzi is a person who rarely shows a downcast look. She seems to be happy every day, and sometimes just adding an egg to dinner can make her very happy.

She joyfully found Su Zhiyun, and gestured exaggeratedly: "That's a double-yolk egg! The boss said that this is the first time he has cracked a double-yolk egg this year."

Swallow grinned.

"I'm sure I'm going to get rich this year, and I'm going to work in a big city like Sister Qingqing!"

The girl didn't wear makeup when she said this, she washed her face very clean, and put a little toilet water behind her ears, which smelled very soft.

Her happiness is so cheap, within reach and everywhere.

Su Zhiyun didn't understand, ignored, and didn't understand. He worked two jobs a day, almost non-stop, and most of them had no energy, so he was always sleepy, and sometimes he could lean against the wall to sleep.

Yanzi once asked him seriously in private: "Tell me, do you owe a lot of money, and then you can't afford to run away? Tell me honestly, and I can lend you money."

Su Zhiyun ignored her.

Most of the time he doesn't talk to anyone.

But even so, there are still many little sisters on this street who secretly pay attention to him.

Yanzi described Su Zhiyun in this way, and she tried hard to squeeze out her meager vocabulary: "Because you look very foreign, and you are different from many men here, and those little sisters and I think you are very similar to city people."

"It's been a long time since we've seen a guy as young as you here, and we all think you're still in college, maybe even high school."

She was also curious about Su Zhiyun's origin, but most of the time Su Zhiyun slept with his eyes closed, or wore headphones and smoked.

Reticent and silent.

Su Zhiyun seemed very tired, like a fire had burned out, and even the ashes were getting cold, there was nothing hot or loud to make him light up again.

Swallow observed that he had a very old and very old flip phone. Occasionally when he came up with guests, he could be seen leaning in the corner playing snake, and the music on the phone rang.

The pink light dimly hit the ridge of his nose, and his figure was very deep. When viewed from the side, his upper lip was slightly raised.

Yanzi sometimes feels that Su Zhiyun is a bit pitiful. He looks so young, but he doesn't go to school, has no friends, and is always alone.

Swallow said: "You always seem to be unhappy."

"If only I could share half of my happiness with you."

Su Zhiyun's hand holding the cigarette involuntarily froze slightly for a moment, and because of the impact of those words, his brain felt slightly dizzy.

It's just a coincidence that the same words just happen to come out of the mouths of girls of the same sex.

But Su Zhiyun was convinced that he hated this kind of coincidence, as if everything was just a nightmare, and he couldn't completely escape from this circle by going around.

There is a sense of impotence and fatalism.

After that, Yanzi was keenly aware of Su Zhiyun's estrangement, maybe it couldn't be called estrangement, after all, this relationship has always been nothing more than a girl's hot head.

But she still felt lost because of it, and felt as if she had lost something.

Sister Qingqing said that she shouldn't have so much kindness and empathy in a mess. People here have no doubt that she is a natural virgin who always picks up injured stray animals on the road.

It can be seen from the five or six shiny stray cats in her room.

Yanzi always has an inexplicable drive and persistence when it comes to saving others. Originally, everything was developing for the better, and she has already noticed that Su Zhiyun has some tendency to accept her.

However, all previous efforts were in vain.

After looking for Su Zhiyun several times, he was ignored by the other party, so Yan Zi glared at him viciously: "I will never come to you again in the future!"

The author says:

The rest of the chapters are basically used to explain why Yunzi became what he was at the beginning.