winter past

There are seven square dining tables in the barbecue restaurant, and only the one near the kitchen sat with five young boys all in black, which looked a bit deserted.

The four boys who were playing around in the supermarket earlier walked towards the five people, and the one wearing the gold chain respectfully bowed to one of the five people who had a shaving brush head. The brush head was about 26. Older than everyone around.The brush head signaled Jin Chain and the others to sit down at the next table.The one wearing the gold chain saluted: "Come right away."

The brush head nodded slightly, and waved his arms: "Miss Boss, add more vegetables! My brothers are here, come, order whatever you want."

A middle-aged woman standing at the counter gave Zhao You a menu and said, "Handsome guy, take a look." She went to order for Ban Shutou.

Zhao You looked down at the menu and caught a glimpse of the boy named Daqiang out of the corner of his eye.Daqiang was also looking at him, with a cigarette in his hand, still looking angry and out of breath.

Daqiang turned his head and bit the ear of the golden chain for a while, the golden chain moved his chin lightly and lowered his eyes, as if he had tacitly agreed to something.Daqiang dropped the cigarette in his hand, jumped up suddenly, rolled up his sleeves, and walked towards Zhao You with his fists clenched.He clenched his fists and the muscles in his lean arms bulged.

Seeing that Daqiang was only one step away from him, Zhao You heard the voice of calling friends and friends from outside the barbecue shop. The next second, the door of the shop was pushed open, and Wu Yangyang was wearing a yellow shirt and wearing a yellow shirt. The man in the peaked cap came in arrogantly.They were all young, too, and there were a lot of puny boys in the crowd.

When Daqiang saw them, his face froze, and Jin Lianzi called out in a calm voice: "Daqiang."

Daqiang took a look at Zhao You, reluctantly went back to Jinlianzi's table and sat down.

The proprietress took a look at these people, with a dry smile on her face, she swung her arms wildly, and said, "Everyone, sit down wherever you want." She called towards the kitchen, "Lili, come out and help!" ! Order!"

Soon, a waitress wearing a pair of foam-stained plastic gloves hurriedly pushed open the glass kitchen door and came out.When she saw the group of people in yellow clothes, she took off her gloves and hurriedly greeted them: "Sit, handsome guys, where are you sitting?"

She pointed to the tables in front of the counter: "Sit there, it's more spacious."

The first one among the men in yellow pointed to the table next to the gold chain and said, "Sit there."

He trimmed the short hair on one side into two lightning bolts.

"How many people?" asked the waitress, "I'll prepare tableware for you."

Someone suddenly said: "Others come to have supper, they come to smell the stool."

The table next to the gold chain was next to the toilet.

The group of men in black burst into wild laughter.The man in the lightning yellow clothes was unmoved, and led a group of expressionless men in yellow clothes to the table next to the toilet. As soon as they passed by, they sat down one by one, occupying three tables in one go.A great yellow shadow surrounds the men in black.

Someone tapped the table.No one said anything.

Zhao You sat down at the table in front of the counter.The proprietress wiped the sweat from her head, and turned on all the electric fans hanging on the wall in the shop.

The air conditioner was already turned on in the shop, and the temperature was very low. With those fans, the barbecue shop was almost freezing.The proprietress walked up to Zhao You, she seemed to be shivering from the cold, and asked tremblingly, "Has the handsome guy thought it out... Do you want takeaway?"

She said the word "takeaway" very emphatically.

Zhao You said: "Dinner." He put his two arms on the table, folded them together, and said, "Give me six bottles of Coke first." He pointed to the freezer at the door, and said in a relaxed tone: "Glass bottles The coldest kind."

"Then what skewers are you eating? Six of you?" The proprietress asked again after taking out six bottles of Coke from the freezer.

"I'm the only one right now, after that..." Zhao You scratched his cheek, "Maybe some colleagues will come over."

"That's it?" The proprietress put the Coke on the table, her face full of doubts: "Just... Coke?"

Zhao You smiled, took out his notebook and ballpoint pen, opened the notebook, and turned to the page written "Study on Coca-Cola Addiction", and said: "My research topic needs to find a season that is most suitable for drinking Coca-Cola. The food that is most suitable for cola, and the environment that can most stimulate people's desire to drink cola, you are especially suitable here."

As he spoke, he lined up six bottles of cold Coke in front of him.

"Oh...then..." The proprietress scratched her scalp, "Study slowly, study slowly..." She glanced at the tables at the back of the store who were dressed in black or yellow, her voice soft Many, "Then you study carefully..."

The smell of grease and spices wafted from the kitchen.Zhao You smiled and nodded with the proprietress, stared at the Coke in front of him, and did not move.

People came into the store one after another, all of them were wearing black clothes. Some came in alone, smoking a cigarette and dragging the soles of their shoes, and some came in in groups, smelling of alcohol, laughing. Some tattoos can be seen more or less.The group of people in yellow clothes also had tattoos on their arms and calves.One even had a skull tattoo all over his neck.

There was only one empty table left in the store.

The men in black and the men in yellow competed to order food, plumes of green smoke burst out of the kitchen, and the bright pink walls in the room were smudged purple.There was only one waitress in the store, busy serving dishes, serving wine, and adding dishes.The takeaway business of the barbecue restaurant is not bad, there is always the sound of electronic bills coming in, and the proprietress is busy behind the counter to settle the accounts.

The burnt smell of fat is stronger.

Zhao You ordered another six bottles of iced Coke.

Both the men in black and the men in yellow ordered a lot of wine, and some of them were so drunk that they took off their hats, revealing their flushed faces and ears.People in black only clink glasses with people in black and light each other's cigarettes, and people in yellow only clink glasses with people in yellow and light cigarettes with each other.From time to time, they all glanced out of the corners of their eyes at people in clothes of different colors.

The wine glasses collided, the lighter clicked, the smell of kerosene was fleeting, the fan whistled to blow air, and the proprietress tapped her phone.

The people in the store were very quiet and didn't say a word.

After a while, the door opened, and a group of girls chatting and laughing came in along the south wind, but stopped abruptly.Zhao You looked back, and saw a group of four young girls, all with dyed hair, with stiff smiles on their faces, standing in front of the counter of the barbecue restaurant.A long-haired burgundy tugged at the female companion next to her, and said softly, "Let's change to another one, or the takeaway will be ready."

The waitress had just opened two more bottles of beer for the man in yellow, and when she saw them, she greeted them warmly and said, "Sit inside."

The proprietress chimed in, "There are discounts for dining in by scanning the QR code."

The proprietress went over and whispered to them: "They have been sitting for more than an hour, it's all right, everyone is here to eat, sit down."

A yellow-haired girl said: "Then let me scan to see what discounts are available!"

She walked to the only empty table in three steps at a time, scanned a QR code pasted on the table, sat down, and waved to her companions: "Ten yuan coupon!"

The other three people were either a little hesitant or a little nervous, but they all walked over and sat down.They hugged their purses tightly.

The short brown hair said: "Otherwise, let's take out..."

The waitress took the menu and went over enthusiastically: "Look at the menu first, it's okay, take your time, it's okay, let me serve you some side dishes first?"

The girls sat down and flipped through the menu.

Zhao You's eyes returned to those Cokes, and after a while, he heard the sound of the store door being pushed open again.This time he didn't look back, and heard the proprietress say: "Handsome guy, how many people are there? Eat in or take out? Wait for eat in."

No one answered.

After the girls finished ordering, the blond-haired girl started to unpack the tableware, but the brown-haired one stopped her, still a little nervous.

The proprietress said, "Look slowly." She walked towards the table of the four girls, stopped by their table and asked, "Do you want to pack something?"

The one with long burgundy hair asked: "I've already paid for the order, can I change it to take away? Is the discount still worth it?"

The proprietress replied, but Zhao You didn't hear what she said. Zhao You couldn't even see the proprietress anymore. A young man suddenly appeared in front of him, blocking all his sight.

He could only see him—wearing a short-sleeved floral shirt on his upper body, a pair of floral pants that reached his knees on his lower body, and a pair of plastic slippers on his feet.His hair is very long, tied loosely at the back of his head, and some long hair covered his forehead, almost covering his right eye, which seemed to affect his vision, so he flicked his hair, and there was a scar on his right side The brow bone, near the temple, flashed, and as he let go of his hand, and as the long hair fell down again, the scar was covered again.

His shirt collar was slightly open, his complexion was not very good, his skin was almost pale, and his eyes appeared to have heavy dark circles.

He pulled away a chair opposite Zhao You and asked him, "Would you mind setting up a stage?" He turned around and smiled and said to the proprietress, "I'll set up a stage here."

He was holding a menu covered with a thick layer of oil in his right hand, and his nails were a bit long and uneven.

Zhao You said, "It's okay, I'm fine."

The man in the floral shirt turned his head to look at him, showing a very shallow and polite smile.There were strands of hair stuck to his neck.

His hair is very black.His pupils are also very dark.

After the man in the floral shirt sat down, the proprietress talked to him, and he nodded, with one hand resting on the table, half-raised.The smoke from the barbecues, the smoke from the cigarettes surrounded him, and his floral shirt was gray.He looked like a plant that would appear in the rain forest in the early morning, his body hidden behind the thick fog was covered with morning dew.

Zhao You's hand accidentally touched a bottle of Coke, and the small drops of water on the glass bottle immediately wet his fingers.

The man in the floral shirt raised his head, tugged at his collar twice, muttering, "It's hot." He wiped out the paper on the table to sweat.

Some crumbs of tissue paper stuck to his face.He was probably really hot, shaking the menu to fan the wind, ordered some skewers and some beer with the proprietress.He reached into his pocket and licked his lips, as if he was addicted to cigarettes.But he didn't take out the cigarette, he raised the corners of his eyes, and looked towards the door. Not long after, a young man with a strong smell of makeup came to his side.

The young man showed the proprietress his mobile phone. He came to get takeaway.The proprietress went to the kitchen.The young man reached out and touched the face of the man in the floral shirt.The man in the floral shirt shrank back, his movements were extremely imperceptible."Something stuck to your face," said the young man.

He took away the few snowflakes of confetti on his face.

The man in the floral shirt returned to his original position, and put his hands where they had been.He looked at the Cokes that Zhao You put out, his eyes were not bright.

"New friend?" The young man probably knew him and was talking to him, but he kept looking at Zhao You and winking at him.Zhao You smiled.

The man in the floral shirt said, "I set up the stage." He lit a cigarette, and the young man stretched out his hand and squeezed his right shoulder. He leaned against the wall, looking somewhat resistant, and the two talked. The words are affectionate.

"Charlie is still thinking about you today, saying why you didn't come today."

"Really?"

"I knew you must be near here at this point, where did you go today?"

"I didn't go anywhere, I'm here waiting to meet you by chance."

The young man laughed and dug his fingers into the collar of the man in the floral shirt.He is touching his neck.The man in the floral shirt no longer resisted so much, he smiled happily while smoking a cigarette.The young man joked with him again, reminding him: "Tomorrow Azhan is having a birthday party in a wealthy family, will you come?"

The man in the floral shirt nodded and flicked ash on the ground, and the young man picked up the delivery bag and left.

The man in the floral shirt sat silently, smoking non-stop, looking outside and behind him from time to time, his movements were very small.His plant seems to need a lot of nicotine.

"Drip!! Drip!!!"

I don't know which car's car alarm was triggered somewhere outside, and they started screaming.Someone in the men in black immediately answered the phone, and then some men in black started calling one after another, with ugly faces.

The attention of the man in the floral shirt was completely attracted by these people. He looked around frequently, but his sitting posture was much more relaxed than before.The group of girls who came to eat supper were very anxious and flustered, discussing whether they should leave first.Just when the girls were still hesitating, a yellow-haired man in a black short-sleeved T-shirt rushed into the barbecue restaurant with a crowbar. His forehead was bloody and his eyes were blood red, and he ran to a table of yellow clothes. In front of someone, he lifted a table, held up a crowbar and cursed: "Fuck your mother! Do you know whose territory this is?!"

The group of men in yellow overturned two tables and rushed towards the group of men in black, cursing foul words.Zhao You quickly sent a text message to call the police, and saw that the man in black also lifted the table to fight, and there were shouts and curses in the barbecue restaurant, and the sound of glass bottles breaking one after another.The girls ran to the door with their heads in their arms. Seeing that a chair flew out from behind and was about to hit them, the man in the floral shirt yelled: "Get down!", threw away the cigarette, rushed over, and pulled The two girls hid under the table.

Zhao You also quickly pulled the other two girls to hide under the table.

The proprietress and waitresses had long since disappeared.The glass door to the kitchen was also closed.

"Let me out, let me out..." The brown-haired girl was so frightened that she was about to crawl to the door crying, when the glass door was pushed open, and a large group of people came in screaming and killing .The brown-haired girl didn't dare to move, and kept crying.

The man in the floral shirt was quite calm and said, "Let's hide here first."

Zhao You comforted the girls and said, "I'm calling the police."

The girl with long wine-red hair said, "I said earlier that I'm not going to sit, I'm going to take a takeaway!"

At this time, the man in the floral shirt made friends with them: "You guys work in Jenny, right? I think I've seen you."

The girl with yellow hair asked him, "Are you also working in the factory?"

The man in the floral shirt shook hands with her, smiled, and said flatteringly: "I just came here and just finished training, so I didn't expect to meet you here." He asked again: "Hey, you know a girl named Xiaoqin Is it? She is my cousin's primary school classmate, when I came to Qingshi, my cousin said he could come to her."

The girls exchanged glances with each other, and a girl with blue hair and curly hair said, "Xiaoqin has long since stopped doing it."

No one answered, the girls cried and cried, swiping their mobile phones.The man in the floral shirt blinked his eyes, then smiled again, and his smile became even brighter. He took out a stack of colored paper from his trouser pocket: "I usually work here part-time, and we are looking for waiters and resident singers here. The boss can find it very well." Urgent, if you are interested, you can go and have a look. As for the waiter, the salary is good, it is definitely a serious place, working in the city center, two shifts, no dancing, no singing, there is a commission for selling wine and fruit plates, For resident singers, guests will get red envelopes when they order songs.”

He distributed the coupons to those girls and sent them to Zhao You. He was about to retract his hand, but Zhao You stretched out his hand and smiled at him.He also gave him one.

It was a coupon for the Yaochi Ballroom.

"Have they been beating at the back?" said the yellow-haired girl, bent over to look out, turned her head and waved at the people under the table, pointed to the door and said: "They have been beating at the back, we Walk!"

She crawled out first, and the other three girls hurriedly followed outside.The girl with long wine-red hair climbed out last, and she asked the man in the floral shirt, "Aren't you leaving?"

The man in the floral shirt said: "The skewers I ordered haven't been served yet."

Zhao You laughed, and the wine-red long-haired girl glared at them, shook her head, and ran away rolling and crawling.Hearing that the beating outside was not so intense, Zhao You reached out to get a bottle of Coke, and went back under the table.He sat cross-legged on the ground, handed the Coke to the man in the floral shirt, and said, "You've been staring at it for a long time."

The man in the floral shirt also sat down. He was tall and had to bow his head and sit with his hands tied. He lit another cigarette and asked Zhao You, "Aren't you going to drink?"

Zhao You shook his head, and the man in the floral shirt took the Coke, biting the straw and drinking the Coke.The bubbles in the glass bottle made a rustling sound, a bit like the sound of snow falling.

Zhao You swallowed his saliva, took out a handkerchief to wipe his sweat, it was very hot under the table, the cold wind, the cold air went to nowhere.The man in the floral shirt asked him, "Aren't you running too?"

Zhao You looked at him and said, "Didn't you run away?"

The man in the floral shirt shook the cigarette ash with a smile, and glanced at him: "Do you like to watch the excitement?"

Zhao You didn't have an answer for a while, so he felt a little hungry.He looked outside, and saw a man in black lying on the ground, and a stainless steel round plate for vegetables happened to rest on his chest.There were a few skewers and some grilled leeks on the plate.

The man in the floral shirt suddenly crawled up to the man, took the plate in, took a big gulp of Coke, grabbed a skewer and bit it.He put the dish between him and Zhao You.

Roast meat and chives were delicious, and the man in the floral shirt smelled bitter, like a piece of overburned wood.

Zhao You ate two skewers, using bamboo sticks as chopsticks, and eating them with leeks.The man in the floral shirt also used bamboo sticks as chopsticks to pick up leeks and ate them. After eating what was on the plate, he suddenly sighed, "I'm starving to death."

Zhao You took out the fruit jelly candy he bought just now and handed it over.

The man in the floral shirt took a piece of fudge and patted it into his mouth, chewed it a few times, frowned and said, "This candy is hot."

Zhao You pointed to the packaging: "Yes, tropical fruit flavor."

The man in the floral shirt laughed out loud.Suddenly some glass shards flew under their table.The two got closer, and the man in the floral shirt hugged his knees, drank coke and smoked.His arm rubbed against Zhao You's arm, and his arm was cold and sweaty, like melting ice.

Zhao You couldn't help looking at the Coke in his hand, and pursed his lips tightly.

"Did you really call the police?" the man in the floral shirt asked.

Zhao You looked at the SMS records on the phone: "The call I made 9 minutes ago should arrive in 1 minute."

He tried his best to move his eyes away from the Coke, buried himself in eating fudge, and after eating a lot of them, he realized: "The mango flavor is the best."

The man in the floral shirt came over and took a look into the bag: "What color is it?"

"Yellow."

The man in the floral shirt pointed to one and asked, "This one?"

"No, this one is pineapple-flavored, this one, and this one too..." Zhao You picked out the remaining two mango-flavored ones and handed them to him.

"Here comes the note!" Someone shouted.

"Back door! Back door! Get out of the kitchen! Go!"

The man in the floral shirt knelt on the ground and stretched out half of his body, looked outside, and put the two mango-flavored soft candies into his mouth—another slap-like movement.He climbed out with the Coke, looked back at Zhao You, and said, "Let's go first, thank you for the Coke."

Zhao You nodded and waved to him.The man in the floral shirt stood up and ran towards the kitchen.

Zhao You was still sitting under the table and did not go out. He was holding the leftover fudge and suddenly remembered something.It happened when he first went to a public swimming pool, he didn't remember how old he was, he hadn't learned how to swim, and he had a swimming ring around his waist.The swimming circle seems to be blue, and there seems to be a pattern of dolphins on it.

His mother bought him a cone to eat. The sun was very strong, so it must be summer, but it was not sweltering in June, but crisply hot in July or August.

He saw a boy jumping into the pool. The boy was very dark and swimming in the water like a fish.There were many people around the pool, and there were many people in the pool, but he could only hear the sound of the boy slapping the water and breathing.The cone melted on his hands, and his hands were covered with sticky, sweet milk.

"Zhao You? What are you doing hiding here?"

Zhao You blinked, and saw that Yan Boyuan was bending over and staring at him, and angrily stretched out his hand to pull him: "Come out, come out quickly!"

Zhao You climbed out, and the proprietress appeared again, talking to a policeman in uniform. Three armed special police officers circled the shop, and the door of the barbecue shop was wide open.There was a lot of discussion outside the store.

"It must be a triad fight!"

"What kind of underworld, they are all children."

"Give me the phone, give me the phone, I won't send it out, I just haven't seen this battle, can't I take a picture as a souvenir?"

"Have you read the Aegean case? It's terrifying!"

Zhao You looked back at the four bottles of Coke that were still intact on the table, and asked, "Ice Coke, do you want to drink it?"

Yan Boyuan pulled him out, and there were two teams of special police officers standing on the sidewalk, and a row of special police cars and police cars were parked by the side of the road.Zhao You asked Yan Boyuan, "Did you catch anyone?"

"Caught a few." Yan Boyuan lit a cigarette, still looking displeased: "Why didn't you accompany Teacher Yin?"

He waved his hand at a special police officer, and said with a smile, "Our deputy Zhao happened to meet him, and he called the police."

The special police officer put his hands on his hips and nodded: "Then go back and rest."

Zhao You said: "She didn't let me accompany her. I wanted to send her upstairs, but she said not to move."

Yan Boyuan rolled his eyes: "What's wrong with you?"

Zhao You said, "Have you and Captain Zhan found out anything in the interrogation?"

Yan Boyuan shook his legs twice and said, "Do you want to be a bachelor for the rest of your life?"

Zhao You said, "I'm here to investigate the case."

"Come quit Coke?" Yan Boyuan pointed to the next police car, without saying anything.The two walked towards the police car, and when they reached the police car, Zhao You stopped abruptly and asked Yan Boyuan, "What color was the wall in the barbecue shop just now? How many fans are there on the wall in the shop?"

Yan Boyuan ignored him, opened the car door, pushed him into the car, and said: "The morning meeting will be held later, go back to the dormitory and sleep for a while."

Yan Boyuan started the car, and said: "I heard that the Criminal Technology has confirmed that the female corpse in 404 is indeed holding a baby. It's not a doll, it's not a toy, it's a real baby."

Looking at the barbecue restaurant outside the window, Zhao You said, "Let me make an appointment with Hongfeng's doctor."

Yan Boyuan nodded, and drove the car onto the motorway: "I'm going to take a half-day vacation with Lao Zhan." He coughed and put his hands on the window, "The hotel owner recognized him, and the one who went to the hotel with Mr. Yin is The policeman who shot and killed Lin Midong in that room back then, I said how could anyone recognize that hotel room at a glance."

"Lin Midong?"

"That's right, Aegean Sea Killer, Mr. Yin has such a big incident, didn't you check the file?"

"Didn't Team Zhan say it's forbidden to talk about other cases?"

Yan Boyuan looked at Zhao You, gritted his teeth, and said bitterly, "I'm really too lazy to talk about you."

Zhao You smiled apologetically.Yan Boyuan said again: "The policeman used to be a special police officer. He was transferred to Yunnan for a year. After returning, he was transferred to a criminal police officer. The case in Aegean Sea was the first case he handled. It must have caused too much psychological shadow. I quit the report and said that I have become a monk and become a monk.”

Zhao You said, "Which temple is in Qingshi?"

"I don't know." Yan Boyuan yawned, "I'm so sleepy."

Zhao You also yawned. He was suddenly sleepy and fell asleep with his arms folded.