"Xiao Sun, open the bottle of Yamazaki 18-year-old I saved last time and make two cups of water."
"Okay, Brother Yong~!"
While chatting, Xue Yong turned around and called out to the bartender. The young man who was wiping the barware at the bar responded enthusiastically.
The time now is 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and their table is the only customer in the entire bar. After all, it has not yet opened for business. If Xue Yong and He Tianran were not both regular customers, they would not even be able to enter the bar, let alone let them in. Making two glasses of water-cut whiskey is very time-consuming.
"You also store wine here? Your supply channel hasn't been taken over by your guy yet?"
He Tianran complained.
Xue Yong said with a playful smile:
"Hey, drinking less doesn't mean you don't drink. What's there to serve? Besides, this is what I've been doing for the past few years. I have some goods that I haven't sold yet. By the way, I still have a few bottles of Yamazaki 25 Years at home. You Do you want to take a bottle back and give it to uncle to try?"
"It's free? Just get it for free."
"Hey, brothers have to figure out whether to settle accounts or not. It's not like you don't know that these Japanese whiskeys have become financial products now."
"Then if you can do business with me, it means that we are really brothers. We are familiar with each other. It's hard to do anything if we don't have a good relationship."
"That's right~"
When the two of them sang together, they really looked like a pair of bad friends who worked together and shared the same bad taste.
"Let's put aside the wine issue for now. Let's talk about the dream first. Well, I didn't figure it out clearly. You asked several other people in your dream if they knew Xiao A's person. Why did you want to ask? What about this? Just because Wen Liang said before that he met a man named Xiao Jia when he was traveling, and he looked very much like you? "
Xue Yong took up the topic that interested him again.
As a classmate of the two, Wen Liang and He Tianran told Xue Yong about this past incident. Although they rarely met each other, Xue Yong knew some general information.
He Tianran spread his hands, "Otherwise? I can only ask about things like this that I don't even remember in my dreams. It's rare to meet a few people who look like me in my dreams. Maybe my subconscious mind You can also answer it for me."
"Hey, you people who are engaged in art like to focus on the subconscious mind, the superego, the ego, and the id. From what I see, this is a reason for Wen Liang to chat with you."
As Xue Yong spoke, he grabbed the Arabic hookah pipe on the table and took a puff. Along with the gurgling sound of water in the pot, thick white mist and fresh fruity flavor sprayed out from his mouth and floated into the air.
He Tianran waved his hand, "No."
Xue Yong put down his pipe, "You can do whatever you want. Anyway, this is how I feel..."
"Why does it make you feel that way?"
"He has a criminal record..."
"...What kind of criminal record?"
The other party answered subconsciously, which made He Tianran stunned. He looked at Xue Yong and signaled with his eyes to let the other party continue.
Xue Yong didn't dare to look at each other for a moment, and smacked his lips, seeming to be tangled in his heart. Then he secretly glanced at He Tianran's expression, and seeing the strong expression on the other side, he had to say:
"It all happened a long time ago... Now someone else is working for you in your company, not to mention that "In the Wild" is still on the air. This period of Wenliang is very popular on the Internet, do you really want to know?"
"When you say that, I want to know even more."
He Tianran said yes, but he thought in his heart that although Wen Liang and he were old classmates, they were not familiar with each other in high school. On the contrary, Xue Yong seemed to be able to play together with Wen Liang in high school. .
Xue Yong raised his head and thought for a moment. Instead of going straight to the point, he mentioned another person:
"At that time... I must have been in the third year of high school. There was a person named Ye Jiaqi in the class. Do you know?"
"The name sounds familiar, but I can't remember the appearance."
"She's just a female classmate. After class, she's chatting around looking for people to talk to. She was even your deskmate. She was the PHS in the class and was very gossipy. This girl later chased me and told me about The warm and cool thing has to do with you."
Through Xue Yong's description, He Tianran had such an image in his mind, and he wondered:
"The warmth in high school...does anything have to do with me?"
Xue Yong nodded: "Yes, but you don't know it from beginning to end, and nothing happened in the end.
I remember... you were very stupid in high school, especially in the second grade. You couldn't speak more than three sentences a day. Apart from anime and games, and some two-dimensional paper figures, you were not interested in anything. You were just an otaku. I can't tell that you are the prince of Shanhai Group. "
He Tianran didn't want to recall the introverted time when he was taciturn due to family relationships and could only place his energy on the second dimension. He just urged:
"so what?"
"Did you believe in light at that time?" Xue Yong asked.
"I believe it now!" He Tianran said with a smile.
"Ha~ tsk tsk..." Xue Yong laughed, tsk tsk in his mouth, and kept moving his chin, "I don't believe what you say now, but in the past... you gave people the feeling that it was true. It's so easy to cheat, there's something about it that makes people want to test how far you can hit the second grade..."
"...What does this have to do with Wen Liang?"
Xue Yong took another sip of water pipe. He deliberately closed his mouth after inhaling, letting the smoke flow out of his nostrils like a waterfall.
In this moment of silence, He Tianran's heart jumped for no reason...
"Because at that time... well, they girls were bored too, so Wen Liang came up with a prank, pretending to be a person who has been reborn and time travel to be friends with you, and also pretending to be your future girlfriend to tease you, you You also know that others happened to be studying acting, and you happened to have few friends at the time. If you can believe this, then you are really making a huge fool of yourself, and they are all waiting to see the show!
Well, this prank was finally stopped. I don’t know exactly how, but I think Wen Liang found it troublesome later. After all, it’s quite troublesome to take time out to tease someone like you in the senior year of high school. "
"..."
Xue Yong finished speaking slowly, glanced at He Tianran, who was silent, and added:
"Well, this matter has passed, but you said that when Wen Liang met you last year, he said that he had met you under the pseudonym Xiao Jia while traveling, and that he took you to the live house to see her band on the day it disbanded. Her performance, to be honest, I really doubted whether it was a continuation of the unfinished prank, because the technique was so similar that I immediately associated the two things...
But, it’s been so many years since this happened, and it’s reasonable for you to say that my idea is a bit far-fetched, so I just asked you—
Now, do you still believe in light? "
"..."
"Brother Yong, Brother Tianran, your water-cut whiskey."
The waiter placed two frost-covered wine glasses in front of each of them. Staring at the wine in the glasses, He Tianran was thoughtful and asked himself:
"Is she...such a person? Why would she do this?"
"Don't you know?" Xue Yong shook his wine glass: "You have become someone else's top brother now. Isn't it a little too late to ask this question now?" (End of Chapter)
