"You've been reading a lot more frequently recently. Do you plan to become a leader after practicing nationwide?"
Jin Mei placed a delicate small bag by the counter, then sat down opposite Brother Zhang. There was no one at this spot. Brother Zhang was sitting there with a book in his hand, and the search page was displayed on the mobile phone next to him. This showed that he was looking up information while reading a book, and he looked quite serious.
"If you don't read books, you will be abandoned by the times." Brother Zhang looked up at her and said: "I have to try hard not to let myself become the first reaction after seeing something new is 'What's the use of this' and 'What's the use of it? What's the point' kind of person."
"I quite like life."
Jin Mei said, taking out a ticket from her small bag: "Come with me to see a movie tomorrow."
"Huh? The new match?" Brother Zhang took a look at the ticket and said, "Aren't you making yourself uncomfortable?"
"Hahaha, it's okay. I just like watching these mortals arrange me. I heard that the Queen Mother in this movie has a relationship history with Dong Yong's father. The reason why she doesn't let the Seven Fairies and Dong Yong be together is because she is in I was emotionally hurt." Jin Mei introduced with a smile: "Then Dong Yong's father came out, and the two lovers finally got married."
Brother Zhang pursed his lips and frowned and said nothing for a long time, but Jin Mei said happily: "This is quite interesting."
"How to describe it..." Brother Zhang was silent for a moment: "Let me organize the language."
"You can pull up fences by eating wires, you're really good at weaving them." Jin Mei covered her mouth and giggled: "The show will be at 10:30 tomorrow, and after finishing at 12, I will just go out for lunch."
"good."
After Brother Zhang put the tickets, Jin Mei picked up her bag and left. However, Brother Zhang noticed that she was wearing high heels and a skirt that reached her knees. This was in line with her usual dress. They are all different, as if they were dressed this way deliberately to make themselves look less noble.
After she left, the small restaurant only had the light coming from the windows, the slowly rotating ceiling fan, the mottled shade of the trees outside the window, the music at a low volume and the cat sleeping on one of the chairs.
Brother Zhang picked up the book again and started reading. The weather at noon was very hot, so hot that even the cicadas stopped chirping. From time to time, the cries of unknown children could be heard in Chang'an Alley, and then only silence and harmony were left. The unique brightness at noon in summer.
I don’t know how long I have been reading the book. Brother Zhang picked up the bookmark and clipped it to the page, then took out a coin from the box, then walked to the antique jukebox that had just arrived in the store yesterday and dropped a coin. coins, and then selected music on the monitor.
This is a small toy sent by Niu Niu, but it is really cute. You only need to spend one yuan to listen to the songs with the sound of old records. It can be said that it matches well in this small restaurant. Full.
And just as the melodious and contemporary music was floating in the house, the welcome bell at the door made a clear and sweet sound, and then a girl with a round face looked in. When she saw the little When Brother Zhang was standing there, he immediately narrowed his eyes happily and reached out to say hello to him.
"Why have you gained so much weight?"
Brother Zhang looked around Bai Mengjie. She disappeared for almost a year, but unexpectedly she changed from a delicate oval face to a round face. According to visual inspection, she has gained at least twenty pounds. Now she can talk less. One hundred and two.
"Confined at home, either eating or sleeping."
Bai Mengjie sighed and said, "No, something happened at home. My parents flew back to Canada, and I am free again."
Brother Zhang came to the counter, opened the refrigerator, explored around, and then asked, "What do you want to eat?"
“Lemon-grapefruit salad on bread crisps, a few more olives. And a grilled sausage.”
Brother Zhang nodded, and suddenly there was only the sound of kitchen knives chopping vegetables, and the wonderful music brought by the antique gramophone.
Suddenly, Brother Zhang looked up and glanced at Bai Mengjie: "Where is the catfish spirit?"
"I..." Bai Mengjie held her chin with one hand and sighed: "I came here just to find him..."
Brother Zhang: "???"
"It's like this." Bai Mengjie sighed again: "He was always by my side during that time, and then...actually, I thought he was just a little fatter and ugly, but otherwise he was pretty good, so I just thought... I'll try again, or I'll just agree. But just when I was about to agree to him, he suddenly came and gave me a gold coin one day, and then told me that our fate was over, and then he left."
Bai Mengjie said and put the gold coin in front of Brother Zhang. Brother Zhang picked it up and took a look. He felt that the gold coin was heavy, weighing at least 500 grams. It also had very delicate patterns on it. Moreover, there are obvious traces of spiritual energy on it, indicating that this thing must not be a mortal thing.
"Then what?"
"Then there was nothing more. I couldn't find him." Bai Mengjie held her head and looked at Dahuang who was napping not far away: "It was like he disappeared out of thin air. Thinking about it now, I am actually used to him arriving. He follows me everywhere, and I'm used to seeing him whenever I turn around. Even my parents like him very much."
Brother Zhang lowered his head while cooking but didn't say anything. He just brought all the food to Bai Mengjie and then continued to study the jukebox. Bai Mengjie was eating behind him and suddenly raised his head and asked: "Brother , please help me find him."
"Not looking for it."
"Can you please help me?"
Brother Zhang just played the jukebox without saying a word, and Bai Mengjie knew his temperament and would not agree to anything no matter what others said, so she kept her mouth shut no matter how wronged she was. This person was alive. Brother Zhang didn't help, so she focused on Dahuang next to her.
She finished the food in three or two bites: "I'm full."
After saying that, she scanned the code, picked up Dahuang and ran outside. Brother Zhang looked back at her back and shook his head silently.
After Bai Mengjie took Da Huang out, she went to a dark corner and shook Da Huang until she woke up. Just when the fat cat was about to lose its temper and beat someone, Bai Mengjie raised a finger. : "The most advanced canned fish of the year, pure tuna meat imported from Northern Europe."
"Deal!" Dahuang didn't even ask her what she wanted to do, and the paw that she was about to scratch turned into a high-five.
After saying that, it broke away from Bai Mengjie's hand and started walking back and forth on the edge of the flower bed: "But if you are willing to pay such a high price, there must be some shady secret. Let's make an agreement first. I won't do anything that is harmful to nature, and even if I don't Come on, don’t leave out any cans, otherwise I’ll make you dream about tuna every day for the rest of your life.”
"Oh, I got it. I just asked you to help find someone."
Dahuang squatted next to her and asked with a surprised look on his face: "Looking for someone, why don't you go find the dead dog inside? The dead dog is better than me."
"I didn't dare...so I came to find you."
Dahuang was silent for a long time. Although he had a bad premonition in his heart, he still jumped forward and turned into the handsome guy when he landed: "Let me tell you first, this is not what I am good at. No matter if it can be made into a can or not, it must be done." .”
"Know it!"
"Tell me who to look for."
Bai Mengjie recounted everything that happened to her this year, and then Dahuang clicked her tongue: "I don't recommend you to go find him."
"Why……"
"Because..." Dahuang thought for a while: "Forget it, I'll let you give up. Since it is the river god of Nanhe, let's go to Nanhe."
"Are you going now?"
"Of course not, wait until night."
Although there is still some time before night, Bai Mengjie does not dare to go back and can only wander here aimlessly. Rhubarb is also greedy. He can eat up to twenty octopus balls in one afternoon. My stomach is dripping and I can't walk while looking at the grilled squid on the roadside.
After finally staying up until night, Dahuang and Bai Mengjie came to the South River together. There were many people fishing here at night, and many people were walking on the shore. Bai Mengjie and Dahuang were also strolling by the river.
In fact, Bai Mengjie had some bad feelings in her heart, but there was an old saying that she couldn't shed tears until she saw the coffin, so she still wanted to know the final result.
Dahuang just walked like this, and then he saw a place where there was no one. He simply sat on it and turned from a human into a cat with a bang. He looked at the quiet Nanhe without saying a word.
Bai Mengjie then asked: "What's wrong? Why are you so quiet all of a sudden?"
Dahuang turned his head and glanced at Bai Mengjie, and then said softly: "Do you know what it means when a demon tells you that fate is over?"
"have no idea……"
"Haha..." Dahuang laughed dryly, and then let out a long breath: "I ask you, have you done it many times in the past year or so?"
Bai Mengjie laughed sarcastically: "It's okay...everything is safe."
"Tell me more specifically."
So Bai Mengjie told Dahuang all the bad things she had done in the past year. She was willful, fearless, and like a little girl, so she would play extreme sports, and she would also climb out of the window of her home after being discovered by her parents.
She did a lot of desperate things, but every time she made a mistake, the River God would appear right next to her to help her out of the crisis. After that, she became even more unscrupulous, learning to rock climb, climb stairs without protection, and dive.
There must have been forty or fifty dangers, large and small, but he was saved by the river god every time.
And until some time ago... he left, and without the River God, Bai Mengjie found that her courage had become weaker, as if a part of herself had been lost with him.
"Me." Dahuang suddenly said in a long and profound tone: "He was a god as early as five thousand years ago. I have read countless stories."
When Dahuang said this, he paused for a moment, then turned back and smiled at Bai Mengjie: "Don't resist when fate comes, and don't pursue it when fate ends. This is the best way for humans and monsters to get along."
"But……"
"But?"
Dahuang laughed and said, "Go buy a bag of sausages."
"Do you still want to eat?"
"Go and buy it if you are told. Buy more, and ask for more meat."
Bai Mengjie rarely saw Dahuang so serious, so she quickly went to the small supermarket on the street and bought a lot of meat products. Dahuang didn't say much when he saw what she bought, and just pointed in the direction of Nanhe: "Throw it little by little."
"Haha, I thought you were going to do something, make a nest?"
Dahuang didn't answer. He just watched Bai Mengjie throw sausages, meatloaf and other things into the river quietly. When almost all the things were thrown away and only the last sausage was left, the originally peaceful Nanhe River suddenly flooded. There were ripples, and then a huge catfish leapt out of the water, swallowed what she had thrown away, then flipped over like a dolphin and disappeared into the water.
"It's him!!!"
Bai Mengjie quickly came to the river: "Come out! Where are you running to? Come out quickly!"
But apart from the empty echo and the gurgling sound of drinking water, there was no other response. Bai Mengjie bent down, picked up a stone and threw it out: "Come out!"
At this time, Dahuang jumped down, came to her side, squatted there and said, "Stop shouting, he has lost his intelligence and is just a big fish now."
Bai Mengjie was stunned and said with surprise: "That's impossible. I remember he was super powerful."
"No matter how powerful he is, he can't withstand your destruction." Big Yellow jumped to the tree next to him: "Every time you seek death, he is protecting you, but do you know why he can appear anytime and anywhere? ?”
Bai Mengjie's heart skipped a beat: "I... don't know."
"Well, you definitely don't know. The protection of the soul is the most unworthy protection in the demon world. Don't you hate him? If you hate him, he will protect you by not appearing in front of you, and every time you He seeks death by consuming the power of his soul to help you resolve the crisis. Now that the power he has accumulated for hundreds of years has been used up, your fate is over."
After Dahuang finished speaking, he walked back silently: "I really want to see you again, and wait for reincarnation."
After speaking, Dahuang slowly accelerated, then turned into a gust of wind and disappeared by the Nanhe River. Bai Mengjie stood quietly by the riverside, stunned for a long time, and then suddenly shook his head vigorously: "You must be lying."
After saying that, she picked up a lot of stones and started throwing them into the water, shouting loudly: "Come out! Stop joking! Come out quickly!"
But even if he screamed hoarse in the end, he could only get a quiet river surface and ripples wrinkled by the night wind, and there was no other movement.
Bai Mengjie cried loudly by the river, crying very wildly.
At this time, a big fish slowly swam in front of her, raised its head out of the water and looked at her quietly for a while, then turned around and disappeared into the sparkling river water again. It never appeared again after that, even though Bai Mengjie was called to the police and told that she might jump off the building and was taken away by the police uncle.
Brother Zhang received the call and went to the office in person to bring Bai Mengjie out. Sitting in his back seat, Bai Mengjie felt as if her essence had been sucked dry. She was so dry that she couldn't even find the strength to speak. None.
Brother Zhang didn't say anything to her, because now she had tasted the bitter wine brewed by herself. Sometimes the pain of being teased by fate was more useful than the dogma of ten thousand people.
"Brother, I'm sorry, I didn't know this would happen."
Bai Mengjie spoke in a weak voice, but Brother Zhang just smiled but didn't say anything. He just pointed to the late-night snack shop on the side of the road: "Do you want to eat boiled fish?"
"Brother..." Bai Mengjie hit Brother Zhang, dumbfounded, "Stop laughing at me..."
Brother Zhang then said: "Whether you are with a human or a demon, don't risk your fate because it will really dissipate. What really dissipates is not that you are not around, but that you don't know where to look for it."
