I still remember that He Li and I hadn’t started dating yet. He sometimes went to the nightclub where I worked and sat under the stage listening to songs all night, and only asked me to sit on the sidelines.
I insisted on standing aside, "I'm just a waiter." Even the young master of public relations only drinks with female guests.
He smiled and pulled out the chair and pushed me down, "Who wants you to drink with me, let's listen to music together."
Really listen to the song all night.
I still remember a singer sitting in the middle of the stage wearing a bright silver dress, like a mermaid bathing in the moonlight, closing her eyes gently, and singing an unknown song: In the beginning, you wiped my hair with white morning dew, Followed me along the path of flowers blooming; in the end, you said you liked her black eyes, and left me without looking back.
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After get off work, he accompanied me to eat supper and asked for two bowls of mushroom and beef porridge. I like mushrooms, so He Li carefully jumped out of the mushrooms with chopsticks and put them into my bowl.
I was sad at that time, and I always ignored him, and my attitude was very negligent, but fortunately he persisted.
After supper, I want to go back to sleep, and He Li wants to see me off.
I refused, "I'm going to walk back and digest food by the way." I said.
"That's just right, I also want to digest my food." He made up his mind to stick to me, "I will ask the assistant to help me drive the car back."
At three o'clock in the morning, he and I were walking side by side on the street, with only occasional passing vehicles on the road.
Walking halfway, I heard a loud noise. Before I could react, I was already in He Li's arms. For a long time, the sewage splashed down my head and face. Even if He Li was standing in front of me, I was completely chilled.
There was a crackling sound in my ears, and the bricks on the sidewalk burst out one after another, jumping out of the ground as high as a person.
He Li hurriedly pulled me back, I stared dumbfounded at the sudden subsidence of the road and the gradually falling water column, after a long time I found my voice, "What's going on!" I didn't even have time to call out the panic, my face was dull.
He Li took out his mobile phone and called the police.
The fire truck came quickly, and the whole section of the road was blocked. A car got stuck on the road ahead, and the firefighters were doing emergency rescue.
He Li and I sat behind the fire engine with a towel wrapped around us, we were completely soaked.
I sneezed coldly, and complained to He Li, "It's really unlucky to be with you, to have something like a sewer burst."
"Jiyu, you are so heartless, I almost died trying to save you." He Li smiled wryly, with pain in his brows.
When he said this, I immediately felt guilty and kept silent.
He was protecting me just now, and he was hit in the back by a street brick that rushed up from the sidewalk.
Fortunately, not long after, He Li's assistant had already arrived in a car.
He Li said to him, "Give me the key, you can take a taxi home, and the fare will be reimbursed on Monday." He used an orderly tone.
The assistant was stupid on the spot.
I got into the car and turned around to see Mr. Assistant still standing there pitifully blowing the cold wind. His boss asked him to take a taxi home on a blocked street at three o'clock in the morning.
"You're an absolute nasty boss, drinking people around in the wee hours of the weekend and leaving him on the street. Your people must hate you."
He Li didn't take it seriously, and said, "I pay him a generous salary on time every month, so why is he still dissatisfied?"
"People are not machines. If you abuse employees like this, be careful that one day he can't help but rise up and fire you, an inhumane boss."
He Li smiled, "As long as the treatment is good enough, even if he is missing, others will follow." He doesn't care.
He has always been like this. The relationship between people is nothing more than money and interests. Everything is a naked transaction. He disdains to give affection and respect to the weak.
Such a person does not know what love is.
I just went to an apartment he had nearby.
"The way back to your residence has been blocked. It's too far to take other roads. Why don't you go to my place." He Li said that, and I didn't seem to have any reason to refuse.
I borrowed one of his bathrooms to take a shower. When I came out, He Li was already sitting there watching the rebroadcast entertainment news on TV. A female star was revealed to be the illegitimate daughter of a rich man. A group of irrelevant people sat together to dig Her eighteen generations of family history.
The world is so boring.
He Li patted the seat next to him and told me to sit down, "Jiyu, come here."
I sat down and yawned, "What are you doing, don't go to sleep, it's already dawn."
"My back hurts so bad I can't sleep." He looked pained.
My momentum immediately weakened, and I didn't dare to show a trace of impatience, so I asked him guilty, "Then what do you want to do, I will accompany you?"
"Really?" He raised an eyebrow, as if in disbelief.
"Really." I nodded sincerely.
He smiled softly, approached me slowly, and whispered in my ear, "I want to kiss you."
I raised my head and met his gaze, and his eyes seemed to be looking into my heart all the time.
Best memory ends here.
I can't bear to look back on everything in the future, and I wish I could erase my memory.
For some reason, I suddenly thought of a girl from when I was studying.
She is a cheerful and lively girl, sitting next to me, her smiling face is like bright sunshine, and it is sunny every day. Everyone couldn't help but admire her when they saw her, what a carefree girl.
I've seen her cry.
One day after school, I played football with the boys in the same class, and I returned to the classroom very late. Everyone left, only she was sitting on her seat, and she didn't see me standing at the door.
I heard her whispering an ancient poem, before she finished reading, tears suddenly rolled down from her eyes, and she finally covered her face and lay down on the table to cry.
I didn't know what happened to her, so I stood blankly for a while, then quietly exited and closed the door for her.
The other boys of my companion came back one after another, and I blocked the door to prevent anyone from entering.
"Pei Jiyu, what are you doing, get out of the way!" The boys started arguing.
I just blushed and didn't speak or move away.
At that time, he was fourteen or fifteen years old, and he already knew how to protect girls. I can't let anyone see her cry alone.
In the end, the girl opened the door and walked out. With tears still in the corners of her eyes, she whispered to me, "Thank you."
Because of this incident, there was a rumor in the school that I had an affair with her.
After so many years, the girl's name, sound, and appearance are all blurred, but the poem she read that day is printed in her mind.
If life is only as it was first seen, why is the autumn wind sadly drawing a fan.
Waiting for leisure to change the old heart, but the old heart is easy to change.
I can finally understand the feeling of that girl lying on the table and crying until she lost her voice.