Boss Zhong is a silver-haired old gentleman in his early sixties, dressed in a simple gray-blue robe, with a chubby waist and a very kind temperament.
Taking off his clothes, he is an uncle next door who walks the street with a bird cage and instructs people to play chess.
He was leaning on a small pond at the back of the house, smoking a hookah made of tobacco, honey and orange, when he heard the sound of the thick cloth door being lifted in front of him.
It was followed by the footsteps of three guests entering one after another.
Boss Zhong was busy holding the hookah, and hurried out to greet him with a bright smile: "Come and (guest) here. Just take a look."
Jiang Fang stepped forward and said politely, "Excuse me..."
Following his voice, Nan Zhou placed an apple firmly on the counter and followed his words: "...Please take a look at this apple."
Li Yinhang found that he had been miscalculating the number of things in Nan Zhou's hands.
There is always an apple in Nanzhou's storage tank.
The apple was firmly held by Nan Zhou when they met on the bus.
Even though it was messed up by Nanji Star, and the bitten place was a little shriveled and yellowed, Nan Zhou still put the apple in his storage tank to try to keep it fresh.
Boss Zhong picked up the apple that had been ravaged and ravaged by the Antarctic stars. After taking a look at the quality, he spoke in standard Mandarin as much as possible, and said with a smile: "This is an apple grown from the seeds sold in this store. But the little mouse that stole it. , this store will not sell it."
Nan Zhou asked, "How many people have bought it?"
Boss Zhong smiled and narrowed his eyes slightly: "Although our store has bookkeeping, there are too many apple seeds for sale. Can customers remember when they bought them?"
Nan Zhou opened his mouth and said, "About a year and a half ago."
Li Yinhang was startled and turned to look at Jiang Fang.
She lip-synched: A year and a half ago
Shouldn't that be when Gravity first launched
Boss Zhong was holding a hookah, squinting his eyes and recalling his past expressions and small movements, which should look like a real boss.
He said, "Then it's even more unclear. At that time, the seeds in my store were doing activities. It depends on who they are in the hands of."
Li Yinhang digested his words and probably understood.
Oh, the starter pack.
The free novice gift package given by "Gravity" is similar in category, and has a certain randomness.
There was also a hot search for the entry of the "Gravity" novice gift package.
Her colleague bought a game cabin and got 500 points of "Rust City" shopping coupons, 3,000 points of "paper gold" consumption coupons, 5 free movie tickets for "Squirrel Town", 10 coupons applicable to "Homeland Island" "Rare snow lotus seeds from a specific land, 10 bags of high-grade chemical fertilizers, a bow and arrow blue weapon suitable for "Gucheng State", and a set of good quality skins.
When Li Yinhang was called by her to like her circle of friends, he glanced at it roughly.
If apple seeds were also distributed in large quantities as part of the novice gift package at the beginning, it would be unknown to which player they would be distributed.
…
Walking out of the seed store with the apple in his arms, Nan Zhou looked a little disappointed.
After Li Yinhang followed him for a while, he suddenly stopped.
She stretched: "Ah, I'm a little tired."
She sat down on the stone steps behind her and said, "Let's rest here for a while."
Nan Zhou looked around the surroundings: "Well."
There was a damp smell of plants all around.
Under the fresh and natural wood smell, people's mood is naturally relaxed a lot.
Nanjixing was lying on Nanzhou's shoulder, his little butt was twisting excitedly, eagerly coveting a passing red dragonfly.
The three of them sat in a row on the stone steps.
Li Yinhang sat in the middle, Jiang Fang and Nan Zhou sat on both sides.
She felt that such a ranking and atmosphere were not right.
She tried to break the deadlock and asked Nan Zhou, "Are you looking for someone?"
Nan Zhou: "Yeah."
Li Yinhang thought that when he first met them, Nan Zhou, like Jiang Fang, was dragged from other places and forcibly parachuted.
Thinking of this, the confusion in my heart became more and more difficult to resolve.
Why are the two of them special
Where did they come from
However, confusion turned into confusion, and Li Yinhang always knew in his heart.
She stopped asking further, patted Nan Zhou on the shoulder, and said with relief, "I will find it."
Nan Zhou blinked and looked at her hand on his shoulder.
The palm is very warm, and the fingertips are also very soft, as if gently resting on his heart, gentle and soothing.
He said, "Thank you."
Jiang Fang coughed unnaturally beside him.
Nan Zhou looked at him.
Jiang Fang: "A past 'friend' gave you this apple?"
Nan Zhou nodded.
Jiang Fang reconfirmed: "'friend'?"
Nan Zhou: "Hmm..."
In fact, in Nanzhou's concept, Ms. Apple Tree is a person who is very important to him in a sense, not to the level of a friend.
But Nan Zhou recalled it again. Jiang Fang said that he has many friends.
… He has a good memory.
So, Nan Zhou nodded: "Yes."
Jiang Fang was so angry and funny, he leaned back, leaned his elbows on the stone steps, and laughed at himself: "Ha."
Nan Zhou: "...?"
Nan Zhou: "What's wrong with you?"
Jiang Fang turned his face to one side, resisting the surging jealousy in his heart, until he had to grit his teeth to ease the discomfort in his heart.
What's going on here
How could he treat his past self... as a friend
We have only met once, so why can we be friends
…
About a year and a half ago.
Jiang Fang toured the corners of the city where his mother lived.
It wasn't until he was about to renew his room at the five-star hotel he settled in that he realized that he couldn't swipe his credit card.
Two months ago, the $130,000 he had deposited into his Chinese credit card in Las Vegas had been squandered.
Jiang Fang shrugged and smiled.
He took out a special suit from the fifty-two poker-like credit cards on his body, and showed his gentle and estranged smile to the lady at the front desk: "Do you support UnionPay payments in other countries?"
Jiang Fang's expression carried a kind of reserved and self-respecting extravagance, and combined with a little bit of arrogance, it really added points to his already excellent face.
It is very difficult to maintain the signature smile of the assembly line under his smiling gaze.
The lady at the front desk controlled her carefully, so she didn't make her smile too bright: "Of course. The exchange rate is based on today's, and you need to pay a part of the handling fee. Can you accept it?"
Jiang Fang nodded softly in approval: "Hmmm."
She opened the drawer and was about to take out the card machine: "What currency is it, which bank? Does it support VISA?"
Jiang Fang held the bank card and poker at his fingertips, looked at it for a while, and said with certainty, "Bahamas Coins."
The lady at the front desk: "…"
Jiang Fang showed her the face of the card, and tapped the VISA mark with his fingertips twice.
This is what he won from the Atlantis casino in the Bahamas. He didn't have time to exchange it for US dollars, so it was a little troublesome to convert it.
Jiang Fang gently reminded: "It is a currency that can be exchanged one-to-one with US dollars. Don't worry, look for it slowly."
The front desk lady who was busy looking for currency exchange: "...Thank you."
After spending part of the handling fee, Jiang Fang finally paid the room fee.
In the next half a day, he counted all his assets.
He found that his existing assets conflicted with his plan to buy a house in City C.
After all, his casino career still affected Jiang Fang's money concept.
Even though his technology can support his slightly distorted view of money, he has developed strange hobbies under the influence of this concept.
— He likes to buy properties in his favorite places all over the world.
And it is a one-off payment, no loan.
City C is where my mother used to live.
He deserves to own a house here.
It is convenient for him to run away at any time and to come back at any time.
But the money he has on hand now is only about 2.6 million in all kinds of currencies.
It's still 400,000 short of the 150-square-meter garden-style apartment he was looking for.
It is still 2.4 million yuan away from the single-family second-hand villa that he likes.
Gambling is not allowed in the mainland.
Jiang Fang understands this principle very well.
Therefore, Jiang Fang needed a sum of money that came from the right source, but came quickly enough.
At that time, the promotion of "Gravity" was already in full swing.
Jiang Fang put down the iPad showing housing information in the coffee in the central square, and when he looked up, he saw Nanzhou on the giant LED screen opposite.
In the one-minute and twenty-second promotional PV, "Nanzhou" only occupied one second.
But Jiang Fang recognized it at a glance.
That was the cover of the last one-line manga of "Eternal Day".
Nan Zhou sat alone on the roof with the huge sun behind him.
The phantom of his whole person, like a piece of melted cheese, was slightly deformed and twisted in the sunlight.
Nan Zhou was looking at the sun, the freedom he could never achieve.
On the other hand, Jiang Fang stood on the street, raising his head and staring intently at Nanzhou in the giant screen.
Jiang Fang's father had a large collection of books, covering a wide range of subjects.
There are astronomy, insects, psychology, sociology, anthropology, as well as popular, newspapers and magazines, eroticism albums.
My father never insisted on anything, he was arrested and studied.
He likes tacky words and pictures, and he also loves the sea of stars and seas that he has never reached in his life.
Tomes, small books, and comic strips fill the entire wall of the house.
Jiang Fang shared the bookshelf with his father as soon as he had the ability.
His father asked him, "Which of your father's books is your favorite?"
Jiang Fang, who was only eight years old, stood on tiptoe, took out "Eternal Day", held it high with both hands, and held it back to his chest like a bouquet.
His father asked him, "Why?"
Jiang Fang said seriously: "Because he is lonely. He needs me. One day, I will rescue him."
Father laughed and kissed his forehead.
"This is a medal awarded to our excellent knights of Lodoka."
Jiang Fang followed his example, put the cover of the book lightly on his lips, and said seriously to the young Nan Zhou on the cover, "This is a kiss."
"Wait for me. When you find the door, I'll accompany you."
Later, something happened that no one wanted to happen, but no one could stop it.
At the loneliest time in Jiang Fang's life, in the midst of her mother's frantic sobbing, after sending her to the alcohol rehabilitation center...
There is always a Nanzhou in his hand.
Nan Zhou was under his quilt, under his pillow, where he could reach as soon as he reached out.
Jiang Fang has grown up.
He no longer has the strength to believe in fairy tales.
But he liked the book more than ever.
He seriously believed that Nan Zhou might really exist somewhere in this world.
The world is so big that they can't meet.
Nan Zhou didn't even know that there would be such a person as himself, and he had a friendship and resonance with him on his own.
At that time, Jiang Fang gently stroked Nan Zhou on the cover and comforted Nan Zhou softly.
Don't be afraid, this world is very big, it can hold you, and it can hold me too.
It is also because the world is so big that we may never meet.
We are friends who can't touch each other.
But you do have a friend.
He comforted Nan Zhou and comforted his own heart.
At this time, Jiang Fang was looking at Nanzhou on the LED screen.
As if witnessing an illusory dream when something happened, it gradually took shape in front of her eyes.
In order to see the second Nan Zhou appeared, Jiang Fang watched the advertisement on the big screen sixty-seven times.
It wasn't until the sixty-eighth time that he realized how funny he was.
He looked at the iPad and clicked on the official website and forum of Gravity.
Jiang Fang originally wanted to find a job related to Gravity.
Unexpectedly, he found a short-term business that he often received when he was in Ukraine.
In Jiang Fang's part-time working career on the fringes of society, he has seen many rich second-generations who have special requirements.
Therefore, when he learned that the other party had obtained two game cabins from the game company in advance and asked himself to train him a number, Jiang Fang accepted it without any obstacle.
At the same time, he also accepted a series of requirements—
Jiang Fang must play the female number, and she can pinch her face.
He needs to train all the equipment and levels, and it is best to play more than 12 hours a day, so that he can use it to show his account in front of his friends who also play "Gravity".
The most important thing is that Jiang Fang wants to make more friends and develop a network of relationships, preferably most men.
Jiang Fang is in charge of producing techniques, and he is in charge of occasionally going up to flirt with those men, talking about love, and making an appointment to play if he is pleasing to the eye.
A good game, he just developed a different same-sex friendship journey.
This is why he chose Jiang Fang, who has strong communication skills, more time, and is willing to try new things.
The reason for Jiang Fang to choose him is also very simple.
He wanted to fulfill his childhood unilateral promise.
- Go and see Nanzhou.
Because the cabin was obtained in advance, the first thing Jiang Fang did after logging into the game and receiving the novice gift package was to go to the copy of "Eternal Day".
In those years, he had accompanied Nan Zhou to the streets and alleys of Yongwu Town outside the comics.
Jiang Fang is familiar with every layout of Never Town.
So he found the house where Nan Zhou lived without much effort.
After so many years, Jiang Fang is no longer the outstanding knight he was in his childhood.
He was no longer imaginative and could bring Nan Zhou out of the dungeon.
He just wanted Nan Zhou to know that he still had a friend in this world.
Even if the other party could be a botched copy of a game company, a virtual illusion constructed from data, he wanted to explain a little bit about his childhood.
So, he engraved a line on the apple seeds in the novice gift bag, covered the seeds with special "homeland island" soil, and sprinkled "homeland island" fertilizer.
If nothing else, the apples will bloom and bear fruit in front of Nanzhou's window early tomorrow morning.
Who would have thought that Jiang Fang was busy when he felt a gaze cast from above.
He raised his head, and through the thin hat gauze, by the window on the second floor, saw a friend he had never met.
Jiang Fang smiled lightly at the illusory figure.
Nan Zhou, like a cat, put his hands by the window curiously, tilted his head slightly, his eyes were pure beyond Jiang Fang's imagination.
Jiang Fang thought that after all these years, it was impossible for Nan Zhou to have such eyes.
What touched his heart even more was that Nan Zhou's eyes were too real.
That kind of real and ignorant purity and curiosity, like a warm poke on Jiang Fang's accustomed hard heart.
Under this kind of gaze, Jiang Fang shuddered, and subconsciously touched the "Abort Mission" button.
Standing on the desolate Xidu street, Jiang Fang raised his hand and stroked the position of his heart, feeling the unusual rhythm there with surprise.
… What's going on here
Don't you want to at least say hello
The author has something to say: Brother Fang was so sour that he gnashed his teeth ww:,