The so-called enemy's road is narrow, probably that night.
He made an appointment with Lin Cen at night, and the meeting place was chosen by Lin Cen, which was at a food stall near their house.
It was a holiday, and they often got together to play games at night, so they slept more during the day.
When he woke up that day, it was already six o'clock in the afternoon. After packing up, he went out to the meeting place with Lin Cen. It was almost eight o'clock in the evening.
He remembered very clearly that that day was the end of the twelfth lunar month, and in about a week's time, it would be the Spring Festival.
Many people who came to work in this city have already started to return home one after another. The late-night food stalls are usually full, and there are quite a lot of vacancies that night.
He came here by taxi, and the car could only park at the entrance of the alley. As soon as he got out of the car, he felt a biting chill. He wrapped his coat tightly and walked into the alley on the snow that had not melted from the snow last night.
Two street lamps were broken at the entrance of the alley, and the light was very dim. He walked in a few steps when he heard low-pitched laughter.
"Hey, are you blind?"
He turned his head to look, Lin Cen was standing in the darkness, unable to see his face clearly, but the cigarette burning in his hand flickered.
As Lin Cen walked towards him, he put the cigarette to his mouth and took a swig, then threw it on the ground and stomped on it with his foot: "Wait for a long time, you're starving, let's go."
The boss of the food stall knew Lin Cen and greeted him warmly when he saw him coming.
They picked up a seat and sat down. Jiang Su didn't like to order food, so Lin Cen drank a cigarette and swiped through the menu with a pencil.
After he was not in a school, the number of times Jiang Su and Lin Cen met gradually decreased. The last time they met was three months ago. He was always short-headed. On the forehead, there is a little more youthful feeling, less the kind of tone that usually looks small at first glance.
After ordering, Lin Cen opened a bottle of wine, poured a glass for each of the two, and then told him, "My motherfucking final exam this time, I was pressured by a girl."
Jiang Su chuckled: "Spicy chicken."
"Tsk," Lin Cen drank wine, looked melancholy, and said in a tone that was not melancholy at all: "I thought that without you, I could become the first year of the year, but I didn't expect... sad."
The waiter brought the cold dishes. Jiang Su, who slept for a day without eating, picked up the dishes with chopsticks, and shoved a cucumber into his mouth: "The college entrance examination is still a year and a half away, what are your plans?"
"Ah?" Lin Cen scratched his head: "I try to get into a good university as much as possible, and then I plan to study computer and become a code farmer. I have studied it, and this is relatively stable, how about you?"
Before Jiang Su could speak, Lin Cen lowered his eyelids and smiled: "Forget it, when I didn't ask you, you don't need to think about this, you just need to follow your own dreams, I'm different, you know the situation in my family Yes, I'm so fucking poor, I have to think about my livelihood, and as for my dreams, that's a fucking piece of shit!"
In the food stall, your lights are dim, Jiang Su drooped his eyelids and smiled, he raised his eyelids and asked, "What is your dream?"
Lin Cen opened his mouth and stared blankly for a while, as if he had been questioned, and then lowered his head and said in a self-deprecating manner, "I have no dreams."
In this world, there is a group of people who worry about their livelihood every day, even dreaming and thinking are extravagant wishes.
Lin Cen probably also felt that this topic was too sad, he changed the topic with a smile: "I will solve the problem of food and clothing, you are chasing your dreams, I hope that in the future, my child's starting point can be the same as your starting point."
As he talked, Lin Cen smiled happily: "So speaking, it's not that I have no dreams."
Maybe it's the children from poor families who are in charge early, Lin Cen thinks more than his peers.
He has an older brother who was born with cerebral palsy and can't take care of himself. His parents don't have a job, and they make a living by setting up a stall.
He is not only responsible for the pension of his future parents, but also his elder brother.
He talked a lot to Jiang Su that night, saying that he had no other extravagant desires. He just hoped that he could earn more money in the future, that he could provide for his parents, settle down with his brother, and then, if he could, Marry a good wife and have a lovely daughter.
They were only sixteen years old at the time, and he felt that it was quite a long way to talk about these issues.
But far away is only for him. For people from a family like Lin Cen, he has been thinking about these issues since he was a child.
After eating, Jiang Su wanted to pay the bill, but Lin Cen preempted it: "You come to eat next to my house, there is no reason for you to pay the bill."
In the first half of the semester in high school, that is, at the beginning of that year, Lin Cen once borrowed money from Jiang Su.
In fact, it’s not much, just tens of thousands of dollars. Although Jiang Yongshi gave Jiang Su quite a lot of pocket money, he always asked Secretary Li to enter his card. If he moved some money, Jiang Yongshi would know, so Jiang Su When I gave Lin Cen the money, it was from Jiang Yongshi. At that time, Lin Cen also gave Jiang Yongshi an IOU because he was underage, so he used his father's name.
Lin Cen kept memorizing the tens of thousands of dollars. When he came out of the food stall, Lin Cen lit a cigarette, maybe he drank a little too much, and he mentioned that incident again: "Jiang Su, I really thank you, I will definitely pay you back the money at the beginning of the year, I remember it, and then I will pay you 5/10,000 according to the bank's highest interest rate."
Lin Cen also said, "You don't understand, I'm really thankful for you, my brother's situation, our relatives couldn't hide in time, I have realized what the world is like when I was a child, and I was really desperate at that time, so I went with him. You mentioned, I really didn't expect you to help me, I will always remember this feeling."
"You, Cheng Zhu, Xu Shu, I thank you all..."
Lin Cen was really a little drunk and babbled endlessly.
His home was not far away, so he was a little worried when he went back to Jiangsu alone, so he sent him back.
Then on the way, they met Yang Qin.
Yang Qin, who hadn't seen him for more than a year.
He followed a group of fox friends and dog friends who had just finished eating and smelled of alcohol.
…
The room was very quiet, only Jiang Su's voice kept coming.
Lin Wei hugged the pillow and stared at Jiang Su intently.
Jiang Su said here and stopped.
Lin Wei knew that the following story was the climax. She didn't interrupt him and gave him enough time to buffer.
"Yang Qin didn't study well, and his family had a headache. After he was expelled from school in the third year of junior high school, he didn't go to school. He wasn't in a good mood either, so he stopped me and Lin Cen."
Jiang Su's Adam's apple rolled and swallowed several mouthfuls of saliva, and raised his eyelids to meet Lin Wei's eyes: "He brought a knife."
(End of this chapter)