Most of the high school students in Li Mu's generation, especially those in key middle schools, are very well-behaved. They smoke and drink less, not as much as in high schools two or three years later.
But when it was time to have dinner, every boy seemed to have learned to smoke and drink.
After handing in the volunteer form, most of the class rushed to the party together.
The squad leader found a very large private room in a mid-range restaurant, and the four tables just accommodated all the students attending the break-up dinner.
There are more boys than girls in the science class, with a ratio of about 3:1. It just so happens that everyone sits at different tables according to their personalities.
I don’t know who bought several packs of Soft Red Plum cigarettes. Each of the boys’ tables had two packs.
First, some boys who knew how to smoke smoked for a while. As they drank more and more, by the second half of the period, almost every boy had a cigarette in his mouth, but basically they couldn't smoke. It enters the mouth and is spit out directly without entering the lungs for filtration. For Li Mu, this is not second-hand smoke, but someone else feeding him cigarettes.
The girls were particularly generous today. They usually couldn't smell the smell of smoke, but today they were thrown into this smoke-filled room, and no one said a word of objection.
Li Mu looked at every boy around him. No matter what they looked like, they all had red faces and red eyes at the moment. He didn't know whether it was because of the sadness before leaving or because of the smoke filling the room.
Everyone's eyes were red, and it was inevitable that some coward would be the first to lose control. There was a kid in the class who Li Mu couldn't name. He choked on a puff of cigarette and coughed for a while, and suddenly he lay on the table and cried loudly.
Immediately afterwards, there was a room full of crying, cursing, and farewells.
The girls also cried. Li Mu looked from a distance and found that Su Yingxue also had red eyes and was only one step away from crying.
Li Mu originally thought that these children were too immature and childish, but he forgot that he was the third one to cry at that dinner.
Now that he was in it again, Li Mu, who originally had a sense of superiority, also felt a little sore in his eyes.
This meal means that everyone sitting here has ended a chapter in their lives, bid farewell to a group in their lives, and is embracing the next stop of their lives with confusion, uncertainty, and anxiety.
Li Mu didn't want to cry, so he picked up a red plum from the table and put it into his mouth. He lit it with a lighter in a panic, and then took a deep breath into his lungs.
In his previous life, Li Mu was a smoker. When he couldn't write code, cigarettes were equivalent to a dredge that blocked his mind. In this life, he has no physical craving for cigarettes, so he doesn't want to touch them. But now, it seems that only cigarettes can hold back the tears. .
Su Yingxue secretly looked at Li Mu and was surprised to see him skillfully taking a long puff of cigarette and then pausing for a moment before a thin column of smoke spurted out from his mouth and nose.
This is obviously a method only used by old smokers, and it is exactly the same as what his father did when he was worried about the case.
Li Mu smoked half of a cigarette before he realized that Su Yingxue was peeking at him with red eyes. Their eyes met. He did not dodge subconsciously. The combined effect of alcohol and nicotine made him subconsciously make a three-character mouth gesture to Su Yingxue. .
"I am still here."
Su Yingxue couldn't hold it back anymore, turned her head and shed two lines of tears.
A group of drunken young men had an unimaginable amount of alcohol. The three tables of boys drank more than a hundred bottles of beer in total, four or five bottles per person, which is quite impressive for high school seniors.
The deputy monitor is a girl. Seeing that everyone has almost eaten and drank enough, she doesn’t dare to let them drink anymore. They have already booked the KTV. If they drink too much here, there will be more at the next stop. What's the meaning.
She stood up quickly, and after paying the bill, she came back with a sad face. She walked up to the drunk squad leader and whispered: "Squad monitor, I overspent on food. I drank more than 300 yuan in beer. What should I do if I don't have enough money to sing later?"
Everyone had pooled fifty yuan before, so the price of a table of food was now less than three hundred. But with the wine, it actually came down to fifteen hundred yuan. Originally, I planned to keep eight hundred yuan for singing. After all, the largest KTV box is not cheap and is bundled with drinks, drinks and snacks.
The squad leader was confused. He raised his hand and wanted to say something for a long time but couldn't. Li Mu called the deputy squad leader to his side and asked in a low voice: "How much is the difference?"
"The difference is less than three hundred."
Li Mu nodded, quietly took out a thousand yuan from under the table, took one out and kept it, and quietly stuffed the rest into the deputy squad leader's hand, and whispered: "Keep a low profile and sing later." Order more food and drinks so that everyone can have fun and drink, and leave some money for everyone to take a taxi home after the show."
Fortunately, Li Mu had a thousand dollars with him. At this moment, he wanted everyone to have a good time and not have to dig into their pockets to participate.
But the deputy squad leader hurriedly refused: "What I mean is to ask the squad leader to mobilize everyone to contribute another ten yuan. How can we use so much? Besides, it is all your own money..."
"What are you talking about? Let's talk about it." Li Mu raised his chin towards a group of drunk guys around him and asked her: "Look for yourself, everyone is drunk, how can they have time to listen to you? You can rest assured to use this money. , I won’t let you come back, so don’t say anything, just watch and arrange things for everyone.”
The deputy squad leader hesitated for a moment, then nodded lightly when he saw that Li Mu didn't seem to be trying to be a hero after drinking too much.
Li Mu asked her: "Is everything done at the KTV?"
"Yeah." The deputy squad leader nodded: "It's not far from here, only five or six hundred meters."
"Okay." Li Mu said, "I'll tell these guys to start. You go tell the female classmates and let's go."
The deputy monitor returned to the girls' table. Li Mu stood up and filled a glass of wine. At this moment, there was a mess around him. About thirty boys were gathered together in twos and threes, either shouting or hugging each other in tears. He had no choice but to take an empty glass of wine. bottle, he knocked the bottom of the bottle on the table for half a minute, and after attracting the attention of these guys, he said: "Everyone is getting numb quickly, let's sing and drink at the next KTV." .”
As soon as the drunk guys heard that they were going to a KTV to sing and drink, they immediately cheered excitedly, and howled wolves one after another. They drank their last glass of wine, and then got up to go out.
When the girls saw the boys drinking like this, they didn't rush out. When the boys were almost out, the deputy monitor said to the girls at the table: "Let's go too."
The female classmates got up and went out one after another. Su Yingxue walked up to the deputy monitor, pulled her hand, and asked in a low voice: "You just went to the monitor, what did Li Mu say to you?"
The deputy squad leader looked around and then whispered: "Li Mu gave me nine hundred yuan and said he wanted me to arrange for everyone to have a drink and have fun, and then let everyone take a taxi home."
Su Yingxue was stunned: "Nine hundred?"
"Yeah." The vice squad leader sighed: "I was shocked. The tuition and miscellaneous fees for the first semester of senior high school are only 800..."
"Did you drink too much and lose control?"
"It doesn't seem like it." The deputy squad leader said: "I confirmed it repeatedly, and Li Mu also asked me to keep a low profile and arrange everyone well."
Su Yingxue nodded lightly and didn't ask any more questions.
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"That laughter reminds me of my flowers..."
From the moment they entered the KTV, the boys who drank too much were clamoring for this song. However, there were only two microphones, so they had to be sung back and forth five or six times by different people.
Every time, two or three people use one microphone, and every time they sing like a pig-killer, every boy who sings this song bursts into tears.
The girls did not compete with the boys, they just sat aside and listened silently. No matter how ugly the singing was, they were moved by it and burst into tears.
Li Mu really wanted to stop their endless cycle of singles, but these days the song request system did not have a touch screen, and used a rather complicated remote control. To request a song, you had to first find the number in the song book, and then use the remote control After completing the on-demand playback, I don’t know who the beast is holding the remote control anymore, and I can’t see it at all. I only know that after each song of "Those Flowers" is finished, someone yells: "Let's do it again". The replay button will be pressed.
Uncomfortable with worry, Li Mu felt that his ears were being stabbed repeatedly and he was about to collapse.
He wanted to smoke again, but there were no more cigarettes. Li Mu had to go out and buy a pack of Jinling for ten yuan, smoked one downstairs, and then went upstairs back to the box.
Fortunately, the bunch of animals didn't continue singing "Those Flowers" after they came back, otherwise Li Mu would have wanted to go home and sleep.
The two girls are singing Cecilia Cheung's "Wish in the Starry Language" at the moment, which is equivalent to a saliva song of this era.
Li Mu found a corner and sat down. The boys around him were still drinking and chatting. They were still talking about what they wanted to say and crying when they wanted to cry.
After singing "Star Language Wish", Faye Wong's red bean sounded, and a voice came from the microphone: "Yingxue, Yingxue, it's your red bean!"
Li Mu's ears pricked up when he heard it was Su Yingxue. It seemed that he had never heard Su Yingxue sing before. KTV had just become popular in Haizhou in May this year, and today's scene had happened in his previous life, but he had already heard it. The drunk one should have been a puddle of mud by the time he got here.
As soon as the prelude was over, a soft and gentle female voice came from the speakers. Li Mu praised in his heart, she sang really well. Although her voice was not as ethereal as Faye Wong's, she could score at least 85 points. .
This song has always been one of Faye Wong's most classic works in Li Mu's heart.
(End of chapter)