The night in Hangzhou is cooler than that in Jiangcheng, and Xiaohang likes to go around with his grandfather. Meng Shengnan couldn't sleep alone, so he ran to sleep in the wing room with his grandmother. The old lady is 72 years old, with sharp eyes and ears, no one can match her embroidery, and she can't stay idle. On the bed in the house, grandma was talking to her while embroidering.
Meng Shengnan lay on the side to tease the cat.
"I want to be a cat in my next life."
Grandma laughed, "I envy its comfortable life, don't you?"
"Eat and sleep, wake up and eat again, how comfortable it is."
Grandma laughed again, "Look at you being lazy."
She is happy.
"It's 25 after the new year, is your mother still urging you now?"
Meng Shengnan shook his head and smiled.
"Is there someone you like?" the old man asked with a smile.
She nodded in silence for a moment.
"Who are you calling tonight?"
Meng Shengnan blinked, "How do you know everything?"
The old lady raised her eyebrows: "I can tell just by looking at your eyes."
Then I fell asleep and turned off the lights. There is moonlight coming in through the cracks in the curtains, and there is such a warm light in the room. Grandma didn't fall asleep, and told her some things about the past. She listened intently, with the cat lying at her feet.
After a while, the old man asked: "Nan Nan, what does that child do?"
Meng Shengnan paused for a few seconds in the dark night.
"grandmother."
"Um?"
Meng Shengnan: "What if he doesn't have anything?"
Grandma smiled, "Not now, but in the future there will be."
She gave a slight 'um' and laughed.
"Just as long as you like it."
Meng Shengnan hugged the quilt and leaned against her grandmother.
Grandma patted her on the back, "Go to sleep."
"Ai."
In the dark night, the corner of Meng Shengnan's mouth was smiling, and he couldn't help laughing again when he thought of the obscene words he said. At that time, Chi Zheng was typing the code and sneezed twice in a row. He frowned and rubbed his hair, glanced at his phone, and pondered for a moment. Then picked it up and dialed a number. The other end picked it up almost immediately, but it took a long time to speak.
Chi Zheng lit a cigarette.
"Why, you can't speak without contact for two years?"
The other end suddenly smiled, "Yeah, I'm short of words."
Chi Zheng bit his cigarette, pressed the lighter on and off again, over and over again. His eyes were quiet, as black as ink, and he laughed softly, "Are you still a brother?"
"One day, one lifetime."
Chi Zheng gave a 'fuck', "Isn't that what you literary people say?"
There was a laugh.
Chi Zheng threw away the lighter, took a puff on the cigarette in one hand, "What have you been up to these two years?"
"Same old way, fool."
Chi Zheng didn't even bother to talk nonsense, and got straight to the point.
"I have an idea, do you want to do it together?"
There was no sound for a long time, and it took a long time before he said slowly: "That matter—"
"Don't be like a girl, give me an accurate word."
There was a pause at the other end, and the voice was serious and earnest: "I'm just waiting for your words."
Chi Zheng was silent for a while.
"I'm leaving early tomorrow morning."
"Can I leave you?" Chi Zheng asked.
"That's all."
Chi Zheng smiled, "Success, I will pick you up then."
In just a few words, all that needs to be said has been said. There was another silence in the room, and Chi Zheng swallowed his clouds in the dim light. Early the next morning, he set off to pick up people at the airport. The weather forecast said that it was cloudy and sunny, but it started to rain lightly on the way there.
Across the road, the two looked at each other for a few seconds.
The man carried the bag and suddenly smiled. At the same time, he took a step closer and gave him a big hug. Chi Zheng smiled and said, "It's been a hard journey."
A smile obliterates the 'resentment'.
The man lowered his head and raised it again, "From now on, my life, Lu Huai, is yours."
Chi Zheng was silent for a while, "Don't you want any daughter-in-law?"
The man's face was all grinning.
Rain or shine all the way to the store. Lu Huai stood at the door and looked at it for a long time, "This name is too lazy."
Chi Zheng leaned against the glass cabinet, touched the cigarette and handed it over.
Lu Huai shook his head, "Quit."
"Drink some wine?"
Lu Huai shook his head again.
Chi Zheng frowned, "You quit too?"
Lu Huai shrugged, "Back then, it was the alcohol that caused the trouble. My buddy swore that he would never touch him again."
Chi Zheng remained silent for a while.
"How is Auntie doing recently?" Lu Huai asked.
Chi Zheng said: "Very good."
Lu Huai nodded, took out a card from his wallet and threw it to Chi Zheng.
"What are you doing?"
Lu Huai raised his hands flat, "It's not mine."
Chi Zheng pondered, "The one?"
"He said he would definitely not take it if he gave it to you."
Chi Zheng raised his eyes: "I will take it if you give it to me?"
Lu Huai smiled, "I'm not going back now."
"how?"
Lu Huai said: "He gave a harsh word, don't just throw it away."
Chi Zheng smoked a cigarette and didn't speak.
Lu Huai said: "Take it, it's also his wish. It will be used as the start-up capital of the project, and let him also be a shareholder."
Chi Zheng smiled lowly.
Lu Huai knew that this was tacit consent, and he asked, "What shall we do now?"
"Find a house."
Lu Huai asked, "Is a hundred square meters enough?"
"Enough." Chi Zheng said, "I'll get a few more computers then."
Lu Huai is the kind of activist, and he vacated a house in two days. The renovated second-hand house is located in Jinding Community, Kunming Road. The lease term is one year. It was a three bedroom and one living room, on the seventeenth floor. The living room is spacious. Lu Huai has set up several two-meter-long tables and four or five large desktop computers. Chi Zheng spent another day and a half assembling and plugging the cables, all with the best hardware. After everything was done, both of them were so tired that they fell asleep on the ground.
Chi Zheng was addicted to cigarettes, he leaned on the sofa behind him and smoked one after another.
Lu Huai took the opportunity to ask, "Have you been single for the past two years?"
Chi Zheng laughed with a cigarette in his mouth.
"What do you mean?"
Chi Zheng raised his eyes lightly, and asked without answering, "Have you been alone all this time?"
Lu Huai sighed.
"Seeing that you are single too, brother can at least find some comfort."
Chi Zheng raised his eyebrows, "I'm really sorry."
"What's the matter?"
Chi Zheng said it tepidly, "I just left the order a few days ago."
Lu Huai obviously didn't believe it, "Come on, you, if you are really there, can you hold your temper?"
Chi Zheng smiled, and asked a seemingly casual question.
"I remember the new concept you participated in with that guy surnamed Jiang back then."
Lu Huai: "Yeah, why did you ask this?"
"Coincidentally."
"What is it, please explain clearly."
Chi Zheng pursed his lips, "You probably know mine too."
"Who is it?" Lu Huai became interested.
Chi Zheng deliberately kept things secret, "What's the rush, I'll know when the time comes."
"Fuck."
Chi Zheng started to smoke casually again, chatting with Lu Huai occasionally. Later at night, Lu Huai set up camp in the house. He set off to go back to the shop, and it was only a ten-minute walk between the two places. He was walking on the road, searching for cigarettes in his pocket while calling Meng Shengnan.
No one picked up the first time.
Chi Zheng frowned, and dialed again, this time it took a long time for the other side to connect. Meng Shengnan's voice sounded a little lazy and soft, and she put the phone to her ear and said 'hello'. Chi Zheng frowned even more, she didn't know how teasing she was to him like this.
No one said anything on the phone, Meng Shengnan opened his eyes to look at the caller ID, and woke up in an instant.
"Chi Zheng?"
She called out cautiously, and Chi Zheng gave a faint 'hmm'.
"It's so late and you haven't slept yet?" She asked.
Chi Zheng: "It's very late?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he checked the time, only to realize that it was past eleven o'clock.
Meng Shengnan responded, "It's almost morning."
Chi Zheng put a cigarette in his mouth, and a car passed by. Meng Shengnan heard the sound of a lighter and couldn't help asking him.
"you are outside?"
"Um."
Chi Zheng took a puff of cigarette, and said again: "I've been busy these two days, so I don't have time to call you."
"I know." She said softly.
Chi Zheng laughed, "What do you know?"
Meng Shengnan was stopped by his question, and said dawdly, "At most, he just accepted the job or something."
Chi Zheng smiled lowly, "What have you been doing these two days?"
"It's nothing." She said, "Buy vegetables with grandma, cook a meal and talk."
"anything else?"
Meng Shengnan thought for a while, "Grandma taught me how to embroider."
"How is the embroidery?"
Meng Shengnan paused for a few seconds, "It's not easy to learn."
"Really." Chi Zheng said with a smile.
"Um."
Chi Zheng: "Then don't study."
"no."
"Why not?"
Meng Shengnan said: "Grandma teaches very seriously."
On the street, the street lights are dim and distinct. The road ahead is blurry and not clear, and the trees along the street are blown up by the wind. It was rare for Chi Zheng to be in such a good mood. He smiled jokingly: "Then study hard, and you will learn it naturally in a year or two at most."
Knowing that he was teasing her, Meng Shengnan glanced secretly.
Chi Zheng laughed hard, "If it's not possible, it's okay for three years."
"Ah!" Meng Shengnan raised his voice.
Chi Zheng: "Yo, are you still angry?"
Meng Shengnan remained silent.
Chi Zheng: "Are you really angry?"
She still didn't say a word, not because she didn't want to speak, but because she didn't know how to speak. After the two are together, he is mostly the one who takes the initiative. It seemed that Meng Shengnan didn't realize that even being silent was acting like a baby until this time.
"No." She said slowly.
Chi Zheng: "I didn't hear clearly, please say it again."
Meng Shengnan: "Don't tell me."
Chi Zheng smiled lowly, "Cheng, you can do whatever you say."
She buried her face in the quilt, but the corners of her mouth kept bending upwards. But before I had any fun for a while, I heard him say, "I happen to have a question I want to ask you."
"what?"
Chi Zheng said indifferently: "I didn't call you, and you didn't call me either?"
Meng Shengnan was taken aback for a moment.
"no."
"what is that?"
Meng Shengnan blinked, "You are busy."
Chi Zheng nodded, "That's a reasonable reason."
Meng Shengnan: "..."
After talking for a while, Chi Zheng heard her yawn and stopped talking. Meng Shengnan was also sleepy, shed tears whenever he yawned, and couldn't stop crying. When he was about to hang up, Chi Zheng asked her when she would be back.
She hesitated for a long time, "It will take some time."
Chi Zheng: "Okay, let's sleep."
"oh."
Chi Zheng put away his cell phone and walked on the road with the evening wind blowing, the scarlet flames flickering between his fingers. When he arrived at the shop, he pinched his cigarette, took a shower for a few minutes, and then fell asleep. I got up at five or six o'clock the next day and went to Jinding, but Lu Huai was still asleep.
Chi Zheng entered the bedroom, walked over and kicked him up.
Lu Huai opened his sleepy eyes, "So early?"
Chi Zheng glanced at him and went to the living room, turning on the computers at the same time. He sat on a chair, chomped on the vegetable box he just bought, and drank mineral water. Lu Huai kicked on his slippers before washing slowly, then sat beside him and picked up a slice to eat, when Chi Zheng was about to speak when the phone rang in his pocket.
Shi Jin came back and asked where he was.
Chi Zheng said the place, and then said to Lu Huai, "I'll introduce you to a brother later."
After the two of them dealt with each other and finished their meal, Shi Jin came. I was also surprised to see this posture as soon as I entered the door. This is simply the style of a small company, and this person is—fucking few. Chi Zheng introduced the two of them, and Lu Huai asked, "Which Shi Jin did the soldiers attack?"
Chi Zheng smiled.
Shi Jin's eyes widened, "You like watching it too?"
"It's necessary."
Chi Zheng smiled and shook his head, adding two more things. So, in that 100-square-meter place, three young people in their 20s and 20s began to reshuffle their lives. Shi Jin is in charge of security management and operations, while Lu Huai and Chi Zheng concentrate on programming.
At that time, the sky gradually brightened.
Chi Zheng said: "To put it simply, I have said everything that needs to be said. You two haven't asked me what I want to do?"
Lu Huai smiled.
"Before I came here, my brother told me to hang out with you. You have a lot more sense than us. When you have to say it, you will naturally say it. It's useless to ask so many."
Shi Jin's eyes seemed to be enlightened, and he immediately stretched out his palm. Lu Huai understood, and the two gave me five.
"My confidant." They said in unison.
Chi Zheng's head hurt suddenly, and he turned the computer thirty degrees to point at the two guys.
"What is this?" They said in unison again.
Chi Zheng raised his chin, "A social q&a site."
"Damn, your English is against the sky?" Shi Jin's eyes almost popped out.
Chi Zheng laughed.
Lu Huai said slowly: "Social Q&A website."
The author has something to say: Let me explain this website. Everyone knows Zhihu, right? In the second half of 2012, Zhihu began to operate on a large scale. The threshold is not high, and it probably became popular around that time. What Chi Zheng is going to do is a bit similar to Zhihu, but it also feels like a real prototype. You can think about it this way, Zhihu CEO Zhou Yuan. When I first met him in the news, the reporter interviewed: "Why did you do this?" Zhou Yuan said: "I think typing code is a cool thing." I liked him instantly. In the novel, I will briefly mention that it is all fiction, and it is not rigorous. If you are serious, you will lose. (laugh)
One more thing: What do you guys think is a good name for this website? I thought for a long time, planning to use Meng Shengnan's initials, and then discovered a big secret: MSN. (It's really not intentional.)