Yuan Yuan took him to take a taxi, and Tan Ruikang said, "Is there no bus? Do you take taxis to go to school?"
Sitting in the co-pilot seat, Yuan Yuan said uncomfortably, "I take the minibus to school... Now there are so many people getting off work, I don't want to crowd the car."
Tan Ruikang stared at the meter and said, "Taxis are too expensive in big cities."
The little favor that Yuan Yuan had just had for him disappeared completely, and he couldn't tell him not to care about it, so he changed the subject and said, "The environment here is okay."
"It's really clean." Tan Ruikang said: "It's much cleaner than our village, and the road outside is cleaner than at home. It can be used as a bed."
Distant: "… "
The taxi driver smiled and said, "Where did the little brother come from?"
Tan Ruikang said: "Hunan."
The taxi driver said: "It's all over the world. It's a local when you come here. Haha, it's an immigrant city."
"It's here." Yuan Yuan got off the car in the city center, and after paying the money, he opened the door for Tan Ruikang. This habitual move was prepared for girls. He didn't notice it for a while. When Tan Ruikang got off the car, the lights were on, and the neon flashing world was reflected in the car. His eyes were full of surprise and admiration.
This is a bustling new immigrant city, and while walking with him, Yuan Yuan said, "There is a securities office across the street. A few years ago, the door was so crowded that the glass was broken. I heard that people were squeezed to death."
Tan Ruikang said in surprise: "Why! What happened to them?"
Yuan Yuan said: "Grab stocks."
Tan Ruikang looked at a loss, Yuan Yuan guessed that he didn't even know what stocks were, and said: "Everything that makes money, they say that there is gold everywhere. When we came here just now, there was an advanced vocational and technical college, which is called Gao Vocational College for short. , that school is good."
Tan Ruikang followed Yuan Yuan, pushed open the glass door, went to the McDonald's counter to order, and turned around and said, "What do you eat?"
Tan Ruikang: "..."
Distant: "… "
Yuan Yuan couldn't tell the funny thing in his heart, Tan Ruikang looked up at the light board, Yuan Yuan took the menu and raised it at him, saying, "Look here."
Tan Ruikang watched it for a while. Many people were lining up behind him. Yuan Yuan was a little uneasy. Tan Ruikang noticed this slight change in him and hurriedly said, "I...whatever."
"Then I'll order it." Yuan Yuan said, "Double Cheese Burger, General Burger, Black and White Double Stars, Apple Pie, Big French Fries, Big Coke..."
Yaoyao reported the menu like a cannonball, came over with a plate, and sat down by the window.
Tan Ruikang picked up the bag in the carton and looked at it. Yuan Yuan smiled and said, "There are no chopsticks."
"I know this." Tan Ruikang laughed self-deprecatingly, and began to eat after learning to eat far away, and his face became very strange when he took a bite.
With pickled cucumbers in it, he said far away, "Don't you like it?"
Tan Ruikang hurriedly said he liked it, adjusted Coke again, and found that the ice cream was soaked in Coke, and his face became even more strange.
Tan Ruikang's hard-headed expression of eating was seen in Yuan Yuan's eyes, which made Yuan Yuan feel unhappy even after a meal. If he had known that he would take him to a Chinese fast food, he would have passed away.
"Ketchup, some?" Yuanyuan squeezed a lot of ketchup on the fries, Tan Ruikang's expression was more like a ghost, and he waved his hand: "I just eat it like this, it tastes good."
Yuan Yuan: "Well, if you like it, eat more..."
Tan Ruikang: "These potato sticks cost 8 yuan? It's really expensive! Grandma used to make them and eat them during Chinese New Year. The potato cakes are a big pot once they are fried."
Distant: "… "
The girl next door was amused and laughed, turning her head to look at them from time to time, her face in the distance looked ugly. Tan Ruikang stopped talking.
When the meal was almost over, Yuan Yuan received a call, leaned on the chair domineeringly, swayed the swivel chair lazily, and hung up, saying, "I'll take you to the bar later, and introduce some friends to meet you. okay?"
"Wine... bar?" Tan Ruikang said, "No, go home and study."
Yuan Yuan had to call again and tell the other party that he was not going.
After hanging up the phone, the two were silent, and Tan Ruikang said, "Go... it's not good at the bar, come here, brother will give you this."
He lowered his head to dig something in his jeans pocket. The jeans were already very tight, and they were far smaller than Tan Ruikang. Although the jeans he chose for him were already bought by Zhao Guogang, they still looked very narrow on Tan Ruikang.
What to take? specialty
Yuan Yuan stared blankly at his movements, Tan Ruikang touched it for a long time, took out a crumpled pack of cigarettes, shook a box of matches, and the people around looked at them curiously.
Yuan Yuan immediately got up and whispered: "No smoking here, put it away first, go out to smoke..."
Yuan Yuan packed up the dishes and stopped Tan Ruikang from calling the waiter. He threw the leftovers into the trash can and put the dishes away. At seven o'clock at night, the air after the rain was very fresh. Under the street light, Tan Ruikang wanted to say something, but Yuan Yuan had Looking for the canteen, Tan Ruikang said, "Come on, brother, Xiaoyuan."
The "brother" called out, and a certain string in the distant heart that had not been sounded for a long time was plucked, and the first muddy sound came out after many years of confusion.
The two got together and lit a cigarette. Tan Ruikang's fingers were very beautiful, dark and slender. By the firelight, he could see from a distance that his fingers were covered with calluses.
Yuan Yuan took a sip, and the spicy cigarette smell immediately made him cry.
"Cough! Cough!" Yuan Yuan's throat was burning with pain.
Tan Ruikang laughed, Yuan Yuan coughed half to death, he wanted to throw the cigarette away, or asked how much the cigarette cost, but he was afraid of hurting his self-esteem, so he had to endure the discomfort and took a few sips, and said, "Go home, I I also want to go back and read the book."
Tan Ruikang asked: "Take the bus, I want to be familiar with the road here."
"I want an IC card." There were so many people at night that Yuan Yuan didn't want to crowd the bus, so he made up a reason to lie to him, opened his wallet, showed the bus card to Tan Ruikang, and said, "I'll get one for you in a few days."
Tan Ruikang nodded, and the two took a taxi home. Yuan Yuan remembered that he forgot to buy a toothbrush and towel for Tan Ruikang. When he was about to go down, Tan Ruikang hurriedly said, "I brought it, it can be used."
Yuan Yuan took a look in the bathroom. Tan Ruikang's towel was full of small black spots, and the bristles of his toothbrush were rough.
Forget it tomorrow and buy it again. Yuan Yuan told him that this is a shower gel, this is a shampoo, and this is a facial cleanser, toner, and hand sanitizer for men. Tan Ruikang looked dazed and nodded again and again. Just as he was talking, Yuan Yuan's phone came again, urging him to go to the bar, and Yuan Yuan was almost as busy as his father.
Yuan Yuan hung up the phone impatiently, and went back to his room to read a book—just wait a few days. If Tan Ruikang goes to school, the vocational technical school will have dormitory. , the same guests live.
Tan Ruikang was reviewing English in the opposite room, and looked up and glanced at him from time to time. Tan Ruikang looked very clean in the warm light. His dark skin and short hair looked very earthy. He stepped on the teak floor with his bare feet, and his toes were bent against the ground.
There was a dog downstairs and was locked on the balcony. Most of the time, the owner hadn't come back and was barking and barking when he was hungry. Yuan Yuan was upset by the noise, unpacked the headphone cable, and looked for a dish.
"Xiaoyuan." Tan Ruikang said, "Do you remember the dog that grandpa raised."
"Is there?" Yuan Yuan said casually, "I forgot."
Tan Ruikang said: "When you were five years old, grandpa kept a big dog named A Feng in the yard of his house. When he saw it, he barked at you and made you cry."
Yuan Yuan thought that it was really embarrassing, what old things are still being mentioned.
He held the earphone and planned to end the small conversation politely. Tan Ruikang said, "Afeng likes you. I hold you and ride him, and you keep crying."
The corners of Yuan Yuan's mouth twitched slightly: "Did I ride on it?"
Tan Ruikang said with a smile: "After riding for a while, we fell and both A Feng and I were beaten."
Yuan Yuan looked at the opposite room, Tan Ruikang, put in an earphone, left his left ear empty, and asked, "The dog is still there?"
Tan Ruikang said: "I'm gone, I died a few years ago."
Yuan Yuan nodded, plugged headphones into both ears, ended the scene session smoothly, bowed his head and finished selecting songs, lying on the bed and flipping through the album.
It was raining outside, and the air conditioner did not need to be turned on. The cool water vapor blew in with the summer wind, and fell asleep. In the dream, it was all green, as if I could hear the cries of Zlazila.
"Well, this is for you." The skinny monkey climbed down from the tree.
Five-year-old Xiao Yuanyuan took the cicada and asked, "Eat?"
"Eat it with fire." Thin Monkey hurriedly said, "Hey, if you're still alive, don't put it in your mouth."
Tan Ruikang took a branch and wore two cicadas, and walked up the field with Xiao Yuanyuan in one hand. The poisonous sun shone on the two of them, sweating profusely. , Tan Ruikang shook the matchbox beside Yuan Yuan's ear, struck a match to make a fire, and roasted two cicadas for Yuan Yuan to eat.
At dinner, Xiao Yuanyuan was hot and couldn't eat. Grandma asked what she ate outside today, and Yuan Yuan replied that she had eaten cicadas. So Tan Ruikang was beaten.
In a daze, Yuan Yuan felt that someone was taking off his socks, and he knew that Zhao Guogang had returned without even opening his eyes.
He rolled over and went back to sleep, uncomfortably taking off his jeans and throwing them on the ground, the lights were turned off, the earphones were taken off, the windows were closed, the doors were shut.
Yuan Yuan felt that something was wrong, opened his eyes in the dark and saw Tan Ruikang's back.
He was really sleepy. There were too many things to do today, and he was too lazy to say anything. When he continued to sleep, he didn't know how long the doorbell rang. Then he heard Zhao Guogang's voice, and then the door opened and closed again. Zhao Guogang came in and glanced at him and went back to his room. fell asleep.