All the tense, uncertain emotions of the day.
What audition, Xuncheng Technology...
They all disappeared at this moment with the gust of wind in my ears.
Lu Yan felt Xiao Heng's hand resting on his waist, and the body temperature was transmitted through the fabric.
Xiao Heng has a strong sense of direction, he can basically remember the road on the way here, and he directed him to drive the car back to the shopping mall near the Seventh District without looking at the navigation.
In fact, when he arrived in the lower city, Lu Yan didn't need him to command at all. He had never been anywhere in the lower city, and he could open it with his eyes closed.
But he didn't make a sound, and let Xiao Heng use a tone of "Are you an idiot" to point Jiangshan behind.
Wait for the whole picture of the shopping mall to be stripped from the layers of buildings in front.
Xiao Heng had some impressions of this place: "This is not the place where you dragged me to drive something..."
Lu Yan slowed down and drove into the garage: "The washing machine."
"Did you really plan to go?"
"Yeah, I also searched for the operation manual of the washing machine. It is easier than driving a car. There are only a few buttons..." Lu Yan said this and recalled the tragic time when both of them were laid off and looked for work everywhere. , I couldn't help laughing after I finished speaking.
It was really miserable.
The man next to him doesn't even have an ID card.
After those days have passed, looking back now, it seems that I have not gained nothing.
While talking, the two got out of the car.
"Watching a movie?" Lu Yan asked.
Xiao Heng had no objection: "Anything is fine."
"The cinema in this shopping mall is the entire city of Xiamen..." When Lu Yan said this, he paused for a moment. Xiao Heng thought he was going to say that the biggest screen was the best environment, but Lu Yan spit out four other words, "cheapest."
Lu Yan: "Other movie theaters offer a 20% discount on tickets, so this can be a discount of 6.5."
"..."
Lu Yan thought about the current savings of the two of them. Although their careers have just started on the right track, they have only returned to the original point from negative assets. Just renting a recording studio has almost wiped out all their wealth.
"Do you know that the recording studio burns a lot of money?" Lu Yan unscrewed the key and found that there was no place to put the key on his body, so he turned to touch Xiao Heng's pants, "Your studio was also registered just now, save it."
"Understood, why do you look like a little daughter-in-law."
After Xiao Heng finished saying "little daughter-in-law", Lu Yan paused with his still hand, and pinched him through layers of fabric.
"hiss-"
Xiao Heng frowned, after Lu Yan stuffed the key, he grabbed his wrist again: "What are you groping for?"
Lu Yan: "Who touched you."
Probably because Lu Yan just made him distracted, Xiao Heng took two steps and made a new suggestion: "Why don't you watch it and go home."
Lu Yan glanced at him: "Be clear."
Xiao Heng's expression didn't change: "Don't you want to go on a date? Go to bed and make an appointment—"
"Damn it," Lu Yan laughed, "Is that what you call a date? That's a date!"
Xiao Heng said calmly: "You can call me anything, then do you want to make an appointment with me?"
Lu Yan: "I'll make an appointment with you."
Xiao Heng felt a little regretful: "Okay, a movie theater is also fine, choose a corner."
Lu Yan immediately realized what he was thinking.
Pick a corner, and when the lights go out, do something...
Lu Yan: "Why is your head full of yellow now?"
Xiao Heng: "I didn't say anything, but you, what are you thinking?"
After deciding to watch a movie, the two went upstairs.
From the decoration style of this shopping mall, there is already an atmosphere that is about to close down, and the wooden materials left over from the decoration are randomly piled up in the out of service elevators.
After going up the stairs, Xiao Heng realized that the place was quite lively, almost like a vegetable market.
The shops yelled with loudspeakers, and there were even stalls on the ground in the huge shopping mall.
"Let's take a look. My roasted sweet potatoes are all natural and without additives. Try one, handsome guy?"
"Pure cotton socks, three pairs for ten yuan!"
Lu Yan explained: "The economic downturn in the lower city area, these stalls are also rented."
Xiao Heng made a brief comment: "He is very economical."
Lu Yan's old acquaintances were among the clerks shouting with socks in their hands: "Lu Yan?!"
Lu Yan was about to take Xiao Heng upstairs when he paused: "Boss Ma?"
Xiao Heng: "Know?"
Lu Yan: "That's right, I've sold socks here before."
Xiao Heng: "..."
The one called Boss Ma was a middle-aged man.
Lu Yan gave Boss Ma a high-five across the booth: "Brother Ma, you are still working here."
The old horse threw the socks back: "Yeah, after all the work, the business here is good. Which factory are you working in now?"
which factory.
Which... factory.
Xiao Heng said in his heart, you never know how many bizarre jobs your partner has done before.
Brother Ma: "Didn't you say you were going to work in a steel factory?"
"No," Lu Yan said, "Later, he developed into another industry."
When they went upstairs, Xiao Heng asked, "Buying socks? A steel factory?"
Lu Yan sold socks when he first came to Xiamen City. After paying the rent for living expenses, he was autistic for a while. He couldn't last long, and he had to come out to look for a job in a few months.
Convenience store, night market, clothing store...
Lu Yan: "I didn't go to the steel factory in the end. I can't handle their tools."
Xiao Heng glanced at Lu Yan's hand resting on the handrail of the stairs.
The movie theater was on the fourth floor, Xiao Heng's phone was out of battery, so Lu Yan went to buy tickets.
Lu Yan didn't know what movie to choose, let's just let it be romantic, it's too pretentious and inappropriate, after doing the elimination method, there are only a few action movies left.
Lu Yan asked the old man next to him for his opinion: "Watch action movies?"
Uncle Xiao: "What kind of action, action, film?"
It was a good action movie, but he read it out with an extremely subtle feeling.
Lu Yan was silent for two seconds: "You, go to the side and wait."
Lu Yan randomly chose a name and the poster looked pleasing to the eye, but on the payment interface, the mobile phone was on the submission interface for a long time.
After turning, a warning box pops up.
[Sorry, your card has insufficient balance].
"..."
Same goes for another card.
When Lu Yan was renting the recording studio, he roughly calculated the expenses, and after paying the total amount, there would be two or three hundred left. They have high requirements for recording. It takes them four days to rent a song that other bands can finish in two days, and the expenditure is often more than twice that of others.
There should be two hundred left.
Lu Yan thought for a long time, and then remembered that the registration fee for the audition for the four of them was exactly two hundred.
Xiao Heng stood at the entrance of the cinema and waited for a long time, completely wondering why it took so long for Lu Yan to go in and buy a ticket.
Smoking is not allowed in the movie theater. As soon as he took out the lighter from his pocket, Lu Yan opened the door and came out.
After Lu Yan finished his psychological training, when he went out again, he had already put on a calm expression.
He pushed the door out, leaned against the door and said, "...I don't think these few films today are very good."
Xiao Heng: "Don't talk, tell the truth."
Lu Yan: "I'm out of money, I only have fifteen yuan left in my card."
"Then."
Lu Yan said again: "Then, what do you think of going to the park?"
Xiao Heng: "..."
"Green, healthy, environmentally friendly, and healthy, you haven't been to the big park near District Seven, have you?" Lu Yan counted the benefits of visiting the park with his fingers, "Think about holding the hand of your boyfriend and walking on the cobblestone path ..." Lu Yan couldn't keep counting, "Fuck, let's go home."
Xiao Heng didn't speak, and lowered his head to light his cigarette.
In their rich second-generation circle, only Zhai Zhuangzhi, as a man, is still enthusiastic about shopping. He is a ruthless character who walks with his girlfriend when he is in a relationship and breaks his leg.
Xiao Heng heard Zhai Zhuangzhi complain to him more than once: "She said she was going to go shopping in the mall, and I even reserved the place specially. I'm really tired from dating, what do you want me to do..."
At that time, Xiao Heng sneered at things like shopping: "It's easy to handle, let's break up."
Zhai Zhuangzhi: "... huh?"
Xiao Heng: "Are you fucking sick? What's there to do?"
What is there to visit? He may understand this question now.
As long as there is this person by his side, he can go anywhere, even the cobblestone trails that Lu Yan talked about, he is actually a little interested.
Xiao Heng raised his hand to touch Lu Yan's head, turned him back, and took a puff of cigarette while speaking: "Lead the way."
The two went out from the shopping mall, and it was already getting dark outside.
It is true that Xiao Heng has never been to the 'park near the Seventh District' that Lu Yan talked about, and he is not an elderly person, who has nothing to do after eating enough and goes out for a walk
The park is not far away. In the downtown area, it is rare to have something as high-end as a fountain. A few children played around the fountain, standing there in a pair of shorts, waiting for the water to flow out, and they got wet all over.
When Lu Yan passed by, he couldn't help but play with them for a while. Xiao Heng watched him half-bend, hiding behind a child secretly, and then frightened him from behind with baring teeth and claws.
The child screamed with a smile, then wiped his wet hands on the hem of Lu Yanyi.
Lu Yan patted him on the head, and walked through the open-air fountain before the next wave of water came out.
His clothes were all wet, like an old wild child, he squatted on the steps not far from the fountain and looked at them: "What were you doing when you were so young?"
"Me?" Xiao Heng thought for a while, "I'm playing with a robot."
From the time Xiao Heng remembered, there was no one at home.
The servants are not counted, most of them are submissive, and they have to repeat a sentence three times in their minds. He has a bad temper since he was a child, and he is too lazy to talk nonsense with people.
At that time, what he looked forward to most every year was his birthday.
On his birthday, Xiao Qishan will take his "mother" to the birthday party.
It was said to be a birthday party, but in fact it was just a show for outsiders. The whole hotel was full of people I didn't know. It's just that he didn't understand these things when he was a child.
One year, his mother gave him a birthday present, which was a little robot.
It's ironic to say that Xiao Heng's initial impression of "programming" came from a birthday present that the woman asked her assistant to buy at random, and she had never even seen it before.
Lu Yan recalled what he was doing at that time: "When you were playing with robots, your partner was still harvesting wheat in the field."
Xiao Heng: "..."
Lu Yan added: "Cut with my grandfather, but usually I can't cut a few and go to sleep in the wheat pile."
As far as I recall, that picture is still engraved in Lu Yan's mind. The hot noon sun shines on the back of the old man who is working hard, surrounded by the smell of dry plants, he squints his eyes, and falls into the pile of wheat that is brighter than the sun shining down.
Then, half asleep and half awake, the hoarse voice of the old man would call him home: "Xiao Yan—go home for dinner."
When I opened my eyes, I woke up from the dream with the smell of wheat.
After Lu Yan finished speaking, thinking of that kind old man, he was silent for a while.
Xiao Heng looked down at him, bent down to wipe off the water on Lu Yan's face, and said with some disgust, "Tsk, are you a kindergarten kid?"
Lu Yan: "You are only in kindergarten."
Xiao Heng straightened up: "Who ran in and followed Sapo just now."
Xiao Heng spat out four more words mercilessly: "You are not childish."
Lu Yan ran and jumped up and down to beat him up.
Xiao Heng had already walked forward for a while, and inadvertently slowed down, letting the man behind him who obviously couldn't beat anyone catch up and hit him a few times: "I might die with this punch."
Xiao Heng was very cooperative: "I'm dead."
After Lu Yan showed off his powerless fist, he couldn't help approaching Xiao Heng and scratched his palm lightly.
There were more and more people in the square. Lu Yan had lived in District 7 for nearly four years, and there were many old friends around.
Every now and then someone greeted him.
Lu Yan may not remember all of them, but even if he doesn't remember, he can still show a look of "So it's you".
Passerby: "Yes, yes, it's me!"
Lu Yan nodded, and threw out a universal greeting: "It's been a long time since I saw you. You've become handsome. I didn't recognize him at once. Where do you work now?"
Passerby: "I-I'm still in the steel factory!"
Lu Yan: "Love your job and work hard, brother, do a good job."
Passers-by still remember that Lu Yan resigned from the steel factory after a disagreement: "Why did you run away after working for two days?"
Lu Yanxin said that I can't tell you that I can't carry tools.
Lu Yan finally said: "It's not suitable for me, I went to another factory to develop."
After they left, Lu Yancai thought again about the topic he had just talked with Xiao Heng.
The worlds the two of them lived in were so far apart, Lu Yan at that time was just dreaming, no matter how wild his imagination was, he would never have imagined that there was an annoying young master playing with robots in another city far away.
Even though he knew it was foolish and foolish to say this, Lu Yan still asked: "If there hadn't been that accident, we wouldn't have known each other?"
Xiao Heng didn't speak for a while.
It was completely dark.
Lu Yan was about to say 'forget it, this is too fucking stupid', but before he could finish his calculation, he heard Xiao Heng scolding him one step ahead: "Are you an idiot, what are you thinking."
…
Lu Yan walked forward, but heard another sentence in his ear: "Yes."
Lu Yan stopped, turned around and saw Xiao Heng was still standing there, beside him was a street lamp, and he was half hidden in the darkness.
Xiao Heng's voice came clearly:
— “Regardless of the accident or not, I will come to you.”
Almost at the same time that Xiao Heng finished speaking, countless street lamps on the small square were lit up one by one, forming a bright light.
The two walked to the edge of the square, and further ahead was a sparsely populated grove.
Lu Yan's Adam's apple couldn't help moving, the word seemed to have some magical power, he stared into Xiao Heng's eyes and said, "Otherwise, let's go back... and make an appointment at another place?"
Xiao Heng thought that this date, which had no money to buy movie tickets and could only go to the park, tied for the worst date with the big eater, would finally be on the right track.
However, several people approached, and the one who walked in the front interrupted their conversation with his loud voice full of surprise: "Di Yan!"
Viagra held two big red Tai Chi fans in his hand and shouted happily: "You guys also come to dance in the square?"
Lu Yan: "..."
Xiao Heng: "..."
Viagra was followed by several residents in the building, about forty years old, each with a Tai Chi fan.
Viagra: "It's a coincidence, our team has one less person this time, and Grandma Wang didn't come, I'm worried about how to change the formation."
Lu Yan tried to interrupt him: "We..."
Viagra: "You guys are very well informed. How did you know that our neighborhood committee is going to participate in the square dance competition?"
Lu Yan: "Competition?"
Viagra: "Yes."
Xiao Heng watched helplessly as Lu Yan swallowed what he wanted to say, then changed the subject, and asked very naturally: "Is there any small gift for me?"
Xiao Heng: "..."
Lu Yan: "I remember sending a hair dryer last year."
"This year is going to be terrible." While speaking, the Tai Chi fan in Viagra's hand fluttered in the wind, and a sentence floated out, "I will send a rice cooker this year!"
The reality taught Xiao Heng a hard lesson.
Every minute and every second with Lu Yan is unpredictable. He thought that walking in the park and walking the cobblestone path was the limit of this date, and he never thought that it would happen that his boyfriend went to dance in the square during the date. kind of bridge.
Lu Yan probably messed around a lot on stage, but he also showed amazing talent in square dancing.
It took less than an hour to dance to the lead dance.
Xiao Heng sat on the bench next to the speaker, and the group chat on the mobile phone was full of discussions among partners about giving five points more investment than expected today.
He sat on the edge and recorded a video.
The central figure in the video is a lead singer of a band with a strong rock atmosphere, mixed with the team of aunts with an average age of forty years old, waving a Tai Chi fan vigorously in his hand.
Maybe it's because the lead singer's Tai Chi fan dance is so natural that it doesn't look awkward at all.
Lu Yanji couldn't quite understand the movements, so he kept glancing at the aunt next to him: "Is this the way it is?"
Viagra has a sturdy figure, and he swung the Tai Chi fan with the momentum of a machete. He sincerely praised: "That's right, Yandi, you are like a square dancing prodigy!"
Xiao Heng rewinded the video and watched it again, and answered it again in his heart while biting a cigarette.
meeting.
— My world is too dark, so I will definitely find you.