The clock struck midnight, and Fang Wen put on his bowler hat, his eyes skimming past her and moving to the stage.
There weren't many customers at the bar that day, perhaps because it was hard to get around on a rainy night. Fang Wen, who has always sung rock and roll, rarely chose a lyrical tune, she thought, such a night is not suitable for waking up the restless nerves, but should give the lonely soul to find its rightful belonging.
The orchestra's prelude slowly sounded, she sang deeply, and in the middle of the day, Xie Xiaomo had burst into tears.
"I didn't miss you very much, just occasionally inquiring about you. I didn't miss you very much, just occasionally playing the movie you love to watch ......"
Xie Xiaomo murmured alone, repeating the song she had just sung upside down.
Fang Wen snapped his fingers, and the bartender knowingly served a lemon soda.
"Hey! I'm Fang Wen." She walked over to Xie Xiaomo and made her words short, then handed the soda over and said, "Margaritas aren't for you, it's better to keep it light."
Xie Xiaomo wasn't polite, casually took it and took a sharp gulp, "It's really penetratingly cold."
"How do you call it?"
"Xie Xiaomo." She was slightly nasal, but without a hint of hesitation.
Fang Wen cheerfully said, "You're still the first guest to be cried by me singing."
"Because ...... you sang my secret."
Xie Xiaomo never thought she'd be in front of a stranger, not panicking that her favorite had fallen out of love again.
That's right, this is the third time Du Yisen has fallen out of love.
Xie Xiaomo's address book, only Du Yisen's number she saved a last name alone. Fang Wen later always said, in fact, she is simply a person who can not hide secrets. Sometimes, you don't want to see a person on purpose, not because you hate them, not because they are strange, but to avoid them.
So Fang Wen in the crowd with just a glance, it is easy to detect everything, of course, this has to do with her long stay in the nightclub nature of the work.
Du Yisen, after losing his love, used to go to Xie Xiaomo's place to turn his grief into appetite. Her specialty is vinegared pork, which gives him a sense of peace of mind, even if he is in a gloomy mood, after seeing Xie Xiaomo, he will always ease a lot.
Just like when he was studying, every time he failed a test or was counted down by the teacher, as long as he saw his classmate Xie Xiaomo wearing her heavy glasses, he would sweep away the haze, and then laughed and said, "You're glasses are really super ugly ......."
> "Then I'm highly nearsighted!" After saying that, Xie Xiaomo stared wide-eyed and instinctively raised her hand to push the frame. She is goose-egg face, fair skin, but the delicate face is hidden under the large frame, often become Du Yisen's laughing stock.
Later on in high school, the two men were in the same subject and different classes. Maybe it is the three years of junior high school table friendship, so Du Yisen has long been accustomed to the circle of life can not do without Xie Xiaomo.
Every day in the morning reading class, Xie Xiaomo will almost always appear in the door of the second class at the same time, and then ruthlessly tapped the door a few times, yelling, "Du Yisen, bring breakfast!"
They made a bet that the one who lags behind in every monthly exam would have to contract for the next month's breakfast, and for this reason, Xie Xiaomo saved a lot of pocket money.
She and Fang Wen said that in many cases, love comes without knocking.
If you really want to ask her when she started to like Du Yisen, it should be one day two months before the college entrance examination.
Du Yisen stopped her in the hallway and asked with a smile, "Where are you going to fill in your volunteer?"
"What for! You can still with me to test together not?" Xie Xiaomo confidently twisted his head.
The reflection on the lenses can feel Du Yisen's impatience, he reached out and pressed her restless head, a serious, "Seriously, where?"
"North...Beijing." Such a serious look, she remembered rarely seen, so she softly spoke, "What?"
Who knew Du Yi Sen revealed a row of bright teeth, "I see."
"Understand what? Hey! You make it clear..." Xie Xiaomo gritted her teeth behind her, furious that she had fallen into his way every time.
Du Yisen walked a few steps, then turned back to her and waved his hand, saying, "You don't have a sense of direction, and I just happen to be a walking navigator. How can a city that big work without me as a brother by your side?!"
Xie Xiaomo's expression is still hideous, but the picture is like a freeze frame, she can't draw back the corners of her mouth, she just stood still and stupidly watched the familiar to no longer familiar back in front of her eyes slowly disappeared in the line of sight.
There is no reason to exaggerate too much, like Du Yisen, is so simple.
But the world's most pitiful love is probably, you take each other as a man, the other put you ...... also as a man.
Du Yisen nineteenth birthday, Xie Xiaomo deliberately removed the frame, with a pair of contact lenses. She looked for several audio-visual stores to buy a commemorative edition of Jay Chou's record, and she was full of anticipation waiting for Du Yisen's compliments.
In fact, Du Yisen was indeed happy to see her. He took her by the shoulders and proudly introduced her to his other friends, "This is my most iron, most iron brother, you guys are not allowed to hit on her."
"How did I look today? Didn't embarrass you, right?" Xie Xiaomo inquired as she sidled up and bowed her head.
"Che~ I've seen it all before."
"Huh?"
"Actually ...... I secretly took off your glasses when you were napping before. Hahaha ......"
Xie Xiaomo froze for a few seconds and directly swung her fist, "Du Yisen, you the hell give me a stop." She was so focused on the fight that she didn't care that there was another girl in the crowd.
"Xiao Sen." So quiet voice, like a clear stream.
"Focusing on messing around with you, I forgot the main thing." After saying that, Du Yi Sen pulled that girl and walked to her, "Qin Wan, my girlfriend."
That hello has been stuck in the mouth of the throat, just can't say, Xie Xiaomo stiffly pulled the corner of her mouth, ruthlessly pushed Du Yisen, "You're too much!"
His eyes darkened, just wanted to step forward, Xie Xiaomo then raised his head high, "Dare to be the first one! So beautiful girl, should be introduced to me earlier to know ah."
Du Yisen sighed in relief, and then accompanied with a smile, "I know wrong!"
That record from the beginning to the end Xie Xiaomo did not take out, because Du Yisen once said, only the most important people in the situation he did not know, send him a commemorative version of the record, in order to reflect its value.
And she, is not the most important person, at least now certainly not.
Fontaine says she's too unproductive, and well, she is. This time it's the same, and so as not to embarrass herself too much, she calls Fang Wen to come and live with her.
Du Yisen did not reject Fang Wen, but only threw down a sentence "really is Xie Xiaomo's dish", and then fell asleep on the sofa.
That night, seeing that he was too listless, Xie Xiaomo dragged him to the bar.
"What is it this time?" Xie Xiaomo ordered him a Long Island Iced Tea.
"She's going abroad and I don't have the money."
"Long-distance relationship, you can't afford to wait?" Fang Wen came down from the stage at some point and interjected casually.
"What do you mean by long distance, this is fucking long distance, okay!"
Xie Xiaomo held his forehead and sighed deeply, "Three years in college, one year at work, anyway, splitting up is a common occurrence in your family."
"This time it's for real." He ordered another bottle of Ice Sharp and said slowly, "Because there's going to be another one with her."
"Shit, you're fucking green!" Fang Wen siblings righteousness came up, can not stop.
"Can you keep your voice down." Du Yisen whitened, his mouth filled with the smell of alcohol everywhere.
Xie Xiaomo and Fang Wen looked at each other and decided to shut up before settling the score.
The so-called settling scores later is to go behind Du Yisen's back and go directly to Qin Wan's door.
"Tsk tsk...really has a face of pity for all beings." Fang Wen's body jingled with chains and bells, rock and roll style, from the momentum directly crushed the opposite side of the innocent Lotus.
"Qin Wan, cheating is not like something you would do." Xie Xiaomo is indignant, but still retains her sanity, she is bent on making a case for Du Yisen.
She glanced into the room, then walked to the door and said, "We're getting along, and besides, it's your so-called brother's choice."
"So you had to leave the country? Is it not good to stay in Beijing and fight with him?" Thinking of Du Yisen, Xie Xiaomo lost her temper at once, and only wished to hold on to this love for him.
"Xie Xiaomo, you think he really can't go abroad without money? You and our schools are too far away from each other, I don't blame you for not knowing the situation, do you know that when he was in school his mentor once recommended him to go to Germany as an exchange student for a year? But he refused."
"Turned it down ......" she was a little incredulous, it's true that this was never told to her.
"I am studying art, I want to go abroad for further study, is it wrong?!" Qin Wan's emotions suddenly became agitated. Fang Wen had a jolt and stopped Xie Xiaomo behind her.
"Then...then there's no need for you to go with the others?"
"Xie Xiaomo, some things happen are destined to happen, I, Qin Wan, am destined to be just a passer-by in his Du Yisen's life, so I made a decision on the spot. This society is already very realistic, now this man is willing to bear all my expenses abroad, as long as I am with him, if it is you, what do you do?"
Xie Xiaomo suddenly felt very sad, for Du Yisen's mouth often recited the unbearable. Fang Wen wanted to go forward to the theory, but was stopped by her, she said faintly, "Let's go."
"Wait a minute," Qin Wan turned around and took out a wooden box from the house, "He left it behind, you take it to him."
Before leaving, Xie Xiaomo glanced at another man in the house with bare shoulders and could not help but laugh bitterly, no wonder Du Yisen was so thick-skinned this time, he kept relying on her.
As she walked, she opened the box, which is full of letters they exchanged during the four years of college. Because one of their schools is in the north and one is in the south, it is not convenient to meet normally. In order to save money, Xie Xiaomo suggested just writing more letters.
"Do you want to be like this, every letter starts with: hello! Du Yisen, first of all, I didn't miss you very much ah ......" Fang Wen frowned and stared at the girl he met at the bar, and became friends with her frankly because of her persistent nature.
"I don't know, it was a stubborn way to tell myself not to like him." Xie Xiaomo laughed and cried.
"Only that idiot Du Yisen would take it seriously!" Fang Wen shook his head in displeasure.
Back to the rental house, they tacitly both did not mention the matter of going to find Qin Wan, as for the wooden box, Xie Xiaomo secretly hid it in the nightstand.
Before Qin Wan left, she made a separate appointment with Xie Xiaomo. That night, Fang Wen also called Du Yisen to the bar to chat.
"Consider me selfish, I don't want anyone to hate me." Without any warning of the opening statement, Xie Xiaomo listened to the cloud.
"What are you trying to say?" She was unwilling to look at Qin Wan, as if she was unwilling to believe that the clear stream that was there at the beginning has now been tainted by the world's events.
"In fact, I've always felt that Xiao Sen's aesthetics are problematic, do you know what he likes most about my appearance? It's the look of staying in the studio wearing strangely ugly glasses and burying my head in painting. He actually said that I looked best when I wore glasses. At that time I was dumbfounded, until I accidentally flipped through the graduation photos he had pinned in his book, I didn't realize that before you didn't wear contact lenses, you looked like that."
Xie Xiaomo looked out the window, the corners of her mouth unconsciously rose, yes, about that pair of glasses, they still have a lot of stories. Du Yisen used to always say that she looked like a clumsy owl.
"What's even more ridiculous is that I had a hard time finding a Jay Chou commemorative record online, and wanted to give it to him as a Valentine's Day gift, but unfortunately, he didn't take it, and this was the only one he refused. I've never been able to guess why, do you know why?" Qin Wan snorted, not knowing whether she was laughing at herself or at her.
The whole time Xie Xiaomo just listened quietly, without saying a word. Even Qin Wan did not pay attention to when she got up.
"Xie Xiaomo, in fact, the most selfish person has always been you, at least I once all fought for it. It's just that Du Yisen's unwillingness to go abroad was never because of me." After saying that, she carried her bag and disappeared into the night without looking back.
Xie Xiaomo kept digesting what she just heard on her way home, a lot of it was unexpected, maybe she was really wrong. After all, love is a matter of two people. But once a person cherishes a relationship, they become timid. Preferring to keep things as they are, they don't want to take the risk of trying and end up breaking up. There is a sentence Qin Wan said right, she is indeed very selfish, that's why she always deliberately avoid.
And at this moment, Fang Wen is dragging his suitcase and waiting for her downstairs.
"Where are you going?" Xie Xiaomo asked in surprise.
"Keep drifting, a residency at a bar, it's supposed to be temporary, make some free money and then go to the next stop."
"So soon?" She needed her friends so badly right now, she was afraid to face Du Yisen alone.
"Remember earlier Qin Wan said that some things that happen are just meant to be. I also think so, my encounter with you may be to fulfill your love tonight." Fang Wen had a relieved face with a smile.
Xie Xiaomo didn't understand, just clinging to her question, "Will we see each other again?"
"The world is big and small, just leave it to fate."
The wheels of the suitcase whirred on the ground as Fang Wen walked farther and farther away, and everyone left, only Du Yisen was still by her side.
"Mal, you have to believe that you've always been a womanizer!" Fang Wen yelled back from the distance.
Xie Xiaomo let out a giggle as her mood brightened up at the words. She quickly stepped upstairs, Du Yi Sen sat lazily on the sofa and spread his hands, "It wasn't me who drove her away yo!"
"Hey! Du Yi Sen, I don't want you at all." She pursed her lips and snickered.
Du Yisen froze, the topic changed too quickly, he blushed and coughed lightly, "When will you fucking Jay Chou commemorative edition of the record to send me ah, lying in the bookcase are going to collect dust!"
Xie Xiaomo ignored him and just looked at the ceiling and giggled one by one.
"You guys have good taste, Fang Wen sang that song tonight is quite good ~"
"Isn't she a rock singer?"
"Not really, she said tonight is suitable for setting up lovers, so she sang a lyrical one."
"Oh~~," Xie Xiaomo trailed off, excitedly going to get him that gift from years ago.
I didn't miss you very much, in fact every word of it was, I really missed you.
Much later, Fang Wen went to a southern city.
She sent a newsletter to ask Xie Xiaomo and Du Yisen how they were doing.
Xie Xiaomo said, "Everything is the same as before, running for life."
The only thing that has changed is that he respects me and I respect love.