Small Times 3.0 Golden Age

Chapter 1 Prologue
In the brand-new T3 terminal building in Beijing, at this moment, two men and women in sunglasses, wrapped in dark gray and camel-colored fine cashmere coats, are walking towards the security checkpoint in a demonic manner.The huge sunglasses on their faces can almost cover two-thirds of their faces. If they are more elegant and calm, the public will definitely guess which superstar they are.However, their unscrupulous, rampant, and unscrupulous aura is enough to make everyone believe that they are two blind men.

Everyone backs away with sympathetic (and confused) faces, and the two of them rush toward the security checkpoint with paper green coffee cups from Starbucks.

That's right, the two of them are Gu Li and Neil, siblings.

If the two of them happen to drift past you, you only need to confirm their identity from their conversation style.The general public doesn't talk like that.

The blind woman said: "I can't understand why a good airport has to make itself like a lantern! This kind of earthy red that can only be described as tragic is simply a kind of light pollution! Don't Beijingers think they are usually Are the sandstorms and car exhaust blowing enough vicissitudes! The blood-red roof looks like Tang Wanru in her zodiac year wearing a skirt and riding on top of my head!"

The blind man said: "You can let yourself think of this color as the box of the Cartier diamond ring, maybe it will make you feel better."

The blind woman said again: "Besides, there is something wrong with the construction of their ring roads. The urban planners at the time actually learned to make up, right? Being able to put on a full makeup in the car and still have enough time to spend my entire makeup! So I'm so confused as to why anyone would feel lethargic during work hours when they could sleep in on the way Wake up naturally! Did you see the women in jeans from Jingchuang Media yesterday? Yawning with coffee while having a meeting, is their cup filled with Mrs. Jingxin Oral Solution? And since we are talking about this, I was wondering, when did the public relations department wear jeans? Are you ashamed to come out to pick up customers in jeans? Oh no, meet customers!"

The blind man said again: "...Forget it, don't complain about their ground transportation system, think about their subway, the people of Beijing are in dire straits..."

The blind woman continued: "And they still have 'A stream'!"

The blind man added: "It seems that there was a 'SARS' incident before."

The blind woman concluded her statement: "Amitabha!"

……

——Why the two of them were not beaten to death by Beijing people at the airport is still a mystery.

It seems that being too hospitable is not enough, maybe because "Beijing Welcomes You" has been hysterically broadcast on the TV station for a year, causing all the people in Beijing to be completely hypnotized and brainwashed, their eyes are straightened, they salute everyone they see, and they don't dare to arrest anyone Welcome—for example, people like Gu Li should immediately isolate her the moment she lands at the Beijing airport, and send her to the laboratory to be locked up with her kind, those sharp-mouthed mice .

During the rampage, the two of them kept talking on their mobile phones, and Neil occasionally stopped to have a sip of coffee, while Gu Li was in one after another "sorry you wait, I have a dial in." Panting with pleasure during the continuous bombing, there was no time to even stop for a sip of water.The one who stopped her madness in the end was the great security officer at our airport. This fashionable blind man who went on a rampage thinking he was a Dongfeng-31 intercontinental missile was intercepted at the first-class security checkpoint. Of course, Gu Li Extremely incomprehensible, she could only helplessly stand in the security check window where "Dididi" was screaming wildly, and said to her mobile phone: "I'm sorry, Susan, I have to hang up first, and I will wait until one minute and 40 seconds later." Calling you, I don't know why, there is a woman here who must insist on brushing me with a shovel-like thing several times when I am on the phone..."

The security inspector looked at Gu Li incredulously: "..."

Gu Li: "Why are you looking at me? I'm waiting for a call back. You still have a minute, so hurry up and swipe." After finishing speaking, Gu Li snapped the phone and turned to the handsome Kong Shao in uniform. Greeting, "Handsome guy", then very naturally put the phone into the basket on the conveyor belt, and lightly patted Kong Shao on the shoulder, "Is there a dustproof cloth? Wipe the screen for me, it's dirty."

Security officer: "...you hurry up!"

Behind Gu Li was another blind man, Neil, who covered half of his face with sunglasses. He smiled and said to the handsome security guy who was checking his whole body with detectors: "Hello, do you usually go to Shanghai for fun?"

Security officer: "...No."

Neil: "That's a pity. You can call me when you come."

Security officer: "...you hurry up!"

——Why the two of them were not detained by security personnel at the airport security checkpoint is still a mystery.

The plane was parked on the wide runway.Outside the elliptical cabin window, there is a sky like brown glass in winter in Beijing. It uses thick dust, exhaust gas, sandstorms, and impetuousness and vanity evaporated from people's souls to form an airtight cloud shell. Birds, The sun and clouds, as well as the vast and endless land under the feet are all isolated from the universe. Looking down from the distant space, it looks like a huge preserved egg.

Gu Li took the non-alcoholic pomegranate cocktail brought by the stewardess. While drinking, she took out the LA MER spray in her bag and sprayed it on her face. Every flight made her feel like she was locked in a pyramid and slept Same year, almost drained.While spraying, the stewardess came over with a sorry and polite smile on her face: "Miss Gu, this spray..."

While enjoying the scent of roses in the moisturizing spray with his eyes closed, Gu Li stretched out his hand to block the spray bottle in front of the flight attendant's eyes, and tapped impatiently on the bottle with crystal nails.

The stewardess glanced at it and said regretfully, "Oh, I saw it. It's under 50ml. I'm sorry to bother you, Ms. Gu. Your spray complies with the regulations and can be carried on the plane."

Gu Li opened his eyes, tilted his head to the stewardess and said with a smirk: "OK, honey, although I don't understand what you are talking about, it's okay. But this is where our conversation ends, you You know, I'm not very good at chatting with service staff... But thank you all the same." After speaking, she turned to Neil, "I thought she wanted to ask me what brand this spray is, so I handed over the LA MER logo I showed her, but in the end she said a bunch of stuff that I didn't understand at all, and it gave me a headache."

Neil took off his sunglasses, blinked his ridiculously long golden eyelashes, and said innocently: "Don't ask me, I only understand the contract." He paused, "It must be in English."

The corner of the flight attendant's mouth trembled, her expression looked like she had a piece of ginger in her mouth: "...hehehehe."

After Gu Li slapped the spray on his face for nearly a hundred times, he was finally satisfied to see that his face in the mirror became rosy and shiny. To be honest, whoever's face was slapped so hard a hundred times would be ashamed. rosy.She took out her mobile phone from her bag and dialed the shortcut number. After a few seconds, Kitty's delicate oval face with smoky makeup appeared on Gu Li's screen, and then the mobile phone was connected.

"Honey, please convey my gratitude to Mr. Gong, thank you for his extrajudicial kindness to invite me to his birthday party, so that I can return to Shanghai in advance, oh of course, what do you think, I have already done the financial check here It's over... Seriously, it's a good thing he had a sudden idea and wanted to celebrate a birthday (...), otherwise, I would have to stay in Beijing for three days before going back. Yes, sister, three days, can you imagine? I Be sure to use the printer (…) to print a thank you letter to Gong Ming. You know, Beijing is terrible, all the women here wear pants, and none of them wear skirts! They put their legs in airtight It's wrapped up!" Gu Li curled up elegantly and sexyly on the spacious first-class seat, her slender legs were exposed under the miniskirt, and the fine mesh black stockings made her legs even more slender, those meshes made her look It looked like a black snake, or a large eel.Below her knees are a pair of full fur black boots, and she looks as charming as a Persian dancer.

"Really? Oh my god, if I didn't book the air tickets for you personally, I would doubt that what I bought was not an Air China flight, but a time machine ticket to send you back to 1996." Kitty said on the phone Surprised and surprised at the same time, we need to cooperate more and cooperate more.

"Yes, and they also have a kind of long johns! I can't describe it, it's probably a pair of... How should I put it, my dear, imagine a thick cotton material, worn outside the underwear and inside the outer pants I know you can't imagine, honey, I understand, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I couldn't believe that there is such a thing in the world, you know, the streets are full of long johns running The people who came and went, and the women just walked into the Hermès store on the first floor of Yintai Center wearing it grandly, and the clerk was still warmly welcoming them! It’s terrible, I swear this is what I watched in 1998 The scariest picture I have ever seen after "Midnight Ring"." Gu Li said, stopped, turned around and looked at the woman in pants who was staring at him with incredible eyes at the moment, and said: "Auntie, don't listen How impolite it is for someone to make a phone call. What is the most important thing in the 21st century? Privacy! You are already flying first class, why don’t you understand this truth?” After a pause, he added, “You bought it yourself. tickets?"

The woman was short of breath under the venom sprayed out by Gu Li, and she pulled the blanket tightly and fell into a slumber.

Gu Li hung up the phone and looked at Neil who was wearing ripped jeans beside him. His strong thighs covered with golden-brown hair showed a seductive section of skin from the hole. Gu Li watched with satisfaction, with a look on his face. "A mother is more expensive than a child" is very exciting.While watching, the woman next to her turned over from the blanket, and seemed to want to make a final struggle. She took a breath and said, "Beijing is not like your Shanghai! The weather in Beijing is more than ten degrees below zero in winter! The wind blows It's too loud!"

After hearing her words, Gu Li and Neil turned their heads to face her at the same time, and answered her at the same time with puzzled and incredible expressions.What Gu Li said was: "The people on the loess high slope didn't say anything!" But Neil asked sincerely: "What's your point?" "

The woman wrapped herself tightly in the blanket and fell asleep straight.

After Gu Li hung up Kitty's phone call, she put on her sunglasses again. She was going to sleep well during the next two hours of flight.After returning to Shanghai, she will rush into the office of "ME" with an absolutely sufficient battery and an absolute peak posture.I always thought she was running down the hallway with the idea of ​​breaking Bolt's sprint record in mind—and in high heels.She was just about to put on a blanket when the phone rang again. She touched the phone to look at the screen, rolled her eyes silently in her sunglasses, and picked it up.

I was the one who called Gu Li, and I am in her villa in Jing'an, Shanghai, which is thousands of miles away from her.The reason why I called her was because I had already collapsed. I looked at Jimmy who was sitting across from me and looking at me with murderous eyes, and I really wanted to lock myself in the refrigerator.His eyes looking at me are like two sharp scissors, his face shrouded in cold air looks like he was forcibly put on a Giordano palace, his small closed mouth is like a thin blade , I even had the illusion that he would spit out sulfuric acid like Gu Li and spray it on my face at any time. Yes, Jimmy, it was him, this two-and-a-half-year-old best.

I held the phone, and the two-and-a-half-year-old boy looked at each other with hatred.He is Gu Li's second biological brother.I have no doubts about his bloodline, he must be very pure, because he has almost perfectly and completely inherited Gu Li's talent, which is that he can easily push me to the brink of collapse.With his loud crying, he ruined my sleep last night. He used his power energy as long as a nuclear reactor, and cried all night without humility.And now, the moment I connected Gu Li's phone, he started crying again.

"Gu Li, when are you coming back? I'm going crazy. Jimmy has been crying all night for the past few days. That battle was worse than your mother crying when your father died. This morning the neighbor next door Their dog has been sent to the hospital, and I heard he is suffering from depression.” I held up the phone and leaned towards Jimmy, who was crying hysterically, trying to let Jimmy’s voice travel through time and space, piercing Gu Li’s eardrum, and let her share my pain .

"Lin Xiao, as a woman in the new era, can't you even take care of a two-year-old boy? The things a child needs are so simple and clear, don't you understand? As long as you satisfy them, they will It’s like those teddy bear toys in the window, they don’t move and let you play with them,” Gu Li’s voice on the phone sounded confident and full of contempt for me, “Listen to me, now go to my room and get a pair of Hermes wrapped him in a cashmere shawl, and stuffed a LV wallet in his hand."

"...I'm not joking with you!" I was filled with righteous indignation, full of anger at Gu Li's answer that completely lacked basic human IQ, "And I tried it! It didn't work!"

"How about another Prada blanket?" Gu Li was thinking seriously on the phone.

I gave up completely, and I asked her: "When will you come back? I'm going to the company to help organize Gong Ming's birthday party later. I can't take care of Jimmy, and I really can't guarantee that I won't leave him in the end." Put it in the refrigerator."

"Where's Gu Zhun? Why didn't he bring Jimmy?" Gu Li asked me.

"Where did I know, if I could find him, the dog next door wouldn't be sent to the hospital." As I spoke, I took a Hermes blanket and wrapped Jimmy's whole body, only two small eyes were exposed , I thought about it after wrapping it up, so I started again, this time I didn't even show my eyes, and wrapped it up completely.So, for an instant, his cry sounded distant and hazy.

"Look, Jimmy won't cry. My child, I won't cry when I'm tired of crying. Let me tell you, I'll take off right now, and I'll come home in three hours. You can take care of him for another three hours." Now, read a novel, make a facial mask, take a shower, time flies by, it’s easy to pass. If Jimmy cries again, you can scare him with a horror movie on the big TV in the living room. My mother used to Just give me a strong education before entering school, look how strong I am now... well, I won't tell you, I'm going to take off, and there is a woman in uniform next to me who has to tell me for some reason Saying that you are not allowed to make phone calls now, for no reason..."

The phone hangs up.I can totally imagine the stewardess on the other end of the phone with a ginger expression in her mouth.Sometimes, I feel that there is no difference between Gu Li and Tang Wanru in essence. I can sum up two characteristics, that is: do not take the usual path and hang on to the southeast branch.

After hanging up the phone, I looked at the wriggling thing in the blanket, and it felt like I was watching a Japanese horror movie.We saw him for the first time four months ago.At that time, when the young and handsome Gu Zhun appeared in our living room with this little boy in his arms, Gu Li was terrified, and stretched out ten fingers covered with crystal nails, as slender as bone spirits, towards Gu Zhun as if doing a trick. Crashing and trembling: "You you you you you gave birth?"

The corner of Gu Zhun's mouth slanted, and he said, "I don't have that function."

Gu Li: "I think you are a handsome and upright young man, isn't it possible? Are you decadent at a young age?"

Gu Zhun: "..."

Gu Li: "Who gave birth to it?"

Gu Zhun: "Your mother gave birth."

Gu Li: "Which mother am I? Do you know her, or don't you?"

Gu Zhun: "My mother. The one you don't know."

Nan Xiang and I felt headaches from hearing it, as if we were listening to the Fibonacci sequence formula.Seriously, I don't think there's any weirder, absurd dialogue in this world.Except for the peak sentence created by Gu Li before: "Mom, let me introduce you, this is my brother."

Their conversation continues.

Gu Li said: "It's not good to choose a name, but I want to be called Jimmy. Let me tell you first, when he is 16 years old, if you go home one day and see him wearing a purple fringed shawl and high heels If you say he decides to be a makeup artist, don't blame me for not reminding you in advance."

Gu Zhun: "Really, that's what Neil told you when he was 16 years old? He also wore a purple shawl?"

Neil: "It's none of my business if you talk about yourself? You get shot while lying down?"

Nan Xiang stood up weakly, supported his forehead and said, "I want to go out to get some air..." At that time, I was sitting next to her, my mind was in a dead state. The child will not move.

The two siblings are really biological.From the shell to the core, they are all original.

Thinking about getting some air, I quickly looked at Jimmy wrapped in the quilt. Fortunately, he was breathing.I was about to remove the quilt when Gu Yuan came out of the room.He was wearing a dark black cashmere and silk dress. This kind of shiny but matte black fabric made him look like a young European classical aristocrat. His slightly natural curly hair was more Added to his sense of England.He walked into the living room, glanced at me, and didn't speak.

I am not surprised at all.I have calmed down.

All told, he hasn't spoken to me for four months.The way he looks at me now is no different from the way he looked at me four months ago. It is still full of indifference, hatred, trample, ridicule, and indifference, just like looking at a chicken who has stolen a client's wallet.

I think it's very normal, if it's me, if Gu Yuan dumps Gu Li because of another woman, I don't even want to look at Gu Yuan.Therefore, Gu Yuan has been able to live in peace with me under the same roof for the past few months without pouring mouthwash in my breakfast coffee, I am already thankful.

He took out a delicate little bow tie from the wardrobe at the door and tied it up in front of the mirror.His neck was sideways, half of his face was hidden in the shadow of the blind spot of the overhead light.

I know that he is going to prepare a dinner in advance for Gong Ming's birthday party.

I looked at his back, and my thoughts seemed to be blown into a long line by the wind. I went back to the scene of Gu Li’s birthday party four months ago. The champagne shakes out a moving luxury.

At that extravagant and raucous birthday party, my life was completely different—and by different, I mean messed up.

It's just that I look very calm now, and I still go to work and work every day, and chat with everyone in this house at night.If I have to use a metaphor to explain it, it’s like a person’s neck was snapped off by a pair of giant hands, but because of too much force, the head turned 360 degrees and then returned to the front again—— It seems that the expression and appearance of that person are still the same, but in fact, you know, she is completely finished.

My current stability, my current calmness, my current calmness, in fact, means that I am completely finished.

But who would believe it?

Outside the window is the gray winter in Shanghai. The brand-new Bund is bathed in the bleak cold rain. The huge Bund renovation project is still going on without sleep and brightly lit. Many times when I pass by the Bund surrounded by scaffolding, I can see through the green Looking at the holes in the net, I saw workers wrapped in worn-out cotton jackets sleeping on the ground.There is often a layer of what looks like dust and hoarfrost on their beards.When next spring comes, these workers will completely disappear from the Bund, and they will go to another ruin that needs them, and use their flesh and blood to cast a new Great Wall—an invisible and transparent wall to isolate the poor brick wall.When the walls and scaffolding of these buildings are removed, the warm spring breeze will push this most exotic and luxurious landmark in China to an unsurpassable peak height. The square along the river will expand almost exponentially, the traffic flow will drop sharply, and the explosion will increase. The tourists, the Peninsula Hotel and CHANEL's latest flagship store on the Bund are all proclaiming that a new era of the Bund has begun.

And a long time ago, the huge billboard on the Bund that read "Shanghai's Last Dream" has collapsed at this moment.The brand new billboards stand by the river like a drawn sword.The brand-new advertising slogan is haunting under a dozen huge searchlights, even though the unfinished real estate behind it is dark, cold and lifeless.

——Do you want to collect the jealous eyes of others?We are here.

(End of this chapter)