A romance novel written only for you

Chapter 43

My third novel became popular as my friends expected, and it quietly made it to the book rankings of major bookstores across the country in this spring that just started.A friend called me, hoping that I would go back to Beijing to sign books.After putting down the phone, I took a deep breath, stood up from the chair, and looked out the window at the bright sunshine in Yunnan. I decided to return to Beijing one day after two years.I told Zhou Yi the news, and he happily said on the phone that he would personally pick me up at the airport.More than two years have passed in a blink of an eye. When I saw Zhou Yi who came to pick me up at the Beijing airport, I felt that time had not left any traces on his face, and he was still young.The difference is that the current Zhou Yi has long stopped working for others, and he no longer lives in the dimly lit two-bedroom apartment in Shijingshan. Residential.He succeeded as he expected, and has his own software company in Zhongguancun.

Zhou Yi wanted to take me to visit his company, but I was not interested, so he took me home.When I came to his newly bought big house, I saw a young girl who was Zhou Yi's nanny.I asked him why he bought such a big house by himself. He said that he originally wanted to take over his parents from far away in Hubei, but the old couple had gotten used to the life there and couldn't live or die.He had to live here alone with a nanny.I thought the nanny was okay, so I secretly asked Zhou Yi if he had any thoughts about the nanny.Zhou Yi said seriously, he had no idea at all.I stayed in Zhouyi's house, and after a few days, I found that Zhouyi was still the same as Zhouyi two years ago, except that he used to enter the house after eating, but now he went upstairs after eating.After he assigned me a key, he ignored me and plunged into the busy affairs of his company, so I had to move freely.With a few days until the signing, I decided to meet for a beer.Beer is my best friend in college, but because I haven't been in Beijing for the past two years, I haven't kept in touch.I don't know what happened to him and Squirrel, but when Beer found out that I was in Beijing on the phone, he excitedly said that he would see me right away.

When I see beer in a high-end restaurant, I am a little afraid to recognize it.Two years ago, his weight was about the same as mine, about 130 catties, but now his figure must be at least 190 catties according to my visual estimation.After we hugged, I first asked him how much he weighed now. He squinted his eyes that looked small because of his fat and said with a smile, [-].Two years later, the beer was as developed as his figure.He is no longer in Shunyi, but works as the general agent of a pharmaceutical factory in the east and west districts of Beijing. He used to carry a bus IC card and was reluctant to take the subway, but now he has driven an Audi.The two of us sat down in the private room, and the beer said to the waiter, first serve me a case of beer.As soon as I heard his words, I quickly stopped.I told him I had been sober for two years.This news is simply explosive for beer.He couldn't believe it.His mind still has the scene of me drinking with him until dawn at class reunions in college.He had a hard time accepting the fact that I had stopped drinking anything.He asked me what the hell happened and why I didn't even drink alcohol.He will never understand, if a person lives without drinking beer, then what is the meaning of his life.I had no choice but to tell him that I really quit.I don't want to say the reason.Beer heard my insistence, he obviously didn't know what to do, his fat body sat there with a thoughtful expression on his face.He might be thinking, what can we do without drinking?I hurriedly asked the waiter to bring over the menu and serve another pot of tea.

I said to the beer that I don't drink it, but he can drink it.But he didn't want to drink alone, he smiled and said he was afraid of being slandered by me.We two big men sat in the private room, each holding a small teacup, sipping tea and chatting before the dishes were served.I asked Beer how he and the squirrel were doing.He smiled and said that they had broken up long ago.I didn't expect this to happen.In order to be with Beer, Squirrel resolutely and unilaterally ended her five-year relationship with Zhou Yi, and quickly started living together with Beer.How to say break up and break up?The beer drank down a cup of hot tea, and then told me that there was no particular reason.It's just that the two of them lived together for a long time before they realized that they were not suitable.The quietness of the squirrel and the impetuousness of the beer did not complement each other, and they both wanted to change each other.Especially Squirrel, she hoped that Beer would be more understanding, but Beer didn't even bother to understand his own heart, so how could he have the patience to understand Squirrel's heart.When Squirrel found that she couldn't change the beer, and she couldn't really accept such beer, she broke up with the beer.Beer also discovered the barriers between the two parties in their cohabitation life.He felt that the squirrel was not as perfect as he thought, so he broke up with the squirrel calmly.I asked Beer when this happened, and Beer said they had broken up for almost a year, and now he and Squirrel had lost contact.

Since I'm sober, the meal came quickly.Beer felt that he didn't treat me well, so he insisted on taking me to the sauna at night, but I wasn't interested in that either. My friend Beer didn't know how to get along with me when I didn't drink or get close to women.I had no choice but to hug him tightly again, hugging his fat body, I think our friendship is still there, but we don't need to do everything together like we did when we were young.Now that we have grown up, everyone has to face their own lives alone.At the entrance of the hotel, I waved goodbye to the beer, and a trace of sadness flashed in my heart. I don't know when we can get together again.

Sitting on the subway back to Zhou Yi's house, I suddenly wanted to go to the National People's Congress.I know that Mengyang has graduated, but I still want to go.I got off the bus at Junbo, walked from the subway to the ground, and took a special 6 for two yuan to sit directly at the gate of the National People's Congress.I stood at the gate of the National People's Congress and took a look at the security guard who stood guard. He was no longer the security guard who took pictures with me when Squirrel and I came to the National People's Congress with a donkey's head for publicity more than two years ago.I walked into the National People’s Congress, and first came to the sports field with barbed wire where I first met Mengyang. On this spring afternoon, I stood beside the runway where I was waiting for Mengyang to run over. I saw countless beautiful sunshine Brilliant girls, they ran past me one after another, but none of them were Mengyang.I went to the small theater back then and saw another group of college students rehearsing on the stage with lights on. I just don't know who is ruffian Cai and who is Qingwu Feiyang.I sat silently in the theater for a long time without anyone noticing me.I was thinking, if I hadn't been smoking in the theater, maybe Mengyang wouldn't have spoken to me first.I went to the cafeteria where I always ate with Mengyang back then, and had a dinner alone there, and walked out after dark. I would never get lost again, and Mengyang would never see me off again.Before walking to the door, I passed the grove where I could only speak foreign languages.I stood outside the woods, looked at the crowded dark figures inside, walked in again without thinking much.I walked to the middle of the woods, and the people standing around me were talking lively in a language I couldn't understand. I stood there smoking a cigarette, and when someone came to strike up a conversation, I held up the cigarette to him as a sign I'll tell him when I'm done smoking.Lots of people approached, but only one guy stood there waiting for me after I raised a cigarette to him.He should be a freshman, and he doesn't speak English very well. Communicating with him in English is like playing chess with a bad chess basket. So he pinned his last hope on me.He stood in front of me and waited patiently for me, I was very touched.After I finished smoking, I patted him on the shoulder and said sincerely, buddy, I can only speak Chinese with you, if you don’t mind, let’s talk for a while.Hearing what I said, he suddenly clenched his hands into fists, bent his knees slightly, and let out a painful regret in his throat for waiting for me to moan for so long.I didn't know how to comfort him, so I had to leave.

(End of this chapter)