Vampire Manual

After that, Liu Ting went to find Pata twice. I don’t know if it was a coincidence or something else. Anyway, every time Pata said, “Oh, it’s a pity, I’m too busy to leave.” Liu Ting couldn’t figure it out. How could he have so many important tasks that he couldn't get away from, but there was no way, he didn't even know which corner of the city the other party lived in, so he couldn't just fly over and kidnap him.

Besides, Liu Ting is not an idler with nothing to do.

Every afternoon when he gets up in the afternoon, he and Qi Qi will have two or three hours of communication time. In most cases, the two of them watch TV together and eat "breakfast". Buried in his own "computer room" - of course, occasionally clubbing.The so-called computer room is actually a work room consisting of N computers and wires all over the floor. It is located in the northwest corner of Liu Ting's big house. It's gone.This is what Qi Qi finds miraculous - staying at home, making money every day, Boss Liu seems to be born to do business.

Qi Qi couldn’t understand the various curves and trend charts that filled the screen. He only knew that no matter whether it was futures, stocks, gold or foreign exchange, Liu Ting, who could do it anyway, would do it anyway. Bowl full.

So when it came to asking Pata out to play, Liu Ting did it occasionally.If you think about it, make a phone call, and if you don't think about it, the days will pass by like that.

Until the last weekend of August.

At nine o'clock in the morning, a heavy rain suddenly fell, which woke Liu Ting and Qi Qi from their sleep. The two rolled on the bed for a long time, and finally decided to surrender to God.

"What would you like to eat?" Liu Ting rummaged through the refrigerator and saw that Qi Qi also came out yawning, so she asked him.

"No," Qi Qi shook his head, lack of sleep made him lose his appetite, "just have a drink."

Liu Ting frowned, disapproving: "Drinking blood early in the morning is not good for your health."

Qi Qi came over and kicked his ass: "Can you say something nutritious?"

Liu Ting sighed, took the blood bag out of the refrigerator, and thoughtfully inserted the straw before handing it to Qi Qi: "Hey, me, I'm such a nice person, sometimes I want to bow to myself when I look in the mirror .”

Qi Qi smiled, don't say it, only Liu Ting can do this.

The rain was still falling hard, and the sound of crackling came in from the screen window, even covering the TV.The local TV station rebroadcasted "The Private Interview of Kangxi's Weifu", and it happened that the microfu was replaced by a dragon robe, and corrupt officials with weak legs were kneeling all over the ground.Qi Qi and Liu Ting were indifferent, one was drinking drinks on the sofa, and the other was eating bread at the dining table.

The world seemed to suddenly become quiet.

"Hey, how about I call that guy again?" Liu Ting said suddenly after eating the last bite of bread.

Qi Qi threw the empty blood bag into the trash can, and glanced over lightly: "Haven't you been brewing for a long time?"

"Damn!" Embarrassment appeared on Liu Ting's face, and he turned around to get his mobile phone in the house. When he returned to the living room, he dialed the number in front of Qi Qi and said viciously, "I will call this one last time, and I won't come out again." Friends have nothing to do!"

Qi Qi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and wanted to say that you were just idle.

It really doesn't matter to Qi Qi whether he becomes friends with Pata or not.

The phone was dialed quickly, and Liu Ting walked over to close the window while listening to the ring tone—the rain was so loud that he could barely hear the voice on the phone.

On the third ring, the phone was picked up, and then a quiet man's voice came over: "Hello?"

Liu Ting was taken aback for a moment. He said "HI" the first two times. Obviously, this time it was changed: "Isn't this Pata's phone?"

The other end gave an affirmative answer: "He is sleeping, you can choose to call back in two hours, or I will wake him up now."

Liu Ting didn't hesitate at all: "I choose B."

After 3 minutes, the master came.

"Liu?" Pata always likes to call him for short.

"What do you sleep in during the daytime?" Liu Ting educated with confidence, without the slightest bit of guilt.

Pata's reaction was very slow, apparently still half asleep and half awake: "It's raining... sleep comfortably..."

"My house is more comfortable." Liu Ting also yawned again in the infection, before continuing, "I sincerely invite you to my house as a guest, for the last time, there are no shops in the village."

I don't think Pata's answer should be straightforward: "Oh, yes, give me your home address..."

After hanging up the phone, Liu Ting was still a little dizzy, and it was useless to prepare a bellyful of rhetoric. It was the same feeling as wanting to sneeze for a long time and not being able to type it out - entangled.

"Agreed?" Qi Qi asked.

"Well," Liu Ting scratched his head in a daze, "he seems to live in a dormitory, and someone answered the phone at first."

Qi Qi hugged the cotton pillow and arched on the sofa: "International student?"

"Maybe." Liu Ting looked at him for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking, "Do you dare to tell me what you are twisting?"

Qi Qi maintained the posture of raising his buttocks, and looked up at him: "A one-dollar coin fell into the crack of the sofa."

……

Until Pata rang the doorbell, Qi Qi's hard-earned money was still nowhere to be seen.

Liu Ting complained while opening the door, "Please come out of the mountain three times, you Zhuge Liang", but when he saw the guests, he was stunned.Pata was wet from head to toe as if she had just emerged from the water. Just standing in the porch for a while, a small puddle appeared on the ground.

"My grandpa, you came here by swimming." Liu Ting hurried to the bathroom to get a towel. He wanted to pass it to Pata, but after a pause, he decided to be a good man to the end.

Pata was also obedient, so he stood obediently and asked Liu Ting to wipe his hair with a towel: "Liu, the weather you chose is really bad, and your neighborhood is also bad. Why don't you let taxis in? I asked the guard for a long time before doing it." Find out where your home is."

"I said you can call me." Liu Ting frowned.

Pata took out the same wet mobile phone and said pitifully, "Water broke."

The corner of Liu Ting's mouth twitched: "I was wrong. I shouldn't have let you come out alone in the rain. I'm sorry for the people and the party."

Pata was happy, and then proudly announced: "I told Mint that I have a friend, and he is jealous. I am very happy."

Liu Ting suddenly realized, turned around and said to Qi Qi: "It turns out that his object's nickname is not God, but Peppermint."

Qi Qi didn't bother to pay attention to him, got up and went to Liu Ting's room to find out a set of clean clothes, and brought them to Pata to change into.

The first thing Pata did after changing his clothes was to feel along the walls of Liu Ting's house, but the process seemed to be longer than he expected.After knocking down two stools and knocking my legs five times, I finally finished touching the whole circle.

"Liu, even if you live with Qi, such a house is too big." Pata expressed his impressions, "It's empty, it's not good."

Liu Ting frowned and asked Qi Qi: "You think so too?"

Qi Qi said sincerely: "I never thought about it, I just stayed there, and I always have a grateful heart."

……

Strange to say, not long after Pata came, the heavy rain turned into moderate rain, the rhythm was not so urgent, the sound was not so loud, and there was really a sense of tranquility.

It's definitely not possible to play poker with Pata, and it's even more inappropriate for the three of them to stare at each other. After thinking about it, Liu Ting thought of mahjong.I thought it would take a while for Pata to get familiar with the rules and get used to the feel. After all, even if mahjong tiles can be touched, not everyone can touch them accurately. How can I imagine that Pata will have a meeting earlier, and the hand feels amazing and the hand style is even better. After a few laps, Liu Ting posted a note on his face. Later, he lost and had no place to post it, so he used shoelaces to tie a wine bottle around his neck.Although Qi Qi was not spared, but after all, it belongs to fifty steps, so he naturally laughed at one hundred steps to his heart's content.

Liu Ting began to doubt the credibility of Pata's "invisibility"—it didn't make sense that a guy who played cards by hand and memory could win like this.

So he took advantage of the opponent's number of cards and put his hand in front of his eyes and shook it vigorously.

"Hello." Qi Qi stopped in a low voice, feeling that this was very unkind.

Liu Ting withdrew his hand resentfully, and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "I really can't see it."

Qi Qi rolled his eyes, implying - nonsense.

As a result, I heard Pata say over there: "But I can feel the wind, and you are blowing my nose."

Liu Ting opened his mouth halfway, and two pieces of paper fell to the ground.

Qi Qi thumped the table hard, out of breath with joy.

The three of them had a great time that afternoon, even though one of them was missing, they were extremely HAPPY.Pata is a very miraculous person, this is Qi Qi and Liu Ting's unanimous opinion, working with that guy, no matter how boring things are, can produce unexpected flowers of happiness.

Pata obviously liked them both too, so she was quite reluctant to leave at night.

"I will be back!" Pata was giving Liu Ting a bear hug when she said this.

"It's okay, I'm reserved and introverted, and the Orientals can't adapt to this." Liu Ting pulled him away with great difficulty, "Speaking of which, can you go back alone, I will see you off."

"No, no," Pata insisted, "If I can come, I can go back."

"Well, be careful on the road, and call us when you get home."

"OK." Pata blew a kiss in response.

After the people left, Liu Ting lay on the balcony and looked at the entrance of the community for nearly half an hour, but he didn't see Pata or anyone who looked like Pata leaving, so he couldn't help feeling a little worried.Qi Qi felt that he had missed it, but Pata's safe phone call an hour later proved that he was right.

"Yeah, just arrive safely." Liu Ting hung up the phone, and repeated what he said to Qi Qi a while ago, "This guy is really interesting."

Qi Qi smiled, didn't make a fuss, just thought in her heart, what a beautiful day.

By then the rain had stopped, the night was bright, and the air was filled with the fragrance of earth.

If there is one, there will be two, and if there is two, there will be three. Gradually, the number of visits by Pata increased.The entertainment activities of the three have also expanded from mahjong to watching TV, listening to the radio, guessing riddles, and cooking skills. Pata is best at a chicken pie that is between pies and pizza, and Qi Qi is best at candied sweet potatoes. Liu Ting is best at scrambled eggs, but since no matter how good this dish is, he really can't make it out, so Liu Ting only eats it as time goes by.

In fact, for Qi Qi and Liu Ting, eating is purely useless, how to get in and how to get out, it is a bit disgusting to say, but it is also true.But they both like the feeling of eating, the ups and downs slowly spread on the taste buds, and they always feel that life at that moment is extremely real.

Pata naturally doesn't know this. From Qi Qi and Liu Ting's point of view, the other party is a full-fledged "optimist", who has something to eat, drink, and play. The world is perfect.

Although gradually becoming acquaintances, even friends, Liu Ting and Qi Qi still don't know the details of Pata, except that the other party accidentally mentioned that he is of mixed American and Mexican descent, nothing else.In fact, they didn't ask specifically, because the irrelevant background information was really meaningless to them.Even if they know about Pata's background, social relations, relatives and friends, or even the school or workplace where they study, they can't come to him, so sometimes Liu Ting jokes with Qi Qi, saying that Pata is a closed friend.At first Qi Qi didn't understand it, but later she realized it - close the door, in this home, they are laughing and playing, and are intimate; open the door, in society, they have no intersection, almost strangers.

This is a very strange state, inside and outside the door, there are two worlds.But neither Qi Qi nor Liu Ting thought about changing it.Closed, on the other hand, means security—they don't want to take the risk of losing.

And most importantly, Pata doesn't seem to hate this either.Because he didn't ask Qi Qi and Liu Ting's details, background, or other things. Every time he came to play, except for talking about his Miss Mint, he would just follow Liu Ting's gossip and talk here and there. Just be happy.

In this way, at the end of September, Liu Ting ushered in the No.40 seven years of his life.In the past years, he would go to the bar alone to get drunk on his birthday, and he might cry a lot when he got drunk, but this year there are more Qi Qi and Pata, and he vowed to have a non-sentimental one.

Qi Qi and Pata fulfilled his wish.The former prepared a giant ice cream cake half the size of the table, while the latter bought a table of French dishes from somewhere. From appetizers to main meals to desserts, the other half of the table was covered all at once.Wine is of course indispensable and very important, so Liu Ting prepared it himself, all top-quality red wine, but after drinking, the three of them talked and sang, such as Northeast Erren Zhuan Jiangnan Ping playing Mexican folk songs in turn, red wine is the same as beer , One cup after another is dry.

Then the dizzy people talked more.

Liu Ting was so drunk that he patted Pata on the shoulder like an old senior, his tongue was too big, but his feelings were sincere: "Brother, although you can't see with your eyes, you still have to live without a shadow, think about it." Haitian children, think about the Iraqi people, who is not in dire straits than you, so this person must know how to cherish blessings."

Pata pursed her lips slightly, a little dazed and confused: "I know, I thank God in my prayers every day, thank him for creating me, I am very happy."

"Surnamed Liu, if you tell Pata this, you're playing tricks." Qi Qi complained very shamelessly.But at the same time, his heart is very delicate.I and Liu Ting have to work very hard every day to see other people's miserable world in order to get some relief from the dry heart, but Pata doesn't need it at all. Qi Qi doesn't know whether it is the cultural generation gap between the East and the West or the individual differences between people. , In short, Pata's sense of happiness is enviable.

Liu Ting ignored Qi Qi, drank another glass of wine by himself, and suddenly began to recount the past.

"As for me, I grew up in a honey pot. There are six sisters in my family, and I am the youngest. That is the treatment Jia Baoyu receives. My old man spoils me so much that I have no edge..."

Qi Qi has never heard Liu Ting talk about family affairs, and of course he has never told each other about it himself. The two of them live together, seemingly very close, but in fact they are far away.But things like home or the past are really meaningless to them, and he hasn't even thought about those things for a long time, but now hearing Liu Ting mentioning home and family, Qi Qi suddenly felt his heart warm up.He squinted his eyes and tried to see the other person's expression clearly, but he was dizzy and could only see the outline.

Liu Ting is still talking.

"When I was in junior high school, I beat up everyone in my class. The teacher asked the parents, but when my old man went to school, he scolded the teacher, saying that the child didn't know how to be responsible. What happened? The whole thing is that the school didn't take good care of the teacher and didn't control it strictly, and didn't anger the old woman to death. Later, the old man asked me for credit when he came home. He insisted that I kiss his old face. Pooh, is it disgusting..."

Pata staggered from drinking, rubbing his nose and chin with a piece of cake before putting it into his mouth for a long time: "Then what is your father doing now? Is he still in your hometown?"

Liu Ting frowned inexplicably, and muttered vaguely: "Hometown? My hometown is here."

Pata tilted her head, and asked again curiously and persistently: "What about your father?"

Qi Qi lay down on the table, drowsy.

Liu Ting flew a drunken fist straight at Pata's forehead: "Damn! Where else can I be? I've already played chess with God!"

Pata was stunned, and it took a long time to understand Liu Ting's meaning, and quickly apologized: "SORRY."

Liu Ting persisted: "Speak Chinese."

Pata readily accepted: "I'm sorry."

Liu Ting felt very unfulfilled, and reached out to grab Qi Qi's head that was stuck on the table, and asked, "Why do you think this guy is so obedient?"

Qi Qi was so sleepy that he didn't want to open his eyes: "Is this something you should ask me..."

Liu Ting persevered and asked Pata again: "Hey, you don't have the slightest temper?"

Pata stuffed another piece of cake into his mouth, his cheeks were bulging: "Why? I can't think of a reason to lose my temper with you."

"I've convinced you," Liu Ting poured himself another glass of wine tremblingly, then went to help Pata fill it up, and then put the glass into the other party's hand, "Come on, let's drink for your good temper."

"Okay!" Pata drank it without any pretense.

Qi Qi struggled to open his eyelids, but only saw two phantoms, and finally closed them quickly, muttering: "Two wine barrels..."

I don't know how long Liu Ting and Pata drank, anyway, Qi Qi fell asleep soon.During the period, he also had a dream, dreaming that Li Shuang remembered him, and the two returned to the previous days. Later, he was admitted to the police academy and accompanied Brother Shuang to catch thieves. In short, the dream was extraordinary and magical, but pleasant Incredibly.So when he was woken up by Liu Ting, he really wanted to bite the opponent's neck.

"Why..." The alcohol was still haunting his body, Qi Qi saw three Liu Tings.

"Pata...Pata..." Liu Ting couldn't speak clearly, so he kept trying to pull Qi Qi up from the stool.

Qi Qi staggered and followed him forward, inexplicable: "What's wrong with Pata?"

"Urgent urination," Liu Ting waved at every step, "I'm going to the bathroom."

"Damn!" Qi Qi took it, "Then you want to take me to visit?"

Liu Ting hiccupped and shook his head vigorously: "Then he turned into a bat..."