bedtime counseling

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10:30 in the evening.

The supper stall was buzzing with people, and the atmosphere was in full swing.

"The spicy fried crayfish at table 7, send it over quickly."

"Boss! Another half-dozen."

"The waiter took this table away!"

It was midsummer and the weather was very hot.Holding a plate of hot stir-fried vegetables in each hand, Liang Ze shuttled among dozens of tables of guests sweating profusely.

When he walked to table 7 to put down the dishes, he pinched his earlobe with his red-hot fingers, and when he was about to leave, he suddenly heard a shout——

"Hey wait, wait!"

Liang Ze turned around, and was looked up by a sticky look from bottom to top, and finally stayed on his face.

The weather was hot, Liang Ze loved to sweat, and when he was tired from work, he was so busy that he didn't have time to wipe.But his skin is white, the kind of white that is unique to young boys, it is very transparent, and the sweat is like dripping from tofu, which makes people want to try it.His face was steaming, his pores were open, the cuffs of his cotton short sleeves were rolled up to his shoulders, and his whole body exuded a lively and fervent wildness.

"Don't rush away."

The speaker was a rough, half-drunk man.He was about to stare at Liang Ze with a half smile, and tapped the chopsticks on the edge of the plate, "We said when we ordered, free coriander, look what's on it?"

On the big pot of crayfish just out of the pan, there is a handful of chopped coriander sprinkled by the chef.

Liang Ze pursed his lips slightly.

"I'm sorry, the chef in the back kitchen probably forgot, I'll take it back for a change."

The voice is very refreshing, and it sounds apologetic at first, but it is not the case at all when you listen carefully.

"Don't." The outstretched hand was held down by the tip of the man's chopsticks, and the red oil stained the back of his hand, "It will take a lot of time to change it, so let's pick it out for us. Come on, just use mine. Chopsticks."

The person next to him began to laugh maliciously.

Liang Ze's hands tightened slightly, and he looked back into the store. The waiter and the cashier girl were busy with their own work, and no one was looking here.

"I'd better change it for you." He lowered his head.

The man didn't talk nonsense, he took out a ticket from his wallet and slapped it on the table: "You can pick if you want, there are so many people watching, don't mess with me."

Liang Ze glanced at the banknote, it was one hundred.

After two or three seconds of silence, he took the chopsticks and bent down to pick the coriander leaves stuck to the lobster shell.

Because he had been on the job for less than a month, his overalls were worn by others, and the collar was washed loose.The man's gaze was slippery like a loach, and he burrowed in along the drooping neckline, and smacked his lips when he had seen enough.The brother next to him laughed and booed, and took out another two hundred and pressed it under the beer bottle: "Spin one for my buddy, and the money will be yours after drinking it!"

Liang Ze's hair was pitch black and a little long, covering his eyebrows and his eyes.

He shook his head: "I don't know how to drink."

"You don't want to save face, do you?"

"Hey! Obviously too little, add another hundred!"

"Oh, what can I do? I only have sixty in my pocket, why don't you give me a discount? If it doesn't work, just add a friend and let's transfer money!"

Everyone around laughed.The night market facing the street was already noisy, with laughter and shouting and cursing one after another, this small group of voices was not very eye-catching.

Liang Ze pretended not to hear.He folded the previous one hundred in half, put it in the back pocket of his jeans, and turned to leave, but his right buttock was pinched severely by five powerful fingers.Followed by, and intimate laughter.

Liang Ze remained silent for a second, then turned around and picked up the beer bottle with the money on it.

"Leave before you finish talking, it's not enough—"

Bang it!

The sound of glass shattering was sharp and piercing, piercing the surrounding noise in an instant.Everyone stared at Liang Ze dumbfounded. He seemed to be a different person who was docile and easy to bully just now, holding half of the bottle with fierce eyes.

The supper stall exploded with a bang.

Those men all stood up with a clatter, those who copied the stool copied the stool, and those who took the bottle took the bottle.A few tall and brutish ones hit Liang Ze, but he didn't lose the slightest bit. He didn't even hum when the bottle hit his forearm.The boss who had been in the room soon realized that something was wrong, and brought a few people out to pull the two sides apart.

"What's going on, Liang Ze! What are you doing with the guests?"

Liang Ze was breathing heavily, with a blush of anger on his face, he gritted his teeth and spat blood to the side: "He touched me."

In a short period of time, many people gathered around to watch the excitement, and they were a little uproarious when they heard this.

"I'm touching you? What the fuck are you—" The other party couldn't get off the stage, so he raised the beer bottle high, ready to open his head at any time, "I just touch you when I greet you for a drink? A real person who passes food Treat yourself as something, and don't piss to take care of yourself, do you have milk or pussy?!"

Such vulgar words were simply unbearable to the ear, and the onlookers were both amused and ashamed to hear them, covering their mouths and discussing in a rustling manner.The muscles in Liang Ze's whole body were stretched like bowstrings, several people tried their best not to let him do it again.

"It's just you, Jingui, isn't it that a man is afraid of being touched?" The boss turned his back to the group of people, finished this sentence in a low voice, and then raised his voice to yell, "You've caused me trouble just a few days ago! The guests asked you If you don’t drink alcohol, just say no, there’s no need to hit someone! If you break something, you’ll pay for it? Don’t even think about how many steel coins you have in your pocket.”

The last sentence hit Liang Ze's Achilles' heel.

His eyes were red, he endured and endured, and turned his head to the side, but saw a figure in the crowd.

That is……

With just one glance, Liang Ze suddenly froze, and the hostility around him dispersed like a mist.

The troublemaker on the other side thought he had given up, and repeatedly cursed ugly words in his mouth.The boss nodded and bowed, trying to pull him over to apologize and make things better, but Liang Ze kept looking in a certain direction.

One wrong eye, that person is leaving.

Liang Ze hurriedly pushed through the crowd and ran towards him.

"Hey! Hey!" The boss shouted loudly from behind, "Where are you going? Come back!"

The night was dark and silent.

Liang Ze put everything behind him, just stared at the figure in front of him that was about to disappear, and chased desperately.

is it him?

Could it be a mistake.

The time was too short just now, Liang Ze didn't dare to confirm it, but even if there was only one ten-thousandth possibility, he still wanted to catch up and take a look.

The night market extends in all directions. The man in front is tall and has a big stride. He quickly walks into the back alley that connects to the main street.The alley is full of garbage from various back kitchens, large black plastic bags are piled up everywhere, and the light is very weak.

Liang Ze fell down within two runs, he didn't care about the pain or getting dirty, he got up and continued chasing.Seeing that figure was about to melt into the night, he was so anxious that his heart trembled, and he shouted desperately——

"Wu Ke!"

I haven't seen him for six years, and he hasn't called out this name for six years.But not only is he not unfamiliar, but he feels very familiar, because he has shouted in his heart too many times and recollected it so many times that there is no possibility of unfamiliarity.

It's like an abandoned child with only one candy left in his pocket.Whenever he was about to be unable to hold on, he took it out with both hands, put it in his mouth and took a bite carefully, and as soon as the tip of his tongue tasted a little bit of sweetness, he quickly took it out and rewrapped it with paper.

"Wu Ke!" He took an extra sip today.

The figure at the alley stopped.

Liang Ze was out of breath when he ran, but when he finally caught up, he froze in fear, not even daring to step on the shadow on the ground.Standing behind the man, he pulled up the jacket as quickly as possible, stroking his dusty palm back and forth, intending to smooth the clothes, but in the end it became more and more dirty.

He was so anxious that he wanted to cry.

It's Wu Ke, it's Wu Ke.

How could it be like this, the reunion he had dreamed about countless times was in front of him, but he was so embarrassed that he didn't even look like a human being.

"What are you doing?"

He heard Wu Ke's voice, it was a little blurry because his back was facing, it was like a hallucination.But Wu Ke neither looked back nor asked who he was, obviously recognized him long ago.

"You..." Liang Ze lowered his head firmly, staring at the shadow on the ground, "Are you also here for dinner?"

The word "also" is particularly ridiculous.

But Wu Ke didn't laugh, but hummed in a low voice, a little cold.

Liang Ze mustered up the courage to raise his head.

Under the streetlight at the entrance of the alley, Wu Ke was tall and slender.There was no wind tonight, and he stood there without moving. The bluish-white lights mixed with the pitch-black night, illuminating his back indistinctly, as if he would disappear if he didn't pay attention.

Liang Ze didn't even dare to blink his eyes.

"What a coincidence, I ran into you tonight." He wiped the sweat from his palms on the side of his trousers, "Are you all right?"

It was hard work to come to Linjiang, and it was hard to find this job. I worked from [-]:[-] pm to [-]:[-] am every day, just to get closer to this person one day.But he didn't dare to say these words, he was ashamed to say them, so he could only talk about irrelevant things.

Wu Ke's snort sounded a little mocking, but also seemed normal, but Liang Ze was overwhelmed.

"Any thing else."

Liang Ze immediately lowered his head deeply: "No, no, I just came to say hello to you."

Silence spread silently.

Wu Ke put his hands into his trouser pockets, as if he was waiting for something in the past few seconds, before he waited, he walked towards the main road again.

Liang Ze raised his head, his lips parted and moved, a lot of words were stuck in his throat but he couldn't speak them out.He chased two more steps forward, and saw Wu Ke take out the car keys from his pocket, and a Mercedes-Benz on the side of the road flashed its lights twice.

"...Ake."

The hand pulling the door froze.

His yearning face was reflected in the car window, but his expression was somewhat disgusted, and his brows were furrowed.

"What did you call me?"

Being asked such a rhetorical question, Liang Ze became even more timid, and repeated dryly: "A Ke."

Wu Ke turned around and stood in front of the car.

Only now did Liang Ze see him clearly.

Maybe he came here directly after working overtime, so Wu Ke only wore a pair of simple black trousers, a marl gray shirt with half-rolled long sleeves on his upper body.Just like before, the simpler things suit him better.

Liang Ze's heart was hot, and his eyes were moist.

We finally meet again.

With a lot of thoughts in his heart, he wanted to say something more, but someone else's voice came from behind him: "Wu Ke!"

A man in the same shirt and suit passed Liang Ze and strode up to Wu Ke: "After paying the bill, no one will be seen, why didn't you wait for me?" Turning around, he saw Liang Ze and asked, "This is...?" He seemed to want to smile at Liang Ze, but when he looked closely, he was surprised by Liang Ze's tattered appearance, showing an expression between embarrassment and astonishment.

Liang Ze never felt ashamed of himself, but at this moment he felt ashamed, probably because he was Wu Ke's friend.The surprise of reunion, the bitterness of being treated coldly, the uncontrollable helplessness, all of these mixed together, made his back arched unconsciously, trembling slightly in the night, and looked even more embarrassed.

Wu Ke left the beginning, as if he didn't want to look at him again: "High school classmates."

The person next to him gasped, although he didn't say what was in his heart, but Liang Ze heard it.How could they be classmates?People from two worlds.After a while, the man squeezed out a polite smile: "What's your name?"

Liang Ze moved his lips, and before he had time to introduce himself, Wu Ke had already answered: "Forgot."

forget.

He even forgot his name.

Right.

In six years, everything has faded, and it is normal to forget.Liang Ze thought about this in his heart and comforted him, but his expression was a little tense.He clenched his palms tightly with ten fingers, poking himself painfully.

The man looked at him and then at Liang Ze, with a very astonished expression.

Time seemed to have passed for a long time, so long that Liang Ze almost thought it was frozen before Wu Ke turned around and got into the car.

When the car started, a gust of hot air rushed to Liang Ze's body, as if it could push him down.Wu Ke honked the horn, and as if waking up from a dream, he hurriedly took a step back to make way.

Mercedes-Benz drove away.

When walking back, Liang Ze dragged his feet.

Not only the heart, but all the pain in the body returned.The knee that was hit when he fell was swollen, and the arm that was accidentally punctured during the fight was still bleeding.He lowered his head and lifted the hem of his clothes to wipe his face, but he could see the black and white finger prints on it, but he stopped slowly and squatted down on the spot.

Too far.

The night market and the street behind him, he and Wu Ke.

Too far……