14 years time difference

"Hello? High-quality audio and video."

Lin Zhique answered the landline at the cashier.

"Hello?" There was a girl with a bright voice, "Hi, may I ask... is Director Li here? I'm his sister."

Li Miaomiao was on the other end of the phone.

"Oh, wait a moment." Lin Zhique held down the phone, and called out to the door of the shop: "Director Li, your sister's phone number."

Director Li snuffed out the butt of the cigarette he was smoking, and walked in to take the microphone.

He said in local words: what?Um.oh.fuck off.Get a hammer.I don't do it.Hello?Damn, hang up on me again.

He put down the phone and scratched his already messy hair vigorously.In the past week, his stubble has grown back, and his eye sockets are sunken, like an old smoker.He said to Lin Zhique, "I'll go out for a while."

More than half an hour later, he brought back a second-hand TV set and placed it in the center of the counter facing the store entrance, in the most conspicuous position.After cursing and fiddling for a while, he turned on the TV and tuned to the subsidiary channel of the provincial TV station.

The noon news was on TV.

Director Li scolded inexplicably: "It's really idle." Then he turned to go out, "I'm going to buy food, what should I eat?" Before she could answer, he replied himself: "It's not spicy, I understand."

The girl named Lu Shan came again and was rubbing shoulders with him. He turned to look at her, as if about to say something, closed his mouth again, and left silently.

Lu Shan looked at the TV, then at Lin Zhique, with the same indifferent face.She didn't wear smoky makeup or studded boots today, like a female warrior disarmed.She said to Lin Zhique: "I saw you in Luxi yesterday." Lin Zhique replied: "I saw you too."

Lu Shan asked: "Why put a TV here? It's so loud, it affects people's listening to music."

Lin Zhique shrugged, expressing the same puzzlement.

The noon news is over, followed by a few commercials, melatonin, yoghurt, and downloading the latest ringtones will be posted on Love Music.com.

Then, the big logo of "Loving Girls" flashed on the screen. With the pink background and Lin Zhique's familiar soundtrack, the young hostess stood under the sun and said, "Welcome to "Love Girls" Guangzhou concert." The district audition scene. Starting today, every Monday to Friday at noon, I will bring you a wonderful live broadcast of the audition site."

The camera cuts to Li Miaomiao being interviewed: "We are looking for the most sincere voice and the most genuine love for the stage for the program "Love Girls"..." There are small words floating on the screen: Program Sponsor and Co-Sponsor Miss Li, the person in charge.

Afterwards, the show began to broadcast all kinds of strange-looking contestants, those who faked guitar, those who danced pole dancers, those who couldn't find their tune, those who suddenly dropped their waists while singing... Lu Shan leaned against the cashier, watching The comment said: "It attracts people's attention."

Lin Zhique held his chin: "What's wrong? Everyone should have a chance to dream."

Lu Shan disdained, "The singing is too ugly."

"There are also some who sing well."

A girl with short hair came into the camera.Lin Zhique's eyes lit up.

The girl had a pair of gentle phoenix eyes, her face was handsome, but her eyes were soft and charming, so beautiful that she was between the sexes.Holding a guitar, she bowed and said, hello judges and teachers, my name is Chen Jia, and I am from Nancheng, Guangdong.Then she began to play and sing a Cantonese song, she sang: Autumn should be good, if you are still here.Her voice is gentle, not sweet, but flexible and supple, and she sings like a storyteller.

Lu Shan commented: "It's kind of interesting." She turned her head and saw Lin Zhique's engrossed attention, "What are you doing? Are you a nympho?"

Lin Zhique replied: "No?"

This is the idol of her girlhood, and the only star she has ever chased after in her life, although it was more or less to fight against Du Zhian, who supported Du Siren with great fanfare...

After Chen Jia sang half of the song, she was unanimously approved by the three judges and advanced to the next round of competition, becoming the first contestant in the country to be promoted in the audition.She acted calmly, just smiled and bowed to say thank you, and then left the room.Then it was broadcast to the next contestant, an ethnic minority sister who sang folk songs, with dark skin, big arms and round waist, singing loudly.

Director Li walked into the store and put the white plastic bag in his hand on the cashier counter, which contained three lunch boxes.He asked Lu Shan, "Have you eaten yet?" Lu Shan answered no, and took a portion away politely.Director Li set up a folding table outside the store and moved two plastic chairs.

Lin Zhique was sitting alone at the cash register eating lunch. She heard a few words from outside the store, and Director Li and Lu Shan were sitting under the window selling milk tea.

Director Li asked, "When are you leaving?"

Lu Shan replied, "This Friday."

"That's all?"

"What else?"

"What about him? He didn't say anything?"

"Hmm." Lu Shan said vaguely, "Maybe he's dead."

Director Li was silent for a while, and then said: "I apologize to you on his behalf. He is also for the future."

There was a snap.It sounded like chopsticks being thrown.

"Why do you apologize for him? Don't play your disgusting brotherhood in front of me."

Then no one spoke anymore.Lin Zhique picked the peppers in the dish to form a small hillside.She looked silently at the drink window not far above her head, outlining a flat sky, but the sky was shapeless, far more than what was seen in the window.Chen Jia's post-match interview was broadcast on TV. She stood under the sun, her eyes narrowed even more from the sun.People ask: How do you feel?She replied, it's okay.People asked again: How does it feel to be the first in the country to advance?She replied, very happy.The host said, this contestant really cherishes words like gold.She said, ah.

At the end of the show, the competition schedule scrolled across the screen, and the Jincheng Singing District would start auditioning in half a month. If history did not change, Dusi people would also participate.Then, the rut of time hits nowhere, heading towards 2011.Lin Zhique remembers the winter of that year, that early morning, when Jincheng was foggy, and she looked around a thick white, she followed the team step by step, and could only see the backs of the two people in front of her. It was Du Zhian's wailing.She didn't shed tears. At that time, the Dusi people were a distant stranger to her. She always felt that she was right. In the past 2 years, she had only seen a few so-called relatives. She should not be kidnapped by blood. Nor does she have to grieve.

She knew very little about what happened back then, only that it was an accidental fall at work.That year, she was a sophomore in university, taking two degree courses, and just applied for an exchange abroad, so she was so busy every day that she seldom used the Internet.Du Shen informed her to come to Jincheng to express her condolences. On the day of seeing off, she rushed back to East China and took the morning flight the next day to England.She devoted herself wholeheartedly to her own life, holding her breath and wanting to cut off from the Du family as soon as possible, so she didn't even know any details of the accident, or even the specific time and place.

It started to rain outside, at first it was pattering, and then it gradually increased, pattering on the ground, the school bell rang from the teaching building in the distance, and there was almost no pedestrian on the street.There had been no customers in the store for a long time, and Director Li was missing. "The Sky of Heaven" was playing on TV. Lu Shan moved a chair and sat by the cash register, propping her head with her arms. The two of them watched TV together silently, tacit understanding Treat each other as air.Lu Shan seemed to be absent-minded, and took out her mobile phone to send text messages from time to time. She pressed more and more urgently and harder, and finally seemed to be arguing with the other party. , and always waited impetuously for the other party to reply, so flipped the phone up and down...

Lin Zhique said blankly, "You're so noisy."

Lu Shan seemed to want to stare at her, but she just glanced at her resentfully.

Lin Zhique asked, "Are you leaving on Friday?"

"Ah."

"Where to go?"

"I don't know. Go where no one knows me."

Lin Zhique stood up.

"Help me look at the store."

"Oh." Lu Shan agreed flatly.

She walked out of the store, walked quickly in the rain for 20 meters to the small store on the street, turned back within a few minutes, and put two cans of beer soaked in cold water droplets on the cash register.

"Practice for you."

She sat down and opened the can.

Lu Shan rarely had a smile on her face, "Are you sure it's for me, not for you?"

"I'm not an alcoholic."

"Didn't you? Didn't you drink a lot last night?"

"You know again?"

"I know, I heard you yelling at Dusi people." Lu Shan seemed to think of something, and burst into laughter, "Hey, do you still remember what you yelled?"

Lin Zhique thought to himself that something is wrong.

"what?"

Lu Shan laughed, "You are pulling her collar," she imitated vividly, "'You little yellow-haired girl, you still want me to call you aunt, it's a good idea'!"

Lin Zhique was ashamed, she didn't remember this at all.

Lu Shan smiled maliciously and said, "Do people from Dusi ask you to call her aunt? What is the relationship between you two, and why do you have such a habit?"

Lin Zhique glared at Lu Shan: "Do you want to drink?"

She stretched out her hand pretending to grab another can of beer, Lu Shan quickly reached out to protect it, and begged for mercy while smiling: "I will drink it." Then she also opened the can, touched hers lightly, and said to her in a low voice: "Thanks."

She just smiled and didn't answer, the two of them drank wine and watched TV in silence again, the rain continued to fall.Lu Shan's cell phone didn't vibrate anymore, and when the can of beer bottomed out, an incoming call rang suddenly.Lin Zhique glanced at it, then continued to look at Lan Feilin on the screen indifferently.Lu Shan didn't shy away, and answered the phone in front of her.

She heard her say in a blunt tone: Let's meet.tonight?Tomorrow night?Which day are you free?Well, what have you been doing these days?

A pair of young men and women hugging each other walked into the shop.Lin Zhique recalled the lyrics he had translated in Du Siren's script in the morning:

And when two lovers woo

A couple fall in love

They still say, "I love you"

They'll say, "I love you"

On that you can really

You see, it's always like this

No matter what the future brings

Let things change

Astime goes by

time flies