Journey to the Stars

"No one should have told you that this cocktail is called 'After the Cocktail' and it's called a Margarita. The Margarita is the winner of the competition by bartender Jean Durasa. He met his lover in Mexico. Margarita (Margarita), once Margarita was hit by a stray bullet while hunting in the wild, and finally fell to the arms of JeanDurasa and died. So, JeanDurasa made this sweet and sour cocktail. The base wine is the national drink of Mexico Tequila is used to represent lovers, the sour taste of lemon juice represents the sourness in the heart, and a layer of salt cream on the glass represents the tears of nostalgia."

"I didn't expect such a poignant story behind a cocktail."

"About our story, do you really want to know?"

"If you don't want to, I won't force it. After all, this is someone else's privacy."

"It's okay to tell you. Anyway, I haven't mentioned it to outsiders much over the years. Some things have been accumulated in my heart for a long time, and it is really exhausting over time."

In Tang Lei's life, there is a person who can never let go.

She was four years older than him, and she remembered that she had sung in a bar before he was an adult.He often ran to watch her practice singing, and every time he sat on the right side of the first row of the stage.He longed to be her guitarist and to sing the songs she wrote.The young love is so ignorant and pure. In those years, he had nothing but music and enthusiasm.But as long as she holds his calloused hand from hard training, no matter how difficult the time is, she will feel at ease.

The good times didn't last long. Tang Lei's parents were well-known figures in the government department and lived in a moderately prosperous life. The mother didn't want her son to suffer in the future, so she repeatedly forced the two to break up by threatening death.After procrastinating for a few years, she proposed to leave first, and hastily married far away. A wealthy businessman who had a failed marriage never sang again.Later, I sorted out the items she left behind, and saw this "Time Retrograde" in a pile of scores, which was composed a week before they broke up.

A few years later, news came that she had been robbed and killed outside.For a moment, Tang Lei felt that he had lost all the meaning of life, and quit his job with a monthly salary of over [-] in frustration.At that time, the bar happened to be looking for someone to change hands, and after several turnarounds, it was handed down, and the layout was completely modeled on the bar where she sang in the past.Because she said that the best-looking appearance of him in her memory was when she was quietly playing the guitar, and running a bar together until she was old was the happiest future she could imagine for each other...

"This is the story of me and her, one of the ordinary stories among secular couples that can't be asked for." Tang Lei drank Margaret in one gulp, leaned over a little, and said to Xingyi:

"If one day you meet the most important person in your life, don't let it go!"

In the second half, the woman changed into a long skirt with slanted shoulders, sat gracefully on a stool and chanted softly.When it was the last song, she withdrew the rest of the band, only to see Xingyi walking onto the stage holding an acoustic guitar and playing the prelude to "Retrograde Time".This is what Xingyi asked the girl to sing on his own initiative, but unexpectedly, the girl agreed without saying a word.Because she really likes this song, she only tells the beauty, not the sadness.He also jokingly said, if I sing well, maybe your boss will give me extra money!The problem is that no one in her band has ever heard the song, so they won't be able to pick up the accompaniment for a while, Xingyi said he can.The woman said, okay, then change the song temporarily.

The lights in the audience were dimmed suddenly, countless shooting stars were shining on the background board, the woman's singing voice filled every corner, and every sentence was tender and fragile.Tang Lei, who was in the audience, put his face in the darkness, and fell into deep thoughts, unwilling to extricate himself...

if there is an afterlife

Remember to wipe off the remaining wind and frost for each other

if the past is too slow

Don't be disgusted just to see that face clearly

long hug

beautiful sunset

I really want to go with you

There are so many things I want to say to you

Whose smoke is inhaled into whose lungs

Who leans on whom to watch a movie

Whose scissors broke whose hair

Who will accompany whom to chat about childhood nonsense

Whose calloused hand plucks whose harp

Who heats up the morning porridge for whom

Who counts the passing years

Who blocked the diary again

who wants to go back to the past

Touch whose green face again

if only this life

Some people say that it is better to forget each other than to live up to you

The clouds are endless

Birds can't fly

Blossoms of no return to the forest

Cangshan never meets the water in a lifetime

The bright crescent moon, the star-studded river ditch, and the sleepy ancient town on the river will show their white belly in half a day, and everything will be replaced with a new look.Xingyi put on his peaked cap, listened to the accompaniment of "with you all the time" sent by Yan Hai, and left the bustling bar street alone.Tang Lei accepted his resignation, and even overcalculated his salary to pay him for his travel expenses back to Shanghai.Su Ming and Xing Yi agreed to cooperate once their vocal cords recovered.

The wind picked up, and Xing Yi, who was dressed thinly, was a little cold. When he approached the bus stop, a car drove over.The car window was opened a small corner, and the woman poked her head out and blew him a kiss, asking where the fellow was going?Xingyi said back to Shanghai.The woman called him affectionately to get in the car, which had heating.If there is no rush, their band will return to the Shanghai headquarters after finishing tonight's show.

"Hey, you don't want me to call you fellow all the time, do you?"

"My name is Qian Xingyi."

"Your name is Qian?"

"I expected such a reaction. This surname is indeed rare."

"I've seen it... "Spirited Away"!"

"……forget it."

"Is there anyone with the last name, ten, or hundred in that small town?"

"...There is a surname Wan."

"Just kidding, college student."

"Then what's your name? During the show, those guests called you Little Y. Where's your real name?"

It was Xingyi's turn to be curious about what the woman was called, so she raised her eyebrows slyly and said, "You can call her whatever you want, you can call her a cat or a dog."

"...when I didn't ask."

It was four or five o'clock in the morning when the sky was getting dark, and a car of people returned to Huangpu District, Shanghai.

The two got off at the subway entrance. Xingyi asked the woman if she was tired and didn't go back to the dormitory for two days to catch up on sleep. What if the anemia attack and fainted again?She said that she couldn't make it in time, and she was going to get another job right away, a salesperson in a sports store.Xing Yi admired her to the point of total admiration, and the desperate Sanniang who dared to write a bill of lading would definitely be an all-powerful female devil in the future, whether in business or politics.Unexpectedly, the woman also made a move that he will never forget in his life-changing clothes directly in the subway!

She pulled Xingyi to a hidden corner, and told him to watch out for passers-by, and to help block it.But at this time, the subway has not yet opened, and there is not a single fly, let alone a person.Xing Yi's brain hadn't been switched yet, she had already taken off her coat neatly, her proud upper body was only wearing a bra, Xing Yi was so frightened that his face turned red, and he immediately turned his head away in embarrassment.

The woman didn't care, and teased him as an innocent boy while changing her overalls.She said she was used to it.Think about it, too. Models and runners sometimes go to more than a dozen shows a day and change while walking, and even men and women share the dressing room.After changing her clothes, the woman removed the heavy makeup on her face, then simply trimmed her eyebrows with powder, reapplied light-colored lip gloss, and combed her hair into a middle part with bangs close to her face.In less than a quarter of an hour, the completely different image made Xingyi wonder if he was dazzled.

"I finally know what to call you."

"tell me the story."

"I told you not to hit me!"

"Say it!"

"Change! Dress up! Female!"

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In this way, Xingyi's half-month "wandering journey" came to an end.

"Hahaha, you actually gave someone such a strange name?" Yan Hai couldn't help laughing.

"Hey..." Xingyi replied helplessly.Forget it, at least he smiled and felt better.

"Ahem, there is a saying in "Zen" written by Xi Murong: Life is meant to be constantly injured and recovered, but the world is still an orchard waiting tenderly for me to ripen." Yan Hai said word by word , and then said, "It seems that the stinky boy has really matured, and of course it is specifically manifested in the matter of watching people change clothes."

Yan Hai stared at Xingyi calmly, indicating that now you know what to do.

Xing Yi had no choice but to raise his hands in surrender again.

Two to one, the defeat is convincing.

However, Yan Hai was happy in his heart. The lonely past of his brother and the knot of his friend's death made Yan Hai very worried, afraid that he would be hurt again and again.But how can you escape these things on the way of growing up?

"Papa Yan is the spirit of heaven, and will definitely protect you. If one day you dream of him and ask how you are doing. You said that you have been in the grief and indignation of losing your loved ones for more than ten years. Do you think Papa Yan will be happy to hear that? ..." Xingyi's words stunned Yan Hai, "Brother, live for your love! You asked me about my dream, so what do you want to do, where do you want to go?"

"If I have a trip like this, I also have a place I want to go the most."

"where?"

"Countries in the Middle East, such as Iraq, Iran, Chechnya and other war-torn places. I once imagined climbing to the high wall with painting tools and depicting the capital that gave birth to the ancient Babylonian culture thousands of years ago; Mecca pilgrimage, observing the most devout eyes of the prayers; seeing Lebanon's buildings full of bullet holes, streets full of tanks and artillery, recording the scars in each people's heart; passing through ethnically cleansed Chechnya , portraying the portraits of black widows, they are also cruel and sad people who live in the world for revenge... If I have the opportunity, I want to be a stranger who travels around the world with a bag on his back and silently sees all kinds of people's livelihood .”

"What is 'Words of Chance'?"

"This is my line..."

"That's not the point."

There is still a way out in the Warring States Period. How can we mortal beings have the right to feel sorry for ourselves?

Speaking of the place Xingyi wants to go the most, that is the "mirror of the sky" - the Uyuni Salt Lake in Bolivia.The pure white and transparent salt particles cover the vast expanse of land. After the rain, the mirror-like smooth surface of the lake and the sky merge into one, with no end in sight.At night, it is more like a starry sky. Surrounded by stars, you will not feel lonely.

"Sounds very attractive, why don't you continue to watch the stars on the roof tonight and chat all night?"

"No, I'm sleepy."

"Who told you to describe it more carefully than the advertisement?"

Xingyi sighed deliberately, and said, "Actually, it's not that good. I heard that the customs and customs of Middle Eastern countries are all kinds of strange. You, a left-handed person, beware of being racially excluded. You will be thrown out from the border."

"Stinky boy, even I dare to pull!"

"What's the matter, brother is used for crazy damage!"

"This is still my place!"

"Who's afraid of whom? I'm the new band leader."

"Ouch! All right! Go to bed early, Captain, I'll be covered by you from now on!"