Xia Chang

It continued to get colder.

Not long after that, after experiencing a dying sunny day, the gray-green fallen leaves were pasted on the asphalt road by the rain.

Liu Xiaobai sneezed.

He specially prepared his attire for this day, a gray-blue sweater and denim jacket, and he temporarily changed into a pair of black pants before going out.

Xiaoyu also needs an umbrella. Liu Xiaobai is wearing a backpack with a wallet and water glasses inside. Through the window of the subway, he saw many people of different shapes crowded with each other; the queue for the train was too long , Turning a corner in front of the wall, Liu Xiaobai raised his mobile phone to confirm the route to the destination again.

There were more and more people behind him, so he felt more and more oppressive. Before waiting for the second subway to enter the station, Liu Xiaobai was squeezed to the point where he could not stand stably. He had to find a gap in front and adjust the position of his feet.

The video broadcast on the mobile phone was muted, Liu Xiaobai could only stare at the subtitles, and he was pushed onto the subway by the crowd.

The girl in the video is wearing a camisole and shorts, smiling enthusiastically at the camera, she said: "...I was quite nervous when I came here for the first time. Although I just accompany friends, I am looking forward to meeting new friends, or Witness someone else's story..."

Liu Xiaobai became expressionless. He was holding onto the very thin handrail of the subway, and the plastic handbag with the umbrella was still hanging on his wrist; Turned on the music.

All the way, I was listening to a thick hypnotic light music.

"After a thousand years..."

This is the name of that bar.

Liu Xiaobai didn't plan to say anything, he quickly closed his mouth after the three words were finished, the girl standing beside him might have smoked, and the smell on his body was a bit pungent.

She glanced at Liu Xiaobai, but she was very casual and indifferent, but for some reason, all Liu Xiaobai's actions to weaken the sense of existence didn't work, he could only bury his face deeply.

He became not him; he began to be depressed and worried, began to be inexplicably anxious, began to be silent and inferior.

These changes were all involuntary, and Liu Xiaobai spent a lot of time getting out of the subway station after arriving at the station. He stood under the tree by the roadside, holding an umbrella at a loss.

The bar is at the end of a very old alley. Liu Xiaobai's umbrella was knocked by water droplets on the low eaves, making a "click" sound. He arrived soon and stood in front of the door.

It's still early, some people haven't even finished their breakfast, some haven't gotten up, and some have already finished their day's work.

The bar has two floors, the door is closed now, and no one can see the scene inside. Liu Xiaobai bought the multigrain pancakes on the side of the road to eat. He stood on the roadside opposite the bar and put the earphones into his ears again. .

The sound quality of older phones is getting worse and worse.

The fruit stand behind him occupies a sunken wall on the first floor of the low building, and a yellow and white puppy is jumping under the owner's feet. Liu Xiaobai turned around and took a closer look, and found that the owner also shines shoes for a living.

Holding a teacup in her hand, she leaned leisurely on the chair and asked, "Do you want to wipe your shoes?"

Liu Xiaobai shook his head and continued to bite the pancake in his hand, but he still took off the earphones and asked, "Auntie, what time does this bar usually go to work?"

"I don't go to work until this afternoon."

"Oh, thanks."

The puppy suddenly ran over and rubbed Liu Xiaobai's ankle, feeling a little itchy.

The boss looked older than Wang Yanwen. She was wearing jeans and a half-worn shirt, and her black curly hair was simply tied up. She suddenly asked, "You are so young to enter a bar?"

"Can't you go in?"

The rain seemed to be a little lighter, Liu Xiaobai put away the umbrella, he thought, and sat on the small stool in front of the boss.

"Only adults can enter. Do you know that this is a place for gay men to make friends... If you know, you have to be an adult to go." The boss picked up the basket at hand and washed it clean The yellow peach with drops of water, she took a big bite and finished these words inadvertently.

Liu Xiaobai suddenly lowered his gaze, he hesitated, then stretched out his feet and said, "I'll polish my shoes."

"Okay." The boss stopped teasing the dog, and she picked up another peach and stuffed it into Liu Xiaobai's hand, then stood up and gave him the high chair to sit on.

Holding the yellow peach, Liu Xiaobai thought for a while and said softly, "I'm almost an adult."

"It looks so small, like a junior high school student... She is tall, with a young face."

Liu Xiaobai laughed straight after being teased, and said, "I'm not going to the bar either, I'm just curious."

The boss had a soft shoe-shine cloth in her hand, and while she was doing things, she said: "There are all kinds of people, nothing strange, the kind with briefcases, there are also strong ones with a height of 1.9 meters, or People in their 50s... people outside may not understand, but I think you can't tell if someone is gay or not, and it's not written on their face."

"Well," Liu Xiaobai nodded and said, "My cousin is."

"Oh——" the boss's mouth was rounded by the pronunciation, she took out the brush and muttered with a smile, "I thought you were."

"I'm not."

These three words jumped out of Liu Xiaobai's throat, as if there was still warmth in it, he blinked his eyes, bent down quite naturally, and looked at the tip of his shoe.

He was still holding the yellow peach in his hand, and suddenly asked: "Why do these people have a special bar? Since everyone is equal, let's play together."

"It's not equal now..." the boss chatted, and she was skillful and neat in her hand shining shoes. She was very thin, with a few round bones protruding from her neck. She smiled and said, "Let's be more relaxed together, after all, we are not Everyone has the conditions to get married, and when they want to hide from others, they come to this kind of place and feel happy; there are bad things, I know, but everyone will have bad things."

The rain stopped completely, and someone rode a motorcycle on the alley, and the speed was so slow that they didn't go far for a long time.

"It's kind of pitiful." Liu Xiaobai used his front teeth to tear a piece of dead skin at the corner of his mouth, he sighed and said.

The stains on one side of the shoes have been cleaned up. After a long time, Liu Xiaobai finally saw the true colors of the pair of white shoes again.

The boss moved her face aside, coughed a few times, and she asked back, "Don't you think I'm pitiful?"

Of course, it is impossible to give an accurate answer in an instant, out of social courtesy, Liu Xiaobai shook his head slowly after hesitating.

"I'm living with a dog now. I don't have a man, I'm not married, and I don't have children. Then I feel that I am very leisurely and comfortable. People live for themselves, and the most important thing is to be happy."

Liu Xiaobai nodded his chin. He looked at the boss's smooth hair, then at the puppy lying on the edge of the chair, and at the painted glass window of the bar across the road.

During the day, fireworks are mixed into the feasting and feasting.

Shoeshine is very cheap, only five yuan. Before leaving, Liu Xiaobai said thank you with a yellow peach in his hand. After all, he decided not to wait for the bar to open. His thoughts of spying and understanding disappeared. Walking along the road.

Water from the eaves dripped onto his forehead.

Everything at home was as usual, Yang Lanfang scooped the freshly cooked fresh corn into the plate, her concern for Liu Qing seemed to have faded away, and she seldom mentioned her anymore.

Liu Xiaobai opened the math test paper. He sat in front of the desk and left black handwriting on the draft paper.

The sun showed half of his face.

Maybe it was because he was too tired from getting up early, and Liu Xiaobai began to doze off in the middle of his homework. He rested his head on his arm, and beside the lamp on the table, there was a whole yellow peach.

Liu Xiaobai really fell asleep.