another me in the world

In the evening, in a commercial pedestrian street in Beijing, the neon lights gradually flickered, and the city looked like a gorgeous sea of ​​stars.

The glass door of a shop facing the street was closed tightly, and a piece of white paper was pasted on the door, with "Wangpu for rent" printed on it.The advertising light board at the entrance did not light up either, and the words "Yuwei Private Kitchen Restaurant" on it appeared gray and decadent against the bright background. The lights in the restaurant were dim, and the shadows of two people were reflected on the wall, showing a blurred outline.

"Xiao Xiang," the owner of the restaurant is a fat middle-aged man, who is passing a glass of water to the young man sitting across the table at the moment, "I'm really sorry, the business of this store has not improved, I don't want to do it... You," he looked at Xiang Bei apologetically, "you may have to look for a job again."

Xiang Bei nodded. Some time ago, the boss had already revealed to them that he wanted to close the store and change careers. He has been looking for a new job since then, but there are thousands of young people in Bei Piao. Finding a suitable job is also harder than finding a needle in a haystack.

"Do you... have any new plans?" Xiangbei has a four-year-old child and a two-year-old kitten to raise. He can't live without work for a day. If the boss needs a chef in the next plan, he is very willing with the past.

"I don't plan to do catering anymore, the competition is too fierce..." The boss looked at Xiang Bei regretfully, he actually liked this little chef very much.Xiao Xiang is good at craftsmanship, doesn't talk much, works diligently and bears no complaints, that's all, the key is that he is still good-looking, with delicate and delicate facial features, and his skin is fair and translucent like fine porcelain. It feels like he can squeeze water with his hands Well, the boss knows that this kind of looks is especially in line with the aesthetics of young people. The starlets on his daughter's fan list are basically of this kind.

Such a face, nestled in the smoky kitchen, really buried him. The boss sighed and said, "Xiao Xiang, has anyone said that you look like a star? It seems that your surname is Mo?...You Didn't you consider the development of the entertainment industry in the past?"

"Huh?" Some people did say that Xiangbei looks like Mo Zhihan. Once he was walking on the street and was mistaken for the star himself, asking for an autograph for a group photo.He also knew that he was not ugly, but the entertainment industry?Never even dreamed about it.He doesn't have talent, he doesn't know how to act, he isn't even a lively and talkative person, he has nothing but cooking skills, how can he be in the entertainment industry?

Xiang Bei knew that he couldn't follow the boss to his next home, so he had to thank the boss, took the outstanding wages and walked out of the small restaurant where he had worked for half a year.

The night breeze was cool outside, and the crowd was bustling with people. Xiang Bei let out a long sigh. The capital has a population of 2000 million. A small person like him is about the same as an ant, or even worse than an ant. An ant even knows where it is going to go next.

Waiting at the red light at the crossroads, looking northward at the continuous flow of vehicles in front of him, he felt a little lost. He has been in this city for almost five years, and he has just moved from one kitchen to another. What remains the same is the exhaustion of going home every day. And the smell of oily smoke, and the faint smell of onion and garlic left in the nails.

Xiangbei actually likes his job very much. He thinks that cooking is not only a technique but also an art. Making delicious food is as happy as eating delicious food.However, neither art nor ideals can be eaten as food. He is a cook and now he is facing the big problem of eating. Life is really a hideous bastard.

The green light on the opposite side began to flash, and an impatient voice came from behind: "Go or not? If you don't go, don't get in the way!"

Walking mechanically to the north, crossing the road, and entering the subway, as the evening peak flow of people is squeezed into the train, the compartment is airtight, and people stick close to each other in the narrow space, like quilts. Fish sealed in cans.A section of canned food is linked together, whizzing forward in the dark underground, the fish gather for a short time, and then are taken in all directions, disappearing silently into the boundless sea.

Xiang Bei was imagining the funny picture of everyone being a fish head, and inadvertently scanned the phone screen of the girl next to him, which was the headline of today's entertainment news——

International superstar Mo Zhihan returned home as Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the grand slam of the three major film festivals in his [-]s. How far is the Oscar?

Below is a picture of the big star accepting the award on the splendid stage.

Alas, these confusing headlines.

Xiang Bei is a face control person who likes to watch beauties, but he doesn’t chase stars or gossip, and doesn’t know much about fashion and entertainment. Work, taking care of children and cats have taken up most of his time. When he has free time, he studies cooking and cooks occasionally. Some small handicrafts, most gatherings with friends.

The only exception is Mo Zhihan, because some people always say that he looks like this person, so Xiangbei pays more attention to this big star. He has watched all his movies, and he remembers the content in Baidu Encyclopedia by heart. When there is something to do, he will still lick the screen at the beautiful photos of this male god.

On the one hand, the male god is really pleasing to the eye, who doesn't like to see beauty?On the other hand, Xiang Bei also has a little bit of complacency. They say I look like him, so I must be handsome too.

Strictly speaking, Mo Zhihan cannot be regarded as the grand slam winner of the three major European film festivals. Although his two previous award-winning works were both male leads, the winners were films and not actors, but the people who eat melons don’t care about these subtleties. The difference, in short, applaud when you see the title, and you can't go wrong if you say "The actor is really amazing".

Suddenly, the subway body came to a sudden stop, and everyone fell forward due to the inertia. The girl couldn't stand still, and the phone came out of her hand and hit Xiangbei's chin straight——

With a snap, Xiang Bei felt that his jaw might have been broken.

He stood up in a hurry, caught the phone, rubbed his chin, and handed the phone back to the girl.

"Thank you...isn't it..." The girl grinned her teeth, as if she was the one who was hurt by the smash. She took the phone and met Xiangbei face to face, and her voice suddenly stopped.

The girl looked at Xiang Bei, then at the photo on the phone screen, her eyes widened: "You..."

This small commotion has already attracted the curious gazes of many people, and many gazes converged towards the north, making it uncomfortable to look northward, like an ant scorched by the sun under a magnifying glass.

The girl noticed Xiang Bei's embarrassment, restrained her surprised expression, and swallowed the second half of the sentence.

"You're welcome, I'm fine." Xiang Bei lowered his head to avoid the hot gazes around him, but fortunately he was almost at the stop.

The girl covered her excitement and sent a WeChat to my friends: I saw a little handsome guy in the car just now.

Xiang Bei accidentally saw this WeChat message, he couldn't laugh or cry, his face was as red as an overcooked shrimp.

Backing up two more times, I headed northward like a cloud and drove back to the small rental house. Facing the flickering lights, I walked through the narrow corridor full of sundries, and picked up the little bean bag from Grandma Li opposite his house.

He has to work during the day, and Xiaodoubao goes to kindergarten. He usually leaves work at 9 or 10 o'clock, so Xiaodoubao has to be taken care of by Grandma Li.Grandma Li's grandson is in the same class as Xiaodoubao Kindergarten, and Xiangbei pays Grandma Li some money every month for dinner and babysitting expenses.

"Father!" Xiaodou grabbed a meat bun with his hands full, rushed out of the hut and threw himself on him, covering him with meat and oil, "You came back so early today!"

It took Xiang Bei a long time to peel off the octopus-like bean bun from his body, and swallowed while watching the bun in the child's hand. No matter how bad things happened, he couldn't stop his physical reaction—he was so hungry.

Xiaodoubao understood, turned around and ran back to the house. After a while, a soft child's voice came from inside: "Grandma Li, can I give this bun to my father?"

A few seconds later, a white-haired old man carried a bag of seven or eight buns, walked to the door and stuffed them into his hands: "It's not as delicious as yours, so you will eat it."

Holding the warm steamed stuffed bun to the north, he smelled the tempting fragrance. For some reason, all the sadness and grievances came to his heart. The sour taste circulated twice in his body, and tears condensed in the corners of his eyes.

Xiang Bei took out a steamed stuffed bun, took a big bite, stuffed with mushrooms and pork, and also put crushed vermicelli. Not only did the tears not stop, but fell violently.

"Xiao Xiang, why are you crying?" Grandma Li looked at him in surprise.

"Woo..." Xiang Bei cried bitterly, "It's really... so delicious."

Xiangbei took Xiaodoubao home, and Xiaodoubao obediently went to feed his cat brother Tangyuan to shovel shit.The black-and-white kitten rolls on the ground, and the little boy bounces around in the small room of more than [-] square meters. The room is clean and tidy, but there are too many things, there are children and cats, no matter how to clean it up Also difficult to maintain.

Xiang Bei sighed dejectedly, took out the mobile phone whose screen was broken and hadn’t repaired it, opened the mobile banking, WeChat wallet, and Alipay, and poured out all the money in the wallet. I didn’t let it go, I took a pen and calculated it three times on paper, all the money added up was less than 5000 yuan, the monthly rent was 2000 yuan, Xiaodoubao’s kindergarten was at least 1000 yuan, no matter how much I saved on food, water, electricity, cat food and cat litter It costs thousands of dollars. The child is not in good health. He takes medicine for a month and sees a doctor without medical insurance, which is a lot of money...Summer is coming soon, and the air conditioner consumes too much electricity. Can it still be turned on?

Xiangbei was about to cry, so he called Xiaodoubao over, hugged him and sat on his lap: "Bao'er, Dad will take you to die."

Xiao Doubao patted his head, and said in a childish voice, "...Father, let's go by himself."

Xiang Bei: "..." He put the bean bag down, scolded a heartless brat in his heart, was depressed for 30 seconds, and opened the recruitment website with full of energy to start looking for a job.

The previous resume disappeared, and Xiang Bei updated his resume on five or six websites and resubmitted hundreds of copies, and made a plan to go to the street early tomorrow morning, and go in and ask when he saw a similar restaurant. Try for two days Find a job within a few days, or else you have to take the child to the street to beg for food.

After finishing all this, put the child to sleep and lie on the bed facing north, with a group of children at hand, a group of cats on the stomach, and a group of mess in the heart.

On such a lonely and sad night, only beauty can relieve anxiety and fear of the unknown future. Xiang Bei turned on his mobile phone and clicked on his special "beauty album". He also has several other albums named "Food Album", "Beautiful View Album" and "Second Handsome in the World".

He usually has a habit, no matter where he sees beautiful pictures, he saves them in different categories, and he especially likes pictures of beauties, regardless of whether he is a man or a woman, or whether he knows him or not, anyway, it’s good to look at, it’s very satisfying to put together, and the mood is good Take it out and lick it, and you will feel better. If you are in a bad mood, take it out and lick it, and you will feel better.

The same is true for food and beautiful scenery, and selfies are unambiguous, all of which are thrown into the "world's second most handsome".

The one with the most beauties in the photo album is Mo Zhihan. He opened one casually, and it was a still photo from a magazine. Mo Zhihan was wearing a light gray checked suit, sitting sideways on the counter of a retro-style bar, with a The long legs are bent and put on the beam of the high stool, the other leg is stretched out to support the ground, holding a slender champagne glass in his hand, looking at the camera with a blank expression, his perfect face is breathtaking, his eyes seem to have everything No, it's the most noble and glamorous gesture, but it seems to have everything, and it's just looking at you affectionately.

Xiang Bei took out a small mirror from the drawer, looked at his own face in the mirror, and then looked at the face of the male god on the broken screen phone. The faces and facial features of the two of them were indeed [-]-[-]% similar, especially the lips. The jaw lines are almost exactly the same, and the shape of the eyes is also very similar. They are all peach blossom eyes with relatively long eye tips, but Mo Zhihan's father is a Chinese-French mixed race. He inherited a quarter of Celtic blood, with deeper eye sockets and a nose. It is more straight, and the color of the pupils is lighter, so it looks deeper and more three-dimensional than Xiangbei's appearance, and it is more impressive, astonishing.

Alas, Xiang Bei looked at the male god in a daze for a while, he just looks alike, what's the use?Huskies still look like wolves, one is the king of the prairie, the other is a domestic pet dog, and probably the stupidest pet dog.

That night, the news that Mo Zhihan won the award successfully dominated all the entertainment headlines. Until the next day, his name was the number one most searched on Weibo, with a red "explosion" on the back. The new actor is related.

The next day was Saturday, and everyone else was sleeping in. Xiangbei got up early to start his ordinary and even bitter day. He made a few oatmeal omelettes, packed them with his children and threw them to Grandma Li who was at the opposite door, and then went out by himself to start. find a job.There wasn't much oatmeal and no eggs, so he didn't eat breakfast himself. After walking for a long time, he was finally hungry and dizzy, so he bought a pancake for himself at a roadside pancake stand.When he took the pancakes and thanked the boss, it seemed that two girls looked at him a few more times and whispered. One of them raised his mobile phone at him, but Xiangbei didn't care about it, so he hurriedly bought the pancakes and left. .

He didn't have time to pay attention to the Internet for a whole day, but on this day, this candid photo of him buying pancakes began to circulate quietly on the Internet.

In the photo, he is receiving the paper bag handed over by the pancake uncle. Half a yellow pancake is exposed outside the paper bag. There is a gentle and satisfied smile on Xiangbei’s face. It seems that he is very satisfied with the fragrant civilian snack in his hand and can’t wait. .Most of his side face was bathed in the bright sunshine of late spring, wearing simple jeans and a hoodie, his whole body was filled with a youthful and lively atmosphere, which was more genial and moving than the spring breeze, and could wake up people's eyes.

The person who took this photo was an ordinary college girl, a fan of Mo Zhihan, who is usually keen on Weibo, chasing stars and gossip, always thinking of being popular, she posted this photo on her Weibo account, And brought the hot topic of #莫之寒新进加威影视#, and wrote in a very entertaining spirit:

Ahhh!what did i see !The first thing the newly promoted movie king did when he returned to China was to buy pancakes on the side of the road. How could the male god be so down-to-earth? !

This Weibo was quickly reposted by people who did not know the truth, and it was reposted more than 2 times within an hour during the morning rush hour.

There are also some entertainment gossip marketing accounts blindly following the trend regardless of the truth and falsehood, adding fuel to the flames. "Mo Zhihan buys pancakes" was once on the hot search.

Around [-] o'clock in the morning, Mo Zhihan's management company and fans refuted the rumors, clarifying that the one in the photo was not Mo Zhihan himself, and that he was still on the plane and had not arrived in China.

The major marketing accounts were slapped in the face, so they had to retweet the statement to refute the rumors, and in order to save their respect, they created new topics #买炒饼小哥打脸莫之寒#, #史史最强大星脸#, continue to carry that Photos proliferate.

At that time, Xiang Bei ate beef noodles at a Lanzhou ramen restaurant, and didn't dare to add fried eggs. He also suppressed his desire to browse Weibo in order to save traffic.

In the evening, Xiang Bei was declined by three restaurants, two restaurants made an appointment with him for further interviews, and one restaurant expressed his good wishes for him to try it in the past.

After a day of fermentation, the photo of Xiangbei has been reposted in various ways, with more than [-] million views. Mo Zhihan's photo from the same angle has also been dug up to make a comparison picture.

The blogger who posted the picture commented below:

Ahhh!It's so similar!

This is the long-lost twin brother, right? !

This little brother who buys pancakes, you are popular, do you know where are you? !

You all get out of the way, such a good-looking little brother is mine! !

Xiang Bei just dragged his exhausted body back home and took back his little bean bag. The little bean bag went out crazy all afternoon, covered in sand and black sweat stains all over his face, Xiang Bei dragged him helplessly bath.

At the same time, a marketing account with 3000 million fans took the hot topics that have been rounded up several times on this rest day and launched a daily interactive topic——

Please post the faces of celebrities you meet in your life in the comments~

There were over 10 comments in [-] minutes, and photos of various celebrity faces appeared on the virtual display stand, becoming a carnival feast for alternative interactions between ordinary people and entertainment stars.

An hour later, the first hot comment received more than [-] likes, and the ID of the comment was: chubby Yuan Kunkun

——Xiao Bei, will you make me noodles with scallion oil after you become popular? @小北的美丽生活#The strongest star face in history#

#买炒饼小哥打脸莫之寒##野莫之寒#

The following is a life photo of Xiangbei, wearing a Rilakkuma apron, standing in the open kitchen of a large living room, holding a spatula, facing the camera, with red lips and white teeth, and a bright smile.