Earth Survival Guide

Chapter 554 Seems to be an old friend

"Boss, add another twenty skewers of mutton."

Gu Tao yelled and poured himself a glass of wine: "Actually, I didn't know the band broke up later, but it's been many years."

"Yeah, it's been ten years, and the calluses on my hands are gone."

When the mutton came up, the two of them didn't say anything or eat anything, they just sat there motionless.

"How did we know each other then?" Gu Tao suddenly asked, "I don't remember clearly."

"At that time we were selling and singing on the street, and you didn't give a dime to squat and listen to it all afternoon, and then it happened that the lead guitar of our band went back to his hometown to get married, so I handed you the broken guitar for you to try, you It’s not bad for a try, so I asked you if you want to join us, and you said yes.”

"Yes, you still asked me to call you Sister Hong, but I found out later that you are younger than me." Gu Tao patted his head: "You have taken advantage of me for half a year in vain."

"Hahahaha, when I was Hong Xin, everyone had to call me Sister Hong." Hong Xin slapped the table domineeringly: "However, business was really hard at that time, singing did not make money."

Speaking of this, the two fell into silence again, and Gu Tao's mind was full of images of the past.Business was not good back then, and it was common for five people to pay 20 yuan a day. Everyone curled up together in unfinished buildings, bridge holes, and parks. In winter, they sat there with a bonfire and a cup of hot water wrapped in blankets. Song, poor and rich.

Secretly go to the public toilet in the shopping mall to take a shower, brush teeth in the drinking water place in the park, dig earthworms and fish to satisfy their hunger. Under the worst living conditions, a group of young people in their early twenties laugh and make noise freely. Carrots, write songs and sing together, and occasionally write a good song, everyone will happily spend a small amount of money to go to a food stall or a buffet for a meal as a celebration.

"Later, have you ever written a song?" Hong Xin raised her hair and glanced at Gu Tao: "None of us have any artistic talent, but you are fine."

Gu Tao pursed his lips and shook his head apologetically.

"It's normal, people... always have to meet the meal." Hong Xin smiled: "Look, I have long hair."

Yes, Hung Xin was really a punk when she was a girl back then. She had a shaved head, tattoos all over her left arm, nose studs on her nose, black lipstick, purple eye addiction, and cigarettes all year round. Hands, beating passionate drums on their hands.But now, she has long hair. Although her eyebrows are still the same as before, fine lines have appeared at the corners of her eyes, and her eyes have become softer. After a little makeup, there is a gentle smell in it.

"How many of them are there?" Gu Tao picked up a skewer: "I left without saying goodbye... They all blame me."

"No, no one said anything. Xiaopang also left on the third day after you left, and went home to take the civil service exam. Xiaohei was the third to leave. He went to the capital and opened a barber shop. After me I went back, went home and set up a clothing store, and married here three years ago. Now I plan to have children, and I quit smoking."

Gu Tao laughed, lit a cigarette and took a puff: "Oh? Really?"

"You!" Hong Xin pulled the cigarette from Gu Tao's hand, put it on his mouth and took a deep breath, his expression was not smoking but powder: "Phew... I haven't smoked in a year. "

"You don't write songs now?"

"I don't have that talent." Hong Xin took a deep puff of the cigarette, and looked at Gu Tao through the dense smoke: "After talking so much, you still haven't talked about yourself."

"I'm an alien, what can I do?"

Hong Xin threw the edamame shells on the table at Gu Tao: "Speak up!"

Gu Tao dodged the edamame shell: "I'm working as a teacher now."

"Yo, not bad. Is there an official one?"

"some."

After Gu Tao finished speaking, he suddenly felt an inexplicable sadness. The punk girl who exploded in the aura back then, the first thing she did when she opened her mouth and shut her mouth was to ask if she had any arrangements.It seems that every teenager tells himself that he will not be changed by life, but in the end, looking back, it is inevitable for everyone.

What is the reason?Maybe it's getting older, maybe the parents are getting old, maybe it's the eyes of others, maybe it's the burden of the family, the high-spirited person in the past just died like that, that punk girl who jumped up and down just died like this It's over.

"Do you live here now?"

"Well, yeah. Lives around here."

Hong Xin nodded, but did not mention the specific location.That kind of instinctive vigilance is still filled among the friends who used to live in the bridge hole, and they are still unfamiliar after all.

"That..." Hong Xin took out his phone and glanced at it: "Let's add a vx."

Adding her WeChat, Hong Xin settled the bill with the boss, and then said goodbye to leave, but it was still late at night, Gu Tao offered to give her a ride, Hong Xin refused for a while, and then it was not good persisted.

"You are so cautious, are you really afraid of what I will do to you?" Gu Tao said with a smile: "No, no, no, I'm not that kind of person, I have a bad waist."

Hong Xin laughed out loud, "Why haven't you changed at all for so many years? How did you do that?"

"Probably because..." Gu Tao pointed to his chest, "I'm still a teenager."

Hong Xin slowly suppressed his smile, and walked forward with his hands behind his back and his head lowered. His silent appearance made the atmosphere look awkward and dull.

"That's right." Gu Tao stretched his hand into his bosom, and then sent one of his small books over. He took out the small book and flipped through it twice: "This is for you."

Hong Xin read the worn-out soft-backed copybook, and then flipped through it in her hand, but when she turned the first page, she froze there. She flipped through the pages one by one, Tears flowed out involuntarily. These are all the broken songs written by her band back then. Looking at it now, they are hypocritical, sloppy, and lacking artistic conception. They are all bad songs and slobbery songs, but these bad things The meaning to her is obviously different, she flipped through quickly, and when she turned to the last page, there was a group photo from that year glued on it, Hong Xin stood in the middle of the five people in the photo, smoking a cigarette Laughing arrogantly, behind him are the noisy crowd and the pigeons soaring in the square.

As if in an instant, time went back many years ago, by the fountain in the square.

"You... keep it all the time?"

"Reluctance to throw away." Gu Tao laughed: "I have a lot of precious things, no matter how important they are, I am very reluctant to part with them."

Hong Xin's tears flowed down her cheeks, and she wiped her tears vigorously to prevent it from polluting the soft-covered copybook and the old photos on it, and Naming's eyes were full of tears, but she still forced herself to laugh: "All mine are gone."

"If it's gone, it's gone. I'll give you mine." Gu Tao made an OK gesture to her: "I've scanned it all."

And just when they were about to arrive at the community where Hong Xin lived, a man appeared in front of Hong Xin. He looked a little drunk, grabbed Hong Xin's arm, and said fiercely, "Where did you go so late?" !"

Gu Tao was taken aback by the sudden appearance of the man, he wanted to go forward and say something, but before he stepped forward, the man rushed over, grabbed Gu Tao by the collar and yelled at Hong Xin : "I work hard to earn money to support my family, but you cheat on me behind my back!!!???"

Gu Tao: "???"

"She's my friend! Why are you crazy!"

Hong Xin rushed up to break his hand away, then smiled apologetically at Gu Tao: "This is my husband, he drank too much."

Gu Tao didn't speak, just smiled, waved at her, turned around and was about to leave, but just two steps away, there was a crisp applause from behind, Gu Tao turned his head and saw Hong Xin standing with her face covered. There, while her husband raised his hand as if to strike a second time.

"Hitting is a bit too much."

Firmly holding his upraised hand, Gu Tao frowned and protected Hong Xin, while Hong Xin just covered his face, pinched the soft face with his hand, bit his lip and lowered his head in silence.

"Brother, as a man." With a slight force, Gu Tao lifted him up with one hand: "If you can't even fully trust those close to you, then it will be a matter of time before you get a cuckold. Look at your Proficiency, isn’t it the first time you hit someone? This is your family matter, I am not qualified to ask, but as my sister Hong’s natal family, I will give you a piece of advice, and next time, I will be angry of."

"A Tao, forget it." Hong Xin smiled sadly: "It's not easy for him."

"This is not an easy task." Gu Tao put Hong Xin's husband down: "This is a matter of principle. Sister Hong, I can't help you. I just hope that you can regain the attitude you used to. A bird, it shouldn't be like this. If you have any difficulties, come to me."

After finishing speaking, he put down Hong Xin's husband, then turned around and handed his business card to Hong Xin: "Remember, if you have any questions that you feel that you are not fair, you can come to me."

"Ah."

"You must remember! I had a friend before... Forget it, don't mention it." Gu Tao turned his head and pointed at Hong Xin's husband who was already afraid to move: "There will be no next time."

Who is Gu Tao?Although he usually looks like a scumbag, but he is a person who can slap the table and scold people at a meeting of thousands of people, and a person who can point his nose at others and lose his temper in front of a sect leader who is regarded as a fairy in the eyes of ordinary people Gu Tao, that kind of aura is really not something an ordinary person can bear, even if he doesn't know his identity, but the whole person pokes there, giving people a different impression.

"I am leaving."

Frowning, walked forward, then suddenly turned back and pointed at Hong Xin: "Your drum kit is the most handsome drummer I have ever seen in my life! No one."

Hong Xin looked at Gu Tao's back, smiled through tears, lowered her head to look at the soft-faced paper in her hand, and then looked back at her husband. The tone said: "There will be no next time."

"you!"

His husband wanted to say something, but seeing that Hong Xin had already got a brick in his hand, he suddenly felt that his wife was extremely strange.

"You probably don't know who I was back then! Hit me?" Hong Xin rushed up and patted his head, then looked at the blood on his head: "Divorce!"

At this moment, Gu Tao is standing on the top of the distant building watching the scene below, smiling with his hands behind his back, then slowly turning around, jumping off the high-rise armored upper body and galloping away. Sister Hong is back, that old friend is back, and Hong Xin back then is really not someone that a wimpy man can bully.

Gu Tao doesn't know what happened to her, maybe it's forced by life, maybe it's self-indulgence, the punk girl back then has become what she is now, but at least she's back now, everyone's life is their own choice, Gu Tao I am not qualified to help people choose, the only thing I can do is to tell others what kind of person they are.

This can be regarded as a small episode in his life. It has nothing to do with all his goals and plans, but it doesn't matter. He is not a very ambitious person. If he is immersed in the cycle of fighting monsters, leveling and wearing equipment all day , then he feels that he is no different from those social animals who eat three meals from nine to five all day long and are panicked all day long.Why did he want to create a secret law ecosystem?Why delegate power?Isn’t it just to avoid turning himself into a social animal? He just wants to do what he likes to do, what is the main task of breaking the main line, life has a fucking main line, lay the frame, control the direction, and live as you like , isn't this a person's lifelong pursuit?

Gu Tao is said to be a useless tuba, is he really useless?One of the people at the top of the Centaur Civilization Pyramid, at the age of 14, he is already a hot star of tomorrow. To him, learning is like playing a child's game. He has mastered all core technologies and possesses enviable talents.The reason why he became what he is now is simply because he stubbornly chose the road he wanted to choose. Maybe this road is not satisfactory .

"Satania, let me ask you a question, what would you say if I were the most ordinary person on earth?"

"Captain, I have no way to answer your question, but I think you may become a not-so-good artist and a not-so-good husband and not-so-good father."

"what about now?"

"Oh, you can't even be considered a good person now, you are becoming more and more like a scum."

"How did I offend you?" Gu Tao hovered in mid-air: "Will I die if you praise me?"

"You're bloated, and I must try my best not to trigger your personality flaws."

"never mind."

Gu Tao sighed, turned around and went straight to the height of 5000 meters. At this height, the city on the ground turned into a devastated light spot. The moon above his head was extremely huge. He lay flat and looked up at the sky. The boundless universe.

"The vast starry sky is really beautiful." He pointed to a distant place: "My hometown is there, but I can't go back."

After finishing speaking, he untied his battle armor, leaving only the insulation layer, and then began to fall freely. At this moment, a bright light flashed in the distance, and Gu Tao's battle armor was on his body instantly, but at the moment of flashing, the beam The light hit him directly... and Gu Tao felt his eyes suddenly go dark.
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In the middle of the night, I went to the hospital to hang water until [-] o'clock and didn't come back. The gout made me hate this world.

(End of this chapter)