"Among the burial objects of King Xilin, archaeologists discovered a gourd-shaped jade bottle with several seal characters 'Qian Kun Yu Guan' engraved on the bottom of the bottle and a small seal. The whole body is round, with exquisite carvings and well-preserved. It is an important cultural relic in this archaeological discovery. The bottle contains powdery substances, which were detected as human ashes. The body of King Xilin himself was completely preserved in the coffin. It remains to be verified whether the ashes contained in the bottle belonged to the burial personnel. Now this Xilin Wang Qiankun Yuyu is collected in..."

While eating takeout, Gu Xiaoxi was watching the archaeological documentary "Discovering the King of Xilin", just as he felt that the jade bottle looked familiar, the welcome doll at the door rang again.

"Welcome master, you are..."

"It's so noisy!" The doll's voice stopped abruptly. Gu Xiaoxi looked up, but saw a teenage thin boy standing aggressively at the door of the game hall, and he held the welcome doll hanging by the door. In his hand, he disemboweled and even the battery fell out.

Gu Xiaoxi stood up and took a closer look. It turned out that it was the little bean sprouts who came to the store that night and clamored to play.

"You don't even let people play, how can you say 'Welcome Master'?" The child stood at the door with his chin raised high, looking domineering.He straightened his arms forward and let go of his palms, and the doll fell to the ground with a "snap".

Gu Xiaoxi took out his mobile phone and said, "You are not yet 18 years old, so you have to wait a few years if you want to come in and play. Either you go home and do your homework now, or I will call your teacher and ask him to take you back."

The boy raised his eyebrows and smiled, a small mole looming in the corner of his eye.He threw a card from his pocket and put it on the bar, "Don't you want an ID card, here it is!"

Suspiciously, Gu Xiaoxi picked up the card and looked carefully, "Your name is Han Tian? Are you 27 years old?" Gu Xiaoxi compared the ID photo with himself several times, "Is this you? Are you 27 years old?"

The young man knocked on the table impatiently, "I've brought you the ID card you want to see, what else do you want to do, are you annoying? Are you from the police station or the street office!"

"Han Tian..." Gu Xiaoxi looked at this ID card carefully. Why does the person on this ID look so familiar?

Even the name is so coincidental.

"I don't think this is you. I'm sorry I can't let you play." Gu Xiaoxi put his ID card in front of the boy and said non-negotiable.

"I said, why are you a brainless person? You don't do door-to-door business? You don't care how old I am. If you don't tell me, who will know?"

Gu Xiaoxi didn't want to get entangled with him, so he simply walked behind the bar and sat down, picked up the half-cold boxed lunch and continued to eat.

"Hey, believe it or not, I'll find someone to beat you!" The boy couldn't wait for Gu Xiaoxi's response for a long time, and angrily smashed his fist on the table.

"Han Liang!"

A serious and powerful voice came over.Gu Xiaoxi also raised his eyes to look at the door. Out of the corner of his eye, the boy seemed to have been struck by lightning, his body stiffened and he turned around mechanically.

Parents can count.Gu Xiaoxi breathed a sigh of relief, put down the lunch box and stood up again.

Han Tian?

Gu Xiaoxi froze in disbelief, it was really the Han Tian he knew.

I haven't seen him for a few days, Han Tian looks much more tired than before, and there are some blue stubbles growing on his chin, and there are some dark marks under his eyes.

Han Tian nodded to Gu Xiaoxi, then turned to Han Liang and said in a deep voice, "You told your mother that you went to a classmate's house for tutoring, so you came to visit the game hall?"

Han Liang looked down at his toes without saying a word.

"You still stole my ID card?" Han Tian picked up the card on the bar and put it in his wallet, "I'm not a child at this age, why don't I learn from the good and the bad? My mother hasn't been discharged from the hospital just yet. Can't you make her worry less?"

Only then did Han Liang raise his eyes to look at Han Tian, ​​and seemed to snort, "It's not your mother anyway, wouldn't you be happier if she died of anger?"

"What did you say?" Han Tian scrupled that Gu Xiaoxi was next to him, held back his anger, and said to Han Liang in a low voice, "You are still a student, you can't enter the game hall, come back with me!"

Han Liang turned his head and glanced at Gu Xiaoxi, "Why can you come and I can't, I just want to come, I will come again next time!" After speaking, he turned around and pushed Gu Xiaoxi, and ran away like flying up.

Gu Xiaoxi was originally standing aside, half-awkwardly watching someone teach the child, but he was pushed staggered for no reason, and Han Tian's quick-sighted hand quickly pulled him back to stabilize him from falling on the antique shelf behind him.Han Tian helped him to sit on the chair, and said embarrassingly, "I'm really sorry to let you see a joke, but I have to go and catch that little bastard home first, and apologize to you when I come back." After that, he left in a hurry.

Gu Xiaoxi looked at the box lunches around the bar counter in a foggy way, and shook his head helplessly.

Han Tian said "come back", but he never came.

Gu Xiaoxi didn't pay attention to this matter deliberately, but always felt like he forgot to do something, lingering in his mind, but still couldn't figure it out.He plays games in a daze every day, but he feels more and more boring every day.Gu Xiaoxi couldn't figure it out, it was obviously like this before, how could it suddenly become like chewing wax.

I don't even want to play "Building Dream Paradise".Although this game is time-consuming and labor-intensive, although it was used to accompany the player, it was more or less curious and exploring, but suddenly even this enthusiasm is gone.When a player came to him, he always said that the game was being upgraded, or that the equipment was broken, and when he was extremely depressed, he even shut down for several days.

Once a person who is used to loneliness is given extra care and excitement, when he returns to loneliness, the loneliness will become even lonelier.

Just like a person who can feel happy drinking boiled water, suddenly he is given fragrant tea, and the boiled water can no longer satisfy his taste buds that have become a little pickier than before.

It doesn't rain much in this city, but once it rains, it lingers for many days, making people feel gloomy.

This day, Gu Xiaoxi was holding an umbrella and walking in an alley near his home. He shrank and clutched his collar. The damp and cold autumn wind penetrated through his collar and rushed to the soles of his feet, even his eyelids were cold.He thought silently in his heart, if only he could have a bowl of steaming hot noodle soup to soothe his cold stomach.

Gu Xiaoxi subconsciously walked towards a familiar place, and only realized when he got to the door that this "March Noodle Restaurant" that once brought him countless memories and warmth no longer existed like the past spring.What stands in front of her now is a Liangpi shop that is as cold as the current weather.Gu Xiaoxi touched his empty stomach, only to feel that the slight cold in early autumn was even more unbearable.

He sighed, lowered his head and turned around absent-mindedly, but before he could take a step, he bumped into the same person all over the face.The man's shiny leather shoes stepped on the wet ground, and were splashed with mud spots, and the originally straight trousers were soaked in water, making them look a little embarrassed.

The rainwater merged into a stream on the surface of the man's umbrella, and "crackled" on Gu Xiaoxi's umbrella.

Gu Xiaoxi's life is a bit chaotic. He doesn't need to check in and has no public holidays.

However, it has been more than a month since Han Tian said "come back".

It was too unreal, it was only a month, but he clearly felt that it had been a year.At this moment, the day seemed to turn around suddenly.Gu Xiaoxi looked at Han Tian who was busy in the kitchen, all this was fake like a scene in a game.Gu Xiaoxi sighed, and touched the gourd around his neck unconsciously.

Han Tian brought the noodle soup and beer in front of Gu Xiaoxi, seeing him in a daze like a child just waking up, his heart softened and he laughed, "Why are you in a daze? Are you hungry? Eat it!"

"Oh!" Gu Xiaoxi came back to his senses, scattered all the chaotic thoughts in his head, looked down at the bowl of noodles in front of him, the soup was clear and green, and there was a plump egg lying on it, he blew Noodle soup, took a sip carefully.The full warmth goes straight to the bottom of my heart. It is obviously the most everyday home-cooked meal, but I find it unexpectedly delicious.

Han Tian saw that he just took a sip of the soup, and his eyes were moistened, so he joked with him, "I see that many things in your kitchen are expired, it hasn't been fired for hundreds of years!"

Gu Xiaoxi took a bite of the noodles, "Well, since my grandfather passed away, no one has cooked for me."

Han Tian glanced at Gu Xiaoxi, not knowing whether to apologize or to comfort him, he lowered his head and opened the beer bottle without saying a word.

Seeing this, Gu Xiaoxi quickly smiled and said, "You don't need to mind this, I've actually gotten used to it over the years."

Han Tian picked up the noodles with his chopsticks, put them on the bowl and said, "Don't think I'm hypocritical, I actually envy you."

With half eaten noodles in his mouth, Gu Xiaoxi looked at Han Tian blankly.

Han Tian clamped the cigarette on his finger, flipped the lighter habitually with one hand, and suddenly remembered something, "Do you mind if I smoke here?"

Gu Xiaoxi shook his head, took out an ashtray from the cabinet and handed it to him.

"I don't remember how long it's been. I haven't eaten a decent home-cooked meal." Han Tian lit a cigarette on his fingertips, raised the can and took a sip, "The star chef hired at home cooks exquisite, High-end, but without any emotion, it tastes like eating colorful plastic. When you go out, you can find various restaurants, company canteens, business meals on the plane, and..." Han Tian pointed to Gu Xiaoxi's trash can, " takeout."

The two looked at each other and smiled, and Han Tian continued, "The little boy who came that day, Han Liang, is my younger brother...not even my younger brother, but my father and another woman, but not my mother... ..." Han Tian spoke a little incoherently, with an unresolved depression frowning between his brows and eyes.

"My dad died a while ago, there are a lot of messy things at home, and Han Liang, it's really annoying..."

"You know my family is complicated, so I envy your simple..."

"It's too simple for me..." Gu Xiaoxi murmured, "The bare commander is alone."

"Last month, that woman was sick, and I sent her abroad to receive the best treatment. You said that I am a stepson, and I have done my best to do this. Guess what they say about me in private..." Han Tian The soda can in his hand was pinched and deformed, and even his knuckles turned red.

"Uh...are you drunk..." Gu Xiaoxi looked at Han Tian's drunken eyes and was a little at a loss.It was already dark outside the window, and there was a faint sound of pattering rain.Han Tian's suit was soaked by the rain and hung out on the balcony, and he was reluctantly wearing Gu Xiaoxi's home clothes.The clothes were obviously one size smaller than his own.His sad face, with half a cigarette lit between his fingers in the air, looks decadent and comical.

Gu Xiaoxi murmured in his heart, he probably really wants to live here today.

"I'm not drunk!" Han Tian stood up and wriggled the cigarette into the ashtray, "I still want to play 'Zhumeng Paradise', I will play three thousand games with you, I am the 'King of Xilin'! "

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