city ​​of angels

Before going out, Ah Chong noticed that Ning Yu's walking posture seemed a little strange.

Thinking back again, he felt that Ning Yu seemed a little awkward to walk these days.

Ah Chong wondered if it was the first time something happened behind him, so he asked, "Are you uncomfortable behind?"

Ning Yu paused before saying, "No, my feet are not feeling well."

Ah Chong moved his eyes down to look at the pair of canvas shoes on Ning Yu's feet that looked brand new, and asked, "Are you twisted?"

"No, the shoes are a bit worn." Ning Yu said, "My mother bought these shoes when I came here, and asked me to change them at the airport. I wear 43.5 sneakers, but she always buys them a half size smaller. I'll be a little small when I wear it...my mother doesn't have a good memory."

Ah Chong was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Then you have to tell your mother, otherwise she will still buy you half a size smaller shoes next time, and you are the one who suffers."

"I told her a few times before, but she would forget every time. I didn't bother to say it later." Ning Yu said lightly, "Anyway, it's only half a size too small. I just wear it and wear it after a few days. It's suitable. I'm not so delicate."

Ah Chong looked at Ning Yu's face, which was well written and obedient.It's annoying to say such an innocent and kind word.

Ah Chong has hated good students since he was a child, who makes good students always have a school flavor.

In Ah Chong's memory, the smell of school is camphor - there are camphor trees in his primary and junior high schools, and the smell is really unpleasant.

At that time, every time he stepped through the tree shadows of the school, he always felt like opening a dusty wardrobe for a long time, and the frowning smell of camphor came to his face, and the smell was the drowsy sound of reading.The teacher likes good students who are obedient. They have the same camphor smell. They are trying their best to cover the musty smell of the books with the smell of camphor, so that they will not rot so quickly.

"Even if it's only half a size smaller, the feet will wear out after walking for a long time, so it won't work."

As he spoke, Ah Chong took out a pair of new sneakers from the suitcase, and handed them to Ning Yu, "If you don't mind, you can wear my pair first. I haven't worn this pair a few times since I bought it. Size 44. Don't worry, I don't mind. Athlete's foot or something."

Ah Chong felt that Ning Yu would definitely reject him.

really.Ning Yu said: "It's really not necessary, I'm used to it, and I'm not so delicate."

"Why do you have to force yourself?" Ah Chong deliberately said something a little harsh, "Your mother doesn't care, why do you have to show consideration for her, and leave a scar on your foot as a souvenir? What kind of fool are you?"

Ning Yu was taken aback after hearing this, his expression was a little uncertain, but he still said, "I feel like you care about me."

"Of course I care about you. I just slept last night. Can't I care about you?" Ah Chong motioned him to change his shoes, "Hurry up, change and go out to eat."

Ning Yu nodded, took the shoes and put them on two or three times.Ah Chong felt that Ning Yu was obviously happier, as if he was smiling, and he smiled carefully.

Why are you so easy to coax.

Ah Chong's shoes were half a size too big, and the ones my mother bought were half a size smaller. Ning Yu changed to a bigger pair, which still didn't fit, but my feet were no longer crowded, and the feeling of being bound and bound all the time was gone. .

"I have the habit of running and playing ball. If I exercise regularly, my shoes are more useless. I usually don't buy such expensive ones." Ning Yu smiled, "It seems that your salary is quite high, so you buy such expensive shoes?"

Looking at Ning Yu before, he felt that there was something lacking in him, but now looking at Ah Chong, he understands that what is missing is this relaxed and natural smile.It's only when he laughs that he becomes vivid, but he usually has a sullen face, like a dummy.

"I like to buy shoes." Ah Chong looked away after finishing speaking, "Let's go out."

When leaving the hotel, Ning Yu pointed to the smiling staff at the door and said to Chong: "I feel that Thai people are very polite and enthusiastic about their work." Even an uncle who helps others open the door.

"With money to do things, you must see a smile." Ah Chong asked him, "Did you just feel it? Am I not enthusiastic about you? Didn't you feel my enthusiasm last night?"

Ning Yu began to change the subject: "...where shall we go later?"

In fact, Ah Chong had already thought of a few places to take him to play, but when he said it, it became: "I don't know, you can think about it."

Ning Yu paused, "You are the tour guide, I will listen to you."

"I'm not a tour guide today, I'm resting today."

As soon as Ah Chong finished speaking, a girl in a swimsuit passed by them. She was European and American with a very good figure. She was probably going to swim in the swimming pool on the left side of the lobby.

When she passed by, her eyes stopped on Ning Yu and Achong, but the two men she saw had extreme reactions. Achong whistled a friendly whistle at the beauty, while Ning Yu turned away very impolitely. body, leave the back to the other party.

The beauty blinked at Ah Chong, and walked away wrapped in a bath towel.

When the person left, Ah Chong asked him: "What are you doing? There is no need to see a ghost."

Ning Yu shook his head: "... just afraid of offending others."

A speechless reaction.Ah Chong was silent for a while, and asked him: "Did you never have much contact with girls since you were young?"

Ning Yu thought for a while: "What kind of contact are you talking about? Of course I have said it, and many girls have chased me."

"Well, there are many girls chasing you, so do you talk to them with your back?" Ah Chong glanced at him, "Has anyone ever told you that your usual expression looks very proud?"

"It really does." Ning Yu actually smiled, "I didn't get along very well from elementary school to university, and I don't have many friends. Maybe I'm a precocious person, and I often feel that the people around me are boring."

Ah Chong suddenly became curious about him.So Ah Chong asked: "Have you ever been in love?"

Ning Yu shook his head.

Ah Chong asked again: "Then have you ever liked someone else?"

Ning Yu shook his head halfway, he probably wanted to make a joke, so he said: "I didn't have it before, but I have it since I met you."

Ah Chong found that Ning Yu was actually quite smart, he could recognize the atmosphere of the speech, and he could enter a certain context that the other party expected.

"Don't imitate my speech." Ah Chong glanced at him, "I asked seriously."

"Really not." Ning Yu laughed, "I am more careful with myself, so it is difficult to enter other people's lives, and it is also difficult to let others enter my life."

"Really." Ah Chong smiled, "Then why is it so easy for me to enter you, I only need a case of beer to get you drunk, and then bring you to bed... You are really careful."

"Be careful with yourself for so long, can't you be careless once in a while?" Ning Yu didn't seem to care too much, "Although I don't know what it's like to fall in love, but I now know what it's like to do that, anyway, the result is It’s the same, I just omitted the steps, and the answer everyone wants to arrive at is the same. Isn’t it?”

I don't know what it's like to be in love.

Ah Chong thought for a while and asked, "Then what are you doing when other people are in love?"

"Study. Didn't I say that my grades are not bad. Before... I really didn't think about falling in love..." Ning Yu said, "I have always been a little afraid of girls, and I don't know that I can like boys."

Ah Chong was silent for a moment, and said, "Then you missed a lot."

He was thinking about how to tell Ning Yu the order of normal love.

But after thinking about it, Ah Chong himself will be a little confused. What does a young and sincere love look like?He recalled the young people's love in his mind, probably——

Probably because you have to be ambiguous before falling in love, put soda and soft candy in the desk of the other party, with a note in the wrapping paper, and write a few incomprehensible love words.Then, after ambiguity, you have to confess, after you confess, you have to confirm the relationship, hold hands before kissing, and kiss on tiptoe, the stretched calf will go numb.After school, we will walk together, we will send each other home, we will kiss in the dark corridor, our two lips stick together, we don’t want to separate.When I got home, I picked up my phone and sent a text message saying: Good night.

Then...and then when a certain day in the future comes, when a certain opportunity comes, it will finally come to fruition, when the sweat evaporates, when the innocence evaporates, youth seems to end like that in a certain hotel.

Ning Yu doesn't understand these things.That's why he said, "I feel like I'm falling in love with you, although we probably only talked about...for a few days."

Ah Chong frowned subconsciously, thinking how could this be a relationship.Other people's love starts with a small slip of soda fudge, but your love starts with a condom and a bottle of rush, it shouldn't be like this.

He felt that Ning Yu was a little silly, so he said, "I have no plans to fall in love."

"No? Otherwise... are you pretending to be in a three-day relationship with me?" Ning Yu probably didn't know that his tone was a little nervous, "Think about it this way, if you set a deadline for each relationship, maybe everyone They will cherish each other more, don't you think?"

Ah Chong didn't know why Ning Yu kept talking about feelings and love with him.He frowned and said, "I don't fall in love." He clearly said it very clearly, but it is easy to be unclear when falling in love.

Ah Chong began to feel a little annoyed.Why is Ning Yu the first time?The first time is a terrible word, too easy to forget.

Ah Chong felt that he only needed to step on a shallow footprint in Ning Yu's life, so there was no need to lead him forward, right?To fall in love is to be entangled with another person endlessly, flirting, and looking ugly.

Ning Yu asked him: "Why don't you talk about it?"

"Why?" Ah Chong smiled, "You let me think about it."

"Hurry up and make up a few reasons for me?"

"No, it's because there are too many reasons. I'll pick up a few representative ones and tell you about them."

Turn right at the hotel, cross a street, and face Pattaya Beach.

The sun is so bright, Ning Yu is wearing Ah Chong's AJ, and Ah Chong only wears a pair of flip flops.None of them said where they were going, but they all started walking along the coastline, towards the back of the sun.

"The first reason is that once the relationship is confirmed, the apples in your eyes will start to oxidize and turn yellow, and become ugly." Achong shrugged, "I, no matter if I talk to men or women, I like to do it. That. But I really hate the inertial thinking of most people... Because I am 1, so I must be the one who takes care of others? I think this is very strange! Although I like to be on top in bed, but in bed In life, I don't like to overwhelm others, and I don't like to take care of others. To be reasonable, everyone is a man, who has no temper!"

Ning Yu couldn't help laughing.

"Don't laugh, it's true." Ah Chong looked helpless, "When I still believed in love, I chatted with a 19-year-old brother. At first I thought he was okay, and he was cute when we chatted. After sleeping one day, just because I didn’t hug him to watch TV, God, he cried to me immediately, saying that I had changed, and that I didn’t cherish what I got! I was completely dumbfounded at the time. You see , If you are in a relationship, it is easy for a person like me who doesn't want to accommodate the other party to do things around. How annoying! It's best to be free, without worries."

Ning Yu smiled, and then said: "Otherwise, you can try to do the following one tonight, and I'll hold you to watch TV after I'm done?"

"Then there's no need." Ah Chong grabbed Ning Yu's shoulders, "Do you understand what I mean? I don't want to fall in love because of trouble."

"Then you can try with me, I should be good at taking care of people, and I won't let you hug me to watch TV." Ning Yu half-jokingly said, "I prefer to chat with you, you make me relax. "

"No need, really no need, why bother to suffer this." Ah Chong paused, pointed to a small stall by the side of the road, and asked, "Do you want to drink?"

Seeing the coconut, Ning Yu nodded: "Drink. Let me invite you. You invited me last time."

While the woman was opening coconuts for them, a white man in ragged clothes passed by with a wine bottle, and seemed to be humming the Internationale.A Chong shook his head and said to Ning Yu: "Thailand is a country with a large gap between the rich and the poor, even foreigners. There are many white people begging in Pattaya because they spent their pensions here on vacation."

Ning Yu took the ice coconut, and he handed the first one to Chong, "Whatever you buy will use up all your pension."

"Who knows." Ah Chong smiled, "Anyway, when you go out to play in the future, remember that no matter how good the place is, you have to go home. Remember this, and you won't be like that person."

Ning Yu was stunned for a moment before repeating softly: "...go home."

He paused, then asked Ah Chong, "Do you think a person can live without a home?"

Ah Chong looked at Ning Yu, and said, "Why do you ask that?"

"It's just..." Ning Yu frowned, "Because you have changed many jobs, you are always running around, and you don't like fixed relationships. I just want to ask you, do you feel that you can have no home when you are alone? "

Seeing Ning Yu's thinking, Ah Chong lowered his head slightly and frowned. There was a line between his brows, which looked like a scar from Ah Chong's perspective, which was not good-looking.

Home, such a strange word.Most people will like home because of the desire for warmth and security.But Ah Chong felt that he didn't need a home or warmth. Anyway, Thailand's four seasons are hot and it will never be cold.He floats around, stays at will, and lives freely.

"The thing about home," Ah Chong said, "makes me feel really uncomfortable."

Ning Yu was stunned for a while.

"Then you still remind me to go home?"

"Most people have to go home and need a home, and so do you, and I'm a small minority." Achong suddenly became a little annoyed, "When people stay together for a long time, only the boring daily life of daily necessities is left. Slowly exposed and unbearable, isn’t this the truth of family? After being together, the reality will become so cruel, why should we have a family.”

"Really." Ning Yu was silent for a while, "I seem to be different from you. It may be because I have never had a sense of belonging and the concept of home... My father's house, my mother's house, my school, my rented house The house is not my home. So I want to find someone I like very much to be with, to repeat the boring routine of life with him, to see his shortcomings and embarrassment. It is cruel to you, but I will There is a feeling of being needed."

Talking to Ning Yu, the conversation seems impossible.

Ah Chong didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, so he changed the subject and said, "Shall we go for a drive?"

Ning Yu nodded: "Yes, can I take a taxi?"

Ah Chong smiled and pointed to a parking lot 50 meters away: "Let's drive a convertible. Go, choose one!"

"... Are you going to say that the cars in this parking lot are all yours in the next sentence?" Ning Yu laughed first, "It's over, what should I do, I just thought about it, if you say these are your cars , I may even believe it. I have been made... dizzy by you these days."

Ah Chong laughed loudly: "Did you feel dizzy? I only fucked your ass, not your brain."

Ning Yu was silent for a while, and then followed Ah Chong's words: "It may be that something has flowed into my mind, and I have no IQ now."

Achong looked back at him with an exaggerated expression: "How could you say such a thing! God, I led you into trouble!?"

"Am I going to slap you on the chest shyly and say you hate it?" Ning Yu shrugged, "But I feel that in the past two days... I seem to have slowed down a lot, and I don't know if it's because I have a fever..."

Ning Yu originally thought that Ah Chong was joking when he said that he had a car.

When Ah Chong took him inside and asked him to guess which car he owns among the old and new cars in front of him, Ning Yu realized that Ah Chong was serious.

"You..." Ning Yu laughed, "You live in Bangkok, why do you have a car in Pattaya?"

"I also have a car in Chiang Mai." Ah Chong said, "modifying antique cars is my hobby. By the way, let me introduce to you the modified car culture in Thailand - in Thailand, modified cars are legal, so you go to the street You may see a lot of graffitied cars and tuk-tuks with national characteristics, which can be regarded as a regional culture. If you observe carefully, you will find that it is quite interesting.”

"I have a clue, you like modifying antique cars..." Ning Yu looked around the sea of ​​cars in front of him, "Then the one we are looking for must be quite old."

"Guess." Ah Chong blinked, "Guess right, I will hold you to watch TV at night, and I will do what I say."

"You don't need to watch TV. If you guess right..." Ning Yu paused, "Can you talk to me about love for a day?"

Hearing this, Ah Chong was taken aback for a moment, and turned to look at Ning Yu's face.

He found that Ning Yu looked like a closed book when he was not speaking.

Ning Yu's temperament is very calm, and there is an atmosphere that makes people unconsciously slow down their breathing.

It's just that Ah Chong doesn't like reading books very much.

"If you want to fall in love, you can turn on your phone and find a few dating apps. There are many lonely single men and women on it. There are all kinds of styles. You can choose." Ah Chong tried not to be so impatient, "I can Sleeping with you, I can't do anything else, I'm not very good at it."

"You can just pretend, and I don't want you to take it seriously." Ning Yu said in a bargaining tone, "I can pay you by the hour."

His voice was clear and friendly, even though he was talking about money.

Ah Chong thought to himself, money.

Achong raised his eyebrows, "Do you know how much it costs to rent someone like me in Pattaya? They rent a wife, and you rent a boyfriend."

Ning Yu's expression was calm under the sun: "Why don't you dare to say, if you don't want to fall in love, then I'll hire you and pay you in exchange. Isn't it good?"

Achong shook his head and smiled: "You guess right first, then talk about it."

"I'm sure I can guess right." Ning Yu smiled and pointed to an old-fashioned Mercedes-Benz in front of him, "That iron gray...Is it iron gray? Anyway, it's the one with an eagle on the front."

In fact, after Ning Yu came in and saw the retro Mercedes-Benz, he was sure that it must be Chong’s car. It flew out from the front of the car and pecked the eyes of others looking at it.

There is nothing to guess, other cars are either flashy or dilapidated, but the eagle is special enough to make people's eyes shine. Ning Yu can tell that the eagle is made by Ah Chong.Let yourself guess, throwing out a logical excuse to agree to this silly bet.

Ah Chong pretended to be surprised, and spread his hands helplessly: "Oh, you guessed it right, you are so lucky, you guessed it right once you guessed."

Ning Yu nodded and looked at Ah Chong: "Yes, I am very lucky."

Ah Chong smiled: "Okay, then I will be your boyfriend for a day, five hundred baht per hour, okay?"

Ning Yu pouted: "It's a bit expensive, can you negotiate the price?"

"Expensive things have their own reasons, I buy it now, I don't bargain." Ah Chong said and shook the car key at his fingertips, "If you want a boyfriend, get in the car with me, if you think it's expensive, go back to the hotel and sleep .”

"How can there be such a domineering seller like you?" Ning Yu laughed while holding the coconut, "I hired you to experience dating, then I am a consumer, you should at least pay attention to the user experience of consumers, right?"

"User experience?" Ah Chong turned his face to the side and smiled, "I just said that because I took care of your user experience. Don't you like me treating you like this?"

The last few words were spoken softly and flirtatiously by Ah Chong.

It took a long time for Ning Yu to recover his voice: "...OK. The deal is done, a boyfriend for 500 baht an hour."

"After today, you will know that it is not expensive at all." Ah Chong said, "Talk in advance, I will sell you for just one day, and there will be no more in the future."

Ning Yu nodded, indicating that he knew.

Before getting in the car, he was about to throw the finished coconut into the trash can. Ah Chong saw it and said quickly, "Oh! Don't throw it away, it's a waste, finish it!"

Ning Yu paused, "It's really gone."

"There's more, you want to drink like this." Ah Chong took the coconut, held Ning Yu's chin with the other hand and lifted it up, "Open your mouth."

Ning Yu probably didn't open his mouth under the command of others. Anyway, when Ah Chong poured the coconut upside down into his mouth, more than half of it flowed down his chin. Ning Yu's shirt was wet and stained with coconut. of sweetness.

He looked at Ah Chong with his mouth slightly open, as if he was in a daze, as if he had entered a certain world, and seemed to be still in his eyes.

Ah Chong's heart suddenly moved slightly, and a strange throbbing came from Ning Yu's eyes accurately, hitting his heartbeat.

Just because you look at me, do you still want to be the one above?

Ah Chong thought to himself, if they are couples, they should kiss at this time.

Thinking like this, he pressed Ning Yu onto the eagle painted a year ago on the front of the car.In the scorching sun, we exchanged a long-coconut-flavored kiss with each other.

If there is a third person watching this scene and seeing Ning Yu's eyes on Ah Chong at this moment, he may shout out loudly: Ning Yu is loading the progress bar of falling in love with you, and the value has reached 77%, which is almost beyond the normal threshold limit.

Unfortunately, no one gave them such an early warning at that moment.

Coconut is very sweet, sweat is very salty, Ning Yu, who experienced all this for the first time, only remembers these.