city ​​of angels

Ah Chong ordered American style.Ning Yu originally wanted to order a caramel latte, but Ah Chong said, "Would you like to try their coconut milk?"

Ning Yu thought that Ah Chong would say that he should stop drinking coffee when he was sick.After thinking about it, he was distracted to think again, wondering if he could drink coffee if he had a cold.

But Ah Chong just said: "Their coconut milk is delicious."

They paid politely separately, without anyone saying I'm here to buy you.Ning Yu felt that it might be abrupt to bring it up, but Ah Chong... I don’t know what Ah Chong thinks.

The room was very air-conditioned, and Ning Yu started to feel cold again after sitting down. The air conditioner gave him a headache.Ah Chong sometimes flipped through the magazines on the table, and occasionally looked at his phone.

"When did you start working as a tour guide?" Ning Yu began to find nothing to say.

"About two years ago." Ah Chong closed the magazine, flipped the black iPhone up and down in his hands, and suddenly pointed to Ning Yu's open bag, "Do you still take your computer with you when you go out?"

"Yeah." Ning Yu put the bag on its side, "I'm working on a project with a group. Although I've come out to play, I'm still afraid that I will need to use computers and materials in some situations."

"Project?" Ah Chong repeated, "What do you do for work? Didn't you just graduate?"

Ning Yu never felt that he was so bad at words, anyway, he stuttered a bit when explaining to Ah Chong.What is there to be embarrassed about?The national subject major of Double One in China has good grades, and has won awards in the national modeling competition and robot competition. Is it so hard to say?

Maybe it's because Ah Chong is staring at him seriously?Those eyes are dark and well-shaped, looking at you with rapt attention.It must be because these eyes are so special, so Ning Yu felt his heart beating faster.

"Sounds great." Ah Chong was laughing when he commented, "I don't like reading very much, and I can probably do things other than reading very well."

The waiter brings the drinks.Ning Yu touched the goosebumps on his arms, thinking that after drinking this glass of coconut water, the cold might get worse.

As a result, Ah Chong suddenly said, "It's so boring inside, let's sit outside."

After speaking, he picked up the two cups on the table and walked out.

Ning Yu froze for two seconds before grabbing his schoolbag and following.

After pushing the door open, the tide of hot air rushed in.At this moment, the heat makes people feel safe, giving people an illusion of comfort and peace for no reason.

Ah Chong sat idle.He slowly added a piece of sugar to the cup, and stirred with a spoon. Ning Yu had no place to put his eyes, so he just stared at Ah Chong's hand.He had no topic, wanted to say something, but couldn't open his mouth.

"Zip up your schoolbag." Ah Chong pointed at Ning Yu's schoolbag with a spoon, "Be careful with your valuables, don't lose them and you won't be able to return home."

Ning Yu could only turn his head to sort out the messy bag.All the miscellaneous things were stuffed inside, and the zipper of the schoolbag was not working. He was a little annoyed, so he simply took out the things and rearranged them.Seeing him take out a book, Ah Chong asked, "You still carry the book with you? Let me have a look?"

The hand that was about to withdraw also stopped.Ning Yu hesitated for a while before handing over the book, and said, "I just took the book before I came here, and I plan to read it to pass the time when I'm in the car."

Ah Chong raised his eyebrows and read the title: "Blade Edge. What's it about?" He casually flipped through the pages to see the small characters Ning Yu marked in the book with a pencil.

"It's just... a pilot in the United States met a comrade-in-arms when he was in the army. The comrade-in-arms died later, and he began to feel confused about life. After demobilization, he didn't continue to study, and he didn't want to work. He wanted to find the answer to his life. Went to Paris." Ning Yu spoke slowly, "I saw this, but I don't really want to continue watching."

"Why, poor writing?"

"No, it's well written, it's just..." Ning Yu tried to express his feelings, "Although there are no literary works that cannot be judged by a good ending or a bad ending, I always feel that the final direction of this story is what I am now. I haven't been able to agree and accept it yet. It's like... I'm looking at something that doesn't belong to my life experience, and I'm afraid that I will be affected too much after reading it."

Ah Chong laughed, he shook his head: "It takes so much to read a book."

Ning Yu took the book and said, "Do you have any?"

"Yes, I have a sense of distance when chatting with you people who have read a lot. I feel that you like to think too much."

Ning Yu was silent for a while.Then his phone rang, and it was his father.He said a few perfunctory words, and they kept asking him about his work, and he said a few words to Ning Yu in a weird way, roughly meaning why he went to Thailand, it’s no fun if a small country is underdeveloped, and he still has to do with Zhou Jiaxin There are so many women who go there, and they don't say hello in advance, and only tell him when they arrive.

The topic is getting more and more biased, and Ning Yu's patience is almost running out.He spoke Shanghai dialect to his father, and Xin Dao, Ah Chong probably didn’t understand it, so he didn’t go to pick it up. As a result, Ning Yu started to speak louder and louder as usual, and became a little uncontrollably angry impatient.

After hanging up the phone, Ning Yu realized that he had lost his composure just now.

But Ah Chong didn't seem to care much.He sipped his coffee and smiled at Ning Yu: "I have to call and quarrel with others when I come out to play."

Ning Yu subconsciously said, "...I'm sorry."

I didn't feel the need to apologize until I finished speaking, but I blurted it out.

Ah Chong was amused by his reaction: "Why are you sorry to me? I think you should not think about unhappy things when you come out to play. Come out to play and relax."

After he finished speaking, he put his arm on the table, moved a little closer, and looked at Ning Yu's hair. When Ning Yu was a little restless, he said, "Hey, there is something in the hair."

Ning Yu raised his head to touch his hair, but Ah Chong had already raised his hand.Ning Yu could only look at Ah Chong's face, and it was strange that Ah Chong was also looking at him.

They stared at each other.

Ah Chong's smile became a bit sly in his sight.

Ning Yu had the illusion of being melted by that gaze.Hot weather?Fever?Why is it so hot.He felt that there was a fire close to his brain, and the closer it was, the more uncomfortable it became.

The hand touched the hair on the side of his right ear.When Ning Yu blinked, he saw that hand stopped in front of his eyes.

Ah Chong's fingers are well-knit and well-shaped, and he is holding a paper flower.

Seeing Ning Yu's stunned look, Ah Chong laughed again.He shook the paper flower and said, "I'll do a magic trick for you, don't be unhappy."

It took Ning Yu a long time to recover his voice: "... When did you break it?"

Ah Chong was still shaking the paper flower gently.

In Ah Chong's smile, Ning Yu found a few words that can describe the other person's appearance: when he smiles, it looks like a soda that has been opened, with bubbles coming out.The appearance is wild and unrestrained.

"When you were on the phone, you folded it with a napkin. No one chatted with me, it was boring." Achong looked at him with his head propped up, and motioned Ning Yu to take the flower, "Send you a flower, I hope you Be happy every day in Thailand, please give me a good review after the trip.”

"You can do magic..."

"It's fun, I learned it when I was bored before. Don't want it?" Ah Chong shook the paper flower, "Don't let me throw it away."

After hesitating for a second, Ning Yu took the paper flower.Maybe it's not called hesitation, Ning Yu just thinks that the second of pause can prove that he has thought about it.

As a result, after pulling out the flower, Ah Chong quickly reached for Ning Yu's left ear hair.

He probably stroked his hair, rubbed the skin beside his ears, and withdrew his hand for a moment.He moved very quickly, and Ning Yu was so confused that he didn't dare to move.

When that hand returned to Ning Yu's eyes again, there was a coin lying in Ah Chong's palm this time.

"The second magic gift from the tour guide in Bangkok, lucky coin." Achong folded the coin in his palm and smiled brightly, "This is a one-yuan coin from China. It was given to me by a previous tourist. It is my collection and I will give it to you today. You. But you guess first, whether the palm facing up is a number or a pattern."

Ning Yu was amused by Ah Chong's expression, and he relaxed a bit: "Then what will happen if you guess the number and the pattern?"

"If you guess the pattern...you will have good fortune." Ah Chong said seriously, "If you guess the number, you will have good luck. How about it?"

The magic is not brilliant, but it appears just right.The game is not fun, but Ah Chong has an indescribable charm when he does these things.He seems to know what you're thinking and can give the best response to make you feel comfortable.

The most rare thing is that although his speech and behavior are always somewhat ambiguous, the essence is not frivolous. You even feel that you are being paid attention to by him.

Guessing the coin is no fun, the person holding the coin is interesting.

Ning Yu pretended to be calm and took a sip of coconut juice. He glanced at the paper flower at his hand and said, "...then I guess it's a number."

Ah Chong looked at him with raised eyebrows: "Oh, I'm looking forward to having good luck?"

Ning Yu tried to squeeze out a very casual tone: "I look forward to it, I haven't met a suitable person in China, maybe I can meet here."

Ah Chong laughed: "It's so casual."

"What you love and what I wish, can't be said to be casual or not. Besides, if there is an affair, it will be much more interesting than going to see the Grand Palace." Ning Yu pointed to the palms of Ah Chong's hands, "Hurry up. "

Ah Chong said, but his hands were still tightly closed, as if he was pressing Pandora's box tightly, preventing any weird things from flying out and flying into Ning Yu's brain.

For no reason, Ning Yu felt that he was sweating, he was stared at by Ah Chong...

"Hurry up." He couldn't help urging in a low voice, "Don't be a fool."

Ah Chong looked at Ning Yu for a while with a half-smile, and then slowly opened his palm.

The palm is empty, the coins are gone.

Ning Yu was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "The magic isn't over yet...Don't be a tour guide, be a magician, girls will definitely like you."

Ah Chong said: "Only girls like it, but men don't like it? It's so sad."

Ning Yu was stunned: "...not really...it depends on the situation."

Ah Chong continued the conversation very naturally: "Is that so, will you eat my set?"

This sentence is not a question, but more like a statement.Why are declarative sentences so ambiguous?

The wind was blowing, and the smell of coffee and Ah Chong made Ning Yu dizzy.Did the cold medicine you took in the morning work?Coincidentally, it works now?His head was dizzy.

Drink water when you are embarrassed.Ning Yu raised his cup and took a sip of coconut juice before saying ambiguously, "The magic is great."

Ah Chong smiled, and drank the coffee in the cup in one gulp.When he raised his head, Ning Yu saw his twitching Adam's apple and sharp jaw. Before Ah Chong put down the cup, Ning Yu turned his eyes away to look at a white couple passing by.

The couple were dressed coolly, their arms were intertwined, and the boy was feeding his girlfriend with a coconut in his hand.When girls step on their feet to drink drinks, boys lean down and kiss each other's foreheads.In the store, Thai songs that I don't understand are playing, babbling, the melody is very pleasant, and the atmosphere makes people drowsy.

After a while of silence, Ning Yu asked: "The coin was changed by you, so my fortune and love luck are gone?"

Ah Chong smiled, "Lift up your cup and have a look."

Ning Yu came back to his senses and raised his cup.

At some point, a one-yuan coin appeared under the glass.The side facing Ning Yu is the Arabic numeral, 1.

Ning Yu was really amazed this time.He said: "You are really amazing, when did you put it here!"

"Telling you is not called magic, why do you have to know?"

Ning Yu praised without hesitation: "It's amazing! It seems that I will really have a good luck!"

But Ah Chong looked regretful, and said to Ning Yu, "Oh, why would you want 1. If I were to say it, I would want the chrysanthemum side. I want to get rich."

The person who said it may or may not have intended.But no matter what Ah Chong's original intention was, in short, it became extremely strange to put these words in Ning Yu's ears.

He stared blankly at the 1 on the coin in front of him for a while, and his face slowly turned red.