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Life is like a drama, and before Tao Ran can tell clearly whether the other party's first love is hypocritical or naive, whether it is a right or an obligation, several fuses/fires/threads were ignited together that night.

Really, it's so fast.

After working overtime that night, he figured that Chang Zheng, who had returned from a business trip that day, would be home by now, and just as he was about to leave, he happened to receive a call from him.Chang Zheng said that he was on the car coming out of the airport and learned that a client who had a good relationship with him before decided to stay in this city for a day and wanted to see the bars here, so he asked him to accompany him on a whim.

Tao Ran asked with a smile what kind of outrageous place he was going to, but he had already decided to go, and he had to report to himself on the way.In the commotion at the other end, Chang Zheng announced a name that all of them knew by heart.

He was silent for a while, but still asked: "What kind of client is that? Is he too?"

"I don't care if he is, anyway, it's not that there are no straight ones there."

Tao Ran laughed as soon as he heard it: "Straight what? Someone will take a straight girl to watch the fun, I believe, where will the straight man go?"

"Then let's assume that everyone knows it well, and they can be regarded as half friends. If he dares to talk about this place, why don't I dare to come here?" Chang Zheng's footsteps got closer and closer to the excitement, and finally gradually melted into it: "Come here too, let's play together for a while?"

"You really have the heart to call me? Isn't it enough for you to socialize alone on Friday night?"

"I also called other friends, who I don't know. You will save me the trouble of finding a topic by myself. Besides, although you have a family, you can't just play around. Anyway, I will show mercy and give you a full meal." What an eye-catching opportunity. The quality of the people who come this Friday night must be higher than usual.”

The more he said it, the more disrespectful he became. Tao Ran smiled and cursed, "What's wrong with you?", and finally agreed.

I haven't been here for nearly a year, and the place is getting more and more exaggerated. The boss actually bought a huge ball lamp and hung it in the center, and the color of the light will change on time. Festive and funny.Looking away from the lamp, several acquaintances in the shop had already looked over from a distance, and Tao Ran greeted them one by one, and walked straight to the table in the corner.

When Chang Zheng went out, he was wearing a set of dark blue pinstripes, and he also brought a set of light iron gray in the box, which happened to be very conspicuous in this dazzling and shaking light and shadow.

What he never expected was that among the people at the table who turned their heads to look at him, there was actually his college classmate, Chen Yang.

The polite smiles of businessmen paused in each other's eyes, and gradually took on a familiar temperature. Chen Yang stretched out his hand to him: "Long time no see."

Tao Ran held onto it immediately: "Yes, I haven't seen you since graduation."

"Ye Qi will come over in a while. I heard that you have already contacted me, why didn't you call me once?"

"I called you, how big is my light bulb..." Tao Ran saw that the smile on his face didn't seem to be hidden, so he let it go and joked with him: "Congratulations, you are finally married."

Chen Yang sat down again, and glanced at Chang Zheng who was casually shaking his glass with a smile: "You have a good eye too, this..."

"Yeah, I think it's good too." Tao Ran has never lost before compared to witty words. He unbuttoned his suit and sat next to Chang Zheng. He put his hands on his knees and said in a low voice: " Chen Yang is my college classmate, and so is Ye Qi, who he said would come later. Ye Qi is his boyfriend."

Chang Zheng brought a glass for him with a smile and poured some wine from the dark glass bottle: "It's such a coincidence that all the acquaintances have come here. Come, try this, it is said that Chen Yang just got the domestic agency right, It has not been imported in batches yet, and now this is a sample wine.”

Tao Ran really knows how to drink. Chen Yang knew him in his early years and knew about it.That Chang Zheng's client friend seemed to be Chen Yang's colleague, maybe they were still working together, seeing that they were all staring at Tao Ran, he stopped talking, and looked at him expectantly and took a sip.

Rarely happy, and thanks to his old friend, Tao Ran pondered for a moment, and gave a fairly pertinent evaluation.

"Very good, without a hint of sweetness."

So everyone laughed just right, and the guests at the table had a good time.

Ye Qi arrived late at night, with a hurried expression on his face, dressed as if he had just stepped off the podium, with a plaid shirt and dark denim, and he looked like an eternal youth.

Everyone said again, "It's really a coincidence that you are here too." After the greetings, they sat down again. Tao Ran glanced at Ye Qi's body again, and couldn't help smiling at him: "Look at you, we are really all in the dust. people."

Ye Qi suddenly rose up: "The wind and dust are inside or outside the threshold?"

Tao Ran was taken aback by his question, thinking that he would be courting death by sending him to his door to play tricks with a literature teacher: "It's both inside and out, are you satisfied with this answer?"

The customer didn't behave like he grew up in China, so he couldn't understand what kind of riddles they were playing. He shook his head and said that you still have the foundation, I feel ashamed.Everyone joked a little more, he got up and said to go to the bathroom, and then Chang Zheng took the opportunity to stand up and walk to the bar, saying hello to everyone that he was going to pay the bill first.

Whoever is stingy in business matters will be left behind, and the wine for this night is expensive, but since Chang Zheng felt it was necessary, Tao Ran chose to keep silent.Before he stood up, Tao Ran held him down to look carefully at his eyes, and asked how much he drank, Chang Zheng smiled and replied that it was not too much to count, and insisted on walking away alone.

Tao Ran and Ye Qi hadn't seen each other for a while, let alone Chen Yang who was a little further away. Taking advantage of the absence of the guest of honor, the three took the time to chat about the current situation of their classmates back then.This is a topic that can be endlessly talked about once it is started, and it will be exciting while talking.After a while, the voices of people in the whole store suddenly exploded for some reason, and none of them took it seriously at the moment, they all thought that someone climbed onto the stage to sing and dance, anyway, there is no shortage of such people here every night Breaking point.

It seemed that in the next second, the guest of honor came back to the table, but he just stood there, showing no intention of taking a seat.Just as Tao Ran raised his head, his eyes met his indescribable expression, and he suddenly realized that he was looking for him.

When a person is slightly drunk, his reaction will always be slow.But even if it was slow, Tao Ran began to realize that something must have happened.

"You...go over there to have a look? I just came out of the bathroom and saw Chang Zheng standing at the corner listening to the conversation of the people at the table over there, and then rushed up to do it out of nowhere. I didn't expect him to do this at all, so I didn't It's too late to stop, I..."

The conversation was still going on, but Tao Ran couldn't wait any longer.The blood instigated by alcohol seemed to be scrambling to rush to his head. He tried his best to push away the crowd in front of him, just wanting to reach the center of chaos as soon as possible.

The stranger's physical contact and the strong or weak smell of alcohol all provoked his nerves that were about to burn.In the short distance of more than ten meters, Tao Ran could hardly tell whether he was shocked, panicked or puzzled.Excessive emotions boiled into a pot of boiling soup, and he felt like a frog in this soup, thinking that everything was lukewarm, but there was nowhere to escape.

It was indeed a coincidence that during the time he passed through the group of spectators, the fight that Chang Zheng provoked just ended the initial stage of physical violence.The party that was beaten badly did not dare to fight back anymore, so it had to shout hysterically.

"Am I wrong? Am I? Do you dare to say that Wu Guizhou didn't like a man at that time?! He was not careful, and dared to put that kind of thing in the desk drawer. Can you blame me?!"

Chang Zheng stood still, still holding the opponent by the collar in his hand, and pressed him firmly against the wall.

Seeing this, Tao Ran didn't come any closer. The matter hadn't been resolved yet. This wasn't the time to fight in the past.Based on his understanding of Chang Zheng, at least in the three to five seconds after he was yelled at, Chang Zheng froze completely.

The body wrapped under the messy suit and shirt, which he was all too familiar with, seemed to be dragged into the deep sea of ​​the past just because of this hoarse voice.

Through the icy hustle and bustle, Tao Ran suddenly read his suffocation at that moment.

I don't know whether it was the embarrassment of the one-man show, or the pain left before that completely irritated the man. Taking advantage of the time difference between Chang Zheng's daze, he thought he had a chance to take advantage of it, but just when he was about to swing his fist, Chang Zheng slapped him. catch.

He spoke hoarsely, every word seemed to be soaked in the blood of years.

"I couldn't blame you all back then, and I couldn't blame him all, so what kind of bastards did you just say here?"

——The cold tone directly nailed Tao Ran in place.Instinct told him that Chang Zheng in front of him had completely lost his composure.And in such a dangerous state, as long as he is half sensible, he should wait before going forward.

But apart from instinct, there are still some deeper things after all, such as the cold air from the ice cubes, gradually entangled in my heart.

The dead silence that had been buried deep in Chang Zheng's heart for a long time came alive at this moment, and he was a monster that no one could hold back.

"Why can't I say? It's been so many years..." The man was obviously half-drunk and half-awake, the blood on his lips formed a shocking shape, but his eyes lit up sickly in an instant: "So it was you? That turtle with a shrunken head back then... ..."

He punched hard again, with a bang, and even the impact of bones and teeth could be heard clearly.As if he had forgotten the pain, the man jumped up excitedly, grabbed Chang Zheng's collar with all his might, and his hoarse and strange smile snaked into Tao Ran's heart like a poisonous snake.

"Hahahahaha, it turned out to be you! Thank you for being able to bear it, so the city is full of storms, you can leave him alone? He almost died, you are so close, you can watch from the sidelines ?!"

After that, he held Chang Zheng's face in his hands like crazy, and looked at it very closely for a few seconds. Before he could struggle, he let go after a moment, and then roared even louder: "Come on! Hit me!" I am not a thing, I know it in my heart! What about you? What are you? Without Wu Guizhou protecting you with all his might, how would you be today? You scumbag..."

Chang Zheng was suddenly enraged, kicked the man away, looked around, and went to pick up the beer bottles that had rolled all over the floor.

Then, the bottle was held by the other hand.

As if waking up from a dream, he raised his head very slowly, and saw Tao Ran's expressionless face.