Beat Generation

More than three weeks ago, when Zhuang Mei entered her office with the manpower report, she clearly remembered that the accurate news she had received was that Wu Ershan was going back to China.

During this week, Wen Xi was sure that there was no news pointing out that Zhan Banbi might appear here.

Wu Ershan, illuminated by the incense candles, was obviously also surprised that Zhan Banbi came here earlier than her to pay homage to the dead mother and daughter of the Bo family?Wen Xi didn't show any surprise, she clenched her hands tightly and her heart beat faster.

"Bambi, when I called you, you clearly said that you were going to the west for a meeting?" Wu Ershan ordered the driver to take out the ingot candles from the trunk, with a very displeased tone.

"You guys are here." Zhan Banbi was still the same as before, his eyes were so warm that he could squeeze out a pool of water.

"Long time no see." Wen Xi stretched out her hand——Zhan Banbi's hand was very cold, and she must have been in this cold windy "killing place" for more than an hour.

1 hour, far more than the time needed to mourn the general dead soul.

After Bo Mei's death, Zhan Banbi was the calmest, but she was the first to come on the death day every year.

"Long time no see. My father said that you have been too busy to bring your fiancé to meet your parents recently."

"I've been busy, how about you?"

"Wen Shan Hui Hai. Don't mention it."

The two looked at each other, and Wen Xi turned his head with some discomfort to see Wu Ershan squatting there burning yellow paper. Even the yellow paper could be burned so elegantly, which made Wen Xi somewhat regretful, regretful...how could Wu Ershan Not reincarnated as a boy, but thinking about it, if she was a boy, she might have tricked the naive Bo Mei into bed in the early years, and if Bo Mei was pregnant with the grandchildren of the Wu family, her life would be safe.

"Are you okay?" Zhan Banbi asked.

"Very good." Wen Xi and Zhan Banbi walked aside, Zhan Banbi lit a cigar for Wen Xi, and they smoked with their backs to Wu Ershan.

"The three of us live in different places, and we are usually too busy to meet each other. Time flies like an arrow. In a blink of an eye, you are going to get married."

"Aren't you coming too soon? I heard from my mother that your father is already choosing someone for you?"

"He has been selected for three years. Now he is too busy. If I don't help him, he will not be able to do so." Zhan Banbi took a deep puff of the cigar, and then lightly puffed out the cigarette.

Wen Xi smiled, "Then do you have someone in mind?"

"It used to be." Zhan Banbi looked at Wen Xi, "Do you... like that guy? I've seen him before."

"..." Wen Xi smiled, "It's okay."

"When you get married, where are you going to do it?"

"I haven't thought about it yet." Wen Xi also took a deep puff of the cigar, and the melancholy in her eyes made Zhan Banbi a little puzzled, "Could you be cheating before you're married?"

"No."

"You don't look like you have nothing. Your fiancée is okay, and her private life is not messy. She has only had two girlfriends."

"Why did you find out so clearly? Why, have you taken a fancy to my fiance?"

"No. I just want to check on you."

"Then I have to say thank you." Wen Xi flicked the cigarette ash, she curled the corner of her mouth, "Speaking of which, do you have anyone in mind now?"

Zhan Banbi shook his head, "I don't really want to get married, it's too complicated."

"Then...you don't have a boyfriend?"

"Not interested in."

Wen Xi's heart skipped a beat again, she turned around and glanced at Wu Ershan, "You won't be the same as Ershan, are you?"

"what?"

"……nothing."

Zhan Banbi smiled dryly and raised his brows slightly, "It seems so."

"what?"

"Looks like you're asking me."

———This is too abnormal. Zhan Banbi used to be tight-lipped about her private life, and she would not directly admit what she likes and dislikes. This is mostly due to her father's unpredictable mood of family politician Enlightenment, Wen Xi was smoking a cigar, feeling bad all over.

"So, do you have a bed partner?"

"Not yet. But it should be soon." Zhan Banbi looked at Wen Xi, "After you marry him, will you move back to the capital?"

"No. The capital is too dry."

Zhan Banbi took a breath, "I'll stay here for a few days."

"Cough cough." Wen Xi coughed heavily, and Wu Ershan turned his head to look, "Ershan, please burn less paper, I'm about to choke to death, your incense smells really strong."

"Let's burn it for you." Zhan Banbi threw a cigar over to help, Wen Xi looked at the yellow paper ashes that jumped up from the brazier, and looked back and forth between Zhan Banbi and Wu Ershan. Good for playing hide and seek.

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The city where Wen Xi lives runs through a nationally famous river, and the city center is surrounded by more than a dozen lakes, large and small.

I picked a tavern in a deep alley near the lake, opened a private room, and the three of them sat around the fire.

The waitress lowered her head and asked, "What do you three want to eat?"

"There's no menu here. Order whatever you like. I'll treat you today." Wen Xi said.

"I don't have much appetite. Bambi, what about you." Wu Ershan's eyes were still teary, no wonder the waitress stared at her when she came in, Wen Xi turned her head to signal the waitress not to stare at Wu Ershan's face, the waitress lowered her head shyly .

"I'm not familiar with this place. Let's order Wen Xi." Zhan Banbi was replying to a message on his mobile phone, not thinking about eating.

"Then I'll order." Wen Xi stood up, "I'll go to the kitchen and have a look."

"I'll go too." Wu Ershan stood up, followed Wen Xi through the winding corridors, and entered the kitchen of the tavern.

Zhan Banbi, who stayed alone in the private room, put down her phone after finishing her work. It had been a long time since she had gone out to drink with friends in the middle of the night as she lived in the capital. She could hear the sound of the lake flowing slowly in winter outside the window.

The fire was crackling, and Zhan Banbi remembered the six bodyguards who protected her with her. She opened the door and said to them who stood motionless outside the door: "Go to the next door and drink something to warm your body. Tonight , it may be late. Anything, please do not disturb us. Thank you."

"Yes, ma'am."

"Also..." Zhan Banbi was about to speak when there was the sound of a cell phone vibrating from inside the room, "I'll answer the call first."

She thought it was her phone vibrating, but she looked around - it turned out that the phone in Wen Xi's bag was vibrating.

Soon, the vibrating sound of the phone disappeared.

Zhan Banbi turned around and was about to talk to the bodyguards when the phone vibrated again.

"Looks like I have to answer a call for her." Zhan Banbi opened Wen Xi's bag, took out her cell phone, the caller ID was [Toy Store], she raised her eyebrows unexpectedly, and then answered the cell phone.

"I'm sorry. I still called you so late." Zhuang Mei on the other end clenched her lower lip and spoke, while Zhan Banbi on the other end felt like her heart was suddenly tightened, and her breathing couldn't help slowing down. up.

"........."

After not hearing Wen Xi's voice for a long time, Zhuang Mei blinked hesitantly, "If you don't want to talk, then I'll hang up now. I'm sorry."

"..." A large blank quickly passed through Zhan Banbi's mind. She gestured to a bodyguard, and the bodyguard immediately took out a notebook and pen, and Zhan Banbi immediately wrote down the details of the call. The number, and then gave it to the bodyguard, who immediately put the small book into the interlayer of his clothes.

"Sorry. I'm Wen Xi's friend. She's not here now. If you have anything to say, I'll ask her to call you back later."

"..." Zhuang Mei's eyes widened suddenly. She had just finished taking a shower and was standing in front of the mirror—she in the mirror was also staring at her in surprise. She opened her mouth, and something flew by. flashed out of her mind, and then sank into the sea of ​​dark and floating hearts again.

"Hello." Zhan Banbi clenched his fists, and within two seconds, his palms were already sweating.

There was a sound of "cracking", and the sound of the phone falling to the ground came from the other end. Zhan Banbi only felt that his eardrums were shaken with extreme pain, and his heartstrings were immediately broken.

At this time, Wen Xi and Wu Ershan walked in, and when Zhan Banbi looked at Wen Xi, his eyes had returned to normal, and said, "Your phone seems to have hung up."

"It's so late, who will call me. It can't be a sales call, right?" Wen Xi sat down, "Don't worry about it, let's have a glass of wine to warm up first."

Zhan Banbi squeezed the phone, "I'll call you back, I seem to have scared the other party."

"It's rare that the leader takes it so seriously." Wen Xi took the phone from her hand, looked at it, and said with a smile, "It's from a toy store. I bought a lot of toys for my sister for her birthday a few days ago. I heard that this custom-made The quality is quite good, but unfortunately several of them were damaged when they arrived, which made Wen Li very angry. You also know Wen Li's temper."

"Yes. Then, which toy store is she the owner of?"

"...I forgot." Wen Xi smiled again, "Okay, okay, I'll call back and ask. It happened 800 years ago."

When you dial the phone, the one you dialed is already on the phone—Wen Xi is leaning on the sofa, Wu Ershan is eating longan with his head down, Zhan Banbi is standing by the window, looking sideways out of the window, with half of his face sunk in the shadows , and did not look her way.

Wen Xi called again, this time Zhuang Mei answered the phone, and Wen Xi said, "It's so late, you haven't slept yet?"

"...It was just now..."

"Okay, tomorrow I will ask the butler to send you the broken toy back. Okay."

Zhuang Mei was at a loss. She took a deep breath and said softly, "Okay, good night."

"Goodbye." Wen Xi hung up the phone, and the waiter began to serve the food, "The food in this restaurant is not bad."

"Bambi, eat." Wu Er called kindly.

Zhan Banbi, nicknamed Bambi, got her name because the teacher described her eyes as elk in the forest in Chinese class, but except for Wu Ershan, almost no one dares to call her that now, even Wen Xi.

"it is good."

After a round of drinking, the three of them began to reminisce about the old days and chat about the current situation, nothing more than work and love life. In this case, Wen Xi basically only needs to listen to Wu Er's eloquence.

But today, I don't know how the topic got changed, but it always turned to her.

"I met him at a wine tasting party because of a weirdly shaped decanter." When Wen Xi talked about her fiancé Kong Yuliang, she tried her best to smile from the corners of her eyes, with a little shyness on her lips.

Wu Er listened with relish, and asked, "It's rare that Bambi is here, you ask him to come next time."

"Okay." Wen Xi frowned again, and Zhan Banbi's eyes were hooked on her body like iron hooks, as if countless holes would be hooked all over his body if he didn't pay attention.

"Then what do you like about him?" Zhan Banbi poured wine for Wen Xi, and Wen Xi looked at the dizzy ripples in the glass, and blurted out: "He's easy to get along with, and he doesn't have a bad temper."

"Tsk tsk tsk." Wu Ershan shook his head, "You just found an old scalper."

"He is only three years older than me." Three years old, a small generation gap, Zhuang Mei is also three years older than her.Wen Xi gulped it down, putting all the hesitation in her eyes into the spirits down her throat. She didn't know why Zhuang Mei called late at night, and she wasn't sure if something happened to Mo Keli.

Talking from childhood to girlhood, and from girlhood to interesting things at work recently, the three of them all avoided the part of the common memory about Bo Mei tonight.

It will be bright.

Zhan Banbi was driven away by her driver and bodyguard, while Wen Xi personally drove Wu Ershan back to her hotel.

When the sun was shining on the road, she immediately called Zhuang Mei and said, "Screw this mobile phone card, change the mobile phone again, and then use a public phone to call my mobile phone and tell me your new number."

Zhuang Mei on the other end curled up on the side of the bed, and let out a "hmm".

"You know who answered the phone last night."

"know."

"After all these years, you remember her voice. You know what to do."

"Yes, I know." After Wen Xi hung up the phone, Zhuang Mei got out of bed, soaked the phone card in wine and lit it.

Today is the weekend, and when you open the window, you can see the portrait of Mokley’s idle weekend. Zhuang Mei is leaning against the window in a tight nightgown. The dry winter wind blows the hair on her forehead. Yesterday seems to be her "death day" ", she thought belatedly.