waste

The night is dark, and the city is lit up with dappled lights.In the evening, people are not in such a hurry as in the daytime, but it adds a bit of comfort, which is for relaxation after work, and for the pleasure of going out with family members or couples after dinner.

A shiny black street car shuttled through the traffic. Judging from the riding posture and control speed, its owner must be an old hand. However, when he pushed up the helmet visor before the traffic light, what he revealed was a pair of extremely young Dark eyes.

The mobile phone in his trouser pocket was vibrating crazily, and the front display showed that there were still 57 seconds to turn on the light, which should be enough time to answer a call.Li Xu took out his mobile phone and pressed the answer button, then put the mobile phone into the helmet and stuck it to his ear: "What's the matter?"

"I'm waiting for you, are you coming soon?" There was a mess of musical instruments on the other end of the phone, and the speaker shouted "quiet down" to the person next to him at the top of his voice, and the voice finally quieted down.

Li Xu was not as anxious as the other party at all: "Wait another 10 minutes."

"Don't step on it!" The man emphasized repeatedly.

It was said to be 10 minutes, but Li Xu arrived at the performing arts bar named "Indulgence" in only 5 minutes.There was a curly-haired girl in a leather skirt leaning against the lamppost at the door, smoking a cigarette, occasionally looking around impatiently, exhaling a few wisps of smoke from her mouth.

Li Xu parked the car and strode over, hooking the other party's neck and laughing rascally: "Look at you, don't scare the audience when you sing later."

The girl looks good, her beautiful eyes are full of charm, but when she speaks, she has a clear male voice: "I want to seduce a man! Last time, I was so mad at me, she was so fancy and useless, and she screamed in fright when I counterattacked!"

Li Xu convinced Shi Chengjin, who was used to a corrupt life, he took away the cigarette held between his fingers, brought it to his lips to take a breath, and then extinguished it in the extinguisher.He walked into the bar with his arms around Shi Chengjin, and whispered in the other's ear, "Follow me, I'm popular and useful."

"Get lost, you little brat." Shi Chengjin pushed Li Xu's chest away with his elbow.He is four years older than Li Xu, and he has been out of the society since finishing high school. He has not found a serious job, but he has a lot of connections.Some buddies laughed at him for making connections on the bed, and he smoked a cigarette with misty eyes: "While doing things and making connections, it's the best of both worlds, isn't it?"

"The body is not round enough, so I can't get out." Li Xu raised his brows lightly, in Shi Chengjin's words, he looked like a gangster who was not stingy.

The two stopped outside the band rehearsal, Shi Chengjin pressed the doorknob and pushed the door open, and then nimbly hid behind Li Xu in the next second.Li Xu had expected it a long time ago, raised his hand to catch the drum stick flying out of the room, and spun it back and forth between his fingers and palms a few times as if playing handsome.

The culprit, Han Qiyun, sat in front of the drum set and laughed arrogantly: "You are late again, wait until the performance is over and follow the old rules."

Shi Chengjin poked his head out from behind Li Xu, and poked Li Xu's shoulder with his finger: "Three glasses of self-punishment."

"Another day, I have to go to class tomorrow." Li Xu threw the drumsticks to Han Qiyun, and took down the electric bass hanging on the wall.

Gu Qu, who was standing in front of the electronic piano and practiced the music, played the wrong note due to distraction. He turned his head in disbelief: "Lesson?"

Song Yuenian, who was nestled in the broken sofa and tuned the guitar, said he could understand: "Because I want to see Xuanlin more."

Li Xu hooked a high stool and sat down: "Fart, I just broke up."

Gu Qian gasped, and Shi Chengjin gave Li Xu a thumbs up.

The brothers tacitly did not linger on this topic. After they each encountered their own musical instruments, they began to rehearse the repertoire to be performed on stage tonight.

The Shen Shen band is very popular in "Sink", and the customers in Come on love the looks of the five members.It is said that it starts with good looks and is loyal to talent. The obsessive lead singer and musicians are not without strength, not to mention proficient in their respective instruments, and the variety of types of songs performed can cater to all kinds of people.

Sure enough, after the whole performance, the surroundings of the stage were filled with flowers again. Shi Chengjin was the last one to walk. Before leaving, she knelt down/tucked a rose on her body, and winked at a certain man in the audience.

In the rehearsal room, Han Qiyun opened a can of cold beer to quench his thirst. The old air conditioner hadn't cooled the small space for a long time. He stood under the air outlet and cursed: "The boss is really stingy, and he won't give us a change if we earn so much money." Air conditioner, black-hearted capitalist!"

"It would be great if we could provide us with a rehearsal room for free," Song Yuenian said.

Gu Xiang looked around, and only four of the five came back: "The wet essence is looking for food again?"

"Ninety-nine percent yes, didn't you hear that he sang very hard tonight, there must be his dish in the audience." Li Xu hung up the bass, put on her backpack and waved, "Dude, I'm leaving first."

"I'll be with you." Gu Xiang followed, with a mint candy in his mouth, and he could smell the fresh mint flavor when he spoke, "Tell me, why did you break up with Xuan Lin?"

Gu Qu and Tan Xuanlin were classmates. Tan Xuanlin, who was a disciplinary committee member in the second year of high school, caught a few boys in the first year of high school who were hiding behind the playground and smoking.Someone escorted Tan Xuanlin, who was holding a small notebook and wanted to write down his name, in front of Li Xu, who was sitting on the railing and puffing: "Brother Xu, do you want to fight?"

Tan Xuanlin, with his arms cut behind him, stared at him fearlessly. Li Xu went around behind him and snatched the notebook and pen, and signed his name on it in a fluttering manner: "Don't fight, grab it back and be your sister-in-law." .”

After half a year, Li Xu still recalled Tan Xuanlin's bewildered expression at that time.He stopped outside the carport, took out the key chain and threw it away: "I didn't like it much at first, not to mention he is in his third year of high school, so as not to affect his studies."

Gu Qu didn't believe it: "I think you just find someone to fight against your family, and you get rid of them when you're satisfied."

"It's not as complicated as you think." Li Xu found his street car and squatted down to unlock it. "I'll give you a ride?"

"No, it's just a few stops, I'll take the bus back." Gu Qu shook his bus card with his backpack on his back, looking like a good student.

The summer evening wind is not as hot as the daytime. Li Xu pushed the streetcar out and parked it on the side of the road, straddled the car and let the wind blow for a while, trying to let the wind blow away the smell of alcohol from the bar around him.

He lit a cigarette, didn't smoke it, just watched it burn out, as if he had seen through his own life.With the smell of tobacco left between his fingers, he put on his helmet and started the street car.

When I got home, I saw Yao Yilei waiting in the living room without any surprise.The woman in the foggy blue silk nightdress turned off the TV when he came back, greeted him and asked if he was hungry.

Li Xu turned a blind eye to her, stepped off her running shoes and changed into slippers and went upstairs directly.At the end of his eyes, he saw Yao Yilei squatting at the entrance to help him arrange his shoes, he snorted coldly, entered his bedroom and slammed the door behind him.

The hands of the wall clock on the wall reached eleven o'clock, Yao Yilei stretched out her nightgown and sat back on the sofa.On the first floor, only the light was on in the living room, and the screen of the mobile phone on the coffee table was black. Her husband, who was on a business trip for two days, did not call or text her.

Li Xu never stayed at home during the day. When his father was not on business, he left at [-]:[-] every morning, and he was earlier than his father.Yao Yilei packed the bread she made into her breakfast bag and chased her out, leaving her only the back of Li Xu riding away on a street bike.

In the past, Li Xu could hang out in various entertainment places for a day, occasionally go to school for a cutscene, and "indulge" at night to find his living self.I don't know what to think about today, the street car drove all the way to Qinghe Middle School, stopped at the intersection, Li Xu took off his helmet, thinking about where the attraction of the school came from this day.

Before I could think it through, a silver Audi A3 ahead stopped in front of the canteen at the intersection, the co-pilot's door opened, and one leg stepped out.

"Go to school as soon as you finish shopping, don't stay outside the school for too long." Shu Shaokong looked at his watch, "I'm going to work, call me if you need anything."

"Yeah." Shu Yuan slammed the car door, squeezed through the breakfast crowd outside the canteen and entered the shop.

The store was busier than the outside, and the freezer was full of people.The weather is hot, and day students like to buy a bottle of cold drink and take it to school to cool down. The old man who looks after the store holds the change and shouts: "Don't worry, don't worry, come one by one."

His wife, who set up a stall selling breakfast at the entrance of the store, yelled, "There are only eight meat buns left!"

Shu Yuan squeezed to the freezer, reached out for a Coke, turned around and gave the change to the old man.

It was another hard battle from the inside to the outside of the store. Shu Yuan took a breath of fresh air. Just as he looked up, he saw Li Xu, who was holding a helmet a meter away, leaning on the street car and smiling at him. The meaning of the smile was unclear, like a joke. Like teasing, not friendly anyway.

Shu Yuan's first reaction was to run away, but when he thought of who he bought the Coke for, he stayed where he was, but he didn't go any closer, thinking about a question repeatedly in his mind: Has Li Xu turned eighteen? Can drive on the road?

Until being bumped hard from behind by someone without eyesight, Shu Yuan staggered towards the front with Coke in his arms, and Li Xu grabbed his waist with one hand.

Although they are at the same table, before today, Shu Yuan had never looked at Li Xu's face seriously.Not to mention Li Xu, even Shu Yuan's female dance partner who once held hands in Latin dance with Shu Yuan can hardly remember the details of each other's face - such as the shape of lips, such as the color of pupils.

However, at this moment, Li Xu hugged him who was about to fall, and he could remember Li Xu's face within three seconds, or even shorter.

The tough small knife eyebrows can give people a sense of oppression when frowning.

The pupils are pure black, the eyelashes are very thick, and there is a small mole about half a centimeter below the bottom of the left eye.

There is a shallow scar in the center of the bridge of the nose that is not easy to see.

Thin lips, lip color is not deep.

Li Xu's arm didn't stay on Shu Yuan's waist for too long, his face sank, and he looked over Shu Yuan's head and saw two boys wearing a large school uniform jacket coming out from the canteen, with their hands in their pockets and their stomachs bulging.They acted sneakily, turned around and ran away after turning their heads several times.

Wearing an airtight school uniform jacket in the hot summer?

"Fuck..." Li Xu put his helmet on the rearview mirror of the street car, took off his backpack and pushed it into Shu Yuan's arms, "Help me take it back to the classroom."

Then he ran towards the two boys.

Shu Yuan only had time to capture the majestic scene of Li Xu grabbing a boy's collar with his left and right hands, and then the man dragged two boys who had no height advantage into the alley near the school.

Shu Yuan maintains a posture of holding a backpack in one hand and an iced Coke in the other outside the canteen, and he is accompanied by Li Xu's streetcar next to him.He looked at the street car. It was brand new, or it might have been well maintained by the owner.

The backpack in the left hand is not heavy, so light that Shu Yuan feels that it is more difficult to hold a Coke than a backpack.

Walking towards Qinghe Middle School, Shu Yuan controlled herself not to look into the alley.

He doesn't like to make random guesses about anyone, no matter whether the person is familiar with him or not.But Li Xu is an exception, he can't help but guess the other party's next move.

After all, he had also been the one who was powerless to resist, and was dragged into the abyss of eternal darkness by someone as powerful as Li Xu in exactly the same way.