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[-], when everything was still on guard—in other words, a third of a century before rainbow flag red ribbon ecstasy was even a thing.

There were only three newspapers in Taiwan at that time, and it was still far from internationalization. The information was like foreign tobacco and alcohol that had not yet been opened for import. This aspect was extremely rare and little known.Even in Taipei City, the general English proficiency of the people is still low, so don’t just ask me where there is ㄍㄟㄅㄚˋ①, he may think you are using organ language to swear.Comrade?Don't forget that it was still a period of martial law, and "loving comrades" is a term used by the Communist Party, and the crime is aggravated.

So, how to define MELODY?

There is no need to explain it at all.That's right, if it wasn't for an acquaintance to lead the way, they would be carefully interrogated to prevent trouble.Don't be ostentatious, you have to learn to cast doubts, and it is the best policy to teach outsiders not to see through the fox's tail at a glance.So don't expect any style or design in the MELODY store either.When the store first opened, the place didn't even have a karaoke facility.At that time, Taipei’s economy was still behind Manila and Kuala Lumpur. It was already very good to have such a venue back then, so don’t be too picky.

BTW②, remember when karaoke machines first appeared, there were no TV screens, only the lyrics book, and the cassette tapes were used?A box of sixteen songs is as thick as a book. MELODY's storefront is only [-] ping ③, and the bar and chairs are removed, and the standing people are too crowded, so where is the extra space for stacking?Want to come here and sing?Let's wait for the digital song order system to appear!

But it's strange to say that even with the emergence of cash drawers, all gay bars, no matter how big or small, still have karaoke entertainment.This is probably the only tradition that has survived the 30 years of vicissitudes.The quality of singing is second to none, the opportunity to appear on stage is the most important thing, otherwise, how can a room full of dark people win attention, and the careful dressing up before going out is not a waste?

Doesn't it mean that the English level of people at that time was not high?Then why did you choose such a pretentious English name MELODY?Wait a minute, if it is written as "Meile Land", it will have a different taste, won't it?This is the so-called suspicious formation. Outsiders seem to think that it is a foreigner's business, and the police are all in awe.Just like TEXOUND, which was a sensational but short-lived shaking head bar 20 years later, the name can be written on the store card. In private, everyone says "Tai Ke Shuang", but it is vulgar and powerful, quite coquettish and vivid.

At the same time as "Melody", there are several other venues.

"Concentric Bridge" should be the first to install karaoke. On the small dance floor of "Chongqing", men and women dance lightly, dancing tango jiluba every night.The "First Hotel" on Zhongshan North Road hadn't closed yet, and the alley next to it was narrow and secluded on weekdays, but on weekends, there were suddenly more groups of teenagers rushing in and out."TEN", which is located in the basement of a building at the bottom of the alley, is a classic store name hidden by a secret.It was the first disco-style house back then, and it was the most popular at the opening. Several male stars that were rumored privately in the film and drama circle actually showed up to support it, making the young guys who had just debuted stunned.

At that time, seven years old and only twenty, tall, handsome, and badass, with prodigal hair full of cream, appeared on the dance floor of TEN, always splashing affectionate eyes on all sides, so not vain.

After returning from the army, he met the third child who used to be the foreman manager of TEN, and told him that Qiao Ge had basically signed a contract with a small singer from the TV station, jumped onto the big screen of a literary romance movie and became a second-line actor, and wanted to invest in his own little star. The gathering place provides acquaintances to bring their own friends to meet each other's friends.Within two years, the popularity of literary and artistic romance movies began to subside, and the infatuated young student immigrated to Canada ahead of time, and I heard that he got married there.Only the seventh child is willing to stay and help the third child continue to take over. This is the beginning of the official listing of "Meile Land".

Compared with their peers, their store was really sunny back then.But no one would have imagined that MELODY could live such a long life, surviving across the century.

In those days, dating took the route of long-term love. When customers came to the store, they didn’t sing and just chatted. There was no mobile phone or Line. People often left love letters at the bar to pass on.When he was young, Lao Qi never thought about how long the love of people like them can last. This kind of self-deception is still a few years away. He always thinks that he is young and frivolous, and working here is just a halfway station, and he will obediently submit when the time comes. Get married.I never expected that I would spend most of my life like this. I came to open the store every evening to clean it and then I was busy until 20:[-] to close work. Day after day, this kind of life has been No.[-] for five years.

What Lao Qi didn't even expect was that he would live to see the term "gay marriage" appear and be discussed openly and openly every few days.Although, that has nothing to do with him.

In the age when he was growing up, he only had a foothold if he wanted to be blessed.If you want to get married or not, let the next generation worry about it!He never went to join in the excitement of the big parade every year. He was so tired every day that he didn't get enough sleep. How could he have such leisure time?

He is over half a century old, and the worst years have passed.Poor mother Zhao back then was arrested and imprisoned by the police on the charge of "shemale" because of a cross-dressing photo.Engage in sports?Shouldn't they apply to the government for "national compensation" for those old queens who were imprisoned for the crime of indecency?No one ever cared about it.

Come on, the little ones only want to be happy for themselves is the most important thing, the parade is just a carnival, widows, widows, sick and old people, it's best to hide away.To celebrate the carnival after the end, the little ones will not pick him up.Now they are going to the Red Mansion Bear Village, FUNKY, JUMP...

Times have changed. If someone targeted the glass industry 25 years ago and said that this consumer market has unlimited potential, it was a big deal, and they would laugh at their big teeth.

These days, every time a new generation comes in hopping and pushing the door open, they all stick out their tongues and make faces when they see a room full of Ojisang, and when they turn around, they slam the door and withdraw their legs, without showing any face.A few years ago, the boys were still polite, and since they opened the door to come in, they ordered a drink and sat down.We all feel sorry for each other, listen to the stories of the predecessors, warm each other's memories, and there is no need to be arrogant.Now there is no need to hide it, and blatantly have an extra identity, called a consumer.Most of them are players in the circle who feel happy after drinking, singing and dancing in the evening, and finally have a trip in the sauna.Don’t worry if you’re tired of playing all of these, and there’s also a party to serve.

At one time, no one called this place Melody; they just called it "Lao Qi's shop".Now only the old customers still call him Laoqi, and the later guests call him Andy.

Generational differences?It's better to say that their generation is dying!In order to survive in this industry, he also sought new ideas and changes.That year, various bars sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain, blossoming everywhere, and the business entered the Warring States period. He gritted his teeth and remodeled, painted the inside and outside of the store black, and imported male body posters hung all over the wall, determined to do a good job. He voted.If you don't make money, do you want to go to heaven?No matter what, it's not their turn, right?

At the age of 35, he realized that he had nothing to rely on when he was old, so when would he wait if he didn't save some money now?I have seen too many old, sick, disabled and poor people in the industry, and even the hottest comedians in the show, in the end, they are left to die in a small suite in Ximending.The youngest got a disease that made people in the circle turn pale when they heard about it, and when they finally entrusted the store to him, they cried together.Lao Qi didn't want to do this, and Andy was even more unwilling.

In the next few years, Andy was well-known in the circle for his flamboyant human flesh market. When he came to the store, it was like entering a dark and dark hole.However, the store name of Melody did not change in the end, because I was reluctant to give up.Lao Qi always remembers that he didn't know anything back then. If he hadn't met a few senior brothers, he created this little safe haven and continued fooling around in the new park. He didn't know how he would be abused.

With ups and downs and ups and downs, MELODY has long been a legend in the industry.

I have been standing behind this bar for 25 years. Except for the help of Brother Tang in those few years, he took care of a store by himself. It's the material for this job.

No matter how capable he is, the current Lao Qi has to admit that he is really a bit old.Like last night, he was only halfway through collecting the cups and sweeping the floor after closing. He was dizzy for a while, and when he opened his eyes, he found that he was curled up in a corner with a broom in his arms and had already fallen asleep.

When I woke up with my eyes open, my heart was still beating. I saw that the electronic clock on the wall was flashing 04:20, but it was only half an hour later, but it seemed that I had been on my way to a far away place, and my whole body was relaxed. For a moment, I didn't know where I was.

The store that has been guarded for half my life is still the same scene after closing every night.There were beer bottles stumbling around on the bar counter, and the TV screen with the sound turned off continued to play karaoke videos.There are no windows in the entire enclosed space, and it is impossible to see whether the rain outside has stopped.

The cold current has passed, and the freezing rain has been falling for several days.

His place is not a popular place for children to run parties. On the contrary, in such bad weather, he is not afraid that there will be no regular customers.Everyone is afraid of the lonely lamp on a rainy night, why not come here to pass the time.There is nothing else in Lao Qi's store, except that there are more karaoke songs than any other bar, and he keeps all the old songs from more than 20 years ago.Memories that cannot be found elsewhere are suitable for coming to him to relive on a cold and rainy night.

There were only six or seven guests last night, but there was a thick stack of song lists, and there were still many songs waiting to be played on the machine, but the guests quietly withdrew without knowing when.Lao Qi blinked and watched Lin Huiping's sad close-up on the TV screen, a song from almost 20 years ago.I don't know which customer ordered it, and left before the song came out.

Can't wait that long.How many heart-wrenching hopes make people have to give up in the end, let alone just a song?

After the time sequence enters winter, the recent non-holiday nights have ended in such a lonely way.Guests come and go alone, and leave when the time comes. There will not be a scene where two people see each other and leave in pairs.

The guests who go out on rainy and cold winter nights are usually another kind.

It's easier to coax if you just look forward to an affair, but the mood of another kind of guest is as unpredictable as the rain outside.Singing one song after another, sometimes pretending to be crazy with wine, and sometimes falling into deep thought, the midnight worry is particularly difficult.Finally, another lonely night in life was finally exhausted, and these people did not appear to be happier when they left, and they might even secretly despise their own weakness of will in the bottom of their hearts.Why are my feet always out of order?When will I be able to stop stepping into this place?How long will this day last?

When Lao Qi accepted the drink money, he also seemed to hear their love and hatred for MELODY from the bottom of their hearts.In the eyes of some people, Lao Qi just took advantage of the loneliness of his comrades to fill his pockets, and their self-pity often turned into disdain for Lao Qi, and Lao Qi was not indifferent.But at times like this, Lao Qi has to remind himself not to be affected by their emotions, so he always says "good night" to the left and "come again" to the right, shouting extra hard.

The rain is still ticking down.

In the dark and empty bar, the smell of cigarettes lingers, like an invisible memory.

Lao Qi, who was not fully awake, suddenly remembered that this song by Lin Huiping should be ordered by Xiao An. (It should have been called Lao An, that guy!) That guy has been with BF for 15 years, and he is the record holder so far.After all, they only started dating when they met at Lao Qi's place. The two never crossed rivers and demolished bridges, and they would occasionally come to the shop to show their faces throughout the year.It was the same last night, they finished watching the midnight movie, passed by Lao Qi after finishing the night snack, dropped a few packs of braised meat and fragrant chicken chops, chatted with acquaintances, and left after a while.

Xiao An was already forty when he met Ah Xiang who had just been discharged from the army, so he naturally regarded Ah Xiang, who was [-] tall and had been a military policeman, as his pet.Ah Xiang is now Xiaoan's age at that time, and he became fat and became the two big behemoths back then.As soon as they left, that snob Michel couldn't help expressing his opinion.

It's God's help to make Ah Xiang so fat, Michel said.Except for Xiao An who also regards him as a treasure, who else would pay more attention to him now?Otherwise, it will be divided early.

Lao Qi didn't bother to talk to him, and thought to himself, didn't you still feel itchy for the gendarmerie Ah Xiang?It's a pity that people don't want you.

Michel has been rolling in the circle for a while, but he still doesn't know the situation until now.It's true that his appearance is a bit disadvantageous. He is short and has a flat nose, but there are people who are worse than him. Didn't they meet someone later?But he likes to take out his doctor's business card every time, which is very disgusting.

Male with male, no one is superior or inferior, it has to be done willingly from the bottom of my heart.When two beauties meet, they can only compete for beauty and become rivals with red eyes.Two handsome guys go the other way and love each other instead of jealousy. Is this a kind of human sublimation?Anyone who wants to use heterosexual stalking is digging their own grave.If you know that you are not a handsome guy, try to have a better personality, be more generous, and lower your figure. There will always be a handsome guy who is tired of playing, and when he reaches the stage of life where he is not handsome, he will fancy you one day Mature and steady.What I am most afraid of is Lao Lai Jiao.You know, no matter how inconspicuous a young guy is, he is better than an old sister.How about finding an ordinary person who is pleasing to the eye and scaring someone with a doctor's business card?Seeing that he is already getting old, it will only go from bad to worse in the future, let's see how long he can feel good about himself.

(Wait, isn't Mike the same age as me?)

Lao Qi quickly took a second look at the figure reflected in the glass wall. (Is it okay? They are all working out...)

When I was young, relying on my own appearance, I liked to say a few explicit and flirtatious words to shy guests. It was really interesting to see the other party's face full of shame.No matter how you say it now, she is considered to be a mother in the industry. After two years, maybe she should really consider retiring, and she can't let the guests see a decaying old queen standing behind the bar.

(What will you do after retirement?)

Counting from their debut in the [-]s, Lao Qi and his generation are almost at the end of their retirement years.It is not impossible for them to take to the streets to fight one day.The youthful years are spent in silence and hiding, and when we grow old, we may give up, not for anything else, but for the sake of how comrades should die when they grow old.

After all, do you want to learn from the old veterans and find a nursing home?Or pretending to be an old man living alone who was abandoned by his children?Children regard the right to marry as the first priority, so they don't want to get old.It's not that if you have the right to marry, someone will be willing to marry you, really.

Therefore, there must be a nursing home specially set up for comrades. Lao Qi often complains to the guests: Is it possible that they are seventy and eighty, and they need to have friendship with other old women in the hospital?

*

Standing up and shuffling, Lao Qi walked into the bar and poured himself a glass of water.For some reason, he has been exhausted since he woke up just now, and he is more tired after sleeping than not sleeping.

Picking up the remote control and pressing the singing guide function button, the old song that was once a smash hit came back to life with twists and turns.It will take a while for one person to tidy up this place, and it would be good if there are multiple voices to accompany them.Humming along with Lin Huiping, she quickly washed the cup.

I thought that if I concentrated on cleaning, the unspeakable feeling of panic when I just woke up would disappear.In the end, his heart was still hanging like an empty bucket, not knowing what was in it.

The nap just now really fell asleep, and I had several messy dreams in a row.He is not a dreamer, he falls asleep almost every day when he is tired.But in just half an hour, what exactly did he dream about?

When I woke up, I couldn’t remember what happened in the dream, only the feeling remained, knowing that Brother Tang appeared in the dream, and the scene was this place.There seemed to be someone else in the dream, whether it was the same person or a different person, the more Lao Qi tried to remember, the more he couldn't tell whether the scene was an impression from his previous memory or a fragment that just happened in the dream.

Brother Tang passed away for almost a year, and next week will be his death anniversary.He was always showing up to help out in the store in those last years before his cancer spread, so it really felt like a night in the past.But Lao Qi couldn't tell, it was just a familiar scene, why did he feel so paralyzed when he woke up, as if something happened to make him feel palpitations?

In front of people, Andy is capable of flexing and stretching, he is smart and cheap, and he can flirt with anyone, but the old seven is very low-key, and there is really nothing good in life except this store.Especially after Brother Tang passed away, Lao Qi's world became even smaller.He even canceled the Sunday shop altogether, because he didn't know how to live after leaving this shop. He went to the gym three times a week at most, and when he got home, he turned on the TV and just stared at it in a daze, not watching anything.

A guest is always a guest, not a friend.

The only thing that intersects with the guests is the old songs and wine at night. After leaving the store, if the guests don't take the initiative to mention it, Lao Qi never talks too much.Even if they love to talk, it doesn't mean they are telling the truth.Friends are chosen by oneself, not guests, and any likes and dislikes, right and wrong are none of our business.Since it is a place of beauty and joy, everything that happened here must not leave overnight dregs.Every night when the store door is opened, it is a drawing board that has been wiped clean, waiting to be sprayed again.Even the guests may not really meet and know each other. Calling brothers and sisters is only for a moment of lust; they can leave at any time.This kind of coming and going, Lao Qi has watched it for more than [-] years, the circle is so big, gay love is like this, there is a saying, mountains and rivers meet each other, I am not afraid that you will not come back obediently after you circle around. .Even the lovers after breaking up, both of them returned to him to start fishing each other, which is also normal.

Can he be blamed?Greed, anger, and ignorance are staged in front of his eyes every night, including cheating, negotiating and cutting wrists, stealing vegetables and turning faces, and what's more, drunken gaffes or crying or making trouble, unless he doesn't want to do business anymore, otherwise When the same guests came again, he still had to act as if nothing had happened.

*

Birth and separation are like this, and death and separation are treated equally.

A few years ago, an old customer came back after drinking here on the weekend. It was not until Wednesday that he was not at work for too many days, and he was found dead for several days, and his body was rotten.Jay Chou was that man's nickname, an honest man who came to Taipei from the south and was a bit dull. He was in the business of importing ceramic tiles. Due to the surge in housing construction in the past few years, he had a small family fortune.The other customers have only toasted and chatted with him in the store for many years, without any deeper understanding.

Hearing such news, some of the old guests shook their heads and sighed twice, and some accused Lao Qi a few words: Why did you make him so drunk?

The old seven retorted without any displeasure: Jay Chou is not a person who can't drink, and you all have seen him drink like that every time?In fact, it doesn't need to be said by them, Lao Qi must feel more uncomfortable than the other people in the store who know Jay Chou.It wasn't his fault that he didn't pay attention, but that when the man first came to the door many years ago, Lao Qi paid more attention and learned a lesson.

Maybe it's the drunken side, there seems to be a bit of an old lover's shadow, right?One night, the business was not very good. It was just past midnight, and there was only one customer surnamed Zhou left in the store.After all, it was almost ten years ago. At that time, Lao Qi was still in high spirits, and coupled with the pain of breaking up, that silhouette just touched Lao Qi's lonely sway that had been hidden for too long.

Since the opening of the store, there have been only a few exceptions to close early. The first time was because Tang Ge was beaten in the street and suffered a concussion, and the last time was still because of Tang Ge.This time, no matter what he thought after the incident, he could only say that the ghost was bewitched that night and brought the drunk Mr. Zhou back to his residence.

Jay Chou misunderstood the relationship between the two, and started sending Lao Qi text messages for a week.Of course I can't go back.Lao Qi is not toying with the other party, but because he immediately smells the concentration of loneliness in the other party, like the kind of mucus, which will smear all over the body as soon as he touches it. Everyone is most afraid of this kind of person.

Even if it's a lesson for the surname Zhou, whether it's to get drunk or to chase sex, everyone has the right to repent, and when it's time to stop, you must know how to let go.Lao Qi would also be worried that if the news got out and his competitors casually joked that he raped customers while drinking, he wouldn't be able to hang out anymore.Fortunately, Jay Chou is not a sociable person, and he doesn't have many friends in the circle who are good at gossiping, but he disappeared for a whole year and didn't come back.

When he reappeared in the store, that person has changed, like other old ghosts who have nowhere to go after drinking around Taipei and then return to MELODY. The little brother I just met in another store came to renew the stall.Anyway, the little brother eats and drinks for free, and he has a bit of conscience, he sneaks away when Jay Chou is drunk, and if he goes too far, he simply starts hooking up with others and goes home with the food he wants more.In short, in the end, Jay Chou was left alone.

Regarding Jay Chou's death, Lao Qi followed the guests' chatter and offered a few words, but couldn't say more.In the following years, Lao Qi watched Jay Chou's failure happen again and again, and he couldn't help it.He suspected that the man deliberately wanted to drink to death.Because after all these years, he still couldn't find the love he wanted—he still didn't know how to love.

Men are natural hunters, and sometimes you have to pretend to be slow prey, waiting for someone to approach you.

(Probably should teach him...)

Immediately, Lao Qi ordered himself to stop being so sentimental.The interlude between the husband and wife one night many years ago has long been worthless, so what is the point of having such kind thoughts now?

There are many things that cannot be taught at all, and can only be based on personal wisdom and good luck.

If it is said that customers wear fixed masks when they come to the store; similarly, what customers know about Lao Qi is always separated by a distance from the bar.

No one could tell how much thought Lao Qi put into drinking and talking and laughing. His seemingly lazy eyes actually observed them very carefully.

No one has ever seen what Andy, who was dressed in leather and chain links at work, looked like when he became the seventh child in shorts and sweatshirt.

*

After clearing the bar and turning off the air conditioner, Lao Qi walked to the door, opened the store door, and blocked it with a high chair. The smell of cigarettes that had been stuffy all night began to dissipate immediately.

It was still dark outside, and it was still raining. The convenience store diagonally opposite was the brightest place in the whole alley.Lao Qi took a peek at the work-students who were on the big night shift in the store, squatting on the ground to organize the shelves.

Still the same person.I don't know how old the young man is, but he has been doing it for three or four years, right?Always working night shifts, a decadent guy with long hair covering his head and face, seems to have taken part-time work as his main job.

Sometimes Lao Qi would go to their store after the store closed to buy a tea egg and a rice ball for breakfast.The way the two greet each other has also remained the same over the years.Lao Qi will say first, get off work soon.The other party will reply, is the business good?It's like chickens talking to ducks, but it has become another kind of routine.

Thirty years ago, this alley was mostly apartment houses. The location of MELODY is that the third child rebuilt the first floor of his old house.After the third child died, the house was left to his lover, but the will stated that MELODY would continue to operate unless the seventh child decided to stop.

The lover of the third child was very lucky and did not suffer from the incurable disease of the third child. At that time, someone said behind his back that the two had long been in harmony, and they hadn't done that for several years, right?It didn't take long for that person to immigrate to the United States and come back once a year to collect rent.Seeing that the nearby first floors have also become bars and shops, that guy used to inquire about the rent in this area in private, and then asked Lao Qi from time to time in a tone that sounded concerned, why didn't he retire?How many years can this meal last?It would be nice to have other plans early on...

Lao Qi knew that if he went out of business and rented this small shop to others, the price could be doubled.It was his seventh son who stayed in this back alley for 20 years before the land price and rent rose to where it is today.If it were the third child's lover, he must have been unable to wait to get rid of her as soon as possible.Of course Lao Qi understood the other party's plan.Even if it was for the sake of the third child, the seventh child decided to let the other party continue to wait for a few more years.

It has been 25 years, and the prosperity in this alley has been ups and downs, and Lao Qi still remembers it fresh.At the end of the [-]s, the taste of Japanese noodles was still all over the world. In the [-]s, the economy was booming, and the rent has been jumping every year since then.It will have to wait until two years later for gay stores to enter in a large scale. When the mobile phone network becomes popular, those who want to attract young customers will be hit immediately.For hotels that do Japanese business, if the price is high, the business will decline all the way because of the completion of the high-speed rail and the return of Japanese engineers.

The strange thing is that when one family closes down, another family takes over immediately, as if there is always endless fresh loneliness all year round, waiting to be harvested.

In the early years, whenever a new store opened, no matter what route it took, the boss would come to say hello.It is also necessary for everyone to take care of each other, like there will always be times when foreign wine is out of stock in the middle of the night and needs support from others.Now almost all those old shops have changed hands, the new operators have long lacked the etiquette of the older generation, and the old seven has no contact with the new neighbors.Sometimes I saw that the storefront had been remodeled, and I couldn't tell what kind of business it was from just looking at the signboard of the new store.

Maybe it's a Japanese lounge, maybe it's a lesbian place, or even a duck place.Recently, Lao Qi also heard that there is a gay shop that does not close after four o'clock in the morning, and the public relations brothers continue to stay, specializing in the business of hotel girls after get off work.It can only be said that performance is getting more and more difficult to fight, everyone is trying their best, and it has become a new trend.

Once after closing time, in the supermarket, Lao Qi accidentally ran into a third-sex publicist from a nearby hotel who was off work.Four or five came out of the cage at a time, and they walked into the alley gracefully and laughingly, arm in arm. They all stepped on six-inch high-heeled shoes, wore heavy wigs and heavy makeup, and ran back and forth between the shelves as soon as they entered the store.When paying the bill, of course, the big night worker student would not be spared. Several people took turns to tease him: You don't have to accompany your girlfriend at night?Which of us do you think is more beautiful?Come to our store when you have time, our service is very good!

Facing these "ladies" who were in a very high condition, whether they were drunk or taking drugs, the work-student students all still wore his distant smile, and answered in a wrong way: "The second item of the sandwich is six." Fold, do you want to heat the milk?

After the group of Yingying and Yanyan finally left, Lao Qi asked the worker-student: Hey, do you know what kind of business my shop is doing?

The work-study student didn't look up, and threw out a sentence while looking for money: It's not all the same.

Are they all the same?as depraved?as false?Is it still just as embarrassing?Lao Qi didn't understand what he meant by "same"?Hearing that tone, the people coming and going in and out of these stores in Qitiaotong seemed to him to be something from another planet.I can only blame myself for asking too much and asking such a shocking answer.

Yes, it's all the same, it's all about making a living——

Putting away the change handed by the work-student, Lao Qi had no choice but to tease himself like this before leaving.

*

In fact, when Lao Qi first saw the group of beauties in costumes walking in, he immediately thought of Brother Tang.

Tang Ge, who has always wanted to enter the music scene but has always hit a wall, was deceived into millions of dollars by offering to help him release a record.He was no longer young back then, and people in their thirties would still believe in this trick of deceiving little country girls.This person is determined and stubborn, and he still refuses to give up in his 40s. Finally, he dressed up as a woman to imitate an artist, and finally made his stage dream come true for many years.

But, he is obviously number 1 brother, isn't he afraid of self-destruction if he often dresses up as a woman?

Although I also knew in my heart that imitation shows had nothing to do with cross-dressing, but Brother Tang sometimes came to the store without changing his clothes after the show, and Lao Qi would still put on a bad face.That time he was beaten into a concussion, wasn't it because when he was hailing a taxi on the side of the road wearing women's clothing, he got a sap from a motorcycle gangster for no reason?

Brother Tang asked him: Are you not serving the guests if they wear it like this?

That's different.

What's the difference?You just despise my work.

Lao Qi is also angry: You are like this, so there are no men until now!

It's funny, it's not your turn to talk about me, right?What about yourself?

No man must have a career, tell me what you can sing if you keep singing like this?

Brother Tang didn't care about his nagging at all, and in the end he always rolled his eyes and blew him a kiss with red lips, making him dumbfounded.

The first brother Tang I met was a member of a popular choreographer at that time.

In the prosperous age of TV variety shows, every TV station has at least six or seven singing shows of varying sizes, and the matching of dancers is naturally indispensable.The restaurant show is also popular, Dongwang, Sun City, Diss Corner, Balishi ⑤...the stalls are full of guests, and the dancers cooperate with different artists. It is common to catch several shows in one night.Presumably, Tang Ge was able to figure out how many of the queens of the year were quite similar. It must be the experience of observing the stage shows at close range in those years.

In those years, Brother Tang was very beautiful, and he was the captain of the dance group.Brother Tom, Brother Cruise, all the little coffees below call it that.

Of course Lao Qi knew in his heart that Brother Tang liked him very much at that time.

It's just that when Lao Qi was young, there were quite a few people who wanted to chase him, but Tang Ge always had a playful smile on his face, and he didn't chase him very seriously.Afterwards, it is difficult for Lao Qi to look back and assume, what if Tang Ge really pursued it seriously?

Who didn't put appearance first when you were young?Brother Tang's appearance can only be considered fair in the evaluation of the old seven. The advantage is that he has long legs and looks good in dancing, but the whole person can really be described as skinny.What Lao Qi has always hoped is to be able to hand over to an office worker, because since the time of TEN, he has seen a lot of these people with star dreams, and he will always hesitate to boys who are too well-dressed.This hesitation left the two of them as sisters.

In those years when he was young, Lao Qi had several relationships that were short-lived. It was not until the age of 30 that Lao Qi took it seriously for the first time—I am afraid that he is still the love of his life, and he is still a graduate of a public university— —As a result, the relationship of more than four years ended in nothing, which caused him pain for several years.

Brother Tang always scolded him for being stupid. Now that we broke up, there is still a chance to find another one. Have you ever thought that the meaning of eternal life is to look at the mature, bald and dirty virtue of the man around you?Can you still swallow it?

Brother Tang yells more arrogantly than anyone else, but after knowing him for so long, Lao Qi sees through that he has no sense of security in relationships. He always dates people a few times, and breaks up with them before they really get into the situation, isn’t it? I think this is too old-fashioned, just laughing at the size of that one is too childish.Didn't Lao Qi never guess in his heart, could it be that Brother Tang just used to pretend to be strong in front of him, in order to cover up that he still cared about him?

Brother Tang remembers Lao Qi’s birthday every year. He sent flowers and cakes to MELODY to celebrate his birthday. He also led the guests in front of the bar to sing happy birthday together.While he was blowing out the candles, Tom would always press a long kiss on his cheek.Lao Qi couldn't tell what was mixed in the kiss of the year.Is it attachment?Is it disappointment?Or are they sympathetic?

Tang Ge always went to the end like this, and Lao Qi just continued to pretend to be stupid, always thinking that a true friend is a lifetime, and a lover is just a moment.

Until that year's birthday party, the customers in the store played so crazy that even the cake battle was out of the cage, and it was out of control.Amidst all the commotion, no one noticed when Brother Tang withdrew from the battle, sitting alone in the corner with a microphone and singing his song.Such an elegant style of music, coupled with his low and plaintive singing voice, is particularly out of tune with the boiling passion of weekend nights.

Lao Qi was smeared with cream all over his head and face, so he didn't pay attention at first; he finally got a break to catch his breath, and while wiping his face with a tissue, he heard the meaning of the lyrics.Thinking of all the past, the present flower cake suddenly lost its joy.