Brother Chuan

"Brother Chuan! Two bowls of Malatang! Put more peppers!"

On the streets of the bustling downtown area, there are many alleys and alleys, and the deepest alley at the end is a small door that cannot be smaller.There is a light sign "Chuan Ge Malatang" on the front of the gate.

Two girls who had just finished school were lifting the curtain and pushing the door to squeeze in. They looked about sixteen or seventeen years old.Before it even went in, people shouted from outside.

"It's you again." There were no customers in the store. Brother Chuan, the only clerk and owner, was lying on the owner's personal wicker chair behind the counter, stretched his legs lazily, and yawned. Pulled out of the live broadcast of the football game on TV and stood up. "Sit down wherever you want." He greeted lazily, while staggering on his slippers, he walked towards the back kitchen.

"Brother Chuan!" one of the girls suddenly exclaimed.The girl next to her trembled.

"What's wrong?" Brother Chuan asked calmly.

"The poster on your wall is different from the last time we came here! What about "One Piece"?"

"Oh, I've been following "Attack on Titan" recently, so I changed them all."

"Woo~ My little Chopper!" The girl cried.

"It's okay, I still have cute Simba here." Brother Chuan didn't raise his eyes, but just stretched out his hand and pointed at the "Lion King" posted on the other wall, "Look."

The girl looked in the direction of his finger, and was taken aback for a moment, as if she had discovered a new world: "Brother Chuan, are you still looking at this?"

Under the majestic and majestic Simba's feet lay a few video discs, piled up in a mess by the owner, and placed in the corner near the counter.Probably pulled it out and forgot to put it back in.

The sharp-eyed girl saw the cover of one of them. The one she had seen was "Brokeback Mountain" directed by Ang Lee.

The sound of boiling water blocked everything.Brother Chuan didn't hear clearly, so he asked again.

"what"

The girl realized that she seemed to have made a slip of the tongue, and laughed and laughed: "It's nothing, it's nothing. Brother Chuan, hurry up and bring the food~ We're going to starve to death!"

"Don't rush, it will be ready soon."

Because the store is small and the location is remote, not many people come here on weekdays.Brother Chuan can take care of him alone.

When Liu Chuan brought the Malatang up, the two girls were chattering about something, their eyes sparkling with excitement.Seeing him coming, they stopped involuntarily. The two looked at each other with a mysterious smile, and immediately sat up straight.

Liu Chuan didn't bother to inquire about the secrets of the two little girls, so he shook his head, turned around and swayed back to spread out on the recliner.

Brother Chuan has just turned 27 this year, and his credo in life is just one word - "lazy".Never sit when you can lie down, never stand when you can sit.I'm too lazy to talk, and I'm too lazy to move a finger.Every time a guest came in, he was either lying on his stomach on the counter, or squinting in the recliner, his whole body seemed boneless, really like a hibernating snake.

No one knows where he came from, and he has no relatives or friends on weekdays. He basically never goes out of the store. Even this store seems to pop up suddenly one day, which makes people feel quite mysterious. .

It was the midsummer heat at this time, at three o'clock in the afternoon, just after attending the class reunion, Da Qiang came out of the noisy KTV private room dizzy, the sun was as sharp as a silver needle, and it hurt his eyes.He supported a pillar on the side of the road, and couldn't bear the sourness in his stomach, and vomited all over the floor.The sanitation worker aunt next to him stared at him fiercely.Daqiang hurriedly broke into a simple and honest smile: "I'm sorry, big sister." The aunt gave him a pair of white eyes.

Daqiang, who had just cleared his stomach, felt a little hungry, so he thought about finding a restaurant nearby to eat something.As soon as I looked up, I saw the five characters of "Chuan Ge Malatang".

The name is simple and rude, just as Grandpa wanted.Daqiang thought in his heart, and his legs stepped in.

Who would have thought that as soon as he poked his head in, the door would not be able to be pushed?

Da Qiang, with black question marks all over his face, was stupid on the spot.

At this time, I saw a man with a fair appearance and a thin body, walking towards him with a kitchen knife in his hand.

Out of professional habits, Daqiang instinctively felt the threat of death, and his nerves tensed up.

The man walked up to him and slashed at him without saying a word.

Daqiang was so frightened that he closed his eyes tightly.

Two seconds later, the door opened.

The man's voice was very steady, his voice was very clean, and he said lightly: "The lock is rusty, I'm sorry." Before he could return, he put down the knife, turned around, and went back to the counter to lie on his stomach.

It was Brother Chuan.

Daqiang stared at him blankly for two seconds before recovering his soul from the shock just now.

"Are you the boss?"

"Ah."

"Hey, you're all alone here"

"Ah."

"Can you take care of it?"

"good."

"That……"

Out of the corner of Daqiang's eye, he suddenly glanced at the DVD in the corner of the counter, and was about to ask further, but Brother Chuan interrupted him.

"Are you still ordering?"

"Oh, click, click. Boss, what do you have here?" Daqiang put away his curiosity.

"Yes...Ma La Tang." Brother Chuan stood up a little irritably, and turned on the small TV on his head. His drowsiness was lost by the guy in front of him.

"anything else"

"Ma La Tang."

"Um"

"This is a specialty store, and I only sell this, nothing else." Brother Chuan said in a firm tone.

"Hey, you have a personality, boss." Daqiang obviously didn't care about the attitude of the other party, and still smiled foolishly, "Then let's have a bowl of Malatang, boss."

The days passed like water, swaying by, and there seemed to be no difference between a day and a month in Brother Chuan's world.

One night a month later, just after ten o'clock, Brother Chuan locked the door of the store and was about to go to sleep in the room when he heard a loud banging on the door.

who will knock at this time

Brother Chuan frowned, feeling something was wrong.I went to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife, walked to the door, and tentatively asked: "Who?"

"Boss, it's me." The people outside the door seemed to be afraid that someone would hear them, and their voices were kept low.

Brother Chuan hesitated for a moment, but opened the door anyway.

As soon as Daqiang entered the door, he quickly pushed the boss into the room and quickly locked the door.

"You..." Brother Chuan didn't know where to ask.

"Hush—" There was a sudden rush of footsteps outside the door, and it sounded like there were quite a few people.

After the sound of footsteps completely disappeared, Brother Chuan sighed, pulled his exclusive armchair and sat down.

Just as he was about to speak, Daqiang pointed to the kitchen knife on the table. The fingertips of the 1.9-meter strong man trembled.

"Boss, put that thing away quickly, I can't see this kind of murder weapon now!"

"Are you going to provoke the underworld if you are afraid of death?" Brother Chuan carried the kitchen knife back to the kitchen, and at the same time did not forget to add a sarcasm.

"No, I'm a good citizen, boss."

"Is it true that people have nothing to do and hack you for fun?" Brother Chuan grabbed the arm of "good people".

"Hiss - take it easy, boss, I'm hurt!"

"Oh." Brother Chuan gently rolled up Daqiang's sleeves, frowning slightly.

Daqiang is still interested in chattering now.

"I was going to work, and I was hacked as soon as I went out. Fortunately, I reacted in time and ran fast. But I didn't pay attention to the road while I was running. I didn't know where I was around. Fortunately, I saw the sign at your door , Then I remembered that I had been here before, so I came in to avoid it. It was really dangerous just now, thank you boss for helping me when I saw injustice."

Brother Chuan managed to catch some useful information from his nonsense: "You go to work so late"

"Well, I'm in charge of showing people the bar."

"Oh, no wonder." Brother Chuan already understood what was going on. "Did you tell your boss?"

"No, let's just say it." Daqiang took out his mobile phone.

Brother Chuan let go of his arm, stood up and walked out.

"Hey—boss, where are you going?"

"I'll buy medicine for you. If the wound is not treated, it will become infected."

Daqiang smiled naively.

"Boss, you are such a nice person."

Brother Chuan waved his hand and walked away.