alternate performance

In the hot summer of June, "Qianyou" expanded its storefront in response to the needs of consumers. Xu Chenhe hired a few more clerks. Occasionally, he was lazy and went to the billiard room to watch other people play. Come over and teach him how to play billiards, and then secretly give him a discount.

It is not unusual for people to see Xu Chenhe himself a lot, but the good-looking store manager is always easy to attract customers, coupled with the sensory experience that "diving tour" gives guests, this summer has become the first peak season for "diving tour".

I am used to showing my face in front of everyone, so Xu Chenhe simply took off his mask, so as not to cover his face and cover his face with sweat in the summer, when a regular customer saw the tattoo and praised him, when asked where he got it, he pointed to the tattoo shop across the street .

When work was over at night, Xu Chenhe squatted at the door of the store to lock the iron gate. A pair of high-top Converse appeared next to him. Without raising his eyes, he said, "You are so late today."

"Thanks to you," Tang Sui shook the ice cubes in the cold drink, "I'm too busy to be a stranger to me all day long."

"Isn't it good to have more business?" Xu Chenhe buckled the lock, got up and took the drink handed by the other party.

Tang Sui bit the straw and slid into a piece of coconut, complaining: "There are too many students who come to the store. After the college entrance examination, they all come to me to try new things as if they have liberated their bodies and minds. Several of them came home after finishing and probably were scolded by their family members. , come to me to get my tattoo done in a few days, isn't it a waste of effort."

Xu Chenhe touched the back of his neck and smiled, but didn't answer.

Sensing his movements, Tang Sui turned his head to look at him: "Why, you want to wash too?"

"No," Xu Chenhe hurriedly denied, "I just want to have one more tattoo on my birthday."

"Are you coming again? Don't do it," Tang Sui gave up the business first, "I just can't bear to touch your skin, I always feel like I've ruined a good skin."

"Is it okay to have butt tattoos?" Xu Chenhe asked with a smile.

Almost choked on the coconut, Tang Sui stared in shock and said, "Xu Chenhe, you?"

"Didn't I hear that you had this service the first time I came to your store?" Xu Chenhe said.

Tang Sui stared at the bird that flapped its wings at the corner of his mouth when the other party was talking, and moved his eyes away: "Anyway, you are not allowed to do it."

The people walking next to him didn't say a word, holding their cold drink cups and staring at the toes of their shoes as they moved forward.Tang Sui bumped Xu Chenhe with his shoulder, and changed the subject: "How do you plan to spend your birthday?"

Very abruptly, a tiny and cold touch was fleeting on Xu Chenhe's ankle, and his eyes were glued to his own skin, which was white and clean, with nothing on it.He looked up at the night sky above his head again, perhaps because today is the fifteenth day, and the moon hanging above the lightning rod of the building is particularly round.

But there were very few stars scattered in the night, he counted them, six, as many as once surrounded his ankles.

"Actually, I don't really celebrate my birthday," Xu Chenhe bumped back with his elbow, "but this year is an exception, let's invite everyone to watch a movie."

"Mrs. Dreamland" is scheduled to be released at the end of June this year. The cast and crew flew all over the country for road shows in the past two months. They even came to Jinjin City a few days ago.Xu Chenhe was fully armed and watched the whole process from a distance, but he did not participate as the lead actor. He always felt a little guilty about the partners he had worked with before.

After parting from Tang Sui downstairs in the public rental housing, Xu Chenhe counted the steps up, and on the way, he lit up his phone and entered the app store to reply to Weibo after a long absence.

There was no elevator in this building, so he rented it late, so he had to choose a high-rise house. Although he lived in 803 like Cheng'an City, the nature was far different.

After downloading, it has not yet reached the eighth floor, and there is no one in the corridor at the moment, so Xu Chenhe simply leaned aside and boarded the trumpet first.Changcao's account was stuffed with a batch of zombie fans, and he was too lazy to clean it up. Just as he was about to click on the search interface, the red number on the message interface blatantly occupied his sight.

Hundreds of messages were all sent by the same strange user whose ID was "Guai Chirou".Stranger than the nickname is the content of the private message, which is full of trivial daily life, just like a diary, but much more concise than a diary.

Eat meat obediently: I don't want to go to work, it's so boring.

Eat meat obediently: It was raining and sunny today, and I changed my face repeatedly, so I realized how annoying it is.

Eat meat obediently: After drinking a cup of black coffee, it is so bitter that I want to ascend to heaven.

Good to eat meat: Your Weibo is very interesting, why don't you update it?

Eat meat obediently: It's hot, I want to dive.

Eat meat obediently: tree hole, come back to me.

There were too many news, Xu Chenhe went back to the room and turned on the air conditioner, leaned on the sofa and turned the news to the top, and found that the other party had drawn a picture of himself, it was a bird wearing swimming goggles.

Eat meat obediently: A diving bird, does it look like this?

Xu Chenhe hasn't made friends with netizens yet, but it doesn't prevent him from seeing college roommates often send a sentence to new friends who just added: "Are you?"

Gu Congran had just settled down in Jinjin City, ordered a late-night snack and ate while dialing his phone. When the vibration vibrated, he thought another fan had privately messaged Jiang Hua’s Weibo. When he unlocked the screen, he found that the message was "Good eating meat" account number.

Diving Bird: Who are you?

Gu Congran was caught off guard by these two short words, he threw away the knife and fork and held the phone in his hand, not knowing what to say to make himself look less excited.

Be a good eater: Excuse me, I thought you were a zombie account.

There was no reply from the other side.

In the middle of the night, Gu Congran woke up several times, touched the phone several times in the dark and turned it on, but did not get a reply from Xu Chenhe, as if he really regarded him as someone who disturbed the other party.

After waking up at four o'clock, Gu Congran couldn't fall asleep anyway. He grabbed the cigarette case and lighter and walked out of the balcony. Facing the cool morning wind, he exhaled a curl of smoke, enveloping the cool and fresh air.

In the morning fog, the whole city has not yet woken up, and the street lights illuminate the trajectory of the city.Gu Congran bit his cigarette, wondering where Xu Chenhe had traveled, and which dim window he would be sleeping in now.

When the faint light cleared the mist, Gu Congran found a touch of blue among the thousands of buildings, at the corner of the street, quiet but so eye-catching, like his master.

The needle on the dial pointed to six o'clock. If he drove to the door of "Scuba Tour" and squatted right now, he would definitely be able to meet Xu Chenhe.

After standing on the balcony for two hours in a row, Gu Congran's mood became as clear as the morning sun pouring from the sky.

Last night, I was waiting for the reply from "Diving Bird", and now I remembered what to wear today.Gu Congran opened the suitcase to choose, and took out a loose shirt in contrasting colors of dark blue and beige.

On the way to the "diving tour" by car, Gu Congran recalled that today, it seemed that very few people thought so hard about their clothes before meeting Xu Chenhe.After being separated for half a year, he was worried that the other party would forget him, and that he was not bright enough to attract Xu Chenhe's attention.

Parking obliquely in front of "Scuba Tour", Gu Congran lowered the car window a little and took out a box of mints from his pocket. It sounds ridiculous that a person in his 30s still uses this to relieve tension, but he feels that his mood is no different from that of a teenage boy waiting at the school gate for the person he likes to leave school.

The street became bustling, with pedestrians passing by on the zebra crossing. Gu Congran didn't wear glasses, but it didn't prevent him from catching a glimpse of Xu Chenhe in a blue and white thick-striped T-shirt from the crowd with blurred faces.

Xu Chenhe held a cup of soy milk, and held the phone in his left hand to his ear.He followed the crowd from the opposite side of the road, looked to both sides from time to time, his eyes barely glanced at the front window of Gu Congran's car, but moved away within a second.

In less than a second, Gu Congran had already seen the changes in Xu Chenhe's face - even if it was only a small change, it was enough to make that face feel completely different from before.

Gu Congran was in astonishment, he couldn't tell whether he admired more or regretted more, he just felt an uncontrollable force pulling him out of the car, but when his hand pressed the doorknob, he There was a trace of hesitation.

The moment before the green light jumped, Xu Chenhe stepped on the other end of the zebra crossing, and the phone was connected. Xu Chenhe told the clerk: "Mianmian, when you pass by the supermarket, help me buy two catties of cornstarch and low-gluten flour, and come back for reimbursement."

"...It's fine, just buy it as you see it." Xu Chenhe glanced back unnaturally, sensitively feeling that someone was watching from behind.

The distance was too close, and Gu Congran greedily looked at the face that yearned day and night through the car window.When Xu Chenhe turned his back and knelt down to open the iron gate lock, he found that the other party also had a tattoo on the back of his neck.

But the distance between them was not enough for him to see the small tattoo pattern clearly, Gu Cong burned a cluster of scorching flames, he didn't want others to see such a special Xu Chenhe, but he was more like a shameless voyeur.

When the store just opened in the morning, there were not too many people. After Xu Chenhe turned on the switch, he got into the kitchen to work. He heard footsteps outside, and he looked around. Several shop assistants arrived one after another. , What's the matter with the car outside, I stared at it for a long time, there are people inside, just don't move."

Xu Chenhe didn't feel relieved, and put the ingredients into the lockers by category, saying: "Leave him alone, he will stop wherever he likes."

In the end, when he went to pick up the takeaway at noon, Xu Chenhe saw that the car he noticed in the morning was still parked there, and the window of the passenger car was opened a crack.He didn't hold back his curiosity and glanced a few more times. The car window was raised again, and the solar film made it difficult to see clearly inside.

Xu Chenhe couldn't help becoming worried. Although he had promised never to return to the entertainment industry, he inevitably retained the precautions he used to have when he was an actor. He was afraid of disturbing his life's illegitimate meals and paparazzi's privacy.He thought of calling the police, but he was worried that he was worrying too much.

All day long, the car only drove past twice, and returned to the same place in less than half an hour.It was nearly eleven o'clock in the night, and the car was still there. Xu Chenhe was already sure that the other party was here to stare at him. When he couldn't take countermeasures, he could only urge the clerk to get off work first, and called Tang Sui himself to tell him to come Come to the store.

The clock on the center console showed eleven o'clock, and Gu Congran couldn't wait any longer.He sat in the car all day, watching Xu Chenhe look at him with fearful and suspicious eyes, but he couldn't get close to him.There are too many people, and becoming the focus will remind Xu Chenhe of the bad memories of running away. He can only appear when Xu Chenhe is alone.

After turning off the lights, "Dive Tour" fell asleep with the night, Xu Chenhe pulled down the iron gate, and squatted with his back facing him.

Gu Congran grabbed the doorknob, and just opened the car door, a tall and thin man suddenly ran across the road, took off his baseball cap and put it on Xu Chenhe's head, stretched his arms around the man's shoulders, bowed his head and said with a smile : "You want to treat me to a skewer?"

The heart hangs in the throat, and then falls straight down.

Tightening his hands, Gu Congran closed the door again. Under the streetlight, he saw Xu Chenhe raised his face and smiled at the people around him.

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Sorry for the long wait, can you guess the three meanings of "Eat Meat" ('?')