A letter from a strange man

It has been two weeks since Zhang Hui returned home.

Life is gradually getting on the right track. Being your own boss is not as hard as working for others like in London. His working hours are very free, but there still seems to be something missing in life.

A little more stability, but a little less passion, as if that kind of youthful vigor is gone with the passing years.

After get off work, he made an appointment with Jiang Yishan and Lin Xiyi for dinner. He was stuck in the road in his new car and made an appointment at a tavern near his alma mater.

They used to go there for drinks, parties or free time to have a few drinks.

I didn't expect it to be still there after so many years. It is said that the boss is still the previous boss.

Zhang Hui doesn't like the sunset very much in a day, he always feels inexplicably sad, he prefers the red of sunrise to the red of sunset.

On the surface, the tavern is still the same as before, adding a bit of different feelings, probably because contemporary people are always looking for all kinds of feelings, this kind of behavior has attracted many people to come here.

When he arrived, Jiang Yishan and Lin Xiyi hadn't arrived yet, but he was not in a hurry. He parked his car in the parking lot of a nearby shopping mall and walked slowly along the familiar yet unfamiliar road.

Jiang Yishan is now working stably in the design institute, and Lin Xiyi is doing engineering with his seniors. Everyone is lucky to be doing the work they like in the field they are good at.

The tavern has been renovated, but it is still not the same as before. The wooden walls have a new layer of paint, and the people singing with guitars on the stage have probably changed round after round.

No one can stay young forever, but there are always people who are young.

Next to the table, there was an extra wall full of post-it notes and photos, and Zhang Hui looked at it when he had nothing to do.

Most of them are full of blessings for exams, friendship forever, love forever, and some obscure thoughts and secrets.

One layer after another, the new covers the old, how much has been realized?

It's quite interesting. When Zhang Hui was in London, he always liked to find a roadside coffee shop or western restaurant, and sit by the window seat to do homework.

When you are tired, you can look at all kinds of people passing by outside the window, imagine that they all have all kinds of lives, and the whole person will feel more fulfilled.

When he travels around during the holidays, he also likes to exchange some stories with strangers in the car and in bars. The process of communicating with others is more interesting and surprising than reading a book.

Zhang Hui stared blankly, and slowly stroked an old Polaroid with his fingers. It was a gentle boy with bright brows and eyes, handsome and tough outline, and a smiling mouth.

He held the microphone and sat quietly on the stage, and the date below it read "July 2008, 7".

He thought about it carefully, that day should be the last day before their summer vacation.

……

"Ah! The damn end of the semester is finally over! I'm back again!" Lin Xiyi opened a bottle of champagne, shook it for a long time and opened it with a "bang". Jiang Yishan, who didn't have time to react, was sprayed with alcohol all over his face.

Jiang Yishan took off his glasses stiffly, his forehead and the corners of his mouth were twitching faintly, he tried his best not to punch Lin Xiyi in the face.

Meng Li smiled brightly behind Zhang Hui's back, and Zhang Hui patted Lin Xiyi's back a little harder, "Xishan avenged you."

A few people chatted happily, bid farewell to the dead June of frantically reviewing papers and exams, and ushered in the nearly two-month holiday. The boys and girls were very excited, and they drank one cup after another, feeling endlessly happy. carefree.

"Sister Li..." Lin Xiyi drank until his tongue was a little big, "Today, you, Xishan and me, let Zhang Shuai drink and let him carry a male god. I want to watch him play with wine." Crazy!"

Zhang Hui raised his eyebrows, and looked at Lin Xiyi who was already a little drunk and wanted to get him drunk, amusedly, "Okay, I look forward to you getting me drunk."

Jiang Yishan looked at Lin Xiyi helplessly, "Please brother, Zhang Shuai is a real god, I don't know who is playing handsome every day."

Meng Lixun gently pulled Zhang Hui's sleeve, Zhang Hui looked at her, Meng Lihui said, "Are you drunk?"

Zhang Hui: "What do you think?"

"Actually, I really want to see what you look like when you're drunk." Meng Lixun was thoughtful, but she still looked at Zhang Hui and smiled slightly.

Zhang Hui drank the last sip of wine in the glass, then stood up and walked towards the small stage, said a few words to the boss and sat on the wooden chair on the stage.

The boss gave Zhang Hui a light, and the light shone sideways on Zhang Hui's body, making Zhang Hui half in the light and half in the dark. The light seemed to cut him into two people, half open and half hidden.

From Meng Lixun's position, she could only see the illuminated half of Zhang Hui, just like the Zhang Hui they had known all along, handsome and bright, confident and magnanimous.

On the other side that they can't see, there is also Zhang Hui's complicated other half of his personality that he is unwilling to show others and always avoids.

Meng Lixun is the girl Zhang Hui once thought he liked, beautiful and independent, strong and gentle.

But he felt that there were some subtle feelings in their relationship, and he was always confused and didn't know what was wrong, so he has always been like a model boyfriend, showing his best appearance in this relationship.

It wasn't until the breakup that he found that he didn't have the sadness and reluctance he imagined, but a kind of relief, as if he suddenly relaxed.

He suddenly understood that he didn't love her as much as he imagined, and he couldn't even present all of himself to her.

During the time when he was still with Meng Lixun, he took this relationship very seriously. He never did anything to offend Meng Lixun, and he even thought about how to go further.

He turned on the microphone in front of him and said "Hello" softly.

The light on the stage was too bright, and he couldn't see the faces and expressions of the people below clearly. He felt that someone recognized him and called his name. He looked in the direction of Meng Lixun and smiled with lowered eyes. Some unattainable beauty.

"My girlfriend said she wanted to see me drunk, so I wanted to sing a song, right now."

One of Zhang Hui's slender legs was bent and the other was stretched naturally. He was always smiling faintly, his body swaying gently with the accompanying music.

"It may not sound so good, please bear with me."

He heard the cheers from the audience, as well as Lin Xiyi's whistle and shouts: "Amazing! Zhang Shuai!"

"Let the stars shine through.

Idon't want to say goodbye

All I want to do is live with you.

Just like the light of the morning

After the darkness has gone

The shadow of my love is falling

On place where the sun always shone.

Don't you know that'swhere our hearts both belong?

Cause I don't want to say goodbye.

Let the stars shine through.

No, I don't want to say goodbye

All I want to do is live with you.

Together our hearts are strong Don't you know that's where our hearts both belong?

Cause I don't want to say goodbye

Let the stars shine through.

Idon't want to say goodbye

All I want to do is live with you

All I want to do is live with you”

This is a song that Zhang Hui likes very much. The first time he heard it was when he was watching "Brokeback Mountain".

He was attracted by this song as an episode of the movie, and after listening to its lyrics, he was even more attracted by the strong love of the movie.

Although it is a same-sex movie, in Zhang Hui's view, love does not need gender to limit or deny it.

He was thinking, whether a person needs to love like that once in his life to be happy.

There are many people around him who don't love so much and can be together just because they like and attract them. Sometimes he also feels a little worried and regretful. He is afraid that he has never loved like that in his life.

After all, Zhang Hui was not really drunk that night. It was Lin Xiyi who was completely drunk. The three of them managed to get Lin Xiyi back to the dormitory after having been drunk all the way. They were so tired that they went back to bed and slept until the next day.

No one remembers whether Zhang Hui was drunk that night.

……

It should be that day, he also saw a row of small words under this small Polaroid: "Idon't want to say goodbye with you."

Who took this photo and wrote this typesetting?

At this moment, Zhang Hui was patted on the shoulder. He came back to his senses and found that Lin Xiyi and Jiang Yishan were standing behind him and looking at him curiously.

"What is Zhang Shuai looking at?" Lin Xiyi looked at the wall with a sullen expression on his face, and he also saw the Polaroid that Zhang Hui had been looking at just now. He clapped his hands and said, "Zhang Shuai can, although People are not in the Jianghu, but your story is still circulating in the Jianghu, you see, there are still people discussing who you are!"

Zhang Hui looked in the direction Lin Xiyi was pointing at, and there was one that read:

"Who is this!!! I want to know all his information within 5 minutes!!!"

There is actually a sticky note attached below, seriously going back to "The chapter of the 06 Department of Architecture, it is said that Yan was the school grass of all colleges and universities in the city."

"The most handsome man since the founding of Q University!"

"The sisters upstairs are a bit exaggerated. I am Zhang Shuai, who is directly related to my junior. Zhang Shuai is really handsome. Let's hang him now."

……

There are still a lot of comments that I didn’t see in the chapter just now. After reading it, I can’t help feeling amused, “I guess they won’t say that if they see me now haha.”

"Zhang Shuai, you are handsome now." Jiang Yishan replied solemnly.

Lin Xiyi had a look of disbelief, "My mother, Zhang Shuai, you really underestimated your charm. Just now when I entered the door, I heard the young girls at the table at the door discussing you!"

Zhang Hui smiled casually, and then naturally changed the subject: "Where is Brother Wang, long time no see."

Brother Wang is the owner of this tavern. It is said that he played heavy metal rock back then, but he fell in love with a male student from Q University, so he stopped playing. He wanted to settle down for it, so he opened this tavern at the gate of Q .

Back then, the two were entangled and entangled, on and off, and on and off, together for a period of time and then separated for a period of time. Before Zhang Hui went abroad, the two of them were already as sweet as newlyweds.

"Brother Wang is no longer with Xiao Zhang. In the past two years, Xiao Zhang couldn't bear the pressure and got married. Brother Wang has aged a bit in the past two years." Jiang Yishan seemed to see what Zhang Hui wanted to ask.

Zhang Hui was a little bit embarrassed, it might be easy to be together, but why is it so difficult to go to the end together, and they are still same-sex couples.

What Zhang Hui doesn't know is that for some people, being together is already so unattainable.

"Long time no see, Brother Wang, do you still remember me? I'm Zhang Hui."

Zhang Hui stretched out his hand to the middle-aged man in his 40s behind the bar. Brother Wang happily held Zhang Hui's hand after recognizing Zhang Hui.

"How can you not remember! Xiao Zhang, you are the treasure of my shop!"

"What did Brother Wang say?" Zhang Hui didn't expect Brother Wang to say that.

"Really, I have cleared the photo notes on the wall for several rounds, but I am not willing to clear your photo." Wang Ge said.

Zhang Hui asked, "Did you take that photo of Brother Wang?"

Brother Wang said: "It wasn't me. I don't know who posted it. I didn't pay attention. This wall was only two years ago. I guess it was posted by someone else. It must be a little girl who has had a crush on you for many years."

Zhang Hui, Lin Xiyi, and Jiang Yishan drank some beer, then some baijiu, and in the end they drank baijiu mixed with beer, and they probably said the same about their separation for so many years.

Lin Xiyi's girlfriend has been dating for five years and plans to get married. Jiang Yishan had a girlfriend introduced by his family, but the woman thought Jiang Yishan was boring and broke up. Jiang Yishan is now accepting family arrangements every weekend. The blind date, some physically and mentally exhausted.

And what Zhang Hui wants to talk about is that. When I was studying at UCL, I dated a Malaysian Chinese girlfriend. After graduating from a master’s degree, I went to work in a famous French construction engineering company for a while, and then returned to China with my roommate Chen Zinian to start a business.

"That Zhang Shuai, are you single recently?" Jiang Yishan blushed from drinking, but his drinking capacity was obviously much better than when he was in college.

Zhang Hui clinked a glass with him, "That's right, we brothers are all connected by fate."

At this moment, Zhang Hui received a WeChat message, which was sent by Chen Xunian.

"Who do you think is the promotional photographer for the art center project?"

Zhang Hui didn't think much about replying, "Who?"

"It's the cutie you brought home to sleep that day! I just confirmed [色] with the other side just now" and added an emoji that comes with the system.

Why does this sound so strange, but there seems to be nothing wrong, cutie?Jing Ling?

At first glance, he looks cool and personal, but he is easily shy and kind of cute.

"That's my junior, his name is Jing Ling."

"[Picture]" Chen Zunian sent a screenshot, which should be a dialog between him and Jing Ling, and Jing Ling's note has been changed to "little elf".

Chapter back: "..."

Jing Ling's profile picture is a photo that doesn't distinguish between morning and evening, which looks quite artistic.

He remembered the business card that Jing Ling had given him, which said "Freelance Photographer SEIREI" and the contact information.

He also asked him why he was named by this name, and Jing Ling said, "It's the Roman sound of the Japanese name."

Suddenly there was a small red "1" on the column of his contacts.

He clicked to open it, "SEIREI requests to add you as a friend."

Zhang Hui smiled, just as he thought of him, he appeared just like that.

After pressing "Add to Contacts", I took the initiative to say hello:

"Happy cooperation from now on, Brother Elf."

SEIREI becomes "the other party is typing..."

"En." Then he sent another sentence: "Jing Ling."

Zhang Hui looked at the screen and laughed. He felt Jing Ling's silent protest, but after he used the translation software to input "SEIREI", what came out was "せいれい" and "精霊", meaning elves.

There is nothing wrong with being called an elf, he thought.

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