song for the city

The atmosphere was a little quiet for a while, and none of the three spoke.

Ah Cheng hasn't talked about his illness with anyone for a long time, and the people he meets in life are all acquaintances, so there's no need to be honest.

When people get along with each other, no one will explain everything.

He pondered for a while, and said: "When I was young, I would rock and roll to death. My band even released an album, which sold well. It's such a great thing to release an album. Once people taste a little bit of sweetness, they will go away. I was done with the poison, and in the end my parents didn't even recognize me as my son."

Ah Cheng lit a cigarette, took a sip of water to moisten his throat, coughed and continued, "I don't know whether my AIDS was caused by whoring or taking drugs. I didn’t even know that I had this disease. The band broke up because of this, and the agency paid a large amount of liquidated damages. All the money I earned was wasted, and I went to a drug rehabilitation center for two years.”

The general public has a negative attitude towards rock bands. The older generation feels depressed and hates the existence of this kind of music in society, and those who love it love it to the core.

Ah Cheng played rock and roll to the later stage, and found that rock and roll can easily make people lose their minds, and they want to go crazy if they can't write a song.

After hearing this, Liang Zhang felt uncomfortable, and always felt that his breathing was strangely blocked.

Although it sounds a bit hypocritical, Liang Zhang is a person with strong empathy ability, even for the sad stories of strangers, he can have a strong sympathy, and even bring himself into it.He has never liked this character very much, at best it is considered empathetic, at worst it is indecisive.

It's like Liang Zhang is sitting in front of Ah Cheng now. He has only seen him three times, but he feels that he has known him for a long time.

"Do you regret playing rock and roll?" Liang Zhang asked.

"There is nothing to regret or regret. In my life, there is only music left."

"And Nana," he added.

Just as he finished speaking, there was movement from the door, and the Nana he was talking about came back.

Ah Cheng stopped the slightly melancholy expression on his face, put on a smile, and went to pick up the bag in Nana's hand.

Liang Zhang stood up and said, "Sister Nana."

Nana was obviously surprised when she saw Liang Zhang, and she glanced at Pei again, her tone was very brisk: "I didn't expect Liang Zhang to come too, the things you prepared may be a little short, or I'll go out and buy some more?"

She made a gesture to open the door, but Liang Zhang hurriedly persuaded her: "Don't bother! I'll eat whatever I have."

"Okay then, I'll make you feel wronged."

Liang Zhang has been in Day City for almost half a month, and he has long been accustomed to the rough life, and his previous habits are almost worn out. Nana may subconsciously think that he is the well-dressed boy, and his expression is a little embarrassed.

When strangers enter their not-so-open life, it is a completely different feeling from meeting them outside. Liang Zhang understands Nana's mood. Speaking of his past, I kind of want to know how you two met?"

Xiang Pei, who had been keeping silent all this time, suddenly looked at Liang Zhang, put his hands on the table, and said, "Their encounter was quite dramatic, anyway, I think it's ridiculous."

"The combination of a street girl and an AIDS patient, can we not talk about it?" Nana finished laughing, and was shocked to find that there was a new brother sitting here, covering her mouth in panic.

Ah Cheng said, "It's okay, I just told him about my illness."

Nana was relieved: "He passed out on the road when he was young and frivolous. I sent him to the hospital. After he woke up, he insisted on asking me to call."

"So it was you who saved him!" Liang Zhang said.

"That's right, Ah Cheng still feels ashamed to say this."

Ah Cheng was dissatisfied: "During that time, I didn't live like a human being. It was very embarrassing. You should stop talking about the later things."

Nana ignored him, and said to herself: "I said I was out for sale, but he was so scared that he stopped talking and didn't ask me for a phone call. I met Ah Cheng again two years later, when someone came to the store that day. A very thin man, of course I don't remember him, I quoted the price to him, but he dumped 200 yuan on the bed, and said—"

She intentionally elongated her voice, Liang Zhang came over curiously and asked, "And then?"

"He said he would buy my phone number for 200 yuan."

Xiang Pei complained next to him: "Brother Ah Cheng may think he is so handsome."

Nana shook her head in disgust: "At that time, I just thought this man was sick, so I asked him if he wanted to do it, and if he didn't do it, get out."

"He didn't get out, he just sat on the bed and chatted with me about his band, his depravity, and found out that he had AIDS after reforming himself. I was shocked when I heard it, and told him to leave quickly. You know, fuck me People in this industry are most afraid of meeting people who are sick.”

Later, Ah Cheng came every day, doing nothing as usual, and occasionally sending food and flowers to Nana. It was a very cheap way of chasing girls, but Nana had never met them after living for so many years.

"The last thing he gave me was a song, which he wrote himself. He asked me if I would like to be his girlfriend, and I said yes. It doesn't matter if he has AIDS. So contagious."

When talking about these things, Nana had a very happy smile on her face, and that smile came from the bottom of her heart.She has no makeup today, her eyebrows and eyes are vegan, she looks ten years younger, just like a little girl.She is not as unscrupulous at home as she is on the street, but very restrained.

Liang Zhang didn't ask why Ah Cheng could accept Nana to continue doing such a job, because when he saw the piles of medicine bottles and the dark basement, he understood everything.

Not everyone has the means to escape life.

"When we have saved enough money, we will go to another city, where no one knows us." Nana looked at Acheng with a smile.

The meals were very simple, and Liang Zhang even made a dish. He wanted to show off his skills, but it made the other three people hot enough.

Xiang Pei was so hot that his ears turned red, he drank a large glass of water in one gulp, sat at the table doubting his life after drinking, stuck out half of his tongue, and inhaled wildly.

"Xiang Pei, are you exaggerating a bit?" Liang Zhang continued to pour water for him while laughing.

Looking at Pei with a frown, he said angrily inarticulately, "Do you use pepper as salt when you cook?"

"I used to cook like this." Liang Zhang picked up a chopstick and chewed slowly, "It's not spicy, you are too weak."

Nana said, "As expected of being from Sichuan."

Liang Zhang rubbed the back of his head guiltily: "It's over, I didn't know you guys can't eat spicy food so much."

Slowing down to Pei, he said, "The taste is still good."

But no matter how good the taste was, Xiang Pei didn't stick his chopsticks into the dish afterwards.

After dinner, Ah Cheng and Xiang Pei played the piano and sang, and only the sound of the piano and Xiang Pei's intermittent singing remained in the room.

Nana was sitting with her knees tucked in, her chin between her knees, her head shaking to the tune.

"Sister, how did you know Xiang Pei?"

Taking advantage of Xiang Pei's absence, Liang Zhang asked in a low voice.

"It's because of Ah Cheng, but it seems that Ah Cheng met him in a bar."

"Is Xiang Pei a native of Day City? Why doesn't he live at home and doesn't study?"

Nana seemed to know something, but she just shook her head slightly: "Xiao Pei's dream is to have a home, a place that can protect him from the rain and let him sleep peacefully."

She didn't go into details, and Liang Zhang didn't ask any more questions, but just stared at Pei's silhouette silently.Under the light, his Adam's apple trembled slightly.

Because he thought that taking a walk after dinner would help his digestion, Liang Zhang didn't let Xiang Pei ride his motorcycle over, since the two places were not far away anyway.

Summer evening is very suitable for walking, and occasionally there is a cool breeze.

But the weather was unforeseen, and they were walking halfway, when a heavy rain suddenly fell, and the two of them were drenched like drowning dogs, soaked and looking for a place to hide from the rain on the side of the road.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and with the strong wind, the trees were blown to this side, the leaves were falling obliquely, and everything was messed up by the heavy rain.

There are very few passers-by, the time is late, and there are not many cars.Liang Zhang and the others finally found a place to hide from the rain in front of the roadside hotel.

Seeing that the rain didn't seem to stop at all, Liang Zhang worried, "How do we go back?"

It must be difficult to get a taxi in the rain, Liang Zhang stood there and waved to several taxis, but no one paid any attention to him.

Xiang Pei turned and glanced at the stairs behind him, which led to the hotel on the second floor.

"How about we make do here for the night?"

"what?"

Just as he was talking, an approaching car flashed by quickly, splashing water and mud all over the two of them, making brown mud all over Xiang Pei Bai's clothes, even on his mouth.

The rain was already enough to make people upset, but Liang Zhang was even more annoyed by the sloppy driver. He rushed into the rain and cursed at the handsome figure of the car: "What a fetus! It's been a long day!" Long eyes!"

He uttered a long series of swear words in Sichuan dialect. Xiang Pei didn't understand a sentence, but the comedy effect was very good. He was just agitated by the rain and mud, and now he saw Liang Zhang standing in the rain and swearing stupidly. , holding back a smile and pulling him back.

"Don't argue with idiots."

Liang Zhang was completely soaked, even under his fingernails.

Xiang Pei wiped the mud off Liang Zhang's eyelashes with his hands, and asked him, "Do you want to go up?"

Liang Zhang felt like a deer bumping into him, feeling that Xiang Pei in front of him was unreal.

"It seems to be the only way." He replied.

He rushed upstairs with all his strength, leaving Xiang Pei standing downstairs.

Xiang Pei looked at the smear of brown on his fingertips, and wondered how he wiped off the mud on Liang Zhang's face just now.

A standard room with two beds.

Xiang Pei went in to take a shower, and when he came out, he was wrapped in the bathrobe left in the hotel.

He disliked the bathrobe in the hotel, who knew how dirty it was, but the clothes were all wet, so he had to make do with it.

Liang Zhang followed him in, when he heard the sound of a hair dryer coming from outside, he might have blown Pei Zai's hair.

After taking a shower, Liang Zhang realized that Xiang Pei was blowing clothes. He went over to help Xiang Pei flip through the clothes. The hot wind made his hands warm.

Clothes hung on the chair, squatting toward Pei, Liang Zhang sat on the edge of the bed.The neckline of the bathrobe is loose, and when you look around, you can see Pei's chest in full view.

He has a tattoo on his chest, which is a very strange pattern.Liang Zhang's tongue was hot, and he tried his best to say something to break the silence, so he asked him, "What is the tattoo on your chest?"

"It's the Queen's logo."

"Oh." Liang Zhang nodded dryly.

Although he and Xiang Pei lived together, they never slept in the same room.Liang Zhang couldn't get used to it for some reason, and looked at Pei Chui's clothes quietly.

After some time, Xiang Pei turned off the hair dryer and said, "It's almost dry, let it dry overnight and you can wear it tomorrow morning."

Looking up to Pei, he found that Liang Zhang's eyes became very bright, and he was staring at him without blinking.

He looked away and said, "Go to sleep."

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