thousand cups

That year, Jiang Mo was a senior and was about to graduate.

Most of the people in the same period are busy with the postgraduate entrance examination, the public examination certificate, and looking for a job, running around for the future and the future, busy.And Jiang Mo didn't look like a graduate at all, he lived a very leisurely and happy life every day, eating and drinking with the group of friends from the drama school, playing with things and losing his mind, and not doing business.I didn't write a single word in my graduation thesis, but Tang Li, a good friend of his who was a writer and director, wrote a drama script for him.

That was the first time Jiang Mo sold himself. The story came from a dream he had one day.Tang Li stole a bottle of Wuliangye from his father, exchanged the script with Jiang Mo, and used it to make a graduation play.

He exchanged one of his dreams for a bottle of good wine.

The play is played at Christmas.Jiang Mo had nothing to do, so he went to Tang Li's school as an audience.The performance was considered a success, it was a very successful graduation play, there were no stage accidents, and the performance of the actors was also very online.

After the curtain call, he and Tang Li walked out of the red building side by side, planning to go to Sophia's bar to celebrate.

Walking downstairs, Tang Li took out a cigarette to smoke, but it couldn't light up for a long time when he lit it. He asked Jiang Mo to wait, and ran to borrow a lighter from someone he knew.

When Tang Li came back from lighting his cigarette, he saw Jiang Mo squatting under the bulletin board, staring at a cat.

Tang Li was smoking a cigarette, watched Jiang Mo touch the cat, and scolded in disgust: "Dirty or not!"

Jiang Mo ignored him, but pointed to the cat's mouth and said cheerfully, "Look carefully, it looks like Chaplin!"

It's very similar, it's still a kitten, it's all white, only the mouth is black, and it has a mustache, it's a bit hilarious and cute.

The cats in the school are not very afraid of people.Jiang Mo squatted and rubbed it for a long time, and waited for Tang Li to finish smoking and urge him to leave before standing up and leaving.

He thought he was passing by to pet a cat, but after they walked outside for a while, Jiang Mo suddenly felt something was wrong.

He looked back sensitively——

That mustache cat has been following them!

Tang Li followed him and turned his head, laughing loudly: "Look at you, you are a cat and a dog, you can't get rid of it."

Jiang Mo was surprised: "I didn't give it food either."

"A strange kitten follows humans...it sounds scary, like a horror movie." Tang Li shrank his neck, "Could this cat be your enemy in the previous life?"

Jiang Mo poohed: "Thinking about it from another angle, this may be my lover from the previous life, it's a romance movie."

"You have a strong taste."

"roll."

They thought it would stop following it for a while, but to their surprise, the cat followed them all the way out of the school and followed them to the door of Sophia's shop.

Jiang Mo looked back, having fun for a while, walked over to pick up the cat, and said to Tang Li, "I've followed you here, we have to take it in for a night."

Tang Li couldn't help but said, "You can't just pick one up when you come across it, right? In the future, those people chasing after you will do this, so why don't you take them all back and keep them?"

Jiang Mo just smiled: "Forget about the human, I will keep the cat."

After he finished speaking, he picked up the kitten and put it on his shoulder in a novelty, still muttering something in his mouth, saying what to stand tall and see far, hold on, brother cat.nerve!Tang Li kicked him with a smile and cursed: "What's wrong!"

Sophia's store only officially opened in October, and most of the people who come here are students from the drama school next door.Jiang Mo supported the cat on his shoulder, and walked in with Tang Li talking and laughing, and found that the business was good today, probably because of the holiday.There is a movie playing in the front hall, which is a special Christmas gift for guests. Merry Christmas!Mr Lawrence.

They sat down and enjoyed the movie for a while, before they could order a drink, Sophia at the bar called him in a low voice: "Jiang Mo, please help me, I'm almost exhausted, Xiao Kai is on duty today, and everyone is going to celebrate the festival .”

Jiang Mo could only put down the cup and walked in with the cat. After washing his hands, he began to help without complaint. He picked up two glasses of mixed wine and asked, "Which table?"

"Table 6." After Sophia finished speaking, she remembered something, "That's right! Your brother is here, at the table inside."

Jiang Mo was confused for two seconds: "My brother?"

Sophia didn't know the other person's name, so she patted her head: "Just that, that, your... appetizer! I'll give you the one with pickles."

Appetizers?

Jiang Mo thought for a while, and suddenly realized: "Oh, appetizers."

It's the baby grandson of a good sister who dances square dance with grandma. It seems to be called Shen... Chaowen?To give him something.

"Well, it's just the handsome guy with the paralyzed face." Sophia said, "It should be with my classmates."

Jiang Mo nodded and said he got it.Pick up two glasses of wine and send them away first.After delivery, he was curious and planned to visit the "appetizer".

After locking the position, Jiang Mo began to peek in the dark—a small table, three people, with wine on the table, and the most pleasing-looking "drinker" sat on the far left.He took off his down jacket and was wearing a black sweater. He was talking to the two people facing him, holding a pen in his hand, writing and drawing in a notebook spread out on the table.

Jiang Mo glanced at the big schoolbags the three of them put behind the chairs, and was speechless for a while.

The temperament of these three people is too much like high school students. Although they know that Shen Chaowen is an adult, he can come to the bar to play and drink... But looking around, they always feel that they are still children, what kind of wine do they drink.

never mind.Not long after I first came to university, I should come out to play, meet new friends, just play if you like, don't meddle in other's business.

After convincing himself, Jiang Mo turned and left.He sauntered back to the bar and told Sophia softly, "For the table that serves wine, charge me."

At the moment, Shen Chaowen is discussing the topic of debate with his two debate friends Zhou Fei and Zhang Ziyi.Oh, no, to be precise, it was a discussion with Zhang Ziyi.Zhou Fei was already drunk, and temporarily lost part of his ability to act and his personal will. He just lay on his stomach and listened to their chats, so it could be considered that he participated in the discussion.

...In fact, I didn't intend to discuss the debate in a place like a bar. It was not Shen Chaowen's intention to come here. He and Zhang Ziyi came to accompany Zhou Fei.

Zhou Fei unfortunately broke up with his online girlfriend a week ago. This incident seriously affected Zhou Fei's mental state (and debating skills). Shen Chaowen and Zhang Ziyi have been comforting him, accompanying him, and accompanying him to and from class these days , Eat in the cafeteria, go to self-study, I hope Zhou Fei can cheer up as soon as possible, overcome the pain of broken love, and get back to the state of debate, after all, they will start the competition soon.

On Christmas Day, which was supposed to be a day for gaining knowledge, an unexpected incident happened after dinner.Coming out of the school cafeteria, Zhou Fei suddenly invited them in pain: "How about we go to the bar tonight?"

bar? ?

Shen Chaowen and Zhang Ziyi shook their heads together.They have a lot of homework, they haven't read so many books, and they haven't discussed clearly in the debate competition, so they don't have the time to drink.

Zhou Fei said disappointedly: "Then I'll go by myself. I'm so sad, I must drink some wine tonight."

Shen Chaowen persuaded him: "Use wine to relieve your worries and worry more, don't drink it. Let's go back to the dormitory tonight to study the case in the jurisprudence class. I think that case has something in common with our debate topic, and it is worthwhile." discuss."

Zhou Fei, who was tortured by jurisprudence, said angrily: "Chaowen, don't mention jurisprudence to me again! If you mention it again, you will lose your argument!"

Shen Chaowen: "..."

Zhang Ziyi said embarrassingly: "But I have never been to a bar."

Zhou Fei said, "I haven't been there either. Chaowen, have you been there?"

Shen Chaowen was quite embarrassed and said: "I went there once when I started school, at the Academy of Drama. But I didn't go to drink, I just went to give things to... people I know."

Zhou Fei held his shoulder: "Great! Chaowen, take us there! Go to the store you've been to! Let's spend Christmas together!"

Shen Chaowen: "..."

Zhou Fei begged: "Let's go together! Stay with me!"

This.

If you don't go with Zhou Fei, what happens if he goes drinking alone... What if it affects the game?

After struggling for a long time, Shen Chaowen still nodded and agreed, and took Zhou Fei and Zhang Ziyi to the shop they had visited before.

When they arrived at the blue shop, Zhou Fei and Zhang Ziyi stood at the door and started arguing whether the name of the shop was Qianbei or Cheers.It was cold outside, and Shen Chaowen had a headache from the strong wind, so he hurriedly dragged the two of them inside.

Across the atrium, they pass a Christmas tree as tall as a man.There are many small baskets hanging on the tree, which contain fresh strawberries, and there is a note on the basket, which says 'please use as you please'.There is also a standing sign next to it, which says——Today's 20:00 Filmography, Oshima Nagisa/"Merry Christmas!"Mr Lawrence".The bottom row reads - notice!New Year's Day film list, Lee Cangdong / "Oasis".

Zhou Fei poked Shen Chaowen's arm strangely, and asked, "Is this a bar or a...private cinema?"

Shen Chaowen didn't know why the store still showed movies, so he shook his head and said he didn't know.

Compared with the sloppy decoration during the last renovation, this place has a brand new look, and the decoration and layout are all eye-catching.The light is dark blue, and there are books and records lined up on the walls. When you walk into the hall, there are no empty seats.A projection screen is hung on one wall, and images are playing.The people seated were drinking and talking softly, some were watching movies on the screen, some were not watching, just drinking.

This store is different from the bar they imagined, it is very quiet, full of mystery and petty bourgeoisie.

Having never been to this kind of place before, they were all a little nervous, but they still pretended to have seen the world, observed quietly, and did not act rashly.

I stood there in the lobby for a while, but couldn't find a seat.While hesitating what to do, a woman in a long beige dress appeared.

She has a colorful tattoo on the pinna, like a string of flowers.

Shen Chaowen had a good memory, and recognized her as the beautiful woman whom he had met for the first time. She seemed to be named Sophia.

She took another look at Shen Chaowen, smiled, and asked softly, "Are the three here to drink?"

Shen Chaowen nodded.

"The movie seats are gone, only the seats inside," she said.

The three said in unison: "It's okay."

They didn't come to the movies in the first place.

Sophia led them through a long corridor to find a seat, put down a handwritten short menu and left.

Shen Chaowen just sat down and wanted to go to the toilet. He said to Zhou Fei and Zhang Ziyi who were still studying the menu seriously: "Just order your wine, and order a glass of water for me."

When he came back from the toilet, Zhou Fei and Zhang Ziyi had already finished ordering.

As soon as he sat down, Zhang Ziyi leaned over and whispered to him: "Chaowen, I don't want to drink, I ordered tea for the two of us... Also, Zhou Fei ordered the most expensive set meal, but I only brought 100 yuan. Their tea is also very expensive, over 80 for a cup.”

Zhang Ziyi's family is not very rich, and he usually lives frugally.I am willing to come today, probably because I am good friends with him.

Shen Chaowen answered him in a low voice: "I have brought enough money, I will buy you a drink."

Zhang Ziyi quickly waved his hands and answered him honestly: "No, I have enough money."

Hearing this, Shen Chaowen suddenly felt a little guilty for calling him here for consumption. It was because he didn't think carefully, and should have accompanied Zhou Fei here by himself.

After thinking about it, he decided to ask Zhang Ziyi to eat in the cafeteria for a week as compensation, and if Zhang Ziyi didn't accept it, he would charge his card directly.

After a while, all the drinks came up.Zhou Fei's set meals are rich in variety, which looks very bluffing.

Shen Chaowen looked at the cup of iced black tea in front of him, and asked Zhang Ziyi with some doubts: "It's so cold, why don't you heat it up?"

Zhang Ziyi replied: "I asked the waiter if I could have hot tea, but he said there is no hot tea. This shop is really strange, there is no hot tea!"

Not hot?strangeness.But Shen Chaowen didn't ask any further, he lifted his cup and took a sip, feeling a bit... weird?There is no tea flavor, but there is an indescribable sweet and astringent taste, more like a drink, and it tastes good.

The three of them just toasted and drank dryly, pretending to be adults, and drank dryly.

Really bored, Shen Chaowen eagerly took out his notebook from his schoolbag and asked, "Shall we... discuss the topic of debate?"

Zhou Fei said that he didn't want to discuss it. He had been absent-minded tonight. After drinking some wine, he couldn't sit still. He took out his mobile phone and said that he would go out and call the beautiful woman who had broken up to try to get back together.

After Shen Chaowen and Zhang Ziyi watched him go out, they felt bored.Doing nothing feels like a waste of life, and being idle is idle anyway, Shen Chaowen took out his notebook and pen from his schoolbag, and began to analyze the debate with Zhang Ziyi under the dim light of the bar.

Shen Chaowen had many opinions on this debate topic. He was the fourth debater, and he wanted to add a lot of details to his speech. He took this opportunity to express a lot of his own views to Zhang Ziyi.

As he talked, his mouth was dry and he finished drinking the glass of drink in front of him in a short time.

After talking for a while, he didn't know whether he was excited or what, he felt his body gradually began to feel hot, very hot, even after taking off his down jacket, he was still very hot.

Not only that, but also a little dizzy and getting thirsty.

Seeing his parched mouth, Zhang Ziyi thoughtfully pushed his own cup over and said, "Drink mine, I'm not thirsty!" After a pause, "I don't think this tastes good, so drink it all."

Shen Chaowen took it gratefully, took a big sip, and said that I would pay the money.

After drinking, he asked casually, "What kind of tea is this? It's quite delicious."

Zhang Ziyi answered him: "I forgot, just some tea."

All right.Shen Chaowen didn't delve into it.

When Zhou Fei came back from the call, he could tell from his expression that the call was for nothing.With a gloomy face, he fell on the table and began to feel sad, gulping down wine, continuing to worry about his broken love.Shen Chaowen and Zhang Ziyi didn't dare to disturb him, and continued to discuss the topic in a low voice.

The strange thing was that Shen Chaowen felt more and more sleepy, a little dizzy, and a little nauseous.

He didn't pay much attention to the dizziness at first.However, not long after, Shen Chaowen discovered to his horror——

Why did Zhang Ziyi in sight become two? !

wrong.

more than.

Now it's three, four...

He took off his glasses and rubbed his temples, the more he rubbed, the more dizzy he became.Shen Chaowen endured the discomfort and asked Zhang Ziyi, "Ziyi, what kind of tea did you order?"

It's so strange, doesn't the more you drink the tea, the more energetic you become?Why did he get sleepy after drinking and even have hallucinations?

"Call...cry..." Zhang Ziyi rubbed his head and began to think, and when he finally remembered, he patted his leg, "Oh! Call, Long Island Iced Tea!"