1999

The next day, Huda slept until he woke up naturally, and it was just the dawn.The young man exchanged rooms with him to sleep last night. Hu Da walked outside the door of the room where the young man slept and stopped for a while. Some cold air escaped from under the door and hit the insteps of his feet. The air conditioner was obviously still on. Hu Da speculated that the young man He probably hasn't woken up yet.

He groped downstairs, washed up hastily, and started preparing breakfast.

He dug out a dozen steamers that he didn’t usually use from the kitchen shelves, washed them and covered them with gauze, then poured out flour and dough from a sealed jar to proof, and at the same time took out the leftover swallow dumplings from the freezer The rest of the minced meat, bean curd skin, and a piece of pork liver were washed and rolled on the stove.

In an hour, Hu Da steamed two drawers of pork buns, and cooked a pot of Jidi porridge with bean curd skin, pork liver, and lean meat.He didn't know where Wu Jiusheng was from, and if he wasn't sure about his taste, he prepared different styles for the north and south, thinking that he must remember to ask when he was eating later.

Just as he was pouring out the hot porridge, Wu Jiusheng stepped on his slippers and kicked Tata downstairs.Huda wanted to say hello to him, but usually they never said hello when they got up and washed like this. The word "good morning" stuck to Huda's mouth and turned into a cough.The young man also ignored him at all, and went straight into the bathroom without making eye contact with him. Huda stared at the tightly closed bathroom door with a porcelain bowl full of porridge.The porcelain of the porridge bowl was very thin, and it became too hot to hold it in the hand for a while. Huda was scalded, put down the bowl with a "hiss", and pinched one of his earlobes.

An awkward atmosphere permeated the small shop in the morning.

Huda set up the table and sat down at the table, waiting for the young man to pack himself up and come before him.

Hu Da handed the young man a pair of chopsticks. The young man held out his hand, but he didn't take it. He waved his empty hand in front of Hu Da:

"The key," he said. "You locked the door. Give me the key. I want to go out."

Huda stared at him.

"Where did you go and are you coming back?" he asked.

"None of your business!" The young man suddenly became angry and shook his hands vigorously, "I spend my weekends, just for entertainment, you don't care where I go, I come back when I like, the key should have been given Give me a hand, when you close the door and lock the door, I will open the door and go to sleep by myself, no one will hinder anyone!"

Hu Da didn't speak anymore, his face was down, he took a key from the keychain and patted the young man's palm.

Wu Jiusheng didn't expect him to be so happy, and the lines that he had planned to argue with suddenly became useless. His eyes flickered, and he looked at the breakfast on the table in front of him, which was clearly prepared according to the amount of food for two people.

"You..." He opened his mouth and was about to say something, but was interrupted by Huda.

"Aren't you going out?" Hu Da asked him back, "If you want to go, go as soon as possible. You are free to come back when you want, but it is best not to exceed eleven o'clock in the evening. The noise of the rolling shutter door is too loud, and it disturbs the neighbors. "

After he finished speaking, he picked up his chopsticks and started eating buns and porridge. He had nothing else to say to Wu Jiusheng, as if what the young man in front of him said was not a big deal, and he didn't need any extra explanation from himself.

He should actually explain something.It was only after Wu Jiusheng took the key and ran out obviously in a gamble, that Hu Da sat down and sighed.But he really didn't want to let the conversation go on so early in the morning that he had to come to a conclusion about what happened last night. What if the young man was not satisfied with what he said?What if the young man insists on moving out from him?

Can he refuse?All people in this world, except those who are guilty and need to be punished, are free.Hu Da knew that he had no right to interfere with Wu Jiusheng's decision.

But that doesn't mean he won't worry about gains and losses.

Except for the two mouthfuls of porridge pulled in front of Wu Jiusheng, Hu Da had no appetite to eat anything. He spread the bowls and chopsticks carelessly, and noticed a pile of plastic bags left on the other table last night.He walked over and opened them up one by one. As long as they were snacks that young people like to eat, they were tied together and thrown into his room. In addition, there was a cup of milk tea that had been left untouched overnight. I don’t know if I can still drink it. Huda casually put it into the freezer.

The whole morning passed extremely long.Originally, the business during the daytime on weekends was deserted. Wu Jiusheng was not there, and the shop was so quiet that even the sound of flies flying by could be heard clearly. Huda never thought that the quietness would be such a problem, but now he is tortured to the core Restless.He picked up his mobile phone to read the news on WeChat, looked at various official accounts, and remembered that he had promised to charge points for the online game played by Wu Jiusheng, so he opened the official website of that game with his mobile phone, and he watched the entire game The introduction, from the world view to the version plot, has read the relevant information of every faction, every profession and race. Later, he was really bored, so he dug out the cashier's account book from the cabinet and calculated this month's income.

When the decimal point was wrong for the sixth time, Huda threw the notebook in a distraught state.A customer who came in for lunch was from the same factory as Wu Jiusheng.He winked at Huda as soon as he came in and said:

"Brother Da, the little tenant in your store is fine. I was in the dormitory early in the morning to listen to him and others asking how to take the Golden Dragon minibus to Dongguan. He was so anxious that he seemed to be suffocated to death if he walked too late. It’s like, it’s been a while since I’ve had a fever. Young people are just different, right? It’s so hot and they can’t stop them. I’m afraid a young lady is not enough.”

While swiping his phone, he finished gossip about Wu Jiusheng on his own. He was about to order food when he looked up and saw Hu Da's face. The black cloud was so dark that the city was about to be destroyed, and he shivered.

It was already afternoon when Wu Jiusheng returned to the Jiujiu barbecue. Hu Da was standing in front of the chopping board chopping meat with a depressed face, when he suddenly saw the person coming back, he was still very unsure.It takes more than an hour to take the Golden Dragon minibus to Dongguan. Counting the commuting and errand time on the way, if the young man really went, he should not be able to return by this time.

Holding the kitchen knife in silence, Hu Da watched the young man rush into the store like a whirlwind, circle the store twice like a headless chicken, angry and anxious but did not speak.He watched the young man ignoring him on purpose and rushing into the kitchen and then out the back door. As usual, he took a bottle of soda at room temperature and went back to the freezer at the door. Arrived at Huda's cup of milk tea with ice in it.The young man stood blankly in front of the open freezer. Hu Da was a little worried. He put down the kitchen knife, wiped his hands, and went to look for him. Just as he stepped out of the kitchen, Wu Jiusheng closed the door of the freezer with a bang. , The whole cabinet of soda bottles and beer bottles made the sound of glass shaking and colliding together.The young man just looked at the lighted freezer and shed tears.

Hu Da was dumbfounded, and those few tears also fell on his heart, burning hot.He was still angry with the young man at first, but now he was completely at a loss. He stepped forward and pressed the young man's shoulder, awkwardly rolled up his oiled sleeves, and tried to wipe the young man with a clean cloth near the elbow. s face.

The young man looked at him with red eyes and pursed mouth like a rabbit.

"Are you going to do business at night?" He suppressed his sore nose and asked in a hoarse voice.

Huda didn't know how to answer, he shook his head.

"If you ask me to do it, I will do it. If you don't let me do it, I won't do it. Don't cry, I will listen to you."

Only then did the young man push him away, turned around and reached the handle of the front door, pulled the shutter door down with a clatter, stepped on the lock again, and quickly locked it with a click.

"I hate you." He sobbed while weeping, "You don't want to make money tonight."

The expression on his face was too serious when he did those things. Hu Da originally thought that he should feel distressed, but he was amused by him, and he couldn't help it. The young man caught it at a glance, and instantly turned into a cat with its hair exploded, and punched Huda in the chest.

"You're still laughing!" Wu Jiu yelled angrily, "Why are you such a bastard!"

"Okay, I'm a bastard, I'm a bastard." Hu Da scolded himself a few times along with his words. He wanted to pull the young man back to his side. In his opinion, the young man's incoherent tantrum was just a momentary agitation. Only after being appeased can I calm down and talk.But Wu Jiusheng obviously didn't buy his account, Hu Da's attitude of not taking it seriously irritated him thoroughly, he gritted his teeth, and with the strength he didn't know where, he pushed Hu Da far away at once, and grabbed him casually A chopsticks basket on the dining table was thrown on the ground. The plastic basket was very brittle and shattered into several pieces at once.

Wu Jiusheng cried even harder.

"It's all your fault!" He clenched his fists and yelled at Hu Da, scratching his neck, "It's all your fault! I played cards with them all morning, and I couldn't even get in! Listening to songs is not fun! Playing games is not fun either." I’m not happy! I’m not happy doing anything! I used to have so many fun things to do, because you can’t do any of them! How can you compensate me!”

When the young man said this, he wiped his eyes hard.

"The group leader wasn't here, and no one took me to Dongguan. They said that the control has been strict recently, and they wouldn't let you in if you weren't introduced by an acquaintance. I had to go to someone who had a movie in their mobile phone to borrow the movie, and I even invited someone to watch it." Two packs of cigarettes, everyone went to have lunch, I didn’t even eat lunch, what kind of garbage movie, it’s not good-looking at all, I couldn’t watch it at all, I locked the door of the toilet, and planned to take it out by myself, but I couldn’t even watch the movie Don’t be hard anymore! My mind is full of you! You say you are sick! Why do you want to pass on your faults to me! Let me be as sick as you!”

Huda's breathing stopped.His sense of hearing lingered on the young man's words "My head is full of you" for a long time, and there were bursts of buzzing in his head.He finally stopped laughing, and he didn't have the slightest thought of making fun of the youth's childish behavior.

He was wrong, it wasn't that the other party was playing childish temper.Wu Jiusheng was really sad and wronged. It took him a day to figure out what he wanted. Compared to Hu Da who just waited in the kitchen, Wu Jiusheng was braver than him.

"I haven't eaten, I'm hungry, I bought cigarettes, and I have no money on me." Wu Jiusheng finished his yelling, rubbed his eyes, gasped and said to him, "I want to eat dry fried beef river, and I want to eat grilled chicken wings."

Huda's nose was sore.He replied "yes" and walked over to the stove to set up the wok.

While Huda was cooking, Wu Jiusheng took out the cup of milk tea by himself and drank it through a straw. The pearls in it lost their elasticity after being soaked for too long, and the tapioca flour was sticky and rolled into a ball in his mouth, but the milk tea still remained. Sweet, very sweet, Wu Jiusheng drank slowly while holding the cup, carefully enjoying the refreshing aroma of frozen milk.

Hu Da fried Niuhe and grilled chicken wings for him. Wu Jiusheng was so hungry that his chest stuck to his back, so he grabbed his chopsticks and ate them into his mouth.His tears had already dried up, and the tear stains stuck to his face, which was particularly obvious like a cat. His throat was still a little sore. Except for yelling at Huda like just now, he rarely spoke so hard.Everything is calm now, even the sweat that sticks to my back has evaporated.While eating, Wu Jiusheng took out something from his pocket and put it in front of Hu Da.

Hu Da looked intently, and saw that it was Wu Jiusheng's own ID card.It has his household registration address on it, and now Hu Da knows that Wu Jiusheng is from a place called Baiyangyu in Yedian, Mengyin County.He looked up at Wu Jiusheng, and found that the young man was half holding the bowl and looking at him with his mouth pursed.

"My mother ran away from my hometown when I was born." He suddenly said to Hu Da in a very low voice. On the ninth day of the eleventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar, my family thought that I was destined to be with Jiu and that I was a child who was hard-won, so I named it Jiusheng. They said that before me, three children were born in the family, and I was the youngest one. The only boy. He also said that on the day I was born, my father was very happy. Instead of taking care of my mother, he ran to the entrance of the village and set off firecrackers for a day to celebrate that the Wu family finally had an incense that could pass on the family line. After that, my mother ran away Yes. When I was young, there was a neighbor’s aunt who helped me take me. She told me that no one thought of it on the day my mother left. She didn’t even pack her luggage. She just put me down after breastfeeding and said that she would go to the small shop in the village to buy for my family. A bottle of soy sauce. I went out wearing a jacket and a red scarf and never came back. My father told me that she had no conscience and didn’t want me. At first I thought so too. Later I found out , obviously my family had three children before me, but I have only one elder sister since I was a child. I can’t call her elder sister, because she was adopted to my uncle’s child, so I can only call her cousin. My cousin is much older than me , besides the neighbor’s aunt, she was the one who took care of me the most. Later, she also married. She married far away. I have never heard the name of my cousin’s husband’s hometown. He pulled me to the back of the house and told me secretly that she was actually my own sister. I also had two older sisters who were taken away by my father as soon as they were born because of family planning. Then I I understand, why my mother left, why she gave birth to me so easily, but didn't want to support me. I don't blame her, I can only blame my father, who has been against him since I was a teenager, what he asked me to do? He just didn’t do anything, which drove me into a hurry, so I asked him for a mother and a sister. When he started drinking, he got drunk and didn’t come home for several days. Later, he lost his patience, so he He started beating me, beating me with the handle of a broken dung rake, and beating me with the legs of a stool. I was beaten all the way until I grew up, and when I was old enough to work in the city, I ran out by myself. In the past few years, I once I haven't contacted him, in my heart, I just think he's dead. I don't have a mother or a father."

Youth has lost its appetite.He curled his lips and put down the bowl.Huda caught his hand and squeezed it in his palm.

"I know all about it." He said to the young man, "With me here in the future, no one will touch your finger."

It was a heavy promise, but the young man didn't seem to listen to it at all.He looked down at the table with sad eyes, which made Huda feel distressed.

"I always wonder if my mother actually hated me when she left. If it wasn't for me, she wouldn't have to suffer so much, and she wouldn't have to lose so many of her children."

Hu Da wanted to stop him and not let him continue talking, but Wu Jiusheng raised his head and looked at him with shining eyes.

"But she also did it very unfairly." He said to Huda, frowning. "I didn't do anything wrong, but she left me and didn't want me. Since then, I have sent myself I swear, I will never do the same thing as she did in this life. I think if I am old enough to find a woman, I must find a woman who can take care of me for the rest of my life. I must not change my mind for the rest of my life. Don't quit halfway, don't abandon her, don't let her suffer like me. I don't have any other big ambitions, I just want to do this thing well. In the end, this only goal was destroyed by you gone."

Wu Jiusheng suddenly smiled wryly, and the words that came out of his mouth made Hu Da's heart tremble, as if his heart, liver and heart had been twisted.

Wu Jiusheng did not continue to say more words to blame Hu Da.He moved the fingers held by Huda, and those fingertips scratched Huda's palm a few times. After a long time, the young man finally stood up as if he had made up his mind, leaned forward and approached him, and asked:

"I made an oath, and the oath cannot be broken, so I have confidence in myself, and I can do what I said. What about you, can you do it? If you like me, can you guarantee that you will like me for the rest of your life, and you won't change your mind halfway through?"

Huda's breath almost failed to continue.

He is so excited.So excited that the young man was frightened by him for a moment.

Hu Da bumped the table and knocked the young man staggering. The young man pushed his back against the wall and yelled.But the cry was not complete, because Huda had blocked those lips.

He didn't even give the young man time to say a word.

He often wondered why he was so impulsive that day, and he couldn't keep a complete piece of memory in his brain after the impulsiveness.He only remembered the details that passed by like light and shadow, he remembered that he roughly carried the young man on his shoulders, he remembered that they went upstairs, he remembered that the young man smashed his body with powerless fists like tickling, he remembered that he kicked the door of the room With one kick, he almost knocked off the door handle.

Then they fell on the creaking bed, the young man's eyes were terrified, then turned into bewildered, sunken eyes, and finally scattered into a piece of silver flakes, immersed in the water.

He also wondered why he was so determined to go to the end that day.The foreplay, which was supposed to be gentle and gradual, was staged by him into a bumpy passion, so violent that it almost lost control.

Maybe it was because the young man revealed his life experience, maybe it was because he knew that the pressure from the young family that he was worried about last night was gone, maybe it was because an unused condom fell out of the bed, in short, everything seemed to be Just right.Hu Da couldn't stop himself, he pressed the young man tightly, he was both gentle and presumptuous, listening to his soft, ignorant moan/groan hitting the pinna of the ear.The young man's breath was soft, fluttering on the tip of his chin, in the nest of his neck, and on his collarbone, like a bird flapping its wings.Huda propped up his chest, took the bird into his arms, and wrapped it tightly.

After everything is over, the world returns to silence.The daylight outside the window dimmed, and the neon lights on the street came back on again. Neither of them had a mobile phone at hand, and they didn't know what time it was outside.Huda put his arms around the young man's shoulders, and the two of them lay on a pillow.He felt the peace and contentment he had never experienced flowing through his body, couldn't help closing his eyes, and sang a song.

He sang the chorus part of the song, "Boundary 1999" by Xu Meijing.The vicissitudes of the voice and the deliberately slowed down rhythm flowed between the walls of the room without the lights on.

After a chorus was sung, the young man lying on his chest suddenly moved.He raised his head and looked at Huda in surprise.

"What did you sing just now?" He asked, and also sincerely praised, "It's really nice. But I can't learn it just by listening to it once. Can you sing it again?"

The youth's eyes were innocent and his voice was clear. The room was very dark, and no one saw Huda blushing.

That's a strange request, Huda thought.Everyone smokes after the event, and no one wants to sing after the event like him, especially if it is a lyrical song, it is really embarrassing.But he sang anyway.

maybe later

sleeping in nightmare

maybe miss the joy of tomorrow

maybe sunshine

Abandon this bitter forest

like my night without you

"What's the name of this song?" asked the young man.

"It's called Boundary 1999."

In 1999, the young man said, this year is very good, it is the year I was born.

"Yeah," Huda also said, "it's very good. 1999 is the year with the most good songs, and I like to listen to them all, and the songwriters of that year especially liked to write the year in the title of the song, "Sad 1999", "Boundary 1999", Nicholas Tse's "Thank you for your love 1999", it seems that after 1999, there will never be a good time."

Wu Jiusheng let out a "wow" beside him.

"You know so much."

Huda smiled.There was joy in his smile, and something else was hidden, which he didn't tell the young man.

In fact, he only knew so much. After 1999, he didn't know anything that happened in this world after that.

In 1999, he went south from his hometown to Shenzhen to make a living. He started a small business with a few local brothers. The small business gradually grew, and everyone started to have some money. They drank, went to nightclubs, and met various people. Friends of all kinds.Later, at the end of the same year, that is, the winter when Wu Jiusheng was born in this world, Hu Da accidentally stabbed his opponent's femoral artery with a switchblade because he participated in a gang fight in one of his brother gangs. , As a result, the other party could not be rescued, and he was sentenced to 16 years in prison for manslaughter.Later, he actively reformed in prison, and his sentence was commuted to 13 years before he was released from prison.When he came out, this world was no longer the one he knew.

Time has ceased to exist for Huda, and his life seems to have stopped at that moment forever, never moving forward.

He named his small shop Jiujiu BBQ, just to remind himself to remember that year and how his frivolous and careless decisions ruined a person's life.He kept telling himself that all he had left in his life were dirty marks and empty holes, that he didn't deserve any good things, that he lived because he didn't have the courage to die.

But he never thought that he would meet Wu Jiusheng.In that nightmarish year, Wu Jiusheng came to this world. He grew up alone, escaped alone, and then came to this city where everything started, and met himself.

Huda didn't know if this was called fate or not.All he knew was that he had found Wu Jiusheng, and this year was the year he had come back to life, the second half of his life that he had never lived seriously, and was accidentally bestowed by fate.

He couldn't afford to screw up again, so he could only work hard and earnestly.