"Boss, a bowl of noodles and two ounces of Fen wine."
An old man with a weathered face walked into the tavern at No. 44 Liulin Lane with a stooped waist.
I started ordering as soon as I walked in. This old man has been coming here at this time for 364 days in a row.
As the owner of the tavern, Bai Ze was making noodles enthusiastically. As soon as he heard the old man's voice, he knew that he was a regular customer.
"Okay, I figured you'd arrive at this time. There's noodle soup in the teapot on the table. I'll pour it myself and I won't go out to entertain you."
The old man agreed with a smile and poured a bowl of noodle soup by himself. In this weather, hot noodle soup is not so comfortable.
Bai Ze took out the noodles and put them in his hands casually.
The blade is waved up and down, and the shaved noodles fall into the pot accurately.
Not long after, a bowl of shaved noodles was freshly baked, still steaming with a hint of heat.
Add the sauerkraut and put it on the old man's table.
"Young man, thank you for your hard work. The old man comes to disturb you every day near closing time, delaying you from getting off work." The old man raised his head, with a pair of cloudy eyes that seemed to tell a story.
"As the old man said, the economy is in a recession now, thanks to the support of you old customers.
So that the tavern will not be in danger of collapse." Bai Ze is telling the truth. There is no need to go into too much detail about what he has gone through here. Everyone knows that in the past three years ( ), many physical stores have collapsed.
"I want to meet you, but the food here is delicious. Okay, okay, old man, I won't talk nonsense. You can drink some more with me today." The old man showed a pleading look.
Bai Ze sighed, poured a glass of wine for the old man, and poured another glass for himself.
"Old man, you also know my drinking capacity. Let's drink three glasses in moderation. Just the right amount is fine." Bai Ze is also helpless about his drinking capacity. After all, he has fewer friends and fewer social activities. How can his drinking capacity be better?
"Don't worry, you won't skip the bill, so just drink with peace of mind!" The old man smiled naively.
Bai Ze laughed and raised his glass of wine to toast the old man.
The old man also raised his wine glass. The way he held the glass was very elegant.
After clinking a glass, the old man drank it, and then wolfed down a bowl of noodles.
Seeing this, Bai Ze pricked up his ears and listened, because he knew that the old man was going to be verbose again.
Sure enough, the old man looked forward and fell into reminiscence.
He said a lot, and Bai Ze could accept it. What the old man told was his own story. Although there were some unbelievable things in it, he thought it was normal for the old man to remember it wrong under the bright sky.
After all, according to visual inspection, the old man is about seventy years old, with black hair, and although his body is stooped, he seems to have a lot of strength.
"Hey, as we get older, people become more verbose. Young man, it's getting late, so I won't bother you anymore." The old man stood up from his chair, took out Zou Zou Baba's ten yuan from his pocket and put it on the table.
"Old man, I paid for today's meal, please take the money back!" Bai Ze knew that an old man of his age did not have much spare money, so he would help the old man every now and then.
Don't laugh at Bai Ze for being stupid, God has the virtue of good life, and there are not many good people like him.
The old man took back the money and put it back in his arms, nodded secretly, and said before leaving the house: "Young man, there is no need to wait for the old man tomorrow."
"Old man, are you going on a long trip tomorrow?" Bai Ze asked profusely.
"Well, okay, the old man said goodbye." The old man walked out of the door and looked at the sky. A gust of wind blew by and he disappeared.
Bai Ze looked at the old man leaving and was about to clear away the dishes, but found a small gadget on the table.
I turned around and went out to see him off, only to find that the old man had disappeared.
Bai Ze muttered to himself: "Strange, why does the old man walk so fast?"
Liulin Alley is at least 200 meters deep, and Bistro No. 44 is the deepest. It is impossible for the old man to walk so fast relying on the strength of his feet.
He casually put the gadget in his pocket, and after thinking about it for a moment, he really couldn't figure out when he left this gadget behind.
After thinking about it for a while, I found that I couldn't figure it out, so I stopped thinking about it.
I put away the dishes, cleaned up, and locked the door of the tavern from the inside.
When I got to the second floor, I took out my mobile phone and checked my balance. After three years of epidemic, my savings were running low.
With a sigh, he scrolled up the cigarette video and looked at the energetic young lady in it. As a young man in his twenties, it was inevitable that he would feel a little itchy.
After watching short videos for a while, I felt uninterested. I looked at the time and saw that it was already 4:30 in the morning, which was still very early to wake up.
As a side note, this tavern opens from five o'clock in the afternoon until four o'clock in the morning.
Still unable to fall asleep even after turning off the mobile phone. This may be a common problem among contemporary young people. They are obviously very sleepy but cannot fall asleep even though they put down the mobile phone.
Rubbing his temples, Bai Ze stood up and poured a cup of tea, which was his unique recipe for insomnia.
Drinking a cup of tea will not only not refresh you, but will make you drowsy and you may fall asleep at any time.
Put down the water glass and lay on the bed in a daze.
The snoring sounded. I was really tired after a busy day.
Just when Bai Ze was sleeping, two people suddenly appeared in the room on the second floor.
You read that right, they just appeared suddenly, and you couldn’t see their faces clearly in the dark.
"Old Hei, is this the guy you chose?"
"Old Bai, we don't need to question your choice. Since it is your choice, we just need to obey." The person called Lao Hei answered the words of the person called Lao Bai.
The two men in black and white looked at Bai Ze carefully. He was ordinary, very ordinary. He was ordinary and could not be found in the crowd.
Not long after he fell asleep, Bai Ze woke up. He drank too much water before going to bed and did not have a nap before going to bed. This was because he was suffocated by the peeing.
Turn on the bedside lamp, sit up, and open your eyes drowsily.
Opening his eyes, he turned around to put on his shoes, but was startled when he shivered.
Bai Ze thought he had seen it wrong and immediately rubbed his eyes.
After taking a closer look, I saw that this good guy never did anything wrong in his life, but a trickster came to the door in the middle of the night.
Bai Ze thought it was a thief who broke into an empty door at first, but when he looked down, his heart skipped a beat, it was over, it was over, it was really over, it was over.
Their faces were pale because their bodies were floating and their heels were not touching the ground at all.
Two people came, one in black and one in white.
The man in black wears a pointed hat, a fierce look on his face, and a long hat with the words "Get rich at first sight" written on the hat.
The man in white is as white as pink, wearing white clothes and a white high hat with the words "Peace in the world" written on it.
Could this be the black and white impermanence in folklore?
Looking at the two of them again, they are wearing cut-off clothes, straw ropes tied around their waists, straw sandals on their feet, paper ingots on their necks, broken banana fans, iron ropes, and abacus in their hands. Their shoulders are raised high, their hair is down, and they look like they have eight-character eyebrows.
It's a clown.
To be honest, black and white are impermanent.
"Old Hei, I told you not to laugh a long time ago. Look, I'm scaring my little brother." Bai Wuchang rolled his eyes and accused Hei Wuchang of scaring Bai Ze.
"Old Bai, it's obvious that you stuck out your tongue and scared the little brother." Hei Wuchang provoked Bai Wuchang.
Looking at Bai Ze again, his eyes were dull, his face was in disbelief, and he was stunned.