[Bottle Evil Doujin] Generation Gap

Chapter 17 Generation Gap Series Short Chapter 7 "Birthday"

【Happy birthday】

I turned off my phone and stuffed it hastily into my trouser pocket. Today is my birthday, and no one except my mother sent me congratulatory text messages, because everyone I know well knows that Wu Xie doesn't celebrate his birthday.

Although I used to get the nickname of pretending to be evil when I was a student because of my birthday, I still maintain this habit, especially after I’m over 30 years old. I don’t want to hear the word birthday. Every time some software When you remind me how many days are left before your birthday, I can't help being a little irritable.

Annual anniversaries are the most relentless benchmarks, they remind you of the passing of each year, especially birthdays, it is only a personal benchmark of age, like a giant clock ticking, reminding you how little life is for a year.

I was really looking forward to today, there is no particular reason, probably because I thought that this year's birthday would be spent with Poker-Face, and since Poker-Face came back, I really understand why Chinese couples are keen to share Every holiday is celebrated as Valentine's Day. The festival itself is meaningless, what is meaningful is the person who stays by your side.

This is the end of the matter, it’s useless to talk, I lit a cigarette and walked to the window, wanting to blow some air to refresh my mind, Zhang Haike asked me out at [-] o’clock in the evening yesterday, with this incident stuck in my heart, I won’t have a good day Easy.

When I walked to the window sill, I realized belatedly that besides the candy jars, there was also the potted white flower that I gave Poker Fing. The flowers are very picky about sunlight and water, and the neglect of care for several days has made it wither completely. When I pinched it, I found that the leaves were all brittle.

This flower originally bloomed in April, and the early blooming is destined to have such an ending. People in their 30s tend to become very emotional, and a little trouble makes me sentimental. The withering of this potted flower makes me Even more sluggish, the whole person feels bad.

Maybe this is the fate of this flower, I think, does everyone have their own fate, now Poker Ping knows his fate, so what is my fate?What kind of fate and ending will there be between Poker Ping and me?

In the past days, I spent a quarter or a third of my life chasing Poker Ping. During this period, Poker Ping ran forward at a much faster speed than me. Instead of getting closer, the distance is getting farther and farther.

After crossing the hill, I found no one was waiting. Between me and Poker bottle, who is the one who crossed the hill and who was the one who waited? I really don’t know. Has the oil bottle learned to wait for me, and can it understand my behavior?

After smoking a pack of cigarettes, I walked out of the bedroom. The fat man was still sleeping in the guest room, snoring loudly. Thanks to someone, I almost stayed up all night last night. Already forgotten, in short very tired.

No matter what happened, the meal must be eaten. I went to the kitchen and decided to get something to eat for myself. I opened the refrigerator and found that it was cleaner than Wang Meng’s wallet. I haven’t done anything in the kitchen since I moved into this house. Rice, too careless.

In the end, I dug out a pack of instant noodles from the fat man's suitcase. This was probably the last pack of his stock and the only food we had at the moment. I decided to eat it quietly so that the fat man would not find out. I just pretended not to know.

Maybe it was because the boiling water I boiled made the noodles too fragrant. When I was snorting and eating the noodles, the fat man came out. I looked at him and I still had an unbitten noodle in my mouth. The atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

The noodles were indeed a bit long. I sucked them for a long time before I ate them all. During the process, the fat man scratched his stomach and stood opposite me. After I finished eating, I wiped my mouth and handed the rest to the fat man. :"or?"

The fat man shook his head with strange eyes, took out a piece of tissue and handed it to me. I saw that my hands were covered with blood. Excessive nicotine intake and overly spicy instant noodles mercilessly destroyed my nasal mucosa. Nosebleeds gushed out like a torrent of river water.

"You're in your thirties, take it easy." The fat man squinted at my stupid way of stuffing paper balls up my nostrils, like looking at the stupid son of a landlord's family.

I stuffed my nostrils as big as Erkang, and asked the fat man on the sofa: "Do you think me and my little brother are suitable?"

The fat man scratched his feet: "It's suitable, what's not suitable, you two are a match made in heaven together, it's like killing harm for the people! You must keep it, don't doubt it, whoever will be the scourge if you break up Well, have you ever heard that song, torturing each other to the point of dying, what are you two planning?"

I think he is very envious of picking his feet. My feet were pierced several times by glass balls yesterday. I can’t enjoy the fun of picking my feet for the time being. The fat man is right. Poker and I are both scourges. I made a big fuss before. I can't make trouble within a radius of two miles, but if I make trouble now, it is not an exaggeration that the whole of Hangzhou will not be safe, let alone boring.

I don't quarrel with the fat man, the fat man is not used to it, he held back for a long time and said: "What do you think my brother is doing now?"

I just like the character of Fatty, who doesn't open the pot and lifts the pot, and doesn't give you hot water to drink. He said softly, "Maybe he's eating abalone in Hong Kong now, the four-headed one."

The fat man pondered for a long time, his fat stomach made a rumbling sound, and after a long silence, he said seriously: "Then we can't lose to him, I'm really naive, or we'll go eat abalone too?"

No one would eat abalone at nine o'clock in the morning. I was reluctant to go out under the guise of being injured. The fat man looked through his luggage and realized that what I just ate was his stock. I pretended not to understand and took the rest Half a bowl of instant noodles is hidden for lunch.

The fat man suddenly said: "Naive, what will you do if the little brother loses his memory again in the future?"

I paused with the hand that hid the instant noodles: "What can I do? I will raise them at home and find them outside. I can't let him sell fruit anymore."

So what if you tortured each other until you turned gray, it's already a luxury to be able to grow old together, who cares about the process, but according to the growth rate of Poker Ping, if my hair is all bald, he might not even have a single gray hair.

I prepared for the worst when I was with Pokerfinger, it’s not that I’m not confident, it’s just that I’m used to preparing for the worst in everything, so that I won’t be caught off guard when I fail, if the remedy is done well , Turning defeat into victory is not impossible.

If I want to fight backwards, there is no more suitable partner than Poker Ping. He is a good partner who can hand over his back. Under conditions, he will not give up anyone who has a desire to survive. In some respects, he is quite like a Buddha.

But I chose to live with him against my will, and Poker Ping has never even lived a life. His life is only survival, not life. I have to let him go, or change him forcibly.

The fat man patted my shoulder to comfort me, and said, "I'm just asking, there's no other meaning. Although my little brother always loses his memory, he can always remember it. It's a bit of a struggle. It's okay. I'll help you." , let’s take more photos for him and send them to Moments, if he forgets in the future, make him a Moments slideshow, and he will remember it as soon as he puts it on.”

Fatty and I stayed in the well-decorated but empty villa with two old men. We sat lonely, empty and cold for a whole day, and returned to the time in front of the bronze door. At that time, we at least had compressed biscuits. We are in a busy city and only have half a bucket of instant noodles.

When I finally arrived at seven o'clock, the fat man and I were almost sitting down. The fat man asked me if he would accompany me, but I refused. At that time, I didn't realize how serious what Zhang Haike was going to tell me, otherwise I would definitely I will call Fatty.

Zhang Haike's appearance is really bad. Hei Blind beats people in the face. Although his injuries are minor, he was still beaten like a pig's head. When I saw his virtue, I immediately took out my phone and took a few pictures of him. The photos are ready to be sent to Moments.

He didn't move, just sighed, as if feeling that I only had a few hours of happy time, and pointed to the chair calmly: "Sit down."

Before I came, I was so anxious that I thought I would grab him by the collar and press him when I saw him. Now that I really saw him, I was much calmer. I sat down calmly and poured myself a cup of tea. Speak in a hurry, just waiting for him to speak first.

Zhang Haike said seriously: "I want to make it clear first, the patriarch won't let me tell you what I'm going to say next, you can doubt my intentions, you can also doubt whether it's true or not, it's just that things have come to this point, I'm lying to you It doesn't do me any good, believe it or not, you have to decide for yourself."

Of course I doubted his intentions. He didn’t need to warn me about this matter, so I said: “Just say it, it’s up to me to judge. First, tell me where Poker-Face is now, and what are you planning to do?” What."

Zhang Haike did not answer my question directly, but said: "There is no need to be so anxious. If it was yesterday, I would tell you immediately. It is meaningless to say anything today. Since this is the case, it is better to start from the beginning, and you will be better. I understand. You know that the Zhang family is a very large family. Even though it has declined a lot, the number of people is still considerable. We have been passed down from generation to generation. Although everyone is doing different jobs, they are all working for one work towards the goal.”

"So what?"

"The more outstanding people are, the more they want to be able to work alone. Our family has produced many outstanding people, some with power and power, and some with wealth that rivals the country. Why didn't these people think about leaving the Zhang family? I don’t know what’s the secret of dedicating my life? Isn’t that a strange thing?”

I thought in my heart that you invited me here today to show off your family's excellent genes?Do you yourself know that this kind of behavior is abnormal and strange?He said casually, "Aren't you going to chop off your fingers if you leave the family? Who would be so perverted?"

"That's already the old calendar. We are a family that keeps pace with the times, and if you chop off two fingers, you can leave the Zhang family. Are you willing to change it? If it were me, I would definitely do it. What you see is just the appearance , How many people left the Zhang family? There are only a few, and I can tell you that most of these people are not people who have access to the core secrets, and their blood is not pure."

"After the disintegration of the Zhang family in modern times, the remaining Zhang family is basically divided into two factions. One is the one who yearns for absolute freedom. They marry outsiders, live a seemingly normal life, and no longer work hard to maintain family secrets. The other faction sticks to the end, not only because of personal choices and ideas, but also because of blood."

I know that the Zhang family has very strict blood control and pays attention to intermarriage within the family. At least those who can be buried in the ancient building of the Zhang family are all surnamed Zhang. For so many years, such a big family has relied on cousins ​​to marry and have children. It's not easy.

But what does this lineage have to do with whether they choose to leave the family?Could it be that those who can leave the family are all with impure blood, and those with pure blood cannot leave the family?I thought of Pokerfing's precious unicorn blood, that kind of blood seems to be very rare in the Zhang family, this should not be considered a noble blood, because Pokerfing's role when he was a child was to let blood.

Zhang Haike glanced at his watch and continued, "What do you think is the biggest difference between the Zhang family and ordinary people?"

I thought for a while: "More perverted?"

Zhang Haike ignored me and continued: "It's life expectancy. Our life expectancy is much longer than that of ordinary people, and our family has a genetic disease called amnesia, which is amnesia. This is because our memory method is very different from that of ordinary people. Big difference."

Zhang Haike told me that the innate instincts of human beings are gradually degenerating. Using dogs as an example, if you isolate a newborn puppy from other dogs and only let it live with people, you will find that even if there is no If the dog teaches it, it will still grow into a dog instead of a human being. It will still chase its tail, get down on its knees, bark, and swim when it sees a dog companion.

But human beings can't, a newborn child, if you put him with a dog, he will learn how to bark like a dog, and live like a dog; if you put him with a bear, he will learn how to bark like a bear Live like a bear.

Animals have innate instincts and memories, which are recorded in their minds when they are born. They have been inherited for tens of thousands of years, and appear little by little with age, so animals know that they have arrived. What to do at any age.

The Zhang family has a similar 'instinct'. After the Zhang family is born, they have to close themselves infinitely, and the memories brought out from the mother's womb will emerge little by little. These memories will guide the Zhang family's actions until death. Appearing constantly, their every step was planned before birth.

The constant amnesia is because these own memories will cover foreign memories, and they do not allow any foreign things to occupy their space and affect their actors. No matter what the Zhang family wants to remember, it will be a very painful experience. process.

Long lifespan and 'instinct' complement each other, and it takes a long time to complete the guidance of memory. If the Zhang family's lifespan is too short, people will die before it is completed.This is also the reason why the Zhang family can get instructions at any time in the ancient times when information was blocked and communication was inconvenient, because the ones that sent the instructions were their brains.

The Zhang family is strictly divided into the outer family and the inner family. The outer family is relatively free, and the "instinct" does not control them so comprehensively, but as long as there is Zhang family's blood in their blood, they will not have absolute freedom. Intentionally or not, these instructions will affect them, and they will continue to work for the Zhang family without knowing it until they die.

I didn't expect Pokerfing's amnesia to be due to this reason. It sounds like the Zhang family is more like an uncivilized beast with the most primitive instincts. They divide labor and cooperate like ants, doing their own work in an orderly manner. If it weren't for the external sabotage of the Wang family, it is not certain that this terrible family would continue to control China.

I don’t understand why Zhang Haike told me this. Even if animals have instincts, they will live with the changes of the environment. Just like Zhang Haike, can’t they pretend to be ordinary people and live ordinary lives?Or is he trying to warn me that Boyouping will forget me anytime?

I have known about Pokerfing's longevity and memory loss for a long time. I have considered these issues when I was with him. Regardless of the length of my lifespan, I am destined to die earlier than Pokerfinger. Since it doesn't matter how many years I die so early , I just hope that I can spend more time with him in my limited life.

As for amnesia, it’s best for him to remember me, even if he doesn’t remember, it’s okay, as long as he’s still by my side, I have enough time to tell him what happened between us slowly, and he won’t when I die It's too sad, because it won't take long for him to forget that there was a person named Wu Xie in his life.

So I asked, "What are you trying to say?"

Zhang Haike said: "I think you still don't understand the seriousness of this, so let me make a very simple and easy-to-understand analogy. If external memories are equal to viruses, our own memories are white blood cells. Whenever a small virus invades white blood cells will devour them. Have you noticed that the patriarch has not lost his memory for a long time? Even if he loses his memory, he can quickly remember you. Think about it, what will the patriarch do in order to remember you? He will talk to those If one day he succeeds and the virus defeats the white blood cells, what do you think will happen?"

"Oh, I just forgot to say, if you want, you can also call them--'fate'."

The heating was turned on in the teahouse, and the temperature was high enough to make everyone sweat, but I felt cold all over, as if I had fallen into an ice cave, staring at Zhang Haike for a long time, speechless.

Zhang Haike took out a folder from his bag, opened it and continued: "According to modern science, most children born to close relatives will have genetic defects, dementia, disability or mental retardation, but this rarely happens in our family. So we thought that the Zhang family's secrets of longevity and memory problems might be related to the strictly controlled bloodline, and with the development of medicine today, we want to explain these secrets of our people through modern medicine."

The folder was very thick, and Zhang Haike took out several X-ray films from it, all of which were of the brain, and there were dozens of them. Said: "Have you seen it? After our doctor's research, we found that the Zhang family's brains are more or less deformed. The purer the blood, the more obvious the deformity, and the more serious the amnesia and 'instinct'. Our bold Hypothetically, it was this congenital deformity that led to the longevity of the Zhang family, and at the same time provided guidance here."

"If we intermarry with foreigners, the deformity of the children born will be weakened, and perhaps part of the longevity will be preserved, but it is almost impossible to preserve the innate 'instinct', so the Zhang family has not allowed intermarriage from outsiders since ancient times. .”

I don't know anything about medicine, and I don't understand the difference between those brains and ordinary brains. The Zhang family explained this matter through modern medicine. In my opinion, it is very weird and ridiculous. Their family has always been mysterious. , with a strong feudal color, just like the guardian clan in myths and legends.

But now they tell me that this kind of mystery is only due to my brain disease. This feeling is really hard to describe. I stared at those films and listened to Zhang Haike's eloquent introduction. Suddenly, my brain buzzed, and a terrible idea came to my heart. .

Fate, white blood cells, viruses, countermeasures, solutions...

No way.

"...you have found a solution to this 'fate', haven't you?"

Zhang Haike nodded: "It doesn't count, think about it, since this deformity has caused longevity and amnesia, can they be corrected through surgery, so as to turn the Zhang family into normal people? This is a reasonable guess. It is very difficult to deform a person's brain, and it is much easier to correct the deformity, and our doctors have performed experiments on mice, and the success rate is very high."

I asked, "What about the man? Have you ever conducted experiments on humans?"

Zhang Haike spread his hands: "No, you know that if a little deformity can prolong life for decades or even hundreds of years, who would be willing to risk their lives to change them?"

I clenched the teacup in my hand tightly, and my joints turned white with excessive force, and my skin was almost torn out. I gritted my teeth and asked almost word by word: "Brother, where are you?"

Zhang Haike smiled: "I have said so much. Boss Wu is so smart, he should know where he is. The blood of the patriarch is different from ours. Guess what this means? It means that his fate is higher than that of all of us." It’s all serious. If he doesn’t have the operation, maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after tomorrow, he will leave you because of fate’s instructions, and do things that have completely lost their meaning. When he thinks of you again, maybe a dozen Years from now, maybe decades."

Poker-Face really resisted "fate" for me. He went to Hong Kong during the Chinese New Year to check his body, but this time, he went to Hong Kong to perform the hypothetical operation that has never been performed on humans. He wants to become a normal person.

'Fate' was engraved in his brain and fused into his genes. I never knew about it. His future had me a long time ago, but he just didn't say it.

"You want to use him for an experiment. If he survives, this operation can be used as a study, and you can know whether your life expectancy will be affected after this operation, right?" I don't believe Zhang Haike There is no purpose of their own in doing all this. The only reason why they are so concerned is that Poker Bottle has once again become a victim of the family.

"Yes."

As soon as Zhang Haike said the word, I smashed the cup on his face. He wiped his face with tea and said, "It's useless for you to lose your temper now. My purpose will not affect anything. In the end, there is always a bright side, maybe the operation will be successful, every operation has risks, you can't generalize."

I sneered and said: "The worst thing about appendicitis surgery is death, but the chance is small. Tell me how high the mortality rate of this surgery is, and how likely is it that nothing happens? Can you guarantee that my brother will walk off the operating table alive! ? You call Hong Kong right now! This operation cannot be done!!”

"Everyone knows how high the failure rate of craniotomy is. It's meaningless for me to lie to you now. It's impossible to be completely fine. As long as the doctor's hand shakes a little and hurts any nerve, the damage to the body will be permanent. I can’t guarantee it, maybe I’ll be blind, maybe I’ll be paralyzed, maybe I’ll die, no one can say for sure.” When Zhang Haike said this, the mobile phone on the table suddenly rang, he took the mobile phone and glanced at it with a strange hook. He hooked the corner of his mouth.

He handed the phone to me: "If the operation is successful, the patriarch will be able to get rid of his 'fate' and get rid of the Zhang family. Isn't this what you have always hoped for? If he doesn't have this operation and continues to walk on the same track as before, you He can't catch up in his life, he just chose to wait for you."

"And now, it's too late."

My hand that took over the phone was shaking all the time, and I couldn’t open the screen after swiping it several times. After finally swiping it open, the screen slowly lit up. On it was a photo of a bottle of stuffy oil lying on the operating table. , someone is giving him anesthesia.

The operation had already started, and I was too late, so I let Poker Bottle stop on the edge of the cliff to wait for me.

"I'm going to Hong Kong." I closed my eyes and whispered, "I'm going now."