sinovels Chapter 49 The Time of Wandering
Chapter 49 The Time of Wandering
Zheng Zheng's apartment is the same as before, with silver walls, ubiquitous high-tech, red sofas and bright yellow tables. The strong color conflict makes people think that the gray sky outside the window is another world.The scene was a bit awkward, Zhang Luotuo was sitting on the sofa, but Joad just glanced at the sofa standing beside him, he obviously disliked the pattern of the sofa being too conventional, he stroked Mao Mao lightly, after it finished coquettish to Zhang Luotuo He came to Joad's side intimately.
Standing opposite Zheng Zheng, she handed the brewed coffee to Zhang Luotuo, and broke the silence first: "I thought you were dead, and people I knew told me so, where did you go?" Her eyes were still wide open. Zhang Luotuo's attention was almost drawn to it when he talked to her.
"It's a long story, but it's all right now." Zhang Luotuo said vaguely, he glanced at Joad, the imitation man, Mars, was replaced with a new arm, and none of these sounds incredible, "I I'll tell you later—how is the company doing?" He wanted to know this, which was the most important information right now.
Zheng Zheng squinted her eyes. She quickly caught Zhang Luotuo's unnaturalness, but she didn't expose it. Instead, she followed Zhang Luotuo to change the subject, and her tone was brisk: "It's the same. The company announced that you will be fired, but I know it must not be like that. I Witnessed what happened, I thought they did something to you. I went to your apartment and it was full of fake cops from the company, the door was wide open. I told them I came to you and they said you'd better Just disappeared. I had to do something to get in--it was turned over and messed up everywhere, and then I happened to find this in the corner." She looked up and pointed at Mao Mao, which was showing its belly to Joad." It shrank into a ball, was covered in dust, and was shaking all the time, so I brought it back."
He guessed right, Zhao Yi would not let him go easily.Zhang Luotuo thought, he thought of Zhao Yi's contemptuous eyes and tightly pursed lips.
"So... him?" The voice suddenly echoed in front of him again, Zhang Luotuo raised his head blankly, Zheng Zheng folded his hands suspiciously, her mouth was deliberately opened wide, she glanced at the calm Qiao De, he looked like A clothes hanger is placed beside it.
Zhang Luotuo blushed: "What?" He said vaguely on purpose.
Zheng Zheng smiled meaningfully.
Zhang Luotuo lowered his eyes and pretended to be drinking coffee. The coffee was very bitter. He frowned, but he didn't dare to raise his head, otherwise he would meet Zheng Zheng's probing eyes.
"Hello, my name is Zheng Zheng, a good friend of Camel." Seeing that he didn't mean to speak, Zheng Zheng looked away and walked towards Qiao De.
Joad had been standing by the sofa for five minutes, and everything in the room seemed to make him uncomfortable.He raised his head and looked at Zheng Zheng, the coldness in his eyes was worse than usual.Zheng Zheng stretched out her hand with a smile, but she didn't flinch at all.
Joad turned sideways and held out his hand reluctantly.
"It's the same as before." Zheng Zheng said, nodding seriously, not caring about Joad's arrogance, "So...you?" She turned to Zhang Luotuo, apparently not wanting to find an answer from Joad.
"It's a long story." Zhang Luotuo cleared his throat in embarrassment.
Zheng Zheng showed a bright smile: "I understand." She said, her bloodshot eyes were thoughtful, as if she had witnessed all the stories.Zhang Luotuo lowered his head in embarrassment, wishing he could get into the coffee, the bitter taste made his scalp tingle.
They stayed here temporarily under Zheng Zheng's persuasion.Qiao De originally wanted to take Zhang Luotuo to other places, such as his own home, but Zheng Zheng persuaded him.
"The company is also checking you." She warned him, "There should be eyeliners everywhere near your house, and they can come here in 3 minutes if there is no accident."
Joad asked stingingly: "Didn't you be checked?"
"I'm different." Zheng Zheng said proudly, she shook her head, "I have an eyeliner, he can make the management department relax their vigilance." Zhang Luotuo guessed that the eyeliner Zheng Zheng was talking about was Lu Xing, definitely Lu Xing.he thought.
Joad finally stood by the shoe cabinet in frustration. He couldn't leave here, but he definitely didn't want to sit on the red sofa. He maintained his usual posture and said nothing.Zheng Zheng was victorious. She shuttled through large and small rooms, took Zhang Camel to a spare bedroom, and signaled that they could sleep there.Then they returned to the living room, Zheng Zheng turned on the TV, took out several cans of "Chongqing City" from the refrigerator, and several bottles of unknown fruit wine.Zhang Luotuo nestled on the sofa, his body temperature slowly rising.
"Come and sit." He persuaded Joad, patted the cushion, and smiled flatteringly. A few seconds later, Maomao was defeated first, jumping from Joad's shoulder to his arms, and then Joad reluctantly walked away. Come and sit down, stretching stiffly on the couch.Zheng Zheng looked at them with great interest.
Zhang Luotuo opened a can of beer, and the smell of "Chongqing City" squeezed into his throat, and the pleasure let go like a blue spring.He blinked, and the long-lost Kong Xia gently held his fingers and hugged him.Zheng Zheng lit a cigarette, chatted with him and Qiao De, and talked about some boring topics. Of course, Qiao De didn't say a word most of the time, just listening, as if Mao Mao was his only friend here.The TV is boring. It is telling a love story. On the screen, Nanping is extremely clean, and the silver rain cuts people's hearts like a knife.Looking at this scene, Zhang Luotuo felt a sense of relaxation and drunkenness that hit him unmatched. He felt relaxed and bursts of drowsiness hit him. It’s been a long time since he sat and watched a boring TV series like this. He’s living like a frightened bird these days. .But other than that, he was acutely aware of something touching his heart.
He blinked.
It is the emptiness that comes out of restlessness.
At twelve o'clock at night, he and Joad slept on the same bed, looking at each other.Joad's hair was pressed against the pillow.Zhang Luotuo looked at his eyes, lips, and the entire outline, and he nestled his head into Joad's shoulder.He drank two cans of beer and was very drunk, but Joad didn't drink at all, and he would rather die than surrender to these cheap brands.
He hasn't figured out what to do yet.Zhang Luotuo thought, he didn't even think about tomorrow.He was aware of the uneasy emptiness.I live at Zheng Zheng's house today, what about tomorrow?What about the day after tomorrow?He is "dead" now, and he will no longer exist in Chongqing from now on. He has no ID, the apartment will be recalled, and people from the management department still want to find him, so he can only hide and hide and escape to the company No one remembers him, like Zeng Lin.Then he lives on, like a ghetto man, until he dies.He shivered, and then it was real death, a white light, just like Joad told him, being knocked open and taking out the neurons that needed to be used.
He can't leave the city for the rest of his life because he is a counterfeit.He closed his eyes, aware of it all too clearly.
unable to leave.He thought, a strange feeling came over him.
Joad's hand came from behind, he noticed Zhang Luotuo's trembling, and patted his shoulder lightly.
"What are you talking about with Fan Liu?" Zhang Luotuo raised his head and straightened his legs quietly.Joad was next to him, very close.Thoughts and memories danced around in Zhang Luotuo's alcohol-disturbed thoughts, the past and present became one entity, and countless words floated heavily in front of him, like a folding space.When Zhang Luotuo closed his eyes, he remembered what Qiao De said to him. Suddenly, the scene changed to the conversation between Fan Liu and Qiao De at noon today. They were talking like a riddle. Embarrassment suppressed his doubts, but Midnight brought them back, and he wanted to deflect the strangeness by asking the question flippantly, not even caring if Joad understood.
Joad's hand patting his shoulder slowed down, as if he was thinking and didn't want to say anything, but immediately he decided something: "...what I want to ask is..." He seemed to understand what Zhang Luotuo meant, and said hesitantly , "Can you go back to Mars with me in four years." His voice was very soft, just enough to enter Zhang Luotuo's ear.
Zhang Luotuo raised his head abruptly, his drunkenness was half awakened, but immediately increased by [-]%.
He and Joad could see each other clearly in the night, and Joad's expression was extremely calm.
"Then he rejected you." Zhang Luotuo said calmly without blinking.
"Yes." Joad replied.
This answer was expected by Zhang Luotuo. He lowered his head, buried his head into Joad's neck again, and closed his eyes.Now he could understand Fan Liu's vague indifference towards him.
Back to Mars.Zhang Luotuo thought.
The idea is ridiculous.Follow Joad back to Mars.It sounds incredible, almost like a science fiction story.If he doesn't think about it at all in normal times, he will leave this idea and think about other things.But it was midnight, and the intoxication from the beer made his whimsical thoughts soar in the middle of the night.He pondered the thought, feeling that it smelt of sea water.Some thoughts flashed through his mind irresistibly, some pictures, golden and silver, from the dilapidated spaceships in TV dramas, the night full of stars, the endless skyline, the bitter blue of the old world The sea, the skyscrapers, the endless universe, the vastness of space can make one completely lost.
He had never seen any of this before, and had never thought of it.
What would it be like to see them in person?
He fantasized, then fell into a deep sleep.
It was three o'clock in the afternoon when he woke up, Saturday, the afternoon cloud was as usual, he got up, and a pungent smell of overnight wine hit his face immediately, he touched his clothes, it was wet and soft, it didn't smell too bad good.He looked up, and Joad was sitting by the window, looking out thoughtfully, even though it might have seemed unremarkable to him: huge tall buildings, streets stretching from below, portraits that seemed out of date Walking in the plastic-like landscape like a shrunken toy, Joad still looked seriously, as if trying to find something in it.
Zhang Luotuo gently put his feet on the floor, which was very cold.Joad turned his head immediately, he was aware of his actions.
Zhang Luotuo had an illusion that they were completely free now, just like usual: "I'm going to take a shower." He said softly.
The hot water in the bathroom splashed on top of his head, extinguishing all his fantasies. The hot steam warmed his whole body. He changed his clothes and walked to the living room. Zheng Zheng seemed to be still sleeping, and the door of her bedroom was tightly closed .
The TV in the living room was turned on.Zhang Luotuo stepped forward and saw Mao Mao sitting on the sofa, staring intently at the electronic pet being promoted on TV.Joad gave in reluctantly to the sofa, and sat beside it, lips pressed together.
Zhang Luotuo sat next to them and watched this so-called trash TV series with them.The living room was very quiet, Joad gently stroked Mao Mao, and the sonorous and powerful shouts of the TV series filled the entire space.The sound of the elevator outside the door is occasionally squeezed in, and the sound insulation here is not very good.The voice is sometimes distant and sometimes near. "The elevator has arrived at the ... floor." Every once in a while, a male voice sounded like a wandering ghost.
But sometimes it might be too close.Heavy footsteps sounded upstairs, and those footsteps walked towards the other end of the building, like two folded spaces that never overlap.The sound of the gears turning became so delicate that Zhang Luotuo could even imagine how it turned. The silver rusty gears kept running, and strong electricity was transmitted across the floors.That sound is no longer simply related to "哐——哐——", countless voices are panting and mixed together, as if they are on the verge of falling at any time.
"Kuang kuang." Sometimes the elevator stops at this floor.Someone came out, walked this way, and walked through their door, and the door next door was opened and closed. .
"Floor 26." The female voice rang out, just a wall away from them.
Zhang Luotuo didn't care, maybe it's a neighbor, he thought.A building shared by many people is modern life.
He heard the shoes move on the ground.One step, two steps, three steps, the visitor came over, overshadowing the sound of the TV.
The shoes stopped.
Zhang Luotuo frowned and held his breath.The leather shoes stopped at the door of Zheng Zheng's house.
The sound outside the door completely disappeared.Zhang Luotuo picked at the sofa leather and unconsciously looked towards the door.Maybe it's his illusion, he's always noticed some trivial things recently, but he can't move his eyes away.
Joad noticed his move and turned his head sideways.
"Welcome back." A cheerful female voice suddenly sounded. Accompanied by very simple music, the door lock was automatically unlocked, allowing a space for visitors to enter, and a thin light appeared between the cracks in the door.
Zhang Luotuo took a step back, and thousands of thoughts flashed by.
A man opened the door.He was wearing a bomber jacket, his head was wet with rain, and his deep face was tired.He walked in, shaking the rain off his body.Zhang Luotuo and Qiao De looked at him and looked at each other.
Qiao De stood up, with a surprised look on his face, he was stunned together with that person: "Lu Xing?"