Xiaoxin hasn’t seen his old classmate Daxin for about ten years. They have the same name since they were young, and they grew up together. They are bare-ass partners, but after graduating from high school, they had separate careers and never wrote a letter. At that time, there was no Internet, no QQ group, and no WeChat. And Weibo, without a trace.
For the first time to resume contact, I should thank the literary committee for establishing a QQ group (34356744). The fat guy somehow contacted the whole class one by one, and then called on everyone to open Had a class reunion. At the party, the rich drove imported BMWs, and the hotel managers nodded and bowed without daring to collect the money. They even had a whole body of jewellery to show off the virtuous and beautiful husband and children. Only Xiaoxin was sitting alone on the windowsill. Everyone was in a daze. It’s not that he doesn’t want to brag, no one brags to him. A bunch of old classmates were talking too high. Both men and women were drinking, arrogant, cheeks flushed, and even yellow meat jokes came. Only then did I see the door of the box, Daxin was late.
Dah Sing wore a half-old white shirt that day. His face was haggard. He entered the door and greeted him awkwardly, then pulled a chair and sat down. He hasn’t mixed well in recent years. He opened a small grocery store in the country. His business was bleak and he barely made ends meet. His wife was always sick.
But Xiaoxin was happy, and sat down next to Daxin. Daxin kept sighing, or looking at his phone, looking bored, staring at Xiaoxin in a daze. No one paid any attention to them during the dinner. The two brothers sat together and sighed, Daxin lit a cigarette, and the jeweled female classmate beside her frowned in disgust. Xiaoxin talked about his life after graduation over the years, patted Daxin on the shoulder from time to time to comfort his classmates who didn’t care about these forces. At the beginning of Daxin, I made a few words. Later, I just drank, shook my head, and said that Xiaoxin you don’t understand. You entered the government agency as soon as you graduated.
The night when Daxin came, I had already eaten a meal at odds and ends, and soon someone suggested going to KTV to sing. Xiaoxin doesn’t matter, but he is worried that Daxin will not go. Sure enough, Dah Sing pushed away the chair and stood up, rubbing his hands awkwardly, explaining that his wife was sick and the children were not taken care of. The literary and artistic committee pretended to leave a few sentences, and Daxin left and prepared to leave. He looked around in the crowd and smiled awkwardly at Xiaoxin. Only Xiaoxin was the only one who took care of him. He was somewhat disappointed. But he didn’t say anything. He just smiled and said that the old classmates hadn’t seen each other in these years, and they seemed to have changed a lot.
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No one answered the call except Xiaoxin.
Daxin left sadly. After taking a few mouthfuls of rice, he didn’t even drink the hot soup. But when he went out, the literary committee stopped him and handed him a big red autograph book, and then said that although the party does not cost money for meals, it has activity funds and bought it.The flowers were given to the former head teacher, each sharing an average of 200 yuan. Daxin touched his pocket, only to find a fifty, and a few steel pins. The literary committee’s face went dark.
Upon seeing this, Xiaoxin hurriedly ended up, and lost two hundred yuan bills for Daxin and placed them on the signature book. Daxin blushed and muttered to himself dumbly. I was embarrassed not to prepare. When I was a child, I always went to Xiaoxin’s house for dinner, but I didn’t expect to see each other many years later, and Xiaoxin would have to pay for himself. Xiaoxin smiled tolerantly, without saying anything.
After going out, Dah Sing stepped on a worn-out second-hand bicycle, looked back at the brilliant lights in the hotel, and lowered his head, his fists tightly squeezed. Xiaoxin chased it out, but didn’t know how to comfort his former best partner. The two of them walked slowly one after the other, but Daxin actually seemed a little absent-minded. He didn’t even ride a car, so it didn’t look like he was going home. It was about nine o’clock in the evening, and Daxin swayed to a sparsely human street, parked the car on the side of the road, took a mask from his trouser pocket, put it on his face, and smoked at the ATM machine. He waved his hand to let Xiaoxin go back, but Xiaoxin left without help.
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After a while, a young woman came from a distance, bowed her head and walked in a hurry, without looking at the side, and went straight into the ATM cash withdrawal room. Daxin dropped his cigarette butt and followed in.
Don’t move!
As soon as the woman took out the bank card and inserted it in, she felt chilled behind her neck and set a knife. Daxin’s deep voice sounded from behind. Take out all your money, hurry up, or it will kill you!
The woman trembled, her hands were shaking, but she didn’t dare to be disobedient, and pressed the bank code with a crying face. Seeing a stack of red one-hundred-yuan bills spit out, Daxin grabbed all of them, no move, no alarm! While talking, stepped back. Seeing that he was about to escape successfully, he suddenly tripped over Xiaoxin behind him.
Xiaoxin sighed, snatched all the money, and threw it to the panicked woman. Then he pulled up Daxin and ran, without touching the ground, running fast. Dah Sing only felt the wind blowing in his ear, and the woman’s screams and crying faintly came from behind. He wanted to turn his head, but couldn’t, his body was stiff, and he arrived home in a short while, and he didn’t even have a chance to resist. After entering the door, I saw the seriously ill wife still lying on the bed, looking at him with tears in her eyes.
Did you know that Xiaoxin is dead! The wife said to him as soon as she spoke. When you went to the party just now, Xiaoxin’s wife called me and didn’t know how to get our home phone number, saying that Xiaoxin was hit by a car on the way to the classmate gathering, and finally when he was taken to the hospital One sentence is to see you. What a poor man!
Daxin sat down on the ground with a pale face and turned to look behind him. Xiaoxin’s figure has gradually become empty, more and moreFaded. But still smiling at him, vaguely saying, although I am dead, I still hope you are good, although I am poor, don’t commit crimes! You are my best brother in the world! ——The voice is getting weaker and weaker, and gradually becomes almost inaudible.
A few blocks away, the literary committee opened the signature book and shouted ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Who actually took the paper money to fool people like this prank!
A circle of heads around the KTV, laughing and joking, just as a joke, and then continue to sing. No one cared about Daxin who left early during the dinner, and no one received a call from Xiaoxin’s wife. For this group of complacent people, the hapless brothers are just passing by.
Life is like a fish drinking water, and the heart knows itself.