Chapter 10 first quarter

Regardless of whether I admit it or not, I should be an ordinary person. Because I have a public face. Once I went to eat at a noodle stall two streets away from my home. As soon as I walked into the shop, before I sat down, the boss said: "Haven't seen you for a while, how are you?" Although I pass by this store often, this is my first time eating here. "Okay." That's all I could say. The boss kept looking for topics to chat with, and I could only falter in response. When checking out, the boss patted me on the shoulder enthusiastically, asking me to come more often in the future.

Another time, at the gate of McDonald's, a man waving at me ten meters away ran towards me immediately. "Wow! I didn't expect to meet you here." He said, "How have you been lately?" "Okay." That's all I could say. Then he went on and on about how he used to be at school, but I had no recollection of it. In the end, he had no choice but to say goodbye to me because he was in a hurry, and gave me a business card before leaving. Looking at the name on the business card, I couldn't remember that he was a classmate in elementary school?secondary?high school?

Or a college classmate? The most unlucky time was when a girl suddenly appeared at the table while eating in a restaurant. I saw her eyes staring at me, I was puzzled and a little bit at a loss. "Long time no see. How are you?" she said. "Miss. I..." With a "snap", before I could finish my sentence, I was slapped on the right cheek. "You actually called me "Miss"! I haven't seen you for a few years, have you even forgotten my name?" "I……" "Stop talking. I don't want to hear a word!" "..."

"You have nothing to say now?" "It was you who called me..." "What else do you want to explain?" "I……" "I'll give you one last chance, do you really have nothing to tell me?" "I……" With a "slap", I received another slap on the left cheek. "I don't listen, I don't listen, I don't listen..." She covered her face with her hands, cried and ran away, "No matter what you say, I won't take it seriously, and you can't hurt me anymore." Looking at the back of her leaving, I stroked the hot cheeks, but I couldn't remember who she was?

From the beginning to the end, I didn't even finish a sentence, but I was slapped twice. Miss, you hurt me. Some people say that there are three people in this world who will look exactly alike, but I really can't believe such a thing. Even if it did, I don't believe it could have happened to me by such a coincidence. It's not about writing novels or making movies, so how can there be so many coincidences? The most logical explanation should be that I have a public face. So I remind myself that if I encounter these situations next time, in order to avoid tragedy, Be quick to say that you are not who they know you are.

Not sure what the other two people in the world who look like me are doing, but I'm pretty normal. After graduating from university, he served as a soldier for two years. After retiring from the army, he first went to work in Taipei. Since I always felt that Taipei was very strange, I returned to work in Tainan after three months and have been working until now. After all, it's been six years. I am currently single, no girlfriend, no boyfriend. Life is simple, communication is simple, and there are no special interests or hobbies. If you insist on telling me something special about me, my poor memory can barely be considered.

I have a bad memory. Did I say that? Maybe I said it, but I really forgot if I said it? If you don't mind and don't bother, allow me to say it again: I have a bad memory. I wasn't born that way, in fact I was pretty smart as a kid. Although I didn't study hard, my test scores were very good, which shows that I should have a good memory at that time. It wasn't until the accident in my second year that my memory began to deteriorate. In fact, it's not an "accident", it's just a fight. It's a bit embarrassing to say, I'm not picking on the evil ones alone, nor is it a group of people fighting gangsters;

Instead, he got into a fight with a fierce girl. I bumped my head against the corner of the table, but I can't remember how. Because my memory is bad. Did I say that? Although the memory is not good, it is still some distance away from amnesia. It's just that occasionally when you just wake up, you can't remember where you were and what you did yesterday? Whether he killed someone or just returned from Mars, I can't remember at all. I don't know if you have a similar experience, sometimes when you just wake up from a dream, you will remember the details of the dream,

But after getting out of bed and brushing teeth, I only remember the outline of the dream, and after eating breakfast, the dream will be completely forgotten. All I know is that it was a dream. Speaking of dreaming, from the second year of junior high school to now, I often have a kind of dream. In my dream, a girl always asks me: "Does it hurt?" Then he slowly stretched out his hand as if he wanted to touch my head, but he always stretched out halfway and then put it down. In the dream, the outline of her face was blurred, I could only see her eyes clearly. Her eyes are focused but sad, sometimes tearful.

No matter how many times I dreamed, the voice and tone of the girl asking "Does it hurt?" in the dream, They are all the same, so it can be seen that it should be the same girl. But I have no impression of her. I don't know why I have this kind of dream, and I have been doing it for so many years. What I wonder the most is why she keeps asking me, "Does it hurt?" Speaking of "pain", I think of a girl named Liyun. Have you ever thought that the ashtray hurts when you twist out the cigarette butt in the ashtray? If you wear embroidered clothes, will you feel the pain of the clothes?

Li Yun is the kind of person who feels that the ashtray is burned and the clothes are stabbed. I live in an apartment complex, which consists of three 20-story buildings A, B, and C. There are more than 200 households, and I live on the 17th floor of Building C. Li Yun opened a simple restaurant on the first floor of Building A, but I didn't know her from her shop. The first time I saw her was at a barbecue event held by the community management committee. The location of the barbecue was by the lake, and about 100 residents in the community participated. Li Yun and I happened to be in the same group. Barbecues are always like this, those who are self-sacrificing will be busy with barbecuing, People with unhappy childhoods are usually only responsible for eating. I belong to the kind of person who had a particularly unhappy childhood. "Do you know how people kill pigs?" I stopped chewing the piece of meat in my mouth, and turned my head to face Li Yun. My first impression of Liyun is that she is clean, no matter in dress or appearance. It seems that the clouds floating in the clear sky have been washed by Snow White again. Not quite sure she was talking to me, I just smiled and continued gnashing my teeth. "Usually a very sharp knife pierces into the heart suddenly, the pig is startled and painful, howling for a long time, In the end, he left a place of blood to die. "She looked at me and said lightly. I was sure she was talking to me, but it was so hard to answer her esoteric questions that I had to play dead. Then stir up another piece of rice blood on the barbecue grill. "Do you know how the blood on this piece of rice blood came from?" she said again. "Probably the so-called blood all over the place." I said. She nodded, with no expression on her face, and said, "Can you feel the grief and anger of the pig?" "You have to say this now?" My tone was sad and indignant. She looked at me with a half-smile on her face, rolled her eyes twice in their sockets, and said: "I'm just looking for something to chat with you." I put the rice blood in my hand back on the grill and skip the sausage with my fingers, Pick up a corn, said: "This way you have nothing to say." She didn't answer, just looked at me again. Based on my male self-esteem, I didn't open my mouth to open another battlefield. Time passed into my belly with the corn kernels, and finally there were only bare corn stalks left. I stood up and walked around pretending to be casual, but at any moment my eyes would slip back to the barbecue grill, He planned to cover her ears with lightning speed when she was not paying attention, Capture anything that might have been howling on the barbecue. After waiting for a long time, she was still sitting by the barbecue grill.I had no chance to make a move, so I had to ask: "Why do you want to talk to me?" "Because you're always looking into the distance," she replied. "Looking into the distance?" I wondered, "Is this breaking the law?" "No," she said, "I just feel like you're trying to remember something you've forgotten." She raised her head slightly, her gaze was like a bird flying close to the surface of the water, crossing the lake to reach the tree on the opposite bank. "Last week, the company arranged for employees to have a health check." I smiled, "The doctor said that my intraocular pressure was too high, and told me to avoid reading for a long time and look more at the green in the distance." "I see." "So you still want to talk to me?" "That's not the question," she said. "The question is, do you still want to talk to me?" "why not?" "Don't you think I'm a strange person?" "Nope." "Lies are short-lived." "You are a strange person." I changed my words immediately. "It was a pleasure talking to you," she said. "joy?" "Yes." She nodded, "I have gained a lot." "There are still gains?" "Anyway, it's a pleasure to chat with you." "Lies are short-lived." "Really happy." She smiled. I reached out to the barbecue grill, hesitated for three seconds, and after sighing in my heart, I still took a piece of corn. "Actually, corn hurts too," she said. "Hey, what exactly do you want?" "I'm just looking for something to chat with you." "Do me a favor," I said, "If you want to chat with me, don't make a conversation." "so what should I do now?" "Just say: I want to talk to you." "Understood." She smiled again. "Eat something, too." I wondered if there was anything on the grill that wouldn't hurt. "I'm not hungry." She shook her head, "I came after eating." "Huh?" I wondered, "Then why did you participate in this barbecue event?" "I'm here to start over," she said. "Restart?" "Yeah." She nodded. I couldn't understand the logic between roasting and starting over, so I couldn't help but take another look at her. "Actually, you don't have to pay too much attention to what I say," she said. "Ok?" "Because I'm a weird person." She laughed like she was really having fun. In early autumn, the weather is still very hot, and the barbecue is almost over, and everyone is sitting in the shade of the trees and chatting. I picked a quiet corner and sat down, just as I sat down, I looked up and saw her standing in front of me. "Isn't it cool?" she said. "Yeah," I said, "fortunately there are trees." "But have you ever thought about the pain that trees are exposed to directly from the sun?" "No." I said, "I heard the trees say: shine on, shine on, shine on me, it's so good." She was stunned at first, then laughed. "Sorry, I shouldn't be looking for something to talk about," she said. "I wanted to talk to you." I moved a little to the left, and after she said thank you, she sat down on my right. "I'm Su Liyun, just call me Liyun." She gently wiped the sweat from her forehead with a tissue, "I opened a light restaurant on the first floor of the community." "Did it just open?" I asked, "I don't remember that there is a light food restaurant on the first floor of the community." "It's been open for two months." "what?" "When you come out of the community gate, you usually go to the right," she said, "and my store is on the left." "I see." "In the past two months, you have only passed my store 6 times in total." "Six times?" I wondered, "How do you know?" "Once you stopped and looked up at the tree in front of the store, and twice you slowed down and looked A glance at the signboard. "She didn't answer my question, but continued with a smile on her face: "The other three times, your steps and your eyes are forward." "Ah?" I was even more puzzled, "You..." "My name is Su Liyun." She said, "Don't you have a special feeling for this name?" "No." I shook my head, "But your name starts with cursive characters, you should Very suitable for planting some flowers and plants. " "If you think about it again, maybe you know me." She stared at me with gentle eyes, but with a little expectation and even nervousness. "I have a popular face." Recalling my previous experience, I quickly covered my cheeks with my hands, "Whoever you think I am, I'm not who you know." She was still watching me, and after a while, she seemed to sigh slightly. "You are welcome to come to my shop often when you are free," she said. "Yeah." I nodded, still covering my cheeks with my hands. She stood up and left. After walking three steps, she turned her head and smiled at me, then turned her head and walked away. When we got on the bus to go home, Liyun and I were in the same tour bus. I saw her talking and laughing enthusiastically with many people, she should be very popular; Unlike me, sitting alone by the window in the last row of the car and pretending to be lonely. When the car returned to the community, I was also the last to get off. Just as her left foot stepped on the ground, she caught a glimpse of Liyun standing by the car door. "Remember to come," she said.