Chapter 31 Section 30
For a while, the rain stopped, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that the flood would recede.The situation in Daicheng was not bad that year, and there was no serious waterlogging in the city, but the river was surging hundreds of kilometers away. According to the words in the newspaper: dangers continued.For the first time, we were worried about the flood itself in a distant place. In the past, we were only worried about floods and many people came to Daicheng with rice bowls to beg for food. Lao Yang still didn't come back. Xiao Su told me that he will leave in three days, take the train to Shanghai, avoid the disaster area, and fly to Beijing.Don't bring too many things, if I fancy something, just give it to me. A pair of leather shoes, a jacket, a straw hat, and an umbrella.Later I said that the umbrella cannot be closed, which is unlucky.Xiao Su smiled and said, "We were already separated." "Aren't you waiting for Lao Yang to come back?" "I can't wait, what should I do?" "It's been too long indeed." "Call me if you hear from him." "America must be safe right now," I sighed. I took a fancy to Xiao Su's bicycle, a white, extremely dilapidated road race car.Xiao Su gave me the car without a second word.The next day I rode to the train station, and there was a construction road halfway, which was full of potholes. I couldn’t ride a road race car, so I had to push my bicycle through the mud and water. Sandals can handle it.Ma Han was upset, thinking that my image was not good and it was detrimental to the store atmosphere, so he asked me to go home and change my pants.I had no choice but to push the bicycle back again. I was thirsty near Xiaosu's house, so I went in to drink water.Xiaosu looked at it and said to me: "Lu Xiaolu, I'll help you win a bicycle." "How to win? Gambling money?" Xiao Su called a taxi, put the bicycle in the trunk, and we went directly to the entrance of Daicheng Paradise.Xiao Su said that he read the newspaper. On this day, the famous foreign brand "Slow Meat" held a bicycle competition at the entrance of Daicheng Paradise. The top three men and women each won an 18-speed "Slow Meat" mountain bike. .The race distance is twenty kilometers!I said I was too fucking tired to ride.Xiao Su said: "I'll ride, you wait for me here." "Are you sure?" "I am very familiar with the track. This round trip happened to be when we went to the orphanage, went around the mountain and came back. I know exactly where the uphill and downhill are." Xiao Su said, "The road conditions are very Well, my road bike will do." "What about the car and people?" I asked him with a sigh. "Try it. Don't blame me if I don't win." When I arrived at the gate of Daicheng Paradise, I found out, my God, there are so many people.Countless people pushed their mountain bikes, road bikes, old tanks, princess cars, and yellow croaker cars among them, crowding at the starting point, obviously wanting to win a "meat slow".Among these people, I actually saw several foreigners!They were dressed very professionally, with mountain bikes, leggings, and a hard hat that bulged back.When racing with the Chinese, you have to pay attention to safety.There is also an old black among them.I immediately gave up, pulled Xiaosu's sleeve and said, "Let's not compare, the champion must be Lao Hei." Xiao Su said, "What are you talking about? Are you afraid of Lao Hei?" It's not that I'm afraid, but history has proved it.Back then I played basketball with Yang Chi in the School of Chemical Engineering. There were two old blacks in the opposing team, who were half a head taller than us. This jumping ability is not covered. It is better than the crooked brother. He can slam dunk casually. .Lao Yang and I played against them for fifteen minutes. We were so tired that we vomited blood and missed a single shot.Finally, I concluded: "Being black is better than you." This kind of physical frustration came from my youth, which I hardly experienced.I was runner-up in fights and champion in runners, and I've always been deeply proud.Only in front of black people will you understand that this is nothing, you can only discriminate against old black people by pretending to be white based on your skin color. There's still a little story to tell about that basketball game.Later, when they lost the fight, they really couldn't play against black people, so Lao Yang and his group became anxious and planned to provoke.Another guy said, "I've been fucking trying to fuck these Brooklyn morons for a long time." I asked what a Brooklyn moron was, and the guy said, "It's New York poor niggas. Hate Americans." I nodded in understanding.Another person next to him said: "You idiot, they are not old Americans, they are black Africans." The man patted his chest wildly and said, "I am not afraid of black Africans anymore." Lao Yang said darkly: "You know, these two Lao Hei's father is the Minister of Defense of a certain African country. He voted for us in the United Nations. They are the children of high-ranking cadres who come to China to study. If you hit them, go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and surrender." The man listened and rubbed Khan left. At the gate of Daicheng Paradise, I held Xiao Su to prevent him from having unnecessary competitions with black people.Xiao Su doesn't believe in evil, or he also lost to black people in college and wants to win back?He said: "The Tour de France seems to have never seen a black man win the championship." "It seems that there are no yellow people, right?" I said, "Then you go, losing to whites and blacks is not shameful, as long as you don't lose to yellow people." He pushed his bicycle to the registration office, handed in his ID card, and paid another 10 yuan registration fee, looked at the route map, and then waited for the whistle to blow.I stood aside and chatted with the staff of "Slow Meat", they were two fat girls. "How did you recruit all the foreigners?" The girl said: "It's not our name. They are all ghosts working in the high-tech zone. They like sports, love to be lively, and take the initiative to participate in competitions." I said, "What if I fall to my death after riding 20 kilometers?" The girls froze for a moment and said, "Why is it so easy to die?" I said, "Last time a foreigner was riding a moped on Jiefang Road and was crushed to death by a truck. He lost a lot of money." The girls fell silent, knowing that I was here to cause trouble, and one of them boldly said: "It doesn't matter, it's not the two of us who lost money anyway." I gave her a thumbs up, and the idea was right.The other stood up and shouted with a horn: "Everyone pay attention to safety..." The staff at the departure station misjudged the whistle and blew the whistle, and more than a hundred bicycles set off in a mighty manner.I heard Xiao Su in the crowd let out a long howl, he went berserk again, and the white road racing car went straight out, ahead of Old Hei.Sue is really my best friend in this life. That day I was sitting on the curb waiting for Xiao Su to come back.The mud on my legs was dry, the sun was shining fiercely on the ground, and there was no shade in this area. I was like an idle farmer under the poisonous sun, peeling off the mud shells on my legs bored.The appearance was too dull, and no one wanted to talk to me. Later, I saw my blurred shadow from a floor-to-ceiling window beside me, like a monkey catching lice for itself, or masturbating with my head down.No wonder they ignored me.This incident made me understand that when sitting on the curb, you must hold your head high and look fresh and romantic.If you bow your head in frustration and bury your head between your legs, you can guess what it looks like.Of course, this insight is not of great significance, it is a very secondary insight, but when I was unlucky in the second half of my life, I never sat on the curb and looked down. This is very important. There was a white girl sitting next to me.I didn't see her face first, but her arms, which were really amazing, a thick layer of golden hair, shining in the sunlight.It reminds me of orbs, which are also hairy and black, like fine basil leaves sprinkled on rich and creamy spaghetti.I don’t know why, but I suddenly fell in love with this style. As a Chinese man, I should like girls who are hairless and clean, and I feel uncomfortable with hairy ones, but I fell in love with hair from Baozhu. I was tired and stared at the white girl's arm. She realized it and turned to me and said, "Hello." It turned out that it was someone who could speak Chinese.I smiled, being friendly and harmless. This is the first time in my life that I have spoken to a foreign girl.As I said, I used to think they could only talk about good and waste. "Why don't you go to a bike race?" "Ah--" the girl said, "I'm not very good at this, I'm here to cheer for my boyfriend." "Boyfriend is Chinese?" "No, American." "I've been kind of hating Americans lately." The white girl shook her head indifferently and said, "Hmph, I don't like Americans either." "I thought you were American." "I am Australian." I counted on my fingers, the Eight-Power Allied Forces, without Australia, this is considered an international friend.The Australian girl lit a cigarette for herself, a very thin women's cigarette. There is no custom of respecting cigarettes in their country. Besides, I don't like smoking women's cigarettes. I will be impotent, so I don't care.I took out a "Fortune" cigarette from my pocket, a five-pack of cigarettes. Not only would I not suffer from impotence, but my tongue would also become stiff.We sat on the curb while puffing into the air.It looks like a couple.Americans don't know if they will be angry. "Australia is a very interesting country. There are kangaroos, koalas, and platypus." I tried hard to recall the content of my junior high school geography class. "And the thylacine." "You know Australia very well." The girl was a little happy. I thought to myself, this is nothing, and I also know that Indonesia has Komodo dragons.My understanding of the world, damn it, almost all come from "Animal World" explained by Zhao Zhongxiang, or from the Eight-Power Allied Forces in the textbook. "Why did you come to China?" I asked her. "Come to study, I study language at Daicheng University. I have studied Chinese for three years. My boyfriend, well, he is a business executive." "The foreigners here are all business executives." I said, "Why do you always say hello, this is a Japanese accent." "I studied in Japan and can speak Japanese." "I hate the Japanese." "Ah, I understand why the Chinese hate the Japanese. But I still like the Japanese very much." I pinched my cigarette butt and said, "You don't understand. You are neither Chinese nor American. Both countries have been bombed by Japan. Only when you have been bullied by the Japanese will you hate the Japanese. You Australia is a peaceful country. nation." "Australia was also bombed by Japan, Darwin Port, and other places. My grandfather's brother, who participated in the war, was in the Allied Forces, and died in Southeast Asia." Her Chinese is a bit insufficient. At this time, it should be called "sacrifice". "Really?" I scratched my head and couldn't figure it out, well, since we've both had sex with the Japanese, then we are friends again. "Salute to your grandpa's brother. My grandpa fought in the Korean War, fought the Americans, and came back with all his eyes." "Australia also participated in that war, the United Nations Army." "damn it." I have met a history expert. I really have nothing to say to the Australians. They also produce Australian wool.When she reminded me, I did remember that my grandfather was at war with the United Nations.I admire the old man very much. I am already twenty-five years old, and I no longer have the mood to bite the world.The current high-tech development zone is enough to make up the United Nations, right? I lit the second cigarette, the girl pinched it, stood up and left.Apparently, she didn't think I had much to talk about.I continued to sit on the curb, alone, thinking of the factory doctor sister and Dai Dai who were far away on the other side of the world. At this moment, I really felt that there was nothing to talk about. Back with a bicycle, the opponents are the well-equipped ghosts and a group of Chinese on broken bicycles.I should die immediately. After a long time, the crowd waiting at the starting station cheered suddenly. It turned out that the drivers had returned.The route of the competition is to go all the way north, take a sign at Tuanjie Mountain, and then turn back.I saw a white rider on the road alone, and it was white, it couldn't be white, their bikes were so good.He let go of the handlebar the moment he touched the line, and raised his hands flat to express his majesty.The Australian girl is still looking into the distance, obviously it's not her boyfriend. After a while, the second bicycle and the third bicycle appeared one by one.I suddenly found that Xiaosu was ranked second, which surprised me very much.Australian girl yells her boyfriend's name, Jacky!It's like calling Jacky Cheung at a concert.He followed Xiao Su closely.I thought to myself, yes, a competition between pesticide analysts and foreign company executives.Xiao Su arched her back and stepped on the pedals like a convulsion. The white road racing car was about to fall apart.And our Jacky also looked very painful, he tried hard to surpass Xiaosu.In fact, they don't have to fight, because the top three can all get a bicycle.Later, Xiao Su said that if he didn't fight at that time, he would have collapsed directly, and he had to fight. Xiao Su won the whites.After arriving at the station, he slid out of the car and sat on the ground panting.The Australian girl rushed up and kissed Jacky. In order to show my open position, I also kissed Xiao Su without hesitation, and laughed wildly. Anyway, he was married. Jacky extended his hand and congratulated Xiao Su, very friendly. "You really won Old Hei!" I said. "I've won Old Hei a long time ago. His bicycle hit a nail on the road, and he's probably pushing the bicycle back." Xiao Su said. We went to receive the award together, and Xiao Su won an 18-speed "meat slow" mountain bike, red, with handlebars, and with a water bottle cage. "It's incredible how you won," I said. "Secretly tell you, I cheated." Xiao Su said, "It's a shortcut to go through the small road in the orphanage. It can bypass the Tuanjie Mountain and save a lot of uphill. Only we know this road." "You are so awesome, did you cheat in exams before?" "To be honest, it's never happened before. This is the first time in my life." "No matter what method you use to win the ghost, you win, it's not cheating." I put my arms around Xiaosu and ran into the fried chicken shop to have a drink.Xiao Su fainted from the heat, drank the cold Coke, suddenly her legs went limp, and she fell into my arms happily. "I cheated to win the American, his uncle." Xiao Su left the next day.We will meet again in the next century.