Chapter 20 Chapter 20: Beijing's Small Great Wall, Big Wine

The storefront of Little Great Wall Restaurant is really long. Five long tables are placed in a long row from east to west. There are more than 30 men and women of various colors sitting around them, which does not affect other guests coming in and out of the restaurant. This big wine bureau on the eve of the 2001 Spring Festival was organized by a website that makes e-books, and all the invited authors were well-known authors, and I didn't know any of them.During the Spring Festival of 2000, when the website was in full swing, the wine party for their Spring Festival gathering was held in the Great Hall of the People.After one year, the old money was almost burned out, and the new money hadn't arrived yet, so I emphasized the need to keep a low profile and found a small restaurant near the company's office building.

When I was studying for an MBA in the United States two years ago, I was bored and wrote my first novel, which had little to do with Xiaohong, Xiaobai, and Xinyue.I asked someone to find Wang Han, the editor-in-chief of this website. He looked at it and said, "Good stuff, absolutely magnificent. This e-book website is undergoing transformation, and it will take the road of combining online and offline. He said that he decided to publish my book. This novel is regarded as an important part of the company's transformation strategy. Editor-in-chief Wang Han invited me to meet before the Spring Festival, sign a contract, and have a meal by the way.There are more than 30 people at a table, and he is the only one I know.For the rest of the people, the men are basically quite old, and the women are basically quite young. I think they all eat words. During the introduction, regardless of men and women, I nodded or shook hands one by one, called, teacher, said, and admired for a long time.

The wine bureau started at five o'clock in the afternoon, and it is already ten o'clock now.The leftover food is removed, and new dishes are coming up one after another. Sichuan, Guangdong, Lu, Huaiyang, Hunan, Guizhou, there are all kinds of cuisines, and they are all as delicious as monosodium glutamate, and all of them are as delicious as chicken essence.There were four boxes of empty beer bottles piled up beside it, as high as the chests of some small children's writers.Because I don't know anyone and don't know what to talk about, I'm talking to a middle-aged fat, round man on the left and a fat, black middle-aged man on the right.This is the first time in four years that I have re-drinked spirits. I found that Erguotou is only suitable for toasting. It can quickly get people up or down, and quickly distinguish each other's ability to resist alcohol. If you drink slowly, Erguotou Tougher than formalin.

The fat round man on the left said that when he was an English major in college twenty years ago, he was a pale boy in white clothes. A girl with heavy make-up sitting opposite him drinking sour jujube juice expressed serious disbelief. The fat man took out his wallet from his crotch, During the process, a belly whiter than the face was revealed, with slight hair.There was indeed an old color photo in the wallet, which was in the interlayer with his ID card. Inside was a stalk-like boy, wearing big black glasses and a yellowed white shirt.I never take the initiative to watch TV, I seem to have seen this fat, round man on TV.There is a characteristic of his advertisements. After seeing them, I am very impressed with him, but I never remember what the advertisements are trying to sell.In one ad, he appeared to be playing a middle-aged man, with an extremely dignified expression, as if eager to prove that he hadn't had any illicit relations with the actors who played the mother or the daughter.In another commercial, he seems to be tossing in a huge stomach. He is wearing a tights, plump and agile, especially with a smirk on his face. No matter how you look at it, he looks like a sperm.

The black round fat man on the right is shyer than the white round fat man, and hardly speaks when he first sat down, but the little Erguotou made him slowly emerge from his shell.After one little Erguotou, his expression began to stretch. Two little Erguotou blinked, three little Erguotou hummed a little song, and four little Erguotou began to grab the hand of the girl sitting next to him.The girl mistook him for drinking too much, so she didn't get annoyed, and she didn't pull out her hand, letting the round and fat man grab it.The round fat man neatly arranged the empty small Erguotou bottles in a row in front of him. I asked, why don't we drink the big Erguotou? Anyway, you and I have almost drank two bottles of the big Erguotou.The fat black man asked back, why do you use condoms instead of big plastic bags?I said, it makes sense, why didn't I think of it?

I also lined up my empty Erguotou bottles in front of me. Through the green xiaoerguotou bottle, I could see the distorted faces of men and women on the opposite side of the long wine table. My eyes passed over them, and I saw the glass windows of the restaurant, and the Maizidian West Street outside the window.Occasionally, professional women pass by on the street. They wear pure white down jackets, white socks, and white leather boots, like a cream ice cream. They are very dazzling in Beijing's winter nights. Are they really sweet?Are they cold? Do they want to have a few sips of Erguotou? It's so late, does anyone still eat ice cream?

The green little Erguotou bottle is my telescope, the green crystal ball. My eyes followed the East Third Ring Road and saw a place called Weeping Willow south of Maizidian, where I was born.Since I was born, I have never seen a weeping willow with the style of the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the poetic flavor of the late Tang Dynasty, the poplar tree is covered with a kind of insect called japonica, and the locust tree is covered with a kind of insect called hanged ghost , Walking the working class all over the street, wearing gray clothes and big eyes leaking, no matter how you look at it, you don't look like the master of this country.On a bitter summer night, the working-class men are shirtless, and the working-class women are not wearing bras. In order to save electricity, they turn off the noisy fans at home, or sit or stand around the poplar and locust trees, and don’t care about the foreign thorns and hangers-on. The existence of dead ghosts.I walk 354 steps to Chuiyangliu Central Primary School every day, and 354 steps home for dinner.One day in the second grade of my elementary school, the school organized to go to the auditorium of the People's Printing Machinery Factory to watch "Nezha Naohai". From Chuiyangliu Middle Street to the easternmost end of Chuiyangliu South Street, as children, we walked hand in hand, for a whole day 1003 steps, really far away, my hands are sore from being pulled.After the movie ended, I stood on Chuiyangliu South Street and looked at the East Third Ring South Road next to it. At that time, there was no overpass. On the other side of the river is the factory building of the People's Printing Machinery Factory, like a distant city.The sea is more ferocious than this big river. I thought, the Dragon King is really abominable, and Nezha's brain must have been kicked by the donkey's hind hoof. How could he make trouble across the sea.When I grew up, I lay on my back and became a wooden boat with my penis erected and my underwear as a sail. When the westerly wind blows, I will sail away, cross this great river, and leave Beijing.

My eyes followed Chang'an Avenue and saw Dongdan North Street, west of Maizidian, where my penis grew into a thick sailboat mast.I heard Xin Ningkuang knocking on the door of my bungalow in Ganmian Hutong, he shouted, Qiushui, are you there?Where have you been for the past two weeks?Is Xiaohong in the house?Do you know where Xiaohong is?Don't open the door, I'm not sent by the school leader, I'm not a rapist, I wish you all the best.Xiaobai didn't follow me either, I was alone. Xiaohong, are you there?Xiaobai said, you don’t get along with him, your dad has a heart attack, and he is in the CCU (cardiac intensive care unit) of Renhe Hospital. Your mother is going to jump off the building. She has asked Xiaobai several times how tall he needs to be.Xiaobai said, above the fourth floor, the chance of falling to death is the same, so be on the safe side and find a balcony on the tenth floor.

I heard Xiaohong crying loudly. My little red, my little mermaid, threw off her fish tail, put on her legs, put on a T-shirt and ran out.Give me half a box of Master Kong, a dozen red eggs, two condoms, a dozen navel oranges, and ten bottles of Red Star Xiaoerguotou. I heard Xiaohong tell me that after three days and three nights, her father was finally rescued, and he refused to talk to Xiaohong.Her mother was always worried that no matter how tall the building was, she couldn't fall to her death all at once, so she didn't jump in the end. Her mother said, how dare you want someone like Qiu Shui?As for you, you can't do anything and you have a big temper. You can still see this face. What if you can't see it in the future?Xiaohong said, let's forget it, I am timid, I am afraid that others will be sad.I said, okay.Xiaohong took my hand and came to the corridor on the east side of the fourth floor. It was three o'clock at night, and Xiaohong said, I want to eat it last.I said it agreed.

I heard Xiaohong walking towards me in the study room in Santiao, Dongdan, "What's the matter?" I asked. "I'm afraid I'll bother you, so I walked around Dongdan Wangfujing by myself." "Then do you still want to go now?" "it is good." Hand in hand, we walked through Chang'an Avenue, Donghuamen, Meridian Gate, Beichang Street, Jiaolou, Jingshanqian Street, Wusi Street, Wangfujing, Dengshikou, and Dongdan.We walked past the Yanquelou Restaurant, and I saw Xiaobai, Xin Nie, Eucommia, and Big Chicken drinking at an outdoor table, eating preserved eggs and boiled spiced peanuts.I held Xiaohong's hand and walked past with my head down. Xiaobai followed with a bottle of beer and said, I drank too much, and I want to hear what you two have to say.

I said, Xiaohong, take him back to the hotel.Xiaobai said, I drank too much, I need to pee.Xiaohong said, go back to the hotel to pee, I will take you back.Xiaobai said, I drank too much, I need to pee. I said, okay, pee, find a parked car on the street, pee behind the car, find a good car. The green little Erguotou bottle is my telescope, the green crystal ball. Opposite me, a middle-aged man who looked exactly like cooking spiced peanuts jumped onto the table at eleven o’clock, six little Erguotou after me, and he repeatedly recited two lines of poetry, “Despicable is despicable Nobility is the passport of the noble, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble.”I said, go on, is it your poem?He said, I will fight with you, and I will drink with you!I said, how to drink?You are beer, I am Erguotou. Fatty Baiyuan and Fatty Heiyuan said together that half a small Erguotou is equivalent to a bottle of beer! After another two small Erguotou, "Spiced Peanuts" was still reciting poetry on the table, I couldn't hear it, and I couldn't see the green crystal ball anymore. My hands are propped up on the chair, my head is pressed heavily on the table, and the half-digested food in my stomach is gurgling from the sides of my mouth. I heard editor-in-chief Wang Han shouting in my ear, what about your mobile phone, what about your mobile phone, I don’t know your family. I said, the phone is in my pocket, you first press 9, the shortcut key 9, and keep pressing it.The phone was connected, and I shouted to the phone: Du Zhong, stop masturbating in bed, it's been three minutes, and you still don't ejaculate?You've broken your own record.Get up and wait at the door of the Renhe emergency room to save Lao Tzu, don't gloat, don't go around telling everyone that I drank too much, you and two little nurses who don't know me are enough.Remember, intravenous furosemide and glucose, gastric lavage. I heard editor-in-chief Wang Han continue to shout in my ear, find someone to take you there, find someone to take you there. I said, you press my phone, press 1, the shortcut key 1, and keep pressing it.Editor-in-chief Wang Han said, no one answered.I yelled to the phone: Xiaohong, answer the phone, why is it so hard to marry Xiaobai?Is the wedding grand?Did you take wedding photos?Does it look good?I prepared a gift for you, my seven gases, but I never gave them to you. After so many years, the sealing rubber has also aged, and the gases are gone, and they all ran away.Didn't you and Xiaobai have been together for almost two years? Why did you get a divorce?Why do you want to stay in the United States where there is no spicy hot pot and no beautiful men?Xiaohong, answer the phone, don't take antidepressants, Prozac is poison.Xiaohong, answer the phone, don't put on makeup, stay at home, and drink two bottles of red wine all night. I heard editor-in-chief Wang Han continue to shout in my ear, find another person, find another person. I said, on my mobile phone, press 2, the shortcut key 2, and keep pressing it.Editor-in-chief Wang Han said, no one answered.I shouted into the phone: Xiaobai, answer the phone, are you in Shanghai or Beijing?No matter where you are, be careful when looking for chickens, be careful of fairy jumps, and don't carry more than two hundred yuan in your pocket. Xiaobai, answer the phone, I know you are suffering, come out to drink, I still have Yanjing beer, you finish it first, and then hit me with the wine bottle. I heard editor-in-chief Wang Han continue to shout in my ear, find another person, and find another person. I said, on my mobile phone, press 3, the shortcut key 3, and keep pressing it.Editor-in-chief Wang Han said, no one answered.I shouted to the phone: Xiao Huang, Xin Ning, I am Xiaoshen, answer the phone and go back to Beijing, I miss you.I heard that Yaodao canceled all wedding church reservations for job interviews?The church is not a dentist, it is unlucky to cancel it.Xiao Huang, answer the phone, Harvard has a Ph.D., forget about things you don’t understand or treat them as axioms, don’t compete with yourself, don’t believe in cults no matter how many problems you don’t understand. No one answered the phone, I completely forgot who the other shortcut keys on the phone were, and I couldn’t hear the editor-in-chief Wang Han shouting. The last thing I heard was the honking of an ambulance on Maizidian West Street. I was relieved to lose full consciousness. From April 2005 to March 2007, San Francisco, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Mount Qingcheng, Havana, Dali, Kuala Lumpur, Amsterdam