Chapter 14 131-140

131 In the afternoon, I went to Xidan Book Building by myself. It was a bookstore that was too big to walk through. After three hours of shopping, I received a call from the bookseller Ning Weizhuang, telling me that he invited me to dinner and signed a book with me. contract for a collection of essays, so I ran to the back of the long line to pay, then headed out with a bag of new books I had just bought, which I threw in the trunk of the car. I drove to Kong Yiji in Dongsi. It was a Shaoxing restaurant. As soon as I entered the door, I saw a plaster bust of Lu Xun, which was used to replace the God of Wealth in the Guangdong restaurant. It’s really Lu Xun’s reputation. The menu is full of dishes like fennel beans in Lu Xun’s novels. As usual, there is a lot of people inside, the cups and plates are messy, and the popularity is comparable to that of restaurants in Guangdong and Sichuan. Sitting there, I don't care what I eat, and the picture is a lively scene.Once, a friend of mine who didn’t read got drunk and got into a fight here, and smashed the portrait of Lu Xun. They asked him to accompany the money and said he didn’t respect Lu Xun. My friend was surprised and said: “Oh , This is Lu Xun, my buddies thought it was Kong Yiji! How did you come up with the name of this restaurant? Change it to Lu Xun in the future.”

132 Ning Weizhuang wears a pair of old-fashioned thick glasses, as if someone spit two mouthfuls into his eyes, and he stutters in Zhejiang dialect, which sounds like Japanese and Korean when he speaks. Listen to him It's a test of ears, I don't know how other people feel, anyway, my ears keep trembling with his wordy tone, what's more annoying is that even so, I can't understand what he is saying .According to my observation, Ning Weizhuang looks a bit angry and arrogant, like the kind of person who steals chemical fertilizers and grows up alone. I noticed that he has a pair of dog eyes that look like a human being. Thick and long black nose hairs protrude out of the left and right nasal cavities, and whenever he speaks loudly or laughs, his nose hairs tremble endlessly, which makes his face look like a big vicious insect.I hope, when I get a little more daring, I can surprise him with a nose clipper as a gift someday, but I'm not ready to take that risk right now, when it's signing time.

Ning Weizhuang has a drinking buddy named Guo Dan, a writer who looks kinder than Ning Weizhuang, but after drinking, his small eyes start to blink and start to move, and after drinking a little, his eyes become scattered like stars in the sky, so he started He satirized me, saying that I wrote too fast novels that deceived the world, and called on everyone to raise funds to send me to other places to rest, so as not to become famous and earn money one after another, which made him uncomfortable. Next came two female writers, Zuozou and Wu Tong, who signed the contract with me. What was annoying was that Ning Weizhuang took out three contract papers and handed them to us. It's completely different from what we talked about on the phone. It's two percentage points lower, and the payment method is also worse than we've ever seen. Because of the large number of people, we are too embarrassed to talk about money at the dinner table. Ning Weizhuang actually took advantage of us not listening I understand the advantages of his words, and I made a fuss about it, and I don’t know what happened. Of course, we asked him for the account afterwards, and he rejected us with the same words. I chased him to Shanghai It was only after I went there that I managed to get the money back, and the two female writers were miserable, and they are still on the phone to discuss what to do about this matter that has long since disappeared.It seems that it can only be understood in such a positive way. Although Ning Weizhuang's integrity is worse than that of law-abiding booksellers, he is much better than pirated booksellers.

133 For freelancers, life is always so chaotic, just like a restaurant, it is difficult to establish any order, because everyone has a sense of chaos in their bones, so there are no rules in business, even though everyone is always short of money , but it is strange that there is always no shortage of the part of the money in the dispute, that is to say, compared with the real difficulty, life is far from being difficult, so those who are embarrassed can always take advantage of it People who are willing to believe that others have good character will always suffer a little loss. Fortunately, the latter has a broad mind and is good at patience, so the matter passed in a muddle.As I get older, I feel more and more that the word "make do" is the most accurate Chinese way of life. This is a nihilist's optimistic attitude. Everything is make do. , then you can only be pissed to death, who wants to be so stupid as to be pissed off?That's a sign of ignorance.

134 There are also Daqing, Laodai, Jiancheng, etc. at the same table, and some girls. Based on my experience, if you really want to write about the dinner in Beijing, you have to write it specifically, and describe each dish slowly in one sentence. It's a pity that neither the author nor the readers have the patience, so they can only talk about where is where. In short, when the wine is hot, Jiancheng and Ning Weizhuang start to fight for wine. The atmosphere is unprecedentedly enthusiastic. The food is stacked in two layers. The first floor has not been completely eaten, and the people who take the food have to wander between the upper and lower floors in a mysterious way, and the people who eat sit in two rows, and those who finish eating sit in the back row, and there is a writer who wanders from time to time. Stepping on the soy sauce soup, I ran to the dinner table and sang a few lines of poetry, "I'll tell you something, everyone listen - the door for people to come in and out is locked, and the hole for dogs to crawl out of is also locked!" After speaking, An Ran got off the table, sat down on a chair and drank beer calmly, but caused other customers in the restaurant to be amazed.

135 This kind of free atmosphere created by nonsense makes people want to talk nonsense and self-indulgence. After I drank a few sips of beer in a daze, I also talked nonsense with everyone. After a while, I saw a girl I didn't know walk in. In the restaurant, I stared hard at our table with unbelievable eyes, as if looking for someone, through the smoke and smoky shouts, I saw that she was quite beautiful, so my testicles tightened, and the eye circles turned red, As soon as she was dizzy, her feet couldn't help but walk towards her. I walked up to her and issued a warm invitation: "Sit here, sit here, have you eaten, haven't you eaten, have you had a drink, haven't you had a drink." At this moment, Jiancheng's voice came from behind: " Hey, everyone be quiet, let me introduce, this beauty is Wang Yun, one of the eight famous grudges in Beijing, these are all famous writers in Beijing, you know it yourself, anyway, you are not allowed to go today, fooling around together—hey, waiter , Bring over a chair, and another pair of bowls and chopsticks!"

136 This Wang Yun seems to be a veteran in the battlefield, that is, she is an acquaintance. As soon as I greeted her, she sat next to me, eating and drinking, and asked me about everyone. How many different drinks did she have? After drinking the wine, peach blossoms bloomed on his face, he was very energetic, eloquent, he didn't even bother to wipe off the broth spilled on his sweater, he looked very refreshed, but based on my experience, I guess it's probably because he drank too much, Taking advantage of our drunkenness, we hit it off and hit it off, shoulder to shoulder, and we got to know each other thoroughly after a while. 137

People talk about writers quite simply. They directly divide writers into famous and unknown. The famous are what they know, and the unknown are nothing. In short, everything is centered on them. Because Wang Yun has never read the books of these writers, she regards everyone as unknown juniors. She herself is a TV show host. He is an actor who specializes in playing villains. According to the famous saying that drama is like life, he dumped her not long after becoming famous. Since then, he has been complaining all day long that men don't have a good thing. As for women, they must have feelings for men before they can have pornographic behaviors. There are a large number of women who hold this aunt's point of view. They use their feelings to advertise themselves and think they are superior, and they are not afraid of being co-branded by prostitutes. Objection, in fact, it is such a group of people who are more terrible than the charges of prostitutes. It is estimated that the part of the overcharge is considered emotional.

The topic turned to Wang Yun's ex-boyfriend somehow. "What do you think of him?" She turned to me and asked. "Looks like a catastrophe," I replied bluntly. "Ugly?" "Anyway, it's the kind of aftermath—in a cultured way, it's called 'slightly humanoid', you don't understand, how do you usually say it? Vicissitudes, right?" "Pooh!" "People have kicked you, and you still try to be proud of their jobs, it's too disappointing." "Pooh!" "In short, I think he looks like the type of person who can't wash it off with anything."

"Pooh!" "It's no use spitting." 138 Just as we were talking here, everyone stood up one after another and was about to change places. We moved to a bar called No. 55, which is located opposite the north gate of Gongti. It just opened, and the owner is a friend of Guodan. If you get a discount, if you drink more, you can still pretend to be ignorant of the order, so you rush there. 139 The decoration of No. 55 A is very modern, horizontal and vertical, and the tone is cold. In fact, it is insufficient lighting. It looks like there is no decoration, and it has a hard and depressing feeling. This extremely simple and practical style is strangely popular in Beijing. I think The main reason is that it costs less to decorate. However, the sofa in No. 55 A is very comfortable, and it is suitable for everyone to talk about constellations together. You have to use a lighter to look at the palmistry. After several rounds of red wine, everyone was surprised to find that sitting The dozen or so people who got together were all water constellations, either Pisces or Scorpio, or Scorpio or Cancer. Just such a far-fetched common ground made everyone feel very cordial. Guodan stood up excitedly, shaking his head and holding his hand. A glass of red wine yelled: "Hurry up, hurry up, let's make waves, everyone, let's make waves!"

An ace male entertainment reporter who looked like an old Taoist nun also followed suit and ignited: "Yes, yes, chaos, chaos!" As soon as Lao Bai heard this, he hugged a girl he called "fiancee" in his arms, and the two of them worked hard together to act like a baby in public, with the slogan in their mouths: "Hug! Hug!" Zou Zuo put his hand into Daqing's clothes, and hugged Daqing. Seeing that he couldn't hug other girls, Daqing complained discouragedly: "Don't suck my talent! You sucked my talent again, and took my talent away from him." Mom sucked it all up!" A sports reporter who belongs to the pig, stretched out his hand on the thigh of a beautiful writer and said, "Actually, you don't understand my heart. We are not lovers of prostitution, but we were misled by the former. I love watching Li Lizhen the most in third-grade movies. When the peaches are ripe, Li Lizhen's face looks like an angel." "I know that author who wrote it once wrote a book called "The Force of Angels." Through free association, Daqing told him that he is educated. After hearing this, Jiancheng sat up straight from the sofa, raised his middle finger with a smile, and stretched it towards a girl. 140 Wang Yun put her legs on mine, twisted her body, and made noises with everyone. After having a drink with her, I asked her, "When will we have a secret relationship?" "Okay." "Why don't you try it in the bathroom now." "Disgusting!" She slapped me, then turned to me and asked, "Where do I start?" "Of course it's on the bed—I don't want to find Liu Hulan, and you don't want to be an eunuch, do you?" "of course." "But I have a strong sexual desire, do you think you can do it?" "Can I do it? What else do I have to ask you?" Daqing rolled up his sleeves next to him and shouted: "Okay, okay, it's a mule or a horse coming out for a walk-one shot will tell." After finishing speaking, he grabbed two French fries and dipped them in ketchup stuff it in your mouth. As soon as I heard it, my emotions immediately rose: "Yes, Daqing is right!" "You don't need to roll your arms and sleeves—just do as you say." Wang Yun said loudly, "When your daughter-in-law comes back, it's all over." "Impossible!" I burst into pride, "Let's wait for the opportunity to persevere." "I just kicked my thighs and was thrown into the red waves. I saw the little lady's breasts were half exposed, she was dying of immortality, and she was screaming and talking endlessly." Jian Jian was about to sing. "Hey," I turned around worriedly, "I'm asking you, Wang Yun, can you do it once every three days?" "What do you mean?" "I mean, one hundred times a year, one time counts as half an hour, spend fifty hours a year having fun with me, can you do it?" "It can't be less than one hundred hours." She answered firmly in a low voice. "Well—looks like I'll have to try something." Wang Yun smiled: "I hope you don't risk losing ten years of your life." "I hope that if I really don't live up to it, you will make up for the loss inside the bank." "Have you been talking big to me just now? Why did you retreat so quickly?" "I'm not talking big, it's just that I'm old and my combat effectiveness is not good enough." "real?" "Don't worry, I will have sex with the machine. No matter what, I have more sexual experience than ordinary people." "I just want you to have plenty of semen."