Chapter 3 LESSON 3: Confidante with zero risk

Looking at the flow of people in this city from a certain angle and at a certain time, you will find that everyone is exactly the same.Same expression, same pace, go to the same place, do the same thing.There is no communication or talking between each other, just like the products conveyed on the factory assembly line.The only thing that keeps them motivated to live, or what makes them different from others, is that they all have a person in their hearts.This person understands all your concerns, understands all your behavior patterns, acts as your delivery fluid and trash can when you are down, and raises a glass with you to celebrate when you are happy. This person is called a "confidant".

On this day, Luo Shuquan was working in front of the computer at home, while Gu Xiaobai lay at the table and watched him like a dog for a full hour and a half, but Luo Shuquan remained unmoved. "Look at me, look at me." Gu Xiaobai finally couldn't help it. "What do I see about you?" "Look how pitiful I am when I'm broken in love." "You poor P." Luo Shuquan turned his head, "Which time did you lose love like this? They are all exactly the same. I have watched them more than a dozen times. The only difference is that this time you were raped by two women at the same time. Dumped, deserved it!"

"Huh? Why are you so sympathetic?" Gu Xiaobai looked at him in surprise. "I'm busy." He leaned over to have a look, and it turned out that Luo Shuquan was testing an online game.This is the job assigned to him by the company recently. In order to let him concentrate on playing games and not be disturbed by other things, Luo Shuquan can not go to work and "work" at home. "Cut... childish." "Are you mature?" Luo Shuquan countered, "Mature people are either working now or on their way to work. Who is acting like you are broken up here—you can go to bed now!"

"I won't go." Gu Xiaobai groaned, "People who are broken in love can't sleep, they are too temperamental." "roll!" "Hey? Thanks to the fact that I regard you as my only good friend, confidant. You actually told me to get out... well... I'll get out..." Gu Xiaobai walked to the door sadly, turned his head and looked back, "I'm out what……" "Ok." "I'm really gone." "Ok……" "I won't." Gu Xiaobai smiled charmingly, "You come and teach me how to roll." Luo Shuquan jumped up to beat Gu Xiaobai, but Gu Xiaobai fled the door, Luo Shuquan slammed the door, walked back to the computer, and heard Gu Xiaobai talking crazy outside.

"A ball in a ball... a ball in a ball..." Gu Xiaobai ran upstairs, stuck to the wall step by step, spun like a top, rolled to the door, felt dizzy, and couldn't help but bend down, "I'm so dizzy, I want to vomit." Suddenly, a pair of white sneakers appeared in his line of sight, Gu Xiaobai felt a chill in his heart, and slowly looked up. Misfortunes never come singly, and the person standing in front of him is Lord Aqian. "Please tell me that what I saw was an illusion." Gu Xiaobai raised his head and looked at her expressionlessly. "It's not a hallucination, thank you." Aqian replied sternly.

It turned out that Ah Qian, as a young actor who couldn't be popular even if he was beaten to death by thousands of people, hadn't received a job for half a year.Not only did no crew ask her to act in a play, according to her words, she didn't even have a commercial endorsement.So she gets poorer and poorer.As the saying goes, if you are poor, you want to change, and Ah Qian can't change anything.Suddenly Gu Xiaobai appeared in his mind this morning, so he ran over to ask for help without washing his face. "It's not that I won't help you. The play I'm writing now has already introduced you as a guest star. That character is dead, so you can't play it anymore." In the cafe downstairs, Gu Xiaobai was already sleepy. When he was about to die, he could only support his chin and listen to Ah Qian complaining.

"Then can I change it to twins?" "How about writing it as a clone?" "..." "It's like this. I haven't paid the rent for the house I rented for three months. The landlord has urged me three hundred times. If it doesn't work, I will sell myself." Ah Qian took a deep breath and said. "So serious? Oh, you should have said earlier, how much does it cost?" "About ten thousand yuan." Gu Xiaobai yawned, opened the wallet and took out the card, "The password is my birthday, go get it yourself, can I go to bed now?"

"No, the 10,000 yuan is the money owed to the landlord. The house has been taken back by the landlord. The 10,000 yuan is the money I got back from the ID card I bet on him." "Oh...so where do you live now?" "Live at your house?" "Aposerodle Naut..." "What's the meaning?" "It's just impossible, get out." "Oh, then there's nothing I can do." Aqian held on to Ka, and smiled shyly, "I've already asked the moving company to move all the things to your door when I dragged you here." At Gu Xiaobai’s home, Gu Xiaobai was lying on the sofa in the living room and humming. He had just witnessed the opposite side of a violent demolition—the sad scene of violent relocation. A piece of furniture was moved into another second bedroom, going in and out, and still pasting posters on the wall, as if he had already regarded this as his new home.

"Oh! Do you want to open it up?" Ah Qian saw that he was really hit hard, walked over, sat down on the sofa, and looked at him, "Think about it, this room is empty and empty, and a woman with You live together, and I can cook for you and clean up if you have nothing to do." "Do you think I'm stupid enough to be tricked by your words?" Gu Xiaobai squinted at her. "Then," Ah Qian said resignedly—she still has the face to resign herself—"Now that the raw rice has been cooked, you should think about it in a positive way." "For example?"

"For example, think about it," Aqian thought for a while, and began to snap his fingers, "From now on, when I live here, what kind of lovelorn, unemployment, divorce, such things, such things will affect you. It's normal..." "Ah! Really." Gu Xiaobai nodded, "I was dumped by two women at the same time just now!" "I can comfort you, enlighten you." Ah Qian earnestly induced, "help you advise, help you host the emotional hotline, and be your emotional trash can..." Gu Xiaobai, who was still dying on the sofa just now, heard this, his eyes slowly lit up, and he sat up and looked at her.

"Oh... so you moved in as a trash can?" "Aposerus Tries!" The next day, the weather was sunny, Zuo Yongbang, Mi Qi, and Luo Shuquan were called by Gu Xiaobai to drink coffee near Ganghui.Gu Xiaobai played up the glorious deeds of Aqian as a mobile trash can, and everyone squinted at him. "She and I are the purest relationship between men and women!" Gu Xiaobai said. "I don't think there is a pure relationship between men and women in the world." Miqi said. "What kind of argument is that? According to you, men and women can't be friends?" "Ordinary friends can definitely do it." Miqi said, "But to be good friends, if you are good to a certain extent, there must be problems." "what is the problem?" "Gender issues." Gu Xiaobai couldn't get around her, and was furious, "You women are so narrow-minded, oh, she has no money to pay the rent, I let her live at home for a while, it's like putting a trash can at home, what can I do with the trash can?" question?" "One of you is unmarried, the other is unmarried, and you are both single. If there is no problem, there will be problems." Miqi continued. Gu Xiaobai looked at Zuo Yongbang, just about to ask for help, and by the way to provoke a discord, Zuo Yongbang put down his glass and spoke. "I agree with Miqi." Zuo Yongbang nodded, "But there is another case that is an exception. For example, a man and a woman, good friend, if the woman is so ugly that you don't have any thoughts, then There won't be any problems. But isn't that Ah Qian ugly?" Of course Ah Qian is not ugly, she is an actress. "That's it, be careful." Zuo Yongbang said. "What do I care about? What do I care about!!!" Zuo Yongbang didn't speak, but looked into the distance... The clouds in the distance are so white. Then he turned his head. "Recall, have you ever had that kind of beautiful female friend who has a very good relationship with you?" "Yes! Yes!" Gu Xiaobai did not doubt that he was there, and jumped into the trap eagerly, "I met one two years ago, and then went to the United States. She is very beautiful. I have nothing to do with her, we are just brothers. , hooking shoulders and backs to go shopping, hooking shoulders and backs and going back to each house." "Then you have never drunk." Mickey raised her hand. Gu Xiaobai stared at Zuo Yongbang, "Do you still want her? If you don't want her, can I kick her to death now?" Zuo Yongbang laughed, "Then I will ask you another question. After answering this question, you will pass the test." "it is good!" Gu Xiaobai cheered up a bit, as if he could receive a bonus after passing the test. "Remember carefully," Zuo Yongbang looked at him, and asked slowly and word for word, "Recall carefully, and answer honestly, during the time you were in contact with that beautiful 'pure brother' who went to America, Did you... er... have you ever dreamed about her at night? In the dream, did you ever—have you ever done anything beyond 'friendship' with her... er...?" After asking, everyone wanted to gloat at the reaction, but they didn't expect Gu Xiaobai to disappear in a blink of an eye. Fifty meters away, a gust of wind and sand billowed. Gu Xiaobai was crying against the wind while running. How could there be such an insidious question? I used to be single, so I can't have sex dreams... When I got home, Ah Qian was lying on the sofa watching TV, her posture was quite provocative.Gu Xiaobai rushed into the back room, flipped out a stack of papers.Ah Qian didn't know what happened, and then heard the sound of a printer inside.After a while, just as she was about to knock on the door to see, Gu Xiaobai had already brought out a stack of papers, carried her to the coffee table in the living room, and slapped the papers on the coffee table. "Due to the misfortune of my family when I was a child," Gu Xiaobai's expression was terribly serious, "I lived on the same floor as you, and we had conversations again, so that I was retaliated by the gear of fate more than 20 years later. Live under the same roof. In order for us to get along better and more harmoniously, until you move out of this house, God’s punishment period for me expires. It is necessary for me to sign an agreement with you, with three chapters.” "Where... which three chapters?" Ah Qian looked at him in a stuttering manner. "The first clause of the treaty," Gu Xiaobai said slowly, "No matter what happens or what kind of situation we are in, unless there are force majeure factors such as earthquakes and fires, keep a distance of two meters from me." "What about the second one?" "No matter what happens, or what kind of situation we are in, unless there are force majeure factors such as earthquakes and fires, keep a distance of two meters from me." "Isn't this the content of the first article?" Gu Xiaobai nodded slowly again. "There are six pages in total, forty-eight articles, each of which is this sentence." Gu Xiaobai looked at her, "Thousands of words can't express the sorrow and resentment in my heart, but in a word--stay away from me! !!!” Aqian really had a poor family and was dependent on others, so she could only endure Gu Xiaobai's countless ravages and ravages.She signed it resentfully, and Gu Xiaobai cheered up, and ordered takeaway and Ah Qian to eat.During the meal, Gu Xiaobai also tried his best to be careful, and waited for Ah Qian to finish cooking before serving food.This meal was really satisfying, Gu Xiaobai never thought that eating a meal could exhaust him. After a good meal, Gu Xiaobai said that he would go to a nearby supermarket. "I'm going too!" Ah Qian hurriedly put on her clothes and said. "What are you doing!" "I also have a lot of things to prepare..." Gu Xiaobai really had no choice but to look like this pair of skinny faces. There is a department store within a ten-minute walk of my home, and there is a large supermarket on the ground floor of the department store.Gu Xiaobai was carrying the basket, and Ah Qian was also carrying the basket, and there were many people around them carefully putting things into the basket.Gu Xiaobai was watching Ah Qian all the time, if she took a step closer, he would jump three feet away.He watched Aqian buy red wine, a wine opener, and a mess of daily necessities, and thought that this was a doomed situation. Did he just move out while Aqian was sleeping in the middle of the night.When the two walked up the escalator, Gu Xiaobai kept thinking about the possibility of this plan, and the more he thought about it, the more hopeless he became. On the ground floor, passing a cosmetics counter, Ah Qian called Gu Xiaobai to stop, saying that she would like to try a foundation. "Fan your old mother." Gu Xiaobai said bitterly in his heart, watching Ah Qian sitting on the round stool and looking around.At this time, a lady in uniform came not far away, getting closer and closer, and Gu Xiaobai became more and more difficult to breathe. That is indeed a bright and charming beauty who meets 200% of Gu Xiaobai's aesthetics! The man came over and took out one after another cosmetic instruments of torture from the box next to him.Every time she took out one, Gu Xiaobai's heart stopped beating, and after taking out more than a dozen samples, Gu Xiaobai's heart almost formed a line.That person didn't notice at all, just took the mascara brush and stroked it on Aqian's eyes.Ah Qian also closed his eyes, looking very enjoying himself, completely unaware that there was already a person beside him who was about to die. "Hurry up, ah..." Gu Xiaobai muttered while circling around anxiously. He had just experienced the incident of unreliable beauties, and he was more expecting and resisting creatures like beauties than before. "It's okay, it will be ready soon." The girl turned her head and smiled at Gu Xiaobai movingly, "Sir, your girlfriend is so beautiful, she will be even more beautiful if you use our company's products." I don't know if it's the company's rules and regulations, or it's just looking for something to say.After saying this, the girl with big eyes and bright smile started to sell products to Gu Xiaobai and Aqian.There was only one voice in Gu Xiaobai's heart shouting: "That's not my girlfriend! That's not my girlfriend! That's a trash can!" But he couldn't make any sound, his throat was hoarse, and he almost vomited a pool of blood on the spot. "He's not my boyfriend." Ah Qian suddenly opened his eyes and said to her. "Huh?" The woman was taken aback. "He's not my boyfriend." Ah Qian emphasized again. Probably thinking that the young couple was having a fight, the woman just smiled and didn't answer.Gu Xiaobai also bit his mouth tightly, afraid that if he opened his mouth, he would spray blood all over the faces of the two of them. "What do you think of him?" After a while, Ah Qian suddenly asked again. "what?" "Just tell me if you're handsome or not!" "Very... very handsome..." Perhaps because of embarrassment—anyone would feel embarrassed when facing Ah Qian—the woman turned her head and smiled politely at Gu Xiaobai. "But do you know?" Ah Qian suddenly opened his eyes and looked at her, "He was just abandoned by two women one after another!" Facing the familiar Ah Qian, the woman smiled awkwardly again. "How miserable does it have to be for a person to be abandoned by two women one after another?" Ah Qian opened his eyes wide and looked at her unwillingly. "Huh? Are you talking about it?" "I... I don't know." "Then do you want to know? Give me your mobile phone number..." "..." The next day, Luo Shuquan was playing games in front of the computer, while Gu Xiaobai was holding a business card by the side and staring at the light for an hour. "It's true." Luo Shuquan couldn't help comforting him. "Mo Xiaomin..." Gu Xiaobai showed off the business card that the woman shyly took out yesterday, and read the mobile phone number again happily like a bank deposit, "Look! Stomach! Not only does Aqian not have any thoughts about me, but she is also actively helping me to get rid of the distress of being broken-up as soon as possible." "You're worried about me." Luo Shuquan turned around and asked, "Is that cosmetic lady pretty?" "Very beautiful!" "That is to say, Aqian hooked up a beautiful woman for you to provide you with the possibility of development?" "Yes." "I really want to have a trash can like this." Luo Shuquan suddenly looked at him enviously, "How about you let this trash can be brought to my place?" "Haha, how is it possible?!" Gu Xiaobai pointed at Luo Shuquan, "Not only is it impossible, but you are already OUT from my confidant list, because I found a real confidante!" "For you, your confidante is a matchmaker?" Gu Xiaobai looked at Luo Shuquan with a smile, then slowly stretched out his hand, turned on the power switch of the computer, and bounced up the stairs under Luo Shuquan's astonished eyes.In the process of going upstairs, he felt an unprecedented sense of happiness.Everything will be on and off, like a DVD that has just been put in the player and has not been pressed to PLAY.All things are possible, all directions are possible.But it was this situation where he couldn't see anything clearly that made him suddenly feel that life was beautiful.The beauty lies in the possibility itself, and the example of the peaceful years and the stability of the present world is simply not applicable to Gu Xiaobai.For him, it is better to be restless in the years, and more energetic to be restless in this world.However, in the past, it was just a haze in the mind, but since Aqian, a real action crap stick, moved in, everything has become a reality with infinite possibilities. Back in the house, Ah Qian was watching TV.Hearing Gu Xiaobai open the door, he turned his head to look, with a very sad expression on his face.Ah Qian didn't speak, and turned his head to continue watching TV with this expression. Gu Xiaobai walked to Ah Qian's side, sat down, and suddenly... burst into tears. "I was wrong." Gu Xiaobai said with snot and tears, "I misestimated the situation and underestimated your energy, so that I used a simple and rude method to restrict our relationship—yes I sincerely apologize for this and please accept my condolences." After he finished speaking painfully, he squinted at her reaction.Ah Qian turned a deaf ear and was completely indifferent. "If you don't forgive me again," Gu Xiaobai said cautiously, "I will have to die." Suddenly there was a fruit knife in his hand... Ah Qian handed it to him silently. Looking at the knife... Gu Xiaobai thought for a while, then shot a feint, took an apple, and began to peel the apple silently. "I'm asking you." Ah Qian suddenly turned his head and stared at him closely, "The agreement you signed with me..." "Don't mention that agreement again, I was wrong!" "Are you afraid that something will happen to me with you?" Gu Xiaobai stopped moving, was stunned, and turned his head to look at her motionless. "Xiaobai," Aqian looked at Gu Xiaobai and said sincerely, "I like you because of the way you are. Sincere, not pretentious, not hypocritical. You have all the shortcomings of men, but you never cover up." "You..." Gu Xiaobai was a little uncertain again, "Are you praising me?" Ah Chi nodded. "But I will never have anything to happen to you." Ah Qian suddenly smiled sadly, "It's not because you are not attractive enough, but... I actually like girls. Today's call is not for you Yes, it's for myself. That's why I put on makeup there for so long today. In fact, to me, you are like a real sister..." Ah Qian looked at him quietly, finished speaking sincerely, and then sighed regretfully.She stood up and walked slowly into the bedroom... Behind Gu Xiaobai, every blood cell in his body turned into powder. In the next few days, Gu Xiaobai never left the bedroom again, and ordered takeaway meals, and ate them inside the house by himself.Aqian thought it was all right at first, went in to read it a few times, Gu Xiaobai was lying on the bed, curled up under the quilt, reading the "Diamond Sutra", he didn't shave his beard, and didn't care about his unkempt hair.After he glanced at Ah Qian, he just turned his head slowly with cloudy eyes and continued to read.After staying like this for nearly a week, Aqian finally couldn't take it anymore, and ran downstairs to find Luo Shuquan for help. "I just want to shock him," Ah Qian explained after explaining the ins and outs to Luo Shuquan, "Don't be complacent and self-righteous all day, thinking that every woman will fall in love with him. Of course the phone is for him! Do you know the agreement he asked me to sign?" Ah Qian looked at the stunned Luo Shuquan and called out, "Six pages, forty-eight articles, just one sentence, keep a distance of two meters from him!" "But he hasn't eaten all day today." Ah Qian said distressedly, "I went in to see him just now, and he was reading with a Buddhist scripture in his arms, and he ignored me when he saw me, as if I wasn't there at all. Did I play too big this time? If we go down, there will be no longer a distance of two meters between him and me, but two worlds." Uh... is it that serious? "Oh," after realizing it, Luo Shuquan began to enlighten Aqian, "If you don't think about him, you have to think about yourself. You think he has started to give up on himself now, and one day he suddenly becomes angry and kicks you out. Why do you manage?" Ah Qian opened her mouth wide and stared blankly at Luo Shuquan. Finally, she came to her senses, stood up abruptly, walked resolutely to the door of Gu Xiaobai's bedroom, and began to knock on the door. Luo Shuquan also followed behind with a serious face. "Xiaobai...Xiaobai..." Ah Qian knocked on the door desperately, but there was no response from inside. Quietly open the door... The room was dimly lit.On the bed, a mummy-like existence was lying motionless, holding a Buddhist scripture in his hand, watching it intently, completely unresponsive to the changes in the surroundings, and to the fact that there were two more people beside him. "noob……" Ah Qian walked to the bed and looked at him with concern. "What are you doing?" "It's breakfast." Ah Qian said lyrically, "I made your favorite ham and fried eggs." "Hmph! What's the difference between eating and not eating?" Gu Xiaobai sneered, looking at the ceiling leisurely, "It's just a stinky skin of a walking dead, sooner or later it will turn into a wisp of smoke in the wind." Ah Qian turned pale with fright, turned her head to look at Luo Shuquan. "Is he sane?" "Don't talk about breakfast!" Luo Shuquan was also anxious, "Let's get to the point!" "This is like this," Ah Qian coughed twice, "Xiaobai, I was joking with you before, uh...about me, and that phone call...Actually, I'm not...I asked for that phone call for you... ..." Aqian has never apologized to anyone so respectfully, but in return... "Reality and illusion, who can tell the boundary?" Gu Xiaobai turned his head, looked at her quietly, and smiled sadly, "How can you be sure that what you saw was me, it was just your illusion. Everything is illusory, like a dream bubble. Including you, including I am a wisp of smoke in the world..." Ah Qian had no choice but to look at Luo Shuquan helplessly. "Xiaobai," Luo Shuquan also helped to review, "Ah Qian was joking with you, you want to make some fun." "Yes, yes," Ah Qian nodded quickly, "I admitted my mistake, and I will really keep a distance of two meters from you in the future. If you don't allow it, I won't speak." "Then help me sweep the floor every day." Gu Xiaobai said quickly. "no problem." "I decide what to order for takeout every day, and you are not allowed to express your opinion." "no problem." "Any of my actions in the future can only be praised, and cannot be denied in the form of irony, rejection, or silence." "No problem, you're both right." "Okay," Gu Xiaobai stared at the Buddhist scriptures, "Bring the phone." After receiving the business card that Aqian respectfully handed over, Gu Xiaobai pulled the cover of the "Buddhist Sutra" in his hand expressionlessly, revealing the cover of "Yu Yu Hakusho" inside, heaved a long sigh of relief, and continued to read it with relish. Turning his head, he looked at Luo Shuquan and Ah Qian in surprise. "Huh? Still here? It's okay, let's retreat." Ah Qian stared blankly at Luo Shuquan, and Luo Shuquan turned his head expressionlessly. ——and fled. In the following time, Gu Xiaobai has been thinking about how to make that call, and how to say it.Ah Qian had no choice but to stay by the side, always supporting Gu Xiaobai with praise, encouragement and cooperation.In order to ensure that Gu Xiaobai's first phone call was flawless, she even ran to the bathroom with her mobile phone and pretended to be Mo Xiaomin and Gu Xiaobai's line dialogue.There were 70 or 80 warm-up calls, until Gu Xiaobai was confident, and Aqian threatened Gu Xiaobai to pay for her mobile phone for a year. Until Gu Xiaobai finally dialed Mo Xiaomin's phone and heard a "Hello?" "Hey?" "Mo Xiaomin?" "Yes, may I ask who you are?" "I'm Gu Xiaobai." Gu Xiaobai took a deep breath and replied. Mo Xiaomin was a little surprised, but after Gu Xiaobai explained—"the unlucky man who was with that impressive mentally ill woman that day"—Mo Xiaomin finally realized and laughed. Gu Xiaobai asked her to have dinner, but Mo Xiaomin hesitated for a moment before agreeing.After hanging up the phone, Gu Xiaobai was stunned for a long time. He didn't know if it was because of his own charm, or if it was God's reward for his recent miserable one-time gift package.All in all, he quickly set to work, and by five o'clock in the afternoon he was dressed.When he came out of the house, Ah Qian forced him to praise him a hundred times, and then he went out nervously. Arriving at the department store where Mo Xiaomin works, Mo Xiaomin happened to be off work, and when the two met, they were a little embarrassed.I have to say that such a date itself is a bit nonsensical.Mo Xiaomin works at the cosmetics counter, and with her pretty appearance and devilish figure, it is inevitable that she will attract some attention.But the bad thing is that the man who comes to the cosmetics counter is always with his girlfriend, even if he is excited, he can only swallow his mouth.Unexpectedly, there is a combination of Aqian and Gu Xiaobai, not to mention that Aqian asked for her number on his own initiative. At that time, Mo Xiaomin had a good impression of Gu Xiaobai.From her point of view, Gu Xiaobai's flustered look was simply too amusing.Of course, she didn't expect the next development. After giving Ah Qian's mobile phone number, she waited anxiously for a day or two.Unexpectedly, there was no news at all, so he gave up his thoughts and treated it as a boring farce.When I received a call from Gu Xiaobai today, I suddenly felt a bit of a turn of events.In the next second, life feels better. Gu Xiaobai asked her to have dinner at a nearby Italian restaurant. After entering the restaurant, took a seat, and ordered food, the Bach Cello Sonata played by Chefran played on the surrounding speakers.The woman on the opposite side became bold and looked at him with wide eyes and a smile.On the contrary, Gu Xiaobai was a little shy, he could only smirk endlessly, and he didn't know what he was laughing at. "What do you do?" Mo Xiaomin asked suddenly. "Ah?" Gu Xiaobai didn't react. "Profession." Gu Xiaobai was stunned for a moment, "I'm an advertiser." "advertise?" "Advertisement." Gu Xiaobai took a long breath and nodded firmly.To this question he had a routinely lying answer.Because for ordinary people, whether it is a freelance writer or a scenario script writer, it will give people a feeling of unreliability, because people can easily misunderstand things that they don't understand.But working in an advertising agency feels different. It will give people a sense of being busy and keeping pace with the times.Anyway, Gu Xiaobai also worked in an advertising company before, so it is not a 100% lie. "Advertising creativity," Gu Xiaobai nodded, "is to transform the marketing strategy and advertising positioning from the client into a story or an idea." Marketing strategy, advertising positioning... really professional and handsome words... It's a pity that it's almost ten years away from Gu Xiaobai's life. It was when he had just graduated from university, and he quickly felt that those busy fashion senses were false prosperity.Although he wears the most fashionable attire to go to work every day, the company is also full of the most fashionable psychopaths.But what they are facing is a group of advertisers who can't wait to read the most stupid advertising words 30 times in 30 seconds. He still has something like a dream in his heart. Not sure what that is, but at least not this one. Therefore, Gu Xiaobai resigned resolutely. "Something like our product?" "yes." "Then do you know which company made the advertisements for our products?" Mo Xiaomin asked seriously, "I always think our products are beautifully photographed." "I don't know." Gu Xiaobai replied firmly. Back home, Gu Xiaobai was exhausted physically and mentally.It's been a long time since I dated seriously, especially when I'm facing a girl I really like, it's almost more tiring than last month's work.Pay attention to etiquette in conversation, be humorous, use soldiers to block you, find the right opportunity to take the initiative, and don't always be passive and beaten.With the delicate detours that come up with difficult questions, dating becomes a military exercise. But thinking of Mo Xiaomin's smiling eyes when he left, his mood was complicated and entangled. When I got home, as soon as I opened the door, the room was pitch black. Before I turned on the light, a pungent smell came over my face. Turning on the light, Ah Qian sat on the floor in front of the sofa drinking red wine, and the stove was messy. "Damn it! What are you doing!" Gu Xiaobai stared blankly at her, stunned for a long time, finally came to his senses, and scrambled to tidy up the stove. "Leave it alone," Ah Qian giggled while holding the red wine glass, "I'll come later." "Are you coming? If you come here for a while, the house should be on fire!" Gu Xiaobai wiped and wiped, then ran to the window and opened it to let the wind blow in. It was the smell of something being burnt. Ah Qian has been sitting on the ground beside the sofa, holding a red wine glass in his hand, watching Gu Xiaobai rushing in and out, without saying a word, just giggling. After finally waiting for Gu Xiaobai to clean up—— "You're back!" Ah Qian raised his glass, "Welcome back!" "You just saw it?" Gu Xiaobai walked over and looked at her in disbelief, "Why do you drink so much wine?" "I wanted to eat at first, so I cooked it myself. Because it was burnt, I had to drink." Ah Qian looked at him innocently, Gu Xiaobai looked back at her quietly for a while, then walked over and sat down, and poured himself a glass of wine. "How was your date?" "I'm exhausted..." Gu Xiaobai sighed, "I've been telling her that I work for an advertising company, because I don't want her to think I'm a fool." "Uh...the problem is that you're just a fool." "But I don't want her to think so." Gu Xiaobai looked at her, "But she was very interested, so I had to try my best to recall the things I used to work in the advertising company and the cases I did, so I remembered her. Exhausted, almost throwing up." "Ahahaha," Ah Qian laughed tremblingly, "Does she believe it?" "Well, she looks like a person who is very tired from work and needs to rely on men physically and mentally, haha." "You beast!" Aqian burst out laughing, and Gu Xiaobai laughed too, not knowing why the two suddenly laughed. "Huh?" Ah Qian suddenly turned his head and looked at him straight, "I feel like I've really failed. I failed at work, and at love. At twenty-five, I haven't played a role that anyone remembers. As soon as a man heard that I was an actor," Ah Qian scratched his hair vigorously, "he instinctively wanted to have fun, but he couldn't take it too seriously. You know an actress who is twenty-five years old hasn't played a serious role yet, and still How many years can I hang out?" "So," Gu Xiaobai nodded to himself, "You should tell others that you are a salesperson in a department store." "Hey, are you saying that we have failed too much, or are we too unconfident?" "what?" "That is to say..." Aqian pondered for a while, "Is it subjectively speaking that you are too unconfident, or is it objectively saying that you have failed too much?" "You are very educated, and you know how to be subjective and objective." "go to hell!" Gu Xiaobai laughed again. "Let me tell you this," Gu Xiaobai smiled, "Actually, this is not a question of subjective and objective, it is a chicken-and-egg problem. It is because I don't have self-confidence, so I fail more and more. And more and more The more you fail, the less confident you will be. So it’s such a vicious circle.” "Thank you! Educated people are different, and it feels very different to comfort people!" Ah Qianzhong nodded emphatically, "Let's make an agreement!" "What agreement?" "When no one wants you at forty and no one wants me at forty, how about we live together as a partner?" "Understood! This is the legendary spare tire." "Completely correct." "Totally refuse." Looking at Aqian's blank eyes, Gu Xiaobai explained patiently. "Think about it, I'm a man. A man can still find a girl who is 30 or even 20 years old when he is 40 years old. You can't, you can only find a girl who is 60 years old, and at most 50 years old—— This is called different Taoism, not colluding with each other." "Very good." Ah Qian nodded, took the phone, "I'll call Mo Xiaomin now and tell her that you resigned from the advertising company many years ago, and now you are freelance. " "Damn it!" Gu Xiaobai shuddered all over, and rushed forward to grab the phone with Ah Qian.Both of them drank, and Ah Qian was even more drunk.The two crawled around on the ground, pulling each other.Somehow, I found that the other party was so close to me. It's really... close. And, somehow, without a sound - getting closer. It was so close that Aqian couldn't hear other voices, and she closed her eyes consciously when she was so close. The moment you close your eyes, the person on the other side also closes their eyes. what a long moment... Ah Qian closed her eyes, waiting for that warm thing called a kiss.Wait for the kind of thing that relaxes yourself, even if nothing happens the next day. However…… That moment was too fucking long! Ah Qian opened his eyes, and Gu Xiaobai who was opposite had already opened his eyes some time ago, looking at her motionlessly. "You don't think so..." Gu Xiaobai said. "Is it too miserable?" Aqian took it naturally, and then the two laughed at the same time, rolling on the ground laughing, laughing so that all the atmosphere just now disappeared... 他们又变成两个光屁股的小孩子。 再往后的时间里，两人彻底沦为废柴。顾小白和阿千一个没工作，一个懒得工作，两人一天里大部分时间都窝在沙发上看电视。 顾小白隔三差五地去和莫小闵吃个饭，约个会。两人关系也越来越近，但莫小闵始终不知道顾小白家里有这么个女人。而这个女人，基本上已经荣升为顾小白在异性交友方面的总策划、总参谋和总演戏对象。 每次约完会回来，顾小白都事无巨细地汇报，滴水不漏地坦白，阿千便指东打西，一一分析，摆出莫小闵说这一句话背后的一二三四层意思。让顾小白惊叹，女人实在是太神奇的一样生物了。 和阿千出街的时候，顾小白又轻松又自然。阿千长得美，路人又纷纷拿羡慕的眼光看他。而顾小白工作的时候，阿千便会一边涂着脚指甲，一边把脚搁在顾小白腿上晾干…… 没错，就是这么和谐。 和谐到突然有一天，顾小白心里起了一个可怕的疑问。 那就是……“我要女朋友到底要干吗？” 这天，顾小白再次约了左永邦、罗书全和米琪。在港汇楼下的咖啡店，对他们发出了终极疑问：“自从阿千住在我这里以后，我突然发现，我根本不需要女朋友！女朋友能够提供给我的快乐她都能提供！” “真的么？”罗书全转过头斜眼看着他。 "brute!" 顾小白义正词严地看了他一眼，转过头又激动地说起来。 “我们可以一起玩，一起上街，一起打打闹闹，一起谈天说地。”顾小白掰手指，“我要工作的时候她也不会来打扰我。我们一起上街的时候别人看我的眼光也不会是同情，而是羡慕嫉妒恨。我们俩可以坐在沙发上喝红酒喝到天亮，互相倾诉各自的感情史，然后感慨自己是如此遇人不淑，然后各自回房睡觉。而同时，她又不会因为出于爱情而理直气壮地来霸占我的私人空间、私人时间。她不会来干涉我的社交，不会来窥探我的隐私。没有妒忌，没有愤恨，没有小脾气。一句话，她能给我所有女朋友能够给我的快乐，而没有任何女朋友所带来的负面的东西……” 顾小白一口气说完，缓缓地扫视众人。 “那我为什么还要女朋友呢？请问。” "..." “嗯？请问？请问？请问？” “那你为什么不把她带来一起吃饭呢？”米琪问。 “那她不真成我女朋友了？”不假思索地，顾小白脱口而出。 这句话说完，顾小白自己也突然觉得不太对劲。反应过来后，眨着眼睛惊恐地看着他们，三个人约定好般面无表情地回看着他。 “你小心到最后把阿千变成你的女朋友。”左永邦慢悠悠地说道。 “把莫小闵变成你的红颜知己。” “你们为什么老是要吓我呢……” 到底什么是女朋友？什么是红颜知己？她们之间相差的到底是什么呢？ 总体而言，男人需要的是一个谅解、体谅、懂他的女人。而这点，又确确实实是红颜知己最能办到的…… 那女朋友呢？女朋友只是一个…… 晚上，顾小白一边和莫小闵吃着饭，一边脑子里还在盘这个问题，想到脑枯萎。 “你知道我这两天下了班回家后都在干吗吗？”莫小闵突然问。 “啊？”顾小白回过神，呆呆看着她。 “你知道……我这两天每天下班回家都在干吗？” "What for?" “看电视。”莫小闵深吸了口气，“我以前看电视都看电视剧，但我这两天碰到电视剧就转台，专门找广告看。我发现广告真的还蛮好看的，可惜……”莫小闵看着顾小白的眼睛，微微笑起来。“一直没看到你的作品。” "..." 望着张口结舌的顾小白，莫小闵再度笑起来。 “没关系，我再找找……” “你找不到的……”凝视了莫小闵良久，顾小白终于长长吸了口气，“因为那是好多年前作的，早已经放完了。” "..." “我早已经从广告公司辞职了。”顾小白看着她的眼睛，“现在不是在做广告，是自由撰稿人。这么说是好听的，其实是有上顿没下顿，太穷的时候也会给一些情景剧写剧本。” 顾小白一口气交代完，心里有了一种踏实感。“我不知道你会怎么看我，看我的职业，会对我有什么判断。我不想让你觉得我是个不靠谱的人，所以我本能地骗了你，对不起。” “是这样。”终于，莫小闵慢慢点了点头。 “你现在肯定加倍地觉得我不靠谱吧？”顾小白笑起来。 “恰恰相反。”听了这话，一直在低头凝视着桌上叉子的莫小闵，抬起头来肯定地说。 走出餐厅，顾小白明显觉得莫小闵和他的距离近了，他说不出是为什么。但这是真的，这是怎样的一种靠近呢？顾小白心想。 莫小闵也没有说话，一路默默走着，也不知道在想什么事情。走到路边拦下车，莫小闵转头笑起来。 “那我先回去啦。” 那一瞬间，顾小白很想脱口而出，“你知道吗？现在有个女人住在我家里，那是我的红颜知己。” 但是，他没有说，他没有说出口的瞬间突然明白了友情和爱情的区别。 一种叫做忌讳的东西在他心中模模糊糊地展现开来。 那或许才是最根本的区别。 一个心有忌惮，一个无所顾忌…… 而忌惮是出于在乎，无所顾忌是因为完全无所谓吗？ Not necessarily. 带着这样模模糊糊的心情，他看着莫小闵的出租车越来越远。 回到家，阿千依旧百年不变地在厨房鼓捣，试图喂活自己，看到顾小白回来，连蹦带跳地跑上来。 “怎么样怎么样？” “我觉得可能可以正式开始了。”顾小白说。 “你怎么判断的？” “当然是眼神。”顾小白不可思议地看着她，“一个女人愿不愿意与你交往，眼神就看得出来啊，你教我的啊！” “喔，是吗？”看着顾小白，阿千的眼神突然开始变得邪恶起来，“这样啊，那你看看我愿不愿意和你交往？” "..." 她凝视着顾小白，顾小白也呆呆地回看着她。 不知怎么，心中突然有一种很酸楚的东西，轻声扣动着。 他想，那种酸楚的东西难道叫做幸福感吗？ 大概，或许是的吧。 忽然阿千笑起来，顾小白也笑起来。 “我什么都还没吃呢！”阿千说。 那……肯定是的吧…… “老板……两碗砂锅馄饨。” 深夜的街头路口，一个路边摊旁，顾小白和阿千坐在那里。 “这就叫人同命不同。”阿千叹道，“人家吃意大利大餐，我吃路边摊。” “你懂什么，”顾小白瞪着她，“这个地方我都从来不带别的女人来。” “为什么？老板是你爸？” “是你爸！” 顾小白把阿千面前的馄饨拿过来，指了指不远处的一个楼。 “看到那个楼没有？” 那是一组在夜色中朦朦胧胧看不清轮廓的楼群。 “那是我以前的大学。”顾小白笑起来，“以前每天晚上，回寝室睡觉前，有时候我一个人，有时和我同学都会在这里吃这个砂锅馄饨。怎么也吃不厌，特别好吃。毕业后我就很少来了，没想到还在呢……” “是你编的吧？” “确实是。” “确实是编的，还是确实是真的？” “确实是编的。” "Oh shit." 顾小白看着阿千，心里知道，这些话是真的。而即便是真的，不知为什么，他也不会对莫小闵说这些。 而这些，是心底最深处最留恋的东西。 虽然阿千可能也不知道他想说什么。 他只是想说，想说，想说很多东西。 于是他就这么说，说着以前的事情、经历过的非人遭遇，看着阿千哈哈大笑。看着边上不远处的几张小破桌上，几个或许是他师弟师妹的少男少女在打打闹闹。 他突然明白了一件事情…… “我不知道红颜知己对男人来说意味着什么。 “她可能是了解女人的一个出口，可能是没有恋爱时的玩伴。或者更可能，只是虚拟一种感情的环境，让我们孤单寂寞的心找到一点点安慰。毕竟在这个时代，这个年龄，我们已经很少敢于去认真地付出什么。但不管怎么样，红颜知己，就是让你找到自信、勇气和力量的那个人。如此珍贵的一个人，就不要因为冲动、寂寞或者失落，而让她变成可能的陌生人……” 他怔怔地想着。 “你在想什么？”阿千问。 与此同时，阿千落在顾小白家的手机上显示着一条新的短信。 “对不起，这样伤害了你，我找不到你，你在哪里？” where is she?阿千不会再告诉那个人，因为那个人，已经变成了一个……陌生人。