Chapter 21 (twenty one)

"Just the two of us have nothing to do with love." On weekend nights, my boss and I walked around the teaching building with books, but we couldn't find the feeling of wanting to learn, so we went back to the dormitory to look at each other face to face. "Why don't you have nothing to do, isn't it plum blossom three?" The boss blinked and annoyed me. "No, I guess I can only mess with you!" I walked over and grabbed his neck, "Boss, I miss Yang Hong so much that I can't stand it!" "Then what should we do?" The boss stuck out his tongue.

"Think about it for me! I'm going to buy some wine." "Do you want to drink?" "Not drinking, but you?" "Just do it!" The rooftop on the roof of our dormitory is a good place to drink. As soon as the weather gets warmer, the good-for-nothings start to bring some wine and meat to the rooftop in small groups. He drank fiercely, much like the demeanor of the ancestors. There are all sorts of reasons for drinking wine. Some people use alcohol to relieve their worries when they lose their love, some win prizes in competitions to mark their ambitions with wine, some celebrate birthdays with wine for fun, and some see off friends with wine.During the peak season, the rooftops are full of dark people, wine bottles are smashed all night long, cursing the society is corrupt and lamenting the deep brotherhood, college students who are depressed on weekdays will routinely act wild and rogue with the help of alcohol. There were those who cried loudly, and those who rolled happily on the ground, wanting to die and want to become Buddhas and ascend to heaven.If we catch up with the World Cup, our rooftop will definitely become a sub-arena. Everyone will put up all the mats and quilts, set up the TV, set up the banquet, and work all night long with the host country.

The last time we came to have fun on the rooftop was at this time last year, when the boss had just received half of his poverty alleviation and student funds, he asked us to set aside half of it to buy wine and meat, and called the boss his mother when he felt distressed. After getting over the pain, he finally expressed his determination with straight eyes: "With your friends, I really... don't say anything." None of the roommates proposed to come to the rooftop this year, and it’s not that they haven’t thought about it, it’s just that everyone still has a knot in their hearts: “Little one” walked from here that day.

"Damn it! There are so many stars tonight!" There was no one on the roof, and the boss and I also brought the bedrolls and prepared to have a big fight. "It's a bit like the countryside!" Soon the food and drink were set up, the breeze was blowing, the sky was full of stars, the two sat on the ground, and the boss who was good at worrying even brought a trash can to prevent vomiting. "Don't say anything, come on! Let's go!" I raised my wine glass and gestured to the boss, and drank a glass first. "Let's slow down, drinking liquor in a hurry will hurt people." After that, he also leaned his neck to accompany him.

"Little one!" I suddenly yelled towards the sky: "You go too! Ah!" "Xiao Lou, let's not mention him..." "Don't mention it!" I suddenly got angry at the boss for no reason, and the circles of my eyes turned red, "Who of you know him? Don't mention it!" The boss didn't make a sound, but my tears still flowed out.I was so excited that I couldn't say a word, and it took me a long time to control myself. "Boss, you don't know, this kid likes astronomy the most! He knows the names of these stars." "Don't be sad, Xiaolou, everyone is gone."

"I'm not sad!" I wiped my tears vigorously and added wine to the boss, "Really, do you believe that this kid is looking at us in the sky? Maybe that star is him!" "I believe it!" The boss looked at the sky with his wine glass, and choked up, "Can I not believe it?" "It's not that I have a good relationship with him, really, sometimes he is really extreme and likes to offend others, but..." I tried hard to control myself but it didn't work, "He helped me so much, I fucking I don't even know how to be modest! How can I not feel ashamed..."

"Hey, don't be sad, Xiaolou, he must know now." The boss's kind words and persuasion made me even more grief-stricken, and all the sad past piled up. . "I also specially developed some good photos for him... He didn't even see it!" "Xiaolou, he must know everything by now. Can you not know?" The boss's constant comfort finally made me recover. I looked up at the sky for a while before I calmed down. Feeling that I had lost my composure, I got up to drink. "Okay! Don't mention him!" I toasted the boss with a glass, "Come on, boss, you have cleaned our dormitory by yourself for three years in the university. My buddies are clear in their hearts. Come on, let's go!" , but the boss didn't follow, he just looked at me.

"Xiaolou, it's boring to say that, how many times have you invited me to eat and drink, do you want to pay me, don't I know?" "You know what a fart!" I forced him to finish the drink, "Yang Hong and I broke your bed, do you know that?" The boss was finally teased by me to smile, showing his unique smile when he heard "colorful talk". "Boss, you have been unhappy in the past few years in college, haven't you?" "It doesn't matter if we come from the countryside, but you guys are really nice to me, and you don't make me feel like I'm half a head short!"

"That's right, how 'respectful' we are to you! Come on, make one!" After a few glasses of wine and a lot of food, I was already a little tipsy, and I praised the boss for a long time. No matter how you take care of our little ones, no matter how much we suffer, you never get angry with us.Not long after, somehow, the boss started to stare at me with moist eyes. "Xiaolou, remember, you must never bully the children from the countryside. Once they arrive in the city, they will be half a head short without being told!" The boss choked up with his wine glass, "The children in the countryside are really... you can't do it any more!" Bully them!"

"I got it, boss, I got it." I quickly persuaded. "Rural children are suffering, you don't know, Xiaolou. There are really some who dare not eat vegetables in school for a semester... I really dare not eat! Do you know?" The boss pressed his hand firmly to his mouth. I tried my best to hold back my crying, my shoulders shook violently with excitement, and big teardrops fell from my eye sockets.I hurried forward to support him, this time it was my turn to comfort the sobbing boss. "I see, Boss, let's not be sad. Besides, didn't we eat the food? We even hooked up with a cooking sister"

"What about hooking up with Sister Cook, that's all forced tricks, do you know that?" The boss cried and laughed angrily at me. "Whether you force it or not, it's hooking up anyway!" "You don't understand, Xiaolou, it's not easy for rural children, you don't understand." The boss finally calmed down and stared at the food and drink in a daze, so I poured the wine again: "There are also good children in the countryside. Look at how awesome your childhood is. You started playing and getting married at the age of seven or eight!" The boss laughed silly with tears on his face: "That's true, running in the wild all day is much more fun than you." "Come on, tell me some more fun after finishing this drink. My idiot childhood didn't have as much fun as yours." "I've said it so many times, I still haven't heard enough!" The boss drank his drink and asked me with a smile. "I haven't heard enough! Really! Come on, tell me again how you put a stick in the ass of a donkey, and it hurts so much that it can run faster than a horse! Tell me again that time to catch a snake, come on!" "Stop talking, I've said it all." "Come on, boss, let me feel it again. We were so miserable when we were young! There are no such good things." "Okay, then let me tell you something else. Tell you about our college entrance examination that year. No! You have to have a drink first." I quickly drank a glass, put down the glass, and waited with my neck stiff like a pig ready to be chopped. The boss also took a sip of his wine, looked at me drunkenly, and then stared blankly at the distance for a while. "The year I was admitted to school, there was more rain in our village than in previous years. The crops at home were all flooded overnight. The whole family was worried and helpless. Our old man refused to tell me. You said that the place is too big for me Could it be that you don’t know. It made me feel uncomfortable, so I thought that if I didn’t pass the exam this time, I would just die. I survived like this for half a year, and finally made it to the day before the college entrance examination. It was past midnight, and suddenly ghosts and wolves were howling in the village. Said to run quickly, there was a flood. The old father grabbed a few steamed buns and took us up and ran. As soon as he followed the crowd to the head of the village, all the houses in the village were washed away. After a while, the road was also destroyed. The rush is gone, and the whole village is full of ocean! I squatted on the ground and cried. I thought I was done. I didn’t bring out the admission ticket. I couldn’t rush to the village for the exam. This time I will be a farmer for the rest of my life. There are still people in the village. The two college entrance examination candidates also cried anxiously. Just like that, they were sleepy until dawn. When they saw two boats rowing towards them, everyone thought they were rescuers, so they all ran over to see them. He shouted at us, "Are there any college entrance examination candidates, are there any college entrance examination candidates?" Oh! That guy! The whole village, men, women and children were all overjoyed! They all helped us shout "Yes! Yes!" When boarding the boat, The villagers even stuffed us with the few eggs and dry food they brought out. The boat sailed far away, and those villagers who lost their homes were still looking at us from the top of the hill. That’s how I took the exam that year. That year, the village only tested me!" The boss's excited narration brought tears to my eyes again, and I woke up from the wine. It took me a long time to calm down, and the boss slowly recovered. "Isn't it okay for your teacher there? You can't take care of the third year of high school." I asked. "There are no serious teachers in the countryside. At most, they are technical secondary school students, and they often run away as soon as they say it. Now it seems that there is not even a single English teacher!" "Then you should go back and teach for two years." "That's for sure. Anyway, that's what I think. I have to bring two college students to our village before doing anything else." "Okay, if I can't find a job, I'll work with you for a year too. Accumulate some virtue, so that you can be reborn in the next life!" "Stop talking, brother, I don't know you yet." The boss patted me happily: "Really, don't think I dare!" I woke up several times that night for no apparent reason.Looking at the stars in the sky, I think the little one must be making trouble on purpose.As day breaks, I finally fall asleep and start dreaming that I'm in the shower.While washing, he was suddenly woken up by the boss: "Xiaolou, Xiaolou, run! It's raining!"