dhibooks Chapter 11 3-5
Chapter 11 3-5
The girl with smoky makeup has been sitting in the shop all afternoon.She sat in front of the audition counter, wearing earphones, tight leather pants and rivet boots, and watched the passing guests draw a lottery with indifference.The lottery machine was found by Lin Zhique from the small and dark warehouse. After shaking it a few times, a colorful bead will fall out. There are 6 colors. The prize for the white bead is a 5 yuan discount coupon. Red, you can get two concert tickets.
Human beings are naturally keen on gambling, but all customers who are willing to pay the bill are eager to try the lucky draw, and even if they only buy goods that cost a few tens of dollars, they can barely make up a hundred dollars.There are also many people who criticize and question, Lin Zhique is invulnerable, like a Buddha, he will not get any benefits from being messed around.There were no big-name singers for this concert, and after a month of ticketing, there were still a large number of seats that could not be sold. After the lottery was held, more people bought tickets with inquiries.Lin Zhique agreed with Director Li that she would find a way to sell the tickets, and she would share [-]% of the ticket profits, which would be settled on the same day.
Director Li didn't know where he wandered off, so he left her alone to look around the shop for a long time.
The girl with rivet boots stared silently at the exit of the lottery machine, watching every rolling bead, and just sat there all afternoon.Occasionally, Lin Zhique turned his head, and the two of them looked at each other, both of them looked indifferent, and there was an inexplicable sense of harmony in the atmosphere.
It was approaching 9 o'clock, and Director Li didn't come back. Lin Zhique settled the accounts for the whole day and counted 228 yuan in the cash register, which was her share of the ticket sales for the day.She looked up at the girl with rivet boots, and finally said the first sentence between them in the whole half day: "The store is going to close."
The girl stood up from the high stool.
She took out the CD that she had listened to all afternoon from the CD player for trial listening, took another CD from the container, and walked to the cashier: "Checkout."
The first is "Parachutes" by Coldplay, and the other is "Fly Like a Leaf" by Ruin.
"110 dollars."
The girl's jacket had many pockets, and she fumbled around to find some crumpled bills, which she placed one by one on the cash register.She lowered her eyes and looked at the lottery machine, "I can draw a prize once."
Lin Zhique nodded: "Well, please."
The girl's fingers unconsciously picked at a crack on the cash register, hesitated for a moment, and finally reached out and shook the handle of the lottery machine violently.She only shook it once, but with unusual force.
The lottery machine spun, and after a few turns, it wobbled and gradually stopped. The two of them stared at the exit together, and then, a small white bead fell out bumpingly.
The girl shrugged: "I knew it. I can only draw the lottery."
Lin Zhique corrected her: "This is not worshiping the gods, there is no lottery. This is the last prize."
"Really? I won the lottery? Is there any ceremony?"
Lin Zhique said straightly: "Congratulations, you have won the lottery. The prize is a 5 yuan voucher."
The girl laughed self-deprecatingly, "What can I use? Can I pay for my life?" She shrugged again, "Forget it." Then she turned and walked out.Lin Zhique watched her back. It was already past 9 o'clock. A student couple wanted to enter the store. She said, sorry, it's closed.She turned off the lights in the store, locked the cash register and the glass door, and pulled down the shutters.
She took out the small piece of paper written by the Dusi people from the pocket of the coat, and there was a bus transfer route under the address.
On the empty bus stop, she met the girl with rivet boots again, who was wearing earphones and turned her head to give her just one look.Then they took the same bus, got off at the same stop, and walked towards the same feasting street one after the other.
When passing by Sakura Bar, Lin Zhique hesitated for half a second, the girl with rivet boots was getting further and further away in her sight, she stopped watching, turned and walked into the shop.
On Sunday night, the business in the store was very good, she found a seat in the corner of the bar, and immediately saw Chen Yiran who was mixing drinks on the other side of the bar.There is a handwritten menu that has been used and damaged, mostly cocktails, and the price is really affordable compared to 2019.There is only one side of the menu. Lin Zhique turned it over and found a few lines of words scrawled on the back:
The dream was broken into pieces by the alarm clock
spell someone's name, someone's eye
shredder eats a love song
spit out a moment
Lin Zhique sang in his heart.
Chen Yiran turned around and saw her, came over and asked, "Hi, what would you like to drink?" Seeing her reading the words on the back of the menu, he smiled shyly, and stretched out his hand to help her flip the menu back.
"A glass of Vodka Martini. Did you write this?" Lin Zhique asked knowingly.
She has heard this song. In 2007, Chen Yiran won No.3 in that draft because of this song.
Chen Yiran lowered his eyes, "Just writing casually." He unscrewed a bottle of gin.
"Very well written. Is it lyrics? Poetry?"
"It's the lyrics." Chen Yiran looked up at her, "Have you been here?"
"Last time, I came with the people from Dusi."
He nodded, remembering.He pushed the cocktail in front of Lin Zhique: "I remember. Then this cup is my treat."
Lin Zhique thought to himself, the innocent boy is really easy to deceive.She was happy to enjoy the honor of Dusi people and drink a few free glasses of wine.
She deliberately asked him again: "What's the name of this song?"
Chen Yiran hesitated, "I haven't made up my mind yet."
"I know."
Lin Zhique took an order pen from the bar counter, and wrote the words "seeing things and thinking about people" on the back of the menu.
Chen Yiran blushed.He hurriedly took the menu from Lin Zhique's hand, and said, "I'll think about it again." He turned around and pretended to entertain other guests.Lin Zhique's evil intentions succeeded, and she snatched another free cocktail. She drank the wine calmly, then got up, and was ready to go to the appointment of Du Siren, so she knocked on the table and said to Chen Yiran: "I'm leaving , thank you for the wine." He nodded and smiled shyly at her.
Lin Zhique walked out of Sakura.She has never heard of any scandals between Chen Yiran and Du Siren. Presumably, the two graduated from the same school and later signed contracts with the same company. Chen Yiran's debut song was actually written for Du Siren. Song.
With alcohol on her mind, she thought heartlessly, the goddamn 2005 is here, it's like watching a show, and if you can watch one more show, it's just one show.
The nightlife on Jinqiao Street was lively and there was a long queue at the entrance of Luxi Bar. A young man seemed to be waiting for her. She gave the names of Lu Xiaohua and Du Siren, and led her straight in.He introduced himself by saying that his name is Akko. They took the elevator to the second floor. There are so many people, even in the aisle, they almost walk close to each other.The other party took her to a booth in the corner of the hall, Lu Xiaohua waved to her, but Du Siren was nowhere to be seen.
This is her first nightclub after graduating from college.
There was a whole row of different kinds of wine on the table, as well as fruit plates and snacks. Lu Xiaohua was cracking melon seeds, talking loudly to her while cracking, but she couldn't hear clearly, so she nodded her head indiscriminately pretending to hear.Ah Keng sat beside Lu Xiaohua, looked around, and handed a piece of fruit to Lu Xiaohua to eat from time to time.
He glanced at his watch and said loudly, "It's almost time."
Lin Zhique didn't know how many cups he drank.A noisy dance song ended, and there was a noisy human voice in the venue for a second, and then it was covered by a new song, which was a soft and lazy slow rock.The crowd on the dance floor dispersed a bit, Lu Xiaohua stretched her neck to look around, and suddenly raised her arms and shouted: "Here we come!"
Lin Zhique turned her head and saw Du Siren dancing on the high platform in the middle of the dance floor. Her body stretched beautifully, and every movement was properly stuck in the lazy rhythm.
The blue butterflies scattered all over the dance floor flew towards her and gathered into a beam of light chasing her.
There are two dancers on a narrow raised platform, one with his back to them, standing on the other side.Lu Xiaohua got up to pull Lin Zhique, and shouted in her ear, "We're going to dance too." They squeezed through the crowd to the center of the dance floor, and Lin Zhique stood at the foot of the beam of light. The movements became random, sometimes just shaking with the rhythm, but it was still very beautiful.Dusi looked down at her, tilted her head and smiled at her between movements, and then she jumped off the stage and joined the chaotic dance on the dance floor.Lin Zhique has no talent in dancing, and he twisted very stiffly. Because he drank a few more glasses of wine, he tried to dance with the Dusi people, and the Dusi people laughed, and the laughter was drowned in the music. In the voice, only her shining eyes and the back molars that were exposed when she laughed were left.A man tried to cuddle Lu Xiaohua's waist and kiss her, but Ah Keng squeezed in, reached out and snatched Lu Xiaohua away.
Lin Zhique frantically flicked her hands, her upper body and lower body did not move at the same frequency, she began to shout loudly, first she scolded Yao Xu, then she scolded Blind Date, and finally flapped her wings and shouted: "Fuck you! 〇[-]!"
The Dancer on the other side of the stage seemed to hear it. Turning her face, she saw clearly that it was the girl with studded boots who had been sitting in the store all afternoon.
Du Siren gently pushed her beside her and led her away from the dance floor.Like a hooligan, she tugged at Dusi's collar and yelled to her, "You dance beautifully!"
The purple and blue lights flickered back and forth, flashing and flashing.
The next second, she woke up, and found herself standing on the side of the street, with the cold wind blowing directly on her head, and Dusi was holding her coat, as if to prevent her from collapsing to the ground like a puddle of mud.
She felt nauseous, and let Dusi people carry her.
The people from Dusi were reaching out to hail taxis, and several taxis passed by in a row, all of which were full of passengers.
The girl with the studded boots in her pocket walked behind them.
The Dusi people called her: "Lu Shan. Where do you live? If you drop by, let's go together."
Lin Zhique looked at Lu Shan, and for some reason, she repeated, "Let's go together."
Lu Shan waved her hand and walked away along the road.
Du Siren turned around, looked at the passing vehicles, then at Lin Zhique, and asked her, "Are you cold?" Then, like taking care of a fool, he helped her put on the coat and hat.