dhibooks Chapter 18 5-3
Chapter 18 5-3
"Don't you go to the DVD room? Why are you in an Internet cafe? The computer screen is so small, how can there be enough for so many people to watch?"
On the other end of the phone is Lu Xiaohua.
Du Siren was puzzled, "I don't know either. Ni wanted to tell me that Xu Wenjing wanted to go to the Internet cafe, so let us go too. Xu Keng sent the CD."
There were two days left before the submission of casting intentions for the graduation drama, and Xu Wenjing took back the CDs given by the teacher from the boys.
It was half past 8:[-] p.m., and the pedestrian street at the side entrance of Jinyi was bustling. Du Siren walked past several supper shops. The round tables on the street were covered with plastic tablecloths, and a set of plastic-sealed dishes was arranged.The Internet cafe is located in a certain alley on the street, and it is very shaded. There is only a floor-to-ceiling light box on the road, with a big "Internet" written on it.
Looking in at the door, the air inside is turbid, too many people smoke, and the smoke and the dim red and blue lights are almost condensed together.
Du Siren walked past the light box. The sleeves of the sweater she was wearing were too long, so she tucked her hands in the sleeves, holding a set of "Young and Dangerous" DVD, and walked towards the high-quality audio and video.
A knock gave the dish to Lu Xiaohua, and Lu Xiaohua gave the dish to her in turn.
It was kept in her bag all night, and it should have been taken out to Lin Zhique at home long ago.
The rain that had been raining for a long time had stopped for most of the day, and there were only shallow puddles left of the accumulated water on the ground. The air was cool and fresh, and she was so brisk that she almost trotted all the way, even the wind was light.
There are not too many groups of customers in the video store, the cash register is empty, there are customers calling the boss at the drink window, and Director Li reluctantly comes out from behind the record rack with his slippers on, and he has a toothpick in his mouth. , saw Du Siren standing at the entrance, squeezed out a greeting from between his teeth: "Oh, student Du."
He drooped his eyelids, listened to the customer's order, and started shaking the milk tea without saying a word.Dusi looked around and asked, "Are you alone?"
Director Li looked at her listlessly, "Aren't so many people human?" He was referring to the students wandering around in the store. "Return the disc?" He saw the set of "Young and Dangerous" she was holding.
"...No. I'm going to the Internet cafe. I'm passing by. I'll stop by." She stuffed the set of DVDs into her bag again.
"Internet cafe? The one nearby? Doesn't your school have a computer room where you can go?" Director Li roughly stuffed the milk tea into the sealing machine.
"The location of the computer room is too difficult to grab, and there are teachers patrolling." No games are allowed, and movies are not allowed, so the top students go to the school's computer room.
The Duce wandered around among the record racks a few times.
"Now your younger brothers and younger sisters all bring laptops to school?"
"Well, someone in our class also bought it."
Director Li snorted coldly, as if sighing something.
Du Siren finally asked: "...Where is Lin Zhique? Is she not there?"
"Are you looking for someone? Then you didn't say it earlier. She and Lu Shan went out for dinner."
Director Li slipped on his slippers and walked to the end of the record rack to take a sneak break, only his voice remained to talk to her.
"No, I just asked because she wasn't here." Du Si leaned against the cash register, "Are you friends with Lu Shan? How is she doing recently?"
Director Li replied perfunctorily, "I guess we know each other."
The door of the store was pushed open, and a young man walked in.He happened to look at Du Siren, and then smiled at her.
This man is not like a student, he is obviously more mature and refined, wearing a woolen casual suit, fair skin, delicate appearance, slender and tall, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.Dusi people thought he looked familiar.
He walked a few steps into the store and raised his voice slightly: "Lao Li."
There was a rustling at the back of the shop.
Director Li quickly walked out from behind the record rack.
He laughed and cursed a few swear words head-on, and then the two disappeared behind the record rack with their shoulders together, their voices gradually lowered, and they were completely lost in Karen Mok, who was playing on the store's stereo.
Karen Mok is singing: "I really love you, love you, you still have to go. ImissyouImissyouImissyoubabyeverydayImissyou..."
Lin Zhique's small satchel was casually thrown on the cashier's table. Dusi saw it, went in and put the bag in the drawer. The bag was made of leather and the workmanship was very fine. It seemed to be a famous brand. Zhi Que said it was a high-quality imitation bought at a street stall for 50 yuan.
There is a DVD under the bag, which is the TV series "I Have a Date with Spring".The rental card was placed on the DVD, and it read "March 2005, 3, Lin Zhique" in beautiful handwriting.
Her fingertips across this line of characters, Lin Zhique's strokes are upward, all the strokes are upward, her mood is also strangely upward, it is so strange, she raised her head, afraid that someone would see her same mood.
She put the bag away, tidied up all the things on the cash register, put the pen back into the pen holder, and piled up the returned disc boxes that hadn't been sorted out. She picked up the rental card several times and took a look. , and put it away solemnly.Ni Xiang called to urge her, so she left the video store and trotted all the way to the Internet cafe.
The Internet cafe is full of smog, and as soon as you enter the door, it is like falling into a psychedelic place, noisier than a nightclub.The noise in nightclubs is music, but the noise here is chaotic, with keyboards, mice and human voices, as well as the background sound of games or movies.The front desk took her ID card and registered it carefully-it was a silly photo on it-and then charged her, 5 yuan an hour, 20 yuan for a wallet night.
She approached the clerk at the front desk and said loudly, "I'm here to find someone, can I turn it off?"
The clerk shook his head: "You can't enter without turning it on."
"Ok."
She took out 5 yuan, got the boarding card, and walked to the more smoky back room, passing through row after row of sloppy young men. Occasionally, a few looked up to see her, and then frolicked and exchanged frivolity with the people around her. eyes.
She walked to the innermost box area, said it was a box, but in fact she just pulled a few translucent curtains to separate a few computers. There are five or six boxes like this, and they are lined up next to the wall in the deepest part of the Internet cafe.She passed one of them and saw a familiar face, wearing headphones, quickly operating the mouse and keyboard expressionlessly.
It's Zhao Qian.
No wonder Xu Wenjing insisted on coming to the Internet cafe.
Xu Wenjing and his group were in the box next to Zhao Qian, with a total of five computers, including Du Siren and six girls.The one at the front desk for Du Siren was not here, but she didn't come to surf the Internet, so she found a stool, shook off the melon seeds on it, and sat next to Xu Wenjing.
Ni wanted to ask her, "Where is Lu Xiaohua?"
Du Siren looked at his phone, but there was no audio.So he shook his head: "It should be on the way."
Xu Wenjing said happily: "Then don't wait for her, let's start first, before it's too late, the school will have a curfew."
They gathered together next to the same computer, Xu Wenjing inserted the CD into the computer's optical drive, Ni Xiang turned to the few boys in the hall who were only one aisle away from them, "Hey, classmate, can you keep your voice down? The game is too loud."
They glanced over impatiently and maliciously, and turned down the volume a bit as if pretending.
Ni Xiang complained: "Why don't they wear headphones? It's really immoral." She grabbed the mouse and clicked on the screen, "Then let's turn up the volume."
Du Siren suggested: "Lu Xiaohua's house has a laptop. If she doesn't want to take it out to read, we can find a quieter place, such as a teahouse."
Another female classmate flatly rebuffed: "Who goes to an old-fashioned place like a teahouse?"
They don't really want to watch the DVD, they want to feel the atmosphere of the Internet cafe more.The Internet cafe was newly opened last year. Jinyi is located on the edge of the city, and the entertainment shops around it are always a bit behind the city. Although the decoration is simple and the machines are all second-hand, the students flock to it, and the video room on the street is more and more popular. Business is deserted.
Xu Wenjing clicked on the CD-ROM drive displayed on the desktop, the screen flickered a few times, the player popped up, and after a few seconds of loading, the screen began to play.
The picture is of a man and a woman.
This does not seem to be the official photo of the stage play that the teacher lent them.
They looked at each other suspiciously.
Then, the picture on the screen began to develop in an uncontrollable direction, and some unbearable voices of Yingyan came out from the speakers, and they were dumbfounded. Turning down their respective volumes and looking over, the voice became clearer in this not-so-loud and very crowded Internet cafe. A boy whistled at them, and Xu Wenjing flicked the mouse to turn off the player.
She was so scared that her forehead was sweating.
Du Siren had never seen such a video before, and was in a panic for a while. There seemed to be dozens of hundreds of eyes watching them intentionally or unintentionally in the Internet cafe. Zhao Qian in the next room had taken off his earphones behind the transparent curtain, He looked at them suspiciously.
Ni Xiang was in a hurry: "This is what Xu Keng and the others changed? You bastard!" She turned her head and scolded the group of boys outside: "What are you looking at?"
Xu Wenjing blushed, and took out the CD from the CD drive with trembling hands.
At this moment, Lu Xiaohua came over from the other end of the hall.The weather hadn't fully turned warm yet, and she was impatient to put on the skirt, her long hair was braided, and she was dressed brightly and pleasantly.She waved to them from a distance. The men were distracted at the moment, and some almost kept their eyes on Lu Xiaohua without hesitation. Whistles and laughter kept coming and going. People from Dusi heard someone saying obscenely: "Oh , this beauty is on time."
She caught sight of Zhao Qian standing up.
She quickly helped Xu Wenjing put the CD back into the box and covered it, then stuffed the water bottles and small bags of the girls on the table into their respective arms, stood up, and said, "Let's go." She strode towards Lu Xiaohua One day, a boy raised his head when she passed by, almost touching her waist, and said to her maliciously, "Leave so early?"
Xu Wenjing and his group followed behind her, and Lu Xiaohua went in without knowing it, and asked her, "Where are you going?" She took Lu Xiaohua's arm, ignored her nonchalant question, and strode out.