sunk into the earth

Chapter 10 Watching a Movie

On July [-]th, the first rainstorm in Yuncheng.

Cheng Sheng stayed at home for two days, with a few copies of the 1997 "Software" magazine piled up on the bedside table, a huge amount of 22 yuan for one issue, and a few sheets of paper ran three or four times.

In the [-]s, when the financial system was in full swing, many companies wanted to find a technology to make up an account for themselves, so that the boss would save trouble.Cheng Sheng is also learning this recently, using C language to write a financial system.These days, Chengsheng read these expensive software magazines several times, and he did all the communication questions he brought back.It's a pity that this small place in Yuncheng doesn't even have an Internet cafe, and he can't use a computer if his hands itch, so he condescends to handwrite on paper, writing a few inexplicable codes, and he doesn't know if he can run them when he goes back.

But before his financial system was finished, he was urgently called back to Beijing by a sudden phone call.

The call was from Qin Xiao, and as soon as it was connected, he crackled and fired into the phone, shouting after hundreds of kilometers of travel: "Hurry up and pack up your things and come back, you need an interview!"

Cheng Sheng was at a loss, and only after asking, did he find out that this brat Qin Xiao actually took the initiative to send the demo recorded by his band to a record company that has become famous in the past two years. , specifically signed to rock bands, listening to their demo felt a little bit interesting, and wanted to see the live performance.

Qin Xiao talked with him for a long time, when suddenly a female voice came from the other end of the phone, it was Chang Xin.

"Cheng'er, when are you coming back? The record company is in a rush."

Cheng Ming stated that there was nothing important, but he hesitated for a few seconds for some reason before saying: "The day after tomorrow, I will go back the day after tomorrow."

When he said this, he suddenly thought that the matter between himself and Lao Cheng was not over yet, and reluctantly said to Qin Xiao on the other side: "I can't go back to my house, can I live with you?"

Before Qin Xiao could say anything, Chang Xin couldn't wait: "Live at my house! My parents are dispatched abroad, and there is no one at home."

Qin Xiao on the other end of the phone immediately called Chang Xin, "Girl, please be ashamed!"

"You engage in gender discrimination and confrontation? Can Cheng'er live in your house or mine?"

Cheng Sheng got a headache from hearing this, so he quickly stopped here and begged for mercy: "I'm off to work, I'll call you two after I buy the train ticket."

He hung up the phone, thought for a long time and realized that he had nothing serious to do during this vacation, the only serious business was an accident, the accident was that repairman surnamed Zhang who liked to wear T-shirts and overalls and didn't look good on him.

Cheng Sheng didn't go to Zhang Chen for the past two days, because he was afraid that he would be bored with him, the day was too full, and now it is still like a dream in retrospect.Second, he thought that Zhang Chen had done something unspeakable, and he was afraid that he would blush when he saw him at the moment, so he thought about waiting two days before torturing him.

Cheng Sheng is a person who does everything by finishing his work, and he does what he wants to do. He is completely driven by emotion. Looking back on his previous impulsive behavior, he feels that it was too much. People can be fiery. But it can’t be burned all the time. A little temperature can make people feel scratchy. If it is more ferocious, it will burn people to death.

Thinking of this, Cheng Sheng fell into a kind of confusion again. Should people be burned to death?This is a huge problem.

Different people, for example, a person like him not only cannot burn, but also has to pour some ice water to reduce the fire, while a person like Zhang Chen should add more firewood, and then burn it to get a little warm.

This phone call completely shattered his plans, and Cheng Sheng had to think about it, would he come back when he returned to Beijing?

He and Qin Xiao grew up together, and it would not be a problem to hide from Lao Cheng and live with him for a summer vacation. Besides, there are computers in Beijing, there is a new issue of the magazine, and the band can rehearse as usual.

Is he coming back?come back?Cheng Sheng asked himself, not knowing what to do.

The rain outside was a little lighter, unlike last night's tsunami that would engulf the entire city.Cheng Sheng walked to the window, pressed his face against the window glass, listened to the pattering rain outside for a while, and finally decided to tell Zhang Chen that he was leaving.

He didn't pick the window this time, but walked through the main entrance.

He took a big black umbrella and walked in the rain, from the design institute to the Sangang family courtyard, and walked for more than half an hour. During this half hour, he didn't think about anything. People can't think in their minds, they can only do the simplest things, look at passers-by.

A black umbrella gathered at the entrance of Sangang's family courtyard. This would probably be the scene if the black smoke from the steel mill turned into a solid.

Several middle-aged men in rain ponchos gathered together, smoking the cheapest flue-cured tobacco under the umbrella.

Cheng Sheng walked through them without looking sideways, but unconsciously heard a few words of discussion.

"Let's write a report letter. This is not treating us as human beings at all."

Another voice immediately echoed: "Let's write, how come I don't know that I have been sold to a private boss for so long? Is there any king?"

Cheng Sheng suddenly remembered that the people living in this family hospital were probably Zhang Chen's father's colleagues, so he slowed down a bit, wanting to hear what these people were plotting.

Those people didn't have much thought, and they didn't take this strange boy who passed through them seriously at all, talking about their plans.

"If you want me to say, just strap on a bomb and go to the leader's office to see if he spits out the money, or I will die with that dog."

Everyone next to me immediately laughed when they heard it, and you said what I said, "Which leader? I don't even know who our leader is now!"

"Look for the one surnamed Hu! Otherwise, who are you looking for?"

The person next to him laughed again: "The leader is afraid of you? Only when all the big guys are tied up can you scare that bastard!"

Hearing this, Cheng Sheng thought of the incident grandma had chatted with him a few days ago, that Sangang was laid off, but he didn't understand what these people were going to do, so he walked through them in a fog, and when the voice disappeared completely, he entered When they got out of the corridor, they found that those people were still planning and plotting their grand cause of bombing the leadership.

There was no light in the corridor, it was dark and damp in rainy days, and there were a lot of dustpans and brooms piled up on the steps. Cheng Sheng stepped over these things and went up to the second floor, knocking on the door of Zhang Chen's house.

It was Zhang Licheng who came to open the door. He was wearing a poncho and looked like he was going out urgently. He was a little surprised when he saw Cheng Sheng, and asked him in a rough voice, "Who are you?"

Cheng Sheng was frightened by such an impolite question and the wary expression on the face of the person opposite, pointed to himself and said, "I am Zhang Chen's friend, the grandson of Grandma Li's family in the Design Institute, I have something to do with him."

As soon as Mrs. Li's name came out, Zhang Licheng's expression turned violent, and he immediately grabbed Cheng Sheng's arm enthusiastically, and his tone was a hundred times stronger than before, "You are that one! Cheng... Cheng what is it?"

Before he finished speaking, he stretched his neck and shouted into the living room: "Zhang Chen, your friend is here, don't let people stand at the door all the time, go and get some drinks and snacks."

These words made Cheng Sheng embarrassed, and he continued: "Cheng Sheng, the sound of the voice."

Zhang Licheng didn't seem to want to know which Cheng Sheng was called, but his actions were exaggeratedly intimate, as if he couldn't be more familiar with him, he patted Cheng Sheng on the shoulder and said, "Uncle has something to go out, let's go first." , Zhang Chen and his neighbor are watching DVDs in the living room, you can ask him to do whatever you want."

After finishing speaking, as if he was still thinking about something, he went down the stairs and turned his head three times a step, reluctantly chanting to Cheng Sheng: "My family, Zhang Chen, has a clever mind, please help me more in the future..."

Cheng Sheng hadn't finished listening to this sentence before he was dragged into the room by a person.

Zhang Chen threw a towel on him and said, "Wipe it, your hair is all wet."

Following Zhang Chen came out a boy who was about the same height as him, or a young man was more appropriate, because he looked obviously older than Cheng Sheng and Zhang Chen, with the same big cheekbones and mandibles as Zhang Chen's father. , the cheeks are sunken without any remaining flesh, but they are in good spirits. When they see a stranger coming in, they greet him warmly: "Hi, are you Zhang Chen's friend? I am also his friend, my name is Yang Mingming, and I live opposite him. How come I haven't seen you before?"

Cheng Sheng was wiping his hair with the dry towel thrown over by Zhang Chen, while looking up at Yang Mingming - he was obviously much easier to get along with than Zhang Chen, although he looked more mature than them, but he didn't seem to care much, Cheng Sheng was happy to be with this kind of When getting along with people, he also enthusiastically replied: "I just met for half a month, hey, your name is really easy to remember, like the name in a drama."

Yang Mingming laughed, "It's easy to remember, the most common name, you can't find it among the crowd." > There was a sound of beating and killing from the TV, followed by the song at the end. After throwing the towel to him, he went to get the disc, and he went back and forth without asking why Cheng Sheng wanted him.

Yang Mingming's sharp eyes felt that the atmosphere between the two of them was not right, so he immediately volunteered to take on the important task of adjusting the atmosphere, grabbed Cheng Sheng's shoulders familiarly, and said loudly: "We just watched Young and Dangerous, and this It’s not that the mine finally gave me a day off yesterday, so I hurried back to stay for a day, and I’m leaving tomorrow.”

"In the mine? Are you already at work?"

To be honest, Yang Mingming looked older than the two of them, but he was only a little older. In Cheng Sheng's mind, he was about the age of three or four.

Yang Mingming let out an "ah" and said with a smile, "I left the mine after graduating from junior high school. There's nothing I can do about it. The family conditions are just like that, and I'm not as smart as Zhang Chen, so I can't pass the exam."

Zhang Chen was still squatting in front of the DVD player, picking and choosing from a stack of disc cases in the wooden drawer.This drawer dish was bought by Yang Mingming from a video store by the catty with his own salary.

Yang Mingming walked over and shouted at his back: "Let's watch a romance movie. I just want to tell you something, and I want you to give me some advice."

The three of them had no objection, and picked out the romance movies from a stack of discs and put them aside. Cheng Sheng looked at the pile of old movies, and he had basically watched them all, so he pointed to a disc based on his impression and recommended it to the two of them. : "That rouge button is nice."

People like Zhang Chen and Yang Mingming regard literary and artistic works as a tool to pass the time, and they don't ask what the story of the movie is, whether it is good or not, and just stuff it into the DVD player.

When the movie was broadcast, there was chatter here, but it wasn't about the plot.

Accompanied by the movie scene of Hualou in the old days, Yang Mingming patted Zhang Shen on the shoulder, pointed to Ruhua and Twelve Young Masters on the screen with the other hand and said, "Love at first sight! Just like this movie, when Haiyan went to the mine to find her father , She is such a young girl, actually leaning on a cane! How miraculous, I just took a few more glances, and it's over after a careful look."

Zhang Chen asked: "Haiyan?"

Yang Mingming patted his thigh, "It's the girl I told you about earlier, the one who hurt me by scratching her heart and liver."

Zhang Chen let out an "oh" and asked again: "Blind people? Are you looking for a good-looking family?"

Yang Mingming slapped him, but he was very sincere after the beating: "Isn't love at first sight all about looks? But it's too absolute to say so, it mainly depends on the feeling, the kind of moment when the whole world becomes sticky and sticky." Feelings for the two of you."

After saying this, Cheng Sheng, who was next to Zhang Chen, looked away from the TV, turned his head secretly, and glanced at Zhang Chen.

When he heard this topic, he couldn't help looking at it, and after looking at it for a few seconds, he planned to look away, but it happened that Zhang Chen leaned over to reach the porcelain cup on the coffee table, and when he tilted his head, he met Cheng Sheng and stared into his eyes.

He didn't look carefully at the sound of the process before, he only knew that he was a kid from a rich family, learning things he had never heard before, not young but naive, and doing weird things in direct proportion to his IQ.But after looking at it today, I realized that this person is really handsome, and his temperament is stronger than the people here. Zhang Chen didn't intend to offend the vulgar people in his small town with this, but Cheng Sheng couldn't believe that the theme of their life Zhang Chen couldn't believe that the theme of Cheng Sheng's life was such floating things as rock and computer. The difference between the two was too great.

In the movie, the two protagonists were sticking together. They looked at each other for a long time, but neither of them spoke.

Cheng Sheng knew that he had been discovered again, but he still looked at him stubbornly, but Zhang Chen didn't even look back, just holding the water glass in one hand, and also looking at him.

Looking at his face, Zhang Chen had to admit in his heart that although Cheng Sheng was stubborn, he had an indelible bookish air about him. It was Cheng Sheng who yelled about beating, killing, freedom, rock and roll, and dryness. The temperament that grew up with him.

The two couldn't tell whether they were angry or fighting, so they just stared at each other, and neither of them took the initiative to look back.

Yang Mingming next to him was still talking, "She can dance, like an angel descending to earth, if she was not born blind, she might really be able to go to the song and dance troupe, I will show you next time, if I can't see, I wouldn't bring the girl Seeing you, people look at me and then look at you, I will not run away with you..."

Zhang Chen didn't know what he thought of, so he suddenly smiled lightly, turned his gaze away, and asked Yang Mingming, "What do you want me to think?"

"Teach me to chase girls. Didn't you always please girls since you were young? How can they treat you well? Give me some advice."

Only then did Cheng Sheng come to his senses, and hurriedly looked away, sat up straight, and waited to hear Zhang Chen's wise opinion.

"Men and women are different, I can't help you."

Yang Mingming's eyes were dizzy when he heard this, and he scolded, "You're still hiding it, it's really embarrassing!" He didn't know what to do, and asked Cheng Sheng, a new friend, "What about you? You are so handsome, there must be girls chasing you Let me run? Teach me."

Cheng Sheng coughed, went to get the water glass on the table, took a couple of sips, and found out that it was the glass Zhang Chen just drank from.He swallowed the saliva, and he didn't spit it out. He held it in for a long time before he swallowed cruelly, and then he answered Yang Mingming's words just now: "You can't keep chasing after people, you have to keep a little distance."

Yang Mingming let out an "oh" and asked urgently, "And then what?"

"Then... the distance shouldn't be too big, you have to come here at your leisure, or he will run away with others again. Speed ​​is the most important thing, you have to keep it close, burn him as fire for a while, and let him dry as ice for a while to freeze him."

Yang Mingming gave a "reply", and said truthfully: "Cheng Sheng, you really know a lot! Even here, there are too many ways, it's too difficult! It's really hard to chase people!"

Zhang Chen watched Cheng Sheng talk a lot about chasing people amusedly, but there was no expression on his face. He picked up the cup Cheng Sheng drank just now, and continued to drink without hesitation.

The movie was almost over, and the rouge button that Cheng Sheng picked turned out to be a tragic story, and the three of them were a little bit carried away after seeing it.

Cheng Sheng used to watch it with himself when he was young, but at that time he didn't have any feelings or insights into the relationship between people. Only after rewatching it this time did he feel sad and said involuntarily: "Twelve Young Masters and Cheng Die The clothes are all played by Leslie Cheung, why is one so brave and the other so cowardly."

Yang Mingming took the lead to answer: "Actors are not characters, of course they are different."

Cheng Sheng asked again: "To die with my lover, will you die?"

It was still Yang Mingming who answered quickly: "Death, I must die! If Haiyan can be nice to me, it will be worth my death."

Zhang Chen on the side said, "I don't want to die, what will my parents do if they die?"

Cheng Sheng glanced at him sideways, and swallowed the answer he was going to say.

Not long after the movie finished, Yang Mingming went back to his house at the opposite door. Before leaving, he smiled at Cheng Shengke, his cheekbones were so crowded that they almost flew into the sky, and said to him enthusiastically, "I will come back to play with you when I come back next month's vacation. You are much more interesting than Zhang Chen!"

The iron gate on the opposite side was closed, and Cheng Sheng took the bag he was carrying when he came here. His emotions were dampened by the movie just now, and he said to Zhang Chen, "I'm leaving too."

Zhang Chen nodded and said, "Goodbye."

Cheng Sheng finally couldn't help it this time. He had just watched a tragedy movie, and he couldn't get rid of his emotions. He was sad, angry, and asked loudly, almost angrily: "Why don't you ask others why they do things? I You didn’t ask about the windows of your house, you didn’t ask about the bathhouse, and you didn’t ask about coming to your house today to find you.”

Zhang Chen didn't speak.

Cheng Sheng took a deep breath and said, "Forget it. I'm looking for you today to tell you that I'm going back to Beijing the day after tomorrow. Can you see me off, okay?"

Zhang Chen said, "Okay, I'll see you off the day after tomorrow."

After he finished speaking, he paused for a long time. Seeing that Cheng Sheng didn't answer, he asked uncertainly, "Aren't you coming back again?"

Cheng Sheng was full of grievances and had no place to vent his anger. He got angry and said, "Yes, I will never come back again. There is nothing in this shitty place."