Chapter 1 Past Life
“I heard you were a writer?”
“Yes.”
“I heard you were a gangster when you were in school?”
"Yes."
"Then how did you change from a gangster to a writer?"
In a French Western restaurant, romantic and soothing jazz music was playing melodiously. Through the window of the Western restaurant, you could see the swaying music. sycamore trees, and pedestrians walking hurriedly under the neon lights at night.
Since Cheng Xing sat down, this has been the seventh question asked by the woman opposite.
If it weren’t for the pretty face of the woman opposite, Cheng Xing would have already stood up and left.
“Can you ask me any other questions?” Cheng Xing asked.
The woman shook her head and said, "I'm curious about this question."
"I'm sorry, I can't answer this question." Cheng Xing said.
Hearing this, the woman suppressed the smile on her face, then flipped her long hair around her ears, and said lightly: "It is painful to have a baby, and I don't want to have a baby."
"That's why I don't want to get married. This blind date was forced by my parents." She added.
Cheng Xing smiled and said, "I don't want to get married either. This time I was forced by my parents."
"That's good." She breathed a sigh of relief.
The two of them were speechless, and the atmosphere was somewhat silent.
The two of them suddenly raised their hands and looked at the watches on their wrists at the same time, and then said almost in unison: "It's getting late, I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."
The two were stunned for a moment, and then they both smiled at each other.
"I'll treat you to this meal." the woman said.
"Okay, let's go on a blind date. There's no point in asking the woman to pay the bill." Cheng Xing motioned for the waiter to come over and pay the bill first.
The woman glanced at Cheng Xing, then smiled and said: "Actually, whether we are getting married or not, it is okay to leave each other's contact information and become friends."
Cheng Xing stood up and waved his hand. He smiled and said, "No, I really have something to do. Several high school classmates have organized a dinner party, and I have to go over there."
After saying that, Cheng Xing stood up and left.
Looking at Cheng Xing’s leaving figure, the woman was stunned.
After walking out of the Western restaurant, Cheng Xing stretched and called Zhou Yuan.
"Hey, Zhou Yuan, have you started there?" Cheng Xing asked.
"Everyone has just arrived. What, you want to come over, great writer? Aren't you going on a blind date tonight? I heard Aunt Chen say that the blind date introduced to you tonight is very good. He must have good looks. You have to have a good family background," Zhou Yuan said with a smile.
“It’s over.” Cheng Xing said.
“Ah, so fast?” Zhou Yuan said in surprise.
"It's just a blind date, how long can it take? Come on, Zhou Yuan, send me the address on WeChat, I'll go there now." After Cheng Xing finished speaking, he hung up the phone.
Not long after, Zhou Yuanfa’s location sharing appeared on WeChat, and Cheng Xing took a taxi and rushed over.
"The great writer is here, sit down quickly." After seeing Cheng Xing push the door in, Zhou Yuan stood up and greeted him with a smile.
It was not just them who got up, but also other people at the wine table.
There were more than a dozen men and women in total. Cheng Xing looked at them and found that some of them were unknown to them, but some of them were still familiar to them. They were basically classmates in high school.
Cheng Xing sat down next to Zhou Yuan.
Facing this classmate who is doing well now and has become a writer, many people came over to greet and toast.
After greeting each other, Cheng Xing picked up the cup and drank with them.
Then everyone started to drink together.
We are already thirty years old, and it’s a class reunion, so we must be talking about things from our school days.
And there are endless stories about youth.
So, the more we chatted, the more wine we drank.
The more we chat, the more stories there are.
"Writer Cheng, do you still remember me?" After three rounds of drinking, a woman wearing a pink dress and bright lipstick came over with a wine glass. She leaned on Cheng Xing's On the seat, he bent down and asked with a smile.
In her V-shaped dress with a wide open upper body, Cheng Xing saw a hint of white.
He glanced at it, then looked away, raised the wine in the glass, and said with a smile: "Wang Yan."
"Giggle, you still remember." She poured out the red wine in the glass. After finishing the drink, she smiled charmingly and said, "But the fact that you remember me is probably because I had a very good relationship with Chen Qing and she was inseparable."
She smiled and said, "Writer Cheng, You chased Chen Qing so passionately back then. You chased her for six years from junior high school to high school. But it's a pity that Chen Qing had no vision and missed you."
"You can't say that. In fact, Chen Qing is doing well now. Cheng Xing and Chen Qing didn't get together back then. It can only be said that they were destined to be together." A man wearing glasses suddenly said .
"Actually, as early as high school, I knew that Cheng Xing and Chen Qing could not get along." A woman named Zhao Jing suddenly said: "In the second half of the third year of high school, Wasn't the love affair between Cheng Xing and Chen Qing widely spread in the school? I secretly asked Chen Qing if she and Cheng Xing were in love. Who knew that Chen Qing said at that time that Cheng Xing was just a lover? He’s just a gangster. Who would like him? At that time, I felt that they couldn’t get together.”
Everyone was a little surprised and sighed when they heard this. When they were in school, they all thought that Cheng Xing and Chen Qing were already a couple. After all, Cheng Xing was the closest boy to Chen Qing in the school at that time.
“I didn’t expect such a thing to happen in the meantime. Really, I had such a good relationship with her at the time, but she didn’t even tell me. At that time, I really thought she was with Cheng Xing. Yes." Wang Yan smiled.
"Okay, it's all in the past, let's drink and drink." Zhou Yuan suddenly said.
Everyone knew that Cheng Xing chased Chen Qing in high school. Zhou Yuan was afraid that these people would bring up Chen Qing and make Cheng Xing uncomfortable remembering the past, so he brought up his wine glass to smooth things over.
What Zhou Yuan didn’t know was that even if he heard this name again after so many years, Cheng Xing’s heart would no longer be disturbed. In fact, at the anniversary of Ancheng No. 1 Middle School a few years ago, Cheng Xing also met her.
Beauty remains.
On that school anniversary, the person who left the deepest impression on Cheng Xing was not her, but another girl in their class.
“I have seen a saying on the Internet before. When everyone is a student, they will meet someone who will amaze you throughout their youth. If we also had this person when we were students in high school, who do you think it would be? ?" Deng Kai, who was sitting next to Zhou Yuan, suddenly asked with a smile.
“I think it’s Chen Qing.”
“No, I think it’s Li Yan from the next class.”
"I think it's Li Zi, a sophomore in high school."
"I mentioned one, and no one had any objections." Someone suddenly said.
“Who?” everyone asked.
"Jiang Luxi." He said.
Everyone fell silent.
"She is indeed." Zhou Yuan sighed.
“If I use the word stunning, then she is really the only one. Whether it is Chen Qing or Li Yan, we can all have some intersection with them, and we can usually talk to them. Just kidding. But Jiang Luxi, I haven’t said a word to her in my entire senior year of high school.”
“If there is someone in our class who I haven’t said a few words to, I should have forgotten about it in the past so many years, but only Jiang Luxi has this ability to make people who have met her, in this life It's hard to forget her again," said Sun Li, who was sitting opposite Zhou Yuan.
"Sun Li, you are married, so you are not afraid that your wife will know this." Zhou Yuan said with a smile.
"Tell the truth, besides, she is not here." Sun Li said with a smile: "Don't pretend, kid. When she asked you to collect your homework, you were so blushing that you didn't even dare to raise your head. Lift up.”
"It's just a pity that such a good person became a monk and became a Buddhist. He also said that he would never get married in this life, but that he would become a layman and devote himself to studying Buddhism." A female classmate named Li Li sighed. road.
"What? Jiang Luxi became a monk?" Deng Kai said in surprise.
This news was too explosive for Deng Kai.
"Huh? You don't know yet. This news spread last year. Last summer, around this time, Jiang Luxi announced her conversion to Buddhism, led her to practice at home, and became a female lay Buddhist." Zhou Yuandao.
“Real or fake?” Deng Kai touched his head, still a little unbelievable.
"Really, what a 2G network you have, the fact that she became a monk last year was on Douyin's hot search." Zhou Yuandao.
“I’ve heard that she believes in Buddhism before, but I didn’t expect that she would actually become a monk!” Deng Kai said.
“We were also shocked when we first found out about it. She was on the rise of her career last year, and Schenley’s female boss was training her as an heir. She would take care of her in almost every activity she participated in. With that, who knows she will announce her resignation from Shenli and then become a monk," Li Li said.
"If she had not resigned from Shenli, or had chosen to become a monk, she might have become the most famous person coming out of our Ancheng before long." Wang Yan said with envy.
“Yes, it takes so much perseverance to step down from the top at this time and announce that you are resigning from Shenli to become a monk, and how much fame and wealth you have to give up! She takes these so lightly. ." Deng Kai exclaimed.
"It's just a shame not to get married." Someone said.
The matter of Jiang Luxi becoming a monk, even if discussed again, has aroused many sighs and regrets. Such a girl who had amazed their entire youth was destined to become a monk.
How can this not make them feel sorry?
"So after all, she is not from the same world as us. But Cheng Xing, didn't you go to the last school celebration of No. 1 Middle School? I heard that Jiang Luxi also went, have you talked to her? Come on. We haven't seen her since she graduated from high school." Sun Li asked.
"No." Cheng Xing shook his head.
At the No. 1 Middle School celebration three years ago, No. 1 Middle School invited many famous people from the school. Among the five people invited in their class, there were Cheng Xing and Jiang Luxi from their class alone. With Chen Qing.
Seeing Chen Qing again can no longer cause any trouble to Cheng Xing.
Seeing Jiang Luxi again brought back many memories in Cheng Xing.
Cheng Xing's family background was not bad when he was a student. On the contrary, it was above average in Ancheng. However, in 17 years, something happened to their family.
The house leaked and it rained all night.
The following year, Cheng Xing's mother was admitted to the hospital because of many days of hard work.
At that time, his family was in urgent need of money for surgery. Cheng Xing borrowed money from many people but could not raise the last 100,000 yuan. Those friends who had played well with him had already lost money when something happened to his family. He was already hiding far away, so how could he be willing to lend him money?
Since his friends were not good enough, Cheng Xing had no choice but to look for his classmates. Among those who did well in high school, except Zhou Yuan who lent him more than 20,000 yuan he had saved after working for two years, The other classmates refused to lend him money.
Including Chen Qing.
Cheng Xing still had contact with Chen Qing when she was in college, but not after graduation.
When Cheng Xing asked Chen Qing to borrow money, Chen Qing said that 100,000 yuan was too much, and he could borrow 10,000 yuan or 20,000 yuan. That was their last conversation for several years.
Then it was the school anniversary three years ago.
Chen Qing took the initiative to come over and say hello to him, and the two of them chatted and laughed for a while.
Cheng Xing has long forgotten what they were talking about at that time.
When borrowing money from Chen Qing failed, Cheng Xing had basically borrowed money from everyone he could.
At the end of the day, when he was almost desperate, Cheng Xing contacted the person he thought would be the last person to lend him money.
That person is Jiang Luxi.
In high school, Cheng Xing was the school’s biggest thorn in the side. Apart from studying hard, there was nothing else he didn’t do. As the squad leader, Jiang Luxi hated people like Cheng Xing the most. people.
Fighting with people from other schools, writing love letters to people, falling in love early, smoking and drinking.
In Jiang Luxi's opinion, none of the above is what students should do.
But Cheng Xing did it all.
Therefore, Cheng Xing naturally did not think that someone like him could borrow money from Jiang Luxi.
Moreover, Jiang Luxi’s family background is not good. She is not like Chen Qing, who has ten thousand or twenty thousand monthly pocket money to go to college. But in the end, after Jiang Luxi asked Cheng Xing to read his medical records, she I called the money in the evening.
At that time, Cheng Xing specifically asked Jiang Luxi why he lent him money.
In the two years after Jiang Luxi graduated from university, her salary was not much. This 100,000 yuan should be more than half of her savings. She was working in Haicheng at that time, and the housing prices and prices in Haicheng were not low.
Faced with someone like Cheng Xing, Cheng Xing couldn't understand how he used most of his savings to help.
But Jiang Luxi’s answer to Cheng Xing was very simple.
You helped me when I was bullied by Sun Qi and the others. We will repay you in return and we will never owe each other again.
Cheng Xing fell silent when he heard this answer.
He didn't expect that the reason why Jiang Luxi helped him and used the savings he had accumulated for two years to help him was just because of this little thing. If this can be considered help, then Cheng Xing helped countless people during his school days.
In their class, whenever someone was bullied by someone from another class or school, Cheng Xing would help him out, because as a teenager in the second grade, he felt that since he was the biggest gangster in the school, then what would happen to his class? People cannot be bullied by outsiders. He has had many fights with others because of jealousy or because he helped Chen Qing seek justice.
Actually, he remembered the time he helped Jiang Luxi, but that time was not considered helping.
Because he knew in advance that Sun Qi was going to bully Jiang Luxi that night, because it was also related to Chen Qing. Originally, Cheng Xing would not care about it because of Chen Qing.
I just left school late that day and happened to see the scene of Jiang Luxi being bullied. The girl stood stubbornly and refused to admit defeat in the wind and rain, which left a deep impression on Cheng Xing.
Perhaps because he didn't want this cool, cold and fairy-like girl to remain in his youthful memory with some unbearable appearance when graduation was approaching, Cheng Xing finally stepped forward to help her out.
The last time I met Jiang Luxi was at the school anniversary three years ago.
The last conversation with Jiang Luxi was about the time she gave him help in times of need six years ago.
But it was these two times that made this figure stay in Cheng Xing's memory for many years.
He will never forget that sentence when I was bullied by Sun Qi and the others. You helped me. We will retaliate and we will never owe each other again.
"Come on, Brother Cheng, when we were in high school, we were never bullied by anyone in other classes because of you. Just because of this, I have to toast you. Come on, do it." Sun Li finished speaking and drank it all. .
Others also raised their glasses and toasted Cheng Xing.
At this time, Cheng Xing was also changing cups and cups, accepting everyone who came.
Somehow, Cheng Xing, who had not been drunk for a long time, now just wanted to get drunk without worrying about Li Shang.
At the end of the meal, everyone was drunk.
"Brother Cheng, do you want me to help you?" Zhou Yuan asked at this time.
“No, you go ahead.” Cheng Xing said.
Zhou Yuan came with his girlfriend. He himself was being supported by his girlfriend. How could Cheng Xing let him support him.
“It’s okay, Zhou Yuan, you go ahead, I’ll just hold you up.” At this time, Wang Yan came up and supported Cheng Xing.
Cheng Xing's head was a little dizzy at this time. He could no longer feel who was around him. He could only smell a pungent aroma. When he was blown by the wind downstairs and his head sobered up, he realized that It was Wang Yan who supported her.
Calmly avoiding Wang Yan's bright red lips that were about to touch his lips, Cheng Xing stopped a taxi and got in. He closed the door, put on his seat belt, and said to Wang Yan outside the window: "It's getting late, go home early."
Looking at the taxi disappearing in front of her eyes, Wang Yan pouted and sighed.
After the taxi stopped in the community, Cheng Xing walked back home with tired steps.
After arriving home, Cheng Xing lay down directly on the sofa.
He turned on the air conditioner in the room, then opened Douyin and scrolled through it twice.
Finally, Cheng Xing's eyes stopped on a video.
It is almost September, and middle schools across the country have started school.
This is a welcome party for an experimental high school.
The girl in the video is wearing a red hat, an orange shirt and a gray plaid skirt.
The two slender white legs were not wearing anything, and the feet were wearing white socks and white sneakers.
The girl wears a pair of glasses on her face and two braided braids hanging down to her chest.
At this moment, Cheng Xing suddenly saw the shadow of Jiang Luxi on her body.
It seemed like I was back at the graduation party of my senior year of high school.
That day, Jiang Luxi also performed a song on the stage with her ponytail swaying.
It’s just that the girl in the video is not as beautiful as Jiang Luxi.
But the campus stage full of youthful atmosphere, as well as the girls' pure costumes and clear healing voices, suddenly made Cheng Xing a little crazy.
I will grow up slowly, under the sun, moon and stars, and occasionally talk to the plants and trees.
Then ride on the wind, scatter to the ends of the earth, fall into the soil and take root!
You have to wait for me, in the passing time, despite the years of struggle.
I will take advantage of the moonlight, arrive after dawn in the sky and before sunset!
The lyrics are well written and the singing is beautiful.
As Cheng Xing listened, he felt tired and gradually fell asleep.
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The song at the end of the chapter is "I, You, Wind" by Li Yiran. It is a new book for a newbie. I have just been in the industry for a few days and there are many things I don't understand. When I read the book before, it seemed The author will always ask for favorites and votes, so I ask for favorites and recommendation votes.
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