Chapter 42 I Want to Tell You More Chapter [-]
Chapter 42 I Want to Tell You More Chapter [-]
Li Mu was persuaded to drink a lot of wine.The restaurant provides the best champagne, and the lemon yellow wine exudes a faint sweet fragrance.The four of them ate, and most of the people talking were Cao Yang and Yue Renge.It can be seen that they have known each other for many years and almost know each other from bottom to bottom.
Sun Xu occasionally cooperates with Xiu Yi to show affection, and it doesn't feel dazzling after a long time, but it makes people really envious: it turns out that there are such sincere feelings in the world.
"After so many years in China, Lao Yue, I still think that Shanghai and Beijing are better." Cao Yang was already half drunk, his eyes were slightly red, and his tone became lighter, "But in all fairness, these years have been spent It’s really developing very quickly.”
"I think this place is very good." Yue Renge said, with resentment in his tone, "It seems that this visit to Huadu still hasn't changed your prejudice."
Cao Yang picked up his wine glass, took a sip of the wine, and smiled noncommittally.
Whether the flowers are good or not, what's the use of the two of them arguing.People come and go, the secret of this emerging city on the southern coast is the years and youth of countless dreamers.
"Well, Huadu is also a good place." Cao Yang glanced at his lover, smiled mischievously, and kissed them in front of them, "I'm sorry for my rudeness."
Blind the dog's eyes.
Baojia Center is connected to Guangrong Avenue, and the two sides are full of pretty sycamore trees, with stretched branches and dense broken leaves, which tend to block out the sky and the sun.After seeing off the guests, Li Mu stuffed mints into his mouth, and the refreshing aroma rose from the tip of his tongue.
Yue Renge glanced at the time, "You rest today, right?"
Li Mu bent his eyes and smiled, "Yes."
"Then just stay with me." Yue Renge said, walking two steps along the Guangrong Avenue, "We haven't talked properly for a long time."
His back looks a lot thinner.Li Mu still remembers the kiss he offered that day out of emotion and panic; he also remembers the exuberant heat that passed between his bodies when Yue Renge hugged him with a smile.Everything happened without realizing it, that person had already touched his emotions and his heart.He is jealous of him, he is out of his mind for him, he is willing to be with the boring phoenix tree in the dizzy hot summer for him.
Li Mu hesitated for a moment, and caught up with Yue Renge in two or three steps.
On a quiet summer day, there are very few pedestrians on the road at the moment.The sycamore is growing quietly, with a little broken sunlight leaking from the gaps in the dense leaves.Li Mu walked side by side with him.It was the same as that night a few days ago, but the thoughts in his heart had already passed through the clouds and the moon, and gradually became clearer.
He understood why he was uncomfortable, and also understood where the relief at this moment came from.
But he has never been good at expressing his emotions, so he struggled for a long time, so it was Yue Renge who spoke first.
"Old Cao is like this. Once he drinks a lot, he talks a lot and talks freely." Yue Renge said, "If you say something that makes you unhappy, don't take it to heart."
Li Mu thought for a while, "Aside from showing affection, I don't think there is anything inappropriate."
Yue Renge laughed, "You are really upright."
Li Mu looked at him carefully.
"He has always been very picky, but you can get his praise, which is not easy." Yue Renge said again, "It seems that you have worked hard these days."
Li Mu's heart trembled slightly.He has been thinking about how to mention these days to Yue Renge.When Yue Renge was away, he missed it alone, an indefinable period of time.
Yue Renge stood still, like a sycamore tree among them, he looked at Li Mu with a smile, "Are you feeling better now?"
When the central matter was mentioned, Li Mu blushed suddenly.He was already thin-skinned, and his blood was surging, and anyone could see the ups and downs of his emotions in just a few seconds.
No wonder Liang Chuan said that he has a face that is not good at lying.
Li Mu stopped talking.Yue Renge also looked at him with a smile.The phoenix trees on both sides were silent, and the wind rustled, blowing the leaves and his heart sails.Everything is obvious, but they are all waiting for each other to reveal it all leisurely.
Maybe it needs a kiss, maybe a hug.Or maybe, you don't really need anything.
"Leo." Li Mu called his name.A little timidly, but also like very cherished.
Yue Renge responded with a smile.
"I want to talk to you more." After a while, Li Mu said, "I haven't talked to you for a long time."
There was a diamond-like light in his eyes, and the wind blew the leaves, and Yue Renge felt the desire to kiss him for a moment.But hold back.Yue Renge smiled and raised his hand, gently wiping the fine sweat off the young man's forehead.
"Let's go," he said.
Regardless of how developed the cocktail industry is today, if you go back 20 years and go back to a small northwest city far away from humidity and monsoons, opening a bar is still a very unpopular thing.
All kinds of fine wines collided and blended in the cups, the flavors of sweet, sour, bitter and spicy were intertwined, and beautiful cups of different shapes were placed on the table, all of which made Li Mu feel extremely novel.
The first cocktail bar in the city was opened by my father.
Dust covered the past, brushed away the floating dust on the surface, recalling it now, it is still vivid in my mind.At that time, Li Mu was short, only half the height of a person.Following behind his brother who is eight years older than him, is like a little tail that cannot be shaken off.
He remembers clearly the first time he stepped into a bar on a sweltering summer night.That year, he was only six years old.
That is a place only adults can go to, Li Mu knows.The dim light and loud music were different from home or other places Li Mu knew.He also knew that his father didn't welcome them, because he always kept a straight face and asked them to play in the back kitchen.
The operation of the bar basically depends on the father alone - he is also busy.Of course, poor business is also an important reason.
Li Mu sucked the lollipop that someone gave him, lifted the heavy curtain in the back kitchen, and looked at his father's back.Father kept changing the bottle in his hand, and poured the contents of the bottle into a metal jug.He bent down and took a lot of ice cubes, jingling--there was no air-conditioning in the back kitchen, and beads of sweat rolled down Li Mu's forehead.
The sound of shaking ice cubes crushed the faint heat that shrouded his head.Li Mu thought, the drink with a lot of ice cubes should be very, very delicious.
Father stopped shaking the metal jug, and the orange-juice-like liquid dripped into the gleaming glass.Li Mu stared blankly, at that moment his father was tall and tall, with a shimmering light shining from his back, as if a magician had come to the world and decided to change Cinderella's fate.
Customers came to my father's shop with all kinds of emotions, happy and unhappy.But they were all full when they left.Li Mu is really curious - the bar in this square inch, the mixing of several flavors of drinks, can produce such a huge magical power.
That magical power was like a seed, which took root in Li Mu's heart, germinated, and blossomed slowly but firmly.
After listening to Yue Renge, he laughed softly.
Li Mu's face flushed slightly, probably because of drinking champagne.Bartenders also have their own kind of drinking power.Because of Yue Renge's smile, Li Mu's face turned even redder, and he turned his head away in annoyance, "Say no laughing."
The more it was like this, the happier Yue Renge laughed, until Li Mu was really annoyed, he barely stopped smiling.
"Okay, okay," Yue Renge said with a happy ending, "This is a very good story."
Li Mu is innocent, "I'm not making up a story."
"Well, okay, this is not made up." When Yu Yan laughed, Yue Renge had faint wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, like ripples on the surface of a lake.He is so clean and tidy, showing no signs of aging.That pattern is so natural, as if it is some kind of decoration.
Healing Banquet
Li Mu was attracted by the rippling spring spirit.He was fascinated to think that Yue Renge is really a good-looking person.
The good-looking man smiled and said: "I think this is a very good thing. Because it happened to you. Do you know? It is extremely rare for a person to find a job he loves. I should really like to see my uncle if I get the chance—we'll get on very well."
Li Mu pursed his lips, withdrew his gaze from wandering wantonly on Yue Renge's face, put his hands behind his back, and took two steps forward.After a while, he turned around again and said, "My dad passed away."
The smile on Yue Renge's face faded a bit, without dramatic surprise, "Really."
"Yeah." Li Mu hardly ever mentioned this past event to anyone, "It's been many years."
Doing a remote business in a remote northwest town, after all, it can't last for too long.After a period of dismal management, he lost a lot of money and energy. His father, who was originally in poor health, eventually fell ill.
Bars are closed.Li Mu became more familiar with the hospital.Those days passed so quickly that it was almost a blur, and it didn't take long for my father to become a photo on the TV cabinet.
The shaker and mixing spoon that my father once loved were mercilessly thrown into the storage room by my mother.Li Mu stood by the door and watched secretly, not daring to pick it up.
Li Mu spoke eloquently, turned his head and smiled and said to Yue Renge: "When I first went to Dionysia, I thought that if my father was still here, he would definitely like it very much." There was a smile on his face , the first time he went to Dionysia was when he first came to Huadu.Just graduated from university, carrying a bag and a degree certificate that I don't know if it is useful, looking for a way to the future in the feasting and feasting of Huadu.
He spent 80 yuan for a glass of wine.After watching the dazzling performance for a while, he turned and left.Li Mu knew that this was his goal.
Yue Renge smiled slightly, fell silent for a while, opened his arms, and gently embraced Li Mu.There was a faint sweet smell in his hair, chardonnay and jasmine, together with the scorching cicadas in midsummer, gently supported Li Mu's heart.
"My dear, I am very honored."
Indus Road in midsummer, there are very few pedestrians.Being embraced so tenderly by Li Mu, the burn on his face persisted for a long time.He hesitated, wanting to raise his hand and hug him back.He was pushed forward by the surging emotions, and then he fell into boundless tenderness.Those hands were about to land on Yue Renge's undulating butterfly bones, when suddenly there was a tinkling sound in his pocket.It's a phone.
Yue Renge let go of him, and said to the embarrassed Li Mu, "You pick it up."
Li Mu said sorry in a low voice, and just pressed the answer button, Liang Chuan's roar came through the air, "Fuck, what's going on?!"
--------The author says------------
Cat Mother: Fairytale clay sculpture fanatic.Merry Christmas Eve!Go for the holidays!
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