Chapter 90: I like this environment
"Hello?" A faint hoarse male voice came over, and I froze for a moment before saying, "Hello, I'm Xia Bing's friend."
There was a sudden silence on the other side of the phone for a moment, then the voice sounded again and said, "Uh, my name is Zhang Yu."
I nodded, then said, "I know your name, I picked up your ID card, where are you, I'll send it to you?"
The voice on the other side of the phone suddenly got a little surprised and said, "ID card?" Then after a moment's pause, it said, "I didn't even notice I lost my wallet."
I smiled and said, "No matter, where are you? I'll bring it to you?"
"How can that be a bother, just tell me where you are, come over and get it, and thank you by the way."
I gave an address and hung up.
Sitting inside River Down Coffee, I slowly sipped a cup of black coffee and looked at the ID card in my hand.
A man wearing a black trench coat stood in front of me.
Inside the cafe was actually very noisy with people. It was a place that seemed quiet, but was chaotic.
Whether it's talking about the world or frolicking and catching up. Basically, people of this era would choose to come to the café.
I chose to wait for Zhang Ye here, but also because, I like this environment, there is always a flavor of popularity.
While I was quietly looking at Zhang Ye's ID card.
A man wearing a black trench coat stood in front of me.
I subconsciously raised my head, and an angular face entered my line of sight.
Black eyebrows, like a curved sword.
Gleaming eyes, as if they could pierce through my body and see the deepest secrets within me.
I was a bit mesmerized, that man, was Zhang Yu.
Zhang Yu smiled and said, "You are Xia Bing's friend?"
I nodded my head, recovering the thoughts I had just had, and with panic, said, "Well, I'm Homi."
I don't know why, this man brought me a feeling of sadness from the moment he first appeared.
It was impossible to say where this feeling came from, it was as if it appeared from the other person's heart, and then through his eyes, it entered my consciousness.
Zhang Yu sat down in front of me, and I handed him, his ID card, then said, "You should visit Xia Bing often, right?"
My voice was a bit nervous because I had peeked at those text messages he had sent to Xia Bing. Suddenly I thought of those joss sticks in front of Xia Bing's grave.
If they were Xia Bing's parents, they shouldn't have been there every day.
When they see Xia Bing's tombstone, they will think of Xia Bing, and the elderly are in poor health, so if they do this every day, I'm afraid it will be a bad penetration for all of their lives.
Zhang Yu didn't nod or shake her head, and after receiving the ID card, she said, "You also often go to see Xia Bing, and I can always see people sending lilies over."
I nodded and said, "Xia Bing is my good friend." As I said that, tears couldn't help but flow from the corners of my eyes.
Zhang Yu handed me a piece of toilet paper and said, "Can I buy you a drink?"
I raised my head in surprise, looked at him, and said, "Aren't we drinking coffee now?"
Zhang Yu shook his head.
It was a quiet bar, quiet without the slightest sound.
On top of the bar was a woman with flowery white hair, concentrating on mixing a drink.
It was a pale green colored drink.
Zhang Yu said to me, "If you drink a glass of wine from here, you might remember something else."
I said, "Do you and Xia Bing, come here often."
Zhang Yu shook his head and said, "I wanted to bring her here, but ……"
I took the wine handed over by the white-haired woman, and she said faintly, "This is a new cup of wine, if you drink it, you will have a dream."
I forced a smile and said, "What dream?"
Zhang Ye returned to her earlier look, then said, "You will dream about whatever you need, of course, it could also be the deepest secrets of your heart, those things you dare not bear."
I looked at Zhang Yu suspiciously and said, "What exactly are you?"
Zhang Ye said, "Aren't I a friend of Xia Bing?"
I nodded, the text message on Xia Bing's cell phone was still fresh in my mind. But I always felt that there was something different about this Zhang Yu.
Although there was still some sadness in his brow, the words he said were all so arcane.
I put my glass down and said, "Sorry, I don't want to drink."
Zhang Yu nodded and said, "If you want to drink when you want to, come here and find me."
I looked at him in surprise and said, "This is your bar?"
Zhang Yu nodded and said, "You are welcome to come here next time."
I thought for a moment, then handed Zhang Yu a key, and he looked at me in surprise.
I said, "This is the key to Xia Bing's house. I'm sorry, I went to look at Xia Bing's cell phone today in order to find your phone, so ……"
Went to check Xia Bing's cell phone ……
Zhang Ye nodded thoughtfully, and I anxiously explained, "I didn't look at all of them, so I unintentionally saw the two earlier ones."
Zhang Yu waved his hand and said, "Nothing happened, everything, is in the past. Xia Bing is dead now."
I lowered my head in shame and said, "I'm sorry."
The sorry I said was not only to Zhang Yu, but also to Xia Bing. Xia Bing's death always had something to do with me now.
"Can you tell me about you and Xia Bing?" I raised my head and looked at Zhang Yu's cheeks hopefully.
That bronze-colored face emitted a faint yellow color under the light.
What color was this? My eyes got a bit mesmerized.
Without realizing it, I picked up the wine glass and was just about to drink.
Suddenly, there was a tingling in my legs, and I woke up looking at the glass in my hand, then placed it on the bar in a sorry state and took out the phone that was in my bag.
I glanced apologetically at Zhang Yu, then picked up the phone.
"Homi? Where have you been, why haven't you come back yet?" Chen Yanlu's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"It's fine, I'll be right back." I glanced at Zhang Yu and then said.
Chen Yanlu presumably came back in the evening after bringing me food at noon, but saw that the lunch hadn't moved, so she realized that I hadn't been back.
I seldom leave the dormitory, and seldom go out to eat, so every day it is Chen Yanlu who delivers my meals.
Hanging up the phone, Zhang Yu said softly, "See you next time."
I nodded and lifted my bag, then took another look at the woman with gray hair. She was concentrating on mixing another drink, completely white.
Turning around, I left the bar, the black night sky, the moonlight falling on top of my cheeks.
I looked back at the name of the bar.
New Wine. What a strange name.
When I returned inside the dormitory, Chen Yanlu was sitting on the bed across from me, staring at her cell phone.
The sound of me walking into the room made Chen Yanlu react, then said, "You're back?"
I nodded. I don't know when, but the relationship between Chen Yanlu and I had gotten close to an indescribable degree.
But the words between the two were getting fewer and fewer. Lying on the bed, I was still thinking about Zhang Yu's words and behavior during the daytime.
He silently liked Xia Bing for fourteen years, and then because of Xia Bing's words, he didn't fall in love for fourteen years.
Just as I thought, Zhang Yu was a very calm man, because if he wasn't calm, it would be impossible to hold on to a belief for fourteen years.
However, he was at most between two years different from Xia Bing, but what makes such a person so calm.
And that bar, it gave me such a strange feeling.
The aura of sadness that evaporated from Zhang Yu, then combined with the special feeling inside the bar, gave me a feeling that I had no way to describe.
Chen Yanlu suddenly said, "I'll sleep here at night?"
I nodded, Chen Yanlu would always stay in my dormitory. Of course he wouldn't do something else to me.
But that would be a source of gossip all the same, and I didn't care about those words. Of course, the school had a problem with it and came to me once.
When I told Morning Glory, he told me it was fine. The next day, as usual, he came to my dormitory looking for me, but was not deterred any more.
I tossed and turned, unable to sleep, always replaying Zhang Yu's words and behavior in my head.
Chen Yanlu spoke up, "You're in such a strange state today."
I nodded inside the covers, and Chen Yanlu sat on the bed across from me, not knowing what she was thinking about.
I said, "Chen Yanlu, are you drinking?" I suddenly wanted to take Chen Yanluo to that bar for a bit and get him a new drink.
I don't know why today, but I can't help but put the glass of wine to my mouth.
If it wasn't for Chen Yanlu calling me, most likely, I would have just gone ahead and downed that glass of wine.
Chen Yanlu said suspiciously, "You drink? That's not right, you don't drink."
I shook my head and told Chen Yanlu what happened during the day today.
ChenYanLu nodded in realization, then said, "Good, tomorrow we'll go together, and see what kind of wine that can have such a great gusto."
It was a night of deep sleep.
The next morning, I was seduced by the aroma of rice porridge. Chen Yanlu sat on the edge of my bed, quietly looking at me.
I waved my hand in front of his eyes, and he came back to his senses and served the rice porridge in front of me, saying, "Breakfast."
I'm afraid there is no best friend or blue face that can do what Chen Yanlu did.
After finishing washing, Chen Yanlu and I left the school, again, inevitably I received some attacks on my eyes.