My good friend

Each of us has our own good friends and confidantes. Actually, there are not too many good friends. There are a few who can show up by your side when you need help. Sometimes they don’t say a word, but they accompany you in silence. , Is a kind of happiness.

That was when I returned to my hometown in Sichuan last year. After dinner, I was walking and I met Niu Bo.

Niu Bo is my elementary school classmate. After the fourth to sixth grades were reclassified, we became the same table. He was the same age as me and one month older than me. In my impression, Bo was very tall. At least in the past, he was just round and round, his body was like a winter melon, his head was like a watermelon, he was like me, with small eyes, but not as good as mine. We are accustomed to calling him "Bo (er)". If he has a lower status in the class, that is, he was a little bit close at the time, he must be called Boge. You know, in elementary school, as long as you study well, you will be very good. force. Of course, I call him Bo.

It seems that at that time, everyone who was high and high was the sports committee member in the class, and Bo was no exception. In addition, I was a study committee member. When we sat together, we often only had the ceiling in our eyes, a Wenquxing and a Wuquxing. To empathize with all the living beings, we are like Chen Haonan, like Brother B. In retrospect, so far in my life, when I was at the most powerful, I was still with Bo. Every day, we two seemed to stand in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Bo is very generous. We only know that his family is in the pipe business. We only know that he uses Boss brand ink instead of Hongyan. We only know that Bo has a relatively high-end "radio" with white headphones and earplugs. There is a milky white set. I heard that it costs hundreds, but I can’t receive the sound. I can only download it. I once thought that the more expensive the more useless, the goods that cost a few hundred yuan, even the expert who sells "returning positive movies" at night I can't listen to the lecture. At that time, I didn't know what the "rich second generation" was, and what was "MP3". He is generous because he spends 8 yuan a week in pocket money. I only have 3 yuan. He often divides 2 yuan into me, saying that brothers should share blessings and sharing. If there is no money, Bo will skip breakfast. At the end of the second get out of class, I used breakfast money to buy two spicy tofu skins, as well as hot beef tendons. If the money is not enough, buy one spicy tofu skin and divide me half. We were very happy, I copied his homework, and he gave me tofu.

He is very good at playing. In class, he will cut the draft paper into poker, we play "7 Kings 523"; when class is over, he will call me and a few other young and Dangerous boys to look for lower graders on the playground The children of, we held the schoolboys in a circle hand in hand, and then sang the "Funeral March" in unison. Only after crying, we can let go; when school is over, there are many people spinning tops on the playground, the kind of wood, Potter I went to a shoe repair shop to find a good thick beef tendon. We didn’t have a top ourselves. We just took a strong beef tendon whip to whip someone else’s top. With a loud noise, the top was gone, and then we pushed the next one. Tower: We went to shake the sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the school garden together. When all the flowers fell, we blamed those who had no status in the class. The principal often praised us.

In this way, we spent the last three years of elementary school together. After graduating, I was admitted to the best junior high school in the county, then to the key high school in the province, and finally passed 911 and 285 by mistake. As for Bo, my last impression was when he returned to school to get his transcript after graduation. Bo was the fourth from the bottom in the class. We went to play table tennis together. He invited me to drink a bottle of "very lemon", saying that he would be the next generation. Alcohol, as farewell, he said that I am very smart, I will definitely be able to go to Tsinghua University and be my astronomer; I really can’t think of how to praise Bo, I can’t say that you are so strong, you will be able to carry a lot of things in the future. So, I said, "Brother, whoever has mine will have yours. When we all buy mobile phones, you can call me if you have anything." That was the first time I spoke to Bo Yi in this tone. It was him who covered me. At that time, I felt vaguely that knowledge can really change my destiny. Bo looked at me with red eyes, said nothing, pinched his nose, turned and left, watching Bo's sturdy figure leaving, I touched the back of my head.

Later, we really all bought mobile phones, but Bo did not call me. Once I clicked the button, I saw the head of the shaking wave, and quickly Ctrl+Alt+Z: "Are you going to play Legend?", "I don't play games, where are you reading now?" There are no more replies. I really don't play legends, and I don't know what "private servers" are. I heard from a friend that Bo went to Guangzhou to work after finishing junior high school. I was surprised to ask, "Why don't his parents help him find a job locally?" When he ran away, he also shared a lot of money. Dad Bo was in poor health and was unable to manage his business. He sold the stall and let Bo go out to learn some crafts, and he could also eat in the future."

I met the wave again, this wave is no longer the other wave. The person in front of him, about 165 in height, was wearing a short suit and shiny leather shoes. He was partial, his eyes were a little bigger than before, and there was some vicissitudes in his eyebrows. He greeted me from a distance. I took a conscious look and scanned the memory carefully. My surprised mouth changed from round to flat, "Boer!", my eyebrows raised, and my mouth broke out, "Long time no see, you are not Have you gone to Guangzhou?", we shook hands if something happened.

"Oh, what happened a few years ago, I studied house decoration there for a few years,"

"You have a good mix now, a real college student, the treatment is good!", he said with a smile.

During the conversation, I noticed a lot of black dirt between the yellowed teeth of Old Bo. I can imagine that he is already an old smoker.

"It's okay, just like that. This industry will take a long time. When I can make money, I may be old."

"You are not like me. You get up and get up early every day, and now you have to send samples to others. My dad is old, and he has to spend a lot of money on liver disease all the year round."

"You should pay attention to your body, see if you smoke a lot"

"Oh, look at my brain!" He seemed to suddenly remember something, and then took out a bag of Yellow Crane Tower and found one for me. I took the cigarette, and he said that he took out Zibao and prepared to light the fire for me. .

"No need, I'll do it myself"

"Hey, there is no way. We have a large number of customers, and we often go out to socialize, eat, drink, and gamble, all of which are indispensable."

"Seriously, I really want to read a few more years like you guys, and now I can suffer less,"

In fact, Bo has been writing good handwriting. He once told me that he wanted to be a calligrapher, and when he finished college, he would go to work and write.

"I have suffered from an uncultured loss. Looking at me like this, my bronchus was inflamed a few days ago. I stayed in the hospital for two days. I came out after I didn't get well. Now my stomach is not good. I have had 3 gastroscopes." I covered my stomach, vaguely smelling a breath of alcohol. I really don't know how to continue. I want to help him, but I can't do anything. He doesn't need my help if I want to come. I decided to move on to a lighter topic.

"Have you been looking for a daughter-in-law, don't forget about the important things of your life, how can you say that you are also a small boss now, the bourgeois sentiment must have"

"I have been married for two years, and he is now helping me take care of the shop and will introduce him to you later."

I tried to suppress the surprise, and said, "Sister-in-law, I must see." I guessed that I was married at the age of 20, and it was sad enough to be so eager to have a child.

"It was also introduced by an uncle of mine. She studied financial management in Chengdu and studied financial management, which just happened to be able to help. I am not qualified to pick anything. When this period is over, I am going to have a baby and let my dad take it early. Grandson," he continued.

Maybe from my thinking, I really can’t understand what it is like to be a father at the age of 23, and I can’t accept living with a woman who I don’t really love for decades, but I know that Bo has really grown up these years. , His body, which is not huge to me now, seems to be able to carry a thousand pounds, and his dark and rough face seems to have accumulated so many years.

Later, we reminisce about those interesting things at school that year, including that we all liked to sing Teresa Teng's songs, including how he stole his strong and thick beef tendon. Before leaving, he patted me on the shoulder, "Young man, work hard, change the sky and drink together", "Okay, so do you."

I know that the day cannot be changed. Even if the day is changed, it is unlikely that we will drink together, because we are no longer in the same world. Looking at Lao Bo's no longer strong back, watching his steady and clear steps, it seems that every step is a spring and autumn. Somehow, in the twilight, I squeezed out the cigarette butts, my eyes were slightly moist, and he gently scratched the back of his head in the distance.

There are always so-called successful people who are full of dreams, hopes, and the future, and they keep telling others that to insist on doing what you like to do, the most important thing is not to give up. If Lao Bo insists on writing, maybe he is really a calligrapher, but when a person is so embarrassed that he has the last meal and not the next, the most important thing is the next meal. The so-called dreams are only those expensive after drinking and eating. It’s just a luxury.

My friend said that life is a circle that cannot be sealed. My understanding is that you can never live only in your own world. To put it bluntly, we all live for certain people or certain missions.