325 The Beautiful Picture Scroll
Midnight snack stall on the street.
Vendors and barracks, all living beings.
Whether happy or sad, this place is the last meal for people to end the day.
The midnight snack stall is more like the end of today and opening tomorrow's transit station. There may be regrets, but it is more about satisfaction and expectations.
Compared to star-rated hotels or luxury restaurants, Wu Bei actually prefers this kind of fireworks-filled land.
"Brother Niu, the old rules, big bowl of ramen, I add more coriander to my bowl!"
He took his brothers and a few to a stall with six or seven tables. Wu Bei greeted the boss with a smile.
"Oh, how long hasn't you been here? You're the boss. You don't know your brother and sister-in-law!"
The boss is a black-faced man of forty-five or six years old. He is very thin, but he gives people a particularly powerful feeling, wearing a shabby chef's uniform.
The only thing that was out of place was his arms were tied with black sleeves, which looked like those young men riding ghost fire.
"That can't be, the main reason you're closing the stall too early, hehe!"
"Sister Niu, come a box of beer, it's cold!"
Wu Bei grinned and waved his hand to the woman who was cleaning up the dishes not far away.
The woman is about the same age as the boss. Although she dresses simply and dresses very simply, her delicate facial features prove that when she was young, she must be the kind of goddess-attracting goddess-like appearance.
"It's autumn, I still drink cold, so I'm not afraid of getting my stomach up."
The woman joked in a familiar way, and brought a box of room temperature beer at Wu Bei's feet.
"Nan Nan is about to take the college entrance exam? Why don't the child go back to bed so late?"
Wu Bei looked around and asked a question by the young man holding this "higher major" studying hard by asking a question.
"I've driven him all night, and I won't leave no matter what I say. I have to help me and Brother Niu close the stall together."
The woman shook her head helplessly. Although she was scolding her, her eyes were filled with a sense of happiness.
"Boss, settle the accounts!"
Several diners on the table shouted.
"You drink it first, let's talk later."
The woman quickly brought Wu Bei and the others a few plates of homemade pickles, and turned around to work hard.
"Don't you think you're dead dad, have you drunk enough?"
Wu Bei glanced at Wang Liangliang, who was depressed beside him, and hit him with his elbow twice.
"Drink! Whoever is afraid of whom!"
Wang Liangliang spitted, grabbed a bottle of beer with red eyes, bit open the bottle cap, and drank it like a cow, and tilted his neck to tilt his neck to drink it. He sucked his mouth twice, as if he was choking, and coughed violently for a few times.
"Young and young, it's so hard to cook a bottle of beer. Huzi gives him one!"
Wu Bei laughed and scolded.
"Blow up!"
Luohu didn't push the 4th, and stepped on the beer box and held a bottle of beer in his hand to blow on the bottle.
"Fuck, I feel like I look down on me!"
Wang Liangliang's tiger-bossed personality was instantly aroused, and he immediately picked up another bottle of beer.
"Come on, count me!"
"I suspect you two are deliberately challenging just to drink more."
"Bill one piece."
Jia Xiao, Wang Shun and Wu Bei deliberately made jokes, and even Wen Hao, who had always been unspeakable, held up the wine bottle high.
Human happiness is not common. It can be rich, or it can be full of power. For this group of young people, it may be a kind of happiness if someone can help lick the wounds together.
After drinking all the way until the second half of the night, seeing that the noodle stall was not too busy, Wu Bei invited the boss: "Brother Niu, let's talk a few times!"
"Haha, OK."
Brother Niu smiled and sat next to Wu Bei.
"Brother Niu is my father's brother. When we were as old as we were, I remember the most clearly that my father was fighting with people. Brother Niu called him and five or six people came from Shanxi that night, all carrying trolls and hunting rifles."
Wu Bei pointed to the boss and brother for a few introductions.
"Just this is a mess. You two have been nagging for half your life. Who is not as young and frivolous as you are? You are not allowed to talk about it again in the future, so it is not good for the child to hear it."
Brother Niu Bailing Wubei glanced at him, picked up the bottle of beer, turned around and asked his wife for instructions: "Wife, Xiao Wu hasn't come for a long time. Can I drink a bottle with him? Just one bottle!"
"Be more at ease, you know what kind of body you have."
The woman gently reminded her, and then called the big boy who was reading to start cleaning.
"Brother, my brother is a little confused. Please help enlighten the guidance. His boss quit the world today..."
Wu Bei pointed at Wang Liangliang and briefly described Gao Yang’s story.
"Good thing, this is! Only those who can escape unstoppable are the real winners."
Before Wu Bei finished speaking, Brother Niu held the bottle and touched Wang Liangliang, and said with a complicated look: "You should be happy for your boss. Of course, he has such a brother, and it is also a blessing. There are no outsiders here, so I will use myself as an example..."
Brother Niu said, and took off the black sleeve on his arm halfway.
His left arm was covered with colorful tattoos, but it seemed like he had been burned by something. It looked wrinkled and very terrifying. His right arm was covered with long and short scars, which was shocking.
Needless to say, two arms are enough to interpret this man's first half of his life as a bumpy man.
"Brother Niu, you are...."
Wang Liangliang swallowed in silence.
"It is life to live in the world, and simple food is the destination!"
Brother Niu raised the bottle again and grinned: "Brother, it's a good thing that you can't bear to leave, it means that you are a pure man, but what your boss wants to live next may be the most important life. Not only him, but everyone in this world is the same. Look at these night shifts, look at those who run for rent all night, those who catch trains and planes..."
Brother Niu pointed at the diners at the midnight snack stalls around him, his eyebrows and eyes were smiling.
His words not only made Wang Liangliang fall into deep thought, but also made other brothers feel something.
Yes, who didn’t sell freedom and exchange it for food, rice, oil and salt?
Who doesn’t regard youth and choice as a child’s health and growth?
The happiness we pursue throughout our lives is not in the past or in the future, just at this moment: the scene in our eyes, the food on the plate, and the people around us.
From another perspective, whether it is Niu Brother or Gao Yang, they are actually all happy.
"Husband, this table seems a bit uneven, come and have a look."
A woman not far away called out to Brother Niu.
"When you have the spirit, you must drive your horse with all your strength, and it will not be in vain for your youth! After you have no spirit, remember to retreat bravely! Live up to the passing years!"
Brother Niu finished the last sip of wine in the bottle, and he still felt unsatisfied and slapped his mouth twice, turned around and walked towards his wife and children.
A few meters away, Brother Niu repaired the table legs, his son squatted beside him and handed over tools, and his wife wiped the sweat beads of her father and made a beautiful picture that was unparalleled.
At least, Wu Bei yearns for...
Chapter completed!