That year, I was the first year of junior high school, and you were senior year. You study civil engineering at Urban Construction for two reasons. First, you can directly arrange a job after graduation; second, you are very good at drawing. I still remember one summer when I went to your house for summer vacation, you would take a ladder every evening and climb to the roof of your bungalow to study. I went down the ladder to find you, and sat next to you to watch the train in the distance passing along the track one by one, making bursts of long chirping. Once you suddenly showed me a book, it was a drawing of me with a ballpoint pen, with short hair, a round face, and a small nose. I was stunned, even the bows on the neckline had exactly the same curvature. That was the only time someone painted me and it looked so similar. Later, while you were not paying attention, I secretly tore up the portrait and took it home silently. I don't have the habit of saving photos, but I always keep that portrait. After that I grew my hair long, moved house, and grew taller. The year you moved, you were a senior. You come to my house every weekend, take a shower, eat, and spend the night. My parents were not at home for almost the whole year, and I was always lonely. Later, I fell in love with Stefanie Sun. I bought a lot of Stefanie Sun's VCDs to watch at home, concerts, MTV, I saw that I was about to vomit, but I still watched it over and over again. The happiest thing is when you come to my house on weekends, I will definitely ask someone when I hear a knock on the door, you say takeout. I flipped open the door, grabbed the food from your hand and went straight to the kitchen, and then I heard you say from behind: "You are a starving ghost, don't stay at home all day, go downstairs to buy something to eat I will be exhausted, I brought a few discs, let’s watch it at night...” I listened to you while eating: “This movie is called “The Eel”, it was made by Japanese, and it won the Palme d’Or.” I At that time, I never heard of the Palme d'Or, I didn't know Cannes in France, I didn't know that Chen Kaige, Ge You and Liang Chaowei had won this award. The movie begins with a green rice field, and a man is sitting by the lake fishing. Just like Zhang Yimou in Japan, I watched it while I was eating, thinking it was really boring. Soon, the man returned home and saw his wife cheating on him. My first reaction was, I was dumbfounded. I was watching TV with a guy and a naked couple having sex. After a while, we continued to eat. I couldn't eat the next picture. I saw the man holding a kitchen knife and hacking to death the man who cheated with his wife, and then dragging his terrified wife into a fish tank and being electrocuted by an eel. I watched Bai Huahua's naked body floating in the fish tank, my stomach rumbling for a while, and I ran to the kitchen to dump the rest of the food, rinsed my mouth, and watched. I almost forgot what happened after that and ended up sitting on the sofa and falling asleep. When you wake up, you are watching a football game. It's your weekly habit, one Bundesliga, one Serie A. Later it became my habit. You like Barty, you like Nedved, you like Juventus. You taught me the rules of football, taught me what is offside, when to take a set-piece. Later, I fell in love with Inzaghi, Nesta, AC Milan, superficially being a pseudo-fan of the Appearance Association, just because I accompany you to watch the game. In the winter, you shaved your hair and wore a cotton hat all day. My mother said that you looked like Andy Lau, especially when you laughed. My mother said that the hook nose is the most hated, and it feels very frivolous. At that time, I didn't know the meaning of frivolity, and the general public boasted that I had a cousin who looked like Andy Lau. Just like what Xiao Pei told me, when she was a child, she showed off to people that the most handsome one in the middle of the break dance was her fifth uncle. You are addicted to playing the guitar, you have a very old CD player, you always put a lot of CDs to listen to, and then you left all those CDs to me, I thought it was too dirty, the soil was dead, and the bottom of the box was pressed for several years, It wasn't until the room was cleaned up a few years ago that I turned it out. There are Faye Wong's impetuousness and fables, who resonates with Leslie Cheung, Alan Tam's youthful dream, and Xu Guanjie's voice of a prodigal son. . . You said that female singers Lin Yilian and Faye Wong sing the best, and Elva Hsiao is good among the newcomers, but you like Chen Huilin the most. You said that only Jacky Cheung can hear the Four Heavenly Kings singing. I was angry at the time, but he was the ugliest. One time you happily told me that you made a new friend, Cantonese, you can speak Cantonese, you said that your Cantonese friend was surprised when they saw snow for the first time, and you said that only the two boys in your school can speak Cantonese Playing the guitar, your eyes narrow into a line, full of pride. Later, you graduated, went to Beijing, successfully entered urban construction, worked on the project for a few years, and never talked to me about music or watched boring underground movies. I also learned that you forced my mother to buy me a CD player and wear a big headphone all day long. In winter, I always wear a cotton hat, dangling my earphones around my head on the street, thinking it's cool. Later, I put my Stefanie Sun, Jay Chou, Wang Leehom, Tao Zhe, Lin Junjie, SHE, and Du Dewei, Wang Fei, Lin Yilian, Leslie Cheung, Tam Winglin, Xu Guanjie, Zheng Zhongji, and Jacky Cheung, who you left for me. Afterwards, most of mine were lent out, only empty boxes were left, and yours were left intact and no one could borrow them. I also started to like CULT movies, I like to go to the store where you used to rent DVDs, I've seen almost every movie involving gays and I fell in love with a girl a few years later. I started to like La Liga, like Xavi and Iniesta. I think the fat old man is very loving, and he also likes boys who are a little shy with their guitars. . . Ten years passed in a flash. You have reached the age of 30, married a wife, have a lovely daughter, and like all middle-aged men, you are fat and have a high hairline. You move your family to Qingdao, quit your job, and register an online company to engage in trade. You finally don't have to live a wandering life, and finally cross the line from the damn construction industry to foreign trade. Like you ten years ago, I graduated, joined a construction company, and drifted on projects. I don't know how long this life will last, but the thought of you seems to be hopeful. You don't know, I really followed your footsteps all the way down. Although, there were ten years in between. You have reached the age of 30, married a wife, have a lovely daughter, and like all middle-aged men, you are fat and have a high hairline. You move your family to Qingdao, quit your job, and register an online company to engage in trade. You finally don't have to live a wandering life, and finally cross the line from the damn construction industry to foreign trade. Like you ten years ago, I graduated, joined a construction company, and drifted on projects. I don't know how long this life will last, but the thought of you seems to be hopeful. You don't know, I really followed your footsteps all the way down. Although, there were ten years in between. You have reached the age of 30, married a wife, have a lovely daughter, and like all middle-aged men, you are fat and have a high hairline. You move your family to Qingdao, quit your job, and register an online company to engage in trade. You finally don't have to live a wandering life, and finally cross the line from the damn construction industry to foreign trade. Like you ten years ago, I graduated, joined a construction company, and drifted on projects. I don't know how long this life will last, but the thought of you seems to be hopeful. You don't know, I really followed your footsteps all the way down. Although, there were ten years in between.
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