Rebirth: Rewriting Youth

Chapter 4 Accepting the Ordinary
When Shen Yu drove past a late-night canteen, Chen Hang stopped the car, got out and picked up two bottles of Jiang Xiaobai, two bags of Drunkard peanuts, two packages of Weilong spicy strips, and a package of Ruanzhong.

Opening the car window, Chen Hang skillfully tore open the package, popped out two cigarettes, and handed one to Shen Yu.

Shen Yu took the cigarette in surprise and said, "When did you start smoking?"

Chen Hang calmly lit the cigarette, took a deep puff, blew out a long line of smoke out the window and said, "Where else could it be? On the construction site in Indonesia."

Shen Yu also lit a cigarette, turned off the air conditioner, opened the window, held the cigarette butt in his left hand and stretched out the window. The passing wind blew up the loose ashes, and with the faint sparks, they floated and disappeared in the air.Asked: "Are you celebrating your 35th birthday?"

Chen Hang said: "The essence of human beings is experience, and age is just a futile and worthless concept with no meaning."

Shen Yu asked curiously: "When are you going to get married?"

Chen Hang smoked a cigarette and said: "What a stupid marriage. In today's society, if you don't accompany your girlfriend for a week, your girlfriend will give you a hat. For someone like me who works at the construction site every day, I can't even think about it." I dare not think about it. What about you, why don’t you get married?”

Shen Yu smiled bitterly while smoking a cigarette, turned the steering wheel with his right hand, found a parking space in the corner downstairs of Xinyuan, stopped the engine, turned off the music and said: "How can I afford the gift money? I haven't got a loan yet." Once you’ve finished paying it forward, you won’t be dragging others down anymore.”

Chen Hang said lonely: "Hey, I'm so tired, life is so boring. I am a communications graduate student at Waseda, and now I work on the construction site every day." After speaking, he opened a bottle of Jiangxiaobai and handed it to Shen Yu.

Shen Yu took it and said with a smile: "How can I drive after drinking."

"Call me a driver. What a big deal." Chen Hang said nonchalantly, unscrewing another bottle and taking a big gulp.

Shen Yu looked at Chen Hang and said helplessly: "You didn't smoke or drink before."

Chen Hang picked up a spicy stick with his teeth, chewed it, and then said in a deep voice: "It's a lot of pressure. Everything on the construction site is all on me. I have to worry about everything. My dad is at home. I didn’t care what I was eating or drinking. At that time, I had to show off several bottles of Coke every day, and later I couldn’t sleep without drinking some wine.”

Shen Yu picked up the bottle and took a sip. Tsk, it tasted really bad. He quickly opened a pack of peanuts to suppress the taste.

Chen Hang took another big sip and continued: "During the special period, I wanted to come back, but my dad didn't want to. He couldn't bear the 10,000+ air ticket money. I had sex almost 4 times in Indonesia. There are so many drugs there. This strain is really powerful. The first time I had it, I lay in bed for 14 days before I recovered."

Shen Yu asked: "Has your father passed away?"

Chen Hang said with a hint of indignation: "I'm sick, and my mother is also sick. It's better for him to lie in bed by himself, ordering my mother to cook food for him every day, and even think that this one tastes good and that one doesn't taste good." Now. I don’t know where I read something at that time that soaking my feet would make me feel better quickly. I asked my mother to bring that big wooden bucket and boil water for him to soak his feet every day. My mother was almost so tired that she went to the hospital. To be honest, If my mother leaves one day, I will never come back to this family."

Shen Yu said in surprise: "Your dad isn't like this, is he? Is he still a man?"

Chen Hang took a sip of wine and said: "I shouldn't have resigned from Haishi and come back. I shouldn't live too comfortably in Haishi. At that time, the project I was working on was over, and my boss told me not to leave. , I will be promoted to project manager next year. As you know, my dad had surgery at that time. He was lying in the hospital and was very obedient. My mother was urging me to come back and help my dad. I came back just to save my mother’s face. Yes. Who knew that my dad would start seeking death again as soon as he got better."

Shen Yu nodded and said, "Your mother is indeed a good person. She was very kind to me when I was a child."

Chen Hang smiled unconsciously, and said lonely: "My mother's life has been too bitter. She has burned incense all her life, but I don't know if she has ever burned one for herself."

Shen Yu took a sip of wine and said nothing.The warm evening breeze blew through the car. Under the dim street lights in the parking lot, a group of mosquitoes were flying around the only light without stopping for a moment.

Chen Hang drank the rest of the wine in one gulp and ate a few spicy sticks.He said a little drunkenly: "My family is going to lose! The house in my name, my sister's house, and the land in the villa where my old man is going to bring the coffin are all mortgaged. This time Indonesia suffered heavy losses, and the head office They are still delaying payment for the project. The project in Inner Mongolia also lost money this year.”

Shen Yu opened his mouth, not knowing what to say. He looked at Chen Hang and sighed.

Chen Hang continued to murmur: "I will never go to Indonesia again in this life. Do you know how my legs were broken? Just because our project manager had a quarrel with the locals, he was stabbed 7 times. I I went up to stop him, and then I was stabbed twice in the leg, which hurt my tendon."

Chen Hang lifted up his sports trousers, pointed at the two hideous scars on his thighs and said, "Oh, those beasts on the construction site only know how to ask for money, be lazy, and when they quarrel, one becomes more powerful than the other. , It’s useless to hang up when something happens. It’s useless to talk to them properly. You can only survive by being more ruthless than them.”

Shen Yu asked in a dull voice: "Your project manager."

Chen Hang put down his pants and smiled bitterly: "The nearest town hospital is an hour and a half away from our construction site. The blood has dried up before the ambulance came." Chen Hang lit up another cigarette and took a deep puff. Looking out the window, he said: "What do you think people live for?"

Shen Yu pondered for a moment and said: "I don't know either. I always feel that we can only eat and sleep, commute from nine to five, travel three or four days a year, buy a house and go into debt, and then die. I always feel like there is something wrong Things weigh us down, leaving us hungry and unable to make a fortune.”

Chen Hang said with a wry smile: "I was raised poor when I was a child, and as I was raised, I became a poor person. As for my sister, she has always been rich and didn't work, and she got divorced. Now my family has no money. , I also want to take my nephew to attend junior high school in Yingguo. Yingguo is so expensive, only 200 million a year. She has no idea at all. Her temper is even more stubborn than my dad’s, and she can’t explain it.”

Shen Yu took a sip of wine, smacked his lips and said slowly: "None of us are very lucky. When I was young, I always felt that I was still a little behind, with a little less education, a little less ability, and a little less body. "My appearance is a little worse, like a swamp that is difficult to get out of, always getting myself involved in the whirlpool of anxiety." Chen Hang looked at Shen Yu and said, "Why are you anxious? You were fat when you were young. Now that you've lost weight, aren't you quite handsome?" ? We are not the proud sons of heaven. People must learn to accept their own mediocrity, accept the mediocrity of their parents, and accept the mediocrity of their children. Anyway, just mess around like this. Born in Jiangnan Province, you are already happier than many people in the northwest region. Not to mention that mountain nest in Indonesia.”

Shen Yu smiled and said: "Then do you accept your own ordinaryness?"

Chen Hang said with a wry smile: "I accept it. I'm going to have a showdown with my dad when I come back this time. I quit. I'm going to Haishi to find a job. I can go to whoever I love in the future."

Shen Yu asked: "Do you still remember the code?"

Chen Hang held his head high and said nonchalantly: "It's just a matter of putting in more effort." He looked at his phone and said: "It's getting late, so hurry up and call for a driver. Are you going out to eat hot pot tomorrow night? I don't know. I’m so greedy.”

Shen Yu smiled and said: "Okay, I haven't eaten for a long time. I'll treat you tomorrow."

Chen Hang opened the car door, walked out of the car gracefully, turned around and said, "Okay, I'll call you tomorrow. Let's go." He waved his hand and left without any nostalgia.

Shen Yu looked at the lonely and indomitable figure of the eldest brother who had taken care of him since childhood, and couldn't help but sigh. Having a good academic degree means you have enough confidence.

Shen Yu regretted that he should not have wasted his senior year in high school. A third-rate education with three books was really nothing in today's society.This kind of life where you can see the end at a glance is really too exhausting.

He took out his mobile phone and called a car on e-Drive.Lighting a cigarette, Shen Yu took another sip of wine.

"Cough, cough, cough." The wine tasted really bad. Shen Yu capped the bottle angrily, sorted out the packaging bags in the car, and threw them into the trash can far away.

Back in the car, Shen Yu pinched the center of his brows, and his whole body began to slowly warm up. The wine was a bit too much.

Lying on the seat, holding the phone in his right hand and crossing his hands on his chest, Shen Yu closed his eyes and slowly dozed off while listening to Jay Chou's return to the past.

After a while, the phone rang, and Shen Yu woke up with a start.His finger crossed the screen: "Hey, come to the end of the parking lot. I see you, this way, this way."

On the way back from the driver's seat, Shen Yu lay on the passenger seat and looked out the window. There were no cars on the road.Shen Yu's car drove past the street lights, and the interior of the car flickered with the light coming from the street lights.

"Hey, Master, please slow down, slow down, slow down." Shen Yu suddenly straightened up and looked at a young woman sitting on the bridge railing in the distance.

"What's wrong?" The driver stepped on the brakes lightly and followed Shen Yu's gaze.

"Fuck you." "No." The two couldn't help shouting.

The acting driver hurriedly braked, Shen Yu unbuckled his seat belt neatly, opened the car door and ran towards the bridge.

Shen Yu looked down from the bridge railing along the light and vaguely saw a figure flopping in the river. "Help, help, help."

Shen Yu was so drunk that he plunged into the river without even thinking.

After rising from the bottom of the river to the surface, Shen Yu regained consciousness after entering the water. Following the increasingly faint calls for help not far away, Shen Yu immediately swam forward using the ancestral dog paddle style.While swimming, he shouted at the top of his lungs: "Hold on, I'm coming, I'm coming."

After spending all his strength, Shen Yu finally approached the woman who fell into the water. At this time, the woman didn't have much strength to flutter.

Shen Yu hurriedly kicked his legs towards her. Unexpectedly, as soon as he touched the woman's arm, Shen Yu immediately felt an irresistible force pulling her over. In an instant, Shen Yu's head and arms were tightly held, and his whole body was The person was pushed to the bottom of the river by a force.

Damn, you were so sloppy when you stepped on the horse!This thought suddenly came to Shen Yu's mind.

Curling up his body, Shen Yu directly pushed the woman away with his hands and kicked her with a big foot.The two separated, and Shen Yu popped his head out of the river and coughed several times.After a while, I thought about some of the ways I had heard about saving people from drowning.

Shen Yu used the dim light to swim over with great effort, took the opportunity to grab the woman's hair, dragged her sideways and swam towards the shore.The woman was flopping around unconsciously. Shen Yu felt more and more exhausted and swam slower and slower.

At this time, Shen Yu heard several voices coming from the shore: "Help." "Come closer." "Someone jumped into the river."

Shen Yu raised his head with difficulty and saw two or three figures on the shore, thinking that he might be saved.

I breathed a sigh of relief, and all the energy in my body felt drained away in an instant. The faces of my parents, friends, relatives, colleagues, familiar faces, and strangers' faces flashed through my mind like a movie.
Feeling like sinking into a bottomless abyss, Shen Yu's consciousness slowly blurred.
(End of this chapter)