Midnight Bookstore - Chapter 388
Chapter 388: Drinking Alcohol and Eating Meat
Some people became more and more eccentric as they got older, while some people became more and more casual as they got older.
After living a life of being well-behaved and not having many days left to live, they naturally became more carefree and casual. Otherwise, they would feel like they were losing out.
At least, in the old Daoist’s opinion, drinking a little wine and eating peanuts with an old brother whom he had met by chance was great joy in life.
“Old brother, your body looks really tough.”
The old man said with some envy,
at this age, it was not a competition of who had money or who had children. It was just a competition of body.
I can live longer than you because I am more awesome than you!
Just now, when the old man was watching the door outside, he heard the old Daoist opening the sewer inside.
Most of the people who came to this secret door alley were middle-aged and old. After all, the prostitutes inside were also old people. Young people would not come here.
Other people came in in a hurry and then left in a hurry. Compared to the old Daoist, the difference was obvious.
“Hey, you just need to exercise more. Let me tell you, with my physical fitness, even if a bunch of ghosts was to stand in front of me,
I wouldn’t be afraid at all!
I wouldn’t be afraid that they would take my life away.”
As the old Daoist spoke, he patted his skinny chest,
these words,
he said it with confidence!
“I’m so envious, Big Brother.” The old man took a sip of wine and smacked his lips. He sighed and said, “I’m getting old. I Can’t take it anymore. I still look like I have dementia.
Who knows when I’ll walk out of here by myself and lose myself?
“Tell me, if you leave me on the street, it’ll be fine. There’ll always be people watching you. If something happens, no one will dare to help you. Someone at the nightclub will call the police and call for an ambulance or something.
“If you run into the wilderness, there won’t even be a corpse collector. Who knows which stray cat or dog will eat you? Hehe.”
“Senile Dementia?” The old Daoist was stunned. “Then why are you out here working?”
“What else can I do? I’ve been locked up at home for a day, and I’ve also been out for a day, right?”
The two of them drank a cup,
the bitterness that belonged to the elderly rippled in the wine.
“How about this? Since it’s almost night, I’ll go stir-fry a few more dishes. The two of US can make do here. What do you think?”
“Okay, then I’ll thicken my skin and wait.”
The old man stood up and walked into the kitchen.
This was a two-bedroom structure, which was two bedrooms and one living room. It was about sixty square meters in size and was very narrow. The kitchen was even smaller.
“Do you live alone?” The old Daoist asked.
“Yes, I live alone. I’m too lazy to rent it out. I live alone and it’s quiet, although the place is a little small.”
“It’s not considered small if you live alone. The place where those young people live is really small.”
“That’s right. I heard that the rent is going to rise soon. It’s really not easy.”
After a while, the old man walked out and said, “I’ll go down to the vegetable garden and pluck some green onions. Brother, sit here and eat some wine. Wait a moment.”
“Thank you for your hard work.”
The old man walked out of the room and went out.
The old Daoist went to the bathroom and happily poured some water. After he came out, he pushed open the bedroom door and looked around. The bedroom was empty. There was no bed in it, but there was a big freezer.
It was like the freezer that sold cold drinks in a small shop. It lay horizontally in the corner and was still plugged in with electricity.
The house was clean and spotless,
when the old Daoist used to go to the toilet, he saw a set of things like deodorant and disinfectant in the toilet,
this old brother was really particular about his life,
he was almost comparable to his own mysophobic boss.
The old Daoist remembered that the boss used to have a freezer on the second floor of the bookstore. However, the boss’s freezer was very scary. It was the kind of freezer used to pretend to be dead.
For a long time, the boss slept in that freezer. Of course, because of the Boss’special physique, only he could sleep in that freezer and not be afraid of freezing to death.
If the likes of Old Zhang and Little Loli slept in the freezer, don’t wake them up for breakfast the next day. Just prepare to perform a funeral for them.
However, after the Boss had Yingying, the ice coffin was not moved to the new store on South Street.
Regarding this…
the old Daoist also understood,
ah…
the Man.
Pushed open the door of the second room,
the old Daoist was stunned,
there was actually only a mat spread on the floor inside,
there was no television, nor anything else. It could not be any simpler.
The old Daoist touched his chin,
this old man’s life was quite frugal,
no wonder he had Alzheimer’s disease,
if I lived here, I would have dementia too.
Thinking about it, the old man suddenly felt that he was living in a bookstore and was scared by something every now and then,
the day before yesterday, he saw a ghost,
the day after tomorrow, he saw something,
he was often stimulated,
it could also prevent dementia.
After closing the doors of both rooms, the old man walked to the door and looked out. Why didn’t the old man come back after going to pluck onions for so long?
At this moment…
a woman carrying a plastic bag walked up from the corridor below.
The layout of this shop was like this. The ground floor was a shop, and the foot massage shop was one of them. The upper floors were filled with residents.
The old man’s house was on the third floor.
“You are?” The woman looked at the old Daoist in confusion.
“I don’t live here. I’m a guest at a friend’s house.”
“That old man is your friend.” The woman was a little surprised.
“Yeah, why?”
“That old man is quite strange. He sits at the entrance of the alley and plays chess all day. I don’t see him go out much.”
“He’s old.”
The old Daoist expressed his understanding. He knew that he had Alzheimer’s disease, but he still wandered around aimlessly. This was what was wrong with his brain.
“Where is he?” The woman asked.
“He went downstairs to pluck onions.”
“Is he cooking at home?”
“Yes.”
“Hehe, don’t you think it’s strange? I’ve never seen him go out to buy vegetables, but he seems to eat well every meal. Sometimes, when he goes upstairs, he can even smell the smell of meat coming from his house.”
“Hehe.”
The woman finished gossiping and went upstairs.
The old Daoist returned to the house, sat down at the table, and began to peel peanuts.
During this time, Zhang Yanfeng sent him a WeChat message asking him where he was and if he was coming to find him.
This scared the old Daoist so much that he shivered,
he was not afraid that Old Zhang would come and arrest him for the sake of justice. At that time, he would have to let the boss come to the police station with five thousand Yuan to collect him.
However, the old Daoist did not want Old Zhang to drive a police car around here. It was not good to scare his sisters down there.
Therefore, when the old Daoist saw the news, he was in no hurry to reply.
He took two sips of wine,
the door was pushed open, and the old man came back with a handful of scallions in his hand.
“Sorry for the wait. I’ll Go Cook Now and let you have a taste of my cooking.”
The old man went to the first room. When he came back, he was holding something in his hand. It seemed to be meat.
The old man didn’t pay attention to it,
after a while, a fragrant smell came from the kitchen.
“HMM!”
The old man rubbed his hands,
he was looking forward to it.
About half an hour later,
a serving of braised pork, a serving of fried pork, fried pork with salt, and a basin of bone soup,
it was placed on the table.
When he saw a table full of meat,
the old man was stunned for a moment,
“Brother, now I know how you got this Alzheimer’s disease.”
Eating so greasy every day,
besides meat, it was still meat,
holy shit,
if you didn’t have dementia, who else would have dementia?
“Hehe, when I was young, my family was poor, so I wanted to eat meat, but I couldn’t get it.
Now that I have the conditions, I don’t have many years left to live, so I might as well throw away my arms and eat as much as I can. Who knows if I’ll be poor in my next life, right?
Mao Xi also said that eating braised pork with brown sauce is good for the brain.”
“That’s true.”
The old Daoist picked up a piece of meat and ate it.
The meat was fresh and delicious,
it was fat but not greasy,
It was too delicious! ! !
The old Daoist ate it to his heart’s content,
he ate heartily,
there was no need to eat anymore. The rice was not cooked either. He only ate meat,
in the end, he drank three big bowls of meat soup,
he felt extremely satisfied.
He patted his stomach,
the old Daoist sighed:
“It’s so satisfying, so comfortable, so strong!”
The old man picked up his wine glass and clinked it with the old Daoist. The two of them finished it in one gulp. He had also finished eating.
“Brother, with your skills, it’s a pity that you don’t go out and become a chef. Even the chefs in my company are not as good as you.”
“Yo, brother, you still run a company?”
The old man was a little surprised and immediately asked.
“Yes, I run a company. The shop is on South Street.”
“South Street? That’s amazing,” the old man exclaimed.
In the eyes of the passers-by, south street was the most prosperous area in the city center. If one could open a shop there, just the rent would be scary enough.
“It’s not profitable. It’s a loss. There are people who are neither human nor ghost inside. They’re so worried.”
“Hehe, that’s true. Business isn’t good these days. It’s not easy to find decent, down-to-earth employees.”
“Exactly. The employees in the shop are getting Lazier and Lazier. If I don’t watch and whip them from behind, they’ll dare to bask in the sun and drink tea under my nose every day.
“It’s really hard being my boss.”
“You have to teach your subordinates a lesson. You have to set the rules.”
“That’s right.”
“It’s not easy. I heard that you have no relatives and no family. In the end, you even opened a company. I didn’t expect that. I didn’t expect that you would be so interesting. Why did you come here to spend money?”?
“Based on your income, you shouldn’t have come here.”.
“If something happened, the employees in your shop would be worried to death, right?”
“Who told you that I like this kind of thing? The girls in the club are indeed young, but I can’t do it. All of them are the age of my granddaughter. Even my great-granddaughter can do it. I really can’t do it.”.
“Moreover…”
“I’m already so old. How many impulses and needs do you have?
We just want to find a consolation,
to find a person to talk to and chat with, don’t you think?”
“That’s right.”
The old man nodded,
but he silently sighed,
his expression,
was a little disappointed.
