Lu Nei, born in 1973, published the novel "Young Babylon", "Follow Her Journey", "Man in the Clouds", "Mercy", "Mistwalker" was selected for the 2021 Harvest Literature List Novel List.
Spring Roll 2022
"All About Farewell" (Lu Nei)
Li Bai, a native of Wuli, born in December 1975, pen name Li Yibai. Writers, unmarried, teenage nostalgic romantic men (until middle age). When he was ten years old, his mother eloped with someone and did not know the end. He has talked about more than a dozen loves, written two or three books, and the novel "The Past of Prince Lane" has been shortlisted for the Chen Liangcai Literature Award. Father Li Zhongzhong, deputy director of the agricultural machinery factory, firefighting hero model, future Alzheimer's disease patients. This book chronicles the joys and sorrows of the father and son's life from 1985 to 2019.
【Optional Reading 2】
Everything about saying goodbye
Inside the road
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"Coffee with salt is aphrodisiac." Many years ago, in the late autumn, Li Bai said these words to Zeng Xiaoran in the Blue Lotus Cafe on the south side of the first department store in Wuli County.
At that time, Xiao Ran was in his third year of high school and Li Bai was in high school, and the two occasionally skipped school to hang out in the downtown area, a slight divergence and pleasure. Blue Lotus is a narrow and long-shaped booth café, the façade is three meters wide, more than ten meters deep, a total of nine booth rooms, the back of the chair is extremely high, the light is dim, and there are several pairs of middle-aged men and women sitting all year round. One is next to the street and nine are next to the restrooms. Li Baisu liked eight seats, which were the deepest realms of life's purity, and nine were inevitably filthy. Xiao Ran loves one, observing the crowd on the street through the brown glass, like the bright eyes behind the lenses of her reflective glasses.
The waiter beckoned him to pick up the coffee, two glasses with handles, which contained a black liquid, and a drink made after dissolving the Swan coffee block, which was not much different from the size of the mahjong tile. Li Bai said dissatisfactorily: "The Red Swallow Cafe on Changxing Road already uses Nescafe coffee. "There was no response. He asked for coffee companions, asked for sugar. "Partner? Don't you already have one? The waiter scooped out a spoonful of white sugar from the iron sugar canister and sprinkled it into two cups of coffee, and Li Bai clearly saw a cockroach running out, and hesitated for a moment in the light and slipped into the sewer. In the south, cockroaches are extremely common animals.
Next door was a pair of middle-aged men and women, and they occupied nine seats. Men are telling women about their sexual dysfunction: every man will be like this after forty years old - tiger whip is difficult to engage, I am now eating seahorse whip, no, no, seahorse, no whip, seahorse itself is a whip; in this situation my wife is not satisfied, if my wife is satisfied, you will not be satisfied; the doctor thinks that the cause is that I took too much cold shower when I was young, no, no, not tap water, it is his mother's well water, the cold is too strong... Li Bai inhaled a cold breath, and Xiao Ran pricked up his ears to listen down, and suddenly, he stretched out his head and said to the middle-aged man next door: "Piping hot coffee with salt, the most aphrodisiac." ”
At the Booth Café, there is only one situation that allows interference in a stranger's conversation or behavior, and that is to alert them that the police are coming. The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, stood up, more than one meter eight tall, a man like a black iron tower, a local rare thing. Li Bai could not have imagined that a person with sexual dysfunction had such a great figure (otherwise, how could he have the courage to take a bath in the well), he tried to retract into a non-existent slit like a cockroach, and the tower man reached out and patted him on the shoulder and grabbed it to the accounting desk, and the ka-pop jacket from Wuli Agricultural Machinery Factory was very scratch-resistant and could not be torn.
"Is there salt?" The Tower Man asked the waiter.
The waiter pointed to the restaurant across the street. The Tower Man patted Li Bai's shoulder again, meaning that you stay here and don't move, and then went out to the restaurant. Li Bai returned to the eighth seat, shook his head in a dashing manner, and found that the aunt of the neighboring seat sat down, and Zeng Xiaoran looked at each other and smiled, and both sides were a little embarrassed. The aunt was so beautiful, wearing an aqua blue dress, so that when he became an adult, she used the term "coral bush in the shallow tropical sea" to describe it, imaginary (the seahorse swam in it), and was looking at him with a strange look, as if Li Bai's weak body was a hole, and there was something in the hole that could be squeezed out. Then, the aunt laughed.
"What are you still standing here waiting for?" Do you really want to be grabbed by his neck and drink a cup of salted coffee? ”
Zeng Xiaoran jumped up and grabbed Li Bai and ran outside.
Now recall the moment, think of the cup of aphrodisiac water that has not been drunk, and remember that the Blue Lotus Café has long been razed to the ground in a huge demolition movement, Li Bai lies on the bed of the hotel, not without sadness, the times are different, coffee and salt are appearing, the booth café is basically extinct, even the train seat on the train is rare to see, even, different eras have disappeared, the new world that has been superimposed several times has repeatedly covered the past, and we are still alive, we don't need aphrodisiac, but we are no longer in love. He read the book for a while, and the cup of sea salt coffee didn't do anything (referring to a refreshing, not aphrodisiac), and he fell asleep.
[To be continued, the full text is published in the "Harvest" novel 2022 spring volume]
Harvest novel 2022 Spring Roll
directory
Lu Nei, "Everything About Farewell"
Cheng Depei, "Or Symbol or Mirror Image"
Wei Min, "I Can't Prove That Years Have Feet"
Lai Yingyan", "You are the joy of youth""
Jiang Lan,"Chengdu Biography: From Chunxi Road to Huaxi Dam"
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