(This is a story that happened in a small northern town.) At that time, there were not as many jobs in the small towns as they are today, and there were many unemployed people. In the story, Jammeh can't find a job after divorce, enters the dance hall and struggles to survive, and finally, she crosses the fog, wads through the muddy river, walks scarred to the shore, and walks to the distant place with light... ）
In the private room, the fourth brother sat across from me and looked at me with a serious face.
No, the fourth brother was looking at the old eight sitting next to me.
The fourth brother is more than 40 years old, thin and thin, not very tall, smokes very fiercely, and his eyes are usually gentle, but sometimes I feel that his eyes are a little poisonous.
He didn't seem to get along well.
The eighth elder said to the fourth brother, "Fourth brother, what are you doing with that look at me?" ”
The fourth brother said: "Look at your good looks, look at the dance partner sitting next to you is also very good-looking, you two are still quite compatible, drink a know-how bar, quite lucky." ”
Men come to the ballroom to play, either to entertain customers from afar or to entertain friends. After coming here, I either drink or dance, and occasionally gamble money, or talk about business, or even peace.
The fourth brother and the old eight should come to the dance hall to drink and dance.
Men are happy to drink, and forcing women to drink is even more fun.
Without thinking, Lao Ba picked up the cup and drank half a glass of white wine in one breath.
The fourth brother said, "Old Eight, you didn't drink with your dance partner, why did you drink it yourself?" I'm going to let you both drink together. No, I'll have to punish you. ”
We drank liquor, not beer, glass by glass, and I was completely frightened.
Lao Ba hesitated, he dried up half a glass of liquor in the cup, and then picked up the liquor bottle next to him and poured his own cup, raised the wine glass and touched the cup with me, and drank three or two liquors in one sip. Plus the one he had drunk before, he had already drunk six or two liquors.
Most people get drunk early and lie down. Old Eight was just gasping for breath, his face gradually became rosy, and his eyes were not as stiff as before, and he began to soften like a ripe peach.
The fourth brother looked at me and said, "What are you still stupid about, the old eight have drunk, do you see the hilarity?" ”
I was a little timid and said, "I don't drink liquor." ”
The fourth brother's two eyes stared at me and said, "What are you doing in the dance hall without drinking?" Sell orders? ”
Selling orders - Northeast dialect, is a person who stands by and watches the liveliness.
I didn't dare to speak, nor did I dare to look into the eyes of the fourth brother. The fourth brother's eyes were like two sharp awls, pierced into the flesh, and could draw out two pieces of blood.
I looked pleadingly at the monkey sitting next to my fourth brother.
The monkey looked at me and said, "I won't drink or drink, but I will exercise the amount of alcohol after a long time, and this is how we all exercise." ”
I hesitated, trying to make up my mind to drink. Because I can't drink alcohol, I really don't fit to be a waiter in a dance hall.
But the fourth brother said to the monkey, "You find someone who can drink, and it is too disappointing not to drink." ”
I was worried about being taken off the table, so I took a glass and took a sip of white wine.
The liquor was spicy and rushing, it was so hard to drink, I almost threw up.
The fourth brother did not speak, but he took up the cup and touched the glass with the monkey, and one of them drank a glass of white wine.
Heavens, the monkey drank a glass of white wine, three or two white wine, all drank, and she did not even have a red face.
The fourth brother began to eat vegetables, and the monkey and the old eight began to eat vegetables. I also picked up chopsticks to eat vegetables. But in front of strangers, I don't dare to pick up dishes.
In the 27 years before that, I had never eaten at a stranger's table? I don't stay at my relatives' house to eat every New Year's Day, I'm a short-faced person, and I can't open my mouth to eat in front of strangers.
The fourth brother looked at me, laughed, and said to the monkey: "Where do you find the waiter, unearthed cultural relics, nothing, nothing, how to make money in the dance hall?" ”
Then the fourth brother began to drink with the old eight again. After the two men finished drinking, the fourth brother began to force me to drink again.
I knew that if I didn't drink at this table, I might be fired, so I couldn't make any money again, so I had to take two sips of liquor.
I felt that my head was a little dazed, my fingers were a little shaky, I didn't hold the chopsticks steadily when I took them, and one of the chopsticks fell to the ground.
I squatted on the ground to pick up chopsticks. But I saw an unexpected scene: the feet of the monkey sitting opposite me were touching the feet of the old eight sitting next to me, and the feet of the old eight were also touching the feet of the monkeys.
What happened to these two people? Aren't monkeys the dance partners of the fourth brother? Isn't The Old Eight without a dance partner at the New World Ballroom?
I was a little dizzy and didn't understand the relationship.
The fourth brother suddenly said to Old Eight, "Why does Old Chen know about that batch of goods?" ”
Old Eight seemed to be excited, slowly put down the wine glass, looked at the fourth brother, and said half a day later: "I don't know." ”
The fourth brother said, "Don't you really know?" ”
Old Eight said, "I really don't know? ”
The fourth brother said, "You don't know who knows?" ”
Old Eight said, "Fourth brother, I really don't know—"
The fourth brother was a little angry, and said: "I have been worried about that batch of goods for half a year, just arrived at the dock, and he still fucking did not unload the goods, he was robbed by Lao Chen, you say, this batch of goods we both know, I can't tell Lao Chen, how does Old Chen know that the king is a bastard?" ”
Old Eight looked at the fourth brother with some fear and said, "Fourth brother, do you doubt the secret I told Old Chen?" ”
The fourth brother said, "It wasn't you who told you, so who told Lao Chen?" Did Old Chen take the goods in front of me? ”
The monkey whispered, "Fourth brother, will it be the people on the dock, they told Lao Chen?" ”
The fourth brother suddenly raised his face and said to the monkey, "Shut up! What's the matter with you? ”
The fourth brother was still talking with a smile on his face just now, but now he was staring at the monkey with a murderous face.
The monkey immediately shut up.
The monkey has a lot of eyesight and gives the fourth brother a dish.
The fourth brother said to the monkey, "I found that you are very close to the old eight, you drink with the old eight." ”
The fourth brother asked the monkey to pour wine into the wine glass of the old eight, and the old eight suddenly said: "Fourth brother, I really don't know what this batch of goods old Chen they know, you let me drink, I didn't say, don't bother the monkey." ”
After Lao Ba finished speaking, he took up the cup and drank a glass of white wine again.
The monkey looked at the old eighth, looked at the fourth brother, and suddenly said: "Fourth brother, don't always drink, what does it mean to drink, it should not be fun to get drunk for a while, let's go out and dance for a while." ”
The fourth brother did not want to go dancing, so the monkey leaned into the fourth brother's ear and whispered something. The fourth brother reached out and squeezed hard in the monkey's waist, and the monkey screamed very demonically.
The two finally went dancing.
Only me and the old eight were left in the private room.
Old Eight suddenly said to me, "Have a drink with me." ”
I've drunk too much.
After drinking, my courage seems to grow bigger, and I seem to dare to speak.
I said to Lao Ba, "I know you're uncomfortable, so I'll accompany you for a drink." ”
Next, I drank the liquor very smoothly. I couldn't drink what it tasted anymore, but I didn't think this liquor was spicy, so I boldly picked up the remaining half a glass of liquor and touched the cup with Lao Ba.
Did the old eight drink the wine in the cup or didn't drink it? I forgot, I just remember that I drank the wine out of the glass myself, and then I seemed to be lying on the table, as soft as a pool of mud, unable to hold it, unable to sit up straight, unable to stand up.
I drank too much, what happened afterwards? I don't remember very well. I just remember that at the beginning it was the old eight who helped me to the bathroom, and I vomited in the bathroom. Later, I seemed to fall into a coma again, and when I woke up again, I felt very cold, and it was a monkey who was holding me next to me.
How did I get out into the street? I squatted on the road teeth and vomited, spitting out intestines as if they were spitting out, and the whole person trembled like chaff on a sieve, cold, cold from the heart to the outside, cold teeth trembling.
And then what?
When I woke up again, I was sleeping in a bed in my dorm room, next to my eldest sister.
The eldest sister said to me, "Do you still want to throw up?" ”
I didn't speak, had a headache, stepped on the ladder of bunk beds and went down to the floor, pushed open the door, and went to the bathroom to vomit.
The things I spit out stink, all the smell of white wine.
My stomach hurt badly and my head was dizzy. But I remember to go out and pocket it. I took all my clothes and pockets all over my body, and I didn't touch the money, that is, the old eight didn't tip me.
Old Eight estimated that he had drunk too much, and I had drunk too much, and I didn't remember to tip, so naturally he wouldn't have thought of tipping.
I was very upset in my heart, I insisted on it a little longer, and if I refused it again, I might not drink so much liquor. You may be tipping.
In the morning, when the monkey came back, the monkey asked me: "Jammeh, how much tip did the old eight tip you?" ”
The expression on the monkey's face was complicated, and I couldn't tell.
I shook my head and said that the old eight did not tip me.
The monkey scolded and said, "Old Eight, this King Eight Calf, when you are drunk, you can't forget to tip the waiter, it's really fucking humiliating!" ”
I can't tell if the monkey was angry that the old man forgot to tip me, or if he was angry with something else.
I went back to sleep after eating, and my head was still groggy, like a serious illness, and I kept sleeping. Later, I went to the bathroom to vomit, and Threw up all the meals I ate in the morning, so that my stomach felt better.
Monkeys came over and pushed me and asked if I wanted to take some medicine or go to the clinic to get a hanging bottle. I heard my own voice like a mosquito fly saying, "Just let me sleep for a while." ”
I didn't wake up from my drunkenness until the next morning and regain my senses.
The monkey brought me food, and when she saw me eating in a big mouthful, she pulled open the long hair that blocked half of her face and asked me in a low voice, "When The old eight was with you, did you move your hands and feet?" ”
I didn't understand what the monkey meant.
The monkey said, "Is he sticking to you?" ”
I shook my head hastily and said no.
The monkey smiled, went to the side to get a small mirror and began to put on makeup.
I don't understand what the monkey means when I ask me this? He also seemed to understand the meaning of the monkey asking me this.
It's just that I don't dare to guess the relationship between the monkey and the old eight.
The fourth brother was so fierce, if he knew that his dance partner had any private affair with his old eight, it would be a big deal.
I asked the monkey, "What are the fourth brother and the eighth brother doing?" ”
The monkey said, "Whoever does business." ”
I asked, "Why didn't you buy it?" ”
The monkey raised his head, thought about it, laughed, and said, "I don't know what to do, anyway, it's upside down, erdao dealer." ”
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