After saying goodbye to Fang Yuan this night, I went to the bank to check the balance on the card. Le Yao efficiently transferred 10,000 yuan to me, and my life was temporarily guaranteed.

I took 2,000 yuan from the card and then moved into a street hotel with my luggage.

In the simple room, my life seems to be cut by a dividing line. Yesterday was false and gorgeous before, but today I am alone and desolate.

But I gradually felt less painful, because I had experienced too many similar days, so I became numb. At this time, I no longer believed that there was any life that hurts to live the life after breaking up with Jian Wei.

I no longer have a phone card on my phone. This behavior of isolating myself with a strong self-color does not make me feel lonely. On the contrary, I gain a sense of security because I will no longer be disturbed by those empty joys.

...

The next morning, I went to the South Bus Station to buy a ticket to Xitang. It took me only more than an hour to come to the ancient town of Xitang. In fact, I have been here many times, but it was a few years ago. This place carries a light time between Jian Wei and me. I deeply remember that she dedicated her first time to me here.

I think that not only Jian Wei and I, but many couples will sleep here, break up, and return to treat the heart-wrenching wounds. So in my opinion, this small ancient town is the most contradictory place in the world. On the one hand, it carries the inexplicable love, and on the other hand, it tears the melancholy after the pain.

If I had a choice, I would rather not have come to this conflicting place because I had lived a conflicting life. To me, every street and store here is like a frivolous bamboo pole, and the last layer of fig leaf on me can be uncovered at any time.

Therefore, in the past few years since I broke up with Jian Wei, I have never chosen to come here to heal my injuries. The reason why I am revisiting the old place is because there is no fig leaf on my body. It is better to face these heart-wrenching melancholy naked, and then find the power to break out of the cocoon and rebirth in the extreme.

...

At this time, it was not the peak tourist season in Xitang, but there were still some tourists lingering here, and I forgot all the troubles, walking along the winding alley made of bluestone until dusk with the crowd.

I finally began to find a place to rest for myself, but the riverside inn when I came with Jian Wei had been changed into a bar, which made me feel a little disappointed and stood alone in the afterglow of the sunset for a long time.

As the sky was getting darker, I refused to pimps and walked alone on the street, looking for the inn they liked. After a long time, I finally stopped at the end of the street. Because there was a very strange inn in front of me, I looked at the shop's sign with only two words "inn", so this is an inn without a name, and under the sign was a guitar without strings as a decoration.

I smiled. These two points alone were enough to be my reason to move in here, and then walked in with my backpack.

The inn's living room is very small, and the bar is just a simple office desk. The owner is a smoking man in a military coat. He is about 30 years old, but he has no vitality at all as a young man and looks a little cold.

I came to him and asked, "Boss, do you still have a guest room?"

"have."

“How much does a single standard room cost per night?”

“150.”

"It's the off-season for tourism now, it's going to be expensive at 150."

He didn't look at me, and pressed the cigarette to the ashtray, and said coldly: "150, no knife (no bargaining)!"

I felt a little unhappy, but I, who always made a choice based on my feelings, really liked it, so I said patiently: "If I live for a month, wouldn't there be any discounts?"

He finally looked at me and said, "If you live for a long time, you can find someone to buy a house, and just share the room fee for two people."

I was a little surprised. He actually asked me to buy a house, which would make him less money. It seems that he is not a profiteer, but he is just a more personalized person. Otherwise, he would not have hung a guitar without strings at the door.

"Is anyone fighting now?"

He nodded, then walked towards the room behind, and then brought a young man about twenty-three or four years old, wearing glasses and a lot of acne on his face to me.

He asked the acne man, "He plans to live forever. Are you willing to join him for a room?"

The acne man looked at me and asked, "Are you a bad guy?"

I guess this acne man is just a young man with a very inexperienced life. Otherwise, he wouldn't have asked this question. I smiled and said, "That's right, I'm just a bad guy. Are you fighting for a house?"

The acne man grinned and smiled, "I can save me a lot of housing money. I can stay in Xitang for a while."

The inn owner signaled me to register my ID card. I took out my ID card from my wallet and handed it to him. Then I asked the acne man, "Are you a romantic encounter or a healing person?"

The acne man smiled embarrassedly and said, "I am still a virgin!"

"So I'm here to wait for a romantic encounter, right?"

"Just not be a virgin."

I laughed in my heart. I just came to Xitang and met a weird roommate. But this is a good thing. After all, I don’t feel tired when I get along with such honest and naive people.

The boss registered my personal information, returned my ID card to me, and said, "You just need to give Tong Haizhou (a acne man) 1,500 yuan."

I immediately counted 1,500 yuan from my wallet and handed it to Tong Haizhou, saying, "I'll get to know you, my name is Zhaoyang."

Tong Haizhou took the money from me and put it in his pocket without counting it. He grinned at me and smiled and said, "Hello, Brother Yang."

I responded to his smile, then patted his shoulder, and said, "Take me into the room and take a look."

"Welcome Brother Yang to come and guide."

I straightened my back and followed Tong Haizhou to the room where he lived.

...

The room is a standard double room with an old-fashioned desktop computer, an air conditioner, two beds, a few cabinets, and no other decorations. Compared with the careful arrangement of other inns, the conditions here are much worse, but it doesn't matter. For me, living is just mood.

I threw my backpack into the cabinet and lay down on my bed, while Tong Haizhou held his laptop and watched the TV series.

I started chatting with him when I was bored: "Haizhou, are you still going to school?"

"I'm here, but I'm going to graduate in June this year, so I'll be there to have time to come out and have fun."

I nodded, and before I could continue talking about the topic, I fell into silence.

Tong Haizhou suddenly put down the computer he was holding, looked very serious and asked me, "Brother Yang... Have you ever slept with a woman? What does it feel like?"

"Are you a pervert?"

"Brother Yang, don't get it wrong, don't get it wrong. I'm not a virgin, so I'm very curious!"

I thought about it carefully and it seemed that when I was in high school, I was also very curious about men and women. I often talked about this with my classmates. I thought this was the nature of men. No wonder women called me a "stinky man".

I smiled at Tong Haizhou with an understanding smile and said, "You'll know if you go there once."

"I'm still a virgin. I know it once. The key is that I feel bad! I'd better wait for the affair!"

"There are principles...but I have never slept with women."

"Damn, so you are still an old virgin!"

"Oh...yeah!"

Tong Haizhou looked at me with a sympathy face and said for a while: "Brother Yang, I think you are quite handsome, why is you still an old virgin? This is unscientific!"

"Am I handsome?"

Tong Haizhou nodded vigorously.

"You think I'm handsome because you're too ugly, but you're not handsome."

"That's right, I'm just too ugly, so most women don't like me!" As he said that, he took out a cigarette box from his side, took out one and threw it to me, and ordered one myself.

I lit a cigarette and comforted me: "Don't be depressed, isn't there any brother who will accompany you as a virgin?"

Tong Haizhou nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, when I think about it, I feel balanced. No wonder I felt kind when I first met you. It turns out that we are all virgins, which is sad and lamentable!"

After some self-pity, he asked me again: "Brother Yang, what type of woman do you like?"

Anyway, I was bored, so I continued to talk to him and said, "I have big breasts and round butts, where are you?"

"I'm fantasizing about a woman recently and I like her very much."

"who?"

"Le Yao!"

I was immediately choked by the cigarette I sucked in. After a while, I recovered and asked, "Do you know her?"

"I don't know her, but isn't she a star? The palace drama she performed recently became very popular... I also followed her Weibo, refreshed every day, waiting for her to update. To be honest, looking at the photos she posted on Weibo, it's so beautiful! And I found that she looks better in fashion than ancient costumes!"

I finally realized that Le Yao is really no longer the Le Yao he used to be! Then I looked at Tong Haizhou with a cold face and said, "Don't fantasize about her in the future, have you heard it?"

"Brother, have you ever fantasized about her?... But fantasizing about this thing cannot be controlled, and it is definitely not just me who is fantasizing about her. You can't even control it!"

Tong Haizhou's statement was so reasonable that I had nothing to say.

After a while, he sighed again and said, "Oh! If I had the opportunity to say something to her, I would rather live ten years later!"

"You keep fantasizing, I'll go out to find a meal."

"Brother Yang, wait, I'll be with you."

"Do you still have to eat? You can support you by just fantasy!"

Tong Haizhou grinned again, put his hand on my shoulder and said, "Brother Yang, you really like to joke, but there is a benefit to have dinner with me."

I was a little curious and asked with a smile: "What benefits?"

"After dinner, I will take you to Xitang River to see a super beauty... She will sit by the river for a while at 8 o'clock every night, and it has been more than a week!" After saying that, she sighed and said, "It's so beautiful! It's so beautiful!"

I doubted his aesthetic view a little, so I asked, "Who is more beautiful than Le Yao?"

Tong Haizhou thought for a while and replied: "It's not the same type. If you have to compare... uh... it's really incomparable. In short, they are all goddesses!"

Looking at his entangled look, I was really interested. After all, men like to see beauties, especially in Xitang, a place full of encounters. It became more deeply the desire to see beauties. I couldn't help but think: Maybe there is really a woman in this world who is more beautiful than Micai and Leyao! After all, the circle I am in is limited, and the women I contact is limited!

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Chapter completed!