Drink

Li Ping'an squinted his eyes while eating a piece of barbecued meat wrapped in honey. It was hard to believe that it was so delicious. The slightly elastic meat was wrapped in the sweetness of honey and the spicy taste of the seasoning. Everything was just right.

The unknown flowers are covered with flour, fried in oil until they are shaped, and then sprinkled with seasonings. They taste crispy and fragrant.

Taking a sip of scented tea from time to time, Li Pingan feels that life is worth it!

Li Ping'an didn't put down his chopsticks until he was almost vomiting. This meal was really delicious.

Before leaving the table, she and Zhao Jingyan divided the remaining pastries on the table, agreed to come to her room to see the flowers next time, and then the three of them went upstairs together.

Just before going upstairs, Li Pingan suddenly turned around and glanced at the person sitting by the stairs.

A shirtless man.

Li Pingan turned around and wondered if he was thinking too much.

The flowers in the basket were still blooming brightly. Li Ping'an looked at the sky outside and thought it was about time, so he closed the doors and windows.

At the moment when the sun sets and the moon rises completely, the moon-viewing daisy on the table suddenly emits light. A ball of soft light emerges from the flower, rises slowly, and finally floats above the head.

"Knock knock knock" there was a knock on the door. Li Ping'an opened the door and looked at Zhao Jingyan and the other person who came late. He whispered, "Come in quickly. It has already started." Afraid that a louder voice would disturb the flowers in the house, Li Ping'an quickly closed the door after seeing the two people come in.

When I turned around again, I saw not only a palm-sized ball of light, but also tiny stars around it. The moon and stars on the table were still rising.

The three of them just stood there staring blankly. They had never been so close to the Milky Way before. They could reach out and pick the moon.

Li Ping'an shook his head, collected his scattered thoughts, and looked at Zhao Jingyan, "Why are you so late?" Didn't you say that you would go back to the house to put something down and then come?

Li Pingan's words drew their attention back. Zhao Jingyan seemed to be still a little unresponsive. After hearing Li Pingan's question, he was stunned for two moments and said, "Ah, right, I went to get this."

As he spoke, Zhao Jingyan took out a small white porcelain jar from his arms, laughed, and opened it. "Smell what this is?"

Li Pingan came forward and smelled it. In addition to the faint floral scent, there was also a pungent smell. Her eyes lit up, "This is, wine..."

It’s not that Li Ping’an loves drinking so much, but in this situation, a couple of drinks is more appropriate.

"Where are you from?" They were all poor, so where did she get the money to buy the wine?

Zhao Jingyan took two teacups from the table and started pouring wine, "I'm on hold." She originally wanted to find the man to tell him, but he was not there.

Li Ping'an's attention was attracted by the wine. When the wine was poured out, there was a flash of light. For a moment, the room was filled with a sweet smell of wine. It smelled that the alcohol content should not be too high.

Three people sat at the table, but only two of them could drink. "You are still growing and can't drink." Zhao Jingyan slapped Zhao Ziyu's hand that was reaching for the wine jug.

Zhao Ziyu was a little unhappy when she heard this. She thought she had grown up, but in some ways, Zhao Jingyan still treated her as a child.

"Here, have this." Li Ping'an moved the peanuts on the table towards Zhao Ziyu, then picked up the cup and took a sip.

It tasted almost the same as the scented tea he drank in the evening. Li Ping'an tasted it carefully twice and felt that it was similar to fruit beer and should have a very low alcohol content, so he took two more big gulps.

Seeing this, Zhao Jingyan, who was standing by, also started drinking in big gulps.

Zhao Ziyu, who was sitting opposite, was the first to notice something was wrong. Why did the two of them blush so quickly? Before she could stop him, Zhao Jingyan slammed his cup on the table, slammed his hand on the table, and stood up. "They all look down on me and think I'm a waste."

"But, it was me, the loser in their eyes, who brought Tzuyu out and raised her well."

At this point, she rushed to the table, or more precisely, rushed to Zhao Ziyu who was across the table, holding her face, "Ziyu, I'm sorry, I didn't take good care of you."

Then, she started crying while maintaining this twisted posture. Zhao Ziyu was already familiar with it and touched her head. "It's okay. Look, aren't there a lot of stars in the sky?"

As expected, Zhao Jingyan's attention was diverted. He looked at the floating stars all over the room, concentrating intently and muttering, "There are still many moons."

Seeing Zhao Jingyan sitting obediently at the table and reading, Zhao Ziyu breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Li Pingan on the other side.

In her eyes, although Li Pingan's face was red, he looked normal. He just kept pouring wine into his mouth.

Then he slammed the table and said, "Waiter, check out."

Zhao Ziyu didn't understand what she was saying, but his head was spinning. It was obvious that she was drunk. Seeing her stumbling and trying to move, Zhao Ziyu stood up and supported her.

Li Pingan blushed and stared at her for a while, "Why is it a child? Where is the waiter? Check out."

"Thank you, kid. I'll treat you to some barbecue later." Why not treat her now? Because the drunk Li Ping'an also knew that she was poor and had no money.

Zhao Ziyu helped her sit back down and said, "Look at the stars for a while. The waiter will be back soon."

The only way to deal with a drunk is to coax him.

Li Ping'an looked at the stars in the sky and suddenly remembered something. Something was wrong. She seemed to have watched the stars with someone not long ago. Who was it?

Li Pingan covered his drunken head,

Oh, it’s a man and a woman, Annie and Anding. Li Pingan tilted his head. Where did they go?

Did you leave too?

No, before, much earlier, the stars on the Ferris wheel were brighter than they are today. Who took her there? She was just a child and it was impossible for her to go alone. Who took her there?

Someone lowered his head and called her softly, "An An." Who was it?

Li Ping'an covered his head and dug out two broken faces from the depths of his memory. Where are they?

Dead.

"Pingping, let's go." Li Pingan looked up and saw an old lady with gray hair and a hunched body.

The old lady seemed to notice that Li Ping'an had not caught up, and looked back, "Pingping, what's wrong?" with a kind and gentle voice.

The moment Li Pingan saw clearly, for some reason, tears welled up in his eyes. "Are you okay?"

"Pingping, what's wrong? It's okay, grandma will grow up with you." Grandma wanted to touch Li Ping'an's head.

Li Ping'an bent down, feeling familiar, and when she stood up, she wanted to say something else to her grandma.

Grandma suddenly smiled and said, "My Pingping has grown up. I am relieved now."

As she spoke, a ball of white soft light suddenly appeared beside her grandmother. Li Pingan didn't know why, but a sense of fear suddenly surged in his heart. "No, no, no, I haven't grown up yet, I haven't grown up yet."

He reached out to grab his grandmother, but she turned into stars in his palm and flew up to the sky.

The pain in her heart made her cry out, tears mixed with howling. She was in so much pain, worse than if she were dead. Why, why?!

"An An, what's wrong?" Li Ping'an suddenly had a pair of hands on her head, gently stroking her head. "Are you having a nightmare again?"

The woman with gentle eyes leaned over and picked her up, "Then sleep with mom and dad tonight, so An An won't be scared."

Li Pingan didn't know why she became smaller. Feeling the embrace she hadn't seen for a long time, she thought, all the previous nightmares were just nightmares. Please, this is just a nightmare.

When she woke up from the nightmare, she was still a child and could still sleep with her parents.

"Come on, tell me, what nasty dream did our little one have again?" The handsome man lifted Li Ping'an above his head and then pricked her cheek with his beard. "Does it make you feel uncomfortable when your dad pricks you with his beard?"

"I forgot." The little girl's giggle came out.

"Okay, stop disturbing her, otherwise she won't be able to sleep again." Mom patted Dad's arm gently.

Li Pingan closed his eyes, lying between his parents, and suddenly whispered, "You will always be with me, right?"

"You will accompany me through elementary school, middle school, high school, and college."

Silence, boundless silence. She opened her eyes, tears welling up in them. The familiar yet strange little room collapsed before her eyes, and the figures of her parents gradually became transparent.

"But, An An, by that time, mom and dad were gone."

Li Ping'an, who had turned back into an adult, sat up and was surprised to find that this bed could only accommodate her parents and her when she was little, but not her parents and her when she grew up.

Li Pingan couldn't help but scream. She wondered what else could help her except yelling to vent her emotions?

The scenes kept switching, showing Li Ping'an's age from a toddler to an adult. There were scenes of her holding a puppy, setting up a stall with her grandmother, smiling on her father's shoulder, lying in her mother's arms, and playing on the beach in a skirt...

Zhao Ziyu looked at Li Ping'an and Zhao Jingyan with their heads tilted back, their eyes dull, and they were still muttering softly, their faces sometimes grim.

She picked up the wine on the table and imitated the way others drank, a peanut, a sip of wine, and sighed. The two of them really didn't know how to drink, they just drank themselves.

Originally, Zhao Ziyu just wanted to taste the wine, but he unexpectedly drank it all without realizing it. He shook his dazed head and looked up casually...

In the middle of the night, a bee quietly crawled out from under the bed. The slender bee with a yellow and black abdomen looked at the three people in the room, and stood on the table for a long time with some doubts.

Then, he crawled out from the gap in the window, swinging his body.

Soon, swarms of bees squeezed through the window, came in, covered the three of them, and took them away through the window.