It's the end of the month, and the scrubbers in the bathhouse have received their wages and plan to have a barbecue dinner at the night market.

In order to save money, Li Ernan deliberately refused, but his master, Lao Liutou, forced him to go, saying: "If you earn money, you just spend it. You can't become a millionaire by saving money. You can earn money only by spending it." Motivation." Then he lowered his head and told him, "They must have gone there to drink, drink less, and pack the leftover skewers for your brother when you leave, don't be shy."

Li Ernan could only nod his head in agreement.

When they arrived at the night market, everyone went straight to one of the stalls called Laobai BBQ.

It was less than eight o'clock at this moment, and the stall was full of people. After a few people finally found a table for six people, they moved a stool and squeezed it together, and seven people were about to sit down.

Those who came often called the waiter to order, and while ordering, they turned their heads to introduce Li Ernan and Master Liu, who came for the first time, and a young man wearing glasses who was new for less than a week, and said: How delicious the grilled so-and-so kebabs are, and the taste of such-and-such meat kebabs is amazing. The excited recommendation looks like this stall is opened by his family.

The man wearing glasses was also surnamed Li, and he was the youngest among them, only twenty-eight years old. Brother Li used to be a programmer. Later, he heard that he had a conflict with his boss, so he resigned in anger and went to the bathroom to take a bath.

Everyone felt incredible after hearing his experience. Instead of doing a decent job, they came to do this job of serving people. What is it if they are not stupid when they study?

But everyone has their own difficulties, and they have the right to choose how they want to live in the future. They are just strangers who are a little familiar, and they should not and do not need to point fingers at other people's choices. But such a choice of "drive high and go low" is indeed too subversive to the public's perception, and it still makes everyone marvel and sigh.

Since ancient times, this country has advocated that "everything is inferior, only reading is high", especially the ordinary people firmly believe that "knowledge changes destiny", it doesn't matter if you are a little bit tired, as long as the children can have books to read, they can have a good future It's all worth it. But looking at this little brother Li, who has read the book very well, his fate has turned like a waterfall, rushing to the bottom of the valley. What bright future can a scrubber have? ! His parents were so pissed off when they found out!

However, no matter how much they complain, they are just expressing their emotions in private, and they will never talk nonsense in front of others. After all, who knows that making such a choice is not a last resort, they are forced to do so. At that time, someone joked about this matter and said, "With Brother Li here, the entry threshold for us scrubbers will be high in the future, and you can't even get in without a college degree." Everyone didn't take it seriously, and laughed, Brother Li He also laughed, but when he turned around, Li Ernan saw him crying secretly in the locker room.

However, Brother Li is usually very cheerful and optimistic, and he also likes to join in the fun. Like today's gathering, he only worked for a week and hasn't been paid yet, but he still came along. Li Xiaoge is also a foodie, he is very familiar with barbecue, chatting with the old gourmet in the lead, and after a while, he became a confidant at the wine table.

Li Ernan looked at the bustling barbecue stalls and the endless variety of food trucks in the distance, feeling a little curious and envious: the business is so good, he must be able to earn a lot of money! It's a pity that he is a good-for-nothing in the kitchen, and he doesn't have the conditions to get a share of the pie.

This is Li Ernan's first visit to the night market.

In the past, he would rush home to cook dinner after work. Although he really doesn't have much talent in cooking, he wanted to fry a dish so hard that the non-stick pan became useless, and after learning for a month, the rice he cooked was always between raw and thick porridge... But let my brother When he gets home, at least he sees someone cooking for him. Isn't that a little bit more homely warmth? As for cooking skills, more practice can improve it...

I don't know what Tang Chen would eat by himself if he didn't go back today.

He gnawed on the skewered lamb kidney, thinking about some messy things in his mind.

The taste is salty, fresh and oily, with a dense taste, burnt but not bitter, not fat and not greasy. Unknowingly, after eating two skewers, I want to take another skewer, but there is only an empty iron stick left on the plate. He licked the grease on his lips, regretting that he should not have focused on two things just now. Not only did he fail to grab an extra bunch, but even the taste of the kidney was indistinct, wasting the boss's hard work in vain.

He was sighing, when a strong smell of meat accompanied by the heat wave hit his eyes brightly, his Adam's apple couldn't help rolling. Pulling his neck and looking along the fragrance, he saw a tall, thin man walking towards him through the crowd with an iron pan billowing with white steam.

The old glutton at the same table smelled it, patted the table and stood up, happily saying: "The signature dish is finally here!" When the man carrying the plate came over, he gestured to reach out to take it. The other party evaded, gently reminded "be careful of scalding", then held the chassis with one hand, took out a tong with the other hand, and swiftly picked up the crispy golden garlic ribs grilled on it evenly in front of everyone on the table plate.

People who didn't know about this operation before had already filled a plate with brine peanut shells, and when they saw it, they quickly dumped it aside, took the ribs with the plate, and couldn't help counting in their hearts whether there was one piece more on their own plate than others'. .

The old glutton had long been envious of this plate of grilled ribs, but at this time he insisted on steadying his posture, letting others come first, and he would rather be the last one. But the way he watched eagerly and quietly swallowed his saliva already revealed his impatience.

Seeming to see through his eagerness, the man didn't put him last, Lao Tao held his plate, feeling mixed feelings. He wanted to be the last one not just to show politeness, but also because the last one can take all the minced meat, garlic and other ingredients in the grill pan. To be more intense.

Seeing that the scum that he had planned for a long time was transferred to Li Ernan's plate, the old glutton could only stare and smack his lips, but in the end he was a little unwilling, and said: "Boss, leave me some Let's go." The

man paused, and then moved some more on Li Ernan's plate, then turned to Lao Tao, and poured the remaining Mo Mo onto his plate.

Seeing that his plate was almost full of prickly ash and scallions, the old man sighed and comforted himself that "satisfaction is always happy, and scallions are not bad", then he picked up his chopsticks and lowered his head to eat.

Li Ernan looked at the back of the barbecue stand owner leaving, and always felt that those eyes seemed familiar.

The people nearby saw that the boss only "added ingredients" to Li Ernan's plate, and asked suspiciously: "You know the boss?"

Li Ernan shook his head, and the old man explained for him: "This is the old rule here, Whoever is the last one will liquidate the liquidation." Everyone suddenly realized when they heard the words, and teased him: "No wonder I usually want to be the first to rush up when I see food, but today I take the initiative to stand back. It turns out that there is something wrong with it!" The old man laughed and admitted generously Yes, but it's not a conspiracy to use his eyes for food, it's his devotion to food.

Lao Tao ate a few pieces of spare ribs, sucked the bone marrow clean, and took a sip from his wine glass happily. He saw that everyone was engrossed in eating the meat and was full of praise, but Li Ernan was in a daze while eating, and the things on the plate hardly moved. Li, isn't it to your liking?"

Li Er couldn't come back to his senses, seeing the old man's eyes glowing, half-clutching his two hands on the table ready to move, as if as soon as he nodded, the next moment he would reach out to share his worries up. He quickly dispelled the idea of ​​being a glutton: "No, these ribs are so delicious, but there are too few, and they are not enough to eat. I am thinking about how to make this, and I will try to bake a plate myself when I go back."

The old gourmet was quite disappointed, but when Li Ernan said that he wanted to make it himself, he smiled and persuaded him not to waste his efforts. If the signature dishes can be learned casually, then what kind of restaurant does the boss make and what kind of money does he make?

Li Ernan replied honestly, "That's right", then lowered his head and continued to eat.

Of course, wanting to learn how to cook is just a pretense. He knows how much he has. Even if someone helps him pack up all the raw materials and put them in the oven, he only needs to press the switch, and he can bake them into a pile of coke. , let alone let him study the formula by himself.

The reason why he was in a daze was because the taste of ribs was too familiar, and it brought him into that hazy memory again. The shape is exactly the same, the taste is exactly the same, and even the leftovers that are baked into crispy dregs have exactly the same taste.

In the memory, a pair of big hands rested lightly on top of his head, stroking his hair tenderly and pamperingly. He couldn't see the other person's face clearly, he only caught a glimpse of his tightly kneaded fingers and the slightly bulging belly of the other person beside him from the corner of his eye.

He smacked his lips, more and more confused about what kind of person he was before.

Recently, more and more memories have come to him. In different scenes, he was accompanied by almost different people. What frightened him the most was that when he saw a video of a lion courting in "Animal World", he unexpectedly I also thought of a similar scene, and my body actually reacted, and the other protagonist in the exercise in my memory turned out to be a raccoon cat! ! ! He broke out in a cold sweat, even if he was a philanthropic person, he would admit it, but with cats...he couldn't accept it.

He suddenly didn't dare to continue looking for memories. If he was really a heinous perverted bastard before, it would be fate's favor for him to start again after losing his memory.

But another voice told him in the dark: You have to think about it, you must think about it, this is very important.

He couldn't help falling into distress, two opposite voices, one came from his inner subconscious intuition, and the other was like a warning from fate, who should he trust?

In the kitchen, Qian Erbai neatly stacked the marinated pork ribs into the baking tray, brushed another layer of sauce, and pushed the baking tray into the oven with a relaxed smile on his face.

Seeing Qian Erbai busy, Lu Liuliu was puzzled, so he asked: "Master, how do you know that person is the master? Ming Tong didn't feel the breath of the master, and he didn't have any energy from 741." Fluctuation?"

Qian Erbai thought for a while, and said: "Intuition." If you know a little bit, you may call it "the power of love".

He took off his gloves, took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Moments: "The ribs are sold out today, thank you for your support."

At 9:30, a group of customers at the barbecue stall had already left, but new customers joined in one after another, and some even got better. Hot trend.

Li Ernan's table is already full, but when the men get together with their friends, they are not keen enough to go home. With the remaining half plate of marinated peanuts and edamame, each of them drank a bottle of beer. Everyone had a red face, drunken eyes, but they still hooked their shoulders with their tongues, bragging.

Li Ernan didn't want to drink at first, but when the toast came to him, he was too embarrassed to refuse, so he took it and poured a glass.

The smell of alcohol is no stranger to him, but unexpectedly it did not arouse any memory in him. Maybe the number of scratches today has reached the upper limit. he thought.

The old man saw that it was getting late, and the food and drink were already in place, so he stood up unsteadily and planned to ask the boss to pay the bill, but he had just taken two steps when he kicked the table leg, almost tripping himself .

Old Liutou was the only one who hadn't even touched a drop of alcohol. He quickly grabbed Lao Tao with his eyesight and hands, and pulled him back to his seat. After looking around, everyone on the table was stumbling around. He sighed knowingly and said he was still sober Li Ernan, who ordered, took care of the stall and paid the bill by himself.

Li Ernan couldn't drink very well, he only drank one cup, and after sitting for a while, he almost woke up, so he quickly stopped Lao Liutou, no matter what, he couldn't let an old man pay the bill.

He walked through the crowd and came to the door of the store. The boss just opened the curtain and saw him standing at the door, so he took a step back and said, "Check out? Come in."

Qian Erbai was wearing a mask and hat, so Li Ernan didn't see his face at that time, but felt a strong sense of familiarity in his brows and eyes. Now that he saw the whole face, he naturally recognized Qian Erbai as he had seen in the bathhouse before. The man who has been obsessed with it since the first meeting was very pleasantly surprised: "It's you!" Qian Erbai

said with a smile: "Master Xiao Li, we meet again."

The scene of him shamelessly harassing others in the bathhouse made his face a little hot, but his eyes unconsciously drifted towards Qian Erbai's unsuitable place for children.

Qian Erbai coughed, turned around and walked to the back of the counter, a series of crisp calculator sounds called Li Ernan back to reality from his own small world. But he didn't feel embarrassed, put his hands on the counter, and stared at Qian Erbai without blinking. When he accidentally matched up with someone else's realization, he just smiled naively, not feeling at all uncomfortable about being caught.

Qian Erbai shook his head helplessly, just pretending not to know.

Lu Liuliu kept jumping up while watching the progress of the task, and he understood how Qian Erbai's intuition came about. It looked at the man in front of him who looked like Zhou Zheng at most, and then at the doting host. He was happy for them but at the same time he was a little worried—the host obviously lost his memory for some reason, and the host had already lost his memory. It has been reminded so many times, but the host has never shown any sign of recognition. Although he is still in love with the host, he is loving another stranger from the perspective of a stranger.

It couldn't help thinking, if the owner recovered his memory later, and remembered this experience, would he be jealous because the host had been so nice to a "stranger"?

Qian Erbai typed out the consumption list and handed it to Li Ernan, saying: "The total is 750 yuan, cash or electronic payment?"

Li Ernan took out his wallet and counted it, it was exactly 800 yuan, he thought about it Thinking about it, he only took out 700 yuan, pretended to be embarrassed, and said: "I only have 700 yuan here, and there is no money in my mobile phone now. See if this can be done, let's add a friend first, wait I will transfer the money to you after my colleagues transfer the money to me later?" He took out his mobile phone and looked at Qian Erbai, feeling a little nervous.

Qian Erbai raised his eyebrows to look at him, seemed a little surprised, after a while, he smiled and agreed.

After being added as a friend, Li Ernan changed the note to Qian Erbai, he pretended to read unintentionally: "Lao Bai barbecue..." At the same time, Na took a peek at Qian Erbai. Qian Erbai said indifferently: "Shen Chenxin."

Li Ernan was overjoyed in his heart, changed his mind quickly, and praised: "So your name is Shen Chenxin, this name is really nice." But since the surname is Shen, the name also There is no white character, why is the name of the store called "Lao Bai BBQ"?

As if knowing what he was thinking, Qian Erbai said, "Because I have another name, Qian..."

"Host, the small world awareness warns you not to try to break the rules, or you will bear the consequences!" Lu Liuliu reminded road.

Qian Erbai didn't care, and then said his name: "My name is Qian Erbai."

Unfortunately, Li Ernan didn't respond, but just boasted like when he heard "Shen Chenxin": "This name Not bad."

Seeing that Li Ernan had no memory of his name, Qian Erbai was a little disappointed, but not discouraged, he just asked Li Ernan's name and changed his friend's note.

"Ding!" The ribs have been roasted, Qian Erbai took a plastic box, picked up most of the ribs and put them in, then handed them to Li Ernan, seeing his refusal, he said: "The leftovers are also for sale I didn't go out, I planned to eat it myself, but I hit it off with you, so I gave you half of it."

Li Ernan took it, and through the transparent lunch box, he saw that the meat on the so-called leftovers was no worse than the one on the table just now. Little, knowing that Qian Erbai was bluffing him, maybe he made an extra one for him. Thinking of this, his heart is sweet.

Li Ernan still wanted to get bored for a while, but Qian Erbai still wanted to grill skewers, and Tang Chen sent him a message urging him again, so he reluctantly walked out the door, looking back at Qian Erbai while walking. Seeing someone concentrating on grilling skewers without even looking at him, he was a little unhappy again, and raised his voice: "Brother Bai, I'm leaving!"

Qian Erbai finally raised his head and waved to Li Ernan, "Wait." He put a bunch of meat skewers into a paper bag and handed them to Li Er, "I heard that you have a younger brother in your family, so let him eat this." He pointed to the lunch box containing the ribs, "This is yours." Eat by yourself."

Li Ernan was stunned for a moment, his eyes suddenly felt a little sore, he blinked quickly to suppress the inexplicable urge to cry. He took the paper bag, thanked him and hurried out the door. He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, he would hug him uncontrollably.

Seeing Li Ernan leaving in a hurry, Lu Liuliu sighed pretentiously: "I hope the master can recover his memory quickly, otherwise I will be too sorry for your sacrifice." Today Qian Erbai risked being caught by the world Consciously rejecting the risk of being out of the game, he said his name, but the other