Also known as "I feel it is twenty-one years ago"
Sunny on May 4, 2021
It's spring. The willow tree next to the Drum Tower has sprouted new buds, which are tender and green, just like the color of the watercolor pen you pinned next to the mirror.
I took Yun there again - "Yi Shui This Year" was no longer there.
The milk tea shop is still there, and business is still booming. Fashionably dressed young lovers linked arms and queued up laughing, the light from their mobile phone screens reflecting on their young and carefree faces. No one stopped to take a look at the narrow old door next to the milk tea shop that was now piled with clutter.
No one knows that there once was a barber shop called "Juenian" here, with a signboard as small as a fish's bubbles. No one knows that there once lived two fish who thought they could swim to the sea.
That year, I ran a small intimate clothing store, and their story had just begun...
[October 15, 2008 sunny
Chen Jue said that he and I were two "fish" swimming from the south, diving into the concrete coral reefs of Beijing. Today, the barber shop finally has a name - "Yijue Nian". 'Jue' is him, and 'Nian' is me - Lin Zhinian. "]
The floodgates of memory suddenly opened...
It was then that I met them for the first time——
The two young men were looking up at the small attic upstairs that had been vacant for a long time. A brand new signboard has just been hung outside the window of the balcony - "Juenian Haircut".
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The first person perspective introduces the development of the protagonist's story, and the short paragraph is written here.
Purpose: The reality is to work hard alone and live a life as a drifter in Beijing