Running Snail

Chapter 2: The Call That Came Out of the Blue

Wei Teng said, "There are three measures of a woman, first, the beautiful outer beauty; second, the lovely simple beauty; third, the kind inner beauty. A combination of one, two and three, that's called - extreme beauty." Seeing Wei Nan's lack of response, Wei Teng continued, "Little sister, it's a pity that you are the fourth kind."

Wei Nan raised her head and very cooperatively sent out inquisitive eye waves, "Brother, what is meant by the fourth kind?"

Wei Teng smiled meaningfully at Wei Nan, "The fourth kind is - lacking the state of the first three, it's barely noticeable that it's a female."

After saying this, he turned around to continue flipping through the dictionary, leaving behind an indebted back.

Wei Nan lowered his head, a stroke of a pen to all the questions on the test paper forked once, and then rubbed his forehead, smiled and said, "Brother ah, our Wei family genes to our generation, the mutation is really too powerful, you say, I'm a girl at least can still see that it is a female right, you are a big boy ...... can not see that You are a male, what can we do."

Wei Nan was greeted by a thick Xinhua dictionary -

Wei Nan sat up from the bed in a flash, bouncing like a spring that had been wound up, and finally settling into a stationary position leaning against the bed at right angles.

The big dictionary in his dream flew at him head on, killing him, with a dazzling golden light around it, just like the palm in the Journey to the West to subdue demons and eliminate devils, with the word "Buddha" in the middle of it, smashing Wei Nan out of his dream and waking him up.

Rubbing his eyes, look at the surroundings, phew, did not cross over, did not go to the ancient court nor to the hollow West, the bed is still in his own bed - fortunately, fortunately, fortunately.

Still, it's the middle of the night, right?

Reach out - vaguely see five fingers.

Pick up a watch - the hands point to twelve.

Final verdict: yes, most of the night.

Wei Nan laid back at ease, hugged his pillow and continued to sleep, just brewing a good sleep intending to enter dreamland, suddenly, a deafening ringing in the ears.

"So sad ...... This is not the result I want ...... So sad ...... So sad... ..."

The male singer's mournful voice conveyed a sad mood, this is the ringtone that belongs exclusively to Wei Teng's oldest brother, Wei Nan deliberately set it to express his "so sad" mood every time he receives a call from him.

Alas, too sad, in the middle of the night to make harassing phone calls, this kind of behavior is really outrageous ah!

Pick up, lazily answered: "Hey ...... brother ah ......"

"Dead girl you still sleep, what time is it?!"

The voice coming from there was like a terrible squeal when killing a pig, enough to pass through the phone line and kill the mosquitoes in a ten meter radius on this side.

Wei Nan rubbed his ears that were shaken to the point of pain, and lazily said, "Brother, is your brain caught in the door? Do you want to call me in the middle of the night? You're destroying my nerves, don't you know? Why are you so fierce, I stole your wife, I ......."

Perhaps it is the reason that the two sides of the aura equalization, the result of the confrontation is, suddenly quiet at the same time.

A moment later, the cell phone came from my brother's voice as calm as water: "Midnight? I'd say you're still on Earth, right?"

Wei Nan opened his mouth and yawned, "What kind of words are you asking, if I'm not on Earth, can I still go to Mars?"

"So, it's your family's brain that died and stopped functioning, causing all the rest of the components to jam?"

Wei Nan retracted his yawn and rolled his eyes, "You didn't call in the middle of the night just to undermine me, did you, brother!"

There was silence on the other side for a few more moments, and helplessly said, "Wei Nan, get up from the bed and go to the window and pull open the curtains to look out before you talk to me, thank you." After a long sentence ended, he seemed to be out of breath, and after a pause, he added, "Hurry up! Do you hear me?"

The tone seemed rather impatient.

Wei Nan stretched and rubbed his shoulders still stretching his arms out in a circle, slowly climbed out of bed, went to the window and pulled open the curtains -

The sun was shining brightly, and the scenery outside the window was great.

Wei Nan cheeky hey, looked down at the hands pointing to twelve o'clock noon watch, tone softened: "Oh, brother, today's weather is quite good, my watch is out of power, my side shows that it is still three o'clock in the middle of the night, really, you do not believe that you can come over to see it ...... now! "

"Not interested in seeing your broken watch, I have something serious to say to you, listen well." Wei Teng coughed to clear his throat, making preparations before the speech.

Wei Nan obediently nodded, "Well, I'm all ears, please speak please speak."

"Ahem, I have a buddy called Lu Shuang, do you still remember? We used to live in that neighborhood, neighbor of neighbor of neighbor."

Wei Nan heart: your buddies so much, Zhang Wang Li Zhao hundred surnames are almost put together, which I remember ......

Yawned, smiled: "Well, remember, I've heard a lot about you, like a thunderclap."

"Played together when I was a child, you were five years old at that time, I estimate that you long ago do not remember."

"......" Then you ask a fart.

"I'll tell you, I met him when I came to A University to go to school, he just graduated from graduate school this year, in a few days will be coming over there to work, they have been staying in the north after the move, a long time did not go to the south, on the other side of the unfamiliar, in the future you by the way to take care of a bit of ah, you hear me?"

"Oh, I hear you."

Wei Nan's sleepiness hadn't completely disappeared yet, so he put his left ear in and his right ear out, and agreed to it.

Wei Teng continued, "People say that southerners are not as enthusiastic as northerners, so we can't lose face even if we were born in the south, right? You this girl less sleep a little bit, must be all the enthusiasm you have ever taken out to splash on him, and strive to melt him, hear me?"

"Oh, passion ......"

It's hot enough as it is, and passion? I'm turning into a human jerky, and I'm still enthusiastic? Your sister, my back is aching and my legs are cramping, who will give me some passion and pour me a glass of ice water, I will be Buddha, but let me melt him with passion?

I have not yet splashed out this enthusiasm, the hot sun first melted me.

Wei Nan muttered in a low voice and yawned.

After that, the old brother and a whole lot of what he will wear, how to look like how, the train will arrive at five o'clock, in the East Station, you go to pick him up to my home for dinner, how to do so in the future, and so on the account of the words ......

I feel sleepy when I listen to it.

Hang up the phone, Wei Nan and confused crawled back to bed, continue to dream.

In the dream, someone said in the ear with a low voice like a magic spell: "While you are still asleep, the world has awakened ...... for a long, long time."

This is what Wei Nan's favorite author Zhou Fang loves to say, a line that often appears in a certain detective novel when the murderer uses ecstasy to kill people in a chain.

Wei Nan felt that he had recently switched his appetite to read detective novels and had gotten a little carried away, and he often saw bloody scenes in his dreams, even medical students who had dissected corpses felt a little horrified.

In the dream, a serial murder case was staged, the evil laughter of the murderer and the miserable wailing of the victims made Wei Nan's whole body break out in a layer of cold sweat.

When he woke up again, it was already evening.

The afterglow of the setting sun poured into the bedroom, rendering a golden hue. Because the window was open, the curtains fluttered gently when the breeze blew through, and brushed against the window, just like the magical sound of ghosts in a ghost movie, which was quite a miserable feeling of the crime scene.

Wei Nan hurriedly climbed up from the bed and pulled the curtains open with a crash.

The sunlight is a bit harsh, Wei Nan walked to the bathroom to wash his face with cold water, looking at himself in the mirror ......

Head messy like weeds, eyes swollen like pandas, mouth dry like a drought three years of sand, cracked one after another.

Got to, is simply a cottage version of - beggar mother-in-law.

This is the consequence of being destroyed by the examination for a month.

University exams are so terrible, Wei Nan was born in the heaviest subjects of the medical school, that is simply not terrible can be described.

It's called - cruelty.

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Wei Nan sighed, shook his hair in frustration, and began to clean up from head to toe, after washing his face, brushing his teeth, and combing his hair, he slightly regained his "human" appearance.

Back to the room to pull the quilt flat, from the closet to find a T-shirt jeans, hands and feet nimbly changed, and then go out from the refrigerator to take out the milk, drink while rushing to the study room shouted, "Mom I'm going out for a while ah, old brother asked me to pick up a person."

But mom suddenly poked her head out and laughed, "It's to pick up Lu Shuang, right?"

Wei Nan nodded while changing shoes, "Uh, brother said it, right, asked him to come to my house for dinner tonight."

"Well, your brother called early in the morning, I've already prepared the ingredients for dinner."

"Success, I'll go pick up the man now."

He was just about to walk out the door, but was suddenly called by his mom with a frown, "What's that called clothing you're wearing?"

Wei Nan looked down and saw that the white T-shirt was printed with a simple pink flower pattern, which was not a problem, the key was, the shape of that pattern - the dreaded lip print.

Wei Nan smiled at the distant mirror, "It's okay, this is popular this year."

Mom rolled her eyes, "Don't scare him, Lu Shuang is not as beastly as you two siblings, he is from a family of books, elegant and educated, seeing you in this lip print ...... Oh, I mean this dress of lip prints, will definitely feel vulgar. "

Wei Nan was that "bookish family" stirred up a layer of goose bumps, sardonically smiled, "Then what do you want me to wear?"

"What about the dress I bought for you last time?"

"Oh, that, I'll go look for it."

That is the mother suddenly motherhood to buy clothes for her daughter, shopping for a day at the mall before picking out the dress, the price is not expensive, the style is not bad.

It's just that the chest is a little bit lower, the suspenders are a little bit thinner, and the effect of the waist and buttocks is a little bit too obvious.

Wei Nan gritted his teeth, wear it, anyway, better than running around naked.

Surprisingly, it was a bit cramped.

Perhaps it is the result of sleeping too long, the whole body is mildly swollen.

Taking a look in the mirror, those sneakers with this dress are also a little too scary, so he helplessly changed into high-heeled sandals again.

"Mom, satisfied now?"

This image is actually quite like lonely and empty in the middle of the night out to find someone to relieve boredom of older female youth, mom your aesthetic is really too mature point ah ......

Mom smiled: "Not bad, not bad, quite beautiful, quite beautiful."

Wei Nan hmmm, grabbed the small bag hanging in the doorway, just wanted to go out, and received a call from his dad.

Picking up the phone, she heard her dad say over there, "Nan Nan, you went to pick up Lu Shuang, right? Buy a few cans of beer and new grooming supplies on your way back, Lu Shuang should have prepared them himself, but it's our host family's courtesy to buy them for backup."

Wei Nan said, "Dad, just say you want to use them, why beat around the bush."

Wei dad smiled, "Then buy a new towel quilt for someone to cover, I'll be home soon."

Wei Nan helplessly said, "Success, I'll go out and leave now ah, is there anything else you want to explain?"

Dad smiled: "The first time we met, a little better attitude towards people ah."

Hang up the phone, turn around, mom smiled: "Don't be too crazy, let people laugh ah."

Wei Nan rolled his eyes and turned to go out.

Just downstairs, he received another call from his nemesis Xiao Qing, "Nan Nan, still sleeping?"

Wei Nan gasped, "Got up early, how about you?"

"I just woke up, yesterday I read a novel until five o'clock in the morning, alas, the whole person has turned into a pickle. I hear you quite energetic, what are you doing?"

"I'm going to pick up a customer."

Xiao Qing was shocked, "Pick up a customer?!"

Wei Nan wiped a drop of sweat and continued, "I mean, go to the train station ...... to pick up a guest."

"Scared me to death, your speech is still really shocking." Xiao Qing paused, "What kind of person? So mysterious."

"My brother's friend." Speaking of this is really helpless, old brother's friends are spread all over the five lakes, that distribution range is just a little too wide, "Alas, I'm still wearing that low-cut halter dress, the last time I showed you that, my mom insisted that I wear it."

"Ah? That's not the equivalent of running around naked ......"

Not finished was interrupted by Wei Nan: "Missy you don't stimulate me, I always feel that our whole family has suddenly changed their profession to become pork sellers. My brother took the knife to kill, my father took the water to scald the pig hair, my mother to wash the meat and also cut into a line, happily to that surnamed Lu's mouth to send. What's that Lu's name, it's really boring."

Xiao Qing laughed: "Maybe your family wants you to find a boyfriend quickly. By the way, will you go to the high school reunion tomorrow?"

"No, I'm not going, I'm bored."

"Then I won't go either, you go pick up the person first, see how the quality of the other party before deciding ah. My mom called me for dinner, contact me tonight, bye."

The phone had just hung up when another unfamiliar caller came in.

The tail number was the very unlucky 7474.

I pressed "reject" and stuffed the phone back into my bag.

Oh, it's really become a phone festival for me, Wei Nan?

The four calls are evenly distributed, enemies, relatives, friends, and ...... strangers.