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Small Times 3.0 The Age of Stinging Gold PART 1 Prologue

In Beijing's brand new T3 terminal, two sunglassed superstars with sunglasses so huge they could have covered two-thirds of their faces were at this moment rushing recklessly across the room, and, judging by their two completely unblinking auras, it was enough to convince everyone that they were two fashionably blind men, all of whom were looking sympathetic (and perplexed ) as they dodged out of the way, allowing the two of them to rush towards the security checkpoint with their Starbucks green coffee paper cups.

And yes, the two of them are siblings Guly and Neil. They identified themselves with accurate dialog.

The blind woman said, "I find it hard to understand why a perfectly good airfield has to make itself look like a lantern! This earthy red color that can only be described as miserable is simply a kind of light pollution! Do Beijingers not think that they are usually blown by sandstorms and car exhaust enough vicissitudes!"

The male blind man said, "You can allow yourself to imagine this color as a Cartier box, and it might make you feel better."

The blind woman added: "And there's just something wrong with the way they've built those ring roads, the whole city of Beijing is jammed up like nothing else, and there's more time spent parking than driving, and I'm able to scratch out a full makeup on my car! So I'm very confused as to why anyone would still feel uninspired at work when they could have slept on the way in!"

The male blind man added, ",,, never mind, think about their subway,,"

The female blind man continued, "They also have influenza A!"

The male blind man added: "Wasn't there a ** before?"

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-- Why the two of them weren't beaten to death on the spot by the people of Beijing at the airport is still a mystery.

It seems that being too hospitable doesn't work, and after a year of hysterical broadcasts of "Beijing Welcomes You" on TV and radio, the people of Beijing are probably so thoroughly hypnotized and brainwashed that they'll welcome anyone they catch - like Gu Li, who should have been quarantined straight away the moment she landed at the Beijing airport.

Along the way, the two were on the phone all the time, with Neil occasionally stopping for a cup of coffee, while Gu Li was bombarded with one "Excuse me, I have an interrupt call coming in" after another, not even stopping for a drink of water.

The last thing that stopped her madness was the great security staff at our airport, and this fashionable blind man who thought he was a Dongfeng-31 intercontinental missile was stopped at the first-class security checkpoint, but of course, Gu Li couldn't understand it, and could only stand helplessly while the security guards were screaming "Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock! She could only stand helplessly in the "beep beep beep" security window while saying into her cell phone, "Sorry Susan, I have to hang up now, I'll call you back in a minute and forty seconds, I don't know why, but there's a woman here who insisted on swiping a shovel-like object on me several times while I was on the phone," the security officer said, "I don't know why, but the woman insisted on brushing me several times while I was on the phone," the security officer said, "I don't know why, "The security officer looked at Gu Li in disbelief:",,,"

Gu Li: "What are you looking at me for, I'm waiting to call back here, you still have one minute, hurry up and brush it." After saying that Gu Li "snapped" the phone closed, rushed to the uniformed handsome airman a greeting, and then very naturally put into the basket on the conveyor belt, gently patted the airman's shoulder, "By the way, help me to wipe the screen, dirty."

Security personnel: ",,, you hurry up."

Behind Gu Li, is standing at the security checkpoint another Neil with sunglasses covering half of his face, he smiled and said to the security check dudes who were checking his whole body with a detector, "Hello, do you usually go to Shanghai to play?"

Security checker: ",,, you hurry up."

The plane stopped on the wide runway. Outside the elliptical cabin window, the Beijing winter sky seems like blue glass, which isolates the white clouds, birds, sunlight and clouds, as well as the boundless land under the feet of the vast stretch with the universe, from the distant space down, like a huge window.

Gu Li took the non-alcoholic pomegranate cocktail brought by the stewardess, and sipped it while rummaging through the LA MER spray in her bag and spraying it on her face, each flight made her feel like she had been locked up in a pyramid and slept for a year, and was almost drained. As she was spraying, the stewardess came over, an apologetic and polite smile on her face, "Ms. Gu, this spray 、、、、、"

Gu Li closed her eyes to enjoy the scent of roses in the spray while reaching out to block the spray bottle in front of the stewardess's eyes, her crystal nails impatiently on the bottle. "Crystal nails tapped impatiently on the bottle.

The stewardess looked at it and said apologetically, "Oh, I see, it's under 50ml, sorry to bother you Ms. Gu, your spray is in compliance with the regulations and can be brought on the plane."

Gu Li opened her eyes, cocked her head and gave the stewardess a half-smile fake grin and said, "OK, honey, it's okay even though I can't understand what you're saying. But that's enough about our conversation, I'm kind of not very good at talking to service staff,,,but thank you all the same ." Finishing, she turned back to Neil, "I thought she was going to ask me what brand this spray was, I handed her the LA MER logo to look at, and she said a bunch of what the hell, and I got a headache."

Neil took off his glasses, batted his ridiculously long blonde lashes, and said innocently, "Don't you ask me, I only read contracts."

The corners of the stewardess's mouth quivered, ",,, heh heh heh heh heh."

After slapping the spray on her face close to a hundred times in a row, Gu Li was finally satisfied to see her own face flush and glow in the mirror, and to be honest, anyone who's face had been so hollowed out for a hundred times would have been flushed. She took out her cell phone from her bag and dialed the shortcut number, and a few seconds later, Kitty's delicate melon face with smoky makeup appeared on Gu Li's screen, and then the phone connected.

"Dear, please be sure to convey my gratitude to Mr. Gong for inviting me back to Shanghai early for his birthday party, otherwise, I would have to stay in Beijing for three more days before I could go back. I must personally use the printer (...) Print a thank you letter to Gong Lun. You know what, Beijing is horrible, all the women over here wear pants, none of them wear skirts! They wrap their legs up!" Gu Li elegantly and sexily curled up on the wide seat of the first class cabin, her slender legs exposed under the ultra-short skirt, and a pair of all-fur black boots below her knees, she looked as glamorous as a Persian dancer.

"Seriously? Gosh, if I hadn't personally booked your flights for you guys, I would have suspected that instead of buying an Air China flight, I had bought tickets for a time machine to send you back to 1996." Kitty was on the other side of the phone in a state of shock, being as cooperative as she could be.

"Yeah, and they have something called fall pants! I have no way of describing it, it's probably a pair of how do you say, rough surface texture, worn outside of underwear, inside of outer pants kind of thing,, I know you have no way to imagine, honey, I understand, if I have not seen it with my own eyes, I can not believe that there is such a thing in the world, you know, full of people running around in fall pants, and there are women who just walked into the Gentian Center in it in a dignified way, and it's a terrible thing, I swear it's a terrible thing, I can not believe that there is a thing in the world, I can not believe that there is a thing in the world. It was horrible, I swear it was the scariest image I've seen since I saw Midnight Run in 1998."

Gu Li said, stopped, looked back at the woman beside him who was wearing pants and was currently glaring at herself with incredulous eyes, and said, "Auntie, don't listen to people on the phone ah, how rude ah, you are sitting in first class, why are you still like this ah?" After a pause, added, "Buy your own ticket?"

The woman in the Gu Li brush brush sprayed venom under the shortness of breath, a pull over the blanket wrapped tightly fell asleep.

Gu Li hung up the phone, looking at the worn jeans next to Neil, his solid thighs full of golden brown hair, from the holes to reveal a section of tantalizing skin, Gu Li contentedly watching, next to the woman rolled up from the blanket, seems to be trying to make a final struggle, she inhaled, said: "Beijing is not like you Shanghai! It's minus ten degrees all winter in Beijing!"

After hearing her words, Gu Li and Neil turned their heads to face her at the same time, and answered her at the same time with expressions full of doubt and incredulity. Gu Li said, "So?" while Neil sincerely asked, "What's your point?"

The woman wrapped the blanket tightly and passed out straight away.

Gu Li hung up Kitty's phone and put on her sunglasses again, she was ready to sleep for the next two hours of the flight, she was going to charge into the office of M.E. with absolute power, absolute peak posture, she even ran in the corridors as if she was ready to break Bolt's record of sprinting.... -by way of stomping on her heels. She was just about to throw on a blanket when the phone rang again, and she fumbled with it to glance at the screen, rolled her eyes a little silently in her sunglasses, and picked it up.

Small Times 3.0 The Age of Stinging Gold 2

The person who called Gu Li was me, and at the moment I'm in my villa in Jing'an, Shanghai, a hundred thousand miles away from her. I called her because, I have broken down, I look at the moment sitting across from me is looking at me with a murderous twilight Jimmy, and want to lock myself in the refrigerator. He's looking at me as if he's two sharp scissors, his shrouded, chilly face looks as if he's been dressed up in a Giordano's courtesan, and his tight little mouth looks like a thin razor blade as if at any moment he's going to spit out acid and spray it all over my face just like Guly did, and yes, Jimmy, that's him. I forgot to mention, he's two and a half.

At this moment, I am staring at this two-and-a-half-year-old boy with hatred for each other. He is Gu Li's second biological brother. I don't doubt his lineage in the slightest, he is very pure, and he has thoroughly inherited Gu Li's talent, which is to easily drive me to the edge of collapse. He ruined my sleep last night with his loud and clear cries, and he lasted all night with his energy that seemed like Duracell's lasting power. And now, just moments after I had just gotten through to Guerry, he was smiling happily again.

"Gu Li, when are you coming back? I'm going crazy, Jimmy has been crying all night every day for the past few days, and that bout was even worse than when your mom cried when your dad died. This morning the next door neighbor took their dog to the hospital, I heard it was depressed." I held up the phone and leaned toward Jimmy, who was crying hysterically at the moment, trying to make Jimmy's voice travel through time and puncture Guly's eardrums so she could share in my pain.

"Lin Xiao, as a new age woman, can't you even take care of a two year old boy? Don't you understand those things that children need, so simple, just satisfy them, they are like those teddy bear toys in the window, motionless for you to play with." The voice of Gu Li on the phone looked chesty and filled with contempt for me, "Listen to me, now go to my room, take a Hermes cashmere shawl and wrap him up, then stuff a LV wallet in his hand."

",,, I'm not kidding you!" I was righteously indignant, filled with rage at Gu Li's response, which was completely devoid of basic human intelligence, "I tried that! It didn't work!"

"What about a different PRADA blanket?" Gu Li was on the phone, thinking in a serious tone.

I gave up completely and I asked her, "When are you coming back? I have to go to the company later to help prepare for the birthday party of lluvia. There's no way I can take care of jimmy and I'm really not sure I won't end up putting him in the fridge."

"Where's Gu Jun? Why doesn't he take Jimmy?" asked Gu Li to me.

"How should I know, the dog next door wouldn't have been taken to the hospital if I could find him." As I said that, I took a big quilt and wrapped Jimmy all over, showing only a small eye, I thought about it after I finished wrapping him, so I did it again, this time not even showing the eye, wrapping it completely. And so, for a moment, its cries sounded distant and hazy.

"See, Jimmy doesn't cry anymore, does he, kids, naturally don't cry when they're tired of crying. I'm talking to you, I'll take off right now, three hours later, I'll come home, you'll take care of her for another three hours is enough, read a novel, do a face mask, take a shower, the time clatters by, it's very good to pass the time. If jimmy cries again, you'll play horror movies on the big TV in the living room to scare him, that's how my mom used to teach me to be strong before school,,, well I'm done with you, I'm taking off, and there's a woman in a uniform beside me who for some reason nonetheless told me that I'm not allowed to make phone calls right now, for some inexplicable reason,,,"

The phone hung up, and I could totally imagine the flight attendant's ",,,," expression on the other end of the phone. Sometimes, I feel that Gu Li and Tang Wanru, in essence, there is no difference, to summarize, are: not going out of the ordinary.

After hanging up the phone, I looked at the quilt squirming that thing, feel like watching a Japanese horror movie like. Four months ago, we saw him for the first time. At that time, when the young and handsome Gu Jun appeared in our living room with this little boy in his arms, Gu Li was horrified, stretching out ten long, thin, crystal-nailed fingers like white bones, rushing at Gu Jun as if he were doing a practice of clattering and shaking, "You gave birth to this?"

The corner of Gu Jun's mouth slanted, said, "I don't have that function."

Gu Li: "I see you quite handsome and quite big a guy ah, it is not possible, right? Young age on the decadence?"

Gu Zhun: "、、、、、、"

Gu Li: "In the end, who gave birth?"

Gu Jun: "Your mom gave birth to."

Gu Li: "Which mom of mine? Recognize, or do not know?"

Gu Zhun: "My mom. The one you don't know."

Nan Xiang and I listened to our brains hurt, like we were listening to the Fibonacci series formula. Truly, I don't think the world could produce a more bizarrely absurd conversation, except for that pinnacle Gu Li created earlier, "Mom, this is my brother."

Gu Li went on to say, "It's not a good idea to name him anything but Jimmy, but I'll tell you up front, when he turns sixteen, don't blame me for not warning you beforehand if you come home one day and see him draped in a purple tasseled shawl, wearing high heels and telling you that he's decided to be a makeup artist."

Gu Jun: "Really, what did 16-year-old Neil tell you back then? Also wearing a purple shawl?"

Nan Xiang weakly stood up, rubbed her forehead and said: "I'm going out for some air 、、、、、、" At that time, I was sitting next to her, my brain was directly out of the dead state, even if I rubbed the mouse out of the fire, my eyeballs will not move a bit.

Their two siblings are really pro-life.

Thinking of getting some air, I hurriedly looked at Jimmy, who was wrapped in the quilt, and thankfully, breathing. I was about to remove the quilt, this is, Gu Yuan walked out of the room. He was wearing a dark black cashmere tuxedo, he looked like a young classical European nobleman, his slightly naturally curly hair added to this Englishness of his. He walked into the living room and looked at me without saying a word.

I wasn't the least bit surprised, he hadn't spoken to me in four months. And the way he looked at me was no different from the same way he looked at me four months ago, still full of coldness, hatred, trampling, ridicule, and indifference.

I think it's especially normal, if it were me, I wouldn't even want to look at Gu Yuan if he dumped Gu Li because of another woman. So I'm thankful that Gu Yuan has been able to live under one roof with me for the past few months without pouring arsenic in my breakfast coffee.

He took out a delicate little bow tie from the closet by the door and tied it in the mirror. I knew that he was leaving for an early preparatory dinner for Gongmu's birthday party.

I looked at his back, thoughts seem to be blown by the wind into a long line, back to the scene four months ago, the same birthday party, still everywhere is the back of high-class suits and strapless evening dresses, red wine and champagne shaking a moving paper drunk.

At that lavish and boisterous birthday party, my life became a complete and utter mess - and when I say a complete and utter mess, I mean a complete and utter mess. Only, now, I look as if I'm at peace, still going to work every day, leaving work, and chatting with everyone in this house in the evenings. If I must use a metaphor to illustrate it, it's like a person whose neck has been snapped by a pair of giant's big hands, clicking and snapping, but, because the force was too strong, it caused the head to turn 360 degrees before it came back to the front - it looks like that person still has the same expression and look, but in reality, you get the idea, she is already completely finished.

The peace I'm in, the calm I'm in, the calm I'm in, is really the fact that I'm utterly fucked.

Who would believe it?

Outside the window is a gray winter in Shanghai, the new Bund bathed in the cold rain in the depression, the vast Bund renovation project, in the spring of next year when the arrival of the whole of China's most exotic flavor of the extravagance of the landmarks, pushed to an unsurpassed pinnacle of the height of the almost doubled the expansion of the plaza along the riverside, the drastic reduction of traffic, the source of the Bund rising Peninsula Hotel and the newest CHANEL flagship store are announcing that a new The newest flagship store of CHANEL and the Peninsula Hotel are all announcing the beginning of a new era on the Bund.

Long ago, the huge billboard on the Bund that read "The Last Dream of the Shanghai Bund" has come crashing down. A brand new billboard stands on the riverside like a sheathed sword. The brand new slogan of the billboard is "Do you want to collect the jealous eyes of others? We are here.

Small Era 3.04 Month-1

Shanghai's sky, with the passing of February, March, and the arrival of April, little by little dispersed the gray look of the spring cold, blue sky without any impurities, as if a child without a heart, will be its pure and beautiful face, unobstructed exposure in front of everyone! -Unlike our group of quite deep heart, quite thick skin, worship "Journey to the West" in the childish ** goblins, hate to live forever doomsday girl.

Such a blue and cloudless sky can only be seen in novels and movies, so that people can bring up the courage to appreciate, otherwise, this ** naked in the sun for a few hours, undoubtedly the same as their ID card on the date of birth changed to 1978, and then you will be in the street to hear a non-mainstream on the street to you to greet you heartily, "Auntie! Then you will hear a non-mainstream person greet you on the street with a heartfelt "Auntie good morning". Speaking of changing ID cards, my good sister, Gu Li, has recently been on this matter, attempting to change her birth year to three years younger ...... is just an attempt, to be precise, it should be the current attempt. I don't doubt her ability to do it in the slightest, I think she could change the gender on her ID card if she set her mind to it.

This kind of action power of her not to achieve the goal will not stop, as early as in her fifth grade showed, at that time, our class teacher to the grade assigned to the class of the only one "red flower" place to a boy named Li Xu and not to Gu Li, for this, Gu Li every class ten minutes, will run to the office, sitting in our class teacher's office, and then to the office, to the office, to the office, to the office, to the office, to the office, to the office, to the office, to the office, to the office, to the office, to the office, to the office, to the office. In the office, he would sit in front of our homeroom teacher and give a speech called "The Little Red Flower", giving examples, facts, stories, and reasoning, all the way from the Liu Yang River, which bends over a few bends, to the fact that a few girls in the class had recently gotten their periods (...). ...), heaven and earth, citing the classics, for a month, unceasingly, seven times a day, ten minutes each time ......11 year-old Gu Li as the exterminator general expression of solemnity and calm, as if a see through the red dust and unusually paranoid crone sitting in our class teacher's desk every day on the bench, two temples pale and ten fingers. The teacher finally collapsed and took the desk to the teacher. Finally, the teacher broke down, the plastic small red flowers, from Li Xu's chest pulled down, shivering to Gu Li suffocated in her newly developed chest. This, Li Xu bet, at home for a week "feed" to "feed" to go, dead and refused to call our class teacher "mom".

The sun is shining down on our faces, as if God is gently slapping us in the face. Nanxiang has gone into the house to look for sunscreen, and I've been waiting for Nanxiang to come out of the house to save me, like a vampire who is about to die from the sun.

Gu Li, who was sitting next to me, instead raised her face like the land in Jing'an District, openly and open-mindedly facing the fierce sunlight in April, not worrying about the high intensity of ultraviolet rays hurting her delicate face, which needs to be coated with hundreds of dollars every morning. I looked at her with an expression of extreme anxiety, and she turned her head to look at me and flashed me a lusty, comfortable smile that peeked out from behind the teal-colored glass on the kind of mask she wore on her face that welders commonly wear, and I felt like she was saying to me in the same kind of low, raspy voice that she used when the tape played in Saw, "iwannaplayagame. "

We lay on a couple of white deck chairs and soaked up the sun on the thirty-square-meter lawn in the neighborhood that was mowed and watered by a gardener every day. The grass was lush green and looked golden in the early summer sun. A shiny brass plaque next to it clearly stated the noble pedigree of the lawn in both Chinese and English: creeping horseshoe gold, intertwined along the grass in the ratio of 3:7. Gu Li is particularly enamored of this sign, when she found this quietly standing on the edge of the lawn, she was so excited that she looked like a tadpole that had found its mother, with tears in her eyes. I especially understand her, knowing that her favorite leisure reading in life is the manuals that introduce the formula content of various substances in the maintenance products, and the company's financial statements. Because of this bronze medal, she was even more convinced that she was renting in an expensive neighborhood, so she decisively went to renew her lease with the landlord for another two years. In fact, she did not need to rely on this piece of bronze to confirm that she rented an expensive neighborhood, she only needed to take a little time to glance at her monthly rent bill to know that it is equivalent to six months of my salary.

And besides that bilingual bronze plaque, there's a lot more to be proud of about this neighborhood than just its rent. For example, one day, Nan Xiang said to Gu Li, who was doing yoga on a blanket spread out on the lawn, "You know, Eileen Chang used to live here too." Gu Li, in the pose of a goblin hanging upside down from a wall in a coiled cave, half-squinted her eyes and eerily made airy noises from her white fangs, "Who? Eileen Chang? This woman is quite rich, what kind of movie has she made?"

Nan Xiang: "......"

However, in any case, in the Jing'an District, such an inch of land, open up such a piece of green space belonging to the neighborhood itself, not anyone has this courage. To know, even casually build a thatched hut and other stuff on it, can be worth Xinzhuang a set of beautifully decorated two-room apartment - of course, the property is not so stupid, the wool comes out of the sheep, are counted to the owners of the head. You think the monthly property fee is donated to the children in the hope that the elementary school to go to school?

We hadn't been reclining in our recliners long when, in the distance, two long, handsome men with knife-sharpened features approached us with cups of takeaway coffee in a cardboard-shell tray. If you had followed our lives two years ago, you would have guessed at this moment that it would be the two youtubers, Jenxi and Gu Yuan, who were coming over to us hooked up. However, if you had followed my latest recent developments, you would have also known that Jenxi had disappeared from my life, and after he left a letter that caused me so much pain, he disappeared without a trace like dew evaporating in the sunlight. So guess who it could be?

Gu Yuan and Xicheng?

- Thank you for your rich imagination, you should snatch the megaphone out of Zhang Jizhong's hand and make a new version of Journey to the West instead.

Weihai and Chongguang?

- Thank you for your endless screenwriting abilities, you should go snatch the computer from Guo Jingming's house and write "Small Times" instead.

Courtney and Blue Knuckles?

- Thank you for your bizarre innovation ability, you should go to the Ministry of Defense to develop a satellite, and then put it in the sky to play.

Two handsome men stood in front of us, if the mixed blood British temperament of Neil plus as pale young death like Gu Zhun is not enough to trigger me and Nan Xiang's screams, then, at the moment, there is a two year old boy Jimmy in the middle of them, and at the moment, he is opening a pair of big watery eyes, flickering long eyelashes, lying on Neil's broad and sturdy chest looking at us!

The image in front of us had appeared many times in Nan Xiang's and my sleep, what a harmonious family.

The two of them sat down beside us, the sunlight shone on Neil's blonde hair, his mixed-race features and his blue pupils, bringing a blast of the vast ocean's austere aura, the kind of transparent and sharp young boy's beauty. And Gu Jun's dark eyebrows set off his pale skin, in the light a vampire's aristocratic beauty from Twilight, vampire sunbathing, how refreshing.

"You guys are really busy around here," as there are no more chaise lounges, he naturally sat down on the armrest of Gu Li's chaise lounge, "Coffee stores are opening up one after another, STARBUCKS has opened up three, and there's a COFFEEBEAN, a COSTA, and when I walked around the corner, I saw that McCafe was about to open. In a few years, the neighborhoods around this lot will have clattering coffee syrup when you turn on the faucet." Thanks to his slender and lithe figure, he was able to sit on the armrest with such a natural and charming posture, if it were Tang Wanru, the recliner would have shattered with a direct "click".

"McCafe? Menstrual coffee? Really fake