During the May Day holiday in 2009, Hainan Island was still a popular place for people to travel.

The seaview pool villa No. 3 of Banyan Tree Sanya, Hainan Province, is leased for a long time by a domestic import and export group and is not open to the public. Its facilities and personnel are all specially equipped, and the level of hardware and software is better than that of Banyan Tree in Phuket, Thailand.

As soon as Jianguo'an entered the special No. 3, he scolded in his heart: "It's too corrupt, it's too dog-eyed to look down on people――――――"

Jianguo An, an associate professor at a local agricultural university, had the privilege of staying once last year when he participated in a product promotion meeting for an agricultural company. Even though it was the cheapest type of pool villa and only stayed for one day, it was enough to make him a little proud.

Jianguo An showed off to others in a different way, he did so by means of belittling.

"What a villa, just a little better sea view, there is a private beach, private garden, private swimming pool―――――― but the breakfast is extremely simple, there are dozens of kinds, the key is that the restaurant has oil smoke, have breakfast, you can smell the smell of oil smoke!"

When he and three other friends visited the special three under the guidance of the waiter, he realized that the so-called big bed he lived in was actually two small beds! The point is that I don't know if I've been fooled, and I think it's supposed to be like this! He was furious in his heart, but no one could see his appearance, and he was still a picture of the elegance that a professor should have.

The villa has three floors, with a total of 22 bedrooms on the second and third floors, each of which is decorated in a different style, all exuding a sense of understated luxury.

Sun Defa, known as a city idler, chose a classical Chinese style with sauce-purple furniture, carved mahogany windows, and pink curtains that were constantly blown and swayed by the breeze, which he liked.

Li Ziqiang is one of Professor Jian's friends, and he always claims that the people who run the machinery processing factory are hard. He directly asked for a room next to Sun Defa, the bedroom's unique round arched window and blue-green tone, implying that this was a Mediterranean style, but Li Ziqiang didn't see it, and he didn't care, he was blind.

Professor Jian's third friend, Song Shida, an industrialist in the garment processing industry, said softly to the supervisor of Tesan: "I am allergic to the smell of paint, and I will be uncomfortable after a long time. What do you suggest? ”

The supervisor was in his thirties, also a fat man, and kept them smiling all the time.

The supervisor immediately said: "We have a room on the third floor with pure solid wood and pure natural decoration, except for a little natural shellac varnish, no other modern materials are used. It should be appropriate. I'll take you to see it. ”

Everyone went up to the third floor and looked at the bedroom, which was indeed as the director said. Song Shida was very happy and said xiexie. The supervisor said nonchalantly: "Among the leaders who often come here, there are also people who are allergic to modern decoration like you, and this is our special preparation." ”

Professor Jian had never made up his mind, and he looked back at the room again. The supervisor was still attentive and gave him advice from time to time. He knew from the boss that he could personally call him to arrange the reception of these people, and he knew that they were not ordinary.

The other three didn't run around with them, just watching the scenery from the platform on the third floor.

It wasn't too hot in Sanya in May, and beyond a lush tropical plant, the three of them set their eyes on the sea, and no one admired the fiery red phoenix wood, even if it was blooming bewitching and blurry.

There is a white sand beach by the sea, a wooden plank road of about 500 meters, and a few girls in swimsuits with devilish figures, who are chasing the waves that keep surging on the beach. The constant surging waves and the breeze brought the smell of the sea to the three middle-aged men who were looking at the scenery - and it seemed that there was also the laughter of the girls. There were also a few boys playing with the girls. One of the boys had a visibly sturdy inverted triangle on the upper body, and his skin was black and shiny, as if he could refract the afterglow of the setting sun.

Sun Defa suddenly remembered when he was young. Somehow, he silently recited a little poem in his heart:

I want to be the sand under your feet,

Let you leave footprints on my heart,

If the waters of time will wash it away,

Well, use your laughter as a coagulant.

This is a poem he wrote to a girl. To be honest, for a science student in a chemical engineering college, this poem is well written. Besides, the other party is also an unattractive master, you can't expect to produce beautiful women, right? But the other party gently said "I don't like Cantonese people", returned the poem to him, and added another contempt.

Sun Defa tried to calm down and suppressed this inexplicable emotion.

"Hey, I used to be in good shape. Fat boy, do you remember? Song Shida stroked his fat belly and sighed.

"Remember, you were a member of the basketball team at that time, and you played the best table tennis in the team."

"More than 20 years have passed, I can't play anything anymore, do you still play table tennis?"

"I hit it once in a while, but I can't play anymore."

Li Ziqiang ignored the life sighs of the two of them, and lay on the railing alone and stared at the girls in the distance.

Sun Defa gave Song Shida a look, and Song Shida understood what Fa Zai meant. Li Ziqiang's machinery processing factory closed down, divorced his wife, and now he is depressed.

The two of them were trying to find a topic to explain him, but Li Ziqiang suddenly said without looking back: "You say, can this sand in Sanya make optical glass?" ”

The two looked at each other for a moment.

Sun Defa thought for a while and said: "Sea sand is not the most haode choice, it seems that the quartz sand mines in Tunchang and Lingshui in Hainan are more suitable." There seem to be a lot of such mines, but I heard that in January, the Hainan provincial government adopted a development plan to manage them in a unified manner. I have a friend who is in this business. ”

Song Shida said: "There are strong people who are going to monopolize it, so we'd better not get involved." If you are not careful, you will regulate the market. ”

Li Ziqiang didn't say anything, still looking into the distance.

There were countless thoughts tumbling in his heart, but there was no word sad. His factory, located in an industrial park on the outskirts of Changsha, Hunan Province, has long been dead and alive, and he has not been able to receive orders, but all kinds of taxes, especially rising expenses, have made his situation even worse. If it weren't for the fact that this was the legacy of his deceased father, and because he was thinking about the dozen or so old workers under him, coupled with his love for machining, he would have closed his doors long ago.

Wu Dapeng can occasionally introduce him to a processing job, but after all, he is far away in Beijing, and he doesn't have much ability to take care of Li Ziqiang, so he can only talk better than nothing.

Husband and wife have no feelings for a long time, and the feeling of being inseparable is the same. All the savings and houses in the family were given to the woman, and he disdained to do it when a man and a woman fought for the family property, and the daughter who was in junior high school belonged to the woman. The daughter said that she didn't care about their divorce, and she still asked the couple for money. didn't hurt his daughter, it made him more happy, and he was very generous every time he gave money.

The machine shop is his favorite. My father slowly expanded it from a blacksmith shop until it reached him. He felt a little guilty about being what he is today.

But this guilt is soon washed away by his accidental discovery, and he has a shocking secret, a secret that can change everything. He had a lot of ideas, and he was still thinking about what to tell his friends.

Professor Jian finally chose a room, and he said haha, even if you stay for three days, you have to be in a good mood, right?

The supervisor led them to a separate dining room next to the living room on the first floor, where four distinguished guests were arranged. The director said with a smile: "Our top three chefs are all specially hired, not from Banyan Tree restaurants, and they are recognized as the highest level in Sanya. Let's take a moment. If you have something, press the electric twist under the table. ”

After a while, the four famous dishes of Hainan, Wenchang chicken, Jiaji duck, Dongshan goat, and Hele crab came up first, and a few local dishes were served, all of which were traditional methods, but the taste was excellent. The wine is a red card Wuliangye at 42 degrees. I could have drunk more haode, but when I met in the past, I found that only this wine could be accepted by everyone.

The four of them ate and drank heartily, talking and laughing, but everyone always felt that Li Ziqiang seemed to have something on his mind, and he responded lukewarmly.

Sun Defa put down the chopsticks in his hand, picked up the folding fan that did not leave him, pointed to the white cut Jiaji duck and said, "This is the real Jiaji duck——"

Everyone looked at it, but they didn't think anything was special.

"Caged from small to large, feeding the ducklings with freshwater small fish and shrimp or earthworms, and starting to fill fertilizer when they are raised for about 70 days, that is, "stuffing ducks", kneading rice, rice bran, bean cakes, etc. into a ball, stuffing them into their mouths, three times a day. After more than 20 days of fattening, the fat penetrates into the muscles, the meat is fat and tender, and then the duck's beak and feet will turn white, and the Jiaji duck fed in this way is called "authentic Jiaji duck". Look at its mouth and feet. ”

Li Ziqiang grabbed the duck's head and looked, and sure enough, the long beak was naturally whitish.

"Damn, I thought it was discoloration at first!"

The more you drink the wine, the stronger the atmosphere becomes, and Li Ziqiang, who has the most alcohol, is interested.

"I found a wormhole—"

Li Ziqiang drank a sip of 42-degree Wuliangye unhurriedly, and said to his three friends as if he didn't take it seriously.

"Plum, what did you say? Impulse? Professor Jian was distracted just now, and he didn't hear clearly, so he hurriedly asked. Li Ziqiang didn't answer, but picked up a piece of rattan bridge pork ribs again, not only gnawing slowly.

Song Shida and Sun Defa laughed.

Song Shida said: "Jianren, Li Zi said that he found a wormhole. ”

Sun Defa saw that Professor Jian was still a little confused, and explained: "It's the thing that is commonly used to write time-traveling novels, the big killer that travels through history." ”

Professor Jian smiled, understood, and said a little embarrassedly: "Crossing, it's very popular." Through every year, this year to my house! ”

Sun Defa slapped the table, immediately raised his glass and said, "The exit is a chapter!" For this sentence, our good brother drained the wine in the cup! ”

Looking at the third brother who raised his wine glass and smiled with a smile on his face, Li Ziqiang said thoughtfully, "It seems that you don't believe me-"

"Faith, faith! After drinking this wine, I believe it even more! Song Shida almost howled.

The four of them clinked their glasses, and they were all dry.

These four people, no, it should be five, and one will arrive tomorrow, and they are good friends who have stood the test of events and time.

They came from different cities, but they were driven by fate to be admitted to the imperial capital at the same time. Originally, there were five different universities, and with the size of the imperial capital, they might not be able to know each other in their lives, but by chance, they met in the stadium and became good friends. It's just that they didn't distribute it very well at that time.

Of course, there are always lucky people at any time, and Wu Dapeng, who will come tomorrow, is counted as one. This big bird has bright feathers, the bird is tall and burly, and the bird language is loud, he somehow hooked up with the daughter of a ministerial-level leader, and completed the gorgeous transformation from a third-tier town in the northeast to a staff member of a certain power department of the state.

However, he soon resigned voluntarily and threw himself into the economic tide set off after the speech of the "heavy-handed" southern tour, becoming ostensibly a tide maker, but in fact an agent of a certain middle-class elite group. From reselling in-demand materials to speculating in stocks to speculating in real estate, Zuihou became the CEO of an import and export group, and his reputation was not too big, nor was it too small.

He wrote an inspirational book about his fortune, with some inspirational quotes to encourage those teenagers to believe that with their personal ability, as long as they dare to struggle, they will succeed.

"It's better than those powerful sons of Chiguoguo's solo robbery, right?"

Faced with the ridicule of old friends, Wu Dapeng defended, "In China, behind every successful man, there is a shili. Don't laugh at me. ”

The five of them have not lost touch since they graduated. Perhaps many people are tired from life and work, and the friendship of their youth has long been gone. But the five of them kept pace with the times from the very beginning, writing letters to each other, making phone calls, and even chatting videos on the Internet.

And they also get together once every three or five years, from the AA system at the beginning to Wu Dapeng's all-inclusive invitation - none of the four of them can rob him. Wu Dapeng said: "All day long, nonsense, nonsense, nonsense, all that is left in the human relationship is this bit of friendship, you are still fighting with me?" ”

Usually, in the eyes of outsiders, they may be serious professors, industrialists in the industry, and famous and successful people, but when the five people are together and there are no outsiders, they call each other nicknames, narrate the past, angrily scold the ugliness and injustice of society, and are as happy as young people.

This gathering is the 20th anniversary of their graduation, and it is even more important, and several of them have communicated in advance. The location is selected in Phuket, Thailand, a small island in Palawan, the Philippines, Sanya, etc. As a result, except for Wu Dapeng himself, the other four people all chose Sanya, the reason is that the scenery of Sanya and Southeast Asia is the same, there is no big difference, there is time to spend on the road, it is better to relax in Sanya.

Wu Dapeng regretted it, although he hinted that the small island in Palawan in the Philippines was bought by the group for 3 million yuan and was specially used to entertain VIPs, which was very "fun". Since the accident of the Red Mansion in Xiamen, everyone likes to go outside. But the four of them were still not interested. That's it, if you want to play, what's not in Sanya?

The more Li Ziqiang's wine was drunk, the smoother his eyes became, and the more he drank, the more confused he became, and he couldn't open his eyes.

Li Ziqiang said: "I really found the wormhole, and when the big bird comes tomorrow, I will show it to you——"

The three of them nodded frequently, okay, no one can be missing. Hurry up and finish it, they almost shouted surrender.