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What do we do on a bright spring day

What do we do on a bright spring day

By Javinca BowensPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

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Before the age of 25, I had two dreams: 1. To be a journalist with a sense of justice; 2. Have a real affair. I talk about the latter all day long, but I'm ashamed to tell anyone about the former. Tom's dreams are more pure. He just wants to have sex. We became inseparable friends because we shared the same dorm and smelled the same smelly socks. Of course, dreams are meant to be put on hold. Of all the sunny days, we would first spend our time playing basketball. My game was OK, but I'm too embarrassed to say anything about Tom's game, since there was nothing else I could do but run. Therefore, Tang has to tie up Xiao Zhang and Hao Ko who can't play at all every time. With them, Tom will at least stay at the bottom of the heap and not be trampled too badly.

While we were embarrassing ourselves on the pitch, Tai Lung would sit in our dorm room watching cartoons - the equivalent of a tabby cat staring at a roller washing machine. We looked at Tai Lung watching cartoons with infinite sympathy, thinking that the child has no medicine to save. You lay fast asleep on the bed. He sleeps much of the day and goes out at night.

At the end of his sophomore year, Hiroko said he would spend the remaining two years getting his novel published in every publication that looked good. He said it in front of everyone in the dorm, but no one took it seriously. Every year before the winter vacation, Haozi promised to bring us the unique sausage of his hometown. They say it's delicious, but we've never tasted it.

At the time, we lived in the university town, a place with as many beautiful women as ugly men. You can sip a cup of cat poop coffee on the terrace of a five-star hotel or buy condoms in a dimly lit shop.

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Our first pot of gold was made on Xiao Zhang's proposal.

Here's how it all started: We were drinking ourselves dry on the basketball court, and we were smoking with thirst, but no one wanted to buy a few bottles of water, because it would take about ten minutes to walk from the basketball court to the store, buy the water, and then walk from the store back to the basketball court. It was a long walk for a thirsty man.

Xiao Zhang looked up at the sky and suddenly said, Why don't we get some cases of water to sell on the basketball court? So, six people in the dormitory, pooled more than a hundred dollars, and then dialed the phone on the bottle of mineral water, took ten cases of water at the wholesale price. It sold so well that it was restocked a few days later. It was not until the summer holiday that our business fizzled out.

In order to make more money, Xiao Zhang has started printing, copying business, but also undertake delivery work. Later, he even bought his own stock. His dormitory was filled with instant noodles, ham sausages, marinated eggs, peanuts and other foods, as well as socks and gloves. It was barely a grocery store. His business has grown, especially in winter, when demand for instant noodles exceeds supply. Xiao Zhang sells noodles that are boiled and steaming hot, with eggs or ham sausage as needed, at a reasonable price. He couldn't make a delivery on his own, so we became his couriers. Approaching the exam, people come to print and copy information is an endless stream. Later, Xiao Zhang's reputation, even the teacher copy materials directly to him, but also solemnly said to him, the classmate, the price can discount point, I print more?

On the eve of graduation, Xiao Zhang is already ten thousand Yuan, he even lost and sent to deal with the last batch of goods, long sigh of relief, said, too tired. He vowed never to do shoestring business again. It's windy in summer. He stepped out onto the balcony to collect his socks and shorts, the unbridled sun pouring down on him. He didn't look like a rich man with a scruffy beard and greasy hair.

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    Written by Javinca Bowens