Leaving the factory where he had worked for more than five years, Zhou Qing walked aimlessly on the way home, looking at the streets where people came and went, and suddenly found that this is a city, and it makes no difference if there is one more and one less for me.

After returning to the residence, doing it by the bedside, lighting a cigarette, Zhou Qing quietly thinks, from graduation to now, it seems that they are all walking the same path, that is, entering the factory.

Thinking of this, Zhou Qing was a little scared, why did I keep entering the factory and neglect to do other work?

While smoking, while thinking about these contradictory questions, Zhou Qing's eyes condensed on the cigarette, and his eyes suddenly brightened, Zhou Qing finally figured out why he had only entered the dead end of entering the factory in the past ten years, which was a "habit", just like smoking, you are used to a brand, and you feel unpleasant when you smoke other cigarettes.

After thinking about it, he leaned on the head of the bed, and Zhou Qing thought to himself, should I take a brave step and engage in other industries?

I was thinking about it, planning myself, and what industry I would engage in in the future, when suddenly Zhou Qing's pocket and the copycat mobile phone rang, and I thought that it would not be a fat man who called, comforting me.

picked up the mobile phone and saw that the caller ID was the word "mother", Zhou Qing's heart warmed after a long absence, and he felt irritable when he was unemployed.

"Hey, Mom, I miss you, are you okay at home, are your parents okay?" Zhou Qing answered the phone and said happily.

"You kid, you say you miss us, you haven't called us for two weeks, are you okay working outside?

Listening to her mother's words of concern, Zhou Qing felt very warm, maybe this is maternal love.

Zhou Qing smiled happily: "Mom, I really miss you, I'm such an adult, you can rest assured, you should also pay attention to your body at home." ”

Hearing this, my mother was not happy and taught me a lesson: You also know that you are an adult, you count how old you are, you are about to be in your early thirties, and you are not even looking for a girlfriend until now, me and your father, oh and your grandmother are all in a hurry.

What I am most afraid of is this, every time I call my parents, I don't say a few words, and I start urging marriage, hey, maybe every parent is like this, Zhou Qing thought.

"Mom, okay, okay! I'm going to work, what's going on, Zhou Qing hurriedly lied."

As soon as your child says that you are in a hurry to find a partner for marriage, okay! We won't urge you, if there is a suitable one, bring it back, if you are homesick, come back, the conditions at home have been good in the past few years, and it is not bad to find something to do at home, Zhou's mother said with concern.

Okay. Mom, that's it, I'll come back to see you when I'm free, you guys are good at home, say hello to me and my parents.

Zhou Qing hung up the phone like this, maybe it was time to go home and go, maybe he hadn't been home for more than half a year, maybe as his mother said, it's not bad to find something to do at home, so that he can still be with his family, and now it's hard to find a job outside.

Just thinking about it, suddenly the phone came again, maybe I thought it was my mother, I forgot to say something, I was calling, Zhou Qing picked it up and shouted: Hey Mom, what's the matter.

But after Zhou Qing finished speaking, his face turned green.

A male voice came from the opposite side: Zhou Qing, when will I become your mother, I can't stand this call, haha.

I didn't expect it to be a fat man's call, Zhou Qing felt a little embarrassed, so he laughed and scolded loudly: Dead fatty, you are not so idle at work now, how can you still have time to call me, say it quickly, let it go if there is a fart.

Oh, it's nothing, just to tell you, I resigned, the fat man said calmly.

I was really surprised by Zhou Qing now, in fact, don't look at Huang Fatzi as a local in the city, but his family is not very good, his father gambled and lost a lot of money, so his mother divorced and took away all the money left in the family, leaving only a mortgage house.

Zhou Qing was silent for a long time, and then said with concern: Fatty, why are you like this, you are so ambitious, it is difficult to find a job now, you will resign if you say you resign, you have thought about how to live in the future.

Okay, Zhou Qing, I know that you care about me, it's better to leave than to be angry, I have already thought about it, I am ready to go to Qingshi, take refuge with my uncle, if you have no other ideas, also take refuge with me, I will tell my uncle about the fat man Huang said in a hurry.

Zhou Qing thought for a while and said: Thank you, fat man, you can think of me, I am very moved, if I didn't receive a call from my family just now, maybe I would have agreed to go with you, I have already thought about it and are ready to go home and have a look.

The fat man was silent and said: Okay, you have thought about it, I will go to explore the road first, if I go home, there is no development looking for me.

The two chatted for a while, and Zhou Qing said again: Come out at night to get together, just think of the two of us practicing each other.

After hanging up the phone, looking at the time, eating a bucket of instant noodles, lighting a cigarette again, and having nothing to do, Zhou Qing lay on the bed and fell asleep unconsciously.

In his sleep, Zhou Qing dreamed of himself when he was a child, playing and chasing with his friends, catching loaches in the fields, picking wild fruits in the mountains, climbing trees and digging birds' eggs, dreaming of these sleeping Zhou Qing, unconsciously had a sweet smile.

Zhou Qing, who was suddenly asleep, was not peaceful, and a trace of smile was gone, but a trace of sweat appeared on his face, and his brows were furrowed, as if he had dreamed of something terrible.

It turned out that as soon as the picture turned, Zhou Qing came to the edge of the cliff, the sky was full of dark clouds, the thunder was so loud that people were breathless, and a dazzling unknown thing in the sky broke through the clouds and approached Zhou Qing.

Zhou Qing wanted to run but his body didn't obey, he wanted to open his eyes and see clearly, what this dazzling object was, but unfortunately he couldn't see clearly, he couldn't see the unknown object, and he didn't know what to do when he smashed it down towards him.

After the object fell down, Zhou Qing had already woken up and found that his clothes and quilts were wet.

Zhou Qing, who was in a state of shock, got up from the bed, lit a cigarette, and thought about why the person kept having the same nightmare, the background was exactly the same, and this place seemed to have been there, so I couldn't remember it.

Hey, I don't want to think about it, I don't want to think about it, I have a headache. Zhou Qing shook it, thinking that he had to eat with the fat man at night, so he went to take a shower, looked at the time and saw that it was already seven o'clock in the evening, called the fat man and made an appointment for a place to go out.

When the two came to the food stall they had made an appointment, they sat down and ordered some dishes they usually like to eat, and the fat man called for a case of beer, saying that he would not return home if he was not drunk tonight.

Zhou Qing doesn't know much about drinking, and the Tao is that Huang Fat has always been a good drinker.

The dishes are all together, the wine is drinking, the two of you come and go, talk about the good times of working together, laugh when they are happy, and sometimes light a cigarette when they talk about sad things.

After three rounds of drinking, a box of wine bottomed out, and then the fat man shouted with drunkenness: Old ...... Boss, in ...... Here's a box.

Zhou Qing also staggered to stand up and waved his hand to the boss, and said to Huang Fatzi: It's almost, I will have a chance to drink it again in the future, I really have nothing to do when I say it, I am coming to you, and I have a chance to drink.

Most of the wine was drunk by the fat man, and Zhou Qing was only a small part, but he was also a little drunk, much better than the fat man.

After settling the account, Zhou Qing sent the yellow fat man home, and returned home with a drunken and staggering manner, and fell asleep on the bed.

In the morning when he didn't go to work, let alone an alarm clock, Zhou Qing slept soundly this morning, got up and washed his face, his head was still a little painful, he shook his head and lit a cigarette.

After sitting on the bed for a while, I suddenly thought that I didn't want to go home? It was better to go home late, and maybe I could surprise my family, so I picked up my mobile phone and checked the ticket to go home, and booked a train ticket to go home at eight o'clock tomorrow morning.

After booking the ticket, Zhou Qing felt that he was returning home, more anxious and excited, and also remembered a poem by the poet He Zhizhang: The young man left home and returned to the eldest child, and the hometown accent has not changed and his sideburns have declined. When the children don't know each other, they smile and ask where the guests are from.

After reading this poem, Zhou Qing thought with emotion that although there is no sideburns decaying, it is indeed the boss, but every time he returns, he doesn't know who the child is, and asks his uncle where you are from, you are from your hometown, why don't you know each other, you are the master, why do you become a stranger!

Shaking his head and sighing with emotion, he changed his clothes and went out, quit the house with the landlord, and then bought some gifts and specialties on the street for his family and neighbors and friends.

The mood of returning home made Zhou Qing insomnia, so he packed his luggage early and came to the train station to wait for the train on the way home.

Holding the ticket and finding a window seat, when he sat down, Zhou Qing's heart felt steady, maybe it was right to go home.

The bullet train started, looking at the scenery outside the window, looking at this familiar city, I remembered a lyric with emotion:

When I left home, I wrote down my eyes,

In my dreams I thought about holding back my tears.

It's this way home,

How many years were carved in a hurry.

Now when we meet, my heavy footsteps,

I want to say to you in the wind that I am lonely.

Looking back at the beginning, although it was not to go out as a bullet train, but it was also in this direction, I came to this city, and now I am also in this direction to return to my hometown, looking at this city that is gradually moving away, looking back, I suddenly think that there is nothing in these years.