The summer weather is like a resentful woman's face, moody and changeable at will. This storm comes and goes as fast as it goes. When the wind and rain completely stopped, the sky was scorching again, and the ground was scorching hot.

Ning Hao wiped the sweat and dirt off his face and body, tightly grasped the belt containing money in his left hand, turned around and walked to the iron horse where the injured woman was standing, he wanted to take the woman out of the square and go out to find a hospital for treatment.

He walked back and forth through the crowd twice, but did not see the injured woman. He stood on tiptoe again and looked around the entrance to the Iron Horse, but still did not see the injured woman. He exhaled heavily, and with a feeling of regret and extreme depression, he stepped on the stagnant water and slowly squeezed out to the edge of the square.

More than ten minutes later, Ning Hao, with a scar and wet pants, squeezed under a cement lamp pole on the side of the square with his head down, but he didn't see Lu Yao and their luggage.

Ning Hao was taken aback, he raised his hands and wiped a few handfuls of water stains on his face and head, and then looked around, it turned out that he was going in the wrong direction. The cement pole is on the west side of the square, and the pole where Lu Yao is located is on the north side of the square.

Five minutes later, Lu Yao, who was standing under the cement lamppole and soaking wet, was startled when he saw Ning Hao, who was embarrassed, covered in scars and tired, appeared in front of him. He stepped to Ning Hao's side in two steps and asked eagerly, "Ning Hao, are you injured?"

"It's okay! keep an eye on our luggage, don't lose our rations. Tonight we will find a place to stay near the train station for the night, and come back tomorrow morning to queue up for tickets. Ning Hao sighed and said weakly.

Lu Yao hurriedly walked back to his luggage, took out a towel soaked in rain from his rucksack and handed it to Ning Hao, saying, "This storm came too fast just now, and the passengers in the square didn't have time to evacuate at all. The clothes in our bags are all soaked, so let's wipe our bodies. ”

"No, the clothes are dirty and wet, just wipe them with your clothes. Damn, I didn't expect it to be so difficult to go out and work. It seems that in this world, there are not only two of us who are poor, but we all want to go out to work and make a fortune!"

Ning Hao complained as he took out his water-stained black crewneck T-shirt from his rucksack, wiped it on his face and head, and put it on his body.

"Ning Hao, I see that there are a few scars on your body that are bleeding, and you have just touched raw water, it is easy to get infected on such a hot day. Let's go find a clinic and treat your wounds first, shall we?" Lu Yao asked.

"What are we dealing with? How can we afford to go to the clinic to treat our injuries? It's okay, this little injury is not a problem at all for people like us who are working hard. It doesn't matter if you bleed a little, just think of it as a detox. Damn, it's good that I've shaved my head, and if I had your long hair, they would have ripped my scalp off. We've got to hurry up and get something to eat, and we'll have to clear it later. We couldn't stay in this square anymore, so we had to find a place to spend the night outside. Ning Hao took out a knotted black plastic bag from the snakeskin bag, took out two roasted buns from it, handed them to Lu Yao and said.

"Eat, I'm not hungry. Lu Yao excused himself.

"Why aren't you hungry? After taking the train from the county seat to the train station in the morning, you didn't eat anything at all, only drank tea, do you want to go to Yunhai City hungry? Don't hurt me, I don't want to carry a starving ghost back to my hometown!" Ning Hao said as he shoved a roasted bun into Lu Yao's hand. He took another steamed bun, sat on the concrete floor, and gnawed on it.

"Alas, there have always been so many people at the train station, and I have never seen less. We don't know when we'll be able to buy our train tickets, and if we can't buy tickets tomorrow, we'll have to go home. Lu Yao said with a sigh.

"What kind of home are you going back to? Don't you feel ashamed to return again and again in vain? Have you forgotten our oath? We are going home again in disgrace this time, how can we meet our family? Anyway, I have no way back, and I must go out this time! If I can't make a difference, I will never go back. Ning Hao swallowed a mouthful of the steamed bun and said intermittently.

"Why can't you go back? That's the home where we were born and raised! You don't mix it up, it's all there, it's the place where we return to our roots in this life. Listening to the tone of your voice, could it be that you made some mistakes?" Lu Yao seemed to think of something, and asked with a glare.

"Hey! What mistake can I make? What can I make a mistake in our poor ravine? You and I are both twenty years old, and I haven't even found a girlfriend, I just want to make a mistake, and I don't have a chance! Hurry up and eat, and when we're full of food and drink, we'll go outside and find a place to stay. Hundreds of thousands of people in this square will be driven out later. The movement was slow, and even the door of the thatched hut was occupied by others, and I didn't want to stand all night. Ning Hao said.

In less than ten minutes, Lu Yao and Ning Hao each finished eating a roasted bun. They drank their own Kuding tea, packed their luggage, Lu Yao put on his rucksack, Ning Hao held his snakeskin bag, and walked out of the square together, towards the opposite street. They had to find a place to stay before they cleared the field.

In order to be able to return to the square early tomorrow and queue up to buy train tickets, Lu Yao and Ning Hao walked to a poplar tree on the side of the road opposite the square and stopped.

Although some raindrops were still falling from the poplar tree, there was still a circle of people sitting around the poplar roots. Their clothes were also soaked, and each of them had a wet duffel bag in front of them. Their eyes showed anxious and melancholy eyes, they should be the same as Lu Yao and Ning Hao, they all have to go out to work and wait to buy train tickets.

"Lu Yao, we'll settle down here. Do you see that there are a few thick branches on the trunk where people can sit, and it's a good place where no one disturbs, and we'll have to climb up first. Climbing trees was a piece of cake for both of us. You climb the tree faster than I do, you climb to the branch first to take a seat, and after you drop the rope and hang our luggage up, I will climb up again. Ning Hao approached Lu Yao's ear and whispered. Lu Yao nodded.

Lu Yao and Ning Hao circled around the poplar tree, found a position where they could get closest to the trunk of the tree, put their luggage at their feet, and squatted down to rest.

Lu Yao took out a thin hemp rope wrapped in a roll from his rucksack and put it in his pants pocket for later use. He knotted the straps of the two bags together and prepared him to climb the tree.

Ning Hao was not idle, in addition to observing the best place to climb the tree trunk, his eyes were still looking around to see if there was a better place to stay than the tree.

At this time, his eyes were drawn to a middle-aged man in uniform at the corner of a building across the road. Because next to the man in uniform, there were several men and women around, and it seemed that they were discussing the matter of entering the train station.

"Lu Yao, you look at the luggage here, I'll go to the other side to see the situation. I've heard that there are people at the train station who bring passengers into the station who can't buy train tickets. I looked at the man in uniform across from me, and I went over to find my way, saying that there might not be a windfall. Ning Hao whispered close to Lu Yao's ear.