Volume 1: A Hundred Years of Love Chapter 18: The Ten Dollar Shop
Sitting on the green train, Wang Shiyi was full of emotion.
Nineteen years old, this is his first time riding a train, and his impressions of trains come more from books and television.
His eyes kept looking out the window curiously, the wheels were rolling, and the mountains and paddy fields of his hometown were receding like a tide outside the window.
He felt like he was riding on a horse, about to gallop on the battlefield of life, and his blood was boiling.
After crossing the high mountains on the border of Hunan and Guangdong, the beautiful and tall urban buildings in Guangdong Province roared towards him, and also hit Wang Shiyi's field of vision.
The stretch of the city, the endless buildings, the bustling streets, gradually became clear.
Close, close, close!
A group of people took the general express temporary train, originally planned to be at five o'clock in the morning to the station, but has been outside the station until eight o'clock, then slowly and leisurely into the station, in the first month, from all over the country to Guangzhou, the temporary train, before entering the station, are crowded together, have to queue up to enter the station.
"Dear passengers, the terminal of this train has arrived at Guangzhou Station, please bring your luggage and prepare to get off the train. "The sweet voice of the announcer came from the radio room.
"Which station is this? Are you in Guangzhou?" asked a middle-aged woman sitting on a hard seat, looking up from the coffee table and rubbing her eyes.
"It's here, it's here!" a stout middle-aged man shouted in a hurried voice.
"It's up, the train is in Guangzhou. A middle-aged woman's voice exploded in the carriage, urging a thin black man who was still lying on the coffee table.
"It's there?" The thin black man was still drowsy, yawned, raised his hands, and stretched, it would have been nice if he had been a little later, he hadn't slept well.
"Fuck, it's late again!" a grumbling came from the other side, the voice of a young man with shiny hair.
"Lao Tzu has to just enter the factory to get the profits, yes, it's in the soup!" the young man slammed his fist on the coffee table, venting his dissatisfaction.
In the midst of everyone's chatter, the limp train finally stopped its last staggering steps, and the crowd in the carriage suddenly fell into a terrible chaos, and it seemed that almost everyone was impatient to get off the train and hurry, and the snakeskin bag was constantly passing and floating on the top of the black head.
"What's the hurry?" shouted the cunning brother.
It didn't work, and the flow of people poured out like a tidal wave.
Thankfully, I got off the bus anyway!
When everyone stepped off the crowded train, their faces were smiling, their language was full of warm words, and the same warm Guangzhou was opening her broad arms to warmly welcome the colorful workers from all over the world.
Walking on the platform of the station, Wang Shiyi found that there were many middle-aged men in coarse cloth clothes hurriedly walking by, carrying snakeskin bags of chemical fertilizer in the countryside, and "nitrogen fertilizer" and "urea" were constantly floating in front of his eyes, and they may be the first generation of coastal migrant workers who are still holding on.
The red down jacket clothes of the cunning brother and sister-in-law Jiang Xiu are brilliantly open in a crowd of gray-black workers, which is particularly dazzling.
"The weather here is so nice, it's like spring. Wang Shiyi felt that the weather here was incredible, in Chungcheng, it was inseparable from cotton coats in winter, but here, it seemed to be like spring, as long as there was a thin woolen sweater.
"Yes, there is no winter here in Guangzhou. The cunning brother took off his coat as he walked.
While talking, they followed the flow of people, out of the Guangzhou Railway Station, followed the flow of people, walked to the right, crossed an overpass, there is the place where the Guangzhou Provincial Automobile Station is located, there, there are shuttle buses to all cities in the Pearl River Delta, and even direct shuttle buses to every big town in Shenzhen, Longhua, Shiyan, Shajing, Shiyan.
"We're going to Longgang, you go to Bao'an Shiyan, let's have more contact. In the busy ticket hall of the provincial station, the cousin of the cunning brother held his hand and said.
"Brother, sister-in-law, then you go slowly, I won't send you off, when the factory is on holiday, I will go to Longgang to find you. Brother Cunning said with a sincere face.
"Goodbye! Work hard in the factory! Earn more money and go home and marry a beautiful wife in the future." After speaking, the cousin shook the hand he was holding.
"Get rich!" The cunning brother also said polite auspicious words.
"Get rich!" After the cousin finished speaking, he carried his travel bag and followed the cousin-in-law in red into the queue to buy tickets.
Wang Shiyi saw that the cunning brother also walked to the ticket window to line up, and after a while, he excitedly took two shuttle tickets to Shiyan Town, Shenzhen, and walked over from the crowd.
On the 11th day of the first lunar month, the two of them took a bus to Shiyan Station, took a bus, and got off at a place called Yingrenshi.
The weather in Shenzhen is a bit gloomy, the sky is dripping with a drizzle, in the confused spring rain, the cunning brother is holding a broken purple folding umbrella in his left hand, carrying a travel bag on his back with one hand, the bag has his change of clothes and toiletries, Qi Yuxuan walked in front of Wang Shiyi with a figure-eight step.
He is proud, he is proud, he has worked and lived here for three years, he is already very familiar with this piece of gold rush, in front of a classmate who has just come out of the ravine, can he not be mighty?
This feeling of majesty is so intoxicating, but not everyone can be mighty at any time.
Wang Shiyi followed him carefully, only to see the cunning brother straighten his chest and hold his proud head high, and walked into the alleyway.
There are four or five storey peasant houses all around, and people walking in the alleys are also dressed like them, carrying travel bags or carrying snakeskin bags on their backs.
The two approached the door of one of the rental houses, and the cunning brother shouted in an octave voice, "Boss, do you have a temporary house for rent here today?"
"There are just a few temporary tenants who have checked out, and there are still today, but if you want to rent a house, you have to hurry, and you will be rented out by someone else if you are late." The landlord, who looked like a middle-aged man, replied with a smile on his face. The landlord's beard had not been shaved for weeks, growing like weeds on a potholed yellow earth.
"Boss, how much do you rent here for a night?" Seeing that he said that he had a rent, the cunning brother put down his travel bag and said in an inquiring tone.
"Depending on your needs, you will be charged 15 yuan a night with a bathroom, 10 yuan a night without a bathroom, and the temporary houses in the vicinity will be at this price. The landlord replied.
"The price is fair and reasonable, I want to ask you, this house without a bathroom, where is it convenient to go if you are in a hurry?" The cunning brother was obviously extremely interested in the ten yuan room, and tilted his head and asked.
"This, you don't have to worry, we make a rental, must have been well thought out, there are public toilets in the corridors on each floor, however, there are many people during peak hours, you don't just occupy the toilet alone and don't." The landlord replied with a smile.
"Your public toilet must be dirty, no one wants to stay for a second longer, it stinks!
When the boss heard this, he smiled: "The public toilet in my corridor is good and cleaned every day!"
"Okay, we're all out to work, and we're not here to enjoy it, so it's okay to live without a bathroom, please open a room for me." As soon as the cunning brother heard that the toilet was being cleaned, the doubts in his heart dissipated.
"Yes, ten yuan is also a residence, fifteen yuan is also a residence, you come out to work, it is better to save a little, it is not easy to earn a money outside. As he spoke, the landlord picked up a bunch of keys from his mottled and broken drawer table, and said to the two, "Lift your luggage, and let's go up to the third floor to have a look, and if you like, pay the deposit and rent." ”