As in previous years, a few days before the National Day holiday, the vibrant city of Shenzhen became an empty city, and on the fifth or sixth day, there were gradually more people returning, and only then did they show some vitality.

In the first few days, Wang Xiaolong rode a motorcycle every day, shuttling through the rocks outside the gate, coming and going freely, just like the Monkey King in the Huaguoshan period.

At that time, the blow to motorcycles was not very strong, and motorcycles could often be seen whizzing by on the streets.

On October 6, more and more people came back to work, and the streets began to be noisy again.

"Let's go, go out and go down to the restaurant!" Wang Shiyi shouted in the dormitory.

The National Day is a grand festival anyway, and if you don't toss the silver on your body, you always feel uncomfortable.

"Okay!" "On weekdays, everyone is in a hurry to work, and they don't have time to go to the restaurant, and they have money on them, and they don't know where to spend it.

The afterglow of the sunset was still there, the two went out of the industrial area, walked into the farmer's house, and quietly slipped into the "West Sichuan Tavern", ordered the husband and wife's lung slices, ordered ants on the tree, and also ordered a Qingyuan chicken, beer must be indispensable.

Wang Xiaolong has been out to work for almost two years, and he came out in the second semester of the third year of junior high school, and he is now sixteen years old.

"Do you still want to study?" Wang Shiyi asked, putting down the wine glass in his hand and looking at his immature face.

"Of course, I want to, my grades in reading are not bad, and I am still a representative of the Chinese class, if I have the opportunity to study, I must take the university entrance examination! Without a diploma, I am too tired to be a general worker!" Although Wang Xiaolong is a technician, he does the dirty work of soldering, which is not much better than the general worker on the assembly line.

"You go back to study, if you are short of money, I will work to support you! If you don't want to go, after graduating from college, you will pay it back to me." Wang Shiyi took a sip of beer and said.

Brother Cunning is right, working outside, it is difficult to work without a diploma, a diploma is a stepping stone!

"Thank you, Brother Wang! I can earn money myself, I don't want your help!" Wang Xiaolong also took a sip of beer and said gratefully, he knew that Wang Shiyi also needed money, a young man in his twenties, he needed money to get married, and he would also need money to raise children in the future, and he could earn money when he was old, and he didn't need help.

"I took the college entrance examination in 99, and I almost went to college a few points, and now the university is still expanding, my grades are now in the present, and the last undergraduate is more than enough, you go back and work hard, after all, having a diploma is not the same as not having a diploma. After coming out to work for a few years, Wang Shiyi has a deep experience.

In 2000, he was looking for jobs everywhere, running into walls everywhere, without a diploma, and no one wanted to be a manager.

"Brother Wang, the diploma thing is secondary, I came to Shenzhen, just to find my mother, my father has left, I can't find her, I am an orphan, no matter how high the diploma, it doesn't mean anything to me, I want to find my mother, give her a pension, and do my filial piety. Wang Xiaolong said sentimentally.

Hearing Wang Xiaolong say this, Wang Shiyi no longer mentioned the matter of studying and going to university.

After drinking in the tavern, when they came out, night had fallen, and the construction of Shenzhen in those years was in full swing, and as far as the eye could see, except for the neon lights flashing happily, the stars in the sky could not be seen, and there was only a bright moon sailing lonely in the huge sky, day after day, year after year.

The two walked aimlessly along the street all the way forward, only to see a group of bloated aunts dancing in Yingrenshi Square.

The aunts who lived in the farmer's house had just washed their feet from the field and went ashore, and some of them had also learned to apply grease and powder, and they twisted their waists one by one in the song of Han Baoyi's "Tears of the Dancing Girl", and a heartfelt smile appeared on their faces.

Wang Xiaolong stood beside him, staring intently at them dancing in the evening breeze, unconsciously obsessed with square dancing.

Yes, a boy who has lacked maternal love since he was a child is easy to fall in love with aunts who dance square dances, and is obsessed with their dances, and the feminine maternal love they exude makes him have nowhere to escape.

Wang Shiyi is not interested in square dancing, he likes to dance energetically, likes to watch Mike Jackson sing with space steps, standing in the square, he has nothing to do, just squatting under the fine-leaved banyan tree next to him, leisurely lighting a cigarette, when he is worried, men like to smoke, Wang Shiyi is the same.

Not far away, under the tall king coconut tree, a part-time singer is singing in a voice of vicissitudes: "The wandering people miss you outside, dear mother, the wandering footsteps have traveled all over the world, and there is no home." ”

The part-time singer was thin and small, but he had long flowing hair, and he shook his hair while singing, which quickly attracted Wang Shiyi's attention.

He walked quietly over, and when he saw everyone clapping, he applauded and applauded together.

Suddenly, he had a desire to sing!

Yes, he used to be a person at the level of Maiba, and when he saw that people sang and earned a lot of applause, he couldn't stand still, turned around and walked to Wang Xiaolong's side and said, "Xiaolong, don't go to work tomorrow, find a box to sing today!"

"Okay!" Wang Xiaolong nodded when he heard the singing.

On the night of October in Shenzhen, it is still very hot outside, there is air conditioning inside the KTV, as soon as you walk in, it is cool, the box is beautifully decorated, the rock lights flash, and the inside is full of strange and romantic atmosphere.

Wang Shiyi ordered a three-hour singing in a fashionable middle room in KTV.

"Just the two of us?" Wang Xiaolong asked in surprise as he entered the box.

"Yes!" Wang Shiyi nodded.

"I'll call a Mai Ba here!" Wang Xiaolong finished speaking, and dialed Tangerine's phone.

That orange is the inspector under Wang Shiyi, every day on Wang Xiaolong's assembly line, holding an inspection list in his hand, "The king asked me to patrol the mountain, and patrolled the South Mountain and the North Mountain", so he is very familiar with Wang Xiaolong, and as soon as he received the call, he promised: "I will come over immediately!"

After a while, the orange came, and even brought two female workers from the production line.

There are young men and women in the box, there is singing, and there is also temperature.

The orange came up and picked a song "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau", with a high-pitched voice, circling the beam for more than an hour, and the skills were shocking, causing everyone to scream one after another.

Wang Xiaolong is also very active, he ordered a song by Mao Amin "Mother in the Candlelight":

Mom, I want to say to you

The words came to his lips and he swallowed them

Mom, I want to smile at you

There were tears in his eyes

……

Oh, Mom, believe me

A daughter has her own daughter's reward

……

When he sang, he was full of affection, Wang Shiyi knew that he was calling his mother, and tears flowed down his eyes when he heard it, and his mind kept coming up with what his mother looked like when she was young, and Wang Shiyi saw her photos and was deeply impressed.

Everyone knew about his background, no one disturbed him to sing, and when he finished singing, everyone gave him the warmest applause.

"Little Dragon, you sing so well!" Tangerine shouted loudly into the microphone.

That night, five young people were giggling in the box, drinking soda drinks, knocking melon seeds, carefree!

Life is like this, and people often let themselves worry about how to get it.

That night, Tangerine's gaze staring at Wang Xiaolong was a little strange.

She secretly fell in love with the little dragon.

The three hours of singing ended at half past nine o'clock in the evening.

Walking out of the KTV, it is still boiling outside, and the bustling Shenzhen is a city that never sleeps.

Women in overalls and heavy make-up walk up and down the street, the smell of their fat powder in the air, and the stereos of the shops along the street tirelessly pour out the cries of salespeople and the heart-pounding heavy metal rock music.

Mr. Cui Jian's "Nothing" came out of a certain crack in the door, making passers-by's ears pregnant!

Several gentlemen in suits and leather shoes held signs of so-and-so real estate in their hands and distributed leaflets along the street.

Wang Shiyi took a look, and on the colorful poster, a few bold characters went straight to his field of vision: location, location, or location!

Further on, a disabled wandering singer, in Adu's voice, sang:

You are the one who made me see through this thing of life

Stick to the end in four words

Without you

My life went back to being a mess

Yes, life can't be smooth sailing, what people need is the determination to stay the course.

When Wang Xiaolong heard the singing, he was deeply moved, didn't he need this kind of determination to persevere to the end when he came to Shenzhen to find his mother? I saw him walk forward, take out the wallet with body temperature from his pocket, and reverently put ten yuan in the bowl of the wandering singer.

"Thank you to this owner, thank you. As soon as he saw the ten yuan, the cloudy eyes of the disabled wandering singer immediately radiated a dazzling light, and he shouted loudly in the microphone.

Back in the dormitory, the two took a shower and lay down on the bed.

Wang Shiyi's mind was always circling the voice of the disabled wandering singer, always circling the flyer of a certain real estate, he suddenly had a whim, and said to Wang Xiaolong: "Xiaolong, tomorrow, we will find a place with more people, you sing in that place, attract onlookers, I will help you distribute flyers, help you find your mother." ”

"What a good idea, I'm willing to do anything to find my mother!" Wang Xiaolong said.

"Aren't you afraid of making a fool of yourself?" In Wang Shiyi's heart, singing on the street is a shameful thing.

"It's not a fool's errand!" Wang Xiaolong said.

"Okay! You can also show your singing talent, maybe you will be discovered by a certain scout, and the album will be popular all over the country in the future!" Wang Shiyi said encroachmently.

"That's it!" Wang Xiaolong's eyes flashed.

That was definitely a bold move.

Seeing that Wang Xiaolong agreed, Wang Shiyi felt as if he had completed a major task, put down his burden, and fell asleep after a while.

"Dididi!" In the haze, a crisp voice came.

"What's the sound?thief?" Wang Shiyi woke up suddenly.

He instinctively wanted to shout "who?" only to hear Wang Xiaolong turn over, and the sound came from his side again, Wang Shiyi listened carefully, it turned out to be a short message ringtone from his mobile phone.

It's the middle of the night, and I'm still chatting with a short message on my mobile phone, so I must be a virgin.

He Wang Shiyi also had that feeling, it was the feeling of being in love.

In 2004, mobile phones had not yet come out, they could not access the Internet, phone calls were not private enough, and many of my thoughts were sent through short messages.

"It's early morning, go to sleep! Go to bed early!" Wang Xiaolong said in a text message.

"Brother Xiaolong, you should go to bed early!" Tangerine replied in a text message.

Brother Xiaolong? Wang Xiaolong wanted to laugh when he saw the short message on the mobile phone screen, he was just fraudulently using someone else's ID card, his real age was only sixteen years old, he knew that Tangerine was already nineteen years old that year, and she should call herself her younger brother.

She is three years older than him, a female junior, and holds gold bricks!

"If you don't sleep again, you'll wake up tomorrow with panda eyes. Wang Xiaolong said in a short message that the girls are very concerned about their image, he wants to scare her with panda eyes, to be honest, he himself is sleepy and wants to doze off, but he doesn't want to take the initiative not to chat.

As long as the girl wants to chat, he must have to accompany him even if he is desperate!

"The panda's eyes are ugly, I don't want it, I'll go to sleep now, bye-bye!" Tangerine replied in a text message.

"Good night!" Wang Xiaolong didn't dare to tell her to be careful, for fear of scaring her.

"Good night, Brother Xiaolong, don't kick the quilt when you go to bed at night, you get cold!"

"Tangerine, I'm kicking the quilt, come over and cover me at night!" Wang Xiaolong said cheekily.

The girl gave him a roll of his eyes and never spoke again.

He knew that the girl was reserved, and tonight's words would be considered dead.

Originally, the tiredness hit me because I wanted to fall asleep, and I was disturbed by a few sweet nonsense words from the girl, that night, the sixteen-year-old boy Wang Xiaolong had insomnia, he had not had insomnia for a long time, and insomnia for a beloved woman was actually a happy thing.