Chapter 33: Flee to the Provincial City
Qin Yin finally expressed the idea of going to the provincial capital to Grandma Qin and Qin's mother. I have heard that there are quite a few "people who test the waters" in the provincial capital of Guangzhou, and I plan to go to the provincial capital to see who the "people who test the waters" are, learn from them, and then try the water myself.
Qinyin's plan to go to the provincial capital of Guangzhou was unanimously opposed by her grandmother and mother. Grandma Qin said: "Now that your father, brother, and sister have gone to work on the construction site, you should help your mother at home and take on more work, how can you go to any provincial city to wander?" It's better to stay at home to plant vegetables and plant seedlings, and find someone to marry as soon as possible. ”
In the dead of night, under the dim kerosene lamp, the piano is reading a book and thinking about the future. She thought she couldn't listen to her grandmother and mother anymore. If they follow their ideas, the future will be to work, get married, have children, and maintain ordinary household chores. The whole life is predictable, and at a glance there is an end, that is, another ordinary and cheesy housewife like a mother. This is something that the sound of the piano does not want.
So what about going to the provincial capital of Guangzhou? Although they are not familiar with the place, whether it is a high-ranking official like Shi Wenyuan or some unknown ordinary people, don't they all talk about the beginning of the atmosphere in the provincial capital?
Qin Yin has read the villain's book "Journey to the West" since she was a child, and not only knows the truth that you must practice to obtain the true scriptures, but also understands the admonition that "ninety-nine-eighty-one difficulties" will become a positive result. She planned to go to the provincial capital to see it, and she was also mentally prepared to experience the "ninety-nine-eighty-one difficulty".
This kind of thinking lasted for many nights. In the end, it was Li Fei's words that made her decide to go to the provincial capital Guangzhou. Li Fei came to the qin house when he had nothing to do, and his intention to pursue the sound of the qin was very obvious. Li Fei asked about the sewing machine incident again, and said that he must find out the person behind the troublemaker. Li Fei's murderous words and state made Qin Yin feel that only by leaving him could he gradually calm his vengeful heart and prevent even more trouble.
Only by escaping can Li Fei be freed from the sewing machine incident; only by escaping can those rumors that are being spread one after another stop and disappear; and only by escaping can he win a better future than reality. That's what Kotone thinks.
The sound of the piano really escaped. With an almost heartless determination, she finally got the two women in her family to reluctantly agree to her to go to the provincial capital of Guangzhou to "give it a try". She didn't tell anyone except her grandmother and mother, and she told her grandmother and mother not to tell anyone. In this way, a person used the little savings he usually saved to buy a ticket to Guangzhou. Actually, it's not easy to buy tickets. Kotone waited for days to get a ticket.
Qin Yin carried a small luggage, like a fleeing prisoner, did not dare to let others know, and did not want others to know, quietly walked to the county seat. I waited for a day in the county seat, and in order to save money at night, I spent the night in the waiting room of the station. When the sky was dark, Qin Yin finally boarded the bus to the provincial capital.
The car was bumping on the road, looking at the mountains of his hometown and the sky of his hometown gradually moving away from his sight, and Qin Yin had mixed feelings in his heart, thinking about many things randomly. Thinking about it later, it's all unbearable memories, and thinking about it forward, what will the future hold? Qin Yin doesn't know, but she knows that she will work hard, she will fight, and she will do her best.
At sunset, the car finally arrived in the provincial capital of Guangzhou. Looking out of the window of the car, you can faintly see some shops and lights, as well as bicycles and pedestrians hurrying away. All of these make the sound of the piano, which grew up in the mountains feel fresh. For the time being, she finally forgot all the unhappiness accumulated in the commune, and her thoughts quickly merged into the rhythm of the provincial town.
After getting off the train and walking out of the station, there were small stalls selling steamed buns and pastries in the not very big square. This is a sight that Kotone has never seen in the mountains. The fragrance of steamed buns wafted by, and Qin Yin felt that he was a hungry person, but he couldn't pounce on the steamed buns. She walked to the front of the stall and asked the price of steamed buns, when she learned that a steamed bun cost a dime, she hesitated, she quickly calculated, in the commune two cents can eat a bowl of noodles, and now two cents is only two steamed buns, not full, too expensive. She gave up the idea of buying steamed buns.
Next to the station, there is a pier facing the river. A small steamer was parked on the riverside, a wooden plank was erected between the land and the hull of the river, and a group of neatly arranged people were carrying the planks, carrying white cloth bags from the boat and piling them up on the riverside. Next to the sound of the piano, a child looked at the small steamer in the distance, and shouted as he ran, "Unload the grain again, unload the grain again." ”
This scene is so fresh and poetic for the sound of the piano. She kept staring at the river, the small steamers, the people unloading the grain, even though the smell of steamed buns next to her had enveloped her, and even though hunger had completely surrounded her, she kept staring.
Until it was completely dark, the lights of thousands of homes outside the station were on.
Kotone plans to stay at the station for the time being, just like at the station in the county. But she soon learned that such an attempt was going to fail, and the station staff with red armbands walked back and forth, shouting warnings not to stay overnight in the station. It seems that there are still many people who stay at the station at night, such as Qinyin, that the station has a special propaganda tip.
Kotone asked one of the staff where they could stay, and the staff pointed to the hostel across the station. Qin Yin dragged her tired body and walked slowly towards the hotel.
When she arrived at the hostel, she was greeted by a waiter with a smile on her face. The waitress asked her if she wanted to live by herself or with people. Qin Yin had just come out of the mountains, and he couldn't understand the waiter's words, so he stood in a daze, not knowing how to respond. The waiter pointed to a corner of the hostel lobby and asked if she would like to stay with the girl. Following the direction of the waiter's finger, Kotone saw a girl in ragged and shabby clothes who looked like a foreign person. The girl apparently heard the waiter's words, and her timid gaze just met the sound of the piano. The girl told Kotone that two people could save some money by living together. Kotone happily agreed to live with the girl.
After completing all the formalities, Kotone and the girl lived in a two-bed room together. After chatting casually, it turned out that the girl's name was Yang Yun, and it was also because her family was poor, and she heard that there were many opportunities for the establishment of a special economic zone in the south, and she was unwilling to be poor for the rest of her life, so she went south from the north alone and wanted to find something to do in the special economic zone. When I didn't want to come to the provincial capital of Nanyue, it was dark, and I had to wait to buy a ticket to the Special Economic Zone, so I stayed overnight and met Qinyin by chance.
Both are outsiders from the end of the world, with similar personalities and ages, Qin Yin and Yang Yun soon became like old friends, talking and laughing, and watching the night view of the provincial city outside the hostel together.
The night in the provincial capital is also very different from that in the mountains. Until eight or nine o'clock in the evening, there were still people shuttling downstairs of the hotel, as well as the lights of the store, and a few sounds of hawking. In the mountains, it was already the dead of night. On the first day she arrived in the provincial capital, she felt a distinctly different atmosphere from the mountainous area, and she secretly congratulated her decision to come to the provincial capital.
Yang Yun told Qinyin, you people in the land of Nanyue, it is really happy to take the lead in canceling the bills. In our hometown, there is still a bill economy, without which you can't stay in a hostel or buy anything. Qin Yin smiled at Yang Yun and took her hand. Two girls, wandering around the provincial capital.