Chapter 133: Picking Up People
Chen Shi immediately called his mother, and after his mother received the call, he told him the details, but his mother didn't say a word, told him to wait, and said that he would come over immediately. Chen Shi knows that his mother is a straightforward person, and she is also very cheerful and sharp when she does things. It's just that Chen Shi didn't know how his mother came alone? If his father came together, what would happen at home? He was asking his mother, but the phone was hung up, and he could only smile bitterly.
The next day, my father called, and this time I made it clear, it turned out that my father had come with my mother, and the family asked the neighbors to take care of it, and there was nothing big to do, just a few pigs and a dozen chickens that needed to be fed.
With his father by his side, Chen Shi was also relieved, his father had been to Lincheng, so naturally he didn't have to worry too much, he just had to go to the station to pick up people. The two parents had just set off, and it would take a day to get to Lin Cheng, so it was probably evening when they came, and Chen Shi had to pick up people at about seven or eight o'clock in the evening.
took care of his grandparents during the day, wrote scripts with Li Yalian, time passed quickly, and when it was dark, after his uncle took over, he went to pick up his parents. As for the matter of his parents' arrival, he didn't say, after his mother came, how they talked about it, Chen Shi didn't care, anyway, as long as his grandparents could live in Lincheng after being discharged from the hospital, it would be convenient for him to seek medical treatment.
When he and Li Yalian arrived at the station, it was around six or seven o'clock, and they heard that the shuttle bus from Weixian had not yet arrived, so the two of them were waiting at the exit of the station. His mother was coming to the city for the first time, so Chen Shi was worried that she would get lost, but with his father here, he was also a lot more relieved.
At the gate of the station, he was afraid of missing his parents, for fear that they would not find him, and for fear that he would not see them come out, so sometimes there were many people at the exit of the station, sometimes there were few people, and I didn't know when they came.
Moreover, the parents are illiterate, but in the city it is like a labyrinth, and the illiterate people will definitely get lost.
Chen Shi said to Li Yalian: "Why don't we pull up a banner?" with their names written on them, they may be able to see them when they come out." ”
Li Yalian patted him on the shoulder and said, "Are you stupid? They are illiterate, who are you pulling the banner to?"
Chen Shi was really dizzy, he patted his head and said, "Oh! Look at my stupid head, how could I come up with such a crooked idea?"
Li Yalian looked at him tenderly and said softly: "You're not stupid, you're just anxious, you care about them in your heart, that's why you're so impatient and irrational." ”
Chen Shi smiled: "You understand me." ”
Li Yalian proudly turned her head away from him, looking at her expression, she was obviously very happy, but she used pride to hide her happiness, but gave Chen Shi a pretended angry look.
People come and go at the entrance of the station, especially now, there are a lot of people out of the station, crowded, outside the station, there are a lot of people calling friends, there are a lot of banners, some use a paper shell to write a name, and then hold it high, for fear that friends or relatives who go out of the station will not see.
On both sides of the station, taxis stop and people get off the bus, and some people get on the bus, almost all of them stop for a while and leave, buy a taxi parked here and immediately have business, therefore, this road is full of taxis at a glance, and there is a long queue for taxis, and occasionally the sound of a horn comes, which feels like a long roar of a dragon.
Chen Shi didn't pay attention to these scenes, but kept staring at the exit of the station, for fear of missing the meeting with his parents, Li Yalian was the same as him, the two stood outside the station and waited, from time to time there were solicitors passing by, and then asked them if they needed accommodation, if they wanted to eat, and even boldly asked them if they wanted special services.
Chen Shi really convinced these people, can't they see the relationship between Li Yalian and him? Even if you can't see that there is a woman by your side, you are embarrassed to ask people about this kind of thing? With this kind of thing, Chen Shi and Li Yalian should not have heard it, and others will naturally leave by themselves when they feel bored.
Where there are a lot of people, there will always be all kinds of strange things, there will always be all kinds of strange people, and there will always be all kinds of strange liars. Scammers have different methods, and each has its own merits, as long as there are many people, scammers will always have a variety of new methods to fool people. Liars deceive people by taking advantage of the weaknesses of human nature, and people always have weaknesses, no matter this or that, in short, no one is perfect, so there will be liars who succeed.
However, when a person is indifferent to all the temptations of the scammer, the scammer naturally has no room to survive, but unfortunately this is just wishful thinking, and only a few people can do it.
Of course, Chen Shi and Li Yalian can do it now, because the methods of ordinary liars are not very clever, Chen Shi has seen countless in his previous life, and now the capital of scammers to deceive people is too small, and the profits of seducing people are too small, so naturally Li Yalian will not be tempted. Ten yuan and eight yuan, a hundred yuan and a thousand yuan of bait is not worth mentioning to Li Yalian and Chen Shi at all.
There were several scammers who walked around them, asking if they wanted tickets, if they wanted to eat and drink, etc., in short, all the tricks of the scammers were used, but the two of them were still indifferent, and finally had to leave.
They met several groups of scammers and several solicitors, and it was not until it was just before eight o'clock that Chen Shi saw his parents.
Father and mother were going to enter the city, both of them were neatly dressed, and put on the new clothes that they were usually reluctant to wear, and when Chen Shi and Li Yalian saw the two of them in the crowd, they were also looking around, because they had spoken before, Chen Shi was waiting at the exit of the station, and they were afraid that they would not find anyone.
When Chen Shi saw it, he shouted loudly: "Mom, Dad, here, we are here." ”
When their parents saw them, they waved to them, and then passed through the exit of the station, and after meeting, Chen Shicai asked, "Dad, Mom, why are you here so late?"
The father said: "There was a traffic jam on the road, there was a car accident, I stopped for half an hour, and I almost couldn't get over." ”
The mother sighed and said: "Poor, a carload of people, I heard that more than a dozen people died, it is too tragic, I don't dare to make a car in the future, this is too dangerous." ”
Car accidents are often life-threatening, and both in urban and rural areas. Not to mention the city, most of the causes of car accidents in rural areas are due to road conditions, some are sharp turns, some are ramps, and some are due to road collapses. But this is also a helpless thing, in the southwest region, this kind of mountainous area, everywhere are undulating mountains, it is difficult to find a plain, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is not flat, but the ravines are vertical and horizontal, the road is rugged, it is very difficult to enter the city, if you want to build a road, compared to the plain area, I don't know how much more money to build through, and there are few people in the mountainous area, the cost of building the road has increased, but the benefits after building the road are not as significant as the plain area, therefore, the traffic here has been underdeveloped.
If you want to have developed transportation, I am afraid that it will not be realized until more than ten years later, when the entire county of Guizhou Province will be connected to the expressway. As for now, only by exporting cheap labor to other places, although there are local enterprises, they are not large-scale, and there is probably only one Moutai that is the most famous, and this is not a labor-intensive enterprise, so it does not need so many people, so the local people have to go out to find opportunities, and if there are more local enterprises, such as processing factories and garment factories, then will the local economy get better? Chen Shi wants to work harder and make some contributions, but this is just imagination.
Mother is lamenting, she has not seen so many lives and deaths, although her mother is not young, but seeing so many lives disappear at one time, there will always be a bit of a psychological shadow. Rural women, especially those who have not read a book, are always a little superstitious, she thinks that it is an unlucky thing to see so many people die, and she will not even sleep peacefully, so if she does not do something, her mother will keep nagging, and even be suspicious.
Chen Shi comforted his mother while letting Li Yalian accompany him, then got into a taxi and rushed all the way to the hospital.
In the car, his mother was still worried, and he said to Chen Shi: "Where do you sell paper money? You go and buy some, we will burn it tonight, and give these unfortunate people a little heart, after all, let us see it, if they find us, it will be bad, and buy some incense to light it, since we have seen it, then ask for comfort in our hearts." ”
Chen Shi is generally ignorant and fearless after all, and he doesn't believe in fooling around like this, but his mother believes that he has to do it, although he complains a little, but under his mother's strict order, he still has to find some paper money, otherwise his mother will not sleep well at night.
In the countryside, there are many legends of ghosts, some people even say that they have seen it in person, of course Chen Shi does not believe it, but the rural people believe it, this is not a matter of ignorance or ignorance, but a matter of habit, it is a habit that has been passed down from generation to generation since ancient times, to the generation of parents is not broken, to Chen Shi's generation began to appear to be broken, this is the isolation of the great era, Chen Shi knows that China is undergoing a earth-shaking change, these changes will of course abandon some dross, and even the essence of some traditional culture will disappear, but what remains is the Chinese spirit of modern civilization。
This is a fact that cannot be changed, Chen Shi knows that his mother is asking for peace of mind, of course, she believes in these in her heart, so she will use the most feudal method to seek peace of mind in her heart. It's just that how can the younger generation in modern society seek comfort in their own hearts? The young generation of modern times are ignorant and fearless, and at best they have courage, but at worst they are stunned.