Li Shaohui looked at Shi Lei, the prodigal son who had been floating in Shanghai for several years, and found true love and a home in an affair, he couldn't help but feel envious, and thought of his situation, now he has lost his true love, and he will continue to wander in Shanghai, a foreign land.

Shi Lei's story also made Liu's head sigh, and then he was sentimental, drank a few more large glasses, and began to babble about his emotional and work grievances in recent years.

After listening to Liu's nagging, Shi Lei smiled bitterly and said: "Sea drifting, sea drifting, you look at this word, it has doomed us outsiders to the end from the beginning."

When we first came to Shanghai, we were all young and high-spirited fighters, naively thinking that with our own efforts, we could fight for our own place in this bustling metropolis.

But a few years have passed, when we have dedicated our best years and best youth to this city, it does not understand the gratitude of gratitude, it overdraws our bodies, consumes our passions, desolates our state of mind, but leaves us with nothing, so from now on, I declare that I will flee from this ruthless and unrighteous metropolis. ”

After Shi Lei finished speaking, there was an inexplicable relief, because he not only found the other half of his life, but more importantly, he could immediately escape from this cage --- demon capital that had trapped him for five or six years.

In fact, judging from Shi Lei's work performance, he is already quite good, with an average monthly salary of about 20,000 yuan and comprehensive benefits, which is enough for him to live a single aristocratic life in Shanghai that is not a luxury.

If he is more pragmatic, marries a wife who keeps to himself, and the two work together to save money, it is estimated that in thirty or forty years, he can buy a house in Shanghai and really take root.

But Shi Lei is chic by nature, and he doesn't want to waste his life for this, he once said, "Buying a house in Shanghai and marrying a wife, being a house slave for a lifetime, living a tight life all my life, having a home and difficult to return, that is not the life I want." Besides, now that I am young, I am still alone, and I have been floating like this for a few years, and I am physically and mentally exhausted. I don't know what it will be like when I get a family, stay here for the rest of my life, drift for the rest of my life?"

Li Shaohui looked at Shi Lei, touched his heart, a little sad, he was sad not only about Shi Lei's parting, but in Shi Lei saw him a few years later, will he be like Shi Lei, full of passion to come to this bustling metropolis, but after the passage of time, he has long lost his edges and corners, so he can only leave this cage with no material security and no spiritual home.

"It should be like this!" Li Shaohui smiled bitterly, feeling extremely lost, he suddenly thought of the story of painting cakes to satisfy hunger, for this "cake" Many young people like him will paint a blueprint for their future, and the company will also give them a beautiful vow, let them work hard and dedicate themselves, but a few years have passed, and the reality has played a very tough and cruel joke with them, only a few people can make their dreams come true and complete the miracle of carp jumping over the dragon gate under the condition that the time and place are favorable, and most of the remaining people who work hard can only sigh and struggle on the edge of survival.

In the end, exhausted, they suddenly realized that painting cakes to satisfy hunger was a dream after all, and it was unattainable, so in the end, they could only be lonely and unwilling to become a wandering salted fish or a homeless man who was overwhelmed by life.

Just like people often joke: "You must work hard this year, the future is bright, as long as you are willing to work hard, the company's income will definitely rise, and next year your boss will be able to change to a luxury car, and it is your turn to be just a pitiful bonus salary, and you have to be assessed by all kinds." ”

Li Shaohui, who sighed, thought of another impressive thing, it was 1 o'clock in the morning that night, Li Shaohui finally said goodbye to customers and set foot on the way home. At that time, the spring rain was gentle, warm and delicate, making the whole world a lot more gentle and quiet.

The bus sped along the endless road, and the night was blank, and the distant warning signs glowed with a bleak turquoise glow in the light of the speeding vehicles. Occasionally, the high-rise buildings speeding away on both sides will also be accompanied by lonely vehicles.

Inside the car, old songs from the seventies and eighties are playing, and a few passengers are also infected by the singing, some humming along to the tune, and some looking out the window and enjoying it quietly.

Li Shaohui was in a very good mood because he had just won the order, and under the inspiration of music, he couldn't wait to sing a song with that incomplete voice to express his heart.

But when he got home, he saw the loving little couple opposite who were arguing about the sale of a house in Shanghai, and the husband was kicked out of the house by his angry wife, and was squatting in front of the door and smoking helplessly.

After the husband saw Li Shaohui, he couldn't help but pour bitter water, he and his wife have struggled in Shanghai for so many years, and they also have a little savings, he wanted to save a few more years, so he went back to his hometown to buy a big house and took his parents over to live with him. But his wife did not agree, and his wife wanted to buy a small house in the suburbs of Shanghai, put down roots in Shanghai, and then slowly become a part of the metropolis.

Li Shaohui thought about Shanghai's housing prices, and smiled bitterly, the current housing prices have been soaring all the way, and have reached a jaw-dropping level, each square meter is tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, which is simply an inch of gold and an inch of land. Li Shaohui squatted on the ground and drew a circle of less than a few square meters, stunned, the dragon plate project he just won amounted to more than 400,000 yuan, it was he who was also a salesman with outstanding ability It took nearly half a year, I don't know how much effort it took and how much care it took to take it down, but so much effort is not worth mentioning in front of this circle of less than a few square meters. Li Shaohui frowned and sighed, with his current net worth of less than 10,000 yuan, he can probably buy a palm-sized place in Shanghai, thinking like this, he looked at the palm under the street lamp.

In the distance, there are tall buildings and flowers, and when will he be able to afford a house in this flowery demon capital, settle down a home, and settle his tired wandering heart?

Li Shaohui sighed abruptly, is this a mistake of society or the sorrow of mankind?

At the banquet, Shi Lei drank again and again, firstly because his emotional prodigal son had finally found a home, and secondly, because of the upcoming separation.

After the banquet, Shi Lei was already drunk, drunk unconscious, drunk and a mess, but when he saw his girlfriend coming to pick him up, he suddenly sobered up a little, talking with a big tongue, making a lot of noise, his girlfriend laughed and angry, and kept complaining, but his hands kept wiping sweat for him.

Shi Lei and her girlfriend are gone, after this farewell, I don't know when and where I will see each other again, that is, we will meet again, and we can brag and drink without scruples as we do now, and discuss Buddhist scriptures?

Liu's head next to him also said sentimentally: "Brother Hui, even Brother Shi, a person with outstanding ability and open-minded temperament, has been floating in Shanghai for a few years, and he has left gloomily, what do you think our ending will be, do you think we should have prepared early?"

Li Shaohui didn't speak, looking at Shi Lei's departing back in a daze.

The cold wind blew in the middle of the night, rolling up a fallen leaf on the road, and the leaves fluttered lightly, and they flew into the distance involuntarily, not knowing where to be. Li Shaohui smiled bitterly, he made a promise in autumn, Lin Yue'er and Xia Xue in winter, and Shi Lei in the spring of next year, who will be next?