After talking about it for so long, I have to talk about our protagonist Mentao.

It has been the second year since Mentao arrived in Jinling. College life was monotonous and boring for him, and he was very different from the rest of his class and even the rest of the school. All other students come to school, which is the most basic. But for Mentao, the university and Jinling are the first time he went out on a long trip, except for the college entrance examination, he went to the county seat for the first time, and before graduating from high school, he did not go out of Hanshui Town, where he had lived for 19 years. Before enrolling, he brought the 6,200 yuan that his family had worked so hard to get by doing everything possible and saying a thousand words to the school, 6,200 yuan may not be anything to many families now, but for Mentao, for Mentao's father Mendegui, it is such a large amount of money that they have never imagined and have never had. But 6,200 yuan, when he came to school, he paid the tuition and accommodation fees, and bought a few essential daily necessities, and there were 720 yuan left in Mentao's hand, which is all Mentao's capital this semester.

While other students were looking forward to a new and exciting life prospect of college as soon as they entered the university, Mentao began his journey of searching for food like a sleepy wolf who had been hungry for a winter.

Jinling is a place with a deep history, colorful natural and cultural landscapes, and a strong cultural atmosphere everywhere. But Mentao has already tried several jobs. Before entering the school, Men Tao has made a plan, usually he works hard to go to school, and he goes out to work on weekends, the school's courses can not be delayed, his foundation is poor, and his school opportunity is so precious, no matter what, he can not affect his learning.

Although Jinling is a big city in the south, Mentao visited half of the city two weeks ago, but he never found a job that could be used by himself. Mentao only wanted to work every Saturday and Sunday, and he even went to several construction sites, but they didn't agree to his terms. Finally, he found his first job as a waiter in a fast food restaurant, and he still took care of food for 50 yuan a day, and on such a weekend, he had 100 yuan, and Mentao's life for a week was settled.

Men Tao cherishes this first job very much, he works hard to show himself and do his best to do this job well. Every Saturday morning, he waits for the boss to open the door in front of the fast food restaurant, and in the evening, he also leaves after the boss closes. Originally, his job was to clean up the dishes and chopsticks after the meal, clean the table, and clean up, but when he was not busy with his work, he did everything in the other jobs in the store, washing vegetables and dishes, he was not lazy, he regarded this first job as his savior, he didn't know what his life would be like if he didn't have this job? Slowly, everyone in the store, especially the boss, was full of love for Mentao, and a month later, the boss added ten yuan to him every day, and after knowing his situation, he asked him to come over as soon as school on Friday, not only to eat, but also to give him a salary of thirty yuan on Friday.

The fast food restaurant is a little far from the school, it takes 40 minutes to take the bus, but it takes an hour and a half to walk, in order to save two dollars on the bus, except for going to the restaurant after school on Friday, Mentao is to go by bus, in order to arrive a little earlier, do more work for the store, the rest he is walking, he set a goal for himself, he wants to save money, his living expenses can only take care of himself, the most important thing is next year's tuition, the first year's tuition, parents have done their best, frightened to the end, as long as they have the ability, they must not add to their burden, they must stand on their own, money, even if it is a dime, one yuan, you have to cherish it!

Unconsciously, every week passed in a hurry, two months, I studied hard in class, usually I was lonely and silent, in school, Mentao was very boring, he didn't make any friends, and his classmates also regarded him as a weirdo, and other people in the dormitory often went out to play, dinner, singing or something, only Mentao was lonely and lonely, doing his own thing. Coming to Jinling from the mountains, Men Tao invisibly felt the pressure around him, although this feeling was vaguely felt when he was in middle school and high school, but it was not as strong as it is now!

Jinling is full of towering high-rise buildings, spacious and vertical roads, dazzling shopping malls, splendid hotels, charming and warm parks, full of traffic, crowds, warblers singing and dancing, flowers and red flowers, but all this, for Mentao, there is no survival, no one is important to the one hundred and thirty yuan he gets every week, he has no time to take care of it.

The clothes on my body now are still the sportswear I bought in my sophomore year of high school, and there are many fades, as well as a suit and a tunic, both of which were in high school, fortunately, I haven't grown much in the past few years, and my body is still so thin, I can still wear it, but in school, in the classroom, and in the dormitory, Men Tao can feel that he is different from other classmates, and the sneakers on his feet seem to have begun to protest, and cracks are about to appear. Steamed bread is the main staple food of Mentao in school, not that he likes to eat, but that you can eat steamed bread without vegetables, just boiling water. But no matter what, the life of the university, Mentao has begun, and he is already self-reliant.

In the third month, Mentao went to deposit money on his card again, and the card was applied for in the second week after Mentao found a job, and he saved 800 yuan that time, including 700 yuan from home. In front of the self-service cabinet machine, Men Tao is ready to deposit 300 yuan, which is the income balance of the last three weeks, look at the card, the balance shown is already 1900 yuan, which also has their own National Day holiday on the income of seven consecutive days of work, suddenly, a cool breeze blows, Men Tao realized that it is November, the autumn and winter of Jinling seem to be very intimate, there are already a few cool, he subconsciously looked at the foot, the sneakers on the feet have been made up twice in Jinling, the second time to make up, the eyes of the master of the shoes have obviously told themselves, the shoes have no value to be repaired。 You have to buy yourself a pair of shoes, and preferably clothes. He took out the money on his body again, and there were more than one hundred and fifty yuan, and after thinking about it, he didn't save the money and took out the card.

In a Li Ning store, Men Tao chose a pair of special shoes and a sportswear for himself, and spent 285 yuan. He has decided that he will not go home this holiday and the New Year, and he will hurry up and work, save money, save money, and save money again.

The semester ended quickly, the school classes were not particularly difficult, and Mentao's academic performance was only average, which was the same as when he was in middle school and high school, and he seemed to have been studying average. It's a holiday, fortunately, the dormitory of the school can still live during the holidays, and there are some in the school that are also for various reasons or work-study, or want to play and don't want to go home, or don't go home purely for freedom, the school only put forward one requirement, that is, the students who live on campus during the holidays should be gathered together to live together, which is convenient for the management of the school.

Mentao and other students from different classes are in the same dormitory, and there are several sophomores and juniors. Every day is the earliest to leave and the latest to come back. One night, when I returned to the dormitory, it was almost twelve o'clock, and the two seniors in the dormitory had not slept and were still drinking beer, one of them greeted Mentao and asked him about his situation and work, so they started chatting. The two seniors, also because of family difficulties, are also working during the holidays, but their work is much easier, and their income is more than that of Mentao, what they did was the work that Mentao did for a few years: distributing leaflets and participating in promotional activities, they can have a salary of 100 to 122 or 30 a day, and they don't have to get up early and be greedy. Mentao was moved, and one of the seniors said that there was just a shortage of people, so Mentao asked him to register himself. I will go to the fast food restaurant tomorrow to work for another day, and I will also tell others, and I can go all the way with the seniors the day after tomorrow. The next day, Mentao told the boss that he couldn't do it anymore and let him go home. Men Tao lied, he was really embarrassed to say that he had jumped ship, he couldn't say it, he was very grateful to the fast food restaurant for taking him in at the beginning. The owner of the fast food restaurant was also very reluctant to Mentao, saying that he could give him another ten yuan in salary, or let him come back next semester after he came back.

That night, he wrote a letter to his family, his father was illiterate, he sent it to his classmates in the village, and asked the classmates to read it to his father, saying that he would not go home during the holidays and the New Year, that he was working, and that he was able to support himself and provide for his own schooling, so that his parents would no longer have to worry about his tuition and living expenses next year, and that he would send 1,000 yuan to his family before the end of the year, so that his father would pay back some of the urgent money he borrowed when he went to school.

The letter was written, and this night, Mentao didn't sleep well, and all night, in his dreams, he wandered in the ravine and hillside of Menjia Village.