As the saying goes: In February, April and August, when Xiao Yao and they ran away, although it was a very pleasant season, in the empty waiting hall, in the middle of the night, the temperature was still slightly low.

And that night, as if God was deliberately playing tricks on them, in the early hours of the morning, there was a light rain.

Although the three of them were away from home, they were all wearing single clothes and a coat. Sleeping in the waiting room at night, and there was no quilt cover, this time I woke up, and the noses of the three of them were a little out of breath.

I slept late last night, and the waiting room was full of people, and they didn't sleep soundly, and they had to go to the Long Talk Building this morning to fight for the three thousand oceans with little hope.

Fortunately, when the day was about to dawn, the drizzling rain stopped. Enduring the cold morning breeze, they went to the toilet to wash their faces, rinse their mouths, keep large bags and small bags and school bags, and took a car to the Changhua Building located in the south of the city center.

"You guys are waiting for me here, I'll go to the number first, it is estimated that Mr. Li will come very early. ”

The long-talk building in the city went to work in the morning, and when Xiao Yao came to the gate, it hadn't opened yet. There are a lot of people waiting for long-distance calls, and Xiao Yao is also waiting in front of the gate, filtering over and over again the words he thought about last night, success or failure in one fell swoop.

At that time, whether it was transportation or communication, it was a world of difference from now. The vast majority of people-to-people contact is done by writing letters and mailing them through the post office.

At that time, telephones were still scarce, and it was impossible for ordinary households to install telephones. Between units, the city can directly dial call, but as long as the call to the following county, it is a long-distance, you need to go to the long-distance building to queue up to get the number, fill in the unit that needs to be contacted.

If there is no phone, the caller will have to wait for the other party to call and find someone, which will delay time and waste money.

When the caller gets the number, just like queuing up in the hospital now, when he calls your number, he will designate the number of phone booths you go to to answer the phone. It is common for people to stand in small phone booths for a long time, waiting for the other party to find someone, and some urgent matters cannot find anyone, and they stand for hours.

Another way to contact is to shoot telegrams, which cost money for words, even punctuation. A few simple words, just like classical Chinese, sometimes you can't understand how you read it, the person who sends the telegram tries to save money, and the person who reads the telegram is guessing riddles.

For example, a child who is far away from home, knowing that his parents are not in good health, sends a telegram asking if his parents are safe, and the message is: "Are their parents safe?" Back a message: "The father dies before the mother."

After receiving the telegram, the child cried, but he didn't know that the relative had died. hurriedly rushed back to find out that it was his mother who died.

It turned out that the message had a comma after the word "in". Later, someone said, since you want to save money, why just save the word "first", it will be clear at a glance, why bother dragging the text?

Just when Xiao Yao looked to see if Teacher Li was coming, the building opened, and the crowd waiting outside squeezed in with a "boom". When Xiao Yao struggled to squeeze into the front desk to get the number, he saw that the number was thirty-three.

"It's really back, one can't be scattered, and there will be a scattered. Isn't this a separation? ”

Xiao Yao muttered in his mouth, although he didn't believe in this thing, he felt uncomfortable reading it. However, before Xiao Yao was depressed, Mr. Li Benxin came in with an umbrella in his hand.

"Teacher Li, sit down. I've already numbered it. ”

Xiao Yao respectfully gave up his equal seat to Li Benxin, and Teacher Li didn't see the person who walked with Xiao Yao yesterday, and frowned.

"Where's the buyer at your father's factory?"

"He had a cold last night and couldn't get up with a fever in the morning, so I came by myself. ”

It rained in the early morning, and the young man couldn't sleep well at night, and it was normal for him to get cold, and Mr. Li didn't doubt Xiao Yao's lie at all, but blamed himself in his heart.

"Alas, if I had gathered it earlier and sent it to your father, I wouldn't have wanted you two to come all the way here. ”

Teachers, take morality as an example, and teach as the essence. Hearing Teacher Li's self-pity, Xiao Yao also blamed himself in his heart, he didn't want to deceive the teacher like this, but in order to escape, he could only apologize later.

The two of them had their own agendas, and the scene was too noisy for inconvenient conversations. For about half an hour or so, a clear female voice shouted to the 33rd to go to the 13th call room.

Xiao Yao scolded in his heart: Sleep, it's lost again. When you get up, you have to go on the phone.

"Xiao Yao, I'll come first. ”

Teacher Li's words made Xiao Yao's eyes dark, he thought about fooling his father first, and said that he came to the city to buy things, and by the way, he came to Teacher Li to ask for money, so that his father would not expose it, and he would cheat the money and slip away.

But Mr. Li asked to come first, but he didn't dare not let him, he really wanted to say goodbye without saying goodbye at this time. But he didn't give up, for the sake of the three thousand oceans, he had to put his ear to the door of the intercom room and eavesdrop, ready to run away from time to time.

He heard Mr. Li on the phone to his father is a thousand thanks, all kinds of sorry, and the time is delayed for so long, and he shouldn't not send it himself, anyway, Lin Lin is always kind words, and finally Mr. Li said:

"Director Xiao, I will bring all the money to your son today, and let your son talk to you. ”

Hearing this, Xiao Yao didn't wait for Teacher Li to open the door, he pushed it away, snatched the phone in the teacher's hand, covered the receiver, and waited for Teacher Li to go out first, after all, the phone room was too small, and the two people standing there were too crowded.

"Who told you to go to Teacher Li to ask for money? Why are you going to the city when you don't study well in school? Why do you go back to school for me!"

As soon as Xiao Yao put the earpiece to his ear, he heard his father's angry reprimand, he hurriedly looked at the closed door, and said loudly into the phone:

"Dad, don't worry, I will buy the things I need in the factory and go back, and I will not delay the use of the factory. ”

"Smack. ”

After Xiao Yao finished speaking, despite his father's shouting over there, he reached out and hung up the phone, pushed the door, and sure enough, he saw Teacher Li standing by the door waiting for him. He secretly exclaimed. said in my heart: Dad is sorry, the son is outside, and the father's life can be affected.

Teacher Li and Xiao Yao came to a corner of the Long Talk Building, he handed 3,000 yuan to Xiao Yao and asked him to order it, Xiao Yao didn't have the heart to count the money at this time, so he stuffed it directly into his pocket and said to the teacher that his father asked him to buy things as soon as possible and send them back, and Teacher Li no longer had any doubts, so he said goodbye.

Xiao Yao, who hid to the side after going out and breaking up, watched Teacher Li go away, and said to his back over and over again: Teacher Li, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Mr. Li.

It wasn't until Mr. Li, who was holding an umbrella in his hand, disappeared from his sight for a long time that Xiao Yao left the corner and turned around to find Wang Yan and Jin Ming.

"It's okay, as long as you come back. ”

"Xiao Yao, otherwise you and Wang Yan are waiting for me here, and I'll go to my aunt's house to ask for money. ”

Seeing Xiao Yao come back with a depressed face, Wang Yan and Jin Ming both came up to comfort him. As soon as Xiao Yao heard Jin Ming say that he could go to his aunt's house to get money, he hurriedly asked him how much he could want? Jin Ming said that almost 100 yuan was no problem.

"Forget it, we have to leave as soon as possible now, I don't think I can wait until noon, and someone will come from my father's factory." I lied to my dad and hung up on his unfinished phone, and he must be mad by now. ”

When Wang Yan and Jin Ming heard Xiao Yao say this, they hurriedly grabbed their luggage, took the car to the train station together, and really began to embark on the journey of escape.

"You three, drive to the city now, and show me the train station, the long-distance station, the steamship dock, everything. There are not enough people, and you will increase them in the city yourself. I'm on a long distance now, and I'm not as fast as you go, so try to get him back for me. ”

Xiao Yao had just broken up with Mr. Li here, and Xiao's father was arranging the manpower in the factory to go to the provincial capital urgently. In addition, he sent one of Xiao Yao's uncles to immediately go to Idea Middle School to find out what happened to Xiao Yao at school.

"Director, I ....... ”

"Xiaoling, you can't go, I'm in a very messy mood now, if he runs this time, it will be troublesome, he must have gotten Mr. Li's money, it's all to blame me, I didn't understand Mr. Li's intention to call at the time, I thought he hadn't repaid the money so far, and said something to me. Who knew that this bastard boy fished in troubled waters, and put me and Teacher Li together. ”

Father Xiao said this, smiling wryly and shaking his head. was put on a stand by his son, who to reason with?

Xiaoling really wanted to say, you didn't listen carefully to what Teacher Li said just now, just blindly perfunctory and said good, good, okay, okay. If you listen carefully, Xiao Yao can't put you and Teacher Li together, you answer the phone while reading the report, which makes Xiao Yao succeed.

Xiao Ling complained in her heart, but she didn't dare to show the slightest unhappiness on her face. She became nervous when Xiao's father was angry at the phone. She knew that Xiao Yao was on the other end of the phone, and she was very anxious. When she heard that the factory director stopped before she finished speaking, she also felt that something was wrong.

Father Xiao is in a hurry, not about money. He heard from Xiao Yao's phone call that something big had happened.

If it weren't for the desperation, his relatives were all in the city, he knew that his son would not go to the teacher to ask for the arrears. Because when he asked the teacher to borrow money, he said that he couldn't urge the teacher to repay the money.

He knew that his son would not do anything wrong, but he had so much money and a big world, where would he go to find him? He would definitely not come back for a long time, how could he explain to Xiao Yao's mother? How could he explain to his parents?

Xiao's father waited anxiously in the factory until more than three o'clock in the afternoon, and received an urgent telegram. Shangshu: Sansheng went to Beijing to suspect it.

When Director Xiao looked at the telegram with only six words, he was furious:

"When is this coming, take a telegram and try to save money? I'm looking for my second son, you give me a third life, and I will take care of the third life when I go to Beijing?"

Master Wang and the accountant in the factory came to help interpret it, but after reading for a long time, I couldn't remember who these three lives were.

"Factory director, did the telegram say that there were a total of three students going to Beijing, and Uncle Cai suspected that one of them was Xiao Yao?"

As soon as Xiao Ling's words fell, Xiao Yao's uncle ran in sweating.