115. Life is like an ant

Shandan slept all night, and didn't wake up once, just crawling on a small table and sleeping in the dark. Gu Haiping also found a seat in the second half of the night, changed seats with the person next to Shandan, and sat down, adjusting Shandan's posture so that she could sleep more comfortably.

Gu Haiping closed his eyes and took a nap, and it was dawn. He stood up and looked out the window at the already completely southern landscape, and he knew that his destination was getting closer.

The small vendors selling snacks and stationery on the bus have also begun to move, and the carriages are no longer flooded, although there are still many people sitting in the corridors, but they are already passable.

A vendor selling instant noodles came over with a cart and a pot of boiling water, Gu Haiping bought two buckets of noodles, two sausages and a bag of mustard, and woke up Shandan to wash his face and brush his teeth and eat something.

Shandan opened her eyes, moved her numb arm, and tried to stand up slowly, only to find that her legs were numb to the point of being unconscious, and she looked down to see that her feet were swollen like steamed buns.

She knew that after sitting for such a long time, there was no movement, and coupled with the pressure of the pregnant veins, the venous return of the lower limbs must be blocked, so her legs and feet were swollen.

Gu Haiping looked at Shandan and asked, "What's wrong?"

Shandan nodded and said, "It doesn't matter, my legs and feet are numb and swollen." ”

"Huh?" Gu Haiping nervously squatted down to check Shandan's legs and feet, his swollen feet like steamed buns almost broke the sandals, he hurriedly squatted down and picked up Shandan's legs and began to rub them. Raising his feet and massaging in the direction of venous return, Shandan felt that his legs gradually became conscious.

She said: "It doesn't matter, it's caused by sitting for too long, the venous return is not smooth, and it will be fine to move for a while." I'll go to the bathroom, you get out of the way. ”

"Are you okay? I'll help you go?" Gu Haiping said, holding Shandan's arm.

"It's okay, why is it so delicate? Ever since Shandan became pregnant, she felt that she had become brave and strong, and weakness no longer seemed to belong to her.

Slowly stepping over the people and luggage in the corridor, Shandan walked to the toilet, only to find that she hadn't been to the toilet for more than ten hours, and she felt that her bladder was suffocating.

Look, it's really right for my mother to sleep when she sleeps, and she is so sleepy that she doesn't have any consciousness.

After the convenience was completed, Shandan felt so hungry, as if the front heart was close to the back.

When she returned to her seat, she urged Gu Haiping to hurry up and find something to eat.

Gu Haiping had already soaked instant noodles, but Shandan didn't care about soaking them yet, so he sent them to his mouth.

"Slow down, look at the heat. Gu Haiping was very distressed when he watched Shandan gobble up, he didn't eat anything all day yesterday, he was patronizing the train to find a seat, and even the hawkers selling food in each carriage couldn't pass.

After eating Hesse, Shandan felt a little satisfied with his hunger.

Come over a seller of oranges, green skins. The oranges that Shandan saw in Inner Mongolia were all orange and yellow, where are the green ones? They must be unripe and sour.

But she especially wanted to eat something sour, so Gu Haiping took out twenty yuan and bought four sour oranges for two yuan.

The money was slipped into his trouser pocket.

Gu Haiping stood up and asked Shandan to put his legs and feet on the seat, and he helped massage to promote blood return and reduce swelling.

The two were busy for a while, and Gu Haiping sat down to rest. When I saw a quail egg seller coming, I wanted to buy a few quail eggs for Shandan to eat, two yuan and ten, which was not too expensive.

Gu Haiping's hand in his pocket didn't take it out, he stood stunned, and the vendor selling quail eggs urged: "Do you still want to take the money!"

Shandan took the quail egg and looked up to see the stunned Gu Haiping, she understood: Gu Haiping's money was stolen.

Fortunately, most of the money was on Shandan, and Gu Haiping only took a few dozen yuan of pocket money, but this small episode still made Gu Haiping feel very bad.

Therefore, things in the world are as Shi Tiesheng said: there will always be a worse layer.

Shandan took two dollars and sent the vendor away, asking, "Lost everything?"

"Damn!" Gu Haiping sat down angrily.

"It's okay, it's not a little more money, it doesn't matter. Shandan took Gu Haiping's hand and comforted.

She knew his unhappiness, his grievances and difficulties, it was she who burdened him, and she was also full of self-blame, he had paid too much for her.

Shandan deliberately asked Gu Haiping to peel quail eggs for her to eat, and then began to look forward to the city they had arrived in, Gu Haiping slowly stopped being in chagrin.

He said: "It's what you like, don't you like Jiangnan's 'green, fat, red and thin', 'bananas listening to the rain'? It's not poetry, it's a living scene. ”

"You wake up every day to the gentle and charming call of the birds, looking at the colorful flowers of the tree in front of the window, and the fruits adorning the branches, you must like it!" Gu Haiping reveled in his own description.

"It seems that my long-standing hope is about to come true!" said Shandan as he leaned on Gu Haiping's shoulder.

"You have to feel it, and if you like it, I'll stay after graduation, and we'll settle there when the time comes. Gu Haiping gently stroked Shandan's face and said infinitely affectionately.

After a long day, they finally arrived at Yongcheng at almost midnight.

As soon as I got off the bus, I felt a boiling heat wave, a temperature that Shandan had never encountered after living in the grassland for more than 20 years.

Although it was already autumn, the temperature in Yongcheng was still hovering around 35°C, and the damp heat was wrapped in a peculiar musty smell, and Shandan was staggered by the warm air.

The air in the prairie is always dry and crisp, and the humidity and heat wave give Shandan a terrible first impression.

Walking out of the train station, there were few pedestrians on the street, only a few tricycle drivers were still lazily waiting for business, and some of them were busy seeing a wave of passengers walking out of the station, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask for business.

A lean little man stopped Gu Haiping and Shandan who were leaving the station in a thick and lazy Mandarin and asked, "Do you want a car?"

Gu Haiping asked back: "How much does it cost to go to the University of Chinese Medicine?"

"Twenty pieces!" replied the man.

"No, right? We usually only have 10 yuan, why are you so expensive?" Gu Haiping walked forward with his luggage, and the little man hurriedly took the luggage on Shandan's body and said: "It's easy to say, it's good to say, 15 yuan! Usually it's 10 yuan during the day, but this is night, pretty boy, you see so much luggage, you can't see 15 yuan?"

Shandan looked at the little man with a humble and flattering smile, listening to this nondescript Mandarin, a trace of pity welled up in his heart, and he grabbed Gu Haiping and said, "15 is 15." ”

"This way, this way, let's put my luggage and sit down. The little man was full of joy and accompanied by a humble smile, as if he had received a great benefit.

A tricycle with a canopy, the carriage seats two people plus a few bags of luggage, it looks more cramped and cramped, Shandan and Gu Haiping squeezed together tightly and sat down, the little man quickly climbed on the front of the car, and began to step on the pedals of the tricycle hard, because the whole person could not sit on the seat of the car with force, but stood up and added his own weight to step the left and right.

The tricycle starts slowly and slowly enters the streets of Yongcheng, and the southern border city at night has a quiet and gentle beauty.

The tricycle brought a cold breeze, and Shandan squinted at the street: the neon lights flickered open, the billboards were missing arms and legs, the trees and the bushes on the side of the street were lush, and the darkness of the night looked a little weird.

Passing through a flowing river, a faint stench from the fermentation of silt fills the air. Shandan's sensitive sense of smell was strongly stimulated, and she almost wanted to gag, so she hurriedly covered her mouth and nose with her hands.

After a few minutes, he asked Gu Haiping, "Why does this river stink?"

"You say this river? It's called Chaoyanggou. It used to be not smelly, but now it stinks. The coachman didn't wait for Gu Haiping to open his mouth before he took over the conversation, panting loudly.

"The river used to be very clear, and we used to go down to the river to catch fish when we were young, but then the population of the city gradually increased, and everyone poured garbage into the river, and Chaoyang Ditch became a stinky ditch in the 90s!" explained the driver.

"Oh, then the government doesn't care, and a river is ruined like this?" asked Shandan.

"At first, I didn't care, but then it was too late, it already stinked, and it was impossible to go back. I heard that the government wants to cover Chaoyanggou to prevent the smell from being put into the air. The coachman replied.

"Oh, you're a local?" asked Shandan.

"Yes, I grew up here, and the original Yongcheng was a beautiful city with beautiful mountains and rivers, and there were few people, which was very good. Now that there are more and more immigrants, it is becoming more and more difficult to find food to eat. The little coachman said helplessly.