Prosperity comes with glitz.

Downfall comes defeat.

Urban changes and economic acceleration have gradually penetrated the prosperity from the surface, but behind this glitz, in the corners of the deep city, under the cold high-rise buildings wrapped in reinforced concrete, there are still some scattered and dirty old neighborhoods.

Lively, noisy, market, authentic.

The potholes, bags, and bags are barely broken by the wrong cars, the plaques are lined with small shops, and the Zhang family and the Li family complain about the people whose life is not easy.

A few days ago, a heavy rain made the roads in the old neighborhood behind the train station muddy, and the occasional car passing through would force motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians to stick to the side of the road to avoid it, and you can't drive fast, and the crushed muddy water will attract pedestrians to curse.

Zhang Shidong parked the car at the intersection and bought a fruit basket at a fruit store, which was obviously not a hot seller on the scale of this fruit store, and Zhang Shidong waited for ten minutes for the owner to put together a new fruit basket with fresh fruit.

The memory is a little fuzzy, the expansion and development of the store makes him unable to compare his memory, he can only rely on his senses to get closer, occasionally stop an aunt who buys vegetables and ask for directions, groping to find the familiar path, crooked, one side is the courtyard wall, on one side is the back window of the bungalow residents of the previous path, and the back house wall is under the corner of the wall, moss green hair and some disgusting attachments, whenever someone uses it to drain the sewage, the flowing dirty water will bring out the smell of vomiting, and a burst of mixed pungent smell will float out.

The dog barks, the cat jumps, the snotty face is like a flower, the cat is wearing clothes, and the children with dirty marks are playing and running, almost every yard gate is open, the smell of cooking dispelled the smell of the drain, and the tired man sits in the yard smoking a cigarette, chatting with the mother-in-law who cooks in the kitchen through the curtain about today's firewood, rice, oil and salt.

Zhang Shidong stood in front of the penultimate courtyard at the end of the distance, the courtyard was not big, the two doors close together closed one closed and the other opened, and a figure in the courtyard wearing an old-fashioned unbranded sportswear was fanning the barrel stove, bursts of strong smell of Chinese medicine came to the nose, and bursts of smoke drifted into the sky, becoming another molecule polluting the air.

"If you boil like this, it will weaken the medicine by at least three points."

The figure was shocked, and turned his head with a smile: "I didn't expect you to remember here, how is it, the afternoon ......"

Zhang Shidong handed the fruit basket to the most beautiful joke in his mind, the old classmate Ling Jingyun, he dared to be so sure that he was not a person who bent his waist for money, because he understood that when she was in junior high school, this girl had already carried the whole family, to the point that it was not difficult to let her drop out of school to work to support her family, but she also failed to give her a girl with a bright youth.

Father is an employee of Pingjiang State-owned Machinery Factory, died because of an accident at work, the benefits of the factory are not bad, a one-time compensation to the Ling family a lot of money, and the mother was arranged to become a state-owned worker in the machinery factory, the father's departure also made Ling Jingyun's mother quickly aged and sick, the work factory still has the old feelings, but the monthly living expenses are only enough for the mother and daughter to live on a frugal basis, and the medical expenses required for the mother's illness are always drawn from the father's compensation.

This family did not fall, so that Jingyun did not taste the bitterness of society early, it was the mother's medical expenses that had not overwhelmed the zuihou of the father's compensation.

Zhang Shidong understood that the Ling family stayed six years ago, and now, it seems that more than six years have not changed anything, the girl who did not bend her waist for money back then, is still the same as back then, squatting in the yard, boiling unpalatable Chinese medicine for her mother.

"Auntie just fell asleep, right?"

Zhang Shidong's words made Ling Jingyun stunned for a few seconds, the naughty bad boy back then still remembered his mother's situation.

"If the house is small, it will be ......"

"Just sit in the courtyard."

Ling Jingyun subconsciously took a small bench, and before he finished speaking, Zhang Shidong picked up the conversation, and then the two of them were stunned at the same time, shaking their heads and laughing at the same time, if it weren't for each other's mature facial features and the change of clothes on their bodies, perhaps, it was more than six years ago.

Since it was in the courtyard, Zhang Shidong didn't hesitate to light a cigarette, and pulled out the stove hook under the barrel stove again, so that the fire could be lowered a little, and then looked at the cheeks that were becoming more and more mature and tasteful, and had a moment of coldness.

zuihou, still made Jingyun break the short silence: "There has been no news of you in the past few years, and many people inquired about you at the class reunion last year, and it happened that Ah Guang also came, and everyone asked him about you, but he didn't know, only said that you went to be a soldier." When did you come back and how is it now? ”

Zhang Shidong spread his hands: "It's not still like this, it's a mess, how is Ah Guang now, this kid has been smart since he was a child, and he turns quickly." ”

Ling Jingyun shook his head: "He is very bad, when you took a short time from school, he stopped studying, and then something happened and went to prison, and he only came out at the beginning of last year, it was very bad, his right hand was wasted and his right foot was lame, I only knew that he worked in a car wash, and he should get off work at this point when he didn't have time today, I don't know where he lives and I don't know his mobile phone number, you want to find him, and I'll accompany you when you rest this Sunday." ”

Zhang Shidong frowned: "Tomorrow, if you have nothing to do tomorrow, take me to him." ”

Ling Jingyun nodded: "Okay." ”

The ethereal piano monophonic mobile phone rang, and Ling Jingyun looked at it, showing a slight helplessness and bitterness on his face, and more of the perseverance and strength in his eyes.

"Zhang Shidong, I still have something to do, you go back first, and I'll contact you tomorrow. Kong Xin will tell him over there, don't let him trouble you, he is the mayor's son, we can't afford to provoke, they are all adults, what to do should be rational, the people don't fight with the officials, it's not easy to find a job. ”

"Well, Xiexie, I'll go first."

After Zhang Shidong left, Ling Jingyun put the boiled soup in a medicinal bowl and carefully picked it up in the room.

On the right side of the door is a wooden door, pushing open the door is a room of about ten square meters, a single bed, an old wardrobe, an old-fashioned twenty-one-inch TV, a table, is the whole of the room, there is a haggard woman lying on the bed, with her eyes closed, even in her sleep, she has not been able to remove the locked brows, Ling Jingyun put the decoction on the table, put it flat in a basin, pour hot water into the kettle, try her best to slow down the decoction to slow down the cooling, gently walked out of the room, and walked to the back in the corridor of only about half a meter, A small kitchen, on the right side of the kitchen, that is, behind the front room, in a small room of only a few square meters, there is only a small window, except for a small bed and a desk, which can only accommodate one chair, once the chair is pulled out of the desk, there will be no place to stand, and above the bed there is a small cabinet embedded in the wall, which can barely allow clothes to hang inside.

Closing the door, there was a slightly larger mirror inside the door, Ling Jingyun sighed softly, then took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, clenched his fist, and whispered to the mirror: "Ling Jingyun, you can, you have persisted for so many years, you can't compromise." ”

PS: Thank you for the reward that Brother Hao Han saved me!

PS2: Honestly, I want to have more clicks, there is still a chapter in six hours, for the sake of the new book list, please forgive me for being shameless! It's not easy to come out and mix!