Chapter Fifty-Six: Battle Ticket
The bloated city of B is reflected in the urban construction, that is, the core business district within the third ring road is still full of urban villages a few hundred meters away. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info a typical post-Soviet city, which often gives people a unique kind of horror, with the film superman on the overpass and the street girl in the alley reflected in the lower river of the city. The wholesale market of the zoo, during the rush hour, the subway station arteriosclerosis can be squeezed into biscuits. Countless lives can find a place to live in this noisy place.
At the foot of the Son of Heaven, outside the roots of the imperial city, the main street is wide and straight, turning a few corners and slipping into the alley, the scene immediately brightens up another village - it can really only be called a village. It is like the blind intestines of the city, chaotic, people and vehicles collide randomly, and guerrilla warfare between the chengguan and small vendors is constantly staged. During the summer rainstorm season, the cosmopolitan city turns directly into the water city of Venice.
Couples fall in love, in the same city B, and are the same as long-distance relationships. If you take road traffic from Haidian to Tongzhou, it may take you four or five hours during peak hours.
As a native of City B, Yuan Zheng proudly announced that he had never entered the Forbidden City or climbed the Great Wall. He said that in his eyes, City B is not the hometown of roast duck, stewed and fried noodles at all, but a miscellaneous forest of steel and concrete, full of pseudo-fashion and pseudo-literature and art.
He said that every time the bulldozer demolished an old house, part of his childhood memories were forcibly demolished, and the pain was the same as cutting meat.
He incisively concluded: I have seen through City B, the wild model of Chaoyang, the official of Xicheng, the hutong of Dongcheng, the Xueba of Haidian, the chimney of Fengtai, and the beautiful scenery of Huairou, that's it.
In Yuan Zheng's eyes, no Fangshan or Shunyi is considered City B.
"Mentougou? Where, isn't it in Q City? He also said that some authentic people in City B have never been out of the district or county in their lives, but they are sitting in the well and watching the sky.
Of course, he was a sarcastic Manchu widow and a disgraceful Hutong master, and most of the locals I've met in City B are nice, hospitable, and reasonable. The second generation of the male man took a few strings of jade beads that were said to be Qianlong's testicles, and the big mountain cow couldn't seal his mouth, and the girl was very grinning and eating, drinking, and having fun like gentlemen, they were used to it, which is called the temperament of B City.
City B is large, resources are concentrated, and people from other places flock to it, like a crucian carp crossing the river. Although none of these so-called resources are intended for most of these people who are pouring in. Mansions, high-end restaurants and clubs, celebrities, officials and coal bosses come and go.
got a cold and fever, ** Silk went to the roadside black clinic to buy a few flavors of medicine and was reluctant to pay, just to not die. Resources, where do the resources come from? Later, like Yuan Zheng, I saw through the so-called dream that became the last fig leaf for the vast number of Beipiao to escape the cruel reality.
Some industries really have to be in Beijing. Tang Tingting said to me: "There are many people in City B, and there is also a lot of natural consumption, so it is convenient to do things." ”
I understood what she meant.
She was preparing for the adult college entrance examination, and occasionally I went to the third aunt's "Beauty Appointment" shampoo shop, and would give her a lecture.
The prostitutes were fighting inside, and I reviewed the three-dimensional geometry with her outside, which was very lively. Later, when we got into a fight, my aunt suggested that we go to a nearby coffee shop.
There were unforeseen circumstances, and just two days before Tang Tingting's exam, a heavy rain in her hometown disrupted all her plans.
The heavy rain washed away her grandmother's pigsty, and the pigs ran out to have fun. The next day, her grandmother went to find a pig and fell off the cliff, was carried to the hospital and vomited blood, and left that night without seeing Tang Tingting for the last time.
After she returned to City B, I comforted her that it didn't matter, she would take the exam again next year, and she would be more prepared, and maybe the effect would be better.
Her eyes were swollen from crying, like two peaches hanging on her face. She said that she had been dependent on her grandmother since she was a child, and her grandmother kept everything good for herself, but she didn't expect that her grandmother would die before she fulfilled her filial piety.
She cried again as she spoke, and I handed him a tissue. She said gratefully: "You are the only one in City B who cares about me so much, and I don't even know how to repay you." ”
"Be kind to yourself, even if it is to repay me, don't cry yet."
I didn't expect her to cry even more, so I came over to borrow my shoulder, but I had no choice but to lend it to her.
After crying, she said that there was nothing worth nostalgia in her hometown, and she didn't want to go back in the future.
I just remembered that the winter holidays were approaching, and going home was on the agenda. If you want to go home from Beijing, it is no less difficult than sending people to the moon.
Spring Festival is undoubtedly a great migration of Chinese, and culturally migratory birds must return to their nests when they approach the end of the year, returning City B to the people of City B.
I used to watch "Animal World", in order to mate and migrate aquatic plants, the herbivores on the African grassland were bitten by crocodiles in the river, and lions and jackals chased behind them.
It is the law of nature that God cuts out the old, the sick, and the sick in a cruel way to keep the biome at a high quality level. Think about our resemblance to buffalo zebra antelope, the society is more tragic than the African savannah, but human society can fight for the father, there are more unspoken rules, and the essence is much more civilized than the rules of the jungle?
As the Spring Festival approached, Chao magazine began to pay attention to the problem of difficulty in buying tickets for college students, and after the magazine was issued, the university leaders attached great importance to this issue and planned to open a temporary ticket office for students in the office building of the University of Liberal Arts, which made us feel very gratified.
The plan is a plan, and the plan can't be implemented for a long time, and a bald leader finally said that he communicated with the railway department, but it didn't work, and he could only wait for next year.
At this time, an enthusiastic senior appeared on the stage, he told us that the Spring Festival ticket grabbing should be prevented from scalpers, and also told us about the practical experience of buying train tickets, such as having to stay up late to queue up 40 days in advance, scalpers and thieves are fiercer than tigers, and they can't relax their vigilance at all.
I was about to thank him for giving me the instructions for buying train tickets, and he said that you are rookies at first glance, or I will help you buy tickets, and give a 20% handling fee to see if it will work.
I said, a scalper who guards against a fart, a scalper is a scalper. This goods can earn thousands of dollars every year during the Spring Festival, provided that they stay up late to become the grunt in "The Lord of the Rings".
Some students were unwilling to be taken away so much money by scalpers, so they went to the ticket window of the railway station with the quilt and set up camp, queued for two days, and were so excited that they burst into tears after buying a station ticket, like a refugee receiving rations. After returning to the dormitory, I touched my trouser pocket, my wallet was picked up at the train station, and the tickets and money were empty.
Lu Zehuan said that he was going to the mine for internship during the Spring Festival, and he didn't go home, so he knelt down and begged us to bring the local vegetables of S City back to treat him, he said that he dreamed of eating authentic hometown dishes, and Harazi flowed like the Yangtze River, and every morning the pillow was wet and could pull out the water.
I think this kid can see the fire mouth, and during the hard-to-find Spring Festival, I guess we won't be able to go back.
Yin Deji volunteered and said: "In the past few days, you have been preparing for the final exam, giving me your ID card and student ID, now I am not busy there, there are no customers when I go back for the New Year, and the chefs in the store are enough." I asked my uncle for a few days off, I went to the train station to squat, I don't believe in this home, we can't go back! ”
That night, he carried two beds of cotton wool and a few buckets of instant noodles to the train station. Twenty-four hours later, I called him to condole: "Yin Zi, how are you doing over there, have you bought the ticket?" ”
He was like a chicken: "No, no, there is still a kilometer ahead." ”
At that time, I really wanted to fucking faint, I didn't buy a ticket, not to mention I didn't even see the shadow of the ticket window, why was that tone as excited as a chicken blood.
Thinking about Yin Deji's hard work, I said, "You wait for me, I'll send you something to eat and drink." ”
"Don't, don't, don't, I've got something to eat." He resisted me inexplicably.
"It's okay, I'm free now, I'll go over and send you some warmth, don't freeze my little brother if I don't buy the ticket, and I'm going back to have a baby with that fat black girl."
Yin Deji laughed and said, "Don't come!" ”
"What are you?"
"Rumei is here, bring me a lot of food." Yin Deji lowered his voice and said, but he could feel his Huaichun's heart pounding wildly.
I let out a meaningful "oh-" and said, "Okay, that's good, don't disturb your two-person world, keep warm, don't freeze." ”
"Rest assured, boss, promise to complete the task." He couldn't hide his excitement.
After another 24 hours, I called Yin Deji, and he said: "Victory is in sight, less than half a kilometer away from the ticket window, I can stand on tiptoe and see the hand of the ticket sales aunt stretched out, the dawn is in front of me!" ”
"Brother Mei isn't here?"
"Mei Ru went back to pack the things she brought back to her hometown."
"I'll go over to accompany you, the exam is all over, and there is time."
"Okay then."