Chapter 1 Entering the City for the First Time

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I really didn't expect that there would be a standing ticket for the bullet train? I laughed at myself helplessly, I wanted to take a ride and experience the feeling of flying and comfortable, but I was afraid that this wish would not come true.

In order to hurry, I ran to the front of the line, hoping that a kind person would help me buy a ticket on my behalf, but the result was either to cast a roll at me or to ask me to go to the back to queue.

I thought to myself that if I went to the back of the queue, I was afraid that it would be too late, I couldn't buy a ticket, I couldn't catch the train, and I couldn't leave until tomorrow, so I talked to the people in the front line, and finally a little girl who bought a ticket sympathized with me and helped me buy a ticket.

With the ticket, I finally squeezed into the car, swept it at a glance, the seats were full, and the aisle was full of people, some carrying boxes, some carrying large bags, and I felt quite crowded.

I used to hear my roommate say that the bullet train is a rich person sitting, automatic temperature adjustment, comfortable and cool, look at today's situation, it feels a bit like spending money to buy sin, the carriage is not only bustling, and the temperature is still very high, and there is no wind, I feel that I am constantly sweating, I wiped the sweat while thinking, this is better to take a green car, at least when it is hot, you can also open the window to blow the wind, and then you can also find a place to sit at the junction of the carriage.

I found a place where there were relatively few people, then placed my suitcase and leaned slightly back against the back of the other person's chair.

After settling down, the train started, and the carriage was much quieter than before, and occasionally I would hear one or two people talking, I looked around the car, and the people sitting in the car, men and women, young and old, people of all ages, and all colors, and there were two Africans sitting not far from me, with dark skin, like black charcoal, they communicated in fluent English, and occasionally when they smiled, they would show very white teeth, which contrasted sharply with their complexion.

The four passengers sitting behind me were all white-skinned, and their complexion was European, and they were communicating in some language I didn't understand, but even then I could tell at a glance that they were a family, and the couple had two daughters, although their daughters were sitting, but visually, they should be very tall!

The rest of the people I could see either chose to take a nap, or chose to play on their phones with their heads down, read novels, watch movies, or choose to play cards and chat!

"Look, it looks like it's going to rain?" Suddenly, a girl's voice came to my ears.

"Yes, the weather is very stuffy, you see my clothes are soaked with sweat!" A boy's voice followed.

I followed the sound and looked up, and it turned out to be a young couple sitting diagonally opposite.

"Oops, your clothes are all wet like this, and you still don't take them off?" The girl smiled and teased, she pinched the boy's clothes with her hands, the boy's clothes were darker, and it was not easy to see that the clothes were soaked without looking carefully.

"How's that going to work? So many people in the car. The boy glanced at the girl and said leisurely.

"I don't usually see how much you wear, do you?" The girl continued to laugh and tease.

"Don't tease me, there are so many female compatriots in the car, you have to like it, go back and take it off to show you, okay? My baby! The boy said with a smile as he played with his phone, feeling his mouth reach behind his ears.

"you!" The girl pretended to be angry, replied with no amusement, and then turned her head away from the boy.

I looked at the girl carefully, with blue and black bright hair, it should have been pulled in the hair salon, it looked very straight, and the sides of her face were slightly ruddy, maybe it was because she was teased by the boy just now, but it looked very clean, and she wore a light makeup, and she wore a relatively strong lipstick on her mouth, and she wore a light blue sheer skirt, the neckline was very low, and she looked very beautiful.

The boy sitting next to her was not only a little obese, but also ugly, although I don't know what he was ugly about, but his facial features always felt weird, and seemed to be very incongruous.

I thought to myself, why are beautiful girls always occupied by "demons"?

When the girl got angry, the boy put down the phone he was playing with and started putting his arm around her, coaxing her to be happy, it was so funny that I almost laughed.

I turned my head to look at the gray sky outside the window, my mood suddenly became complicated and heavy, my name is Zhao Xiaowen, the university internship period has just passed, I am about to graduate, facing the choice of employment, I have not yet thought about where to develop, the world is so big, where should I go?

Yesterday I had a phone call with a senior I knew before, and talked to him about my future work, and the senior told me to come to S City, I will develop in S City, which is an international metropolis with many job opportunities, wide contact, and more importantly, I can increase my knowledge!

The senior told me about the many benefits of coming to S City, and at ten o'clock in the evening, the senior called me again, telling me not to hesitate, I can't make a choice if I think too much, I want to make a decision immediately, I will come to S City tomorrow, I can't stand his perseverance and persuasion, and finally I still made up my mind to go to a big city like S City, and the senior finally said to me on the phone, S City is full of gold bricks, it depends on whether you dare to pick it up!

Although I know that there are no gold bricks on the ground in S City, but the senior's three-inch incorruptible tongue and the truth of some earnest teachings are reasonable, every sentence is true, I think that at least I can rely on the senior in S City, it is much better than a person to wander around, to such an international metropolis, even if it is to give your life a challenge!

When I arrived at the station, when I listened to the announcer in the loudspeaker of the train station speak a very standard Mandarin and then speak a very fluent English, I was extremely excited. This cosmopolitan city is different, even the announcer at the train station is so good, not only can speak standard Mandarin, but also speak such fluent English, it seems that this choice is not wrong.

Seeing that the people who got off the train were holding smartphones, I generously took out the old-fashioned button mobile phone from my pocket, although this mobile phone is small and I can't help but look at it, but when my roommate took it for testing, he threw it down from the bed, and it was the only mobile phone that didn't fall three times without falling problems, and I treated it as a baby.

It's just that its background is a little humble, and I gave it to me by charging 200 yuan in the business hall.

I followed the crowd out of the station while dialing the senior's mobile phone.

After the mobile phone was dialed, a very familiar ringtone sounded inside, which almost everyone had heard, and after a while the phone was connected.

"Hey~ Senior, I've gotten off the train, where are you?" I asked.

There was a noisy sound on the other end of the phone, and I quickly turned down the microphone tone of the mobile phone, and then put it to my ear, and the voice of the senior came from inside.

"Don't be in a hurry to go, I'll teach you which direction to go, this train station is not the same as the train station in other places, you may go in the wrong direction if you follow the crowd, if you have already left, stop now, go to the north exit, I'm waiting for you here, don't you go wrong?" The senior said on the phone.

"Huh? No way! Why didn't you say it earlier? I've followed the crowd a lot! I was surprised.

"I, I was so busy just now that I forgot to tell you!" The senior explained with a smile on the phone.

After getting off the train, I saw that there are many exits in the station, although I don't know which exit to go, but I want to follow the crowd, it is always not wrong, but just now the senior said this, I was confused, now in the corridor, in addition to the crowd, it is the billboards lit on both sides of the corridor, there is no direction indication, I can't tell the southeast and northwest!

"I'm not familiar with this place, and I don't know which direction I'm going now?" I spoke.

"You kid, don't be a road idiot, huh? You should follow the crowd out of the station first, and when you get outside, see if there are any particularly conspicuous buildings before telling me. After the senior finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

Following the bustling crowd, while pulling the suitcase, while admiring the beautiful advertisements on both sides of the aisle, soon arrived at the ticket gate, there are many exits for the ticket gate, I chose one at random, took out the bullet train ticket on my body, and the ticket inspector looked at my ticket and let me pass.

After the ticket gate, I saw the S market under the bright sunshine, the traffic is endless, the market is bustling, there is a tall bell tower in the square in front of the station, the top of the tower is pointed, it looks very ancient, it is estimated that it has a history of almost a hundred years, the pointer on it points to half past three in the afternoon, so I sent a text message to the senior, the senior quickly replied, "You kid, you actually ran to the south exit, don't go first, wait for me there, I will arrive immediately by subway!" ”

I thought to myself, no? Just a train station, from the north of the station to the south of the station actually have to take the subway? How big is this train station!

I went to the small supermarket next to me to buy a bottle of water, while drinking water, while waiting for the seniors, while admiring the surrounding environment, the environment here is beautiful, the scenery is pleasant, the crowd coming and going on the road is fashionable, and the high heels knock on the road "dong dong" sound.

After a while, I saw the figure of the senior hurrying not far away.

"Oops, I'm so tired! Finally found you kid. The senior bent over, pressed his knees with his hands, and gasped.

"Why are you running so fast? I'm an adult anyway, and I can't run around or move around, why are you in such a hurry? I looked at him and said.

After the senior took a breath, he stood up and said, "Aren't I afraid that you will run around?" Fortunately, you didn't move, you have to move, you accidentally got lost, the world is so big, where can I find you? ”

"Isn't there still a mobile phone connection?" I said with a smile and then took out my phone to show him, and then I suddenly noticed that the people passing by me were throwing strange glances at me, and although I couldn't read the information contained in these strange gazes, it always felt strange.

The senior suddenly puffed out his mouth, and then reached out to cover his mouth, obviously suppressing the laughter.

"What are you laughing at?" I asked, confused.

"It's better to take out less of this kind of mobile phone in the future, I won't talk about the rest of the words, you should understand!" The senior came over with a smile on his face, took the suitcase in my hand, pulled it and left, and said as he walked: "Okay, come with me quickly, I'll take you to the subway." ”

I still have some doubts about the senior's words, what is the good thing to take out less?

I followed closely behind the senior, and it was fine at first, but after walking for a while, I suddenly felt very laborious.

How did the seniors walk so fast? Wasn't that the case before? I feel like I'm going to have to trot to keep up with him, what? I sighed in my heart, I used to hear that people who come here to develop have a faster pace of life than other places, and looking at the sudden faster pace of the seniors, it seems that the rumors are not false.

There are so many people here, no less than the people in the train just now, the closer you get to the subway station, the more people there are, and when you walk to the entrance of the subway station, you feel that there is a large crowd pouring out below.

My senior and I squeezed for a while to get to the entrance of the subway station, and suddenly the senior said, "You wait a minute, I'll buy you a ticket." ”

I saw him put down my suitcase and quickly squeezed to a window to buy a ticket, saying that it was a ticket, but in fact it was a thin piece of stamped paper.

"Let's go!" The senior came over and said.

I followed in his footsteps and thought to myself: When I first came to such a strange place, I felt that everything was different from before, and everything would have to be taken care of by my seniors in the future!

When I arrived at the inspection aisle at the entrance, I saw the senior take out a blue card from his pocket, swipe it lightly on the platform at the entrance, and then led me into the subway station.

"Tomorrow I will go with my ID card to apply for a bus card, this card is convenient, and I rely on this card to take the bus and the subway." As he spoke, he waved at me the blue card I had just seen, which was about the size of a bank card.

"Okay! I'll do it with you tomorrow. I responded.

Under his leadership, we walked through a small underground square, and then climbed a long staircase to the subway platform, I thought to myself, the original into the entrance of the subway, did not reach the subway platform, still need to walk a way to arrive, this heart must remember, otherwise the next time alone, this around the way lost will be a shame!

Underneath the platform are tracks like train tracks, several side by side, swarthy, stretching into the invisible distance.

We were lucky, although the senior said that the subway would run every ten minutes, but we didn't wait for five minutes before the subway came.

When I got into the car, I looked around, and there weren't many people in the car, at least less than the crowded scene I had seen on the TV news, maybe because I hadn't gotten off work yet.

I carefully looked at the people who were standing or sitting, and felt that their faces revealed a sense of exhaustion and vicissitudes, and after a long time, someone would notice my gaze, and then raise their heads and cast a curious and puzzled gaze at me, at this time, I would choose to avoid the other person's gaze and look out the car window.

Looking at the high-rise buildings that kept passing in front of me, I slowly fell into contemplation, will I be like them in a few years, will I also be tired and vicissitudes?

Along the way, the senior chattered endlessly, most of which I didn't listen to, just responded, and the senior saw that I was not much interested in listening to him, probably thinking that I was too tired from sitting in the car for a long time and needed a good rest, so I gradually began to keep silent.

Actually, I was thinking, what will I look like in the future?

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