Chapter 31: Panyu, Guangzhou in 1995
The seasons always change quietly in silence, stepping on light steps, like the wind without a trace.
With the spring rain dripping outside the window, listening to the gentle raindrops kissing the earth, lying on the big bed in the old house and falling asleep, there is no pressure of busy life, no one is disturbed by the world, and it is a bland luxury for Lin Yang to wake up naturally.
There is nothing more charming than the mountain forest after the spring rain, looking up, the whole hillside behind the house, is the persimmon tree verdant and dripping green, the mist that has not come to disperse is like a light silk, wisps wrapped around its waist, the sun turns the raindrops on each leaf, have become colorful pearls.
Facing the warm spring breeze, Lin Yang stood at the door of his house, stretched his waist, and enjoyed the freshest and most pleasant air in the early morning of Zhushi Village.
At this time, Li Yi's father, Li Zhenhai, his tall, thin and upright figure, gradually came into Lin Yang's eyes, Li Zhenhai's clothes and pants all over his body were all popular big clothes, he was holding a black "big brother" mobile phone in his hand, and a BP machine was hanging prominently on his waist.
You know, in the early 90s, spending more than 4,000 yuan to buy a BP machine was enough to show off on the busy street. Soon after the rise of BP machines, another communication tool that can better represent wealth and identity appeared - "Big Brother". As a result, "don't bat the waist with a BP machine, and hold the big brother in your hand" has become the best person in this era.
The meaning of "Big Brother" is quite clear: first, the fuselage is large; second, because it is large, it has a striking show-off effect; Third, scarcity is expensive, and there are very few people who have it, so the people who hold it are very "cattle"; Fourth, it is a flashy two-way mirror, one side reflects the shabby of others, and the other side shows its own brilliance.
In Lin Yang's view, Li Zhenhai is an absolute winner in life.
Li Zhenhai grew up in a superior family, growing up with a golden key, he is the owner of the first color TV in Zhushi Village, the first motorcycle driver, Mao Gang grew up and married a flower-like wife Zhou Huiwen for him to warm the quilt, and then use the BB machine first, then use the big brother, drive a luxury car, any good thing, he is one step faster......
With such a strong journey of life, how can it not be windy when walking?
"Brother Zhenhai, has Li Yi gotten up?" Lin Yang took the initiative to say hello.
Li Zhenhai suddenly stopped, smiled heartily at Lin Yang, and said, "Yo, it's Lin Yang, why did you get up so early, when I just went out, he was still dreaming at home." Hey, Li Yi, that bastard boy, if only you were half as diligent! ”
"Where, I just woke up for a while." Lin Yang said embarrassedly.
Whether it was in his previous life or in this life, Lin Yang insisted that Li Zhenhai's aura was extremely powerful.
If a person wants to have a strong aura, he must first have a strong heart, which has little to do with the person's height, shortness, fatness, thinness, beauty and ugliness.
Not to mention anything else, just say that an old man with a short stature, he has experienced three ups and downs in life, and when he reaches a lot of age, he can easily draw a circle in the South China Sea, just ask you, is his aura strong?
Therefore, if people want to stand between heaven and earth, the key is to have confidence.
But the question is, where does the "confidence" begin?
In fact, in the final analysis, in life, most people with low self-esteem and cowardice are not due to nature, but are closely related to their family and growth when they were young.
Objectively speaking, the child's personality is almost shaped by the parents themselves.
Li Zhenhai's footsteps finally stopped next to a black car on the corner of the street.
Because Li Yi's family lived halfway up the mountain, in 1995, Zhushi Village was full of potholes and dirt roads, and after the spring rains, the road surface was even more uneven, so Li Zhenhai's convertible car could not drive at the door of the house at all, so he had to stop on the street with a slightly flat road.
The taste of the New Year is getting weaker and weaker, and people who go out to work hard still have to pack their bags and go away from home.
Lin Yang has been anxious these days, and he is thinking about how to help his parents make money and get rich every day.
When they go out, when they return to their hometowns, in front of their parents and fellow villagers, whether they have money or not, they will have a bright and decent appearance.
In the summer of 1995 in her previous life, Lin Yang had the honor to follow her parents and lived in Panyu, Guangzhou for more than a month.
Parents who went out to do business, whether they made money or not, would take their children to live in the big city for a while to see the world during the winter and summer vacations, which was particularly common in Zhushi Village at that time.
Guangzhou is the capital of Quang Kuang Province, and it is undoubtedly a modern metropolis.
's father, Lin Shizhong, and mother, Zhang Meilan, did open a restaurant in Panyu District, Guangzhou.
But the young Lin Yang didn't know at the time that Guangzhou also had rural areas. Lin Yang remembers very well that before he set off for Guangzhou, he was full of longing for the international metropolis of Guangzhou, and he was almost so excited that he didn't sleep all night at the thought of taking a long-distance bus to Guangzhou tomorrow morning.
"Motion sickness" is just the first "dismount" given to Lin Yang on this trip.
It is no exaggeration to say that in addition to the tractor in the village, this is the first time Lin Yang has sat in a car with more than four wheels, and what makes people laugh is that he almost vomited all the way from the head of Zhushi Village to Panyu, Guangzhou, and he was dizzy, and he didn't remember how many days and nights he lay on the sleeper in the long-distance car.
After continuous transfers, Lin Yang finally arrived at the hotel opened by his parents.
This hotel, to tell the truth, is basically a thatched hut, even the minimum door is not there, at night, the parents will put the table together, placed at the entrance and exit, the hotel is located diagonally opposite a vocational school, the whole street is almost full of restaurants, the business competition between the restaurants, how fierce can be imagined.
This street, in Lin Yang's impression, can be summed up in three words: broken, dirty, and messy.
Parents are not businessmen who can speak well, run a small restaurant, the business is also so-so, and always run into students who love credit, credit is a trivial matter, I am afraid of encountering debts, some students may eat and drink in the last semester, and in the next semester he will disappear.
During the summer vacation spent in Panyu District, Guangzhou, Lin Yang recalled it at this time, and he was a little sad.
At that time, he was too young, how hot the summer in Guangzhou was, everyone who had been there understood, fortunately, Lin Yang was not too afraid of heat, he could not speak vernacular, Mandarin was not bright, there were no children there who could communicate, and there was nothing to say between him and his parents. What Lin Yang can do every day is to wake up alone, barefoot alone (Lin Yang is a bit cheap, hot days, basically didn't wear shoes during the day when he was a child) to walk around, there is a river near the hotel, the crabs in the river always like to climb on the road, Lin Yang, who likes to catch fish by nature, has never started to catch them, there is a mango forest on the riverbank, Lin Yang has never dared to steal it, you know, which family in Zhushi Village has not suffered his "poisonous hands"?
Shopping, a person desperately wanders around, goes to other people's restaurants to watch TV, goes to game halls to watch other people's games, and goes to supermarkets just to blow air conditioners and take escalators......
In this bustling city, Lin Yang only has a place to visit.
What surprised Lin Yang and his parents was that no matter how long he walked alone and how far he went, as long as it was time to eat, he could always step on the meal and walk back to the thatched hut restaurant, which was probably the only thing that Lin Yang could be proud of in his previous life.
For this reason, my mother has praised her talent for "recognizing the way" to others more than once.
In this long summer vacation spent in Guangzhou, Lin Yang is not without happy memories, he remembers very clearly, there is a color TV in the commissary at the entrance of the vocational school, every night at 12 o'clock in the late night file, the boss will watch the Hong Kong Hong Kong TV broadcast Donnie Yen and Wan Qiwen starring in the TV series - "Jingwumen", after the hotel closed, Lin Yang followed his parents, and saw that it was a drunken dream.
Is it ridiculous?
No, not ridiculous at all.
Lin Yang regretted that he was often too intoxicated with heartless self-entertainment, and he always couldn't understand the hardships of his parents at that time, and he couldn't make his parents proud of them when he grew up.
It wasn't until he got older and looked back on the past that Lin Yang suddenly realized.
In fact, what your parents give you is the best they have.