The fluorescent lights in the carriage turned on at some point, and the window slowly became pitch black, and only the outlines of some trees could be vaguely seen flashing outside the window.

Chen Youshan noticed that someone patted him on the shoulder, turned his head to look, and was slightly stunned.

Standing in front of him was Xia Mingyue.

He looked at her in surprise: "What are you doing here?" ”

"It's time to eat." Xia Mingyue looked at him and said.

"Eat?" Chen Youshan was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood, and said, "Go eat it, I've already eaten it." ”

Xia Mingyue gritted her teeth and asked, "You...... Need to go for some sleep? ”

Chen Youshan smiled and shook his head: "No, it's good to sit here, you go to eat, don't worry about me." ”

Xia Mingyue didn't leave, and was silent for a while before saying, "Is it convenient to talk?" ”

Chen Youshan was also silent for a moment, and then said with some self-deprecation: "I know what you want to ask, but what you see now is the truth, the unchangeable fact." I've come to terms with that, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. ”

"But......" Xia Mingyue wanted to say something more.

"No, but." Chen Youshan interrupted and said: "Everyone has a time when they play abnormally, I am unlucky, I caught up with that juncture, I have nothing to say, I admit it." ”

What he said was to admit that incident, not to accept fate, and I don't know if Xia understood the true meaning of this sentence.

Xia Mingyue bit her lower lip tightly, stared at him with complicated eyes for a while, and then turned to leave. The moment she turned around, she could clearly see the disappointment in her eyes, it was complete disappointment.

Chen Youshan looked at her back as she slowly left, and shook his head a little helplessly, only then did he realize that he was a little hungry. Take out the instant noodles that you have prepared long ago from your backpack and get up and go out to turn on the water.

The rice on the train, he has eaten with the master a few times, and the taste is definitely much better than instant noodles. But the price is also dead expensive, and if he wants to pay for it, he would rather eat instant noodles. Although the taste is not as good as the food, it is also a rare delicacy for a poor boy like him who rarely even eats instant noodles.

At eight o'clock, another flight attendant came to sell a towel that dries hair quickly, and then the cabin was really quiet. Before twelve o'clock, there was almost no sound in the carriage, and most of the people fell asleep.

Sitting and sleeping is naturally extremely uncomfortable, and a night of sleeping and waking up stumbles, and the night passed without incident. The train passed through several major stations along the way, and the people in the carriage changed again and again, but the girl sitting next to him never changed, and I don't know if she was also going to the capital.

I don't know if this girl has something on her mind or the first time she has too much reluctance to leave home, the two walked for more than ten hours, except for two words to him at first, the rest of the time was silently looking out of the window in a daze, and never said a word to anyone.

Chen Youshan is not a person who talks a lot, and he doesn't know what to say to strangers, so naturally he won't take the initiative to talk to her, and almost all of his time is handed over to the book in his hand.

The journey was very boring, and nothing interesting happened except for the flight attendants who were very 'dedicated' to sell all sorts of stuff. Less than two o'clock in the afternoon, the train finally drove into the capital. Chen Youshan got out of the car with his bag. To his surprise, the girl sitting next to him actually got off at this stop.

After getting off the train, checking tickets, and leaving the station, Chen Youshan saw a huge station and crowded people, and once again sighed in his heart at the prosperity of the big city.

Not long after, two familiar laughter came into his ears from not far away, and when he glanced up, he saw Xia Mingyue and Zhang Xiaoke dragging their luggage out of the station. He didn't come forward to say hello, didn't even look at it again, and looked back at the map in his hand.

From the moment he entered the exam room, he knew that he had walked on a path full of thorns. Although they are all working for the future now, the nature is different. Even if you walk with them, you don't have much common language. As Zhang Xiaoke said before, he and they no longer belong to the same world.

His world is hard work and making money, and their world is campus and youth. So, he didn't want to get too close to them. Maybe it was his little pride that was at fault, but he did deliberately keep some distance from them.

After holding the map and looking at it for half an hour, he finally found the route to his destination, got out of the station, refused all the black cars that came to solicit customers, he went straight to a bus, sat in the last row, and silently watched the flow of people outside the car, looked at this flowery city, and looked at the high-rise buildings in the distance.

"From this moment on, you're going to have a foothold in the city. From this moment on, everything is on your own. You have to work hard and you can't slack off a little bit, because you're already too far behind at the starting line. Chen Youshan said to himself silently, but his eyes were firmly looking at the tall buildings in the distance.

"Do I need to look up to you like this forever?"

A question with no answer.

Ten minutes later, the bus started and took him through the avenues of the capital, appreciating the prosperity and liveliness of this developed city. It was the first time he had seen so many tall buildings, the first time he had seen faces other than Asians, and the first time he had seen a lane so badly blocked. Everything was new to him.

He had gone out with his master before, but he had never been to a big city, most of them went to some remote towns, and occasionally experienced one or two slightly larger cities only by passing by, and he could only look at it from a distance through the car window, which was incomparable with the shock of this kind of close witnessing.

After taking the bus around for more than an hour, he appeared in a very beautiful place.

The roads around are clean, the trees on the side of the road are swaying in the wind, and a few security guards can be seen patrolling around at a glance. There is no excessive hustle and bustle here, and there is more tranquility that makes people greedy. At first glance, you can tell that it is a place where only rich people can live.

This is the effect area, and it is not far from the city center.

Chen Youshan looked at this place, and once again sighed for a while about the luxury of the rich, and then walked towards the avenue ahead.

What he didn't expect was that as soon as he approached the avenue, the security guards who were originally patrolling stopped, looked at him with some vigilance, and walked towards him.

These security guards have been working here for so long, and this is the first time they have seen anyone come here on foot. What this place represents, as long as it is a person with status in the capital, will know, let alone walking, ordinary vehicles are embarrassed to enter here.

"Sir, this is not the place to play, please leave."

Chen Youshan was stunned and said, "I'm not here to play, I'm here to find someone." ”

"Looking for someone? Do you have an invitation? ”

"Nope."

"Where's the post?"

"Not either."

"I'm sorry, we can't let you in without invitations and prayers."

Chen Youshan wanted to speak and stopped, but after looking at the vigilance behind the clothes on his body and the professional smile on the other party's face, he still swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, nodded slightly, and turned to leave.