At this time, a damp wind blew the smell of rain, I suddenly remembered a few years ago, I just came to this scenic spot to feel, the whole alley is filled with the aroma of snacks, the residents still maintain the old Xi'an lifestyle, comfortable, natural, every morning and evening, the old house will rise smoke...... And these long past moments seem to be yesterday, and I can no longer find the tone of the street......

I gently plucked the guitar strings, and sang the song "Old Street", which is now widely sung in nostalgia, put all those short and long years into the song, and then sang it in a nostalgic and sad mood.

By the time I reached the second half of the song, I had no strength at all, but I still finished the song by humming, and the lyrics seemed to tear open the most primitive wound in my heart...... Then he just stared at Li Shi, and the heart that had been tortured by a difficult life for several years was throbbing and speechless for a long time.

A song made everyone's mood a little strange, and at this time, the man sitting across from me lit a cigarette, and I reached out and asked for one with a smile.

Spit out a long puff of cigarette and went straight towards Li Shi, but she didn't avoid it, still looking at me with the same look she had just now.

The middle-aged lady asked with interest, "Young man, how long have you been running here?" ”

I just pinched the cigarette in my hand, didn't smoke it again, and smiled: "If it were more than three years since I first came here." ”

"Seeing your work attitude when you just went out to buy groceries in the rain, I really admire you."

"I don't dare to take this seriously, coming here has made me gradually understand that what is not as I think is, in the end, I have to persevere."

"How literary and artistic, is it difficult to be the owner of a hostel?"

"Do you think you can bask in the sun, chat and play the guitar, and sleep until you wake up naturally? These are just illusions, and in the past six months, the most worrying thing every day is that there are no guests. ”

"So of course it's important to expand your visibility."

"In addition to word of mouth among residents, it is more about various publicity, and I am doing part of this...... However, the difficulties do not stop there, after the guests come, what you have to worry about is that I have to clean, wash the sheets, repair the sewer, repair the water heater, like buying groceries in the rain tonight is just the most ordinary epitome of my usual work...... I have to solve every problem of the guests, even pick up and drop off the guests, and make the itinerary, because I am the only one in everything...... The phone is turned on 24 hours a day, there are guests who rent a car to pick up at any time, and the guests come back late to knock on the door, and you have to hold back the sleepiness to open the door. If there are fewer people, it will be miserable, and there is no money to hand over to the company, so he was tortured by all means, and even sent a plague god over...... I only recently had my own room, there were too many people in the past, I could only live in the storage room, and I had to solve all kinds of problems for guests, basically sleeping at about two or three o'clock, and I had to work as usual during the day. ”

Li Shi was silent, but she must have understood the meaning of my words, she was so smart.

"Come on, lad, everything will pass......"

I flicked off the long accumulated cigarette ash, took a heavy breath, let the smoke go around in pain from my lungs, and then spit it out, and said with a smile: "Auntie, you are wrong, I'm afraid the difficulties for me have just begun today...... Nowadays, this hostel doesn't hurt my father and my mother doesn't love it, so I have another problem, and I am always worried about the source of customers...... Now whenever my family calls, I will only report good news to my family, but I can only grit my teeth and persevere! Therefore, if you don't have a strong heart, don't open a hostel, let alone work in a hostel. ”

The middle-aged lady smiled and responded, "With so many difficulties, why don't you choose to leave here and go to the bustling city to change jobs and live again?" ”

I'm silent...... With a blurred vision, I looked at everyone here in puzzlement, but the cigarette butt in my hand had burned to the end, burned my hand, hurriedly threw it away, and finally did not choose to tell the story of my pain, because the bad mood had spread, I smiled and said: "Of course, there are good days, when there is no financial pressure, you can live a life that many peers have been pursuing." When I look back on the hostel in the future, I think everyone who travels with me will say that it is a good memory. Here, people really treat each other with a normal heart. In the hostel, everyone is the most ordinary member of the world, everyone comes to spy on the people and things around them with curiosity, and everyone respects and supports each other. Maybe in the hostel, we should forget who we are, live again, and then we will find the wonder of the world and our own insignificance. During the day, although I have to be busy changing quilts, making beds and mopping floors, cooking and cooking, promoting online, explaining strategies to guests, accompanying tourists to brag, talking about ideals, emotions, and life, in order to let tourists continue to stay or referral, I occasionally have to pretend to sell "dreams" in literature and art. However, this job can meet accidental and inevitable people in life, such as you with good intentions, such as with malicious intentions, this ...... next to me"

At this time, I don't know what Li Shi thinks of these words, I don't have the strength to think about it......

Everyone laughed, my eyes widened, but I couldn't see Li Shi's expression clearly, I didn't drink, but I felt drunk, and continued: "Those simplest pieces of furniture have become your bed here; The strangest of people have become your friends here; Those conditions and facilities that are not satisfactory to us in our daily life have become a source of sharing and happiness here...... You'll love waking up in the morning and everyone standing in front of the mirror brushing their teeth together, looking at each other and smiling together. You'll love the feeling of a neat row of colorful towels hanging on the hook; You'll love waking up in the morning to the sound and smell of water wafting from someone taking a shower in the bathroom; You'll love to lie in bed and share your experiences with your friends after a long day on the go. You will love the feeling of Chinese and the same laughter in your ears while eating breakfast; I may be leaving soon, but I love it. Of course, if there are no people who have experienced it, then they don't understand this preciousness, and if they destroy it with their own hands, it will be no different from the nature of the Eight-Nation Alliance burning the Old Summer Palace. ”

Li Shi understood what I was saying, and suddenly reached out and pinched my chin, but I was powerless, she shook my head from side to side, making me look at her.

I squinted at her, but found that she was looking at me with a complicated expression, and said angrily, "You are burned, if you are tired, go to sleep." ”

Her face was vaguely sketched in my mind, and my mind soon fell into a whirlpool, inexplicably returning to the evening when I first saw her, back to the past of eating barbecue and drinking beer, and for me, it was indeed a wonderful memory that I will never forget, when we were always scolding, but there was a gap.

I was really tired, looking around at the "crowded" crowd, as if I saw backpackers from all over the country staying here, chatting, talking, singing...... I was a little dizzy in the eyes of all colors, and the world was in a trance again, and I had never seen such a scene in my life......

I was a little helpless about Li Shi's non-cooperation, so I stood up slowly, refused anyone's support, and then walked into the rain, closed my eyes and listened to the sound of the rain, so, in this cold rainy night, my brain was stimulated by the cold rain to produce a strong labor pain, and after the labor pain disappeared, it brought the pleasure after wanton indulgence.

I couldn't hear the voices behind me, and some things were destined to go farther and farther...... With one last shred of consciousness, I staggered back into the house and lay down on the bed......

……

The next day, I sat up from my bed in a daze, and as expected, I didn't see bright sunlight, and it was a gloomy day outside. Picked up my phone and looked at the time, which scared me even more, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon, which means that I slept all day?

The clothes on my body were sticking to my body, judging by the common sense of life, I was sweating all night, and there was cold medicine at the head of the bed, and it was clear that someone fed me medicine after I had a fever.

In the dry mouth, I went to the water dispenser to pick up a glass of water, while drinking while looking out, a few drops of rain fell outside the house from time to time, this rainy dusk, the air was filled with unprecedented humidity and freshness, I looked at the whole yard a little blankly, yesterday's events exploded again in my mind, I couldn't help but worry about the future of the hostel, tortured myself over and over again in my heart, what to do to keep here?

In the self-questioning, I gradually felt powerless, because I had no body, I couldn't turn the situation around, let alone Lao Gou's huge desire, and for a moment I seemed to be trapped in a marginal space of self-escape, my hands touched the hostel, but I couldn't touch the future......

……

At this time, Li Shi happened to hold an umbrella and hold the folded sheets and pillowcases past my sight.

I pushed open the door, holding the determination to win the actor this year, covering my head with one hand and holding on to the wall with the other, walking slowly with "humming and chirping", and the slow action was just to stay in Li Shi's sight more.

Li Shi didn't seem to want to pay attention to my existence at all, and didn't even give me a chance to look out, it seems that this is a sincere intention to let me be a clown in the rain alone...... How could I give up this opportunity to preach, slowly walked to the storage room, in order to cause some movement, "oops, oops", and cooperated with the movements, so that the footsteps into the room became heavier, but Li Shi ignored me, still placed the sheets in his hands, and was busy with himself.

A minute later, she turned around and was about to go out, but I pretended to be "half-dead" and blocked the door: "What have I been through, why have I slept for so long, and my limbs are not flexible." ”

Li Shi choked with a mocking tone: "Now I look like my limbs are not sound, and I am really like two people in the morning!" ”

Morning? Didn't I just wake up? Don't......

Li Shi pushed me away with a smile and walked straight out.