Chapter 76: An Island in the City
After waiting for a long time, I didn't see the man pick up the guitar again, maybe his habit is to only sing one song. We don't sing about wine, but we sigh about life and are sad. In this small hostel, there are too many past and memories, in the past, I love to talk with tourists, in fact, most of the time, it is their memories like telling, I listen silently, and when they hold up their glasses and drink a sip of relieved wine, we will smile.
People who play music have gained a sense of recognition in the songs, and they are less confined to the subsections, and my focus has gradually shifted from the smell of the house, and I said, "Where are you going to go next, buddy?" ”
"I was going to come to the store manager here, but I didn't expect his mother to be replaced, and I haven't thought about where to go, so you can call me Shukun, Wang Shukun!"
I was about to report my name, but when he gave me such a sentence, I couldn't help but stop talking, and asked instead, "Do you know the last store manager?" ”
"I can't talk about acquaintance, I saw him post on the Internet about recruiting employees, chatted once, and after running over, I found that he actually slipped away, and I asked the new store manager to know that he was gone."
I didn't respond immediately, I just felt that the thing he said seemed a little familiar, and if I think about it, there is really such a thing, it turns out that Li Shi didn't throw me in this room by mistake, it seems that it has been premeditated for a long time, no wonder only this one room is left in all the rooms, I'm afraid that I won't come by myself tonight, and she will also take the initiative to contact me to come over!
Shukun picked up a piece of vermicelli with chopsticks, sucked it into his mouth, and sighed after a while: "I knew that I wouldn't have sat in a hard seat for thirteen or fourteen hours and rushed over, and I honestly stayed in Nanjing. At the end, he added: "Brother, is it convenient to reveal your name?" ”
In a panic, I was thinking quickly in my heart about how to answer Shukun, no matter what relationship we have now, this person is always recruited by me, for a while, I said vaguely: "Just call me Shuaizong!" ”
"Mr. Shuai? And the name? ”
I didn't say anything, I looked up at the ceiling, Shukun looked at the ceiling with me a little puzzled, I threw him a cigarette, took his lighter, calmly lit the cigarette, smoked it leisurely, and then spit out the messy emotions in my heart along with the smoke, and sighed: "No way, don't you think this name seems to indicate something." ”
Shukun didn't question much, wrapped his hands around his knees, and asked me for a long time: "I see that you didn't bring anything, you come and go freely, and you are very chic!" ”
"The soul is dying, and there is nothing left but this walking skin."
My words seemed to evoke the past that Shukun didn't want to face, and in the silence of the two, he picked up the chopsticks again, lowered his head and ate the vermicelli and spinach in the lunch box, and didn't speak again until he finished eating, and so did I.
After all, a person can't take too much responsibility, the more responsibility, the greater the pressure, which may be the root of many people's negative inferiority, in order to pull tourists, I am almost a standard answer to the general reply to the consultation of the netizen, but unexpectedly at a certain time really hope to come to such a person, and I am unable to entertain......
In the past few days since I stayed in the hostel, I greeted batch after batch of backpackers, and after drunken singing, I didn't send them, and I forgot about them in the rivers and lakes. Those enthusiastic travelers, playing werewolf killing with us at night, laughed and relieved under the mutual questioning of their speeches. Without any sleepiness, they witnessed the morning light fainting, the sunrise bright, and their respective ends. I began to learn to be relieved, after staying for so many days, people can remember so much hatred, all the grievances will be washed away by time, leaving only a laughing past. It's just that after leaving here, those times fell with the fine dust, mottled in the cluttered front desk, and tomorrow when the sun rises again, this memory is sealed in the dream.
After washing, I lay on the bed, and the man who was washing clothes in the bathroom sang Mr. Van Gogh again, I silently closed my eyes and listened, but in my heart I repeated the sentence: "We are born to be lonely", May we always be young and always burst into tears.
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Wait until Shukun finishes cleaning up, I use the bathroom, and use it carefully, because he has just fallen asleep after a tired day, after a simple wash, I lay on the bed, I thought I would fall asleep soon, but some emotions were in my brain, although full of tiredness, the whole person was unusually awake.
Lying in the hostel late at night, but it was the first time to live in the guest room on the second floor, I couldn't help but be a little sensitive and lonely, I turned on the bedside lamp, took out the coffee from the hostel from the small table cabinet with ease, and made myself a cup, and then looked out the window a little lonely, yes, I used the word loneliness again, it seems that this has become the most lingering state in this stage of my life, and even I am not sure when life can stabilize.
After drinking it before the coffee was warmed, I subconsciously picked up my phone and looked at it, only to find that Jingqi sent me a message when I was washing, and I haven't replied to her until now.
A piece of news that excited me didn't completely save my mood, I was also asking for myself, I started to lose sleep after drinking coffee, fell into the irritability caused by insomnia, opened the door, walked through the corridor, walked to the roof, lit a cigarette again, looked at the flickering neon of the distant city in the diffuse smoke, and seemed to reappear in front of me a turbulent and tumbling sea, and in the middle of the sea was a glowing island, I stared intently, and gradually had the illusion, as if I fantasized that I had set foot on the island again, hard work on it, winter to spring, the barren island is full of flowers, the color of the mountains is intoxicating......
The wind blew directionlessly, a cigarette was finally smoked, and the island floating in front of me disappeared, I returned to reality again, picked up my phone and looked at it, and half an hour passed unhurriedly, I walked back to the room with light steps, pulled up the quilt, and finally fell asleep after a while.
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The next day, I woke up in the alarm bell, but I couldn't resist the sleepiness, if it was the usual point, I might still lie in bed, but today there are too many things, I don't dare to delay, after getting up, I took a hot shower, let myself sober up, and immediately went to the scene of the stage construction.
The whole hostel, except for the clerk on duty in the morning, was still in a deep sleep, and the moment I walked out of the hostel, I felt that I had not completed the task given to me by Jiang Laiyue, but in fact it had been completed......
The site is just placed in the square behind the hotel, the closest to the hotel, the unique geographical location will attract a lot of tourists, the merchants contacted a few days ago, tomorrow night will make this a food street, and those collected old objects will be displayed in the square one by one, some handicraft souvenirs will be distributed to the visitors, and the distinctive programs will also add a lot of color to the event.
After working at the construction site for a while, Jiang Laiyue walked over to me in a sportswear, but she was very bright without powder, she handed me the fried dough and soy milk in her hand, and motioned for me to eat it while it was hot.
I didn't pretend to excuse myself, I started to eat fritters after taking a sip of soy milk, Jiang Laiyue looked around at the construction work that was being carried out nervously, and suddenly remembered something, and asked me: "What new ideas did the hostel provide you with last night?" ”
"Not at all."
Jiang Laiyue's originally joyful expression turned cold in an instant, she looked at me, the atmosphere became more and more stiff in the silence of each other, and asked, "Why?" ”
I finally broke the silence in the midst of embarrassment: "Because whether the hostel succeeds or fails, its trajectory is incomparable to anyone's." ”
Jiang Laiyue's domineering temper seemed to come up regardless of the occasion, turned around and entered the house, walked a few steps and then turned around and took my soy milk and fritters, reached out and threw them into the trash, this sudden move made me a little stunned.