Then, the boss packed the meal, took two bottles of beer and walked out, saying, "Yours is ready, you are welcome to come again." After paying the money, Yuan Peng stood up, nodded, turned around and walked out of the hotel, walked towards the port community, entered the hotel, and went upstairs to take out the key to open the door. Standing in front of the bed, he looked at Minting who was lying on the bed, and said softly, "Minting, it's time to get up and eat." Then he placed the food and two beers on the small table in front of the bed. Min Ting sat up at the head of the bed, rubbed a pair of sleepy eyes, and said, "Yuan Peng, what time is it?" ”

"It's past one o'clock in the afternoon," Yuan Peng said, sitting on a chair next to him.

"I actually slept for more than an hour," Minting said with a smile as she sat at the head of the bed, scratching her head. Then he got up and washed up, and after that, he sat opposite Yuan Peng and opened it. Yuan Peng said: "I don't know what you like to eat, so I ordered some side dishes casually." ”

"It's nothing, it's not easy for you and me to go out, you can eat whatever you have."

Yuan Peng picked up the beer placed on the small table and flicked the cap with his fingers, poured the beer into the glass, raised the glass and said: "Thank you for last night's incident, if it weren't for you, I might have poured it at the door of the hotel for the night." Min Ting picked up the wine glass and touched it, and said with a smile: "What do you thank me?" ”

Yuan Peng was stunned for a moment, didn't know how to answer, and looked at Min Ting who was sitting opposite him blankly. Min Ting just shook her head, smiled, and said, "There are a thousand glasses of wine for a confidant." Yuan Peng smirked and said, "Yes, yes, there are fewer than a thousand cups of wine for a confidant, and a thousand cups of wine for a confidant, you and I are confidants." Yuan Peng drank this glass of wine in one gulp, Min Ting also drank it all, put down the wine glass, stretched out the chopsticks to pick up some dishes, and said: "I'm going to leave in a while, I am a friend who came to Shanghai to visit me, and I stayed in the bar for a while yesterday because I was bored." ”

"Where do you work?"

Min Ting put some vegetables in her mouth, chewed slowly, and swallowed: "Jiangsu." ”

"I'll take you to the train station after dinner, hurry up and eat."

Yuan Peng sent Min Ting to the train station. Yuan Peng stood in the crowd and faced Min Ting, and said, "Sending you a thousand miles must be goodbye in the end, how precious it is." Min Ting just nodded and turned to leave. Yuan Peng stood in the crowd, looking at Min Ting's departing back, and watching her enter the train station before he slowly left. It is difficult to find a confidant in a person's life, and there is still some reluctance. When he turned to leave, he looked back at the square of the railway station, and he could not leave for a long time, and it was a long time before he got on the bus and returned to his place of work. Yuan Peng buried his head and walked into the shed, went upstairs and opened the door of the room, which was empty. Sitting on my bed, I feel a little sore at times. Since yesterday's beating, I've been feeling tired from time to time. Yuan Peng sat quietly at the head of the bed, pensively waiting for them to come back.

On the construction site, they were sweating profusely, under the scorching sun, and sometimes they could be heard humming a little song, making fun in the bitterness. Here they go from sunrise to sunset, where they are needed on the construction site, they are the contributors to the construction of the city, the creators of the bustling metropolis, they are ordinary toiling people, living in the most humble shacks, without complaint, spilling blood and tears on this hot land, and obscure. At sunset, it was dusk, the sky gradually darkened, some reinforcing steel workers called it a day, but some carpenters were busy on the construction site. Workers at the end of the day walked out of the construction site in groups of threes and fives, chatting with each other and buying snacks from the roadside stalls.

Yuan Peng was still sitting on the bed and heard footsteps going upstairs. Yuan Kun opened the door and looked at Yuan Peng standing in front of him, Yuan Peng lowered his head and said, "Uncle." ”

"You're back, I thought you weren't going to come back," Yuan Kun stepped forward and put his helmet under the bed, turned around and said, "What did you say you were going to do?" The night is not home. After turning around, Yuan Kun became even more severe, as if he was interrogating him.

"I'm going to take care of some things, and I'm delayed for a day."

"What are you going to deal with? I don't go home at night. What do you see you have become now? Have you ever thought about idleness all day long, fighting with others, have you ever thought about your father, facing the loess at home, what is such hard work for? Do you owe a debt that your father needs to help you pay off? Yuan Kun said a lot of words to Yuan Peng, hoping that he could do well, work honestly on the construction site, make some money, and live a better life.

At this time, Yuan Peng was a little bored and said, "What's wrong with me?" What the hell is wrong with me? I'm going to fight, what's wrong? ”

Yuan Kun slapped heavily on the table with one hand, and pointed at Yuan Peng with the other and said angrily: "You learn to talk back, you go and see, those women on the construction site, you are not as good as them." Look at you now, fighting, making trouble, borrowing usury, what have become of you? Gangsters in society. ”

"I'm borrowing from a loan shark, won't I fight you to help me pay it back?"

"Get out of here! Get lost! Yuan Kun pointed to the door with one hand and roared.

"Get out," Yuan Peng packed his luggage and was about to walk out of the room. At this time, some workers walked in, pulled Yuan Peng aside, and said: "Yuan Peng, don't quarrel with your uncle, your uncle is also for your good, you see that you didn't return last night, plus you don't know anything about this place when you first came to Shanghai, he is not worried that something will happen to you." ”

Another worker stood next to Yuan Kun and persuaded: "Yuan Kun, you don't have to say a word, young man, who doesn't make mistakes impulsively, okay, don't say it." ”

Yuan Kun turned to face the worker standing next to him and said, "His father asked me to take him to the construction site to work hard and be obedient, who knew that he was so uncompromising." ”

"You see I'm not productive right now, right, I'll just wander around outside alone and do something big to show you."

"You walk out of this gate and don't come back."

"If you don't come back, you won't come back." Yuan Peng walked out of the shed in a negative mood, walked out of the shed, left angrily and left a sentence, saying: "You say that I am not promising, I will prove it to you, and one day I will get ahead." Yuan Kun was also angry, sitting next to the bed, and the worker next to him persuaded: "Yuan Kun, let him come back, you see that he is not familiar with the place, where can he go?" ”

"Let him go, go," Yuan Kun got up and walked out of the room after saying this, standing upstairs and looking out of the shed. It seems that people's hearts are flesh and blood, and it is a momentary anger to say that let him go. Yuan Peng quickly disappeared from his sight, and he didn't know where to go, it seemed that he was really going to run away from home. The worker stood next to him and said, "Let's get him back, he just came to Shanghai, if he has any mistakes, how can you explain to his father?" ”

Yuan Kun just nodded and said, "Hmm." The workers went downstairs together to look for Yuan Peng, and then Yuan Kun stopped him and said, "Slow." ”

"Anything else?"

"I'll go with you to find it," Yuan Kun went downstairs with them and walked out of the shed. Looking at the road at the door, he said, "We will look for it in two ways, you look down, we will look up, and we will meet at the door of a certain hotel in the town." ”

"Yuan Peng, Yuan Peng," they searched in two directions, and walked to the door of a certain restaurant in the town. A worker said, "Where do you think this child will go?" ”

"Alas! I don't know," the other worker shook his head and sighed.

After that, Yuan Kun walked forward with a worker and said hurriedly: "Lao Gou, have you found it?" ”

"No, what about you?"

"Neither do we." One of the workers stepped forward to face Yuan Kun and said, "Why do you think this kid is so stubborn?" ”

Yuan Kun looked around, his eyes were full of helplessness, and said: "He is like this, when he doesn't want us to find him, no matter how we look for him, we can't find it, you go back first, I want to walk on the road alone." ”

"Well, Lao Yuan, let's go back first, and after finding him, we have to tell her well, don't worry."

"I know," after they all left, only Yuan Kun was left alone on the road, looking around to see if he could still find Yuan Peng. Yuan Kun walked slowly on the road alone, no matter what, there was still a glimmer of hope. At this time, Yuan Kun was thinking, what they said was right, Yuan Peng was not familiar with this place when he first came to Shanghai, if there was really any mistake, how could he explain it to his father? After that, Yuan Kun got tired of walking, so he sat on the stone on the side of the road and looked left and right.

After Yuan Peng walked out, he wandered alone on the street, like a homeless wanderer, looking at the beggars sleeping under the overpass, thinking in his heart, he can't go back here, people must make a difference, can't be like some people say, idle all day long, relying on their parents to live. Yuan Peng looked at the surrounding environment, could he be like these beggars, living on the streets, begging to make a living. He couldn't accept his fate, and had to fight against the cruel reality to the end, so he said to himself: "The big husband can bend and stretch, the current humiliation is nothing, this is only temporary, and he will definitely be able to soar in the future and return to his hometown." Yuan Peng said this, put aside his honor and vanity, walked over slowly, and looked for an open space to sit down. The beggar who slept next to him sat up and looked at him with curiosity in his eyes. Yuan Peng just glanced at them, took off his coat and fell down, covering his body. A stench came to his nose, and after he fell, Yuan Peng covered his mouth and nose with one hand, thinking, "Only by being able to endure the reason why ordinary people can't bear it can we achieve great things." So he began to snore, and slept so soundly. The sky gradually darkened, the breeze blew, and the cool evening breeze made Yuan Peng curl up his body, so that his body had residual warmth. The two beggars sat up, looked at Yuan Peng who was sleeping on the side, you looked at me, I looked at you, slowly got up, slowly walked forward, his steps forward were very light and light, slowly approached Yuan Peng, stretched out his hand to touch Yuan Peng's body, and then turned around and smiled slightly at the beggar sitting on the side. Yuan Peng, who was asleep on his side, suddenly opened his eyes, grabbed the hand of a beggar with one hand, and said, "What do you want to do?" Yuan Peng only needed a little force, and this beggar couldn't stop crying out. The other beggar hurriedly retreated, slipped and got up again, and was frightened when he went to his bed, looking at Yuan Peng stupidly, and had not yet come back to his senses.

"If you want to make a small move while I'm asleep, I think you're looking for the wrong person."

"Let go of me, let go of me, it hurts! Hurt! ”