The city awakens, and the secrets hidden in the darkness of the night are gradually revealed by the dawn. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The owner of the restaurant where Cui Yuping works asks the girls he hires to get up at four o'clock and start work at half past four. Most of these girls, who had only attended primary school and junior high school in the countryside at that time, relived the story of "rooster crowing in the middle of the night" in the textbooks they had read in the city, and they also played a role in it. They were shouted out of the bed by the boss, and some of them got up and continued with the dream just now, until the cold water in the pool touched their immature cheeks, and then they suddenly returned to reality.

Cui Yuping and her companions took on different tasks such as choosing vegetables, digging rice, and washing dishes, repeating simple and heavy manual labor like robots all day long.

Lying down on the bed after a long day's work, the girls felt as if their joints were out of place. How long is a day's work? It is different in different places, and the person who smokes tea in the office, maintains normal blood circulation, and does not rush to handle official business is eight hours. People who like to come late and leave early, arrive late and leave early, work shorter hours per day. And Cui Yuping and the others have to work thirteen or fourteen hours a day, and their monthly remuneration is only 2,200 yuan. After they entered the city, they learned about some things that they did not know in the past, gained more knowledge, and had more doubts in their minds, and they always said that the current distribution principle is more work and more rewards, but in fact, in many places, they "earn" more and get more, especially those who are officials and do business.

Of course, there are also some girls who are dazzled and dizzy in the fancy world of the big city, and make some money by selling their chastity and lust, voluntarily or involuntarily.

I don't know if it's the air in the city that pollutes their pure hearts, or the sin in their minds that grows in the right temperature of the city.

The sisters are asleep, Cui Yuping takes out paper and pen, writes letters to his family under the bathroom light, young people in his hometown use mobile phones, and the elderly still like to learn about their children outside through stationery.

Cui Yuping used her rich imagination to first describe life in the city, when everyone worked together, went to the mall after work, and went to the park with her companions on weekends, she hoped that the envelope would be mailed back with laughter, not tears and grievances. Then, she inquired about the situation at home, from the body of her parents, the object of her brother to the crops in the field, the paper was short and long, and she could not carry the heavy thoughts of her home.

After writing and reading it again, she felt sour in her heart.

The bed that the girls slept on was actually a bunk made of several wooden planks put together, and Cui Yuping gently moved the few arms and legs stretched out of his position before he barely lay down.

Cui Yuping lay on the bed and didn't fall asleep quickly, she thought to herself that she had been in Beijing for almost a year, and she already had more than 10,000 yuan in savings on the sweat-soaked passbook. She didn't want to send the money home once every two months, like some girls who worked in the countryside, but was ready to take the money home at the right time and use it centrally. Many families in the village have replaced their straw houses with brick houses, and several of their own dilapidated houses are still facing the wind and rain.

She looked forward to her future life, and before she knew it, she walked into the middle of her companions who were already waiting for her in the land of dreams.

There are many customers on Saturdays and Sundays, and the restaurant is also very busy. Cui Yuping and the girls adjusted their hands and feet to the fastest frequency, all of them were like robots that had just been fully charged, and they couldn't bother to wipe the sweat on their foreheads, and sometimes they could only raise their arms and wipe them hurriedly with their cuffs.

Cui Yuping works like other girls, but she doesn't want to turn herself into a machine that will only make money like other girls, she is very scheming, usually the boss's way of management, the chef's cooking skills, are particularly attentive, although she usually works very tired, she still has to take time to take notes, with small characters to write the data and experience of the content of the two small books, she regards the restaurant as both a place to make money, but also as a place to learn.

Writers can write a book about each of their experiences, and sell it with a towel so that readers can wipe their tears.

In order to make money, they have to pay for their labor, and some of them have to pay for dignity and even chastity. The disdainful gaze and contemptuous sneer were almost as normal for them as three meals a day. There are also some people with ulterior motives, who actually regard the rural girls who go to the city as idle flowers and weeds that can be picked and ravaged wantonly, which makes the girls sad and miserable, and their hearts are palpitating.

Cui Yuping doesn't want to work in this restaurant for too long, she wants to open more windows to observe the outside world, looking for a direction and space suitable for her own development.

After the noon business peak, there was a short break, Cui Yuping was sitting on the bench in the operation room and napping, a girl walked in from outside, gently touched her shoulder, and whispered: "There is a soldier looking for you outside!" ”

Cui Yuping went outside the door and saw a young man in military uniform standing next to a military vehicle.

"You're looking for me?" Cui Yuping asked him.

"Yes, my name is Yuan Changlin, I am driving in the suburban agricultural and sideline production base of the army, my hometown is from the village of your aunt's family, I just came back from visiting home, your family asked me to bring you something, I took the opportunity to bring it to you."

Cui Yuping saw his fellow villagers, his face flushed, and he asked happily, "How did you find here?" ”

Yuan Changlin raised the envelope in his hand.

Cui Yuping is not pretty, she can only be said to have good facial features, and after nearly a year in the city, she can no longer see the shyness and woodenness of the girl who has just entered the city, and her dark skin that has been kissed by the sun has become fair. Cui Yuping has no time or habit of grooming herself, and she is full of the natural beauty of a mature girl. Some girls in the city always look down on the country girls, thinking that they are vulgar and ugly, if they are allowed to go to the countryside to do farm work for a year, eat and drink, sun and rain, I am afraid that they will already have black skin and wrinkles, miserable, and not necessarily as good-looking as rural girls!

Yuan Changlin took a bag of things from the car and handed it to Cui Yuping, looked at her face and said, "We seem to have met." ”

Cui Yuping blushed and said, "I see that you are also a little familiar." ”

"Oh, I remember," Mr. Yuan said, "you went to the No. 3 Middle School in the county, and I graduated from high school there five years ago. ”

Cui Yuping hugged the things brought by Yuan Changlin, jumped on the ground twice excitedly, and said excitedly: "Alas, what a coincidence, I graduated from high school there the year before last, and you should be two years higher than me." ”

The two of them were still standing in place, talking, but the psychological distance suddenly narrowed a lot.

Yuan Changlin left his mobile phone number for Cui Yuping, he drove the car out for a long time, and saw Cui Yuping's figure standing in place from the reversing mirror and not moving. (To be continued.) )