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Chapter 5 (03)

Gao Jinsong originally thought that his journey would be the same as before, starting from Shanghe, crossing the two regions of Huochuan and Kangping, passing through six or seven county towns and countless large and small market towns, stopping countless cars on the road, getting on and off countless short distance guests, and finally arriving at the provincial capital after seven or eight hours of exhausting bumps. But as soon as the bus left the station, he felt that something was not quite right, because the car did not drive north along the main road that runs through Huochuan city as usual, but turned around and headed south. He couldn't help but wonder in surprise if the driver was so drunk that he was confused about the direction. But the passengers around him seem to be accustomed to it, and they all sit peacefully in their seats, or watch Hong Kong movies shown on the bus, or tilt their heads back against the back of their seats and pretend to sleep...... Since no one around stood up to remind the driver, he had no choice but to keep his head open. However, he still had a good show, quietly waiting for the further development of the situation.

Shortly after leaving the city, the bus turned a corner at a fork in the road, and after a few minutes of driving, it came across a toll booth at the end of the road. The staff at the toll booth did not wait for the long-distance bus to approach, and they had already pulled up the railing to let them go.

“…… Huochuan ...... of Speed Highway"

Gao Jinsong only had time to see these words, and the bus jolted back and forth, and slowly drove onto the curve that continued to extend upward.

Originally, the bus was going to take the highway.

Gao Jinsong couldn't help but laugh at his worry just now. He also thought that the driver would make the wrong mistake.

You're such a dirt bun. He said to himself in his heart. At the same time, he wondered why he never knew there was such a highway in the area. He thought that his eldest sister must not know the road between the region and the provincial capital, otherwise they would not have let the rented car drive for so long when they came home from the provincial capital last summer; Moreover, he came to the area for a physical examination in the early winter of last year, and he had never heard anyone talk about it. Of course, he didn't know that the Huochuan to Kangping section of this expressway was officially opened to traffic only on New Year's Day today, and it connects the provincial capital with a strategic traffic artery that runs through the east and west at one end, and continues to extend to the south at the other end......

Passenger cars are speeding down a flat highway. On both sides of the window, there are endless green wheat fields. In addition to green, it is still green. Boundless green. From Huochuan to Kangping and then to the provincial capital, the endless flow of Kangjiang water has irrigated countless lands on both sides of the river, and hundreds of miles down the Kangjiang River, which has been a famous rice grain river since ancient times.

Gao Jinsong couldn't distinguish the cities along the highway from the green full of spring, so he could only rely on the flashing road signs on the side of the highway, and with excitement, he looked at the strange and familiar places in the distance one by one. Pengye, Zhongba, Xiahe...... Hongmu is the famous fruit town of the province and belongs to the Kangping area; After that, it should be Kangnan, and then Kangping......

When the first tall and thin chimney kept popping up on the horizon in the distance, Gao Jinsong knew that the bus was about to arrive in Kangping. He was familiar with the city. When he was still in the Huochuan District Youth Team, he came here to participate in two autumn trainings, and it was here that he was selected for the provincial youth football team; At the age of eighteen, he was also seconded to the temporary Cannes Iron and Steel Group football team, participated in a national steel enterprise sports meeting organized by the Ministry of Industry in Taiyuan, and won a championship trophy for the steel group. He still remembers that at the celebration party, the party secretary of the group company told several of their team members seconded from the province that if they wanted, they could work in the group company after they retired; The secretary patted his chest on the spot and assured them that when the time came, he would arrange everything with just a phone call. When the provincial football team was disbanded, there were indeed a few old players who found him, and there were also two or three players who were willing to move their hukou out of the provincial capital, and finally went to the Kangcheng Iron and Steel Group.

However, he didn't like Camping at all. Kangping's deepest impression on him was the countless huge and towering chimneys, the chimney mouths of which billowed black smoke day and night; The black smoke made the air in Kangping dirty, and no matter where he went, he could always smell a choking smell of soot. The roads in the city are gray, the buildings are gray, and even the leaves in the green belt on both sides of the road are covered with dust. And the clear Kang River becomes turbid from here; In the north of the city, the main channel of the Kangjiang River shows six or seven distinct colors, yellow, black, red, and white...... It's just that you can't see the clear river. According to people downstream, there are not even fish and shrimp in some sections of the river, and the water in the river is not used to water the ground. Alas, while many heavy industry enterprises have brought rapid development to Kangping's economy, they have also greatly polluted the local environment......

But the chimneys in front of him surprised him, and what came out of the chimney mouth was no longer black smoke, but white smoke; The pillar of smoke did not roll upward, but drifted away and faded away with the wind, and he could even see the blue sky through the thin smoke. Yikes. What's going on. Could it be that Kangping's heavy industries have been relocated? When the car crossed the Kang River, he also deliberately paid attention to the river under the bridge through the car window. The muddy water of the river does not seem to have changed, but there are two or three small boats parked in the middle of the river not far from the bridge, and a few people are sitting on the cement embankment next to the bridge and fishing leisurely; On both sides of the river, you can see large areas of green......

All this made his mouth open in surprise.

Kangping's heavy industry enterprises really moved.

He soon recalled a feature film that had been broadcast on provincial television, which seemed to introduce the determination of the local government in Kangping to make great efforts to clean up industrial pollution; Governance is said to have been effective. It's a pity that the feature film is full of eulogies and praises to the local government, mixed with a large number of character interviews, excessive praise and too many interviews make the whole show seem to lack the necessary credibility, at least Gao Jinsong doesn't believe that Kangping on TV is the real Kangping, and those clips of flowers blooming and green grass are also taken for granted by him as video materials edited and stolen by TV stations.

Looks like he's wrong again. Just as he didn't know that the highway had connected Huochuan and the provincial capital, he didn't know how Kangping had changed in the past two years......

Soon he fell asleep in the endless green.

It wasn't until someone gently shook his shoulders that he woke up from his sleep.

The bus had stopped, and he was the only passenger left in the carriage.

The person who woke him up was the driver of the bus. The driver's master told him with a smile that the provincial capital had arrived; If he wanted to take this bus and go back to Huochuan, he could do it, but he had to buy a ticket first.

Gao Jinsong smiled embarrassedly at the master, and quickly took off his travel bag and the jar sauce from the luggage rack. He also touched his chest. Luckily, the envelope in the inner pocket of his jacket hadn't missed anything while he was asleep. He couldn't help but exhale softly. With this money, he didn't have to stay in the provincial capital anymore, and when he sent the sauce he was carrying to his teacher, he could easily go to the coastal areas to try his luck. As for the specific destination, he still didn't have a clear idea. He has decided to leave his future to God to decide one by one, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, and he will go wherever he can buy a train ticket. Whatever, he's unfamiliar with everything anyway, so let's start from scratch.

He carried a bag and a jar, stepped out of the bus on his long legs, and soon he blended in with the crowd leaving the station.

Seongnam Long-distance Bus Station, no, it can't be called that anymore, since it moved to its current location, it has a resounding new name, Seongnam Passenger Transport Center; But it's still as chaotic, noisy and lively as ever. The wide six-lane road is full of traffic, bicycles come and go, and the streets are crowded with passengers entering and exiting the station, carrying and dragging packages of all sizes, in a hurry; A large black loudspeaker was erected in front of a shop, and deafening pop music came from the loudspeaker:

"My love, you are gone from me.

My love, you are far away from me.

My love, when will you come back......"

The male singer's hoarse roar made people dare not stop in front of the store at all. Some people can't stand the noise. It is not possible to pass in front of the store. I had to take a slight detour to the sidewalk. Wait a little farther away from the store and then go back to the street. Cyclists had to frown and give way to pedestrians; In this way. The sidewalk, which was originally quite smooth, became inconvenient. A tricycle that pulls goods also avoids pedestrians. I accidentally squeezed two bicycles next to me into the green belt separating the sidewalk and the fast lane. So a dispute inevitably arose. More bikes were forced to stop; Some cyclists saw the sidewalks blocked. I was smart enough to ride my bike into the fast lane. This does not cause a traffic accident though. But there is no doubt about it. Doing so can be a traffic hazard. Soon. Two police motorcycles arrived at the scene with their lights flashing......

Gao Jinsong was at the bus stop across the road and watched the whole thing happen.

He was waiting for the Seventy-One Route.

There were a lot of people crowded on the platform. This bus station is a big bus hub. More than a dozen bus lines pass through here. Disperse the passengers from the passenger transport center to all corners of the city. Almost every two minutes. There was a bus that stopped in front of the platform. A few people came down. And then carry some people away. However, there will be no significant decrease in the number of people waiting for the train on the platform. The people waiting for the bus spontaneously hugged each other. The bus lane was encroached upon. No way. Most of the people coming out of the passenger terminal are waiting here. Residents of the neighborhood or people who are temporarily running errands in the vicinity also wait for the bus here. The cramped platform simply can't accommodate so many people. As a result, many people had to stand on the bus lane.

Under the mediation of the traffic police. A minor dispute over the sidewalk across the road was quickly resolved. Most of the shops that caused the dispute were also warned. The annoying noise disappeared immediately. Gao Jinsong saw it. A policeman waved his hand in front of the store, and two men quickly moved the loudspeaker into the house, and a woman was still standing beside the policeman, saying something very aggrieved, and it seemed that she wanted to win the sympathy of the police. The policeman waved his hand impatiently, presumably telling her that this was not allowed to be done again, and then the two policemen stepped on the motorcycles and left, one after the other.

The policeman's words were still very prestigious, and at least when Gao Jinsong boarded the 71st bus and left, the store did not dare to move the loudspeaker out again.

When the bus conductor asked him where he was going, he took out two dollars and bought a ticket to Xiaoguanmiao. He thought that it was still relatively early, so he could first go to a cheap hostel near Xiaoguanmiao to write a room, store his luggage first, and then pack it up, and then send the sauce he brought to Director Shen. He knew that his appearance and demeanor were very different from before, but he still wanted not to let the two old men know about his bad situation for most of the past six months, so he decided to "freshen up" himself before meeting them. And he hadn't seen his master and wife for more than a year, and it was obviously not polite to mention only a jar of sauce, and he had to buy them some fruit and milk and rice on the way. He estimated that it would cost two or three hundred dollars to buy these. In his original plan, after digging out this expense, he will be very poor for a period of time recently, and he is also ready to endure hardships, but the eldest sister prepared two thousand yuan for him before leaving, which made his future days full of sunshine, and now it seems that he no longer needs to stay in the provincial capital to work part-time to save money. He plans to go to the train station early tomorrow morning to buy a train ticket after visiting the initiation coach today......

He couldn't help but reach for the inside pocket of his jacket on his chest again.

His arms immediately froze, and his face became unusually dark.

The thick envelope in the inner pocket of the jacket was gone.

Not only was the envelope missing, but so was the five hundred dollars he had in his inner pocket.

He immediately touched his waist. The hem of his jacket was cinched at the waist, so if the envelope slipped out of his pocket, it would not have fallen to the ground. He had never left his clothes open. But the envelope containing the money is gone.

He realized right away that he was being patronized by the hateful thief.

But when did the thief steal the money from him?

His face was gloomy, his eyes narrowed, his teeth clenched, and he desperately recalled everything that had happened from the time he walked out of the passenger terminal to the time he boarded the 71st bus, not sparing any detail.

The envelope was still there when he got off the bus, there is no doubt about it; He didn't have any contact with anyone on the way from the passenger center to the bus station; It is impossible for him to be so tall at the bus stop, and it is difficult for ordinary people to take something out of the inner pocket of his jacket without him being aware of it...... The only possibility is at the moment of the ascent of the 71st Road.

When the 71 road bus arrived at the station, in order to grab a few empty seats on the bus, three or five people crowded together at the bus door, everyone wanted to be the first to get on the bus, and no one was willing to give up the first opportunity to get on the bus to others. He saw that the door of the car was a little crowded, and he deliberately stood there waiting for them to sort out the order. It was as if someone had pushed him from behind. Could it be the guy who pushes himself behind his back? He immediately ruled it out. He turned his head and glanced at the guy, remembering that the guy with a desperate face squeezing forward was as thin as a monkey, at least a head and a half shorter than himself, even if he asked him to touch his coat pocket, that guy would never have the possibility of taking something out of his jacket pocket.

Who else could there be.

He has been standing here since he got into the car, not leaning on people, front and back, left and right, and the thief has no chance to commit a crime.

He suddenly understood what was going on. When he was about to get into the car, a guy who had just gotten into the car hurriedly got out of the car again, and hit him at the door...... It's the guy who got in the car and got out of the car. He got in the car, he got out of the car, and the advantage in position offset the advantage in his height, plus the inexplicable collision one by one, the guy must have taken advantage of the collision to take the money from his pocket.

He closed his eyes in agony. That's the money that the eldest sister raised specifically for him. It was stolen by thieves. He hated himself for being so careless. He hates damn thieves even more, what is wrong with hands and feet, he has to be a thief. Because of remorse and anger, he gritted his teeth tightly, and the muscles on his cheeks bulged out, and he could even feel the muscles twitching. He clenched his fists so hard that not only did the joints of his five fingers glow a terrible blue-gray, but even his arms spasmed and trembled.

If the damned thief dared to appear in front of him now, he swore that he would tear every bone from the thief's body. He promised that he absolutely wanted the guy to remember this day. Always remember this moment. He wanted the thief to tremble with fear whenever he remembered the word "steal" again. One by one no. He doesn't need thieves to fear him, he just wants thieves to die.

But he could only bury his endless curse on the thief in his heart......

He didn't even see the guy's face. This man has a vast sea, and teaches him where to find his money.

He stood numbly in the carriage, staring blankly at everything that crossed in front of the window, the streets, the vehicles, the pedestrians, the station......

In fact, he didn't see anything. Unspeakable painful self-reproach was coming at him in waves. The monstrous waves rose one after another, and fell down one after another. In the broken waves, he saw the haggard face of the eldest sister with care and sorrow.

He couldn't help but burst into tears.

The people next to him all looked at him sympathetically. They could all see that the young man in front of them was going through a great pain; The pain was so violent that the backrest of the bus seat he was clutching tightly began to twist and crack, and it was made of hard plastic that had applied for a national patent.

While they were saddened by what had happened to him, they were also curious about what had happened to this young man that would put him in such a painful situation......