The wordless assembly line, the silent people passing by quietly, there is not a single star hanging in the sky in the dark night, this is the night scene at 12 o'clock in the evening.

"We've been waiting here for hours, and we can really wait, and everyone will come out to see if there's anyone we're looking for."

A looked at the group of people who came out of the factory gate and said to Nanfeng and Su Xiao, his eyelids couldn't help but droop, and he was really a little sleepy.

"Is this your watch?" Nanfeng instantly got up in spirit, picked up his watch, walked over to the crowd, and inquired and observed.

"No ......"

Some people glanced at it and left, while many more simply ignored it and walked straight over and disappeared into the night as if no one was there.

Sitting on the red stool in front of the commissary, catching a glimpse of the brightly lit factory in the distance and the surrounding night, it all seemed out of place.

In the industrial area at night, except for the factory, the rest of the place is dark, and people go into the darkness, their eyes are numb, and if you pay attention to their eyes, you can't help but ask:

Why do they always have tears in their eyes, why is the light in his eyes always cloudy?

"Looks like we can't find it this time, let's go back first, and then come back to find it somewhere else the next day." Su Xiao proposed, and took a Didi car.

"That's fine, that's the only way it is now."

Nanfeng Haosheng put away the pocket watch and put it in his bag, carefully treating it as a treasure.

The group waited for a long time to wait for the Didi car, which was a simple van, originally curious why it was so difficult to take a taxi, until I heard the driver say that it was remote and usually nothing wanted to come, so it was difficult to take a taxi.

Midsummer didn't get into the car, but just waved his hand and said to Nanfeng before the car started, "Goodbye, I want to stay here and have a look, I'll go back later." ”

Nanfeng looked sideways at the car window, his delicate and cold side face met the eyes of midsummer through the glass, he just looked at her for a long time and said nothing, as if looking at her and looking at the trance night scene.

Su Xiao turned her head to look at the dark night scene and the old street lamps that occasionally showed pale yellow lights, her hand attached to the car window glass and gently swiped over it, writing three words on the water vapor formed by the exhalation of water droplets in the car window: Kill Matt.

"Little girl, do you know how to kill Matt? This piece has a lot of killing Matt. ”

The driver turned his head by chance and saw Su Xiao writing those three words on the window, and a trace of emotion passed over the driver's face, as if he remembered something.

"Mm-hmm, I just found out about it recently." Su Xiao nodded at the driver.

"Big brother, I used to kill Matt, who didn't have a time when I was young and ignorant, in that era, you couldn't find a girlfriend if you didn't engage in that kind of hair......" The driver was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his thirties, with short flat hair, white temples, and fine lines at the corners of his eyes.

"Then big brother, why didn't you insist on it later?"

Nanfeng interjected and said.

“……”

The driver was silent for a while, and then said in a cold, bitter tone.

"You may have forgotten what happened at that time, after all, you are all young people, and it was very popular to kill Matt at that time, and later, if you kill Matt, you will be beaten, and you will be unable to see all kinds of nonsense, you see that this scar on my face was beaten outside."

The driver pointed to the scar on his face, and he actually smiled after he finished speaking, and added another sentence.

"Who doesn't have a time when they are young and ignorant? I already know what I did wrong in the past, and now I am a new person, and the past is gone. ”

The driver was talking and laughing, trying to show that he didn't care so much, he had already lowered his head, and even desperately wanted to turn over everything in the past.

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the car was stuck in their throats, and they couldn't say a word.

"Why don't you speak?"

The driver was a little panicked, thinking that he had said the wrong thing, and quickly asked.

"Big brother, you're right, why do you say anything to change your life and become a new person? You didn't hurt anyone, why did those people treat you like that, you can't say that about yourself, even if those people say that you are wrong, but big brother, you are right. ”

A slowly clenched his fists and looked up at the driver directly, and said, the light in his eyes was like a flame, but the gaze was like the tenderness that the sun bestowed on mortals.

"There's nothing wrong with sticking to your hobbies, aren't those so-called righteous forces the rabble under the guise of justice? What is the mainstream, what is the non-mainstream, what is normal and what is abnormal? No one can tell us the answer, there is no distinction between high and low, only good and bad. ”

Su Xiao asked extremely seriously, she asked the driver, the former killer Matt, and asked everyone present, as if she was asking herself.

"Big brother, you haven't done anything to hurt others, it's not shameful to insist on your ideas and love, this is what I want to say to my big brother now, and what I want to say to you in the past."

Nanfeng also continued, and after speaking, the serious eyes turned into a healing smile, as if everything that said to people that it doesn't matter will pass, and you are not wrong.

The driver was stunned for a moment, but quickly calmed down and focused on the windshield.

After a few minutes, the driver suddenly pulled up to the side of the road, and the driver suddenly said with red eyes, "Let's have a cigarette." ”

The driver handed Nanfeng and A a cigarette, and stood in the corner of the road smoking in the cold wind.

"Hee-hee, it's a pity that both of us quit smoking, and we have good intentions."

A took his cigarette and Nanfeng's cigarette, and silently put it into the Chinese cigarette case in his chest pocket.

"Haha, I was suddenly quite moved, if I had met you eight hundred years earlier, maybe Lao Tzu wouldn't have felt that his previous self was wrong for so many years."

The driver smiled dryly and smoked a cigarette and talked about the past, as if he was saying goodbye to his past self, no, he wanted to reconcile with his past self.

After smoking a cigarette, the driver threw the cigarette butt into the trash can, and was about to open the door and get back into the car.

"Big brother, wear more clothes and smoke less."

Su Xiao, who was standing on the side of the bridge and blowing a cold breeze, caught a glimpse of the cigarette, which was a five-yuan box of Double Happiness, the crumpled cigarette box and the inferior smell of cigarettes seemed to tell the undignified life of a middle-aged person.

"Okay, thank you big sister for your concern."

The driver nodded, but it was just a polite remark, and the cigarette was still smoked, just like the sad days would continue.

But the care of strangers is like a light that accidentally illuminates a mediocre and powerless person, and opens a knot in someone's heart that has been tangled for decades.

The car is still driving.

Nanfeng leaned against the window in a daze, he was wondering when Midsummer would come back, why did Midsummer suddenly want to stay there and have a look?

All the confusion goes unanswered, and disappears into the night along with the sadness here.

Nanfeng listened to the conversation between A and Su Xiao and the eldest brother.

"Big brother, why do people here work overtime so late? We came here to find someone, but we didn't expect to wait that long. ”

Su Xiao held his chin and asked with doubts in his eyes.

Obviously, Su Xiao is unfamiliar with this place, but he can also deeply feel that an invisible pressure is pressing on everyone here, not giving any respite.

"This is an industrial zone, do you know what Dongguan is called outside? People call him the world's factory, this is an industrial area, the young people here are the same as I used to do without reading any books and came out to work, no skills and no culture, can only do in the factory, do it, it is normal to go there for more than ten hours, if you don't do it, you will not work, you can only wait for death. ”

The driver's "normal" was like a knife stabbing into the hearts of everyone present, and the driver's face was a commonplace calm, and he could see that most of the passengers in the car were well-dressed and well-fed, and these dirty and messy industrial areas were obviously something that this group of people had never seen.

"Aren't there a lot of young people who like to make their hair colorful in factories? I just waited with my friend and they found a bunch of people with colorful hair walking over when they were waiting there, why do they get this kind of hair, big brother, do you know? ”

A felt that it was disrespectful to say that someone killed Matt, so he described it as a young man with colorful hair, and he expressed the question of the first time he saw the killing of Matt.

"It's called killing Matt, it's not a big deal, these boys who play with their hair are all used to it, almost many of them came out to work in their teens, and I can't speak for everyone, I can only say it's too lonely......"

"When I first came here, I was cheated of a thousand yuan, it was a fellow girl who said that she asked me how much she had at that time, and then I learned that those phone addresses were all fake, and many people who came here have been deceived several times."

"Let's just tell you so, come out and mingle, the most glorious thing may be to find a girlfriend and get married, but those young people, including me before, are not looked down upon, and you can be seen with that kind of hair......"

The driver replied casually in the car, with a slight self-deprecation when he spoke, and said the reasons he knew.

Although the driver's eldest brother didn't say it explicitly, Nanfeng seemed to be able to see it when he closed his eyes......

People who have left their homes on the road, they have no friends, most of them come out in their teens, and their peers are still under the care of their parents to go to school and have a bright future, but they have already come to the cruel society too early.

They live alone, desperately doing things on the assembly line like a perpetual motion machine for Weibo's salary, and if they have a choice, they may not become people like their parents' generation.

Get a strange hair, do fancy dress, maybe you won't be ignored, you won't be bullied, you won't be deceived, after all, it's not easy to mess with at first glance, because it's weird, so you can be noticed, even if it's ridicule, it's just that you can be seen and know that there is a person like you.