Shuangta City is a small place, and because it is a border city, it is also the first station of such a train, Lu Yao bought a hard seat, and there were not many people in the carriage, and there were a few people in the whole carriage, and there were a few people who got on the train with Lu Yao and carried a large bag and a small bag on their backs, and the people dressed as migrant workers got on the train and fell asleep directly on their seats, looking at their appearance as in their own homes, Lu Yao guessed that they must have often gone out to work, and they have experienced too much of this journey, and they have long been used to it.

Lu Yao is the first time to take the train out of such a far door, Shuangta City is more than 1,700 kilometers away from Xijing City, there are more than 20 large and small stations along the way, the train timetable mountain shows the time is a full 16 hours, although taking the train is an extremely painful thing for ordinary people, especially such a hard seat, but fortunately, Lu Yao's seat is by the window, which is also the position he deliberately asked the conductor to help him choose when buying a ticket, the position is to enjoy the scenery along the way, for this sightseeing trip in his mind, he rejected Fang Jinghua's kindness to buy him a plane ticket.

Lofty mountains, thousands of acres of fertile fields, small streams and rivers, all kinds of scenery in full view, the next station of the train is more than 100 kilometers away from Shuangta City, Kuibei City, which is an industrial city, the train takes about 50 minutes to arrive, Lu Yao walked all the way to see, the middle of the two cities is a desert area, perhaps because of the four seasons of wind, the sky becomes gray after the train enters the desert. Lu Yao looked into the distance, and occasionally saw a few small animals lost in the desert.

As the train stopped at Kuibei South Station, those people who were originally lying on the seats for a nap began to get up and pack their luggage, four or five minutes later, as the train left the station again, there were more people in the originally empty carriages, Lu Yao sat in two people, and the seats next to him were still empty, but there were two young couples on the opposite side at this time.

The young couple is not handsome, and it can even be said that they are a little ugly, and the woman's Zhang Di is not beautiful, but she is decent, but from their words and demeanor, Lu Yao can feel that their feelings are very good.

Shuangta City is an agricultural city, the local cultivated land area is enough, can feed a lot of people, most of the locals have their own land, a person can basically get close to 20 acres, a family of four adds up to 80 or 90 acres of land, so much land is simply planted with one or two acres of ration land, the rest are all cash crops, there are corn, melons, safflowers, etc., it is not a problem to feed a family in a good year.

But Kuibei City is different, Kuibei City is an industrial city, the government focuses on building and supporting some large industrial enterprises, agriculture and Shuangta City is a drop in the shadows, the original factory has more local people can still work in the factory, you don't have to go far to support your family, but with the country's remediation and relocation of polluting enterprises over the years, many heavy polluting enterprises have moved to other places, and some have not moved away for a long time. Bankruptcy liquidation is also a matter of time, and it is good for workers to be able to receive a living guarantee of several hundred yuan every month, but it is impossible to think of supporting their families. Although those enterprises with small pollution still need some manual work, but with the substantial improvement of the level of modernization, they no longer need so many people who work hard, many enterprises need some educated and skilled young people, sitting in front of the computer to operate the operation can complete the work that can only be completed by more than a dozen people before, and it seems very easy, and the cost is much lower.

This has forced laid-off workers and young people who have not achieved their studies to leave their homes and go to cities where they are needed to earn a living, which is the main reason why so many people come to Kuibei.

Not long after the young couple got into the car, the phone they carried with them rang, the wife glanced at the number on the phone screen, and the tears instantly moistened, the man gently wiped the tears from the corners of his wife's eyes, and forced to press the answer button.

As soon as the phone was connected, before he could speak, Lu Yao heard the voice of a little girl who was crying and made his heart ache, and shouted hysterically: "I want my father, I want my mother, I don't care, I want my father, I want my mother, Niuniu wants to be with my parents, Niuniu don't want it, Niuniu don't ......"

"Mom, is there something wrong, I'll hang up if it's okay?" When the man heard his daughter's voice, he couldn't stop crying.

"It's nothing, Niuniu called, you hang up, it's quite expensive." An old voice over there said.

"Hey, Mom, take care of yourself, don't be too used to Niuniu, you have to clean up when it's time to clean up, if our trip goes well, we will come back after the New Year and get paid, and then our family will have a good Spring Festival." The man still couldn't bear to hang up the phone immediately, and he confessed a few words.

"Hey, I'll take care of Niuniu, so are the two of you, go out and eat something good, don't always skip food to save money, look at you, what has become of people who are just thirty years old." The old voice said a few words and hung up the phone.

During the whole call, Lu Yao sat opposite the two couples, hesitating that their phone was a very old-fashioned domestic phone, even if it was not hands-free, the sound was very loud, Lu Yao listened to the conversation between the two sides clearly, and the most uncomfortable thing for Lu Yao was not that the two couples left their hometown for life, but the little girl's never-ending crying from beginning to end, although the sound was not very loud, but it was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and even Lu Yao, an outsider, was very uncomfortable to hear through the phone.

The young age should be the age of enjoying the father's love and mother's love with their parents, but because of the pressure of life, they have to separate their flesh and bones, this loss of family affection is not something that money can make up, but they have to accept it for money, if you meet a kind boss, just like the man said just now, you can also take your hard-earned hard-earned money home and have a reunion with your relatives during the New Year, if you are unlucky, you meet a black-hearted boss, It is possible that a year's hard work can only be exchanged for a blank slip in the end, or even worse, even the shadow of the boss will not be found.

Because of this incident, Lu Yao's original mood to enjoy the scenery disappeared all of a sudden, and he couldn't bear to look at the husband and wife opposite, so he had to sit in his seat dignifiedly, close his eyes and begin to cultivate [Pure Heart Decision].

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"Bet on it, bet on it and lose a lot, the journey is boring, playing cards to pass the time, big gambling hurts the body, but the small gambling is pleasant......," a pure Mandarin man's voice desperately greeted the people around him.

Lu Yao also listened from his cultivation and looked at the man not far away.

It was a man who looked very ordinary, so ordinary that it was a little difficult to recognize him even if Lu Yao glanced at him and let him into the crowd, he was not dressed luxuriously, but he was not ordinary, with a gold-rimmed glasses, he looked like he was a little cultured.

There were several people around him at this time, watching him turn over and over again to shuffle the four playing cards.

"Dude, what kind of game are you doing, tell me about it?" A middle-aged man in his forties standing next to him asked with interest.

"It's very simple, as soon as I say that you will learn immediately, don't waste any brains, as long as you have good eyes." The man with glasses said: "These four cards are the four colors of black and red plum in the playing cards, I put them together and wash them, and then buckle the book on my lap, you start to bet, no matter what suit of cards you press, as long as you can turn over the suit you chose from my hand, how much money you bet I will double the return, if you turn it wrong, the money will belong to me, but I only charge half of your bet, how about it, simple!" ”

"Can I try it first?" The middle-aged man asked again.

"Yes, but everyone can only try it once, and it's boring to try too much." The man in glasses replied with a smile.

"Okay, I'll give it a try." The middle-aged man said eagerly.

The man with glasses saw that someone wanted to try it first, so he began to shuffle the cards, but his shuffling technique was not very good, during which he accidentally dropped a three of hearts on the ground, picked it up and shuffled it in the middle of the other cards, and then put the four cards separately on his lap on an old magazine provided by the train, so that the middle-aged man began to choose.

"What do you choose?"

"I'll pick hearts."

"Okay, then you pick one of these four cards and take it out, and if it's hearts, you win."

Without hesitation, the middle-aged man picked up the second playing card from the left and threw it on the table next to him.

"Wow, I really don't know if you were lucky or good in your eyes, but you were really picked." The man with glasses saw that the middle-aged man picked up exactly a red heart, and immediately smiled and said, "Look, if you bet money just now, now I will give you double." ”

"Then I'll do it again, this time I'll bet twenty lines first, right?" The middle-aged man asked embarrassedly.

"Yes, I said, is it pleasant to bet on a small bet, bet more and bet less as you choose." The middle-aged man began to shuffle the cards again.

"Give you twenty bucks, I'll start flipping over." The middle-aged man saw that the man with glasses had shuffled four cards, handed over twenty yuan and chose a spade, and turned over one without thinking about it.

This time, his luck was not good, he did not turn over the spade he chose, but turned out a heart, unfortunately, his ten dollars went into the pocket of the man with glasses, and the other party fulfilled his promise and handed the ten dollars back to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man was not convinced, took out ten yuan from his pocket, stacked two ten yuan together, and handed them over, and said unconvinced: "I'll do it again." ”

The man with glasses shuffled the cards again, this time I don't know if it was because the train shook a little, or because his shuffling skills were really poor, a spade three fell to the ground again, he picked it up and shuffled it and started.