Chapter 399: The All-Night Bus
Pan Xiaodan was alone, standing on the streets of Chang'an City at more than one o'clock in the morning, stretching his arms hard, trying to wait for a passing taxi.
Even if there is Xiao Dan in the name, these two words are quite feminine.
But in fact, Pan Xiaodan is still a pure man, a twenty-seven-year-old man, living alone in the huge Chang'an City, trying to accumulate a down payment for a house.
In Chang'an City a few days after the New Year's Day, the temperature after midnight was already very cold.
And for a business plan, I had no choice but to work overtime to now be a hard-working little white-collar worker, but after standing on the street for a short time, I felt like I was about to be frozen into a dog.
He didn't know why? At this point in time, he couldn't even call a single Didi.
Could it be because of the cold snap that arrived two days ago, so those Didi drivers would rather sleep at home than run such a night shift.
As for subways and buses, these are public means of transport.
Even if he is currently on a bus stop, but at this point in time, the bus has long been suspended, okay!
In short, even the snot is about to be frozen out of the poor little white-collar workers
Now, I am desperate to have a taxi that will appear in front of me in time, even if it is to carpool and pay a little more.
Because at this time, he felt that there was nothing he missed more than his warm rental house......
Ten minutes later, the desperate little white-collar worker still did not wait for the taxi.
Even during this daytime time, there are not even a few private cars passing by on the extremely busy and noisy streets.
At this moment, a bus with a warm yellow* light in the carriage appeared in front of him and was about to stop at the platform where he was.
At the front of the car, the signs of the original cars have been blocked by a white A4 paper.
I don't know if it's because it's been too long, or because of the lights in the carriage, the A4 paper looks very yellow, and on this yellowed A4 paper, the words 'all-night 1 road' are printed.
Looking at this line card, Pan Xiaodan was puzzled:
"Huh~ Overnight No. 1 bus, hasn't it been suspended in 15 years? When did this resume again, I didn't hear any news. ”
Doubts are doubts, but he is still full of joy, and asks the driver by opening the front door:
"Master, now at the south exit of Fangxi Street, is this bus still going there?"
It was also during the questioning that Pan Xiaodan saw the driver's appearance clearly, it was a yellow-faced man in his thirties, wearing a thick old-fashioned cotton coat for the army.
For such a dress, in such a cold weather, it is not strange that a little white-collar worker who wants to put a quilt on himself now.
And seeing that the driver didn't speak, he slowly nodded his head, and he couldn't wait to run into the car.
With trembling hands, he stuffed two steel hammers into the cash box.
After getting in the car, Pan Xiaodan was surprised to find that he was the only one in the whole car, that is, he spent two yuan and was lucky to get into a special car.
With this joyful mood, the car started moving.
It's just that soon, Pan Xiaodan found that sitting in the carriage, he also felt cold all over his body as outside, and it was getting colder and colder.
"Master, is the heating in the car turned on?" he couldn't help but ask.
However, he did not get the slightest answer from the mouth of the night driver.
I calculated that with the current good road conditions, it should only be about twenty minutes after returning to the site where my rental house is located.
The little white-collar worker decided not to care about the lack of heating, gritted his teeth and persevered.
When you get home, take a hot shower and have a bowl of instant noodles with ham sausage can always make everything better......
Two minutes later, the bus stopped again at the next platform, and this time another old lady came up with a snakeskin bag in her hand.
Dirty down jackets, bulging snakeskin bags should be mineral water bottles.
From the above details, it seems that you can see the identity of the old lady, a poor lonely old man who makes a living by scavenging and can only go home now.
In the spirit of being a fallen person at the end of the world, Pan Xiaodan sent a warm smile to the old lady.
By the way, he handed the other party a mineral water bottle that was almost finished in his hand, this little thing is worthless, but it can help the other party a little, so let's help a little bit.
Give people roses, and there is a lingering fragrance in your hands.
Perhaps for this reason, when the old lady sat down next to him, he actually felt a little warmer.
On the empty streets at midnight, the public cars drove smoothly, and the way home for the little white-collar workers was soon about to be halfway through.
This situation made him feel more and more hot from the heart.
It's just that he wished he could go faster, so this time it stopped again, and this time, it was three young ladies in ancient costumes and skirts who boarded the bus.
That kind of ancient costume skirt should be the popular Hanfu this year, right?
Anyway, the single dog Pan Xiaodan doesn't understand, and he is even more embarrassed to ask, whether they are cold in this kind of weather.
Aren't there a lot of related videos on Douyin: young ladies who seem to be dressed like fairies, who knows if they are wearing big cotton pants under their beautiful skirts.
The main thing is that these three young ladies all have fair-skinned and delicate faces.
Such a high-end young lady has always been a girlfriend for those young men who have a successful career, or a rich second generation;
Not to mention their current state, but the two of them supported one of them.
Several meters away, he could smell the strong smell of alcohol emitted from it, and this kind of drunken cat state of the young lady, the little white-collar worker was even more afraid to provoke.
He even turned his head directly to look out the window, expecting to get home sooner......
Suddenly, Pan Xiaodan felt a heavy blow on his left shoulder.
He quickly turned his head to look, only to see that it was the old lady who stood up, brandishing the bottle of mineral water he had just given out;
The little white-collar worker was a little confused, and before he could react, the old lady had already opened her mouth and scolded bitterly.
The old lady's accent was a little strange, like the dialect of the northern region of the province, which made Pan Xiaodan a little difficult to listen to.
Of course, the meaning is still understood: it is nothing more than that she stole her old lady's wallet because her hands and feet were not clean, and the money in the wallet was finally saved and used as life-saving money for his wife's medical treatment.
Of course, Pan Xiaodan can be sure that he did not steal the old lady's wallet.
The problem was that no matter how hard he tried, the old lady didn't believe his explanation at all, and in the midst of the splashing of saliva, all kinds of vicious curses came from the pavement like a tide.
And the young ladies seemed to be so drunk that they didn't even glance at this side, and the little white-collar workers couldn't even find someone to say a fair word.
After three minutes of unrepeated, the bus arrived at the next platform.
The old lady yelled at the driver fiercely to stop more, and then she grabbed Pan Xiaodan by one arm and was about to get out of the car and go to the nearest police station.
What can the poor little white-collar workers do? I can only get out of the car helplessly.
Even if he could smash the old lady to the ground with a single fist, it would also mean that he would not want to buy his own house for many years.
So, in the end, looking at the bus in the distance, Pan Xiaodan wanted to cry aggrievedly.
After silently wiping away the tears from the corners of his eyes, he barely cheered up and said, "Let's go, go to the nearest police station, and let them prove that I really didn't take your wallet." ”
But at this time, the old lady let go of the arm that was pulling him.
As soon as you open your mouth, it's the standard local dialect:
"Young man, do you know that I was kind enough to save your life, and you stupid boy didn't notice that those three women didn't even have feet under their long skirts?"
After speaking, the old lady carried her snakeskin bag with great difficulty, and slowly walked farther and farther in the cold night.
Only the little white-collar workers who were left cold were left alone in the wind.
He didn't know if everything the old lady said was true, and he didn't know if the mysterious tomb had been blown open in the park on the other side of the city.
All kinds of strange events have been staged all over the city.
It's just that other unfortunate night returnees are far less fortunate than him......