In the neighbor Lao Wang's house barely managed to deal with a night, the next day, Zhou Kui and Lao Wang went to see the fire scene together, the former Baishidian after a night of fire, became full of devastation, only a pile of ruins remained.

Zhou Kui stood in front of the ruins and kept wiping his tears, lamenting that he was unfilial and did not rescue the remains of his parents.

Lao Wang patted Zhou Kui's shoulder and comforted: "Xiao Zhou, don't be sad, from now on, my home will be your home!" ”

"Thank you Uncle Wang for your kindness, but I have made up my mind!"

Lao Wang Zheng sighed to himself that Zhou Kui's life was miserable, and when he heard Zhou Kui's words, he felt a little confused.

Zhou Kui took out his ID card from his trouser bag, took out his mobile phone from his jacket pocket, and said with blazing eyes: "Uncle Wang, I plan to go to the provincial capital, and I will set off today!" ”

Lao Wang hurriedly dissuaded: "Silly boy, you don't have a penny on you, how can you go to the provincial capital?" ”

Zhou Kui was about to say that electronic payment is popular nowadays, and suddenly thought that the mobile phone was not bound to a bank card, and his bank card was still in the cabinet in the room.

"Uncle Wang, can you lend me some money? When I get ahead in the provincial capital, I will definitely come back to repay you! Zhou Kui pleaded sincerely.

Seeing Zhou Kui's resolute attitude, Lao Wang simply stopped persuading him.

Back at Lao Wang's house, Lao Wang took out a wad of bright red banknotes from the wardrobe drawer, and after carefully counting them a few times, he stuffed the money into Xiao Zhou's hand.

"There is 2,000 yuan here, you collect it first, if the money is not enough, I will find a way to remit it to you!"

Zhou Kui took the 2,000 yuan, tears kept rolling in his eyes, and he sobbed quietly: "Thank you, Uncle Wang, I have been taken care of by you for so many years, and your great kindness to me, Zhou Kui will never forget!" ”

Lao Wang sighed deeply, and said with some reluctance: "After you go to the provincial capital to settle down, remember to contact me often!" ”

Zhou Kui nodded obediently, and then bowed solemnly to Lao Wang: "Uncle Wang, I, I'm leaving, take care!" ”

"Stay safe on the road!"

Seeing the back of Zhou Kui's departure, Lao Wang was full of emotion in his heart, and there were still many things he wanted to say in his stomach, but he couldn't say it in the end.

"Lao Wang's wife died when he was young, his son and daughter worked outside, and they didn't come home to visit him all the year round.

If it was in the past, Zhou Kui and his family of three would often come to the door to deliver clothes and food to Lao Wang, even if Zhou Kui's parents died later, Zhou Kui would go to Lao Wang to chat as long as he was free, and even help him with housework. In Lao Wang's heart, he has long regarded Zhou Kui as his own grandson.

Thinking of this problem, Zhou Kui was deeply worried in his heart, if he left like this, what would Lao Wang's life do in the future?

With so many thoughts in his mind, before he knew it, he had walked outside the station.

"By the way, Lao Wang has a good relationship with Director Lin of the Street Office, and if Lao Wang is in trouble, Director Lin should be able to help."

Walking into the ticket hall of the station, Zhou Kui bought a high-speed express ticket to the provincial capital at 10 o'clock in the morning, and while waiting in the waiting room, he took out his mobile phone to call Director Lin.

When the car slowly drove out of the station, Zhou Kui sat on the window seat and looked at the street scene that was gradually moving away, with mixed feelings in his heart.

"Goodbye, my hometown!"

He closed his eyes and fell asleep on the cushion of his seat.

After a long journey of nearly six hours, the car finally stopped at the West Passenger Station in the provincial capital of Qingchen City.

Zhou Kui got out of the car and couldn't help but stretch his waist, the other passengers were carrying bags in their hands and dragging suitcases, only Zhou Kui was empty-handed and didn't take anything. Zhou Kui silently squeezed out of the crowd, he stared blankly at the station floor index map, hesitating whether to take the subway to the city center.

"Let's call my college classmates first!"

Zhou Kui took out his mobile phone from his jacket pocket, only to find that the mobile phone had run out of power. The charger and data cable are still at home, and after last night's fire, they must have been burned to the point that there is no slag left.

"It's really a house leak that happened to rain overnight!" Zhou Kui sighed secretly, feeling that creation made people.

Taking the elevator down to the basement floor, Zhou Kui bought a subway ticket, and the terminal was Early Morning Normal University, and he planned to go back to his alma mater to find the help of his teachers in college.

About half an hour, the subway arrived on time, Zhou Kui walked out of the subway station, looked up, not far away is the antique, carved beams and paintings of the main gate of the "Early Morning Normal University".

Walking outside the school gate, Zhou Kui was about to enter, but was blocked by the access control device.

"Uncle, I used to be a student at this school, so I'm here to do something."

The security guard at the gate walked out of the guard box, and he asked Zhou Kui, "What are you here to do?" ”

Zhou Kui unhurriedly took out his ID card from his trouser bag and handed it to the security guard to check.

"I'm looking for Mr. Wu from the Faculty of Arts!" Zhou Kui replied truthfully.

The security guard returned his ID card to Zhou Kui, and asked in a flat tone, "Could it be that you are talking about Wu Youcai, the vice dean of the Faculty of Arts?" ”

"Exactly!" Zhou Kui nodded.

The security guard lit a cigarette and said impatiently, "Professor Wu retired last month, you can find him elsewhere!" ”

"This ......"

Professor Wu is not at the school and Zhou Kui does not know his home address, what should be done?

"Uncle, can you lend me your phone, I'll give Mr. Wu a call." Zhou Kui pleaded in a low voice.

The security uncle had no choice but to take out his mobile phone and hand it to Zhou Kui.

"Hello, the phone you are calling is turned off......"

Zhou Kui turned off the call button and returned the phone to the security guard with a disappointed face.

"During college, the best person for me was Professor Wu, but now I can't contact him, so it seems that I can only go to my classmates for help!"

Zhou Kui knew in his heart that those classmates in the class were now going their separate ways, and if he wasn't forced to be helpless, he wouldn't want to disturb their lives anymore.

Leaving the school gate, Zhou Kui saw a public phone at a nearby newsstand, and he used a banknote to go to the newsstand to exchange some change, and called his best classmates in college.

"Yo, Zhou Kui, I heard that you were dumped by Ling Chuixue! Hahaha, I'll just say, how could Ling Chuixue fall in love with you kid? ”

"Damn Liu Liang, you kid don't open any pot and mention which pot, I'll tell you the right thing!" Zhou Kui felt inexplicably annoyed when he heard Ling Chuixue's three words, and his volume couldn't help but increase a few points.

On the other end of the phone, after Liu Liang heard what happened to Zhou Kui, his face was embarrassed: "Brother, that's the case, buddy has recently failed to start a business and owes a lot of debt, and I myself am a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, how can I still have the spare strength to receive you!" ”

"I knew you kid was unreliable, hang up!"

Hanging up the phone, Zhou Kui immediately made several phone calls to other students:

"Brother, I'm sorry, I've been having a hard time lately!"

"It's not that I don't help you, it's that brother, I've been really having a hard time lately."

"The company has been very busy lately, and I really can't take time out!"

......

Zhou Kui still remembers that when he was studying, his classmates would come to copy Zhou Kui's homework every time, and when the end of the semester was approaching, they would also come to Zhou Kui to borrow notes for review. "At the beginning, you came to me to borrow notes and copy homework, but I responded to my requests, but now it's good, I came to the provincial capital to ask you for a favor, you are one by one, and the feelings of your classmates in four years of college are just like this!" Zhou Kui hung up the phone, so angry that he even scolded the dialect.

Unable to contact the teacher, and his classmates were unreliable, Zhou Kui was a little panicked, he didn't know where he should go.

"Forget it, let's find a hotel to deal with the night first!"

Staying in a hotel is not a long-term solution, and in less than a week, Zhou Kui spent all the 2,000 yuan that Lao Wang gave him.

"It's just because the cost of living in the early morning market is too high that I don't want to look for a job here!"

Zhou Kui left the hotel where he was staying and walked aimlessly on the street, thinking about where to stay tonight.

Now that he is penniless and can't stay in a hotel even if he has an ID card, Zhou Kui thinks about it and decides to rest for a night in a nearby park and make plans the next day.

In the early spring morning, the night temperature was only in the single digits, and Zhou Kui lay on a chair in the park, huddled and shivering.

"The world is unpredictable, I didn't expect that one day I, Zhou Kui, would be reduced to a situation where I would be homeless and could only sleep in the park!"

Passers-by saw Zhou Kui's situation, and their faces showed a very puzzled expression: "This young man has hands and feet, why doesn't he go to find a job and become a homeless man?" ”

Another middle-aged woman with a broken mouth interjected: "It's not, there are a lot of such people now, obviously they seem to be a very healthy person, but they don't look for a serious job, but they expect to live by begging, this kind of person really doesn't deserve sympathy!" ”

After the two pedestrians walked away, Zhou Kui said in his mouth: "People really can't understand each other!" ”

After staying up all night in the cold wind, Zhou Kui got up from his chair at dawn the next day, felt in his pocket, and was surprised to find that his ID card and mobile phone had been stolen.

"It's good now, I don't even hope of finding a job......" Zhou Kui sat weakly in his chair, looking at the people who were hurrying to work, his eyes full of envy.

In the next few weeks, Zhou Kui, like the homeless people in the city, lived a life of using the sky as a quilt and the earth as a bed, and when he was hungry, he went to the garbage bin to find leftovers, barely filling his stomach; When you are thirsty, you will go around picking up and collecting discarded mineral water bottles, and if you are lucky, you can drink half a bottle of water, and if you are unlucky, you will not even drink a drop of water.

Zhou Kui also thought about drinking the water in the river, but the river in the early morning city was so polluted that even the small fish and shrimp died, wouldn't it be fatal to drink this water?

On a bitterly cold night, Zhou Kui sat alone on a roadside flower bed rubbing his hands together to keep warm. Because he hadn't bathed and changed into clean clothes for several days, he emitted a pungent stench on his body, and passers-by walked away from him for a long distance as if they were hiding from the plague.

"I'm really like a street rat now!" Zhou Kui laughed at himself helplessly in his heart.