At noon on Friday, Pan Rui called: "In the first week of work, many things have not been dealt with, and I can't leave today." ”

"It's okay, you're busy." On the phone the night before, Pan Rui had already said that he might not be able to get out of his body on Friday, and he had already prepared for the summer solstice.

Hanging up the phone, she walked out of the Ouya canteen and walked directly to the gate of the industrial park. As she walked to the security room, she stopped and looked back.

Directly across from the gate is their main office building, a boxy ten-story office building with a tall electric glass door, which looks modern and magnificent. The façade of the building is a blue glass curtain wall, which is a single glass that allows them to see the outside from the interior.

The afternoon sun is in the sky, and a corner of the glass curtain wall reflects a dazzling light. She put her hand over her eyes and felt a slight dizziness.

"Do you want to get out?" The security guard who called Lao Wang said hello to her.

"Well, yes." She smiled and walked out of the gate of Ouya Industrial Park with her legs raised.

She was afraid that she would turn back, so she told herself all the way to hurry up and hurry.

She booked a ticket for 4 o'clock, and now it's less than 1 o'clock, and she will return to the rental house at about 1:40 o'clock. She packed a suitcase, a duffel bag, and a computer stuffed into her backpack last night, and she sent two boxes of books she saved in college to Xiao Yiqing's dormitory.

She also left the key to Xiao Yiqing, first, because she needed Yiqing to help her handle the check-out, and second, because Xiao Yiqing expressed great interest in her Xiaoice box, but she had to have time to move it on the weekend.

"You've taken leave in the afternoon anyway, so you can just wait and move out." Xia Zhi picked up Pan Rui's guitar and said.

She actually objected to Xiao Yiqing asking for leave to come and see her off, but Xiao Yiqing still came despite her objections, and so did Liang Lu.

"I'll take you to the station, and then run back to carry this goods? You spare me, this goods doesn't look heavy, and I can't move it. I'll find a colleague to help me move another day. ”

"Don't move it yet, maybe this brain-dead will run back tomorrow." Liang Lu's words were a little cold, she scolded Xia Zhi on the phone, saying that she didn't see Xia Zhi being such a stupid woman, but she still came to see her off.

Xia Zhi smiled and said: "That's right, it's okay if you didn't put it in advance, I paid the rent on the 15th." ”

They went downstairs and called a taxi to the station. After the year, the station changed the way of ticket checking, and after the ticket check, passengers had to enter the gate alone to take the train, and Liang Lu and Xiao Yiqing could only send the summer solstice to the ticket gate.

Xia Zhi took the luggage in the hands of the two, and she put the duffel bag on the suitcase, so that they could drag it together: "Okay, I will definitely come back to see you." ”

Liang Lu folded his hands in front of his chest, exchanged glances with Xiao Yiqing, and said, "Xia Zhi, I have discussed with Yiqing, we will help you renew your rent for one month next month, and you can come back at any time if you want to come back." We just want to tell you that you are a person with a mother's family, you have been bullied and wronged, and you have a way out. ”

Xia Zhi took a deep breath, and the inhaled air trembled in her chest a few times, but after all, she still couldn't hold back her tears, she hugged the necks of the two: "I know, I won't be bullied." ”

Urged by the sound of the announcement, she let go of the two and turned around and walked into the ticket gate.

The coach leaves the station, away from the city she struggled for, and towards the future on which she had high hopes.

The old streets of Nanzhou, which are steeped in mottled history, are receding, the high-rise buildings that mark the rapid development of Nanzhou are receding, the green trees decorated with mango flowers the size of rice grains are receding, and her dream is also receding.

But she didn't want to shed tears about it. She understood what she was giving up and was sure what she would get. She plugged in her headphones, listened to the song "Those Flowers" that she never got tired of listening to, leaned back in her chair, hugged her backpack and fell asleep.

Nanzhou is 150 kilometers away from the center of Taicheng in a straight line, this is the distance on the map, there is a high-speed direct between the two places, but it also has to walk more than 200 kilometers, the summer solstice to Taicheng is half past six, and then to Wugu Town, Dahe County, she also has to transfer to a city bus for an hour and a half.

The bus in the city is a tattered old bus, when the car stops in front of the stop sign marked with "big rivers and five grains", the summer solstice is startled, this kind of car that walks up and "clangs", even in Kangzhou has long been eliminated.

"Can't you get in the car?" The ticket inspector saw that she was holding the ticket and did not move, and shouted impatiently.

"Oh...... Good. ”

There was no luggage compartment in the car, so she had to carry all her luggage. Fearing that too many things would get in the way of other passengers, she dragged her suitcase to the last row, where the seats were more relaxed but also more bumpy.

By this point, Xia Zhi had no sleep, and she looked curiously at the strange city outside the car window—more of a town than a city.

Nanzhou also has an old town like this, but in Taicheng, the low wall ash has fallen into the wall and the Nanyang-style arcades fill the entire main city.

There are also new high-rise buildings, but the architectural style is extremely simple, there is no big screen that can be seen everywhere on Nanzhou Commercial Street, at most a large red advertising painting is hung on the outer wall of the building inlaid with porcelain tiles. Compared with Nanzhou, there are few people on the street, which makes Xia Solstice feel very desolate.

And even more desolate is this road. After the car drove out of the center of Thai City, it turned around, and I don't know when, the lights on the road became darker and darker, and finally the whole car moved in a cloud of inky black.

Xia Zhi was lying out the window and staring wide-eyed, and the faint shadows of the bushes and trees on the side of the road made her realize that the car was walking in the mountains. If it weren't for the fact that there were still many passengers in this car, she would even think that she had gotten into a black car and was being sold to the mountains.

The driver must have been experienced and drove the car at high speed in such a dark night.

The point is that the road is still extremely narrow, and the car body is scratched by the grass or branches that grow in a disorderly manner from time to time, and every summer solstice has to be startled, thinking that some beast lurking on the side of the road is about to pounce on the car.

Frightened all the way and the driver's vigorous operation, Xia Zhi finally got motion sickness, she swallowed her saliva with difficulty, and pressed her tumbling stomach again and again.

Because she had to catch a car, she didn't eat dinner after arriving in Taicheng, and her stomach was full of acid at the moment, which made her doubly uncomfortable. She closed her eyes and rested her forehead on the front seat, which would make her body feel a little less jolting, and it would be easier to suppress her stomach.

It's time to arrive...... She thought to herself. She had never been in such a long car for an hour and a half.

She originally wanted to hang up the phone for Pan Rui in the car, but the pain of motion sickness made her not even have the strength to take out her mobile phone, and she couldn't tell where she had arrived or how long it would take to get to Wugu Town.

Finally, the car drove into a cluster of bright lights, and after several adjustments, the body jumped and stopped.

The driver shouted in a rough voice: "It's here! ”