(a)

The mirror at the door reflected the disgraced figures of two girls pushing bicycles.

One of the girls had dull yellow skin, especially on the eye circles, and there were two obvious black circles in the shape of meniscus buds.

Chang Xia is horrified, is this me? He looked carefully in the mirror. In the past, her complexion has always been that of a girl in the Jiangnan water town, as if there is a rippling water wave, as if wrapped in water droplets, white and tender. But now, it's almost the same as the flowers next to it.

What's underneath these eyes? Leaning forward to stick out his head so that he could get closer to the mirror, and for the brown moon-like eye bags that the years had left under the woman's eyes, because it was nothing to do before, Chang Xia hardly paid attention to it. But now, the indescribable panic in my heart, like a person born with a golden key on the street thought that he would always be rich, and he did not expect that he would also be poor one day.

Chang Xia stupidly turned her eyes to look at the flowers, as if she didn't have them. Originally, her skin was so bad that she couldn't see it.

She froze there, her eyes scanning the faces of the various women who were coming towards her, and they saw a girl with a bicycle standing there, staring at them with strange eyes. The result of the glance was that almost every woman had it under her eyes.

The passage of youth should have been discovered inadvertently in the flow of life, but now, the poverty of life has accelerated the speed of youth aging. Youth, the youth you are accustomed to had, but it will disappear and turn into a wisp of smoke in the air, leaving behind the remains of aging. It's terrible to not see my beautiful face in the mirror.

"What are you doing, what are you stupid about" The flowers looked at the people passing by like Chang Xia puppeteers.

"Flowers, you know? I used to think that people should have lofty ideals and should not think about vulgar money.

I remember when I applied for a job to do health care products, after the training, the boss asked us to write about the training feelings, and I wrote, I feel that some people here always pay lip service and should not be. People should have ideals and so on, I remember when I handed over the summary to the boss, the boss had a dark face. This is so stupid, how can I be as ignorant as a nun living in a convent! ”

"I now find out that it is really Shakespeare's play, that money is an all-powerful king, and it can give us youthful and beautiful faces.

"Gold, yellow, glowing, precious gold! With just a little bit, the black can become white, the ugly into beautiful, the wrong into right, the humble into noble, the old into a young man, and the coward into a warrior. ”

Chang Xia felt the pain.

"Say, what can I do to make money!" Chang Xia asked the flowers.

Hua Duo replied, "How do I know, if I did, I would still be like this?" ”

Chang Xia was silent, and suddenly remembered what Chunchun said: "What's wrong with being a lover for people, as long as you have money." ”

(b)

There's no money, no need to go to the mall, the sky is free to see, except for bicycle parking for five dimes per person. Park your bike, lie on the grass in Wuyi Square, and look up at the sky.

Unemployed, where to eat tomorrow? She stared at the sky in distraction.

The mountain has a pivot, and the lomb has an elm. In the city, stations, hotels, shopping malls, everywhere are bustling with people, but they don't know each other. Not far away, the figures that flowed endlessly, the people who had passed by just now, were all wearing strangers' masks.

"When we meet in Pingshui, we are all guests from other places; It is difficult to cross the mountain, and those who are sad and lose their way. ”

Chunchun said that he didn't sell a car last month, and he couldn't eat enough with that basic salary, but he just made a little brown rice at the bottom of his stomach. Complaining about this city that is not very popular, I should not have come if I knew it. In Beijing, it's not so difficult!

chattered about the life she couldn't go back to, the card friends she played with in Beijing, and a puppy that he later lost. ”’

Chang Xia listened silently, Chang Xia was still nostalgic for the beauty of Beijing, and the past life had long since disappeared, like a birthday candle blown out, and there was no going back.

Chang Xia longs for the city, she longs to be the heroine of the stage of the city, but now, I know that this vast world is like a cliff, when climbing up, I don't know when I will fall down, and be eaten clean by the beasts below.

can only rely on the spirit of Bai Xian, but Bai Xian is also far away at the moment

Hua Duo said that she put her head on the grass and whispered: "I dreamed of my mother last night, and I wanted to rest in my mother's arms, but after so many years of estrangement, I also feel that my mother seems to be tired." I don't have money to travel, and I haven't been home for three years. ”

In the city, they don't have enough to eat, they don't have money to buy beautiful clothes, and they rent dilapidated houses. They are nostalgic for their mother's arms, but they all know that no matter what, the land in the countryside, the arms of the mother in the countryside, it is impossible and there is no longer the strength to shelter them.

The pain of missing my hometown spread out at this dusk.

The slanting sun shines on the alleys, and the cattle and sheep return to the poor alleys. In the hometown of the countryside, the chickens roost on the ridge, and the sheep and cattle came down. The sunset sprinkled golden light, the cattle and sheep returned with the people who went out to work, and the breath of man and nature became one. The land returns, the people return to the land, and the lights that inhabit the land at night.

When will these wandering children return?

But no matter how much her mother hoped in the countryside, she could not go back. In their hometown, they have long been unable to go back.

Summer, flowers, spring and spring, there is no going back. In the twilight of this city, it is nothing but sorrow.

They are in the city, in the midst of a huge flow of people, immigrants who have just arrived, and who have no roots. Watch the traffic of the city come and go. All the street lights on the street were about to turn on, illuminating all the people and vehicles passing by.

But it's not a light in their hearts. Lights on the city stage, lit for those passing by. The lights of the city were lit by thousands of lights, all alienated and indifferent strangers.

(c)

Chang Xia thought to himself, you can find Hai Er.

After asking, Chang Xia was the only one, and Hai Er replied, "Yes." ”

Under the screen, I saw Hai Er's tall and thin figure. The two men pushed their carts to the grass of the square, parked their bikes under a tree, and sat down.

started chatting, Hai Er talked about his girlfriend, disobedient, always hiding from her and dating others, he is also a man, of course he knows the man's thoughts, there is no good thing.

Chang Xia is talking about her boyfriend, and she doesn't know when the two of them will be able to get together?

Two people know each other, the other two don't, and the four people are lonely with each other.