Chapter 40: The Black Car and the Lioness
(a)
Spring and spring accompany Chang Xia to go. At night, the bus was very empty, at this time, Chang Xia leaned on the seat, half-squinted, immersed in the city lights, the lights above the bus were scattered like gold leaves, and clusters of lights lingered outside the window, which seemed to be pots of golden plants growing luxuriantly in the dark garden, and the lights outlined a walking figure, walking through these dense large plants.
She also remembered the town, and every night at nine o'clock, the night used ink to paint everything in the town with a black face. And in the city, the life of the night is opened up like an orange petal.
She was right to feel that way. She had broken free from a life, she was already swimming on the other side of the riverbank. This riverbank is such a city at night.
"I love the city, probably because I've spent so much time in the town. When I started sitting in the city bus at night, I looked at the lights outside and thought it was really beautiful. I haven't found a job yet. At this moment of looking at the lights at night, I forgot the difficulty of finding a job, and all the darkness that was difficult to find a job was temporarily buried in the light of this light. ”
At this time, Chang Xia leaned back in his seat, and something vague appeared in his mind, like the intersection of the light and the night. It seems that there are many stories in the city, and there should be many stories related to her. There are a lot of ups and downs, a lot of stories of loss and sadness, which are related to her, and she is the protagonist.
Since then, she has been the heroine of the city. The small-town nurse who was holding a blood pressure monitor on the night shift in the town, leaning tiredly against the door of the nursing room and looking up at the bright starry sky outside, finally came to the city.
After getting out of the car, the two walked up and down the riverside street, a night market lined with stalls, each stall with light bulbs, and the light of the light bulbs illuminated the stalls with cheap clothes, basins, hangers and other household plastic products.
Black things can only appear in dark places, and the voice is also black, and when they are walking back and forth in the dark and opaque ground in the middle of the street, and their feet are almost painful, a man riding a broken bicycle passes by them, and the man stands on the bicycle, touches the ground with one foot, and asks in a dark voice, "Do you want a car?" ”
The voice seemed to come from the crack in the door, and a face was the door, and he looked out cautiously through the crack with his eyes pressed.
Chunchun and Chang Xia looked at each other, smiled secretly, and replied, "Yes."
"Come with me." As he spoke, the man on the bicycle paused on one foot and walked away.
However, after riding without hurry or slow, and maintaining a certain distance, I looked back to see if the two girls behind me had followed.
Across the crowd, spring and summer are not in a hurry to follow.
When they arrived at a house, the man on the bicycle disappeared, but a man pushing a bicycle appeared. He placed the car in the middle of the yard, and the new car surprised them.
The rims and handles of the wheels are shiny. It is estimated that the original owner of this car has only bought it back for a few days, and the car belongs to someone else.
The price was also very low, the man only quoted seventy yuan, and if he bought it from the store, it would cost at least four or five hundred yuan, and the two of them did not bargain, and happily pushed the bicycle away.
Both of them knew that the car must have been stolen by them, and they had a clear division of labor, some stolen cars, some customers, and some sold cars, but their lives were embarrassed, and they who had always advertised cleanliness also acquiesced.
With the means of transportation ———— bicycles to go out, it gave Chang Xia the confidence to live in a new place.
(b)
One day later, on the morning of the third day, Chang Xia was dressed neatly in the morning, and a newspaper was folded in his bag, on which there was a recruitment for the talent market.
As soon as she stood still by the open-air carport, the middle-aged woman who was lying on a deck chair suddenly jumped up, just like an angry Zhang Erniang, who pulled Chang Xia's car with a bang, and suddenly picked it up, only to almost become a geshidou, and raised her hands above her head.
The middle-aged woman's mouth and eyes were torn out of shape by anger, and she seemed to throw the car out with all the resentment of her life, and let out an angry roar, which was a Hokkien dialect that Chang Xia didn't quite understand, it was simply the roar of a lioness.
Chang Xia was stunned, and he didn't know what was going on, and suddenly felt a kind of grievance and helplessness of being bullied in a different place.
But Chang Xia understood the last sentence: "You didn't come to pay the money last night, we wanted to throw your car out, so my husband got up in the middle of the night and locked your car in, otherwise, the car would have been gone a long time ago." "I saw that there was a quilt on her hiding chair.
The workshop really didn't fall asleep and watched the car. She may think that her husband is guarding this "melon field" in the middle of the night, and he doesn't dare to close his eyes, for fear that a car thief will approach, but some people don't want to pay for this hard work.
It turned out that after buying the bicycle that day, after pushing the bicycle to the community, Chang Xia found that she was facing a problem: there was no parking shed in the community.
Chunchun went on to say that there is a private family in the community, and a husband and wife specialize in watching cars for people at night and parking for five dimes a night.
At that time, Chang Xia felt distressed that he spent an extra fifteen yuan a month for no reason, and he didn't want to pay at all.
Chunchun waved his hand again and again, saying no, no, the bicycle is like a pet, and if it is left unattended for a few minutes, it will be stolen. Chang Xia didn't believe it, but he saw that Chunchun was not false at all.
However, she couldn't carry the car up to the sixth floor every day. So Chang Xia had to walk to the other side of the community with Chunchun, and under a banyan tree, there were really twenty or thirty bicycles parked in the open air, each bicycle was chained, like a bunch of dogs.
A middle-aged woman with the appearance of a lion sat up from the recliner and asked fiercely, "You want to stop?" Chang Xia nodded.
The lion woman didn't seem to be happy to have business, so she warned in advance: "Stop for one night and come and pay the money every night." If we don't, we'll throw the car out and leave it alone! ”
Chang Xia thought to himself, if he didn't come to pay the money one night, the car would be lost! I was lucky, thinking that I could miss a night. Unexpectedly, as soon as I came this morning, the "mother lion" volcano erupted.
At this moment, Chang Xia, who was frightened by the "lioness", hurriedly handed over the "expensive" pentagonal paper yarn. Seeing the banknotes, the face of the "lioness" with cracked teeth stretched a little.
Chang Xia remembered that in the town where he once lived, there would be a long parking shed at the entrance of each community, covered with tiles, like a plastic greenhouse for growing vegetables, giving everyone free parking. There will always be a pleasant old man or old lady at the door of the carport, giving license plates to people who come in and out.
When you leave there, you will remember again and again those good things that were once ignored. The scene of this "lioness" with cracked teeth almost falling apart makes those gentle deficiencies even more abrupt.