1. Autumn in the city of eyes
Half a year ago, September 2019......
The city of eyes in autumn is refreshing and clean. On the outskirts of this small northern city, the undulating hills, under the clear blue sky, aroused the desire of two girls from the hustle and bustle of the city to stretch their hearts. The golden poplar forest, swaying and falling leaves, paved a soft sea of gold; Wrap the winding col in a thick costume. This kind of scene is actually very suitable for adding some breeze, and each leaf shines with the wind. The fairy couple descended from the sky, stepping on the white clouds, chic and free. With the sound of bagpipes, two pegasus horses rose from the ground and galloped around the fairy. However, another breeze blows in the face, and all the illusions suddenly drift away, and I don't know where to go.
In the real world, a girl in a white woolen sweater and a ponytail took a deep breath of a slightly earthy aroma and said, "Painting Butterfly, tomorrow we will go back to the Forbidden City, do you really want to open an aroma studio?" ”
Standing in front of her, the butterfly brushed her left side of her hair behind her ear, and her short Sassoon-style hair showed a resolute facial contour. She turned sideways, stretched out her right hand in her skinny jeans, brushed the ponytail behind the girl on the right to her front, and said, "Yes, this is my dream and that of Yoo Zhicong." ”
"The economic situation in 19 years is very bad, and our company, like other companies, is laying off employees." The previous girl took the hand of the butterfly and said very seriously, "It's not easy for us to keep our position, and you have to resign to pursue this boundless thing, isn't it a bit whimsical." Besides, Sister Manla named you at the shareholders' meeting, are you embarrassed to leave? ”
"We are in an era where we are no longer a traditional industrial society. The development of the Internet and the awakening of self-consciousness have given us more choices and more ways to live. People live a life and settle down, no longer just to get a messenger, but to live a stable life. We can choose to start a business or do freelance work, and whatever we do, we have to rely on our hearts. The painting butterfly pursed her lips, sighed, groaned slightly, pointed to the valley that stretched to the horizon at the bottom of the mountain, and said, "This valley will be developed into a folk valley in the next two years." This will provide a lot of opportunities for young people in the small town, and when young people have opportunities, the town will have vitality, and many incredible ideas will have the opportunity to come true. I first opened an aroma studio in the Forbidden City, saved up experience, and then returned here to make an aroma farm. I talked to Sister Manla about this, and she was very supportive. When she comes back from Siam, I will be able to do my own thing, and I am very confident. ”
"Hey, I, Xiao Lifei, don't have the courage of you. You, me, Guiyan, among the three of us, I am the most unproductive. I can only guard the job of this senior assistant and the master photographer in my family. ”
"Riffy, if it's not going well to do something you don't like, then it's better to ......"
"It's better to do what you like, at least you don't regret it. I don't like my current job, but I don't like it. However, can you talk to me too lyrically, my education is okay, but I don't read much, and I don't have a strong sense of this atmosphere. Riffy grabbed Butterfly's hand hard, and then, the two tacitly let go of this childlike intimacy, one stretched, and the other put his hand in his trouser pocket and shrugged his shoulders.
"I see that the things you study are very niche, what kind of plant dyeing, what kind of aromatherapy, what kind of singing bowl, what kind of tea art, what kind of healing family, what kind of self-repair. I think most people are thinking about making money now, so how can they be in the mood to play with you. Riffy poured cold water on the butterfly.
"It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you can sense your own existence and live like a human being. I believe that there will be no shortage of people who want to live like this with me. Butterfly said unaffected.
"But aromatherapy, no matter how I look at it, it's like giving people an oil massage. Do you want to live like this? Liu Zhicong and your dreams are not very advanced! Riffey said bluntly.
"Aromatherapy and traditional Chinese medicine osteopathy are both health preservation methods, but the difference is that aromatherapy pays more attention to the spiritual feelings. Comparatively, aromatherapy is gentler. Butterfly patiently explained.
"What do you mean is that one is light, and the other is heavy." Riffey still said bluntly.
"Don't talk about things you don't know. You are also a practitioner in the service industry, and it is not very good to belittle the service type of work in this way. "Draw a butterfly.
"Oh." Riffey responded.
"What I want to do is to heal people's hearts - when we live in nothingness, when there is a hardship ahead, a dilemma in life; Everyone needs a peach blossom source in their own heart, a piece of peace and pleasure for themselves. Looking at the narrow plain in the valley, on the hills less than 100 meters above sea level, she could clearly see the autumn harvest scene in the fields, smiled knowingly, and said.
"If you only open a studio, it is difficult to grow your influence, and even if you open a chain, it will burn money." Riffey still wanted to pour another round of cold water and said.
"Simply doing offline, or making a studio like a health center, really doing this, it is difficult to realize the real planning of the city's peach blossom paradise." Butterfly withdrew her gaze from the field, looked at Riffy and said, "At this time of year, the crops in all the farmland in the city are Chinese cabbage. The water and soil here are very good, and there is no problem with a good harvest every year, but whether you sell it for a good price depends on luck. Do it every year, whether you make money or not. It's easy to get caught up in the comfort zone of our thinking, fearing that change will be more costly, the result of the genetic imprint of our ancestors in ancient times who avoided the risks of the unknown. The service industry, which requires manual work offline, has been difficult to move online, and there is basically no breakthrough except for advertising and promotion. Now, what I want to try is to change and break through. ”
"How to break through, many people like you who want to make changes, now the scum is gone." Riffey questioned.
"Strictly speaking, what I actually want to do is to consult and train, set up online courses to promote small videos, establish a paradise organization, heal each other, and create an ideal country where everyone can find spiritual belonging. The offline studio is mainly used to experience and hold small salons, as well as recruit partners to meet regularly. Butterfly explained.
"Life is a big sieve, and it is not easy to persist in floating in the Forbidden City, it is easy to change, it is easy to be eliminated by big waves." Riffey continued his questioning, saying.
"What are you doing now, do you make you happy?" Painted Butterfly looked at Riffy and asked solemnly.
"To be honest, my happiness is to make a lot of money, support my family Zhang Jiufang for a lifetime, and make her like a fart......" Riffie let go of the burden in his heart and said softly, "It's a pity that the money I earn now is just enough to live, I don't have the courage of you to go it alone, I need a chance." ”
"Isn't it good that you and Boss Zhang are doing a photo studio together?" Butterfly asked.
"The cost of living in the Forbidden City is so high, it's not cost-effective for two people to keep a stall." Riffey replied.
"Then you can go back to your hometown and open a photo studio?" Butterfly continued to ask.
"It's not easy to stay, and it's hard to leave." Riffey replied meaningfully.
A megalopolis, its suction and repulsion are equally super. For a young person who has adapted to the megacity, even if the future is still confused, he still does not dare to leave easily. In this way, the small town in my hometown gradually drifted away, and when I returned, I was at a loss. Riffy's nervousness about Butterfly's plan stems from this anxiety, even if it doesn't happen to him. According to Riffy's words, the big city is like a man with a sweet mouth, it is difficult to enter his heart, and it is difficult to leave him.
The two men at the top of the mountain thought of this, and at the same time looked at a golden forest at the bottom of the mountain, and fell silent. Perhaps, if this is a cash cow, it will be a lot less troublesome, but it will be a lot less fun.
The two of them, Riffy, were the first to break the silence and pointed to the sky. "I ask you, can't you let him go?"
"You asked a bit suddenly, but I see what you mean." The butterfly looked at the sky again and responded.
"After all, Zhicong has been gone for more than three years, and for the deceased people, if you do this, you will only suffer yourself. Days to come......" Riffy walked up to Painted Butterfly, pulled her hands up again, looked at her affectionately and said, "In the days to come, are you going to freeze yourself?" ”
"This sentence was also said to me before Guiyan went to the corrupt country. If you were me, you would understand that I was actually happy to do this. After painting the butterfly, he raised his hands, as if to embrace the sky in his arms, and smiled like a child.
"To his parents, he is the only child, he is gone, and now the old couple has nothing to rely on, you should take care of them, but you should also share. But what about your parents? Could it be that you dumped it all at your god-level brother? ”
"These days, you have also seen that my uncle and aunt treat me as if I were their own daughter. As you said earlier, it's okay for them to be sent to a nursing home when they're old. But now, in our society, this arrangement is not a universal value, and sending parents to a nursing home is equivalent to abandonment, and the younger generation will be infamous for being unfilial. I will never let Zhi Cong bear this infamy. ”
"You don't want to get that aroma garden or something, or you plan to take over your own parents, and connect with your parents to support the elderly together, right?"
"That's the plan."
"Okay, you can get it well, and my parents will hand it over to you when the time comes."
"It's not cheap......"
"You're still going to make me money, hey, this place is very suitable for taking some outdoor photos or something. Sparsely populated, me and my big photographer, hehehehe......"
Women are divergent thinking creatures and can easily jump from one point to another. It was already afternoon when they reached the top of the mountain, and the two girls gradually spread the topic to the point that they didn't know what they were talking about, and it was already dusk. In a simple small town, the night is just as dangerous for pretty girls as it is to it.
Now was not the time to look for excitement, so the two of them returned to their lodgings before the cool night came.