Chapter 14 Sorrow and Joy
After a while, a dark green minibus staggered from a distance, the green of the body near the road has been covered with a thick layer of mud, and the body can faintly see an advertisement for a men's health hospital, the advertising slogan reads "Time is short, come to XX Hospital, let you recover your strength." ”
The driver slammed on the brakes, the door just stopped in front of Shuying, and from the window next to the door revealed a big sister with a face covered in foundation, who should be thirty or forty years old, and the uneven foundation wind blew gently, and she felt a layer of ash flying away from her face.
The eldest sister shouted: "Where is the younger brother, get in the car." ”
"To the city." Shuying got into the car, turned around and waved his hand to Zhuge Yun, and found a place to sit down. Since it was about six o'clock in the morning, there was no one in the car. Before Shuying could sit down, the driver slammed on the accelerator and sped forward.
Before the book shadow could sit on the seat, this acceleration, due to the huge inertia, he uncontrollably rushed towards the tail of the body, and the book shadow hurriedly grabbed both sides with both hands, trying to grab the armrest of the chair to stop the inertia. Unexpectedly, his left hand directly grabbed the hand of the conductor's eldest sister.
The conductor's eldest sister habitually reacted and pulled back the book shadow that was about to be thrown towards the back of the car. "Little brother, if you don't pass the wind, sit down quickly."
Shuying was a little caught off guard by this sudden acceleration, but fortunately, the eldest sister had a lot of strength and pulled him back.
After a while, waiting for Shuying to stabilize, the ticketing lady stood up, twisted her waist and shook her ass, walked to Shuying's side, leaned on the chair next to her, opened her palms and stretched out to Shuying, looking like a battle-hardened debt collector.
Shuying looked at the rough palm that was about to reach his face, and didn't react for a moment, thinking, "This eldest sister won't pull me and ask me to pay for life-saving money." ”
He looked up at the conductor again, holding the ticket in his other hand. The conductor saw that this kid seemed to be scared stupid just now, so he reminded, "Ten yuan to the city." ”
"Oh......" Shuying suddenly realized, and paid the fare ashamedly. The conductor twisted his ass and walked to his seat again.
At this time, there was no one on the bus, except for a man and a woman in the first row, who were wearing caps, and the rest was a book shadow.
After paying the fare, Shuying took advantage of the lack of people and moved to the last row to lie on the chair, because he was so sleepy, he didn't close his eyes all night, his eyes were already bloodshot, and his head was a little dizzy. As soon as his body touched the soft seat, he fell asleep.
I don't know how long it took, but in the hazy shadow of the book, he felt that someone was shaking his shoulder.
"Little brother, it's time to get off the terminal, get off the train, or you have to drive back if you don't wait for the car." The eldest sister of the ticket seller tugged on Shuying's shoulder a few times. The minibus basically stopped for 15 minutes and then drove back again.
Shuying had to get out of the car in a groggy state, and the sun was already dazzling.
Before he got out of the car, he just walked to the door, a bunch of people crowded at the door of the car to block him, some were wearing motorcycle helmets, some people were draped with a towel on their shoulders, and some were directly wearing a straw hat.
"Little brother, where are you going?"
"Little brother, be my tricycle, comfortable and cheap."
"I'll pull you over on my motorcycle, faster. Not afraid of traffic jams. ”
"Come on, come on, my car is here, let's go"
“……”
A group of people chattered and made noise, Shuying barely managed to squeeze out a way to get out of the car, and the people hurriedly followed and chased after them, and some people gave up the chase and went to find other targets.
In the end, there was a tricycle and a motorcycle still competing. Shuying carefully looked at the tricycle driver and the motorcycle driver, who were about the same age, but the motorcycle driver looked cleaner, with a fanny pack tied around his waist and a safety motorcycle helmet on his head. Wearing leather shoes on his feet, he looks like he is still dressed up when he goes out. The economic strength should still be passable.
Shuying looked at the tricycle driver next to him, the left trouser leg was rolled up to the calf, the right trouser leg was originally rolled up, but it had slipped down to the ankle, and he was wearing a pair of severely faded flip-flops on his feet, his body was abnormally thin, his cheekbones were prominent, and his eye bags were very heavy. It seems that life has brought him a lot of pressure.
Shuying didn't say a word, and asked the tricycle driver directly, how much does it cost to go to the Diamond Hotel.
"I'll just charge you 5 yuan." The driver of the motorcycle rushed to say.
"I'm 4 for 5." Not to be outdone, the tricycle driver.
Seeing that it was not interesting to lower the price like this, Mo turned around and spit out a mouthful of phlegm, and he didn't know what he was talking about when he was muttering words in his mouth, and then walked away.
Shuying got on a tricycle, which is still a human-powered tricycle transformed from a bicycle, which is also a major feature of the city. From cars, buses, motorcycles, tricycles to bicycles, they make up the transportation veins of this third-tier city.
The frame of the tricycle is already rusty, and the handlebars look particularly shiny under the constant friction of the driver's palm. There is a small canopy in the back seat of the car for customers to shelter from the wind and rain and the sun.
After getting in the car, Shuying regretted it a little. The speed of this tricycle was too slow, and Shuying was in a hurry. Then he urged: "Master, can you hurry up, I'm in a hurry." ”
Along the way, the driver laboriously stepped on the pedal, shuttled back and forth on the motorway, and when he saw a vacant place, the driver would see the stitches and needles through, which looked like the old driver.
However, the passenger's heart is up and down, which is messed around on the motor vehicle, and it is easy to get into trouble.
"Master, can you take the non-motorized road?"
"Non-motorized lanes can't be walked, roads are being built everywhere, either roads are built or cars are parked, and the entire non-motorized lanes can only be walked by pedestrians and bicycles." The coachman picked up the towel around his neck and wiped the sweat from his forehead, panting and replied.
"Besides, everyone rides like this, I've been running back and forth on this road for a few years, it's safe, don't worry." The driver looked a little worried about the passenger, so he comforted Shuying.
As he spoke, the car turned a corner and entered another main road. Due to the speed of the turn, one wheel of the tricycle rises into the air due to centrifugal force, and the body tilts to the other side.
The driver squeezed the handbrake with great difficulty, and the sound of the brakes screamed harshly, but fortunately he avoided a rollover.
"Master, stop on the side of the road, I'll get here." Seeing that he was dying, Shuying shouted to stop the tricycle.
When he stopped, Shuying jumped out of the car, saying that it was a coincidence that he just jumped out of the car and hit a bicycle directly, and he was also knocked down and leaned on the tricycle.
Fortunately, the bike was slow, or it was estimated that the book shadow would have been knocked off.
When Shuying took a closer look, he saw that the person who was knocked down was a girl in a school uniform, about the same age as herself, with short hair and a simple and capable look, and a guitar behind her back.
Shuying hurriedly walked over and picked up the guitar girl, and apologized repeatedly. The girl smiled, "It's out of the way." After that, he took off the guitar behind his back and opened the zipper to see if there was any damage.
The coachman looked at the two of them and saw that there was no big problem, so he said: "As the saying goes, if you don't fight, you don't know each other, everyone is fine." Little brother, are you sure you are going down here? There's no way to reduce the fare. ”
Shuying was about to take out his wallet to pay, but unexpectedly he felt all the pockets on his body, and his wallet was missing.
Shuying crouched down to see if he had just been hit and if his wallet would fall to the ground or in the car, searching through all the wallets that didn't see his poor wallet. When she was secretly sad, the short-haired girl seemed to see the embarrassment of the book shadow, and asked the coachman how much it was, and she paid first.
Shuying was really ashamed, and hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, my wallet may have been stolen." I'll give it back to you later. ”
When he said this, Shuying himself was extremely ashamed, although he didn't take the initiative to borrow money from the girl, and the amount was not much, but the man's self-esteem made him try his best to resist this kind of help, but there was no other better way.
"It's a trivial matter, when you go out, you must pay attention to yourself and your financial safety, and now there are many pickpockets in other places where there are many people in the car, and you must pay attention to valuables." The short-haired girl looked at the young man with a bit of a rustic atmosphere, and judged that he must have come from the country, so she said a few more words.
Shuying knew that the only thing left of his precious finances was himself, and the rest was worth the clothes he wore today.
He specially wore a pair of black trousers today, and wore a short-sleeved light purple and blue shirt on his upper body, the shirt was tied into the waistband of his trousers, which looked much more energetic than before, with slightly curly hair, and a few curly hairs curled in front of his forehead, a little more European and American temperament.
Speaking of this curly hair, in fact, it used to be quite annoying to himself, no matter how he combed his hair, he couldn't straighten it, his hair was a little longer, and this head was messy like a chicken nest, plus he was negligent in taking care of it, and sometimes he wanted to shave his head comfortably.
It wasn't until I met a barber in the town who was good at trimming all kinds of hairstyles that I found the delicate and slightly curly hair that showed a European and American temperament.
The short-haired girl looked at Shuying's hairstyle for a few seconds, and then asked curiously, "Is this your hair curly naturally or done with it?" ”
Shuying wondered why someone suddenly cared about his curls. "Born, I heard that when my mother was pregnant with me, she drank boiling water and scalded me."
"Huh...... My brother also has curly hair, and I think the curly hair is very good, and it is durable. It won't be cookie-cutter like the others. The short-haired girl laughed, and a row of neat and white teeth was revealed, reflecting her fair face.
"By the way, how far is the Diamond Hotel from here?" Shuying didn't forget the purpose of his trip, so he asked.
"Turn right at the traffic light intersection ahead, turn left and turn right again." The short-haired girl gestured in the direction of the hotel. "If you don't dislike it, I'll take you for a ride."
"Then thank you very much." Shuying hesitated for a moment, thinking that he didn't have half a dime on him now, and he walked slowly. I can only bother this beauty.
Shuying took the handlebars of the bicycle, and the two rushed to the hotel together.
"By the way, what's your name?"
"My name is Yang Shuying, Yang next to the wooden characters, the book of books, and the shadow of shadows. What about you? ”
"I, my name is more neutral, my name is Liu Yubin. Liu Bang's Liu, Jin Yuyu Wen Wu Bin. Everyone calls me Xiaoyu. Xiao Yu sat sideways on the back seat of the bicycle, but found that his hand didn't know where to grab, so he had to reluctantly grasp the main pole under the book shadow seat.
After a while, I arrived at the door of the Diamond Hotel. "Thank you so much today, is it convenient to leave your phone number? Follow-up I'll ...... to trust people." Before Shuying finished speaking, Xiao Yu had already ridden the bicycle, waved his hand behind his back, and left a sentence: "No need, he will meet again one day." ”
Looking at the chic figure in the distance, Shuying sighed unconsciously: "Such a chic and uninhibited and enthusiastic heart, may you and I have a fate to see you again." Thanks! ”
Shuying entered the hotel and walked to the service counter, where he saw a waitress holding a small mirror and powder on the sides of her nose. When she saw the shadow of the book coming, she hurriedly put away the mirror and powder, and showed a normative welcome smile: "Sir, do you have any hotels?" ”
"I'm looking for your colleague Lin Yanyu, I have something urgent."
"Sir, wait a minute, I'll help you ask." After speaking, the waiter called and asked in a low voice, and then nodded frequently.
"Sir, I just asked, Lin Yanyu is the latest shift, and she has clocked out and gone home at half past three in the morning."
Shuying thought for a while, and then asked, "Can you please help me call him, we kept calling her last night, and his family was worried that something would happen to her." ”
"Sir, we all ask our phones to be turned off or muted during working hours. Then wait a minute! The waitress smiled politely the whole time, and she didn't see any impatience at all.
After a while, the phone went through, and Shuying took the microphone from the waiter. "Yan Yu? I'm a book shadow. ”
"Well, what's wrong." A sleepy and tired voice came from the microphone, and it seemed that the voice was a little hoarse.
"What's going on with you? Last night, Xiaolu called you and turned off your phone. Shuying was actually thinking about Xiaoxue and Huanhuan.
"Oh, I was drunk last night...... Wait, is Xiaolu there for you? This one has no conscience, and he is heavy on sex and light on friends. Yan Yu seemed to be much more sober.
"Alright, it's okay." Shuying paused, and continued to pretend to ask casually: "I heard you say last night that there are two more girls, one is Xiaoxue and the other is Huanhuan?" ”
"Oh...... It seems that they were all drunk, and someone picked them up at three or four o'clock, as if the uncle named Xue'er came to pick them up. Yan Yu struggled to recall what had happened three or four hours ago, barely able to remember some details.
Suddenly, with her years of experience in gossip and a woman's innate keen sense of smell, she felt that the drunkard didn't mean to drink, so she asked curiously, "Do you know them, what is your relationship?" ”
"Nothing, just curious."
"You're so curious that you came to the hotel?"
Shuying, who asked this question, was caught off guard, and said: "I happened to come to the city sometimes, Xiaolu was worried about you and asked me to come and see." ”
"Shuying, don't let down our woman Xiaolu, she treats you as a treasure, don't play with her feelings, otherwise you'll ......"
"Well, it's not what you think...... Forget it, I'll tell you next time. Bye-bye" Shuying saw that the number of people checking out next to him was gradually increasing, so he hung up the phone. The stone in my heart has finally fallen.
At this time, Shuying's heart was full of joy and sorrow, happy that Zhuge Yun's judgment was wrong last night, and sad that he didn't see the person he thought about day and night here.
When he was stunned alone, a familiar voice scolded another person not far away: "You kid is really good, I don't treat you well." ”
The man who was furious there was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, with an unlit cigarette in his mouth, his eyes wide with rage, and his forehead tied with a white sand belt. Everyone was attracted by this scolding.
"This is Mr. He, who chartered the VVVIP banquet parlor last night, and I heard that the assets are almost hundreds of millions." The two young waitresses at the counter spoke softly, their eyes showing adoration and longing.
Shuying heard it, and indeed this person looked very tall like Dumpling, but after he looked forward to dressing, he was completely different from the Dumpling he knew before.
The man who was being reprimanded, with his head down, did not contradict him. At this time, a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties came from outside the hotel, also in a suit and leather shoes, with his hair combed back and his head, and a briefcase under his armpits.
He strode towards Mr. He, "Papapa", before everyone could react, the middle-aged man had already slapped Mr. He three times back and forth. Gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence: "You did a good job." ”
After speaking, he strode outside the hotel, got into a Cadillac, and left.
The person who was reprimanded by Mr. He was Zhang Tian.