Chapter 2 (2)
Mi Bobo had no distractions, looking for shops and shops that posted job postings all the way, and occasionally found some jobs that suited him, but after secretly thinking about the advantages and disadvantages, he excluded them all. Many of these quasi-jobs are too physically tiring, some are too long, and some have too limited income, so it is easy to seem that the salary is good but not food and housing. Until nightfall, the dim twilight quietly hit, Mi Silk Silk is a little anxious, her first worry is the problem of sleeping, the sleeping place has not yet settled and can not sleep on the street, a girl's family alone on the street dragging luggage around how unsafe it is. She had never wandered the streets alone like she did now, and she couldn't help but admire her courage and worry about the situation she was facing, knowing that it was so hard to find a job, she really shouldn't have left the restaurant in a bad mood, let alone quit abruptly. But she has come to this point, she can't turn back, the supervisor and dormitory colleagues can't tell how to ridicule her, she can't turn back, she can't make people laugh! She said to herself through gritted teeth. Where can you stay tonight? This matter is really imminent, but I heard that staying in a hotel is very expensive, how expensive it is, she doesn't know, she has never lived. Now this predicament makes her even less courageous to go to the hotel to ask, just when she hesitated, she found a hotel door billboard marked with a price, this look, let her be surprised, the scrolling LCD board on the font does exude charming colorful light, and the price of the special room and even the hourly room can blind her eyes, the price can be worth her salary as a waiter for two or three days. She was stunned! What to do? It's too outrageous to stay in this night, isn't it just a night's sleep in a bed? It can't be eaten or worn, it can't be wasted or stolen, it's so expensive, will you see a god who can fulfill your wish when you sleep?
No, no, no! Tomorrow, if she can't find a suitable job, this accommodation will be enough for her to bear, and she has to find a job tomorrow, no matter if it's tired, the salary is small, as long as there is a job, you can't be picky and go to work first, right! After going to work, I made up my mind, and my blood boiled like drinking chicken blood, and I immediately walked majestically. So what to do now? I can't really sleep on the street, Mi Bobo panicked again, his eyes were red with anxiety, and his steps became hasty, and the majestic momentum just now was instantly polished without a trace. She remembered that the chili fried pork in the restaurant was 28 yuan a piece, but she and her colleagues went to a small restaurant for only 15 yuan. It's like the dormitory in the cafeteria, where there are more than a dozen people in one room, there are many things that girls use and buy, all supplies and sundries are everywhere, and the narrow open space is also piled up into hills, and the girls' makeup residues and hair are difficult to clean up, even if they are cleaned every day, the whole dormitory is still a mess, like the slums of the refugee camp in the movie, but everyone is not a habit of living day after day, so she only needs a bed to sleep.
In the evening, the neon advertisements on both sides of the street are dazzling and dazzling, and the light signs of the accommodation are gradually lit up, and they are swaying in the streets and alleys, along the walls and doors, waiting for the wishers to take the bait. Rice silk and silk dragged boxes and still walked through the four streets and eight streets, constantly looking at the price and inquiring and comparing prices. There is smoke everywhere in the city, and she found that the deeper the small streets and alleys, the more prosperous they are, and the roads are lined with small shops of all kinds of walks of life. It was a far cry from the marble and reinforced concrete buildings of the main avenues, which only made her feel cold and cold. What excites Mi Bobo the most is that she found those uneven size hotels, the uneven in her eyes means that the price is high and low, different prices of course have different configuration grades and comfort levels, this is a hotel specially set up for different levels of consumer groups. These glittering dwellings are one after the other, dwarfing the shops of other trades, and they are the only ones who dominate the night.
Mi Silk finally stopped at the door of a small hostel, negotiated the price, no need to pay the money for the room, the proprietress led her to the third floor, room 303 room was full of people, the proprietress pointed to the only upper bunk and told her that it was her bed, and after briefly explaining some matters, she turned around and went downstairs to continue to solicit guests. In this way, Mi Silk rented a bed for 15 yuan a night, which is different from the upper bed at the price of getting out of bed. Through the dim light of the room, she looked at the rectangular room, where there were exactly four bunk beds on either side of the narrow aisle, and the beds were all turquoise bedding, and she counted them, and the small room with the full 16 people she could accommodate, a space twice as small as her dormitory, which was more than a third more than the dormitory. It is hard to imagine whether the city has changed the course of human development, or whether human beings have controlled the future direction of the city. The tenants in the room looked about the same age as her, about twenty years old, some even under twenty, and they lay in bed and whispered. In the center of the ceiling hangs an electric ceiling fan, which looks old, and the three fan blades are mechanically rotating and making a piercing "clang" sound, as if asking who will accompany it through the last moments of the wind and candle.
Mi Silk Silk has walked too much today, she has long been tired and tired, and she can't care about anything else, so she hurriedly opened the bulky box and squirmed to find toiletries and change clothes, she stuffed the clothes into a supermarket plastic bag, opened the door, and found the girls' shower with a logo at the end of the corridor in the direction pointed out to her by the proprietress. There is a sink for washing on the right side of the wall in the bathing room, and there is a pipe above the sink, and there is a faucet every fifty centimeters of the pipe, and there are eight faucets, three of which are currently being used to rinse their mouths. The bathroom on the left against the wall is more like a simple public toilet, there is no baffle outside and no roof on the top, Mi Bobo saw two sleek young girls rubbing their white bodies as if no one was around, she felt that it was very presumptuous to stare at others without permission, she was embarrassed to turn around and approach the sink, unscrewed the faucet and quickly rinsed her dusty face that had suffered from the day. Thinking that it was the first time she went to this kind of public bathroom, when she saw many naked girls walking around naked after entering the door, she immediately screamed in shock, and the clothes in her hands, buckets, and basins crackled and fell to the ground, which stunned all the girls in the bathroom, and many people were frightened by her sudden screams. After that, every time she took a bath, as long as someone passed by her area, her pig-like shouts could be heard, and she became the "weirdo" referred to by female colleagues for a while.
After washing, Mi Silk Silk carried the bag of clothes and ran into the innermost room with her head down, took off her clothes and pants vigilantly, and quickly rinsed up, although she has seen all kinds of flesh and now she is still shy, and she is still shy of others' peeping at her. Mi Silk Silk was too tired and tired, and quickly washed up and prepared to go back to the room to sleep, but it happened that the stomach was rumbling at this time and there was a famine, what should I do? She didn't bother to eat just thinking about finding a place to live, and she ate a roasted sweet potato for dinner, hey! Bear with me, whatever! Tomorrow morning, she has a heart. When the innkeeper told her that the upper bunk was a few dollars cheaper than the lower bunk, she returned to the proprietress without thinking.
"Okay! Let's go to the top bunk! I just like to sleep on the top bunk! ”
In fact, her subtext at that time was that she could save a few dollars or a few dollars, so why don't you just get some sleep! Tomorrow the breakfast money will not come out again.
After Mi Bao Bao returned to the room, several people who went to bed had already fallen asleep, accompanied by their dreams and a small snoring sound, only the two girls in the lower bunk diagonally opposite were still whispering, and the girl in her lower bunk was still chatting with her family with great interest, although the girl spoke softly, Mi Silk still heard clearly. This girl is a very beautiful type at first glance, the most eye-catching thing is the girl's round and bright eyes, flashing with spirituality and playful light, I saw her leaning on the side of the bed with one hand inadvertently rubbing her soft and shiny hair, and the other hand clasped the phone over her ear, as if reporting to her family, and finally she said,
"Well, I'm going to sleep, and I'm going to get up early tomorrow to go to work! Okay, then bye-bye! ”
Why does she stay in a hostel when she has a job? Mi Bobo was surprised by her last conversation, and suddenly remembered the phone call that she didn't give back to her mother yesterday, and that kind of accident happened last night, coupled with today's day's running, she completely forgot about it, so she quickly dialed the familiar number. On the other end of the phone, the mother's concerned and beautiful voice floated in, somehow, after Mi Bobo called "Mom", tears burst out of her eyes in an instant, maybe because of the grievances suffered last night, maybe it was the whole day of running alone, she never thought that these experiences would happen to her, in short, she was very sad. And this also tells her a truth, let her know that no matter how insignificant she is in society, she will always be the pearl of her mother's heart and soul at home. She was worried that her mother would hear her cry, thinking that her mother would say to her, "I'm almost twenty years old, and I'm still crying and ashamed!" But the tears still flowed uncontrollably, and she couldn't help but sob softly. The mother's voice on the other end of the phone came again, in order not to make her mother suspicious, Mi Bobo lied that she was afraid of waking up her dormitory colleagues to sleep, so she hurriedly hung up the phone, and then sat on the bed gloomy.
"What, you're homesick, aren't you?" The girl on the lower bunk stretched out her head and asked Mi Bobo, and then handed her a tissue.
Mi Bobo sobbed sadly, trembling from crying, unable to answer at all, so he let out a "Hmmm! She responded to the girl's kindness, and when she noticed that the girl was still staring at her, she hurriedly blocked her slightly swollen eyes from crying.
"My name is Li Qing'er, what about you?" The girl generously introduced herself. Li Qing'er has been in City A for three years, and she just turned 20 last week, and she leaned on the edge of the bed with her hands to listen to the chatter of rice and silk about the stories of the past few days. Li Qing'er's big eyes flickered under the long eyelashes, and her natural and delicate face was extraordinarily brilliant without powder, and the whole person looked pure and smart. After counting her tragic experience, Li Qing'er smiled after listening to it.
"What's this, something more outrageous you haven't encountered yet, did you hear me talking on the phone just now?"
Mi Bobo shook his head blankly, but then asked about the doubts he had just now.
"Do you have a job and live here? How...... Is it because there is no dormitory where I work? ”
"I quit my job for two months, but don't ask me why I quit." Li Qing'er crossed her hands to forbid her to speak, and then said, "I've been staying here for a week!" ”
Mi Silk was in a daze and didn't come back to her senses, so she still looked at Li Qing'er steadily.
"Actually, I'm just as unemployed as you now, but I can't let my parents worry about it! I had to pretend that I was fine, report my safety to my family every few days, and talk to them about all kinds of gossip about 'going to work', you just treat me as a white lie, understand? Li Qing'er continued to explain.
"Oh, I see!" Mi Silk suddenly realized.
Li Qing'er did not forget to comfort her.
"Don't worry, let's go find a job together tomorrow, and we won't be restaurant waiters anymore, okay?"
Mi Bobo smiled happily, her eyes flashed and stared at Li Qing'er and said, "Okay, good!" It's great to have you with you, or do you have a way to not be like me......"
She was about to admire Li Qing'er, when an extremely impatient sentence came out of the room, "Don't let people sleep!" It's noisy! ”