Chapter 9: On the Road
Liu Dongfeng heard that his sister tore up the admission letter, and he was stunned on the spot, and Mianmian took the opportunity to take back his suitcase.
At this time, there has begun to be a faint light on the horizon, and the early risers have come out to work one after another, and Mianmian is very anxious in her heart, afraid that she will not be able to catch up with the car that has only one shift on this day.
In the misty morning light, Liu Dongfeng, who was arguing with his sister, suddenly felt as if he had pressed a thousand catties of boulders in his heart, and the morning breeze was cool, but he felt out of breath, and the man's tears flowed uncontrollably.
My sister, who has never walked out of Cloud City, actually tore up the notice she had worked hard for 3 years and dreamed of getting in order to let herself study with peace of mind!
"Dongfeng, when I stabilize my foothold in City B, I will go to your school to find you, I went to City B to work for myself, I want to see what the big city is like? You...... Report to school early. ”
Tears blurred Dongfeng's eyes, sacrificing for herself and her family, in order to comfort herself, her sister also said that she was only for herself.
Liu Dongfeng especially wanted to hug his sister at the moment, but the countrymen expressed their emotions more reservedly, and endured the reluctance and guilt of his sister, he said: "You must let your classmates pick you up at the station, City B is so big, I'm afraid you won't find a place when the time comes." ”
Hearing her brother say this, Liu Mianmian knew that she had persuaded him, she smiled, kicked the box next to her leg and said, "Help me carry the box, hurry up, I won't be able to catch the car for a while." ”
The air was humid, the dew was heavy, and both siblings were wet with the corners of their trousers.
At this moment, Mianmian's heart actually had ardent expectations and excitement about his imminent departure, and the depression and confusion of last night dissipated a lot.
When I arrived at the bus boarding point, there were already a lot of people sitting on it.
Liu Dongfeng put the suitcase in the luggage compartment of the car, Mianmian stood beside the car and said: "Dongfeng, go back, tell our mother, let her return the 1,000 yuan to others, I will send it to her after I earn the money, I left a letter, on the table in my house." ”
At the urging of the conductor, Mianmian got on the bus, waved at his younger brother and wanted to say something more, but felt his throat tight. I was afraid that as soon as I spoke, I would expose my reluctance and cowardice, until the car began to move, and Mianmian didn't look out the window again.
She's afraid! I am afraid that I will not be able to give up my brother and parents, and I will not have the courage to leave;
Afraid that the road ahead was vast and unknown, he turned around and ran back to the poor home that could shelter from the wind and rain.
When the car arrived at the long-distance station in Yuncheng, it was only more than six o'clock, and there was a bus to City B at seven o'clock.
Mianmian went to the ticket office to buy a ticket, and bought a bucket of instant noodles and a bottle of mineral water at the supermarket near the station. I opened my diary and found Elaine's phone number and called her from a public phone.
Hearing that it was Mianmian, Ai Lian became excited: "Huh! Mianmian is coming to City B, today? Okay, I'll tell you how to take the car, you take notes, you should go to the Lotus Pond long-distance bus station, you get off the bus and take bus No. 52 to the princess's grave, yes, the grave of the grave, and then take Metro Line 1, sit down to the end. Take a taxi to Baijialou, Jiajiafu Supermarket, I work in the supermarket, you really can't find a place, just call me. ”
Ai Lian said the address in detail, and Liu Mianmian also remembered it very clearly, afraid that she would not find a place when there was any omission.
After hanging up the phone, Liu Mianmian sat in the waiting hall waiting for the notice of getting on the bus, and her thoughts drifted to the days when she was with Ailian.
Since Elaine and her husband went to work in City B, she has sent letters to Mianmian every now and then, telling her about the joys, sorrows and sorrows in her life. Every year when they come back for the Spring Festival, as long as they have a holiday, the two of them will definitely get together to play for a day.
Mianmian likes Ai Lian very much, in the three years of junior high school, Mianmian, who is not too gregarious, has always been inseparable from Ai Lian, and the two eat together, go to class together, and even go to the toilet together.
The two of them also love to read, love to listen to songs, and have the same straightforward temper. It's just that Mianmian shows off a little inside, and Elaine is a little rougher.
Elaine is a person who can slap a boy for Mianmian, and Mianmian has also been kicked because of Ailian's fight with others.
In short, the friendship between the two is better than that of sisters, and after graduating from junior high school, Elaine worked as a farmer at home. Maybe it's because Elaine is beautiful, and she finally found a good mother-in-law.
Married to Huangzhuang, three kilometers away, last year, it is said that her husband was still a classmate of the same school as them at that time, but Mianmian has never seen her.
Elaine told Mianmian about what she had seen and heard about following her husband to City B, where her husband and her husband were doing some small waterproof work, and she herself worked in a small supermarket near her home.
She asked Mianmian to go to City B to find her when she had time, and she wanted to take Mianmian to climb the Great Wall and visit the Forbidden City. Her husband had taken her to both places, and she thought it was good, so she wanted to take Mianmian with her.
Mianmian felt that the bus began to move, and the small city where she had studied high school for three years slowly retreated in the bright morning light, perhaps she was tired from a sleepless night, she actually closed her eyelids a little heavily, and fell asleep against the window.
With the sudden braking, Mianmian woke up and looked at the table below, it was already more than 11 o'clock.
The passengers on the bus began to get off one after another, and the conductor stood in front of the station and shouted: "Get off the bus, get off, no one is allowed on the bus." Before arriving in City B, I entered this service station, and when I went in, I should eat and eat, and if I wanted to go to the toilet, I should go quickly. ”
Mianmian took the bucket noodles she bought before and followed others out of the car, and when she got out of the car, she saw that the parking lot was already full of cars, and she carefully wrote down the license plate of the car she was riding, for fear that she would get on the wrong car for a while.
There were a lot of people at the service station, and Mianmian saw a shed with the words "dining area" and walked along the crowd.
Seeing that many people were queuing up to receive hot water instant noodles, she also tore open her bucket of noodles and prepared to soak them, she hadn't eaten since last night, and her stomach began to protest at the moment.
A middle-aged woman with dyed yellow hair and kicking slippers came over and said to Mianmian menacingly: "Instant noodles are not bought in our station, so you can't eat them in the station." ”
Mianmian was puzzled and asked, "Why?" ”
"Why? Why? Let's build a service station so that you can eat and drink here, and you will not consume with us at all, and we will not lose our death? The middle-aged woman pulled her throat and shouted, "Those who don't have our supermarket receipts are not allowed to receive hot water." ”
Being yelled at by her like this, Mianmian felt that her face was like a fire, and she couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into.
A young man in a big flower T-shirt in front of her turned around and said to her nonchalantly, "Hey, don't pay attention to her, you're just going to be blind." It's time to pick you up. ”
Mianmian remembered that when she got into the car, she saw the man sitting in the back seat of her.
Mianmian said: "Forget it, if people don't let you pick it up, you won't take it, don't make trouble!" ”
"Your first time out of the house, right? Thin-skinned and can't eat, thick-skinned and hungry. You give me the noodles, and I'll pick them up for you. ”
The man snatched the bucket in Mianmian's hand without saying anything. He smiled at her, showing his white teeth, "You just wait on the side." ”