Because it was evening, the city was already lit up, and the endless sea of lights stretched from the foot of the mountain to the distant land.

As far as the eye can see, the whole city is full of lights, cars, trucks, pedestrians, endless streams, a lively and bustling metropolis scene.

It took me twenty minutes to walk down the mountain path, tossing and turning, and finally walked into the city.

Lianhai City is located on the coast of the Yellow and Bohai Seas, backed by the hinterland of Northeast China, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side.

Because of the excellent climate, no severe cold in winter and no scorching heat in summer, this city is known as the "famous capital of the north" and "romantic sea city", and is the window of the northeast opening to the outside world and the largest port city.

I took Jin Ling's little hand and walked on the wide road, my eyes kept looking around, and my heart was both excited and bumpy.

I saw that there are teahouses, clothing stores, restaurants, and many small vendors with big umbrellas shouting and selling goods on both sides of the street, and there are even more people on the street, pedestrians are wearing colorful clothes, young men and women are walking on the street in groups of three, talking and laughing, and it is very lively.

This is the first time I have come to the city since I was a child, and I feel that everything is quite strange, and I am dazzled for a while, and I feel like a kind of dirt bun entering the city.

Moreover, my appearance is swarthy, I don't look outstanding, and the clothes I wear are old-fashioned, and I stand in the middle of the street like a fool, which inevitably attracts many people to point fingers at me and judge me.

I didn't care about the eyes of pedestrians, I still looked at everything in front of me, I used to only hear the people in the village mention how prosperous the city is, how beautiful the clothes in the city people are, how delicious the food in the city is, how beautiful the girls are, today I saw it with my own eyes, and it really deserves its name.

Let's talk about the girls in the city, all of them have slender thighs, fair skin, and the clothes they wear are foreign, keeping up with the trend of the times, and picking out any one is more beautiful than the village flower in our village, and the eyes are almost straight for a while.

But seeing that the sky is almost dark, I can't care about looking at all kinds of beauties on the street, so I quickly took Jin Ling's hand and walked to the city, I have no place to live here when I first arrived, and what I need to do now is to contact Wang Zhi as soon as possible, and let him find me a place to settle down.

When I found a newsstand on the side of the street, I took out five cents from my pocket and handed it to the old man who was guarding the newsstand, then took out the note that Wang Zhi had left for me, pressed the number, and called him.

"Toot"

"Toot"

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The phone rang for most of the day, but no one answered, I thought it was the wrong number, so I had to hang up the phone, and dialed again on the number.

However, it was still the same, I tried several times and no one answered, and finally I had no choice but to hang up the phone and leave the newsstand with Jin Ling with a disappointed face.

Walking on the road, I turned my trouser pocket upside down, and finally only turned out the dry 5 yuan, looking at the only 5 yuan left in my hand, I couldn't help but feel bitter in my heart.

Because I have been patronizing and running away these days, I forgot to bring money when I left, you know, after the old man died, he left me a lot of family property, which cannot be said to be enough for me to spend a lifetime, but it is no problem to spend ten or eight years.

But I forgot to take it because of the gang of Captain Zheng and Sun Ergou, but then again, with the emergency situation at that time, even if I returned to the Taoist Temple to get the money, it was too late, and it was already a blessing to be able to escape.

For a while, I had the urge to cry, as the saying goes, a penny is hard to beat a hero, if you don't have some money in your pocket these days, you can't eat anywhere.

And I can't contact Wang Zhi now, I don't know the place well, how to mix in Lianhai City in the future, I don't have money, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up with the heat in the northwest wind in my future life.

In the end, I had to spend 2 yuan to buy a few meat buns, fill my stomach first, and then I took the remaining 3 yuan back into my pocket as a treasure.

After eating, Jin Ling and I wandered aimlessly through the streets, and it was already past ten o'clock in the evening, and the pedestrians on the road were becoming scarce.

When I was tired of walking, I had no choice but to sleep in a park with Jin Ling.

I lay on a chair in the park and looked at the starry sky, thinking about the way out, while Jin Ling sat quietly next to me, and stood there motionless.

Sleepless.

Early the next morning, I went to the newsstand again and dialed Wang Zhi's phone, but unfortunately no one answered.

I couldn't help muttering in my heart, I don't know if Wang Zhi is too busy to answer the phone, or if the phone number he gave me is wrong, otherwise how could no one answer if I called him three times and several times.

I knew that I couldn't count on him if I wanted to gain a foothold in Lianhai City, so I simply didn't bother to call him again, and I was forced to make a bold move in order to fill my stomach for a living.

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The overpass, with a large flow of people, is often a mixed place, and it is also a place for those of us who walk the rivers and lakes to "leave the ground".

The so-called "abandoning the ground" is to draw a circle on the ground, as a performance field, also called "painting a pot" in the jargon, the pot is for cooking, drawing a pot, there is a field, we people have a bowl of rice to eat.

After Jin Ling and I came to the overpass, we drew black circles on the ground with charcoal, and then wrote: "Fortune telling, fortune telling, choose yin and yang two houses" and other big characters.

After writing, I crossed my legs on the ground and waited for the customer to come to the door.

I am extremely bold in this move, you must know that now is the time when the limelight is tight, the Red Guards are busy fighting bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods, and I am openly setting up a stall on the flyover, which is almost no different from committing a crime against the wind.

But this is also a helpless thing, I am now poor and can't even eat, I have no place to live, life is forced, there is a serious lack of money, I have to make this decision.

If I don't go back to my old job and get a vote, I may really starve to death on the streets.

In addition to me, there are many people with stalls on the flyover, but all of them sell groceries, and there is no fortune telling stall at all, so I am the only one.

For most of the day, no customer came to my door, but during this time, I came to the opposite side of the floor with a colleague who left the floor.

Seeing that someone came to the door to steal business, I couldn't help but look at him a few more times with hostile eyes.

This man was a fat old man about 6o years old, with a red face, a black and white head, a pair of old-fashioned glasses, and a clean gray tunic.

And his booth is much more elaborate than mine, a small table and a folding chair, and a pair of white cloth flags with "clever calculations, guidance, innate gossip, and good fortune" in front of the stall.