XXXII. Shadows
"Sister Qin Feng, take care!"
On the street, Zhiyuan carried a guitar and walked alone.
It was a beautiful encounter, it was an unexpected surprise.
To a certain extent, Zhiyuan is very similar to Qin Feng, he loves music and does what he wants.
They're very close to each other.
However, the world is divided and merged, and there is no banquet in the world, and no matter how beautiful the encounter is, there will always be a time to part.
Zhiyuan didn't have too much sadness in his heart, he believed that they would meet again.
In many cases, it is not necessary to follow each other closely, but often to be together. As long as you remember the most beautiful moment in your heart, the moment is eternal.
The moonlight was fine tonight.
Under the moonlight, Zhiyuan continued to Beijing Station.
For some reason, he always felt that although the moon was round tonight, it was not as bright as his hometown, and he always felt that there was a layer of gray shadows covering him.
Walking along the street, Zhiyuan passed by a cigarette shop, and he stopped.
Involuntarily, he suddenly felt that he needed a pack of cigarettes.
Some people say that when you are alone, cigarettes are a good medicine for boredom.
"Boss, come pack cigarettes!" Without hesitation, Zhiyuan walked in front of the cigarette hotel.
"What smoke?" The boss asked.
"This ......" thought for a moment, "a pack of cloud smoke!" ”
"There are many kinds of clouds!" The boss said indifferently.
"Which is cheaper?" Zhiyuan asked.
"This kind!" The boss took out a pack of cigarettes from the counter and threw it in front of Zhiyuan, "These ten yuan!" ”
"Get another lighter, thanks!"
Zhiyuan paid, turned his head, took out a cigarette, and lit it.
"Ahem, ahem!" As soon as he took a few puffs, Zhiyuan couldn't help coughing.
"Smoke, that's not how you smoke!" Just then, a familiar voice came.
Zhiyuan looked sideways and couldn't help but be stunned.
"Brother Lin?" Zhiyuan was surprised.
Isn't this the young man on the train, with him in a sleeper car?
When he was about to arrive in Shijiazhuang, before dawn, Zhiyuan picked up the guitar and played a song as he liked.
Before leaving, he greeted himself.
Unexpectedly, we met here again.
"Little brother, I didn't expect to meet again, what are you doing at Beijing Station?" Lin Qing said, casually on the side of the street, sat down, "If you want to learn to smoke, I'll teach you!" ”
"Really?" Zhiyuan took out a cigarette and handed it to Lin Qing.
"This ......" Lin Qing lit the cigarette and took a deep breath, "You have to inhale it and spit it out!" ”
Seeing smoke coming out of Lin Qing's mouth and nose, Zhiyuan frowned.
He took a deep breath, then coughed again.
"You take a small bite, ...... like this," Lin Qing said.
Slowly, after smoking a cigarette, Zhiyuan stopped coughing, and even found it interesting.
"Brother Lin, why are you here?" Zhiyuan asked.
"Part-time job, what else can you do here?" Lin Qing said casually, "It's like you, a child of a rich family, and talented, with a guitar on your back, you can go wherever you want!" ”
"Rich kids?" Zhiyuan smiled bitterly.
If she really had money, why would Grandma be sick in bed, but she didn't have the money for treatment.
I heard Sister Qin say that my grandmother has cancer, and there is a bag on her lower abdomen, which grows bigger and bigger, she said, it is a tumor, and it can't be cured!
Zhiyuan didn't know much about this, but he knew that if the family had money, maybe he would be sent to the hospital sooner, and his grandmother would be fine.
In fact, at that time, he didn't blame the old man, for the sake of his grandmother, the old man sold his family's land, and even a mountain forest.
But it's still not enough, it can't cure grandma's disease.
He runs around for his grandmother's affairs, so his father is often not by his grandmother's side.
After my grandmother left, my father was addicted to gambling and almost lost the whole family, so he went to Anseong.
Since then, only the old man has laid down a piece of the world with his fists in Anseong.
The old man is rich, but Grandma is gone and will never come back.
After the age of seven, Zhiyuan never reached out to his father again to ask for a penny.
He felt that the money was not clean.
Not long ago, he went to Ancheng to prepare for the college entrance examination, and Sister Qin came to pick him up.
Finally, the old man said something to him, and he said that sometimes, a dime, can bend the waist of a hero.
Zhiyuan understood, but did not agree.
When his grandmother died, he could only go away, and he had a deep grudge against his father.
It wasn't so much an escape, but rather that he didn't want to see that person.
He was afraid of getting into a fight with his father.
In any case, it was his biological father, and it was disrespectful to do it with his father.
Although, he hates him!
"Little brother, what do you want?" Lin Qing stood up and disrupted Zhiyuan's thoughts.
"Nothing!" Involuntarily, Zhiyuan took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a deep breath.
At this moment, he finally understood why everyone knew that smoking was bad for their health and still smoked.
This, smoking, is not smoking, smoking, just to burn troubles.
"Little brother, I don't know where you're going!" Lin Qing continued to ask.
"Northeast, tomorrow morning at nine o'clock in the car!" Zhiyuan said lightly.
"What?" Lin Qing was stunned.
"How?" Zhiyuan raised his eyebrows.
"Look!" Lin Qing took out a stack of tickets from his pocket, "I also went to the Northeast, Jilin City, Jilin Province, I took a group of brothers to go there to support the mold!" ”
"Molds? What is a formwork? Zhiyuan asked, took out a train ticket from his pocket, and glanced at it, he turned out to be on the same train as the person in front of him, and it was also a sleeper in a carriage.
"It's to work on the construction site, I'm barely a small package foreman, take a job, those high-rise buildings, you see, are made of reinforced concrete, those columns, we must first fix a column model, reinforce, and then tie the tendons, and then pour the concrete into it, the previous process, is the work of our carpenters!"
"How is the salary calculated?" Zhiyuan's eyes lit up and asked.
He has nothing to do, and he has a job that allows him to forget his troubles.
"Thirty-one days!" Lin Qing said, "However, looking at your appearance, you can't do it, our brothers, in fact, there are a few as big as you, but none of them are as Sven as you, they can endure hardship!" ”
"I'm Sven? Ha ha! Zhiyuan laughed out loud.
"Brother Lin, stretch out your hand!" Zhiyuan said.
"What are you going to do?" Lin Qing didn't know why, but he still stretched out his hand.
"I'm sorry!"
As soon as the words fell, Zhiyuan stretched out his hand and pinched Lin Qing's wrist.
Then, a miserable scream came, and Lin Qing bent down.
"I've tried too hard, Brother Lin, I'm sorry!"
Zhiyuan said, "I'm not the kind of rich kid you imagined, weak boy, I can endure hardships, even if it's only thirty-one days, I did it!" ”
"Thirty-one days is too little?" Lin Qing glanced at Zhiyuan strangely, "Do you know that in our hometown in Guizhou, generally speaking, the salary is only about three hundred yuan a month, otherwise, who do you think would want to travel so far to work?" It's still the turn of the millennium, and wages have gone up! ”
"Really?" Zhiyuan muttered.
He has never had a concept of money.
Even in the years when he was learning the piano in Ancheng, he rarely went out, most of the time, he lived in Chen Xiaofang's house, ate there, lived there, and he didn't know much about consumption.
Even, the clothes he wore were woven and made for him every day by his grandmother when she was alive.
He didn't know at the time, why his grandmother was like this, he made several sets of clothes for him every year old, and until now, he can't finish wearing them.
Later, he knew, it turned out that Grandma knew that she would die soon, she knew the old man too well, and she was afraid that she would have no one to take care of her, so even the clothes he grew up in were bought for him.
What a good intention.
Aside from the Martin guitar on his body, he rarely consumes it in Anseong.
Even, the watch he carried in his hand was only known to him after listening to the old man say that it would cost hundreds of thousands.
"Not good!" Zhiyuan thought of a terrible thing.
Chen Xiaofang!
Grandma is gone, she bought him so many clothes, Chen Xiaofang loves him very much, he knows it, but not yet, suddenly, give her body to himself, suddenly, buy a watch worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for him, and even secretly give him tens of thousands of yuan.
This doesn't make sense.
Zhiyuan's psychology is clouded, like the moon in the sky.
Thinking of this, Zhiyuan ran to the smoke hotel, because, there, there was a row of public telephones.
"A short distance of five cents, a long distance of eight cents!" The boss said leisurely.
Zhiyuan ignored him and dialed a landline number.
"Who!" Half an hour later, on the phone, a nice voice came, it wasn't Chen Xiaofang, who else?
"Sister Xiaofang, it's me!" Zhiyuan said in a deep voice.
"Ah, Xiaoyuan, have you arrived in Beijing?" Chen Xiaofang said in surprise.
"Sister, you...... Pretty good! Zhiyuan asked again.
"I'm fine!" On the phone, Chen Xiaofang's tone was inexplicable, "Xiaoyuan, what's wrong?" Are you in Beijing and don't fit in? Or is something wrong? ”
"I'm fine!" Volunteer said, "Sister, why did you give me such a watch, that's ......"
"Sister feels sorry for you!" On the other end of the phone, Chen Xiaofangjiao laughed, "You have grown up, there should be a watch, there is a watch, you know the time, you know the time, you know the east, west, north and south, in this way, you will always remember that your hatred, in Qianzhong, you have roots, no matter where you go to the ends of the earth, you can flourish!" ”
"But, it's so expensive!" Zhiyuan's heart is still faintly uneasy.
"Hmph, my family is far away, naturally I can't be underestimated, wherever I go, I have to be decent!" Chen Xiaofang said, "Don't worry, I'm fine at home, it's okay!" You have to remember my words, no matter where you go, you have to hold your head high, a good man, since you have decided, you won't have so many scruples, you have to move forward! ”
"I see!" Zhiyuan's heart slowly relaxed.
"Then I'll hang up, I still have piano lessons in the evening, I'm out alone, pay attention to safety!" Chen Xiaofang said.
"You pay attention to your body!" Zhiyuan hung up the phone, raised his head, and looked into the distance.
She's right, since it's decided, what's the hesitation?
After paying for the phone, Zhiyuan came to the door and glanced at Lin Qing, who was stunned.
"I'll go with you to support the mold, do you still want someone?"
"Yes!" Lin Qing said in surprise, "Little brother, are you willing to follow me to the construction site?" ”
"What's not to do?" Zhiyuan chuckled.
"Haha! Okay, I'll take you to meet my carpentry brothers! ”
The moon in the sky was round, but it was still the same, as if it was obscured by a layer of shadows.
Together, the two walked to a hotel, and their shadows, in the moonlight, grew longer and longer.
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