Chapter 88: A Trip to the Provincial City (2)
I got off the train and followed the flow of people to the main square of the train station.
At this time, it was still early, and when a few people got off the bus, they specially asked the flight attendant to know that it was only 3:45 p.m. at this time. The sun was still bright outside, and it was still a long time before it got dark.
"Mom and Dad, where are we going now?" Following the flow of people out of the provincial railway station, looking at the bustling crowd around him, Ji Zhanpeng held Cao Fengnian's hand tightly, and couldn't help but turn his head and ask Ji Kuan and Chang Fengying.
Where to go?
Ji Kuan and Chang Fengying watched the men, women, old people and children who kept passing past their family left and right, gradually blending into the crowd, and also disappeared into the crowd, their eyes flashed with confusion.
However, the trace of confusion between the two quickly disappeared in the expectant gazes of Ji Zhanpeng, Ji Aizhen, and Ji Beibei.
The two glanced at each other, pondered for a moment, and Ji Kuan said: "We have to find a place where you can live without a certificate, otherwise let's find a few more guest houses and ask?" ”
"That is, after all, there are more good people and few bad people in this world. Maybe we'll be lucky enough to meet someone with kindness? Chang Fengying echoed.
...... "Well, that's the only way to try it first."
Ji Zhanpeng, Ji Aizhen, and Ji Beibei also glanced at each other, and they all nodded silently.
......
"Alas, it seems that there are not many bad people in this world, and neither are especially well-meaning people."
Sitting on a strange, unknown street corner with few people, Chang Fengying sighed helplessly. In just an hour or two after arriving in the provincial capital, she felt that her family had received more rejections than in previous decades.
In the past two hours, they walked through five or six guest houses, large and small. However, I did not meet the greedy man I met in the city before and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to blackmail my family, nor did I meet the big truck driver who was as enthusiastic as the big truck driver before to help me.
This time, probably because there were many people during the day, even if they took out the dried mushrooms and dried meat they brought, and automatically promised to give more money, no one would let go and agree to open a room for their family.
Tired, so tired.
This tiredness is not physical, but mental.
Although they came out this time with a large bag and a small bag to walk around the streets, but because there was a small cart. In addition, I rested well on the train during the day, and even though I walked a lot, I still didn't feel tired physically.
I am tired because I have been rejected repeatedly, and I feel very tired mentally.
"What now?" Chang Fengying glanced at Ji Kuan, who was also at a loss, and could only look at Ji Aizhen and Ji Beibei, wanting to hear their opinions, "Do you have any good ideas?" ”
"It would be nice if there were people we knew in this provincial city, but if it doesn't work, we can still go to the door to spend the night." Ji Beibei seemed to muttered unintentionally.
"How can there be such a good thing? We have to stay in the provincial capital for ten days and half a month, even if we know people, we can't really live in other people's homes for so long, so how troublesome is it? ”
Ji Aizhen couldn't help but want to laugh: "What's more, there are so many of us, it's good to ask someone to help us borrow someone's empty house to live in for a few days." ”
"Well, that's a good idea, sister." Seeing that he didn't need to guide Ji Aizhen more to say this, Ji Beibei only felt that it was too much to his heart, so he immediately shouted and cheered.
"What did I come up with?" Ji Aizhen was stunned, looked at Ji Beibei with a confused face and asked.
"yes, what's her idea, big girl? Why didn't I hear it? ”
"I'm a little confused, too."
"Second sister, what did you listen to the eldest sister say?"
Ji Beibei's words called Ji Kuan, Chang Fengying, and Ji Zhanpeng also looked at Ji Beibei with a confused expression, but there was a cluster of hope in their eyes.
"Sister, didn't she say that she wanted to borrow someone else's house to live in?" Ji Beibei also looked at everyone with a confused expression, "I think this idea is very good, don't you think?" ”
"Ahhh
Everyone sighed in unison, and there was a deep disappointment in their voices, and a frustration that seemed to have lost the last bit of hope.
"That's a good idea, why do you all look like this?"
Ji Beibei also sighed heavily, she mentioned it all, why didn't anyone understand what she meant, remembering that they still had a way out of renting a house?
"What's good?" Ji Aizhen looked at Ji Beibei weakly, "The reality is that we don't know anyone in the provincial capital. Tell me, who would lend us a house for no reason? ”
"For nothing?" Ji Kuan's mouth read four words, and then his eyes suddenly lit up, "Then what if it's for no reason?" ”
"Isn't it for nothing? You mean we give money? ”
Chang Fengying also reacted. Her eyes lit up, but soon she shook her head again, "But we don't know each other." ”
She said distressedly: "You can't just pull someone over for no reason and ask if your family has a vacant house to lend us, or go door to door and knock on the door to ask, right?" ”
"How can it be for no reason, didn't we bring something?" Knowing what to do next, Ji Kuan's heart has already settled.
He smiled confidently: "We can't ask people on the street or knock on doors door-to-door when we sell things?" Isn't it normal to ask more questions when the time comes? Who says you have to have acquaintances? ”
"Can it still be like this?" Ji Aizhen's eyes began to become clearer, and her face was thoughtful.
"yes, oops, why didn't I think of that?" Chang Fengying slapped her thigh and looked at Ji Kuan with a smile, "I didn't expect that in the two of us, your brain turned faster." ”
"Hehe, I have to lose the reminder of the big girl and Beibei. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come up with this idea so quickly. Ji Kuan smiled.
Since getting on the train, Ji Zhanpeng, who was afraid that he would lose Cao Fengnian and never find it again, never forgot to hold his hand, even if he was sitting at this time.
Hearing this, he shook the hand he was holding with Cao Fengnian, and said happily: "Then tonight, don't we need to sleep under the bridge hole?" ”
This sleeping bridge cave is when she couldn't find a guest house to stay in before, Chang Fengying sighed. She would say this because when the village was slack, many people in the village secretly went out to find work to do, and many of them did it.
Most of the people in the village go out in groups, and some people feel that sleeping in the bridge hole is a shameful thing and will keep silent, but some people don't think so, but feel that this is a proof that they can bear hardships and stand hard work......
So it's not a secret, even Ji Zhanpeng knows what it's like to sleep in a bridge cave, it's really freezing in winter, it's unbearable, only shivering; It's okay in summer, it's cool to sleep in the bridge hole, but I can't stand being bitten by mosquitoes.
The taste in it just sounds so sour.