On the afternoon of February 12, 2017, Nie Congcong stepped onto the Beijing No. 387 bus with a large bag of things and sat down with the help of a small male attendant. At that moment, she couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief, like a prisoner who had been imprisoned for a long time suddenly freed, with a sense of relief from the heart.

She lazily leaned back on the seat with her computer bag, the sun shining in and falling on her body, warm, with some spring smell.

She closed her eyes, opened them, closed them again, opened them again, as if she were resting, as if she were looking for something. On the glass of the car window, you can see Nie Congcong's shadow, her short hair is a little longer and longer, her face is a little yellow, a little gray, and her lips without lipstick look haggard.

There were a lot of vehicles outside the window, and the flowing scenery was very prosperous, which did not attract her too much, her eyes only occasionally stayed outside the window, and then inadvertently moved back and fell on her own hands. Her hands were not very beautiful, black and rough, although the fingers were slender, but they were generally thick up and down, her hands were dry because of years of hard work and weakness, and the small diamond ring on the ring finger of her left hand had traces of time.

In order to save money, Nie Congcong bought a hard sleeper on an ordinary train, which takes 15 hours to travel from Xi'an to Beijing. The snoring of the man in the upper and lower bunks, the crying of the child next to her all night, she barely rested. Such a hard and long journey, in the past, Nie Congcong couldn't imagine it at all, but now she thinks it's very good, just get to the destination, what else do you want?

Now, she has finally arrived more than 1,200 kilometers away from home, which is the capital of all Chinese, and for Nie Congcong, it is far away.

There is no contempt from others, no sneer from family, no wreckage from a failed company, and no creditors who call every day.

Here, it's like paradise on earth.

In three years, she has seen all the warmth and coldness of the world and the coolness of human feelings. Finally, it's all gone.

The only thing she has to do now is to work hard and pay off the more than 2 million debts she owes to others one by one. Although the company is limited, for Nie Congcong himself, the responsibility is unlimited. She can't tolerate owing someone a penny in her lifetime. So, she came to Beijing without hesitation with a salute and a note with the address of the rented house.

When you are at the lowest point in your life, it is not too bad to encounter anything, and there can even be some unexpected surprises.

At the end of 2016, Nie Congcong had reached the point of desperation, and a former friend Wang Qin came over on a business trip. In order to help him connect with a relationship, Nie Congcong accompanied him over.

On the way, Wang Qin said to her, Nie Congcong, you have always been a very smart and talented person, I don't know why you have brought yourself to this point. Instead of struggling like this, why don't you leave? Get out of your current environment and start over. You know, it's harder to clean up a mess than to start over! In other words, have you ever thought about going to Beijing to develop? Nie Congcong was stunned for a moment and said I haven't thought about leaving yet. Wang Qin sighed, you think about it, and I'll keep an eye on it for you, okay?

All right? Of course it's good. What could make Nie Congcong happier than ending his current predicament.

Not long after he went back, Wang Qin sent a message to Nie Congcong and said, our company is recruiting, do you want to think about it. Nie Congcong asked about some work content, which was not much different from what he was doing so far, so he wrote a resume without hesitation and sent it to Wang Qin. Although the process was not very smooth, it eventually got what I wanted.

On the eve of the Spring Festival holiday, Wang Qin sent the company's location to Nie Congcong and said to her, you have time to look at the house on the Internet. She searched around, but couldn't find a suitable one. Later, with the help of another friend, I found a house in Anhuixili. The rent of the house is very high, accounting for one-third of Nie Congcong's monthly income, but it is not far from the newly joined company, and it is not far from Liao Feng, who she has always missed, she is still quite content.

She knew that no matter what the starting point was, this time, she was both fleeing and running, and there was no way back.

Nie Congcong was thinking about it when she heard the bus stop and the next stop was Anhui Bridge North, and the comrades who got off the bus asked to get off at the front and rear doors, she quickly got up from the seat and walked towards the front door of the car with her two big bags and a small bag. The bus stop in Beijing is very large, and if it is late, it is very troublesome.

Nie Congcong got off the bus, stood in front of the bus stop sign and opened the Tencent map on the mobile phone for destination navigation. Even though it was the first time to visit, the address given by the landlord was very detailed, so it didn't take much effort to find a neighborhood to live in.

The community is not very large, as soon as you enter the door, two rows of four garbage cans appear in front of you not far away. She walked and asked to the bottom of the 8th building, the corridor was more dilapidated than the outside, Nie Congcong became more and more depressed, when she arrived at the door of the rented house on the 16th floor, the landlord had not yet arrived. She looked around, the white walls had turned gray, and there were eight houses on each floor, and the doors of each house were very close, and if you pushed the doors open at the same time, everyone could touch each other, which was completely different from what the landlord told her.

20 minutes later, the landlord came and it was a very young girl, combed in a ponytail, jumping and jumping. Everyone looked at each other, and both sides introduced themselves, and they were quite satisfied.

The landlord opened the door, and the house was empty, with wooden floors, an old wood-grained wardrobe, curtains on the windows, dusty, like it hadn't been washed for a long time. The large double bed was facing the door, and there was a round hole in the wall of the balcony, and the landlord was chattering about the previous tenant who had punched a hole in the house without prior notice. The kitchen is new and barely used.

As he spoke, the sky slowly darkened. The landlord said, "Look at what is still missing in the house, I will make up for it for you in the next two days." Nie Congcong said, a table where you can eat and a washing machine. The landlord said, okay, this is no problem, I will go to the market in the east tomorrow to buy it for you, do you mind if it is second-hand?

Second-hand? Nie Congcong was stunned for a moment, and immediately said, don't mind, don't mind, it's done. How did you come here for the first time, don't ask for the best, as long as you can use it, you can change it slowly when you have money in the future. Seeing her promise, the landlord was also very happy to say, if you don't have a place to live at night, you can make up here first, I will go back to prepare the contract, come over tomorrow, we will sign the contract, pay the rent, you can live here with peace of mind. Beijing is a very nice city, and you are welcome to come.

After the landlord left, Nie Congcong walked to the window and looked out, and in the distance were high and low houses, which looked cold in the night. She closed the curtains and prepared to clean up the bed, only to realize that there was no mattress on the bed, nor was there any bedding she had brought with her, and she didn't know where to buy it for a while. Simply opened an old quilt cover and spread it on the bed, fortunately, the old sister was intimate, and when she sent something, she also deliberately put pillows and pillowcases, although it was very hard, fortunately, there were basically things, and I didn't care so much.

After more than ten hours on the train and two hours on the bus, I was busy in the afternoon and didn't bother to eat dinner. Nie Congcong began to feel a pain all over her body as if she had fallen apart, and she was going to go to the bathroom to take a hot shower and get a good night's sleep.

When she took a bath, she found out that the house that satisfied her turned out to hide a big hidden danger. The floor drain in the bathroom can't flow the water at all, just washed for a while, the water is all overflowing, Nie Congcong is afraid that the bath water will flow to the wooden floor outside, so he rinses himself three or two times to clean up the sewage that can't flow. This toss is even an hour away.

Coming out of the bathroom, the room became more and more dark, sitting on the bed, looking at the dark door, she could always hear someone walking in the corridor, she was really scared in her heart, thinking that the next day she would have to report to a new company that she had never been to, so she was ruthless, turned on all the lights, took a small towel to cover her eyes, fell on the bed without a mattress, and fell asleep deeply.

This is Nie Congcong's first day in Beijing, the first night he has had.