The high-speed train from Beijing to Kunming takes ten hours, and it will be a long journey, from the northern scenery directly to the exotic scenery.

Xiao Yin was sitting across from me at the moment, and his appearance would keep me in shock for ten hours.

That long hair hasn't changed, in fact, during the period when he was in the third year of high school and Zheng Xin, Xiao Yin tried to keep his hair short for a while, I think it should be Zheng Xin's request for him, and then they broke up later, Xiao Yin changed his hairstyle back again, which can be regarded as a way to start all over again.

What shocked me was Xiao Yin's mental state, I couldn't see a trace of the temperament of a young man in his twenties, his eyes were empty and numb, his forehead had left deep wrinkles, and his chin was also covered with jagged beards, and I could search through his long hair to find that there were white threads hidden in it.

Xiao Yin used to be very thin, and it can even be said that he was skinny, but now he looks really a little fat, his arms are thicker several times, and he can't see any muscle lines, his stomach is slightly bulging, he has a big belly, and he needs to hold on to the wall for half a day every time he takes a step.

I know that programmers will decline a lot because of their sedentary lifestyles, but Xiao Yin's appearance is a bit too much, his physiology seems to have been completely destroyed, and his whole body is completely in a state of prostration.

I naturally wanted to say a few words to him and asked Xiao Yin about his work, because at that time, I didn't know Xiao Yin's specific job, I only knew that it should not be difficult for him to find a good job as a top student at Tsinghua University, but Xiao Yin's answer surprised me, Xiao Yin worked as an ordinary programmer in a mobile phone company called Huami, and his monthly salary was stable at about 4000.

Let's not talk about how the amount of 4000 is not worth mentioning in a metropolis like Beijing, which is almost the same level as me at that time, and even inferior to me, everyone thinks that I am a graduate of Pheasant University, Xiao Yin is a top famous university, and it is very puzzling to get the same salary. Then let's talk about this Huami company, which is a notorious copycat company, which is the object of criticism by almost all domestic users. The company's copycat technology can be said to be the pinnacle, from Nokia to Motorola to Apple, this company has copied and imitated without exception, and it has reached the point of being fake.

I asked him why he did this, and the reason he gave me was that he didn't study well in college, and he wasted every day, so he didn't have much real talent to learn. But this still can't convince me, because the brand of Tsinghua University is so hard, and the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, holding this signboard and not saying anything else, it is not a problem to find a reliable job, right? Xiao Yin's answer to me is because other well-known software companies have a very strict screening of employee images, Xiao Yin's decadent demeanor, coupled with that sloppy dress, can't even pass the first level.

Therefore, it is really a helpless move to choose Huami Company.

But Xiao Yin can learn from the pain, be a little more aggressive, change himself, and then jump out of this garbage company, but he didn't, he began to get used to this state of decline, he went to work on time every day, and returned to the basement to play games on the Internet at other times, the company saw that he was a graduate of Tsinghua University, and it would not be difficult for him to do anything, the name of Tsinghua is much more important than Xiao Yin. In this way, the company can write when it is advertised that the company has talents from top colleges and universities.

Therefore, this is all Xiao Yin's own fault.

This journey is indeed quite boring, after chatting about some of Xiao Yin's work experience, we really have no other topics, because he is indeed a person who does not like to talk and has no life.

Later, I asked Xiao Yin why he went to Yunnan. Why do you have to choose Yunnan, where there are so many interesting places in China? At this time, Xiao Yin began to tell me the truth about his trip.

Xiao Yin gave me one of the most bizarre explanations, he said that he had been dreaming about a quaint town all this time, and then dreaming of a valley full of flowers, and one after another stilted bamboo buildings. He wrote down all these dreams of his own, and then kept checking information from the Internet, he didn't understand the city, nor did he understand architecture, so he could only rely on constantly looking through the photos on the Internet to find places similar to his dreams, after a long time of exploration, he finally came to the conclusion that the town in the dream was the ancient city of Pingyao, and those buildings were widely distributed in Yunnan Dai bamboo buildings, and those flowers were finally confirmed to be orchids. It's just that valley, he still hasn't figured out where it is?

Everyone knows that I also love nightmares, so I believe that dreams have connotations, and dreams will often give us some inspiration for life, for example, I went to Qingdao because of a nightmare before, and then met Yuge, but Xiao Yin's dream made me really unable to find any clues, because he just dreamed of a location, but he didn't know what this location was for.

I asked him if he had been to Yunnan since he was a child, because I knew that many times the places he visited when he was a child had disappeared from his memory, but one day he would suddenly resurface from high school, which is the insight of Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams". If Xiao Yin is also in this situation, then this trip will be in vain.

Xiao Yin told me that he had never traveled anywhere, and that he had only been to two places in his life so far, one was our hometown and the other was Beijing, where he went to university.

I know that people like Xiao Yin will definitely not lie, so this matter is a little strange, a real place that has never been to suddenly appears in his sleep, what does this mean?

This strange dream is probably the only interest I have on this trip to Yunnan.

We got off the bus from Kunming, stayed for less than half a day, got on the bus, and traveled for nearly a day to finally arrive in Lijiang.

I have to say that this small city still attracted me, this is a very mixed city, there is the soft style of the small bridge and flowing water, there is also the precipitation of the ancient streets and alleys, there is the shallow reflection of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, and the lights of Ningxia at night.

Flowing water, weeping willows in ponds, and refreshing roads with colorful stones. Take a walk in the peach blossom garden, take the Yi people, and walk slowly. The tiled houses are lined up, the courtyard is fragrant and lush, and it is quite hospitable and simple. Come to Shengmu Mansion to be an idler, sighing that there is no Hades pen book.