On that day, I boarded the train to "Spring" and escaped the dark basement of Beijing, which was the beginning of my new life.

The creaking green car accompanied me through the long night, the stars turned into neon, and the friction of the wheels against the rails became a resonant in my ears, playing until dawn.

I only carried a travel bag and left Beijing, leaving everything else in the basement that had been with me for three years.

In fact, before the beginning of all the stories about the tea house in the grass and trees, I fell in love with these supernatural and ghostly things, and the reason for this is that I have always been a person who indulges in loneliness, and over the years these constructed worlds have become the only spiritual sustenance I am afraid of, and sometimes when I read the vivid monsters in them, I will fantasize that they are real, fantasize about their warm skin, fantasize about their ambiguous or cold tone, and fantasize that one day they will take me away from this boring world.

It's acceptable for a seven- or eight-year-old child to fantasize about this, but I'm an adult in my twenties and still imprisoned in such a world where I can only talk about **, which may be the crux of my downfall.

The moment the train stopped, a thick steam rose in front of my eyes, as if at this moment, the world had changed.

The summer in Zibo is indeed hotter than in Beijing, and as soon as your feet hit the ground, you can feel the heat wave coming to your face.

"Willow Springs! You guy, you're the last every time. "As soon as I stepped off the train, I felt like I was being pushed hard." We were waiting for you when we were in school before, and this time we asked us to wait for you. ”

The appearance of people will change, but the voice is really difficult to change, this slightly funny voice sounds really strange and familiar, and I can tell when it turns into ashes, this person is my old friend Wang Tong, nicknamed Tiger.

Wang Tong and I were originally fellow villagers, we used to be in the same class when we were in junior high school, and later went to a university.

Wang Tong's family is in business, as far as I know, it is still a small wine business, at first in Texas, and then the business is getting better and better, and then the branch is opened to Zibo, Weifang and other places, after all, the market here is much better, after graduating from college, his father asked him to be the general manager of the Zibo division, which can be regarded as a father and son.

I've never been to Zibo before, so naturally I thought of him first, and having a good friend to take care of him is not a bad thing.

But in fact, to be honest, I was the first to see the tiger as soon as I arrived here, in fact, I was a little selfish, Wang Tong's characteristic is that he is tall and brave, and he never believes in any gods and ghosts. I'll be able to have him by my side, because this weird place to apply sounds a little creepy.

"Brother Tiger!"

As soon as I turned around, the familiar man was straight in front of me, tall and big in the crowd, and he stood out in the crowd.

But what surprised me even more was that the "tiger" had really changed a lot, and he had been almost completely unrecognizable in the past three years, his gray face during college, unkempt, and his round face, and three slits would appear on his forehead when he frowned, looking like a tiger, but now standing in front of me was a very neat and capable man, wearing a decent shirt, combing a simple hairstyle, and his face was angular and angular, full of what a young and promising successful person should look like.

But it's reasonable to think about it, it's been three years since I graduated, before when I was a student, Tiger didn't have to think about it so much, now that I'm married, and I'm a small boss, it's time to do something that young people should do, dress up like young people should be.

"Old ...... Tiger. "I'm hesitating." You're changing...... It's really big, and it's getting more and more like a big boss. ”

Wang shook my shoulder vigorously, and then laughed out loud. "Haha, you people, you all say the same thing when you see me. Am I really that different? Hahaha. ”

His rough laughter caused passers-by to look at us. "I must not recognize it on the road, it seems that you must have been in a good situation in the past two years."

"No, no, is it a family business anyway, let me look at this stall, I am also painting a scoop according to the gourd, and the business has just improved a little this year." The tiger was humble, which was not like what he would say before. "But I'll be honest with you, my winery has a bright future."

When he said this, the tiger hugged my neck hard, this action is exactly the same as when he was in college, the first sentence was just modest, and then it went directly back to his pompous tone, but this is fine, this is what a tiger should look like, listening to him brag a few words will make people feel comfortable.

"I'm not here to see you for nothing." Saying that, I took out the small gifts I prepared for the tiger from my backpack, some Beijing specialties, I haven't seen them for so many years, and it is really unseemly for me to come empty-handed.

"You guy, come and see if I still have something." The tiger patted me on the shoulder. "I haven't seen you for so many years, I'm very happy that you can come to Zibo, but, then again, it's you Liu Quan, who is still so young and handsome, and it doesn't seem to have changed much over the years?" The tiger continued to greet him.

I know the tiger is just talking casually, but it sounds like a kind of irony to me at the moment, people say that young people look the same every day, but I'm the same as I was three years ago, and it sounds a little cool.

"For more than two years, there has been basically no news from you, I only know that you went to Beijing, but there is really you, you dare to break into a metropolis like Beijing." The tiger patted me on the shoulder again, smirking evilly. "I think you've already carved out a niche in Beijing."

I expected that old friends would say something like this when they met, and I had already rehearsed such embarrassment thousands of times, but I didn't expect this real moment to happen, the whole person would still feel inexplicably embarrassed, at that time I ran to Beijing arrogantly, fantasizing about being able to start from scratch like those inspirational characters in the chicken soup for the soul, and the living reality told me that those counterattack stories are actually just fantasies, I still remember that some friends repeatedly advised me not to go, I was still quite disdainful, and now it seems, I was really naïve.

"I ...... I'm just barely trying to support myself...... I. "I really don't know how to tell the tiger about my current situation, think about it or forget it, no one will like to hear people complain, why should I be bored?" I came this time because I found a job in Zibo. ”

"Zibo's work, that's a good feeling, so that we can see each other often." The tiger listened to my words and laughed excitedly. "If you want me to say, you should come here, although this place is not as prosperous as Beijing, but it is about comfort, you have something to do here."

I smiled, thinking to myself that the tiger was really a scene.

"Actually, there is something I want you to help with this time."

"Although it is said that it has been a hot summer recently, there are a lot fewer customers, and it happens to be relatively free." Before the king could hear me, he readily agreed. "Come, get in the car first, let's talk slowly in the car."

With that, Wang pulled me into his majestic Range Rover, and with a dull roar, we were already driving on the wide road of Zibo.

"That's right, Tiger, I know that you have been following your family outside since you were a child, and you must know more things than me, and there is something I want you to decide for me first." I breathed a sigh of relief, but I couldn't help but ask.

"Tell me about it."

"Do you believe it, there is a job in this world where you don't have to go to work every day, but the pay is unusually good."

The king tapped the steering wheel and laughed. "I thought something was wrong? What's so hard to answer about this, there must be. ”

He snapped his fingers as he spoke. "We have a saying in business that things are scarce, the rarer things are, the more valuable they are, not to mention that you don't have to go to work every day, even if you don't have to go to work, you bring people the value that others can't bring is worth those money."

"That being said, but the salary is really a bit ......," I told him in detail about the online recruitment, especially the one million advance.

The tiger was stunned for a moment, and could see that it was also a little incredulous. "A million, that's a bit ...... But also to see what exactly makes you do? Regardless of whether he is true or not, go and see if it is right. ”

I guess he would say that, because that's what his personality is, adventurous and likes new things.

"Let's go to this place." As I spoke, I took out my phone and kept the odd company address in my hand.

"Pujiazhuang, Hongshan Town, Zichuan District, Zibo City, Shandong Province......" The tiger laughed as he read it. Ah Quan, are you kidding me? Do you know what this place is? ”