Volume 1 The Way of the Beast Chapter 6 A glimmer of life
"Boss, how much does it cost to shine shoes?"
A shoe-shiner was sitting on a pony and flicking the upper of his leather shoe: "Five dollars, but you have to wait, young man, and there is still a queue behind me?"
Lin Luo took out a five-yuan piece from his pocket and put it on his tool case: "It's okay, it's five yuan, I'll use some of your black shoe polish, you're busy." ”
After speaking, Lin Luo took a little bit of his fingernails, rubbed them in his palm, and wiped them on his face like applying skin cream, and the boss looked at it again, and Lin Luo had only one back left.
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School gates.
"Boss, how do you sell these glasses?"
The boss looked at the newspaper, raised his eyes and took a look, and his tattoo did not move: "The frames are four hundred and eight, and the lenses are counted separately!"
"Uh...... Is there such an eighty dollar?"
The boss spread the newspaper on the table and replied lukewarmly: "Hmph, you sold it to me?"
Lin Luo was a little embarrassed: "Boss, look at me, I'm just a bricklayer, and the money I usually earn is not enough for my family, so I finally squeezed some out for my own use, and I fought with them~ The landlord lost everything, so I bought it for my little daughter to wear and play, see if I can ...... I don't have optometry or glasses, so I can just get a flat mirror on it. It just has to be big!"
The boss looked at Lin Luo's black oily face and silly smile, frowned and lowered his head and took out a round-framed old-fashioned glasses from the drawer:
"Reading glasses, the shelf is broken, count you fifty dollars. ”
Lin Luo put on his glasses and tried it, it was a little small, but it just covered his eyes: "That's it, that's it." ”
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When Lin Luo came out of the Beiyin Bridge area, he had a green canvas tool cloth bag hanging on his shoulder, with broken glasses on his face, and his face and hands were the color of the black earth.
I asked the time on the side of the road: 9:45 a.m.
This is the peak time of the station's traffic, and now is the best time to mix things up.
Lin Luo got out of the crowded bus, rubbed his hands and looked around, his eyes hidden under his glasses swept vigilantly over everyone around him. We all know that the train station is a mixture of fish and dragons, and it can be said that it is a must-meet place for white, gray and black in the city, and after preparing for so long, the time for the test has finally arrived.
In the cold weather, Lin Luo still had a touch of fine sweat on his forehead, and the swing of his feet became more and more stiff, and he didn't know if it was caused by too much cold on his body, or because he was overly scared and nervous.
As soon as he took two steps, a big man or three big men came across and blocked him in front of him.
Lin Luo's hairs stood up, and he lowered his eyes and gently avoided to the left, but he didn't know that these three people actually chased two steps sideways and blocked the entire way!
Lin Luo clenched his teeth, forcing himself to suppress the urge to turn around and run, and raised his eyes to look.
I saw that the big man in front of him was smiling at him, enthusiastic and fake, and the laughter was so panicked.
"Hehe, little brother, may I ask, how are you going to the water spray park?" A rustic local sound came, Lin Luo looked at the peasant brothers in front of him with yellow faces, and their large bags of luggage, and exhaled a long breath!
"Ahead, go to the lane stop sign, take bus 17, or walk a few steps to the subway station!"
"Thank you~"
It seemed that it was a false alarm, Lin Luo hurriedly continued to move forward, patted his face, came to the crossroads, looked at the big 'easy to open' railway station sign in front of him, buried his head, and walked towards the bus stop on the right.
His final destination was never a train station. The world has entered the era of big data, and all train tickets are purchased with real names, and as soon as you take out your ID card, you may be surrounded by the police within ten minutes. The only way to get out of the city quickly is the bus station. Because the flow of buses is flexible and the frequency of flights is complex, the real-name ticket purchase system has not been popularized for the time being, which gives Lin Luo an opportunity.
But in the same way, it is impossible for those people not to count Lin Luo's thoughts, and now the two sides have not had any confrontation, if it is Lin Luo himself, it is likely that more than seventy percent of the people will be blocked and arranged in the bus station, but Lin Luo faintly feels that there will only be more people to block than he imagined.
As soon as he arrived at the gate of the bus station, Lin Luo tried his best to blend in with the crowd, and he could clearly feel that several pairs of eyes had already looked over here.
Is it such a big goal? Why does everyone seem to be looking at me?
The scariest thing is.
There were several people with sinister eyebrows who had already walked towards this side.
At the thrilling moment, Lin Luo almost ran away, but his reason kept repeating a sentence in his heart:
If you really come to catch yourself, the only way to survive is your own disguise!
At this time, the first person had already approached him, Lin Luo raised his eyes, and saw that this person's face was red, and his mouth said like a running train:
"Tushan Town can't go! There are also tickets to Luocheng! Where can brothers go?"
Others also gathered around:
"It's going to Xingguan, right? Where are you going, brother? There are tickets everywhere! Let's go now!"
Damn, it's all scalpers.
An impatient expression gradually appeared on Lin Luo's face, and he replied in a rough voice: "There is a ticket, there is a ticket!
These people swept up and down several times on Lin Luo's body, and then they made way to watch Lin Luo crowd towards the ticket hall.
One of the scalpers muttered to a little brother beside him, looked at Lin Luo's back, narrowed his eyes, and turned his head to continue to pay attention to the passers-by.
When he came to the ticket window, Lin Luo was on the platform, and the conductor was a young girl, who didn't look at Lin Luo and said, "Where are you going?"
Lin Luo glanced back, and after making sure that the people behind him couldn't hear it, he lowered his voice and said clearly word by word:
"Five minutes later, the fastest four long-distance buses in the province will be departed, and the location is not limited. ”
The conductor was stunned for a moment, and raised his eyes to look at Lin Luo's black face: "What?"
Lin Luo took a deep breath and looked at her calmly: "I believe you heard it." What I want is that in five minutes, the fastest four buses will depart in the province, and the location is not limited. ”
The conductor stared at him for a long time, turned his eyes and swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his fingers tapped quickly on the keyboard a few times, and on the screen that only she could see, the latest wanted list of the Ministry of Public Security appeared, and the first one seemed to be ...... Precisely...... This face in front of you.
The girl's face turned white: "The computer is a little malfunctioning, wait for me to call someone to come, don't go, it'll be fine right away." ”
"Wait. Lin Luo hurriedly stopped her.
The girl was just about to get up, Lin Luo had already guessed everything, her fists were clenched tightly, and although her voice was a little serious, it was unprecedentedly sincere:
"Girl, you...... All I can say is that I didn't do anything wrong. Believe me, as soon as you get out of this seat, I'll go as soon as you leave, and even if you call someone I'm gone, I've done something wrong! Accept some ...... But the real sin will never let me die justly in my cell! Look into my eyes, I have a clear conscience! I really have to get out of here, you ...... Help me!" After saying this, Lin Luo lowered his glasses to reveal a slit, glanced at the conductor's badge, and looked at her with straight eyes:
"This, Miss Lan Yiyun!"
This passage, three points of prayer, three points of statement, three points of calmness, and the last point is with a faint threat.
The girl's half-up body froze, and at last she sat back down.
The two didn't say a word, only the girl was in front of the computer, knocking and typing for a long time......
Lin Luo's short time of one minute was like sitting on pins and needles! For fear that someone would twist his arm and take him away in the next second, it was like walking on a cliff and walking on thin ice.
"At 9:55, we sailed for Mengnan.
At ten o'clock, we headed for Yundu.
At 10:05, we drove to Yulin.
At 10:12, we headed for Panshan.
In total, six hundred and eighty-seven yuan five jiao. ”
Lin Luo's eyes lit up, and he was very surprised! Looking at the clock in the distance, there were still fifteen minutes before the nearest car departed!
The girl continued coldly: "Pay cash? By the way, the line behind you is already very long. ”
"Pay cash!" Lin Luo hurriedly took out a handful of banknotes from his trouser pocket, counted them a few times, and finally gritted his teeth to leave a red ticket, and stuffed the rest into the counter. The conductor took the money and went through it to the money detector.
Lin Luo stretched out his hand and slowly took out the four tickets from inside, held them in the palm of his hand, turned back and said to the girl:
“...... Thank you for your kindness!"
After speaking, he lowered his head and hurriedly walked out, heading towards the waiting platform.
The waiting platform is also overcrowded, many people are waiting in a long line to leave, the traffic is in and out, looking at the time in the distance, there are still ten minutes. Lin Luo looked around like a raunchy little old man, leaning on the railing.
Through the guardrail, a piece of meat wafted from the side.
Lin Luo turned his head sideways to look behind him, only to see that across an iron railing, a roadside steamed bun stall happened to open the cage drawer, and the white mist mixed with the strong fragrance of steamed buns, with the cold wind blowing in his face.
A young man who had just left the station rubbed his hands and went to the front of the shop: "Boss, come to a drawer! ”
"Okay~嘦!"
Lin Luo turned his face away and quietly swallowed a mouthful of saliva. Press your hand down on your growling belly.
Any slight action now will make him take an absolute risk and not be able to eat...... No matter how hungry you are, you can't eat.
Looking at the time sign of the station in the distance flickering little by little, Lin Luo shook his feet, gritted his teeth and turned around sharply, and shouted to the owner of the bun stall outside the iron fence:
"Master, bring me a drawer, no! two drawers, and a cup of hot black rice porridge!"
"Okay! Wait a minute!"
After Lin Luo finished speaking, he quickly turned his head, he was actually already hungry, he went to find Yu Jitong without eating yesterday, until now, during which he experienced injuries, cold, falling into the water, and car accidents! If his body was a coal lamp, it has now run out of oil and dried up, and it has become a small flame that will be extinguished at any time.
He really needs this mouthful of hot porridge urgently, and he doesn't know how long the next escape will take, and his current body can't support his long journey at all.
However, at this moment, on the other side of the fence, a thin man who was originally squatting turned his face and glanced in the direction of Lin Luo, frowning slightly.