Chapter 1 Greasy middle-aged man
At 8 o'clock in the morning of September 15, 2017, Comrade Ma Yun arrived at the office on time in a university library in Tangshan City, Hebei Province.
As a 211 science undergraduate who graduated from the capital in 04, Ma Yun is a little worse than the vast majority of people who graduated at the same time. Several class reunions over the years, the students either work in government agencies, or work in Shell, PetroChina, BYD, JD.com, Baidu and even a small director of CCTV, not to mention work, just their one or even several houses in Beijing, as well as the Beijing hukou, Ma Yun knows the huge gap between himself and them.
But Ma Yun is not inferior, nor discouraged, life is full of variables, he firmly believes that he is a good person, an optimistic and kind person, and he firmly believes that he will be able to mix up in such a small city.
What's more, his current situation is also his own choice, thinking of all his choices since graduation, it seems that they have been wrong, so wrong that such a strong person will occasionally regret and blame himself in the dead of night.
He could have stayed in Beijing, but the girl he fell in love with in high school, was admitted to Tsinghua University as a graduate student, and clearly told Ma Yun that she would go abroad in the future, Ma Yun is a proud person, never reluctant anything, knowing that fate has come to an end, he left Beijing with his bags and returned to his hometown, he wants to stay away from that girl, the reason is very simple, he is no longer worthy of her. This is the reason why he came to Tangshan as a college student who graduated from the capital, but no one knew about it all the time, because this was his favorite choice, and there was no need to tell anyone, and if he did, he might not be able to understand it.
In the past ten years, although his colleagues have not talked about him in person, he knows that those colleagues don't know how many times they have talked about him behind his back. "He's a well-known college graduate, and he doesn't do the same job as us when he comes to our library!" "What's wrong with his graduation from a famous university, isn't he still a bachelor's degree? ”
Whenever he heard these discussions, Ma Yun just smiled faintly and pretended not to hear them. "The finch knows the ambition of the bird. For Ma Yun, who has ideals and ambitions, he knows that everything in front of him is a starting point for him, a springboard, and one day he will step on a horse and jump into the clouds!
Speaking of Ma Yun's own name, it is also a helplessness. In this day and age, there is a famous person in this world called: Jack Ma. There are very few people in the world who don't know the name of Jack Ma, as a businessman who has influenced China's industrial structure, what ordinary people value more is Jack Ma's innumerable wealth, if all of Jack Ma's wealth is listed, the down payment in China today belongs to him, and no one can shake it. And if you don't know him, almost all of them will think of Ma Yun as Ma Yun.
Therefore, everyone in the unit likes to call him by his name, as if they all want to stick to the fortune of the name Jack Ma. But when his parents gave him the name Ma Yun, the future richest man Ma Yun may be playing on the edge of the West Lake, who would have thought that the situation would change and he would become the richest man.
Ma Yun was originally a classmate who loved to study, and his grades have always been very good, and his freshman and sophomore years have always been a first-class scholarship, which may be a habit of loving learning in high school. In his junior year, the simple Jack Ma was finally corrupted by the Internet and fell into the devil's cave of the Internet and couldn't extricate himself.
In those two years, he played computer games like crazy, the stand-alone network, each of which was full of strong interest, a legend of Sword and Fairy played for half a month, Xuanyuan Sword played several times and played very cool, Three Kingdoms 8 played several times, and was addicted to CS for a year, and the last two years of college were so wasted.
This is Ma Yun's own choice, don't regret what you have done, anyway, he had a really good time in those two years, and now he is full of joy when he recalls it. When he chose the game, he was destined to leave the person who had been in love intermittently, as I said before, the girl was admitted to Tsinghua University as a graduate student, but Ma Yun could only hastily get a graduation certificate, and the graduate student was not admitted, and then left Beijing, which seemed to be a little unwilling and a little relieved.
Ma Yun actually found a job in Beijing, as long as he insisted on half a year, he could settle in Beijing, but he only worked for two months and then resigned, because he was not used to this society.
When he and his colleagues in the department accompanied the customers on a business trip to play and eat in Beijing, when the customers kept eating the tofu of those female colleagues, and the female colleagues accepted the customer's teasing as if nothing happened, Ma Yun felt that kind of scene was extremely embarrassing, he despised the customer's obscenity, and also despised the female colleague's lack of self-love, and at the same time felt deep helplessness, some people just want to live better, so they are willing to throw away some things.
Jack Ma couldn't do it, so he resigned, his ideal job shouldn't be like that, at least not like that. Looking at Beijing's dense high-rise buildings covering the sky, looking at the dense cars and crowds on the road, Ma Yun felt that the city of Beijing made him breathless, he liked the feeling of freedom and spaciousness, this was the first time that Ma Yun deeply realized: he did not love this city. The subsequent breakup with the girl strengthened his idea.
Now that he has graduated in the blink of an eye for more than ten years, Ma Yun is 36 years old, and he has not yet married, and he has been reduced to the point of a middle-aged greasy man. In the past ten years, Ma Yun has just been working and thinking. Thinking about his own life and the meaning of life, Ma Yun unconsciously became sad and indifferent, and his heart changed. It's just that at the same time as his heart changes, he also has the following characteristics. 1 Wear autumn pants at home 2 Nostalgia 3 Small belly 4 Nose hair exposed 5 Hand support thermos cup 6 keys hanging on the waist, the above characteristics are given a magical era title: greasy middle-aged man......
This is also thanks to his younger brother, who got married and had children early, and realized his parents' wish to hold their grandson, Ma Yun was able to listen to a lot of nagging. After nagging for many years, the parents seemed to be dead to Ma Yun, and in the past two years, they have stopped nagging Ma Yun, and Ma Yun has fallen into a rare quiet.
Finally today, Jack Ma decided to go out for a walk. "The world is so big, I want to see it. Ma Yun admires the person who said this sentence very much, it is a kind of release of the soul, dare to break the cage of life, it takes not only courage, but also a detached heart.
After looking at the work plan, Ma Yun asked the leader for two weeks of vacation, and he wanted to end his trip before the crowd of eleven people surged.
Ma Yun set off, no one told him, he took the train to Tianjin, took a high-speed train in the afternoon, and set off towards Xi'an. As for why he went to Xi'an, Ma Yun himself didn't know, anyway, Xi'an suddenly popped up in his mind, so let's go. Spent an afternoon in the car.
At nine o'clock in the evening, I arrived at Xi'an Station, and after getting off the train, I found a fast hotel and stayed. In the room of the hotel, there is a detailed brochure of Xi'an tourism, and after taking a shower, I lay on the bed and picked up the brochure and simply flipped through it. Xi'an is worthy of being the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, there are countless historical scenic spots, there are famous scenic spots such as the Bell and Drum Tower, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in the urban area, and there are also many famous scenic spots in the four directions: there are the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qinling in the east, Wutai Cuihua Mountain in the south, there is the Qianling Famen Temple in the west, and there is the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor in Yan'an in the north. Ma Yun hesitated slightly between the Qin Mausoleum and the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum, and decided to visit the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum on the northern route first. So I dialed the phone number according to the booklet, and quickly booked to leave with the group at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning.
At half past five o'clock in the morning of the second day, the alarm table rang on time, Ma Yun washed up and cleaned up, and had a simple breakfast in the hotel, and then the phone rang, and the person who picked him up with the group came. Ma Yun met with the people who picked up the group, got into their car and went to the bus of the group, and soon the car full of people set off happily.
Not long after the bus left the city, it drove into the hilly area, where the hills rose and fell one after another, and it was summer, and the hills were full of apples and pomegranates, and the distance was full of beautiful temptations. After more than two hours, the bus climbed up and down the winding mountain road, climbed over the mountains, and finally arrived at the magnificent Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum.
Several magnificent buildings are hidden among the thousand-year-old Gübelin wood, and there is no indescribable solemnity. Here, you don't feel the noise of the city at all, only a kind of nature and tranquility, close your eyes, think about history and the future, think about the sky and the earth.
Just when Ma Yun was immersed in this very wonderful feeling, the voice of the tour guide came over, it turned out that the tour group still had the next destination to go, and could only simply visit the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum, and then continued to set off to the next scenic spot, and after staying in the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum for less than two hours, he got on the bus and set off again at about ten o'clock.
It took two hours to sit, and at noon, I arrived at a restaurant built on the gentle place of the mountaintop, and after a hurried lunch, I took another hour's car ride to Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River. The Yellow River is rolling, the waves are stormy, a waterfall dozens of meters wide hangs upside down the blue wall, the clear sky is raining, and the seven-colored light is emitted.
Time passed quickly, and Ma Yun reluctantly set off with the bus at the urging of the tour guide, this time until it was dark before arriving at a cave hotel on the top of a mountain. Although deep in the mountains, this hotel has WIFI, hot water, and TV. Ma Yun went to bed early after eating and watching TV for a while.
The next day, Ma Yun woke up, the morning in the mountains was very cool, Ma Yun washed his face, and walked out of the cave. As far as the eye can see, I see endless white in the distance, I don't know whether it is clouds or fog, only a little trace of the mountain peaks is faintly revealed. The clouds and mist flow slowly, like a changing ink painting.
After enjoying the beautiful scenery of clouds and mist, Ma Yun noticed that there was a small peak about 200 meters high where the peak where the hotel was leaning, and the peak was covered with clouds and mist, and the trees on the peak were dense, which seemed to be not difficult to climb. Wang Yi thought that it was still early, and his heart moved, and he couldn't help but walk towards the small peak.
The small peak, though steep, was covered with trees, and there seemed to be a path leading to the peak at the foot of the peak. Ma Yun stepped into the trail, only walked for a short while, and the trail came to an end, and Ma Yun didn't mind, dragging the branches and continuing to climb up. Luckily, there were no straight and smooth spots along the way, and there were branches everywhere to draw on, and it didn't take long for me to reach the summit.
The peak is actually very flat, about 100 square meters in size, distributed with a few strange shapes of large stones and pieces of low shrubs, the peak near the side of the cliff, there is a green pine tree with a flat canopy, the crown of the tree sticks out of the cliff wall and submerges into the sea of clouds, like a dragon exploring the sea.
Ma Yun walked through the boulder to the pine tree, and finally breathed the clouds and mist that swirled around the peak, at this moment, Ma Yun had forgotten himself, only felt that he had become one with the pine, the sea of clouds, and the boulder, and a mysterious energy seemed to have grown in his body.
Just when Ma Yun was immersed in this wonderful feeling, he inadvertently saw a golden three-inch thumb-thick cylindrical thing hanging from the canopy of the pine into the air, and the sun had just risen, and when the first rays of sunlight on the horizon hit the cylindrical object, the cylindrical object emitted a soft purple light. Ma Yun was immediately attracted by the purple light, unconsciously walked to the edge of the cliff, and stretched out his hand to the strange object, as if he wanted to feel the purple light.
It's just that the strange object poked out of the rock wall two meters away, and Ma Yun was far from reaching. Just when Ma Yun stretched out his hand, the cylindrical object slowly floated towards him, and Ma Yun was surprised and happy in his heart.
When the purple light touched his hand, Ma Yun suddenly seemed to freeze, with a strange smile on his face, but his body did not move, only to see the purple light slowly covering his whole body along Ma Yun's hand, just at the moment when the sun completely rose from the horizon, the purple light suddenly disappeared into his body, Ma Yun's body trembled, unconsciously leaned forward, and then fell silently from the cliff, looking down from above, only to see a small black dot quickly disappeared into the clouds。