Chinese New Year's Eve, Yanbei Commercial Plaza, Yancheng City.

Shao Xi sat in the sentry box in the parking lot, his neck shrunk and wrapped in a cotton coat, shaking his legs unconsciously, while looking at the rows of neatly arranged cars outside the window.

The space of the sentry box is very small, except for the small table in front of him and the chair under his buttocks, only the electric heater next to it remains. This sentry box is like a fresh-keeping cabinet in winter and an electric steamer in summer, Shao Xi doesn't understand why such a large commercial plaza is reluctant to install even an air conditioner?

Shao Xi glanced at the time on his mobile phone, then looked up at the crowded scene of shopping plazas and food courts in the distance, and couldn't help pouting, "New Year's Pass, New Year's Pass, I will pass the New Year's Pass for others." ”

Shao Xi, 26 years old, from the north, has been working in Yancheng for more than a year, and has been working as a security guard in Yanbei Commercial Plaza for almost a year. Shao Xi originally worked in a chemical factory after graduating from secondary school in his hometown, but he didn't expect that the factory would close down after working for a few years.

Shao Xi is a single-parent family, his father died a few years ago because of alcoholism, and his mother took Shao Xi alone until he finished secondary school and joined the work. But there is an old saying: "The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the boat was late and encountered a head wind." ”

At the same time that the chemical plant closed down and Shao Xi lost his job, his mother was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. The family has been living a difficult life for many years, and there is no savings, and my mother's serious illness has become the last straw that breaks the camel's back. Although he knew that the point of hard work was not much, Shao Xi still went to all his relatives and friends, hoping to borrow money to treat his mother. But he underestimated the indifference of human nature, and when he knelt down all over the world, he only had a poor life, and his widowed aunt lent him 20,000 yuan.

That's when he understood that fate never favors people who are suffering, and the only thing you can do is to keep fighting against fate. Shao Xi sold the only house in the family without hesitation and accompanied her mother until she was sent on her last journey.

When a person has nothing, can they still suffer because of loss? At least Shao Xi won't, but now he is living a very optimistic life. For him, the joy of living every day is what he earns, so it also opens up his funny nature.

I have to say the name Shao Xi. At the beginning, he asked his mother if he wanted to be as energetic as the morning sun. As a result, his mother told him to think too much.

He got this name because on the day he was born, more than a dozen soldiers took turns carrying military stretchers to help carry his mother to the hospital. When Shao Xi's father ran to buy cigarettes in order to thank these soldiers, he saw in the courtyard of the hospital that these soldiers were sorting out the queue and preparing to leave. The loud "Breathe, stand up!" "It inspired my father, so I gave him this name.

This made Shao Xi feel very nonsensical, so it seems that the funny gene in his body is still inherited from his father.

Shao Xi took out the peace buckle hanging around his neck with a leather rope, which was a relic left by his mother. The size of a silver circle, round and full to the touch, looks warm and transparent, not like agate, nor like jade jade, on which there are nine different colors of white, yellow, orange, red, purple, black, green, blue, and blue. I heard my mother say that this is an ancestral heirloom, and told him to keep it and not lose it.

At this moment, Shao Xi looked at the festive scene surrounded by lights, and muttered secretly in his heart, "Does the Chinese New Year have anything to do with homeless workers like me?" The cafeteria will leave work at noon, what about the Chinese New Year's Eve dumplings? In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, I had to eat instant noodles in the dormitory. ”

Just when Shao Xi was complaining, the door of the security guard box was pushed open. Pushing the door in, a young man in his early twenties, not tall, with a baby face full of smiles.

"Brother Shao, you're here! It's a really cold day! ”

As soon as the young man came in, he squatted in front of the electric heater and roasted his hands, shaking his body as he roasted.

"You're not out on patrol, come to me to be lazy, and if the captain finds out, it's strange if you don't kill you." Shao Xi smiled when he saw that it was him.

"I'm not an animal, I've been out there for most of the day, I've frozen to death, and if the captain wants to ask, I'll come to you to take a break." This young man seemed to be very familiar with Shao Xi.

"Oops! Your uncle's Xia Junqi still dares to joke about my name, as if your name is much better than mine. As he spoke, Shao Xi raised his hand and slapped the back of the kid's head.

Xia Junqi smiled, "When you play military chess, you play military chess, and you are used to being laughed at by them, and the name given by my father can't be changed, so I admit it." Brother Shao, I came here mainly because I have something to tell you. ”

"Isn't it more convenient to say something on the walkie-talkie?"

"It's inconvenient to talk about private matters on the walkie-talkie, and it will have a bad impact." Xia Junqi scratched his head, still smiling.

In fact, even the pig knew that he was afraid that the captain would hear it.

"Pull it down! Just you Xia Junqi is still private? Still inconvenient? Or do it have any adverse effects? Who do you think you are? Big star? ”

"Don't don't, Brother Shao, you are a devotee, I'm not, I'm just a little security guard, please raise your noble hand and let my little brother go." Xia Junqi made a look of begging for mercy with a hippie smile.

Shao Xi also sat upright, and asked in a serious posture: "Hmm! Go ahead! What do you see? ”

Seeing this, Xia Junqi hurriedly slapped his sleeves alternately, shook his hands at the same time, and knelt on one knee to make a gesture of greeting.

"Enlighten Lafayette! The brothers on duty today plan to have dinner together after work and celebrate the Chinese New Year's Eve. I wonder if Galeries Lafayette is gracious? ”

This kid doesn't know how many palace fighting dramas he has watched, and he still plays well.

Shao Xi held back a smile and said, "Well, I see that you are very weekdays, so you can get what you ask for today." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that something was wrong, "Wait a minute! What did you kid just call Lao Tzu? Galeries Lafayette? Lao Tzu is especially male! ”

Xia Junqi had an expression of "it doesn't matter", "Everyone else has said it, and you will be left alone, Brother Shao, you will say whether you will go or not!" ”

"Then we'll see you in the dormitory after work."

"Don't mind! It's the New Year, can we not be so shabby? Eat outside to create an atmosphere! Xia Junqi looked at Shao Xi with the eyes of the iron rooster.

"Holy! Where will the Chinese New Year's Eve be open except for those high-end restaurants? People are not old, huh? Do you usually go to barbecue restaurants too much, and your brain is all about showmanship? ”

"Sister Hua! We called and asked, the two of them will not go back this year, let's go over and spend Chinese New Year's Eve with them. Xia Junqi looked confident.

Shao Xi glanced at Xia Junqi, "It turns out that you have all premeditated, so why are you still talking so much nonsense to me?" I'll see you there, Sister Hua! ”

"Gotcha! That's it, we'll see you after work. Wechen retires! ”

"Well, get on your knees." Shao Xi looked at Xia Junqi's indecent face, and he was also quite cooperative.

Xia Junqi slammed open the door of the security guard box and flashed out, and before leaving, he didn't forget to pose in front of the window, and Shao Xi couldn't cry or laugh.

Shao Xi picked up his phone again and glanced at the time, it was almost three o'clock in the afternoon. There weren't many vehicles coming in and out at this time, so I simply opened the novel website and looked at the serials I've been chasing recently.

This kind of thing can only be done secretly, and if it is discovered by the captain, it will be a high-minded talk that determines life with an attitude. Speaking of which, the captain's own life doesn't seem to be satisfactory, and I wonder if a change in his attitude towards others will help him?

Shao Xi was looking down at his mobile phone, and there was a knocking sound from the window, which scared him so much that he almost threw the mobile phone out.

"Did the captain find out?" Shao Xi was a little apprehensive in his heart.

When I looked up at the window, I saw a pretty face, with willow eyebrows, a nose, a small cherry mouth, a pair of big eyes, and long eyelashes, as if to greet myself.

"Damn, people are scared to death." I thought about getting up and opening the door and walked out.

When I first looked at the girl, I felt that her eyes were full of red. A red woolen trench coat, red trousers, a pair of red cotton leather boots on his feet, a red velvet hat on his head, and two wool balls dangling from time to time on the hood.

"I'll go, is this a fuwa?" This is the first sentence Shao Xi shouted in his heart, but the Winter Olympics have long been over!

The girl didn't seem to mind Shao Xi's eyes when she looked at her, and said to him with a smile, "Can the security guard brother ask you for a favor?" ”

This "brother" was very useful to Shao Xi.

"What's the trouble you're in?"

It is usually difficult to refuse a beautiful woman's request, especially if the beautiful woman in front of her does not seem to be the kind of girl with princess disease.

"I can't get out of the car."

After Shao Xi heard the other party's answer, he secretly muttered in his heart, "Alas, it's a female driver again." ”

Although I thought so in my heart, I still asked, "Why can't it be opened?" ”

"I parked my car in the innermost part, right next to the green belt." The girl raised her hand and pointed in the direction of the green belt in the parking lot.

Hearing the girl's answer, Shao Xi probably understood the reason.

Due to the increase in the number of cars stored in the parking lot, a part of the parking space had to be added earlier, and the aisle on the side of the green belt has now been zoned as a parking space. Therefore, there is no way to reverse the car to the innermost parking space, only the front of the car can go in first, and when it comes out, it can only reverse in the direction of the exit, and it can only turn around until the small square of the parking lot. Reversing all the time like this may not be a big deal for male drivers, but it's a problem for many female drivers.

"Let's go, I'll help you get out."

After Shao Xi finished speaking, he walked towards the innermost parking space in that direction, and the girl quickly followed.

Shao Xi turned around and asked more, "There are not many cars in the parking lot today, why are you parking in the innermost part?" ”

The girl laughed when she heard this question, and explained insightfully: "I usually park my car in the back wherever I go, so that there is only one parking space next to me, which can reduce the probability of someone scratching my car when they open the door." I also don't like to park on the outside, because there are too many cars coming and going outside, which will also increase the probability of scratching the car. ”

Hearing the girl's explanation, Shao Xi couldn't cry or laugh, so he smiled and said to the girl: "If you don't practice reversing well, it will increase the probability that you won't be able to get out." ”

I don't know if this sentence poked the girl's laughter, she covered her mouth and "giggled" and laughed.

Shao Xi was dumbfounded when he saw the car, this is the latest BMW 740Li, I don't know anything else, I only know that this car starts at a million. A girl in her twenties driving this car out?

"Uh——, I haven't driven this car, can you tell me the basics?"

High-end ingredients often use the simplest cooking methods, and high-end cars often use the simplest operation methods.

He first reversed the car out of the existing parking space, then found an empty parking space, reversed the car into it, and when he came out of the parking space, the front of the car was already facing the direction of the exit.

Shao Xi got out of the car and said to the girl, "Okay, now you can go." ”

But the girl didn't leave in a hurry, but tilted her head and said thoughtfully: "It's so simple, why didn't I think of it?" ”

"Obsession!" Shao Xi said casually.

"Makes sense. Thank you so much today, I'm leaving. The girl playfully held out her right hand.

Shao Xi politely shook hands with the other party, and by the way, he told him to pay attention to safety on the road, and then watched the girl drive away, and repeated the previous sentence in his heart, "Alas, female driver." ”

Shao Xi was the last to go to "Sister Hua" because he went back to the dormitory to change clothes, and as soon as he entered the door, he was called by Xia Junqi to sit down. Since there were no other customers in the store today, the colleague who arrived first put together the two tables inside.

After Sister Hua came over to say hello, she saw that everyone had arrived, so she and her husband were busy preparing barbecue, skewers, processing some cold dishes, and the most important dumplings of the day.

The group of colleagues at the table had been chatting for a long time. Shao Xi and Xia Junqi also followed the gags, bragging and raising the bar, and all kinds of funny golden sentences came out frequently. A group of migrant workers at the bottom of the society in a foreign country vented their inner emotions to the fullest on this day.

Xia Junqi's face was red from drinking, his eyes were straight, and with a smirk, he put his arm on Shao Xi's shoulder and asked, "Brother Shao, do you know why my name is Xia Junqi?" ”

"Isn't it your father playing military chess when your mother gave birth to you?" Saying that, Shao Xi also made a chess move.

"Come on! It has nothing to do with that shit. ”

Xia Junqi waved his hand and continued: "My father graduated from a normal secondary school back then, and his education is the same as that of Brother Shao, which is also a literate person in our ravine. ”

"Over the years, he has been teaching us mountain children in private primary schools. He wants to teach a few promising students, so that they can get out of this ravine, and when they grow up their skills in the future, they will come back to build their hometown. ”

Speaking of this, Xia Junqi's eyes were a little wet.

"When I was born, my father said, 'A gentleman stands up for himself and does things with wonder,' and he hoped that his son would not be like him in the future. To be a smart person, to be able to do what you want to do, and do what you want to do well, so I took Junqi as my name. God testifies, my dad never played military chess. ”

"It's just military chess, it's a noun anyway, but my surname is Xia, so a good word has become a verb, who should I talk to?"

Shao Xi looked at Xia Junqi with incredible eyes and said, "Dude, it was a good inspirational and sensational story, why does it seem that you are talking about it crookedly!" ”

"Huh? Have it? Oops, forget it, let's not talk about this. Xia Junqi scratched his head and began to giggle again.

After midnight, everyone had eaten the dumplings made by Sister Hua. Everyone scraped together the money to settle the account, and gave Sister Hua and her husband an extra red envelope of 200 yuan, which may be the most unbridled consumption of these people in a year.

Leaving Sister Hua's barbecue restaurant, Xia Junqi was almost carried back to the dormitory by several people. Shao Xi didn't go back with the group, he wanted to take a walk on this usually busy street.

Mom is gone, the house has been sold, he is now a homeless man, he doesn't know if there is a future of his own in the city.

Shao Xi, who was thinking about his heart and was drunk, stepped on the zebra crossing and walked across the street. At that moment, he felt a dark shadow rushing towards him.

The first thing he saw was a black BMW, and the second thing he saw was a woman sitting in the car, a woman in a red dress. After a screeching sound of tires rubbing against the ground, he was sure the third thing he saw was the streetlights. Then there was the sound of car doors and footsteps, and then the sound of panicked phone calls.

When Shao Xi confirmed the last look he saw, he sighed helplessly: "Alas, why is it a female driver again?" ”