"The night here is like day!"

Shuiwa exclaimed that Guoqiang was right, there were really many lights in the city. Now, together with Erbao, he is walking along the main street of the provincial capital towards the train station, carrying a shoeshine box on his back. Erbao is a native of the neighboring village of Shuiwa, who used to work with Guoqiang in the provincial capital, according to the address given by Guoqiang before, Shuiwa took a lot of effort to find him, and now he is no longer working at the construction site, but drying shoes. When Shuiwa found him, a colleague who lived with him happened to be home, so he simply taught Shuiwa a few times, and then asked Shuiwa to carry the set of guys on his back and go with him.

Shui Wa has no confidence in this work, he thinks along the way, if it is almost the same as repairing shoes, shine shoes? Whoever spends a dollar to polish his shoes once (if the shoe polish is better for three dollars), there must be something wrong with this person. But in front of the train station, before their stall was set up, business came. By eleven o'clock this night, the water baby had earned fourteen yuan! But on the way back, Erbao looked gloomy and said that business was not good today, and the implication was obviously that Shuiwa robbed him of his business.

"What's that big iron box under the window?" Shui Wa asked, pointing to a building in front of her.

"Air conditioning, it's like spring in that room now."

"It's so nice in town!" Shuiwa wiped the sweat from her face and said.

"As long as you work hard here, it's easy to earn a bowl of rice, but if you want to start a family, you can't do it." Erbao said and pointed to the building with his chin, "Buy a suite, two or three thousand one square meters!" ”

The water baby asked stupidly: "What is the square meter?" ”

Erbao shook his head contemptuously, ignoring him.

Shuiwa and more than a dozen people live in a simple house rented together, most of these people are farmers who go to the city to work and do small business, but the person next to Shuiwa on the chase shop is a city person, but not from this city. When he was here, he was like everyone else, he ate the same as them, and he was shirtless outside in the evening. But every morning, he dressed up in a suit and leather shoes, and walked out of the door like a different person, which really gave people the feeling of a golden phoenix flying out of the chicken coop. This person's surname is Lu Minghai, and everyone doesn't hate him, mainly because of something he brought. That thing is a big umbrella in the eyes of the water baby, but the umbrella is made of mirrors, the inside is bright, put the umbrella upside down in the sun, put a pot of water on a bracket on the head of the umbrella, the bottom of the pot is dazzling, the water in the pot is quickly boiled, the water baby later knew that this is called a sun stove. Everyone uses this thing to cook and boil water, which saves a lot of money, but it can't be used when there is no sun.

This big umbrella called a sun stove has no umbrella bones, just such a thin piece. The most bewildering time for the water baby is to watch Lu Hai collect the umbrella: a thin wire stretches out from the umbrella to the house, and when the umbrella is collected, Lu Hai enters the house and pulls out the bolt of the wire, and the umbrella falls to the ground and becomes a silver cloth. The water baby picked up the cloth and looked carefully, it was soft and smooth, so light that it could hardly feel the weight, the surface reflected the strange image of its own deformation, and also changed the color pattern on the surface of the soap bubble, as soon as she let go, the silver cloth slipped silently from between her fingers to the ground, as if it was a handful of light mercury. When Lu Hai plugged in the power supply again, the silver cloth stretched out lazily like an open lotus flower, and soon turned into a round umbrella and stood upside down on the ground. Then touch the surface of the umbrella, thin, hard, tapping to make a pleasant metallic sound, it is very strong, and when the ground is fixed, it can hold a pot or pot full of water.

Lu Hai told Shui Wa: "This is a nano material, with a smooth surface, good reflectivity, high strength, and most importantly, it is soft under normal conditions, but it will become hard when a weak current is applied." ”

Shuiwa later learned that this material called nanomirror film was a research achievement of Lu Hai. After applying for a patent, he invested all his money to open up the market for this achievement, but several products, including portable solar cookers, were not cared for, and as a result, he lost all his money, and now he is so poor that he borrows money from Shui Wa to pay rent. Although it has come to this point. But this man was not depressed at all, and he still ran around every day, trying to find a way out for the application of this new material, and he told Shui Wa that this was the thirteenth city he had run.

In addition to the sun cooker, Lu Hai also has a small piece of nano mirror film, usually it is like a small silver handkerchief spread on the table next to the bed, every morning before going out, Lu Hai always has to turn on a small power switch, the silver handkerchief immediately turned into a hard sheet, into a smooth small mirror, Lu Hai combed and dressed it. One morning, while combing his hair in the small mirror, he squinted at the water baby who had just gotten out of bed, and said:

"You should pay attention to your appearance, wash your face often, don't always mess up your hair, and your clothes, can't you buy a new clothes that are cheaper?"

Shui Wa took a look in the mirror, smiled and shook her head, meaning that for a shoeshine person, it is useless to be so troublesome.

Lu Hai approached the water baby and said: "Modern society is full of opportunities, the sky is full of golden birds, one day maybe you will grab one as soon as you reach out, provided that you have to take yourself seriously." ”

Shui Wa looked around, there was no golden bird, he shook his head and said, "I haven't read many books." ”

"It's a pity, of course, but who knows, sometimes it can be an advantage, and the great thing about this age is that it's unpredictable, and no one knows who the miracle will happen to."

"You...... Did you go to college? ”

"I have a Ph.D. in solid state physics and was a university professor before I quit."

After Lu Hai left, Shui Wa was stunned for a long time, and then shook her head, thinking that people like Lu Hai couldn't catch the bird after running thirteen cities, how could she do it? He felt that this guy was making fun of himself, but this man himself was pitiful and ridiculous.

That night, some of the other people in the house slept, some gathered in a pile to play poker, and Shui Wa and Lu Hai went to a small restaurant a few steps outside the door to watch other people's TV. It was twelve o'clock at night, and the news was being broadcast on the TV, with only the announcer on the screen and nothing else.

"At a press conference held by the State Council this afternoon, the spokesman revealed that the world-renowned China Solar Project has been officially launched, which is another super-large project to transform the land ecology after the Three-North Shelterbelt......

Shui Wa had heard about this project before and knew it would build another sun in our sky, a solar energy that would bring more rain to the arid Great Northwest. This thing is too mysterious for Shui Wa, like the first time he encountered this kind of thing, he wanted to ask Lu Hai, but when he turned his head, he saw Lu Hai staring at the TV with round eyes, his mouth half open, as if he had been taken away by it. Shui Wa shook his hand in front of him, but he didn't react until a long time after that news had passed, and he said to himself:

"Really, why didn't I think of the Chinese Sun?"

Shuiwa looked at him blankly, it was impossible for him not to know this thing that even he knew, which Chinese didn't know about this? Of course he knew, but he didn't expect it, so what did he think of now? What does this have to do with him Lu Hai, a sloppy wanderer who lives in a stuffy simple house?

Lu Hai said: "Do you remember what I said in the morning? Now a golden bird has flown in front of me, a big golden bird, in fact, it has been hovering above my head before, I don't even feel it! ”

The water baby still looked at him in bewilderment.

Lu Hai stood up: "I'm going to Beijing, catch the train at half past two, little brother, you go with me!" ”

"To Beijing? Do? ”

"Beijing is so big, why can't it? Even if it's shoe shine, it's a lot better than here! ”

So, on this night, Shui Wa and Lu Hai stepped on a crowded train that didn't even have seats, and the train passed through the vast western wilderness in the night, and galloped in the direction of the rising sun.