Chapter 16: Into the City
On July 29th, in the morning, at eight o'clock, after breakfast, Zhou Shaojin walked out of the house with a small bag, went to the car road opposite the village gate and waited for the shuttle bus to enter the county seat at nine o'clock, and went out of the house.
"The child has grown up!"
At the door of the Zhou family, Zhou Jianguo and Yin Jinlian looked at the back of Zhou Shaojin leaving, for a long time, and when Zhou Shaojin's figure disappeared from sight, Zhou Jianguo let out a leisurely sigh, with a sigh and a kind of complexity.
"Of course I've grown up, I'm eighteen years old, I'm taller than you, you think you're still a child. ”
When Yin Jinlian heard this, she turned her head to look at Zhou Jianguo and said with a smile, Zhou Jianguo also showed a slight smile on his face, but there was still a trace of complexity in his eyes, and a trace of sentimentality, the children grew up and knew that they had considered the family, and they were parents who were also old unconsciously.
"Go to Beijing this time to prepare 10,000 yuan for Shaojin, although he has some money there, but the cost of going to Beijing must be large, bring more preparations, and it will be more convenient to do anything when you want to." ”
After a deep sigh, Zhou Jianguo opened his mouth to say a word, and then turned around and walked towards the house, Yin Jinlian looked at Zhou Jianguo's figure, did not speak, but nodded, and Zhou Jianguo has been married for nearly 20 years, getting along day and night, she naturally knows Zhou Jianguo's character and habits, last time Zhou Shaojin proposed to go to Beijing to go to school this time He paid for it himself, the original intention was to reduce the burden on the family, which was a good thing, but she knew that this must have also touched Zhou Jianguo's strong self-esteem.
The child has grown up, has learned to be independent, for the family to consider, everything seems to be unconscious, so that their parents have a feeling of sudden dream, there is a sense of relief, and there is a kind of loss, it turns out that the baby who has been carefully cared for by them can leave their life.
This feeling is very complicated, some sweet and some astringent, on the one hand, the child has finally grown up and sensible, which makes them happy and relieved, and on the other hand, the child has grown up, and it also indicates that he is going to enter the society and become independent, and he is going to school in the capital, and he is far away from them, which makes them feel lost!
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At nine o'clock, the shuttle bus arrived on time, not a minute earlier or a minute later, there were not many people on the bus, only three people, none of them knew, and there were more vacant seats, Zhou Shaojin sat down in the last row of the shuttle bus by the right side of the window, paid fifty yuan for the fare, the shuttle bus started again, looking at the village that was slowly receding in sight outside the window, for some reason, at this moment, Zhou Shaojin felt a pleasant feeling in his heart, this feeling was indescribable, as if he had left home, and suddenly the whole person was free, Zhou Shaojin knew that this was his own voice, he longed to be independent, eager to get rid of the protection of his parents, be free, and do what he wanted to doThe chick learned to fly, and now, he longs to fly.
It takes about five hours to drive from Songzhu Village to the county seat, although the shuttle bus in the township is different from the shuttle bus between big cities, there is a fixed stop to pick up passengers, and someone on the road will stop to pick up passengers, but in general it does not affect the trip, along the way, Zhou Shaojin is sitting by the window and looking at the scenery outside the boat, he likes to sit in the window position every time he takes the car to see through the scenery outside, which can make his mood happy, he feels that he is a scenery party, when he was in school before, he would go to climb the Yuping Mountain in the county seat on Saturday afternoon, and he likes to stand on the top of the mountain to see the scenery, and the whole county will be in his eyes。
Nearly five hours later, the shuttle bus stopped at the county bus station, and it was already more than two o'clock at noon, which was the hottest time of the day, and it was summer, and the sun overhead was hot.
Zhou Shaojin didn't plan to call his acquaintance immediately, but planned to find a place to settle down first, and after nearly five hours in the car, there was no air conditioning on the shuttle, there was some sweat on his body, and his clothes were a little uncomfortable.
I spent five yuan to take a taxi, came to the pedestrian street in the center of the county, found a hotel with a good environment next to the pedestrian street, opened a single air-conditioned room and lived in it, walked into the room, put things away, took a cold shower, and then lay on the bed blowing the air conditioner, Zhou Shaojin felt that the whole life was beautiful.
After resting for a while, he changed out of his clothes and washed them, measured them by the window of the room, and changed his clothes from the new one, before Zhou Shaojin picked up his mobile phone and prepared to make a call.
"Hey, sister!" Zhou Shaojin made the first call to his cousin Zhou Xia, the daughter of Uncle Zhou Aiguo, who is now working as a nurse in the county hospital.
"When are you going to get off work" "Wow, it's past ten o'clock, I'm still thinking that you invited me to dinner, it's not going to be a soup" "Haha, okay, if you have a holiday tomorrow, I'll come to you tomorrow." "Well, that's it first, you go to work first, bye-bye..."
chatted with his cousin Zhou Xia, and learned that the other party was going to work until more than ten o'clock today, and would have a day off tomorrow, Zhou Shaojin also gave up the idea of going to his cousin to eat tonight, and dialed the second phone, which was the phone number of his fourth uncle Zhou Ye, the fourth uncle Zhou Ye was his grandfather's son, who taught in the county primary school, and the fourth aunt Yang Haixia worked in Lingxi Hospital, and the family lived in the city, and Zhou Shaojin was always taken care of when he went to school in the city.
"Hey, Fourth Uncle, yes, it's me Shaojin.... That's right, I just arrived in the county, and I came to the county seat to play with my classmates for two days and get the notice by the way!"
"Okay, I'll come over tomorrow, it just so happens that Sister Xia will also have a holiday tomorrow, and I'll come with him then!" "Okay, then let's do it first, well, bye..."
"Whew!" After making the phone and looking at his mobile phone, Zhou Shaojin breathed a sigh of relief, although Zhou Ye has always been very good to him, but after all, he is an elder, and he can't be as casual as he treats his peers.
After sitting for a while, Zhou Shaojin took out his mobile phone again, this time he planned to call his classmates, since he arrived in the county seat, it was time to find a few dead friends to come out and have a good time.
Open the mobile phone address book, there are a lot of phones in it, including more than 60 classmates, turn over the number, and finally Zhou Shaojin called Yuan Zhe, Yuan Zhe is also a classmate he has known since junior high school to the county No. 1 middle school, the two have been classmates from junior high school to high school, and they are also a pair of good buddies, and they are both top students, this time Zhou Shaojin was admitted to Beijing University, Yuan Zhe entered Tsinghua University, and the college entrance examination score was only one point lower than him!
"Hey, Yuan Zhe, where are you!" "Xizhou Garden, I'll go, it's okay for you to go to the garden on this hot day" "I just arrived in the county seat, okay, you come here, I'll call Liu Ming and Peng Tao to see if the two of them are there, wait for the four of us to get together together" "Liu Ming is with you, then, both of you come back, I'll call Peng Tao..."
"Hey, Peng Tao, I'll go, what did you do last night, it's noon, you're still sleeping, get up!" "Still sleeping, sleeping your MB, get up quickly, hey, give you half an hour, speed up..."
A few friends made an appointment, Zhou Shaojin put down his mobile phone, although there were many classmates in school in the six years from junior high school to high school, and most of them had a good relationship, but the real personality mixed together is considered a dead party, and there are only three, Yuan Zhe, Liu Ming, Peng Tao, among the four, Zhou Shaojin and Yuan Zhe are academic tyrants, Liu Ming is average, this college entrance examination has just been on the line, Peng Tao is not very good at studying, but because he is a sports student, his cultural performance is still passable, so he also took a book this time.
Hung up the phone and looked at the mobile phone address book again, Zhou Shaojin was thinking about whether to call the squad leader Yang Min, after all, the other party gave him a greeting party last time, and asked him to call her when he arrived in the county seat, but after thinking about it, Zhou Shaojin decided to let it go first and get together with a few dead friends first.
"Damn, you finally know how to come to the county seat!" "I haven't seen you for a while, the young man is more handsome!" "I can't help it, my brother is naturally beautiful" "Yes, it's still a stinky fart" "Where to go first" "Find a place to eat first, I haven't eaten lunch yet." ”
Half an hour later, the four of them met downstairs in the hotel, Yuan Zhe was tall and thin, one meter seven five, with a gold-framed eye, giving people a Sven look, but after getting acquainted with him, he would understand that this guy was a Sven beast, the first teacher Matsushima Feng that Zhou Shaojin came into contact with was introduced by this guy, and then Mr. Boduo and Mr. Tianhai were also introduced by this guy, on this great learning road, Yuan Zhe was the guide teacher among the four. Liu Ming is a little handsome, short and short, very yang, the shortest of the four, one meter seven in his early years, Peng Tao is a muscular man, the long man is tall and big, one meter eight five is the tallest of the four, inspirational to be a bodybuilding coach, and he is also a sports student in school.
After a few words of greeting, at Zhou Shaojin's suggestion, the four of them walked into a hot pot restaurant on the snack street next to the pedestrian street.
"Where are the four of us going to eat?" ordered the food, Peng Tao said, looking at Zhou Shaojin, Yuan Zhe, and Liu Ming: "Why don't we go play basketball!"
"Go to play basketball on this hot day, you have a hole in your head, you sports maniac is not afraid of the heat, don't pull the three of us. As soon as Peng Tao spoke, Yuan Zhe coaxed.
"You also know that on such a hot day, then you still take Xizhou Garden, or two big men with Liu Ming, don't you have a pit in your head. Zhou Shaojin coaxed Yuan Zhe.
"Blame me, it's Liu Ming who has to pull me there. The principle pouted and pushed it to Liu Ming.
"I think we're going to just go and sing, there's air conditioning inside, it's just right. Liu Ming changed the subject.
"What's the point of singing in broad daylight, besides, just the four of us big men go to sing, you can't think of it, at least you have to find a few girls, okay!" Yuan Zhe looked at Liu Ming like an idiot.
"If you sing, let's wait for the evening, it's really not good, or let's go to the Internet café and have a few words!"
Seeing that there was really no good place to go, after thinking about it, Zhou Shaojin thought of opening the black, and the other three people's eyes lit up.
Yuan Zhe: "This can be had!"
Liu Ming: "Wow, Shaojin, don't pit this rookie who hasn't finished the positioning game."
Peng Tao: "I have a hunch, I'm going to overturn later!"
Zhou Shaojin: "MMP, every time I take you to fly, three silver scum!"