Chapter Two: Longing for Tomorrow
Shortly after the Spring Festival, on a train bound for the south, Hu Jiankai, Zhan Hui, Yang Kexin, Yang Keyi and several other young people from the mountain village, Xie Fang and Xie Hu brothers, squeezed into the train. The train was already overcrowded.
Speaking of seats, even the aisle of the carriage was crowded with young people carrying large and small bags. It seemed that they were going to work in the south. Several people were standing with their backs on the seats in the aisle of the carriage. But these young people were very excited.
They have never traveled far or taken a train, so they don't feel tired at all. In their hearts, they are yearning for the pursuit of beautiful wishes and looking forward to a bright future. In their hearts, they have already embarked on the journey.
The train to happiness!
Zhan Hui stood in the aisle of the carriage, looking at the pitiful Yang Kexin who was leaning in his arms. Yang Yi was looking at Zhan Hui infatuatedly. They looked at each other. After a long time, Zhan Hui came close to Yang Kexin and whispered in Yang Kexin's ear:
"Kexin! You must be tired from standing. Thank you for your hard work!"
Yang Kexin shook her head and said: "Zhan Hui, you're not tired. I never feel tired following you!"
Zhan Hui was very moved and hugged Yang Kexin tightly!
At this time, the announcer's voice came repeatedly over the train's PA: "Please note, passengers, we are approaching Dongshan Station just ahead. Please take care of your luggage and wallets."
Yang Keyi, who was going on a long trip for the first time, frowned and muttered in confusion: "We are almost to Dongshan... Why do we need to take better care of our luggage?"
Hu Jiankai explained: "People who have been to the south by train have a popular saying, 'The train is easy to ride, but Dongshan is difficult.' This means that the public order in Dongshan is not very good, and thieves are very rampant. Everyone should pay attention to their luggage.
, don’t steal it!”
In fact, Hu Jiankai's explanation was also one-sided. When the train they took arrived at Dongshan Station, it was already two o'clock in the night. Many passengers were extremely tired and drowsy at this time, and the thieves just took this opportunity to commit crimes.
After stealing, and then getting off the train at Dongshan Station, the passengers misunderstood that the thieves were all from Dongshan, which was not necessarily the case.
While they were talking, seven or eight young people filed in from the front car. Some of these people were holding knives, and some were holding chains, wooden sticks and other weapons. As soon as they entered, they started to look around and saw sleeping passengers.
They went over to search them. Some passengers were timid and did not dare to resist even if they were woken up. The passengers next to them were trembling with fear and did not even dare to look. Hu Jiankai and others did not dare to say anything and stared intently.
own luggage;
The group of people cursed and crowded around Hu Jiankai and others. They glanced at Xie Hu who was taking a nap. One of the young men with long hair reached into Xie Hu's pocket and groped around. Xie Hu suddenly woke up at this time.
He came over, stared at the man and asked, "What do you want to do?"
The long-haired man was quite annoyed. He took his hand back and suddenly gave Xie Hu a slap in the face with his backhand, cursing: "I can do whatever I want, you poor man!"
I'm sorry this guy just touched Xie Hu but didn't find any money, so he called Xie Hu a poor man. In fact, after several people bought the tickets, they really didn't have much money left, and their families were also poor and couldn't bring much money with them!
Xie Hu covered his face and was about to have a fit, but he saw Hu Jiankai's eyes staring at him, indicating that he should not act rashly, so he endured it and lowered his head. Fortunately, these people did not stay much and passed by the other one.
In the carriage, several people felt relieved!
After more than ten hours of hard work and bumps, the train finally stopped at the terminal station the next morning!
The crowd on the train began to commotion, and people rushed to pack their luggage and get off. Hu Jiankai, Zhan Hui and his party wiped their sleepy eyes, stretched their numb legs and sore backs, yawned in their mouths, and followed the darkness.
The squirming crowd slowly walked out of the platform!
Passing through the passage and entering the train station square, the square is already crowded with people. I don’t know how many people are moving around. Passengers coming from north to south are wandering here. A heat wave and various smells hit the face, giving people a sense of
Feeling of suffocation.
Hu Jiankai shouted loudly, and everyone held hands, carried their luggage, and slowly approached the bus stop, because they had to transfer to the bus to Longcheng. In the square, they saw people who were accidentally kidnapped from time to time.
People who had their luggage stolen were crying and sad, and there were also frustrated thieves who were caught on the spot by the police; many private car conductors waved stop signs in their hands and shouted at customers. Hu Jiankai led everyone to get rid of these people, secretly saying this
The car the man drove was a 'pig-selling car'. Yang Keyi asked confusedly what 'pig-selling car' meant? Hu Jiankai just led the crowd towards the bus station and did not want to answer Yang Keyi.
At the bus station, a group of people queued for several hours and finally bought tickets for the bus to Longcheng that afternoon. Seeing that there were still a few hours until the bus departed, Yang Keyi, who was hungry, touched the small amount of money in his pocket and decided to go first.
Fill your belly.
She went to a small restaurant in front of the station alone and wanted to buy something to satisfy her hunger, but she was pulled away by Hu Jiankai who caught up later. Hu Jiankai sternly reprimanded Yang Keyi not to buy anything casually, saying that if she was not careful, she would be 'slaughtered'.
Yang Keyi stuck out her tongue at Hu Jiankai disapprovingly. At this time, the restaurant owner came over aggressively, raised his hand and slapped Hu Jiankai without saying anything! While cursing in southern dialect that he couldn't understand, he also kicked Hu Jiankai with his feet.
, Zhan Hui and others saw the situation and ran over quickly.
Hu Jiankai covered his hot cheek, pulled away everyone, and returned to the station waiting room.
Yang Keyi shouted angrily: "Why does he hit people like this for no reason?"
Zhan Hui and the Xie brothers even quarreled with each other, but Hu Jiankai tried his best to stop everyone and said sternly: "If you can't even suffer this loss when you go out, how can you face the future? Stop talking about it.
Everyone must listen to me until we reach our destination!"
Just as they were about to drive, Xie Fang, a boy from the same village, started shouting. It turned out that in the chaos just now, his luggage was missing. Hu Jiankai sighed again, shook his head and said, "I told you to take care of it a long time ago."
Take care of your luggage, you are so careless! Now you are in trouble!"
Xie Fang wanted to look for his luggage, but the station was crowded with people queuing up with their luggage on their backs, but he couldn't find it. Hu Jian said: "Forget it, I can't find it. Come over when you get there!" He led everyone up.
Got the shuttle bus to Dragon City!
The car drove for nearly an hour and stopped at a food stall in a place called Xintang. The driver and passengers shouted at everyone in the car to get off, saying it was time to eat. The passengers had to get out of the car one after another.
Those who went to the restroom went to the restroom, those who ate fast food ate fast food, and the deserted food stall suddenly became lively! Hu Jiankai and others also ordered a few cheap lunch boxes, squatted on the roadside and began to swallow. Although the food tasted very bad, but
It was a timely meal for everyone who was already famished with hunger, and several people ate it cleanly.
Just after the meal, another shuttle bus drove up. The driver of the shuttle bus that Hu Jiankai and others were riding on came out with a loudspeaker in his hand and shouted loudly in blunt Mandarin, saying that the previous shuttle bus was not going to Long.
City, Hu Jiankai and others were asked to sit on the next shuttle bus. Zhan Hui was puzzled. Hu Jiankai sighed and motioned for everyone to get on the next shuttle bus. After the bus was full of passengers, the shuttle bus
It started again;
Shortly after the bus started, several fierce-looking men who were already sitting on the bus stood up and asked for replacement tickets one by one!
A middle-aged male passenger wearing a jacket asked: "Why do you need to buy a ticket again? Didn't you just buy a direct ticket to Dragon City at the station?"
Before he finished speaking, the passenger in the jacket was hit with a stop board on the face, and he replied viciously: "If I tell you to patch it up, you have to patch it up. Why are you yelling?" The man in the jacket covered his hot cheek.
, did not dare to say anything, so he had to take out the money to pay for the ticket in fear.
Seeing this scene, the other passengers didn't dare to say anything more, so they had to take out their money to pay for their tickets.
Hu Jiankai also made up the votes for several people, glanced sideways at the angry Yang Keyi, and whispered: "Now you know what 'selling piglets' means!"
After a lot of trouble, the shuttle bus finally arrived at Longcheng Central Station in the evening of that day. There was no time to look at the beautiful neon lights and the constant flow of traffic. The group dragged their tired bodies to the rental house where Hu Jiankai rented with his friends.
In fact, this is just an old house that the locals have moved out. It is like a small temple, with a brick and tile structure, about 70 to 80 square meters. It is damp and dark, and exudes a peculiar smell. Hu Jiankai bought a few mats, Zhan Hui
The others couldn't care less and spread the mat flat on the ground. Their exhausted bodies fell on it and fell asleep quickly!
In the middle of the night, Zhan Hui woke up from a strange itching. When he opened his eyes, he saw that Yang Kexin, sisters Xie Fang, Xie Hu and others were already sitting on the ground scratching their bodies. However, it was caused by mosquitoes. It turns out that when the Spring Festival comes in the south,
The next March and April are the periods when mosquitoes are rampant.
A few people could only fight against the sleepiness while swatting at the nasty mosquitoes.
Suddenly, there was a noise coming from far and near outside the house, including dogs barking and someone talking loudly. Hu Jiankai whispered to scare everyone, climbed to the window and watched, and saw a car with flashing police lights and an iron fence.
The light truck was parked next to their rental house. Several people in uniforms and red-sleeved police uniforms were going door to door, checking for something, and pushing some people into the car from time to time. Hu Jiankai became nervous when he saw this.
He asked everyone not to make any noise and said softly that the security team was checking temporary residence permits.
"Temporary residence permit?" Yang Keyi asked puzzledly: "What is a temporary residence permit?"
Before Hu Jiankai could explain, the security team members had already arrived outside the house.
"Dong dong, dong dong" The door was knocked loudly, and Hu Jiankai had no choice but to open the door. In an instant, a group of people crowded in, and the Yang sisters were so frightened that their faces turned pale. The tall and thin leader seemed to
The man who looked like a captain started to ask in Mandarin that he had not understood for half his life: "When did you start living here? Have you applied for a temporary residence permit?"
Hu Jiankai took out a rental agreement signed with the landlord and showed the temporary residence permit he had already applied for to the captain. After reading it, the captain turned his head and looked at Zhan Hui and others, and took a look at their appearance.
The beautiful Yang sisters asked: "Where are yours?"
"They just came from their hometown today, and here are the train tickets as proof." Hu Jiankai answered and handed the train tickets to the captain.
After seeing it, the captain said to Hu Jiankai: "After the Spring Festival, many young people came to work from the north. The pressure on public security is particularly high. The superiors held a meeting and the investigation was very strict. They are asked to find jobs quickly tomorrow. In a few days, we will meet others."
The district checks for a temporary residence permit, and if you haven’t found a job by then, you will be in trouble if you can’t apply for a temporary residence permit.”
After saying that, he led several security guards out!
After Hu Jiankai obediently sent the security guards out, he turned around, closed the door, and exhaled in front of everyone!
After tossing around in the middle of the night, the sky was already getting slightly brighter. Hu Jiankai said seriously to Zhan Hui and others: "We are lucky today. We just happened to have a local security inspection. If it were a security inspection in another district, you would have been arrested by now!"
He said so bluntly that Zhan Hui and others took a deep breath.
Yang Keyi asked: "What will happen if you are arrested?"
Hu Jiankai said: "If you are arrested, you will be sent to an area hundreds of kilometers away from here to be detained, waiting for relatives to come up with money to redeem you. If no one redeems you, you will have to work there. After you earn enough travel expenses, you can go there again."
Repatriate to the country of origin.”
Chapter completed!