The phone in his pocket vibrated twice. This was the fifth time in three minutes. Jiang Cheng opened his eyes.
The car has been driving for almost three hours, the sky outside the car window is still gloomy, the girl sitting next to him is still sleeping, her forehead is resting on his shoulder, and her right shoulder is numb.
He shrugged a little irritably, the girl just tilted her head, he pushed the girl's head away with his fingers, but after a few seconds, the head buckled back on his shoulder.
This action has been repeated many times, and he feels that the girl is not asleep, but the effect is a coma.
irritable.
He didn't know how long it would take to get to the station. He didn't check the ticket when he got the ticket. He only knew that he was going to a small town that he hadn't even heard of before this trip.
Life is amazing.
When the phone vibrated for the sixth time, Jiang Cheng sighed and took out the phone.
-what happened
- Why didn't you mention that you were leaving at all
-Why did you suddenly leave
- why didn't you tell me
how how how why why why why BLABLABLABLA…
The news was sent by Yu Xin, and it was estimated that he couldn't make a phone call during the make-up class. At first glance, it was full of question marks.
When he was about to put the phone back in his pocket, the seventh message came.
- If you don't reply to the message, we will break up!
It was no longer a question mark, he breathed a sigh of relief, turned off the phone, and put it back in his pocket.
Breaking up means nothing to him. The two-month love on the high school campus is nothing more than talking more than other classmates, someone will bring you breakfast, and there is a dedicated cheerleading team for playing... I haven't had time to develop to be capable to what extent.
Looking at the scenery outside the car window that was always changing and seemed to be the same, the broadcast finally announced Jiang Cheng's destination. The girl next to her moved her head, looking like she was about to wake up. He quickly took a red marker out of his schoolbag, took off the cap of the pen and turned it around in his hand.
The girl woke up, raised her face, and had a big mark on her forehead, as if she had practiced magic.
After meeting his eyes, the girl wiped the corner of her mouth, took out her phone, lowered her head, pressed it, and said, "I'm sorry."
Didn't hear any apology? Jiang Cheng smiled meaningfully at her, and the girl was stunned for a while, and her eyes fell on the marker swirling in his hand.
Jiang Cheng put the cap on the pen ruthlessly, and there was a click.
After two seconds, she slammed her face, stood up and rushed over to the bathroom.
Jiang Cheng also stood up and looked out of the car window. It was gloomy all the way to this place, and it finally snowed. He took his suitcase off the luggage rack, put on his coat, walked to the door, took out his phone and turned it on.
The phone was very quiet, and Yu Xin's message didn't ring again, and she didn't miss a call.
It feels like this is the most comfortable time for her since she got along with Yu Xin these days, it's not easy.
But no one other than Yu Xin has contacted him.
Like someone he thought would come to pick him up.
Following the crowd out of the station, Jiang Cheng pulled the zipper of his down jacket all the way, looking at this city that looked gray in the cold winter.
The chaos and dilapidation around the train station was his first impression of the city.
No, this is a second impression. The first impression is that when his mother said, "Go back, that's your real home".
He dragged his suitcase to the southernmost part of the station square. There were few people, and there was a small street next to it. There were all kinds of small hotels and restaurants that felt poisoned after eating.
He sat on the suitcase, took out his phone and looked again, but no one contacted him.
He has the phone number and address, but he just doesn't want to move, he doesn't want to talk, he doesn't want to move, he took out a cigarette from his pocket, and he was full of deep, inexplicable, and dazed thoughts that he would suddenly come here. , desperate, angry.
Staring at the ice on the ground while angry, he took out the lighter from his pocket, shrank into a ball against the cold wind, and lit the cigarette. Looking at the smoke drifting away in front of his eyes, he sighed.
If the head teacher sees this, I don't know what to say.
But it's okay, he's already here, far away, not to mention the head teacher, even the people who have lived with him in the same room for more than ten years, maybe they won't meet again.
In this small school in this small broken city, it is estimated that no one will stare at him for smoking.
After only smoking half of the cigarette, Jiang Cheng was so cold that he couldn't bear it any longer. He stood up and planned to take a taxi and find a place to eat first. He dragged the suitcase and just took a step when he felt something hit his ankle. It's not small, it hurts him a bit.
He frowned and turned his head to see a skateboard behind him.
Then, before he could look up to see where the skateboard had come from, a man fell at his feet.
"How did you..." He reached out his hand reflexively to help him, but stopped halfway through.
Messy hair is loose, cut like a dog's gnawing, long and short, and the clothes on his body are quite dirty... Begging? tramp? Touch porcelain? Thief
When the person raised his head, he realized that this was a little girl who looked like she was in the fifth or sixth grade of elementary school. Although her face was covered in mud, she could see that her skin was quite white and her eyes were large.
However, the hand he wanted to hold on again hadn't been activated, and the little girl was dragged away by the four or five little girls who were following closely, and someone even kicked her on the back. The kick made her stagger and almost fell again.
Jiang Cheng immediately understood what was going on, he hesitated, turned around and dragged his suitcase to continue walking.
A burst of laughter from behind made him stop again.
When he was in a bad mood, he was not very willing to meddle in his own business. It happened that he was in a very special and very bad mood right now, but the dark and clean eyes of the big-eyed girl just now made him turn his head.
"Hey!" he shouted.
A few little girls stopped, and one of the eyes that looked raised his head slanted: "Why!"
Jiang Cheng dragged the box and walked over slowly, staring at the little girl who was still holding the big-eyed clothes. After staring for two seconds, the little girl let go.
He pulled his big eyes to his side and looked at a few little girls: "It's alright, let's go."
"Who are you!" The head was a little timid, but he still shouted in dissatisfaction.
"I'm the big brother with a knife," Jiang Cheng looked at her, "I can cut you a hairstyle of the same style as hers in thirty seconds."
"I'll ask my brother to come over and clean you up in a while!" It was obvious that the person who took the lead was not a repeat offender. Hearing this, he shrank a little, but his mouth was still unconvinced.
"Then you tell him to hurry," Jiang Cheng dragged the box with one hand and his big eyes with the other, "I'm scared to death, I will run very fast."
A few little girls walked away, but Big Eyes broke away from his hand.
"Are you all right?" Jiang Cheng asked.
Big eyes shook his head, turned back two steps to the skateboard, stepped on it, and looked at him.
"Yours?" Jiang Cheng asked again.
Big Eyes nodded, stepped lightly, stepped on the skateboard and slid in front of him, then stopped steadily, still looking at him.
"Then you... go home." Jiang Cheng also nodded, took out his mobile phone and wanted to call a car as he walked.
After walking for a while, he heard a voice behind him, and he turned back to find that Big Eye was slowly following behind him on a skateboard.
"What?" Jiang Cheng looked at her.
Big eyes don't speak.
"Afraid of them coming back?" Jiang Cheng asked again helplessly.
Big eyes shook his head.
"No, are you dumb?" Jiang Cheng began to feel a little irritable.
Big eyes continued to shake his head.
"Let me tell you, I," Jiang Cheng pointed at himself, "I'm in a very bad mood right now, and I'm very irritable. I don't know how to beat the little girl softly."
Big eyes didn't move.
Jiang Cheng stared at her for a while, and seeing that she had no intention of speaking, he pressed the fire and dragged the box and walked forward again.
The signal was not very good at the moment, and the interface for calling a car could not be opened. He sat down on the stone pier next to the bus stop and lit a cigarette.
Big Eyes was still on a skateboard, standing next to him.
"Do you have anything else to do?" Jiang Cheng asked impatiently, feeling a little regretful of meddling in his own business and causing himself an inexplicable trouble.
Big eyes still didn't speak, just kicked the skateboard lightly, slid under the bus stop next to it, and looked up for a long time.
When she stepped on the skateboard and returned to Jiang Cheng's side, Jiang Cheng guessed the reason from her confused expression, and sighed: "Are you lost? Can't go back?"
Big eyes nodded.
"Is it a local?" Jiang Cheng asked.
nod.
"Call your family to come and pick you up." Jiang Cheng handed her his cell phone.
She took the phone, hesitated, lowered her head and pressed it a few times, then returned the phone.
"What do you mean?" Jiang Cheng looked at a cell phone number that had been lost but hadn't been dialed, "Let me call you?"
nod.
"Fuck," Jiang Cheng frowned and pressed the dial, listening to the dial tone in the receiver, he asked again, "Whose number is this for your family?"
Before Big Eyes could answer, someone over there answered the phone.
Of course, she probably wouldn't answer either, so Jiang Cheng said "Hello" to the phone.
"Who?" There was a male voice.
"Passerby," Jiang Cheng didn't know what to say, "I have a little girl here..."
"Don't." It said.
Before Jiang Cheng could regain his senses, the call was hung up.
"Who is this person?" Jiang Cheng breathed out his smoke and pointed at his big eyes, "Get out if you don't speak, I'm running out of patience."
Big Eyes squatted beside his leg, picked up a stone, wrote the word "brother" crookedly on the ground, and looked up at him.
"Okay, I see." Jiang Cheng felt that this little girl might really be dumb.
He dialed the number just now, and this time it rang for a short time, and the other side picked up: "Who?"
Jiang Cheng glanced at his big eyes: "Your sister is here with me..."
"Tear up the ticket." The other side replied, and then hung up the phone.
"Fuck it!" Jiang Cheng had the urge to smash his phone, and pointed at his big eyes, "Your name!"
Big eyes lowered his head and wrote his name with a stone.
Gu Miao.
Jiang Cheng didn't call again, he just sent a text message with a photo of his eyes wide open.
-Gu Miao, dumb, skateboarder.
Thirty seconds later, the call came from there.
Jiang Cheng picked up the phone: "It's too late, the ticket has already been torn up."
"Excuse me," said the other side, "can you tell me where it is, and I'll go over and see if I can put it together."
"... East Railway Station, the one that's particularly broken," Jiang Cheng frowned, "She's lost, come over quickly, I have something else to do."
"Thank you, thank you very much," replied the other side. "I'll be there soon. If you're in a hurry, you can go first. Just let her wait for me there."
Jiang Cheng picked up the half of the cigarette he had just thrown on the ground and put it into the trash can beside him, then lit another one.
He originally wanted to call a car to leave, but he felt that no one cared whether he came or went, whether he was here or not, and he seemed to have nothing to worry about.
After sitting on the skateboard for a while, Gu Miao stood up and slid back and forth on the sidewalk on the skateboard.
Jiang Cheng was a little surprised after taking a few glances. He originally thought that the little girl was just fooling around, but he didn't expect that all kinds of uphill and downhill steps, acceleration and emergency stop would be easy to turn around.
It's just a head of hair that has been cut to pieces, and a dirty face and clothes that make people play.
After playing for more than ten minutes, Gu Miao slid to his side and stopped, her toes hooked on the skateboard, and after catching the board with her hand, she raised her hand and pointed behind Jiang Cheng.
"Pretty handsome." Jiang Cheng gave her a thumbs up, then turned his head and saw a black motorcycle parked behind him.
The people in the car couldn't see their faces with their helmets on, but their legs stood out on the sidewalk in slim-fit gray pants and booties.
Long and straight.
"Your brother?" Jiang Cheng asked Gu Miao.
Gu Miao nodded.
"What's wrong with your head?" The person in the car took off his helmet and got out of the car. He walked over and stared at Gu Miao's hair, "And your face and clothes... Did you fall into the cesspool?"
Gu Miao shook his head.
"You must have been bullied by your classmates." Jiang Cheng said.
"Thank you," this person turned his gaze to Jiang Cheng's face and stretched out his hand, "My name is Gu Fei, it's her brother."
Jiang Cheng stood up and shook hands with him: "You're welcome."
Gu Fei seemed to be about the same age as himself, but his eyes didn't look like Gu Miao's brother, not as big as Gu Miao's eyes... His skin was quite white.
Jiang Cheng’s current mood was very similar to that of a pot of rotten tomatoes, but Gu Fei’s hairstyle was as eye-catching as his legs, so he still glanced at the cracks in the rotten tomatoes.
He had a very short head, and when he turned his face away, he could see a staff pattern on the green skin shaved against the scalp on both sides, a bass clef on one side, and a rest on the other, Jiang Cheng couldn't see how many points there were.
"You just got out of the car?" Gu Fei glanced at his suitcase.
"En." Jiang Cheng picked up his phone and continued to click on the taxi app to order a taxi.
"Where are you going, I'll take you?" Gu Fei said.
"No." Jiang Cheng glanced at his car, no matter how big the motorcycle was, it was still a motorcycle.
"She doesn't occupy any land." Gu Fei said again.
"No, thank you." Jiang Cheng said.
"Say thank you to brother," Gu Fei pointed at him and said to Gu Miao, "Dung ball."
Jiang Cheng turned to look at "Dung Ball", wanting to hear what she had to say, but Gu Miao just held the skateboard and bowed 90 degrees to him.
Gu Fei stepped onto the car and put on his helmet. Gu Miao neatly climbed into the back seat and hugged his waist.
"Thanks." Gu Fei glanced at him, started the car, turned around and drove away.
Jiang Cheng sat back on the stone pier. The internet was pretty good at the moment, but no one took the order for a long time, and the taxis passing by kept beckoning.
What the hell is this place
Although he was in a bad mood, he never had time to savor it. He only felt that he had been living in chaos for a while, wrapped in all kinds of shock and daze, he couldn't even breathe, and he didn't even think about why he was I agreed to all the arrangements and got here.
Rebellious
As my mother said, we have never had a rebellious person like you in our family, with thorns all over the body.
Of course, they weren't a family at first, not to mention that they've been like enemies over the past few years, and anyone who sees them is on fire.
Jiang Cheng frowned, he didn't have time to think about it.
Until now, at this moment.
In this unfamiliar, cold, snow-drifting city, he suddenly came back to his senses.
Despair and pain and resistance to all the unknown made his nose sore.
When he lowered his head, tears streaked down his face.
When the phone rang, Jiang Cheng was sitting in a KFC where he didn't know where he was. He glanced at the unfamiliar number and answered, "Hello?"
"Is that Jiang Cheng?" The voice of a middle-aged man over there sounded.
The voice was a little loud, Jiang Cheng took the phone away a little: "Yes."
"I'm your father," the man said.
"...Oh." Jiang Cheng responded, this kind of conversation sounded a bit funny, and he couldn't hold back his joy.
The man over there also laughed twice: "My name is Li Baoguo, you know that."
"En." Jiang Cheng took a sip of Coke.
"Has your car arrived?" Li Baoguo asked.
"It's here." Jiang Cheng looked at his watch, it was two hours later.
"Do you have the address? I can't pick you up without a car. You can call a car. I'll wait for you at the intersection." Li Baoguo said.
"En." Jiang Cheng hung up the phone.
This time, I was lucky, and I hit the car when I came out. The heater in the car was still on, and it was so hot that I felt like I was about to have a fever.
The driver wanted to chat, but Jiang Cheng always leaned against the car window and looked out silently. He started several times without success, and finally gave up and turned on the radio.
Jiang Cheng tried his best to see what the city looked like, but the sky was already very dark, the street lights were not very bright, and there were snowflakes flying all over the sky in the halo, making people dizzy.
He closed his eyes.
It opened again soon.
I don't know what's wrong, just like a bitch, it's boring.
The car stopped at the place, Jiang Cheng got out of the car with his suitcase in hand, and stood at the intersection.
no one.
Li Baoguo, "your father" who claimed to be waiting for him at the intersection, was not seen.
Jiang Cheng suppressed the irritability in his heart and the pain that had been cut by the wind on his face, took out his mobile phone and dialed Li Baoguo's number.
"Hey, this is too stinky..." It took Li Baoguo a long time to answer the phone, "Hello?"
"I'm at the intersection." As soon as Jiang Cheng heard his movement, he immediately wanted to hang up the phone and find a hotel.
"Ah? It's here so soon?" Li Baoguo shouted in surprise, "I'm here, come out immediately."
This horse can last for five minutes. When Jiang Cheng was dragging the box and reaching out to stop the car at the intersection, a man wearing a Lei Feng hat ran over, pressed his arm, and shouted loudly. "Jiang Cheng, right?"
Jiang Cheng didn't say anything, he saw Li Baoguo running out of a residential building right behind him.
immediately
When he saw several heads looking this way from the window on the second floor, he really didn't want to speak anymore.
"Stayed at a friend's house for a while, and walked around," Li Baoguo patted his shoulder, "Go home and go home... You look taller than you look in the photo."
Jiang Cheng looked down at the muddy road and followed him forward.
"Hey," Li Baoguo patted him on the back again, "How many years has it been? It's been more than ten years? It's time to see my son! I have to take a good look."
Li Baoguo put his head in front of him and stared.
Jiang Cheng pulled up the mask around his chin and put it on.
Suddenly, I felt that the whole person was completely empty, and even the air was full of confusion.