Do you believe that there are ghosts in this world
Different people must have completely different answers to this question. Some people believe it firmly, while others scoff. I know that some children will be scared by ghost stories and hide under the quilt to shiver, and some people just take it as a boring chat after dinner and just laugh it off.
I? To be honest, in the past 18 years, I have never thought about this issue. I was only busy with studying and taking exams, and I only wanted to be admitted to a university that satisfied my family. In the end, he never expected to die, but because of diarrhea in the college entrance examination room, he completely missed the ideal university and was assigned to a remote and ancient town.
My name is Gu Yu, and the story I want to tell you begins here.
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"Let's go quickly."
From just now, the woman walking behind me showed an impatient look, and the tugboat of the suitcase kept pressing on my feet. Now she finally couldn't bear it anymore, she urged me, and expressed her dissatisfaction with rich body language.
"Ah, sorry." I hurriedly dragged the suitcase forward to make room for her. The woman quickly walked past me, not forgetting to turn her head and give me a supercilious look, as if there was something urgent.
But I still walked slowly, and the suitcase made a dull sound behind me. This is also impossible, because neither this train station nor the city outside the train station are completely unfamiliar to me. I have never even heard of it in the past 18 years. .
After I showed the crumpled ticket in my hand to the ticket inspector at the station entrance, I walked out of the dilapidated small station. Before he took a few steps, a group of men and women with place name signs and old leather bags in their hands surrounded him.
"Go to Yancheng, this side of Yancheng!"
"Going downtown?"
"Hey handsome guy, are you going to Yancheng University?"
"Beitonghe, Beitonghe!"
"Gu Yu, hey Gu Yu, this way!"
I rolled my eyes inwardly. Shi Yitong was the only one who could mix people's names into a bunch of yells, making it sound like a place name. I struggled to get out of a group of soliciting black car drivers, and squinted my eyes to find him.
Shi Yitong was wearing a pair of green short-sleeves, black shorts, and a pair of sandals that were about to turn into slippers, bouncing around in the crowd and waving at me vigorously.
"Have you arrived early?" I was a little surprised, and hurried to meet him.
"No, I just had a meal, and you came out as soon as I came here." Shi Yitong wiped the sweat off his face, and snatched the trolley of the suitcase from my hand to help me drag it.
I didn't bother to tell whether he was telling the truth or being polite to me, but stared at his dark skin, thinking how many years had it been since Shi Yitong and I had met.
Shi Yitong is half of my junior high school classmate. Why is it half? It is because he suddenly changed schools in the second year of junior high school. It seems that he wants to move back to his hometown with his parents. Before he transferred to another school, I had always had a good relationship with him. The two of us often made appointments to play football between classes. After graduating from junior high school, I had no contact with him. It was not until I graduated from high school that I failed the college entrance examination and had to go to Yancheng, a remote place, to study. Only then did I know that Yancheng was Shi Yitong’s hometown, and he also went to the same university as me. So the task of catching the wind naturally fell on my childhood playmate.
Shi Yitong's skin is still so dark, it should be said to be a little darker than when he was in junior high school, and I don't know if he has suffered a bit after returning to his hometown. But the person is stronger than when he was a child, and he looks a little more handsome, but the problem of talking endlessly with one mouth is still the same as a few years ago.
"You guys have been doing well in the past two years. You are gentle and gentle. I almost don't recognize you. Are you stupid in reading?" Shi Yitong smiled and patted me on the shoulder. Before I could answer anything, this man He continued without stopping.
"But it's really hard for you. As a northerner, you suddenly go to such a small southern town to go to school. The climate and weather will not suit you, right? Let me tell you, it rains a lot in Yancheng, and it rains all year round. , when you arrive at school, remember to buy an umbrella and always keep it handy. But it’s also good, the air here is good, look at the sky, you don’t have such a blue sky in the north, right?” Shi Yitong suddenly remembered something, “Hey , Look at my brain, have you eaten lunch yet?"
It was not until he said this that I was finally able to interject, "Not yet..."
"It's already a little bit, and you haven't eaten yet! Walk around, there is a very delicious fried noodles nearby, I will take you to eat."
Involuntarily, I was dragged by Shi Yitong to an unfamiliar corner of a strange city. I wanted to say "Why don't you let me put my luggage back to school first", but I couldn't bear to interrupt his enthusiasm, so I just let him go up.
Probably due to the difference in climate between the north and the south, I can clearly feel that it is already autumn in my house, but it is still as hot as a dog day here. Coming out of the train station, tall sycamores are planted on both sides of the road. The street is very deserted. Occasionally, a few pedestrians ride bicycles across the road. Even if there are cars passing by, it is very quiet, as if it has merged with the city. Like one.
The school we are going to is called Yancheng University, but the full name is actually Yancheng Institute of Science and Technology. It is said to be a second-level school, but it can be regarded as a third-category school. When I came to college, my parents didn't send me, because they felt sorry for their son and thought that I could have been admitted to a college one by one. I personally don't feel particularly sorry, after all, I have worked hard in the past three years of high school, and no one can be sure about such things as having a stomachache in the examination room.
After Shi Yitong and I finished eating the fried noodles, we decided to go to the school to have a look. Yancheng University is very close to the train station, and it takes less than 20 minutes to walk. On the way, the two of us chatted again.
"Gu Yu, let me tell you, don't expect too much from Yan Da. I've heard people say that the school's conditions are not very good, and the dormitory has no air-conditioning and no private bathroom."
"Really? I'm fine. It's enough that the dormitory can accommodate people. There are not so many requirements."
"Oh, don't say that, you will have to suffer in summer. You have to fight for the toilet and the bathroom... Hey, just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle. But your northern district should be better than the southern district, you are humane College?"
"yes."
"Then you should be much better off. Hey, by the way, where do you plan to stay tonight? Have you booked a hotel yet?"