Chapter Sixteen: Into the City
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On July 29th, the morning was around 8 o'clock, and after breakfast, Zhou Shaojin carried a small bag and walked out of the house. He went to the bus opposite the village entrance to wait for the shuttle bus to enter the county town at 9 o'clock. After leaving the house, he met people in the village all the way and said hello and walked on the bus opposite the village.
"The child has grown up!"
At the doorstep of the Zhou family, Zhou Jianguo and Yin Jinlian looked at Zhou Shaojin's back as they left. After a while, Zhou Shaojin's figure disappeared from sight, Zhou Jianguo sighed with a sigh and a complexity.
"Of course I've grown up, I'm eighteen years old, taller than you, and you think I'm still a child."
Yin Jinlian turned her head and looked at Zhou Jianguo and said with a smile. Zhou Jianguo also showed a smile on his face, but there was still a hint of complexity and a hint of sentimentality in his eyes. When the child grew up, he knew that he had considered his family, and as parents, they also grew old unknowingly.
"This time I go to Beijing to prepare 10,000 yuan for Shaojin. Although he has some money, the expenses will definitely be high when he goes to Beijing. I will bring more preparations. It will be more convenient to do anything when I want to do it."
After pondering for a while, Zhou Jianguo said something, then turned around and walked towards the house. Yin Jinlian looked at Zhou Jianguo's figure and said nothing, but nodded. She had been married to Zhou Jianguo for nearly twenty years and had been together day and night. She naturally knew Zhou Jianguo's character and habits. Last time, Zhou Shaojin proposed to go to Beijing to study this time and he paid for it himself. The original intention was to reduce the burden on the family. This was a good thing, but she knew that this must have touched Zhou Jianguo's always strong self-esteem.
When the child grows up, he has learned to be independent and considers his family. Everything seems to be unconsciously, which makes them feel like a dream, a kind of relief, and a kind of loss. It turns out that the baby who has been carefully cared for by them can leave their lives.
This feeling is very complicated, a little sweet and a little astringent. On the one hand, the children finally grow up and become sensible, which makes them happy and relieved. On the other hand, when the children grow up, it also indicates that they will enter society and become independent, go to the capital to go to school, and stay away from them, which makes them feel lost again!
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At nine o'clock, the bus arrived on time, not one minute earlier or one minute later. There were not many people on the bus, only three people, none of them knew each other, and there were many empty seats. Zhou Shaojin sat down at the right side of the window in the last row of the bus, paid 50 yuan fare, and the bus started again. Looking at the village slowly retreating from the sight outside the window, for some reason, at this moment, Zhou Shaojin felt a happy feeling in his heart. This feeling was hard to describe, as if he had left home and suddenly became free. Zhou Shaojin knew that this was his own voice. He longed for independence, longed for freedom from his parents' protection, and did what he wanted to do, and the birds learned to fly. Now, he longed for flying.
It takes about five hours to drive from Songzhu Village to the county town. Although the buses in the village are different from those between big cities. There are fixed parking stations to pick up passengers, and someone stops to pick up passengers on the road, but in general, it does not affect the itinerary. Along the way, Zhou Shaojin sat by the window and looked at the scenery outside the boat. Every time he took the bus, he liked to sit at the window and see through the scenery outside, which made him feel happy. He felt that he was a landscape party. When he was in school, he would go to Yuping Mountain in the county town on Saturday afternoon holidays, and liked to stand on the top of the mountain to see the scenery, which would bring the entire county town into his eyes.
Nearly five hours later, the bus stopped at the county bus station. It was already past two o'clock noon, which was the hottest time of the day. It was summer again, and the sun above my head was scorching.
Zhou Shaojin did not plan to call his acquaintance immediately, but planned to find a place to settle down first. He had been taking the bus for nearly five hours, and there was no air conditioner on the bus, and he felt a little uncomfortable with his clothes. He had to take a shower to solve the problem, so he became refreshing first.
I spent five yuan to get a taxi and came to the pedestrian street in the center of the county town. I found a hotel with a good environment next to the pedestrian street and opened a single air-conditioned room to stay in. I walked into the room, put my things in, took a cool shower, and then lay on the bed and blew the air conditioner. Zhou Shaojin felt that his whole life was getting better.
After resting for a while, then changing the clothes on his body and washing them. After checking them at the window of the room, Zhou Shaojin picked up his cell phone and prepared to call.
"Hey, sister!" Zhou Shaojin called his cousin Zhou Xia, the daughter of his uncle Zhou Aiguo, who is now working as a nurse in the county hospital.
"When will you get off work?" "Wow, it's past ten o'clock, I'm still thinking about you treating me to dinner. It's not going to be a waste." "Haha, okay, if you have a holiday tomorrow, I'll come to you tomorrow." "Well, then let's do it first, you go to work first, bye..."
After chatting with his cousin Zhou Xia, he learned that the other party was going to work until after 10 o'clock today and had a day off tomorrow. Zhou Shaojin lost the idea of going to his cousin's place to eat tonight, and called the second phone number. This was the phone number of his fourth uncle Zhou Ye. The fourth uncle Zhou Ye is his son and he teaches in the county primary school. The fourth aunt Yang Haixia works in Lingxi Hospital. The family lives in the city. Zhou Shaojin has always been very caring for when he was in school in the city.
"Hey, Uncle Fourth, yes, it's me Shaojin... Yes, I just arrived in the county town and came to the county town to play with my classmates for two days to get the notice!"
"Okay, I'll come here tomorrow. Sister Xia is on holiday tomorrow. I'll come with him when the time comes!" "Okay, then let's do it first, yes, bye..."
"Huh!" After calling, Zhou Shaojin breathed a sigh of relief when he looked at his cell phone. Although Zhou Ye has always been nice to him, he is an elder after all, and he cannot be as casual as he treats his peers.
After sitting for a while, Zhou Shaojin took out his cell phone again. This time he planned to call his classmates. Since he has arrived in the county town, it is time to find a few best friends to come out for fun.
When I opened the address book of my mobile phone, there were a lot of phone calls, including more than 60 students. When I opened the number, Zhou Shaojin called Yuan Zhe. Yuan Zhe was also a classmate he knew from junior high school to county No. 1 Middle School. The two have been classmates from junior high school to high school. They are also good friends, and they are both academic masters. This time, Zhou Shaojin was admitted to Peking University, and Yuan Zhe entered Tsinghua University, and the college entrance examination scores were only one point lower than him!
"Hey, Yuan Zhe, where are you?" "Xizhou Garden, I'll go. You can go shopping in the garden on this hot day." "I just arrived at the county town. Okay, come here, I'll call Liu Ming and Peng Tao to see if they are there. Let's get together later." "Liu Ming and you are with you, then, you two are 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 quickly!" "I'm still sleeping, sleeping, get up quickly, I'll give you half an hour, be quicker..."
Several best friends made an appointment, and Zhou Shaojin put down his mobile phone. Although there were many classmates in the school from junior high school to high school, most of them had a good relationship, but they were really close friends with similar personalities, and there were only three of them. Among the four, Zhou Shaojin and Yuan Zhe are academic masters, while Liu Ming is average. This time, this college entrance examination, Peng Tao didn't do well in his studies. However, because he was a student with sports specialty and his cultural scores were quite qualified, he also passed the first class this time.
After hanging up the phone, he looked at the address book of the mobile phone. Zhou Shaojin was wondering if he would call the squad leader Yang Min. After all, the other party said hello to him last time and asked him to call her at the county town. However, after thinking about it, Zhou Shaojin decided to put it on and get together with a few best friends.
"Fuck! You finally know that you are coming to the county town!" "I haven't seen you for a while, the young man is even more handsome!" "I can't help, I'm born beautiful." "Yes, I'm so stinky." "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 of the hotel. Yuan Zhe was tall and thin, 1.75 meters tall, with a golden wire framed eyes, giving people a gentle look. However, after getting familiar with him, he realized that this guy was a gentle beast. The first teacher Feng from Zhou Shaojin was introduced by this guy. Then Teacher Bodo and Teacher Tianhai were also introduced by this guy. On this great learning road, Yuan Zhe was a guide to the four. Liu Ming was a little handsome, short and very sunny. He was the shortest among the four, just over 1.7 meters tall. Peng Tao was a muscular man. He was tall and big. He was the tallest among the four. He was 1.85 meters tall. He was the tallest among the four. He was inspiring to be a bodybuilding coach and was also a sports student in school.
After a few greetings, 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 after dinner?" Peng Tao said, looking at Zhou Shaojin, Yuan Zhe, and Liu Ming: "Why don't we go play basketball!"
"You have a pitfall on basketball on this hot day. You are not afraid of heat. Don't pull us three." As soon as Peng Tao spoke, Yuan Zhe said timidly.
"You know that in such a hot day, you can still take Xizhou Garden and have two big men with Liu Ming. Wouldn't you have a pitfall in your head?" Zhou Shaojin said timidly.
"Blame me, this guy Liu Ming insisted on pulling me there." Yuan Ze curled his lips and pushed it on Liu Ming.
"I think we'll just go sing. There's an air conditioner inside, which is just right." Liu Ming changed the topic.
"What's the point of singing in broad daylight? Besides, we four big men are singing. You can think of it. At least you have to find a few girls!" Yuan Zhe looked at Liu Ming like an idiot.
"If you sing, please wait for the evening. It really doesn't work. Why don't we go to the Internet cafe Sihei to slap a few words!"
Seeing that there was really no good place to go, Zhou Shaojin thought of Kaihei, and the other three people's eyes lit up.
Yuan Zhe: "This one can be there!"
Liu Ming: "Wow, Shaojin, don't cheat me, a genius who hasn't finished the positioning competition."
Peng Tao: "I have a premonition that I will make a comeback later!"
Chapter completed!