Chen Xiaomu has been wandering around the waiting hall for several times, his head is dizzy as if he has been stuffed into a mess, but he is not even a little sleepy. It is already bright outside, and more and more people are waiting in the waiting room. It turns out that there are still I could find a chair to sit on, but now it’s even harder to find an empty chair!
He turned around and found a dusty empty chair in an inconspicuous corner. He took out some toilet paper from his bag and wiped it hastily before sitting down. Looking at the bustling crowd in front of him, Chen Xiaomu actually raised his eyes a little. The feeling of being unloved.
After his mother died of illness more than ten years ago, his father had an affair in less than half a year. Since he and his stepmother got along almost incompatible with each other, his father soon tried to send him to an old and frail home. As for his grandparents, after his father and stepmother gave him a younger brother and a younger sister a few years later, he basically cut off all contact with his father's family. The last time they met was at his grandfather's funeral last year! Even when he held his wedding to Luo Siya later, he didn't notify his father's family!
Fortunately, grandpa and grandma also tried their best to take care of him and try their best to meet his minimum needs in life. Time passed in a blink of an eye. When he was admitted to college, in order to take care of his grandparents who had begun to have difficulty moving, he chose He enrolled in a local university in Xiuzhou, Xiuzhou University of Information Engineering. During the four years of university, he never asked for a penny from his grandparents.
Xiuzhou is the earliest port city designated by China's top leaders for reform and opening up. There are a lot of foreign businessmen here. Due to the language difference, it also brings them a lot of inconvenience. Chen Xiaomu saw the opportunity and established a real estate leasing company that specializes in foreign business. He had no money to rent an office, so he carved a contract seal and carried it in his wallet. Every Sunday, he would ride his bicycle to the advertising columns in various communities and copy out small rental advertisements, and then use his English skills to translate the contents of the advertisements into English,. He changed the above contact number to his own mobile phone number, and then went to Xiuzhou Development Zone Foreign Business Industrial Park to spread the word and post. These measures quickly made him earn the first pot of gold in his life. After four years of college, After graduation, others were busy with internships and job hunting, but Chen Xiaomu took his girlfriend Luo Siya all over the country. Just when he was preparing to continue to expand and develop the leasing company, his grandfather asked his old comrades to find a job for him in a state-owned enterprise. After getting a high-paying job, the older generation are more conservative. They generally believe that only by working with the state can they have a stable job. Private enterprises are too risky! Finally, at the insistence of his grandfather, Chen Xiaomu had to give up his idea and go to work in a state-owned enterprise. Before he and Luo Siya were about to hold their wedding, his grandfather and grandma both passed away within a month of each other!
"Hey, everyone, line up, grab your luggage and tickets, follow me, don't run around! The train is arriving soon!" A sweet soprano brought Chen Xiaomu, who was deep in thought, back to the real world.
He looked up and saw a pretty, tall woman about thirty years old. She was holding a small speaker in one hand and a small red flag with the Shennong Mountain Tour Group printed on it in the other. She was facing a dozen people wearing clothes standing in front of her. Men, women and children wearing uniform yellow sun hats with the words Shennong Mountain printed on them were shouting.
Chen Xiaomu's heart suddenly brightened, yes, it is better to go to Shennong Mountain for a tour. He had planned it with Luo Siya before, but because of trivial matters, he could not make the trip. Now it seems that he and Luo Siya are no longer together. We had the opportunity to go to Shennong Mountain together.
As soon as he moved, Chen Xiaomu immediately took out his mobile phone and searched for train tickets to Shennong Mountain on the 12306 ticket purchasing platform. The search soon yielded results. The train tickets to Shennong City at the foot of Shennong Mountain had already been snatched up. If he wanted to leave, You have to wait three days for another train to Shennong City, and it only has a standing ticket!
Chen Xiaomu refused to give up and hung up a waiting number under the platform, hoping for a miracle in the twenty or thirty minutes before driving!
About ten minutes later, the red lights on several ticket gates turned on, indicating that ticket checking was about to begin. Passengers sitting in the waiting room began to gather around the ticket gates, preparing to check in.
''Looks like I can't leave! "Chen Xiaomu sighed in his heart. At this moment, the mobile phone in his hand "dinged" and made a slight reminder sound. He quickly clicked on it and saw that the great immortal appeared under his alternate number. There was actually a picture. After the soft sleeper ticket was refunded, Chen Xiaomu immediately picked up his luggage and ran to the ticket gate. Fortunately, the ticket gate had just started checking tickets!
After Chen Xiaomu got on the bus with his luggage and found the compartment, there were two bunk beds and three people were already living there. A fat, bald old man who looked like a retired cadre lived in his upper bunk, and two small college students lived in the bunk beds opposite. Girl, through a simple conversation, Chen Xiaomu learned that the bald, fat old man on the upper bunk of his bed would get off at Zhongnan City, the next stop. The two girls had just graduated from college and went to Weishui City, the next stop in Zhongnan City, to attend a civil service interview together. Only she was going there. Travel to Shennong City, three thousand kilometers away from Xiuzhou.
Chen Xiaomu settled his luggage in the carriage, and then he felt hungry. He was ready to have a good sleep, but he thought he might as well go to the dining car to comfort his stomach first, otherwise he might not be able to sleep well.
Chen Xiaomu slept in the dark. He filled his stomach in the dining car in the morning and went back to the carriage to sleep. When he opened his eyes, it was already dark outside the train. The fat old man and the two little girls on the upper bunk of the carriage were nowhere to be found. When he got out of the car, sitting opposite him was an old lady who was as thin as a skeleton.
Seeing Chen Xiaomu open his eyes, the old lady opened her toothless mouth and smiled, "Young man, did you sleep well this time? I saw you sleeping when I got in the car at noon!"
Chen Xiaomu was startled by the old lady. He quickly sat up and said with a forced smile: "I stayed up too late last night. I happened to have nothing to do in the car today, so I just need to catch up on some sleep!"
"No wonder, then check your phone quickly. I heard the buzzing sound many times." The old lady reminded him.
"Okay, okay," Chen Xiaomu agreed while taking out his cell phone from under the pillow. Before going to bed in the morning, he was afraid that Luo Siya would call him and affect his sleep, so he set his cell phone to vibrate.
Chen Xiaomu opened the screen of his mobile phone and saw that there were more than 20 missed calls from Luo Siya, and two were fixed phone numbers from the company office. He opened WeChat and found that there were actually 100 missed calls from Luo Siya. There are multiple voice messages and they are still being sent!
Chen Xiaomu was embarrassed to turn on the voicemail in front of the old lady, so he turned off his phone.
"Young man, where are you getting off?" The old lady asked with concern when she saw Chen Xiaomu put away his mobile phone.
"I'm going to Shennong City." Chen Xiaomu had no intention of chatting with an old lady who looked like a skeleton.
"Oh, what a coincidence." The old lady patted the small dining table with her dry palm, "I also got off at Shennong.
After hearing this, Chen Xiaomu couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart. Isn't it fatal to have to sit in a car for more than ten hours with this old lady who looks like a skeleton?
The old lady didn't feel Chen Xiaomu's helplessness, and she was obviously a chatterbox. The less Chen Xiaomu wanted to talk to her, the more she could find topics to chat with Chen Xiaomu. Look, the topic of the old lady has come up again.
"Young man, where is your hometown?"
''Xiuzhou"
''Have a girlfriend? "
Chen Xiaomu thought for a while and replied with his eyes closed, "I'm married."
"What are you going to Shennong for?"
''Play"
"Young man, Shennong Mountain is not fun!"
"Why?"
"Because my family belongs to Shennong!"
"What? Your family belongs to Shennong?" Chen Xiaomu lay on the bed and opened his eyes.
The old lady nodded affirmatively.
"Then why are there so many tour groups traveling to Shennong Mountain?"
"They mainly want to see the savages!"
"Oh, are there any savages in Shennong Mountain?"
"Of course," the old lady's tone was very sure this time!
"Oh my God, there really is one!" With an exclamation, Chen Xiaomu turned over and sat up from the bed, "Have you ever seen a savage?"
The old lady nodded, "I've seen it many times!"
"Then what do they look like?" Chen Xiaomu's curiosity was aroused by the old lady's topic, and he didn't realize how scary the old lady's face sitting in front of him was!
"How should I put this?" The old lady thought about it and said, "They are similar in appearance to you, but not as good-looking as you!"
"Are they similar in appearance to me?" Chen Xiaomu was stunned, "Are they still savages?"
"Then do they have hair on their bodies?" Chen Xiaomu suddenly remembered that he had seen an image of a savage covered with hair in some movie or TV series.
"Some have hair on their bodies, some have no hair!" The old lady's voice suddenly became low, and Chen Xiaomu shivered for no reason.
He didn't dare to ask any more questions on this topic! Then he deliberately changed the subject and asked the old lady, "Does your family live in Shennong City?"
The old lady shook her head gently, "I live in Shennong Mountain!"
This time Chen Xiaomu was stunned because when he and Luo Siya were preparing to travel to Shennong Mountain, they checked some information about Shennong on the Internet. According to this information, no one lives in Shennong Mountain. National organizations Although the expedition team did not go into the depths of Shennong Mountain, they found no trace of human habitation even on the periphery of Shennong Mountain.
