He watched the old streets renovated a few years ago and took the airport bus back to the Yuming River Bridge in the county.
In just over a thousand days and nights, everything changed.
The lives of ordinary people have never been as full of rituals as those of BOSS.
There are no tall and magnificent buildings here, and there are no colorful and bustling streets.
Looking from the bus window, there is not even a building with more than 30 floors in the two scenic strips along the river.
The ferry at the ferry was still carrying cargo, and the sand dredger on the beach was rumbling.
On the fishing boats on Xiaoxizhou artificial island, there are still men basking in the July sun, trawling hard to catch shrimps and shouting loud chants.
In the side streets and alleys of Linjiang Main Road, there are stalls selling second-hand computers and mobile phones in front of the small market, but the entrance to the human resources market is still deserted.
There were not many people at the large curved counter of People's Shopping Mall. The goldware under the table was the same as a few years ago, but the shop assistants had new faces.
The asphalt intersection on Daxinganling Road has been renovated. A few years ago, this intersection would have been blocked for half an hour, but now it only takes eight minutes to cross the traffic lights.
The old residential area in Hexi has not been demolished. It is said that the demolition money is too expensive and the place cannot be demolished. Later, the municipal government simply put up a historical relic sign in this area for people to visit.
Here you can still see old posters from a few years ago, saying that a meteor once fell in an old house. The TV station also reported it, but then nothing happened.
Occasionally, a few familiar faces will appear in the streets where people come and go.
——All this made Jiang Xueming feel inexplicably at ease.
There are human fireworks everywhere, and there are people running around for life everywhere.
This is Hengyin City, the "big city" Xueming visited when he was a child. Ever since he was a child, all the rare things he had found flowed from this city to his hometown of Pingyang County.
"Brother! Look!" Jiang Bailu sat next to Xueming and pointed out of the bus window, "That's where you used to work!"
Jiang Xueming looked at his sister's hand.
The environmentally friendly absorption tower of the battery factory stands there, next to several long-abandoned cooling towers.
The workers wore simple blue work clothes and little yellow helmets and rode electric scooters toward the factory gate.
——Jiang Xueming was once one of them.
He responded: "Well..."
Jiang Bailu said enthusiastically: "Brother! When you were working in the second shift, you would ride to school to pick me up after get off work! I would hold you in the back seat. Then the two of us were speeding all the way.
Swish is home!"
He thought about the days when he worked three shifts, and the second shift was the most normal schedule. Work started at eight in the morning and ended at four in the afternoon. There were only two days a week when he could pick up Bai Lu and take him home.
Sitting in the back seat of her brother is when Bai Lu is happiest.
Jiang Xueming still just said "hmm", like a piece of wood.
Perhaps she felt that her brother was really boring, and Jiang Bailu kept her mouth shut and looked unhappy.
She reached across the bus aisle and stretched out her little hands to pull on Sister Xiaoqi's clothes.
"Sister-in-law! Sister-in-law! My brother bullies me! He ignores me! If he has you, he will ignore me..."
Xiaoqi slept soundly and didn't wake up at all.
"Don't disturb others' sleep." Jiang Xueming touched his sister's head: "Be good...obey me. I will take you to buy new clothes, buy you delicious food, and take you to see the cats."
"Okay!" Bai Lu immediately became happy and stopped disturbing others' dreams.
It’s just that Xiao Qi, who is sitting next to me, doesn’t know what kind of dream she has.
I could vaguely hear a few words murmuring in my sleep, as well as a crazy and strange smile on my face.
"Hold me...yes, yes...hold me tight...ah, yes, yes..."
Hear these words with unclear meanings.
Xueming and Bai Lu both had strange expressions on their faces, as if they were watching a horror movie.
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The bus stopped at the bus station of Binh Duong Agricultural University, which is the western suburb of Hengyin City and is close to the countryside.
From here, they have to choose other means of transportation to return to Pingyang County.
Xueming still has a few things to do before going home.
After getting off the bus, he put a hat and a mask on Bai Lu to prevent acquaintances from recognizing her.
He first took the two girls to a small market near Pingyang Agricultural University. He bought some cheap clothes, went to a quiet shop near the farmer's market, and brought back six pairs of fake shoes, preparing to go back to the lake to play with his parents.
Then we walked along the food street at Xiaodongmen to the entrance of the Agricultural University campus.
Many people on the road knew Jiang Xueming and said hello.
For example, the owner of the copycat Meiyijia's red sign, called Xinmeijia convenience store, saw Xueming and came to give him cigarettes.
"Hey! You're back?! I haven't seen you for several years, but your family seems to be looking for you!"
"Thank you boss, I still don't smoke." Xueming blocked the cigarettes brought to her with a polite fake smile.
He pulled his sister forward and heard the boss' laughter behind him.
"I'm looking for a wife! It seems I've made a fortune outside!"
At this time, Xiao Qi's face blossomed into a smile.
Jiang Xueming turned around and said a few words.
"It's a loss, it's a loss! I've lost a lot! I'm bringing my wife back and preparing to live a good life. Don't we still have a house at home?"
The chatter behind him also became lively.
"This kid is going home to eat his old age, hahahahaha!"
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At the end of the small east gate, there is a paper shop selling funeral supplies.
Xueming stopped when he reached the door of the store and stopped to watch.
Xiao Qi then asked: "Why don't you leave?"
"I'm looking for someone." Xueming replied immediately: "The owner of this store is very familiar with one of my elder brothers. After I resigned from the battery factory, they were very good to me and arranged a lot of miscellaneous work for me."
"Oh... what is it specifically?" Xiao Qi looked at the crowd of gods in the paper shop and felt inexplicably frightened. "It looks weird."
Those Buddha statues were different from the usual golden statues in temples. Under the light of the red lanterns, they looked evil.
It is said that things like human figures and dolls are made with the wisdom of the craftsman. The people who made these Buddha statues are probably not normal people.
Jiang Xueming didn't pay attention to Xiao Qi's words.
He just went in, pulled down the red switch of the lantern, and replaced it with a bright white light.
When Xiao Qi looked at the Buddha statues on the shelves on both sides of the store, she became solemn, happy, and healthy.
There is a Martial Saint Dharmakaya enshrined in the temple, with couplets written on the plaques on both sides.
The first couplet is called "But if you do good deeds, don't ask ghosts and gods."
The second line is called "How dare you come into my door if you feel guilty"
Write three large characters horizontally.
“It’s a bargain”
Xiao Qi thought in her mind that the meaning of this couplet was cute and cute, both good and evil.
She also saw that the Qinglong Yanyue Sword in the hand of the Second Lord Martial Saint was broken into pieces, and she wondered why a broken old statue was placed on the main seat of the shrine...
At this moment, a foreigner with blond hair, blue eyes and round sunglasses came out of the back room.
"Mr. Chen." Jiang Xueming said immediately, "I'm back."
This "Mr. Chen" is the owner of the paper shop. He is a serious American who has been in the funeral business outside the Agricultural University for more than ten years.
Jiang Xueming didn't know exactly when he came. He only knew that this fake foreign devil was very philistine and spoke filthy Chinese.
At first Xueming was unwilling to sell his youth in a battery factory, so he asked the boss to introduce him to a milk tea shop outside the Agricultural University to work as a handyman and occasionally deliver food.
"Oh! You're finally home!" Mr. Chen took off his sunglasses, revealing his blue eyes. He spoke with an authentic Beijing accent and looked at Xiao Qi again and again: "You even brought your girlfriend back! If Jiang
The old man knew that this matter must not be spread from the mouth of the dam to Shiwan, and the villagers from a hundred miles away could hear his bragging."
"Is Boss Ye in the milk tea shop?" Jiang Xueming asked about his old friend again.
This Boss Ye is Xueming’s former employer, and he has quite a lot of connections in Hengyin. Xueming has seen Boss Ye deal with people from the police station, and he is a very reliable person.
Xueming planned to send her sister to Boss Ye's store to hide for two days.
"It's not convenient for Bai Lu to go back, right?" Mr. Chen could see Jiang Xueming's difficulty at a glance: "I know, your parents will probably go crazy again when they see Bai Lu - I will keep this matter a secret from you. Xiaobei should be here at this moment
He's on a long holiday in the store, so you can just go find him."
"Okay, thank you, Mr. Chen." Jiang Xueming thanked him and stepped out.
Bai Lu also bowed and thanked: "Thank you, Uncle Chen!"
Mr. Chen curled his lips with a look of displeasure on his face: "Call me brother! Make your voice sweeter! I hate the truth spoken by those born in 2000 and 2000!"
Xiao Qi was still puzzled at the door. There was a gap in the cement floor in front of the store, which looked like it was made with a bullet. However, the depth of the spider web crack was as smooth as a knife or an axe. She just felt that this store
The store is becoming more and more mysterious.
Xueming was getting ready to leave.
"Wait a minute! Wait a minute, Xiao Jiang!" Mr. Chen took out an oil paper bag from the back room and stuffed it into Jiang Xueming's big backpack.
Xueming asked: "What is it?"
After stuffing the things, Mr. Chen zipped up the zipper and clapped his hands: "Just when you came home, I asked you to bring something to your parents. Don't ask what it is, and don't open it privately. I won't go there."
Don't worry if bombs are sent to your home."
"Well..." Xueming nodded: "Then let me say thank you again on behalf of my family."
Jiang Bailu changed her voice to a sweet one, pinched her throat and said in a pretentious manner: "Thank you, Uncle Chen!"
Mr. Chen rolled his eyes and almost tripped over the threshold and fell to death on the way back to the store, "I hate naughty kids..."
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After leaving the paper shop, Jiang Xueming found the main entrance of the Agricultural University and finally saw the first destination of his trip.
It was a gorgeously decorated beverage shop, with a ceiling made of clay and colorful tiles, and two porch pillars with reliefs of dragons and snakes. He still remembered that when he was delivering takeout to this shop, he leaned on the pillars and took a nap.
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Inside the store's porch is a mahogany counter and two rows of seats.
The plaque in front of the door reads [Wangyou Milk Tea].
It is full of the aesthetics of a nouveau riche, basically it means that you only spend so much money on the appearance of drinks because you have money and nowhere to spend it.
Jiang Xueming once suspected that the owner of this store had some mysterious side business and opened this store just out of interest.
The cat cafe and pet clinic next door are still open, and nothing has changed.
While Bai Lu and Xiao Qi were walking, they were so fascinated by the cat next door that they lost their minds and walked into the coffee shop together with their necks hanging out.
Jiang Xueming didn't pay much attention. He just came to ask someone to do something. He walked straight into the milk tea shop.
The three girls at the counter have not changed. The last time we met, they were still working-study freshmen. Now they have graduated and have no plans to change jobs. It seems that the salary offered by Boss Ye is really high.
Jiang Xueming greeted politely: "Hello, is Boss Ye here?"
"Oh! I'm squatting in the warehouse..." The girl at the checkout counter didn't even raise her head. She was playing with her mobile phone when there were few customers.
Jiang Xueming heard the sound and walked in: "Okay, thank you."
The little girl suddenly felt something was wrong and raised her head suddenly.
"Brother Xueming! Are you brother Xueming?!"
"Yes..." Jiang Xueming walked a little faster after hearing the sound, feeling that he was in trouble, "Let's talk about old times later, thank you."
He turned into the back kitchen, avoiding the bottles and cans in the kitchen, and came to the warehouse door. He was about to knock on the door but stopped.
Because he heard someone seemed to be having a conversation in the warehouse.
He thought in his mind that Boss Ye might be seeing guests and it was not convenient to disturb him, so he waited a little longer.
There was a noisy quarrel inside the door, as well as Boss Ye's low and playful laughter.
After waiting for a long time, Jiang Xueming was a little anxious.
He finally raised his hand and knocked on the door, then immediately opened the door and entered.
"Boss Ye, I'm here to ask you for a favor..."
Jiang Xueming immediately saw a picture with a lot of information.
Inside the door, a man squatted with an eyebrow scar on his face. He was wearing a clean sweatshirt and jeans. He looked very young. His messy hair was tied back in a braid.
It was Ye Bei, Boss Ye himself.
There is a flying chess set on the ground.
Apart from that, there is no one else.
This scene is very strange...
Because the person playing chess with Boss Ye is a big white cat.
The cat, like Ye Bei, has a very high synchronization rate, squatting next to the chessboard in a human squatting posture.
The cat wears a small skirt, a flower crown on its head, and a fire lotus pattern on its forehead.
It held the dice and chess pieces in its two little paws, its eyes were red from defeat, it looked aggrieved and fierce, and it stuck out its little tongue in worry.
Looking at the situation on the chessboard, it has lost many moves and pieces, and the numbers on the scoreboard are even more horrific.
The person and cat in the room all turned their heads at the same time - staring at Jiang Xueming.
Jiang Xueming frowned and thought to himself.
Could it be that the conversation and the noisy sounds that I heard just now were Boss Ye chatting with this big white cat?
Jiang Xueming's head was a little difficult to process this information, so he closed the door very politely.
He felt something was wrong, and then knocked on the door again, "Sorry, I took the liberty."
Boss Ye's deep reply came from inside the door.
"Come in, stay safe, hero."
Jiang Xueming heard the shouts from the door, calmly opened the door again, and finally broke into the warehouse in a serious manner.
When he faced him, he saw that the table had been moved to the center of the warehouse.
Boss Ye was sitting very evenly, as serious as a dog.
The strange outfit on the cat on the table is gone - the previous outfit is more like the punishment of women's clothing in a trick game.
After such an analysis, Jiang Xueming came to a very outrageous conjecture - Boss Ye was playing flying chess with this cat just now, and whoever lost had to wear a small skirt.
After all, Xueming has already been to the underground world, where the BOSS is also a black cat, but it looks much more majestic than the big white BOSS next to Boss Ye.
Unable to take care of these chores, he got straight to the point and stated what he wanted from this trip: "Boss Ye, I want to go home, and I just want to keep Bai Lu in your shop for a few days. She can help with the work. I will entrust you to take care of her. You
It depends on whether it’s convenient or not.”
Ye Bei snapped his fingers and smiled brightly.
"no problem!"
The cat responded expressionlessly, as if saying hello.