It's hard to change what you brought from your bones. Although Huang Mei and Chen Kun were a lot more polite along the way, the disdain seeping out of their bones was still faintly visible. Lu Shanmin didn't feel anything was wrong. He was a mountain villager himself.
They are migrant workers who have never seen the world, and the other party is a college student who is the pride of heaven. These are all facts and there is nothing to dispute.
Zhang Li thanked Lu Shanmin from the bottom of her heart. In fact, in her heart, she didn't feel any different from Lu Shanmin. Except for the diploma in their bag, they both went to the East China Sea alone with nothing. After arriving in the East China Sea,
Being in a foreign land, everyone is a fellow villager, which gives her a sense of intimacy. From the chat just now, she already knew that Lu Shanmin, like the three of her, was leaving his hometown for the East China Sea for the first time.
"Mountain people, what are your plans to go to the East China Sea?"
Lu Shanmin shook his head. He had no idea where the East China Sea was or what kind of place it was. "I have no plans yet."
Chen Kun smiled and said: "I said you are really bold. You come out of the mountains and dare to go to the East China Sea alone without knowing anything."
Lu Shanmin looked at the scenery passing by quickly outside the window and said calmly, "I don't know anything, so I don't dare to make any plans."
Zhang Li asked worriedly: "Mountain people, don't you have any relatives or friends you know in Donghai?"
Lu Shanmin shook his head, "No."
Zhang Li frowned slightly, what kind of place was the East China Sea? No one traveled together, she didn't have any relatives or friends in the East China Sea, and she had never been out of the mountains. She didn't understand how Lu Shanmin's family could be so relieved to release him.
After thinking for a moment, Zhang Li said to Lu Shanmin, "Shanmin, Chen Kun has a cousin who has worked in Donghai for several years. We asked her to rent a house in Donghai. If you don't mind, you can live with us first."
Huang Mei rolled her eyes, looked at Chen Kun and said with a smile, "Zhang Li and I share a room, and you share a room with the mountain people."
Chen Kun frowned slightly, feeling a little reluctant, but after all, someone had just found the lost wallet for the three of them, and he was too embarrassed to refuse directly. Considering that the rent in Donghai is so expensive, it wouldn't be a bad thing to have one more person to share the rent. Then
He also smiled and said to Lu Shanmin: "The East China Sea is not like the countryside. If you are unfamiliar with the place, you will encounter a lot of troubles. You can live with us temporarily and we can take care of each other."
Lu Shanmin did not refuse. When he knew nothing about the way forward, it was better to be taken by someone than to be alone. When hunting in the mountains in the past, the villagers would not go alone into unfamiliar mountains and would often invite people who were familiar with the environment.
people went together.
Chen Kun and the other three were talking along the way. Except for Zhang Li who occasionally asked Lu Shanmin something, Lu Shanmin was more of a listener. It wasn't that he didn't want to talk to them, but it was because Lu Shanmin couldn't get in the middle of what they were saying.
, Lu Shanmin really didn’t understand it well.
The train traveled for two days and two nights, and finally arrived at the East China Sea. When a group of four people walked out of the train station, Lu Shanmin was shocked. There were rows of high-rise buildings, and a huge LCD screen hung on the outer wall of the building. It was many times bigger than the movie screen in the village. On the screen,
All kinds of advertisements are colorful and overwhelming; the roads are four or five times wider than the roads in the town, and cars of various styles and colors flow continuously. I have only seen this scene in movies shown in the village before, but now I see it with my own eyes, and I can't help but be shocked.
I held my breath.
Not only Lu Shanmin, but also Zhang Li and the others were stunned on the spot. The three of them had already been fully prepared for the prosperity of the East China Sea. Even though they were there in person, they still felt that they had not anticipated enough. Compared with the East China Sea, the city where they went to university was the top.
It can only be regarded as a small county town at most. Chen Kun's blood boiled and he shouted, "I'm coming from the East China Sea", while Huang Mei stared closely at the women wearing fashionable clothes and carrying famous brand bags, with a look of envy on her face.
After Zhang Li was shocked, a trace of sadness appeared on her face. Does such a prosperous city really have its own place?
With different moods, the four of them got into a taxi, and Chen Kun reported an address to the driver in Mandarin.
"Is this your first time in Donghai?" the taxi driver asked in half-baked Mandarin.
"Yes, master, the East China Sea is so beautiful," Huang Mei said with excitement.
The taxi driver underestimated the word "country bumpkin" in Donghai dialect.
Although Lu Shanmin didn't understand what he said, his expression and tone showed that Chen Kun treated him exactly the same as when he first got on the train. For the first time, Lu Shanmin felt that even a proud college student would sometimes be looked down upon.
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Chen Kun was restless with excitement. He chattered nonstop along the way and kept pointing out the window. "Did you see a Mercedes, a BMW, and a Hummer? Look, that's the Range Rover 5.0T Peak Edition. It costs two to three hundred dollars at least."
Wan, this is my love. Wow, there is also a Lamborghini.”
Lu Shanmin clicked his tongue, two to three million. For a mountain villager, he had never heard of so much money. When he was in the village, if anyone had a deposit of ten thousand yuan, it would probably be very rich.
He is a rich person. It costs millions to buy a car, how rich he must be.
Chen Kun and Huang Mei couldn't stop talking. They were so excited that they began to imagine the wonderful life in Donghai in the future, as if those luxury cars and high-rise buildings belonged to their homes.
The taxi driver curled his lips. He had seen too many outsiders like this over the years. They were ambitious at the beginning, but in the end, except for a very few who could get ahead, most of them lived worse than dogs.
"We're here," the taxi driver said impatiently, interrupting Chen Kun and Huang Mei's beautiful thoughts.
When it was time to check out, everyone took a deep breath.
"Eighty yuan, how long have we been gone? Aren't you cheating me?" Chen Kun said angrily.
The taxi driver glanced at Chen Kun disdainfully, "This is the East China Sea, not your hometown's countryside."
Although Chen Kun is a college student, his hometown is also from a rural area. He usually hates people saying that he is from a rural area at school. Just when he was about to get angry, Zhang Li grabbed Chen Kun and handed the money to the taxi driver.
Chen Kun was so angry that he stamped his feet and yelled at the taxi driver, "One day, I will make you kneel on the ground and look up to me."
Lu Shanmin was not very angry. Not only was he a rural person, but he was also a mountain person that even rural people looked down upon. This was an indisputable fact, and he didn't feel that it was embarrassing. He just couldn't understand it. Confucius said, "The Great Way"
"Okay, the world is for the common good." Have the people in the city not even read "The Analects of Confucius"? How can they not even understand the principle that all people are created equal?