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Chapter Eight: The Siege

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    "People surrounded by the city want to escape, and people outside the city want to rush in. Whether it is marriage or career, most of the aspirations in life are like this."  Written preamble.  Although it is only a few words, it has already summarized the helplessness of life.

    If a person stays in one circle for a long time, he will get bored unconsciously and feel that other circles are also good, so he will unrealistically want to escape from the current circle and jump into another strange circle blindly.  Not long after staying in that strange circle, he would miss the previous circle again.  In this way, people jump around blindly, like a clown, wasting a good time and getting nothing in the end.

    And those who can keep their hearts, can restrain the instinct of animals to like the new and dislike the old, use the detached mentality of "whatever comes, let it be", work steadily in a circle, enjoy pain and joy, and finally, inadvertently, have already achieved fruit  Tired and tired, became a capitalized person.

    Li Shaohui, who returned to his hometown, a small city that does not know how many tiers, was greeted with infinite confusion after the short-term joy of reuniting with his relatives just after returning home.

    At this time, he was lying alone on the grand master chair on the balcony, looking at the ceiling boredly, and suddenly missed the life of working in Shanghai before. Although those days were anxious and busy, his heart would not be empty.  I remember the night Shi Lei left, Liu Datou described the sea drift like this:

    "Brother Hui, do you know the feeling of drifting in the sea at the bottom?"

    "I know, am I floating here too?"

    "No, no, you won't understand. You're not considered the bottom of the sea. Only I can understand the feeling of the bottom of the sea." When he said this, Liu's head had already drunk most of the bottle of liquor, and his mind  It starts to blur.

    Li Shaohui scolded with a smile: "What are you talking about? I came to Shanghai more than a year earlier than you, so I don't understand, do you understand?"

    "You really don't understand, you really don't understand." Liu emphasized stubbornly with his big head.

    "Okay, you know, you know, then tell me what it feels like to drift at the bottom of the sea?"

    So Liu's big head started to talk nonsense: "Brother Hui, let me tell you, only I understand this feeling, so you can just tell me, I have a salary of several thousand yuan a month, but I live in a house where the house price is a few square feet per square meter.  In a million-dollar metropolis, what I see every day is the little couple of you and me, flying side by side."

    "Don't you also have a girlfriend? That's Huang Yue." Li Shaohui glanced at Liu's big head sympathetically.

    "Yes, I do. I do have a girlfriend, but all I have is a joke. Why are you talking about her again? Don't interrupt me." Liu took another sip of his wine before returning to business: "I  Every day I hear who is getting married again, who is getting promoted, and even the smell is the aroma of money. I treat people with sincerity, but I am often made things difficult by customers. I finally get off work and can relax.  So what? When I returned to the shared apartment, I opened the door and walked in, and the smell of the toilet that had been blocked for more than ten days in a row, or maybe it was the creaking noise of the next door, disturbed people really tm upset.

    After a long time, I got used to it. It¡¯s not bad to treat loneliness as a kind of enjoyment. However, sometimes when I get hurt, the long-standing loneliness will burst out. You know what kind of feeling it is  ?  "

    Li Shaohui didn't answer, just listened quietly to Liu's big head complaining there, yes, in a metropolis like Shanghai, everyone is a clockwork machine, busy with work, time is tight, pressure is high, and human feelings are also lacking.  Indifferent, colleagues do not hug each other to keep warm, only intrigue with each other, so everyone does not get real enjoyment and happiness in their hearts, and they cannot find a sense of belonging. Although everyone has worked hard here for many years, they feel that they are still in Shanghai.  A total stranger.

    Li Shaohui thought that this situation would be a complete farewell with his departure, but he didn't expect to fall into the tiger's den just after leaving the wolf's den.

    In this unknown town, Li Shaohui already felt another layer of pain.  The environment here is dirty and messy, and the whole city is filled with a negative and decadent atmosphere.

    Many young people who don't want to go out and work hard have nothing to do all day long. They either lie at home with dead bodies, or spend all their time in Internet cafes and dance halls.  These short-sighted gnawing old people don't think about being like this when they were young. After their parents are gone, who will spoil them?

    However, small places pay more attention to human relations. If you want to find a better job, you don't rely on talent and ability, but on relationships. Relationships are king.  Those who find a job are complacent and supercilious, thinking that they will have no worries for a lifetime. As for those who can't find a job, they are depressed and complain all day long, but they refuse to work hard.

    And the comparisons here are particularly serious. Marrying a wife costs hundreds of thousands of dollars just for the bride price. It is said that this phenomenon was even reported in a certain year??It seems to have done some publicity, so that the price of betrothal gifts here is like bamboo after the rain, rising steadily, but people's wallets are ridiculously flat.

    So now when the neighbors meet, there is nothing else but to talk about money and show off, and those who have daughters who can marry are like treasures, and they seem to be able to make a fortune at any time, so they can't even walk.  It is heroic and high-spirited.

    Don't be afraid of poverty but fear of inequality. In the past, everyone in the countryside was all poor, so when everyone is together, they can chat and play in a friendly and sincere manner.

    Now that the world has changed, some are flying like chickens and dogs, and some are still rolling in the mire, so everyone's psychology has become unbalanced. The rich and powerful want to show off in front of the poor, while the powerless and powerless want to despise these things.  They are rich and unkind rich people, so now everyone is either comparing or sarcasm, let alone anything else.

    Li Shaohui withdrew his distracting thoughts and sighed in his heart. The countryside has changed, and it is no longer the same as when he was a child.  , the embarrassment of going back to the countryside¡±, just like what is said on the Internet, ¡°The city has deep routines, and I want to go back to the countryside. The roads in the countryside are more slippery, and people¡¯s hearts are really complicated.¡± This is probably why many young people who fled Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou stayed at home.  For a while, the reason why I couldn¡¯t wait to escape back to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, the reality is really naked irony!

    Li Shaohui couldn't help but think of the "Lhasa Fever" and "Lijiang Fever" that Xia Xue introduced to him. It seems that not only vulgar people can't escape this besieged city, but even those artists who claim to be literary and artistic are also struggling in the besieged city.  .

    Lhasa and Lijiang, such a beautiful and sentimental place, will naturally be yearned for by many people, especially the kind of unrestrained literary youths and artists. They even sold their houses and quit their jobs when Lijiang was hot and Lhasa was hot.  Persuaded by their parents and relatives, they insisted on going their own way and leaving their hometown, just to come here to realize their dreams, but are these really what they want?  Have they seriously considered it?

    Probably not, most of them are blindly pursuing novelty or avoiding the pressure of survival.  After a long time, these places have become commercialized, and they are not satisfied with the original beauty. These people are also tired of looking at the scenery, can't bear this kind of boring and empty life, can't bear the loneliness of this besieged city, and can only return to the real city in despair.  middle.

    By analogy, Li Shaohui thought of those girls who traveled poorly on the Sichuan-Tibet line. At the beginning, they also fantasized about traveling to see the scenery, understand local customs and customs, increase experience and knowledge, exercise endurance, and let their mood and improve their taste.

    But when they set off smartly with hundreds of dollars in their pockets, they will find that the idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. Do you still want to take a smart trip with a few hundred dollars?  You think that the enthusiastic and strong Kham men in your mind are all brainless two hundred and five, and you can be played around by you as you say a few times?

    So the chic poor tour turned into a dirty begging. In order to survive by hitchhiking, the smart women had to do anything at all costs, including begging with their bodies. Therefore, the Sichuan-Tibet line has also become a broad road full of gunfire.

    However, the current Kham men are said to have become smarter. They feel that such a deal is not worthwhile. It is too naive to want to be insatiable just by dedicating a body, and to get meticulous care during the trip.  So the current drivers don't want to pay any attention to these poor girls when they see them, and just drive past them.

    But now, Li Shaohui heard from his friends that this kind of dirty and putting the cart before the horse is still there. There are many poor girls in this vicious circle. Not only will they not be ashamed, but they will also show off.  Various websites uploaded beautiful pictures of the Sichuan-Tibet line and served them with chicken soup to show off their few-hundred-dollar trips, but they would never say what price they paid for it or what shady things they did.

    Just like today's sex dating has become a fashion, but Li Shaohui doesn't understand that you can play as long as you want, why do you have to wear the label of literature and art?

    After those strange men and women met, they first had a meal of flirtatious nonsense, criticizing money as the source of evil, and rich people are either profiteers or bullies;  Follow your heart and mind; they will also say that sex is natural, primitive, and should not be controlled.

    Then the two like-minded people have almost communicated, and in a dilapidated small hotel, amidst the creaking and complaining of the old bed, in their literary words, there will be another sublimation of love and desire, doing  After that, the two of them turned their heads and forgot about it, and there was no more intersection. Apart from the short-term pleasure, the two strangers sublimated from nowhere, and what did they sublimate?  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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