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The owner of the small supermarket is an old man with a bald head and a circle of half-white hair around his head, which looks ridiculous.

The old man was watching a small color TV behind the glass counter. On the TV was the cross talk of CCTV [-], which made the old man touch his bald head and laugh. He didn't take his eyes off the TV when he heard Zhou Ruiyang's call. Moved away, but elbowed the red telephone on the counter to Zhou Ruiyang.

Zhou Ruiyang put the one-dollar note in the small iron box on the old man's counter, and touched the lacquered telephone receiver. The receiver was slippery and a little greasy.Zhou Ruiyang took a deep breath. Over the years, the bakery disappeared and his uncle moved away. He was not sure that Shen Letong was still using that old phone number.

The handset was picked up by Zhou Ruiyang, and there was a little beeping sound inside. Zhou Ruiyang pressed the series of numbers in his mind with some hands, and the notes corresponding to the phone buttons poured into Zhou Ruiyang's ears along the handset. This "song" Zhou Ruiyang is very familiar with it, even when he closes his eyes and listens to the sound, he knows that he has pressed the button correctly.

After a series of numbers were pressed, Zhou Ruiyang bit one side of his cheek and spent a very long few seconds in his life.

......

The phone is on.

Zhou Ruiyang shook his hand holding the receiver, and his mind stopped for a moment. He was still thinking about how he would comfort himself if this phone number became empty, and where else could he go if he couldn't find Shen Letong , The only thing I didn't think about was what I should say to Shen Letong if the call really got through.

"Hello, hello."

After the phone rang twice, a man's voice came from the other end of the phone. It was clear and bright, with a slightly raised ending, which was Shen Letong's unique articulation method.

Zhou Ruiyang held the microphone with both hands and opened his mouth dryly.

"Hello?" The person on the other end of the phone didn't speak for a long time, Shen Letong felt a little strange, took the phone from his ear to check the signal, put it back to his ear, and said hello again in doubt.

Zhou Ruiyang stood up nervously, grunted his throat and said with some embarrassment: "Ah, Shen Letong, I'm Zhou Ruiyang, do you remember me?"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Zhou Ruiyang regretted it. Sure enough, there was a long silence on the other end of the phone. Shen Letong took a long time to react before connecting the slightly hoarse voice from the phone with Zhou Ruiyang's cheap face in his memory. stand up.

"Liar Zhou! It's been so many years, why did you just think of calling me? Where have you been all these years? Making a phone call will exhaust you to death, won't it?" Shen Letong suddenly got up from his desk and walked quickly Walked into the company corridor and yelled.

Zhou Ruiyang picked a sticker on the microphone, lowered his eyes and listened to Shen Letong's roar before continuing: "Xiao Lele, I didn't do it on purpose." Zhou Ruiyang paused, "If I go back, are you still there?" ?”

"Not here anymore!" Shen Letong roared, took two deep breaths before saying, "I'm in Mingyuan City now."

"Oh." Zhou Ruiyang looked at the back of the old man's head and nodded.

"You come to me." Shen Letong said, his voice has recovered calm, with a hint of determination, "If you can't get along in Ningling, come to Mingyuan to find me." Shen Letong knew that Zhou Ruiyang's life had always been difficult, he No need to ask, as a close friend, he just wants to help Zhou Ruiyang when he really needs help, like now.

"Okay." Zhou Ruiyang smiled, although no one saw it.

"Wait a minute." Shen Letong said while clutching his phone and walking back to his desk, and found the train timetable from the computer, "There is a train at [-]:[-] tonight, and it will arrive in the evening tomorrow, just when I get off work , I'll go pick you up."

"Hmm." Zhou Ruiyang said, and hung up the phone without daring to say any more. He was afraid that if he said a few more words, he would lose control of his emotions.

He wanted to go to Shen Letong and explain to him what had happened over the years, and then he might go back to Ningling or his hometown to find a job and earn some money, but what happened later was too vague, Zhou Ruiyang didn't want to go into details Thinking, he just wants to go to Mingyuan City now, and wants to talk to someone, really wants to.But when Zhou Ruiyang pushed the phone back to the old man's elbow, he remembered that he didn't have the money to buy the train ticket.

Zhou Ruiyang sniffed, and rubbed his arms forward on the glass counter, "Master, what are you looking at?"

"Cross talk." The old man dealt with Zhou Ruiyang while smiling.

"Oh." Zhou Ruiyang nodded, and said cautiously: "Have you cleared your goods today? I'll help you check them out."

"No need to clear it." The old man patted his head, "It's just the income minus the cost. I've been doing this all these years."

"Oh." Zhou Ruiyang replied with some disappointment, "Then let me clean up for you, sir. Where did you put the broom?" Zhou Ruiyang got up from the counter and looked around.

"No need, I scan it in the morning, and there is no one in the store, it's clean." The old man said, the first episode of cross talk was over, and the end credits scrolled on the small color TV, the old man stretched his waist and shook. Behind the sweatshirt on his body, he lay on the cold glass counter, staring at Zhou Ruiyang who was tapping the counter with his fingertips.

"Young man, I see what happened to you?"

Zhou Ruiyang looked up at the old man, puffed his cheeks and nodded.

"Lack of money?" the old man asked in a consonant voice.

"So, sir, let me help you with some work. If you look at it, give me a train ticket." Zhou Ruiyang said.

"The train tickets are not cheap now, just in my small supermarket, how can you earn them in a day?" the old man asked, asking Zhou Ruiyang like a deflated ball.

The old man shook his head and turned around, turned off the small color TV that was still playing the ending song, and took out a few scattered tickets from the small drawer under the color TV, put them on the counter, and pushed them in front of Zhou Ruiyang.

"My family lives in the north side of the top floor of the building in the back. My wife comes back every night to deliver meals to me, but she has a little knee pain recently, so don't let her run away. You can pick it up for me, by the way I will go back at eight o'clock tonight, and then the money will belong to you." The old man said, counting the money on the counter.

Zhou Ruiyang stared blankly at the old man, just like a wooden stake.

"Go, deaf, you child." The old man raised his eyes and urged Zhou Ruiyang.

"Ah, hey, right away." Zhou Ruiyang finally came to his senses, turned around and rushed out, almost tripping over the threshold and chewing shit.

"Oh." The old man shook his head with a smile, grabbed the cattail fan beside him, leaned back on the chair and shook it gently.

When Zhou Ruiyang came back again, his head was covered with sweat, he put the lunch box in front of the old man, grinning, "Master, auntie said that today I made a big bone stew for you and fried some dried tofu, hurry up Eat it while it's hot."

The old man was leaning back on the soft chair and almost fell asleep. He was startled by Zhou Ruiyang's sudden words, and he threw all the cattail fans in his hand to the ground in a jerk.

"Scare me, you kid." The old man rubbed his eyes and said.

"Yo, I'm sorry, sir." Zhou Ruiyang smiled as he wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Come on, thank you." The old man got up and touched the still warm lunch box, pointed to the few bills on the counter under the telephone and said to Zhou Ruiyang: "The money is there, you take it yourself."

Zhou Ruiyang licked his lips and scratched his head in embarrassment, "Master, I should thank you. I will definitely repay you twice the money in the future."

The old man curled his lips and waved his hands, "You young people like to make wishes blindly, when you get rich, remember who I am?"

"Sir, don't say that." Zhou Ruiyang smiled, "I will definitely remember you."

"Forget it." The old man said, "Hurry up, young man, don't delay the train."

Zhou Ruiyang turned his head and looked outside the door. It was already dark, so he didn't say goodbye to the old man again. He took out a few tickets from the phone and said goodbye to the old man.

The old man watched Zhou Ruiyang disappear outside the door of the supermarket. He hugged the lunch box on the counter and opened it carefully. Inside the lunch box lay a few bones, and under the bones were piles of dried tofu and rice. The old man picked up the lunch box in the interlayer Chopsticks, picked up a piece of meat and bone and took a bite.

"Bah, silly wife, I added too much salt."

Besides, in order to save some money, Zhou Ruiyang made inquiries all the way to the train station, and bought a standing ticket at the ticket office.The impression of Ningling City Railway Station and Zhou Ruiyang's is a little different. It is much more spacious than a few years ago, and everything is automatic. Zhou Ruiyang looks very fresh. High-speed rail, bullet trains, Zhou Ruiyang has never heard of these Nouns echoed on the radio.

Zhou Ruiyang waited in the waiting room corresponding to the information on the ticket, his eyes fixed on the text scrolling on the big screen, for fear of missing his own train.Later, after Zhou Ruiyang got on the train, he felt a little bit of security, quietly listening to the friction between the wheels and the rails, making regular "cracking" sounds.

Zhou Ruiyang leaned against the car door and looked out the window at night. This night, the train passed many places. There were dark suburbs with scattered lights, and brightly lit cities that were still busy late at night. These scenery Zhou Ruiyang has not seen it for many years, and all he can see every day is a small piece of sky that has been cut to pieces by the fence.Zhou Ruiyang envied Shen Letong and many people, envied everything they saw in their eyes.

The train rumbled, getting farther and farther away from Ningling City.