The Pentium Era - South to North

The three of them, Zhang Chen, had been standing on the train for more than thirty hours. When they arrived at Guangzhou Railway Station, they were almost exhausted and too lazy to talk. When they left the station, their feet felt like lead.

It was already dark outside. Zhang Chen looked at his watch. It was around eight o'clock and it was very hot in Guangzhou. They took off their coats and put them on their hands. As soon as they left the station, a large group of women gathered around them holding signs in their hands. When I came over, some said "Shenzhen", some said "Dongguan", some said "Jiangmen", some said "Hai'an", and many more said "accommodation".

Jin Lili shouted: "We want to take a car."

The people holding up "Accommodation" moved away, while those holding up place names continued to walk around them. Liu Ligan saw one holding up "Zhanjiang" and shouted: "We are going to Zhanjiang."

The others all retreated, and there were still four or five people who arrived in Zhanjiang. One of them took Jin Lili's hand and walked forward. Jin Lili struggled and screamed.

The man said don't scream, don't scream, my car is the latest and the fare is the cheapest.

Holding Jin Lili's hand and refusing to let go, Jin Lili had no choice but to follow her. Seeing this, Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan had no choice but to tell the others who were still surrounding them that we were with her. We took that car.

The other people then left.

Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan walked a few steps and caught up with them. Zhang Chen asked the woman: "When we go to Hainan, can we just go to Zhanjiang?"

"That's right, we'll be there when we get to Zhanjiang!" the woman said.

The three of them followed her with confidence. Jin Lili said, "Let me go."

The woman looked back to make sure no one was following them, and then let go of Jin Lily's hand.

The three of them followed the woman for more than ten minutes. Zhang Chen asked, "Sister, where are you taking us? Why haven't we arrived yet?"

"We're here, just a little ahead." The woman shouted.

They walked forward for another ten minutes, but still had no intention of arriving. Jin Lili stopped and refused to leave. She shouted at the woman:

"Let's make it clear, how much further is there?"

Zhang Chen was frightened and thought, we are from out of town, she is from the local area, so don't be troublesome, he quickly pulled the hem of Jin Lili's clothes.

The man was not angry or upset, but raised two fingers and said to Jin Lili: "Two hundred meters, there are still two hundred meters."

Liu Ligan also advised: "Let's go, since there are only two hundred meters away."

They walked forward for a while, and every time they wanted to speak, the man raised two fingers. They walked two more streets. Jin Lili refused to leave even though she said nothing, and the woman was not in a hurry. Standing seven or eight steps away from them, Jin Lili waved to her: "Come here."

The woman shook her head: "You decide among yourselves whether you want to go or not. If you want to go, there are still five minutes left. If you don't want to go, you can go back. It will take forty minutes from here to the train station."

Jin Lili became angry when she heard this: "Damn it, I will die even if I die!"

Zhang Chen quickly grabbed her.

Liu Ligan also yelled at the woman: "Why are you so good at lying? I've been deceived all the way by you!"

The woman giggled and said, "I'm not going to lie to you, we really only have five minutes."

"You've been talking for five fucking minutes!" Jin Lili shouted.

The man still said: "There are really only five minutes left. You can decide among yourselves whether you want to go or not. If not, I will go on my own."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Zhang Chen said quickly.

The three of them stood there, Jin Lili insisted on going back, Zhang Chen said, even if we go back, we don't know the way.

"You have a mouth on your body, so you don't know how to ask!" Jin Lili shouted.

"No, she said there were five minutes left. I don't know if it's true, but she said it would take forty minutes to walk back. This must be true. Guangzhou is only so old. I don't believe it. We have been walking for such a long time. How long will it take, if we keep walking, we will almost reach Zhanjiang." Zhang Chen said, and Jin Lili stopped talking.

"I'll ask her again."

Liu Ligan said, and walked towards the man. When the man saw Liu Ligan coming, he took two steps back and said, "What are you going to do? Don't mess around. If I shout, there will be people all over here." They are our people."

Seeing the other party like this, Liu Ligan laughed: "I won't mess around, I'm just asking you, tell me one last time, so that no matter how much time you say you have, whether it's an hour or ten minutes, We all go with you, just tell me the truth."

The other party breathed a sigh of relief and said to Liu Ligan, "It really only takes five minutes."

"truth?"

"To be honest, if I lied to you, I wouldn't charge you for the ticket."

Liu Ligan came back and told them that she only had five minutes to tell the truth. Jin Lili curled her lips, do you still believe her?

"Believe it or not, we will walk for another five minutes." Zhang Chen said.

"Okay, help me carry my backpack." Jin Lili and Zhang Chen said, "I can't walk anymore."

Zhang Chen already had three bags on his body, one slung across his body, one on his back, and one in his hand.

"Give it to me." Liu Lipole took the bag.

The four people continued to walk forward. Jin Lili kept looking at his watch as he walked, and kept muttering: "Liar, liar, big liar."

No matter it was Zhang Chen, Liu Ligan or the woman, they all pretended not to have heard anything.

They passed the intersection in front and walked another sixty or seventy meters. The woman stopped in front of an open iron door, turned around, and shouted to Jin Lili in a loud voice:

"See, I didn't lie to you. Have you arrived already?"

There was indeed a large bus parked in the open space inside the iron gate. On the glass in front of the bus, there was a sign saying "Guangzhou - Zhanjiang".

Zhang Chen and the three of them let out a long sigh.

The woman walked to a lounge chair in the door, kicked the chair twice, and shouted: "Three."

The man who was sleeping on the chair opened his eyes a little and glanced at Zhang Chen and the others.

"Eighty." He spit out two words from his mouth.

"Alone?" Zhang Chen asked.

The man didn't answer, but the woman next to him said, "Of course I'm going to Zhanjiang alone, it's a long way away."

Jin Lili complained: "Really, you should ask about the fare at the train station. There are so many buses to Zhanjiang."

The woman rolled her eyes at Jin Lili: "So many people were brought here in the end."

"Can it be cheaper?" Liu Ligan asked.

The man did not speak, but raised a hand and waved towards the outside of the door, meaning to leave without sitting down. Zhang Chen and the other three looked at each other, and finally had no choice but to take out two hundred and forty yuan and handed them over. After giving it to him, the man took the money, counted it, unzipped the fanny pack on his waist, stuffed it in, zipped it up, and waved at them again, this time towards the inside.

"Okay, get in the car and find a seat." The woman called.

"Don't have a ticket?" Jin Lili asked.

"Ticket? Oh, no matter what ticket you want, he already knows you. You just get on the bus. You are in the bus. Are you afraid that the bus will run away?" the woman shouted impatiently.

The three people had no choice but to pick up their luggage and walk inside. When they got to the car, they saw that the car was in tatters. Liu Ligan cursed: "Liar, she said her car is the latest."

Looking back, the woman was no longer there, and the sleeping person continued to sleep. Jin Lili shouted, "Forget it, I'm exhausted, let's get in the car."

The three people got on the bus. The bus was empty. There was no one else. They went to the last row, put all their luggage on the seats near the back, and the three of them sat down.

They were so sleepy that they fell asleep soon.

Liu Lizhan woke up once. He saw a few more people in the car. He quickly looked at the luggage around him. They were all still there. He thought about it, opened his arms, and simply lay down on the luggage. He fell asleep again. .