Li Ran woke up in a trance.

Open your eyes and there is a cement ceiling on your head.

Aches all over, a swelling mind,

He sat up from the bed, leaned on the bed, and looked around.

A "unfinished house" was empty, and the broken bed made a painful "moan" as he got up; the rag-like curtains, the sunlight squeezed in through the hole, leaving beams of light inside the house; a smell of urine came from outside the window; "Oh, this seems to be my dormitory."

“How could I be here?

Didn’t this place be demolished long ago!!!”

A cell phone thrown on the bed caught his attention.

Li Ran subconsciously picked it up. It was a Nokia 5210. He skillfully pressed the boot button and the screen lit up.

{AM:8:50}

{August 3, 2002}

"The familiar feel is my own phone."

"What about my rice phone?"

"Nokia, can I play with walnuts?"

Li Ran got off the bed and smashed the wall with his fist.

"Hiss...it hurts, it's not a dream."

The backpack thrown on the ground, the open plastic braided belt, and the towel and quilt covered with it, told Li Ran every time: "Yes, this is 2002."

He stood in the middle of the room, squinted his eyes and looked at the light columns.

"What is the 20 years I have experienced in my dream? Is it a yellow beam or a dream of a butterfly in Zhuang Zhou?"

...

Li Ran scratched his head, looked at the dust floating in the light column, and secretly rejoiced: "Luckily it was a dream!"

Li Ran shook his shoulders a few times, shook his head, and stretched a few more times.

"How could I have such a strange dream? I must be too tired. If I had known that I had suffered such a disaster, why would I have saved that 250 yuan?"

In July this year (2002), Li Ran just graduated from university.

The myth of making money on the Internet has just been shattered, and it is particularly difficult to find a job for computer majors.

Li Ran, who was determined to be a programmer, took a lot of effort to find a job.

When I was a teacher at Gucheng Technical School, I was lucky enough to teach computers, which was considered a counterpart employment.

It takes 27 hours to get from Ping Cang in my hometown to the ancient city, and 3 hours a day and one night.

The sleeper is 570, the hard seat is 320, and the school only reimburses the hard seat tickets, and Li Ran decided to save these 250.

Then he really became a 250.

It is not that easy to sit for a day and a night. Whenever Li Ran really can't stand it and go to sleep:

The flight attendant pushed the dining cart over:

"Are you need beer, drink, mineral water, peanuts, melon seeds, and casual snacks?"; "Mopping the floor, lift your feet"; "Brother, lean in and let me sit for a while."

...

"Hey hey, please collect your legs in."

Finally got to the place, Li Ran hired a three-wheeled car to go straight to Gucheng Technical School, and the school's on-duty teacher took him to the dormitory...

The memory behind me is a bit blurry and I am too tired.

Li Ran took off his shoes and fell asleep, from yesterday afternoon to now.

A "wa" sound came from outside the window. As soon as the sound stopped, it was accompanied by a satisfied moan, and then it was "Ha, bah".

This sound is very picturesque, and you can tell what happened by listening to the sound.

"There is also a bird who is peeing under the ground of his window and spitting on the wall!"

He was a little surprised: "Why should I say 're Again'?"

Li Ran opened the curtains and the person who released the water had already left.

He decided to go out and check it out, then turned around and pushed the door and walked out of the room.

The she-guan Zhang Shuigen and Li Yinhua are an old couple who are drying clothes on the open space.

A rope was tied between the two trees, and a large wooden basin contained washed clothes.

"Teacher Li, are you going out?" Seeing Li Ran pushing the door out, Li Yinhua spoke on her own initiative.

Li Ran looked over and looked confused and instantly turned into fear.

He once attended a funeral between two people in his dream.

Li Ran looked at them in horror, without answering, and quickly left through the small door in the middle of the dormitory.

...

"Is this new teacher a ill mind?" Li Yinhua was startled by Li Ran's terrified eyes.

"This is a sleepy mania!

Think about how he looked when he came yesterday." Zhang Shuigen said casually, hugging his clothes.

The small door of the dormitory was the school’s playground. Li Ran stood beside the basketball rack, feeling the temperature of the sun, and was a little confused. He continued to walk through the empty teaching area and walked out of the school gate.

There is a small road at the entrance of the school, which is not spacious and a car can only pass through.

There is a river in front of the road, with a wider surface than a small road, emitting a strange smell.

When Li Ran passed by, someone in the tube building opposite the river threw half of the watermelon peel directly into the river.

The more Li Ran thought about it, the more wrong it was: "I went directly to the school yesterday, so why did I be so familiar with this road?

And how could I know the names of the two people just now?"

Finally, he got around outside the dormitory, and Li Ran looked up.

The red letter on the wall clearly states: "Urgent and defecation are prohibited here!"

There is also a line of brush words next to the red letter: "Sir, are you a dog?"

This is the first time Li Ran has been here, but the words on the wall have appeared in his dreams many times!

Li Ran stared at the words on the wall, "Don't be confused anymore!"

"The messy memories in the dream are all real!"

"It's either a yellow beam or a dream butterfly of Zhuang Zhou, or a rebirth!"

"Rebirth! Ouye"

...

Thinking about the twenty years in the dream, Li Ran smiled bitterly. He wanted to be a teacher and made a transition, but he didn't expect to work for the rest of his life. The dream was a little messy and many details were missing, but I still remember the main experience:

In the past few years, I was ordinary, working, studying, playing football, and traveling.

Always single, renting a house.

I have been to bars and KTVs for several years.

In 2008, I had to buy a house if I wanted to get married, but I realized that the money I saved over the years did not keep up with the increase in housing prices.

In 2015, it entered the stock market with full stock...

In 2019, we took out another loan to enter the catering industry...

The curtain call of life in 2022.

Li Ranxin said: "My life is really short and tragic!"

...

Li Ran slowly walked back to the dormitory, and a picture flashed through his mind:

He sat on a big stone, with lotus flowers in front and an ancient pagoda behind him. When the breeze blew, the lotus leaves all over the pond swung in the wind, and the bells on the pagoda were still ringing "ding ding dangdang".

He was facing the pond and sighing about life:

"Nothing has been achieved in the past few years!"

"I'm over forty, and most of my life has been wasted."

"Oh, it would be great if I could do it again!"

A young couple walked past Li Ran with two little girls. The parents looked at their phones while walking and threw the child behind them. The younger child wanted to pick lotus leaves. The distance was a little far, and he stumbled towards the pond. Li Ran hurriedly got up, stepped forward, reached out and pulled him. The child was fine, but he fell into the pond and inserted his head into the mud.

The picture is frozen and life ends!
Chapter completed!