Prosperity is accompanied by glitz.

Despair and failure are accompanied by defeat.

The changes in the city and the acceleration of the economy have allowed prosperity to penetrate gradually from the surface, but behind this glitz, in the deep corners of the city, wrapped in cold high-rise buildings, there are some scattered and dirty old neighborhoods.

Lively, noisy, market, authentic.

The broken road is broken with a pit and a car, and the shops are lined with plaques and small shops. The Zhang and Li family complain about the difficulty of life.

A heavy rain a few days ago gave way to muddy roads in the old neighborhood behind the train station. Occasionally, a car passed by would force motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians to avoid the roadside. You can't drive quickly, and the crushing mud and water will attract pedestrians to curse.

Zhang Shidong parked his car at the intersection and bought a fruit basket at a fruit store. The fruit basket at the scale of this fruit store is obviously not a hot product. Zhang Shidong waited for ten minutes and asked the owner to piece together a new fruit basket with fresh fruits.

The memory is a bit blurry. The expansion and development of the store made him unable to compare his memory. He could only approach it by feeling. Occasionally, he stopped an aunt who bought vegetables and asked about the way. He found the familiar path, which was bent. One side was the courtyard wall and the other side was the back wall of the bungalow resident's back window. Under the corner was a drainage channel, moss and green hairs and some disgusting attachments. Whenever someone used it to discharge sewage, the flowing dirty water would bring out the vomited smell, and the smell mixed with pungent smell would float out.

The dog barks, the cat jumps, the runny nose, the faces are like a cat wearing clothes, the dirty marks are playing and running. Almost every yard door is open, and the aroma of cooking dispels the odor of the drainage channel. The tired men are sitting in the yard smoking cigarettes, and chatting with the woman cooking in the kitchen through the curtains about today's food and food.

Zhang Shidong stood in front of the penultimate yard at the end. The yard was not big. The two doors close together were closed and opened. A figure in the yard was wearing an old-fashioned sportswear that was fanning the furnace. Furious smell of Chinese medicine came to the nose, and thick smoke drifted into the sky, becoming another molecule that polluted the air.

"If you suck it like this, it will at least reduce the power of the medicine by three points."

The figure was shocked, and he turned his head with a smile: "I didn't expect you to remember this place, what happened in the afternoon..."

Zhang Shidong handed the fruit basket to the most beautiful joke in his mind. His old classmate Ling Jingyun dared to be so sure that he was not a person who bowed for money, because he understood that when he was in junior high school, the girl had already carried the whole family, so that it was not so difficult that she could drop out of school and work to support her family, but she could not give her a girl with brilliant youth.

My father is an employee of Pingjiang State-owned Machinery Factory. He died in work because of an accident. The factory's benefits are not bad. He compensated the Ling family a lot of money in one go. He arranged his mother to the machinery factory to become a state-owned employee. His father's departure also made Ling Jingyun's mother grow old and sick quickly. The workplace is still thinking about old love, but the monthly living expenses are only enough for the mother and daughter to live a life of slack off. The medical expenses required for her mother to get sick are always taken little by little from her father's compensation.

This family did not collapse, so Jingyun did not experience the hardships of society early. It was because his mother's medical expenses had not yet overwhelmed his father's compensation.

The Ling family that Zhang Shidong knew was staying six years ago. Now, it seems that more than six years have not changed anything. The girl who did not bow for money back then was still squatting in the yard and making unpalatable Chinese medicine for her mother.

"Auntie just went to bed?"

Zhang Shidong's words made Ling Jingyun stunned for several seconds. The naughty bad boy back then still remembered his mother's situation.

"The house is small, just..."

"Just sit in the yard."

Ling Jingyun subconsciously took a small stool. Before he finished speaking, Zhang Shidong continued the conversation. Then the two of them were stunned at the same time, shaking their heads and laughing. If it weren't for the change of each other's mature facial features and clothes, perhaps it would have been more than six years ago.

Since it was in the yard, Zhang Shidong lit a cigarette without any hesitation, and took out the hook under the stove again to let the heat drop down. Then, looking at the cheek that was becoming more mature and more delicious, there was a moment of cold weather.

Finally, Jingyun broke his brief silence: "There has been no news about you in recent years. Last year, many people asked you when the classmate reunion was held. As soon as Ah Guang came, everyone asked him about you, but he didn't know, and only said that you were in the army. When did you come back, and how are you now?"

Zhang Shidong spread his hands: "Isn't it still the same, I'm stumbled around, how is A Guang now? This kid has been very good at brains since he was a child and has been moving quickly."

Ling Jingyun shook his head: "He is very bad. He stopped studying shortly after you left school. Later, something happened and went to prison. He came out at the beginning of last year. It was very bad. His right hand was useless and his right foot was lame. I only knew that he worked in a car wash shop. Today, he had no time and it was time to get off work. I don't know where he lives and he doesn't know his mobile phone number. If you want to find him, I will go with you after you rest this Sunday."

Zhang Shidong frowned: "Tomorrow, if you have nothing to do tomorrow, take me to find him."

Ling Jingyun nodded: "Okay."

The ethereal piano monotone ringtone rang, which made Jingyun look at him and showed a slight helplessness and bitterness on his face, and more of it was the perseverance and strength in his eyes.

"Zhang Shidong, I still have something to do. You go back first. I will contact you tomorrow. I will tell him that he will not cause trouble for you. He is the mayor's son. We can't afford to provoke them. They are all adults. You should be more rational in everything you do. People don't fight with officials, so it's not easy to find a job."

"Well, thank you, then I'll leave first."

After Zhang Shidong left, he ordered Jingyun to put the medicinal bowl of the soup and carefully lifted it into the room.

On the right side of the door is a wooden door. When you open the door, it is a room of about ten square meters. A single bed, an old wardrobe, an old 21-inch TV, and a table, which is the whole room. A haggard woman lies on the bed, with her eyes closed, and she couldn't remove her tight brow even in her sleep. She put the medicine on the table, placed it flat in a basin, and injected hot water with a thermos to slow down the cooling rate as much as possible.

, walk out of the room gently, walk to the back in the corridor of only about half a meter, a small kitchen, on the right side of the kitchen, behind the house in front, there is only a small window in a small room of only a few square meters, and can only accommodate a chair except for a small bed and a desk. Once the chair is pulled out of the desk, there will be no place to stand. There is a small cabinet inlaid on the wall above the bed, which can barely allow the clothes to hang inside.

Close the door, and there was a slightly larger mirror inside the door. Jingyun sighed softly, then took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, clenched his fists, and whispered to the mirror: "Ling Jingyun, you can do it. After persisting for so many years, you can't compromise."

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