The Pentium Era - South to North

At night, the open space was brightly lit and crowded. The three of them squeezed into the crowd, each copied the names and addresses of several units, and then came out. They went to Haicheng Hotel first, and asked at the service desk which one was the cheapest. The room also cost 380 yuan, so I quit.

The three of them walked outside in a somewhat embarrassed manner. They looked at the people sitting leisurely on the sofa in the hall and thought, who are these people? Can they even afford such an expensive room?

They felt that there was no hope if they went further to the right, and they did not dare to enter the hotel. Liu Ligan saw a fashionably dressed girl standing there on the roadside, and wanted to ask if there was any hotel nearby, but he didn't say anything yet. , the girl said two hundred.

Liu Ligan was confused. The girl looked at him, then saw Zhang Chen and Jin Lili following them. She curled her lips and walked away. She walked three or four meters away and stopped again.

The three people were confused and looked around. They found that there were many such girls standing on the roadside.

The three people discussed it and decided that they wanted to find a hotel, which might only exist in the old city. They returned to the street where they ate pig's trotter rice. Sure enough, more than ten meters past the pig's trotter restaurant, they saw some food on the ground on the roadside. There is a plexiglass light box with the word "accommodation" on it.

Liu Ligan asked them to wait outside. He walked in and asked. After a while, he came out and told them that it was one hundred and two dollars per room.

"One hundred and two?" Jin Lili shouted, "My monthly salary is only this little."

The three people stood there, feeling that the money in their pockets was getting smaller and smaller, and soon it would be too small to be seen.

"Let's ask again if there are any beds. Just let Lily stay alone. We can't stay there anymore," Zhang Chen said.

"Then where do you live?" Jin Lili asked.

"The park, so many of my comrades live there." Liu Ligan said with a smile.

"Shameless!" Jin Lili scolded.

Liu Ligan went in, came out after a while, and told them, no, hotels in Haicheng don't charge by bed, they all charge by room.

"Forget it, stop looking. I'll follow you and sleep in the park together." Jin Lili said.

"That's okay, you're a woman." Zhang Chen shouted.

"What's wrong with women? I didn't see so many female college students living there. I'm more valuable than them? Damn, I'm more valuable than them. The company I went to today wouldn't want female college students, not me. Damn it." Jin Lili scolded, "If you ask me to spend a month's salary to stay for one night, I would rather sleep in a park."

The three people walked back again. They arrived at Haicheng Park. There were already many people in the park, piles in piles, and some were playing cards with flashlights. They found a piece of grass to sit down and heard the crowds around them. What are they discussing? From the tone and voice, you can tell which university they are from.

Jin Lili remembered that she had brought a bed sheet with her in her bag when she came out. She quickly took it out, spread it out, and then used wind oil essence to spread around the bed sheet to drive away mosquitoes. The three of them sat on the bed sheet. After sitting down, Jin Lili said with satisfaction:

"How about it? The sky is like a house and the ground is like a bed. The Red Army did the same thing back then. It's not that bad. Look, compared with them, we are the most advanced bed."

"It's just that my body is sticky and there's no place to take a shower." Jin Lili shouted again.

"I'm going to see if there's water in the public toilets."

Liu Ligan wanted to stand up as he spoke, but Jin Lili shouted: "Don't go, I've seen it before. There is a long queue at the door and the faucet is locked."

The three of them were lying side by side on the sheets. Liu Ligan said: "At this time, if we were in Yongcheng, we should be drinking a thousand cups on Gaofang."

"Annoying!" Jin Lili cursed.

"A hero doesn't mention his bravery. When we come out, we say goodbye to Yongcheng. There is only one way to move forward." Zhang Chen said.

"Okay, I agree with Zhang Chen's attitude, he is indeed my husband." Jin Lili praised.

"You're not bad either. You've already applied to two units before we even started." Zhang Chen said.

Jin Lili giggled and said, "Let me tell you, this job application is just like a woman's. The first time you are nervous, you think about all the things. After one time, you are fine and you are happy. It doesn't matter how you came here." .

Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan couldn't help but laugh. Liu Ligan asked, "How is it the same as a woman?"

"Go away!" Jin Lili scolded, "Ask Tan Shuzhen."

"Alas!" Liu Ligan sighed, "I wonder how Tan Shuzhen is doing?"

"What can she do? Just like that, she wakes up in the morning, babbling, then sleeps, eats, sleeps again, eats again, sleeps again. It's so great. You'd better think about yourself." Jin Lili said.

"I'm unhappy. I'm suffocated to death. Now think about it, if you stay in Yongcheng all your life, will you be suffocated to death?" Zhang Chen asked.

"I know, I may have thought coconut water was milky-white my entire fucking life," Jin Lili cursed.

Liu Lizhan was silent, and Zhang Chen asked him: "Gangzi, what are you thinking about?"

"I'm thinking, after I become a reporter, I will throw my press card in front of Tan Shuzhen's parents and ask his father, Comrade Lao Tan, I heard that you were also a veteran in the Wu opera industry. Let me interview you. , can you talk about your artistic experience?" Liu Ligan asked, "Are you handsome?"

"Not handsome, you should ask, Comrade Lao Tan, I heard that you used to be the king of Wu opera..." Before Jin Lili finished speaking, she started laughing, and Zhang Chen and Liu Ligan also laughed.

Liu Ligan said angrily: "Yes, I have written about so many kings, but why didn't I think of writing about Tan Shuzhen's father to flatter me? The most Lao Meng can charge me is the cost price, which is two hundred yuan. I will pay for the two hundred yuan." Well, isn’t it better than having wine delivered to your door and being thrown to pieces on the steps?”

Zhang Chen and Jin Lili laughed again.

The three of them looked at the leaves above their heads and the warm yellow sky between the leaves. They felt that Haicheng and even the night sky were warmer than Yongcheng, although so far, they had not encountered anything good in this city.

"There is a river in the far east, and its name is the Yangtze River. There is a river in the far east, and its name is the Yellow River. There is a dragon in the ancient east..."

From somewhere, someone sang "Descendants of the Dragon" by Hou Dejian, and then the park became quiet. After a while, someone started to respond, and then more people sang in unison, The singing was solemn, low, and seemed to be suppressed, but it was as if one could hear the pounding of hearts far and near. Zhang Chen and the three of them couldn't help but sing along.

Before the song was finished, a classmate started another tune, this time it was "The Internationale".

"Descendants of the Dragon" ended abruptly and turned into "The Internationale". More and more people responded. Finally, thousands of students in the entire park sang together. The singing was surging and soul-stirring. When the song came to "This is the last fight," someone sobbed, and the park was filled with cries at the end.

"What happened to them?" Jin Lili asked. Of course Liu Ligan and Zhang Chen knew what happened to them, but they didn't tell Jin Lili. They felt tears welling up in their eyes.

"No singing! No singing! Anyone who sings again will not be allowed to stay here..."

The joint defense team members who didn't know where they were coming from, their flashlight beams were swaying between trees, flowers and grass, while shouting loudly.

As soon as the singing stopped, there was a dead silence in the park, and the light beams and voices of the joint defense team members gradually faded away. Not far away, on Haixiu Road, the noisy market sounds could be clearly heard.

"I wonder if Chen Qihang and Lin Yiyan are in this park?" After a long time, Liu Ligan sighed and asked.

"They must be away. Didn't they say they are staying with relatives of their classmates?" Jin Lili said.

"I think I've figured it out." Zhang Chen said without thinking.

"What have you thought about?" Jin Lili asked.

"We have to make long-term plans. When we get up tomorrow, the first thing we do is to find a house, settle down first, and then find a job. If it doesn't work in one day, we will look for two days. If it doesn't work in two days, we will look for ten days. I don't believe it. In such a big Hainan, there is no place for us to gain a foothold," Zhang Chen said.

"Okay, I agree, otherwise we would be kicked out even if we went for interviews if we were so smelly," Liu Ligan said.