Chapter One
Lin Shaohua came down from the company building a little lost. He has been struggling very hard in this city and wants to live a "human" life, but life always knocks him!
The beautiful boss Chen Jingyan had just fired her. This 26-year-old glamorous beauty was as good as her position. She showed no mercy to Lin Shaohua. She scolded him for his performance for a while, and then ordered him to go to the Finance Department to finish his job this month.
The salary is gone.
In this city, "piao" people like Lin Shaohua are most afraid of losing their jobs and rent. Life is like two big mountains weighing on them. A salary of two to three thousand a month cannot be said to be able to save.
What, if you can cope with the current survival, that’s pretty good.
Because there is also a girlfriend living together, who is Lin Shaohua’s classmate in college. The girlfriend is tall and beautiful. After graduation, she worked as a model in a modeling agency. However, the girlfriend’s luck is also the same as Lin Shaohua’s. After two years, she has no luck.
Although she is not outstanding, she earns more money than Lin Shaohua, but it is far from enough to pay for her clothes and cosmetics!
Lin Shaohua is basically responsible for living, food and accommodation. The balance of the bank deposit is less than 500 yuan. Basically, he has to work hard to save this month's salary to cope with the salary next month. I also lost my job today.
What I got here was the settled payment of 2,600 yuan. Seeing that the rent was coming in two or three days, after paying the rent of 1,200 yuan, plus the 200 yuan for water and electricity bills, there was less than 1,200 yuan left.
How long can the number be sustained?
Looking at the endless high-rise buildings in this city, like the endless flow of vehicles, I remember the heroic wish I said to my girlfriend Yao Li when I graduated two years ago: "Yao Li, within five years, I will definitely
We want to have our own house and our own car in this city, and I want us to live an upright and respectable life in this city!"
Thinking back to Lin Shaohua's heroic words at that time, he only felt extremely ridiculed. Look at his current state of character, let alone five years, even in another fifty years, he will not be able to buy a bathroom in this city!
Frustrated and helpless, Lin Shaohua walked numbly on the street carrying his briefcase. The pressure in his heart made him breathless!
No job means no source of livelihood. No source of livelihood means no place to live and no food to eat!
Lin Shaohua walked past one station after another, watching the buses going one by one to where he was going. Lin Shaohua was really numb. He didn’t know how long he had been walking, and his steps were so heavy that they seemed to be strapped with dozens of kilograms.
Heavy iron blocks are common.
This section of the road has some slopes, and you can go over to the community where Lin Shaohua lives. It is indeed far away from the city center, but the rent here is indeed much cheaper. Everyone wants to live in the city center, but the rent is too high.
How could it be so cheap?
You can't have your cake and eat it too. According to Lin Shaohua, if it weren't for his girlfriend Yao Li, he would still want to rent a house in an urban village, which would be cheaper.
On the side of the sloping slope, an old man was pushing a tricycle upwards. The tricycle was filled with old books tied into bundles with ropes.
The old man's back was very stooped, and his vest was soaked with sweat, making him look extremely strenuous.
Lin Shaohua was a little pitiful. Although he was also pitiful, he didn't think about anything else at this time. He slung his briefcase over his shoulder, hunched over and helped push the tricycle from behind.
With Lin Shaohua pushing hard from behind, the old man immediately felt relaxed. Taking advantage of this force, he accelerated his pace. Lin Shaohua was panting from the push. The tricycle was indeed very heavy.
The car quickly reached the top of the slope. Lin Shaohua panted and sat down on the side of the road. He was really tired. While wiping his sweat, he looked at the old man in front of him.
It was downhill again on the other side. The old man was also very tired. He wanted to turn around and thank Lin Shaohua, but the weight of the tricycle forced him to walk faster. The brakes of the tricycle were also broken and he could not stop. The old man took a step forward and ran, while
He turned around and called out again: "Thank you, little brother..."
Lin Shaohua smiled bitterly, not even seeing the old man's face clearly.
There was a "pop" sound, the old man ran fast, the car was shaking, and a book fell from the bed.
"Old man, I dropped a book..."
Lin Shaohua quickly stepped forward and picked it up. It was a very old and worn book, and it seemed to be a handwritten copy.
However, the old man had already pushed the cart far away and did not hear Lin Shaohua's cry. After descending to the bottom, he turned a corner and entered a small alley.
It seems that he can't catch up. Lin Shaohua thought to himself, forget it. Just a hand-written book that is extremely broken is of no use. I guess the old man collects old books and sells them at the scrapyard to make money. This old book
It weighs about three to four taels, and based on the price of 50 cents per catty, it is only 20 cents at most, so it is not considered a loss.
I flipped through it casually and looked at the style and order. Sure enough, it was an old manuscript. It was turned from right to left, and the words were from top to bottom and from right to left.
Half of the cover page was gone, so I couldn't see the title of this old book. I looked at the words on the front and saw that it said something like "Illuminating the heaven and earth, shooting demons", "Wuji produces Tai Chi, Tai Chi produces Liangyi" and so on.
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After flipping through it again, I saw that "Tao generates one, one generates two, two generates three, and three generates all things. All things bear yin and embrace yang. When the qi is inflated, it is harmonious. The weather falls, the earth's qi transpires, and the two qi combine to form yin and yang."
"The dark clouds rise up and the yin and yang are confused, and the chaos is full of demons and demons fleeing. This is because the yin and yang give birth to the eyes of the sky"...
"I don't understand, what's yin and yang..."
Lin Shaohua muttered, thought about it, and didn't throw it away. He put the old book in his briefcase. Look, the calligraphy pen he used in his hand was still very good at writing small regular letters. It's not bad to practice with the pen. It's better than buying calligraphy stickers.
Coming will be better.
Returning to the downstairs of the community, Lin Shaohua saw a beautiful silver sports car parked in the passage in front of the building. The brand was Lamborghini. The driver's window was open, and sitting inside was a young man with shiny hair.
The man, in his mid-twenties, had a cigarette in his mouth and didn't even look at the people outside. He looked very proud.
As Lin Shaohua entered the building, he wondered again, such a beautiful car must not be cheap. No one who lives upstairs can afford it, right? Those who can afford it will not live in this place.
The house where Lin Shaohua lives is on the sixth floor. The houses in this community are all seven-story buildings with no elevators. It is a relatively old community.
After climbing to the sixth floor, Lin Shaohua took out the key and was about to open the door when he found that the door to his home was half open. He couldn't help but be surprised. Could a robber be coming?
Lin Shaohua held his breath and carefully pushed the door open. At a glance, he saw his girlfriend Yao Li packing clothes and putting them in her suitcase. She couldn't help but be surprised: "Xiao Li, you... you don't have to go to work today?"
When Yao Li saw Lin Shaohua coming back, she was stunned. After thinking about it, she zipped up her suitcase and said to him: "Shaohua, it doesn't matter if you are back, I have to tell you anyway!"
Lin Shaohua suddenly had an ominous premonition and couldn't help but take a few more breaths.
Yao Li sighed and said: "Shaohua, I know you are very kind to me, and I know you are a good person, but you can't satisfy me with your kindness, and I am really afraid of living. Alas... let's break up!"
Lin Shaohua's mind suddenly went "bang", his eyes were dark, and his mind was blank. It took him a long time to wake up, and the face of Yao Li in front of him was cold and absolute.
Seeing this expression, Lin Shaohua knew that Yao Li was definitely not joking. It was just a five-year relationship, five years of getting along day and night, and it was just broken off?
"Is there anything I didn't do well?"
After staying for a while, Lin Shaohua struggled to say a word.
Yao Li shook her head and said: "It's not your fault, it's my fault. I don't want to live like this anymore. I don't want to squeeze into the bus, climb to the sixth floor, or eat pickled steamed buns..."
Lin Shaohua's heart was pounding and bleeding, but he still struggled and said: "Xiaoli, I... I will work hard, and I will earn it... in the future..."
Having said that, Lin Shaohua's words were so powerless and weak that even he could hear them!
"I can't wait!"
Yao Li replied coldly: "Lin Shaohua, let's be realistic. You and I are both twenty-five this year. Life is short and I can't afford to wait!"
As she spoke, she dragged her suitcase toward the door. Lin Shaohua stretched out his hand to pull her and try to dissuade her, but Yao Li waved her hand and said, "Don't pull me, I won't stay..."
Yao Li walked to the door and stopped again. After thinking for a while, she said: "Shaohua, have you seen the Lamborghini downstairs? That car is worth 3.8 million. I don't think you can even dream of it in your life."
I will think, that is the car driven by my new boyfriend. If you really like me, then don’t stop me from living a good life. A woman once said that she would rather cry in a BMW.
I don’t want to laugh while sitting on a bicycle, that’s what I mean…”
When Lin Shaohua heard this, he couldn't think of anything else. He didn't hear the door closing when Yao Li left, but just collapsed on the ground.
Men don't shed tears easily because they haven't felt sad yet, but Lin Shaohua was sad, and his heart felt like it was cut into pieces by a knife. Tears flowed freely, and he couldn't see anything in his eyes.
I don't know how long it took, but Lin Shaohua felt his body was cold, so he got up, but his eyes were blurry. He stretched out his hand and rubbed it, but he still couldn't see clearly. It seemed that his hands were red, like blood.
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Unable to see anything, Lin Shaohua immediately took his briefcase and tried to take out a tissue to wipe his eyes, but he couldn't find any tissue. There was only a book. Without thinking much, he immediately took out the book and put it against his eyes.
Chapter completed!