Sitting on the side of the road with the traffic coming and going, only smoke can save me from loneliness and confusion about the city.


    After two cigarettes, a scooter without a license plate stopped in front of me, and a man with dreadlocks, shorts and slippers lit a cigarette and asked condescendingly, "Did you contact me and book a bed at the Fengrenyuan Youth Hostel?" ”


    I hurriedly stood up and asked, "Yes, it''s me." ”


    "I''m the innkeeper, just call me Iron Man."


    "Iron Man?"


    He smiled and explained: "In Dali, not many people use their real names. People who come here want to forget something, and the name is the lowest cost of the things that can be forgotten, so everyone does it. ”


    Iron Man''s words stabbed me so much that he was silent for a moment before replying, "Hello, just call me Michael." ”


    Tie Nan patted me on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don''t bring the politeness of the big city to Dali, we are quite casual, I don''t like hello, thank you or something." ”


    The Iron Man drove me through several unlit alleys until I finally arrived at his inn, which was pitch black and had no business atmosphere at all.


    Tie Nan said to me while opening the iron door: "Recently, Erhai Lake has been regulated, and all the nearby inns and hotels have been closed for rectification, and we have been cut off from water and electricity, so you are the last guest I pick up at my inn." ”


    "If the water and electricity are gone, can we guarantee our lives?"


    "It''s okay, I pulled a water pipe and wires from the farmer''s house next door, and my life can be guaranteed. But after 8 o''clock, it''s best not to turn on the lights, for fear that someone will check. ”


    I smiled and replied, "No wonder your beds are so cheap!" ”


    "Isn''t it, 15 yuan a day, there has never been an inn in the entire history of Dali. Such a shameful thing is really something I can do. ”


    Iron Man turned on a barely lit lamp, led me into the room, and asked me, "Are you a smoker?" ”


    I didn''t quite understand what he meant by asking, so I replied very conservatively: "Sometimes I take a little." ”


    "If you smoke it, you can share a room with me."


    "No problem. By the way, I see that there are a lot of beds in this room, except for the two of us, there are other people, right? ”


    "There is also a man who sings in a bar, Ma Gui, who has lived in this house for half a year. But you have to bear with it, this buddy''s feet stink! ”


    The iron man helped me put my luggage into the cabinet and said to me: "The wireless network is also next door, if the signal is not good, climb to the upper bunk, there can be two compartments." ”


    Although I didn''t care too much, I still replied with ridicule: "Living here with you, if you don''t do a good job in the construction of your heart, you really can''t stand it!" ”


    "It''s cheap."


    "Yes, I can buy a few more packs of cigarettes to smoke."


    After settling me, Tie Nan left, he and a few buddies were drinking on Renmin Road, and they ran to pick me up halfway, and they had to go back and finish the wine.


    He left, and the whole hostel didn''t seem to have anything to breathe, and it is estimated that this guy didn''t dare to really go against the policy, and he only accepted me and Ma Dao two long-term tenants. I don''t know how long Director Ma will stay here, but I just paid two months'' rent anyway.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.


    I don''t mind the trouble of relying on the water and electricity here, and I even like it a little, because it gives me a lot of space to think quietly, just like when I was a child, everything was underdeveloped, but there were few unhappy and lonely troubles.


    However, the shoes left behind by the horse guide were so smelly that I couldn''t rest in my room, let alone eat.


    I found a handy bag to seal the horse guide''s shoes, finally had the appetite to eat a bowl of instant noodles, and then lay on the bed, facing the twinkling starry sky outside the skylight, but my heart was very empty. It wasn''t until I lit a cigarette that I found a little bit of a feeling of being alive.


    I habitually picked up my phone, except for an official message of "Welcome to Dali", no one asked me again. I wanted to talk to someone, and then I found the last message I had sent to Wang Lei in the chat log.


    She asked me: Have you thought about when to go to Dali, and I replied: I am considering it


    At the moment, I am in a small hotel in Dali, but she is forever gone.


    I really missed her and wanted to have a few more drinks with her at some tavern and listen to her complain in Sichuan about the disrespectful guests who disrespected her. But she is like a flower that has bloomed, and even if it sprouts again, it can only bloom on the other side that I will never see.


    In the dim light, I spent all my time making assumptions. If Wang Lei hadn''t died, I would have opened a money-making inn in Dali as she wished, and in a few years, I would have taken her over and run the inn as our home together, wouldn''t it be a very beautiful thing?


    Suppose the more you do it, the more painful it will be, because you will regret it. I should have promised Wang Lei, and then persuaded her to come along, maybe that kind of tragedy would not have happened.


    I thought of Lu Jia again, who didn''t know where she was, and didn''t have a lot of emotions, just because I still missed her, and I was a little sad.


    Finally someone contacted me, but it was the one I wanted to avoid. To be honest, after knowing Lao Huang''s true motives, I quite rejected him.


    Maybe the reason why I didn''t leave was because she really needed me. Thousands of kilometers is not something that a woman can easily control. Just like the big G woman I met on the road, when she encountered a flat tire, she could only passively wait for rescue in bad weather, and it was different to have a man accompanying her.


    After connecting Lao Huang''s phone, he asked with concern: "You and Sisi have gone to Dali, right?" ”


    "It''s here, it''s in the afternoon."


    "Did you follow her?"


    "No, after we get to Dali, we will go our separate ways."


    Lao Huang was stunned for ten seconds before he sighed and said, "Mi Gao, look at you." I asked you to follow her, just let us find her in Dali, and now we are going our own way, isn''t this disrupting my plans! ”


    I replied dissatisfiedly: "Mr. Huang, she is a woman, I can''t eat, drink and follow her, she wants to avoid me, can I keep up?" ”


    "Then you have to keep in touch!"


    I responded with silence to his philistine and utilitarian.


    Lao Huang was even more anxious, he said: "Sisi and her parents and I have a week to go to Dali, there is still a little time, you hurry up and contact us, as long as we go, don''t find no one, I will keep this favor in my heart." At that time, I didn''t help you a lot in the company. ”


    Thinking that Lao Huang took good care of me in the company, I replied helplessly: "It''s not good to contact, judging from my contact with Yang Sisi in the past few days, you may really be beaten this time, don''t you see her determination to stay in Dali!" ”


    Lao Huang interrupted me: "I know this, she had a big trouble with her parents at home earlier, so I had to think of a compromise to stabilize her first." If you hadn''t gone to Dali too, how dare I have such a heart, no matter what, I have to let her parents trap her in Shanghai and discipline her fiercely! ”


    "That''s what you said, but I don''t care about it."


    After I finished speaking, I hung up Lao Huang''s phone, I didn''t want to be in Dali, but I was repeatedly disturbed by people in Shanghai.


    But I don''t want to, a moment later, Lao Huang sent me a message: "Your dad called me today, please take care of you more, I kept an eye on it, and didn''t tell him about your resignation and going to Dali." Your current attitude makes me very angry, and you have to understand the truth of coming and going! ”


    This message made my heart tremble, my dad does have Lao Huang''s number, and it is not ruled out that he will contact Lao Huang to inquire about my situation.


    This gave me a heavy reminder, I was most afraid that my parents would worry about me, so I bowed my head to Lao Huang in unwillingness, and replied: "You also threaten me, looking for Yang Sisi''s matter, I will do my best, if I can find it, I will give you the news as soon as possible." ”


    Lao Huang saw that I was soft, and attacked me with sugar-coated cannonballs: "I said Michael, now there is really an opportunity in front of you." I have a vacancy for a product manager, and if you are willing to return, I recommend you to the company. You will definitely be able to do it in terms of ability and experience, so you can go back to Shanghai with us. ”