Chapter 66 Chapter Sixteen

In the underground passage at midnight, two long-haired wandering singers held guitars and sang the song "In Spring" by Wang Feng. It is only 200 meters away from the railway station, and above the head is the railway track leading to the far north.There is a smell in the underground passage that cannot be dissipated all the year round. Half of the dim and old lights on the top are broken, and the remaining half flicker like will-o'-the-wisps from time to time. It is a standard horror film location.In the tomb-like silent passage, only this hoarse and excited singing is left, only two wandering singers, and a man who happened to pass by.

The men passing by stopped to look at the stray singer's guitar, looking around alone like a sculpture. His name is Autumn Harvest. The same winter solstice night, cold to the bone, the night is vast, the same alone.Leaving the cemetery in the suburbs, Qiu Harvest did not go back to clear up the densely packed accounts, but wandered like a walking dead ghost, wandering in the rare and cold streets.He came to the train station habitually. On nights like the winter solstice, there are still people staying overnight in the square, exuding a strong local smell.He saw two patrolmen coming, so he lowered his head and walked into the nearby underground passage.

He heard "In Spring". "Maybe one day I will be old and have nowhere to go, please keep me in that time. If one day I quietly leave, please bury me in this spring." He thought that he was doomed to grow old and have nowhere to depend. If he had to find a place to bury himself, he hoped it would be the spring ten years ago. The two homeless singers were still singing, maybe they couldn't find a place to stay tonight, so they simply sang all night to resist the cold.Looking at the two guitars that kept resonating, Qiushou couldn't help thinking of the same underground passage years.

He has been wandering in Guangdong for seven years, Guangzhou, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Nanhai, Shunde, Foshan, Huizhou, Zhuhai... almost every city in the Pearl River Delta has been traveled, but he has never been to Hong Kong and Macau, which are close at hand. In the last year, he was in Shenzhen—strictly speaking, Foxconn District of Shenzhen City. He was a front-line operator, working on the assembly line day and night, and only by working overtime could he earn more than the minimum wage.In the last month, I felt that my feet were connected to the assembly line, and my hands were glued to the operating table, like parts on a machine conveyor belt, assembling those IPHONE mobile phone parts.There is no blood flow in the body anymore, the hands make a metallic sound when they collide, the muscles turn into gray steel, the joints become hydraulic gears, the torso is covered with wires and switches, and densely packed with operating instructions.His face has no eyes, nose and mouth, but a screen with numbers flashing!There was no one in the whole workshop, only human-shaped machines remained, each with metal arms, two metal brackets fixed to the ground, and a screen covered with red numbers on the top. Double the efficiency, quickly assemble a beautiful IPHONE...

At that moment, Qiushou felt that if he continued to do this at Foxconn, he might commit suicide by jumping off the building again anytime and anywhere. He chose to resign. It just happened to coincide with the outbreak of the global financial crisis, and many foreign trade factories laid off employees, and they couldn't find a job after waiting for two months.This is the most depressing time for the autumn harvest. I can only move out of the group rented house. I have no food for three meals a day. I only have a few dozen dollars left in my arms. The only thing worth money is the wooden guitar that has been with me for many years.He lived in the underground passage outside the train station, and when the turbulent crowd passed by, he played and sang like a beggar, expecting the passing people to throw some money.At midnight when no one was around, he was still playing the guitar underground, just wanting to dispel the cold and silence.At least, being accompanied by a loyal guitar is much happier than being locked in the ground for dozens of hours in the Witch's Quarter.

The most played song in Autumn Harvest is "Brave New World" by Wu Bai... Three months later, he earned 3,000 yuan by playing the guitar in the underground passage, bought a train ticket to the north, and returned to the city that gave him sad memories. Returning to Shanghai, where I have been away for many years, the city has changed a lot, but Qiushou lives in a group rented house like a dragon, bought a second-hand computer with 600 yuan, and started his career as a Taobao shopkeeper...