Chapter 6 Section five

In July of that year, Yang Chi called me again, saying that he had graduated and asked me to go to the School of Chemical Engineering to help him carry all the quilts back to Daicheng.In the mid-1990s, it was difficult for fresh graduates to stay in Shanghai. Most of them returned to their hometowns to work, and Lao Yang was among them. When I came to the School of Chemical Engineering, the scene was astonishing. Under the huge statue of the great leader guiding the future, countless boys and girls who had already obtained their graduation certificates were taking photos, crying and kissing.I actually saw two boys kissing each other, which was an eye-opener.I ran to the dormitory to see that Lao Yang was not there, and the brother in the lower bunk said he hadn't come back all night.I walked around, and every household in the male dormitory had all kinds of food and drinks, and anyone who entered could eat and drink whatever they wanted, like a large communist cafeteria.Someone told me that Lao Yang was drunk and lying down in the karaoke hall.

The karaoke hall of the School of Chemical Engineering is also called the student club. I have been there. It is a high-end place in the school and can spend more than 20 yuan each time.I also met a waitress here, she majored in fine chemical engineering, and the cocktail "Wizard of Oz" she made was like fucking balm, completely undrinkable.Normally, it’s very deserted here, and it’s good to have seven or eight people in a dozen booths, but these days before graduation, it’s completely full, and in a dark place, countless people are surrounding the big screen, singing "True Heroes" ".A dozen or twenty men burst into tears together, and when the song reached its peak, they all took off their shirts, put their shoulders on their shoulders, and continued singing with their wet armpit hair exposed.Some acquaintances saw me and greeted Lao Yang immediately: "Yang Chi, your wife is here."

At that time, Lao Yang's nose had recovered. He walked up to me shirtless and saw two nail marks on his upper lip. He asked what was going on, and replied that he was drunk and woke up after being pinched.I asked him if he still planned to drink, he said no, his clothes were worn away and he had to find them. "What expensive clothes? Go back and wear something clean." I said. "Fart, that's the silk pajamas that Senior Sister Shaoxing gave me." "You went out to drink shirtless and wore silk pajamas, then got drunk, and then someone stripped your pajamas?"

"Yes." Lao Yang turned back and shouted, "Who the hell saw my pajamas?" A group of people twisted their faces and answered him: "Let sincere words and sad tears flow in our hearts." We walked back to the dormitory, and there were drunk graduates on the street, seven or eight men and women walking sideways, and the situation seemed to have gotten out of control.This is an annual carnival, and no festival can compare with it, except for the time when the Chinese football team was eliminated or the Olympic Games was lost.Everyone is trying to vent themselves, reaching a spiritual climax, a strong jet and contraction.

In the dormitory, as soon as we sat down, the brother on the lower bunk was fully dressed, silently took a baseball bat and went out. "Why go?" The brother in the lower berth replied calmly: "I haven't paid back the favor I owe you." Lao Yang said: "Calm down, if caught, you will be fired." "The graduation certificate has been sent to my unit." The brother in the lower berth smiled and left after speaking. In the four years I have been in and out of the School of Chemical Engineering, the brother in the lower bunk has always been silly, usually huddled in the corner of the bed reading a book, and no matter what happens outside or the landslides, it is difficult to shake his gaze.He always holds a distant attitude, as if he is an expert from outside the world.At this moment, Pianran went out, carrying a baseball bat, of course not playing baseball.Lao Yang told me that the brother in the lower bunk once fell in love with a girl, and after two weeks of dating, the girl was snatched away by a teaching assistant.At that time, someone wanted to stand up for him, so he said calmly, forget it.Now it seems that this account is not only unsettled, but also must be proved with a murder weapon, a stick is a stick, even if it is frightening, it is better than doing nothing, anyway, the graduation certificate has already been obtained.This makes sense.I asked Lao Yang: "Do you have anyone to fight? I can help you get rid of it." Lao Yang said: "I just want to get my pajamas back."

Later I heard that the brother in the lower berth hit the man on the head with a stick. The blow was a bit heavy. He didn’t dare to come back. He didn’t want all the quilts and bedding. He just bought a train ticket and ran 2,000 kilometers in one go to report to the work unit. , When I went there, I found that the school had called back the graduation certificate sent in the past.After four years of undergraduate study for nothing, he was expelled.This can be regarded as a digression, which is more educational. Anyway, I have never seen this unlucky child again. I slept in the lower bunk that night.After the lights were turned off, there was still a lot of movement in the corridor. The entire floor was full of boys who were graduating. The doomsday carnival was even more mysterious and moving under the shadow of darkness and candle light. The smell of alcohol and sweat was mixed with the indescribable smell of vomit. Occasionally there are girls laughing.No one dared to take care of it, and the dormitory supervisors automatically took the holiday.Most of this group of young people will go to chemical plants. All over the country, where the masters with green faces emit poisonous gas and may explode at any time, the large chemical plants are equivalent to a city, and the small chemical plants are equivalent to a city. kitchen.I've been in that kind of place, I know what it's like, and I have every reason to be crazy.In contrast, Yang Chi seemed calm and rational, because he didn't find a job and he had to go home.

I asked Lao Yang when he would go back, and Lao Yang said that he would play for a few more days, and he was in no hurry anyway.He is more free than me.At night, two classmates and friends came, pulled him out of the bed, and stuffed him with a bottle of Red Star Erguotou. The three stared at each other as if they were fighting, and took a few sips, and one of them suddenly burst into tears. "I'm going back to that wretched place again!" A few drunks poured into the corridor, hugged each other and cried loudly, then walked away with each other, leaving behind half a bottle of Erguotou.Lao Yang held Erguotou and said calmly: "The man just now, he is from the countryside, and he found a job as a technician in a small chemical factory in his county. He is very sad."

"Why don't you stay in Shanghai?" "Because there is no account." "Everywhere outside is laid off. Even in the pesticide factory, many workers have resigned and went to Zhejiang to work for private bosses. If you go back to Daicheng, the streets are full of people without registered permanent residence. Why do you have to go back to the county? ?” "For the time being, we still believe that running around without a registered permanent residence is something done by people who have no way out." We were sitting, and soon another girl came, carrying luggage, and walked in front of Lao Yang.We stared straight at her.She said: "Yang Chi, you should pay back the money you owe me. I left on the train at 2:30 at night." Lao Yang said, "How much do you owe?" The girl said, "Forty-eight yuan." I said: "Why do you still have a change?" The girl said, "I borrowed two yuan every time I fucking thought I didn't have to pay it back. But I borrowed it twenty-four times." I said, "Repay it with your body, okay?" The girl said: "Fuck you." Yang Chi took out a 50 piece from his bag and gave it to her, and said very sincerely: "I only have 50 yuan left, don't need to look for it. I will miss you The girl suddenly got a little emotional, and said, "Actually, I'm not here to collect debts, I just came to see you. If you have a chance to come to me in the future, don't forget me." After speaking, she put the money in her pocket and left.

I asked, "Where did this go?" Lao Yang sighed and said: "This one is better off, a foreign-funded enterprise in Guangzhou. She is from the north and has no relatives in Guangzhou." Then someone ran in again.I thought to myself, don't sleep today.The man told Lao Yang loudly: "Someone saw your pajamas. It was worn by a third-grade pussy. He rode his bicycle to the No. 2 gate and didn't stop him." Touch, feel empty.The man said, "Don't touch it, someone borrowed your watermelon knife this morning." Lao Yang cursed, raised his leg and kicked a crooked stool to pieces, and chased him out with a stool leg.

I followed behind until I reached the streetlight at Gate No. 2, but I didn't see the pajamas.Suddenly there was a commotion at the food stall in the distance, and someone started a fight. Lao Yang went to join in the fun with a stool.One of the college students took out his ID and shouted: Don't fucking move, I belong to the × Security Bureau!The red book was gilded, and the hooligans all ran away with a bang.The college students next to him were also very scared, my brother, the job I was looking for turned out to be the × Security Bureau?This man buckled the reverse side of the certificate on the table for everyone to see, with small stamped characters: Institute of Chemicals.

Lao Yang threw the stool legs into the grass, and the two of us walked back.There was a section of the road where a large number of midges gathered, thousands of them floating in the air, and even in this harsh place, there were still men and women who stopped and kissed.Lao Yang said, it's not easy, the place where he stayed for four years suddenly broke up.The saddest ones are those couples, they parted ways and had to say goodbye, and the pure love turned into nostalgia after middle age, such as that Shaoxing senior sister, he should really follow her, and the thought of her body would make him sexually erect.Who the hell took the pajamas off? I said, "If you lose it, just lose it. In fact, I can't stand the way you sing Yue opera in your pajamas." Lao Yang said dejectedly: "Anyway, I'm out of pajamas, and I'll go back to Dai City tomorrow."
The next night, Yang Chi and I went to Shanghai Railway Station.I carried his quilt on my back and carried a suitcase, while Lao Yang carried two suitcases.The sadness of breaking up was washed away by the surging crowd at the train station, and there was only one thought, how to buy a ticket back to Daicheng.In the past, we jumped over the railings to evade fares by relying on our vigorous posture, or tricked a certain ticket inspector into getting on the train with a slick tongue and a sincere face, but this time we couldn’t do it. There were too many luggages and the student ID card had expired.After finally buying two tickets, we squatted in front of the station to smoke, and a little beggar girl came and grabbed Lao Yang for money.Lao Yang gave her five cents, and she accepted it, but said disdainfully, "It's only five cents." Lao Yang said perfunctorily, "Don't think it's too little, I'll give you one hundred when you grow up." This sentence stabbed Lou Zi, and the little girl kept pestering him, saying that he promised to give one hundred.Lao Yang said, "Stop pestering me, or I'll give you another five points." She took another five cents and said firmly, "Not enough." The beggar at the train station was difficult to deal with, so I stood aside coldly to see what he would do.Yang Chi said: "What are you looking at, I have no money in my pocket." The little girl walked away muttering.I remembered what happened in the hospital and asked him, "Did you go to the orphanage to see that little girl?" "No." "I guess you won't either." The train was about to leave, we walked through the crowd, carrying our luggage, and were stopped by the police to look at our ID cards. When we were approaching the ticket gate, Lao Yang’s legs were suddenly hugged, and the girl came again, or She was literally ambushing us. "Dad, you promised to give me a hundred!" Lao Yang was furious, "Who is your father?" The girl said, "Daddy!" I said: "If you don't admit that you are her father, we will delay the appointment. If you delay the appointment, you have to stay here to be her father." The girl said: "Dad, Dad, Dad." Lao Yang threatened her: "I really want to delay the appointment." If you drag me again, I will take you home with me on the train.” The girl said, “Take me away, I don’t want food anymore.” At this time, someone next to me made a fuss: “You just take me Let her go." I stood at the ticket gate and waited for Lao Yang. Lao Yang dragged the girl towards me. The child was holding his leg and was already sitting on his instep. "Anything you want," I said, "or you slap her and she runs away. Choose." "Lend me five bucks!" he yelled at me. I took out a one-dollar bill from my pocket and shook it at the girl. This was not a tease, but just hoped that she would let go.She hesitated.In her little mind, she must have thought about whether to take a hopeless old Yang and ask him to be her father, or to take the one dollar that is so close at hand.Later, she rushed over and took the banknotes from my hand, and then turned around, and Lao Yang rushed into the ticket gate with two suitcases on his head. The girl said disappointedly: "Daddy take me away." While running, Lao Yang turned his head and said, "I'll come back to you when I earn money, bye!" I said to Lao Yang: "I regret it a bit, you should be her father and take her home." "No, I should stay and be her father and beg for food at the train station with her." The terminal of that train was Daicheng. Since it was a short-distance train, it stopped many times in the middle.Arriving three hours later, we disembarked from the train, breathed the dull night air, and smoked on the platform.It was raining lightly, and it was hot and humid. Passengers soon left without a single person left. You can see a billboard at the exit of the station opposite the railway track that has not changed for years, with five cursive characters "Welcome to Hushan".Tiger Mountain is a tourist attraction in Daicheng.Because the calligraphy is too sloppy, the word "tiger" is always regarded as "tiger" by outsiders.Shan welcomes you, which is actually quite nice. We exhale at the same time, great and dark Daicheng, we are back again.