The view near the window of this store is particularly good. It happens to face a relatively quiet alley, and there are many asparagus ferns planted next to the alley, which makes the environment look very good.
But in this beautiful environment, there is a trash can, which is a bit eye-catching.
What made Zhang Fan feel familiar was the back figure next to the trash can.
That back figure looked very much like the back figure that Zhang Fan had seen on the wall of the Tiandi Pawnshop.
Especially when he walked out of the mountains, his back figure carrying the luggage alone was particularly similar to the back figure Zhang Fan saw at this time, so he immediately called out Hua Yueying.
"Yueying, that might be Xiaoshan. I just saw him standing next to the trash can. Take a look quickly. You might be able to catch up with him soon. He's not dead..."
Zhang Fan greeted Hua Yueying.
The last time Hua Yueying tracked Xiaoshan, she lost him because she found his workplace, but he had been fired and disappeared. As for the drop of blood, it was also used by Hua Yueying.
Therefore, we cannot completely locate the position of the hill, we can only know its approximate direction.
When Hua Yueying heard Zhang Fan's call, she hurried out of the shop and went to the street behind. However, when she got there, she found that there was no one next to the trash can.
But here, there are several roads, and a short distance away is the pedestrian street. With all kinds of people and smells on the pedestrian street, it is difficult to determine where the hill goes.
Hua Yueying frowned, closed her eyes and began to search for the location of the hill.
A minute later, she finally opened her eyes, pointed to a road, and shouted to Zhang Fan who was already standing beside her.
"Master, he should have gone over there..."
Hua Yueying's words fell.
Zhang Fan had already stood up and walked towards the fork in the road. He planned to go and see Xiaoshan and find out why this child who came out of the rural mountains refused to go home for so many years.
So much so that his mother had to seek help from the pawnshop?
This seems to be a trivial matter, but since it happened, Zhang Fan also wants to see why.
Xiaoshan had no idea that he had been targeted by Zhang Fan and the others. He was walking dejectedly on the side of the road, holding a piece of bread that someone had thrown away and had not finished eating, and half a cup of milk tea. With these foods, he would not have to worry about his day.
But what about the house?
Even if he lived in the darkest and dampest basement, it would cost five hundred dollars a month. This five hundred dollars was a huge expense for Xiaoshan, who had no job at the time.
I haven't found a job yet, and even if I do, I still have to meet some basic needs in life.
what to do?
Xiaoshan was worried and anxious. He was unemployed and had no money, but he didn't know what to do. He had been looking for a job, but it was really hard to find a job this year. He had sent out so many job applications, but still couldn't find a suitable job.
In order to survive, he worked part-time in a hotel or teahouse, just to earn more money to support himself and send some money back home.
But he was fired a while ago and is now unemployed again. He can hardly make a living, so he has no choice but to come to the pedestrian street and occasionally pick up some food and drinks, so that he doesn't have to spend money on food.
I have to keep looking for a job, otherwise I will have to spend money on living expenses, rent, and even a sip of water.
And without a job, where does the money come from?
This is not like my hometown where I can live without spending a penny all day.
In big cities, not to mention the cost of taking a bus, even drinking a sip of water is very expensive, several dollars for a bottle of water. As for eating, unless you pick up some food yourself, any random meal in the store will cost more than ten or twenty dollars, and you may not even be able to fill your stomach.
As for accommodation, it is even more expensive.
Xiaoshan simply couldn't afford to rent a one-bedroom apartment or a house in a residential area. It would cost several thousand yuan a month, which was simply beyond his reach.
Even that kind of house is actually very small, so small that it can only accommodate a bed at most.
But even for such a small house, the price was beyond his reach. Even if he could afford it, he couldn't even rent it, so he could only live in the cheapest basement.
There is no view and it is always dark and damp, which is nothing like home. But even so, Xiaoshan is still very grateful.
Because here, once you have a job, you can earn money, a lot of money, more than your parents earn in their entire lives. The city and home are like two different worlds.
There is no need to buy vegetables or anything like that there, but if you want to get out of the mountains, it takes a whole day even if you take a tractor to the county town. Many local people have never been to the county town or left the mountains in their entire lives.
It takes another day to get from the county town to the province. The mountains have turned my hometown into an isolated place, and transportation is really inconvenient.
Going back home, not to mention the money, it takes several days and...
Xiaoshan smiled bitterly, thinking that he was thinking too far ahead. How could he go home in the current situation?
He dragged his tired body and slowly returned to his rental house. His rental house turned many corners in the alley and then entered an urban village. Then he walked to the entrance of a basement.
He took out his key and opened the door of his room. There was a bed taking up most of the area, and on the table were his food and drink items.
Xiaoshan put the food in his hand on the table, poured himself a cup of hot water, and poured the remaining half cup of milk tea into the cup.
Although the milk tea became lighter, it was still hot, making him feel like he was just like the people in the city, happily drinking milk tea while shopping.
By the way, watch some short videos and movies.
It’s so convenient to have the Internet.
Don’t even mention such a fast and good network in my hometown.
When he was a child, there was no electricity, and the electricity bill was very expensive. It seemed that everyone in his family was reluctant to use it, so he went back to his room to sleep early at night just to save some electricity bills.
I remember another time my parents had a fight, it was because my mother lit a lamp to cook at night. My father thought it was a waste of electricity and grumbled a few words, saying that my mother did not cook as soon as she came back from the mountain, but should not have rested in the yard for half an hour before hurriedly cooking.
But Xiaoshan, who followed his parents up the mountain that time, knew that his mother carried more than 100 kilograms of firewood from the mountain and walked more than ten miles of mountain roads. When she was going down the mountain, her foot was broken again. She took advantage of the rest time to prick the blister with a needle.
Then after washing my hands, I hurriedly made dinner without even drinking any water.
Even in such a hurry, it was already dark by then and everyone needed to turn on the lights, and my father would blame my mother for using a little more electricity.
The mother then started arguing with the father out of grievance.
But Xiaoshan also knew that it wasn't because his father was unreasonable, it was because the family...?
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