The sky was clear and cloudless, and the sunlight overhead was just perfect.
The bus started and continued to move forward.
The canary swooped down and flew in through the open window of the bus, bringing in a slight breeze.
He entered the car and circled over Shen Dian's head.
Then it fell on the shoulder of the white-haired old woman next to her.
Shen Dian was beaten and kicked yesterday, and he didn't even wash his hair or take a shower today.
Shen Dian didn't know what the canary was thinking. In his opinion, it was normal for the bird to stay wherever it chose.
It was like it suddenly landed above his head.
The gray-haired old woman looked at the canary standing on her shoulder, her fingers itching to reach out and touch it.
"Old sister, wait a minute! Don't move!" shouted an old man in the front row who was wearing a hat and glasses and dressed fashionably.
He fished out a camera from the backpack he was carrying.
"Hmm... don't move. I'll take a picture of you."
Upon hearing this, the white-haired old lady immediately turned her head to look at the camera and raised two fingers to make a "yeah" gesture.
As the old man holding the camera focused his eyes on the camera screen, several elderly people quickly appeared around the white-haired grandmother. They moved closer to Canary and the grandmother, facing the camera and smiling.
Trying to get a shot.
“Crack.”
The old man pressed the shutter.
The photo captures the smiles of a group of elderly people and a canary. In the right corner of the photo, a bruised face is also captured.
…
Shen Dian stood at the front of the bus, in the middle of the corridor, slightly sideways, with both hands clenched into fists, one fist facing upwards, placed in front of his forehead, and the other fist facing inwards, placed behind his buttocks.
This pose lasted for at least a minute.
The old people stared at him intently with great interest at the beginning, but gradually lost their patience.
Shendian requested all the elderly people on the bus and the person in charge of the tour to get a free ride.
I don't have money, but I can do some performing for it.
The old people expressed indifference, and the person in charge was very kind and said that if the art sold well, he would be allowed to stay and take a ride.
So this scene happened.
Shen Dian suddenly moved.
He moved his waist with his hips, twisting it left and right, extending his right hand forward, swinging his palm up and down, and tapping his left foot at the same time.
Dubbing for yourself.
"Like a seaweed seaweed!"
Shen Dian stretched his arms upward and vigorously moved his hips and arms left and right while squatting, trying to dance himself into kelp washed by the waves in the ocean.
"Seaweed, seaweed, swaying with the waves~"
"Seaweed, seaweed, seaweed, seaweed, dancing in the waves!"
While twisting his whole body, he dubbed himself passionately.
Just as he was absorbed in his own ecstasy, Shen Dian suddenly froze.
The next one...I forgot how to jump.
But this doesn't bother him!
Shen Dian turned his back and continued to twist his body from top to bottom in the same posture as before.
Extremely charming.
After twisting, he quickly jumped to the left side of the corridor, with one arm bent and raised in front, and the other hand stretched out behind and downward.
"Seaweed, seaweed, seaweed, seaweed. No matter how rough the waves are, I am happy and carefree~"
Shen Dian suddenly turned around and gave a fierce look to the many elderly people. His eyes were sharp and enchanting, his eyebrows raised and lowered, his face was serious, and there was no facial expression when he opened his mouth to dub himself.
“A sea of people~”
"It's so vast~"
Turn your face away and continue twisting your whole body into seaweed.
"Go with the flow, ups and downs~"
Shen Dian turned his head again, his eyebrows raised, his face expressionless. He had turned to the left before, but this time he turned to the right.
"Life~"
"It's like a dream~"
…
"Thank you all uncles and aunts for your support!" Shen Dian bowed happily to the elders.
There was silence.
The old people seemed to have suffered some kind of mental shock.
“Well, good, good, good…” An old man came to his senses, stretched out his hands and clapped tremblingly, his voice trembling slightly.
Causing a few sparse noises.
"Thank you! Thank you!" Shen Dian smiled brightly.
"Uncles and aunts! Do you want to sing another song?" he asked.
"No, no!" The old man waved his hands.
"Young man, you must be tired from dancing. Take a break, take a break..." the old woman kept persuading.
Shen Dian suddenly wanted to ask shyly: "Well... uncles and aunts, how is my dance?"
There was a sudden silence in the air.
"Uncles and aunts, don't you like it? Then I will dance for you again. This dance will definitely satisfy you!"
"No need! The boy danced very well! No need to dance again!"
“Yes, yes, yes.”
"Young man, please sit down. This place is still a long way from ZS City!"
Before the person in charge could express his opinion, the old people pushed Shen Dian, who was eager to try one more dance, back to his seat.
Canary: ...
It spread its wings and flew out of the open window of the bus.
The bus drove to the entrance of the highway and slowly stopped.
There were a dozen cars parked ahead, unable to pass, but the road ahead of the dozen cars was unobstructed.
Logically speaking, there shouldn't be a traffic jam in this situation.
The person in charge told the elderly people to stay in their seats and not get off the bus and walk around. He gave Shen Dian a warning look and then got off the bus to find out what was going on.
"We are looking for someone ahead. We need to check each car one by one."
The person in charge came back and said to everyone.
"It's pretty fast, we won't have to wait long."
Shen Dian walked to the front of the bus, looked forward for a moment, and suddenly turned around and asked the person in charge: "Who is looking for someone, the police?"
"I don't know. I didn't see anyone in police uniform."
Stopping people on the road to check, they are not the police...
It looks like the old bastard’s people are here.
"Uncle, your hat is so nice, cool and handsome!" Shen Dian walked to the fashionable old man holding the camera and praised.
"Hey..." The old man smiled and pointed at the hat and said proudly, "Not bad, my daughter bought it for me!"
"Great! Can you lend it to me to try on? I promise it won't get dirty!"
"What's this? Here." The old man took off his hat, revealing his sparse hair, and handed the hat to Shen Dian.
"Thank you!" Shen Dian took the hat, put it on himself casually, and pulled the brim down in front of his forehead.
"Auntie~you're not going to wear this coat you brought now, right?"
"...No, I'll wear it when I'm cold." The old man looked at Shen Dian with a puzzled and somewhat wary look.
“Hehehe… Auntie~ I’m a little cold, can I have this coat…” Shen Dian rubbed his hands, looking expectant.
"No, that's not possible. You're a grown man, how can you fit into my clothes!" the old man refused.
Shen Dian suddenly looked disappointed and lost.
"Auntie~"
"Auntie~~"
"Just lend it to me~~~"
The old man said nothing, clutched his coat tightly, and looked at him with the vigilant and unfriendly eyes of Aunt Rong.
Shen Dian was deeply shocked. He had a fair and tender baby face with big eyes. Normally, he was most effective in dealing with people like aunts and mothers-in-law by acting like a spoiled child. But now... it was all because of the bruises on his face that ruined his good looks!
Damn old bastard, he always hits people in the face!
"Then...then..." Shen Dian tried to struggle again. "Auntie, just lend me your coat, and I'll dance for you!"
The old man's heart trembled when he heard this, and the coat in his hand unconsciously loosened.
Shen Dian seemed to see hope, and quickly said, "Dance differently from the last time! Dance just for Auntie to see!"
elder:……
"You keep the coat on, don't let it break!"
"Don't jump, don't jump, you jump so ugly."
The old man spoke in a straightforward voice.
Shen Dian's hand, which had happily caught the coat thrown to him, suddenly froze, as if struck by lightning, and his mind went blank.
"……Aunt……"
Shen Dian lowered his head and, in a low voice, spread out the strange coat that was shit-yellow and bright red.
"Your clothes are really..."
"My clothes are really beautiful. If you don't want to wear them, give them back to me." The old man glanced at him sideways, his eyes full of warning.
"No, no, no, I didn't say anything. I said it looks good. It's beautiful. It's so beautiful!!" Shen Dian said as he put on the slightly small coat with tears in his eyes.
If you only look at his upper body and not his face, he seems to have turned into a little old lady.
As soon as you put on this dress, you will feel like an old lady with bound feet during the Republic of China period.
"well……"
Shen Dian, who had turned into a little old lady, sighed and sat on the empty seat at the back of the bus.
"Young man, have you done something wrong?" The old man wearing a thermal vest sitting next to him suddenly asked Shen Dian.
After the person in charge brought back the message just now, everyone saw what Shen Dian had gone through, and naturally they would connect the two together.
"What? I haven't done anything wrong. I'm a good person!" Shen Dian looked serious for a rare time, which made people believe him a little.
"Then why did they ask you to do that?"
"Because I am a good person, and they are not good people!"
…
"Here's what happened..."
"My cousin is a migrant worker, he works on a construction site..."
"I deal with bricks and soil every day. I am always covered in dust. I move and unload materials at the construction site every day. It is a laborious and physically demanding job. I am so tired that I fall asleep as soon as I get home and lie down."
“He did this for nearly two years.”
"My cousin's wife is pregnant and about to give birth, but he has no money for delivery, nutrition, or milk powder. Logically, he works hard every day, so he shouldn't have no savings, right?"
"But he just didn't have it, because the construction company withheld half of their wages every month, saying that they were temporarily short of funds."
"…Recently, my cousin has been asking the company for his wages every day. At first, the company made up all kinds of excuses to shirk the responsibility, but later, perhaps because they were fed up with my cousin, they actually hired someone to beat him up!"
"There is no money at home, my cousin's wife is about to give birth, and my cousin has been beaten and is bedridden."
"I just couldn't get over it. I happened to be an editor for a tabloid, so I exposed the construction company's information and published it in the newspaper."
"The people from that construction company found me, and several of them beat me up!"
As Shen Dian spoke, he raised his face and arms, motioning for the old men to look at the injuries on his body.
“These were caused by those people beating us!”
"They threatened me to mark the article in the newspaper as wrong in the next issue and asked me to apologize!"
"I refused and sneaked out, and now they are here to block me."
"My poor cousin worked so hard for two years, but in the end..."
As Shen Dian spoke, his voice choked and tears welled up in his eyes.
The parallel bus flew for a while, and Canary was about to enter through the window: ...
Nothing to say.
What a good writer.
The author has something to say: Ah, my little cuties are so enthusiastic, they keep replying to the comments until their hands are broken, so I... won’t reply to everyone one by one, but I will read them all, love you!
This chapter's lyrics are quoted from "Seaweed Dance" Lyrics: Xiao Quan Music: Xiao Quan Arrangement: Xiao Quan/Party man
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