21 years of National Day with the large-scale rainfall in the north, the temperature plummeted everywhere, it seems that suddenly from summer to winter, everyone who goes home, on the road, to play is particularly memorable, people in other places are difficult to survive, eat melons in their families.
On this holiday, we also interviewed the stories of several foreigners in some ways to listen to their voices.
Alien - Lan Lan
Lan Lan is 25 years old and works in a listed company. Lan Lan is very similar to Fan Shengmei in the TV series, wearing the makeup of the stage drama every day, sexy and charming, stepping on extremely thin high heels, twisting the waist of the water snake, and entering the company with high spirits. Whenever Lan Lan passes by, he always leaves a perfume smell stronger than rose.
In Beijing for three years, in order to stay here, Lan Lan learned to be smart and dressed himself up with enough strength. "A woman, if you want to achieve something, the first thing that attracts people must be your bright appearance." 」 Wearing thick makeup, she hides her rather childish face.
During the day, he wandered through the busyness of the office, selling extremely flattering smiles. And in the evening, Lan Lan flipped through the address book, looking for the man who had made an offer tonight.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the lights are red and green, and the noise of the big city has just begun. In the bar, manic music, Lan Lan danced wantonly. "Man, it's not until the evening that you get excited. During the day, it was too dull. Lan Lan shouted loudly, and the bright red lips, under the flicker of the light, were extremely dazzling. Cracking his mouth, in the crowd, Lan Lan was feminine and gorgeous. No matter how noisy the dance party is, it will eventually be dispersed.
Lan Lan wanted to stay in Beijing and did not want to go back to the small county. To be honest, she was scared to go home.
Alien - Koki
Koki and his girlfriend just graduated and are 23 years old. They rent a single apartment in Beijing, and the monthly rent is more than two thousand yuan. The girlfriend's salary is not high, just graduated, and she also received five thousand yuan in Beijing. Xiaomu is an engineering man with a slightly higher salary and a monthly salary of 10k.
Housing prices in Beijing are so high and rising that Xiaomu is starting to worry. Planning to marry his girlfriend, the two people's salaries are just enough to spend, buy a house, basically there is no hope.
"I can't go back to my hometown, Beijing is very good." I love the city, it has too many memories of mine. Except for the price, everything is good. Xiao Mu talked to his parents on the phone, and told them repeatedly that he could not go back to that small county.
Young people working hard in the city, no one knows where the road is? Even if one day, the salary really rises, it may not really be able to find the direction that belongs to it. The city is big, where did you come from and why did you stay here? Xiao Mu said that he wanted to give his girlfriend Xiao Bao a home, a home that could fit the two of them.
After a long time, Xiao mu understood that it didn't matter whether there was a house or not, but the person next to you. Girlfriend Xiaobao is at home, he is naturally willing to go back; but his girlfriend Xiaobao is not at home, he feels that the house is empty, there is nothing, stay for a day or two and panic.
Choose a city to grow old, and meet a person with a white head. It doesn't matter where you are, the key is whether you have a woman by your side who makes you nostalgic. With her, no matter how big the city is, you are also warm.
Strangers - Uncle Joe and Lady Joe
Uncle Qiao and Aunt Qiao, two old, 50 years old, make a living selling pancake fruit.
They lived in a very dilapidated small house, and whenever it was not dawn, the old couple would open their eyes and push the cart out of the house. Near nine o'clock, the city management went to work, and the old two hurriedly collected the stalls and went home. Uncle Joe continued to prepare the evening preparations, and in the evening, he had to do a big job, a pancake fruit for 8 yuan, then if he sold hundreds of them, wouldn't it be a lot of money.
Uncle Qiao was most pleased that he had Aunt Qiao to help him. I am old, taking advantage of the age of not spending, my hands and feet are still neat, and I can make some money well.
"No way, there are still a few children to read, and when they finish reading, we will both rest." This is what Uncle Joe said five years ago.
"No way, the children have to get married, this house has to be built." That's what Uncle Joe said five years later.
China's most traditional parents, who blindly their children's hearts, are extremely stingy with themselves. What is great, and perhaps their love, is the greatest.
And this year, Uncle Qiao and Aunt Qiao have gone home, and they can't stay in Beijing. When you go home, you have one of their lights at home.
Foreigner - fat man
Fat man, 30 years old, works in a financial institution. The big fat man is not fat at all, after so many years of graduation, he is still so handsome and dashing, and there is no big belly.
Working in a financial institution, the salary of the fat man is quite high, but the socialization is also more. The big fat man is quite clean and self-righteous, which is a bit of money, and it is not messed up, after all, a good woman is the idea in his heart.
There is no girlfriend that will, every time the fat man drinks too much, find a road tooth on the side of the road to sleep directly. Or say to the buddies who live with me: "Remember to leave me the door, don't lock it." ”
The fat man knew that if he didn't say hello, no one would worry about leaving the door for himself; no one would open the door for the fat man in the dark night. Every night, the fat man habitually opens the door, and in the lonely night, the extremely crisp sound of the door lock makes the fat man extremely lonely.
But the bell came, and since there was a woman, the fat man began to go home every night. He didn't worry anymore, no one opened the door for him.
The fat man said to his wife: "Wife, do you know that the motivation for coming back every day is to see the light you turn on." I know you're waiting for me. ”
In the middle of the night, in this rather noisy city, there are many people who have not returned, and you have ever had the lamp waiting for you to go home.
Alien - Rock
Rock, 30 years old, it worker. In the past 6 years in Beijing, the income has not been very high, and there are those who give up the north drift to return to Taiyuan to start a business, but finally have to come to Beijing to start a new life in the north drift.
Rock circle is simple, two points and one line, treat people sincerely, short, not handsome, thrown into the crowd will not look at that kind of more, it is precisely because all aspects are not very outstanding, so rock is looking forward to sweet love, looking forward to running their own small home.
Recently, Yan began to consider buying a house in Taiyuan, he said, "Regardless of whether the location of the house is good or not, as long as you can pay a down payment, you can buy it, now there is no house is too difficult to find an object, life is so realistic."
"As for when to go back to Taiyuan to live, it is still far away, and when I buy a house and start to pay off my mortgage, it seems that I can't go back."
Some of the above personnel are from Zhihu and also from real interviews.
I don't know when we called coming to Beijing back to Beijing, and we didn't feel awkward at all, and even felt that it was a matter of course, unconsciously regarding his hometown as a second hometown, but occasionally when we were sad, we inadvertently looked at the distance, and the former hometown voice was quietly hidden, and the unspeakable words have always been put in the heart.
As early as after we left our hometown, we all became a foreigner who could not go back.
We are the marginalized people of the city, the strangers of our hometown, the spiritually homeless wanderers. The only difference between us and those workers is that we tell, revise, and express our experiences, and they are the silent actors. Their actions are more important than ours, because it is they who have changed the face of the countryside after returning to the countryside with their experiences and memories about the city. And we are just singing the elegy of the countryside, continuing to live and think in the city, and spending our lives looking for the hometown that cannot be returned.
The city is huge, and it gathers thousands of people from different places. Who are you and where are you from? Have you crossed thousands of miles just to find your own place of tranquility in this reinforced concrete city?
The city was busy during the day, with men and women dressed in all styles of clothing, tucked into the subway with briefcases, and some people, dressed in bright clothes, driving in the road, shouting angrily.
"It's going to be late again." This is pretty much the most common opening statement in every big city morning.
And when the lights first came on and night fell, how many restless hearts were rushing on the way home. And among the thousands of lights in the city, is there the one in your heart?
When you go out, no matter what the road ahead, you must cut thorns and thorns and move forward bravely, everything depends on your own wisdom and courage not to be afraid of failure, only in this way can you have a piece of your own world in other places.
When I go out, I have to go into the countryside and stubbornly eat my hometown meal, which is my nostalgia for my homeland, and I also eat the special cuisine of Beijing, which is the recognition of his hometown.
Going out, without the advice of parents and the care of former friends, but never regretting leaving home, without the pain of leaving home, without the helplessness of other places, how can it become mature and realistic?
Going out is also an opportunity to re-understand yourself, rebuild yourself, leave your familiar hometown, and come to an unfamiliar environment, which is a challenge to yourself. We can't live forever under the protection of our families, and we can't always have someone to pave the way for you, and the road under your feet is to walk out on your own. When people are in other places, it is a chance to exercise themselves, go out, learn to endure, learn to cherish, cherish the care and care of everyone from other places, cherish everything in other places...
I have gone out a lot, experienced a lot, and finally understood that life is like this, no one can succeed casually, only by continuous efforts, dreams can be realized.
Slowly, living in the land of a foreign land for a long time, the hometown has become a thread in the heart, and when there is nothing to do, it always pulls on your heart, making you sometimes hurt and shake a little.
When you walk on the streets of a foreign country, a sentence of old folk words that others do not pay attention to rings in your ears, you will not be free to come forward and say hello, a sentence of "hello fellow countrymen", a thousand words are in these three words. Then the two of them put aside the foreign dialect and used the old dialect to pull up the family routine. Only because it is a fellow countryman, even if it is the first time to see, it is like an old friend who has been separated for a long time.
The full moon is missing, the sun rises and sets, and the days go by day by day. In fact, as a foreigner, the most memorable thing is to spend a good full moon, when the night is quiet, in the direction of home, that kind of silent nostalgia...
Inevitably, we will have times of sadness, complaints, sighs, and perhaps feel that we are living in a humble way, accepting our lives in the present, but not being willing to be in the present, so we wander in a place where we do not advance and do not retreat to self-pity and self-pity.
We are all far away from home because of the dreams in our hearts. Forced by life, I was confused and unable to find a direction in the bustling city. Is it difficult to be alone outside? It's difficult, so difficult that you just want to earn money, so difficult that you carry everything yourself, don't dare to tell your family, and rely on yourself for everything.
We are strangers, wandering in the city, and we all have a dream in our hearts. We also have a home and will come home. When the lights come on, we will also find our own lamp.