Escape from the imperial capital
Lao Pan probably spent several late nights thinking about his decision to leave the capital, but it only took him a few minutes to tell me.
Lao Pan has an advantage that I can’t match, that is, he is decisive and never drags his feet. Determined to go, he immediately offered his resignation to the company.
It took pan a week to hand over his duties and start moving.
Huang Fei came to help Pan pack for a second-hand XBOX. And IT wasn’t all for the haidilao hotpot dish Lao Pan had promised. More from the friendship of the past two years. Friendship is like wildfire, it only appears bright in the deep darkness.
Lao Pan’s 30-square-meter one-room apartment is chock full of furniture. Dressing table, treadmill, microwave oven, POTS and pans, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.
Knowing Old Pen, if he’d been alone, none of this would have been in his house. I can see that he and Li Yanan had spent a happy cohabitation.
Now, apart, beauty into enemies, can not help but sigh.
In the process of packing, Old Pan turned over a few li Yanan lost clothes. As a result, he stomped on the clothes and threw them into the garbage.
We sweat on our foreheads and scramble. Lao Pan’s English short blue cat is not idle. He ran up and down the room, climbing curtains and tearing sheets. He was very naughty. Tired of playing, it would crawl into a corner and stare at us like a taskmaster.
Huang Fei squatted down and teased it with a coat hanger, asking: “Pan Ge, how do you deal with this cat? To Hangzhou?”
Old Pan threw things into the express box while chatting: “Li Yanan that bitch wants it, I didn’t give it to her. I’m hung up in the used pet market.”
Huang held blue Cat in his arms, who curled up in the crook of his arm and twiddled the cord of his hoodie with her claws. Seeing how much Huang Fei loved small animals, I pushed the boat with the current and said to Lao Pan, “Give them to Huang Fei. I don’t think he likes them very much.”
Lao Pan pre-shots way: “It turns out that Li Yanan has been feeding it canned fish, feeding this guy’s mouth, it can spend a lot of money.”
Huang Fei put the cat on the ground and said, “Can a cat eat me up? Hungry on it a few meals, it will eat.”
Old Pan watched the cat run to the balcony and shook his head slightly. “You can take it if you like. The balcony of the cat cage, cat litter and a few boxes of cans, you carry away, I also out of sight, out of mind.”
Lao Pan said he would start all over again after hangzhou. So he sold what he could, threw away what he could, and gave away what he could.
The old man collecting trash downstairs got a tricycle of junk. Huang fei got a cat and an XBOX, and I got a microwave.
Lao Pan made good on his promise, and Huang Fei and I gave him a meal of Haidilao hot pot. After eating and drinking, Huang fei and I set off on our way back to the Happy Apartment with our booty.
Pets are not allowed on the subway, so I crowded onto a bus with a microwave oven and Huang Fei with a cat carrier.
The cat’s whining succeeded in attracting the attention of the passengers on the bus. They asked Huang Fei about the price, age, breed and so on. For these questions, Huang Fei does not know, can only answer randomly.
Finally back at the Happy Apartment, Huang put the cat’s cage in the nearest place to the heating system, so as not to damage his new playmate. The new owner gave the new playmate a new name — Galen, after a character in league of Legends.
Galen’s residence was a two-story villa with a toilet below, a bedroom above and a hammock in the air. Surrounded by transparent, unique courtyard, extremely luxurious.
Galen’s not used to his new surroundings. No matter how much Huang fei begged him on his knees, he just hid under the bed and refused to come out. It is really funny tired, Huang Fei no longer in vain, open the computer, play the game.
Look at huang Fei’s impatient face. I think he’ll get bored in a few days. I don’t think he knows that cats are the proudest animals in the world.
Unfortunately, I was right, and within three days, Huang took Galen to my room. He couldn’t stand Galen’s stinking cat poop and bad temper. When he plays a game, it jumps on the keyboard. He puts it in a cage, and it growls.
Galen had seriously affected Huang fei’s daily rest and entertainment. He couldn’t do anything about it and couldn’t bear to let him stray. He repeatedly begged me to take him in.
Galen had been carried with tears at the corners of his eyes. Huang fei must have been pushed and beaten. Look at its pitiful appearance, I can’t bear to feel sorry for it, so I kept it and became its third owner.
Galen was by my side for many of the late nights I spent at my desk. Or stay quiet, or howl for attention. It is still proud, still picky, still naughty, still ruthless, but it has brought me great pleasure.
Go to Hangzhou
Lao Pan did not go to Hangzhou unarmed and unprepared. One of his college friends works at Alibaba’s headquarters in Hangzhou and has helped him manage several departments internally.
Lao Pan has a professional background related to e-commerce, and his own ability is very strong. In addition, there is an urgent shortage of people in Hangzhou, so he applied for Ali very smoothly.
Goodbyes require ceremony, and Pan pushed back his entry by a week. He said he wanted to revisit the beautiful scenery of the imperial capital, eat its food and finally embrace the city that had once held so many of his dreams.
In fact, I know that he wants to say goodbye to not a city but once himself.
On Thanksgiving Day, Lao Pan left for Hangzhou and began his career as a drifter.
Early in the morning, I went to Lao Pan’s house to help him carry his luggage and take him to the train station.
On the way, Pan passed a 7-eleven and bought two cups of hot soy milk and four steamed buns.
Come out from convenience store, old Pan one face delicate and shy to ask me: “you see the cashier desk that sister is beautiful not?”
I stepped into the convenience store and bought a bottle of mineral water in order to see Lao Pan’s girl. At the checkout, I took care to steal a few glances at the cashier. Girl tall, sweet smile, a little bit of Guo Bitting feeling.
As I walked out of the convenience store, Lao Pan confessed, “I almost notice her every day when I pass here on my way to work. I closed my eyes many times and thought that I would ask her for her contact information when I bought breakfast.
Lao Pan’s cheating and playing with women’s feelings of men let me on Li Yanan’s dislike weakened a lot, disdain way: “I thought Li Yanan enough slag, the original you are not what good bird.”
Lao Pan gave me a white look and asked, “If I’m scum enough, can I still be kicked by that bitch?”
Walking in a hurry, we have walked out of a long distance, old Pan is still reluctant to look back. With a guilty heart, he and his little sister should never see each other again. It is a pity that the dream of a young man is interrupted.
Squeezing into the subway, Lao Pan stood for a moment at the ticket office. I followed his line of sight carefully for a long time, did not find the beautiful girl, also do not know what he meant.
Lao Pan whispered to me, “See that tall man with four eyes?”
The tall man was all of nine metres tall, with black-rimmed glasses, standing against the wall like a telegraph pole. The crowd stood out. I spotted it at a glance.
Except it’s a man with a stubbly beard. I exclaim, “What? You two have a story?”
“We had a fight a few months ago.”
“Ow, frighten me.” I’m sorry for the thought that just crossed my mind that was not in line with mainstream values.
“The other day WHEN I topped up my bus pass, he accidentally threw my bus pass on the ground. Instead of apologizing, he called me an idiot, which made me very angry. Small ye I am not the one to suffer, I immediately took out a cup of water from the bag, along the window poured in. The kid stormed out and fought me.”
“How was the war?”
“There was damage, and I took a little advantage. I saw the kid a few more times, he pretended he didn’t know me, and I didn’t bother. This kind of person looks like one of those bullies.”
On the subway, Old Pan became a chatterbox. During the nearly six years in the imperial capital, he experienced many unforgettable things.
In a metropolis of ten million people, the loss of Lao Pan is like the loss of a grain of sand in the desert.
Maybe he was afraid of being forgotten, or maybe he felt a lot before parting, but Lao Pan chose to tell me those things.
One day during his junior internship in 2012, he worked until midnight. He walked out of the office with no money and no battery on his cell phone. Back at the company, the door was locked. Helpless, he spent more than three hours alone from the desolate West two banner walk back to the University of Post. Along the way, there were dilapidated buildings, abandoned factories, small woods and overpasses. He encouraged himself by singing.
14 years just with Li Yanan together, they went to Thailand to play, night tour Bangkok lost the way, old Pan rely on broken English, the side of the draw while guessing, finally was brought into a transsexual performance club, spent nearly 1000 baht, Li Yanan scolded him all the way perverts.
When his dad was first in the hospital, he was desperate for money, so he went on a crazy outsourcing spree. From student assignments to corporate projects. Basically, he took what he got and earned 10,000 yuan in two all-nighters.
Li yanan broke up with him not entirely because he scolded her in the hospital. Li yanan said she couldn’t see a future with him. Zhang Xu, the man with the flower arm, is an aborigine in Beijing hutong. He lives in Nancheng and has a small yard waiting for demolition.
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The waiting hall of Beijing South Railway Station is a sea of people. Beijing’s railway stations are full of drifters, spring, summer, autumn and winter. North and south, east and west, unwilling to mediocrity is destined to run for their own aspirations.
Half an hour before the G33 high-speed train to Hangzhou, Lao Pan li and I were at the ticket gate, waiting for the staff to check the ticket into the station.
I said, “I heard on the news a few days ago that Hangzhou has recently introduced many new policies to attract talents. It’s convenient to get a hukou, buy a house, and send your children to school.”
Lao Pan sighed, “Well, I wonder if people value your talent or your wallet. With a large number of highly educated people flooding into Hangzhou, they choose jobs to buy houses, and the current housing price in Hangzhou is not low.”
I advised: “if you do not adapt to there come back, we have a skill in hand, where also hungry die.”
Lao Pan nodded his head like mashed garlic.
There was a flurry of people standing up behind them to line up. The loudspeaker announced that train G33 was beginning to check in.
After years of this, I don’t know when and where to meet again, so I have to make good use of the remaining time and say goodbye. Lao Pan and I embraced each other: “Have a good life in Hangzhou, enjoy prosperity, don’t forget.”
“Dayao, I’m a deserter. I hope you can put down roots here. Find a virtuous wife as soon as possible, buy a comfortable house, and live a good life.”
“Well.” I got a little choked up.
“If you come to Hangzhou when you are free, I will treat you with good wine and food. Be sure to bring a girl. If you come alone, I will not receive you.”
I nodded, tears welling uncontrollably in my eyes. I’m too old to leave. Lao Pan smiled, waved goodbye and quickly disappeared into the crowd.
I couldn’t help recalling my first meeting with Lao Pan. We were younger than we are now, more youthful than we are now, more fearless than we are now.
On the return subway, I received a message from Lao Pan that the train had started. When I opened mY wechat, I saw the message “I love you Beijing, goodbye Beijing!” he posted on his moments. In the state.
Goodbye, Pan.
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