At two o’clock in the morning, the drizzle drizzled in the deserted streets. A dim street lamp shining yellowish light in the dark night. Pull the neat rows of trees on both sides of the street into huge blocks. Roger carelessly drove his own Xiali bearing the “TAXI” logo slowly in the lonely night. I hope I can get one or two customers who just need to use the car just for fun from the bar or nightclub. But in the cold streets, except for himself, he could no longer see a pedestrian.
“Damn it” Roger cursed in a whisper, he had been wandering like this for more than an hour. But he couldn’t even see a ghost. This is the case in small cities. At night, it becomes deserted and lonely like a cemetery. In the end, he simply stopped by the roadside.
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Put down the seat cushion, Roger lit a cigarette and lay down comfortably. Then I stretched out my long legs that were already numb. Spit out a smoke ring. By the faint light squeezed in from outside the car. Roger stared blankly at the light smoke that was reflected in a faint blue. There was a wave of worry in my heart.
“This rain has been raining for ten days or so, and it will not stop. Let’s go on like this. I’m afraid we will drink northwest wind.”
“…”
“She’s just afraid that she will have fallen asleep long ago.”
She! Thinking of this, Roger’s heart unconsciously filled with an inexplicable warmth and tenderness. Closing his eyes, his thoughts floated back to his house called the house. There is his wife and his unborn son. And the light that will wait for him to return every night. Every night. The stubborn wife will leave a light after sleep, waiting for the return of the husband who stayed up all night in the sports car. Every time Roger wears a star in front of his tired home, looking at the faint light reflected through the curtains, all the hardship and fatigue are also filled and replaced by a thick warmth. Disappeared in the thick night…