On the New Year’s Eve, there are very few people going out by train. Zhang Bin is alone in his soft-sleeper box.
Zhang Bin is a buyer for a foreign trade company. He is on business trips all day long. His wife kept the vacant house alone all the year round, and brought a two-year-old son with him, often complaining. However, Zhang Bin will say every time: “I am working hard to make money, not for you, for this family.”
Just now, his wife called to tell him that the child was sick, and Zhang Bin let The wife took the child to the hospital for an injection. Because he was tired after running for more than a month and was in a very irritable mood, Zhang Bin’s attitude was very bad when he spoke, and he had a big fight with his wife.
Half asleep and half awake, Zhang Bin heard someone open the door of the soft sleeping box. He looked up and saw an old man with gray beard, walking tremblingly on a crutches. Into the box. The old man was also carrying a large, strip-shaped backpack full of stuff on his back, as if he was about to fall.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Bin quickly got up and helped the old man into the box, helped him remove the backpack on his back, put it under the bunk, and sat on the opposite bunk with his arms.
“Master, where are you going?” Zhang Bin asked.
“Fengzhen, that is my hometown.” The old man said the name of a small town in front of Zhang Bin’s city, his eyes full of warmth and yearning.
“I will get off at the next stop in Fengzhen, you can sleep for a while, call me when you are about to arrive, and I will help you lift your luggage off the car.”
“Thank you, but I can only carry that bag because it contains all the debts I owed in the past.”
“Debts owed? “Zhang Bin was a little surprised when he heard this. If the big bag is full of debt bills, then there are a lot of them. This old man can really borrow money, maybe he came out to hide the debt.
The old man coughed for a while, some of his energy was exhausted, and he lay on the bunk to rest. Zhang Bin also lay down and fell asleep in a daze.
In the middle of the night, Zhang Bin suddenly felt a slight pain in his stomach, so he got up and went to the toilet. When he returned to the box, he saw a middle-aged man with disheveled hair and red eyes on the opposite shop, holding a yellowish photo in his other hand and a bottle in the other. Liquor drank while crying, but the old man had disappeared.
Zhang Bin looked at his watch, and it was only a little bit late at night. Fengzhen shouldn’t arrive yet, so why did the old man get off the car early?
“Big Brother, Big Brother, what can’t you think of?” Zhang Bin asked.
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The man did not speak, but passed the photo in his hand to Zhang Bin. Zhang Bin took the photo, by the lightAt a glance, the picture shows a beautiful woman and a pair of lovely twin girls.
“This is my wife and two daughters.” The man said.
“The child is very cute.” Zhang Bin praised sincerely.
“They were not taken to the hospital in time because of gas poisoning a few years ago. They are no longer there. I have no face to see them, I have no face to see them…”
Hearing what the man said, Zhang Bin felt bored for a while, comforted the man a few words, and walked out of the soft sleeper box to the junction of the train car, lit a cigarette and started smoking.
Zhang Bin then vaguely heard the voice of two conductors talking. (Uncle Ghost: http://www.guidaye.com/ please keep the reprint!)
“There is a person in our carriage who is really ill. It’s okay to be there alone by myself Stop.”
“Maybe there is a mental problem, you really have to pay attention, if you have anything to do, call the police for help.”
Really. , How come there are strange people in this car today, and why are there no joys in the New Year? After smoking a few cigarettes, Zhang Bin looked at his watch. It was almost two o’clock, so he shook his head and walked to the box.
As soon as he opened the door of the box, Zhang Bin was stunned. On the opposite shop was a young man in his early 20s who was playing with a deck of cards on the small table. .
Why did you change again? Isn’t it that soft sleepers don’t sell short distance tickets? Zhang Bin muttered to himself and sat on his own bunk, watching the young man playing poker in front of him.
“Brother, are you fortune-telling? Very accurate.” I saw the young man drew a card from the pile of playing cards clasped on the table, and turned it over to see a 10 of hearts . He shook his card in front of Zhang Bin and said, “Look, drawing this 10 of hearts shows that I will be rich in the future.” Then the young man drew another card from the cards, which was a ace of hearts. “Look, Heart Q means that my girlfriend will definitely agree to my marriage proposal this time. I love her very, very much. I have to work hard and must make her live well.”
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Zhang Bin was very speechless about this clumsy fortune-telling technique. He felt a little thirsty. He reached for the mineral water on the square table, and accidentally dropped a few playing cards on the table. It fell to the ground.
“Oh, I’m sorry.” Zhang Bin hurriedly bent down to pick up the cards on the ground, only to see the big bag placed under the opposite sleeper. Why did the old man forget the big bag in the car before?
When Zhang Bin straightened up again, the boy playing poker was gone again. The person sitting in front of him was replaced by a five or six-year-old kid, staring at him with small eyes. . Zhang Bin JingyiI didn’t notice the sound of the boy going out and the boy coming in.
At this time, the door of the box was suddenly opened. Zhang Bin hurriedly looked out the door, only to see a conductor holding a ticket holder standing at the door. “Ticket changed! Ticket changed!” the conductor said impatiently.
Zhang Bin glanced at his watch. He was almost at the station, so he took out the ticket card and gave it to the conductor. The conductor took the ticket card back and gave the ticket to Zhang Bin, and then he turned and left. .
“Comrade, the parents of this child don’t know where they are going, please find me for help.” Zhang Bin called the conductor and pointed to the child in front of him.
The conductor looked at the shop opposite Zhang Bin, frowned, turned out of the box, and closed the door forcefully, leaving a sentence: “Where is anyone? Really? I’m sick!”
How is this person’s attitude like this? Zhang Bin didn’t get angry, so he wanted to go out and find the conductor to make a theory. At this time, his cell phone rang suddenly, and he took out his cell phone and looked at it. It was a cell phone newspaper. The headline on it was “Billionaires donate all their inheritance to charity.” The content of the news is that the president of a well-known company with a net worth of billions of dollars just passed away yesterday at the age of 73. This rich man was busy with work all day and ignored his family, causing his wife and two twin daughters to die in an early accident. After the death of his family, he spent the rest of his life in guilt and loneliness. After his death, he donated all his property to charity.
The photo of this billionaire on the phone is a bit familiar. and many more! The person in the photo turned out to be the old man in the car at the beginning.
Zhang Bin recalled the strange things that had happened overnight. His scalp was numb, and cold sweat flowed from his head. He looked up at the child sitting opposite, and asked with a trembling voice: “You… …Who are you?”
“I am indeed the person mentioned in the news, but don’t be afraid. In fact, everyone who has died will embark on the way back to their hometown, bringing the whole The journey of life is reviewed again. Thank you for walking this path with me. I have been so lonely these years. Compared with a warm home, what is the use of more money? I’m here, goodbye!” , The child took out the big bag about the same height as him from under the sleeper, turned his back behind him, opened the door and walked out of the box. When Zhang Bin reacted from the shock, the child was gone.
At this time, the train slowly stopped at a small station. The sky was already bright outside. With the shining sun, Zhang Bin could clearly see the sign on the platform─ ─Fengzhen.
Zhang Bin slowly sat back in the box, took out his mobile phone and dialed a most familiar number.
“Hey, how is Lolo? I will be home soon!”