Kunming, who will you forget tonight

Chapter 267 Shaxi Ancient Town
In the morning, I said goodbye to Xiyan’s father. Because there were no outsiders, I told him to go to Shaxi Ancient Town and Heijing Ancient Town. Shaxi Ancient Town is not far from Dali. It takes two hours to drive towards Lijiang. I can get there, walking on the highway, I think of the movie made by Huang Bo and Xu Zheng, "The Heart Blossoms on the Road", didn't they walk from BJ all the way to Dali?Along the way, Xu Zheng was looking for an affair for Huang Bo.And my trip this time is all about relaxing, maybe also escaping.

We arrived at Shaxi Ancient Town at 11:[-] noon. The sky was cloudy and it started to rain lightly.Walking on the road paved with bluestone slabs, drenched in the drizzle, breathing the fresh air that I have never breathed before, I feel that everything is so comfortable, and I fell in love with this place in an instant.

At the end of the stone road, I finally found a small stall selling rice noodles. A large bowl of rice noodles cost [-] yuan, eggs cost [-] yuan, and a stack of pickles was given away for free.It's a bit full for six yuan and five!
After lunch, I continued to walk in the ancient town of Shaxi, and I didn't feel how painful it was to be caught in the rain.The whole ancient town is very quiet. Unlike Lijiang, you can hear tambourines and singing everywhere you go. In Shaxi, some are just quiet.Most of the locals wear ethnic minority costumes, so it is easy to distinguish which are locals and which are tourists.

Xu Feiyu's hotel is on the edge of the ancient town. It is luxuriously built and looks very high-end, but it doesn't fit in with the entire ancient town. From my visual inspection, standing on the top floor of the hotel can overlook a large area of ​​buildings in the ancient town.There is a small square in the center of the ancient town. When I passed the small square, there were not many tourists there. There are two shops around the small square. There are freezers at the door, selling mineral water, popsicles and so on, of course!And smoke.

I came to the store to buy Hongtashan and was told no!I just changed my taste and bought a pack of Yuxi for 22 yuan. By the way, I chatted with the boss and asked casually, "Does Shaxi usually have so few tourists?"

The boss is a man in his 40s. He grinned and showed a few yellow teeth. He smoked a hookah and said, "There are more tourists at night."

"There are more at night?" I was a little surprised. I looked up and found that there was an inn listed there. "Why are there more tourists at night?"

The boss said with a smile: "I don't know, anyway, this place is only lively at night."

Now that I have said that, it seems a pity for me to leave now. I found an inn near the small square and asked about the price. It was 50 yuan a day and the conditions were average.

When I was about to go upstairs after checking in, a couple walked down the stairs. The girl was in her 20s. The girl was very beautiful. His boyfriend was a foreigner. When he saw me checking in, he He said to the girl next to him in unfluent Chinese: "Dear! Look, we have neighbors." Speaking of this, he took the initiative to reach out to me, "Hello, my name is Karen, nice to meet you. "

Are all foreign friends so enthusiastic?I politely extended my hand and said with a smile, "Hello, Qiu Han."

The girl also extended her hand to me and said, "Hello, my name is Tian Xin, nice to meet you, my boyfriend is from Ukraine."

After chatting for a few words, the couple left the inn. I looked at their backs curiously, and asked the boss, "This couple is very interesting. Are they so enthusiastic when they see guests?"

The boss curled his lips and said, "They have lived here for a month, and you are the third tenant they have seen. Can you not be enthusiastic?"

"Huh?" I asked in surprise, "Boss, you speak Mandarin well, you don't look like a local."

The owner of the inn is a man about 30 years old, the exact age is not clear, he explained: "I am from Harbin."

"People from Harbin came to Shaxi, Yunnan to open a hotel? And it was in such a remote town."

The boss looked at me and ignored me!I was a little bored, and walked slowly up to the room on the second floor, and opened the window to see the whole picture of the small square, the location is really good.

It was still raining outside the window, and the T-shirt I was wearing was a little wet. Since I didn't bring a change of clothes, I had to bite the bullet and go out to buy them.When I walked out of the inn, I didn't see the boss. The door of the inn was just open. Isn't he worried about losing things?

When I passed the small square, I met Tian Xin and Karen again. The two of them were sitting under the same roof sketching with their drawing boards in their arms. Karen was a very enthusiastic young man. When he saw me, he took the initiative to greet me and asked, "Handsome guy, How about sketching a photo? It only costs 30 yuan, and it doesn’t cost money if the painting is not good.”

"Huh?" I didn't respond for a while.

Tian Xin explained: "Karen and I are poor travelers, and we earn travel expenses by taking portraits of passers-by. After we came to Shaxi, we fell in love with it. This is why we have never left. Are you willing to support our dream? We I want to keep going."

"Okay." I sat opposite Karen and said, "Remember to draw me handsome, remember to be thinner."

Karen smiled and made an "OK" gesture, changed a piece of sketch paper and started to draw. When I was in the inn, I felt that Karen had a hippie smile, and was very good at teasing and talking nonsense!But when he starts to paint, his whole state is different, and he is very devoted.This reminds me of slap, and slap usually jokes with me with a hippie smile, fooling around!But be serious when you do it.

At this moment, I suddenly wanted to slap Karen and said, "You are very similar to a friend of mine."

Karen stopped the pen in her hand, looked at me and smiled, and said, "Then your friend must be very handsome."

"I..." I don't know what to say!In fact, Slap is an ugly ghost.

Tian Xin said to me: "Karen has a very good personality and likes to joke around. Did you come to Shaxi alone?"

"Well, yes." I said to Tian Xin: "Come here by accident, you have been here for a month? Where can I find a shopping mall nearby to buy a few changes of clothes?"

Tian Xin curled her lips and shook her head and said, "Don't even think about the mall, but you can find a small shop selling clothes, and I can take you there later."

"You can go now." It was Karen who spoke. He held the phone in his hand, and suddenly pressed the camera button. Hearing the "click" of the phone, I knew that I had been secretly photographed. Karen said to Tian Xin : "You take Qiuhan to buy clothes, and I will finish the painting when I come back."

Tian Xin had great trust in Karen's skills, and said to me: "Let's go, Karen can handle it."

Tian Xin and I walked side by side on the bluestone road, and casually chatted about Feiyu Hotel.Tian Xin was also not optimistic about this hotel, shaking his head and said: "I don't know what the developer thinks, building a hotel in a place like Shaxi! Let alone how much traffic there is, which completely destroys the feeling of the ancient town, I would rather I live in a simple inn, and I don’t want to stay in a hotel. I don’t care about the price difference, but I think that since I have come to the ancient town, I have to enjoy the culture. Only by integrating myself into it can I really feel the joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys here. Feel the joys and sorrows of this ancient town."

"It's very poetic." I commented on Tian Xin's words: "How did you manage to feel the joy, anger, sorrow, and joy of an ancient town?"

Tian Xin smiled and said, "I've said it before, if you integrate yourself into this place, you can feel its joys, sorrows, sorrows and joys. What do you do for work?"

"Me?" What do I do for work?I suddenly didn't know how to define myself, so I hesitated and said, "I'm an internet author, and I write novels online to cheat some money."

Tian Xin suggested, "Live in Shaxi, it will give you a lot of inspiration."

During the chat, we came to the market. Tian Xin told me that the whole street is very lively on market days. Today is not a market day, so we can only buy casually at the "shops" on both sides of this street.

The clothes are not expensive. I spent 200 yuan to buy everything from the inside to the outside, including underwear and socks.

When I went back, Karen had already drawn a sketch. I think the 30 yuan is quite worth it. The drawing is really good!Because he is more handsome than me.

At night, the small square is very lively. After dinner, all kinds of people come out to enjoy the cool air, barbecue stalls, darts, balloons, old people pushing bicycles and selling cotton candy... All kinds of people decorate the small square with bright lights.I took a picture sitting in front of the window on the second floor and sent it to Zhuo Lan.

After a while, I received a reply from Zhuo Lan, saying: Qiu Han... Dad may be dying.

Seeing this WeChat message, I hurriedly called Zhuo Lan, and the phone rang and was connected. I asked eagerly, "How is Lan Lan? Uncle, how is he?"

On the other side of the phone, Zhuo Lan choked up softly and said, "The cancer cells have spread...the doctor said...it's not bad to be alive for the new year. Surgery can't remove the cancer cells, and we can just resign ourselves to fate."

Hearing what Zhuo Lan said, I didn't know how to comfort her. I held the phone silently and listened to her crying. After about a minute, I finally found what to say and asked, "When was the diagnosis?"

"One hour ago." Zhuo Lan's voice was so weak, "I don't know what to do, I'm so tired, I want to cry...I want to find a shoulder to lean on..."

It took me less than four hours to drive back to Kunming from Shaxi that night, almost all the way overtaking at a speed of 170-200. As for fines and points, those are not important to me. I drove to Kunming Changshui Airport and bought I took the latest flight from Kunming to Shanghai, and I only had one thought, that is to meet Zhuo Lan as soon as possible and give her a big hug.

From 8 o'clock in the evening to [-] o'clock in the middle of the night, I worked hard to find the hospital and the ward!The moment I opened the door, I couldn't accept the scene in front of me.

Zhuo Lan's father was lying on the bed and fell asleep. Zhuo Lan stood facing the bed with his back to the door, with his hands folded in front of his chest, and Xu Feiyu was beside her, putting his suit on Zhuo Lan's body. Gently wrapping her arms around Zhuo Lan's shoulders...

Compared with Xu Feiyu, I'm like a dick!His brand-name suits, high-end shirts, and leather shoes are shiny.And I... I wear a 35 yuan T-shirt on my upper body, and a pair of 60 yuan jeans on my lower body. I don’t know what brand it is. The sneakers on my feet are the most valuable. It's all mud!

At that moment, I was so humbled!

(End of this chapter)