I'm waiting for you in the wind and snow

Chapter 8 Playing a Game
I didn't expect that I would still be tempted from 3000 kilometers away even though I was already far away in Dali.Of course I know that the company I used to work for has a strict salary system, so the salary of a product manager is about twice what I was before, but even so, I still can't afford a house in Shanghai, and I can't afford to marry someone in Shanghai. woman.

I am not saying that the meaning of my life in Shanghai must be measured by buying a house, but in such a city, if you do not have a house, it is difficult to have love, and once you are in such a predicament, the kind of life without dignity The feeling of humiliation is the most terrible and most tormenting.

Wang Lei saw through this point before me, so she tried her best to persuade me to leave Shanghai.

In the process of thinking about this, I lit a cigarette, and when I was about to finish smoking, I replied to Lao Huang's message: "I don't want to go back to Shanghai, Dali is fine."

"The difference between Shanghai and Dali's GDP is more than 50 times. Do you know what GDP means? That is real money. Shanghai is the place where gold is everywhere."

Ever since I stood on the land of Dali, I have a sense of illusion that is half-real, half-dream, so I am particularly disgusted that Lao Huang stripped these bloody realities for me to see.

I didn't reply to this message, because I know that only a very small number of people can enjoy living in Shanghai, a place full of gold, and some people will leave there after all.

……

After finishing the call with Lao Huang, I left the bed, sat in the empty yard and looked around blankly, and couldn't think of sending a message to Yang Sisi.I was just thinking about how to open a profitable inn here.

At about 12 o'clock, Tetsuo finally returned to the inn, followed by a young man with a guitar on his back, probably that horse guide with stinky feet.

Director Ma was obviously not as talkative as Tie Nan, he quietly put the beer in his hand on the table, then stood by the corner and lit a cigarette.

After him, Tie Nan threw a convenient bag of pork head meat on the table, and then said to me, breathing alcohol, "Welcome to this decadent, sad, lonely and shameless world... Hurry up and forget about those With the pain of anger, if we don't drink high tonight, it doesn't count!"

I smiled, then opened the lid of the beer bottle with a lighter, and handed it to Tetsuo and Director Ma standing aside.While Director Ma took the beer, he took out a bag of peanuts out of nowhere and threw it on the table.

……

After drinking half of the wine, Tie Nan asked me: "I think you plan to stay in Dali for a long time, what are you going to do in the future?"

"I want to open an inn here."

Tie Nan swallowed the wine violently, and then asked, "Dude, are you kidding me?"

"No kidding, I really came here to open an inn."

After I finished speaking, Director Ma, who had been silent for a long time, finally opened his mouth: "Opening an inn, I'm sick!"

Tie Nan took the words of Director Ma and said: "My buddy advises you to give up the idea of ​​opening an inn. Since last month, thousands of inns in Dali have been forced to close down. The government said it was to protect the Erhai Lake... Before, BJ A buddy rented a house on the Erhai Lake, and invested more than 1000 million. It was forced to close when it was about to open. Do you think this buddy is wronged? I heard that he sold BJ’s house Those who came to Dali borrowed a lot of money from relatives and friends, and now it is not an exaggeration to say that they have lost all their property?"

I asked with doubts: "With so many inns closed, where do tourists come to live in Dali?"

"Aren't some of these unclosed... And I heard that the government is now encouraging large hotels to settle in Dali, and its attitude towards inns is very vague. So opening an inn at this time is tantamount to courting death... You are lucky, After all, the money hasn’t been poured in yet, otherwise it would really make you lose everything.”

I subconsciously looked back at Tie Nan's youth hostel. There were a dozen or so rooms, but the lights were blind, and it looked bleak.

I can’t comment on this. I just feel that the places swept by the policy are simply barren of grass. This scene is quite different from what I imagined before I came here. I subconsciously feel that the nights on the Erhai Lake should be bustling. Lights that shine brightly...

After a while of silence, I raised my glass to Director Ma and Tie Nan to thank them for their reminders, but I was still somewhat disappointed in my heart because I felt that I had let down Wang Lei a bit.After I came to Dali, I failed to live as she imagined, to transform myself, and to create a hotel business.

Probably feeling my disappointment, Tetsuo put his arms around my shoulders again and said, "Brother, I think Dali is a city that doesn't give people too much pressure. Take it easy, even if you don't work for a year or so , fooling around like us, and no one will look down on you... Here, as long as you can feed yourself, it is considered valuable, because everyone is like this, and no one is more noble than the other. "

I nodded, and Director Ma said again at this moment: "The ones who can make money in Dali belong to those grandsons who pretend to be aggressive!"

I was surprised, because Director Ma's words were a bit abrupt in this dialogue environment. I just inquired about opening an inn, but he used this to talk about those grandchildren.I judged that he must have had a problem with one of the grandchildren, because when he said that, he felt almost unable to control his anger.

If Tetsuo didn't accept Ma's guidance, of course I wouldn't ask too much, because I'm not a person who likes to expose other people's scars.I think that if Director Ma and I become close friends one day, he will definitely talk to me about his life, but now, our relationship is obviously not in place yet.

……

On the first night in Dali, I drank too much, and then wasted an unknown amount of time in drunkenness and dreaming.

The morning in Dali comes later than in Shanghai. I woke up at 06:30, and the sky was still very bright and cool. It was already midsummer, but the temperature was only about [-] degrees.

After I washed up, I left the inn amidst the snores of Director Ma and Tie Nan, and Erhai Lake was a few hundred meters away from the inn.At this moment, there is no light, only the sound of the tide is cooperating with my brain, imagining what Erhai Lake should look like at dawn.

I sat down on a rock, and in the unrecovered world, there was a vague sense of elegant helplessness.But I am a person who desperately needs happiness, but I sit on the Erhai Lake and lament for myself, and then ignore the cold tide, rolling over like an incontinent prostate...

Gradually, dawn came, but from the beginning to the end, I was in the same mood and in the same posture. I sat for a long time until I could clearly see the color and variety of the vegetation around me.

Under the sun, the water of Erhai Lake is blue, but the stench coming from a distance also shows that this is indeed a lake that needs to be treated.

It seems that I came at the wrong time. I can't choose to recklessly smash the 19 left by Wang Lei into the inn, an industry that seems to be very turbulent in Dali, at this time, but I can't stay idle like this all the time.

Thinking, thinking, a white cruise ship carrying passengers passed in front of me, making a circle of water waves.Then I saw the reflection of the opposite mountain in the sea, which looked very delicate.Unknowingly, I entered a state of emptiness, and I didn't care how much life I wasted this morning.

……

"Uncle, have you found a place to live?"

I picked up my phone and looked at it. It turned out to be a WeChat message from Yang Sisi.

I immediately texted her back: "I must have found it, did you find it?"

"you guess."

"I'm not the roundworm in your stomach, how can I guess."

Yang Sisi came over with a bunch of smiling faces, then changed the subject and said, "Uncle, let's play a game... If I can find you before lunch, can you promise me one thing? I promise you can do it." Arrived."

"Stop joking, do you know how big Dali is?"

"Of course I know, so you won't suffer in this matter, because I basically have no chance of winning."

"Okay, what if you can't find me before lunch?"

"I invite you to dinner."

"Then you come and find it."

"Okay, from now on you can only stay where you are and don't move. If you deliberately make it difficult for me, you are a dog."

"Then what if I want to pee?"

"Hold on."

I smiled at these conversations, lit another cigarette, and waited for the little sheep who had thrown itself into the trap.However, I was very puzzled, where did she get the confidence to be so sure that she would find me? This difficulty is no less than finding a needle in a haystack.

Time passed by, in order to avoid the strong ultraviolet rays, I moved under a tree, and I didn't let myself idle afterwards.I have been looking for some listings suitable for inns on my mobile phone.

I think that since there are still some inns left, there must be places that can be used as inns outside the policy.Furthermore, thinking about it the other way around, it is precisely because of the worrying prospects of the inn industry that I have the opportunity to take over an inn to be transferred at a low price during this special period of panic.

Over the years, I have saved about 19 yuan, and with the 30 yuan given by Wang Lei, I can barely make up [-] yuan. Through preliminary understanding on the Internet, the money can probably take over a small inn.

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After sorting out some of the housing information collected into the mobile phone memo, it was already a little noon.Unlike in the morning, the number of tourists on the Erhai Lake at this moment has increased significantly. Some of them are riding big turtle motorcycles, some are driving open-top jeeps, and most of them are rented four-wheel electric vehicles.These colorful means of transportation, like beads strung together, circle the Erhai Lake, as if wearing a string of flowing colorful necklaces on the Erhai Lake.

A while later, another group of wandering singers came to the pier not far away. They set up tents next to the white building, and sold beer while singing to tourists...

Tie Nan said, when the weather is cold, the seagulls will fly back from the north, and the Erhai Lake will be really beautiful at that time, but at this time, I already feel very beautiful!I even want to buy some beers with those street singers, and then sit closer and listen to them sing.

I almost forgot about the bet with Yang Sisi until I saw her Lu Xun with a Shanghai license plate driving slowly from a distance...

This is really hell!Not to mention the ancient city, it is more than 100 kilometers to walk around the Erhai Lake. I really don't know how she found it.

(End of this chapter)