A foreign city, dear you

"It's so late at night, where is anyone else?" Mazi and Pan just shook their heads.

Yes, traveling at night is very hard, and there is no one there yet, who would be willing?

But Lin Shushen was so idle day after day, feeling panicked. Mazi and Pan were unwilling to drive out at night, but he was willing to give it a try.

To be on the safe side, he didn't get out of the car until 10:30 every night, and he stopped work at 5:30 in the morning.

He was afraid to hitch a ride on his tricycle.

At this time, there were not many people on the road. Even if there were a few people, they were mostly nearby people and there was no need to use a car.

The deeper the night goes, the fewer people there are.

Whether you can get customers or not depends entirely on luck.

Sometimes I can't get one order in a night, and sometimes I'm lucky and get two or three orders.

But he still goes out every night.

He thought that although it was difficult, he would earn one by one. If he could not contribute to the family, he should not be a drag on Yelu, and he should be able to support himself.

At first, he walked around in the empty streets at night, and the rumble of tricycles could be heard from one street to another.

Later, he stopped driving around like this. It was all about luck anyway, so he didn't need to consume so much fuel.

He would stand guard at the door of any hotel or restaurant, and he would keep every order he could.

Later, he stopped guarding the hotel, and the people who came in and out of the hotel were all rich people who would not get on his tricycle.

He would stand guard in front of restaurants that were still open or on the roadside of food stalls. Sometimes those who came home late at night or were drunk would wave to his car;

In the middle of the night, he would squat in front of the hospital. If he met someone who needed a car urgently, he could get an order or two.

He never dared to get out of the car during the day. When he was bored, he would look for pockmarks and plates for entertainment.

Mazi and Panpan saw Lin Shushen driving at night. They also tried driving at night, but they still felt that it was too hard and they couldn't sleep. The money they earned was so pitiful that it was not worth it.

Lin Shushen didn't think so.

We cannot sit still and wait for death in this situation.

You can sleep during the day.

Whether you can make money or not depends on luck, but whether you can make money or not is a matter of attitude.

I have worked hard and feel better mentally.

Ye Lu's salary from her sister Ye Lian's bakery is responsible for all the family's expenses. As a man, he cannot shoulder the heavy responsibility of supporting the family, but he cannot lose his fighting spirit.

Summer is actually not bad, you can do whatever you want at night.

It's more troublesome in winter, it's very cold late at night.

Yelu told Lin Shushen not to go out at night because it was too cold.

But Lin Shushen still went out, why did he feel so cold? It would be nice to earn two vegetable dollars, as it can help Ye Lusong do some math.

But every winter night, looking at the empty streets and facing the biting cold wind, when Lin Shushen thought about his situation, he couldn't help but feel a sore nose, wondering why he was so difficult.

Fortunately, when he was extremely depressed, he would think of Ye Lu and Yaya.

Ye Lu, she is a good wife. Even if he can no longer make money by driving a tricycle like before, she has not complained at all;

Yaya, his lovely daughter, her daily growth is the motivation for him to persevere.

Originally, since he could only earn less than two yuan by pulling a tricycle, he could go back to his hometown more often to visit Yaya.

But because he couldn't make money, he didn't want to go back to his hometown.

He was afraid of seeing the old and worried eyes of his parents, and he was also afraid of the helpless guilt he felt in his heart when Yaya called her daddy.

But Lin Shushen still missed Yaya.

Two months ago, he went back to his hometown and stayed there for several days.

Yaya has grown taller, grown up, and become sensible. She is in the second grade of elementary school and will be in the third grade next semester.

Yaya was very happy to see her father back.

Every day when she comes back from school, she will show her dad her neatly done homework, with the big red 100 points.

Yaya wrote her name very beautifully stroke by stroke: Lin Yaya.

After returning home, Yaya quickly finished her homework so that she could play with her father.

When eating, Yaya knew that her father had difficulty with one hand, so she quickly helped him pack the food.

Lin Shushen felt both happy and sad in his heart.

Fortunately, my daughter is so obedient and considerate of adults since she was a child.

What's sad is that I don't have the ability to give her the same conditions as other children.

He recalled the scene when he put Yaya in the car back to his hometown three years ago and Yaya cried and called her daddy.

If he had the conditions at that time, how could he be willing to let Yaya leave him?

What now? It’s even more difficult now, I can’t even pull the cart...

Why isn't it sad?

But Yaya doesn't understand this. She is just happy when she sees her father.

In her memory, her father drove a tricycle in a big city with many cars and buildings. Yaya still had the image of her father driving a tricycle with one hand in her mind.

Yaya knew that her father was different from other fathers and could only drive with one hand.

When she was little, her father once said that his other hand was hidden by God. She believed it true and worriedly told her father to keep this hand obedient and not to be hidden by God.

Yaya is now a second grader in elementary school, and she knows that her father’s hand is not hidden by God, but lost forever.

She doesn't blame her father for lying to her, she feels sorry for him even more, knowing that it's not easy for him to make money.

She still wanted to tell her father to be safe.

She held her father's hand and imitated the tone she used when she was a child:

"Dad, you must be obedient with this hand. You can't let God hide it."

The day Lin Shushen left his hometown and returned to Yancheng, Yaya didn't cry or shout, she just waved to her father like a little adult.

But Lin Shushen's eyes turned red unconsciously.

……

In the blink of an eye, it has been two months since I returned to Yancheng.

Lin Shushen was still pulling his tricycle day and night.

Ever since Ye Lu followed Ye Lian to work at the bakery in Yuehe Shopping Mall, because it was a bit far away, she rarely came back, only on days off.

So Lin Shushen made do with everything when it came to eating and living day by day, except sometimes getting together with Mazi and Pandan.

The pockmarks and plates basically no longer come out of the truck. Some of the money earned when pulling the truck has become increasingly empty.

It was one day in August, and the three of them got together again, playing cards lazily.

"Lin Zi. Do you still go out every night?" Mazi asked.

Lin Shushen nodded: "If you don't go out and have nothing to do every day, you can't sleep day and night, right?"

"How much did you get last night?" Pan asked.

"thirty."

"All night?"

"Ah."

"You can still endure hardship."

"Pull a little, count a little."

"I also want to get out of the car, otherwise I won't be able to open the pot." Pan Pan looked sad.

"Are you going out all night like me?"

"I want to, but I always feel sleepy when driving at night, and I can't stay up late." Pan was depressed.

"Linzi, have you paid attention to what's going on on the road during the day these days?" Mazi suddenly asked.

Lin Shushen shook his head: "I didn't pay attention. I came here by bus and didn't pay attention to look outside. What's wrong?"

"I went to town yesterday and didn't pay attention at the time. Looking back now, I don't think I saw those black Jetta cars." Mazi looked thoughtful.

"Really?" Pan's eyes suddenly became energetic.