As a native of Kunming, Yunnan, I think it should be joyful or cordial to mention Kunming. After all, I believe that everyone has some feelings for the capital city of his hometown. Because coming from other provinces, if someone asks you where you are from, you always take the trouble to answer: Kunming, Yunnan. And every time someone hears such an answer, they always reply: "Wow! It's really a beautiful place, with four seasons like spring! " I always say, "Are you okay? In fact, compared with people who have been to Kunming, it may be more appropriate to describe them with four distinct seasons. "
? Often such a short sentence can always arouse the curiosity of others, and then I always take pains to introduce the climate, geographical location, customs, special snacks and strange scenery of Kunming to others. This may be a manifestation of nostalgia for my hometown as a wanderer.
? But I really want to elaborate, in fact, I am not familiar with it. There is no deep feeling. I don't know why, if I really want to get to the bottom of it, it may be because I didn't stay in Kunming for a long time and didn't work hard for my dreams in that city. Think about it, only this reason is the most appropriate!
When I was eight or nine years old, I heard about Kunming from my cousins who dropped out of school early in the village. My hometown is a village committee under a small town in Kunming, more than 200 kilometers away from Kunming. I didn't know until I went to college myself. In the past, I only knew from my cousin who worked in Kunming and went home on holidays that Kunming was far away and prosperous, but I didn't know how far and prosperous it was. ?
? I still remember the first time I went to Kunming, when I was sixteen. After my junior high school graduation exam, I took more than two months off. My father entrusted my uncle, who runs a security company in Kunming, to meet me at the station, and then I took a bus from the town to the county seat and then transferred to Kunming. This is my first time to travel far alone. After all, for a rural child who has lived in the countryside since childhood and rarely went to the town until junior high school, his heart is actually uneasy, but he is full of curiosity and yearning. In order to go to the city this time, I specially went to the barber shop where I used to cut my hair in junior high school. I spent five yuan on washing my hair and blowing it, and let the barber pull my bangs with a splint to make myself look cool.
? I still remember that the day of departure happened to be the day of the market in the town, and my father sent me to the town to buy something by the way. My father sent me to the town bus to buy a ticket. After I get on the bus, I'll tell the driver to deal with it before I leave. After all, as a father, the child is actually worried about going out for the first time alone. When I arrived at the county bus station, I don't remember if the driver taught me to buy a car to the provincial capital. Anyway, I got on the bus to Kunming and finally arrived at Kunming bus station smoothly. (At that time, the Huangtupo Bus Terminal had not been demolished.1Kunming people in the early 1990s after 1980 should all know it. ).
? Get off at Huangtupo Bus Terminal, find a telephone booth and call my uncle on the landline. Soon my uncle came to pick me up on a yellow scooter. The first time he saw me, he said, why do you have such long hair? At that time, I don't remember whether I answered my uncle's question, but now there is a great probability that I want to come. Then my uncle took me directly to a barber shop and asked the barber to cut my long hair. At that time, I was just in adolescence, and there were many pimples on my forehead, which were covered by long bangs. Great. When I cut my bangs, all my pimples were exposed. Although my heart was tangled, I didn't dare to express it, so I silently endured the possibility that the person who picked me up would cast a strange look on my forehead after going out from the barber shop.
? But in fact, I learned later that city people simply don't have time to observe everyone passing by. Their attention is focused on their own affairs. It took me years to realize this. Life is your own and has nothing to do with others. In the adult world, you are your own protagonist, but to others, you are just a passer-by. )
Then there was a similar Honda 4S shop in Liangjiahe area, and I worked as a small security guard with several people here for two months. Then, when you are free, you can stroll around the streets with some brothers who dropped out of school early. Sometimes people who still have more than ten dollars on them take it out and bake three chicken legs at the roadside barbecue stall. The three brothers each ate their own food, which was quite delicious. From time to time, I will go to the billiards hall on the street to play two billiards. I dare not go to other places for fear of getting lost. After all, just entering the city is still very timid. At that time, the farthest place to go was that several people rode bicycles to Xishan Square to watch others sing and dance, and then rode back. How happy I am!
? This is the first time that I really have a great impression on Kunming, because I have never been anywhere except Liangjiahe. But to what extent, in fact, for me at that time, there was no concept at all. Later, I successfully entered high school and returned to school. After that, I will come to Kunming every summer vacation and will not come out in winter vacation. After all, it is not easy to find a job because of the short time. Moreover, after the first experience, I became more courageous, and the place I went to was no longer Liangjiahe, and I didn't need my uncle to pick me up. Because as a child in the rebellious period of youth, he actually doesn't like being controlled by his elders. Just because I don't want to take care of it, I have to run outside.
? After that, I stayed in the beautiful New Year Food Street in the north city, which is a small restaurant with only two floors and mainly Thai food. The name of the restaurant is Sawadika. The restaurant is run by three Kunming locals who just graduated from college for a year or two. We all call them "fat boss, second boss and third boss" in private. As for why there is such a name, in fact, as the newest person in the store, I don't know. It was said by several other waiters in the store and several chefs and food handlers in the kitchen. At that time, there were two girls who had just finished the college entrance examination in the same county with me, one was Xiao Wei, the other was Xiao Yang, and the other was a boy from the same county who came to work in the summer vacation. But then I knew why I was called the fat boss. It was because a boss weighed 100 kg at that time. Once he was drunk at a dinner in a shop, and it took four people a lot of effort to carry him to the car. I think it should be sorted by weight! Now that I think about it, it's been 14 and 15 years. I think that restaurant should be gone now!
Just as several of our waiters left QQ numbers as contact information at that time, we don't know what our future is now.
? Later, I also stayed in Chejiabi, Kunming, and was responsible for painting in a small company with customized mobile homes opened by Hubei people. The first time, it should be regarded as the first time to deal with mainlanders. I still remember that I couldn't understand what Hubei people said at first, which was a bit embarrassing. After that, I worked in Caohai Site in Dianchi Lake for two months, and I built today's Caohai Tunnel. I think everyone in Kunming knows this tunnel. The boss is from Chongqing, and he didn't understand Chongqing dialect at first. The boss is also a low-educated contractor, and occasionally he can barely understand a sentence or two of Mandarin with a strong accent in Chongqing. Now that I think about it, it may be the experience of getting along with people from different provinces and listening to their different dialects at that time. Now I hear dialects in many places, and I can almost understand them. Although I can't talk about them, I have laid a solid foundation for communication without any obstacles.
? I didn't think so much before, and I didn't think these experiences would have any significance for my future life. But today, many years later, with the growth of age, experience and experience, I understand a truth: there is no road to life in vain, and every step counts.
? Maybe you are doing something today, but you don't understand why you are doing it. You can't understand the significance of doing it. Never mind, don't ask so many reasons, do it first, because at some point in the future, what you are experiencing at the moment may make you feel meaningless and play a key role. Because many truths need to be experienced to understand.
2022-02- 10
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