It is more than 200 kilometers from Hankou to Xinyang. I went to Hankou Railway Station to buy train tickets. There were many people, crowded and long queues. They were all holidays in a hurry ... I didn't have the patience to wait for tickets, so I immediately turned to Hankou Bus Station. The bus ticket is available, and there is no bus until 6 pm, so we have to wait. Why do you spend so much time? I walked around the station: the crowds coming and going, the hawking of business, the noise of nearby construction machinery mixed with dust, the exhaust from cars and the pollution in the city made people fidget. I felt a little hungry, so I found a Lamian Noodles in Lanzhou and ate a bowl of Lamian Noodles (when I was abroad, I didn't want to eat in a small restaurant near the station, and I thought it was much more hygienic to eat halal food in Lamian Noodles, Lanzhou), so I wanted to go to the waiting room to be quiet.
The waiting room of Hankou bus station is divided into two areas. The first area is the ticket gate of 1 ~ 6; The second area is ticket gate 7 ~ 12. My destination is in the first section.
The waiting room is big, but no matter how big it is, it can't compare with many people. Hundreds of seats are full. As long as there is no road on the ground, there are people sitting on the floor everywhere. Although we went to batch after batch, it always seemed that more people came than went. Smoke, sweat, peel and food waste are everywhere. Although smoking and littering are forbidden on the wall, people can't pay attention at this time, just waiting for the bus, looking for a seat, and filling their stomachs when they are hungry or thirsty. The cleaners take pains to sweep, and people throw them again and again. Sweeping and throwing are used to being so harmonious. Children's cries and noises are also full of them. Those well-dressed gentlemen, fashionable boys and enchanting girls who came in waved their delicate hands in front of their beautiful noses. Although they just arrived in the waiting room, they frowned and muttered something, but in a short time, they began to talk and laugh, cuddle, blow cigarettes and throw peels. People destroy their temporary environment so rigidly.
I finally sat down in a seat that I had just got up to catch the bus. There are still three and a half hours to see the time, so I have to take a nap to calm myself down.
Just as I was about to fall asleep, a gentle voice suddenly came from my ear:
"Uncle, shine your shoes?"
I opened my eyes wide and saw a young man in his twenties coming towards me. He is neatly dressed, with a bag in his left hand and a toothpaste-like thing in his right. He leaned down and pointed a toothpaste-like thing at my shoes. Only then did I know it was shoe polish. When I looked at his face, his eyes were shining with youthful light and his face was smiling for advice. But I don't think so. He hesitated for a while, and when he saw that I didn't make a response to shoeshine, he immediately took a half step and moved to a man next to me to ask his advice on the way he treated me. After the man whispered "Go away", he continued to move towards a lady until the lady said "Hate", and then he moved on to the next one. In this way, he took the bag and shoe polish one by one to ask everyone for shoe polishing service, always with a youthful smile on his face, always with a gentle tone, always with a certain degree of self-confidence, "walking away", "hating" or silent rejection, contemptuous attitude, did not change his mentality at all, nor did he let him take (wrong) anyone wearing leather shoes. So he visited the waiting crowd in the first district and went out at once.
Seeing that the young man turned around and didn't wipe a pair of shoes, I thought to myself: Why do you have to shine shoes at such a young age? It is enough to have a shoeshine, but people don't want to do it, and they treat him with a discriminatory and contemptuous expression and tone. Doesn't he know shame? Is there no point in living without shoeshine? I feel sorry for him. I think he is incompetent.
I was taking a nap and thinking about the young man's life when another voice alerted me:
"eldest brother; Buy one! For the children at home ... "
When I opened my eyes, I saw an old lady in her seventies, slightly fat, with gray hair and a kind smile, looking at me with consulting eyes. She has a plastic bag in her left hand and a toy fish in her right. The toy fish glowed red in her hand and shook its head and tail like a real live fish. It was very cute. There are no children around, and of course there is no intention to buy, just keep silent. When she saw this, she went home immediately. After the man next to me whispered "Go away", she went to the lady next to the man and begged for "hate". When she went to find a child to play with toy fish, the child called his father to buy it, not wanting his father to slap the child. The child burst into tears and the old woman left with a smile.
It certainly doesn't make me feel good to see the old man wandering around. Everyone in the whole district has consulted and she hasn't sold many toys. Thought: Who is so unfilial? Let an old man like himself come up with these disappointing things? Like begging? Cold treatment and humiliation? Is this their life?
As before, I was thinking about the old man who was dozing off. Another action startled me: I saw a man touching his head on my shoes and bowing in front of me with a dollar in his hand. When I saw this man, he was a man in his forties. He was dressed in an old military uniform and dirty, but his face and hairstyle were a bit like Andy Lau's. He was well-built, with a frozen smile on his face and a sly look in his eyes. It's uncomfortable at first sight, and I also treat it silently and don't look. When he saw this, he immediately knelt down beside me. After he hit his head on the man's foot, his hand holding the money didn't lift. The man raised his feet slightly and said "go away" at the same time. He continued to kneel beside the woman, who was playing with her mobile phone with her jade legs open. Suddenly, she saw a head between her legs and jumped up from her seat in horror. At the same time, Jiao drank "hate". The dirty man didn't get up and continued to kneel and jump into the house. At this time, he finally found a bargain-the next one was a woman who had just found a seat to sit down. This woman learned a lesson from the last woman who was startled. Before the dirty man knelt on her lap, she immediately took out a round bill and threw it in the distance. Dirty people are also aware of this. After kneeling down to pick up the money, she stopped harassing him. The next one is also a lady. She also blocked the dirty man in this way. ...
Dirty people kneel neatly. When he asked for money, he said nothing. He just has a stiff smile on his face. He just bumped his head on people's feet, between the legs of a woman with her legs open. At first I thought he was a cripple, but when he was begging for money and moving around, he suddenly stood up from the ground and walked like a fly. I thought life was a word with dignity, but it became so vulgar to people without dignity. What is the inner world of these people? I feel like a bottomless black hole.
The dirty man who begged for money left. The people at the station left one group and poured into another. I waited for more than an hour, got up and moved, took the opportunity to find a window seat and sat down again. According to the time, it will take 100 minutes to get on the bus.
At this moment, the young man who shined shoes came. The young man came to my side again and whispered:
"Uncle: Your shoes are dirty. Let me wipe it for you! You are satisfied! "
I didn't refuse this time. I put out my foot. He immediately took out a small stool from his bag, then took out a wiping tool, wiped the dust off my shoes, coated them with shoe polish, and wiped them carefully.
He brushed me and chatted with him.
The young man graduated from college and majored in marketing. Dad is the marketing manager of a sales company. He said that although he graduated from college, his marketing quality has not yet reached home and he needs to experience it. Dad said to him:
"The best experience is to shine shoes-but you don't let others do it, you let others do it."
Dad told him, "It's different when people ask you to clean it than when you ask someone to clean it." "People ask you to wipe" means that you serve people's consumption, and "you ask someone to wipe" means that you guide people's consumption. Guide people to spend and deal with various social occasions. You may encounter red eyes, cold eyes, white eyes and squints, and you may hear coldness, irony, praise, slander, flattery and empty words. But in any case, if you are a successful person, you must have an eye for this as your marketing potential, be confident, be patient, be patient, be gentle, be sincere, be enthusiastic and be kind. Especially for those who are cold, contemptuous and jealous of you, you must be modest, modest and modest.
The young man said: Dad told him that there are three realms of shoeshine, that is: I want to satisfy him, which is the minimum realm; If I don't want to wipe, I can win service for him, which is a high level; I can move people who despise me and serve them, which is a higher realm.
The young man also said that his father taught him: if you don't get a pair of shoes a day, it means that your heart is not shining shoes; If you can only wipe it for the person who is looking for you, it means that your shelf has not been pulled down; If you can shine shoes for people who despise you, you are expected to succeed.
I asked, "How many pairs did you wipe today?"
"More than 20 pairs."
"Did you meet anyone who can improve your level today?"
"meet!"
"Really?"
"yes! Won't you improve me? "
Ha ha! The young man turned out to be a caring man. I admit that I really despise him. Now, I give him a thumbs-up sign!
The young man polished his shoes and left. At this moment, the old man selling toys came. I took out 10 yuan to buy toys for the elderly. The old man gave me a robot fish and a gyro. I asked by the way:
"Grandpa, how much did you sell today?"
"As soon as you buy it, I will have 40 yuan!"
"Your living expenses today are more than enough!"
"ah! I don't live by selling these things! "
"Then why are you still working so hard?"
"Base life! I don't like playing cards and have no habit of chatting. Sitting on the sofa is too lazy to move, and my brain is gradually forgetting things. The doctor gave me such a strange idea as soon as I saw it! "
"Really?" I was taken aback.
"Still false ... you don't say, this strange idea is really good. My skull is really stronger than before, and my legs are much more flexible ... "
Say that finish, the old woman left. Here comes the dirty man begging for money. I took out a dollar, but before he knocked his head off, I stopped him and said:
"How much can it cost a day?"
"Maybe. The chances are good, there are hundreds. Under normal circumstances, it is only 30 ~ 40 yuan. "
"You are still young, why don't you want to do something better?"
"Eldest brother, you are a layman and don't understand the market of our industry?"
"ah! Quote? "
"We eat a hundred meals and wear a hundred clothes ... everyone gives money, and we make money every day ... one person supports the whole family; One person is comfortable and the whole family is comfortable; No matter what day it is, the ground will not accept it. If there is good freedom, there will be good freedom ... Where are these people ... "He pointed to the passengers coming and going, and continued.
"Busy all day ..."
He spoke plausibly, and his sly eyes were somewhat complacent. ...
I was just about to say something to him when the station broadcast rang and I should get on the bus, so I left him and went to check in with my luggage.
On the bus, I recalled my experience at the station today:
See a person who writes life homework!
See a man who ended his life!
See a man who has lost his soul!
The world of life is vivid and rich. The people in the station are all passers-by, and what they see is only a glimpse, and they may not meet again, but these three people are deeply imprinted in my mind.