My simple adventure on the new long march(1)

Jan. 13rd, Saturday. It's a raining day. After rushing to the bus
station, I got on a bus and luckily I found a seat next to a middle-age
man. The bus is old and dirty. All the panels under the steering wheel
is disappeared, some of the windows are broken. The floor is covered by
mud. Though the bus is filled with people and big luggages, the driver
hasn't shown up. He want more passengers, I think.
Finally, the engine is started. My goal is ShaPing, a little town near
ChangSha. ShaPing is famous for its needle work called XiangXiu, which
is the top 4 greatest needle work in China. Well, ChangSha is the
capital city of the Hunan Province, which is the hometown of a famous
leader Chairman Mao. This trip cost me 3.5 RMB, I remember it is 3 RMB
one year ago. The price of everything is changing. Higher of course.
As soon as the bus left the station, the man next to me lighted up a tip
and began to smoke. The lighting tip flied with his hand and swayed with
his shaking body. The bus is not stable, all the shaking windows made
big noise. I laid back to the seat to protect my new clothes from
burning by the cigarette.
Got off the bus, I met two other persons. Both of them are my
schoolmates. Looking more than 30 years old, they just graduated from my
college, and got their PhD. We best buy the needle works together, they
whispered. Good idea, I think. The more you buy, the cheaper price you
can achieve.
They are good business man, at least they are good at negotiation. They
pretended to be big leaders, they flirted with the young girls with
dirty words and condemned the honest old ladies without reason. They lie
to the boss of the shop and to me. They used everything they can spend,
including 8 hours, to get the right price. I just sit on the chair
quietly, waiting for the result.
After buying more than 2000RMB needleworks, which is less than the 1/5
of the original price, these two persons are discussing whether they are
fools to buy these goods so expensive all the way home. "The boss is so
rich!" They keep saying.
When we talk, they said I am a typical graduate student and should study
hard. "We are not good at studying. We only wanna get the Ph.D for a
better life". I am glad. As a graduate student, I love researching and I
think I am good at it. This is my advantage. Poorly, some people wanna
get more things, wanna to get Ph.D, wanna to be sophisticated, wanna
have good relationship with this person and that person. They lost their
advantage and missed their way. Why did they spend 4 years to get the
Ph.D they are not good at? Time is money. Everyone should do the things
you love to do, and do the things you are good at.
On the way back, the daughter of one person made a call and is blamed by
the angry father suddenly.
In the taxi, a sculpture of Chairman Mao is standing behind the steering
wheel.
"Does it works?"
"Works, he protect me.", the driver answered.
"He is god." , these two persons said.
I smiled, I will leave ChangSha soon.