出差在广州(3)
我在火车上呆了八个多小时,被固定在座位上的我除了读报纸和欣赏窗外的田园风景什么也干不了,当我看腻了风景且时间还十分充裕的时候,我就掏出手机漫无目的的在屏幕上点来点去,把它当成一个时间加速器。最终,火车抵达了目的地——广州,我的无聊也告一段落了,我被人流推下了火车,一直推到检票口,最后被“拍”出了车站。
Figure 2: The landmark scenery of Guangzhou What revealed to me was a prosperous and busy scene: high buildings stand here and there ablaze with light, all kinds of cars and buses shuttled to and fro on the open road, people of different ages and statures came into my sight in turn. The honks, shouts of vendors, murmurs between fellow pedestrians and rustles in the air accorded with each other into a living symphony totally different from where I live and work. Having localized on the smart phone, I settled myself in a guest house a few miles from the roar of the train. The house, though neat and clean, is by no means of high standard, its old-fashioned decoration reminded me of houses and villas in the 1970s and 1980s. The receptionist received me hospitably and ushered me all the way into the depth of that small hotel, having turned the key in the hole and inserted the room card into an electronic device on the wall, I entered the room and found it is simply furnished: a single bed, a desk with tea bags, cups and a lamp on it, a chair and a wardrobe. The window showed me a picture of the busy street and commercial buildings without their noisiness, a LCD TV hangs on the wall could receive local TV programmes. Having put everything in order, I took a shower to wash off the dust and exhaustion, and then stepped out of the very house into a nearby bazaar.