Eva's Garden

First Encounter

Bincheng, a medium-sized coastal city, is surrounded by mountains on the left and faces the sea on the right, with a subtropical marine atmosphere. The four seasons are like spring, which gives people hope for life. Like other coastal cities, Bincheng cannot escape the fate of developing into a tourist city, but one rare thing is that Bincheng has not been infected with the impetuousness of large-scale Internet celebrity tourist cities because of the underdeveloped economy around it. In addition, there are a series of islands that can be developed around it, which disperses a large number of tourists and preserves a moment of peace.

Today is the third day that Rebecca has come to Bincheng. This is also the second city she has come to after graduation. Thinking of herself wandering around in the subway of the bustling and busy Shanghai last week, she had already enjoyed the sunrise at the seaside today. The shock of the instantaneous reversal brought by the fast shuttle in the life train is hard to describe. She felt like a happy passerby who travels around the world and smiles at life.

Bincheng is not big. Rebecca had traveled around the city by bus and subway two days ago and was familiar with each area. Heping District is the CBD, Lin'an District near the sea is the old city, Gaoxin District is obviously the development zone, and Qingshan District is the southern mountainous area. She likes the old city, rented a short-term apartment, and planned to find a long-term rental on weekends.

Rebecca quietly waited for the sunrise by the sea. She remembered that she had traveled with her best friend in Guilin and watched the sunrise together at more than two o'clock in the morning. The deep blue sky turned from deep to white, but it was cloudy that day, and the sunrise did not appear as expected. Instead, the buzzing drone disturbed her mood.

Rebecca sighed at her luck. After waiting for more than an hour, the sunrise came as expected. The sun was like a burnt glass, pouring out thick orange light, soaking the sea into a sparkling fairyland.

Just after watching the sunrise, Rebecca took out her mobile phone. At 8:30 AM, there was an unread message. Bincheng is still slowly waking up, the hustle and bustle is still on the way, and the tiredness of getting up early has not yet disappeared. Rebecca is not a person who likes to get up early, but she wants to check in and watch the sunrise, just like people always like to make some To-do list plans, as if completing these means that life is complete. She is glad that she can have some time to rest before she turns 30, so that she can recognize herself and not miss many small beauties in life.

Rebecca lamented that scenic spots always compress the beauty of a city. Locals are happy to show their best side, and Chinese people always gather in groups. When all the beautiful things are stuffed in, they become a mess. When the next batch of tourists arrive, although it is not the original style, it is always fresh and imprinted in the album of memory.

There are low buildings on both sides of the narrow stone road. Rebecca walks around without too many destinations. She smelled a fragrance, which was the smell of fireworks. It turned out to be a breakfast shop around the corner. The sign is a simple white background with red letters "Hongjie Breakfast", a small shop that makes glutinous rice cakes and rice, and digs through the categories. There are crowds of people in front of the store, including disheveled office workers and well-dressed tourists. Originally, this breakfast shop was not so popular. Relying on the advantageous position of the scenic area restaurant and the big data of the Internet, more and more posts recommended by netizens have been created, which has created such a grand occasion. Next to it is a coffee shop. There are seats at the door to attract tourists to check in. At this moment, they are also occupied by tourists from the breakfast shop. This is the wonderful combination brought by the scenic area.

After breakfast, Rebecca still has no plan. She usually has a lot of plans, but she plans to change her life, so she changed her previous behavior of making full plans and decided to cancel all plans. Adhering to the principle of going wherever you go and whatever you encounter, she chose to continue to look around.

Along the narrow stone road, Rebecca strolled, looking at the colorful signs on both sides of the road, in various shapes, imagining that stories in the shops are about to be staged. When she is alone, she always looks back at the past and ruminates on whether her performance in the past is appropriate. She thinks of Lin Ziyi, Ruolin, and her parents. She feels the passage of time and all beautiful things. She seeks loneliness in the bustle.

The flow of people began to surge like a rising tide. In order to avoid the flow of people, Rebecca walked to a more remote commercial street on the coastal side. There were a few specialty food stores and coffee shops on both sides of the road. Rebecca walked to the end and found a small garden with dense green leaves dotted with flowers, like dancing butterflies. She thought it was a private residence, because the seaside is an old city, so it is not uncommon for commercial shops to be interspersed with private residences. But she saw the English cursive words "Eva’s Garden", Rebecca was a little surprised, it turned out to be a flower shop. She pushed open the garden fence, like a rabbit breaking into Alice's Wonderland, and walked along the gravel road of the mini garden to the door of the store. There was a piece of kraft paper on the glass door with a job recruitment notice on it, and Rebecca walked in.