After midnight, the lively atmosphere dissipated, and although there were still many young people on the streets, they were evidently worn out.
Tao Tian drove Zhou Yuwen and Zhu Hong to find a place to eat.
Passing by several subway entrances, Zhou Yuwen noticed that many young people, both men and women, were squatting beside them, laughing and chatting about something.
Clearly, these were people who had come to the city center to celebrate the new year, then found they were too far from home to return after the subway stopped running, so they ended up wandering the streets like this. These youngsters were not short of money, but taking a cab home for two or three hundred yuan was too extravagant for them, and the prices for hotels were prohibitive on this day, with rooms that usually went for a bit over a hundred yuan soaring to more than five hundred. Moreover, even with over five hundred yuan, it wasn't certain that one could book a hotel.
