A collection of allusions from the same road
Work related
The main unit was short of staff, so I seconded him to the confidential unit of the regiment headquarters and was promoted to the organization. That was the happiest time for us, but as I was promoted, I separated from him, and he also took the initiative to ask for the company .Go down to the grassroots company as the deputy company commander.Although we are far apart and have less communication, our hearts are still closely connected.Separation can only increase the love between us.He is a cadre from a soldier background, without a diploma, and he is at a disadvantage on the road to promotion. It took him eight years to go from the deputy company to the battalion commander, and he served for more than ten years. It is time for him to leave the barracks. He was also ready to change jobs, but at this time, a flood occurred in the eastern part of Guangdong, and the troops were ordered to rush to the disaster area for rescue. He also sacrificed his precious life in that disaster relief.
The tomb is exquisitely built, and there are still incense stalks left in front of the tombstone when sweeping the tomb during the Qingming Festival. This is a spontaneous act of the rescued villagers nearby.
Putting flowers as sacrifices, I was deeply moved and stroked the tombstone. What a man, a close friend, I miss him, but I am not sad. Soldiers are not afraid of any difficulties and groups who dare to sacrifice. He is still in his early teens, and I know that he can't tolerate anyone else except me, so I can't help but feel a little sorry.When he died, I was already a division-level cadre with four beans. For many years, I have insisted on visiting him every year, even after I retired from the leadership position, I still came to see him every year.
After returning home, I received an email from Xiao Zhang, saying that he will be a trainee in the army soon.After the probationary period expires, he returns to school to write his graduation thesis.I wanted to know where he was going as an intern, but he didn't say, and I didn't ask, so I encouraged him to work hard and come up with a decent graduation thesis.Aim for graduation with straight honors.
On the August [-]st Army Day, the retired veteran cadres gathered in the cadre rest center, participated in activities, and went to the martyrs cemetery to lay wreaths.With the support of the local government, the army held a celebration, and the relevant leaders also expressed condolences to us retired old comrades.
In front of the monument in the Martyrs Cemetery, thousands of soldiers and local comrades lined up to pay tribute to the martyrs.The scene was grand and solemn. A group of guards of honor passed through the middle of the crowd's phalanx in groups of two, carrying wreaths to the monument and laying wreaths.
At this time, I found a familiar face among the guards of honor, but I couldn't remember who he was?With the exit of the guard of honor, the director of the Military Political Department presided over the mourning event. I had to collect my thoughts, and the event was short and serious.
That night, I surfed the Internet normally, and found that Xiao Zhang was already online, and left a message in my QQ:
"Grandpa Farmer, after participating in the event today, the leader gave us special approval for free activities. I miss you, so I came out to surf the Internet. I haven't chatted with you for a long time. I miss you very much."
I am very strange, I reply:
"A grass on Kunlun Mountain, you are a soldier, today is your holiday, I wish you a happy holiday!"
"It's finally your turn! Grandpa Farmer, are you okay?"
He is incognito online.
"Okay, is it hard to be a trainee in the army?"
"It's not hard, I'm used to it. Thank you for your message, thank you for your blessing."
I deliberately confirmed my vision, "With your body and good looks, you must be an idol-level actor in the place, and you are also the embryo of a guard of honor in the army."
"Grandpa Farmer just likes to joke. I admire military life and want to show my life value in the army. I don't want to be an actor. Actors are all about interpreting other people's things, but I just want to show myself and contribute to the country."
I laughed, "A grass on the Kunlun Mountains, you are a good person. Although I am a farmer, I appreciate your idea very much!"
"You are a good farmer, with an amiable face and elegant manners, the handsome old man in the hearts of young people!"
"Aren't you afraid that I will be robbed?"
"Afraid? No, I'm not afraid."
"Why? You know, the old people's reputation is not very good now. Young people say that the handsome old people are very caring."
"Because I have confidence in my own vision. You are not that kind of person. You reply to every email I send, which shows that you care about me very much. It seems that not only me, but also you, have chosen each other. The other party, is that so?"
"Well, I'm also afraid that you will leave me."
"No way, the handsome old man is always afraid? Haha."
"A grass on Kunlun Mountain, you really don't think I'm a farmer?"
"Grandpa Farmer, you are overthinking. Maybe you are a farmer, so we can come together. If you are a general, how can we have such a fate?"
"Really? Haha, a grass on Kunlun Mountain, it seems that you lack self-confidence. The general is also a human being, and a human being has a private life."
"I admit that before I met you, I had the idea of finding an old man with high knowledge and high cadres, but now I feel that my original idea was naive, and you are my only choice."
I asked, "Why? Because I am a farmer? Let me tell you, I am also an official, the chief official of this place! I also retired from this position."
"Haha, it's not difficult to tell from your online name that you are a village official, right? Now village officials have also started to enjoy the state's retirement benefits."
"Haha..." I burst out laughing, chatting with him was pleasant, "Tell me, am I considered a retired general here?"
"Of course, I said General Farmer, you are so interesting, I would like to be your soldier."
"Let's make a video."
We turned on the camera, we were both wearing earphone marks, but we had nothing to say. We looked at each other quietly. At this time, I felt our hearts were blending, which could not be expressed in words. After a long time, I subconsciously took aim. I checked the lower right corner of the computer, it was past nine o'clock.
"Child, it's time, you go back."
"Yes, Grandpa Farmer, good night!"
This night, I slept peacefully, my Chen Dong was resurrected, maybe he never left me, but I couldn't hold him in my arms, and woke up anxiously.
This feeling bothers me all the time, and makes me feel a kind of satisfaction. Possession does not mean possession. I politely declined his request to meet. Through the silver screen, without the troubles of firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea, the nectar flowing from my heart has fewer impurities. , watching silently can also get the love from the heart.
☆, the troubled Prometheus
Dongfeng Road, which has been renovated, has a new look. On both sides are arcades full of Nanyang style. The government has turned Dongfeng Road, which is several hundred meters long, into a pedestrian street. The bright tiled streets and the crowds of people are enough to constitute a commercial center like Xiguan, Nanjing Road, and Hanzheng Street in this city.This is a shopping paradise, but also a good place for shopping.
On this day, it was the National Day. Professor Wu and I came to this Dongfeng Street where gold and silver flowed. With the continuous flow of people, we personally felt the prosperity of the southern city's business.
The professor came here specially to experience the free service of a massage machine of a certain brand after seeing the advertisement.He is a second-level professor, over seventy years old, left the frozen north, and resolutely applied for a teaching job in a certain college here alone.Such an old man with silver hair, stalwart figure, dignified demeanor, rigorous attitude and elegant demeanor naturally became an idol in my mind, and I volunteered to be the idol's free driver.
Just before entering the shop, the professor stopped, touched his body with both hands, and then asked me.
"Xiao Chen, have you seen my wallet?"
"No!" I replied, knowing that today we met a thief, a hateful thief, I immediately looked around vigilantly, there were people coming and going everywhere.
A middle-aged man wearing inappropriate clothes and carrying a nylon bag was not far from us, staring blankly at the professor.
The professor strode up and grabbed the man. The man looked panic-stricken, struggled a few times, and his face turned red.
"Get out your wallet!" the professor shouted.
"What... wallet...?" the man said in a nasty voice.
In a blink of an eye, hundreds of people surrounded him, and a burly man came up and grabbed the middle-aged man's arm with one hand like an eagle catching a chick.
"Return the wallet to the old man, and let you go, or break your hand, and see if you dare to steal again?"
The crowd of onlookers were enraged and shouted at the man, making his face turn blue with fright.
The burly man let go, and the middle-aged man was relieved at this moment, and said to the professor, "I really didn't steal your wallet."
The professor said: "Look at you stealing and following us. You don't believe in ghosts. Why don't you take off your clothes and have a look. Do you dare?"
"This..." the middle-aged man said, his eyes wandering.
The crowd roared and yelled.
Someone shouted: "Take it off - take it off -"
Middle-aged people remove their jackets, no!He even took off his vest, revealing his strong and well-developed muscles. The professor picked up the man's clothes and touched them a few times, but he couldn't find the wallet. He angrily threw the clothes into the trash can not far away, and looked back. The middle-aged man indicated that he had to continue taking off his pants.
"Old man, how much money do you have in your wallet?" the man asked earnestly.
"This..." The professor thought for a while, and the crowd fell silent, listening quietly.
"About two thousand, what's the matter, haven't you seen it?" There was a hint of ridicule in the middle-aged man's tone.
"It's a lot!" The middle-aged man no longer hesitated, obediently removed his trousers, and handed them to the burly man, who took the trousers and fumbled for them.
"No, old man, maybe he really didn't steal it."
"How could it not be him? Let him continue to take off!"
The burly man's face changed and became ugly.Silently retreating to the side, the crowd also began to boo.
At this time, the middle-aged man could not fight against this stubborn old man even if he was covered in mouths. With a blushing face, he silently pulled off the last shorts on his body and threw them on the ground.
The crowd was in an uproar and booed constantly.
"Uncle, can you say sorry to me?" The middle-aged man stared at the professor closely.
"Just you, too?" The professor sneered at this, and wanted to turn around and leave.
The burly man has already blocked the professor's way.
"Old man, what's the matter, don't you even want to say sorry to this elder brother?"
Naturally, the professor didn't want to touch this burly man like an iron tower, and wanted to slip away when he turned around, but an angry crowd was already crowded behind him.
At this moment, the idol in my mind melted like an iceberg in an instant, and all the secret love and admiration in the past disappeared in an instant, and I stared at that nasty old guy with hatred.
The middle-aged man knelt on one leg alone in the middle of the street, with his right hand propped on the ground, his head deeply buried in the crook of his left arm, tears pouring out in silent sobs, time seemed to have stopped, he was like a beautiful statue, The whole body seems to exude holy golden light, like the statue of Prometheus on Olympus.
A kind shopkeeper brought a big scarf and put it on the middle-aged man.
I picked him up and wiped away his tears.
Finally, the professor was forced to walk in front of the middle-aged man under the booing of everyone.
Putting on his trousers, the middle-aged man found the clothes and nylon bag thrown into the trash can by the professor, and took out a large stack of hundred-yuan bills in the inconspicuous bag, a total of 5 yuan!
"Uncle, can this money buy you an apology?"
He handed over the banknotes, "I used the money to buy a fitness machine for my adoptive father who is over 90 years old, and now I give it all to you!"
People watched quietly, at this time the silence could even hear his breathing.
At this moment, "Pa-la-" threw a wallet from the periphery of the crowd, and it was the professor's stolen wallet.
Hey——, this money is so dirty, even a thief thinks it's dirty!
The professor still didn't apologize in the end, and the middle-aged man left sadly, disappearing into the crowd.
The professor also left, leaving some saliva on his designer suit, but there were more of those endless curses.
Stay tuned for the next unit
☆, Prophet of Spring River Plumbing Duck
In the very early days, Dazhang paid a side job fee in the brigade, and he came out to play around the world as a matter of course. It really made a name for him. He is well-known in the village as a capable person!
In fact, in the process of wandering around the world, Dazhang has suffered a lot and tasted the ups and downs of the world. During the ups and downs, he relied on his friends, what he ate was also a friend, what he helped was also a friend, and what he lost was also a friend .But for me, he just stayed for a while, and became a hasty passerby in the long river of life, but his story will never be forgotten for a long time.
It is said that people in Fujian love to gamble. It is true. Da Zhang is a gambler. You can’t help but be afraid of the sky-high bets of five yuan and ten yuan. Winning or losing hundreds of thousands of yuan is very common for them. At that time we The boss is a demobilized cadre, enjoying 17-level county and regiment-level treatment, and his salary is only 114 yuan. For me, who has a monthly salary of only 37 yuan, such a gamble is scary just to hear it.
Don't think that they are using dead money without living water. If you lose money, you can make it again. This is their mantra.
They are all contractors, as long as they can make a profit, they will do no matter what kind of project it is. Naturally, there is no first-hand luck in large-scale projects, so they are often second-hand, third-hand or even fourth-hand.
At the request of Da Zhang Kaizong Mingyi, I contacted a nearby unit and learned that this is a grassroots unit under a certain management bureau. They are planning to build a bridge on the Chunjiang River. I am familiar with the captain of the other side, so I took Go big.
According to the drawings, it is a double-hole bridge, more than ten meters long and 4 meters high. According to the labor and consumables standard table, the construction cost is 8 yuan, but the other party only pays 5 yuan. The reason for this is for the administration. The Engineering and Construction Department withheld 3 yuan of it as a kickback, and even the local engineering team did not dare to take over the project, which made it impossible for the project to start construction after the completion of the application for construction. grassroots units.
After several on-site inspections, Dazhang took over the project without hesitation. I was very worried for him, but he smiled very relievedly, saying that this is normal, and it is the same with projects now.
After all, Da Zhang is a traveler and good at communication. When talking with the local team leader, he clearly said that the project is not profitable, but his people are not working now. The reason why he took this project is to find two workers for his workers. With the meal money, the construction of the small bridge can be completed before the rainy season comes. The loyal and honest team leader also breathed a sigh of relief, and promised to give the engineering team the greatest convenience after the construction started to ensure the smooth completion of the project.
The captain and I accompanied Dazhang to the Engineering and Construction Department to sign the contract. After we came out, the captain couldn't bear the joy, and insisted on dragging us to have a drink. But at the checkout, Dazhang firmly held him down and said Don't let the captain pay for anything.
A few days later, Dazhang's engineering team came in, and Dazhang asked me to drink there.
Going over to see, darling, there are more than 20 people, all with southern Hokkien accent, all living in the old auditorium of this production team, most of the workers are young people, Da Zhang said that the workers are all from the same brigade as him, Many of them are brothers from the same clan in the same village, no wonder they have nothing to do with Da Zhang. In the chaotic scene, there is really a strong sense of Hokkien nostalgia. Although it is a simple big pot of vegetables, it is divided into two circles. Everyone sits on the ground, and the atmosphere is pretty lively.
Maybe Dazhang told everyone about me in advance, so I was respected in front of them, and they all handed me cigarettes and lights, which made me feel very flattered. Most of us are middle-aged and elderly people, which also made me know Lao Zhang.
In their hometown, Lao Zhang and Da Zhang are cousins from different production teams in the same village. Lao Zhang is not tall and thin, but he is fair and shrewd. He has a strong southern Hokkien accent, speaks slowly, always leaves room when he speaks, and never kills his words. His posture is like a political cadre, or an old rural teacher, and he has a good capacity for alcohol. This is how I treat the old man. Zhang's first impression.
According to Da Zhang, his cousin is the only master worker (master) here. There are many people here who know how to read blueprints for construction, but if they want to pass, they must first get the approval of his cousin. The person who came out of the same place, his cousin is a well-known figure. In the building mainly made of stone, it can be said to be a top-level figure. Not only is he good at building houses and bridges, he can even use drawings and molds , as long as you let him take a look, you can create exquisite stone lions, Buddha statues and various stone statues.
I inadvertently looked at Lao Zhang with dubious eyes. He didn't pay attention to my expression at all. He still took a sip of his drink and handed me a cigarette, "Old Chen, don't believe their nonsense, but come back , Both masonry and carpentry must understand the principles of mechanics."
I nodded my head in agreement, and half-believingly asked in my heart, "Is there really a time when you can... without looking at the drawings?"
He chuckled lightly, "Who said there are no blueprints? Here they are!" He pointed to his heart.
They all say that they drink a lot, and Lao Zhang is no exception. He asked me questions as he talked, and I learned that he is really a country expert.
In the past, stone carvings were widely distributed in the rural areas of southern Fujian. Stone carvings were used in archways, ancestral halls, and even wells and pavilions. , After he came back, he would draw it by himself until he was satisfied, and he would finish it in one go. In addition, he was a skilled stone worker, so he could sculpt the image in his mind within a few days.
"Oh? Then why don't you take the drawing with you? Wouldn't it be more convenient?" I believed that Da Zhang's words were not full of water, but I didn't understand, so I asked.
He replied: "Actually, I thought about it too, but how dare I dare at that time, except for stone lions, other statues of gods and Buddhas were strictly prohibited."
"Yes" I nodded.
"At that time," Lao Zhang continued, "There was a great demand for stone carvings in the countryside, and I had more work. The so-called practice makes perfect, and I became an oil seller. It was passed around, and many villages asked for it by name. I'll do it."
I said, "With you here, Dazhang will be fine." The conversation changed: "But this project is a loss-making project."
Old Zhang turned around to flick off the cigarette ash, and wanted to speak, but was gently pushed by a young man with a white face sitting next to him. Old Zhang looked back at Da Zhang, and then said to me, "This is my My little wife, haha... I have the same surname as you, so let's call him Xiao Chen."
It turned out that the question I asked was a taboo in the industry. One of Lao Zhang’s jokes made me laugh so hard that I almost collapsed.
"Old Chen, you are not an outsider, what can't you say?" Da Zhang raised his glass.
He raised his head and drank the wine in his glass, and said, "Old Chen, in this world, there are people who do any kind of business, except that no one does business that loses money."
I appreciate his philosophical business experience, but the project in front of me is standing there, and I look at him puzzled.
Lao Zhang took up the conversation and said: "Yes, hey, Lao Chen, look, there are so many big rocks by the river, it seems to outsiders that it will affect the progress of the project and increase the difficulty of the project, but those are really worthless. Besides, there are many and big stones on the river bed, and the bridge piers are built on them to save a lot of labor costs, and they are strong, and you don’t need to spend money on sand and gravel consumables, how much money do you think you saved?” He held out three fingers , "A total of 3 yuan."
"Wow?" Obedient, you are really capable! You can speak a little bit, and obviously the money was taken away as a kickback. I am deeply moved by this. It is not that there are no capable people among those in power, but they feel that they are not getting it. The country's money, but the contractor's money.
Old Zhang had enough wine, so he handed the bowl to Xiao Chen, who was next to him, and I stopped drinking, but Lao Zhang grabbed my bowl and gave it to Xiao Chen.
After drinking and eating, the sky was already getting dark. In November, it got dark quickly. It was only after five o’clock, and the sun hurriedly set in the west. It was already dusk. Da Zhang said that they didn’t have a bicycle here, so it was inconvenient to get in and out , and asked me if I could lend him my bicycle for a month. Naturally, I had no reason to refuse my friend’s request. It’s just that it’s getting dark now, so I asked him to pick it up tomorrow, but he said it’s better to send me home and then come back. It is better to ride back and save walking around.
"Okay, you take the flashlight, it's easier to come back." I agreed.
He rode his bicycle and I sat on the tailstock, and slowly moved forward on the bumpy dirt road. On the way, Da Zhang said that he would give me a kickback of 2500 yuan after the project was completed.
"No, how can I ask for your money? You don't think of me as your friend."
"This is the industry rule. Although I know the saying of relying on friends when going out, I can't take all the benefits myself."
I jumped out of the car, "You will talk about things with money, and you don't treat me as a friend. You can go back, and remember to return the bicycle to me when the time comes."
He stopped, blushing and said loudly, "Why are you like this? If you say turn your face, turn your face, do you want me to break the rules? Do you want me to scold my cousin? Or do you want me to be grateful to you? Are you still angry with that little money?"
I was so angry that my mouth was almost crooked, it was so angry and funny, "Da Zhang, I have no professional relationship with you, it's just a personal relationship, I'm very rigid, I don't care about your rules, and I don't want to let the smell of money stain my friends relation."
"Then what should we do?" Da Zhang looked at me.
I replied, "What should I do? Hurry up."
We hit the road again.
"Remember to buy me a drink after the project is finished."
"You can drink wine, but I'm afraid you won't come. Our workers drink every night."
I nodded, "No wonder all of you Hokkien can drink so much."
Da Zhang said, "They work very hard during the day, and have nothing to do at night, they just drink and gamble."
"Does your cousin gamble too?"
"He is the most addicted, and his luck and medals are bad, and he often loses. Fortunately, he has saved a lot of money, otherwise he would definitely sell his wife."
"Is his wife at home?"
"His wife is farming in her hometown."
"Then he'll be free," I said, laughing.
"Yeah, no one can control him, and Xiao Chen can't control him either."
"Xiao Chen?" I remembered Lao Zhang's words and asked, "What does it have to do with Lao Zhang?"
"They've been together for several years, and you're not an outsider. Let me tell you, Xiao Chen is really like my cousin's concubine, just missing a name, but outsiders don't know about it."
I was surprised, "Why is your cousin like that? Besides, why is Xiao Chen willing?"
Da Zhang said, "We ordinary people think this way, but it is indeed Xiao Chen who is pursuing him."
"yes?"
"Yes, Xiao Chen couldn't study since he was a child. He came out to work when he was 15 years old. He learned crafts from my cousin in the sideline team. That's when he started to pursue my cousin. At that time, the work was often I am from out of town, and I can’t go home until the work is done. It will take a few days at the fastest, and months at the slowest. How can a man stand it? So it’s normal for those things to happen. Later, he simply married into the house and became a wife. "
"Why would Xiao Chen want to be with your cousin?"
"I don't know why, maybe it's because I'm greedy for comfort."
"What is Anyi? Isn't it the same job?" I understand that Xiao Chen may be a lover of the elderly.
Da Zhang replied: "In our place, women work harder than men. They not only take care of the family and children, but also serve men, but they don't do heavy physical labor like men. In my engineering team, I only give him [-]% salary."
I asked inexplicably, "Why is that? Could it be that Xiao Chen doesn't work?"
"Why don't you work?" Da Zhang said, "Boiling water, cooking, sweeping the floor and guarding the house. In the eyes of our group, since he stays behind, how can he get full pay?"
"Haha, I thought your cousin was joking with me, but it turned out to be true."
Before I knew it, the seven-mile journey was over, and Da Zhang hurriedly left without going into the house for a drink of water. I didn't dare to force him to stay, after all, it was already dark, and he still had work tomorrow.
A few days later on the weekend, I went to visit Dazhang to see the construction site and see how the project was going. After lunch, I walked to the Chunjiang team. In the old auditorium, I saw Xiao Chen sweeping the floor. After seeing me He let me into the house, and he offered cigarettes and water very attentively. He told me that the others went to the construction site after eating. I looked at the dilapidated auditorium. The light and air were not very good. The bedding of the workers was in disarray, and inside there was a small space surrounded by a curtain, which was the residence of Mrs. Zhang and his wife.
"How old are you?"
Xiao Chen said, "I'm 25 years old."
"Oh?"
I looked at the young man in front of me, he seemed to be very naive, with a thin yellow beard on his lips, looking at him, maybe because of the lack of sunlight, his skin was a little fair and tender, and he looked more like a high school student.
"You and Lao Zhang..." I hesitated to speak.
Xiao Chen's face was blushing, full of shyness, he lowered his head and fiddled with the broom in his hand.
I've broken taboos, but curiosity drives me.
"Is he nice to you?" I asked.
"He's a nice guy, but he has a bad temper."
"do you like him?"
"I like it" Xiao Chen nodded, his voice was very thin and light.
"Does your family agree?" I asked.
"I opposed it at first, and even beat me."
"Agree later?"
"Yes, I insisted on it myself. Besides, my family is poor, and my disabled father can't go out to start a side job. There are four of us, none of whom have money to study, and my brother can't find a wife. I will stay single in the future, so Dad Mom had no choice but to agree, and my brother also got his wife."
"Really, he gave the money?"
"Yes, he sent 1 yuan."
"Are you happy with him?"
"Happiness? I don't know."
I asked "No regrets? No regrets?"
Xiao Chen shook his head, then nodded again and again. "I really don't know."
At this moment, Lao Zhang and Da Zhang came in, they came back to get things, we shook hands affectionately, because time was tight and we had no time to chat, the three of us rushed to the construction site.
I smiled and said, "Old Zhang, I thought you were joking before, but I didn't expect you to be both male and female."
He also laughed and said, "This is about fate. My fate is like this. It seems to be destined by God."
I said, "Perhaps not having children is his greatest regret."
Lao Zhang said angrily, "He wants a child like crazy, and my eldest grandson is almost ten years old. In my opinion, it doesn't matter whether he wants a child or not. I just feel sorry for his infatuation. Old Chen, if you If you meet an abandoned child, please help me, I also want to meet his request. He insists on following me, he has no children, he is afraid that I will change my mind."
"But he's a man after all," I said.
Lao Zhang said, "Oh shit, apart from that skin, how can he still be a man? In some respects, he is more feminine than a woman." Then he said, "I go out all the year round, wandering around the world, it's good to have someone by my side, it feels like home."
Da Zhang smiled and said, "With his wife in charge, he doesn't go out to prostitutes like other people."
Old Zhang smiled, "I'm not like you. I have three wives who are reluctant to take them out at home, and they go out to mess around, as if they are afraid of getting their wives tanned and exhausted."
Dazhang said, "You don't understand, women are like clothes, you can change them often to have a fresh look, unlike you, you wear a piece of clothing to the end."
Lao Zhang said, "My wife and Xiao Chen can't get along. Besides, Xiao Chen doesn't have a child. He is lonely at home alone. He will inevitably change his mind. I have to take him with me. How can I be like you when I am with him?" free?"
I looked at Da Zhang in surprise, he laughed "hey hey" a few times in embarrassment. He is by no means a bad person. Rich men cheating is not the monopoly of big bosses nowadays, it has been around for a long time.
…………
The project was completed on schedule and passed the acceptance inspection. On the day it opened to traffic, I went there, but I was a little disappointed: the friends I just met were about to leave here. They were a group drifting on the earth. In order to make a living, they never stayed in any one place. Among this group of people, there is a pair of strange lovers, and there is a strong love for Fujian wine.
Nearly 40 years have passed, and the past has long been lost in the passing time. If Da Zhang and Lao Zhang are still alive, they will be octogenarians.
It's just that the small stone bridge still stands on this small mountain stream named Chunjiang, watching the time gone. The lion, guarding the east and the west, quietly watched the pedestrians and vehicles. Every stone here was built by the group of wandering Fujianese, so it is so strong and durable.
February 2016, 2 at Wormhole
☆, Love Wangyun Village
After working for more than four hours and preparing to call it a day and go home, Liu Xing slapped Zhang Yu's butt hard a few times to wipe off the dust, and cursed: "You just love to sit on your old butt." The ground is full of mud."
In fact, Zhang Yu is an old man who loves cleanliness very much. It seems that because he does not do housework at home, he does not wash or cook, so he often cleans his body. He takes a bath and changes clothes every day, which Liu Xing did not expect Yes, an old farmer with a cleanliness habit. Every day, he wears navy blue trousers, a pair of sandals, a T-shirt and a sky blue shirt, and short white hair.This outfit is also Zhang Yu's unchanging image when he is working or going out.
"Haha, Xingzi, you like to be clean. See how you keep the old man under strict control. I'm a farmer. How can I get rid of dirt on my body?" Zhang Yu said after putting on his Dacron shirt.
"Old bastard, you need to change your habit. People have to pay attention to grooming to look energetic."
He took out his handkerchief and wiped Zhang Yu's face. There were several layers of beautiful wrinkles on Zhang Yu's red neck. Under the hot sun, there was a thin layer of sweat on Zhang Yu's cheeks and neck. He wiped Zhang Yu dry After beading off the sweat on his head, he wiped it on his face, and Liu Xing was intoxicated by a refreshing fragrance.
"Xingzi, my son, your feet are long, and you always walk so fast that you are dragging me to death. People walk five kilometers in an hour, but you go nine kilometers in an hour." Zhang Yu said pitifully on the way. demanded.
"Old butt, it's only five kilometers from the village to Epenchong. You have a lot of things to do. You have to strike up a conversation with someone and smoke a hookah. It's been almost an hour, and you haven't walked halfway yet. Shall I set up a few huts for you by the side of the road, so that you can eat and drink before leaving?"
"Haha, that's not necessary." Seeing Liu Xing's sniggering, Zhang Yu squeezed Liu Xing's buttocks hard, "You are the one who is cruel and wants to throw me halfway."
Liu Xing was pinched by Zhang Yu and scolded: "You want to murder, so hard?" He didn't dare to move casually, because he was carrying a hoe and sickle on his shoulder.Afraid of turning around and hurting Zhang Yu behind him.Zhang Yu still didn't let go of his hand, rubbing Liu Xing's buttocks, Liu Xing was very pleased.Shouted loudly: "Old butt, you go ahead and lead the way."
Zhang Yu got the order and walked in front, like an old cow, slowly.Liu Xing no longer urged him.
Zhang Yu is the production team leader of Wangyun Village, and Liu Xing is a member of the work team sent by the county. He is Zhang Yu's three family members. I also have to discuss with Liu Xing frequently about the production in the team.Wangyun Village of Bailaikou is located at the mouth of a mountain. It is said that Mr. Geography was invited to look at it before using it as the village site.There are small hills on three sides, just like the legendary dragon chair. The whole village is very spacious, and every household has two or three mu of homestead. The whole village is in a large concentration and small scattered form, and each household surrounds its own courtyard. , Reflected among trees such as pineapple, lychee and mango, several winding village roads organically connect these courtyards. There is an ancient banyan tree in the middle of the village, which is a place for ordinary villagers to meet or chat.As for Fengshui, Liu Xing can't see why, but the terrain here is gentle
The tomb is exquisitely built, and there are still incense stalks left in front of the tombstone when sweeping the tomb during the Qingming Festival. This is a spontaneous act of the rescued villagers nearby.
Putting flowers as sacrifices, I was deeply moved and stroked the tombstone. What a man, a close friend, I miss him, but I am not sad. Soldiers are not afraid of any difficulties and groups who dare to sacrifice. He is still in his early teens, and I know that he can't tolerate anyone else except me, so I can't help but feel a little sorry.When he died, I was already a division-level cadre with four beans. For many years, I have insisted on visiting him every year, even after I retired from the leadership position, I still came to see him every year.
After returning home, I received an email from Xiao Zhang, saying that he will be a trainee in the army soon.After the probationary period expires, he returns to school to write his graduation thesis.I wanted to know where he was going as an intern, but he didn't say, and I didn't ask, so I encouraged him to work hard and come up with a decent graduation thesis.Aim for graduation with straight honors.
On the August [-]st Army Day, the retired veteran cadres gathered in the cadre rest center, participated in activities, and went to the martyrs cemetery to lay wreaths.With the support of the local government, the army held a celebration, and the relevant leaders also expressed condolences to us retired old comrades.
In front of the monument in the Martyrs Cemetery, thousands of soldiers and local comrades lined up to pay tribute to the martyrs.The scene was grand and solemn. A group of guards of honor passed through the middle of the crowd's phalanx in groups of two, carrying wreaths to the monument and laying wreaths.
At this time, I found a familiar face among the guards of honor, but I couldn't remember who he was?With the exit of the guard of honor, the director of the Military Political Department presided over the mourning event. I had to collect my thoughts, and the event was short and serious.
That night, I surfed the Internet normally, and found that Xiao Zhang was already online, and left a message in my QQ:
"Grandpa Farmer, after participating in the event today, the leader gave us special approval for free activities. I miss you, so I came out to surf the Internet. I haven't chatted with you for a long time. I miss you very much."
I am very strange, I reply:
"A grass on Kunlun Mountain, you are a soldier, today is your holiday, I wish you a happy holiday!"
"It's finally your turn! Grandpa Farmer, are you okay?"
He is incognito online.
"Okay, is it hard to be a trainee in the army?"
"It's not hard, I'm used to it. Thank you for your message, thank you for your blessing."
I deliberately confirmed my vision, "With your body and good looks, you must be an idol-level actor in the place, and you are also the embryo of a guard of honor in the army."
"Grandpa Farmer just likes to joke. I admire military life and want to show my life value in the army. I don't want to be an actor. Actors are all about interpreting other people's things, but I just want to show myself and contribute to the country."
I laughed, "A grass on the Kunlun Mountains, you are a good person. Although I am a farmer, I appreciate your idea very much!"
"You are a good farmer, with an amiable face and elegant manners, the handsome old man in the hearts of young people!"
"Aren't you afraid that I will be robbed?"
"Afraid? No, I'm not afraid."
"Why? You know, the old people's reputation is not very good now. Young people say that the handsome old people are very caring."
"Because I have confidence in my own vision. You are not that kind of person. You reply to every email I send, which shows that you care about me very much. It seems that not only me, but also you, have chosen each other. The other party, is that so?"
"Well, I'm also afraid that you will leave me."
"No way, the handsome old man is always afraid? Haha."
"A grass on Kunlun Mountain, you really don't think I'm a farmer?"
"Grandpa Farmer, you are overthinking. Maybe you are a farmer, so we can come together. If you are a general, how can we have such a fate?"
"Really? Haha, a grass on Kunlun Mountain, it seems that you lack self-confidence. The general is also a human being, and a human being has a private life."
"I admit that before I met you, I had the idea of finding an old man with high knowledge and high cadres, but now I feel that my original idea was naive, and you are my only choice."
I asked, "Why? Because I am a farmer? Let me tell you, I am also an official, the chief official of this place! I also retired from this position."
"Haha, it's not difficult to tell from your online name that you are a village official, right? Now village officials have also started to enjoy the state's retirement benefits."
"Haha..." I burst out laughing, chatting with him was pleasant, "Tell me, am I considered a retired general here?"
"Of course, I said General Farmer, you are so interesting, I would like to be your soldier."
"Let's make a video."
We turned on the camera, we were both wearing earphone marks, but we had nothing to say. We looked at each other quietly. At this time, I felt our hearts were blending, which could not be expressed in words. After a long time, I subconsciously took aim. I checked the lower right corner of the computer, it was past nine o'clock.
"Child, it's time, you go back."
"Yes, Grandpa Farmer, good night!"
This night, I slept peacefully, my Chen Dong was resurrected, maybe he never left me, but I couldn't hold him in my arms, and woke up anxiously.
This feeling bothers me all the time, and makes me feel a kind of satisfaction. Possession does not mean possession. I politely declined his request to meet. Through the silver screen, without the troubles of firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea, the nectar flowing from my heart has fewer impurities. , watching silently can also get the love from the heart.
☆, the troubled Prometheus
Dongfeng Road, which has been renovated, has a new look. On both sides are arcades full of Nanyang style. The government has turned Dongfeng Road, which is several hundred meters long, into a pedestrian street. The bright tiled streets and the crowds of people are enough to constitute a commercial center like Xiguan, Nanjing Road, and Hanzheng Street in this city.This is a shopping paradise, but also a good place for shopping.
On this day, it was the National Day. Professor Wu and I came to this Dongfeng Street where gold and silver flowed. With the continuous flow of people, we personally felt the prosperity of the southern city's business.
The professor came here specially to experience the free service of a massage machine of a certain brand after seeing the advertisement.He is a second-level professor, over seventy years old, left the frozen north, and resolutely applied for a teaching job in a certain college here alone.Such an old man with silver hair, stalwart figure, dignified demeanor, rigorous attitude and elegant demeanor naturally became an idol in my mind, and I volunteered to be the idol's free driver.
Just before entering the shop, the professor stopped, touched his body with both hands, and then asked me.
"Xiao Chen, have you seen my wallet?"
"No!" I replied, knowing that today we met a thief, a hateful thief, I immediately looked around vigilantly, there were people coming and going everywhere.
A middle-aged man wearing inappropriate clothes and carrying a nylon bag was not far from us, staring blankly at the professor.
The professor strode up and grabbed the man. The man looked panic-stricken, struggled a few times, and his face turned red.
"Get out your wallet!" the professor shouted.
"What... wallet...?" the man said in a nasty voice.
In a blink of an eye, hundreds of people surrounded him, and a burly man came up and grabbed the middle-aged man's arm with one hand like an eagle catching a chick.
"Return the wallet to the old man, and let you go, or break your hand, and see if you dare to steal again?"
The crowd of onlookers were enraged and shouted at the man, making his face turn blue with fright.
The burly man let go, and the middle-aged man was relieved at this moment, and said to the professor, "I really didn't steal your wallet."
The professor said: "Look at you stealing and following us. You don't believe in ghosts. Why don't you take off your clothes and have a look. Do you dare?"
"This..." the middle-aged man said, his eyes wandering.
The crowd roared and yelled.
Someone shouted: "Take it off - take it off -"
Middle-aged people remove their jackets, no!He even took off his vest, revealing his strong and well-developed muscles. The professor picked up the man's clothes and touched them a few times, but he couldn't find the wallet. He angrily threw the clothes into the trash can not far away, and looked back. The middle-aged man indicated that he had to continue taking off his pants.
"Old man, how much money do you have in your wallet?" the man asked earnestly.
"This..." The professor thought for a while, and the crowd fell silent, listening quietly.
"About two thousand, what's the matter, haven't you seen it?" There was a hint of ridicule in the middle-aged man's tone.
"It's a lot!" The middle-aged man no longer hesitated, obediently removed his trousers, and handed them to the burly man, who took the trousers and fumbled for them.
"No, old man, maybe he really didn't steal it."
"How could it not be him? Let him continue to take off!"
The burly man's face changed and became ugly.Silently retreating to the side, the crowd also began to boo.
At this time, the middle-aged man could not fight against this stubborn old man even if he was covered in mouths. With a blushing face, he silently pulled off the last shorts on his body and threw them on the ground.
The crowd was in an uproar and booed constantly.
"Uncle, can you say sorry to me?" The middle-aged man stared at the professor closely.
"Just you, too?" The professor sneered at this, and wanted to turn around and leave.
The burly man has already blocked the professor's way.
"Old man, what's the matter, don't you even want to say sorry to this elder brother?"
Naturally, the professor didn't want to touch this burly man like an iron tower, and wanted to slip away when he turned around, but an angry crowd was already crowded behind him.
At this moment, the idol in my mind melted like an iceberg in an instant, and all the secret love and admiration in the past disappeared in an instant, and I stared at that nasty old guy with hatred.
The middle-aged man knelt on one leg alone in the middle of the street, with his right hand propped on the ground, his head deeply buried in the crook of his left arm, tears pouring out in silent sobs, time seemed to have stopped, he was like a beautiful statue, The whole body seems to exude holy golden light, like the statue of Prometheus on Olympus.
A kind shopkeeper brought a big scarf and put it on the middle-aged man.
I picked him up and wiped away his tears.
Finally, the professor was forced to walk in front of the middle-aged man under the booing of everyone.
Putting on his trousers, the middle-aged man found the clothes and nylon bag thrown into the trash can by the professor, and took out a large stack of hundred-yuan bills in the inconspicuous bag, a total of 5 yuan!
"Uncle, can this money buy you an apology?"
He handed over the banknotes, "I used the money to buy a fitness machine for my adoptive father who is over 90 years old, and now I give it all to you!"
People watched quietly, at this time the silence could even hear his breathing.
At this moment, "Pa-la-" threw a wallet from the periphery of the crowd, and it was the professor's stolen wallet.
Hey——, this money is so dirty, even a thief thinks it's dirty!
The professor still didn't apologize in the end, and the middle-aged man left sadly, disappearing into the crowd.
The professor also left, leaving some saliva on his designer suit, but there were more of those endless curses.
Stay tuned for the next unit
☆, Prophet of Spring River Plumbing Duck
In the very early days, Dazhang paid a side job fee in the brigade, and he came out to play around the world as a matter of course. It really made a name for him. He is well-known in the village as a capable person!
In fact, in the process of wandering around the world, Dazhang has suffered a lot and tasted the ups and downs of the world. During the ups and downs, he relied on his friends, what he ate was also a friend, what he helped was also a friend, and what he lost was also a friend .But for me, he just stayed for a while, and became a hasty passerby in the long river of life, but his story will never be forgotten for a long time.
It is said that people in Fujian love to gamble. It is true. Da Zhang is a gambler. You can’t help but be afraid of the sky-high bets of five yuan and ten yuan. Winning or losing hundreds of thousands of yuan is very common for them. At that time we The boss is a demobilized cadre, enjoying 17-level county and regiment-level treatment, and his salary is only 114 yuan. For me, who has a monthly salary of only 37 yuan, such a gamble is scary just to hear it.
Don't think that they are using dead money without living water. If you lose money, you can make it again. This is their mantra.
They are all contractors, as long as they can make a profit, they will do no matter what kind of project it is. Naturally, there is no first-hand luck in large-scale projects, so they are often second-hand, third-hand or even fourth-hand.
At the request of Da Zhang Kaizong Mingyi, I contacted a nearby unit and learned that this is a grassroots unit under a certain management bureau. They are planning to build a bridge on the Chunjiang River. I am familiar with the captain of the other side, so I took Go big.
According to the drawings, it is a double-hole bridge, more than ten meters long and 4 meters high. According to the labor and consumables standard table, the construction cost is 8 yuan, but the other party only pays 5 yuan. The reason for this is for the administration. The Engineering and Construction Department withheld 3 yuan of it as a kickback, and even the local engineering team did not dare to take over the project, which made it impossible for the project to start construction after the completion of the application for construction. grassroots units.
After several on-site inspections, Dazhang took over the project without hesitation. I was very worried for him, but he smiled very relievedly, saying that this is normal, and it is the same with projects now.
After all, Da Zhang is a traveler and good at communication. When talking with the local team leader, he clearly said that the project is not profitable, but his people are not working now. The reason why he took this project is to find two workers for his workers. With the meal money, the construction of the small bridge can be completed before the rainy season comes. The loyal and honest team leader also breathed a sigh of relief, and promised to give the engineering team the greatest convenience after the construction started to ensure the smooth completion of the project.
The captain and I accompanied Dazhang to the Engineering and Construction Department to sign the contract. After we came out, the captain couldn't bear the joy, and insisted on dragging us to have a drink. But at the checkout, Dazhang firmly held him down and said Don't let the captain pay for anything.
A few days later, Dazhang's engineering team came in, and Dazhang asked me to drink there.
Going over to see, darling, there are more than 20 people, all with southern Hokkien accent, all living in the old auditorium of this production team, most of the workers are young people, Da Zhang said that the workers are all from the same brigade as him, Many of them are brothers from the same clan in the same village, no wonder they have nothing to do with Da Zhang. In the chaotic scene, there is really a strong sense of Hokkien nostalgia. Although it is a simple big pot of vegetables, it is divided into two circles. Everyone sits on the ground, and the atmosphere is pretty lively.
Maybe Dazhang told everyone about me in advance, so I was respected in front of them, and they all handed me cigarettes and lights, which made me feel very flattered. Most of us are middle-aged and elderly people, which also made me know Lao Zhang.
In their hometown, Lao Zhang and Da Zhang are cousins from different production teams in the same village. Lao Zhang is not tall and thin, but he is fair and shrewd. He has a strong southern Hokkien accent, speaks slowly, always leaves room when he speaks, and never kills his words. His posture is like a political cadre, or an old rural teacher, and he has a good capacity for alcohol. This is how I treat the old man. Zhang's first impression.
According to Da Zhang, his cousin is the only master worker (master) here. There are many people here who know how to read blueprints for construction, but if they want to pass, they must first get the approval of his cousin. The person who came out of the same place, his cousin is a well-known figure. In the building mainly made of stone, it can be said to be a top-level figure. Not only is he good at building houses and bridges, he can even use drawings and molds , as long as you let him take a look, you can create exquisite stone lions, Buddha statues and various stone statues.
I inadvertently looked at Lao Zhang with dubious eyes. He didn't pay attention to my expression at all. He still took a sip of his drink and handed me a cigarette, "Old Chen, don't believe their nonsense, but come back , Both masonry and carpentry must understand the principles of mechanics."
I nodded my head in agreement, and half-believingly asked in my heart, "Is there really a time when you can... without looking at the drawings?"
He chuckled lightly, "Who said there are no blueprints? Here they are!" He pointed to his heart.
They all say that they drink a lot, and Lao Zhang is no exception. He asked me questions as he talked, and I learned that he is really a country expert.
In the past, stone carvings were widely distributed in the rural areas of southern Fujian. Stone carvings were used in archways, ancestral halls, and even wells and pavilions. , After he came back, he would draw it by himself until he was satisfied, and he would finish it in one go. In addition, he was a skilled stone worker, so he could sculpt the image in his mind within a few days.
"Oh? Then why don't you take the drawing with you? Wouldn't it be more convenient?" I believed that Da Zhang's words were not full of water, but I didn't understand, so I asked.
He replied: "Actually, I thought about it too, but how dare I dare at that time, except for stone lions, other statues of gods and Buddhas were strictly prohibited."
"Yes" I nodded.
"At that time," Lao Zhang continued, "There was a great demand for stone carvings in the countryside, and I had more work. The so-called practice makes perfect, and I became an oil seller. It was passed around, and many villages asked for it by name. I'll do it."
I said, "With you here, Dazhang will be fine." The conversation changed: "But this project is a loss-making project."
Old Zhang turned around to flick off the cigarette ash, and wanted to speak, but was gently pushed by a young man with a white face sitting next to him. Old Zhang looked back at Da Zhang, and then said to me, "This is my My little wife, haha... I have the same surname as you, so let's call him Xiao Chen."
It turned out that the question I asked was a taboo in the industry. One of Lao Zhang’s jokes made me laugh so hard that I almost collapsed.
"Old Chen, you are not an outsider, what can't you say?" Da Zhang raised his glass.
He raised his head and drank the wine in his glass, and said, "Old Chen, in this world, there are people who do any kind of business, except that no one does business that loses money."
I appreciate his philosophical business experience, but the project in front of me is standing there, and I look at him puzzled.
Lao Zhang took up the conversation and said: "Yes, hey, Lao Chen, look, there are so many big rocks by the river, it seems to outsiders that it will affect the progress of the project and increase the difficulty of the project, but those are really worthless. Besides, there are many and big stones on the river bed, and the bridge piers are built on them to save a lot of labor costs, and they are strong, and you don’t need to spend money on sand and gravel consumables, how much money do you think you saved?” He held out three fingers , "A total of 3 yuan."
"Wow?" Obedient, you are really capable! You can speak a little bit, and obviously the money was taken away as a kickback. I am deeply moved by this. It is not that there are no capable people among those in power, but they feel that they are not getting it. The country's money, but the contractor's money.
Old Zhang had enough wine, so he handed the bowl to Xiao Chen, who was next to him, and I stopped drinking, but Lao Zhang grabbed my bowl and gave it to Xiao Chen.
After drinking and eating, the sky was already getting dark. In November, it got dark quickly. It was only after five o’clock, and the sun hurriedly set in the west. It was already dusk. Da Zhang said that they didn’t have a bicycle here, so it was inconvenient to get in and out , and asked me if I could lend him my bicycle for a month. Naturally, I had no reason to refuse my friend’s request. It’s just that it’s getting dark now, so I asked him to pick it up tomorrow, but he said it’s better to send me home and then come back. It is better to ride back and save walking around.
"Okay, you take the flashlight, it's easier to come back." I agreed.
He rode his bicycle and I sat on the tailstock, and slowly moved forward on the bumpy dirt road. On the way, Da Zhang said that he would give me a kickback of 2500 yuan after the project was completed.
"No, how can I ask for your money? You don't think of me as your friend."
"This is the industry rule. Although I know the saying of relying on friends when going out, I can't take all the benefits myself."
I jumped out of the car, "You will talk about things with money, and you don't treat me as a friend. You can go back, and remember to return the bicycle to me when the time comes."
He stopped, blushing and said loudly, "Why are you like this? If you say turn your face, turn your face, do you want me to break the rules? Do you want me to scold my cousin? Or do you want me to be grateful to you? Are you still angry with that little money?"
I was so angry that my mouth was almost crooked, it was so angry and funny, "Da Zhang, I have no professional relationship with you, it's just a personal relationship, I'm very rigid, I don't care about your rules, and I don't want to let the smell of money stain my friends relation."
"Then what should we do?" Da Zhang looked at me.
I replied, "What should I do? Hurry up."
We hit the road again.
"Remember to buy me a drink after the project is finished."
"You can drink wine, but I'm afraid you won't come. Our workers drink every night."
I nodded, "No wonder all of you Hokkien can drink so much."
Da Zhang said, "They work very hard during the day, and have nothing to do at night, they just drink and gamble."
"Does your cousin gamble too?"
"He is the most addicted, and his luck and medals are bad, and he often loses. Fortunately, he has saved a lot of money, otherwise he would definitely sell his wife."
"Is his wife at home?"
"His wife is farming in her hometown."
"Then he'll be free," I said, laughing.
"Yeah, no one can control him, and Xiao Chen can't control him either."
"Xiao Chen?" I remembered Lao Zhang's words and asked, "What does it have to do with Lao Zhang?"
"They've been together for several years, and you're not an outsider. Let me tell you, Xiao Chen is really like my cousin's concubine, just missing a name, but outsiders don't know about it."
I was surprised, "Why is your cousin like that? Besides, why is Xiao Chen willing?"
Da Zhang said, "We ordinary people think this way, but it is indeed Xiao Chen who is pursuing him."
"yes?"
"Yes, Xiao Chen couldn't study since he was a child. He came out to work when he was 15 years old. He learned crafts from my cousin in the sideline team. That's when he started to pursue my cousin. At that time, the work was often I am from out of town, and I can’t go home until the work is done. It will take a few days at the fastest, and months at the slowest. How can a man stand it? So it’s normal for those things to happen. Later, he simply married into the house and became a wife. "
"Why would Xiao Chen want to be with your cousin?"
"I don't know why, maybe it's because I'm greedy for comfort."
"What is Anyi? Isn't it the same job?" I understand that Xiao Chen may be a lover of the elderly.
Da Zhang replied: "In our place, women work harder than men. They not only take care of the family and children, but also serve men, but they don't do heavy physical labor like men. In my engineering team, I only give him [-]% salary."
I asked inexplicably, "Why is that? Could it be that Xiao Chen doesn't work?"
"Why don't you work?" Da Zhang said, "Boiling water, cooking, sweeping the floor and guarding the house. In the eyes of our group, since he stays behind, how can he get full pay?"
"Haha, I thought your cousin was joking with me, but it turned out to be true."
Before I knew it, the seven-mile journey was over, and Da Zhang hurriedly left without going into the house for a drink of water. I didn't dare to force him to stay, after all, it was already dark, and he still had work tomorrow.
A few days later on the weekend, I went to visit Dazhang to see the construction site and see how the project was going. After lunch, I walked to the Chunjiang team. In the old auditorium, I saw Xiao Chen sweeping the floor. After seeing me He let me into the house, and he offered cigarettes and water very attentively. He told me that the others went to the construction site after eating. I looked at the dilapidated auditorium. The light and air were not very good. The bedding of the workers was in disarray, and inside there was a small space surrounded by a curtain, which was the residence of Mrs. Zhang and his wife.
"How old are you?"
Xiao Chen said, "I'm 25 years old."
"Oh?"
I looked at the young man in front of me, he seemed to be very naive, with a thin yellow beard on his lips, looking at him, maybe because of the lack of sunlight, his skin was a little fair and tender, and he looked more like a high school student.
"You and Lao Zhang..." I hesitated to speak.
Xiao Chen's face was blushing, full of shyness, he lowered his head and fiddled with the broom in his hand.
I've broken taboos, but curiosity drives me.
"Is he nice to you?" I asked.
"He's a nice guy, but he has a bad temper."
"do you like him?"
"I like it" Xiao Chen nodded, his voice was very thin and light.
"Does your family agree?" I asked.
"I opposed it at first, and even beat me."
"Agree later?"
"Yes, I insisted on it myself. Besides, my family is poor, and my disabled father can't go out to start a side job. There are four of us, none of whom have money to study, and my brother can't find a wife. I will stay single in the future, so Dad Mom had no choice but to agree, and my brother also got his wife."
"Really, he gave the money?"
"Yes, he sent 1 yuan."
"Are you happy with him?"
"Happiness? I don't know."
I asked "No regrets? No regrets?"
Xiao Chen shook his head, then nodded again and again. "I really don't know."
At this moment, Lao Zhang and Da Zhang came in, they came back to get things, we shook hands affectionately, because time was tight and we had no time to chat, the three of us rushed to the construction site.
I smiled and said, "Old Zhang, I thought you were joking before, but I didn't expect you to be both male and female."
He also laughed and said, "This is about fate. My fate is like this. It seems to be destined by God."
I said, "Perhaps not having children is his greatest regret."
Lao Zhang said angrily, "He wants a child like crazy, and my eldest grandson is almost ten years old. In my opinion, it doesn't matter whether he wants a child or not. I just feel sorry for his infatuation. Old Chen, if you If you meet an abandoned child, please help me, I also want to meet his request. He insists on following me, he has no children, he is afraid that I will change my mind."
"But he's a man after all," I said.
Lao Zhang said, "Oh shit, apart from that skin, how can he still be a man? In some respects, he is more feminine than a woman." Then he said, "I go out all the year round, wandering around the world, it's good to have someone by my side, it feels like home."
Da Zhang smiled and said, "With his wife in charge, he doesn't go out to prostitutes like other people."
Old Zhang smiled, "I'm not like you. I have three wives who are reluctant to take them out at home, and they go out to mess around, as if they are afraid of getting their wives tanned and exhausted."
Dazhang said, "You don't understand, women are like clothes, you can change them often to have a fresh look, unlike you, you wear a piece of clothing to the end."
Lao Zhang said, "My wife and Xiao Chen can't get along. Besides, Xiao Chen doesn't have a child. He is lonely at home alone. He will inevitably change his mind. I have to take him with me. How can I be like you when I am with him?" free?"
I looked at Da Zhang in surprise, he laughed "hey hey" a few times in embarrassment. He is by no means a bad person. Rich men cheating is not the monopoly of big bosses nowadays, it has been around for a long time.
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The project was completed on schedule and passed the acceptance inspection. On the day it opened to traffic, I went there, but I was a little disappointed: the friends I just met were about to leave here. They were a group drifting on the earth. In order to make a living, they never stayed in any one place. Among this group of people, there is a pair of strange lovers, and there is a strong love for Fujian wine.
Nearly 40 years have passed, and the past has long been lost in the passing time. If Da Zhang and Lao Zhang are still alive, they will be octogenarians.
It's just that the small stone bridge still stands on this small mountain stream named Chunjiang, watching the time gone. The lion, guarding the east and the west, quietly watched the pedestrians and vehicles. Every stone here was built by the group of wandering Fujianese, so it is so strong and durable.
February 2016, 2 at Wormhole
☆, Love Wangyun Village
After working for more than four hours and preparing to call it a day and go home, Liu Xing slapped Zhang Yu's butt hard a few times to wipe off the dust, and cursed: "You just love to sit on your old butt." The ground is full of mud."
In fact, Zhang Yu is an old man who loves cleanliness very much. It seems that because he does not do housework at home, he does not wash or cook, so he often cleans his body. He takes a bath and changes clothes every day, which Liu Xing did not expect Yes, an old farmer with a cleanliness habit. Every day, he wears navy blue trousers, a pair of sandals, a T-shirt and a sky blue shirt, and short white hair.This outfit is also Zhang Yu's unchanging image when he is working or going out.
"Haha, Xingzi, you like to be clean. See how you keep the old man under strict control. I'm a farmer. How can I get rid of dirt on my body?" Zhang Yu said after putting on his Dacron shirt.
"Old bastard, you need to change your habit. People have to pay attention to grooming to look energetic."
He took out his handkerchief and wiped Zhang Yu's face. There were several layers of beautiful wrinkles on Zhang Yu's red neck. Under the hot sun, there was a thin layer of sweat on Zhang Yu's cheeks and neck. He wiped Zhang Yu dry After beading off the sweat on his head, he wiped it on his face, and Liu Xing was intoxicated by a refreshing fragrance.
"Xingzi, my son, your feet are long, and you always walk so fast that you are dragging me to death. People walk five kilometers in an hour, but you go nine kilometers in an hour." Zhang Yu said pitifully on the way. demanded.
"Old butt, it's only five kilometers from the village to Epenchong. You have a lot of things to do. You have to strike up a conversation with someone and smoke a hookah. It's been almost an hour, and you haven't walked halfway yet. Shall I set up a few huts for you by the side of the road, so that you can eat and drink before leaving?"
"Haha, that's not necessary." Seeing Liu Xing's sniggering, Zhang Yu squeezed Liu Xing's buttocks hard, "You are the one who is cruel and wants to throw me halfway."
Liu Xing was pinched by Zhang Yu and scolded: "You want to murder, so hard?" He didn't dare to move casually, because he was carrying a hoe and sickle on his shoulder.Afraid of turning around and hurting Zhang Yu behind him.Zhang Yu still didn't let go of his hand, rubbing Liu Xing's buttocks, Liu Xing was very pleased.Shouted loudly: "Old butt, you go ahead and lead the way."
Zhang Yu got the order and walked in front, like an old cow, slowly.Liu Xing no longer urged him.
Zhang Yu is the production team leader of Wangyun Village, and Liu Xing is a member of the work team sent by the county. He is Zhang Yu's three family members. I also have to discuss with Liu Xing frequently about the production in the team.Wangyun Village of Bailaikou is located at the mouth of a mountain. It is said that Mr. Geography was invited to look at it before using it as the village site.There are small hills on three sides, just like the legendary dragon chair. The whole village is very spacious, and every household has two or three mu of homestead. The whole village is in a large concentration and small scattered form, and each household surrounds its own courtyard. , Reflected among trees such as pineapple, lychee and mango, several winding village roads organically connect these courtyards. There is an ancient banyan tree in the middle of the village, which is a place for ordinary villagers to meet or chat.As for Fengshui, Liu Xing can't see why, but the terrain here is gentle
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