Jean Love

In the middle of [-], my mother still went to the People's Hospital in the city for follow-up visits every month, and my eldest brother-in-law still picked me up.My brother's job is still not very stable, the east for a few months, and the west for a few months.My younger brother has got his driver's license and was introduced by his uncle in the same village to work in Xiqiao. He drives a small four-wheeler and earns [-] yuan a month. He eats his own food and lives in a low tile-roofed house rented by the proprietress. He has to pay for the electricity himself. , the younger brother often called to complain, complaining that his boss wife was too harsh and too stingy.

I was still at the gas station. One day, the proprietress drove her black car and parked outside the gas station’s rolling shutters. When she got out, she wore a pair of pink sandals, a leopard-print short-sleeved skirt, and a leopard-print handbag in her right hand. When I entered the door, I looked east and west, looked at me, and asked, "Wen, how is business during this time?"

I was sitting in the office, when I saw her come in, I got up to greet her, and said, "It's about the same, a little worse than before, maybe better than part-time jobs, ha ha. Do you want tea? Auntie."

"No, you know I don't even drink tea, I only drink boiled water. Hahaha."

"How about you, how is the business of the steel bar shop? Are you okay?"

"What a ghost, it's not easy to do. It seems that nothing has been easy to do in the past two years, and the partnership business is even more difficult."

"Oh." I stopped talking and stood in front of the proprietress. Although her carefree hahaha always made me feel very friendly, her dress and the nobleness in her eyes made me feel short.

"Wen, do you think that if you sell motor oil like this now, if you go to find a store in other places, do you have to do it?" She asked seriously.

"It can be done, but the profit will be lower. The rent of the shop outside is so expensive, plus taxes, it shouldn't be easy to just sell lubricating oil. What's wrong?" I was alert.

"Nixian! They don't count what they say."

"Who?"

"The production team, when I built it, I promised how many years it would be here for me, but now it is suddenly said that it has been bought by someone else, a real estate developer bought it, and it is some kind of carnival." She looked angry.

"Oh." My heart skipped a beat, but this time it was calmer than last time.

"I mean, if you think you can do it, go find a store. If you can't do it, dispose of the leftovers, or sell them cheap, or return them. There's no way." She looked helpless.

"When is the latest? Auntie." I asked.

"What's the number today? Is it the eighth today? The parking lot next door has also been bought out in the middle of next month at the latest. Did you see that the security team came here recently to persuade them to quit? Listen."

"Then, when the time comes, I'll call you and give you the rent together."

"Okay, you can watch for yourself, Ah Wen." After speaking, he shook his head lightly, put the bag on his wrist, and left.

I watched her car drive away slowly. If a job that was done well is about to disappear suddenly, normal people’s psychology should try to save, struggle, or at least sigh. I have all these things, in my heart, Churning deep inside, but my appearance is not, no big deal, seems to have been expected.

My eyes were a little slack, I was thinking, these are not mine, the storefront is not mine, the license is not mine, the shelves are not mine, even many things in the office are not mine, it’s done, thank you Dade, just like my mother before As I said, I was walking in someone else's tiger skin, and I want to thank him.

In addition, when I think of my brother, my eldest cousin, or even Brother Chen Hui, I feel that I have gained a bit of a false reputation in the past two years. It is a false reputation that has been exaggerated by a third party. Arguing instead makes people accuse hypocrisy. Only you know that it is untrue.I am just a wire plant, after all, I have to be born on the ground and stick to the ground to be steadfast, and I often have an indescribable sense of fatigue pressing on my heart, which has nowhere to release and cannot let go.

I sold as much lubricating oil as I could, stuffed some from Jin Min, stuffed some from Lao Hu, and...What was left was returned in the end. Lao Lin was hired and brought to Guancheng.

There are a few empty three-story angle iron shelves left in the gas station, a broken glass container with one corner left, a few empty iron barrels left, a few empty plastic barrels left, and some garbage paper scraps left. The furnishings in the room were basically unchanged, and neither was the canopy bed in the small room. They were neither brought in, and if they had been brought, they were kept and not taken away.

I just packed up that TCL color TV, that Haier refrigerator, a better desk, and several boxes of my books, and put them in a family in Hetianjiaoyuan Village for safekeeping. The refrigerator can be used, and the TV It can be used. The books are on the second floor. If there is a chance, I don’t know when.The mother and daughter readily accepted it and kept it safe.

Call the proprietress to come over and give her the key, she asked: "Wen, do you want this canopy bed?"

I said: "No, it's useless if you want to come, you can dispose of it when the time comes, and sell it as scrap iron together with these shelves and the oil tank next door."

I came to the fruit farm and said goodbye to Aying and the others. Aying said: "Oh! Everyone had such a good time, I was a little reluctant to leave." She sighed.

"Really reluctant or fake reluctant?" I laughed.

"Ah Wen, you are serious. When did I tell a lie? This person really has no conscience." A Ying pretended to be angry.

"Haha, okay, no matter where I go, I will remember, remember you, remember what you said just now, in fact, I am also very reluctant." I laughed wantonly, pretending to laugh heartlessly.

The old uncle also came over and held my hand: "Do you really want to go home?"

"Yes." I said.

"You have capital and brains, and you can find food wherever you go. It's just that without you, we have lost a companion and a corner. Hey, don't tell me, I heard that you are really going to leave. I really can't sleep for a few nights." The old uncle frowned, clasped my palm and shook it a few times, with a faint sadness on his face.

"Uncle, look, auntie is there." I pointed to his wife, not far away.

"She misses you too."

"It's not that I'm reluctant, but she has always disapproved of your playing cards, you understand." I glanced at my aunt and at the old uncle.

"Play a little mahjong, what are you afraid of?"

"Hehe, she is afraid that if you stay up late, it will be bad for your health." I turned a few corners and turned away.

Parting, Jinmin asked me seriously: "Awen, what are your plans?"

"Not yet, let's go home first." My mind at that time could be said to be empty, or it could be said to be full.

In the evening, I went to Lao Hu's residence, and when he heard that I was leaving, he was surprised: "Why so suddenly?"

"Hehe, it wasn't sudden, I already knew about it last month." I laughed.

"Oh, what's your plan? Just find a store nearby?"

"No, let's go home first." I said.

Lao Hu enthusiastically made tea for me, brought some pistachios, handed me a Wuye Shen, took out his mobile phone, checked the time, asked me if I wanted to wash my feet, asked me if I wanted to have a late-night snack, all of them were rejected. I refused, not in the mood, just want to stay quietly for a while.He looked at me: "Then, your money, I..., alas, to be honest, my business here is also very difficult. There are too many debts, the turnover is not good, and I dare not take orders randomly." Optimistic, but also moaning at times.

"I'll go to my friend's place first, and maybe I'll leave after a week. Take a look at the money..." I only talked to this position. I know that Lao Hu is a man who won't easily embarrass others, so I don't like it. Make it hard for him to say it.In addition, I have a client who has several thousand yuan. I have fought for it, but the other party insists that it will only be available during the Chinese New Year. There is really no way.

Lao Hu still thought of a way, and early the next morning, he gave me the full amount of the money owed. I heard that he borrowed it from his friend.When we parted, we had nothing to miss, just patted my shoulder fiercely: "Xiao Chen, call me when you come to Dongguan later." When we got into his car, the driver honked the horn, we waved our hands and nodded, Smile and say goodbye.I have never seen him again, nor have I contacted him again. There seems to be a kind of ring mark. His life is a life I dare not expect.

I sold everything that could be sold in the rental house, including the old computer that had been used as a DVD player.I settled with the landlord, packed my simple bags, and went to Huangjiang again.