Location: In Guangdong Province, Maocheng, where Hu Biao left some profound memories, and even in the suburban industrial park that Hu Biao passed by more than once.
"Young man, why are you still working overtime now? Why do you have to fight so hard for the boss's little overtime pay? I bet you'll be exhausted."
Such a kindly teasing laugh reached Old Chen's ears.
After hearing this, Lao Chen replied lightly without raising his head: "I will get off work soon. I will get off work after finishing this."
In fact, the so-called Lao Chen is not a middle-aged and greasy man.
He is only in his early 30s, so he can still be said to be a young man; it's just that this migrant worker is one of the older ones among his colleagues in the factory.
I don’t know when I was called, and when I was called, I was called Lao Chen.
Finally, at 11:09, Lao Chen completed the task at hand.
Then when he was clocking out from get off work, he stretched out greatly. While he felt the pain in his back, his heart was filled with indescribable energy.
After washing his face with cold water at the faucet at the entrance of the workshop to refresh himself, Lao Chen began to walk back to the entrance of the factory, intending to walk back to the rental house which was not too close.
By the way! Workers are all made of flesh and blood, no one likes to work overtime.
It's just because of the responsibility on my shoulders that I have to use my body and time in exchange for the meager overtime pay, so that the people I care about can live a better life.
For example, when his wife, Mr. Chen, checked her body a few days ago, she found out that she was more than two months pregnant.
Facing the little life that will be born in a few months, Lao Chen, who will become a father for the first time, is filled with quite complicated emotions.
On the one hand, it is a kind of instinctive joy that one's own bloodline will continue and a little life is about to be born.
On the other hand, it’s impossible for my wife to insist on going to work even though she has a big belly, right?
In this way, when the time comes, the wife will spend money on going to the hospital to give birth to the baby, the cost of confinement to replenish her body, the baby's diapers, milk powder, clothes, etc., all of which will cost money.
So, now Lao Chen has begun to work overtime desperately, using every hour of hard work in exchange for a few diapers or one or two meals of milk powder for his children in the future.
Otherwise? For an ordinary person, a migrant worker, what other better way can there be?
After walking out of the factory gate, Lao Chen hesitated for a while and walked towards a fruit shop that was still open at the factory gate.
Because he planned to buy a box of jackfruit and let his wife try it.
Although the price of a box of this stuff is not cheap, it almost costs him two hours of overtime pay, but who said his wife likes to eat these?
Even if every time I buy it, I complain that I have spent money indiscriminately, but I can't hide the joy in my eyes.
The process of buying jackfruit is not worth mentioning. What is worth mentioning is that after he had walked a short distance while carrying the bag, a middle-aged woman who looked pitiful blocked his way.
Of course, after the other party stopped him, he didn't want to make some unethical deal and let Lao Chen spend some unjust money.
Instead, the other party begged: "Boss, can you give me 10 yuan to eat some fried rice noodles? I came here to find a fellow worker to join the factory, but I couldn't get through the call to the fellow worker.
Now I don’t have any money and I haven’t eaten all day. Can you give me 10 yuan for some fried rice noodles?”
To be honest! Lao Chen actually knew that nine out of ten women in front of him were liars, because the workers around him and him had encountered this situation more than once.
But even so, after not much hesitation, Lao Chen still took out a 10-dollar land from the change in his pants and gave it to the other party.
Is the reason for doing this just that he believes there are good people in this world, or is there more, what if this woman really encounters difficulties?
So if you can help a little, then help a little? That’s all he can do with 10 yuan.
With such an idea in mind, Lao Chen slowly approached an uninhabited alley, mainly because the place he rented was relatively cheap and basically equivalent to being remote.
"It would be great if we could find a way to make a lot of money without breaking the law."
I was walking in a secluded alley, thinking that I still owed my friend tens of thousands of dollars. Although my friend didn't push me, I was still very embarrassed.
Old Chen took a heavy puff of the cheapest Double Happiness cigarette and muttered in his mouth.
Then, a voice full of surprise sounded in Lao Chen's ears:
"Young man, what a coincidence! I happen to have a good place here, including food and accommodation, and free shoes, socks, and uniforms. I can earn more than a million in a few months at most.
Don’t worry! It’s absolutely not illegal, so let’s set off right away.”
The voice just fell. When Lao Chen found out that he was disappearing, his eyes were full of panic; at this moment, he was extremely afraid of death.
What is disappointing is that the reason why he is afraid of death is somewhat different, because he knows that he cannot afford to die.
What the heck! In such a society, there is that ordinary man. Faced with a situation where there are seniors above and juniors below, he can even die.
In this way, Lao Chen was summoned to the Northeast in the late 1950s.
In this process, there was a detail that even he himself did not notice: even when he was most panicked, he did not let go of the plastic bag containing a box of jackfruit in his hand.
Even during such a process, his finger bones were a little white due to excessive exertion...
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At the same time, that is, when Lao Chen was in the fruit shop, he was trying to choose a box of the freshest-looking and largest jackfruit for his wife.
On a ring road in a certain city, a conference of many insurance companies was going on.
Good guys! Insurance companies such as Ping An, Pacific, Dadi, Anbang, Huatai, Tianan, Yongan, Min'an, etc., insurance companies that ordinary people have heard of and have never heard of, and relevant personnel can be found here.
The main reason was that the road was slippery after it rained today, and a big car accident happened.
There were several trucks in front and behind, and private cars collided with each other.
After something like this happens, the first thing that most car owners think about, no matter who is specifically responsible, is of course to report it to the insurance company immediately.
As a result, the current scene occurred, and relevant personnel from major insurance companies appeared.
In the noisy environment of ambulances, rescue vehicles, traffic agents, reporters, spectators, crying and cursing car owners.
Lei Guoning, an employee of an insurance company, looked at his new colleague speechlessly while chewing gum.
At this moment, he was lying beside a green belt and vomited into a dark sky and dark ground.
Seeing this, when Lei Guoning delivered a bottle of mineral water, he couldn't help but complain: "Isn't it just a car crash scene? Even if there are a few more cars, how can you vomit like this, bro?
"
Perhaps he had vomited out all he could in the previous time.
After the new colleague raised his head, he retorted: "You're kidding! Didn't you see that the driver of the deformed Nissan that was hit by a big truck just now had his intestines coming out, and you didn't react at all?
?”
In this regard, Lei Guoning said nothing.
I just accompanied my colleague to a nearby public toilet while he was washing up.
He couldn't hold it in any longer. When he found an empty spot and squatted in the pit, he started complaining: "What the hell! I've seen too many small scenes like this, it's nothing like this."
As a result, his voice stopped, and a cold mechanical voice sounded:
"Boy, are you bragging? I don't believe it anyway~"