The National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays have ended. Yao Zhaowen got four days off and made a special trip back home. He spent two days with his family at home and also went on a trip near his home.
After the holiday, I brought Li Manjun the osmanthus cake made by his mother, saying it was a specialty from their hometown and could not be bought in Rongcheng.
This kind of sweet-scented osmanthus cake is not soft and glutinous, but feels a bit like a puff pastry mooncake. It is fragrant and crispy, and a strong sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance remains on your body after eating. It is full of the taste of autumn.
Li Manjun thought it was very delicious and ate two of them in one go. Then he put down his hand, covered the rest with the lid of the box, and put it in a large tote bag, planning to take it back to Zhao Yong to try.
The store was quite busy today. Li Manjun got off work an hour later than usual and left the waste recycling station at almost seven o'clock.
After autumn, it gets dark earlier and earlier, and it has been cloudy for the past two days. At this time, the sun has completely set, the twilight is dim, and the street lights have not yet turned on.
Yao Zhaowen was a little worried, "Why don't you call Mr. Zhao and ask him to pick you up? It's a bit dark today."
Li Manjun put her bag in the bicycle basket and waved her hand, "It's okay. If you walk through the front section, there will be street lights behind you."
Yao Zhaowen thought that it would be okay if he walked like this every day. The boss would remember every trick on the road, so he felt relieved.
"Boss, please ride slower on the road."
"Yeah, you can close the door and go to bed early."
Li Manjun got on his bicycle and drove toward home. On the way, he passed a section of road that was being repaired. The ground was full of cement pits. The sky was darker than before. Li Manjun was afraid of falling, so he got off the bicycle and pushed the bicycle forward.
As I was walking, I suddenly saw a gray shadow on the ground. At first I thought it was the shadow of a tree and didn't pay much attention to it.
Something's wrong, I've already walked past the place with the tree, why is the shadow of the tree still there?m
The street lights thirty meters ahead have already turned on. The temperature has dropped recently at night, and there are far fewer pedestrians on the road. There is actually no one on the road ahead of the street lights.
At this moment, Li Manjun's hair stood up when she saw the "tree shadow" again. She took a deep breath, pushed the bicycle slowly, reached for her bag with one hand, and when the cold wind started behind her, she grabbed the bag and swung it behind her.
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"Fuck!" A muffled male voice cursed. Li Manjun looked at the three strangers who appeared in front of him, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated. Robbery? Or kidnapping?
Before he could think about it, when he saw the man who had been slapped in the face with his bag raising the iron rod in his hand towards him with a ferocious look on his face, Li Manjun screamed subconsciously, dropped his bicycle and ran forward.
While running, he shouted: "Help!"
She knew that she must be looking very embarrassed at this moment, but the streetlight in front of her was like a life-saving straw. As long as she ran away from this dark pothole road, there would be many residents in front of her, and she would be saved.
At least, the three men chasing after him would be wary.
However, Li Manjun, who was running wildly, couldn't pay attention to her feet at all. When one of her feet was in the air, a heavy blow followed her back. The world spun and she fell into the sewer. In desperation, the only thing she could do was
Hold your head to avoid fainting.
Li Manjun fell heavily into the sewer, her calves hung on the pipes, and her whole body was in a U-shape. She felt a late dull pain in her back, which was so painful that she almost carried it in one breath.
Five figures gathered around and stood by the sewer, looking down at her.
They were facing the light, and Li Manjun looked down on their faces, but he could also see from the two extra people behind them that these five people were deliberately plotting to kill her and had specially prepared this trap for her.
The sewer without a manhole cover is about two meters deep. It is dry inside and there are only two cement pipes. If someone falls, he will not die.
They had already calculated that they didn't want her life.
The pain from her body stimulated Li Manjun's nerves, and her consciousness became extremely clear. Knowing that these people were not trying to save their lives, she began to suspect that they were retaliating.
But has she ever offended such a person?
The first thought that flashed in Li Manjun's mind was that Wu Jianshe would find someone to take revenge on him.
But she immediately dismissed this suspicion, because Wu Jianshe didn't even know where her recycling station was, and she had never mentioned it to her neighbors in the building.
"Are you alive?" The man holding the iron rod squatted down and asked in a joking tone, stretching out the rod to poke her.
Li Manjun turned his head to avoid the stick, but he couldn't lift his hand. It seemed that he had twisted it. His wrist bones were sore and painful when he moved it.
She kept herself calm, resisted the dull pain coming from her back, and said to several people: "The money is all in the bag. Take it. There are more than 2,000 yuan in cash in it."
"You can also take the bicycle outside."
Hearing this, several people laughed strangely. The leader said to the four people around him: "She is actually quite calm. She deserves to be a boss. Her courage is just different."
The other four people just laughed, as if this was something particularly funny.
While talking, he picked up the bag that Li Manjun had dropped by the sewer and turned it upside down. Li Manjun's BB camera, notebook, sunglasses, keys, business cards, and the osmanthus cake that he wanted to bring to Zhao Yong were scattered all over the floor.
A few people poured out all the things, picked up the BB machine and wallet, opened it and saw the cash inside, smiled at each other, divided the money and put it in their arms.
"Li Manjun, right? For the sake of being such a wise man, I will give you some advice. This woman is just not suitable for business. You should just go home and give birth to a man's child."
The leader stood up and pointed an iron rod at Li Manjun, threatening and warning:
"Remember, business is not something you, a stinky bitch, can do. Everyone pays the same price, but you are a few points higher than everyone else. Do you think you deserve a beating? I will give you a little lesson today.
If you are still ignorant, you may end up falling into the sewer next time!"
After leaving harsh words, the five people left.
Li Manjun breathed a sigh of relief and waited for those people to get on their bicycles and laugh and go away, before shouting and hoping to attract the attention of passers-by.
But if you fall into this dark sewer, the sky and the earth will not work.
The dull pain in his back turned into a stabbing pain, and his head felt dizzy. As he shouted, Li Manjun found that his voice was getting smaller and smaller. His eyes were already dim, and he couldn't tell whether it was because he was dizzy or because of the lack of light.
The whole person was very sleepy.
...
In the waste recycling bin, Yao Zhaowen was preparing dinner when the phone in the office suddenly rang.
Who is it at this time?
Yao Zhaowen turned off the fire, put down the spatula, ran to the office, and answered the phone.
"Do you know Li Manjun?"
As soon as the person opposite opened his mouth, Yao Zhaowen's heart skipped a beat, and he had an unknown premonition, so he quickly said that he knew him.
"Then please come here quickly. We found her in the sewer. She seems to be dying."
The callers were from several migrant workers at the construction site. They heard the cry for help when passing by the manhole, and found Li Manjun who had fallen into the well and was unconscious. They called according to the phone number on the business card.
When Yao Zhaowen heard that the man was dying, his mind went blank. Then he realized what was happening, took the key with trembling hands, locked the door of the store and ran towards the place where the incident occurred.
Li Manjun was sent to Rongcheng City Hospital by everyone. She was still a little confused. She heard Yao Zhaowen calling her name and telling her not to sleep. Then Zhao Yong's anxious face appeared in front of her eyes...