I replied innocently, "Xiao Jing, please don't talk nonsense. When did I do that? Didn't I leave that day when you asked me to go to the hotel?"
"I don't care!" Li Jing said unreasonably: "If you don't tell me what you do, if you don't tell me where you are going, I will report you!"
Well, it would be better for me not to come this time and just leave honestly.
Although I am young, I have learned a lot about people and the world in the past six months with my boss, and I also know what to say and what not to say. After careful consideration, I lied and told Li Jing that our family was actually doing poorly.
Foreign goods business.
In those two years, many foreign goods dealers in the south did make a fortune. This industry was somewhat gray, especially those electronic products. Seeing Li Jing in a daze, I added: "Xiao Jing, actually on your birthday I
The Sony Walkman I gave you is a foreign product from home."
Looking at Li Jing's expression, I breathed a sigh of relief. She must have believed it to some extent, because the Sony Walkman was very expensive. The price at that time was equivalent to two months' salary of an ordinary person. How could I, a student who didn't even have a job, afford it?
After a few minutes, Li Jing cried again and said: "Xiang Yunfeng, where can I find you in the future? I don't plan to go to college. I will go to work after graduating from high school next year. My mother said that I am not good at studying.
There may be no way out of college, so I might as well enter an electronics factory as soon as possible."
"No." I looked at her and said, "You must not go to the electronics factory. If you go, Xiaojing, you will be useless. You know, listen to me. You must go to college in the future. Knowledge changes your destiny!"
Li Jing stopped crying, she was amused by my words.
After thinking about it, Li Jing still shook her head and said, "But my family's situation is not good. I heard from one of my sisters that it costs more than 20,000 yuan to go to college for four years, so I may not be able to pass the exam."
I thought about it for a while and asked Li Jing to wait for me on the arch bridge. I hurried back to the hotel and took 20,000 yuan. I divided the money, and half of it helped Li Jing's family pay off the loan sharks owed by his father. Now there is nothing left.
How much.
I'll give you 20,000 yuan I asked Li Jing and told her the address of my hometown in Mohe.
Afraid that she would have a psychological burden, I said, "Xiaojing, let's make an agreement. When you graduate from college in five years, you can go to Mohe to find me."
Just like that, I made an agreement with Li Jing on the arch bridge that night. She told me that she would continue to go to school and would definitely go to Mohe to find me after graduating from college. She asked me to wait.
The money was spent, but I felt comfortable at that time. In fact, it was all caused by puppy love. Looking back now, it was like life and death. When Li Jing and I met again, she had changed a lot. This
talk about it later.
At around one o'clock that night, a green Great Wall pickup truck arrived at the hotel on time. After loading two large wooden boxes, Sister Hong and I got on the pickup truck. We were going to a fishing boat arranged by Hongxing Fisheries.
It was a serious medium-sized fishing boat. Not counting Sister Hong and I, I saw a total of four crew members. The captain was a bald middle-aged man, and the pickup truck driver called him Lao Huo.
Lao Huo directed the crew to help us move the boxes. After seeing the place where we lived, Sister Hong frowned and expressed dissatisfaction. Lao Huo let us live in a utility room next to the engine room. The utility room was full of dust.
There wasn't even a bed. There were two old mattresses on the floor, which looked like they were temporarily packed.
Captain Lao Huo said awkwardly, "I'm sorry, you two, please feel sorry for me. I only received the order in the afternoon to take you to Zhonggang City. The conditions are indeed a bit rough."
Master Yao took 30% of the top dollar and ended up arranging such a rat's nest. Sister Hong said with an unhappy expression: "You call this a bit crude? Are we going to the toilet or eating? There's not even a window to suffocate people.
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"That won't
." Old Huo scratched his head and said: "There is an iron plate on the plywood at the exit of the engine room. You can just lift the iron plate when it is convenient. As for eating and drinking, don't worry, you will have breakfast, lunch and dinner."
After explaining this, Lao Huo left a walkie-talkie for us. He adjusted the walkie-talkie channel to 16, saying that only he could receive the conversation on channel 16, and not other crew members. He asked us to call him directly if there was any situation.
Nowadays, it is very fast to take a boat from Shunde to Zhonggang, only a few hours. But it was still relatively slow at that time, and in order not to attract attention, the boat had to operate normally for fishing, so it drove really slowly, stopping and going.
Almost like a snail.
Sister Hong, it’s okay. I am a landlubber from the north who took a boat for the first time. I got seasick that night. Lao Huo repeatedly told us not to go out. If we were inspected and we didn’t have crew certificates, we would be in big trouble. Lao Huo said we should hold it in.
If you are worried, you can go to the deck after one o'clock in the evening to get some fresh air.
During the entire voyage, Lao Huo planned to arrive in China in seven days. Sister Hong and I had a good meal in the utility room, which was all seafood such as shrimps and fish. The person who delivered the food to us was also the one who helped us carry the boxes on the ship.
Young man, he is Lao Huo's nephew, nicknamed Douyazai, and he is also one of the few people on the ship who knows that Sister Hong and I live in the utility room.
Dou Sprout was a talkative man in his early twenties. Seeing that Sister Hong and I were listless all day long, he would sometimes bring us food and chat with us. Dou Sprout told us a lot of stories about the sea, and I also told a few stories about how we went to protect our fairies in the Northeast.
The story with Huang Pizi left Dou Sprout in a daze for a while.
At about nine o'clock in the evening on the fourth day, Sister Hong and I were killing time playing poker in the utility room, when suddenly the urgent voice of Captain Lao Huo came from the intercom.
"You two! Are you two here? Please reply if you hear me."
I pressed the intercom, "What's wrong?"
"The situation is not good. The inspection team is here. I'll try my best to spend a few minutes here. I'll let Dou Sprout pass. You guys should follow quickly." Hold the bean sprouts and let him lead you to hide!"
As soon as Lao Huo finished speaking on the walkie-talkie, there was a knock on the door from Bean Sprouts.
After opening the door, Douyazai threw two raincoats to me and Sister Hong in a panic. He asked us to put on our raincoats and follow him.
After leaving the engine room, Douyazai used the intercom and whispered: "Uncle, what's the situation now? Can you go on the deck?"
After waiting for several minutes, the red light on the small walkie-talkie came on and Lao Huo's voice came.
"Ya Zai, that group of people are checking forms in the central control room. Hurry up and lead the two of them to hide in the fish warehouse. It will be over in five minutes!"
"Let's go! Let's go quickly!" Douyazai led Sister Hong and I to open the small door of the engine room and come to the deck.
There is something like a manhole cover in the middle of the deck. Below is the fish warehouse. There are several tons of dead fish in it. The smell is so bad that it can kill people. When you open the manhole cover, there is a ladder. At the urging of Dou Sprout, Sister Hong and I put on raincoats.
, climbed down in a panic.
"Bang." The surrounding area was filled with stench, and it was slippery and greasy. The bean sprouts closed the lid, and the fish barn fell into darkness.
Almost at the same time, Sister Hong and I heard voices coming from the plywood.
"What do you do? Why were you not here when the list was checked just now? Where is your crew certificate?"
I heard Lao Huo say, "Hey, I'm sorry, this is my nephew Dou Sprout. I called him just now, but he didn't reply. Is the intercom out of battery?"
Dou Sprout said quickly: "Uncle, did you just call me? I didn't hear you. It seems that I forgot to charge the walkie-talkie last night."
Lao Huo laughed and scolded: "You kid, you can't be impatient. How many times have you told me, don't just use the walkie-talkie without charging it? You just don't have a long memory. Guys, why don't we go to the employee warehouse and take a look?"
"Hold on, that's the fish warehouse over there. Open it and let me take a look."