In the morning, the manager of the cinema came and gave away thirty movie tickets. In the afternoon, the managers of the barber shop and bathhouse also came. One gave twenty free receipts, and the other gave fifty bath tickets.
Their purpose was also very similar, that is, they came to the bags of peanuts and melon seeds lying in the warehouse, and they all wanted to get more and ration them.
But the company director is really worried. There are only so many things provided by the above, and each unit wants to order more. There is really too much food for the monks, how do you tell him to divide it?
If this person is given too much, that person is unwilling, and that person is given too much, but this person is unwilling. If the distribution is not good, there will be complaints.
Human beings are so sophisticated, so difficult!
However, the employees in the store were very happy. The items sent by various units were divided by Chu Heng at that time, and they all received a lot of benefits.
It was almost time to get off work, and the aunts were tidying up the house and discussing getting their hair done together in the evening.
I don’t know if the barber can bear it...
Guo Xia also happily clicked on the various tickets he had been given, thinking that he would go find the person he just met later and go watch a movie together.
This hard-working and honest kid finally got the approval of his aunts a few days ago, and they introduced him to a partner. The girl was average-looking, but she had a good employer and worked in the street office. The two of them had been fighting fiercely recently.
It's a pity that Mr. Chu can't feel the happiness brought by these benefits at this moment. He is not short of money, and it doesn't matter whether it is free or not.
This is the trouble of rich people.
But he is in a good mood now, because Miss Ni has just promised him to go to his house for dinner after get off work in the evening, and he can finally enjoy the after-dinner fruit.
The two bites I tasted secretly in the workplace every day were really not satisfying.
"That's it." Chu Heng, who was a little distracted, smiled coquettishly at Miss Ni. After receiving the girl's shy eye roll, he happily ran back to the office, waiting for the arrival of get off work.
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"Why!"
The old man Lian opposite him sighed quietly, closed the account book in his hand, pulled out his hair, and complained to him with a sad face: "You said these people come to me every time during the New Year.
, where can I get them so many peanuts and melon seeds?"
Chu Heng felt a little sorry for the old man. He rolled his eyes and gave him an idea: "How about we draw lots. It depends on luck whether it's more or less. No one can blame anyone."
"Drawing lots?" The old man's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this, and then he frowned: "Isn't this a bit of a joke? A group of leaders from various units are drawing lots for some food. It would make people laugh if you tell me."
"Then there's nothing I can do." Chu Heng shrugged.
"Hey, let's see again." The old man sighed again.
At this moment, Guo Xia suddenly ran in and said to Chu Heng with a complicated face: "Brother, there is someone outside, saying he is your relative."
Chu Heng was immediately confused. His old Chu family was almost extinct. The living population was rich with five fingers. Who the hell had any relatives?
But I was confused. Since I came to recognize my relatives, I had to meet them in person.
He stood up full of doubts and went to the front shop with Guo Xia.
The person who came was an old man in his sixties, with a dark face covered with wrinkles. He was wearing a patched and shabby coat. From the scattered holes, you could still see some withered yellow grass wadding.
, what attracted attention was his feet. In the cold winter weather, he was actually wearing a pair of straw sandals. The bare feet and insteps that were exposed were already covered in bruises from the cold, which made people feel distressed just looking at them.
At this time, the old man was sitting on a bench solemnly, holding a glass of boiled water that Miss Ni had just poured for him. He kept looking around at a pair of dim old eyes with deep confusion and hesitation.
The strange environment and strange people made the old man who had never traveled far feel very uneasy.
Chu Heng was not in a hurry to show up to recognize his relatives, but stood at the small door of the front and back rooms and looked at the old man for a while, but he thought for a while and couldn't find any information about the old man in his memory.
In the end, he had no choice but to step forward and ask the old man: "Uncle, I am Chu Heng. Are you a relative of mine?"
Seeing him appear, the old man felt as if he had found his backbone. He stood up excitedly and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes, my name is Yang Youfu, and I am your third uncle and grandpa!"
"Third uncle?" Chu Heng was stunned. In his memory, there was no such relative as uncle at all, and he was still the third uncle, so wouldn't there be a boss and a second brother above him?
It’s possible that I forgot one, but I can’t forget all of them, right?
Could it be that the old man recognized the wrong person?
Seeing his confused face, the old man quickly added: "Your father's name is Chu Chengcai, your mother's name is Pan Erni, and your grandma's name is Yang Chunhua, right?"
Chu Heng scratched his head after hearing this. What the old man said was correct, but he was even more confused: "Yes, that's true, but I don't remember that I still have an uncle at home."
Is there any memory loss left by the original owner?
He thought a little unconfidently.
Seeing that he didn't believe it, the old man became anxious and grabbed his arm: "I am really your third uncle and grandpa. You have never been back with your grandma, so naturally you don't know me. But your second uncle Chu Jianshe and I
If you have seen him, it will become clear if you call him."
"Then wait a minute, I'll call my second uncle." Chu Heng breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that he knew his second uncle. Otherwise, he really wouldn't know how to deal with this relative who appeared out of thin air.
He quickly ran back to the office, picked up the phone and called the Grain Management Office.
Making calls at this time is particularly troublesome. You can't just dial the number, but you have to transfer it through the operator console. The call first goes to the post and telecommunications office, and then the operator connects you to the other party.
Chu Heng stood in front of the phone and waited for a long time before finally receiving the call from the Grain Management Office.
After talking to Chu Jianshe, he briefly explained the matter and received a positive reply. The Chu family did have a distant relative named Yang Youfu, but he was beyond his reach.
This third uncle who suddenly appeared is the third brother of a distant uncle of his grandma in Langfang. He is the kind who produces the fifth server. He has lost contact with him for many years. I don’t know how the old man found him.
After making an appointment with Chu Jianshe and taking his third uncle and grandpa to his house, Chu Heng put down the phone and sighed deeply.
If a poor relative whom you haven't contacted for many years comes to visit, what else can happen?
He could tell with his toes that he would definitely not be able to survive, so he asked relatives in the city to borrow food. Otherwise, as an old man in his sixties, would he be able to travel so far to recognize his relatives in the middle of winter?
There is more than a hundred miles between Langfang and Sijiucheng. Going out at this time is not like in later generations. You just hold the steering wheel and press the accelerator. If there are no buses or bicycles, you can only rely on two legs to travel.
!
That was why he sighed.
How could an old man in his 60s brave the severe cold and trek here, or find a relative whom he had not seen for many years? If his family had no other choice, how could he take such a risk?
If there is some danger along the way, if his relatives in the city don't want to recognize him, it's a matter of two opinions whether the old man can go back alive, or else he will freeze to death on the road.
In the past, he had always heard that this family had a poor relative, and that family had a poor friend, but he never expected that it would finally be his turn, the old Chu family.
But in Chu Heng's opinion, this matter was nothing. He had this condition, so since he came to the door, he just wanted to help.
