It was already past six o'clock in the evening. On the Second Chemical Road in the suburbs, a middle-aged man in his 40s was holding an oil umbrella and walking slowly in the sparse winter rain. The north wind was blowing, and the man couldn't help himself.
The ground shivered, he looked up at the sky, then tucked up his clothes, and continued to walk forward one step at a time, not knowing where the target was.
The man's name is Yu Lihong, a process engineer at Pujiang Plastic Factory No. 7. Just an hour ago, he and his wife had a big argument about sending money to his hometown. He, who is clumsy and clumsy, only said a few words
Suddenly he was restrained by his sharp-tongued wife. In shame and embarrassment, he could only run out of the house and go outside to calm down like he did after every quarrel.
Yu Lihong was born in a farming family. Like all corporate employees who lived in rural areas at that time, they often had to send money to their families to supplement their living expenses. His wife, Li Hongmei, is a native of Pujiang. She did not discriminate against her husband who was born in a rural area.
When it comes to sending money to your hometown, there is a bottom line that cannot be violated, that is 10 yuan per month, and no increase is allowed for any reason.
Yu Lihong is a filial son. Every time during the holidays, he always wants to send a few more dollars to his parents so that they can go to the market to cut some meat and make dumplings. Every time he makes this request to his wife
When the time comes, Li Hongmei, who has always been virtuous and considerate, will get angry and spread out all the bills for her son to buy sneakers, her daughter to have rubella, etc., and ask her husband how there is any spare money at home that can be squandered like this.
Yu Lihong was unable to quarrel with his wife, because the reasons given by his wife were always valid. Over the years, his wife used her talent of "making a snail shell as a dojo" to build a family with the couple's modest salary.
If it looks good, at least the whole family can go out without patches on their clothes. This is very rare. If Yu Lihong wants to say what his wife did wrong, he really can't say it.
In desperation, Yu Lihong could only save pocket money from himself, accumulate the little money, and occasionally secretly send an extra five or ten yuan to his family to show his filial piety. I don't know if Li Hongmei was really unaware of these things.
Still pretending to be confused, in short, the couple did not fight over such things for at least a while.
This time, Yu Lihong received a letter from his mother, saying that winter was coming and his father's asthma was getting worse. Yu Lihong was worried, so he went home to discuss with Li Hongmei, and wanted to send an extra 20 yuan home to let his father go.
Let the county take a look and prescribe some western medicine.
When Li Hongmei heard this, she became furious. She took out the envelope containing the family's living expenses from the drawer, threw it at Yu Lihong's face, and shouted: "We only have so little money at home, just take it and send it all back."
Well, tomorrow the whole family will go to drink the northwest wind!"
After a quarrel, the final result was that Li Hongmei got into the room and cried, mumbling to herself about the hardships of running the family for more than ten years, while Yu Lihong could only escape from the house in the rain with an oil umbrella under his arm.
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Alas, what a coward!
Yu Lihong was tired from walking. He stood under a tree, looked at the dense rain and mist in front of him, and sighed in annoyance.
After all, the income is still too low. I have worked hard for so many years and become an engineer with a monthly salary of 130 yuan; my wife is a worker and only earns more than 60 yuan a month. If we put it in the past, the couple had nearly 200 yuan.
It is considered a high-income family, but now, what is enough money to do?
The supply in the market is much better than in the past. As long as you have money, you can buy meat, eggs, fish and shrimp, but the prices are really staggering. A family can just add a meal on Sunday and 10 yuan is gone. Household appliances
There are more TVs than in the past, and the quality is better, but a color TV costs more than 1,000.
A washing machine costs more than 400, and there are electric fans, cassette players, rice cookers, electronic clocks... Every household has them. If you don't have one at home, can you make sense? But to buy these things, you have to save a sum of money every month after your salary is paid.
, this is also the money picked out from between the teeth.
Also, my son and daughter are old and want to make friends. As a parent, can you not give me some money? I heard from my son that he invited his girlfriend to eat ice cream balls in a small shop next to the People's Square. Each one costs more than 1 yuan.
Money, my girlfriend wants to eat three at a time, and she has to take a best friend to eat, three more... If you dare to save this kind of money, just wait until your son becomes an old bachelor.
With such a big family, can you save 20 yuan for your father's medical treatment? The answer is of course yes. But what Li Hongmei said makes sense, that is, there is no shortage of these 20 yuan in my hometown, so why do I have to wait to send it back from Pujiang?
What? Yu Lihong can also imagine the situation at home. He can definitely get 20 yuan, but his old father, who has been frugal all his life, is reluctant to spend the money on himself...
If you have more money, you can go back to your hometown, bring your parents to Pujiang, find them a hospital, and have a good health check-up. The old man has suffered all his life, and it is the son's responsibility to let them live a happy life.
's old age.
But... this is just a beautiful dream. To take his parents over, it will cost at least 500 yuan, which is an astronomical figure that he cannot bear.
It would be great if I could be rated as deputy chief engineer. The salary of a deputy chief engineer could be forty or fifty yuan more than it is now. In this way, I would be able to have much more money...
Yu Lihong's thoughts drifted in another direction. Over the years, he has never relaxed his research for a moment, and has achieved some research results on several resin formulas. He has also published a paper in the "Synthetic Resin" magazine. According to him
With the conditions, I can actually be rated as deputy chief engineer. Even if I work hard, it is possible to be rated as chief engineer.
However, this was just a beautiful dream, because when he applied to the factory for promotion to a professional title, he discovered that academic achievements alone were not enough. You must also work well with the factory director and the relevant leaders of the Municipal Chemical Industry Bureau.
Relationships, otherwise your achievements will not be visible to others. Yu Lihong himself is not good at communicating emotionally with leaders. Although his wife Li Hongmei is capable, she is only a worker after all and cannot reach a level where she can talk to leaders.
As a result, the matter of appraising the deputy chief engineer was postponed again and again, until it disappeared...
Dad, Li Hong is incompetent, Li Hong is unfilial...
Yu Lihong muttered this sentence while facing the direction of his hometown, and two lines of hot tears overflowed from the corners of his eyes unconsciously.
"dad!"
In the rain curtain, someone was calling loudly. Yu Lihong turned around and saw that there were no pedestrians behind him. There was only a car driving slowly with double flashing lights. Yu Lihong did not think that there was a person sitting in the car.
The people inside greeted him, so he regarded the call just now as his hallucination, shook his head and continued walking forward.
"dad!"
This time, the sound was closer. The car that Yu Lihong saw just now had already driven parallel to him. The window in the back seat facing him was rolled down, revealing the pretty face of a girl.
Yu Lihong wiped his myopia glasses with his hand and finally saw clearly that the girl was his daughter Yu Xiaojuan who had just graduated from high school and was still unemployed at home.
"Xiaojuan, whose car are you riding in?" Yu Lihong asked in surprise. Yu Lihong knew the car his daughter was riding in. It was a Pusang sedan produced by Pujiang Automobile Factory and belonged to the powerful.
People of a certain level cannot get into New Favorite, and the car the director of Plastics Factory No. 7 rides in is just an old Pujiang car.
"It's the car from Tingting's unit." Yu Xiaojuan said happily in the car, "Dad, come on up. The leader of Tingting's unit wants to talk to you?"
"Which Tingting? Why is the leader of her unit looking for me?" Monk Yu Lihong was confused. Before he could understand, the car had stopped. Yu Xiaojuan opened the door in the car and called her father to get in.
Car. Seeing the raindrops constantly drifting into the car through the open door, Yu Lihong felt that it was not the time to be polite, so he put away his umbrella and clumsily got into the car.
The car started moving again, and a girl sitting on the other side of Yu Xiaojuan looked over and said to Li Hong: "Uncle Yu, do you remember me? I am Peng Tingting."
"Oh, Tingting, you haven't come to play at home for a while." Yu Lihong recognized her. This girl was his daughter's high school classmate and had come to play at his home. It is said that the girl's father was a construction worker.
The company's manager, Wei Lihong, never thought that he would have anything to do with her.
"Are you Yu Gong?" A young man sitting in the front passenger seat turned around and greeted Li Hong warmly, "We came to your home to look for you, and I heard that you were out for a walk, so we
So I took the liberty to follow him."
"Yeah, yes, it's too hot at home, so I went out for a walk." Yu Lihong replied awkwardly, completely forgetting that it was late winter, and anyone who went out for a walk because they disliked the heat at home can basically be classified as nervous.
It's normal.
"Xiao Yu, when we came here just now, we saw a Western restaurant on the roadside. You drive the car there, and let's go to the Western restaurant with Yu Gong." The young man told the driver.
"Got it." The driver agreed, and the car slightly increased its speed and drove through the water on the road in the direction pointed by the young man.
"Are you..." Yu Lihong looked at this car of people in surprise and asked hesitantly.
"Oh, let me introduce myself. My name is Xia Yangjie, and I am the chief engineer of Haijie Technology Service Company. This is our deputy manager, named Yu Haitao. By the way, Xiao Peng is also working in our company now and is responsible for administrative affairs.
"As for the purpose of our visit to you, it's not convenient to talk about it in the car. Let's go to a western restaurant to simply order food and talk while eating. What do you think?" the young man said politely.
"Haijie Company?" Yu Lihong was even more confused. He turned to look at Peng Tingting, asking Peng Tingting to give him an explanation. But Peng Tingting just smiled at him secretly, and then took Yu Xiaojuan's arm, not knowing what to say.
The whispers between the girls were gone.
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