If we want to know what is going on, we have to start with the fact that towards the end of February, the mother of Xiao Meng, a handyman in the cafeteria, was hospitalized due to a sudden cerebral hemorrhage.
Because although he received medical treatment in time and was eventually saved, the old lady lost feeling in her left half of her limbs and had to be hospitalized for continued treatment.
You know, there was no such thing as a "nursing worker" at that time. It was up to the family members to take care of the patients.
Fortunately, there were many brothers and sisters in the family at that time, so it was not too difficult for Xiao Meng to take turns sleeping with his brothers and sisters.
But the trouble is, the next day when Xiao Meng was with him in bed happened to coincide with him working the night shift. That day was also the last day of the month, February 28, Saturday.
This means that anyone who replaces him will have to wake up at ten o'clock in the evening and stay in the cafeteria all night. He can't get off work until eight o'clock the next morning when a few people who cook lunch for the weekend overtime workshop arrive.
And because the next day is the weekend, there is no need to prepare breakfast in the kitchen. The work tasks this night are also very heavy. In addition to being responsible for the sanitation of the public area after Saturday night supper, I also have to be responsible for the general cleaning of the kitchen.
In addition, the most uneconomical thing is that you have to catch up on sleep after returning home the next day. This makes this rest day much less valuable, as if you have lost a day.
So when the handymen held an impromptu meeting, no one was willing to switch positions with Xiao Meng. Everyone advised him to switch positions with his brothers and sisters.
This made Xiao Mengchou very angry. He was an honest boy, and none of his brothers and sisters were willing to delay their weekend rest, so they blamed him. Now he didn't know what to do.
Although Master Pang sympathizes with Xiao Meng, he is not hard-pressed about this kind of thing. After all, everyone works hard. The night shift is done in rotation, so why should others suffer?
It's a matter of affection for others to help, but it's a duty not to help, and he has no choice.
The most we can do is start from the class friendship of revolutionary comrades, use the spirit of the "Five Lectures and Four Beauties" just conveyed on February 25, and try our best to help mobilize.
In this way, the matter has come to a standstill.
Fortunately, there was a person with high consciousness. When the handymen were discussing this matter, Hong Yanwu heard it from the window of the white case team. He saw that no one was talking about this matter for a long time. Since he felt that Xiao Meng was not easy, he
Seeing that Master Pang was in trouble, he stepped forward and took over the matter.
In his words, although he and Xiao Meng are no longer in the same group, doesn't everyone have an emergency? Not to mention taking care of their parents. As long as the chief cook agrees, he is willing to keep an eye on Xiao Meng for a day, even if he can't be transferred.
It doesn't matter. It's just a day's work, it's a duty.
Everyone was happy at this time, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Xiao Meng didn't know how to be grateful for helping Hong Yanwu. And for this generosity, even Master Pang felt happy.
He even began to wonder whether he should recommend Hong Yanwu as a model of the "Five Lectures and Four Beauties"?
As for the evening, things were pretty good at first.
Since Chen Liquan had nothing to do at home, he also came to help on a voluntary basis. With him around, Hong Yanwu could work more efficiently.
The two of them chatted and worked without feeling tired. After finishing their work, they worked inside and outside without taking a breath. Before one o'clock, they had finished all the work, and by this time they were hungry.
The person who caught up with the evening shift rewarded the two of them for showing off their style and left them a plate of fried peanuts, a plate of salt-and-pepper oil dumplings and ten steamed buns stuffed with pork and cabbage. The two of them got drunk.
But where can I find a drink in the middle of the night?
Hong Yanwu thought about it and realized that he had it. Just pack the food in a brown paper bag and the two of them left.
Where did you go? To the communication room.
Uncle Li, the gatekeeper, is nearly sixty years old and is a poor man whose wife has died.
He is from Hebei, and his registered permanent residence is in Beijing. His son and daughter are all married in his hometown.
Now everyone has children and they can't take care of him. He himself doesn't want to go back, so in addition to receiving a poverty subsidy of 14 yuan from the government every month, he also relies on the money he earns as a gatekeeper.
Not to mention, "Polar Bear" even pays better for temporary workers than elsewhere. Under normal circumstances, the salary for this job is only a dozen yuan, but "Polar Bear" can pay more than 20 yuan.
In this way, Uncle Li's two items add up to forty yuan a month, which is enough to catch up with a serious worker in other factories, and he has enough money to spend on a few drinks.
What he drinks is either good wine or "Mao San" which is loose and white. But because he has to stay here for many years, the old man only buys a plastic bucket every time.
And even though Uncle Li is poor, he is not stingy. He loves to make friends and joke, and is willing to drink and chat with others, so he always has a few eight-cent wine glasses around him.
So here, he can handle enough wine.
In this way, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan knocked on the window and woke up the old man who had just fallen asleep.
People tend to sleep less as they get older, and Uncle Li had a good temper, so he was not unhappy at all. On the contrary, he was quite satisfied with the food and wine. The three of them started chatting while drinking.
In fact, the biggest feature of people in the capital drinking is that chatting is more important than wine and food. Whether they are close friends or strangers, they can chat, but sitting together with boring gourds cannot drink.
Moreover, this kind of chat does not discuss interests, transactions, or status. The focus of exchanges in casual chats is people's feelings, which are full of each other's temperament and character.
If you really meet someone you can chat with, you can often drink for hours, which is in line with the saying "a thousand cups of wine will be too little when you meet a close friend".
This is the case for Hong Yanwu and Uncle Li. There is actually not much difference in mental age between the two. The old man knows a lot about the past stories of the capital, and Hong Yanwu knows a lot about new social situations.
After going back and forth like this, the two of them fell asleep chatting with Chen Liquan, and the chat came to an end until almost dawn.
But just when Hong Yanwu woke up Chen Liquan, who was staring blankly on the bed, to make room for Uncle Li, and when the two of them went back to the cafeteria to sleep some more, they realized that something serious had happened.
Because the door to the canteen was open, the padlock on the door was missing and had to be removed.
Needless to say, someone must have gone in.
Hong Yanwu was startled and immediately sobered up. He and Chen Liquan ran in again to take a look.
Damn it! The canteen was really stolen!
And it’s weird to say the least. The lock on the cold storage room containing the ingredients is in good condition, and nothing is missing. The long stool for people to sit and eat is gone!
Seventy or eighty of the more than one hundred long stools in the entire cafeteria were missing. Isn’t this a fucking ghost!
What bothers Hong Yanwu the most is that there are usually so many people working the night shift that no one locks the door. He goes to play cards, drinks, and even finds a room with paved floors to stay overnight.
I feel fine.
Why did something happen to him on this night when he was so kind and offered to help and even locked the door?
This is simply God's blindness! Not only is his good intentions unrewarded, but it's also unlucky that he was too efficient at his work. Otherwise, if he hadn't left here, he wouldn't have been beaten to death.