Chapter 68 All the way to the north (three-in-one chapter)
Lao Yang is an experienced driver.
In his early years, he drove a taxi. Later, as the salary of the company's employees increased, various repressive policies were unfavorable. At the age of fifty, he resolutely resigned and went to work...
Didi is on.
My family refused at first, but over the past few years, as one of the first batch of Didi car owners, the good reviews have accumulated. The orders placed by the system are of high quality. I am freer than driving a taxi and I can earn more. The elderly at home have something urgent.
You can also pick up and drop off your car, so you no longer have to worry about paying the rental company's share every day.
He bought a new Changan sedan four years ago, and he maintained it to look like new. But the problem was that after four years and 380,000 kilometers, his heart was getting old, and he had constant minor problems. He had to go to the repair shop for major repairs every three to five, which seriously delayed his business.
Now Lao Yang faces a choice...
Either buy a new car or don't consider it second-hand to avoid problems and troublesome repairs.
He had his eye on the car. The Passat cost 200,000 yuan. In his circle of friends, not many people were interested in this car. When he was buying the car, he sent a message on WeChat and said, "I want to mention the Passat. It's so respectable!"
Or, you can work as a driver for a company. With the popularity of Didi, various taxi-hailing apps have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Different from Didi’s car owner model, some companies are on-the-job, paying monthly wages, and getting commissions for sports cars.
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If he chooses the latter, Lao Yang won't have to buy a car, because it was the other company who approached him. They value his good reviews and order quantity over the years, and are willing to recruit a group of reliable drivers to drive sports cars for the company. The cars will be provided by the company.
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This choice saves expenses, but the income will definitely shrink, but there is also room for growth. The other party has set a condition that the contract will be signed every five years. After the first five years, as long as Lao Yang is willing, he will sign the second one.
Five years.
This means that Yang, who is 52 years old this year, can continue to work until he is 62 years old.
In addition, the company also has a promotion system. As long as you work well, have good performance, and provide good service, you can be promoted. If you can drive a "luxury exclusive car" such as a Mercedes-Benz or Audi, your salary will skyrocket.
Various tips.
From a normal perspective, the second option is definitely the best choice.
But Lao Yang is also used to being idle. He finally got out of the taxi company and drove Didi. It was so free. He was afraid of being controlled by the company and suffering from cowardice. He is a man in his fifties and faces people in his 20s and 30s all day long.
It doesn't feel right to call a young man a leader.
After all, he can't lose his dignity, and he doesn't want to be controlled. He even wants to buy a new car to show off his wealth, and stab the eyes of his former taxi colleagues to see how awesome I am, Lao Yang, even driving a Passat.
9:50 pm.
Lao Yang was about to collect the car and pick out a ride-along ticket to go home directly. After flipping through the pages, he saw a 70080 long-distance number, and his eyes immediately lit up. This sum of money, excluding the app commission and gas fee, could be covered.
The two-day income, 80, is an active surcharge for passengers. The platform does not take any money, and it can go directly into the pocket.
Almost without thinking, Lao Yang clicked to take the order, but in the end he was a step too late and the order was taken away by someone else.
Lao Yang yelled: "MD, it's another order-grabbing software, Sima!!"
He was really angry.
There are not many such orders, and his response is fast enough. With the professional skills developed through four years of experience in taking orders, how can he not grab it? It is obvious that this is the legendary order grabbing software.
It's ten o'clock now. I make a round trip according to the order location. I can get home at three o'clock. I can sleep until eleven o'clock the next day, eat steamed buns and continue working. It's really nice.
I don’t know which one of these is cheaper and should be smashed.
Feeling sulky, Lao Yang didn't want to take the order anymore. He sent a message to his wife, prepared dinner, and drove back.
Just as the car started, the missed order appeared again on the phone.
Lao Yang immediately stretched out his hand and stabbed it so hard that the phone almost fell off the holder. As a result... he failed to grab the order.
"What a coward, what kind of coward do you owe? You just accepted the order, canceled the order, and then accepted the order again?" Lao Yang cursed angrily and lost his temper. Who told him that he is old and can't play with high technology?
Turn, he specifically asked his son, who holds his cell phone all day long, to study it for a long time, but he still couldn’t figure out how to use the order-grabbing software.
Sighed and continued home.
However, the car had only taken two steps when the order just now came out again.
Lao Yang was so angry that he laughed, shook his head, and simply ignored it. Sure enough, in the blink of an eye, the order was gone again.
This happened many times along the way home.
Lao Yang didn't even order, he just watched those cowards grabbing orders and canceling orders, as if they were crazy.
When we got downstairs, the order was taken away again and the order was returned.
Lao Yang decided to try to grab it again. If he couldn't grab it, he would go home and sleep.
This time, he was not in a hurry. After the order appeared, he waited for a second before reaching out lightly... and clicking on the screen.
Ding dong!
Order accepted successfully!!
Lao Yang smiled, feeling very happy. He quickly took off his cell phone and called the passenger.
The phone was connected, and a male voice with unclear words came from the other side: "Oh, don't just call, come here. I've been waiting for more than 20 minutes. Hurry... Hurry, I have to go see you."
My wife, no matter how late it is, she will go to bed."
Hahaha.
Lao Yang finally understood, and said, how could those cowards using order-grabbing software let the meat into their mouths?
It turned out to be Jiu Mengzi, and no one dared to pick it up.
Lao Yang has encountered this situation too many times. When the situation is better, people will at most vomit you in the car. When the situation is bad, it is nonsense. When the passenger wakes up the next day, he will call the customer service and question you.
Why did my driver drag me to the wilderness in the middle of the night?
The money will definitely not be refunded, but the company will deduct points for you, which directly affects the probability of the system matching high-quality orders.
And that passenger, 100% gave a negative review and described the driver in a ridiculous way.
Anyone who knows the business will definitely not accept the order and cancel the order directly.
But.
Lao Yang took a deep breath and said to the phone: "Okay, is the location accurate? I'll go there now. Just wait. I'll be there in fifteen minutes at most."
"This is the last time. If you don't come, I will file a complaint against you!"
Bang, the phone was disconnected.
Lao Yang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, knowing that he would be busy again tonight.
Fifteen minutes later.
When he arrived at the place, he saw a man in his twenties or thirties peeing on the green belt. He didn't run away... It was definitely him.
Lao Yang got out of the car and called to the other party: "Mr. Tang? I'm Didi's driver."
Mr. Tang, who was urinating everywhere, shook his rope twice and swung his hand violently, causing the belt to hit with a "bang bang" sound. He lowered his head and poked at the holes of the belt, and after a lot of effort, he pulled the belt with a "chirp" sound.
, turned around with a drunken smile on his face: "You are finally here, come on, let's set off."
After wandering off the green belt, Mr. Tang got directly into the car without letting Old Yang help him.
Lao Yang smiled and got into the car. The airtight space was suddenly filled with the smell of alcohol: "Where are you going?"
"Qinbei, Qinbei Petroleum Plant, Second Branch Plant, First Workshop... Oh, just hold me at the gate. Private cars will not be allowed in without a pass." Most Jiu Mengzi talked a lot.
Lao Yang had long been accustomed to the strange things, started the car, and set off.
"Why are you going to Qinbei alone so late? Where is your unit?"
Mr. Tang said: "My wife works there. I miss her. Let's go and have a look."
"It's too late to get there now, and it'll be a little late when we get there."
Mr. Tang said: "No matter how late it is, we have to meet and talk about some things. If I don't go, I can only wait for her to come back. When she comes back, her parents and children will be at home, so it is inconvenient to say these things..."
It sounded confusing, but Lao Yang understood it and couldn't help but guess: "The couple... quarreled? Divorced? Or what? Oh, I don't have any other meaning. Just look at you, a man drunk like this.
I feel uncomfortable watching it.”
Mr. Tang was poked at his weakness and looked dejected: "Quarrel? We don't even have time to quarrel. She only comes back once a week in Qinbei. I sometimes work night shifts in the hospital. I sleep when I get back and sleep on the dining table."
After we met, it was time to go to work again. When we came back the next day, she would go back to work at noon. I would go to the station to see her off if she was not tired, and if I was tired, I would continue to sleep..."
"I have burdened her. How good is her life? She works in an office in the urban area of Qinzhong! But after she gets married, she needs to buy a house and have children. After buying a house, there is money everywhere. My salary alone must be
If it’s not enough, if she wants to make more, she has to go to a front-line factory. A woman who deals with oil pipes, engine oil, and petroleum all day long, what kind of man am I?”
"Two days ago, something happened to me in the hospital. The patient's family came to make a fuss. The hospital held me accountable and asked me to suspend an investigation. I dare not say anything about this. What should I say? If I lose my job, how can my family survive?"
At this point, Mr. Tang's throat became dry. He looked at Lao Yang's water glass and drank it without saying a word. Lao Yang wanted to stop it but it was too late and he just thought it was time to change the water glass.
Listening to his helpless words, Lao Yang also thought about it and asked: "What will be the result? Will you be fired?"
Mr. Tang finished a large cup of tea before saying: "It's okay to be fired. They are just disgusting. They want to send me to a township hospital in Zhou County to support rural medical care. MD, those dog leaders punished me again, and...
If you can have good political achievements, you can kill two birds with one stone!"
"Are you going then?"
"Fuck you, after leaving the hospital, without the surgery fees and performance, will I still be alive, will my child be alive, and will the mortgage be repaid?"
"Are you planning to resign?"
"Hey, I really planned to resign, but Cheng Yuan is still kind and found a way out for me."
"Where are you going?"
"Africa, hahaha, I never thought I would be able to go abroad in my lifetime!"
"Africa?!" Lao Yang was shocked, "Medical assistance? It's a miserable and chaotic place. I heard that Chinese people get into trouble every year."
Mr. Tang raised his head, flattened the seat, his chest and abdomen rose and fell greatly, and he took a deep breath: "I was still thinking about why I agreed immediately without discussing it with my wife. This is Africa.
, I am also afraid, afraid of loneliness, afraid of unrest, afraid of getting sick... You know that place in Africa is different from us here, many viruses are transmitted from there."
"But I just agreed without thinking...I was bothered by the money."
"Indeed, I can resign and find another job. After all, I am still an attending physician and cannot get a guaranteed job. As long as I have enough surgeries, my salary will not be much lower. I can get a job again if I have the opportunity."
"But even so, everything remains unchanged."
"I did some calculations. If I don't go, based on my current salary level, it will be 120,000 yuan a year, 4,000 yuan in mortgage payments per month, 2,000 yuan for children's education and training, and 2,000 yuan for living expenses for both parents. The total is 8,000 yuan.
Ninety-six thousand a year, and that doesn’t include what happens if someone has a headache, fever, or the elderly gets seriously ill and is hospitalized.”
"My wife needs cosmetics, right? My children need to buy clothes, trousers, and shoes when they grow up. Old people also need to buy some health products from time to time. When a colleague or friend gets married and has a baby, gifts are also an expense."
"My wife's salary is 100,000 yuan a year, and she can save an incredible 70,000 to 80,000 yuan. Three hundred thousand yuan in four years sounds like a lot, but if you really have to save so much money, it's not living. That's called living.
Live a tight life."
"My parents worked hard to raise me, and my wife's parents raised her. Shouldn't they have a prosperous old age? Do they have to suffer and eat chaffy vegetables along with us?"
"My wife followed me and endured ten months of pregnancy to give birth to my child. Is it possible that she should be smeared with Dabao sod honey every day? One set of clothes lasts a year? Children are the heart and soul of parents. It is impossible for anyone to feel wronged.
It won't work if you wrong him."
"Not to mention the cost of going to junior high school, high school, and college in the future. It's difficult, it's too difficult!"
"I'm lucky. I'll get a promotion and a salary increase in the future, and my life will be easier. If I'm not lucky, it's not like I've never seen a doctor in my life. What's more important is... my wife and I have been married for seven years. The total time we spend together will definitely add up."
It’s less than seven months old. Why should I, a man, put the burden on her? Women, when you marry them, they will be pampered!"
"But what if I'm going to Africa? The situation is completely different."
"The hospital's basic salary is paid as usual, and there is a monthly subsidy. There is still money left after paying the mortgage. What about my wife's salary? It can be used for household expenses, and I can still receive US dollars in Africa... Hahaha,
U.S. dollars, six thousand a month, that’s 40,000.”
"In one year, I will be able to save almost half a million. If I stay for four years, I will have two million in hand."
"I have thought about it. After four years, I will save two million. I will not move. I will still pay off the mortgage slowly. I will keep this money for my son. He will go to the best schools in junior high school and high school. When I come back, I will fuck him."
I also called him back from Qinbei. Now that he is rich, he doesn’t need her to work hard and live in two places. He can just stay at home and take care of his children and study. In the future, he will go to university, take postgraduate entrance examinations, and maybe go abroad. This money will be enough for him."
"While the four old people are still able to walk, we can travel twice a year and enjoy the blessings of our sons and uncles."
At this point, Lao Yang looked at Mr. Tang's face and wiped away the anguish, and just smiled stupidly: "Being a man, all you want to do is make your wife happy and let your children study well.
Success, let the elderly enjoy their old age in peace."
"Four years is a long time, but it's quite fast. Oh, my wife is a tough-talking woman on the surface. When I didn't let her go to Qinbei to work, she even turned against me, saying that she had both hands and feet, so she could earn a lot.
Some, why not make money?"
"I don't know about her yet? The night before I left, I hid in bed and cried alone. Not to mention how wronged she was, but even today, she has never made trouble with me, which saved me enough face."
"I told her now that I'm going to Africa. Hey, let's see if she can hold it in. But I've already thought about it. She stopped me, so I have to go too. I want her to live a good life."
As he talked, Mr. Tang must be tired, and his voice gradually became quieter...
At the end, he simply closed his eyes: "Brother, don't bother me, I really drank too much... I'll take a nap first to recuperate my energy, and I'll have to tell my wife again what I said to you later.
Say it again, she will definitely have to cry, and I will have to coax her. Women, they have to coax..."
"When you get to the place, call me, don't be in a hurry, drive slowly!"
Unconsciously, snoring sounded in the car.
Lao Yang turned the steering wheel, parked the car on the side of the road, opened the window, lit a cigarette, and seemed to be meditating.
Just a cigarette.
He took out his cell phone and called his wife.
"Hey, are you back? Why haven't you gotten home for so long? I was just about to give you a call."
Lao Yang smiled bitterly: "I picked up Jiu Mengzi and am going to Qinbei."
"Yeah, you said you were coming back. If you were coming back, why are you taking orders? Your son is still waiting for you. He said he would have a school ball game tomorrow and asked if you would go and cheer him up. I said I would bring you a message. He
I'm not happy anymore, I guess this brat just wants to delay sleeping and play with his phone for a while."
"Don't delay. Hurry up. The old method is to lure people to the police station and avoid getting into trouble."
Lao Yang's smile became even more bitter, and he looked sideways at the police station on the roadside. He really wanted to give someone to the police uncle. He had been driving around here for a long time, waiting for Mr. Tang to fall asleep.
Ever since he first encountered this kind of drunkard, he has always done this. Drunk people like to make trouble, and when they are sober, they are not happy to spend money. Every time he takes the drunkard to the police station, he uses the passenger
If you cancel the order on your mobile phone, you will definitely receive a thank you call from the passenger the next day——
"Brother, thank you very much. Oh, luckily you didn't leave yesterday. It's been two years since I broke up with my girlfriend. I always go to her when I drink. She's been married for a few months. You really sent me there yesterday. Maybe
He was fighting with his husband."
However, this time, Lao Yang decided to take the job.
"It will definitely be late tonight. Although this guy drank too much, he really has something to do. He talked to me a lot. I have to send him away."
Lao Yang's wife was shocked: "Is everything going to be okay? Don't do whatever you want!"
"Don't worry, I can't make a mistake. How can I be wrong in doing things?"
After chatting for a while and arranging for his wife and children to go to bed, Lao Yang was ready to hang up the phone.
Before hanging up the phone, he thought for a moment and added: "By the way, wife, I thought about it, and I'm going to give it a try with the invitation from the company over there."
Old Yang's wife was stunned: "You agreed? Why? Didn't you say you wanted to be free? Didi is pretty good now. Aren't you also optimistic about the new car? A Passat worth 200,000 yuan, didn't you say you could find someone to give it to you?
Should I apply for the 'exclusive car' treatment?"
Lao Yang said: "Forget it, it's only 200,000 yuan. What can't you do? Keep the money and buy you some good clothes, some cosmetics, a new computer and basketball shoes for your son. Besides, my son will go to school in two years."
Now that he is in college, I thought about it and signed him up for an elite cram school and tried to get into a good university... Where is the old car now? I want to sell it to Mr. Huang. He doesn’t want to drive a taxi anymore, right? I’ll deal with it at a low price.
Yes, it can also be a favor."
"When I go to work in that company, I have a ten-year contract. If I can reach the age of sixty-two, I can save eight or nine hundred thousand in ten years, right? When my son graduates, we will sell the old house.
Give him a little extra as a down payment, and he will have to marry a wife in the future."
Old Yang's wife is really confused. She is buying clothes and cosmetics for herself and a computer for her son. Is this the stingy Old Yang from before?
"Lao Yang, are you okay? What happened all of a sudden? Why are you telling me so much?"
"Hey, it's okay. I just figured it out. I have to live a better life. If I don't go to this company, I don't know when Didi can open it. If there is an age limit by then, I won't be able to open it.
Now, are you going to let me just sit there and get nothing? Or play chess with a few old guys downstairs? I went to the company and signed a contract. Even if there is an age limit in the future, if they don't let me work, they still have to pay me compensation. Hehe, I'm smart, right?"
"Here it is. I'll send someone over first. You go to bed first. I'll talk to you when I get up tomorrow. After that, I'll go to the company to report in the afternoon!"
Finally, I hung up the phone.
Lao Yang looked at Mr. Tang who was snoring next to him, with a somewhat self-deprecating smile on his face: "I've lived twenty years longer than you, and I haven't thought it through as well as you. Yes, I have to leave some for my children."
, be nice to your wife."
"My wife is no worse than your wife. She was a flower in the village back then and has been living with me for half her life. She is reluctant to buy new clothes during the Chinese New Year...I am so ashamed of myself!"
The car started and headed all the way towards Qinbei.
Turn on the radio…
[The world in the rearview mirror]
[Goodbye getting further and further away]
【……】
【I am heading all the way...】
Sizzling...
"What the hell." Lao Yang changed the channel. When he heard the sad female voice, he was finally satisfied. He also felt that it was in line with his current state of mind. He hummed along: "Anyway, he doesn't feel uncomfortable. As long as he is free, he
You don’t even care about my feelings. Oh, if you have no way out, why not just let go..."