Chapter 69: Begging for hard-earned money

Zhou Zichu and Luo Luo's car arrived at the gate of the company, Zhou Zichu's mobile phone rang, he answered the phone, his face became more and more ugly, and he reprimanded loudly: "Tang Zhihe, I asked you to delay the salary settlement cycle, you just made this matter for me, are you demonstrating to me?"

I don't care what your reason is, I'll settle this matter at once!" he hung up with a calm face.

"Zichu, why are you so angry?" Luo Luo looked at him suspiciously.

"It's something happening to one of Luya's construction companies, I have to go and see, or you should go back first!"

"I'll go with you! I'll be fine when I go home anyway. ”

They soon arrived at the construction company, the head of the branch Tang Zhihe was waiting at the door, Luo Luo looked at him, wearing a white shirt, medium build, his body was already very fat, the huge beer belly was very prominent, the buttons of the shirt were about to be opened, and his head was on the Mediterranean.

Seeing Zhou Zichu's car coming in, he walked with short thick legs, quickly trotted a few steps to the front of the car, respectfully opened the car door, and the group came to the conference room.

Tang Zhihe briefly introduced the current situation, wiping sweat while talking, because of the delay in the wage settlement cycle, the workers have not received their wages for two months, plus there have been two safety accidents on the construction site, the workers are dissatisfied, and the whole line has gone on strike in the past few days.

The progress of the construction site was already very tight, and the workers had been on strike for three days, so Tang Zhihe had no idea to call Zhou Zichu for help.

Zhou Zichu pondered for a moment: "Pay them a month's salary first, appease them first, and let them start work quickly."

What happened to the two people who had the accident, how did the insurance pay off?"

Tang Zhihe hurriedly replied: "I have stepped up the processing, in addition to insurance compensation and work-related injury compensation, they also want the company to compensate some..."

"How much do they want?"

"One person is half a million. ”

Zhou Zichu sneered contemptuously: "Can their lives be worth so much money?"

Luo Luo saw Zhou Zichu's face, and felt a little disgusted in his heart, so he excused himself to go to the bathroom and left the conference room.

She stood by the glass wall and looked down at the groups of migrant workers sitting in the open space not far away, wearing dark blue uniforms, olive green liberation shoes, and some wearing slippers directly.

Most of them were older, looking to be in their fifties or sixties, and some had gray hair, and they got together in twos and threes to smoke cigarettes and talk about inconsequential topics.

Their skin is dark and rough, their faces are covered with furrows, and they may be relatively thin because they usually do heavy physical work.

Some people wear yellow hard hats, some put their hats on the ground, and some blue hard hats.

Among them were several women, also wearing overalls, who were also workers on the construction site, and two children of four or five years old playing in the open space in front of them.

Suddenly, there was a sound of a harmonica, patrolling the voice, there was a young man in the crowd, he was wearing a white overalls, sitting on the ground, his eyes were looking into the distance, and he was playing "Farewell" intently.

Hearing his harmonica, several people next to him lowered their heads in silence.

Luo Luo couldn't help but go downstairs and walked to them: "What's wrong with you, what's wrong?"

They looked up and saw what she was wearing, and saw that she had come out of the office building, and immediately raised their vigilance.

The young man walked up to her and looked at her, "Who are you? Are you an employee here?"

Lolo: "Yes, I'm an employee here. I hear you playing the harmonica, it's so good, so come down and take a look. ”

The young man said coldly, "The matter here has nothing to do with you, you can go!"

Luo Luo stood there awkwardly: "You tell me, maybe I can help you?"

The young man smiled bitterly and sighed: "You are also an ordinary employee, what can you do with us? Since you want to hear it, then I'll tell you about it!"

You should have heard about the two safety incidents that happened here, right?"

Luo Luo shook his head: "I just transferred here, and I won't officially go to work until tomorrow, so it's not clear." ”

With a look of resentment in his eyes, he continued: "The boss here doesn't pay much attention to the safety facilities of the construction site, and only knows how to catch up with the schedule, and ignores his conscience in order to make money!"

All kinds of hardware problems could not be solved, and the scaffolding of the outer wall of the building over there suddenly collapsed the day before yesterday, and the two workers were stoned to death before they had time to run out!

Someone had reacted to the problem with that scaffold earlier, but no one cared about it, and they didn't take the lives of the workers seriously!

One of the two who was stoned to death was my uncle, who was only forty-eight years old!

We have a son who is in high school and a daughter who is in junior high school, who is the pillar of the family, and the company has not given us an explanation so far, and we are still in arrears of wages!

That Tang Zhihe will only fool us every day, only procrastinate, what do you say let us take care of the overall situation?

It's really funny, our relatives died, and they didn't let a fart go, but they wanted us to take care of the overall situation for them!"

Luo Luo looked at the dozen half-built buildings in front of her, and she felt the heat just standing still in the shadows.

They sweat like rain in the sun every day, those simple and unpretentious faces, they just want to earn some hard-earned money, but it is so difficult!

One of the women said, "Girl, you better go, or they will see you with us, and I'm afraid you will be implicated." ”

Luo Luo smiled and said, "It's okay, I'm not afraid, it's a big deal to lose my job." ”

"We all came here from our hometowns to work, and the rural people have no other skills than to sell some coolies.

We have also been to many construction sites, and to be honest, we have encountered such things before, and most of the time it is the boss who just loses some money. Said one of the uncles, smoking a cigarette and exhaling a blue wisp of smoke.

He took another deep breath and continued: "In the countryside, if a family loses a laborer, the family is going to collapse, and we want them to lose some money, which is not too much.

Besides, don't we want to make money on this strike? What does it mean to delay the payment of wages all the time?

Hmph, I heard that the boss of the head office surnamed Zhou wants to invest in the development of a new type of product! We only want our share, and we don't have any other requirements. ”

Lolo understood that they were talking about a new race car that was being developed now.

"Uncles and aunts, I'm really sorry, I will definitely talk to our leaders when I go back, and let them give you the compensation you deserve, and the salary you should pay. Luo Luo said sincerely.

"Oh, you little girl, you are so naΓ―ve, we are just chatting with you, letting you know what kind of company this is, what is the use of what you say!

Maybe even your job will be lost, don't worry, we will consume it with them, but if it really doesn't work, we will go to the labor bureau to sue them!

Luo Luo smiled and said: "I know the measure, I'll go in first, don't sit too long, it's too hot outside, go back in a while!"

She returned to the conference room, that Tang Zhihe had already left, and Zhou Zichu sat on the chair with his eyes closed and pretended to sleep.

"Zichu, I know you're not asleep, I have something to say to you. ”

Zhou Zichu didn't move, closed his eyes and said lazily: "Say it!"

"You settle all their salaries, they are so pitiful, and those two who had an accident, they have to pay for the money they should lose, don't keep dragging!"

He opened his eyes and looked at her: "Don't meddle in these things, okay? You don't understand the business affairs, don't be overflowing with sympathy, there are more poor people in this world!"

"I don't know anything, but I know what honesty is and conscience!" Luo Luo looked at him without showing weakness.

"Lolo, can you please not get involved in this? What does this have to do with you?"

"I can't look past it, it has something to do with me, you can't be a man with a clear conscience! You don't lack that money, if you are really short of money, first slow down the development of new racing cars. ”

"Impossible, you don't need to say it anymore, you don't have to worry about this, I'll take care of it!"

Luo Luo stopped talking and left the conference room, Zhou Zichu chased after her, grabbed her hand and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Take them to the labor bureau to sue you!" she replied coldly.

He lowered his head and sighed: "Luo Luo, give me two days, and I will take care of it." ”

"Okay, give you two days. ”

Zhou Zichu said that he coaxed her and took her out of there, he really regretted bringing her here, he likes to mix everything!