To know what is going on in this matter, we have to start with the fact that near the end of February, the mother of Xiao Meng, a handyman in the big canteen, was hospitalized with a sudden cerebral hemorrhage.

Because although the person was rescued by seeking medical treatment in time, the old lady lost sensation in the left half of her limb and had to be hospitalized for further treatment.

You must know that at that time, there was no such thing as a so-called "nurse", and taking care of the patient's food, drink and Lazar had to rely on the family to take care of themselves.

Fortunately, there were many brothers and sisters in the family at that time, and Xiao Meng and his brothers and sisters took turns to accompany the bed, which was not too difficult.

But the trouble is that the next day, Xiao Meng's day with the bed caught up with him to work the night shift. It was the last day of the month, Saturday, February 28.

That is to say, if he replaces him, he will have to stay in the cafeteria at 10 o'clock in the evening, and he will not be able to leave work until 8 o'clock the next morning, when a few people who cook lunch for the weekend overtime workshop come.

And because the next day was a weekend, the kitchen didn't have to make breakfast. The work of this night is also very heavy. In addition to being responsible for the sanitation of the common areas after Saturday supper. You also have to take extra care of cleaning the inside of the kitchen.

In addition, the least cost-effective thing is to catch up on sleep when you go home the next day. This makes the gold content of this rest day greatly inferior, as if it is a loss of a day.

Therefore, when the handyman held an impromptu meeting, no one was willing to switch with Xiao Meng at all, and everyone persuaded him to change with his brothers and sisters.

This time it gave Xiao Meng Chou a straight fire. He was an honest boy, and none of his siblings were happy to delay the weekend break to push him on his head. He didn't know what to do now.

And although Master Pang is very sympathetic to Xiao Meng, it is not easy to press this kind of thing, after all, everyone works hard. This night shift is on a rotational basis, so why let others suffer?

It's love for people to help, it's duty not to help, and he has no problem.

At most, we can only proceed from the class friendship of the revolutionary comrades, talk about the spirit of "five stresses and four beauties" just conveyed on February 25, and do our best to help mobilize and mobilize.

Then the matter froze.

Fortunately, there is really a high level of consciousness. When the handymen were discussing this matter, Hong Yanwu heard it by the window of the white case team, and he saw that no one had picked up the matter for a long time. Not only did he feel that it was not easy for Xiao Meng, but he couldn't see Master Pang embarrassed, so he stepped forward and took this matter down.

In his words, although he and Xiao Meng are no longer in the same group. But don't everyone have an emergency? Not to mention taking care of their parents. As long as the chief cook agrees, he is willing to help Xiao Meng for a day, and it doesn't matter if he can't take a break. Isn't it just a day for nothing, obligation.

Everyone was overjoyed at this time, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. For Hong Yanwu's help, Xiao Meng didn't know how to be grateful. And for this righteousness, even Master Pang was happy.

He even began to wonder again, should he recommend Hong Yanwu as a typical example of 'five stresses and four beauties'?

As for the evening, things were pretty good at first.

Chen Liquan was fine at home, so he also volunteered to help. With him, Hong Yanwu will be more efficient when he does his work.

The two of them chatted and worked, and they didn't feel tired. After finishing the work, I was busy outside, and I never stopped. In less than a minute, they had done all their work, and by this time they were hungry.

The people who caught up with the evening shift that day rewarded the two of them for carrying forward their style, and specially left them a plate of fried peanuts, a plate of pepper, salt and oil shuttle, and ten steamed buns stuffed with pork and cabbage. The two of them started drinking.

But where can I find wine at night?

Hong Yanwu pondered for a while, and there was. Just take a pack of brown paper for these foodies, and the two of them left.

Where's it going?

Uncle Li, who is watching the gate, is about to be sixty years old, and he is a poor household with a dead wife.

He is a native of Hebei and has a household registration in the capital. has a son and a daughter, but they have all become families in their hometown.

Now everyone has children and daughters who can't take care of him. He himself didn't want to go back, so in addition to receiving 14 yuan a month from the government in poverty subsidies, he also lived on the money from the gatekeeper.

Not to mention, "Polar Bears" are even better paid as temporary workers than elsewhere. Under normal circumstances, there are only a dozen yuan for this work, but the "polar bear" can give more than 20.

In this way, Uncle Li will add four yuan a month to catch up with a serious worker in other factories, and there will be two spare money to drink a few sips.

He didn't drink any good wine, it was "Mao San" scattered white. But because he has been guarding this place for many years, the old man buys a plastic bucket every time.

And don't look at Uncle Li as poor, but he is not stingy. He loves to make friends and joke, so he is willing to drink and chat with others, so he always has a few eight-dollar wine glasses around him.

So with him, the wine is enough.

In this way, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan knocked on the window and woke up the old man who had just fallen asleep.

As soon as people get older, they sleep lightly, and Uncle Li has a good temper, so there is nothing to be unhappy about. On the contrary, I was quite satisfied with the wine and food. So they started talking while drinking.

In fact, the biggest feature of drinking in Beijing is that talking is more important than wine and food. Whether it's a close friend or a stranger, you can't drink alcohol when you sit together.

Moreover, this kind of chat does not talk about interests, does not talk about transactions, does not care about identity, and the focus of communication in idle talk and interesting things is people's feelings, which are full of each other's temperament and character.

If you really meet someone who can talk together, you can often drink for several hours, which is also the answer to the phrase "a thousand glasses of wine for a confidant".

Like Hong Yanwu and Uncle Li, this is the case, and there is actually not much difference in the spiritual age of the two. The old man knows the allusions to the past of the capital. Hong Yanwu also knows a lot about the new social situation.

After going back and forth like this, the two of them slept with Chen Liquan, and the conversation lasted until almost dawn.

But just when Hong Yanwu woke up Chen Liquan, who was staring at him in a daze, and made room for Uncle Li, the two of them went back to the big cafeteria together to sleep for a while. only to find out that something was wrong.

Because the door of the cafeteria was open, the padlock on the door was actually missing, and people were unloaded.

Needless to say, someone must have gone in.

Hong Yanwu was startled, and immediately woke up halfway from drinking, and he and Chen Liquan ran in again to take a look.

Hey! The cafeteria is really stolen!

And it's evil to say it. The locks on the cold storage with the ingredients were fine, and nothing was lost. The long stools for people to sit and eat are gone!

Seventy or eighty of the more than 100 benches in the entire canteen were lost. Isn't that hell!

And what makes Hong Yanwu feel most uncomfortable is that there are many people who usually work the night shift, and no one locks the door at all. Go to play cards, go to drink, or even find a house to lay out the floor, and sleep all night.

Why did he have an accident when he was kind enough to help and locked the door?

Not only is there no reward for his kindness, but he is also unlucky that he is too good at his work, otherwise if he doesn't leave here, he won't be killed.