Chapter 004: The Ideal of Compromise
In the evening I sang an old song and a new song before I started singing my original. I didn't tell the audience beforehand that it was my original www.biquge.info, but when I sang it, some people still looked at me in surprise.
This song fits my voice very well, it is about a child who has no opinions, under the doting arrangement of his parents, and changes his ideals again and again, until nothing is achieved in the end.
I sang so hard that before I knew it, tears were almost dripping.
I don't know how many times I've sung this song, but every time I sing it, I can't help but moisten the corners of my eyes. I often think about what I would be like now if I could stick to my ideals and go to a conservatory, if I could stick to my mind and stick to my first job, but unfortunately there are no ifs in this world.
Tonight I sang a very touching song, after singing a song, I turned around and secretly wiped my tears, calmed down before I spoke: "The song just now is called "The Ideal of Compromise", it is an original song of mine, I hope you like it." ”
After bowing off the stage, there was sparse applause in one corner of the stage, and then it was drowned in the music, and I turned my head to look, not even knowing who was applauding me just now.
I was taken over by a resident DJ at this nightclub, who rarely sings, but is very good at stirring up the atmosphere, and as soon as he took over, the venue that was still a little quiet just now suddenly became lively.
I looked at the men and women on the dance floor who began to writhe, and I felt indescribably bitter. A song that moved me to tears again and again was like a stone sinking into the sea, without the slightest echo.
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After settling the 45 bucks, I left the nightclub.
The cold wind was blowing outside, and I was a little sober. How many musicians in this world have been unknown all their lives, why do I have to succeed as a halfway monk?
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It's still early today, and when I get home, but at nine o'clock in the evening, my wife has finished washing her clothes and is watching TV on the sofa on the second floor while feeding her son. As soon as my son saw me coming back, he put down the toy in his hand and ran towards me, shouting, "Dad, you're back!"
The wife said helplessly: "Your son is so good with you, and you still come back so late every day." ”
My mother also came out of the room, and said angrily: "Don't make money, if you want to come back so early, what will the family eat?" After speaking, seeing that my wife and I were silent, she said again: "Why don't you go down to eat quickly, the food is cold, and the gas for hot dishes doesn't need money?"
I went downstairs again, although my mother is a knife mouth tofu heart, but I don't know why, I don't know why, I don't listen to what she said slowly. My son may have been influenced by me, and sometimes my mother yelled so loudly that she couldn't get him to listen to her. So although the mother praised her grandson to the sky outside, she inevitably sighed when she came home, saying that Yunhong was too naughty and too difficult to discipline.
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At noon the next day, that Wang Kai really called me, and I was watching a singer there in a daze in the underground passage of the city. Once upon a time, I also thought about going into this line, but unfortunately I couldn't let it go.
The young man sang very hard, but unfortunately he reaped the harvest, and from what I had observed in the morning, his income was not even as good as that of the fake beggar next to him.
Hanging up the phone, I got up and walked over and pulled out five dollars and put it in the guitar case in front of him.
The young man looked at me a little stunned, probably frightened by my migrant worker dress, probably he had never seen an elegant migrant worker who could pay to listen to songs in the underground passage in his life. In fact, I don't understand how I, who is usually so stingy that I can't even afford to buy a toy for my son, would behave like this.
Maybe he thought he did what I wanted to do but didn't dare to do, or maybe it was because he came alive.
According to the location reported by Wang Kai, I came to the building materials city on the outskirts of the city. Wang Kai's car hadn't arrived yet, so he was afraid of waiting too long, so he called me early. I waited at the gate of the building materials city for about fifteen minutes, Wang Kai's car arrived, he rolled down the window to say hello to me, and then said: "You didn't ride here? ”
Sure enough, it didn't take long for a BYD car to drive over, and it also rolled down the window and shouted at Wang Kai: "Follow me." ”
Wang Kai hurriedly shouted, "Wait, I have a worker in your car." ”
The owner of the tile shop took us to a villa under construction in the suburbs and instructed us to start unloading the truck.
It's not the first time I've done the work of moving tiles, and the boss has asked me to help move the tiles twice, so I'm quite familiar with the move. Coupled with a little bit of strength, a truckload of bricks was moved in just over two hours. After receiving the 100 yuan given by Wang Kai, I felt for the first time that it was quite easy to make money. Therefore, I was also a little wavering in Wang Kai's suggestion that I buy a three-wheeled motorcycle for transportation.
This building materials city must not only be Wang Kai's family in the delivery of tiles, but also cement mortar, iron and other building materials, if a day can unload three or five cars, my arrears can be paid off in less than a year, not to mention the three-wheeled motorcycle can occasionally help others pull goods, according to Wang Kai, the income is also considerable. I began to wonder if I should come and do this full-time after the construction site of the lakeside villa was finished.
I said to do it, and said hello to Boss Li of Xinding Tile and said that I would take his car back to the building materials city later. It's a pity that Boss Li doesn't seem to want me to get into his car anymore, saying that he still has to visit friends in other places.
I had no choice but to hitchhike back to Building Materials City.
Back in the building materials city, I started wandering. Unfortunately, the work here is not as easy to find as I thought, and the suppliers either bring their own porters or have already found porters before they come. I went up so stupidly to ask, not only was I rejected in disgust, but also provoked the other porters to look at me angrily. After looking for a few of them, I also saw some doorways, so I thought about going back and printing some business cards, and then coming back to distribute them to these suppliers and the bosses in the building materials city.
As soon as I walked to the gate of the building materials city, I was suddenly kicked in the back and fell hard. It's okay, I reacted quickly enough, and I was busy supporting it with my hands, otherwise I guess it would have been broken.
I got up and slapped my palms with some broken skin and scolded, "He, Mom, who is so boring!"
There were four middle-aged men dressed as migrant workers standing at the gate, one of them was a middle-aged man with a stout beard and pointed at me viciously and scolded: "You kid is really good? Wang Kai's matter, Lao Tzu hasn't settled accounts with you yet, you actually grabbed Lao Tzu's head at this time, ah? Blind your dog eyes? You go and inquire, in the west of the city, who doesn't give me Yao Shengkai a face?"
Hearing him say this, I immediately reacted, and sure enough, I just asked everywhere and caused trouble.
I hurriedly arched my hand and said, "I'm really embarrassed, I didn't intend to rob my brother of my ...... just now."
It's a pity that a few people didn't seem to listen to my explanation, and the word whisker rushed up and kicked me to the ground, scolding: "No intention of you Mo Bi, no intention of you Mo Bi......" Several people rushed up to me and kicked me randomly.
I protected my head, I was really a little aggrieved in my heart, but I couldn't think of resisting. I even just thought they were going too far, because I was going to steal their jobs first.
I was kicked for about a minute before I heard someone whistle shouting, "Old Yao, what are you doing?
It was only at the sound of the whistle that several people stopped beating me. I looked up and saw two security guards running towards me with a whistle. One of them, wearing glasses, scolded as soon as he approached: "Yao Shengkai, are you doing something again? There is so much work in the building materials city?
The word must look at the two security guards and scolded: "He, it's really not me who is making trouble this time, it's this kid who doesn't get on the road, the 500 yuan business is just 100 yuan by him, Team Li, you say, he is so malicious to compete, how will the brothers do it in the future?"
The two security guards didn't seem to buy a single account, and the bespectacled man shouted: "Don't make excuses, how many times has it been? Ah? There are so many jobs in the building materials city? The low-price competition will only kill him, and it will affect you?"
The old Yao seemed to be a little afraid of the security guard, glared at me, and then turned to the bespectacled security guard and said: "Since Team Li has to say this, then today I Yao Shengkai hit the wrong person, but if you really see someone maliciously lowering the price one day, then Team Li, don't stretch your hand outside the building materials city." After saying that, the word must snort coldly, and then he gave me a fierce look, and beckoned his brothers out of the building materials city.
I got up from the ground, patted the dust on my body, thanked Captain Li and another security guard, and said, "Thank you Team Li, and this big brother, if you didn't come over today, I don't know what to do." ”
Team Li snorted coldly and said: "Working in the building materials city, each according to his ability, but if you really do 500 yuan for 100 yuan, then you should really fight!"
"Ah?" I was a little puzzled, and hurriedly asked: "Do you want to unload a truckload of goods?" But Wang Kai said 20 yuan a ton, I thought that the price seemed to be almost accepted, if it really ruined the market here, it was time for me to make amends, and there would definitely be no next time. ”
Another young security guard with a flat head next to him said: "A ton of 20 yuan is the market, it seems that Yao Shengkai wants to monopolize the handling of the building materials city, and make trouble there, I heard that if the dealer does not give him a price increase, he will deliberately break other people's tiles, forcing those dealers to give him a price increase." ”
Team Li also sighed: "Then Yao Shengkai is too greedy, but it's a pity that there are people above him, and we can't control him." After saying that, Team Li turned his head to look at me and said: "One ton 20 is the market, but I said ugly things ahead, if you dare to compete viciously, don't talk about Yao Shengkai, even I won't let you go!" After Team Li finished speaking, he left with the flat-headed young man.
Before leaving, the flat-headed security guard handed me a business card and said: "In the future, if Yao Shengkai dares to bully you again, he will call us, and he will not dare to say it outside, and he will not dare to mess around in the building materials city." ”
I took the business card and thanked the two of them repeatedly, but they seemed to be just doing routine business, and left without looking back.
I've always been an honest person, and since I was a child, I've never been in a fight except for being bullied by my table mates in junior high school, and this is the first time I've been beaten. I used to feel very sympathetic when I saw people being beaten, thinking that the person must be in unbearable pain. But when I was beaten, my heart was not as nervous as I imagined. I even thought that I would not be allowed to move bricks here, so I would do it, and the next time they dared to beat me again, I would definitely grab one and beat me up as said on the Internet, and I had a feeling of blood boiling in my heart.
Thinking that I was beaten this time, it had more or less something to do with Wang Kai, so I picked up the phone and dialed Wang Kai, and as soon as I connected, Wang Kai said, "Xiao Li, what's the matter? I'm driving." ”
I told Wang Kai about Yao Shengkai's side, and also made my request clear to Wang Kai, that is, it is best to give me one-third of the salary for my future work, I don't want to be told to lower the price and compete maliciously.
At first, Wang Kai wanted to say that if I could find two more people, then he would definitely give me the price of 20 yuan per ton, and I only have one person, and it is already very high to pay a hundred for a car. However, when I refused to help him work at the risk of being beaten again, he relented and said, "Okay, in the future, 20 tons will be 13." After speaking, he sighed and said, "I'm very embarrassed to hurt you to be beaten." I really don't know that Yao Shengkai is so arrogant and dares to beat people, but don't worry, next time I finish unloading, I will definitely pull you up, I don't believe that he dares to beat people in the car lawlessly."
It seems that as the flat-headed policeman said, Yao Shengkai not only has to raise the price, but also deliberately accidentally breaks their tiles, otherwise Wang Kai would not risk offending a word and hand over the work to me.