Chapter 68: Persistence in the Rainstorm

"Give me the food, and I'll send them in!" Jia Lei suddenly said to Ah Fei.

"No! There are so many people in there, you can't go, it's easy to have an accident! I'll deliver this meal, and then I can let them all come back without having to wait in line to buy lottery tickets." Ah Fei said.

"Brother Fei, don't you understand, the police won't let anyone approach the queue in order to prevent accidents, except for children like me who have the opportunity to go to the queue for an interview, you can't be let go. Jia Lei said helplessly.

"You're right!" Ah Fei smiled wryly as a man who tried to cut the queue was chased away by the police with a baton.

Now there are police officers with sticks on both sides of the procession, and they are barely able to maintain order.

"Tell me where are the workers you hired? I'll bring them food and get them back. Jia Lei asked about the lunch box and water.

"They came at the door of the bank sale office relatively early, and they were the people who had the Red Star Building written on their clothes. Ah Fei said.

"Hmm!" Jia Lei nodded and walked over with his things.

"I'm here to deliver food to the people in line!" Jia Lei said, standing in front of the police.

"It's a child, so go in. The policeman glanced at the lunch box in Jia Lei's hand and said, and then he let him go.

Although the police let him go, Jia Lei looked at the road ahead and hesitated for a long time without taking a step.

I saw thick garbage piled up on both sides of the queue, and a lot of disposable lunch boxes, empty bottles and packaging bags were piled up on both sides of the queue, and there was a lump of inside......

Because the queue is too tight, there will be no seats as soon as you walk away, so the people in line have been eating and drinking in place for the past two days, and only a very few locals can take turns queuing......

"What's the matter? Aren't you going to deliver food to your family, why don't you leave quickly? The police pushed Jia Lei and urged, saying that this gap cannot be opened all the time, otherwise there will be problems.

"I'll go ......," Jia Lei said helplessly.

Then Jia Lei took 10,000 furs and mud horses in his heart, carefully avoided the "mines" on the ground, came to the front of the team tremblingly, and found the person hired by Ah Fei.

"It was Brother Fei who asked me to bring you food, he said......" Jia Lei had just said half of his words, and the twenty people immediately rushed to snatch the water and food in his hands.

"Damn, I'm dying of thirst, the temperature in this Pengcheng is too high, it's more than 20 degrees at 7 o'clock in the morning, and now it's almost 40 degrees!"

Everyone else was eating and drinking at this time, and no one paid attention to Jia Lei at all.

"I know it's going to be difficult right now, so you don't have to queue up anymore, just go back! Jia Lei said.

Unexpectedly, all the people who were gobbling up food stopped when they heard this!

This group of migrant workers all stared at Jia Lei, and even the people who were queuing up next to them all looked at it when they heard this.

"No more queues? Why? We've been queuing for two days and two nights, and it's about to be our turn, so why do you have to give up now?" Ah Ping asked in disbelief.

"That's right, there's only seven of us in front of us, and it'll be our turn in a little while, and I'm not leaving." Another migrant worker also said angrily.

"I'm afraid that you will work too hard to let you go, and you can rest assured that even if you don't buy the lottery form, the good salary will not be less than you. Jia Lei hurriedly said.

"Boss, this is not a matter of money, how difficult it is for us to line up in the past two days, everyone has relied on each other's cheers to persevere. Now you let me give up, I'm really unwilling, please wait a few more minutes! We're about to get the draw form!" Ah Ping said excitedly.

"I don't understand, even if you get the lottery form, you can't make money yourself, why don't you just quit to get the money?" Jia Lei asked.

"I'm not reconciled, I don't want my two days of hard work to be wasted......" Ah Ping said, and everyone else nodded.

"Yes, boss, we don't have to work hard to continue to line up, we can earn more than 2,000 yuan by buying ten lottery tickets by ourselves, just one of them. That's more than a year's salary in our hometown, so it's a pity to give up like this!"

Keep it up...... Until you get the draw sheet!

This is the collective hypnosis carried out by these 2,000 people during the two days and two nights in line, and it is by this thought that these thousands of people have persevered in such an inhuman environment.

Jia Lei finally understood the persistence in the eyes of this group of people at this moment, maybe getting the lottery table is all their beliefs now......

"Okay! I'll wait for you to get the draw form. Jia Lei nodded and said.

Although the waiting process is not long, it is very arduous, in the heat of more than 30 degrees, Jia Lei only stood for less than ten minutes and his head was a little dizzy, and many people in the queue can only rely on the support of the people in front and behind, so they barely did not fall down......

"Poof!" Jia Lei was five meters away, and an old man in his sixties finally couldn't hold on anymore and fell to the ground.

"Old man, how are you?" Jia Lei immediately pounced and moved his head out of the garbage heap.

"Water...... Water ......" the old man shouted, Jia Lei hurriedly opened the water bottle in his hand and handed it to him.

"Goo-too!" The old man took only two sips before carefully closing the water bottle again.

"You drink some more, you are dehydrated and need to be hydrated!" Jia Lei advised.

"I've got too much water but I'm going to go to the toilet, and now I can't go! I can hold on with two sips of water until it's time to buy the lottery form, and I'll drink the rest when I get the lottery form." The old man shook his head stubbornly.

"Hey...... You ......" Jia Lei looked at him helplessly, not knowing what to say.

"I'm sorry because my hands are dirty, and it wasn't very clean when I fell down just now!" the old man said apologetically looking at Jia Lei's hand.

"It's okay, it's none of your business! my hands are already dirty......" Jia Lei said when he saw the mud on his fingers.

Jia Lei felt that he was unwilling to reach out and pull a group of poor people, it was simply dirty...... Dirty hands, dirty hearts!

Jia Lei stood up after saying this, and the old man also got up from the ground by himself, and staggered back to the middle of the team......

Jia Lei's feelings for this group of people at this moment changed from sympathy to distress in an instant, distressed......

They don't know that their persistence is likely to be an empty bamboo basket!

"Boss, we've bought the lottery form!" Ah Ping excitedly walked over with ten thin stock lottery sheets, and the people behind him were also overjoyed.

"Did you buy it? let me see it?" said the people in line nearby.

"Got it! bought it!" Ah Ping said, waving a table to the crowd behind him.

"Ah Ping, you go to Fei Ge and take down the food and water from our car and give it to the others, we won't need it!" Jia Lei said distressedly looking at the smiling faces in front of him.

"Okay!" Ah Ping agreed.

Jia Lei was still standing in place waiting for Ah Ping's workers to come out, when a black cloud floated in the sky.

"Click!" There was a thunderclap, and a downpour followed, and Jia Lei was immediately drenched in soup.

"Boss, let's go! It's raining!" said one of Ping's co-workers with the lottery form that had just arrived, and then he pulled Jia Lei out of the cordon.

"It's raining, it's good! You see the rain has washed my hands clean. Jia Lei stretched out his hand and said stunned.

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"Jia Lei, are you okay?" Ah Fei asked anxiously while sitting in the car.

"Sunrise in the east and rain in the west...... This city is really going to change!" Jia Lei said as he looked at the strange weather in Pengcheng.

Half of the huge Pengcheng City was shining brightly, but the other half was pouring rain, and the time was fixed at 11 a.m. on August 9, 1992.

At about 11 o'clock, it rained heavily in some areas of Pengcheng, after the rain, the street accumulated two feet of water, and the water was full of all kinds of garbage, and at about 4 o'clock in the evening of the same day, the whole city of Pengcheng City was hit by heavy rain, and the garbage of the city's sewage crossflow piled up in the queue spread to the whole city.

And in the torrential rain, millions of people are still standing in line, waiting to buy the stock lottery table.

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