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It was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, and I was exhausted. Now, I can go home and sleep for two hours, then go to work until nine o'clock, then sleep until two o'clock in the morning, and then work until this time tomorrow. Day after day, day after day. However, yesterday I helped my daughter-in-law open the stall until two o'clock in the morning. Then we had the luxury of having a roasted oyster. Then I hurriedly sent my daughter-in-law home and immediately went to start the job of frying. I went to work at the end of 8 o'clock. In other words: I haven't slept for more than 24 hours.

This happens a few times a month. I often get off work at 9 p.m., I can't help but go to my daughter-in-law's stall to see how the business is going, and help out with something. The most important thing is that after the market closes, I use my tricycle to bring a whole car of my family back home. Downstairs in our house, the landlord provided us with a place to put the jobs for free. Every night, when I come home from work, I think of my daughter-in-law driving a tricycle down the street alone in the middle of the night. This upsets me. However, she would not let me go, because I could not always keep overdrawing my strength like this. She was afraid that I would suddenly step down that day. Our family can't accept this, although every time I go, my daughter-in-law is happy.

Later, she spent more than 100 yuan to sell a recliner and came back. I went, and when I wasn't busy, she was on business, and I was asleep on the chaise longue on the side.

The lack of sleep for a long time made me a little confused. I pedaled my bike, trying to keep my balance and pedaling as hard as I could in the direction of home. I know my daughter-in-law will get up in a while, and I want to spend some time in bed with her before that.

When I got down the slope, I put my bike on my shoulders and ran up the steps. We had another entrance to our stay, but that was a long way off. From the high slope, you can save a lot of time, the only bad thing is that you have to switch your identity with the vehicle.

Halfway through, the phone in my pocket suddenly rang.

My good mood was lost immediately. I wanted to not answer, but the phone kept ringing. Halfway up the slope, I had to stop, put my bike on the rung, and pull out my phone. As soon as I looked at the caller ID, my heart sank.

"Mr. Ho. ”

I got on the phone.

"How's that, that money!"

"Can you delay for a few days... ”

"Wait a few more days! I've heard so many things like this!"

My heart sank, and the other party's tone was obviously not good.

"Say it!"

The other party called out on the phone, "Don't you have a lot of reasons?

I held my phone, silent, speechless.

"Don't speak, just don't speak! You don't have to pay back!"

"It's not... ”

I wanted to cry without tears, "I am indeed difficult ... ”

"Difficult? Who doesn't have difficulties? You are difficult, I am not difficult? It is difficult again and again, so it will be difficult all the time, and you won't have to pay back!"

"No, I didn't mean that... ”

"No, no, no, then you have to give money! I gave you the goods with real money, and you have to give me money! What are you like this? Scoundrels!"

I closed my eyes in pain, and suddenly I felt a little angry in my heart.

"Mr. Ho. ”

I spoke into the phone, suppressing my emotions, "We're not trading once or twice. In the past few years, when did I owe you money? But for the last time, you and I both know that I was cheated. But I never said that I would not pay the more than 30,000 yuan. You see, we trade hundreds of thousands of shares every year, can't you give me a little time?"

Actually, what I want to say is: You have earned a lot from me for so many years, and now that I am down, can't you let me take a breath? But I really dare not say that. I know that this Mr. He is indeed a relatively strong kind of person.

"Give you time? Do I give you less time?"

The other party was not moved at all.

"I'm also very nervous, I also have a headache! Anyway, you can scrape together 10,000 yuan for me in the next few days - ten days, and I will give you five days. Don't say I'm not unkind. Within five days, you will give me 10,000 yuan. I don't care what you do. Anyway, give me 10,000 yuan first. I'm in a hurry!"

"I dare not promise you... ”

The other party hung up on me.

I grabbed my phone and froze for a moment, and finally sat down on the steps weakly, sweating profusely. I don't have the ability and I know I can't scrape together the money. Now all the plans are made towards the end of the month. If the money is not paid by then, it will usher in a heavy end of the month. But even this money may not be enough by the end of the month. My daughter-in-law only earned five or six hundred yuan when she was at the best of her stall, except for buying raw materials. An average of 200 yuan a day is already very good. Then there is my fixed salary and the money I get from speculation, which is more than 10,000 points a month. That doesn't seem like a lot of money. However, there were so many debts that I had to pay them back almost every day. This call and that call, each one of them is calling for money. There is always a portion of money to be arranged in these calls. This kind of almost non-stop spending, no amount of income will solve the problem in the short term!

Alas!

I let out a long sigh, shook my confused head, got up and slung my bike and walked home with a heavy pace. There is nothing to do now, and almost all relatives and friends who can borrow one have borrowed one. People who know me now are scared when they see my call. No matter how good my popularity is, I can't stand such tosses again and again. I sometimes fantasize about whether one day I will wake up rich enough to solve all my debts at once? I know, that's absolutely impossible!

I also thought that it would be better to find a place to lie down and run away. However, that is also impossible. One, I can't pass this level myself. Second, if I want to leave my wife and children alone to avoid fleeing, I might as well die immediately. I can't imagine that I could go on like that. If you really live like that, you will not live in darkness forever, and you will never see the light again. Even if I may have earned money on that day, will I be able to use this money to go back to my relatives and friends to face them? My daughter-in-law once said that I was hard-faced and soft-hearted, and I thought that this assessment was not wrong. I'm one such person.

--Now, we can only take one step at a time. I often hear the saying "there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge". I believe this statement. Because in the past two years or so, I haven't been able to take off skin by skin, and although it is painful, at least I have not died, and my family and I are still fine. Sometimes, it is enough for a person's ideals to be based on this. If you were to ask me if I was the most difficult person in the world? I would answer no – absolutely not.