Chapter 4: The Story of He Cheng
Amei listened to He Cheng tell the story of his family, it turned out that He Cheng and his wife had been married for five years, and in the second year, they successfully gave birth to their son, He Xiaotong.
The child weighed eight pounds when he was born, and you don't know what it's like to be a father, it's amazing. When I hear the first cry of my child, I feel that even if I give me the whole world, I will not change it. Since I had a child, I have been working harder every day, not for anything else, just so that my wife and children will not be soft when buying things, so that what others have, our family has. I grew up in the countryside as a child, and I didn't go to school, so I started wandering outside at the age of twelve. But I don't want my son to suffer the same hardships as me when he grows up, so ah, I used to go to the construction site at half past seven, but after I had a child, I went to the construction site at half past five and did some preparatory work, in order to speed up the progress of the project, so that I could also get more bonuses.
But even so, my wife and I calculated that it was not enough to buy a school district house before the child was six years old. Since that reckoning, I've noticed that my wife sometimes comes home later than I do, and she often has small wounds on her hands. When I asked her, she said that she had come back so late to play mahjong with someone, and that the wound had been accidentally touched. But my wife has never been good at lying, and I didn't expose her. Well, people have a little secret, and I trust her
With the perfect completion of the project, I also got a lot of money as I wished. On the night of the casual worker banquet, Mr. Chen, who was in charge of the material project of the company, found me privately. "I heard that you want to buy a school district house?" I have a job here that makes money, can you take it?' I was naturally overjoyed to hear this. lit a cigarette for Mr. Chen: "Mr. Chen, thank you for taking care of me, what kind of work do you want to introduce to Xiao He and me" Mr. Chen smiled and told me about a new project developed by the company, but he asked me to use inferior materials instead of actual materials for construction. I was afraid that something would go wrong, but I didn't dare to offend Mr. Chen, so I told him that I would give him an answer in two days. Mr. Chen told me a few words not to let others know about this matter, and left.
That night, I came home full of alcohol, hugged my wife happily, and told her that the project had been completed very well, and that we had received an additional bonus, and that we were not far from our goal. My wife was smiling happily, but I felt that she was tired. In the thought of his wife's abnormality during this time. I didn't squeak, and the next day I asked Aunt Li next door to help me inquire about what my wife was doing lately.
You know, I will never forget, outside the kitchen of a restaurant, I saw my wife, whom I was reluctant to wash when I came home, and I was silently wiping every corner of the kitchen, watching her scared but having to deal with the slaughter of chickens, ducks and fish. I silently waited for her to come out of the restaurant after work, followed her, and saw her go into a shopping mall, watching her hand out flyers one after another. At that moment I understood.
It turns out that my wife, in order to let our children have a good education, it turns out that my wife wants not to let me bear the pressure alone, and it turns out that my wife silently suffers these hardships and resists so much work. It turns out that I am really not a competent husband, not a qualified father.
I ran up, threw away the leaflet from my wife's hand, and told her: "Be good, obedient, let's go home"
But my wife, who has always been very gentle, didn't listen to me this time. She just stared at me silently and didn't say anything. But I understood the firmness in her eyes.
That night, I drank lots and lots of wine. I'm desperately telling myself that I haven't worked hard enough, I haven't let my wife and children have a good life, and I'm a man. So I called Mr. Chen, and I told him that I agreed to what he said.
When I got home, I fell asleep in a daze.
When I woke up the next day, I saw my wife passing over the warm decanting tea with a blaming face, and I grabbed her hand: "Yesterday, the company informed me that I had been working in the company for a long time, so I was responsible for a big project, and if I did a good job, the bonus alone would be 50w." Looking at his wife's face with surprise. I instantly strengthened my heart, which was shaken by the guilt of contradictions.
And just like that, the tragedy began.
"The Magic Bead Group was found to have used inferior materials to build substandard buildings, is our future house still reliable? Is all this a distortion of human nature or a moral degradation?" because I happened to meet a big man who came to Tonghu, and just proposed to supervise the stability and safety of real estate. As a result, the regulatory authorities, who usually only deal with things, spent 200 percent of their efforts to spot check the construction status of the construction site. The construction site I was responsible for was found to be using inferior materials. Due to the inferior materials this time, the people do not trust all the communities and real estate of the Magic Bead Group, and there is a large-scale check-out boom. So I was put in a detention center. On the third day after I entered the detention center, I met Mr. Chen, who asked me to take over the work from the project department. "Mr. Chen, if something happens this time, I can fight for you, but you must hand over the money you said to my family!"
"Hehe, He Cheng, these are easy to say, but this money, I'm afraid I can't give it to you, you know, if the police find out that I have unknown funds with you, maybe they will find out on my head."
"Mr. Chen, it's not interesting for you to say this, if it weren't for you, would I be able to take on this kind of thing? If you don't agree to me, then don't think about it!"
"Don't get excited, He Cheng, do you know where I just went? I went to the hospital just now, and your precious son Xiaotong is lying in the hospital now, and it was found that it was leukemia, and he needed a lot of money. And you go in, where does your family get so much money, the initial cost will be 30.40w Oh yes, I arranged it, your wife will come to visit you in the afternoon, and then you can ask her yourself to know how bad the situation is. ”
With the push and pull of the detention center staff, I came back to my senses, and I fell to the ground weakly in pain. I wish none of this was true, that he was still so young, so small. And my wife is still so young, if all this is true, then how they wish I could be by their side at this moment. But as Mr. Chen said, with the meeting between my wife and I in the detention center in the afternoon, I knew that all this was true, my wife did not cry, nor did she complain about me, but just silently held my hand and told me: "Cheng, don't worry, I will sell our current house, and then go to treat our child, he will be fine, the same, you should also be good, there is no fear of mistakes, I will wait for a husband and a father to come back" The wife's words have been lingering in my ears. It was very cold and cold in the detention center that night. In my sleep I saw the child and my wife shivering in a dilapidated hut, and the child called out over and over again Daddy, Daddy.
On the fourth day, Mr. Chen came to the detention center again, this time I asked him without waiting for him to speak: "Mr. Chen, how can you give money to my wife and children, I will kowtow to you, Mr. Chen" Mr. Chen calmly stood up from the stool, waved his hand, and the staff next to him left the small room.
"Now I can tell you that due to the attention of the media and superiors this time, our magic bead house is now notorious, you must know that the loss is not as simple as one or two. So all this has to give people an outlet, if you are willing to do what I say, then your wife will get a lot of money, and your son, we will also arrange for the top experts in the country to treat him, as long as you are obedient and obedient. ”
I knelt down hard, hugged Mr. Chen's legs, and listened to him slowly talk about his plan, and it was this plan that separated me from my children, wife, yin and yang.