Chapter 70: The Indifferent Crowd
The warm winter sun shines on the earth, and it is rare for Dongmei and Weiguo to hold hands and take a walk together. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In a year, only during the winter break, two people can really live together, live a life of firewood, rice, oil and salt, and take care of their children.
Dongmei really wants to hold Weiguo's hand like this forever and stroll under the warm sun.
However, she knew that this "luxury" was only two months.
After the beginning of spring, Wei Guo had to pack up again, stay away from his children and himself, and set foot on the front line.
Dongmei looked at Wei Guo who was walking beside her, and said expectantly: "Hey, I really don't know when we will be able to live together forever." ”
Wei Guo pointed to the many elderly people sitting under the sun not far away and said, "When I retire at the age of fifty-five, we will be able to live together forever." ”
After listening to this, Dongmei pursed her mouth aggrievedly, looked at the elderly people basking in the sun not far away and said, "Like them, stay outside and bask in the sun?"
Wei Guo nodded seriously and said, "Yes, relying on the pension, it is enough to eat enough every month." ”
Dongmei looked at the old people basking in the sun, and then thought about her parents, who were sixty or seventy years old, and still had to work in the fields, if they also had a pension, they would not be so hard.
So, an idea germinated in Dongmei's heart, when she is old, she will also live a life with a pension and not drag her children back.
However, if you want a pension, the premise is that you must transition from a family member to a worker in the unit, which has almost become an insurmountable gap for Dongmei.
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Spring is coming, and after Wei Guo went up the mountain to work, Dongmei pondered the work of a cleaner in the yard of the unit.
Although the cleaners in the base are all zero-hour workers and receive a small monthly salary, they still have the possibility of becoming regulars.
As long as she can turn positive and become a real working class, even if there is a 1 in 10,000 chance, Dongmei must grasp it.
So, she came to the property management service station of the unit and applied to become a cleaner.
The stationmaster looked at Dongmei and had a brief conversation with her, and the stationmaster felt that Dongmei looked very neat, and her appearance was fashionable, and her skin was fair, not like a countryman.
The stationmaster didn't know if Dongmei would be able to do the job, but he still took out the documents, signed a contract with Dongmei, and told him to give him a copy of the household registration book and the provincial certificate.
Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, and when the last step of the procedure is carried out, Dongmei can't imagine that the opportunity to work is so simple.
I knew that this was the case, and I should have applied for a job as a cleaner as soon as I moved to a drill base.
However, when Dongmei handed over the copy of the household registration book to the stationmaster, the stationmaster looked at Dongmei's rural household registration and said helplessly to Dongmei: "Why are you a rural household registration?"
Dongmei was still very excited and said: "Yes, I came out of the countryside, so I have a rural hukou." ”
The stationmaster said regretfully: "Then our contract can only be invalidated." ”
Seeing that the meat in her mouth disappeared like this, Dongmei cried and laughed and said: "Why should the contract be invalidated, I have the strength and ability to work to ensure that every street in the base is clean." ”
The stationmaster's face was gloomy and he said regretfully: "The unit has a rule that only urban hukou can work, and rural hukou is not in the plan." ”
Hearing this, Dongmei's heart was mixed, and her mood was extremely lost, seeing that her dream of having a job was about to become a reality, but she failed because of her rural household registration.
couldn't help it, Dongmei's tears swirled in her eyes.
On the way home, Dongmei cried aggrievedly all the way, she also thought about buying an urban hukou, but to buy a rural hukou into an urban hukou, it would take at least 5,000 yuan, which is the money that Weiguo can earn after a few years without eating or drinking.
Reality forced her to give up the idea of becoming an urban hukou again.
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At the beginning of the new semester, Taotao was already in the second semester of the third year, and he had been in the drill base for half a year unconsciously.
At noon, Tao Tao came to the school gate early.
Tao Tao was almost never late, and always came to the school gate at least half an hour early.
However, the old man who was the gatekeeper of the school came late, and the school gate was not open at 2 o'clock, and the school gate had not yet opened at 1:50.
Slowly, there were already a lot of students at the school gate, and some junior students curiously gathered next to the school, in front of a cliff.
And in a small clearing next to the cliff, a small hole caught the attention of the children.
Because in this small hole, there will be green smoke coming out from time to time.
Out of curiosity, some children will pick up small stones and throw them in to see if there is any reaction inside.
The other children also learned the same way, and they all came over and threw stones into it.
Gradually, the smoke no longer came out of the small hole.
This small smoking hole is actually the chimney of the cave under the cliff, and the stones thrown by the children into the small hole directly blocked the mouth of the chimney, affecting the people who were cooking in the cave.
The caves of the Loess Plateau can be traced back to 4,000 years ago at the earliest, and it is divided into cliff caves, sunken caves and independent caves.
The cave under the cliff belongs to the cliff cave, built against the mountain, and the chimney of the kang and stove is opened next to the school.
Seeing that the chimney was blocked by stones thrown in by the children, the bachelor who lived in the cave was furious, rushed out of the cave like crazy, climbed up the slope, and arrived at the school gate.
The children, who threw small stones, saw a man with a blue face and ragged clothes pounce on him like a hungry tiger, and hurriedly scattered in all directions.
The bachelor did not catch a child who threw stones, so he was furious, and in order to extinguish the anger in his heart, he pulled out a child from the crowd next to him.
And Tao Tao happened to walk by not far from him, and he happened to be grabbed by him.
The bachelor grabbed Tao Tao's schoolbag and pulled it back, and Tao Tao, who was less than ten years old, was pulled in front of him.
Tao Tao hadn't even seen clearly who was pulling his schoolbag, and he was slapped in the face by a bachelor.
Where can a child under the age of ten withstand the full strength of an adult?
Tao Tao was slapped by a bachelor and fainted.
He collapsed limply.
The embarrassed bachelor still didn't let go of Tao Tao, scolding in his mouth, and kicking Tao Tao who was lying on the ground with his foot, and had fainted.
Tao Tao was kicked back and forth, and it lasted for a full minute before Tao Tao woke up.
Taotao, who came to his senses, got up from the ground and realized that he was being beaten by a stranger.
He cried and tried to escape from the clutches of the bachelor, but before he could escape three steps, the bachelor grabbed the collar again and carried him back.
Tao Tao thought that in the face of the bad guy, as long as his father could protect himself, how he hoped that his father could suddenly appear in front of him and beat this bad guy away, but his father was working in the distant mountains, not to mention saving him, even if he couldn't go home.
Then, the bachelor aimed at Taotao's face and punched Taotao on the forehead, and Taotao was beaten again and fainted, lying on the ground.
The bachelor kicked Tao Tao's soft body like crazy.
At this time, there was already a circle of people around, watching Taotao being beaten by a bachelor, but no one stood up to stop this beating.
Not far away, Li Mao, who was two years lower than Taotao, saw that Taotao was being beaten by strangers, she cried out in fright, and wanted to help Taotao, but she couldn't do anything, so she used all her strength to run towards Taotao's house.
After almost two minutes of being beaten, Tao Tao woke up again, only now he was standing, holding his school bag in both hands.
And the bachelor snatched Taotao's schoolbag and kicked Taotao's stomach with his foot.
Tao Tao cried and said, "Uncle, don't beat me, my mother has filled my schoolbag with four apples, I'll give them all to you, uncle, don't beat me...... ”
The bachelor was still angry, he tore Taotao's schoolbag, and scolded in his mouth: "Give me your schoolbag, I will burn your schoolbag as firewood." ”
Tao Tao cried and said, "There are my books and homework in my school bag, and if they are burned, I will not be able to go to school." ”
The bachelor shouted, "Give me my bag, or I'll kill you." ”
Tao Tao was kicked to the ground heavily, but he still tore his schoolbag and didn't let go, crying and shouting: "Uncle, I don't have any money in my schoolbag, my mother never gives me pocket money, can you wait, I'll go to my classmate to borrow five cents for you, can you return the schoolbag to me?"
When the bachelor saw that he couldn't snatch Tao Tao's schoolbag, he kicked Tao Tao's head hard, and Tao Tao lost consciousness in an instant.
After the bachelor snatched Tao Tao's schoolbag, he stepped on Tao Tao's feet again before scolding and walking away.
It was almost two o'clock in the afternoon, and Nana had just woken up from a nap.
Dongmei brought Nana clothes and urged her to wake up and go to school quickly.
At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Dongmei saw Li Mao's face flushed, and she said to Dongmei with sweat on her forehead: "Auntie, you go quickly, a person is beating Taotao, and at the school gate, Taotao is knocked unconscious." ”
Hearing this, Dongmei didn't care about asking too much, locked Nana at home, and followed Li Mao towards the school gate.
And Nana cried out in fear after hearing her brother being beaten and seeing her mother running out.
Dongmei, who rushed to the school gate, pushed aside the crowd of onlookers around her, and saw her child lying quietly on the ground with blood in his mouth, motionless.
With tears in her eyes, Dongmei picked up her child with a look of fear and asked the people around her what had happened.
At this time, the surrounding people told Dongmei that the bachelor who was watching the gate of the brick factory under the cliff was angry with Taotao because he was thrown a stone by someone's chimney, and beat Taotao violently.
Dongmei wiped her tears, and while rushing towards the hospital, she angrily yelled at the people around her: "Everyone is a child, a flesh-and-blood parent, seeing other people's children being beaten, why didn't anyone stand up to stop this violence, let the children be beaten......." ”
Dongmei ran towards the base health center, and kept shouting Taotao's name in her mouth, for fear that Taotao would suddenly lose her breath, so she fell asleep.
It was only ten minutes from the school to the base health center, but Dongmei felt like she had been running for a century, and she couldn't run to the health center.
She had a pair of Hot Wheels under her feet, so that she could arrive at the health center as soon as possible and save her child.
After arriving at the health center, the doctor pinched Taotao's middle and opened Taotao's pupils to look at it, telling Dongmei not to worry too much, the child was not in danger of life, but the trauma was very serious.
Hearing that the child's life was not in danger, Dongmei's hanging heart was half relieved.
This time, if the child died, she herself did not want to live.
After Taotao was rescued and woke up, he hugged Dongmei and cried non-stop, and kept shouting: "Mom save me, I'm afraid, mom save me, I'm afraid." ”
Ten minutes later, Li Mao ran into the health center, it turned out that she had been following Dongmei, worried about the safety of Taotao's brother.