Chapter 124: Farewell, My Childhood
"I mean, if you go home and find a few more people, you will ask the second-rate people in your village, the kind of shrews who don't rest for an hour, and then three or four people will come, and I will give them another salary, and the treatment will be the same as that of a small worker. They don't have to work, they just chat on the side, and the louder the better, so that it doesn't affect the work of the workers, and they have something to do. "Hong Tao's belly in the future life of the bad water learned at this time to the fullest, if this trick fails, he has other ways, the big deal is to go back to grandma's hometown to find someone, he doesn't believe that no one will be willing to do it if he gives money!
"Hey, hey, don't look at your young age, you know the countryside quite well, we don't have anything else in that place, there is no shortage of quarrelsome old ladies at all, I don't have to go back to find it alone, just call a few people from their house, and you have to rush to earn wages for nothing." "Captain Wang let Hong Tao say that he was happy, this thing is not difficult for him at all, and the workers under his hand have to praise him for being able to do things, and he can take his daughter-in-law to earn wages when he goes out to work, isn't it just scolding the street, because of a trivial matter in the village, the women of the two families can scold for a long time, and there is no salary, there is that kung fu, it is better to come here to scold!
From March to May, Hong Tao would come to the construction site every once in a while, and every time he came, he would bring a good cigarette to the workers and cheer them up by the way. In general, the progress of the project is very fast, and there is a lot of excitement, and it is almost a movie shooting site, and there are different jokes staged every day. Since that day, Uncle Sun has been disgraced. The son of the Sun family came with a few units of young men in the evening, planning to say that he would not succeed.
As soon as he started his hand, he let more than a dozen workers press him to the ground. didn't beat them much, but just sent them to the police station, but the police station dealt with them impartially, detained those people, including Uncle Sun's son, and notified the security department of their unit to collect people.
A few days later, Uncle Sun's daughter-in-law was angry, and she found fault and thought about it. As a result, as soon as I opened my mouth, I immediately surrounded a few big old ladies. blocked the door of their house, scolded from morning to noon, and then stopped, Hong Tao was not present at the time. Later, I heard that the voice was so penetrating that it could even be heard on the road. For this reason, Hong Tao also specially bought a toy for each of the workers' children, the boy to get a submachine gun, and the girl to make a rag doll.
To say that the most unlucky, it is not only Uncle Sun and his family, they belong to the initiative and deserve to be unlucky. There is another one in the yard, that is, a family of two with a little girl, which also has to eat melons. Every morning it was just dawn. Breakfast starts to jingle outside, and then you don't plan to stop the day, and you have to fight the lights after dinner. It doesn't end until nine or ten o'clock. And the night does not stop, these workers live in the small south house of Hong Tao's house and a public shed next to it, the snoring is so loud that the whole yard trembles, and there are a few women with children, crying in the middle of the night. Then it's the adults who scold, and if you don't toss for an hour, it's not over.
Hong Tao's father came to see it a few times. He is very grateful to his own responsibility, that is, Hong Tao's aunt, and feels that this is the family affection between relatives, otherwise he will let him do this project by himself, and he will have nowhere to find someone to go to when he is tired. And he didn't know the total cost of the project, according to the eldest aunt, a room with work and materials is 800 yuan, a total of three and a half rooms, plus the courtyard wall, courtyard gate or something, even if it is four rooms, a total of more than 3,000 yuan.
For this price, Hong Tao's father felt that it was still affordable, even if it was more expensive, it was worth it, after all, it was his family's old house, although it was not called an ancestral house, but he had lived in it for two or three generations, and it was not wrong to repair it. In fact, what he didn't know was that the total cost was that Hong Tao, his aunt-in-law and Captain Wang teamed up to deceive him, not to mention more than 3,000 yuan, even if he added a zero later, it would not be enough.
But Hong Tao's father couldn't notice it at all, although he couldn't be said to be a nerd, but he really lacked understanding of prices. Because their school has steel substitute trainees, so a lot of things are supported by steel, the soda in the canteen costs 5 cents a bottle, the summer popsicle can be eaten casually, no money, you can also bring it home, steel is pulled by refrigerated trucks one by one, and people have factories that specialize in producing this, which is for workers to eat as summer food.
There is also a kind of small cake made by the steel welfare factory, which is not bought by the catty, but by the bag, a bag for one dollar, a piece of the size of a water cup, and more than 3o pieces for a bag. In addition, their unit takes the annual Beidaihe vacation, teachers don't spend money, teachers spend more than ten yuan, family members spend half, go over there and even eat and live, you don't bring a penny, it still doesn't affect anything, and you should go to all the scenic spots.
In this environment for a long time, Hong Tao's father has lost his due judgment on prices, and he and Hong Tao's mother do not cook by themselves, they all eat in the unit, and when they come back at night, they go to Hong Tao's grandmother's house, and each person pays five yuan a month, and it is over. Unless he intends to go to the market to investigate the market, he doesn't know how much most things should cost.
Hong Tao's father didn't know that Hong Tao had done so many immoral things behind his back, and the two families didn't know that Hong Tao's father didn't know that his son was hiding from him, after all, even the eldest aunt had come forward, and they thought that the family was tired of people, but when the father didn't show up, let his son be in front, which was more insidious.
So every time my father came, he wanted to go to those two families to contact and contact his feelings, but he either ate behind closed doors, or had a hot face and a cold buttocks, which was not very popular. Father is still a person who loves to ponder and is thin-skinned, he thought that he wanted to take back the house, but people were not happy, after going twice, he himself felt bored, so he simply did not go, closed the door to live his own life, although he was a neighbor, he would take care of it if he liked it, and he would pull it if he didn't like it, anyway, his father didn't look down on the two families who were workers, and if it weren't for the problem of the house, he wouldn't talk much at all.
This time Hong Tao can be regarded as proud, he is hiding from both sides, and he is tossing the two families with his life here, and when he comes back, he has to arch his father's fire if he has nothing to do. Firming up the situation that my father had nothing to say to them, the result was that it became more and more stiff, and everyone didn't even say hello when they met. Just act as if you didn't see anyone.
At the end of May, Hong Tao started the graduation exam, and his volunteers were filled in by Director Bai and his father, and he didn't ask himself, anyway, it doesn't matter where he writes, and the entrance exam is also in vain, and he will have to transfer to another school when the time comes. After the exam. The sixth grade is basically on holiday early, and this time Hong Tao is finally down-to-earth. He simply went to the construction site in the dark, went out early and returned late, and watched his house grow taller, capped, and renovated little by little, and he finally let go.
But that's not all. When it was first designed, the tap water, sewer and electricity meters in their homes were all single-walked, and the original water meters and electricity meters in the yard were not the same line at all. When the project was finished, he asked the workers to pour cement mortar into the sewer a little bit every day, and at the same time throw in some broken bricks, so that the cement would gradually accumulate in the sewer and slowly cloak the sewer. If this thing is tightly blocked, you can't open it with any dredging machine, and the whole sewer will become a solid cement stick.
Hong Tao felt that this was still not enough. He also asked the workers to secretly twist the water meter interface in the water meter well, there is always tap water flowing slowly out along the water meter, and it will not be visible for a while, and after a long time, this water meter well more than one meter deep can be filled, and when it is poured, these water bills have to be borne by the two families. Because Hong Tao's house is a single water meter, it doesn't matter at all.
When all the renovations are completed. Father, mother, and grandfather and uncle all came to see, everyone gave a thumbs up to this small courtyard with blue bricks and tiles, and then looked at the terrazzo and wooden floors in the house after entering the house, and they were even more envious, even the grandfather who had always had opinions about his father said that the house was built well, and his grandson was not guilty of coming to live.
"Bingrui, why do you still open a small door on this gable wall of your house? Isn't it all over when you walk through the courtyard gate? And why is the yard full of potholes, why didn't you take advantage of this time to build a house and spread the yard together?" After Grandpa turned around, he keenly appeared two questions, and he was very puzzled.
"This small door is what Xiao Tao has to get, he said that it is convenient to enter and exit here, and there is no need to go through the courtyard gate every time. In the yard, you know, when I come back, it is equivalent to driving the other two families away, people are not very happy, and the relationship is not good, just with this small door, our family will not go to the yard in the future, since everyone does not get along well, let's go through one. "The father is actually quite satisfied with Hong Tao's design, and he is willing to ignore anyone, go home and read books, chat with his son, watch TV news or something.
"Oh, yes, now they say they're going to move?" Grandpa understood the situation.
"There is a family that is asking for a house with the unit, and I am also running to the unit of the two of them, I will go if I have the effort!" From his father's answer, Hong Tao heard a little information, it seems that one family can no longer bear it, and takes the initiative to ask for a house with the unit, which is right! But the uncomfortable time is still to come.
Thanks to the earth heating, the new house was ventilated for less than a month and was basically dry and ready to move in. At this time, not only Hong Tao's father was a little uncomfortable, but even Hong Tao also wanted to move in quickly, on the one hand, he wanted to enjoy the fruits of his labor and live in a more comfortable house, on the other hand, he was afraid that no one would toss over there, so that the two families were a little too comfortable.
After his 13th birthday, Hong Tao's family finally began to move, in fact, there is nothing to move, most of the furniture is newly bought or newly beaten, and a few pieces of old furniture that the second master specially helped to take back, all of which are placed in the living room as a façade, these pieces of furniture are not so long, the wood is not so precious, and Hong Tao is not distressed.
said goodbye to the small building, the alley, the courtyard, the small school, the grocery store, and the big locust trees...... Hong Tao is still very sad, his two childhoods were spent here, although it is not to say how far to go, but the taste of not coming back to see from time to time, and the feeling of living here every day is definitely different, the former is a guest, the latter is the owner here.
In addition to these objects, there are also grandparents, old neighbors in the courtyard, Jin Yue, Dajiang, teachers in schools, and people in clothing stores, gadget shops, beauty and beauty centers, Zhangjiafu restaurants, and Endeavor stores. From then on, Hong Tao could no longer run a few steps in front of them, nor could he take a large group of women's army to run in the Temple of Earth every morning.
Life always has to move forward, each period and each period is certainly different, his childhood and youth have been left in this alley, so what was his youth like? Hong Tao carried two big bags, sat on the tricycle of the second master, looked at the small second floor that was gradually moving away, and couldn't help but have a little expectation for his middle school years in the next few years. (To be continued)
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