Chapter 16: Reality
"Why are you going?" The old man took a spatula in one hand and poured the fried carrots in the pot on the plate, looked at Jiang Yizhou, who was quietly touching the yard, and shouted.
Jiang Yizhou turned back embarrassedly, "Uncle, I just went out to send a letter, and I wrote something to my family just now." ”
Jiang Maode waved the spatula in his hand, "Hurry up for me, I don't care about you when the rice is cold!"
Hearing the old man's impatient tone, Jiang Yizhou breathed a sigh of relief, some old people are still very particular about eating, such as time, they are not allowed to go to the table after the meal, and they can't touch the bowl when they go to the toilet halfway, even if they wash their hands with soap, they can't touch the bowl, Jiang Maode almost belongs to this kind of competitive old man.
Jiang Yizhou, who breathed a sigh of relief, knew that the old man would be like this, so he trotted all the way to find a mailbox near here, stuffed it in, and then ran back.
Walking into the house, the kettle on the coal stove was boiling white, the old man was eating the food with a bowl in small sips, and when he saw Jiang Yizhou walking in, he didn't speak, and the old man still insisted on eating without saying anything.
He hung up his coat, did not disturb the old man, brought himself a bowl of rice from the pressure cooker, sat down opposite the old man, and ate it.
In his opinion, the old man is a cold-hearted elder, on the one hand, he is putting the elders on the shelf, and wants to pull the younger generation on the right path, that is, to work and build a house, marry a wife and have children, and then train the children to become talents, on the other hand, he also generously borrowed money to invest in the telecommunications general magnetic card that in the old man's opinion, he taught him a lesson.
In short, he is a very respectable old man, but he is too lonely, and he is also heartbroken by women.
"No, the table lamp I bought for you over there, can you see if it works?" The old man who was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks after eating pointed to a box placed in the corner of the house, "What kind of books do you read with candles at night?
Then the old man took the dishes and chopsticks and went out through the door opened by Jiang Yizhou.
Really......
Jiang Yizhou smiled, opened the box, and felt that the quality should be average, but this intention had already moved him very much, there was only an incandescent light bulb in the middle of the ceiling in the room, if it was turned on, it would probably affect the old man's sleep, so he just seized the time during the day, and lit a candle at night to study.
"Smack......
The light is spread on the table, there is no smell and dazzle of candles, it is much better than before, if you use the baffle made of cardboard boxes, you will not be able to disturb the elderly.
He couldn't say anything, he could only keep it in his heart silently, but he was a fairly good elder, and doing this was enough for him to remember the old man's goodness.
But you have to take your time in this life!
Wait until next year, in March, it will be fine, as soon as the things in your hands are sold, it will be fine, Jiang Yizhou is now suffering in it, happy in it, bitter is tired every day, plus still have to study, it can be said that he is physically and mentally exhausted, and he is happy that everything is developing in a good direction.
No matter how tired you are, it's always as muddy as your previous life, and you don't know why you're born happy.
Despite this, there are always accidents in life, and accidents are often undesirable.
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The next day, when I came to the construction site with my uncle, I found that the construction site had been blocked by the police with a blockade, and a group of foremen and the boss with sad faces appeared here.
"Brother Yu, what's the matter, so many policemen came?" Not to mention the old man who went to find Jiang Youming, Jiang Yizhou was here with his fellow villagers who were also stopped outside.
Brother Yu whispered to Jiang Yizhou's ear and said, "This person died last night!
He didn't look scared as much as he spoke, seeing that Jiang Yizhou still looked confused, and explained to him, "It's not our people, it's probably an idler who doesn't know where to run, I heard that the one who stayed here to watch the warehouse last night also heard the movement outside, but he was also a coward, he didn't dare to look at it, he didn't dare to make a sound, he turned off the lights, pulled out the telephone lines, and hid in the warehouse......"
Jiang Yizhou followed Brother Yu's direction and looked over, and a group of shrunken gangsters who were obviously dressed differently from the people around them were interrogated by two policemen repeatedly.
In this era when cameras were not widely available, eyewitnesses were particularly important, but the night watchman who was so frightened that he became a shrunken turtle panicked and almost peed his pants, and collapsed to the ground as soon as his legs went limp.
The man estimated that he had never seen such a big scene at all, and he was already scared enough last night, and now it was so many public family members who came to interrogate him, and it was a hell to be able to ask it.
A young policeman ran from behind the mound and whispered to the head who was talking to the developer, "Liu Tou, the deceased has been identified as a member of a local gang, because he squatted in the cell because of petty theft, he should have been chased here by many people and beaten to death." ”
"Director Liu, you see how wronged we are, we are engaged in construction in a down-to-earth manner, but the black pot falls on our heads," the boss of the construction company with a beer belly, Jiang Yizhou, their top boss, was happy.
He immediately complained, "My part-time workers are all relatives of my countrymen, and everyone knows each other, but there are no such gossipy and mixed bastards, you see...... If this delays the project, it will lose a lot!"
Director Liu straightened his face, "What do you say? Human life is important or engineering is important, I think this management is also a little lax, and I will talk about rectification in three days!"
Isn't this equivalent to no punishment, just give this group of workers a holiday, the beer belly boss is quite satisfied, let the warehouse keeper and his foreman go back with the police to make a record, and the others announced a holiday on the spot.
"Let's go!" Jiang Maode pulled Jiang Yizhou towards the residence in a relaxed and comfortable manner.
Jiang Yizhou feels that this is too easy, this is a dead person, is it over?
"Uncle, this ......"
"I know what you want to say, this kind of thing is nothing, and it doesn't involve our own people, or someone else died on our construction site, and it took three days of vacation for nothing, what is surprising?"
Jiang Maode skillfully took out a cigarette and lit it for himself, "Don't be uncommon and strange, if you stay here all night, you will know, there are a lot of people who steal materials at night, and there are many fights, that is, that kid looks tall and big, and the result is actually a shrinking egg!"
Looking at Jiang Yizhou, who couldn't believe it, Jiang Maode understood a little, this kid is a scholar, "Do you kid think this job is very good?
Wrapped in the clothes on his body, early in the morning, the cold air at night has not dissipated, Jiang Yizhou feels a little nostalgic for the time when he sat in front of the computer to work, but it is only fleeting, it is more reliable to think about what to do in the past three days!