It was already more than six o'clock in the evening, and on the second road of chemical industry in the suburbs, a middle-aged man in his 40s was holding an oil umbrella and walking slowly in the sparse winter rain. When the north wind hit, the man couldn't help but shiver, he looked up at the sky, then tucked his clothes, and continued to walk forward one foot at a time, not knowing where the target was.

The man's name is Yu Lihong, and he is a process engineer at Pujiang Plastics No. 7 Factory. Just an hour ago, he and his wife had a big fight over sending money to their hometown. He was clumsy and clumsy, but he was stopped by his sharp-toothed wife in just a few words, and in shame, he could only run out of the house and go outside to calm down his heart, as he did after every quarrel.

Yu Lihong was born in a peasant family, and like all the employees of enterprises in the countryside at that time, he often had to send money to his family to subsidize his life. His wife, Li Hongmei, is a native of Pujiang, and she does not discriminate against her husband from the countryside, but she has a bottom line that cannot be violated on the issue of sending money to her hometown, that is, 10 yuan per month, which is never allowed to increase for any reason.

Yu Lihong is a filial son, and every time he celebrates the New Year's holidays, he always thinks about sending a few more yuan to his parents, so that his parents can go to the market to cut some meat and make dumplings. Every time he made this request to his wife, Li Hongmei, who has always been virtuous and considerate, would be furious, and spread out all the bills for her son's purchase of sneakers and her daughter's rubella, and asked her husband how there was spare money at home to squander it like this.

Yu Lihong was powerless to quarrel with his wife, because the reasons his wife said were always tenable. Over the years, the wife has given full play to the talent of "making a dojo with a snail shell", and has built a family with the couple's not generous salary, at least the clothes on the whole family can go out without patches, which is very rare. If you want Yu Lihong to say that his wife is doing something wrong, he really can't say it.

In desperation. Yu Lihong could only save pocket money from himself, accumulating a lot, and occasionally secretly sent five or ten yuan more to his family to talk about filial piety. I don't know if Li Hongmei really doesn't know about these things, or if she pretends to be confused, in short. The two of them did not fight for at least a while because of such a thing.

This time, Yu Lihong received a letter from his mother, saying that winter was coming, and his father's asthma was terrible. Yu Lihong was worried, so he went home to discuss with Li Hongmei, wanting to send an extra 20 yuan home, so that his father could go to the county to take a look and prescribe some Western medicine to eat. When Li Hongmei heard this, she was furious. took out the envelope containing the family's living expenses from the drawer, threw it on Yu Lihong's face, and shouted loudly: "There is so much money at home, you take it, send it back, and the whole family will go to drink the northwest wind tomorrow!" ”

After a quarrel, the final result was that Li Hongmei went into the room crying and crying, talking to herself about the hardships of running this family for more than ten years. And Yu Lihong could only hold an oil umbrella and escaped from the house in the rain.

Alas. Wretch!

Yu Lihong was tired of walking, stood under a tree, looked at the dense rain and mist in front of him, and sighed in annoyance.

At the end of the day, the income is too low. I have survived for so many years and become an engineer. A monthly salary of 130 yuan; His wife is a worker, and she only has more than 60 yuan a month. If you put it in the past, the couple had nearly 200 yuan, which can be regarded as a high-income family, but now. What is this money for?

The supply in the market is much better than in the past, as long as there is money, meat, eggs, fish and shrimp can be bought, but the price is indeed staggering, and the family can add a meal casually on Sunday, and 10 yuan will be gone. There are more household appliances than in the past, and the quality is better, but there are more than 1,000 color TVs, more than 400 washing machines, and what electric fans, tape recorders, rice cookers, and electronic clocks...... Every family has it, if you don't have it at home, can you say it? But if you want to buy these things, you have to save a sum of money after you pay your salary every month, which is also money that is pulled out of your teeth.

Also, my son and daughter are older and are going to make friends, can you not give some money as a parent? I heard my son say that he invited his girlfriend to eat ice cream balls in the small shop next to People's Square, one was more than 1 yuan, and his girlfriend wanted to eat three at a time, and he also had to bring a girlfriend to eat, and it was three ...... If you dare to save this kind of money, just wait for your son to become an old bachelor.

With such a big family, can you save 20 yuan for your father's medical treatment, the answer is, of course, yes. But what Li Hongmei said also makes sense, that is, there is no shortage of these 20 yuan in her hometown, so why do you have to wait to send it back from Pujiang? Yu Lihong can also imagine the situation at home, 20 yuan will definitely be able to come up, but the old father, who has been frugal all his life, is reluctant to spend the money on himself......

If you have more money, you can go back to your hometown, take your parents to Pujiang, find them a hospital, and have a good physical examination. The old man has suffered all his life, and it is the responsibility of the son to let them live a happy old age.

But...... This is just a beautiful dream, to take his parents over, it will cost at least 500 yuan, which is completely an astronomical amount that he can't afford.

It would be nice if he could be rated as the deputy chief engineer, and the salary of the deputy chief engineer would be forty or fifty yuan more than now, so that the money at hand would be much more relaxed......

Yu Lihong's thoughts drifted in another direction. Over the years, he has not relaxed his research for a moment, and has made some research results in several resin formulations, and has published a paper in the journal "Synthetic Resin". According to his conditions, he can actually be rated as deputy chief engineer, and even if he works hard, it is possible to be rated as chief engineer.

However, this is just a beautiful dream, because when he applied to the factory for promotion, he found that academic achievements alone are far from enough, you must also have a good relationship with the factory director and the relevant leaders of the Municipal Chemical Industry Bureau, otherwise your achievements will not be able to enter the field of vision of others. Yu Lihong himself is not good at liaising with leaders, although his wife Li Hongmei is capable, but after all, she is just a worker, and she can't reach the level of being able to talk to leaders.

As a result, the matter of evaluating the deputy chief engineer was delayed again and again until the stone sank into the sea......

Dad, Lihong is incompetent, Lihong is unfilial......

Yu Lihong faced the direction of his hometown and muttered such a sentence, and two lines of tears overflowed from the corners of his eyes unconsciously.

"Dad!"

In the rain, someone was calling loudly. Yu Lihong turned his head to look, there were no pedestrians behind him, only a small car, flashing double flashing lights and driving slowly. Yu Lihong didn't think that a person sitting in the car would greet him, so he took the call just now as his hallucination, shook his head and continued to walk forward.

"Dad!"

This time, the sound was closer. The sedan that Yu Lihong saw just now had already driven parallel to him. The window in the back row facing him was rolled down, revealing the pretty face of a girl. Yu Lihong wiped his myopic glasses with his hand, and finally saw clearly that the girl was his daughter Yu Xiaojuan, who had just graduated from high school and was still unemployed at home.

"Xiaojuan, whose car are you in?" Yu Lihong asked in surprise. The car that his daughter sits, Yu Lihong knows, this is the Pusang car produced by Pujiang Automobile Factory, it is the new favorite of the magnates, no one of a certain level can not sit, and the car that the director of the Seventh Plastic Factory sits in is only the old Pujiang car.

"It's Tingting's car from their unit." Yu Xiaojuan said happily in the car, "Dad, come up, Tingting and the leaders of their unit want to talk to you?" ”

"Which Tingting? Why did the leader of her unit look for me? "The second monk Yu Li Hongzhang couldn't touch his head. Before he could understand, the car had stopped, Yu Xiaojuan pushed open the door in the car and beckoned his father to get in the car. Yu Lihong saw that Yusi kept drifting into the car from the open door, and he didn't feel that it was the time to be polite, so he put away his umbrella and clumsily got into the car.

The car started again, and a girl sitting on the other side of Yu Xiaojuan poked her head over and said to Li Hong: "Uncle Yu, do you remember me, I'm Peng Tingting." ”

"Oh, Tingting, you haven't been to the house to play for a while." Yu Lihong recognized that this girl was his daughter's high school classmate and had come to his house to play. It is said that the girl's father was the manager of a construction company, but Yu Lihong never felt that he would have anything to do with her.

"You're Yu Gong, aren't you?" A young man sitting in the front passenger seat turned around and greeted Li Hong warmly, "We came to your house to look for you, and I heard that you came out for a walk, so we took the liberty to follow." ”

"Uh-huh, yes, it's too stuffy at home, go out for a walk." Yu Lihong replied embarrassedly, completely forgetting that it was deep winter now, and those who went out for a walk because they were hot at home could basically be classified as neurologically abnormal.

"Xiao Yu, when we came here just now, we saw a Western restaurant on the side of the road. You drive the car there, let's go to the western restaurant with Yu Gong and sit down. The young man instructed the driver.

"Got it." The driver agreed, and the sedan slightly increased its speed, crushing the water on the road in the direction the young man pointed.

"Are you ......" Yu Lihong looked at the carload of people in surprise and asked hesitantly.

"Oh, let me introduce myself. My name is Xia Yangjie and I am the chief engineer of Haijie Technology Service Company. This is our assistant manager, named Yu Haitao. By the way, Xiao Peng is also working in our company now, and he is in charge of administrative affairs. As for the purpose of our visit to you, it is not convenient to say in the car, let's go to the western restaurant to order something to eat, and talk while eating, what do you think? The young man said politely.

"Haijie Company?" Yu Lihong was even more confused, he turned his head to look at Peng Tingting, wanting Peng Tingting to give him an explanation. Peng Tingting just smiled at him secretly, and then took Yu Xiaojuan's arm, and didn't know what to whisper between the girls. (To be continued......)

PS: This seems to be the fourth shift, right...... The character of the orange, everyone recognizes it clearly now, right? That's not your average good! Don't you want to vote for a few monthly passes to express your love for oranges?