Chapter 5

After marriage, Ai Xiangqian moved into Bai Yan's house, the house is very large, more than 150 square meters, it was bought by Bai Yan's father a year ago, her father lives abroad all the year round, even Ai Xiangqian doesn't know what he does, and even when the two got married, Bai Yan's father didn't show up, Bai Yan rarely mentioned her father, only said that the two people were not in harmony, although Ai Xiangqian was curious, but he didn't ask much. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

After Ai Qianqian moved out, Nie Guangrong quit the rental house and replaced it with a small one. Ai Xiangqian didn't agree with Nie Guangrong to move in order to make his buddies more comfortable, and even offered to help Nie Guangrong pay for the room, but Nie Guangrong refused. Ai Xiangxiang offered to help Nie Guangrong several times to get some money, but still failed to do so, only once, Ai Xiangqian secretly stuffed 100 yuan into Nie Guangrong's pocket, Nie Guangrong found out and went to pay it back, Ai Xiangqian did not accept it, Nie Guangrong simply spent 115 yuan to buy a jasmine tea, two Ashima cigarettes and two bottles of wine at Ai Xiangqian's door. After ringing the doorbell, Nie Guangrong left quickly, extremely happy in his heart, firstly, he was happy that he still had someone to care for him in such an embarrassing time, and secondly, he felt that it was extremely easy and free not to be chared by others. Bai Yan also often heard Ai Xiangqian mention Nie Guangrong, saying that they are good buddies who are bare and big, and they are also the only poor buddies who can't ask for it and don't need it, Bai Yan knows that Nie Guangrong is a good person, and he is interesting enough for Ai Xiangqian, so he is extremely enthusiastic about Nie Guangrong.

One person bears the rent, one person copes with all kinds of expenses for firewood, rice, oil and salt, and one person who wanders into the city but never gets ahead, the ruthless reality whips Nie Guangrong and urges him to keep moving forward. Nie Guangrong began to work hard, and when he heard that selling hard work and making money quickly, he went to the cement factory as a loading worker. Carrying dozens of tons of cement every day, needless to say, you can eat half full just by eating ash, the cement ash on the body, mixed with sweat, and then exposed to the sun, each stevedore seems to be a clay sculpture Arhat who has practiced the incorruptible body of King Kong in Shaolin Temple. There is a small ditch not far from the cement factory, where Nie Guangrong and his workers go to wash every day after work, and soon the small ditch turns gray-black, like a swamp. But they still wash every day, just like Gu Long said: people can dirty water, water does not dirty people, rushing to and fro, in fact, there is no dust. Every time after taking a bath, a group of workers have to find a snack bar to order two side dishes, drink two sips less to relieve the fatigue of the day, the dishes ordered are always around potatoes, eggplant and tofu, and the wine they drink is also cheap and white, but they drink, laugh, shout, from the heart of the joy, from the inside out of the happy. Nie Xiangqian went with them a few times, and then he didn't go anymore, not because he didn't like this atmosphere, but if he didn't eat this meal, he could save 3 yuan a day. After a long time, there were fewer and fewer workers who went to eat, and in the end, no one was open anymore, everyone was not happy in their hearts, in fact, they liked everyone to be together, they liked to drink some wine and brag, but they were not easy, they all surrendered to reality like Nie Guangrong, just for the remaining 3 yuan a day......

There is a breakfast shop downstairs in Nie Guangrong's rented house, with a complete range of styles such as tofu brain, fried dough sticks, soy milk, steamed bun rolls, etc., the most important thing is that the price is very cheap, but the sanitary conditions are poor, so many people who come here to eat are migrant workers, and Nie Guangrong will come here for breakfast almost every day. On this day, Nie Guangrong came to the breakfast shop as usual, and found an old man around 80 years old squatting at the door eating steamed buns. The old man smiled and said, "I pick up garbage every day and sell it, and my body is very dirty, don't pollute people's hygiene." This answer couldn't help but make Nie Guangrong notice that the old man's clothes were a washed red coarse cloth black shirt, the lower half of his body was wearing a pair of polished jeans, and his feet were wearing a pair of white rubber shoes, the soles of which had been smoothed out, and there were a few places where the glue was opened, but it was extremely clean, just looking at the color, he must have thought that this was a new pair of shoes. Next to the old man was a huge sack filled with picked plastic bottles and waste paper shells. There were pedestrians passing by on the road one after another, and when they saw the old man squatting in front of the breakfast shop and eating steamed buns, he thought he was begging, and from time to time someone threw coins at him to give alms, but the old man did not take a penny, and returned it without impropriety. Nie Guangrong was even more curious about this, so he asked the old man: Uncle, you didn't steal or rob, people took the initiative to give you money, why don't you? The old man smiled and said to Nie Guangrong: "Don't look at my age, but I have strength, I can satisfy myself by labor, why should I give alms from others?" After hearing this, Nie Guangrong fell into deep thought: Every day people are robbed, stolen, and deceived, why can't those thieves, robbers, and liars support themselves? There are also some beggars, who are obviously in good health, and some people still have both children and daughters, why do they still beg? They are proud of their hard work and ashamed of hard work, why are people's hearts so deformed? Is it an individual case or a distortion of social formations? What's more, some people deliberately break their legs and break their arms just to gain sympathy and get some charity. Let's ask, Yugong can move mountains, he has the courage and endurance to break his leg and arm, what can't he do, why can't he open up a world by himself? Thinking of this, Nie Guangrong felt very satisfied, at least he had the backbone, no matter how hard it was, he could hold on. At the same time, I am also full of respect for the old man in front of me. After the old man finished eating the steamed buns, he got up and left. Nie Guangrong also just finished eating, anyway, there was still some time before going to work, so he followed. But he didn't go far, the old man suddenly fainted and fell to the ground, Nie Guangrong was stunned, and hurriedly rushed over, only to see that the old man's lips were purple, his face was pale, and his breathing was extremely weak. Nie Guangrong did not hesitate and rushed to the hospital with the old man on his back.

After Nie Guangrong sent the old man to the hospital, the doctor said that the old man was because of acute heart disease and recommended surgery as soon as possible, but he had to pay the operation fee first. In a hurry, he borrowed a phone from the hospital and borrowed money from Ai Xiangqian. After a morning of rescue, the old man woke up, and saw himself lying on the hospital bed, very dazed, and after a while, the old man actually cried, crying extremely sadly. This cry made Nie Guangrong cry too, so he had to wipe the old man's tears while constantly comforting him. Nie Guangrong treats the elderly like relatives, feeds the elderly, talks with the elderly, takes care of the elderly with feces and urine, and takes care of the elderly. The old man told Nie Guangrong that he was 80 years old, his wife died 10 years ago, and he had only one son, and he and his daughter-in-law went to work in a private coal mine more than 20 years ago. The daughter-in-law sued the mine owner to the city, and the city's reply was very simple: after investigation, this person was not an employee of the mine and had no right to claim compensation from the construction party. The daughter-in-law went crazy in a fit of rage and ran around, but no one could find her, until two months later, the daughter-in-law's body was fished out of a river near the mining area. The old man has a granddaughter named Xiuqin, who is 26 years old this year, because of her young age, she didn't take it to the mining area, and has been living by the old man's side. As he spoke, the old man cried again: "I shouldn't have been, I shouldn't have fainted, I shouldn't have been rescued, my granddaughter is not easy, I have to spend a lot of money to fall......" Nie Guangrong listened to the old man's words, and couldn't help but burst into tears, he thought of his mother who was sick and hospitalized when he was a soldier, and thought of whether his mother would be reluctant to be hospitalized because she was reluctant to pay, and thought of her being away for a while, and her parents' thoughts about her and her own still sinking to the bottom of this familiar and unfamiliar city, I want to get ahead but can't. In the afternoon of the next day, a girl rushed into the ward, followed by a nurse and two policemen, this girl was the granddaughter of the old man, and she saw that her hair was messy, her eyes were bloodshot, her eyes were swollen from crying, and there were two clear tear stains on her crying face. It turned out that the old man didn't come home for two nights, and the granddaughter thought that the old man was lost, so she searched all over the streets and alleys, and finally the police helped to find this place. The girl looked at her grandfather eagerly, and the old man was afraid that his granddaughter would be worried, so he smiled consciously and grabbed a banana to eat. The girl saw that her grandfather was fine, crying and laughing, the old man told his granddaughter that Nie Guangrong had saved him, the girl didn't say a word, she knelt down to Nie Guangrong with a poof, Nie Guangrong hurriedly helped the girl up, glanced at the old man again, turned around and walked out of the ward. Nie Guangrong walked straight to the cement factory, delayed for two days, and owed medical expenses, Nie Guangrong had to work overtime, he didn't want to owe Ai Xiangqian too long, although Ai Xiangqian didn't care, but Nie Guangrong thought that it was not easy for anyone to make money, as long as they lived, they had to have backbone, people can be poor, they can give up unconditionally, but they can't ask for it, let alone owe it to others, even if it's a good brother.