Chapter 12: He Came Home Wounded

On the second day of work in the warehouse, I got the label.

Finally got the label, go out for a spin tomorrow Sunday night. By the way, let's see if Xiao Zhao has entered the factory...... After work in the evening, I found my classmate. and ask him to borrow some money.

"You're in the factory, that's good, that's good." He said in surprise. As if it was his surprise.

"I've been in for almost a month, and this factory is too big to touch you, and I don't have a label, so there's no way to find you where you work."

"If you have any money, lend me two hundred, and I will pay you back when I pay my salary."

"Two hundred, oh," it was evident from his gaze that he seemed to think that I could not afford it.

"I really don't have it, it's okay to pay you a hundred, and I'll pay you back."

He took out his lockbox and opened it very carefully, looking at me from time to time, as if he was afraid that I would peek at his password. I dug it in the lockbox for a long time and gave it to me.

"Thank you, it's just tomorrow and Sunday, I don't work overtime at night, after work, I'll go buy something, and by the way, I'll take a look at my hometown." I say.

"Fellow."

"Yes, it's from a township, I met outside, and the people are not bad."

"You can't protect yourself, you still go to see him, and then he asks you to borrow money, you don't lend it to him."

"It's easy to borrow money, but it's hard to ask for money."

I felt as if he was saying this to me.

As soon as I got off work on Sunday, I walked out to see Xiao Zhao. Fortunately, I went out, and he thought that his old watch would come out to see him in the evening, and he was going to borrow money from his old watch. As a result, he didn't come out at all, or he didn't want to see him at all, and he didn't even want Xiao Zhao to see him.

"Let's go, I'll invite you to dinner, your old cousin hasn't come out yet, which department is he, I'll look for it tomorrow."

"There are dozens of dollars here, I'll give it to you first, and I can use it for about a week, so it's not too late for your old watch to come out next Sunday." I say.

"Have you heard that this factory will recruit male workers again, damn, my height is also a little worse, even if I reach the height, I may not be able to enter. If it doesn't work, I'll go to another nearby factory. They recruit male workers, junior high school students, as long as they can do 20 push-ups and 20 abdominal push-ups, but I heard that the operation of the machines in that factory is very dangerous, and many people are injured. "Whatever the does, let's talk about the advanced factory, and now check the temporary residence permit every day." I don't dare to go out during the day or at night. He said helplessly.

"There will be no more recruitment in the next few weeks, or you will do it first in other factories, and then you will talk about it when you have the opportunity."

"Okay, I'll go to that factory tomorrow to try it, that factory can come out every night, and on Sunday, I'll wait for you at the gate ......of your factory," Xiao Zhao said.

"It's almost time to enter the factory, so I'll go in first. You stay safe outside. ”

After returning to the dormitory, I remembered that the quilt had not been bought yet, and I heard that the temperature was going to drop in the past two days, and I gave Xiao Zhao the money to buy the quilt. There was a broken blanket on another empty bed in the dormitory, and I took it outside to pat the dust on the blanket and cover it first. I went to and from work as always, and soon the week was over. On Sunday night, I walked to the factory gate and looked for a long time, but I didn't see Xiao Zhao. I was thinking that he might not have entered the factory yet, in a rental house, maybe with his cousin. I walked to the rental house and didn't find him, and the landlord told me that he had moved out two days ago, and it seemed that he had entered the factory.

"Which factory?"

"I don't know this, when he moved out two days ago, he seemed to have entered the factory." I hurried back to the factory and found his cousin in another dormitory building.

"I also went out at night and didn't find him." His cousin said.

"The point is that he doesn't have any money on him?" I say.

"There's no money, as long as you enter the factory, you'll be fine." His cousin said to me impatiently.

This week feels very slow, and I've been worried about what will happen to Xiao Zhao. On Sunday, as soon as I got off work, I quickly rushed out of the factory door and saw Xiao Zhao squatting there at a glance.

"Xiao Zhao, Xiao Zhao." I quickly walked up to him and said:

"Last Sunday, where did you go, I didn't see you at the factory gate, you weren't in the rental house, the fat man said, you entered the factory."

"Entering the factory, no, okay?"

"I entered the factory, and when I first entered the factory, I didn't issue a brand plate, and the security guards didn't let me out."

"Oh, oh, it's good to enter the factory, it's good to enter the factory."

"What's wrong with your hand?" He only cared to speak, but did not pay attention to his hands. Only then did I see that one of his fingers was wrapped in thick gauze, and there were blood stains on his palms that had not been washed.

"It's okay, it's okay, I was accidentally crushed by the machine."

"Did you hurt your bones, did you go to the hospital for a film?"

"It's fine, just a little skin trauma."

"Let's go, I'll invite you to dinner." Xiao Zhao said about it.

"You didn't lie to me, you just went to work, where can you afford to invite me to dinner?"

"You don't have to worry about this, you just have to eat." Haha, he smiled and pulled me to a restaurant, ordered three dishes and one soup very luxuriously, and took two bottles of drinks.

"From your old watch?"

"Don't ask so much, eat first, eat more, damn, we've been suffering for this time, haha....."

"This is what I borrowed from you, and I gave you sixty quickly."

"Where did you get the money?" I asked him.

He never answered my question.

"Next week, I'll pay my salary, and I won't have much, so I'll treat you to a big meal and make two drinks."

He didn't answer, and after eating, he escorted me to the factory gate, then turned around and left......

On Saturday I received my first month's salary, and the next night I walked to the factory gate as soon as I got off work. "Order a stir-fried pork with green peppers, then a braised fish, another one, another braised pork (that bird's feather favorite food), then a tomato egg soup, and then two cans of beer, and have a good celebration, haha" I thought as I walked. I didn't see Xiao Zhao when I got to the back. Where did he go? I'm thinking. I walked back to the rental room. There is a better restaurant diagonally opposite the rental house,

"Owner, ordered three dishes, one soup, two cans of beer. Hurry up, I'll be here in about twenty minutes. ”

"Xiao Zhao, Xiao Zhao." I pushed the door open and shouted.

"Xiao Zhao, you're talking about the fellow who was a soldier, he, he went back a few days ago." The fat landlord said.

"I went back, how did I go back?"

"You don't know, just a few days after he entered the factory, he accidentally broke one of his fingers while operating on the machine. The boss gave him 500 yuan and notified the security guards to kick him out of the factory. ”

"This is a camouflage uniform left by Xiao Zhao, and it was told to you."

I took my clothes and watched for a long, long time before leaving......