Chapter 1: Gao Wei
"Goodbye, Old Xu. ”
Gao Wei looked at the old figure that was gradually moving away and sighed silently, how hard an old man was before, a serious illness, alas. Who can say anything about the things in this world? Maybe he will lie down one day, maybe he is not as good as Lao Xu!
"Xiao Gao, let's go!" a tall middle-aged man patted Gao Wei's shoulder, and walked out directly.
Gao Wei hurriedly responded: "Come back when you have time, Mr. Li." “
Mr. Li is the last customer in the store, and since Mr. Li is gone, it will be closed now. It's been a busy day, but it's time to take a break.
Gao Wei, 21 years old, has no father and no mother, and has been in an orphanage since he was a child. I didn't study much, I didn't have much cultural background, and with a little cooking skills, I opened such a small restaurant called "Diners" with the help of several old people. The business is okay, the food is delicious, and the prices are reasonable, and it should even be said that it is very cheap. I didn't make much money after surviving this day, buying and selling vegetables, buying and selling oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, firewood, rice, oil and salt, and the rest of the money was enough to eat, buy some clothes or something. But if you want to go on a trip, you don't have that kind of spare money. Because Gao Wei's restaurant buys fresh and good dishes, and he won't play any bad intentions, he knows that he can do business honestly, but if he has this skill with a bad heart, how can he not live like this?
I closed the door, pulled a chair and sat there, and said that I could take a break, and I was busy enough to choke this day. Looking at the watch, it's already half past ten, and in a small city like Linyang, it's quite late at half past ten. The supermarket or something is also closed early, and there is really no nightlife. The pace of life here is relatively slow, and in the words of Lao Xu, "this place is suitable for the elderly". Gao Wei said to himself there: "Pension for the elderly, yes, let's go up and raise it this time." “
After a little rest, I am ready to wash and sleep, and tomorrow I have to get up early to prepare the ingredients. There are no holidays in this business, and people have to eat on any holidays, and you can't rest if you want to make money. What's more, Gao Wei's small restaurant is not very profitable in the first place, if it is a two-day break, it will be enough to see. Just as he was saying that he was going to rest, he listened to the sound of "popping" slamming the door, and when I heard that this was the palm of the hand, if you knocked it with your fingers, you couldn't knock out this movement. Listening to the sound knocking on the door, the person probably didn't have much strength, the sound was not loud, and he stopped for a while after two taps.
"Oops," Gao Wei muttered to himself, "who's this, I just said I was going to sleep." Reluctantly, I opened the door and saw that there was no one.
"Those bad boys. Gao Wei pondered, "If you don't hurry home after school in the evening, come to me twice, it's true." Subconsciously lowered his head, "Yo he!" Under his feet, an uncle was lying there, and he didn't know what he was doing. The light is not good, and the person can't see what he looks like, and he can only see a rough outline face down. Gao Wei didn't want to care about it for a while, thinking that if there was really something here, he couldn't tell if he mixed it in, and he still wanted to do business honestly. But then I thought about it, hey, everyone has a difficult time, and I have a bad time since I was a child. Come on, since you have met, if you can take a hand, you can take a hand, maybe you can do a good job of accumulating virtue today, and you can go back to Lord Yama to say something. Thinking of this, Gao Wei started to help the old man up, and he went to the house.
When there was a light in the house, I turned it on, and when I saw this old man, his clothes were ragged and his face was dirty. Gao Weixin said: This may be asking for food, it can be regarded as you, lucky, you ran into me, if you run into someone else, you may not be able to do anything.
Looking at the old man's dirty, thin, skinny, skinny, and skinny, this looks like how many days he hasn't eaten. It's also to catch up with Gao Wei, the kid's heart is quite good, seeing that the old man is so thin, he walked to the back kitchen and made some side dishes, but he was also afraid that the old man hadn't eaten for too long, and he couldn't stand it when he ate it, so he boiled some millet porridge.
When I walked out, I was very happy when I saw that the old man was up. Don't look at it has nothing to do with him Gao Wei, when he saw that the old man was fine, he was very happy.
"Come, uncle. Gao Wei smiled and said, "Come, eat some food, drink some porridge." As he spoke, he pulled out a chair, which meant that you sat there and ate slowly. The old man was probably hungry, so he grabbed the bowl and drank a big bowl of porridge, and saw that the dishes were directly grasped. While eating, he also looked at Gao Wei, with gratitude and fear in his eyes. Gao Wei looked at the old man, and his heart felt sour for no reason: he is so old, he just has a full meal, no wonder his body is so thin.
"You slow down, don't choke, it's not enough!" Gao Wei watched while persuading on the side. He was also afraid, you said that this old man must not have eaten a full meal for a long time, and he just eats like this when he sees it, to put it mildly, he is so old, and young people can't stand it.
Alas, it's been all this year, and I can't even eat here here in Linyang. Gao Wei sighed in his heart, although life is better than before, there are still people who can't eat. If you can get the subsistence allowance down, it's okay, but look at this, you don't need to ask, it must be that the subsistence allowance hasn't come down! Either you really don't know how to get it, or it doesn't have to be at which level someone will be deducted.
Gao Wei deliberately left the old man behind, no matter what, the old man stayed in his own place, so that he could have a hot meal to eat, and he could get by this day, nothing more than adding a pair of chopsticks! This is not to say that he can't ignore it, but Gao Wei can do anything if he doesn't run into him, but he still feels uncomfortable when he encounters this matter. I thought about it and decided. You have to leave it for the old man, no matter what, when you get old, you have to have a place, right? Even if you say it's just two days, you can send it to a nursing home or shelter after two days. If you make up your mind, just do it.
"Uncle," Gao Wei said, "you eat yours first, and I'll discuss something with you." “
The old man raised his head, and the gratitude in his eyes was overflowing, and when he heard Gao Wei say that he wanted to discuss something, this head nodded like a little chicken pecking at it.
Gao Wei told the old man his thoughts, and the old man stopped talking after listening, didn't even eat, put down the dishes and chopsticks, and sat there with a frown. Gao Weixin said: What kind of stubble is this, this is, but it is a sentence if it doesn't work.
The old man sat on the side and thought for a long time, then shook his head. Gao Wei was stunned for a moment, he never expected such a result, and don't people want to settle down when they get old, why do they think about it again, hey, everyone has their own ambitions, if you don't want to stay here, don't stay, maybe the old man has some relatives to run to, and it's not easy for him to force it.
After the old man finished eating and drinking, Gao Wei packed up his things and took the old man to a room. This room was originally for guests, but there are no guests today, and the old man is here again. As the old saying goes, help people to the end, and send Buddha to the west. Let people eat well, so let people sleep well.
Tell the old man to sleep in this house today. After the arrangements were made for the old man, Gao Wei also returned to his room and prepared to sleep. As soon as I arrived in my house, I heard a "click" of thunder outside, and then the heavy rain fell. Gao Wei looked at it, this is fortunate that the old man got in, he has been hungry for so long at such an age, and if it rains again, it will be enough to see this business tomorrow.
But in the old man's house, at the same time as the thunder sounded, the old man's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, staring at the night outside.
Tonight, it's raining heavily!