Chapter 99: His Dad Is Dead
Back in the dormitory, Conan was too tired to move, and he didn't even want to move his fingers.
Togo is also too lazy to cook, but the stomach is protesting. Singing "The Empty City Plan" in a grunt, Conan said to Togo in order to comfort his stomach: "Togo, how to solve the problem of lunch?" Would you like to go grocery shopping? ”
"Forget it, wait until you go downstairs and buy a boxed lunch. I'm going to catch the boat home in a minute. My dad died. Togo said.
Conan thought to himself, this person is really calm, his heart is very hard, his father is dead, he is like no one, Conan knows that he is fake, and often makes small moves behind his back, making small reports in front of the person in charge, the person in charge likes this kind of person very much, but his colleagues stay away from him.
His father has been sick for a long time, and he has been delayed for many years, and it is said that he is working outside, and he is still very good in the countryside.
At that time, the commercial grain household registration was not abolished, and there were people in the village who participated in the work outside, which was very remarkable, and everyone was envious. It is very difficult to get out of the countryside to work. In the sixties and seventies, if you want to jump out of the farm, it is more difficult than climbing to the sky.
When a village has a worker, the village is proud of the worker. However, at that time, Togo and his younger siblings followed Togo's mother to work as a farmer at home.
Togo's father worked outside the home, and the family had no labor, so when Togo went to school and reached his first year of high school, he responded to the call, stopped his studies, and went to participate in the activities of going out to repair water conservancy.
His mother took her children to do farm work and raise children at home, which was really miserable and endured all the suffering of the world.
Because there is no main male laborer in the family, and there are many children, the family settles accounts every year, and the village accountant tells her: "This year is overspending!" She was about to complain to her husband, and Togo's father had to use the money to repair the hole and try not to owe the family money to the village.
When Togo was repairing water conservancy, he knew a little about the surface of engineering, which became his proud capital in the office of the unit, and he often showed off in front of his colleagues and the person in charge. The person in charge of water conservancy projects or other construction projects, ten tricks through nine tricks, that is, there is a trick is not through, look at what he said is the head, and he will be suspicious, anyway, he calculates more for himself, enough to do the project and there is a surplus, to other colleagues The budget is tight, and finally borrowed, and finally the project was barely completed, and he was praised in the end, not other colleagues. This selfish budget plan has continued, and the person in charge still thinks he is professional, envious, and ecstatic.
The water conservancy was almost finished, and Togo returned to the village.
Because he had studied in the first year of high school and was considered a literate rural person, the village party secretary arranged for him to be the custodian of the village warehouse.
Togo clearly remembered that some of the villagers had offended his family, especially when he and his father were not at home, and some villagers had laughed at his mother, and his mother had cried to Togo about it.
This time I became a custodian, and the opportunity came. When those villagers who had ridiculed his mother, he used the excuse of not giving things to others, or procrastinating, delaying other people's work, and taking advantage of these opportunities to rectify people, he was proud for a long time. This is called "gentleman" revenge, ten years is not too late. He was secretly smug in his heart.
Six months later, his custodian's keys were handed over, and the decision was made by a village group meeting. The village no longer considers Togo to be his relative and the eldest son of a state functionary, but there is no way. The crowd is gold, even the King Kong gourd baby, and it can't stop the corrosion of the masses' saliva.
In a fit of rage, Togo left the village to work outside, disliking agriculture and gambling. Completed a gorgeous turn, from a farmer to a professional gambler.
His father was so angry that he couldn't help it. His brother imitated him, and did not do his job, he was better than him, and the magnitude and scale of his play were large enough, which was jaw-dropping, and in the end although they all became a family, but the family was in crisis, and he was not happy.
His father later took his mother and siblings to live in the city, and handed over the old house and all the furniture in the village to him, but he thought that his father was unfair to him, bitter, always incompatible with his father, and rarely spoke together, even if he spoke, it was full of ** smell, and it seemed that a little fire could detonate a building. In short, water and fire cannot be together, it must be the result of your life and death.
Togo has brought a set of social units to the current unit, which is also full of suspicion, suspicion, inconsistency, and the danger of everyone protecting themselves.
Miss Liu is from other Jianghai areas and lacks understanding of mainlanders, especially some old fritters and ** lakes in the mainland, and Miss Liu knows very little. On the surface, hello everyone, hello everyone, just like the calm sea, there is a sign of peace on the surface, but there is a world in the water, and the dark tide is surging, full of murderous opportunities.
Togo's father's death did not affect him, and he could not see his grief, but he could see that he was somewhat proud, and thought that his enemies had finally been defeated by him, and that he had left this world first, and that from then on the number of his enemies would be reduced by one, and he could rejoice for a few days.
At noon, Conan and Togo each bought a boxed lunch, and Togo's appetite was amazing. After they finished their meal, they went back to the dormitory, and after a short rest, Togo packed his bags and boarded the bus to the port. Conan sent Togo downstairs, and he said to Togo, "Mourn and change! ”
Togo thought for a while, but didn't understand what Conan said. Maybe he'd never heard of this phrase, or maybe he had heard it, but he didn't know which words it was, so he just smiled and left.
After Togo left, Conan opened his diary and began to write about the week.
After arriving in Wei Village, he lived in the attic of Officer Fang's house. During the day, they would visit the groups to investigate the site where the pool was built, and return at night and live in the attic.
The so-called attic is a space separated by wooden planks, with purlins and green tiles on the top and wooden planks below, and the place where people move during the day under the planks. There was a light in the attic, where the light bulb hung and the switch was wired, one end tethered to the bed frame at the head of the bed, and the other end connected to the roof.
The light bulb is very dark, it is covered with dust, it seems that it has not been wiped for a long time, they do not have the habit of wiping the light bulb, and they may not have time to wipe it, they are usually busy with farm work.
I washed my feet at night, carefully went up to the attic, and fumbled to turn on the lights, but found that the brightness was not enough at all. In addition, it was too tiring to walk and climb mountains during the day, so Conan couldn't keep a diary. Therefore, I fell a little, and took advantage of Togo's absence in the dormitory, no one bothered, and made up the diary.
As soon as I wrote an article, Conan's cell phone rang, and I saw that it was an unfamiliar number and I didn't want to answer it. Keep writing in a journal. It didn't take long for the phone to ring again, and Conan answered, "Hey, is it Mr. Ji?" I'm a round-faced girl, come down, I'm downstairs. ”
When Conan heard this, he remembered that he was an old friend, and she still helped contact this house. Knowing kindness is what a gentleman should do. He said, "Oh, it's you." I'm writing in a journal. Is there something wrong with you? ”
"Why do you look like a primary school student, who is so old and still writes a diary? Come down, I'm so bored, come down and talk to me. The round-faced girl said.
Conan thought, it's okay to go down and accompany her, as long as you don't come nonsense, learn from Yanagishita Megumi, and don't sit still.
Conan went downstairs, and there sat a young girl at the door, winking at him and laughing at him. Conan saw the van parked there, and the round face opened the door, Conan got into the car, and the car drove away.
The van is a means of public transportation in the small town and county, because of its small size, easy to climb, can seat six or seven people at a time, and is very popular with the public. The traffic lines mainly run in the county, and occasionally there are chartered buses, which also go out of the county and go to the mountains.
The round-faced girl mainly runs in the county, and if the business is not good, she occasionally goes to the tea shop.
Running passenger transport in the city, from the west slope to the yellow slope, there are almost more than 20 miles of routes, running back and forth, it is enough to choke.
Huangpo is the old city, the original administrative services are located there, and later the Three Gorges Dam was built, the water level was raised, and the immigrants were relocated, and the administrative service center only built a new office building and family building on the west slope, forming an office and living area. When Conan came to the town, the Three Gorges Reservoir did not store much water, so he lived in the family building in the old city.
The round-faced girl had known each other since he was still renting a house in the dormitory in the old city living area, and Conan often took her car to the streets and the countryside to the tea shop, got off halfway, and then climbed the mountain to go to the village.
At that time, Shen Jing was in charge of supervising Hecun, and Conan occasionally went to help, and since then, the round-faced girl has kept Conan's phone number. However, this is the first time that Conan has been called.
Conan watched the round-faced girl play with the steering wheel, driving very skillfully, and while talking to Conan, he glanced at the pedestrians on the road with his eyes to see who was going to take the car.
After all, she has many years of driving experience and experience in reading people, and there will always be no shortage of people in the car, and there are one or two people or more. Conan was called into her car, where he sat in the passenger seat and could act as a passenger.
The round-faced girl does have a round face, the color is red, like a ripe apple, and she can't help but want to take a bite and taste it. Although it is only April, the north and south of the town are surrounded by mountains, the temperature is high, the round face is sprinkled with perfume, and the car also puts incense sachets, giving people a very fresh and refreshing feeling.
"I saw the middle-aged greasy uncle you were with, he went to the port, where did he go? I just thought of you, bored and flipped through the phone, I didn't expect to have your number, so I tried to make a call and ask you out to play. The round-faced girl said.
"You little girls, you like to play every day, unlike us adults, who think about supporting their families every day." Conan said.
"You are only a few years older than me, so you dare to call yourself an elder! I still pretend to be deep every day, you think I'm stupid! The round-faced girl said.
Conan smiled and immediately said seriously, "You asked me out, you won't be walking around the street, right?" ”
"I'm not doing well today. There were no guests, and people seemed to be sleeping at home. This weather is a difficult day in spring. I'm afraid of napping while driving, I'm looking for you to chat, driving without sleepiness, you don't want me to have any accidents, right? Round Face said.
"Yes, of course I hope you are safe, no accidents, you and I are not the same age, there is a generation gap, we can't communicate, you do business, I do my business, for example, I write a diary, I want to sleep while writing. Sometimes, when I really fall asleep, I can still write, and I don't know what the words mean when I write them. Ji Conan said.
"Where's your wife?" The round-faced girl asked.
"You shouldn't be asking, right? She came and went without a trace, and you want to find her? I guess you won't find it. Not long ago, my wife and children came to the town, stayed for a few days and left. Ji Conan said.
"Oh, that's a shame. Will you come back next time? I would love to meet my sister-in-law. ”
"Really? You don't want to be a third party, do you? If you want to be a third party and get involved, then, don't come to me, I tell you, I'm only good to my wife. You don't have illusions. Forget it, okay, I'll tell you next time. I've saved your number anyway. If you want to meet her, I'll contact you. ”
"Good. My sister-in-law is here, so you must tell me. My sister also gave birth to a baby and would love to find a companion to play with. I take care of the baby at home every day, I am very bored and busy. Her life path is different from mine. It's really strange, what do you want the baby to do so early, and the time to play is gone. It's so boring. ”
"Your point of view is wrong, don't take advantage of the young to have a baby, regret it when you are old, the older you are, the greater the risk of having a baby. Your sister can't wait. Then your brother-in-law can't wait, after a long time, it will be tasteless, and your brother-in-law may be cheating? Hey, what about your brother-in-law? Ji Conan asked.
"My brother-in-law is a truck driver who runs long distances. I'm always on the road, and he taught me how to drive. He is either on the way to deliver or pick up the goods, and he has very little time at home. Years of playing the steering wheel. ”
"Oh, no wonder you're very skilled."
"You have won awards, do you want to eat my tofu? Why do you say I'm skilled? Compared to my brother-in-law, my technique is far behind. Well, one more turn, and I'll send you back. I don't want to delay you too much. When my bait is almost done. You're not my cup of tea, and you can't stick to the wall. If you want to take advantage, you can't find a way, your flirting skills are simply too poor. The round-faced girl said, trying her best to mock Ji Conan's ability.
Conan realized that this little girl was using him as bait and used him specifically to "fish". People are strange and reluctant to take the lead. When you buy things in the car, you are willing to be in the middle, and you don't want to be a daredevil, and you are stable in the middle. As long as you find someone in the car, sit down; If there is no one else in the car except the driver, do not sit, for fear of being slaughtered, and should not be wronged.
Since Conan got in the car, the business of the round face has improved. Conan thought there was something good about getting into her car, and it turned out that he was helping her work. Today, it's enough to sit in the car. First motorcycles, then vans, all day in the car. I thought I was lucky to go to the peach blossoms.,I was asked out by a girl with a round face.,It turned out to be doing this.,It's really!
The round-faced girl sent Conan back to the place where he had just started to get into the car, and the little girl on duty at the inn didn't know where to go crazy. Conan waved his hand to the round face, and the round face girl drove away as fast as she could, and when it was time to get off work, it was a good opportunity to get on the guests, and she would not let go of these golden hours.