"The factory is really going to close, do you all have a place to go?"

As soon as Chen Zhi, who was covered in dust, walked out of the factory, he heard the workers talking, and he looked up blankly, and a bankruptcy notice was posted on the tattered bulletin board, which was what he expected. The efficiency of this small mechanical processing plant has long been bad, and it has been reduced several times, and Chen Zhi has dragged it out until now because of his hard work.

"Chen Zhi, what should you do? Found a place to go? At the checkout, Uncle Lin, who was in the same workshop as Chen Zhi, asked with concern, he knew the situation of Chen Zhi's family too well.

Chen Zhi did not have a happy family, he was born in the northeast city of A, which is famous for its abundance of steel. There is a very famous steel factory called A Steel, nearly one-third of the people in this city work here, and there are many small factories that depend on A Steel to survive.

His father was a regular employee of Steel Mill A, which was an enviable iron rice bowl, but since he can remember, there are only two things he remembers of his father: one is the constant drinking, and the other is the constant beating and scolding. So much so that Chen Zhi has never communicated with his father normally since he was a child.

In the year Chen Zhi graduated from technical school, his father had a serious work accident after drinking and was fired from the factory. The father, who had no job, was even more depraved, drinking all day long, and finally suffered a stroke after drinking and was honorably sent to a nursing home. Chen Zhi's mother divorced his father that year and moved out. It's not that Chen Zhi has never resented his father, but no matter how resentful he is, it is still his biological father, and he can't ignore him.

Chen Zhi's father's nursing home has to pay 1,200 yuan a month for living management. Money is what Chen Zhi needs most at the moment.

It is not very easy to find a job in City A, and being unemployed means that he may have no food and clothing in the following days, and he can solve it himself, but the old man in the nursing home can't afford to wait.

Chen Zhi frowned and returned home, this so-called home is the only property left to him by the old man, a dilapidated house of about forty square meters, every time it rains heavily outside, the corners of the house seep water, and there are moldy walls everywhere.

There was no warmth in the room, the heating of the old house was too bad, Chen Zhi lay on his back on the bed, looking at the roof full of spider silk and tattered. "If you really can't help it, do you want to rob it?" Chen Zhi was thinking wildly, feeling very lost and helpless, and God may have forgotten to open the window when he closed a door for him.

Chen Zhi did not have much education, let alone go to university, he studied riveting in vocational school, and was assigned to this small private company that had just closed down. Similarly, Chen Zhi does not have a girlfriend, because with his current conditions, no girl is willing to look at him, and Chen Zhi is really unable to afford other people's lives.

A ticking sound interrupted Chen Zhi's thoughts.

"Damn, there's a water leak again!" Chen Zhi muttered, reluctantly stood up, and followed the ticking sound to find it.

The water leaks out of the heater, and the old-fashioned decoration wraps the heating in a wooden board, and if you want to fix the heating, you have to pry the wood board open. Chen Zhi had no choice but to find tools, he didn't want to flood his house after losing his job.

This wooden board is not difficult to pry open, it took less than two minutes for Chen Zhi to get it done, take away all the wooden boards, a wooden grid appeared inside, and in the wooden grid lay quietly a cardboard box, which was used for fruit a long time ago, and I don't know how long it was in it, and it was already full of dust.

Chen Zhi suddenly felt curious in his heart, he didn't remember that there was a cardboard box placed here.

Chen Zhi simply dealt with the heating, moved the carton box out of the wooden grid, and blew the dust on it, the carton was very moldy, Chen Zhi gently opened the lid.

What the hell could be in there? Chen Zhi thought curiously. When he opened it, he saw that it was a textbook he had used when he was a child, and he picked up a copy and flipped through it, and found that many pages had been glued together, and there were some class notes he had made in the book. He looked at the crooked words and remembered the events of his elementary school days.

He was not happy in elementary school, since his father was fired from the factory, every time he drank alcohol, he would go crazy and scold Chen Zhi and his mother, his mother never quarreled with his father, but his attitude towards Chen Zhi and his father was very indifferent, Chen Zhi often saw an indescribable coldness in ****** eyes. Their family doesn't have any relatives in City A, which is actually very strange, but this has made Chen Zhi accustomed to facing loneliness since he was a child.

Recalling the events of his childhood, Chen Zhi picked up a book wrapped in a book cover, which was given to him by a female classmate in elementary school. Open the book cover, this is a book of "Primary School Mathematics", and in the lower right corner there is a crooked name he wrote, Chen Zhi in the third class.

A memory suddenly flooded into his mind at this moment, but he couldn't make it clear, but there was a feeling that he seemed to have forgotten something. He flipped through the book, and the cover fell straight down, and a yellowed note floated out of it.

Chen Zhi picked up the note, the note was folded in half, it was not big, and when Chen Zhi opened the note, a long-sealed memory flooded into his mind.

Two lines of words were neatly written on the note: "At two o'clock in the afternoon, A Steel Youth Forging Factory, see you in the factory warehouse, take the commuter car at the main gate of A Steel at 12 o'clock at noon, get off the terminal, remember to come, tens of millions!" "The inscription is a Guo character, and on the back of the note there is a map drawn, which marks the location of the gate, factory and warehouse in great detail, so that even a small child can see it at a glance.

Chen Zhi looked at the note, his eyes were motionless, and his memory was slowly waking up. He put the note in the book jacket himself, and the content of the note was also written to him, and he had also visited the factory where the back of the note was drawn.

School used to be the place that Chen Zhi hated the most, in his memory, his parents never came to school, let alone give gifts to teachers, plus he himself was also playful, the teachers never paid attention to him, only when it was necessary to rectify classroom discipline, they would bring him up and let him be punished. But not all teachers treated him badly, and there was once a math teacher surnamed Guo who showed him twelve points of concern.

Teacher Guo is newly transferred, and Chen Zhi can't remember his face clearly, but this Teacher Guo often calls him out, chats with him, asks him about the situation at home, such as what his parents do, what they usually eat at home, and asks some questions that he can't understand at that age, and Chen Zhi doesn't write it down.

Chen Zhi was very impressed that Mr. Guo had a watch in his hand, and the edge of the dial was golden, and Chen Zhi had never seen anyone wear it. Mr. Guo told him that this watch was a foreign product, called Omega, and said that this watch would be given to him sooner or later, which made Chen Zhi happy for a while. It wasn't until I grew up that in those days, the gold-edged Omega watch was a bit too expensive for an elementary school teacher.

The note he was holding in his hand was left to him by this teacher Guo, it was during a recess, Chen Zhi played football on the playground like a mud monkey, and Mr. Guo called him under the big tree next to the field, when Mr. Guo was sweating profusely, he hurriedly handed the note in his hand to Chen Zhi, and when he left, he said with a solemn expression, "You must come!" ”

At that time, Chen Zhi was like a monk in Zhang's second year, and he couldn't figure it out at all, but if he went to the place where the note was drawn, he would have to skip school, otherwise he wouldn't have time to catch the commuter bus at the factory gate. And Xiao Chen Zhi has never been to such a far place, the Youth Forge is one of the affiliated small factories of A Steel, in the easternmost part of City A, it takes nearly an hour to take a commuter car. But at that time, Mr. Guo's status in Chen Zhi's heart was very high, so Chen Zhi decided to go.

Chen Zhi can't remember exactly how he got into the car, but he only remembers that it was the first time he went to such a far place alone, and the car drove for a long time.

The factory is located on the outskirts of City A, and it is not as lively as the west side of Steel A. There wasn't even half a figure at the door, and he remembered that he had entered the factory smoothly. In his memory, he passed by a particularly large factory according to the map, and through the glass window at the back door of the factory, he could see that there was a tin warehouse behind the factory, and Mr. Guo was standing there.

Chen Zhi remembered that when he saw Teacher Guo at that time, he found that there was an indescribable anxiety on Teacher Guo's face, which was very distorted. Just as he was about to open the door and go out to meet him, suddenly, a liberation truck rushed out and slammed Mr. Guo against the door of the warehouse.

Chen Zhi clearly remembered that the rear of the Jiefang truck was facing him, so that he couldn't see what Mr. Guo had become. After that, a lot of people got off the truck, and they all rushed to the front of the car, and no one noticed a child standing behind the door. Chen Zhi was terrified. At that time, there was only one thought in his mind, and that was "running". He made the most instinctive reaction of a child when he encountered danger, turned his head and ran, running wildly. In his fright, he couldn't even remember how he ran back.

But the next day, the unthinkable happened, and Mr. Guo, who was hit by a truck, went to work at school again.