[247] A woman pedaling a tricycle
Garbage is often generated in restaurants, and every day it is a woman who comes to collect it, and the woman is always followed by a boy of six or seven years old.
Yu Fan saw which woman was about forty years old, short and slightly fat, and peaceful, typical of Chinese working women. They pedaled a broken tricycle with a creaking sound from the back of the wheel.
Tricycles are used to load garbage, and the garbage in restaurants is loaded in advance, and women come every day to sort garbage and pull it away. There are paper products in the garbage, leftovers from soup, and if you're lucky, you'll come across leftover dishes that haven't been sold.
Whenever the boy saw the leftover dishes in good condition, he danced with joy. 'Woo' sucked his snot into his nostrils, and his eyes stared at the dish and swallowed his saliva.
Every time he saw this scene, he would think of his wolf-like brothers and sisters in his family, and he would feel pity. He would take advantage of the absence of his boss or other colleagues to secretly stuff some cooked food for the woman to take home and give to the children.
The woman's grateful eyes, and her son's happy look, made him happy and uncomfortable.
Every day, the women come to collect the garbage on time before the restaurant closes. Once you come, you have to work for hours, sort, pack, and take it all. This pattern is rarely interrupted and continues for a long time.
The woman's husband also collects garbage, but the garbage in this section is basically collected by the woman and his son. The woman pedals, the son pushes behind, and at night, the figure of the woman and her son pedaling on the road becomes a unique scenery when dusk comes.
Both husband and wife are from other rural areas, and they live by collecting garbage in the city. Until one day......
When the day closed, the woman who collected the garbage and her son had not yet arrived. Colleagues have left the restaurant one after another, but Yu Fan can't leave yet. Who called him a casual worker who did chores? You have to pack up the restaurant before you can leave.
Because it is a restaurant, the garbage must be removed every day, otherwise there will be a peculiar smell. If a customer complains, the sub-district office, the property management department, and the food supervision department will come to the door and impose a fine.
Women don't come when they are old, Yu Fan feels strange. Generally, on heavy rainy days, women will have delays in collecting garbage, but they usually come on time. After waiting a little longer, he saw the woman coming, but for some reason, she didn't come on a tricycle.
The garbage is usually piled up outside waiting for the woman to come. So Yu Fan had to go outside to see the woman sorting garbage from the garbage bag in the dim light.
The woman was still dressed in dark clothes, and she couldn't tell whether the piece was the color of the clothes or the color of the oil. There was still a lot of grease on his face, and he lacked a shiny shine under the light.
Looking at her like this, I believe she hasn't been cleaned with hot water for a long time. It's just that what's even more strange is that she came alone today, neither with her son nor by car, and her hair was messy, and there seemed to be blood on her face, as if she had fallen somewhere.
"What's the matter with you?" Yu Fan looked at her, "Don't you have to accept it today?" ”
"The tricycle broke down today, I'll sort out the garbage first, and wait for my husband to pedal early tomorrow morning to take it away."
"Isn't it? Before the store opens tomorrow morning, all the garbage must be removed, or I will be fired from class. ”
"Okay, no problem." The woman replied, and went into the shop to pick up another garbage bag.
At this time, Yu Fan saw clearly with the help of the dim light, the woman's hand seemed to be broken, perpendicular to her shoulder, and she walked with a limp, looking at her current appearance, it was impossible to carry a garbage bag.
"How are you? Wrestling? ”
"It's okay, it's just that when I came over, I was scratched by a car."
"It's dark, you walk carefully, it's not easy for you. It's not cost-effective to hurt people for this broken garbage. ”
"Yes! It's not easy! The woman was very careful, and said in a voice that seemed to be crying.
Seeing that she really couldn't move the garbage bag, Yu Fan stepped forward and helped her drag the ...... I finally dragged the garbage bag out, dragging the oil all the way. He hurriedly dragged them one by one with a mop, then took out a packet of cooked food from the kitchen, handed it to her, and said, "Bring this with you and give it to your son." ”
The woman lowered her head, as if hesitating, and after a moment tried to look up. On his pale face, there was a look of despair that could not be forgotten, and he looked at him and said, "Can this stay here and give it to my husband tomorrow?" ”
He looked at the woman's face and listened to her inexplicable words, and a cold wind rushed in, burrowing from the back of his neck into his neck, so cold that he shivered twice in a row. At the same time, the wooden door in the kitchen, maybe the wind was a little stronger, and suddenly the wooden door was blown shut with a bang, which scared Yu Fan all over.
There are few pedestrians on the streets, and women have been silently picking up garbage.
Yu Fan checked the store one by one, locked the store door, and then went back to the inner hall to rest. This is the boss's kindness, and when he saw that he was alone, he moved a place in the store and put a wire bed for him to rest.
Before going to rest, he turned around and looked at the woman who was sorting garbage in the dim light, looking lonely and helpless, and his heart was sour.
That night, Yu Fan couldn't sleep in bed over and over again, and the pitiful appearance of a woman inexplicably appeared in his mind.
I was supposed to go to work the next day, but the garbage was already clean. Unexpectedly, he was scolded by the store manager, saying why didn't people take away the garbage last night?
He's just going to take a serious look, isn't he? The pestle that was untouched by the garbage was there, and not a single bag was taken away. Yu Fan's one-month salary was deducted, and he became angry in his heart, and couldn't help but scold himself: You are a dead man, and you are not shallow in harming others. Dump me dead rat and eat ...... Eat! Angry, he threw the bag in the trash.
In the afternoon, the woman's husband came in disgrace. He didn't say a word, hung his head, and vigorously cleaned up the garbage.
Yu Fan scolded and said, "Why did you come, your mother-in-law came to clean up last night and left." I didn't pedal the bike, and I didn't take the garbage, so I was deducted from my salary for a month......"
The woman's husband was completely stunned when he heard it at first glance. Later, he cried bitterly in a trembling voice: "My wife died in a car accident last night, and I was worried that no one collected your garbage, so I rushed to clean it up, and I had to take care of her funeral." ”
Yu Fan was frightened by the woman's husband's words, he looked at this honest and honest man in disbelief as if he hadn't lied, and his heart was beating for a while.
At this time, the wind that came from somewhere blew the wooden door again and slammed it shut. The woman's husband's pouting buttocks, the creaking sound of the tricycle gradually went away, Yu Fan looked left and right, and ran to the inner hall with a smoke, not daring to make a sound for a long time.
"What happened then?" Zhong Kui looked at Yu Fan with a serious expression and asked.