Chapter 231: Hunger and Cold
Lao Wang roared loudly in the next room, and Ziyang lay silent on the bed, staring at the ceiling and thinking about his thoughts. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
After Lao Wang came back, he didn't report to the school as soon as he came back, but went to Ye Baili's school to find her, ready to "continue the frontier", but ran to the student office and entangled for a long time, but was told that "there is no such person".
Lao Wang Donkey had a temper attack, thinking that someone else had lied to him, making a big fuss about the student office, and almost got into trouble with others. If he hadn't called the school police, maybe he would have continued to roll around on the floor of the office.
After coming back, the more Wang thought about it, the more angry he became, he always felt that he had been deceived by the admissions office, and he was extremely depressed.
Ziyang didn't make a noise and didn't mess with him, and let him go.
At this time, Zi Yang was not in the mood to take a haircut with Lao Wang, and he had more troubles in his heart that needed to be solved.
After returning to H City, in order to pay the rent and prepare for living expenses, the two of them scraped together and borrowed a sum of money from their classmates, basically people who had a little friendship were harassed by the two brothers, and Lao Wang even scavenged a few hundred yuan from Mr. Li, and finally paid the rent for the next three months.
After paying the utility bills, the remaining money was not enough for a rice bowl.
Ziyang is worried, her eyes are straight when she walks, and she has begun to seriously consider going to the vegetable market to pick up vegetable leaves.
After returning to China, Jin Guoqiang and Ah Chong did not contact them again, and even Su Rui lost news - Zi Yang knew that although his life was "difficult", it was nothing compared to their "sword and sword" world.
It's just that this "dire water" day can't survive for a few days, and if they can't think of a way to make money, they will soon be hungry and cold.
These days, Zi Yang has also carefully thought about the relationship with Su Rui.
After calming down, I felt that it was impossible to deal with Su Rui. The simplest and most realistic point is that people are faced with various scientific research topics every day, and the projects they participate in are often tens of millions or hundreds of millions. I was faced with firewood, rice, oil and salt every day, and bargained with the vendor for half a day for a few catties of rice.
Not people from the same world at all.
Emotional matters are put aside first, and life still has to go on no matter what.
Ziyang got in touch with the school's work-study office, and then asked a few seniors for help, lost a lot of smiles, said countless good things, and finally got some opportunities to work outside the school.
After this toss, Ziyang felt more and more how humble his life was. No matter how noble your sentiments are, you can't resist bending your waist for five buckets of rice.
As a child from a poor family, Ziyang is more precocious than his peers, although he also yearns for a vigorous romantic love, but deep down he has long understood this reality: love is not a vow of wind and snow, but a trivial matter of firewood, rice, oil and salt.
The rest of the day was quite hard.
Ziyang went to the "famous" second-hand car repair market (where all the stolen bicycles in the city are concentrated) spent 100 yuan to dump a new car, and rode his bicycle every day to distribute flyers in the streets and alleys, push products door-to-door, and do market research with uncles and aunts on the street...... Although this kind of work does not earn much, every labor has a real harvest.
Such days went on for more than ten days.
At first, Ziyang worked by himself, and later Lao Wang and Xiao Hei were also forced by him to go out to work together, Ziyang consciously took on the responsibility of supervising the work, and everyone was driven out in the bright sky, and Mo Mohei was put back. Although it is hard, it can finally support it.
As soon as they got home every day, the three of them were tired and lay on the bed and didn't want to move.
It's been more than a month since they returned to school, and from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the city south of the Yangtze River, they are slowly getting used to the fireworks in the world.
Ordinary life is like a year every day, and occasionally in my heart, I will think of the adventure in the wind, frost and snowy night, although it is vicious, I actually miss it a little.
Sometimes, when time comes, the two of them will also talk about those people and those things.
"Lao Li, what do you say the boss will do with Jin Guoqiang and Ah Chong?" Lao Wang chewed a handful of biscuits, spraying biscuit foam as he spoke.
"I don't know." Ziyang chewed a handful of biscuits and rolled her eyes in choked.
Recently, they helped a food company promote a new listing of biscuits, the so-called promotion, is to send a small box of samples to people to taste, things are not valuable, but every time you have to talk to the residents for a long time, often knock on the door to get a big eye, you have to pay people a smile.
There is no way, college students with no work experience can only do this kind of unskilled work.
Lao Wang is a donkey temper person, several times almost with the household, in his own words, if it weren't for a few stinky money, he would have quit a long time ago, when did he suffer this kind of grievance?
Later, Lao Wang learned to be obedient, moved all the boxes of biscuits assigned to him home, and casually filled in some household information on the form and handed it in - anyway, the nuclear inspectors would not go door-to-door to re-inspect - even if the re-inspection people would not give him a good look.
In this way, these boxes of biscuits helped them survive a lot of days and saved a lot of pre-meals.
But it's not the same thing to eat biscuits as a meal every day, eating too much will pull your throat, occasionally you will be nauseated, and sometimes you want to vomit while eating Ziyang.
As a principled and sentimental person, it is a dereliction of duty not to do a good job of the work assigned by others, and it is even more dishonest to secretly possess and swallow samples.
"How's your brick moving company? Can you get in touch? Zi Yang asked Lao Wang, although moving bricks is tiring, but the income is high, and there is no need to be looked down upon every day, Zi Yang prefers to compete with bricks than dealing with people - at least the bricks will not scold him for being stupid.
"Hey, don't mention it, something happened on the construction site, and the boss owed a huge debt and ran away with his sister-in-law!"
Zi Yang tilted his head and carefully thought about the logic in this sentence.
At this time, Xiao Hei gently poked Ziyang and pointed to the hallway.
At the bottom of the door, a white envelope appeared at some point.
Zi Yang walked over and picked it up, but the envelope was not written with his name on it.
Zi Yanghu looked at Lao Wang suspiciously: "Have you left our address to anyone?" β
Lao Wang craned his neck and shook his head: "Is it a bill for water, electricity and gas?" β
"The bills are all stuffed in the mailbox, how can they be stuffed through the cracks in the door!"
Ziyang opened the envelope, and there was only a blank piece of paper inside, on which a time and a place were neatly written in regular script. Except for a simple two-line word, there are no other annotations.
Zi Yang looked at it a few times and wondered, "Is this anyone's prank?" Except for Ah Chong, Su Rui, and Jin Guoqiang, who knows where we live? β
Lao Wang swallowed his saliva: "Professor Zhang, he must know ...... too"
On a hot day, the two couldn't help but shiver together.
Professor Zhang's three words are no less than a demonic existence in their hearts at this moment.
"Found the door? It's time to settle accounts after the fall! Lao Wang looked up in horror and looked around, as if Professor Zhang was hiding in a corner and watching them.
Zi Yang was also panicked by what he said, "Don't scare yourself!" Do you have an impression of when this envelope appeared? β
"I'm as tired as a dog every day, I can't open my eyes when I enter the door, so why don't I care if there's anything on the ground?" Lao Wang was dissatisfied, these days, in order to repay their debts, Ziyang frantically forced them to work, and the degree of violence was no less than that of Zhou Papi.
Ziyang is actually similar to him, he took a lot of work-study lists, almost no one refused, and the people who sent him to see him were easy to talk, and threw some lists that others were unwilling to do to him - this kind of list is basically less money and more hard work.
Lao Wang lay on Ziyang's shoulder and looked at the two lines of words, and suddenly exclaimed: ", I'm familiar with this place, isn't it the place where Ah Chong invited us to dinner last time?" It's right next to our school! β
Zi Yang also remembered that when he and Lao Wang were messing around in their medical school last summer, they happened to meet Ah Chong "catching ghosts", and later Ah Chong recognized himself and specially invited them to an antique restaurant to eat and catch up.
"Could it be Ah Chong?"
"But if he wants to invite us to dinner, wouldn't it be okay to go to H City? Why did you run to S City? Did you go to our school to catch ghosts again? Lao Wang looked confused again.
"What time is it?" Zi Yang asked, looking at the date on the letterhead.
Both of them were a little confused, and looked at the calendar on the computer only to find that the date written on the letter paper was today, less than half an hour away from the time agreed on it.
Even if they take the fastest car to get from H city to S city, it will take at least more than 1 hour, and it will definitely be too late.
"Let's go!" Zi Yang didn't say a word, grabbed his backpack and rushed out.
When Lao Wang saw it, he hurriedly picked up Xiao Hei, who was still playing games, and chased after him, "Wait for me!" Damn it! Someone invites you to dinner, don't you want to leave me! β
The two got into the fastest bus, and when they arrived in S City, it was already dark, Ziyang looked at his watch, and the agreed time had already passed. But there is still a glimmer of hope in my heart.
The three men stopped a taxi and urged the driver to run wildly along the way. The driver looked at the three dusty young men in confusion: "Are you on a mission?" β
"Yes, it is a matter of national security, and you must cooperate with us unconditionally! Quick, run the red light! Lao Wang commanded the driver with a serious face.
"Whew!" The driver burst out of his nose with a cold breath and stopped the car in front of the red light with disdain.
Although he didn't believe Lao Wang's nonsense, the driver still sent them to their destination at a high speed.
"Young people, no matter how anxious they are, they must obey the traffic rules, and they are in a hurry!" The driver slowly shook off a good word, and drove away.
Lao Wang and Ziyang glanced at each other and stepped on the stairs.
The inconspicuous faΓ§ade, only to walk into the inner hall only to find that there is a hole inside. The hall has thirty or fifty pairs of tables and chairs, and the decoration is elegant, antique. In the center of the hall, an artificial fountain of living water bubbled loudly, and next to a huge coffee table made of old tree roots, a young woman wearing a cheongsam was fiddling with a pair of kung fu tea sets.
Everything is familiar.
It was the peak of the evening greetings, and the hall was already full.
"How many gentlemen?" The hostess in a cheongsam asked enthusiastically.
"Oh, let's find someone......" Zi Yang clenched the letter paper tightly in his hand, this paper he had been holding in his hand, and it had been crumpled into a ball by him.
It's still too late, will Ah Chong already leave?
"Do you have a reservation?" The service attitude of etiquette is very thoughtful.
"I, I don't know......" Zi Yang knew that Ah Chong would definitely not use his real name to make a reservation.
"Let's find a friend, he should have booked a box here, well, not tall or short, thin, very handsome, wearing long-sleeved clothes, not smiling, walking doesn't seem to touch the ground...... By the way, the eyebrows on one side of him seem to be cut off from the middle...... "Lao Wang said and gestured there, and the waiter listened with a blank face.
"I know who they're talking about, come with me." A beautiful woman in a suit and skirt dressed like a foreman came over and said.
"Okay, thank you, big sister!" Lao Wang's mouth is quite sweet.
The scale of this hotel is really not small, and there are at least a dozen private rooms.
The beautiful foreman took them around and around to a corner and knocked on the door of a suite: "Hello, sir, there are a few guests here, I don't know if they are your friends." β
The foreman opened the door and saw a handsome young man sitting in the box.
Seeing Zi Yang and them, the young man immediately stood up.