Chapter 18: The Underworld

Folding money?

Chen Qiu turned his head and saw 80 yuan in cash on the counter.

In the last two years, cash has almost disappeared.

This guy not only has a Buddhist personality, but also lives a retro life?

He was about to go and collect the money.

A pickup truck rumbled outside.

"Is it the glass that needs to be changed here?"

The car stopped at the entrance of the clinic, and a middle-aged master rolled down the window and poked his head out to ask him.

Chen Tian shouted?

Chen Qiu glanced at the beaten counter, although the ground was cleaned up, the glass on the counter was broken, and there were still many pieces on the edge that had not been removed, which looked very dazzling.

It's time to change the glass, he nodded and said yes to the master.

To tell the truth, if Chen Tian hadn't called the master who installed the glass, he probably wouldn't have bothered to call someone to change it. Anyway, for him, no one is expected to grab the Western medicine on the counter. They are all medicines for minor diseases, and if you really have a major illness, people in the community will not come to him as a community doctor.

"This place is quite remote, and it takes more than half an hour to walk from the development zone."

The master opened the door and got out of the car, handed over a cigarette, and followed by an apprentice, who was unloading the glass. The counter glass looks very long, but in fact, it is all piece by piece, but it is actually very short. One person can be unloaded.

"It's a little."

Chen Qiu took the cigarette and lay down on the bamboo chair. He smoked a lot, at least one and a half packs a day. lit a puff and frowned slightly, the smell of smoke was a little unsightly. It's no different from paper.

"Opening a clinic here shouldn't be a good business."

"Well, it's pretty bleak."

"How do you pay the rent? Although the housing prices in this place are cheap, the faΓ§ade fee should be quite a lot. ”

"This building is mine."

"Forehead ......"

The apprentice put the glass up in the doorway piece by piece, and the master saw that it was about the same, so he picked up a piece and laid it flat on the counter.

Chen Qiu sat on a plate and watched them pretend.

"This glass is also a science, not too much and not too little. Just like being a human being, don't look at the glass is transparent, but the front is also sand. So let's be a little more open-minded, we can't always be useless sand, we have to be useful glass, understand? ”

The master picked up a ruler and gestured on the cabinet while teaching the apprentice.

"Oh, I know uncle."

The apprentice stood obediently aside.

"Let's take a hand and hold this side."

"Okay."

The apprentice walked up to Chen Qiu and helped the master hold the glass.

Chen Qiu looked at him with interest: "It's not a local." ”

Yuncheng belongs to the south, the accent is a little softer, and the dialects of all cities, counties and townships in the province are different. Even when you speak Mandarin, there is a plastic smell, and it is easy to hear the difference.

"Bingcheng, the trickle I learned in the factory over there, and now I have a glass factory." The master took out the glass knife and drew a line on the glass: "The family conditions are not good, and I can't afford to hire many people, so I will bring my relative's son." Don't look at my nephew's skills, he is still a good person. ”

"I can see it."

Chen Qiu shook the ashes of his cigarette, his nephew's face was honest and honest, but he also had that kind of simplicity unique to Northeast people.

"It's still naughty, though." The master took off the marked glass and began to disassemble the cabinet with a screwdriver: "This kid was very honest in front of him, and he taught him two sentences, and he said that he knew everything, and after receiving his salary, he went to the Internet cafΓ©, and he usually didn't go out to pick up work, and he was very playful." ”

"It's normal, kids. I'm his age and I love to play. Chen Qiu remembered that when he was seventeen or eighteen years old, he didn't study well in high school, and he often climbed the wall to go out to surf the Internet, and finally reluctantly took the second medical university.

"You can't do this, now the factory relies on me to run the business alone, sometimes there are too many orders, and the guests don't want my glass next time." If this kid doesn't learn the craft well, how will the factory develop? I can't do it alone. The master shook his head, disagreeing with Chen Qiu's statement.

"That's just as well." Chen Qiu agreed, took another puff of his cigarette, and then threw the cigarette out of the door. The smoke was faint, like smoking a roll of paper.

"So I still have to educate, but I'm not his parents, I can't beat him, and I don't listen to the scolding. It is still necessary for him to understand the truth of being a man, people live in this world, and there are some things that must be learned. Especially when you are out and about, when you are alone, you have to learn the craft, you have to do a good job, and your own safety must be guaranteed. ”

The master pointed to the scar on the apprentice's face and said, "Look, I got into a fight with someone in an Internet cafΓ© a few days ago. We Northeast gentlemen don't cause trouble, and we're not afraid of things. But there is no chance in the Internet cafΓ©, and this kid has to let the family out, isn't it provoking? I see, I deserve it. ”

"Huh."

Chen Qiu looked outside, the clouds were continuous outside, the heavy rain was pouring down, and a cold wind hit, bringing a slight coolness. He took out his cigarette, took a deep breath, and said, "It's a good thing to be young and vigorous, it means to have momentum." ”

"It's a good thing to have momentum, but you have to use it in the right place, no matter what, you can't take the initiative to find fault and make trouble."

"Hmm." Chen Qiu shifted his body to make himself lie down more comfortably.

The master carefully took out the glass slag that had not been removed from the edge of the counter and placed it all on the other layer of glass cabinets, which were still in good condition. While starting to install the first piece of glass, he said, "So this kid was beaten, and he was beaten." I'm too lazy to give him a head, it's time to teach him a lesson. ”

"You're a good way of educating people." It's a comfortable feeling to lie on a bamboo chair and listen to the rain outside. This reminded Chen Qiu of when he was a child in the countryside on the outskirts of Yuncheng, lying on the bamboo bed in the hall with his sister and listening to the rain to sleep.

"I can't help it, I have said what I should say, but I still don't listen. When you are outside, you have to take good care of yourself first. What's the use of fighting all day? Can you make money? ”

The master set the glass together, combined the cabinet with a screwdriver, and the medicine was still in the glass cabinet, and when the shelves were dismantled, it was all over the floor, and he patted his nephew's head: "What are you doing in a daze, help pick up things, and stack them well." What a silly boy, not clever at all. ”

This master is quite good at being a man.

The apprentice smirked and went in to help pick up all the medicine.

Chen Qiu said with a smile: "Human beings are creatures that change with the environment. The so-called close to Zhu is red, and close to ink is black. Your nephew has a shrewd uncle like you to take him, and he will definitely not suffer in the future. To tell you the truth, looking at how you behave, I am already thinking that next time my glass is broken, I will definitely look for you to change it. ”

"Huh." The master smiled: "No way, a small factory, you can't make a few dollars a month, and you rely on regular customers." ”

"Then you should have a lot of regular customers."

"It's okay, we can't always treat guests as guests, do business, and make a few more friends. I'll leave a business card here, and you can also advertise for me, and if you want to change the glass in the community, look for me. This time, I will give you a friendly price, how about a 20% discount? ”

"Okay."

Chen Qiu readily agreed.

Anyway, he doesn't need to run errands to sell everywhere, and he doesn't do it in vain.

"Thank you very much."

Hearing Chen Qiu's promise, the smile on the master's face became even bigger: "It's still like you high-achieving students who have read a lot to talk and understand a lot of truths." If this nephew of mine were half as smart as you, I would burn incense and tofford. ”

"Your nephew is not very old, why don't you send him to school?" Chen Qiu asked curiously, nine-year compulsory education is popular throughout the country, and it is not expensive to go to high school, and now is not the era when you can't afford to read.

"This kid's father drank too much, fought with people, shot and killed people and sentenced him to more than ten years, and his mother ran away with people." At the mention of this, the master's face darkened: "That is, I take care of him, it turns out that he is studying with my children, but it is not that piece of material, he always ran out of school, and there is no way to let him come to the south with me." ”

Chen Qiu nodded: "It seems that people still have a little bit of Buddhism, and many times for the sake of a breath, they will really do things that they regret for the rest of their lives." ”

"It's not all vindictiveness."

The master explained: "His father is a policeman, and he ate Chinese New Year's Eve dinner and drank a lot of alcohol during the New Year, and he was temporarily sent to patrol the streets, and when he met a thief, he had to be arrested." Unexpectedly, the thief ran too fast and kept provoking him, so he missed and fired. When you encounter this kind of thing, you say that you are unlucky or not. ”

"It's unlucky." Chen Qiu expressed sympathy.

It is only natural for the police to catch thieves. But when I encountered the kind of thief who resisted very fiercely, I had a bad temper and drank alcohol, and I really couldn't do anything when my head was hot and I shot it.

So.

People still have to control their temper, because if you are not careful, you may do irreparable things.

"If you were a police officer, would you shoot?" The master asked him suddenly.

Chen Qiu thought for a while and said, "Probably not." ”

Even if he wanted to shoot, he would have to ask Hell if he would say yes.

"But if you don't shoot, the thief will run away."

"That's better than going to jail."

"You're such a sensible person." The master exclaimed.

Chen Qiu saw that he was almost pretending, so he stood up and took out his mobile phone: "How much is it, transfer it to you." ”

"Is there any cash? I can't use WeChat as an elderly machine. ”

Chen Qiu walked to the counter and reached for an iron box inside.

All the cash earned this year is stored in it.

When he took out the tin box.

Suddenly, I saw it.

The 80 yuan cash that the guy put on the counter before turned into a million pieces of dark coins.

The hand holding the cigarette shook involuntarily.

The soot fell onto the glass that had just been installed.

Followed by.

A hole in the brand-new glass was burned by soot.

A thumb-sized hole.

At the edge of the hole, there is still a fire burning.

The cool breeze outside blew in, and the flames jumped bigger and bigger, shining on Chen Qiutieqing's face......