Chapter 0118 - The Old Watch of the Family
On the ninth day of July, Ma Donghong's death day, Ma Yifan accompanied Lu Guihua to the cemetery to sweep the grave.
Lu Guihua squatted in front of the tomb, wiped the tombstone, and burst into tears. Between the unit and the neighborhood, Lu Guihua has always been a straightforward woman, but Ma Yifan knows that the pain of middle-aged widowhood has never been healed in Lu Guihua's heart, and her mother just doesn't want everyone to see her fragile side.
Ma Yifan burned the paper money and came back, and Lu Guihua had already wiped the tombstone, wiped a handful of tears, got up and asked Ma Yifan to kowtow a few times, and then left the cemetery.
On the way back, Lu Guihua told Ma Yifan that his eldest brother Lu Jilong had returned from Wenzhou.
"The two children in the family, it's not a problem for him to be away all the year round, so he came back! I found a job as a security guard in the county, and none of the Lao Ma family had any prospects, and they were all poor!" Lu Guihua sighed, "Your eldest brother can still earn seventy or eighty thousand yuan a year in Wenzhou, and the salary level of the family is not as high as that side, and now the person is back, but the family's income is almost halved! Your sister-in-law has quarreled with your eldest brother a lot about this, and your aunt wipes tears every time she talks about it!"
Ma Yifan: "If you don't go back, I'll introduce a job to my eldest brother!"
Lu Guihua glanced at Ma Yifan: "You?"
"Yes, I!" Ma Yifan straightened his chest and pointed to Cai Gou, who was driving, "I have not been idle this year except for studying, I have done a little business, and now it is a little better! Lao Cai is an employee of my company, and this car is also the company's car!"
Lu Guihua was very surprised, her son only came home this morning, and as soon as he came back, he picked her up and took her to the cemetery, and she didn't have time to ask what was going on with the car. She thought the car belonged to Cai Gou, but she didn't think it was her son's.
After thinking about it, Lu Guihua asked cautiously: "Son, aren't you doing pyramid schemes!"
"Mom, what are you talking nonsense!"
Lu Guihua said with a serious face: "I often read newspapers that college students are deceived into pyramid schemes!"
Ma Yifan went home this time to explain to Lu Guihua, so that she could know a little bit about her current situation, so as not to scare her again after her family's great business in a few years. But he was also afraid that Lu Guihua would be cranky, just like now.
"Mom, don't worry, I'm doing serious business!"
Lu Guihua sighed and didn't ask any more. Since Ma Yifan was admitted to Sujiang University without a word, Lu Guihua knew that her son was not an ordinary person, but she still had to advise: "After your father left, I haven't taken care of you all these years! But seeing that you were admitted to Jiang University, I know that you actually have a number in your heart, and you don't need to worry about your mother! But there is one thing to remind you that we don't dare to do crooked things!"
"Don't worry, it won't!"
"Then you can really help with your eldest brother's business!"
"I'll figure out a way to go back!" Ma Yifan said.
At noon, Lu Guihua had one less meal to entertain Ma Yifan and Cai Gou. Since knowing that Cai Gou was an employee of Ma Yifan's company, Lu Guihua was more polite to him.
After eating, Ma Yifan slept for a while, and when he got up, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and Lu Guihua returned to the unit. He was idle at home, so he asked Cai Gou to drive him to the county.
When he arrived in the county, Ma Yifan made a phone call to his eldest brother Lu Jilong, preparing to ask him to have dinner with him and listen to what difficulties he had in life. As a result, there was a lot of noise on the phone, and Lu Jilong told him that their workers were making trouble in the county government, and the boss had run away, and the salary had not been paid.
Ma Yifan drove to the county government, and sure enough, he saw a large number of migrant workers blocking the entrance of the government.
Ma Yifan called Lu Jilong on the phone, and when he asked, he learned that a project of Yunlong Construction Group in Jinshi was yellow, and the contractor ran away with the money, and the wages of migrant workers on the entire construction site were not paid.
"I heard my mom say you weren't a security guard?"
"Being a security guard on the construction site, the salary is a little higher!" Lu Jilong said, he used to work as a security guard in a community, and his monthly salary was only a little more than 2,000, and it was only 1,800 after deducting insurance, which was too low. Later, I was introduced to the construction site to work, the site security is more hard, and I have to patrol at night, but the salary is high, plus the disposal of waste steel and some leftovers on the construction site, I can get more than 3,000 a month.
"I don't owe much money, I've only been working for more than a month, and I don't owe much money, and these brothers are miserable, some of them have been here since the beginning of the year! The big work, out of brute force, 200 a day, this half-year's salary is tens of thousands!" Lu Jilong nodded to the workers at the gate of the county government, not without melancholy.
"Won't the government come forward to coordinate, just let you block it here!"
"In the morning, a few leaders talked to us and asked us to make a complaint through legal procedures, and the government will arrange legal aid for us! Isn't this a, many of us have never even gone to junior high school, so how can anyone understand the law! The leaders just shirk their responsibilities, and the workers have also made an appointment, and they must not compromise.
Lu Jilong was full of righteous indignation, very angry, and those who didn't know thought that he was owed more than 100,000 or 200,000 wages.
While talking here, a middle-aged man over there came over with a few migrant workers, shouted Lu Jilong's name, stepped forward to look at Ma Yifan, and asked, "Ji Long, who is this?"
"The old watch of this family!" Lu Jilong introduced Ma Yifan again, "This is Mr. Mao Songmao, and he is also our leading brother, if he didn't take it, we wouldn't know where to ask for money!"
Ma Yifan and Mao Song nodded and said hello, this Mao Song is long and sturdy, dressed very plainly, looking about 40 years old, with a sad face on his face. Seeing that Ma Yifan was not here to make trouble, he left with someone again.
Lu Jilong told Ma Yifan that Mao Song's hometown is also from Dawan Town, and the surname Mao and the surname Lu are the same as the surname of Dawan. In this project, Mao Song was the foreman of the third package, and the second package was run, and he owed him more than 800,000 yuan. However, Mao Song was righteous, and people owed him money, but he did not owe money to the workers under him, and borrowed usury to pay off the workers' wages.
Hearing this, Ma Yifan was in awe of this person. After respecting, he was worried, Ma Yifan knew that this kind of three bags was basically illegal subcontracting, and asserting rights might not be recognized by the court.
"By the way, Xiaofan, haven't you introduced your friend to me yet?" Lu Jilong pointed to Cai Gou in the car.
Ma Yifan told Lu Jilong about opening his company, and Lu Jilong was not as surprised as Lu Guihua after hearing it: "I knew that you kid was capable, you are like your father, not like our old Lu family!"
Ma Yifan smiled: "Didn't my dad just break the joint defense team, and he didn't have much to offer!"
Lu Jilong's face froze: "Don't talk nonsense, your father is a hidden dragon in the abyss, and he willingly nests in this small place to accompany your mother, if he wants to do something, he will already make a fortune!"