Chapter 313: Small Shop
Two foreigners standing on the side of the road, holding a dry bun like a brick in their hands, opened their cracked lips and bit them, and their eyes showed sorrow and frustration.
"Take a sip of water, you will choke if you eat slowly", a military kettle was handed to the foreigner.
It was a thin man, who looked exceptionally tall at this moment, the man's fairly delicate face was full of smiles, and the next moment the foreigner became alert: "Who are you, why do you want to help us?"
The man pointed to a low house not far away and said, "My name is Li Fan, I came here to recruit workers, I just heard you say that one of you is studying botany and the other is studying geophysics, is it true?"
The male foreigner looked at Li Fan vigilantly, "How is it, isn't it?"
Li Fan patted the dust on his hands, looked at the two of them and said, "If what you say is true, I am willing to hire you, if not, I will say nothing."
A hint of surprise flashed in the foreigner's eyes, as if he was afraid that Li Fan was deceiving himself, and after a moment of hesitation, he nodded and said, "It's true, we have documents to prove it, and you can also verify the two of us at any time."
"This is natural", Li Fan is not worried that the two of them will lie to themselves, this is looking for death, and in Li Fan's opinion, foreigners who can run to country Z have some ability, and they are not considered to be raising wasters, "Come with me, what is your name, where are you from, and you are going to go there."
The man's nose twitched, and the sadness of many days welled up, and his voice trembled: "Call me David, her name is Adita, we fled from Qi City, and we are going to the south to find the army, or the government, to see if we can send the two of us back to the country......", David was saying, and found that beads of sweat oozed from Adita's forehead beside him, and his face was pale with his hands holding his stomach.
"Are you going to give birth?"
The corners of Li Fan's eyes twitched a few times, his face became colorful, he gritted his teeth and said, "I'll take you to Hacheng Hospital, get in the car quickly!"
For this kind of thing, the local people at the recruiting station did not pay too much attention, and the people who passed by here every day, ranging from ten days to hundreds of people, all fled from the north. The strong ones soon found a job here, and the poor ones continued to rush to Harbin to try their luck, and some people just walked here, and they couldn't walk anymore, and they were completely supported by one breath, and they fell ill just after arriving, and this kind of thing is also a lot.
The recruiting station here is like a lifeless roadside village, with its inherent rules running in a fixed direction, day after day, people come and go, staging all kinds of human tragicomedy.
Swindlers, robbers, thieves, hooligans, and prostitutes fill the streets, and news from all over the world gathers and spreads. This is the www.biquge.info and the end of the Biqu Pavilion, where many people depend for their survival, full of hope and possessions, and many who leave here and never return.
In the evening of one day, a man and a horse appeared at the intersection, and the elongated figure of the dusk appeared tired and weak, as if still in the painting.
The little girl in a restaurant at the intersection sat on the railing, dangling her dark legs, two pigtails hanging down her chest, and a pair of big eyes looking at the clouds in the sky boringly, I don't know if she was fantasizing about something.
"Little girl, serve the food to the guests!" A man's hoarse voice sounded behind the counter, interrupting the little girl's fantasy.
"It's coming!" the little girl jumped off the railing with two pigtails, ran into the kitchen barefoot, and brought out two pots of vegetables from it and put them in front of a mother and son, "This is the shredded potatoes and small greens you want."
"Where's my lamb, why hasn't it come up yet?" said four stout men, sitting around a table, slapping their hands against the unsturdy table.
"I'm sorry, I'll be on it right away," the restaurant owner said with a smile on crutches.
There is usually very little trouble here, firstly, there is an army recruiting here, and secondly, there is a mixture of fish and dragons here, I don't know when a dragon will emerge across the river, and no one will do it lightly, but it is difficult to say if you leave here.
"Mom, why don't we eat lamb?" said the ignorant boy as he looked at the lamb brought to the side, and salivated.
"The lamb here is not tasty, we eat vegetables, and go back to Mom to make it for you!" the boy nodded innocently.
The little girl winked at the boy and looked at the intersection with a laugh of "hehe", if there were no more guests, today's business would be over. In the last days, there are few people rushing to the night, and the night is terrifying, and as soon as the sun sets, not a single figure can be seen on the street.
"Boss! Get five pounds of beef, two vegetables, and one pound of wine, hurry!" A jeep stopped at the door of the shop, and two men with meaty faces jumped out of the car, one carrying a knife, the other carrying an iron rod, and two pistols pinned to their bodies, as if they were rushing from the direction of Hacheng, not knowing where they were going.
"A white crystal, or 20 yuan for a roll", pay for meals first, has become an ironclad rule in the last days of the hotel.
A man just wanted to get angry, but was stopped by another man, looked coldly at the two 10 yuan exchange coupons and threw them on the counter, found a table that seemed to be quite clean, sat down, and said in a low voice: "Don't spoil the second gang leader's business, it's important to hurry."
Hacheng's exchange rolls are equivalent to gold in the civilized period, in Hacheng five catties of beef is only 10 yuan, a catty of wine is 5 yuan, and the boss asks for 20 yuan, which is obviously a lot more expensive. But some things can't be calculated like this, ordinary people can earn 50 yuan a month is already a good income, and the job is extremely unstable, and it is common to have a full meal and a hungry meal. But these two people are obviously not ordinary people, it is very common for an energy controller to earn 500 or 1,000 yuan a month, and it is not difficult to spend 20 yuan to eat meat that ordinary people can't eat for a month.
The four men sitting in the corner looked up at the two men who were also sitting in the corner at the other end, their eyes fluttered in the air, and they immediately lowered their heads, as if nothing had happened.
The 4 men didn't make a sound, they just communicated with their eyes, they were all controllers, and what they whispered to each other could also be heard, and their eyes became the best and most hidden way to communicate.
"Hurry up and eat, make sure to get to the ...... before dark. ”
"What's the hurry, the second gang leader has four energy controllers and twenty or thirty helpers, and I'm afraid I can't deal with it. ”
"Don't be careless these days, the boss has always been steady in doing things, naturally he has his reasons, don't ask more, we'll leave after eating." ”