Chapter 34: Preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner

Because there are no production tasks, time loss seems to be much slower. It reminds me of the ten days I spent in the detention center, and every day in a room with a large bunk, a dozen or so people were about to recall the events when they wore open crotch pants. The only thing that is better now is that the activity space is a little larger, and you can also move back and forth between the air room and the sleeping cell, and if you really have nothing to do and want to find something to do, you can run to wash shoes and clothes, and after washing, hang the iron net above the air room with a drying rack, and it can be dried in ten days and a half months.

During this time, I learned to make an ashtray out of the whole cigarette box, and I still remember the process of making it. After it is done, the layer of tin foil inside the cigarette pack is spread, so that the cigarette ash will not be spilled and the cigarette butt will not catch fire, which is quite delicate.

Slowly washing the floor and cleaning it has become not a new full-time job.,Every day, I will wash the floor with laundry.,Wipe the Chase shop.,Walls.,Iron doors will be cleaned once in any place that can be reached.。 Boss Xu said that he had been in the cell for so long before he figured out why the cell had to be cleaned every day, and his understanding was that when there were fewer people in a cell, there were more than a dozen in the cell, and when there were more people, it was almost twenty, and the sunlight could not shine in, and it was easy to breed bacteria. I think his analysis is reasonable, and it can be seen from the lice on his body that he actually bathes a little more often than the average person, because the hot water every day is basically enjoyed by a few people who come to their door.

The hot water is still delivered every day, and after Liang Fangqi changed it, the person who received the water became a poisonous devil. After taking over Liang Fang's work, the quality of life of the poisonous devil has skyrocketed, and his share is much richer than before when he splits his head and tail every day, and he can soak his feet with warm water after pouring water for Wu Jianguo and Chen Anping to wash his face and feet every day, and his figure is like flour fermentation, and there are signs of being out of control. I joked with him, "You'll have no clothes to wear in a few days." The poisonous devil said that after detoxification, it will be like this, and he will gain weight quickly, and besides, there is little activity in it now, and he can't control it, this is his experience of successfully detoxifying drugs many times.

"Brother Chang, your money has arrived!" Wu Jianguo, the watchman in the cell, saw another foreign worker pushing a cart appear in the corridor.

"College student, wait a minute, if my family really sends me money, I will rush the money to Huanglong's card, otherwise it will cost ten yuan to buy a new card, a pack of red plum sticks!" Zhao Changping ran to me and said to me after hearing Wu Jianguo's words.

"Is that okay? Can I still top up someone else's card? I asked, a little confused.

"I don't know, I just came in, how do I know this? Boss Xu knows, Lao Xu, can you charge money like this? "Wu Jianguo is obviously a newcomer like me, and he is not very clear about the Tao here.

"Yes, this card is anonymous. However, it can only be charged at one time, and the money can be charged to different cards once. "I feel more and more that Boss Xu is simply an encyclopedia of the detention center.

"You use this card, the card was given to me when Brother Du left, and now it's an empty card, and there is no money. The money for the card that Huanglong gave to the college students was for the college students. After Huang Yuxin heard this, he walked to the wall cabinet inside the air room, took a card, and handed it to Zhao Changping.

"Brother Chang, now that you have money, do you have to have a treat? The brothers in the cell are giving you cigarettes to smoke! Boss Xu joked to Zhao Changping, who was standing not far from the iron gate with an expectant and anxious face after receiving the card.

"Yes, as long as I really send money in, I'm definitely not stingy!" Zhao Changping patted his chest and said, "I'm afraid that if you don't send me money, then there is no way." Expectations disappointed again and again made Zhao Changping full of confidence in the matter of his family sending money in, and now he only dares to look forward to it.

"The sixth prison didn't have it, and it came directly from the fifth prison." Wu Jianguo competently did the live broadcast.

"Brother Jian, you guys can be rich, they're all rich people!" The foreign worker stopped at the door of the cell and took the cigarette handed over by Wu Jianguo and lit it.

"Is there any Zhao Changping?" This is a question that the whole cell is concerned about.

"Zhao Changping, I'll take a look, there are, three thousand." The foreign worker looked at the roster in his hand and said, and then asked Zhao Changping, who rushed to the edge of the iron gate as soon as he heard that the money was sent in: "The surname is Yi, what is your name?" ”

Without Zhao Changping answering, several people in the cell said the name loudly: "Yi Jiugao!" This caused the entire cell to burst into laughter, except for the three unknown people who had just rushed to prison.

The foreign worker charged Zhao Changping's card and wanted to ask him for cigarettes, but Brother Chang himself would be anxious about smoking every day, so he could only give up.

"Long Botao, new mouth! Come and recharge your card! The foreign worker shouted again, checked his name and gave Long Botao a new card. followed by Zhang Li, and there were also family members who sent living expenses.

"Brother Jian, you guys can have a number, fourteen people, right? Just a few people didn't send money, right? The number of gifts is not small, I took a look, and you are the most rich! After the foreign worker finished the card, he said to Wu Jianguo, "Tell the brothers to take care of it in the future!" You see, there are no third, sixth, ninth and ten prisons in the whole building, and the other numbers add up to not as many as yours. ”

"Yes, in the future, you will also take care of our cell, when you send the head and tail, we will make more dry dishes, and when we send boiling water, we will make more in the cell, so that the brothers can live more comfortably, and care about how many packs of cigarettes will be paid? You say, don't you? "Wu Jianguo, as a learner in the cell, lost no time in seeking benefits for the prison at this time.

"It's easy to say, isn't it all a matter of your brother Jian's words? Brother, I will definitely satisfy you, and I will definitely satisfy the brothers in the number! The foreign worker obviously regarded the Seventh Prison as his financier during the execution of his sentence in the future, and said to Wu Jianguo with a sneer, well, a bit of Zhao Changping's demeanor when he borrowed cigarettes from others.

After the foreign worker left, Wu Jianguo took out an account book and looked at it, and said to the person who had just received the money today: "Originally, the provident fund was 10 percent, but the money sent in our account in a few days was okay, and there were still some things that we bought, so you won't draw so much this time, Wang Yongfei's last time didn't draw, the college students' didn't draw, Huang Yuxin and I didn't draw, this time you have three, I'll count how many?" ”

After some calculations with Boss Xu, Wu Jianguo felt that there was no need to use 10% as a provident fund, and made the following decision: I, Huang Yuxin, and the three of them paid the provident fund in front, and no one took out 100 yuan; Wang Yongfei, Zhao Changping, Long Botao and Zhang Li did not draw five percent. According to Boss Xu's calculations, even so, it is much richer than when he went to the Sixth Prison for Poverty Alleviation last year. Sufficient to cover the cost of daily consumables for the entire cell.

It should be in line with the factor of taking care of his fellow villagers, Wu Jianguo ignored Zhao Changping, and told Long Botao and Zhang Li about the preparation of a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner for the New Year, and asked them if they would like to take money to make up a share? The two agreed without hesitation.

When ordering food in the afternoon, the foreign workers saw the wealth of the Seventh Prison, in addition to the four people above who ordered, Zhao Changping ordered two dishes - he said extravagantly, and by the way, he also prepared the dishes for noon the next day. Wang Yongfei invited me to order two dishes together - also prepared the dishes for noon the next day, and Long Botao and Zhang Li also ordered one dish by themselves. The foreign worker looked straight and said, "Yes, yes!" ”

After ordering the food, there was a weekly order meeting, and the foreign workers once again saw the wealth of the seven prisons, because they said that it was the last order before the year, and they would not start selling cigarettes and daily necessities until after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, so everyone's order volume this time would naturally be much larger than the original time.

According to the experience passed on to me by Lao Liu, I bought three boxes of instant noodles in addition to three cigarettes, and this time I didn't buy breakfast cakes - that thing was too water-intensive. Wang Yongfei was even more exaggerated, taking ten cigarettes and five boxes of instant noodles at one time. I asked him why he bought such cigarettes. His answer was: "What if you lose playing cards?" Besides, it can't be broken, just buy it and smoke it slowly! ”

Zhao Changping paid off his debts after getting the ordered materials, and Wu Jianguo and I didn't let him double the repayment, which made him happy. After lighting the fire once and smoking three or four cigarettes in a row, he smiled with satisfaction and went to participate in the entertainment activities of Wang Yongfei sitting in the village.

Wu Jianguo took a new "menu" for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and came over and asked us which standard the funders of the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner were engaged in? The unanimous answer is – whatever, you decide. Wang Yongfei said, "Make the best, see if there is any wine to sell?" ”

"Yes!" Boss Xu's encyclopedia class in the detention center has started again, "I should come to ask tomorrow night, but there is only beer, and it is also limited, I forgot if there are only three bottles or four bottles per table, it was like this last year, and this year it should be about the same!" ”

"I took the test, do you really have wine? Then why haven't I seen you buy it after I've been in for so long? Wang Yongfei became interested all of a sudden, Zhuang didn't sit down, and turned down the Datong shop and asked.

"It's available during the Chinese New Year, but it's not available at other times. What do you want? It's jail time! Boss Xu said to Wang Yongfei speechlessly.

"Brother Jian, come and show me the menu, if it's not expensive, you can freeze two or three tables, can't you buy more wine?" Wang Yongfei stretched out his hand to find Wu Jianguo to ask for the menu, "There are four hundred, there are six hundred, there are one thousand, and the most expensive one is two thousand." Or we have two tables, one table of 2,000 and one table of 1,000, we have eight people, and each person is only three or four hundred yuan, which is not expensive, and the table outside is much more expensive than this! There were eight bottles of wine at two tables, exactly one bottle per person. ”

"Not expensive? You only look at the content of the money and not the food! Wu Jianguo took the menu and looked at it again and said, "But it's okay, it's quite rich." Why don't you just listen to him? ”

After getting everyone's unanimous agreement, Wu Jianguo returned to his lookout post and waited for the foreign workers to come and collect the menu.

The foreign workers took away the menu and counted the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner reservations when they delivered the head and tail, and after learning that the seven superintendents had booked two tables at once, they were once again shocked by the richness of the seven superintendents. When I picked up the food with the poisonous devil, it was obvious that he was trying his best to scoop vegetables from the vat more attentively - he received a lot less soup and a lot more dry goods.

"Brother Jian, your number is a real bull's nose! The first six cells of the four cells I am responsible for have one table for 1,000 for one prison cell, and two of the other cells have ordered 400 for them. Ordered three thousand directly! ”

No one expected Zhong Li to be released before the damper closed, and I was not much surprised, because he had told me a long time ago that the company would help him withdraw the case after he had lost the public funds he had withheld. I'm still a little curious, why I was released only a day before the Chinese New Year? However, after experiencing the impact of the first few days, everyone's nerves have been tempered a lot, and this time there is no big reaction, and I am a little glad that the sleeping place will be a little wider after one less person.