The area where the hospital is located is relatively prosperous, which is very different from the company's industrial area.

Colorful neon lights flicker, and the new street lights at the intersection are more vivid than those in the industrial area. Crowds of people are huddled and laughing, accompanied by street stalls that emit tantalizing scents.

Chen Zhao is really hungry...

"How much is this kebab?" Chen Zhao walked over and asked.

"Five dollars a string." The hawkers were welcoming.

Chen Zhao was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, didn't buy it, turned around and walked to the hospital. However, I paused at the intersection for a while, and finally spent 12 yuan to buy some apples and pears.

...

Coming to the door of the ward, Chen Zhao let his tired self barely smile, and then walked in. Just as he was about to say hello, suddenly a small figure ran over and hugged his legs.

"Daddy!"

"Eh, why are you here?" Chen Zhao looked at his daughter, a little dumbfounded.

"Stayed when you came to see me in the afternoon. Said to be waiting for you to go home with me, but I didn't expect you to come so late. Overtime? Xia Qing asked with concern.

"yes. Added a little time. Chen Zhao nodded, put the notebook on the table, and poured out the fruit bought in the bag, "Peel it when you want to eat it yourself." ”

Xia Qing smiled: "How many years have you bought me something again?" ”

“...”

One sentence made Chen Zhao dumbfounded, and then became embarrassed.

"What's in the bag?"

"Laptop."

"You bought it?" Xia Qing was surprised.

"Where did I get the money?" Chen Zhao shook his head and explained, "I found a part-time job, a typist. You can earn an extra 1500 a month. But I'm going home, so I'm going to take my computer with me. ”

"Part-time..."Xia Qing bit her lip and said lightly, "Are you tired?" ”

"I'm not tired."

Chen Zhao hurriedly showed a relaxed expression, and said with a smile, "The work sounds very simple, just sit down until the end of work, and the workers are working hard." And my part-time job is not busy, so I just need to enter some information and type Braille, which is just troublesome. When I become a regular, this adds up to 5,500 a month, excluding living expenses and rent, and there will always be 2,000 left a month. 1000 is saved for your daughter's tuition for the next year, and the remaining 1,000 is for you to take care of your body. ”

"Is it.." Xia Qing's worries gradually subsided, and he was curious, "Is this part-time job found for you by the woman who gave you a job?" ”

"yes!"

Chen Zhao smiled and groaned, "She's a good person." ”

Xia Qing smiled, "Yes." I want to thank her. ”

Soon, Chen Zhao took his daughter away, Xia Qing took the borrowed mobile phone, pressed a number, put it away with a smile, and hesitated in his eyes...

...

picked up his daughter and went home, and after putting his daughter down at the door, Chen Zhao, who felt that his body was about to fall apart, had no intention of taking a bath, and almost didn't want to move when he fell on the bed.

I'm really tired...

Tired, he longed to close his eyes and sleep until tomorrow night. He was so tired that he didn't even bother to move his fingers.

Chen Zhao felt that he was in pain, he never wanted to live like this. This is the way he hates the most to survive...

He didn't want to get tired.

But he has this home...

"Dad... I'm going to take a shower. Xiaole climbed onto the bed, sat next to Chen Zhao and whispered.

Chen Zhao, who closed his eyes slightly, didn't seem to hear it, and he continued to fall backwards.

Dozens of seconds later, he exhaled, as if he had just heard his daughter's words, as if he had used all his strength to get up, and rubbed her head, "Okay, Dad will take you to the bath." ”

The work of taking a bath for her daughter is usually handed over to Xia Qing, but since Xia Qing had a car accident, she can only let Chen Zhao, a rough man, do it. But fortunately, he is more careful and does not hurt his daughter.

Coming out of the bathroom, Chen Zhao dragged his body to the table, plugged in the notebook, and began to check and modify according to the content of the document given by Yu Yazhi and the document in the computer.

....

It was late at night.

It's 11 o'clock.

The world is silent again.

Xiaole didn't know when he had already undressed himself and fell asleep in the bed. Outside the window, there was an annoying insect cry of 'Zizizi', and there was the sound of dripping cars at the intersection in the distance from time to time, and in Chen Zhao's small house, only the sound of crackling and popping typing remained.

The noisy sounds come together and it's very annoying.

Chen Zhao didn't know when he finished his work, and after he didn't eat dinner, he breathed a long sigh of relief, fell directly on the keyboard of his notebook, and fell asleep groggy.

He had a dream.

Dreaming that he had escaped from this body and was 18 years old again, he was cheering in the class, and although he was treated as a fool by his students and teachers, he was very happy.

No burden, no pressure, no responsibility...

He's not tired anymore.

He cherished that happy day.

...

The next day, Chen Zhao, who was mentally sluggish, ushered in a numb body after a sweet dream.

He wants to take a leave of absence, he wants to rest... But no.

He needs to work, and he has already received 1,500 in advance this month, Xia Qing gave him 700 living expenses for eating with his daughter, until the salary is paid on the fifteenth of the next month, plus temporary workers, he estimates that it will be 3,000.

After deducting the rent of 800, after Xia Qing is discharged from the hospital next month, he will have to spend more than 1000 to buy some supplies, and the rest... It is simply not enough for a family of three to live for a month.

To save money... To make money.

I sent my daughter to the landlord's house, and I went to the company like a corpse like yesterday and started working.

...

Yu Yazhi had already checked the output of Chen Zhao's workshop at the first time she went to work, and when she found that it was much larger than the usual amount, she mistakenly thought it was a mistake and hurriedly ran to question Manager Xu.

Manager Xu's answer was, "Manager Yu, what is your relationship with him?" ”

"Barely friends."

"Since it's just barely a friend, then Manager Yu, I'll say it directly. He's under my jurisdiction, and I don't have to answer you why. One sentence left Yu Yazhi speechless and could only leave.

But when she deliberately passed by Chen Zhao's workshop, looking at Chen Zhao, who was a little pale, tired and tired, for some reason, she suddenly felt inexplicably uncomfortable and distressed in her heart.

She knows very well how hard Chen Zhao, who does more than her duty during the day and works part-time at night.

"If he didn't have that family, maybe he wouldn't be so tired, right?" She asked softly.

...

Day after day.

Go to work, get off work, eat, sleep.

The mechanical way is turning fast every day.

Chen Zhao gradually adapted. Yes, the same work and life had numbed him, so much so that he lost the exertion that should have wrapped around his body.

It's just that after the fatigue on the surface is gone, it has not disappeared. It slowly grew in Chen Zhao's heart...

April is here.

The torment was finally relieved, and on April 4, the Qingming Festival, the company had a day off.

Chen Zhao never felt that a day off was such a luxury, he declined Yu Yazhi's invitation to go out to eat, nor did he go to see Xia Qing, after taking his daughter home, he fell on the bed, his eyes closed, relieving the fatigue accumulated in his body these days, and he didn't want to move again.

I said to Xia Qing that after tomorrow, I will take Xiaole to kindergarten for class.

And also... When leaving the company today, Yu Yazhi said that although he took a day off, he had not taken leave in the position of a typist, and when he settled his salary on the 15th, he could have 200 yuan of full attendance.

He fell asleep, laughing.

....

Chen Zhao had another restless dream.

He lay in the turquoise lawn, looking up at the pure blue sky. The warm light shone on him, the breeze blew gently, and he enjoyed it all comfortably.

The world fell silent, as if he were the only one left.

He smiled even more happily, he knew that it was the beautiful weather in the spring, the most beautiful April!

It's just that he never thought that at this moment, the tiredness that had been accumulating in his heart these days suddenly exploded.

Chen Zhao recalled it in his dream.

He still has to continue to get up early to work the day after tomorrow, come back at night and work part-time until 11 o'clock at night, he still needs to continue to work hard to make money and save money, and work hard for this family...

In an instant, this beautiful world, which was the only thing for him, was destroyed in an instant.

Faced with this sense of depression, Chen Zhao felt really tired, really tired...

A thought crossed his mind.

He thought how nice it would be if he didn't have this home.