Chapter 8: Under the Scorching Sun
"Xiao Rong, come over here." Just as Lu Xiaorong was packing up her belongings and walking towards the second workshop, a familiar voice stopped her.
It was a woman in her fifties, with short hair, who looked shrewd and capable, dressed in blue overalls, and had two sleeves on her sleeves despite the heat.
"Mom!" Lu Xiaorong came to the woman's side and said softly.
"Xiao Rong, this time you were wronged, and you were all harmed by that uncompetitive thing! It is said that the adopted daughter climbs the high gate, I was expecting that you could live a good life when you entered his house, but I didn't expect that the Shen family would not work if it was not good! ”
Chen Hongying said with a full of complaints: "This white-eyed wolf, the tail of a rabbit can't grow, and when he offends all the old people in the factory, I see how long he can jump as the factory director!" ”
Lu Xiaorong smiled helplessly, she can only listen to her mother now, now she advocates the intellectualization and youthfulness of cadres, Bai Bin meets all the conditions, if you want him to step down, it is difficult!
"Mom, it's okay for me to go to the workshop, and I'm no stranger to the second workshop." Lu Xiaorong comforted his mother.
Chen Hongying snorted and said: "You are a cadre, let you go down to the workshop, and you can do it thanks to him, a white-eyed wolf!" Lao Feng in the second workshop, I have already said hello, he will not arrange for you to work again. ”
Speaking of this, Chen Hongying took Lu Xiaorong's hand, looked at her daughter's face a few times, and said angrily: "That bastard beat you again?" Xiaorong, it can't be delayed any longer. ”
"You're still young, you can't hang yourself on a tree with a crooked neck!"
"Hurry up and divorce him, there is no way to live such a day."
Lu Xiaorong had already considered her mother's proposal, and even before yesterday, she was almost moved.
But yesterday's experience made her feel that Shen Lin didn't seem to be hopeless.
Thinking about the fish soup he stewed yesterday, and thinking about the appearance of boiling eggs for himself this morning, Xiaorong's thoughts about divorce are not so firm.
"Mom, Shen Lin isn't always like this, he's changed his ......"
"Change? I think he's a dog who can't change eating! Chen Hongying said with disdain: "If he can change it, I will twist his head off for you." ”
Speaking of this, Chen Hongying took out two yuan from her pocket and said, "Xiaorong, you can take these two yuan for emergency first, but don't let your sister-in-law know." ”
"By the way, don't let Shen Lin know."
"As for the rent, don't pay it yet, when Aunt Chen rushes away, you just go back to your parents' house, let's take this opportunity to divorce."
Lu Xiaorong looked at the crumpled ticket handed over by her mother, and her heart was sour, she didn't dislike her mother for giving less.
She knew her mother's difficulties.
Now my brother can't pay his salary in the factory, and his sister-in-law has just given birth to a son, and the family is waiting for dinner.
These two dollars should have been secretly saved by my mother.
"Mom, Shen Lin has already paid the rent, and he gave me five yuan." Lu Xiaorong stuffed the two yuan to his mother again and said, "Mom, you can save these two yuan for yourself!" ”
Chen Hongying was surprised at first, and then snorted and said: "It's the money he asked for for his father again, and he didn't look at what his father looked like, and asked for money from his father." ”
"Hmph, how did Lao Shen give birth to such an indisputable thing!"
In the past, no matter what Chen Hongying said about Shen Lin, Lu Xiaorong was silent, but now, she felt that she should say something fair for Shen Lin.
After all, all this money was earned by Shen Lin himself.
"Mom, this money is earned by Shen Lin himself!"
"He doesn't even have a job, what does he rely on to make money? I'll tell you Xiaorong, don't listen to his nonsense, maybe he stole it! As Chen Hongying spoke, she stuffed the two yuan back and couldn't help but say, "If you want to take it, you can take it, I'll go first." ”
Lu Xiaorong looked at his mother's departing figure, but his heart was full of what his mother had just said.
Shen Lin said that he earned this money by collecting rags, is it true?
After a morning of work, Lu Xiaorong walked out of the factory, and she was going home, but she walked towards the street in a ghostly way.
She didn't know where Shen Lin was, but she knew the location of the scrap yard, and she couldn't help but want to go there to see if what Shen Lin said was true.
The scorching sun is baking the earth!
After walking a few steps, Lu Xiaorong felt that her body was sweating, and she tried her best to find the shade of the tree, but the newly built oil road still made her feel that the soles of her shoes were stepping on a hot soldering iron.
The scrap yard was quiet, and there was not even a single figure. Standing under the eaves of a store, Lu Xiaorong quietly looked at the door of the scrap yard.
One minute, two minutes......
The sun rises higher and hotter. The leaves were curled up in the sun, and there was not a single pedestrian on a large road for a few minutes.
He should have gone home.
Lu Xiaorong, who had found a reason in her heart, turned around and was about to walk in the direction of home, but at this time, she heard the sound of wheels rolling on the road.
Immediately afterwards, Lu Xiaorong saw a picture that she would never forget for the rest of her life.
The man, who has always been neatly dressed and likes to dress up freshly, is wearing a vest at this time, facing the sun, hunched over, like a big shrimp, trying to pull the flatbed forward.
On the flatbed, there were piles of old newspapers, and there were a lot of iron things that Lu Xiaorong couldn't name at all.
He's really collecting waste paper!
Lu Xiaorong wanted to speak, but she felt that her throat was salty, as if she was blocked by something!
Shen Lin didn't know that Lu Xiaorong was looking at him at this time, he pulled the car and came to the scrap yard step by step.
The skin that has been exposed to the sun is somewhat crumbling, and as long as it moves, it emits bursts of pain. But Shen Lin didn't care about this, he wanted to grasp this way to make money now, so that he could accumulate more for the future.
"You kid has a lot of waste newspapers!" The fat man in charge of the acquisition, as soon as he saw Shen Lin, he said with a smile.
Shen Lin hurriedly handed a cigarette to the fat man and said, "My uncle has a lot of friends, and this is the waste newspaper from other factories that he introduced to me." ”
"Brother Liu, you smoke."
The fat man looked at the cigarette handed to him, and said with a smile: "Hey, it's still a plum cigarette, it's good!" ”
Shen Lin looked at the fat man's expression, and quickly took out the cigarette case in his trouser pocket and said, "Brother Liu, I am quitting smoking these days, you can help me eliminate these cigarettes, otherwise it will be wasted." ”
Looking at the cigarette that had just been opened, but only two were missing, the smile on the fat man's face became a little more, and he said to Shen Lin: "Okay, then I'll taste it first." ”
After Shen Lin carried the bundles of old newspapers to the scales, he looked around the scrap yard, and he found that there was really everything in the scrap yard, and in the corner, he even saw a tricycle with only one wheel left.
From the beginning of collecting scrap, Shen Lin wanted a tricycle. It's a pity that buying a tricycle not only requires a ticket, but also costs more than 200 yuan.
In a short period of time, he basically doesn't have to think about buying a car.
However, the old tricycle caught his attention, and although there was only one wheel left, the shelf was still there.
Walking in front of the tricycle, Shen Lin found that the bottom of the old tricycle was already rotten, not to mention pulling things, with a press of his fingers, it was a big pit.
However, after Shen Lin looked at the tricycle a few times, he felt that the tricycle could still be saved.
"Xiao Shen, this time you sent six hundred and twenty-one catties, and you have collected the receipt." The fat man handed the purchase order to Shen Lin, and said with a little envy: "You kid has earned three yuan this time!" ”
Shen Lin hurriedly said: "I'm not lucky, it happened that my uncle introduced a few big households, and when these two big households are finished, I don't know if I can collect things later!" ”
Speaking of this, he pointed at the old tricycle and said, "Brother Liu, where did this thing come from?" ”
"Someone sent it to the rags!" The fat man pointed at the old tricycle with only one wheel left, and said, "This thing has rusted into nothing, it has no use at all, and can only be used as scrap metal." ”
Shen Lin turned towards the tricycle and said, "Brother Liu, I want to pull it to my home and disassemble the parts, how much do you think it costs?" ”
The fat man looked around, stretched out two fingers and said, "This scrap metal is also worth a lot of money, so let's do it, you give me two dollars, and the thing will be yours." ”
Shen Lin looked at a fat man who you took advantage of, and knew that this guy wanted to kill himself.
"Forget it, the parts of this thing are some years old, and there aren't many that can be used when dismantled, so I don't want them." Shen Lin, who made a regretful look, said with a smile.
As he spoke, Shen Lin took the receipt and walked in the direction of the finance room.
The fat man looked at Shen Lin, who was about to leave, grabbed his hand and said, "If you really want it, take it away for a dollar." ”
"After all, we are also acquaintances, and I can't let you suffer."
Looking at the fat man's smiling face, Shen Lin said with a smile: "Thank you, Brother Liu, I'll pull it away in the afternoon." ”
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