Chapter Fourteen It's New Year's Eve!

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Tonight, just this one guest, all the income is 100 yuan, but the cost is only a glass of water.

Of course, you can say that there are also costs such as electricity bills and rent...

But things can’t be counted like this. When Xu Le was there before, these were also costs, but his income was almost negligible. People had to find a suitable comparison object in order to gain a little sense of satisfaction and confidence in life.

In addition, it was because of the girl with the corgi that Zhou Ze knew that today was Valentine's Day.

Looking through WeChat, I found Dr. Lin's WeChat account, clicked in, Zhou Ze wanted to send a red envelope, and sent 1314 to find that he didn't have enough money, but 131.4 was enough, but he felt a little petty.

She doesn't sleep with me anyway,

never mind,

Not posted.

Abandoning the phone, Zhou Ze casually found a book and flipped through it, and maintained this posture until the morning.

I went to eat wontons next door. The skin was thin and the stuffing was thick. Zhou Ze was not sure. I still followed the previous way of eating a large bowl of sour plum juice. He kept breathing deeply, suppressing the urge to vomit.

Thinking that he would have to go through this process every time he eats in the future, Zhou Ze felt that his future days seemed to be overshadowed.

Zhou Ze thought of the man who was also suffering from eating porridge in the video. It was a little sad to think about it. Eating was originally one of the greatest pleasures of living in the world, but now, it has been isolated from them.

I don't know if there is an "anorexia" club in the world. When everyone gathers around a table, whoever can eat a bite first, and then everyone gives a thumbs up:

"You are awesome!

My xxx is amazing! "

Take a deep breath, this picture, a little shudder.

In any case, yesterday's video included the old man in the video and the man drinking porridge. For Zhou Ze, it was too far away for the time being.

After Valentine's Day, it's New Year's Eve, which is the New Year's Eve. If it was changed to the usual, this commercial center would definitely be full of lights and "New Year's flavor", but in fact it is still the same now, deserted.

It's like life,

Since there has been scenery, there will naturally be loneliness.

Zhou Ze remembered that when this commercial center was first opened, it was in the limelight for a while, but now, no one cares about it.

Xu Qinglang's business is good today, which should be the reason why many other stores are closed. He still insists on doing takeout in his 30s, and naturally he can get more orders. After all, there are fewer choices for customers.

From time to time, a delivery boy wearing blue clothes, yellow clothes or red clothes came in and out of his noodle shop. Zhou Ze squatted at the door of his bookstore, smoking a cigarette and sighing with emotion.

Xu Le of the dog,,, and Japan, how good it was to open a yellow braised chicken.

The fairy in fairy tales likes to say one sentence: one day in the sky, one year on the earth.

In fact, Zhou Ze felt that this should be right, and it was the same for hell.

I remember that I died in a car accident... No, I remember that when I was sent to the incinerator to be burned, it should have just been Children's Day, and now, it will be the 30th year in a blink of an eye.

For half a year, it passed so fast, a dream came to life, but it was only half a hazy walk on Huangquan Road.

After smoking a lot of cigarettes and thinking about it a lot, Zhou Ze felt a little tired. He took out his mobile phone and wanted to see what movies were recently. It happened that the cinema was next to him, so he could go there to pass the time.

"Hey, are there any newspapers at your house?" Xu Qinglang came out after sending the last batch of delivery boys away.

"do what?"

"Paint the wall." Xu Qinglang replied.

"So economical?"

"Painting newspapers on the wall gives you a sense of atmosphere and age. You wouldn't have sold all of them yesterday, would you?"

"There are some more, wait, I'll go find them for you."

Zhou Ze returned to the store, took out a half-person-height stack of newspapers from the box next to his freezer on the second floor, and gave it to Xu Qinglang who was waiting there after going downstairs.

"You're not going home for the new year?" Xu Qinglang asked.

"Celebrate the New Year with a book."

It's a pity that Zhou Ze has no goat's beard and no wine in his hand.

Otherwise, this sentence full of b-boxes should be a slap in the face.

"Didn't you also not go home?" Zhou Ze asked after being intoxicated for a while.

"Twenty dozen suites, which home should I go back to?" Xu Qinglang sighed.

"..." Zhou Ze.

The two were silent for a while, and Zhou Ze said, "I'll tell you a story."

"Okay." Xu Qinglang nodded with a slightly reserved expression. His hair was a little long, and a few strands of hair were hanging down, which went down to the corners of his mouth. .

The atmosphere here is not enough for outsiders.

"Once, on the New Year's day, on the way late at night, someone met the biggest rich man in the area.

The rich man got drunk.

The man asked the rich man, why don't you go home?

The rich replied: Home, where is my home? My family and loved ones are not around me, you say

Is my home the largest manor in the city? "

After Xu Qinglang heard the story, he nodded slightly, as if he felt the same way.

"Then the man pressed the rich man to the ground and smashed it wildly, shouting:

Asking you to come out and pretend to be too coercive for the Chinese New Year! "

Zhou Ze continued to tell the story.

"..." Xu Qinglang.

The chat between the two is over.

Zhou Ze went back to his bookstore. The heater was on and it was warm. He flipped the phone in his hand, and no one could contact him.

I thought about going to the orphanage to see, but after thinking about it, I don't have much money left on me.

But at this time, a customer came to the door. It was a young man in blue overalls and a hard hat. He pushed open the door of the bookstore and walked in, and asked shyly:

"Can I read books here? How much?" The other party pursed his lips.

"Look, look at the money." Zhou Ze waved his hand, indicating that the other party was free.

"Well, do you have novels here?" the young man said cautiously, "I like to read novels, the kind of online novels."

Zhou Ze pointed to a box behind the bookshelf, "It's all there."

The other party walked over to the box, turned it over a few times, and looked very happy, but some of the book covers and packaging were still there.

"Take it apart and have a look, no money will be charged." Zhou Ze said generously.

"okay."

The young man took apart an online novel, then sat down on the plastic stool and began to read it.

As the boss, Zhou Ze sat behind the counter and trimmed his nails. The young man was reading a book there. After about half an hour, the young man stood up from his chair, took out his cigarette, and handed it to Zhou Ze:

"It's not a good cigarette, don't mind."

"Hey, cigarettes are not a good thing, so what is good or bad?"

Zhou Ze took the cigarette, and the other party took one as well, and took the initiative to walk outside the store, lighting a cigarette while blowing the cold wind.

This made Zhou Ze, who originally planned to smoke in the house, stunned for a moment. After thinking about it, forget it. He put the cigarette aside and continued to trim his nails.

The young man walked back after smoking a cigarette outside. This time, instead of sitting on the plastic stool, he sat on the floor against the wall.

Although the air conditioner is turned on in the room, the tiles on the floor are still very cold, but the young people don't care about it, thinking that they are used to it on weekdays.

About a quarter of an hour later, four men in blue work clothes that were washed cleanly came by outside the store. The oldest was in his thirties, and the youngest was maybe seventeen. around age.

The four people came in together, and the young man leaning against the wall waved to them, he should have called them over.

Later people greeted Zhou Ze, Zhou Ze dealt with it perfunctorily, and continued to trim his nails;

Zhou Ze decided to buy a set of professional nail repairing appliances, so as to be worthy of his nails.

It's just that the express delivery is out of service now, and most of the physical stores outside are closed, so they can only temporarily stop.

Looking up again, Zhou Ze found that the five coworkers were sitting on the ground and reading a novel in each hand.

Just by looking at the cover, you can tell that they are all online novels. Most of them are fantasy ones. One of them is holding a horror book and biting his nails while reading, obviously watching it with relish.

It's just that the other party's behavior of biting nails makes Zhou Ze a little hard to agree.

Know how to cherish nails to know how to cherish life.

From time to time, someone will laugh at the novel, this is a heartfelt smile watching the story.

There are many people in the bookstore, but it is very quiet, and there is a little noise from time to time, but it is not disturbing.

In the evening, Xu Qinglang walked in with a bowl of dumplings, and after he came in, he said directly:

"Yo, it's very lively in the store."

Zhou Ze smiled and nodded.

"Brothers, do you want something to eat?" asked the workers sitting in Xu Qinglang's shop.

Everyone looked at each other,

Somewhat overwhelmed.

"Forget it, I invite you." Xu Qinglang is a man with more than 20 sets after all, "It's not easy for a few brothers to not go home for the New Year. They all come out to make hard money. They are brothers everywhere."

"Then, thank you boss, the boss made a fortune." The oldest worker stood up and thanked Xu Qinglang.

"It should be, it should be."

Xu Qinglang put down Zhou Ze's dumplings and went back to his shop.

Zhou Ze drank a little soup, and then forcibly swallowed two dumplings. The abominable Xu Qinglang forgot to bring himself plum juice and couldn't eat it by himself.

Taking out the cigarette on the table, Zhou Ze walked out from behind the counter.

"After reading it, change it yourself. I should have a full set here. Anyway, my shop here is a loss-making business. Don't be polite to me."

Zhou Ze handed the cigarettes one by one,

The co-workers were flattered to take it over one by one.

Then everyone got up and walked together outside the store, squatting in a row and smoking.

They are reluctant to dirty the environment of the store.

Zhou Ze thought for a while, and walked out of the shop. Outside, the wind was a little cold, and he squatted down beside him and smoked together.

The coworkers chatted,

Married, talk about their mother-in-law, talk about their children;

If you are not married, chat in Tongcheng or your hometown

know each other well,

having fun with each other,

teasing each other,

Although everyone knows the bottom line,

But there is still talk.

This group of workers knew from the accent that they were from all over the world, not from a village.

Tongcheng is close to Shanghai and belongs to the Yangtze River Delta region. Although it is incomparable to Shanghai in terms of volume, the annual labor force here is still very large. .

The cigarettes made two rounds of each other again,

Zhou Ze opened his mouth and said, "Brothers, are you really not going home to take a look during the Chinese New Year?"

"I won't go back, everything is fine at home."

"It's very troublesome to go back and forth. There is still work to do in the first month, and the boss will give out red envelopes. If you don't take it for nothing, you can send more money back."

"Haha, today is pretty good. There are novels to read and cigarettes to smoke. This year, I have had a good time."

"Boss, when are you closing?" a worker asked.

"It's not closed." Zhou Ze replied.

"The boss won't go home?"

"If the girls in the family are not obedient, they will not go back."

Zhou Zeton felt his pride soaring into the sky!

All the co-workers gave Zhou Ze a thumbs up and applauded him.

Of course, no one went too much to go along with it. You could tell by listening to the accent. Moreover, Zhou Ze opened a bookstore, not a fruit stand. The workers guessed that Zhou Ze was a local.

There is a reason for the local people's congress guarding the store and not going home during the Chinese New Year, so everyone did not continue to make fun and jokes about it.

Moreover, each of them is the backbone of the family, and they go out to work to earn money. The elderly and children in the family are managed by their own aunts and aunts. They work hard and they are tired, but their aunts and aunts are the same.

Life is the result of hardships and hardships from generation to generation. Who has an easy life?

Just as Zhou Ze was about to continue smoking, a shout came from a distance:

"Xu Le!"

Zhou Ze raised his head and stood up, only to find a Porsche Cayenne parked on the opposite road, a familiar car.

Well, my mother-in-law's car.

It was the sister-in-law who was shouting. She was indeed frightened by Zhou Ze in the toilet a while ago, but now she has returned to normal. She couldn't think her brother-in-law was a ghost, so she just blamed herself for being dazzled by the fright at that time.

Of course, she couldn't have a good temper with Zhou Ze. After all, she actually scared the lady to pee, what a shame!

"Xu Le, go home for dinner!"

the sister-in-law shouted.

"I won't go back, the store is busy and very lively." Zhou Ze waved his hand.

joke,

Going back to see the father-in-law and mother-in-law who are the father-in-law?

Annoyed by this ignorant sister-in-law?

the most important,

Hurriedly rushing home to sleep in separate beds during the Chinese New Year?

Looking for abuse?

"Sister, is this guy crazy! It's unreasonable, inexplicable, and it's a dead duck!"

My sister-in-law sat in the back seat and pouted.

Dr. Lin smiled, "Let's go home and have dinner with our parents first."

"Yo, listen to this, sister, are you planning to come out at night?"

"After all, I am his, legal wife." Dr. Lin didn't say anything more, started the car and left here.

Watching the car drive away,

Zhou Ze shouted to the co-workers beside him, "Brothers, isn't my mother-in-law beautiful?"

"Pretty!"

"blessed!"

"Too beautiful!"

"Ha ha ha ha."

Xu Qinglang walked out of the store with a large tray.

"Come on, braised pork rice bowl, brothers, let's eat!"

The co-workers were a little restrained and embarrassed. The oldest co-worker was a little embarrassed and said, "We went out and didn't bring any..."

"As I said before, I'll invite the brothers to a meal! If I ask for money again, I'll be treated as a brother. In the future, I may encounter it one day, and there will be times when I will beg you brothers. "

"it is good!"

"One word!"

"When you come to my hometown..."

"Come!"

The co-workers all carried a large bowl of rice bowls into the bookstore. Everyone squatted on the ground, put the bowls on the plastic bench and started eating happily.

A co-worker was reading a novel while eating, when a co-worker next to him hit his head with chopsticks.

"The guy who has eaten the lard, if you accidentally dirty the book, how can the boss sell it for money?"

"That's right, let's eat first."

The atmosphere was very lively. Zhou Ze went back to his counter. He ate three more dumplings that were already cold. This time, he didn't know why, maybe it was because of the atmosphere. His nausea was much less than before. .

After dinner,

The big guy continued to read.

In the house, there is heating, and there are novels to read, which is very harmonious.

Before I knew it, it was ten o'clock in the evening.

The oldest worker stood up, stretched out, and said, "Brothers, it's time, come back, let's help them clean up the house."

"okay!"

Five co-workers helped Zhou Ze clean the store up and down.

"Boss, let's go, thank you

Thank you for today. "

"You're welcome." Zhou Ze waved his hand.

they are gone,

It's not like the girl with the corgi last night, who left a hundred dollars after reading the book for a while. They read it for a day and a half night, and they didn't keep a dollar.

But Zhou Ze didn't care about it at all, and he didn't have the slightest dissatisfaction.

After stretching, Zhou Ze planned to call Xu Qinglang to take back the tableware and chopsticks in the store. When he walked to the noodle restaurant, Zhou Ze saw Xu Qinglang sitting behind the table and reading the newspaper.

Well, the newspaper was given to him by Zhou Ze during the day.

Xu Qinglang wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, and he did look a bit bookish, as expected of a man with more than 20 suites.

No matter how you look at it, it smells good!

"The tableware over there, clean up." Zhou Ze said.

"Okay, here we go."

Xu Qinglang put down his glasses, rubbed his eyes, got up and went to clean up the dishes next door.

On the top of the large stack of newspapers is a Yangtze Evening News, and looking at the date, it was seven days ago;

On the front page of the newspaper is a big bold bold news:

"The fire in the residential building, the courage to see justice is touching"

Last week, a fire broke out in a densely populated residential area in Tongcheng, and the fire was serious.

There were five young construction workers on a nearby construction site who ran in to save people regardless of the danger, and rescued more than 20 old people, women and children in total, but after they rushed into the fire for the last time to save people,

Couldn't run out again.

There is a large photo on the cover of the Yangtze Evening News,

This is a group photo of these five people,

They stood side by side, compared to the old-fashioned scissors hands, it seemed that they were a group photo after living in a shed when they first came to the construction site.

A face of Zhang Qingshi but also with some vicissitudes and wrinkles,

In the photo,

The smile was a little restrained, but also brilliant.

Xu Qinglang walked into the bookstore,

Looking at the five bowls of rice bowls on the plastic bench in front of me,

I haven't touched a single bite, and the food has long since lost its heat.

On each bowl of rice, there is a pair of chopsticks stuck straight upside down.

"Brothers,

eat well,

drink well. "

Xu Qinglang muttered.

Outside,

Firecrackers sounded,

There are no smoking bans in Tongcheng. For a time, the sky is full of rosy colors, which is very lively and festive.

Zhou Ze raised his head and looked outside,

Whisper:

"It's New Year's Eve."

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