Xu Wendong pushed his car to bake cold noodles and walked into the community wearily, still wondering how much money he had made today.
At home, Xue Bing, his wife who had just finished online classes, handed him a set of clean clothes to change and asked him to take a shower in the bathroom.
When Xu Wendong came out, Xue Bing was already sitting at the table waiting for him to eat together.
After 22 years of marriage, I was already at the age of touching my right hand with my left hand. The two people at the dinner table were chatting with each other.
Xue Bing complained about some students who acted as demons in online classes, and suddenly said: "The hospital called today to urge us to pay the fees."
Xu Wendong swallowed the food in his mouth and said in a deep voice, "I see!"
Xue Bing was a bit fed up, and reluctantly took a few mouthfuls. He continued, "Wendong, my son also called today to say that he would prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination and would like to apply for a class."
"This is the right thing and should be reported!" Xu Wendong nodded.
Xue Bing finally couldn't help saying, "Dad has spent a lot of money on medical treatment in the past two years. Our family's foundation has been cleaned up. Since last autumn, this money has been spent whenever it comes!"
"This year's spring is the epidemic. Our high school has not started yet. We used to earn some money by making up lessons to subsidize our family. Now we only have some dead wages."
"There is no one on the street, and your business of baking cold noodles is not good. We really can't pay for it!"
"Why don't you tell Wen Fang that you two are brothers. The old man lives in the hospital, and he can't ignore it!"
This is the first time that Xue Bing has expressed dissatisfaction with Xu Wendong's father, Xu Baocheng, since he was hospitalized for more than two years.
It can be seen that this woman who is filial to her husband and teaches her son is really being forced to hurry.
Xu Wendong ate the last grain of rice in the bowl, put the empty bowl on the table, smiled at his wife and said, "Don't worry, I'll do something."
Xue Bing looked at him for a long time, nodded and said nothing
Xu Wendong is a college student. She just graduated from high school. Xue Bing has always felt that she is a little shorter than Xu Wendong since she was with him.
At the beginning of his marriage, Xu Wendong often expressed his dissatisfaction with himself intentionally or unintentionally.
It was not until he was laid off from his post and taken care of by life for a while that he finally resigned himself to live with himself in peace.
A cigarette after dinner is better than a living immortal.
But Xu Wendong felt that today's cigarette was so bitter!
Take out your mobile phone, connect to WIFI, find out several anchors that you pay attention to in a live broadcast, and see what new works they have released.
Different from other middle-aged fat uncles, Xu Wendong's anchors are not the leggy and slim stockings beauties who have been in the past ten years, but some who specialize in business stories.
What's more, all of them talk about how the enterprises that are now tall and powerful have come out of the hard work.
Xu Wendong said the most words to these videos: Why don't I have this brain!
On Xu Wendong's desk, there was an old notebook, which densely recorded Xu Wendong's knowledge from certain hands and certain hues.
Although there is a suspicion of being an afterthought, these things can satisfy Xu Wendong, an out and out Loser, with only a little pride and dignity in his heart.
Let him occasionally live in his fantasy world, overlooking all living beings!
Xu Wendong often asks himself that if he doesn't choose to enter a state-owned enterprise after graduating from college, he hasn't been brushed down in that round of laid-off tide, and he hasn't
There were too many ifs in the past, but Xu Wendong didn't catch any.
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The barbecue culture in Northeast China has a long history.
In a barbecue shop for some years, several middle-aged men sat around a table and were chatting loudly.
On the table were barbecues, two plates of cold dishes, and seven or eight empty beer bottles.
"Big, you raised a good girl!" said a long faced man, hugging the fat man beside him.
The fat man had a small thumb sized deposit on his forehead, so he was nicknamed Big. After more than 20 years, Xu Wendong even forgot his real name.
There are four people on the table, and they are the most beautiful in this big dress.
Although it's not a particularly expensive brand, it really feels like a standout with Xu Wendong's green leaves as a backdrop.
"Where is our girl now? Italy? Austria?" asked a short, thin man.
When I mentioned my daughter, I felt very proud. I raised my glass and touched several people, and said, "In Italy, it's not easy to work. I always told me that I was too tired and worked overtime every day."
The long faced man is called Lao Du, one year older than Xu Wendong, but the child is only twelve years old and a boy.
Old Du himself is a third married man. He and his present wife opened a laundry next to Ancheng Experimental High School. Life is not good or bad, but it is also interesting.
Old Du shouted, "Hey, don't you see what someone said? It's called ninety-nine six. Now big companies are like this!"
"You have to tell our girl that it depends not on overtime, but on money! With hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, I will be satisfied if my boy can earn half of her future."
The thin man was called Han Bing. He was gentle and quiet. He opened a hardware store downstairs of the relatives of the South Ring Road Water Conservancy Bureau. Hearing the words, he nodded: "That's the truth!"
"Look at your short sleeve, what's your name Lauren's? It costs several hundred yuan, right?"
The bigger one corrected: "Ralph Lauren, and I don't call it a short sleeved shirt, but a POLO shirt."
"Yes, yes!" Han Bing said, "Look at my girl, she graduated from a health school."
"I tried my best to ask my grandpa to tell my grandma to arrange for him to be admitted to the TCM hospital. If I don't work hard now, I can't take care of a man who has no meat, so I can't stop worrying!"
"Compared with your family, I have a sin!"
A few people were chatting happily, but Xu Wendong, who encouraged us to play this game today, did not say a word and kept drinking.
"Yo, how many brothers have drunk it?" A bloated man with a little weight and a gold chain on his neck came in.
Seeing him come in, Xu Wendong stood up and welcomed him to his seat, saying repeatedly, "Lao Niu, why did you come here? I'm waiting for you!"
Niu Zhigang put his bag aside and asked, "Why are you looking for such a shabby place? Dongzi, it's not easy to invite my brothers back to dinner without saying to find a good place."
Without waiting for Xu Wendong to answer, Niu Zhigang continued: "Although you don't earn much from selling baked cold noodles, Xue Bing earns a lot! He earned a lot from making up lessons that year!"
Xu Wendong smiled on his face, but cursed in his heart: "I can't stand you, such a small man, who has achieved great success. When I was in junior high school, your little boy followed me behind my butt and gave me a mouthful!"
Among the few people, Niu Zhigang is the most calm when facing him.
As an old saying goes, it's better to have a good son than a good family!
I have a good daughter, and I am not ashamed of the upstart Niu Zhigang!
As soon as Niu Zhigang sits down, he becomes the core of this table.
He raised his glass and toasted, as if he were the one who encouraged the bureau today.
In these days, being rich and having power is an uncle, and brotherhood is nonsense.
People who are not at the same level can not intersect equally!
Although Niu Zhigang is so arrogant on this table, he has to pretend to be a grandson when he is running for approval in the government unit, and he will give others cigarettes and wine to pay for his smile!
Another round of flattery that Xu Wendong did not expect made him feel sick.
Niu Zhigang seems to finally think of Xu Wendong, the host. He raises his glass and looks at Xu Wendong. He asks, "Dongzi, tell me what you want from us today?"
With a smile on his face, Xu Wendong raised his glass and touched several people. After drinking it, he said, "Hey, I'm sorry to say that."
"My brothers all know about this situation in my family. There are some old people and some young people. This year, when the epidemic hit again, Xue Bing could only get a dead wage. I can't make much money here."
"The old man lives in the hospital, and your eldest nephew has to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination, which..."
Xu Wendong can't go on.
After more than 20 years, there are only so many friends who can be called out!
Think of yourself as a failure!
Hearing Xu Wendong's words, several people knew that he wanted to borrow money, and now he looked a little wrong.
Han Bing and Old Du are not very rich at home, and their daughters are filial to them when they have a little money. All three of them can't help looking at Niu Zhigang.
Niu Zhigang laughed, put down his glass, pulled out a stack of Grandpa Mao from the bag beside him, and handed it to Xu Wendong.
Roughly, about 3000 yuan.
"Dongzi, you know the epidemic this year. My auto parts city will lose money when it opens its eyes."
"In the community developed with Brother Chen and his colleagues, the money is too much to draw out. Only the 3500 yuan is what I just got back from others!"
"Take it to the emergency first! No matter how many, I can't do anything for the time being."
Xu Wendong can't help but smoke at the corners of his mouth. Who doesn't know that Niu Zhigang is also rich and powerful in a small place like Ancheng?
In the 1990s, with the skill of repairing motorcycles by hand, a small repair shop became bigger and bigger. Later, with the help of his wife, he opened the first and only large auto parts city in Ancheng. In the past two years, he also got involved in real estate.
For such a person, it's better not to take 3500 yuan!
It's like slapping your face!
Old Du and Han Bing both looked pale and said the same thing.
Old Du said, "Brother Dong, as you know, my wife is in charge of my money. The laundry hasn't opened for two or three months, and my boy is a bottomless pit for money..."
Han Bing sighed and said, "Brother, I..."
Xu Wendong suddenly smiled, raised his glass and said, "Hey! I know it's not easy for everyone. Let's stop talking about this and drink!"
Big one wanted to lend Xu Wendong some money, but he looked at Niu Zhigang who was smiling beside him and thought about his daughter who often worked overtime to the early morning in a far away country. He could not say anything about borrowing money!
After all, it's not my own money, it's my daughter's!
Even if the money is the daughter's gift to her husband and wife, in their parents' hearts, the money is still the daughter's!
They just saved it for their daughter.
During this meal, Xu Wendong drank a lot of wine, and his mouth was unclear about his glory in the 1990s.
Niu Zhigang sat for a while and left after Xu Wendong refused his 3500 yuan.
He is very busy now. He really has no time to drink with these people until midnight.
...
Xu Wendong finally insisted on paying for the meal, and did not want several people to give it away. He walked home with half a bottle of beer in his hand.
Looking at Xu Wendong's back, Han Bing sighed: "You said that Dongzi was so beautiful in those nine years. Who would have thought that it would be like this today?"
Old Du said, "Come on, we are not young now, just make our own family better. The others are really incapable of managing!"
"What's more, do you think Dongzi earns less when baking cold noodles? Hum, he earns more than you and me! In addition, his daughter-in-law who is the head teacher... If his father had not been hospitalized in the past two years and his child had gone to college, it would not have been like this."
The bigger one sighed, "Alas, it's all fate! Hehe, let alone Dongzi, who would have thought that Laoniu finally made a fortune?"
Han Bing and Old Du smiled and didn't answer.
Several people said a few more polite words, and then separated.
Xu Wendong walked unsteadily toward home and poured beer from time to time. The scene before him seemed to be back to the 1990s. I went to college myself and became a golden college student.
After graduation, I was caught up with the fact that the country did not guarantee distribution. I originally wanted to go to the south with my classmates, but I could not overcome my family's opposition. My father entrusted me to enter the machinery factory in the county.
Because I am a college student, I do not need to go to the workshop, but directly sit in the office, so I am a cadre!
At that time, how beautiful he was!
Who can't give a thumbs up when he sees himself?
But later, everything changed after the layoff tide that swept the Northeast!
Blame the era or yourself?
Xu Wendong can't understand, or he dare not!
Squeak!!!
Bang!
After a burst of violent braking sound and collision sound, Xu Wendong felt as if he was in the clouds, riding on the clouds.
Then there was darkness in front of me. I didn't know anything!
