Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Chapter 78
On the day when Gao Feng came to the end of his life, there were people standing on both sides of the street.

Wang Weidong also stood in the crowd and looked at the truck passing slowly.

The truck drove very slowly, and Gao Feng stood on the side of the truck's back box with his head down.

Ordinarily, Gao Feng should be able to see the people looking up at them in the street below, and even recognize Wang Weidong in the crowd.

But he couldn't see anything.

Wang Weidong noticed that his eyes were blank and empty.

Gao Feng, who was so fat that he would tear his clothes, is now as thin as a monkey.

Those people who usually show off their might and act as if they are not afraid of the sky and the earth are not afraid of others. When they are proud, they don't pay attention to the dignity or even life of others, but when it is their turn to pass the test of life and death, they are more than bears.

If it weren't for someone on both sides tightly grasping Gao Feng's shoulders, he would have collapsed on the truck like mud.

Wang Weidong turned his head to look at the people around him, with surprise and even a little smile on their faces. Several women pointed at the truck and chattered.

There is no chilling of watching so many people go to death, nor the joy of eliminating harm for the people. This kind of scene is a bit like the feeling of people walking out of the house and standing on both sides of the street to watch Yangko on the first day of the new year.

Four trucks drove slowly, carrying a dozen or so young people on board to the end of their lives.

Wang Weidong was on duty in the factory. In his sleep, he seemed to be in a big bathhouse, and he couldn't breathe because of the steam.

Wang Weidong opened his eyes suddenly, he heard the sound of splashing water in the darkness, he felt damp and hot.

"No, the heating pipe is leaking!" Wang Weidong shouted involuntarily.

The central heating started in mid-October, and the water was tested before heating. Unexpectedly, the factory's heating pipes leaked water.

In the darkness he stretched his feet to the ground, dipping them directly into the warm water.

After finally finding the shoes, Wang Weidong turned on the lights wearing his wet shoes, and the office and workshop outside were soaked in nearly ten centimeters of water.

It took Wang Weidong 5 minutes to find the valve and tighten it. After carefully checking the water pipes and radiators, he finally found a crack in a radiator.This is where the hot water leaks from.

He took a broom and began to sweep the water out. After more than an hour, he finally swept the water almost.Wang Weidong straightened his waist, his back hurt and his legs felt weak.

He looked down at the leather shoes on his feet, which had been soaked and crumpled like dried orange peel.

This pair of leather shoes was bought for him by Chen Jihong. He oiled the shoes every day, cleaned the dust off the soles and maintained them with great care.

Wang Weidong felt sorry for the leather shoes he had just bought for a few days, and even more for Chen Jihong's heart.

He walked back to the office, sat on the bed and raised his feet, trying to take off his leather shoes to relax his feet.

But the leather shoes were not taken off, but the feet came out of the leather shoes, and there was a hole in the upper of the leather shoes.

"No matter how much the cowhide soaks in water, it shouldn't crack, right?" Wang Weidong asked in wonder.

He brought the leather shoe on his right foot closer to his eyes and carefully observed the crack.

"Where is this cowhide? Isn't this a paper shell! How did I forget that these unscrupulous guys have already started producing paper shell shoes!" Wang Weidong scolded.

By seven o'clock in the morning, the workers arrived one after another.

Wang Weidong put the shoes on his feet again and tied the shoes and feet together with hemp rope.

After arranging production tasks in advance and assigning electronic components, Wang Weidong hurried home.

There are many pedestrians on the road, and the most are students who go to school.

"Baby-this is Lei's Ga!"

A half-grown child walked and sang.

This is the theme song of the TV series Fearless that is currently on the air. When walking on the road, I hear someone singing it in half-baked Cantonese.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Several children ran for a few steps with their schoolbags on their backs and then stopped to imitate the movements in martial arts movies to learn martial arts.

One child had just posed for the golden rooster independently, and the other child had a pair of iron sand palms with quick hands and quick eyes.

The independent child of the golden rooster couldn't stand upright and fell backwards, bumping into Wang Weidong's body.

Wang Weidong, who was already angry, shouted: "Hurry up and go to school, do you know what safety is? Don't fight in the street!"

These children were just naughty, and they were not afraid of Wang Weidong at all, and they all looked at him with playful smiles.

One of the children saw Wang Weidong's shoes tied with hemp rope.

"Look, broken shoes!" The child shouted as if he had discovered a new world.

"loose woman!"

"loose woman!"

The other children followed suit.

Wang Weidong was about to go mad with anger.

He raised his right foot as if to kick, but the shoe flew out like a hidden weapon!
The paper leather shoes fell four or five meters away. One child quickly picked up the paper leather shoes and flung them out. The other children also ran in the direction where the paper shoes flew.

Toss it once, twice, and three times. In a blink of an eye, the ill-fated cardboard shoe was already five or sixty meters away from Wang Weidong.

It was too late to catch up, Wang Weidong scolded bitterly: "A bunch of little bastards, everyone repeats a grade and becomes a squatting bun!"

He wore the remaining cardboard shoe, and the other foot in a sock limped home on the cold ground.

Wang Weidong didn't go far and his feet were almost frozen.

He felt his right foot slowly become numb and lose consciousness.

A middle-aged man riding a bicycle stopped and asked, "Weidong, what's wrong with you?"

Wang Weidong looked up at the middle-aged man wearing glasses. It turned out to be Professor Zhang, and the radio factory produced by the radio factory that could listen to TV programs was his drawing.

"Professor Zhang, where are you going?" Wang Weidong asked without answering the question.

"It's going to be winter soon, and I'll go to the farmer's market to buy several hundred catties of vegetables." Professor Zhang replied.

Every year at this time, no matter who you are, there is an important thing to do, and that is to buy hundreds of catties of Chinese cabbage, radishes, potatoes, and green onions to store at home, otherwise there will be no vegetables to eat in winter.

"Professor Zhang, take me home with your bicycle first. I'll change my shoes and go to the farmer's market with you. Pick and choose cabbage, radish and potatoes!" Wang Weidong said.

"Okay, I'll take you home." Professor Zhang said.

He turned the bicycle around, and Wang Weidong sat on the back seat of the bicycle and pointed out the location of Professor Zhang's own home.

I have lived in Harbin for the past two years, so every year before the Spring Festival, Wang Weidong brings things to Professor Zhang's house to pay New Year's greetings, and the two are already very familiar with each other.

"These unscrupulous people use paper shells to make leather shoes! The quality of the goods a few years ago was good, but the style was old and ugly. The pair of leather shoes my wife bought for me is very beautiful. I didn't expect it to be made of paper shells!" Wang Weidong complained. .

"Yeah, if you control it, you will die, if you release it, it will cause chaos!" Professor Zhang replied while pedaling.

"A professor as big as you comes out to buy Chinese cabbage, why can you ask your students to help you?" Wang Weidong said.

"How can I do that! How can I control the students! Besides, they still have to go to class normally." Professor Zhang said decisively.

(End of this chapter)