wild 1995

Chapter 22 Situation
"Master, it's 6:30 in the morning, you should get up and listen to the news..."

Di Ye was awakened by Xiaohonghua's nagging alarm, stretched out his right hand from the bed, turned on the radio that was specially placed on the bedside table last night, and listened to the classic program "News and Newspaper Summary" of China Central Radio.

"According to the latest news from Xinhua News Agency, at 17:5 a.m. local time on the 46th, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 occurred in the Kansai area of ​​Japan..."

After hearing the news, Di Ye turned off the radio and said to the little red flower in the light curtain: "Retrieve the relevant memories of the Great Hanshin Earthquake and make them into documents for me to see."

"No problem, it will be fine soon."

Di Ye has been in the electronic watch for 28 years and has also studied it for 28 years. After Di Ye inherited these memories, after some unconstrained analysis and guessing, he believed that it was a super quantum computer from an alien.

Xiaohonghua's performance seems to confirm this judgment. Although her intelligence was very low at the beginning, her learning speed was fast. In the past few days, Di Ye has been training her whenever she has free time.

"Nikkei...Bahrain Bank...disaster reconstruction...SME bankruptcy..."

Di Ye stared at the document on the light curtain, and after thinking about it for a while, he waved his hand to let Xiao Honghua back down, while he wrapped up the quilt tightly and fell asleep.

At about 7 o'clock, Zhang Xiuzhi came back from duty. As soon as she opened the door, Di Yongchang said, "Xiuzhi, where did you hide the key to the safe? Find it and give it to me."

"What do you want the key for?"

"Tomorrow Xiao Ye will go to Guangdong Province with Xiao Fan to buy goods. I will take him to the bank to open an account today, get a passbook, and put some money in."

"It's time for Ono to have his own passbook."

Zhang Xiuzhi walked into the master bedroom, took out a thick sock from the depths of the closet, took out a key from the sock, handed it to Di Yongchang, and asked, "How much money do you plan to save for Xiao Ye?"

"He went to Guangdong Province to purchase this time, and the payment was 10 yuan. I plan to give him an extra 2 yuan to buy something he likes."

"2 is probably not enough. Guangdong Province has high consumption and many good things. You can give 5. If he wants to spend it, he can spend it. If he doesn't want to spend it, he can keep it in the account."

The safe at home is about 1 meter high. It is boxy and very heavy. It cannot be pushed by two or three people. It is usually used as a bedside table in the master bedroom. Di Yongchang squatted on the ground while turning the code dial, and joked: "You old woman, Ono just bought you a gold ring. Are you going to give him the coffin book?"

Zhang Xiuzhi stretched out her left hand, looked at the gold ring, and said flatteredly: "The first time Xiaoye made money, he only bought gifts for his family and didn't buy anything for himself. He is not a wasteful spender. I am very relieved of him."

"That's right. Ono went to college for four years, and basically didn't spend much of his family's money. Even the tuition was paid with scholarships."

Di Yongchang opened the safe, took out two passbooks, looked at the balance, and found that there were nearly 28 yuan, so he said: "If this business is completed, it is estimated that we can earn so much more. Just give Ono 18 yuan, and the remaining 10 yuan is enough for the two of us to spend."

"You old man, you blamed me just now, but now you are more generous than me!"

"The two of us are Xiao Ye's son. The money was originally left to him. It doesn't matter whether it is given sooner or later. Besides, Xiao Ye knows a lot of things and has a flexible mind. If he finds a new way to make money when he goes to Guangdong Province this time, it will come in handy."

"The money is your hard-earned money. You can give it as much as you want. I have no objection."

Di Yongchang put away the passbook, squatted down and looked at the safe, took out the gold ring that Di Ye gave him, handed it to Zhang Xiuzhi, and said with a smile: "I'm an old man, it's not suitable for me to wear a gold ring. Take it to a gold shop to change the size, and wear one on your right hand too."

Zhang Xiuzhi held up the gold ring and looked at it for a moment, then bent down and put it back in the safe, and said: "Xiao Ye said that this is a pair of rings, we each have one, matching, if you don't wear it, you can put it at home, anyway, gold will not go bad, besides, wearing gold rings on both hands is not good-looking, like a nouveau riche."

"alright."

Di Ye only had a start-up capital of 5 yuan, and Di Yongchang was willing to give him 18 yuan, which was a surprise, and naturally he would not object. For the convenience of going abroad in the future, he chose to open an account at the Bank of China this time and applied for a MasterCard Great Wall card.

When everything was done, it was already past 9 o'clock, Di Ye made a phone call and sent Di Yongchang to Chenghuang Temple, then turned around and went to Yuncheng Radio 3 Factory to find Huang Ya.

The Radio 3 Factory failed as early as the end of the 80s, and had ceased production for several years by 1995. The employees either went overseas to do business or went to work in the south. Only some old, weak, women and children were left to live in the factory area. Although there were still a lot of people, it looked very dilapidated.

Huang Ya's family lived in a tube building built in the 60s. Her mother built a simple house next to the tube building and opened a small restaurant selling breakfast and fast food. When Di Ye walked over, she saw Huang Ya squatting in front of a faucet at the door of the tube building, washing dishes.

As the saying goes, snow doesn’t turn snow into cold. It snowed for two days in a row before, and the sun came out today, but the sun was not hot. The temperature was as low as minus three or four degrees. The tap water was so cold that Huang Ya’s hands were red from the cold, but she didn’t notice it. She mechanically picked up a bowl from the bucket, quickly stirred it with a loofah, put it into the plastic basin next to it, and then picked up another bowl, and so on.

"Why don't you wear waterproof gloves?"

Huang Ya turned her head to see Di Ye, with a smile on her face, and said, "There are no gloves at home, and it's useless to wear them, anyway, you'll be frozen."

Seeing that her hands were frozen, but her face was smiling brightly, Di Ye felt distressed, and walked over to help, Huang Ya raised her arms to stop her and said, "Don't make any trouble, these bowls are very slippery, be careful if you break them, I'll finish washing them right away."

There were still seven or eight bowls in the bucket, but Di Ye didn't have a loofah, so he had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​helping, and asked, "Where are your two younger brothers?"

"I went to play with my classmates."

"How old are the two of them this year?"

"Huang Zongshan is 19, Huang Zonghai is 16, one is in the third year of high school, and the other is in the first year of high school."

Di Ye frowned upon hearing this, and asked, "How is their academic performance?"

Huang Ya didn't answer, just pursed her lips and shook her head.

They neither help the family with work nor love to study. They seem to be two spoiled troublesome people. Di Ye couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief and asked, "Where's your mother?"

"She has caught a cold these days and is not feeling well, so she is resting at home."

Di Ye snorted coldly, and teased: "I don't think your mother has a cold, but that you are on vacation! Are you busy with all the things in the restaurant these days?"

Di Ye once said that Huang Ya's family was in difficulty and asked Di Ye to take care of her. However, after Di Ye inherited his memory, he found that Huang Ya's family was not in trouble, but only her.

Huang's father was very kind to Huang Ya, and saved her money to help her go to college, but Huang's mother was an extremely patriarchal person, doting on her son in every possible way and oppressing her daughter in every possible way, so since Huang's father passed away 3 years ago, Huang Ya's life became very difficult. She had to go home and work every weekend during the school term, not to mention during the holidays, and she was completely used as a body worker.

After Huang Ya washed all the dishes and chopsticks, she put them under the tap and rinsed them again, and asked, "What do you want me to do?"

Di Ye put his hand in front of the faucet, felt the bone-chilling water temperature, and said, "I found you a job, and I'm going to work today."

Huang Ya was a little surprised, raised her head and asked, "What job?"

Seeing the hopeful look in Huang Ya's clear eyes, Di Ye suddenly understood why she liked watching Stephen Chow's movies, because only by immersing herself in the laughter of movies can she temporarily escape the heavy family pressure.

"Take me to see your mother first, and I will tell you about the specific work later."

Huang Ya rinsed the dishes and chopsticks, sent them back to the small restaurant in the simple room, and then brought Di Ye to a room on the second floor of the Tongzi Building, opened the curtain that was used as an old quilt, and said to the inside: "Mom, Di Ye is here."

The tube building of Radio 3 Factory is larger than Yunda, about 20 square meters, with a double bed and a large wardrobe inside, and a small table in front of the window sill with a black and white TV set on it.

When Di Ye went in, Huang Ya's mother was hugging the quilt, sitting on the bed and eating melon seeds while watching TV, she didn't seem to be suffering from a cold at all.

"Di Ye, are you here to see Miss Huang?"

Huang Ya's name comes from the homonym of a girl, and it was chosen with the help of the teacher when she was in elementary school. Di Ye didn't want to argue with such a mother, and said straight to the point: "Auntie, I found a job for Huang Ya. During the winter vacation..."

"No, Huang Ya wants to help me open a restaurant, and I don't have time to go out to work."

Di Ye turned to look at Huang Ya, saw her biting her lip, her eyes were empty, and felt very uncomfortable, so she made an offer that Huang's mother could not refuse, saying: "Work part-time for one month during the winter vacation, with a salary of 2000 yuan, including food and housing, plus bonuses and commissions."

As expected, Mother Huang couldn't refuse, she sat up straight all of a sudden, with a greedy look on her face, and asked, "Is there really 2000 a month?"

Di Ye didn't talk nonsense with her, took out his wallet, counted 10 hundred-yuan bills that he had just withdrawn in the morning, put them on the quilt, and said, "This 1000 is the salary paid in advance, and the remaining 1000 will be paid when the winter vacation is over."

Disregarding her appearance, Huang's mother leaned out from the bed and grabbed the money and counted them one by one. Seeing this, Di Ye said, "Auntie, this job is very urgent. I have to take Huang Ya to work now."

"Okay, you take her there."

Seeing that she was busy counting the money, Di Ye agreed without even asking about any work. He sighed secretly, turned around and said to Huang Ya, "Pack up a few changes of clothes, and I'll wait for you outside."

Huang Ya quickly came out with an old army green schoolbag, and followed Di Ye out of the Tongzilou without saying a word. After walking out of the rusty gate of Radio 3 Factory, she showed a Zhou Xingchi-like exaggerated smile and asked, "Di Ye, you won't sell me, will you?"

"How much can you sell for a short and thin yellow-haired girl like you?"

(End of this chapter)