My girlfriend who has been running for ten years is getting married tomorrow

Chapter 11 Running to the Yellow Sea, Just to Promise You a Bright Future (2)
The old man could not wait to kneel down and beg: "Little brother, please be accommodating. My son was amputated in a car accident, and my daughter-in-law ran away with someone else. I have to earn more money while I am still healthy, so that my grandson can go to school."

The old man calls me "little brother" already, and in our place where seniority is particularly important, this title can almost shorten one's life.I was about to continue to drive away this "brother", but suddenly remembered Ling Yiyao's words, and suddenly realized that what I sacrificed in that "voting certificate" was not dignity, but kindness.

Can I change it?So I got out of the way and let him in to pick up the waste. The old man was grateful, and I immediately felt the joy of being a good person.Two hours later, we found that the iron trough bars on the construction site were missing, so we drove along the sea wall to chase, and finally stopped the old man who was humming and pedaling, and found three troughs in the waste cardboard pile of the trailer. Bars and a bucket of butter for excavator maintenance.

"Who let you in?" Lao Liu yelled aggressively.

The old man raised his hand, pointed at me and said, "It's him!"

I can only hehe.

In order to strengthen my position here and not be alone, I intend to seek allies, but this is not an easy matter.Lao Liu also hopes that I can check and balance Lao Feng who relies on the old and sells the old, but he is a project manager after all, and it is impossible to roll up his sleeves to participate in this kind of dispute, so there is nothing I can do to help.But not long after, several of our large machinery officially entered the venue. A driver was scared away by the harsh environment here. Lao Feng planned to recommend his nephew to come here, but Lao Liu turned a deaf ear and asked me in private: "Can you find the driver?" ?"

I asked suspiciously: "Isn't Lao Feng's nephew the driver?"

"His nephew is here, will he leave a way for you?" He gave me a blank look.

"Then I can't find anyone," I spread my hands to express helplessness, "I can do a few things myself, but I can only dig holes and bury the soil, which is not very professional."

"Then you should act as a guest driver first and assist with some simple tasks. If you can't find another driver within three days, you can only let Lao Feng's nephew come over. It will be fine by then, so don't complain."

Old Liu has been wandering outside for so many years, it is impossible not to get an excavator driver, but he stubbornly entrusted this task to me, obviously with ulterior motives.I was asking around, but I had no clue, when Zishi just called and chatted.He has been in love for more than half a year, and the other party's name is Wang Xiaofei. Just by hearing her name, she must be a gentle girl, and she is from the center of Nantong.The two of them love each other to the end of the world. They already call each other "husband" and "wife". up.

"How is Boss Lu doing at the beach?" He asked.

I felt a little depressed, so I mentioned it casually, and he said, "Has Xiaomeng been studying this for the past two years?"

"Which Xiao Meng?"

"Your little brother in high school, the one who passed notes to you and Ling Yiyao all day long."

I suddenly remembered this incident, and quickly asked for a number to call. Although I had lost contact for a long time, Xiaomeng still recognized my voice very quickly.He is still straight-tempered. He beat up the boss's brother-in-law and ran away some time ago. Now he is an unemployed young man who is unemployed at home.After a while of reminiscing about the past, I got down to business, and Xiaomeng introduced himself excitedly: "Brother, you have found the right person! I am good at excavators, bulldozers, road rollers, and loaders; forklifts, cranes, and dump trucks are also good. Whatever you dabble in, you will never lose face!"

"Then how much salary do you plan to ask for?"

He said without hesitation: "This is easy to say, I will take as much as I think is suitable!"

Speaking of this, of course I couldn't suppress his salary, so I reported the matter to Lao Liu, and finally offered a price of [-].On the third day, Xiao Meng appeared at the construction site with a pillow and quilt on his back, wearing toad glasses, a cigarette in his mouth, and a nunchaku hanging around his neck.He hoped that his debut would be more dazzling, but the dog watching the construction site was not afraid of his coolness and domineering at all, and chased him and yelled for a long time with his teeth bared.

When making the bed, it roared; when eating, it roared, during lunch break, it roared; when visiting the construction site, it roared; in the end, Xiao Meng couldn't bear it, because even he went to the toilet to squat on a large dick. At that time, the dog still kept barking beside him persistently.

"Brother, is your dog crazy?" He called and complained, "I've been squatting for half an hour, and I haven't even let out a fart!"

"Hey, huskies are all of this kind of second-rate virtue..."

"Which idiot raised it? Why didn't he get a rabbit to watch the construction site?"

In fact, this husky was brought by Lao Liu from a friend's house. At that time, he thought that the dog's eyes were fierce and domineering, and it would be useful to bring it here.However, after it joined the job, it did not do business, was lazy, and wandered around the seaside all day. Not only could it not see the construction site, but we also had to worry about it being stolen.

Originally, Lao Liu thought that Xiao Meng might be the second wrongly recruited labor force after Huskies, and I was also worried.The next day, Xiaomeng was driving an excavator to work in full view. The task seemed ordinary but relied on delicate micro-operations. Many people folded their arms and waited to see the joke.However, his technique is quite skilled, and he finished it quickly, well and fuel-efficiently, and even Lao Liu, who has always been critical, expressed his approval.

"With this little brother, I won't be afraid of those two old drivers showing off." Lao Liu said happily.

Lao Liu is the manager of the project department, Lao Feng is the chief engineer, and my position is just a small technician.Even so, every time the project department held a banquet in the town, it would bring me along, because a banquet was a battle, and I acted as Lao Liu's bodyguard in this battle.Pouring wine, distributing wine, toasting wine, persuading wine, carrying wine, punishing wine, filling wine, these are all skills that cannot be learned in school, but may be much more useful than advanced mathematics.

This drinking is one meal after another, and sometimes the wine from the previous meal has not sobered up, and the next meal begins again.

That day, because of the price quotation, we had dinner again, when Ling Yiyao suddenly called when we were drinking together, I hurried out of the box to answer.Her voice was a little trembling, and she said in a low voice: "My stomach hurts badly."

"What's the matter, are you on your period?" I asked.

"No, it just hurts."

"Did you catch a cold? Do you want to go to the hospital?"

"I didn't want to move because of the pain, and I didn't even eat dinner."

"Could it be acute enteritis and appendicitis? Isn't Jiang Qianqian in Nanjing? How about I call her and ask her to take you to the hospital for a check?"

Ling Yiyao refused, "No, she's still far away, and the subway stopped again."

"Then drink more boiled water and take good care of yourself." Apart from these, I can't say anything useful.

"Oh, I see." She changed the subject and asked again, "Then what are you doing?"

I told the truth: "Drinking outside."

Ling Yiyao smiled helplessly and said, "Drink? Then you can continue to drink."

"It's just socializing, I don't want to drink, I'll call you when I get back..."

Before I could speak, she hung up the phone, and I called back, but the phone was always turned off.I was in a hurry at the door, worrying about her condition on the one hand, and hating her petty capriciousness on the other hand-she hung up casually, and couldn't solve any problems except to vent her dissatisfaction with me, but it made me fall into a trap. Almost insane helplessness.

At this time, the people inside were calling me to preside over the drinking method of the circle, so I had to temporarily put aside my anxiety and return to the box to continue drinking.

I was drunk again.

Then I took the car back to the seaside construction site and stopped four times along the way to vomit.Lao Feng rolled down the car window and asked gloatingly, "Can you do it? You can't drink enough."

I scolded bravely: "This kind of sauce-flavored wine is too fucking unsuitable, otherwise they would have knocked them down today."

At any time, I can't show weakness to anyone in any way, even if it's just drinking, otherwise I will lose many opportunities.

Back at the dormitory on the construction site, I originally planned to lie down on the bed and rest for a while, and then call Ling Yiyao after the dizzying feeling subsided, but I lay down for eight hours, and when I opened my eyes, it was already high in the sun.

I remembered Ling Yiyao's abdominal pain, sobered up, and hurriedly called to express condolences.She was sleeping and was still sleepy when she answered the phone. I asked, "Does your stomach still hurt? How did you go last night?"

She said: "At night, I dug out some medicines, painkillers, anti-inflammatory drugs and so on in the drawer. I fell asleep for a while and woke up for a while. I didn't fall asleep until dawn. I am much better now, but I am a little weak, and I just want to lie down. "

"Why did you hang up so suddenly yesterday?"

"The phone turned off automatically, and my stomach hurts. I waited on the bed for a while before charging."

I sighed helplessly, I was hopping outside the box yesterday in vain.

She asked again: "Didn't you say to call me when you go back? Why didn't you call?"

"I was drunk yesterday and fell asleep after I got home," such an explanation made me ashamed, but at least it was the truth.

"Hehe..." She just smiled coldly.

"You waited for me?"

"No," she still denied coldly.

The two were silent on the phone for a long time. I heard the horns of vehicles in the city on her side, but she might only hear the raging sea breeze on my side.I really want to apologize to her, but what's the use of apologizing?When she was suffering physically and mentally, I couldn't even pass her a cup of hot tea. I could only stamp my feet and beat my chest thousands of miles away, and I was mistaken for indifference.

This is the pain of a lover's separation. You don't know how much she needs you, and she doesn't know how much you love her. Both of them think that they are the forgotten person in their own world.Most of the conflicts are born in this kind of separation. If they are close at hand, the huge conflicts can be resolved with a hug.

"Are you getting used to my time away?" I asked.

She was silent for a moment, and said: "It's okay, I'm getting used to it soon. It's just that when I saw your slippers, pillow, toothbrush and cup, I felt a little lost. I used to scold you when I found your smelly socks under the mattress when cleaning the room, but now I find them It’s even more sad when it’s gone.”

The sea reclamation project was quite arduous. It was a battle of wits and courage against the sea, paving the road and opening traffic at the same time. As soon as the sea came in, we had to retreat, and as soon as the sea receded, we had to rush the construction period. Sometimes the waves rushed violently, and several days of blood and sweat were wasted.

The so-called diurnal tide and night tide mean that the sea water will rise and fall twice in one day, the one during the day is called the tide, and the one at night is called the tide.The fishermen nearby taught us how to calculate the tide time, so that we can time construction during the day and send people to guard the seawall at night. Once the tide is out of control, we have to decide whether to run for our lives or fight.

The apartment in Nanjing was about to expire, and the landlord had to pay for a quarter at a time, and the fixed deposit between Ling Yiyao and I had more than one month to expire.She couldn't bear to give up the interest, and asked me if I had any cash, but I had nothing in my pocket.

"Then what should I do?" Ling Yiyao was so anxious that he was about to cry, "He has been urging me for several days, and if I don't pay the rent, he will drive me away."

"Why don't you take out that time deposit and use it first?"

She refused without hesitation: "No, more than 1000 yuan in interest, what a pity to lose it!"

I don't care too much about the interest, but I must meet Ling Yiyao's inner expectation - it is a two-year deposit, and Ling Yiyao's greatest entertainment is to calculate the interest amount with a calculator.

"Don't worry, I'll figure it out." I comforted.

I called to discuss the rent with the landlord in Nanjing. He was a paranoid guy. After trying my best to talk, he agreed to postpone it for another week.But, where can I get the more than 2000 yuan?For as long as I can remember, my family has been in debt, and the feeling of being duped is so miserable that I almost never borrow money from others.

The last time I borrowed money was ten years ago in high school.

At that time, Zishi and I went to a small Internet cafe for the first time under the leadership of Da Qiao. It cost two and five yuan an hour. Renewal.Our QQ is also registered there. Da Qiao is called "Melancholy Prince", Zishi is called "Sunshine Boy", and I am called "Chasing Wind Boy".

It happened that a dam was waiting to be closed. If the tide came, the gap would be washed away, and it would be difficult to close it next time.According to the tide schedule, the tide of the day will come in more than an hour, and those who are now operating the aircraft will be trapped on the embankment until the tide recedes.

The owner's chief engineer was extremely anxious at the scene, and urged: "Don't be dazed, go and close the dam!"

Old Liu said slowly: "That's not okay, what should I do if something goes wrong? Safety first."

"Why are you so timid? There is no danger in this matter! If there is a loss, you will also have to bear it!"

Old Liu retorted: "This is force majeure, we will not bear the loss. If you think there is no danger, why don't you go by yourself?"

The chief engineer couldn't make any threats, so he had to go out of his way to intimidate him locally: "Whoever of you is now operating this matter, our project department will pay double the labor and shift fees, pay on site, and settle in cash."

I immediately made a small calculation in my heart, this job can earn almost 2000 yuan, just enough to make up for the rent gap, so I stood up and took the task: "I'll go."

"I'll go too." Xiao Meng also stood up.

Lao Liu had no choice but to let go, and said to the owner's chief engineer: "Since they are willing to go, I have no objection, but you will be responsible for any accidents. In addition, in case seawater seeps into the interior of the machine and causes damage such as corrosion, maintenance You will also bear the cost."

The situation is urgent now, the chief engineer of the owner can only nod.

In this way, the two warriors were ordered to put on life jackets and board two 220-type excavators, and drove to the embankment where the tide was approaching like armored troops.In terms of excavator operation, I am just an amateur player who has become a monk halfway through. Xiao Meng is two years younger than me, but he is an experienced professional driver.In order to allow the bucket teeth to reach a farther work area, he carefully drove to the slope, dug up the sea mud and piled it in front of me, and I grabbed the sea mud and slapped it on the embankment to strengthen the embankment's ability to resist the tide.

The so-called "a dike of a thousand miles collapses in an ant's nest", only those who have done water conservancy projects understand the meaning of this sentence.As long as the water storage capacity is sufficient, even if there is only a small gap somewhere in the dam, there will soon be a huge gap that cannot be filled by the turbulent water flow.

After about an hour and a half, the gap in the embankment was finally closed and reinforced. I contacted the headquarters with a walkie-talkie and said, "The mission has been completed. How long will it be before the tide arrives? Can we go back?"

The command replied: "You'd better stay there, the tide is coming."

If they come to pick us up by car, Xiaomeng and I still have time to retreat, but they prefer us to stay here, in case there is a problem with this gap, we can still make up for it.They didn't say it clearly, and I knew it in my heart, but I still didn't point it out.

At this time Xiaomeng shouted: "Look ahead!"

I opened the window, grabbed the handrail and climbed to the height of the machine to look at it. I saw a long white line in the distance, and people who had been working in the shallows ran to the shore one after another.They are fishermen who pick up razor clams, rely on the sea to eat, and know the tidal laws very well, and when the tide is approaching, they will wash their feet and go ashore.

"It's too late to go, let's avoid it first." I said.

Xiaomeng tried to drive the excavator to the embankment, but he couldn't find the force point to support the bucket teeth. The force of the track alone would cause a landslide, and the excavator was stuck on the slope and dared not move.It didn't take long for the tide to flood up, submerging the black woven bag embankment, and the excavator's crawler was also half submerged.

I was surrounded by vast sea water, and the windshield was blowing waves and hitting the cab. The windshield was full of disgusting white foam, and there were even grass blades and garbage.I was disoriented, nauseous, dizzy, and even delusional that the excavator I was driving was bouncing in the middle of the ocean.

(End of this chapter)