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

Chapter 22 Going to Xinjiang, Missing You Thousands of Miles Away (1)
When I arrived at Urumqi Railway Station, Lao Liu and Xiao Meng drove over to pick me up, and then went to a nearby farmer's market to buy. There were all kinds of vegetables and meat piled up in an off-road vehicle.We twisted and turned on the road, and the frozen wheel marks made the windows thump, and my upper and lower teeth chattered, but I still fell asleep amidst the bumps.

"It's here." Lao Liu pushed me awake, and threw me a thick military coat.

I opened the car door in a daze, and the icy cold wind still penetrated the military coat, which woke me up immediately, and the vast and boundless Gobi Desert in front of me made me dumbfounded in amazement.Except for rows of sheds and machines, there is almost nothing here. Looking far away, even the arc of the earth is faintly visible.

"Are we going...to the moon?" Looking at the bare ground, I asked suspiciously, "Where...is the big... prairie?"

Old Liu was also wrapped in his coat and shivering: "This, isn't it a year old, a dry, a dry..."

"One dry one dry head, you old fox!" I cursed and coughed.

Xiao Meng quickly came over and patted me on the back, saying: "Brother, don't, don't talk to the wind, you will choke, choke..."

I took out my phone and checked the time. It was already seven o'clock in the afternoon. I looked up again and saw that the sky, which should have been dark this season, was still blue and clear. It was a magical world.

The number of prefabricated houses is very limited, and the few of us who are on-site managers no longer have the privilege to sleep on wooden shelves with ordinary migrant workers, and drink and play cards together at night to brag.Even though last year's project payment was only half settled, Lao Liu still had to bite the bullet and paid the workers' wages cleanly, so this time it was almost the same team, all the children from his hometown.The so-called migrant workers, as long as they can bring home their hard-earned money at the end of the year, they are willing to work hard for the boss, no matter how hard or tiring the work is, they will not shrink back.

"The construction conditions this year are more difficult than last year, but the wages are also higher than last year. I hope everyone will unite as one, overcome difficulties as much as possible, and finish this project as soon as possible," Lao Liu said here, gesturing the workers to close the doors and windows, and then said in a low voice, "This is a big project, much more complicated than last year's sea reclamation project. There are seven or eight teams from all over the world, and there will inevitably be friction. We don't make trouble when we have nothing to do, and we are not afraid of trouble when we have something to do. If there is any dispute, you all don't care about it." Mommy, set the scene up for me!"

"Understood!" Everyone responded enthusiastically.

I also said: "I walked around the construction site today. Although there is a three-way connection in name, the water pipes are easy to freeze and burst, and the electricity consumption for life and construction is not stable. In case of emergency, we must have Scrambling for water and electricity, you must not give in. Mr. Liu was right just now, and I would like to add that no matter what you do in other places, you are not allowed to form small gangs here. We are only brother number 47. If you don’t If we are united, we will be trampled into mud by other teams.”

"Brother, don't worry, we are not soft buns this time!" Xiaomeng said as he lifted the quilt from his bed and pulled out a round wooden stick.Like him, more than a dozen other young workers also pulled out their pre-hidden weapons from the corners, and the formation seemed to be ready for a gang fight at any time.

Lao Liu stretched out his legs and kicked Xiao Meng, and scolded angrily: "Little bastard, put it away, we are here to make money from engineering, not to cause trouble! If we don't dare to fight with excavators like last year , I’ll stuff you into a diesel barrel and bury you alive!”

Xiaomeng laughed and dodged, and quickly put away the stick, and the workers roared with laughter.

However, only three days later, after a raging snowstorm, those weapons came in handy.

I grew up in Jiangsu, and I have never encountered such a violent snowstorm. The world was a vast expanse of white, and the biting cold wind was almost pervasive, making the prefabricated houses whine like ghosts and wolves.We rushed to build two wooden ladders overnight, braved the freezing weather and took turns to clear the heavy snow on the roof. Some construction teams were greedy for a moment of comfort and refused to come out by guarding the fire. Collapsed a big hole.

It was also during this blizzard that a large-scale failure of the power supply suddenly occurred. The hundreds of miles of transmission lines could not be repaired under this climatic condition, and the entire construction site suddenly fell into a primitive state.Xiaomeng discovered that the three-phase electricity in the main distribution cabinet could be connected to two-phase electricity, barely used for domestic electricity. The moment the light in the shed was turned on, even the puppy watching the construction site barked happily.

Mobile phones, electric lights, rice cookers, these things are enough to pull us back from primitive society to modern civilization in an instant.I ran all the way back to the prefabricated room, grabbing an outlet to charge my phone, and when I turned it on, more than a dozen text message notifications of missed calls popped in, and I couldn't help but secretly exclaimed, "This is a dead end."

Sure enough, Ling Yiyao asked on the phone: "Where have you been? Why haven't you heard from me?"

I explained: "The power has been cut off for two days in a row, and the mobile phone can't be turned on. Now I will call you as soon as I plug it in."

"Then it's too late for you to even text me?"

"I was out surveying the construction site, and my mobile phone was out of battery. I didn't know it was powered off until I came back. Otherwise, I would have told you in advance, or I would have Xiao Meng come to testify for me."

"No need, you men are all gangsters, and testifying is perjury." She paused and asked again, "Do you know what day was yesterday?"

After thinking about it for a while, I turned my head to look at the calendar beside the bed, and the bright red "February 2" came into my eyes. I was so surprised that I stood up and knocked my head on the edge of the bed upstairs.While rubbing the bulging bag, I apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention to the Gregorian date in the past two days."

"I even forgot Valentine's Day..."

I said: "There are a bunch of old men on the construction site, and they don't pay much attention to this kind of festival."

"Forget it, I'm used to it, even if you know, what can you do over there? I just can't get through to your phone, and I'm angry, anxious and worried."

I was about to comfort her, but the light above my head suddenly went out, and the shed fell into darkness again, and my mobile phone also entered the automatic shutdown screen.The workers were bumping and bumping in the dark, with the sounds of washbasins and suitcases everywhere, swearing at the damned power supply. At this moment, Xiao Meng ran back in a hurry, waving the flashlight beam in his hand. Shouting inside the room: "The installation team cut off our electricity!"

"Son of a bitch! Beat them!" Everyone was filled with righteous indignation.

I tried my best to control the situation and shouted: "Calm down, don't make trouble, let's negotiate later!"

Unexpectedly, old Liu's hoarse business came out in the dark: "Calm down! Take the guys and go meet them with me for a while. You can't be kicked out by others right away!"

I understand why Lao Liu is so irritable. His six-year-old daughter refuses to go to kindergarten, and his four-year-old son has a high fever for several days.Now he was finally able to call back to inquire, but the power was cut off before he could say a few words. This kind of anger did not come from an engineering boss, but from a father.

"Let's go!" The workers looked for weapons by the light of the lighter.

I tried to restart the machine, but the screen went black again before the start-up screen was finished, and I couldn't help being furious. I went out with everyone and went straight to the main power distribution cabinet.There was also a group of people standing there, with cigarettes in their mouths, some with flashlights, some with wiring changes, some with guards, and the blue overalls of the installation team were exposed from under their coats.

"What do you want to do?" The sentinel greeted him.

"Who cut off our electricity?" Old Liu muffled and asked.

"I cut it off, what's the matter?" The other party said arrogantly, "Is this power from your house?"

"What's the matter? What's the matter with killing you bastard!" Old Liu rushed forward and grabbed the guy by the collar, and punched him three times, "Fuck your mother! Fuck your mother! Fuck your mother!"

The other party's work shed was very close to the power distribution cabinet, and their people rushed over after hearing the sound. The two sides were wrestling in the snow, with ice, snow and dirt splashing, and swearing and swearing.Although the installation team was assembled from all over the world, most of them would wait and see each other when encountering such a thing, and try to avoid it as much as possible, but they have a base of more than 200 numbers after all, and there are obviously many more people who come out to fight than us.Fortunately, we had already mobilized them, and forced them back with sticks. People from other engineering teams also came to watch, either gloating or clamoring for fear of chaos.

When people from the owner's project department heard the news and came to mediate, Xiao Meng had already pulled off the other party's cable and restored our power supply. He went crazy like last year and shouted at the top of his voice: "I connected it first. If the mother dares to move again, I will burn your huts down!"

Everyone is here to make money, so whoever has the money will have the toughest words, even a fart is an imperial decree.The general manager of the owner's project is surnamed Gu. He just cursed a few words in a low voice, and we stopped talking.

Lao Liu pulled the general manager aside and said, "Mr. Gu, we connected the electricity first. They not only forcibly removed our cables, but also beat our people. It's really unreasonable!"

"The cables here are only temporarily allocated for your use, what's there to argue about?" Mr. Gu said with a superior attitude.

I leaned over and said, "Their installation team has more than 200 people, and it must consume a lot of power. This cable is hard to bear, and our two project departments add up to only fifty people..."

Lao Liu also echoed understandingly: "Yes, I will let Xiao Lu and Xiao Mengla go to your side with a line, at most 200 meters, our two families can at least make do with lighting, cooking, and flushing for mobile phones." electricity."

Mr. Gu couldn't help being moved. He usually counted on the hundreds of movies and TV series in the mobile hard drive to pass the time. Now that the power was cut off for two days, he scratched his heart and lungs like an addict.He changed his smiling face and said, "Isn't this too much trouble for you?"

"Hey, you really don't think of us as brothers!" Lao Liu took advantage of the situation and grabbed Mr. Gu's shoulders, so intimate that he would wear a pair of pants, "Besides, if you talk about such kind words, we won't help you even if you pay us for it." Got the call."

I immediately called Xiaomeng and a few workers who knew electricity, and went to the warehouse to carry a roll of thin cables. After about an hour of tossing, the lights in our workshop and the owner's project department finally turned on.

I ran back in a hurry, plugged in the phone quickly, and sent a text message to Ling Yiyao, saying: "Are you asleep? The power was cut off again just now, and I just connected it now."

Ling Yiyao said, "Not yet, I'll take a shower first, and I'll call you at twelve o'clock."

I checked the time, it was already 11:30 midnight.

Unexpectedly, just 10 minutes later, Lao Liu came in with a livid face and said: "The owner's bastards, tell them not to use high-power electrical appliances, or turn on the heater, electric blanket, and solar lamps. Now their side The relay fuse is blown."

I walked to the window and looked into the distance, and it was really dark on the owner's side.

"It deserves it!" I cursed.

Old Liu looked at me and said meaningfully: "It's just my lack of preparation. Except for the one on our relay, there is no extra fuse."

I froze for a moment, and asked in surprise, "Isn't it possible to lick their ass like this?"

"These days, those who squeeze other people's blood and sweat stand tall, and those who spill their own blood and sweat kneel down. Who said we are the latter? Today I feel wronged, and I will go and settle this matter. I will drive back to the earth tomorrow. Buy a fucking dozen of fuses and come back."

We call the Gobi Desert under our feet the moon, and we call the human civilization outside the Gobi Desert the Earth.

I leaned against the window, looking at my mobile phone that was charging, with a hundred thousand reasons rushing in my chest.

Lao Liu patted me on the shoulder and said, "I don't want to do this either. I'm definitely more anxious than you now. Now you are not just a technician, you are also a shareholder no matter what. Consider things more carefully and don't play childish temper. "

He said all this, and I had nothing to say, so I had to shout for someone in a dejected manner.Xiaomeng was even more furious when he heard it, but he was more convinced of my words, even if I didn't give him any explanation, he would do it one by one.We took the tools, removed our own fuses, went to the owner's project department, and then returned to our dark work shed dejectedly.

"Why? Why!" Xiao Meng kept muttering resentfully.

I am not interested in complaining with him. Maybe one day, I will become more mature and stable like Lao Liu. No matter how unpleasant things are, I will never ask "why".Because the world doesn't have so many answers for us at all.

I didn't wait for Ling Yiyao's call, and I didn't have time to send her a text message. I could only lie under the quilt holding my dead phone, staring at the ceiling above my head, imagining how anxious she was calling over and over again.But, is she willing to believe that I am just as distraught as she is, tossed and turned by inexplicable grievances, and sleepless all night.

After the blizzard ended, the power supply company sent people to overhaul the line, troubleshoot a nearby transformer, and restore power to the entire construction site.But Lao Liu had lingering fears about the power outage, so he took me and Xiaomeng to go shopping, bought flashlights, emergency lights, fuses, batteries, and even bought a second-hand gasoline generator.

Always pay in cash, taken from my bank card.

In addition, I bought a mobile power bank the size of a brick in a rage, with a large capacity of tens of thousands of mAh, and I no longer have to worry about power failure.When we were eating in the town in the afternoon, Zishi probably got drunk again, and called to complain drunkenly, while I dipped in mutton soup and gnawed on naan, while listening to his long stories of love and sorrow.

"Tell me, what's the point of being alive? The mother-in-law is too cruel, Lord Yan is merciless, and the boss's money bag is tightly covered. Even if the villain is spoiled in the movie, he doesn't spoil it like this. Besides, I'm so fucking cruel." Like a villain?"

"It looks alike, but it doesn't look alike," I said.

"Hahahahaha..." He laughed wildly on the other end of the phone.

I also laughed, anyway, the two are used to hurting each other on weekdays.

Zishi suppressed his laughter, sighed and said, "I've been on a blind date for a while, of course, you must understand, girls like me who is handsome but very low-key..."

"It's understandable that an outstanding man like you, no matter how low-key and subtle, is like a firefly in the dark, shining brightly. However, since you are so popular, why are you sighing? Is it for this?"

Lao Liu and Xiao Meng sat opposite each other and laughed.

But Zishi became serious: "My grandfather's situation is very bad. The doctor has advised to stop the treatment and save the money to buy food and drink. How can I find a woman at this time..."

I don't know how to deal with this kind of thing. If I can't solve it, I can't comfort it. I can only sigh with it symbolically.As long as people who come to this world once, no one can escape the call of death, but thousands of years have passed, and human beings still have not evolved a certain ability to resist the pain of losing their loved ones.

"Damn it, in this dick society now, where there are meat, wine, housing and money to spend, why do you live like a dog every day, exhausted to death but always unsatisfied?"

"Isn't that what people do? The house needs to be bigger, the car needs to be faster, the unmarried are afraid of loneliness, and the married should be free. I never know what is contentment." I paused and looked up at the opposite side. Two colleagues said, “Some time ago, I felt that the happiest thing in this world was having electricity. As long as I had electricity, I could eat a bowl of hot rice, make a phone call, and send a text message. Is it low?"

"It's really pathetic for you to build a power station without electricity."

(End of this chapter)