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

Chapter 28 The blizzard that night saved my life (1)
The climate in the Gobi Desert in Xinjiang is harsh, and construction usually starts in April, and there are no construction conditions at all at the end of October. We braved the ice, snow and low temperature to start surveying and laying out lines one month in advance, and finally basically completed the construction in October.

The power company is a rich family with good money, but it does not include the solar power station under construction in 2012, because Europe and the United States have filed anti-dumping lawsuits against Chinese photovoltaic products.Once the charge of dumping is charged, photovoltaic products will basically lose their overseas markets, and the only way is to export them to domestic sales, such as the photovoltaic power plants that have bloomed everywhere in recent years.

As soon as the government held a meeting, it said that it would help photovoltaic companies to get out of the predicament, but it was limited to verbal support. Not only did the banks refuse to pay a penny for loans, but they even strictly guarded the barriers of administrative approval.When the European and American courts made a preliminary ruling and launched the anti-dumping mechanism to impose a tariff of up to 250% on Chinese photovoltaic products, all domestic industries that are close to photovoltaic power generation will be wiped out, especially those who build photovoltaic power plants like us. Construction unit.

Most workers don't understand this. They can't imagine that the trade struggle between China and Europe will directly affect whether they can buy a down jacket for their children at the end of the year. They can only criticize Little Japan, which has seized the Diaoyu Islands, while drinking.

"Do you know where the Diaoyu Islands are?" I asked.

They couldn't explain why, and said vaguely: "I heard that three or four hundred kilometers to the east of our surrounding sea is Japan's Diaoyu Islands."

Actually, they are talking about Jeju Island in South Korea.

The owners here finally exposed the problem of the extreme shortage of funds. They used the materials to review the matter, and they procrastinated day after day and refused to accept it, so our project funds did not go anywhere.Lao Liu has been paying attention to the trend of dumping cases in Europe and the United States, anticipating such a situation, which is why he is eager to urge me to come back.

I asked, "What are you going to do?"

He stubbed out the cigarette butt and said, "We've always been too polite to them, let's be tough this time!"

On weekdays, Lao Liu is definitely a gentleman, but when he has to, he is also good at playing hooligans.The three local workers came in handy. They went home and gathered a group of relatives and friends to block Party A's vehicles. No matter whether it was delivering food or carrying people, they would stop them and not let them go.And I led the workers to block Party A on the construction site, pulled out the car key and cut off the power, and did not fight or make trouble. Lao Liu even accompanied General Manager Gu in the office to smoke, drink tea and play mahjong.The people from Party A called the police, and the police from the police station came to coordinate again and again. After seven or eight times, even the police station was reluctant to come.

"Mr. Liu, let's return one yard to one yard. First, how about you restore our daily electricity consumption here?" Mr. Gu said while drawing his cards with a cigarette in his mouth.

But Lao Liu shook his head and said, "If it wasn't for one yard, would we two brothers still sit together? Although you are always the project manager, in the end you are still working for the owner. You do what you are supposed to do If you do, we will never make things difficult for you."

Mr. Gu patted Lao Liu on the shoulder and said, "I also take a salary and do things for others. We have gotten along so well in the past half a year, can't you think about brotherhood?"

"Brotherhood?" Old Liu slapped the table suddenly, everyone was taken aback, "If you think about brotherhood, you will ignore the lives of dozens of us, and you are still suppressing it until now. Refuse to accept? I don’t expect to get the project payment according to the contract, but the dozens of workers under me have been working so hard in this hellish place for so long, and they can’t even get paid. The folks in my hometown want to poke me in the back! Speaking of this today, I might as well say a harsh word, if this matter is not handled well, we will accompany you on the construction site during the Spring Festival this year, and no one should go home!"

"You can still tie me here?" Mr. Gu disagreed.

Lao Liu stood up, threw the mahjong tiles in his hand on the table one by one, and said, "Of course not, so many of us can accompany you home for the New Year, let alone the house number, we I even figured out what kinds of cigarettes are sold in the Yiyou supermarket in front of your house."

Mr. Gu looked at Lao Liu suspiciously, but Lao Liu took out a pack of cigarettes and threw it on the table, his doubts were immediately dispelled. It was a pack of General brand cigarettes, a special product of Mr. Gu’s hometown, [-] yuan a pack .

In fact, this pack of cigarettes was left by one of our partners when he visited the construction site and happened to pass by Chongqing.As for "Yiyou Supermarket", that is also the address Mr. Gu filled in when he asked Lao Liang to send a package home. Many people like to use a place in front of their house as the delivery address.

Let's try to fool Party A's deputy general manager surnamed Li. He is the brother-in-law of the owner's boss and has no experience in construction management.People with this identity and background are either treacherous villains or arrogant idiots. In short, they play the role of "teammates like pigs".

Taking advantage of Mr. Gu's absence, Lao Liu said to him privately: "We just want to pass the inspection early, go home for the New Year with peace of mind, and come back next year to fight for the second and third phases. At present, we won't be in a hurry to press for projects that are in arrears."

"How is it possible, you always have to pay workers' wages at the end of the year, right?"

Old Liu laughed and said, "For our project, it is definitely unrealistic to rely on me to advance the funds alone. There are many partners, and there are not two or three construction sites currently being worked on. There are not many nests for any rabbit these days."

Deputy Manager Li frowned, and said doubtfully, "Then why does Gu always refuse to accept the inspection?"

Old Liu looked outside, leaned into Deputy Manager Li's ear and pretended to be mysterious: "Of course I want to get a kickback! Mr. Gu refuses to accept the inspection and can't make a rectification request, so I can't disband the engineering team. Workers Your salary has to be counted, and it will still be counted on your brother-in-law. If we pay tens of thousands of dollars to honor Mr. Gu, will he continue to make things difficult for us?"

"Did he ask for money?" Deputy Manager Li suddenly regained his energy, and he kept looking for an opportunity to find fault with Mr. Gu.

Old Liu smiled meaningfully: "That's not true. Mr. Li, you know how I am, and you can't wrong others casually. But he seems to have hinted like this. I just pretended not to understand. Mr. Gu is different from you. You are the director He is a long-term man, but he is a guerrilla fighter, it is impossible to treat this place as his own home, and if he can make such a fortune, why doesn’t he make it?”

Deputy Manager Li nodded thoughtfully, while I was knocking on the side and said: "Mr. Li, think about it. He usually stays on the construction site and doesn't have much cash with him. Why does he always smoke high-end cigarettes, but you only smoke this one?" ?”

Deputy Manager Li looked at the Hongta Mountain beside him, feeling a little ashamed.

Lao Liu said: "Almost No. 50 workers in my construction site are paid by the number of days. Regardless of whether they work or not, the average day is more than 7000 yuan. You can calculate the loss of one month's suspension of work for the chairman. It's on your heads."

Deputy Manager Li squinted upwards, probably mentally calculating. In the end, he didn't say the result, but just patted the table and said, "This old Gu is too shameful!"

Not long after, the project department of Party A was overwhelmed and finally started to check and accept the completed project.Lao Liu also put down the pressure, and has been letting the wind say that he will not urge the project money this year, and is ready to withdraw people from the construction site at any time.Mr. Gu obviously understands that Lao Liu is trying to provoke us, but he has nothing to do with us. No matter how loyal a minister is, he still has to keep his job. What's more, what he did in the first place was the immoral thing of deliberately defaulting.

There has been a folk story since ancient times that a hunter went into the mountains to hunt and decided to spare the life of a wild beast when he was about to kill it. Soon after he was in trouble, the wild beast fell from the sky and sacrificed his life to save the savior.But the real version is not like this, but the moment the hunter removes the sharp blade, the beast leaps high, and its sharp claws plunge into the hunter's throat, tearing from the throat to the prostate.

"You are not benevolent, I am not righteous. Don't believe in such nonsense outside the Buddhist hall." This is what Lao Liu taught me and Xiaomeng, and other older workers agreed.

On the second day after the acceptance was signed, someone came from the owner's headquarters office. Our workers crowded the entire office of Party A's project department, slamming the door and beating the table to demand the project payment, scaring a female clerk into crying in a corner.The owner tried to spend money to invite a bunch of local ruffians to come over to settle the situation, but before entering the Gobi Desert, he was stopped by the local workers we hired later, and a few stupid guys were scared by dozens of shovels and short sticks as soon as they arrived at the construction site. went back.

Deputy manager Li was very dissatisfied with our backlash and clamored to call the police. Xiao Meng threw his mobile phone in front of him and said, "I have already called 110 for you, why don't you call again?"

Mr. Gu sat by the side without saying a word, but squinted at Deputy Manager Li and smiled contemptuously.

I took a big lock and locked the desk drawers and file cabinets of Party A and the supervisor, but when I hung it on the desk of the female clerk, I suddenly found a lock in her drawer. There are hundreds of colorful wishing stars in a glass jar, and there are many unfinished origami on the corner of her desk.

I suddenly remembered that Ling Yiyao had also folded this thing for me.

I was slapped severely by an adult like a child with teeth and claws, and suddenly realized that I was ugly when I lost my composure. Why did I become like this?Where did the kind and gentle Lu Qinyang who liked to play pranks and never had the heart to hurt others went?Where did this Lu Qinyang, who had a ferocious face and slapped the padlock on the table full of obscenities, come from?

I didn't lock the female clerk's drawer, and walked out of the crowded office silently.

This matter caused a lot of trouble. While negotiating with Party A, Lao Liu organized cranes and trailers. If the negotiation failed, he would drag away the cables worth millions from Party A's warehouse.If in the past, the bosses of power companies were rich and powerful, no one would dare to provoke them, but now no one is willing to step into this muddy water, and there may be many disasters, especially when it comes to the topic of wage arrears for migrant workers at the end of the year.

Under the mediation of the local government, the owner finally agreed to negotiate a settlement and pay the project funds in batches according to the method of 4:3:3, that is to say, we can get [-]% of the project funds this year.Compared with the original contract, this ratio has been discounted, but in the current market, it is already a great surprise to let everyone take money home for the New Year.

And those construction units that dismissed the workers early could only stare blankly, this is "crying children get milk".

Everyone in the team rejoiced, and I was no exception, getting drunk with everyone.This feeling is like being chased and bitten by a mad dog for half of your life, fleeing in embarrassment, and finally beat it away with a brick one day. That mad dog is poverty.I don't know who to share this joy with, so I began to miss Ling Yiyao, the person I didn't dare to think about on weekdays.

After hesitating for a long time, I finally worked up the courage to dial the familiar number. She was stunned when she heard my voice, told me to wait for a while, and then ran back to the room to answer.

I said, "I didn't expect your Nanjing number to still work."

She said: "I only pay a little money every month to keep the account uninterrupted. Unfortunately, no one has contacted this number. I am still thinking about stopping this account for the past few days."

I froze for a moment: "Wait for me?"

She didn't speak, neither affirming nor denying.

I couldn't help being overjoyed, and couldn't wait to show her my current situation: "My project here is almost done, and I can go home in a few days! This year's salary and bonus are almost 10,000+, and the down payment for the house has already been paid." It's more than enough, and I can add another 10 yuan. But the difficulty is only temporary, if your parents are not satisfied, I can withdraw the principal of the shares next year."

Ling Yiyao didn't speak on the other end of the phone.

I continued on my own: "Don't you like the Beetle? We can afford it now! I don't know if the space inside is big enough, but it doesn't matter. Anyway, it's for you to travel around the city, and it's not a drag. Yes. So, how did your driver's license test go?"

"Not yet," she said.

"Then you have to work hard, otherwise you can only push your car to the street every day..."

I thought it was more or less a joke, but Ling Yiyao didn't laugh.

"Also, didn't you say you wanted to open a bookstore before? We can look for a store with an area of ​​[-] to [-] square meters, and then find Zishi to design the space, lighting, and sound. I will start a business in Rugao in the future. Every year we go on a trip together, other than that, I don’t hang out anymore! I miss you so much, I miss you every day..."

I talked a lot to myself, eager for her to nod her head like a dog waiting for the bone on the chopsticks of its owner, and then returned to my hometown in a hurry, hugged Ling Yiyao in my arms and never let go, life has been perfect ever since , I have to be grateful to the sky and the earth every day.

Unfortunately, Ling Yiyao interrupted in a low voice: "I'm already engaged."

I was stunned for a moment, unable to utter a word, and even forgot to put away the smile unconsciously revealed on my face because of my longing for the future.Engaged...fiancee...wife...

I was so sad that I couldn't help squatting down, pressing my fist against my chest, trying to suppress the pain in my heart that was like being bitten by thousands of insects and ants.The bright future I thought I was about to have all disintegrated like a sandcastle in an instant. The friendship in the past and the struggle in recent years are like the interweaving of dreams and nightmares. The intimacy of lovers stretches to light years in an instant.

Everything is meaningless.

That day I sat alone in the cold night wind in late autumn, with only the sky full of stars to accompany me, I was more alone than ever, feeling like I was permanently abandoned on a desolate planet.I remembered a text message from many years ago. At that time, I was still a hypocritical young man who called Ling Yiyao "wife".

I realized this too, and my face turned red.

But she hugged my arm and said with a smile: "You are blushing! It's okay, don't be embarrassed, one day I will be your word!"

"Which word?" I took the opportunity to counterattack.

"Wife, wife, wife!" She repeated three times in a row, then sighed happily, and said, "The relationship between people is really wonderful. We didn't know each other before, and we were even at odds for a while, but now we don't know each other. We can be together, and in the future, one or two children will be born in this world with the blood of both of us."

I stretched out my hand and pinched her little face, and said, "Are you a girl, are you ashamed?"

This time it was her turn to roll over in shame.

I remembered the time when we sold popcorn together on the streets of Nanjing. We watched a midnight movie together that night, and she suddenly said: "If we want to separate one day, just think about the time when we sold popcorn together on the street. day, okay?"

Now I'm thinking, what about you?
But now, all these are just memories that no one but me, and eventually even I gradually forget, like sweet photos stored on an old USB stick deep in the landfill.Roaring silently, struggling angrily, and finally fell silent, accepting his fate of being forever forgotten.

I sat on the dirt slope, grabbed the tough withered grass on the ground with both hands, and tried hard, letting the dirt and gravel get embedded in my nails.I'm not strong, confident, shameless, I'm just a slut, I want to lie down and kick my legs and cry like a rogue child, and get my whole body covered in dust.

Ling Yiyao, Ling Yiyao, please answer me: You!for!Varied!what!Word!and!none!letter? !

The world will not be destroyed because of the end of a mortal relationship. The sun and the moon will still rise and set, and the seasons will continue to change. Our projects must continue to work.My mood was very bad, and my working state was extremely disordered. The simple earthwork calculation could not produce a clear result. I threw the calculator on the ground angrily, and stomped it into pieces.

"This will be deducted from your salary." Old Liu said solemnly.

"Cut it! Catch it all and pull it down!"

(End of this chapter)