National Beer

"My voice is crying for the splits, and I made only one dollar and two with Baal effort. You earned ten dollars in one afternoon?! Where do you go to make sense?" Lu Xuguang drew his fangs and stared, as if someone robbed him. Like money.

Qin Dong didn't care about him, and ran forward on his bicycle, "to reason with Director Xiong."

"Hey, wait for me, tell me, how do you know the temperature is low," Lu Xuguang quickly rode a few laps to catch up, "No, I won't be at the National Cotton Factory tomorrow, I will go to work, and I will follow Gourd painting dipper, I also... Hey, Qin Dong, when did you learn this skill, why didn't I know? Can you take care of the brand washing problem..."

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The sky slowly dimmed, the street lights were lit one by one, the whole city sparkled, and there was a sea of ​​lights.

The two talked and laughed, noticing that the light dimmed and the building was gone. Through the dim yellow light, you could see a large dark bungalow in front.

Zhongjiawa.

In fact, this place is considered to be a city, but it is more like a rural area. Even when the name was originally named, it was with inferiority complex. I didn't dare to call it street, li, or alley, but called a "wa" because the dry weather here is like a steamer. Soaking in the rain on a rainy day, it seems incompatible with this city.

"Mom, the lamp broke my brother-in-law again!" Lu Xuguang cursed, and several street lamps on the street were broken again, even if they were replaced with new light bulbs, they would be finished in a day.

"How can you have a brother-in-law?" Qin Dong laughed.

"Still in my mother-in-law's belly." Lu Xuguang was also unambiguous.

The bicycle made a bang, and the bluestone slabs laid at the entrance of the street were pitted, with missing corners and few edges. The crooked alleys were lined with low and dilapidated old bungalows, uneven in height. , Every hutong is full of tatters, smashing.

"Why did you come back?" Riding into a compound, a woman of about 30 years old greeted her and asked softly, "Qin Nan, your brother is back and has dinner."

"I went to the training booth with Xuguang," Qin Dong said loudly. He took the towel from his sister Qin Nan and wiped his face. "Eat!"

This is his home after rebirth!

There are five or six households living in this courtyard, and it's common for a family of four to live on ten square meters.

No, it's just the point of eating. The courtyard is full of people. One person is a small stove. Many people also light coal briquettes for cooking. This makes the PF area higher than the temperature on the street outside. Several degrees.

"Brother, I'm so hungry, Sister Zhi wants to wait until I come back to eat..."

There are three people in this family, Liu Zhi, to be precise, he and his sister Qin Nan’s stepmother. Unfortunately, the chef father left last year, leaving behind their brothers and sisters, but this stepmother is facing all kinds of things. The vision stayed.

Although she is strictly a stepmother, she is too young, and both he and his sister Qin Nan call her sister Zhi.

For dinner, as usual, cornmeal porridge and steamed buns were served with shrimp paste. The shrimp paste was served with rice. It was too salty. Qin Dong felt that after only eating for three days, his mouth was blistering.

"Brother, I don't want to go to school..." Qin Nan whispered with his head tilted while biting his chopsticks.

Well?

"The school asks to pay an education surcharge. Besides, I am not going to study. I want to sleep as soon as I have class..." The sound was not loud, but the neighbors heard it, and there was a burst of laughter in the courtyard.

Qin Dong laughed too, this sister, it's really not for learning.However, if she quit school and she is a bottle washer now, he can't solve Qin Nan's job.

"Can't quit school," Liu Zhi said firmly, but the next sentence lost confidence, "How much to pay?" She didn't want to eat.

"Two yuan and six." Qin Nan muttered, his chin resting on his chopsticks, listless.

"Two yuan and six!" Willow branch was also worried. The food and the burning flowers at home all pointed to Qin Dong's salary of thirty-two and fifty-one. Every month at the end of the month, she couldn't wait to go anywhere. Pick up some money.

"Where have you just eaten?" The three were discussing, Qin Dong was waiting to speak, and a girl walked in from outside the door, eighteen or nine years old, braided, holding a bag of loose biscuits in his hand.

"Sister Orange." Qin Nan's eyes immediately glowed, and he took the little Mazha and handed it to the girl graciously.

"This is from our factory. My mother asked me to send it over." Du Xiaoju put the cookies on the table. She was the accountant of the cookie factory and smiled very brightly. This dilapidated and dark courtyard seemed to be brightened up immediately.

"Xiaoju, have you eaten yet?" Liu Zhi asked softly, her eyes lit up, and she tugged for a while, until everyone in the courtyard came to the entrance of the alley and the main road to enjoy the cool. Asked carefully, "Xiaoju, discuss something with you, Xiaonan has to pay an education surcharge, do you still have money..."

"How much?" Du Xiaoju smiled, and put her hand into her trouser pocket, "I have three dollars left, is it enough? Not enough for me to go home and get it."

"Enough, enough," Liu Zhi said with gratitude in an uneasy expression, "Look, our family...well, the money borrowed from you the other day has not been repaid, your mother won't say you..."

Du Xiaoju smiled and shook his head.

"I will pay it back when I work." Qin Nan graciously took Du Xiaoyue's arm, "Hanging on the hook for a hundred years will not change. Whoever changes is the bastard."

"Sister Zhi, I forgot all about it." At this moment, Qin Dong took out the ten dollars from his pocket, then took out another pocket, and took out a gross ticket and a few steel bars, "I am today A bonus of ten yuan was given, so there is no need to borrow money from Xiaoju."

"Ten yuan bonus?" Someone from the neighbor shook the puff fan. "The brewery is profitable, but it pays out bonuses during the holidays."

"No," Qin Dong said with a smile, "The bottle washer was repaired today, and it was awarded according to the factory regulations."

"Do you still repair machines?" The neighbor smiled, "Okay, there is progress, don't you just work for three months?"

"What happened in three months," Qin Nan immediately took the conversation, "My brother is very good, you can also make ten yuan if you can cultivate."

"It's my sister, who knows who is near and who is far..." A few neighbors let out a kind of laughter. The men wore big pants and shirtless, and the women wore short sleeves and shook the cattail fan. They went out to enjoy the shade of the alley.

"Well, my grandfather used to be the chief engineer of Qin Beer..." A word floated in outside the door, slowly drifting away.

Liu Zhi took the money carefully. She used to be a waiter in Qin Dong's father's restaurant. She is still a rural household registration. She can't do the work in the restaurant anymore. Now she can only sew at home.

"Qin Dong, you can do it, you can repair the machine." Du Xiaoju's eyes glowed, "Why haven't I heard you say it? Who did you learn from?" Her voice was just like her smiling face, soft and sweet. , People feel better inexplicably.

Qin Dong said sternly, "It's still a matter of learning, but I don't know anything about the brewery. Repairing the machine is a piece of cake."

"You just blow it." But despite saying that, Du Xiaoju's eyes still turned into a pair of crescents, which was very beautiful.

"By the way, Xiaoju, do you have any news from your brother?" Liu Zhi asked with concern.