When I got home, thousands of lights were already lit in the worker’s community, the smoke from cooking in the corridor had dissipated, and the army of washing dishes in the public pool had disappeared. Every neighbor closes the door, shutting out the cold and darkness, and enjoys the leisure time of the night in comfort.
Chen Yuanming was in a very relaxed mood. He was sweating profusely all the way, and his stomach was growling with hunger, but the money in his arms was solid, which made people feel at ease. This time he will hand over part of it to the family to subsidize the family, and the other part will be used as capital to try to invest in other businesses...
Pushing open the door, he just wanted to say hello to his family, but at a glance, he saw his father Chen Jianhua sitting on the bed, his arms folded, his eyebrows furrowed, and he walked into the door glaring at himself. The tables and chairs in the hut had been removed, and it seemed that he had no intention of leaving meals for him at all. His mother, Wang Juan, was standing beside the bed with a sad face, as if she was worried.
What's going on here
Before he could open his mouth in a hurry, the man opposite had already said sharply. "Where have you been today?!"
Chen Yuanming was slightly startled, "Go to Aunt Liu's house, Sun Lang and I..."
"Aunt Liu's house?" interrupting his son's words unceremoniously, Chen Jianhua stood up and walked to Chen Yuanming's side in a few steps, "I don't think so! Does Aunt Liu live in the municipal compound?!"
what. Chen Yuanming understood in an instant, his parents probably already knew that they were selling things. The first time he went to the department store in the old city, in the east of the city, it was half a city away from the bearing factory. However, it is difficult to say at the Municipal Party Committee's Family Court. There are also some leaders' spouses in the factory who work for the municipal government, and they may be seen by people they know. But so what
Chen Yuanming pulled out a smile, "No, I went with Sun Lang to sell things at the municipal party compound. Aunt Liu knitted some gloves, and I helped her..."
"Fuck you!" Chen Jianhua yelled, "How old are you the fuck?! Liu Yun dared you to sell things, why is she so shameless?! Didn't you go to her house to study? Just learn this?! Your wings are hard, aren't you, you dare to play tricks on this?!"
Choked by this, Chen Yuanming frowned slightly, "Dad, you misunderstood, Aunt Liu is doing serious business, so I'll just help..."
"Serious? Seriously, she will go to buy and sell?!" Chen Jianhua was completely angry, "What is purchased in Shanghai, what is sold abroad, what can she do for you?! She is shameless and we want it!"
"Be quiet." Wang Juan had already come over and closed the door, and looked out the window anxiously, "In the middle of the night, stop yelling, it's ugly for the neighbors to hear."
After she finished speaking, she also walked to Chen Yuanming's side, reached out and touched her son's arm, "Doudou, you don't understand this, don't get involved with her, these days people know who they are, but Sun Jun is not a good thing. In the factory..." It seemed that she found something wrong with her words, Wang Juan stopped abruptly and stopped speaking, but the condemnation in her eyes pierced Chen Yuanming's heart like a needle.
What was relaxed, what was comfortable, what was full of hope, all came to nothing at this time, Chen Yuanming's face was like a piece of iron, and he couldn't see any expression, "What about the money? Don't you want to make money?"
He reached into his arms and grabbed a handful of banknotes, "I'll go to help people to work, and get paid back, it's just and righteous, there's no place to be shamed. Isn't our family short of money? How much debt you owe, how long has it been since the family has seen meat and fish, how many New Year's goods have you made during the New Year, and how many relatives have you linked up, why? Isn't it because of lack of money?"
The colorful bills were held in his hands, as if they were in a mess, and they were burned.
"You still took the money... so much money..." The words trembled, like muttering and trembling, "Do you know what you are doing? This is speculation! You will be caught in jail!"
Wang Juan's expression also changed, and she snatched the money from her son, "She will give you so much money for a favor?! You are stupid! Why don't you think about why people give you money?! How could she do this? I'll go find her tomorrow!"
"Why are you looking for her? It's not too ugly!" Chen Jianhua yelled, "Just throw the money to her! In the future, you will go to Liu Yun's house and make such unscrupulous money with her, and I won't break your legs! "
"That's right! I can no longer communicate with her family in the future, what are they all about! Good children have been brought up, is it a good thing to be a 'bad master' these days? Our family is poor, but my father and I are both decent workers. Get a decent salary, spend your energy to support yourself, and you can't go the wrong way like those upstarts!"
"Dogs don't think the family is poor, you have a bit of backbone! Don't let others poke the back of our family's spine, and good students do things like stealing chickens and dogs. You are not ashamed, but also think about your parents' old face!"
One left and one right, one high and one low, two voices buzzing in his ears. The slap fan was very heavy, and the front-line workers were ruthless and merciless. Chen Yuanming only felt that half of his ears were buzzing, and a cold and hard thing was rushing down his throat, freezing his heart. cold.
He thought about it a lot, thinking about how to use everything in that memory to change his life and his family's life. But he never seriously thought about what these 1991 years in this closed factory and mine worker dormitory represented, and never thought about what his parents would think about it. What was it like when he quit his job and went north? Why did he just think that his family would support him
They don't... It's not about making money or not, it's just an ideological gap. Face, group psychology, self-awareness, all these make them unshakable, stubborn like a stone in a ditch. Even if they will be laid off in a few years and will face a more embarrassing life, their self-esteem will not be able to tolerate hawking on the street and greet people with a smile for a few dollars. how ridiculous...
Chen Yuanming slowly closed his eyes, his head was low, and hunger and cold began to wrap his body, just like waking up from that nightmare for the first time. That night, Chen Yuanming lay hard on his hard wooden bed, the swollen half of his face was covered by a buckwheat husk pillow, and he was throbbing again and again. But he was afraid that he would fall asleep, that the bloody dream would fill his mind again, making him sleepless at night.
One deep and one shallow breathing sounded not far from the big bed, which seemed to be carefree and full of certainty about life.
what is he doing...
The next day, Chen Yuanming was locked in the house by his family. The 1-square-meter hut was full of furniture. He sat in front of the small dining table and looked at his hands. He wore a pair of brown half-finger gloves, which Liu Yun later knitted for him. The size was suitable and extremely comfortable.
But what did he do...
Boom! "Beanie!"
A voice sounded outside the window, Chen Yuanming raised his head and saw a worried face. There were iron bars on the windows of his house, and it was impossible to get in and out, but he opened the window anyway.
"What's the matter with Doudou's mother?! She came to my house today and threw a bunch of money, and told you to stop..." Sun Lang couldn't wait to call out as soon as he opened the window, but halfway through his words, he looked at him in shock. The boy's face in the room, "Your dad beat you? Why is it so heavy, it's swollen!"
A hand came in through the fence, and lightly touched the red, swollen and purple cheek, Chen Yuanming shrank slightly, avoiding the other's touch.
"They locked you up?! Is it because you went to sell things with me? How could they do this!!"
"Second brother..." Chen Yuanming pulled out a small smile, "leave me alone, this is not something you can manage."
"How about that?! Just let them beat you up and shut you down?! Aren't you their biological child?!" The boy outside the window was angry, he couldn't imagine how someone would treat his child like this, his family should not be spoiled child? ! Even his dad didn't hit him in the face!
"You guys will only make my parents angry."
A cold sentence interrupted Sun Lang's anger. He stood outside the window stupidly, feeling a little overwhelmed.
"I made some things simple." Chen Yuanming showed a self-deprecating smile, "It's okay, don't worry about me, I know what to do."
The teenager had never encountered such a thing. After standing for a long time, he touched his pocket, took out two 5-yuan bills from it, and stuffed them inside.
"This is what my mother asked me to give to you." He stammered, "She said she would cause you trouble, but it should not be so greedy. She asked me to…"
Yesterday, I grabbed it out of anger and saw that it was a lot of money. In fact, it was less than 6 yuan, and it was all small notes on it. Chen Yuanming smiled, stretched out his hand and simply took it.
"Thank you auntie for me, it's me who caused her trouble..."
"It's not too much trouble, my mother can't wait to rush directly..." After muttering a few words, Sun Lang scratched his head, not knowing how to continue.
"Don't worry, school starts in a few days, so I'll take a vacation." Chen Yuanming smiled instead and comforted, "As long as the academic performance goes up, nothing can't be done, and it will be good to calm down after a while."
"Also..." Coaxed by a few words, Sun Lang slowly revealed a smile, "What are you afraid of, when we get to a high school, are we afraid we won't be able to meet?"
"The same school?" Chen Yuanming raised his eyebrows, "My goal is to be one of the top universities in the city. If you want to take the exam, it's still too late."
The boy's face turned red immediately, "No~ Isn't it the first high school?! Look at me! There is still hope for the top ten in the second middle school!"
"That's it." Chen Yuanming didn't interrupt the other party's rhetoric, Sun Lang was not stupid, but he was a little boyish and couldn't calm down. After a shock in the next semester, it should not be too difficult to be admitted to the city's No. 1 high school. "Second brother, you will definitely pass the exam."
Being praised by the other party, the teenager showed a smug smile and scratched his head. "Then I'll go first, so that your dad won't beat you up when he sees it. Don't be stubborn, what can they do to you if you obey. And..." He quietly lowered his voice, "My mother said, She is still going to do business, and she will let you be her military adviser. When you make a lot of money, let's see what your family has to say! "
"Pfft!" He couldn't help reaching out and rubbing the messy short hair of the other party, Chen Yuanming replied seriously, "It will not be disgraceful."
"Fuck you, don't touch my hair!" A slap knocked off the disturbing hand, all the dark clouds on Sun Lang's face had dissipated, and he returned to his cute look with a tiger's head and a tiger's head, and his two big eyes blinked, "Then I'm leaving, I'll come to play with you secretly after school starts!"
"Well, it's settled."
Smiling and watching the other person's back disappear into the corridor, Chen Yuanming took a deep breath of the cold, dry air outside the window and closed the window again. It doesn't matter, this kind of trivial matter is nothing, let's think of other ways. Putting his forehead against the cold glass, Chen Yuanming closed his eyes and thought seriously about the future.
The author has something to say: Note: Speculation is a crime, as the name implies, it is a crime of profiteering by means of short-selling, hoarding, and resale. It was implemented in 1979, and it was deleted and revised in 29 years. At that time, this crime could be considered a big or small crime. In 1983, 30,000 people were convicted of this crime. After 1991, one case was sentenced to death for this crime.