As a man, with the beautiful scenery under the moon and the moon, he naturally hopes to have red sleeves to add fragrance, but looking at the current time, you just gave up this idea.
Calling a woman at 8 o'clock in the evening to come to a five-star hotel for a "long talk" all night long, who is in charge
You think of the old man who wandered on the street.
You know that the bridge hole where he lives has been repaired, and he has nowhere to go, so where should he rest tonight
And what he said in the hospital yesterday...
You think it's impossible to sleep tonight with such wild thoughts, so you put on your coat, took your room card, and walked out of the hotel gate.
You walk quickly to the place where the old man stayed during the day, you are not sure if he will stay there.
That's not a place to rest.
You hurried across several streets and were about to cross the last one to look for the old man across the street, when you saw the homeless old man standing up and walking towards you.
"Old man, the red light is on!"
The red light on the side of the road is on, and you look anxiously at the old man who is walking this way unconsciously, and you scream out anxiously.
I saw that the old man was walking well, but when he was startled by your yelling, he suddenly swayed and fell down in the middle of the road.
You watched him lying on the ground without moving, and then remembered what happened to the old man before, and no longer cared about the rule of not running a red light, you rushed up, bent down to pick up the homeless old man, and ran forward.
Just as you ran away from the spot with the old man in your arms, you heard a screeching sound of brakes.
The owner of the car, who was still in shock, got out of the car and asked worriedly if you had been touched by his car. After realizing that you were all fine, he wiped his cold sweat and drove the car away happily.
Passers-by who witnessed all this gathered around and praised you for your brave deed of saving lives. Only the old man seemed to be frightened, with a blank face, standing behind you in a daze.
When the crowd disperses, you turn around and pull up the old man's hands and feet to check if there is any problem.
"Young man, you shouldn't have saved me."
The skinny old man sighed, "I didn't want to wake up just now."
"what did you say?"
You were stunned, unable to recover for a long time.
Every time you meet the old man, it is in the morning, and the only night is in the hospital.
Except for that time, you have never paid attention to where the old man was at night, and whether he continued to live a strong life.
Could it be that the old man fell down in the middle of the road yesterday and couldn't get up? It wasn't because of hypoglycemia and starvation, but just like today, he had a will to die
"What's the use of living for a person like me? It's a waste of time."
The old man's expression was gloomy, and he sat on the side of the road with a numb face, "Maybe it's a relief if you let me go and have a good time by myself."
You can see that the old man's mood is seriously wrong, he just left him like this and didn't know what would happen, so he took him back to the five-star hotel forcefully.
The old man who no longer has the will to survive is pulled by you like a puppet, as if it doesn't matter where he goes, which makes you look suspicious when you drag the ragged old man into the hotel.
So a courier boy in uniform and a downcast homeless man were stopped by the hotel's security guards at the door.
No matter how you explain that you are a guest of this hotel, and you bring the old man here because you see that he wants to change his mood because he wants to die, the security management personnel of the hotel will not allow you to go in.
You take the homeless old man and stand outside the brightly lit hotel lobby. It is clear that one step forward will make the seasons like spring, but you only feel the biting cold.
The room card in your hand is like your last stubbornness, waving in your hand, but it has no effect.
Several security guards surrounded you like driving away beggars who harass guests. They asked you to change hotels on the grounds that you would affect the experience of other guests and the style of the hotel, and they were willing to give you some compensation. They only hoped that you could return. house.
You accept the pointing and curious eyes of the guests, and feel that you are being delayed by their indifferent eyes over and over again.
However, the homeless old man seemed to have guessed that this would happen a long time ago. At this time, he didn't show any humiliation. Instead, he laughed, looking more and more mentally abnormal.
They don't allow you to go in, and you don't want to cause trouble if you bring an old man, so you have to choose their plan unwillingly and are forced to check out.
The person in charge of the security took two thousand yuan from the front desk, and gave it to you with a look on his face that you took advantage of it, and told you that it was your refunded room fee and their breach of contract damages.
You helped the old man, leaned on each other, and walked out of the hotel.
"If you want to open it up, don't you get hundreds of dollars for nothing?"
After leaving the hotel, the old man is still comforting you.
"In this world, money alone is not enough. Even if you win the lottery and have a huge sum of money, what everyone values more is the skin you wear. In the future, you will encounter such things Go more."
For a split second, you think you've heard it wrong.
When you are sure that you heard the word "lottery", you are terrified and look at him in disbelief.
Thinking that the old man knew about the strange things that happened to you, your heart was beating like a drum, so you didn’t care about grief and resignation, took the old man’s hand, took a taxi extravagantly, and took him directly to the basement you rented .
Along the way, the old man was submissive and didn't have any curiosity about you. He didn't say anything until he was sitting on your cot.
Until you boiled the water and served him a bowl of steaming instant noodles.
Braised beef noodles without chili, with a ham sausage inside. When the lid of the stewed noodles is opened, the small and cramped room is full of fragrance.
The most basic human physiological needs finally overcame everything. The old man took the noodles, hesitated for a while, and then started to gobble it up.
After eating a bowl of hot noodles, the old man seemed to come back to life, and even his numb face seemed to be dyed with brilliance again.
"Thank you."
He seemed to be a machine that had finally been activated, and suddenly had other modes.
"I'm the one who caused such a good boy like you to suffer together with me, and was even looked down upon."
"It's not your fault, it's those people who have problems."
You are worried that the old man will find his own death if he can't think about it, so he quickly comforted him, "It doesn't matter if I am wronged a little bit, there is no one who will not be wronged all his life."
The old man looked at you, hesitated to speak, and finally just sighed.
Seeing that the atmosphere was just right, you asked about the lottery.
Besides, you've been wondering what he meant by grabbing your hand last night, but it's not the right time to ask.
Hearing the word "lottery ticket", the old man looked you up and thought that your clear eyes didn't look like a bad person, so he suddenly laughed.
"I told you that you might not believe it, but I actually won the lottery too."
Like a child preparing to listen to a story, you handed him a cup of hot water at the right time.
So the old man held a warm cup and began to tell his own story.
Many, many years ago, when the old man was still a young man, he took over his father's job and went to work in a certain factory, where he took the iron rice bowl at that time.
But the old man is a person who hates mechanical work. He hates the same things since he was a child. Therefore, whether it is studying or working, as long as he sits down and repeats mechanically, he can’t stand it. When he was in school, he often contradicted his teacher because of this. Li also had a bad relationship with the leader and colleagues, and suffered all the criticism and ridicule from others.
But back then, it was far less open than it is now. Apart from working in factories and farming in the fields, there was no serious way to earn a living. "Self-employed" was still a hat that made the whole family ashamed at that time, and business could only be done in shame. Toss in the black market.
The old man couldn't stand the day-to-day cycle like a robot in the factory. He fished and slacked off every day, and was eventually fired from the factory.
Back then, getting fired was tantamount to being "stained" on your back. No serious unit would take over you, and no good woman would marry you. The old man was half out of helplessness and half out of interest, so he started He secretly fiddled with the "smuggling and entrainment" business in the black market, but was finally caught by the inspection team and locked up for many years.
When he was released, times had changed, and he had also changed from youth to middle age. Like most ordinary people who were confused by the rapid changes of the times, he didn't know what he could do, so he could only muddle along .
He has been expelled, has been in prison, and has no money. Of course, a man like him cannot be favored by any girls, and even his family members don't want to see him. He is gradually alienated. He asked him to help out in his unit, and called him every time the unit had goods to be unloaded, and was responsible for unloading the factory to earn some money.
Originally, although this kind of work was hard, it was also possible for the factory to see long-term cooperation. Apart from not having a formal job, the income was no different from that of ordinary workers. However, something happened that made the middle-aged old man disappoint Uncle's painstaking efforts.
The "National Lottery" was very popular in those days. It cost two yuan and three yuan to scratch a piece, and it was possible to win prizes ranging from toothpaste for washbasins to washing machines, window air conditioners, and Santana cars.
Many crazy people took out all their savings and held box after box of lottery tickets, sitting under the stage showing Santana cars and scratching one by one, but in the end they could only scrape out a pile of washbasin toothpaste and leave cursing.
But the old man was very lucky. He gambled all his savings and actually won a Santana car.
The days after winning Santana were like a crazy dream to him.
Those who should look down on him will not look up to him just because he won a Santana, and those who will be attracted are a group of villains with different ideas.
The only cousin who was kind to him, persuaded him not to sell Santana, but to get a driver's license, and take this car to become a taxi driver, or become a driver for a rich man, and learn a craft.
The biggest threshold for many taxi drivers is the car. He has already obtained it from him. As long as he has a driver's license, he will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life. He is even willing to borrow the money for the driver's license test.
But at that time, he was dazzled by the good thing of "winning the big prize", and there were all kinds of people bewitching and instigating him, so he finally sold the car.
Not only did he sell the car, he also heard the nonsense of those people, thinking that Tang Bo didn't let him sell the car because he didn't want him to live a good life and wanted him to work for others for the rest of his life.
In the era when the "million-dollar households" were local tyrants, Santana could not be bought with money. There were many people who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a car. He sold the car at a high price and got a lot of money. But there is no plan or purpose at all.
God favored him and gave him a chance to change his life, but after he got the money, he spent the whole day drinking and drinking. According to the price level of the year, a person with hundreds of thousands of dollars would look like cheap and free of money. He began to be surrounded by a group of drinking and meat friends, eating and drinking all of a sudden, being persuaded to do various businesses all of a sudden, and finally being taken to learn how to gamble...
Under such circumstances, he was dazzled by wealth and honor, and gradually separated from that cousin. His cousin hated iron but steel, and in the end he could only respect him at a respectful distance and no longer communicate with him.
And he, holding a "huge sum" of more than 100,000 yuan, wanted to buy everything he saw, and wanted to try it out. In the end, he only replaced it with a bunch of waste products that might have been valuable back then, but were worthless later.
Under the auspices of his friends, he set up various "startups" and paid for whatever he did, but in the end all the money was taken away by others.
Gambling has also turned from a small gamble to a big gamble, and a big gamble has become a game set up by someone. A huge sum of hundreds of thousands of dollars is squandered in less than two years.
After he ran out of money, his former friends broke up in a rush, and none of them treated him sincerely, and they all regarded him as a fool and a fool.
Those who looked down on him back then still looked down on him after winning the lottery, and they looked down on him even more after he became corrupt.
At this time, he was already middle-aged, he had achieved nothing, but after two years of glamor and money, he had tried everything, and he could no longer live an ordinary life. His psychological gap was too great, and his eyes were high and his hands were low. After a few years, his spirit also appeared. problem.
He still can't bear the same life, and has been relying on odd jobs for a living. When he was young, he could work hard, but when he was old, he couldn't make a living. Occasionally, he scavenged and ate a little when he found something, and he was hungry when he couldn't find it. The body is also deteriorating, and the whole body is sick.
When you met him today, the bridge hole he had been living in was gone. Although you gave him a bag of pancakes in the morning, at night he was so hungry that he couldn’t even walk, and he couldn’t even seek death.
He thought that his life ended up in this way, and he was all to blame for it, and he thought that sooner or later he would either die of illness or starve to death, he might as well die sooner...
So after the fall, he lost the will to survive and simply lay there unable to get up.
You didn't expect that there was such a reason for his "fainting" after the fall, and your mood was very complicated, and you didn't know what to evaluate.
The old man's mental condition is indeed not very good. He said the things back then upside down, and he didn't know whether it was fantasy or a dream, so he repeated it many times.
For example, when his cousin persuaded him to take the driver's license test, he immediately said he agreed, and then said he didn't agree, and taunted him. Another time he said that he had agreed to learn the driver's license, but he felt that he would not be able to learn the driver's license. I went to sell the car again when things were boring. It was illogical to be upside down, and it was always mixed with various choices that I regretted that day.
If ordinary people heard it, they would definitely think that the old man was an old lunatic, and the lunatic could no longer distinguish the difference between dreams and reality.
But you are different. You have gone through several cycles, and you will think about it when you hear similar things.
You start to wonder if the old man encountered the same thing when he was young. It was only because of his personality that he couldn't stand the boring driving, so he chose to sell the car at the moment the cycle ended.
This kind of speculation makes you more cautious about your future choices, because if the old man's "crazy words" are true, if you make a wrong decision, it is very likely that your life will fall into the same nightmare as him. .
It's half probing, half sincerely asking for advice. You tell the old man what happened to you, and humbly ask yourself what to do.
"Don't think about it, you are not like me, you can't do your job, and the same thing happens all the time, you will die of irritability."
The old man's spirit is poor, and his body is even weaker. Once he relaxes his mind and eats his stomach again, he feels drowsy when he leans against the head of the bed.
"Wait until the first day's express delivery is finished, the day will be over, and then the second day's express delivery will start..."
Hearing your crazy remarks, he seemed to be listening to something ordinary, half dreaming and half awake.
It still sounds like a lunatic.
You were delivering the courier, and you finished the delivery in one day, and continued to deliver it the next day...
etc? !
You startled.
What the old man said was, "I have finished delivering all the express delivery."
So the point should not be how you choose, but should you finish all the express delivery in your hand
You shook the old man, and wanted to ask more questions, but the other party had already safely slept to death, snoring like thunder while lying on your bed, and he couldn't wake up no matter how much he yelled.
With a complicated expression, you helped him to the bed and lay down, covered him with a quilt, built a bench at the end of the bed, thought about the answer given by the old man, and fell asleep with his clothes on.
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The next day, you wake up again and the first thing you do is go to bed.
The homeless old man brought back by you last night has disappeared without a trace, and you can't find any basis for his existence, as if everything you experienced last night was just a dream.
You sat up in a daze, looking at the bench that had been placed in the distance, and the quilt covering yourself, you actually had a feeling of not knowing what night it is.
But the next moment, when you saw the uniform hanging on the wall, your eyes gradually became firmer.
Anyway, there is no other way, it is better to try as the old man said.
Starting today, we must deliver all the couriers...
Not one left!