"Bah, bah..." A car horn blared. Duan Qixiao brought his neighbor Chen Erlin over in a seven-seater silver-gray Changhe van, and introduced to Liu Jun that Chen Erlin drove a van to solicit customers in the factory area.
Chen Erlin came from a poor family and started making money before graduating from middle school. He and Duan Qixiao are close buddies.
Liu Jun met Chen Erlin and introduced Liu Dekui and Tian Xiuhua to Duan Qixiao. Duan Qixiao and Duan Ba had met them in the Jiangnan teahouse, so no introduction was needed.
"Uncle, aunt." Duan Qixiao said very well, but he was slightly stunned when he saw Liu Jun's father's legs were disabled, so he didn't ask more, and it was not convenient to ask.
"Hey." Tian Xiuhua had mixed feelings when she heard Duan Qixiao calling her aunt. She turned away and secretly wiped her tears. How much she wanted Liu Dekui's family and relatives to recognize her. It would be great if Ajun could call her mom.
"Ahua, okay, okay, my nephew has picked us up, and we have a place to stay." Liu Dekui felt that Duan Qixiao was called uncle and aunt, and he had mixed feelings in his heart, but he did not dare to expect that his son Liu Jun could call him
Tian Xiuhua said "Mom".
Duan Qixiao was injured and could only move his mouth. Chen Erlin and the mute were busy moving boxes and chairs. Liu Jun carried his father into the car, and Duan Qixiao drove the group to the family area of Jiangnan Machinery Factory.
After the car started, Chen Erlin drove. Duan Qixiao sat next to Liu Jun and introduced some situations of Jiangnan Machinery Factory. Liu Dekui also took the opportunity to ask about the current situation of his sister Hu Lanping and his brother-in-law Duan Housong, and got a general understanding of the living conditions of his brother-in-law's family.
Soon, the Changhe bus arrived at Duan Qixiao's home and stopped in front of the fourth building in the third area of the family area of the old area of Jiangnan Machinery Factory. When Liu Jun took the Changhe bus, through careful observation, he discovered that the new area and the old area of the factory's family area were different.
The districts are simply worlds apart.
The new district is separated from the old district by only a two-way two-lane road. The new district is to the south and the old district is to the north.
In the new district, high-rise buildings are piled up, and the buildings with reinforced concrete frame structures are renovated. The buildings are widely spaced and have complete supporting facilities such as sports, education, fire protection, and entertainment. In the old district, they are all five-story old-style gray brick buildings, with roads in and out of the buildings.
There are many potholes, some of the slate covers of sewers are broken, the smell is permeable, and the buildings look dilapidated.
When Liu Jun got off the bus in front of his aunt's house in the old district, he smelled a pungent smell of liquid medicine, which was worse than the smell of sewers.
The difference between the old and new family areas makes one feel at a glance that the south is a paradise for the rich, and the north is a common residence for the poor. A road separates the residents into two worlds. Although they are all lived by the families of Jiangnan Airlines employees,
But they are clearly divided into different levels.
The lights were on on the fifth floor of my aunt's house. Because it was late at night and they were afraid of disturbing the neighbors, the Changhe car stopped without honking the horn. Chen Erlin and the mute quietly moved things out of the car.
Chen Erlin helped pick the boxes, while Liu Dekui was carried upstairs by the mute. Under the guidance of Duan Qixiao, the group hurried up to the fifth floor.
While walking upstairs, Liu Jun sniffed and asked Duan Qixiao: "Cousin, why is the smell here so pungent? It smells worse than the traditional Chinese medicine boiled by Hu Langzhong in my hometown. What's going on?
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Duan Qixiao sighed and said: "Oh, there is Qingyun Pharmaceutical Factory outside the courtyard wall of the old district. It is a village-run enterprise in the suburbs. Our family members in the old district have complained to the Environmental Protection Bureau many times, but to no avail."
"Not only was it useless to complain to the Environmental Protection Bureau, but the residents who petitioned were beaten many times by villagers outside the compound wall. The villager was so tough that he had nowhere to complain." Chen Erlin, who was out of breath while carrying a camphor box upstairs, answered.
"Why is no one taking care of it? How can I stand smelling this unpleasant smell of medicine every day for many years?" Liu Jun felt that the people in the city were unreasonable. You only care about making money when you open a pharmaceutical factory and emit waste gas indiscriminately. You don't care about the lives of others.
"It's not that the government doesn't care. It took control a few times. It's just that Du Min from the troubled village outside the wall was too overbearing. There were many cases of law enforcement officers being kicked out of the factory. Later, the higher-ups just ignored it and let it go.
Already." Duan Qixiao was very dissatisfied in his words.
"Naoxin Village? Noisy Village? Troubled Heart?" Liu Jun felt strange, is there such a village name?
"Yes, it's called Naoxin Village." Duan Qixiao replied affirmatively.
"***, Naoxin Village is really annoying." Liu Jun said to himself, thinking of the new district across the road from the old district, and asked: "I think the new district is quite rich and powerful.
People live there, right? Why don’t they protest against such an unpleasant medicinal smell?”
"Qingyun Pharmaceutical Factory is on the side of the old district. The south wind blows most of the year in the south of the Yangtze River. The smell of medicine does not float to the new district very much. It has no impact on the new district. Those rich people are too lazy to take care of it." Chen Erlin added.
Words.
"Oh, so that's what happened." Liu Jun didn't want to say anything more. It's true that this big city is not so harmonious. Most of the people in the city are just trying to make money and don't care about other people's lives and lives. There is no bottom line in life.
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When he got to the fifth floor, Duan Qixiao knocked on the door and softly called "Mom."
Liu Jun observed carefully when he went upstairs. Every house has two doors, surrounded by a security door with an iron fence and a wooden door inside. The building is very old, but the corridor is relatively clean. It is said that people in the city
I like to engage in patriotic health campaigns. In order to prevent mosquitoes, the trees on both sides of the street are sprayed with insecticides. It is common to distribute rodenticide and insecticide water.
The red-painted wooden door opened with a creak, and Duan Qixiao's parents appeared in front of Liu Dekui's family, wearing blue work clothes with "China Airlines" written on the left chest. They had not seen each other for more than 20 years, and everyone looked at each other at a loss.
When Tian Xiuhua saw the familiar Hu Lanping, she didn't dare to face her. She blushed and lowered her head.
"Dad, mom, uncle, and aunt are here. This is cousin Ajun and Ali." Duan Qixiao broke the embarrassment and unscrewed the lock on the iron fence, opened the security door and welcomed Liu Dekui in.
"Brother, Ah Hua, Ah Jun, Ali, come in quickly." There was only a short silence, and Hu Lanping seemed to understand what was going on. She opened the door with her husband Duan Housong and let Liu Dekui and his family in.
When Hu Lanping saw clearly that the mute was carrying Liu Dekui on his back and Tian Xiuhua was holding a wicker chair next to him, she panicked and said anxiously: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"
"Uncle, come on in first." Duan Housong winked at Hu Lanping, shook his head slightly, and told Hu Lanping not to ask so many questions. The guests have all arrived home, so if you have anything to do, just ask slowly.
When Liu Jun walked in, he found that his aunt's house was very small, only about fifty square meters at most. It actually had a layout of two bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom. You can imagine that the two bedrooms and the living room that doubles as a dining room are...
How small.
It was not difficult to find that several pieces of glass on the windows were broken, a corner of a square dining table was knocked off, and the picture frame hanging on the wall also lost glass. The traces of being smashed were obvious. Liu Jun could imagine that just a few days ago,
An hour ago, my aunt's house was smashed up by the scar-faced man known as Brother Biao.
"As the saying goes, no harm can harm the family. Scarface is so shameless. To smash up such an honest and responsible poor family is really a bad death." Liu Jun's heart was pounding. Thinking of Scarface's ugliness, he felt bad all over.
If I had known that Scarface was so vicious, I shouldn't have asked him for only 200,000 yuan at the Jiuzhou Farmers Market. Even if I defrauded him of 2 million yuan, it wouldn't be too much...
When Liu Dekui sat down on the wicker chair, Duan Qixiao and Chen Erlin were busy taking out the prepared side dishes from the small refrigerator in the corner of the small living room and opening a few bottles of beer to welcome Liu Dekui's family from afar.
Hu Lanping couldn't wait to drag Tian Xiuhua to the back room to have sex with the parents. After a while, the two women had red eyes, as close as sisters.
It was too late at night, so the two families were chatting and laughing, happy and sad, with side dishes and cold beer as a late-night snack. Naturally, they couldn't do without talking about how to settle down in the provincial capital in the future.
Hu Lanping said: "Brother, I have asked the human resources department of the factory. The machinery factory is not recruiting workers for the time being. You can just squeeze in some time at home while looking for a job, and then move after renting a suitable house."
Tian Xiuhua immediately objected: "Pingping, your place is already crowded. You and your family have to go to work, so don't bother. Tomorrow I will rent a house with Ajun."
Duan Housong sighed slightly: "Let's live at home first. There's no rush to find a house. We haven't seen each other for many years, so it's time to live together and chat."
While drinking and chatting, before we knew it, it was almost one o'clock in the morning. Considering that his sister, brother-in-law and his family had to go to work tomorrow, Liu Dekui finished his glass of wine and suggested that everyone go to bed early.
Chen Erlin also said goodbye and left a phone number for Liu Jun, asking Liu Jun to call him anytime he wanted to use his car.
After some humility, Liu Dekui insisted, and Liu Jun's family of four crowded into the small living room of his aunt's house and spent the night.
Hu Lanping got up very early and went to a meat stall in the old district to buy half a catty of pork liver and a pot of wide-cut noodles. Liu Dekui, Tian Xiuhua, Liu Jun and Dumb all had three red eggs in their bowls as a meeting gift.
The aunt was very good at cooking noodles. Liu Jun ate the delicious food and was very moved. Relatives are relatives. A few eggs can make Liu Jun feel grateful. Thinking that a family of four really couldn't squeeze into the aunt's house, Liu Jun finished it.
After breakfast, after his uncle, aunt and cousin Duan Qixiao went to work, Tian Xiuhua was left to take care of his father while he and the mute went out to find a house.
Where can I find a house if I am unfamiliar with the place? Liu Jun didn’t need to think too much, so he dialed Chen Erlin’s number using the high-end Apple smartphone given by his cousin. After waiting downstairs for less than ten minutes, Chen Erlin drove up in Changhe.
arrive.
"Brother, if you need any help from me, just ask." Chen Erlin followed Duan Qixiao's call and called Liu Jun his eldest brother. He opened the door and let Liu Jun and the mute get into the car. His attitude was very humble. Duan must have
Qi Xiao told Chen Erlin that the two young men in front of him dared to beat up Scarface and dare to cause trouble in the Jiangnan teahouse. Liu Jun was more than enough to be the elder brother of ordinary people like them who opened Changhe to solicit customers.
Liu Jun got in the car and did not leave in a hurry. He asked Chen Erlin: "Alin, are there any houses for rent nearby?"
Chen Erlin said: "Both the new and old areas of Jiangnan Machinery Factory are occupied by employees' families or their relatives. There are basically no houses for rent. Even if there are houses for rent, they are very expensive, costing one or two thousand per month."
"Is that so? It doesn't matter whether it's cheaper or not." Liu Jun was not surprised. A tortoise in the city can be sold for several hundred yuan per pound. It is not unusual to rent a house for one or two thousand yuan.
However, although Liu Jun has a huge sum of nearly 200,000 yuan and can afford to rent a house of one to two thousand yuan, Liu Jun cannot rent because his father and Tian Xiuhua will definitely not feel comfortable living in an expensive house.
Instead of renting and being nagged by my father, it would be better to rent a cheaper one, and my father would not have any psychological burden.
Chen Erlin thought for a while and said: "There is a place not far from here, a few miles away. Many people who come to the city to work, with their children and their daughters, rent in that place. It has two bedrooms and one living room with a kitchen and bathroom.
It’s only four to five hundred yuan.”
Liu Jun thought the price was quite suitable and asked: "Okay, A Lin, where is it? Take us there now."
"Okay, that place is Naoxin Village, which is separated by a wall from the factory's residential area." Chen Erlin started the car.
Liu Jun's heart suddenly moved: "Naoxin Village? Is it the village where Qingyun Pharmaceutical Factory was opened, causing residents in the old area of the machinery factory to live smelling the smell of medicine all day long?"
"Yes, do we still need to go to that village?"
"Of course." Liu Jun responded and thought to himself, "Okay, let's rent in Naoxin Village. I want to see what the village is doing to cause trouble?!"