It takes as long as it takes. The middle-aged man is very punctual. When he went in, his backpack was empty, and when he came out again, it was making a lot of noise.
"Thank you, Old Zheng."
"Okay, let's go, I have to go over and give our leader two packs of cigarettes."
"I'll bring you a few more bags next time I come over."
"That's a good feeling." Lao Zheng grinned when he heard this. He was not polite at all.
"Okay, make sure to bring more with you next time you come over. I'm leaving now."
This man was straightforward. He was a bicycle repairman. He had been cooperating with Lao Zheng for two years. He had already saved a lot of money by getting some old parts. Two extra packs of cigarettes was nothing.
After he left, Lao Zheng locked the door and walked slowly towards the stationmaster's office.
When people give you face, they pretend they don't see it, but he can't really pretend that they don't see it. He must be considerate of what he has to give, otherwise he will be too ignorant and live like a dog in his old age.
In the office, Li Heng leaned against the quilt on the bed and read the newspaper.
These days, I get bored at night. There are no entertainment activities. When I am alone, I can only read books and flip through newspapers to pass the time.
Otherwise, why do you think every household with so many children is not free?
"Dong dong dong"
"Er Heng, have you slept?"
"No, come in, the door is unlocked." Hearing Lao Zheng's voice, Li Heng straightened up and sat up.
Forty minutes, not bad.
Although I don’t know how long ago it was, at least I am still sensible today.
Opening the door, Lao Zheng walked in slowly.
"It's nothing, I just want to ask if you still play chess?" As he said this, he put his hand on the desk seemingly unintentionally, and two packs of cigarettes appeared there.
"It's no longer raining. It's already nine o'clock. Go get some sleep. I've been working all day today and I'm a little tired."
"Okay, I'll go over and clean up the chessboard, and we'll continue tomorrow night."
"no problem."
Watching Lao Zheng walk out of the office and close the door behind him, Li Heng glanced at the two boxes of cigarettes on his desk and smiled silently.
Does he smoke cigarettes?
Not at all, not to mention the half-haired cigarettes, even the filtered Huazi ones are not rare to him.
He didn't smoke much in this life, and the cigarette he smoked while playing chess just now was the first one today.
What should I say about this matter? I can refuse it, but you can’t refuse it.
After washing up at the sink outside and sitting back on the bed, Li Heng took out the envelope containing the compensation he received from the office today from his personal storage.
There weren't many things in the warehouse, and he hadn't picked up anything good in the past years in the army, but he did find a lot of treasures when he was cleaning up the house during the day.
One is the watch on my hand, which I got on the other side of the river in May 1st.
It's an IWC watch, and it seems to be a pilot's model. The watch is not bad, at least it runs accurately.
There were also two guns, m1911a1, and a bunch of bullets. At that time, he felt that this gun was very useful and had a strong stopping power.
Then there is a black three-edged military thorn and a dagger.
Then there are the allowances given to the army, and he has no place to spend them, so he has saved them all, plus the retirement pay, and the total is more than 2,000 yuan. Counting the 1,000 yuan in compensation he received today, he now has a total of
With more than three thousand and nearly four thousand yuan, he can be considered a small rich man.
There were also a few tickets specially given by the leader when he left the army, including a cotton coat ticket. This was a treasure. Even though he had been in the army, he knew that such tickets were rare in the local area.
There were also ten coupons worth one pound of meat, and the leader's teeth chattered when he gave them to him.
Finally, there were five kilograms of cotton coupons, and that was all he had.
Oh, and there is a quilt.
But when he was cleaning up the house today, he found a lot of good things, all of which were left behind by his father.
His father probably didn't expect that the things he had worked so hard to save would almost come at an advantage to others. Fortunately, Director Wang of the office was a kind person.
Li Heng took out all the things in the warehouse, and put away the guns and bullets again. He looked down at the things he found out from home today, feeling slightly dazed.
Especially the yellowed black-and-white photo. This photo is the only photo of their family of four together, and it is also the only photo of his mother that remains.
"Alas" he sighed, stuffed the photo into the envelope that contained the money, and took it back to the warehouse.
He reached out and opened a small wooden box, which contained a passbook, a few tickets, some gold jewelry and two large yellow croakers.
He recognized these jewelry. Some of them were said to have been bought by his father when he married his mother, and some of them were his mother's dowry. Unfortunately, things have changed now.
They brought two large yellow croakers from home when they went to Sijiu City. They took three in total and used one.
There were only three tickets, and they were for three pounds of meat. His father probably wanted to keep the meat he cut to make dumplings during the New Year.
There is a lot of money in the passbook. Maybe after my brother worked, he also gave his father the wages he earned for safekeeping, totaling more than 1,900 yuan.
You must have been saving for a long time, right? Li Heng looked at the amount of money in the passbook and smiled, his eyes blurred with tears as he smiled.
This was the first time he shed tears after learning the news about the accident between his father and his brother.
He knew that he had broken the old man's heart because he wanted to be a soldier, but he was still silently saving money for himself to marry a wife, and he was trying hard to fulfill the promise he made to his wife before she died.
Li Heng raised his hand to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, put the passbook back into the wooden box, and put it away in the warehouse.
He just sat on the bed in a daze for a while, and then poured out all the tickets in the last envelope.
Wow, there are quite a lot of votes given.
Meat tickets, candy tickets, bicycle tickets, and radio tickets. Huh? Why two bicycle tickets?
Oh, yes, it should be one of the compensations provided by the government, and another one from the school.
That’s it, I got the bike!
There are also cloth tickets, watch tickets, and even a ticket for a floor fan.
They are all in short supply, and now there is absolutely no shortage of anything.
But when he thought that these things were obtained by his father and brother with their lives, he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.
"Alas~" I haven't sighed as much as I did today in my two lifetimes combined.
After putting everything into the warehouse, he fell on his back on the bed, thinking about nothing, just lying there with his mind empty.