"Lao Zhang, I'll stay here for one more night tonight. I'll have a rest tomorrow, so I'll move back in."
Back in the office, Li Heng told Station Manager Zhang.
"Is the house in order?"
"Pack it up. We'll buy food and coal tomorrow."
"Why, are you ready to start cooking alone?"
"Even if you don't cook, you should have what you need. Besides, we're not open here on Sundays. What will I eat if I don't cook?"
"Hey, if you didn't mention this, I would have forgotten that there is still Sunday." Stationmaster Zhang raised his hand and patted his forehead.
"Ha, you old man, every day is the same as Sunday, of course you can't remember it."
Stationmaster Zhang often goes to his house right away, as long as he is there when people's cars come to take away the scraps, so the day of the week doesn't matter to him.
Now that Li Heng is here again, it doesn't matter whether he comes or not. Look, he won't come.
"You are a young man. What's wrong with working more? What's wrong with taking care of me, an old comrade? Starting from next week, I won't come over if nothing happens. Please take care of this place for us. You also know the process now.
I’m confident in you.”
Yes, you have the final say as you age.
What else could Li Heng say, just agree and that would be it.
"Oh, by the way, Er Heng, I also wanted to discuss something with you. Do you think it is necessary for us to have someone on duty here every night? In fact, it is said to be on duty, which is just a different place to sleep."
"Huh? Why do you want to come here?"
"I went to the office for a meeting this morning. When I came back to catch up for dinner, I forgot to tell you that the Xidan District Supply and Marketing Cooperative was stolen last night and a lot of things were lost. The superiors required all our units to strengthen prevention and control."
We promised that no one would steal anything? Why are there still people there?
"Don't they have a janitor in their unit?"
"There must be, but the person who stole the things first climbed in through the wall, and second, he didn't pry the door, but cut the steel bars on an open window and entered the hall."
Um?
"They don't even close the windows at work after get off work?"
"This...I don't know about this. The leader didn't say anything at the meeting. What's wrong?"
Okay, the occupational disease from the previous life happened again, what else happened?
"No, no, no, just asking casually, let's talk about our place, Lao Zhang, do you think we need to keep someone on duty? Are you sure someone will want to steal the things we have here?"
As Li Heng said this, he raised his right thumb and pointed backward, in the direction of their backyard.
Uh... Webmaster Zhang was stunned by the question.
It’s true, they are all scraps here. Who wants this? Although these scraps are also valuable, the question is how do you steal them? The scraps in the backyard are piled like a hill. No one can notice the last one or two items you steal.
, not to mention one or two, even ten or eight could not be found.
But if you take less, it will be of little value. If you want to take more, you must first have a car and be able to pull it away.
Even if you pull a cart and take it away, you won't be able to sell it for much money.
"That's right." Stationmaster Zhang nodded clearly: "We really don't need to watch here. Instead of tormenting everyone, it's better to just pretend that nothing happened. Just having Lao Zheng here is enough."
"Yes, just tell the cashier Liu to deposit the business money on time every day. If you leave change, leave a little less and remember to lock the safe. That will be fine. To say the least, even if the change is lost
, and you can’t lose a few coins.”
After listening to what Li Heng said, Stationmaster Zhang thought about it for a while and then stood up directly.
"Okay, let's do it like this. I'll go to the finance office and tell Old Liu and Old Zhao."
After saying that, he walked out of the office. It was almost time to get off work. He would have a day off tomorrow, so he had to ask the finance office to take precautions today.
After Stationmaster Zhang left, Li Heng did not continue to sit in the office. He got up and walked outside, squatted under the eaves and lit a cigarette for himself. His eyes unconsciously glanced at the guard room in the direction of the door.
At this time, Lao Zheng was also sitting at the door with a chair. There was a wooden-wrapped radio placed on the window sill behind him. He didn't know what the content was. Looking at him with his eyes closed and shaking his head, it looked like he was listening to an opera.
He seemed to feel someone looking at him again, so he suddenly opened his eyes and looked over.
And Li Heng had just enough time to lower his head and look at the ground before he opened his eyes. He also stretched out his cigarette hand to poke the ground twice. He looked over at Lao Zheng, as if he was burning ants on the ground with a cigarette.
Play the same.
Lao Zheng stared here with some confusion for a while, and then turned to look at the backyard. Several people who were packing and sorting the waste were ready to call it a day. They were gathering together and talking about something.
When he looked towards Li Heng again, he found that he had stood up and looked towards him at the same time.
"Old Zheng, we'll continue after dinner."
"No problem, I will definitely win today."
At this time, stationmaster Zhang happened to come out of the financial room next door. Hearing their conversation, he said with some disdain: "These two stinky chess players still love to play."
"Webmaster, what you said is that everyone goes from not knowing how to play to being able to play, and then getting better and better. And I have made very rapid progress during this period."
"Just you? I can't even give you a car, a horse, or a cannon."
"If you have the ability, give in to both of them." Li Heng didn't feel embarrassed at all. He followed the stick and made his request.
"Why don't you just say that you have laid out your chess and I will admit defeat?"
"That's fine, I have no objection."
"Comrade Li Heng, how did I realize that your face is thicker than that of Chengmen Tower?"
Lao Zhang was so confused by his shameless performance that he didn't know what to say. He was stunned for a moment before he spoke.
"Hey, stationmaster, don't you know this? If my skin were thinner, you might not be able to see me now, and I don't know how many times I would be beaten to death on the battlefield."
Well, Webmaster Zhang no longer wanted to deal with this shameless guy, so he turned around and walked into the office.
Li Heng chuckled and squatted down again, continuing to lower his head, as if he was playing with ants again.
It wasn't until the cafeteria opened for dinner at six o'clock that everyone packed up and went to the cafeteria to get food. Only then did Lao Zheng stand up, put the chairs and radio into the house, and then walked out with the lunch box.
Today he deliberately walked to the stationmaster's office first, and then walked along the eaves to the canteen at the east end.
In the cafeteria, Li Heng had been paying attention to Li Heng outside from the corner of his eye. After seeing Lao Zheng's actions, he took a long breath, lowered his head and started eating.
But I was confused for a while, what was going on, and how could I encounter such a thing when I came to this unit.
There must be something wrong with the doorman Lao Zheng, so he didn't run away, but what exactly he wants to do and what he wants to do is still unknown, and we have to continue to observe.