Return To 1977 Chapter 636: Stolen
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To know what happened, we have to start with the fact that towards the end of February, the mother of Xiao Meng, a handyman in the cafeteria, was hospitalized due to a sudden cerebral hemorrhage.
Although he received medical treatment in time and was eventually saved, the old lady lost feeling in her left limb and had to be hospitalized for continued treatment.
You know, there was no such thing as a "nursing worker" at that time. It was up to the family members to take care of the patients.
Fortunately, there were many brothers and sisters in the family at that time, so it was not too difficult for Xiao Meng to take turns sleeping with his brothers and sisters.
The trouble is, the next day when Xiao Meng stayed with him in bed, he had to work the night shift. That day was the last day of the month, Saturday, February 28th.
This means that anyone who replaces him will have to wake up at ten o'clock in the evening and stay in the cafeteria all night. He can't get off work until eight o'clock the next morning when a few people who cook lunch for the weekend overtime workshop come.
And because the next day is the weekend, there is no need to make breakfast in the kitchen. The work tasks this night are also very heavy. In addition to being responsible for the sanitation of public areas after Saturday night snacks. I also have to be additionally responsible for cleaning the interior of the kitchen.
In addition, the most uneconomical thing is that you have to catch up on sleep after returning home the next day. This makes this rest day much less valuable, as if it is a lost day.
So when the handymen held an impromptu meeting, no one was willing to switch with Xiao Meng. Everyone advised him to switch with his brothers and sisters.
This made Xiao Mengchou angry. He is an honest child, and none of his brothers and sisters were willing to delay their weekend rest, so they blamed him. Now he didn't know what to do.
Although Master Pang sympathizes with Xiao Meng, it is not easy to press **** this kind of thing. After all, everyone works hard. The night shift is on a rotating basis, so why should others suffer?
It is a matter of affection for others to help, but it is a duty not to help, and he has no choice.
The most we can do is start from the class friendship of revolutionary comrades, use the spirit of the "Five Lectures and Four Beauties" just conveyed on February 25, and try our best to help mobilize.
This thing has come to a standstill.
Fortunately, there is someone with high consciousness. When the handymen were discussing this matter, Hong Yanwu heard it from the window of the crime team. He saw that no one was talking about this matter for a long time. Not only did he feel that it was not easy for Xiao Meng, but he also couldn't bear to see Master Pang being in trouble, so he stepped forward and took over the matter.
In his words, although he and Xiao Meng are no longer in the same group. But doesn’t everyone have an emergency? What's more, it's to take care of your parents. As long as the chief cook agrees, he is willing to keep an eye on Xiao Meng for a day. It doesn't matter if he can't transfer him. It's just a day's work for nothing, it's a duty.
This time everyone was happy and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Xiao Meng didn't know how to be grateful for Hong Yanwu's helping hand. And because of this righteousness, even Master Pang felt happy.
He even began to wonder whether he should recommend Hong Yanwu as a model of the "Five Lectures and Four Beauties"?
As for the evening, things were pretty good at first.
Chen Liquan came to help on a voluntary basis because he had nothing to do at home. With him around, Hong Yanwu can work more efficiently.
The two of them chatted and worked together without feeling tired. After finishing the work, I started busying outside again, and I never rested. Before one o'clock, they had finished all their work, and by then they were hungry.
The people who caught up with the evening shift rewarded the two of them for showing off their style, and specially left them a plate of fried peanuts, a plate of salt and pepper oil dumplings and ten steamed buns stuffed with pork and cabbage. The two of them got into a drunken mood.
Where can I find a drink at night?
Hong Yanwu thought about it and found it. Just wrap the food in a brown paper bag and leave.
Where have you gone? Went to the reception room.
Uncle Li, who is guarding the gate, is nearly sixty years old and is a poor household whose wife has died.
He is from Hebei and his registered residence is in Beijing. My son and daughter all got married in my hometown.
Nowadays, everyone has children and they can’t take care of him. He himself is unwilling to go back, so in addition to receiving 14 yuan of poverty subsidies from the government every month, he also relies on the money he earns as a gatekeeper.
Not to mention, even temporary workers in "Polar Bear" are treated better than elsewhere. Under normal circumstances, the salary for this job is only a dozen yuan, but "Polar Bear" can pay more than 20 yuan.
In this way, Uncle Li's two items add up to forty yuan a month, which is enough to catch up with a serious worker in other factories, and he will have enough money to drink a few drinks.
What he drinks is either good wine or "Mao San" loose wine. But because he has been guarding this place for many years, the old man buys a plastic bucket every time.
Although Uncle Li is poor, he is not stingy. He loves making friends and joking, and is willing to drink and chat with others, so he always has a few eight-cent wine glasses around him.
So here he can handle enough wine.
In this way, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan knocked on the window and woke up the old man who had just fallen asleep.
As people get older, they sleep less easily, and Uncle Li has a good temper, so there is nothing to be unhappy about. On the contrary, I was quite satisfied with the food and wine. In this way, the three of them started chatting while drinking.
In fact, the biggest characteristic of people in the capital drinking is that conversation is more important than wine and food. Whether they are close friends or strangers, they can chat, but they can't drink wine when they sit together.
Moreover, this kind of chat does not discuss interests, transactions, or status. The focus of exchanges in casual chats is human affection, which is full of each other's temperament and character.
If you really meet someone you can chat with, you can often drink for hours, which is in line with the saying "a thousand cups of wine will be too little when you meet a close friend".
This is the case for Hong Yanwu and Uncle Li. There is actually not much difference in their mental ages. The old man knows a lot about the past stories of the capital. Hong Yanwu also knew a lot about the new social situation.
After going back and forth like this, the two of them fell asleep chatting with Chen Liquan, and they continued chatting until almost dawn before the conversation came to an end without any satisfaction.
But just when Hong Yanwu woke up Chen Liquan who was staring blankly on the bed and made room for Uncle Li, the two of them went back to the cafeteria to sleep some more. But found that something serious was wrong.
Because the door to the canteen was open, the padlock on the door was missing and had to be removed.
It goes without saying that someone must have gone in.
Hong Yanwu was startled and immediately sobered up. He and Chen Liquan ran in to take a look.
Done! The canteen was really stolen!
And it’s all evil to say it. The lock on the cold storage room containing the ingredients was in good condition and nothing was lost. The long stool for people to sit and eat is gone!
Seventy or eighty of the more than one hundred long stools in the entire cafeteria were missing. Isn’t this a **** ghost!
What bothered Hong Yanwu the most was that there were so many people working the night shift that no one locked the door at all. Go play cards, go drinking, or even find a house with paved floors, and just have a solid night's sleep.
Why did something happen this night when he was so kind and offered to help and even locked the door?
This is simply God’s blindness! Not only were his good intentions unrewarded, but it was also unlucky that he was too efficient at his work. Otherwise, if he hadn't left here, he wouldn't have been beaten to death.