Make a living

Chapter 107

Since two relatives in the family were on the operating table one after another, Zheng Haichuan simply asked for a few more days off, hoping to take care of Xiao Hemiao and his elder brother.After all, although earning money is important, money is only meaningful if it is spent on your family, isn't it?

It's just that Zheng Haichuan also knew that it was inappropriate for him to ask for leave one after another when he was in a hurry. Fortunately, the foreman was kind, and he didn't say to deduct his absence fee, but paid him the wages of the previous period first.

But the foreman also told Zheng Haichuan the truth that there is no shortage of workers at the construction site, and if he asks for leave like this, he may not be able to make a living after returning.

Zheng Haichuan readily agreed, and only asked the foreman to let him know when there was a vacancy.He has always been considerate of others. When he is busy on the construction site every day, he does his best to fulfill his daily workload. Now he understands that the construction process cannot be stopped because of him alone. He only hopes that the cement pouring will not be needed later After the reinforcement worker, he can take on other jobs.

But Zheng Haichuan is not worried about finding a place to make money.

He used to ask his neighbor on the fifth floor, Lao Yang, to introduce him to a housekeeping maintenance company as a part-time job. Recently, he has been busy with steel work, so he occasionally takes orders during vacations.But not to mention that the housekeeping service software developed by the company has quite a lot of business, and there are many orders waiting for orders popping up every day, such as sewers, wire repairs, land reclamation and cleaning, and house moving. Behind every message is Strings of money made Zheng Haichuan greedy.

Now that he doesn't go to the construction site, he can make nutritious meals for two large and small patients in the hospital, and take some orders to subsidize his family.

Zheng Haichuan is a person who can't take time off, he just does what he says, and soon Qi Yu finds that Zheng Haichuan, who can't go to the construction site, is still busier than him, and often only sees people at night.

Finally, on the night that Father Zheng left Pengcheng, the two of them met earlier at least.

Zheng Haichuan took care of two business orders in the morning, went down to take his father to the train station, then went home to make dinner, and brought nutritious meals to his elder brother and Xiao Hemiao with a thermos, just in time to pick up his daughter-in-law after handing over to go home from get off work .

Father Zheng took care of his son and grandson for half a month. Seeing that both of them were recovering well, he yelled to leave.He said that there are still vegetables to be collected in the field, but Zheng Haichuan knew that his father thought that everything in the city was expensive, and he was reluctant to spend more money.

Fortunately, brother Zheng's leg was put in plaster again, which did not affect walking and doing things with a cane, and Xiao Hemiao shared a ward with him, which seemed more convenient, and the two brothers of the Zheng family let their father go back to their hometown You can take good care of the little guy.

On the way home, Zheng Haichuan was still telling Qi Yu interesting stories about his childhood.

At that time, his family was very poor, and every time he returned to the new semester and had to pay tuition fees, he and his elder brother were nervous.

Because when you ask your father for money, that's when you get scolded.His father would frown tightly, smoke a pipe, and while pulling out ten-cent bills from his trouser pocket, scold them for debt collection.

The bills were usually ten and fifty cents, and they would be scolded every time they were checked. When the tuition fee was cleared, their whole heads would be buzzing with scolding.

"At that time, I wished I had to go to school."

Still holding an empty thermos bucket in his hand, Zheng Haichuan spoke casually, and the bucket swayed up and down following his words.But before he could finish his sentence, he was suddenly taken away by the man beside him. Qi Yu grabbed his dangling hand into the palm of his hand and said, "Don't throw the pot of not reading on your father's head!" .”

Qi Yu knew that Zheng Haichuan didn't like reading.

This idiot has never touched the books stacked on his bedside table these days. Compared with writing, this person is much more interested in moving audio-visual content such as TV and short videos.

"Hey, that's just one of the reasons."

Zheng Haichuan didn't care that his excuse was punctured by Qi Yu, and he smiled foolishly, "I just can't see it, and our teacher is very fierce. I am so stupid and get scolded every day, so I don't even want to learn."

At this time, it was dusk and night, and the village in the city gradually darkened.

The shadows cast by the street lamps were vague, illuminating the silhouettes of pedestrians, but not the gestures and gestures of the residents in Tunjie Saixiang.

It's autumn, Zheng Haichuan is not afraid of the cold wearing short sleeves, Qi Yu has already put on a thin windbreaker.At this time, the two people's arms were close to each other, and Qi Yu held Zheng Haichuan's hand grandiosely under his long sleeves, but no one paid attention.

"Don't like reading, like twisting steel bars?"

In fact, Qi Yu began to feel sorry for Zheng Haichuan's work after he was moved to this person.I am suffering all the time, and I don't know why this idiot works so hard.

"I can't even talk about it. I just think it's quite easy to twist." Zheng Haichuan laughed again, "At that time, my brother had just divorced his sister-in-law... In fact, the family had spent all the money for the bride price before, and then they had to raise Xiao Hemiao, anyway, Big Brother has no food left."

"I was originally an apprentice in a restaurant in the town, and I was about to graduate soon. But with my level and qualifications, I would have to endure for several years before I could become a restaurant chef. Off to work."

Zheng Haichuan spoke freely, but Qi Yu still heard a little regret from his mouth.

"Want to be a cook?" He pinched the fingertips of the person beside him.

The fingertips are rough, and there are barbs on the side of the nail cover, but this man's cooking is delicate and delicious.

"...Let's talk about it later." Zheng Haichuan bowed his head and thought for a while before saying.

While no one was paying attention, he also tugged on Qi Yu's fingers, and then grinned at him, "Actually, I just like to see people eat my food with delicious expressions, haha You can be a cook or not, anyway, I can cook for you and He Miaoer at home!"

He had a free and easy look, but Qi Yu's heart moved when he saw it.

"Ah."

Qi Yu didn't bring up this topic again, but just kept it in his heart.

When the two walked back to the old building slowly, they found that the tailor's stall in the stairwell on the first floor was suddenly empty.

It wasn't that Miss Hong wasn't there, but that all the tailoring tools had been put away, leaving only an empty triangular space.

Zheng Haichuan thought something was wrong, so he hurried to knock on the door of Hongjie's house.He waited for quite a while for the door to open from the inside, but it wasn't Sister Hong who opened the door, it was a middle-aged man with tattooed arms!

The man looked ordinary, dressed in blue that Zheng Haichuan was familiar with, and had a big red flower tattooed on his arm with his sleeves rolled up, which was very eye-catching.

"what?"

Li Fei was enjoying the warm fragrance of nephrite jade in the room, but suddenly he was disturbed and looked fierce.But when he saw Qi Yu following behind Zheng Haichuan, his expression immediately changed, "Hey, nephew. Long time no see!"

"...Uncle Fei." Qi Yu pulled Zheng Haichuan behind him, and greeted the man casually, "It seems that you have really turned into Uncle Hong?"

Li Fei smiled, his expression was very obvious: "Of course!"

It has been a month or two since Li Fei and him dealt with Rattle Chen in the alley last time, but Qi Yu did not forget about this man.Li Fei looks very ordinary, but it is not a simple person who has been wandering in a village in the city all year round and still has a group of brothers gathering together.

What's more, Qi Yu's memory is very good, he still remembers how before Li Fei and Sister Hong broke up, how aggressively he carried a steel rod to trouble those local snakes.

But as the saying goes, no matter how ferocious a beast can be tied up, the rope that tied Li Fei was obviously in the hands of the house owner, Sister Hong.

The room seems to be cooking, and there is a tempting spicy aroma.Sister Hong turned off the fire on the kitchen stove to the minimum, then came out, and kicked Li Fei aside.

Li Fei was not angry at all, and even tied the apron on Sister Hong with a shy face, before giving her the door.

"How about the little seedlings?"

Women who are nearly fifty years old have long lost the good color they had when they were young, and even the eyeliner on the fashionable tattoos at the beginning also showed inferior crow blue.But if you look closely, the lines on the corners of her eyes and eyebrows in the past seem to have dissipated a lot unconsciously, and her thin body has regained some charm, showing the style of a mature woman.

"The operation was quite successful." Zheng Haichuan replied, "I should be able to leave the hospital after a month."

"That's a good relationship, it almost scared me to death that day!"

Sister Hong nodded to Zheng Haichuan, and taught her a lesson, "You are also an uncle, children are easy to bump into bumps, you have to watch closely to know if you know!"

As she spoke, she didn't let go of Qi Yu who was on the side, "And you, the dignified doctor, how did you get to the point where you have to have an operation?!"

Qi Yu didn't bother to explain the professional terminology, so he just shut up and listened to the training.Neither he nor Zheng Haichuan had any female elders, and they didn't find it annoying to hear Sister Hong's chanting at the moment, but they were extraordinarily kind.

"Okay, young people, I don't understand a lot. Let's go see Xiaohe Miao another day?"

Li Fei has often come to the old building recently, and of course he has seen Zheng Jiahe many times.He also liked this little guy obediently staying with Sister Hong in the stairwell.

"You have the nerve to talk about them?" Seeing being interrupted, Sister Hong immediately pointed the finger at Li Fei, "How do you think you were so good when you were young? If you were sensible, you wouldn't..."

Seemingly recalling some troublesome past, Hong's voice could not help becoming a little shrill.Seeing this, Li Fei quickly hugged him, "Shhhhhhhhh I'm sorry, it's my fault, it's all my fault. It's okay, I'll stay with you from now on, let you vent your anger..." His tone was low and warm Shen, kept apologizing, and didn't care at all about exposing his concern for women and being humble in front of others.

Seeing this, Zheng Haichuan and Qi Yu couldn't stay any longer, and quietly planned to go upstairs and go home.

But Sister Hong quickly calmed down and teased Li Fei. Li Fei hurriedly handed the things he had just entered the room to Qi Yu.

"Hey, well, I'll reserve a few tables at the restaurant next door in a few days, and treat you to a meal."

Sister Hong didn't say much, she just glanced sideways at the man beside her, and said to the two young men, "I didn't ask for it, he wanted to invite it. Come and eat when you have time."