flstandardbreds Chapter 177 From Now On, We Are Strangers
Chapter 177 From Now On, We Are Strangers
"Long Xu wasn't like this before. What happened today?"
"Don't worry about him. He's drunk and acting crazy. Let's go." Liu Meng pulled Han Shuang and walked in the opposite direction.
"Isn't this the way home?"
"Let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative and buy two popsicles. We'll go home later."
Liu Meng didn't want to see Long Xu, so he pulled Han Shuang towards a small supply and marketing cooperative in the opposite direction of their home.
Long Xu was walking on the street. His originally happy mood became depressed and even a little sad when he saw Liu Mengqi.
When he was queue-jumping before, Liu Meng didn't treat him like this.
Maybe people will change.
Long Xu shook his head vigorously, trying to completely get rid of Liu Meng's image from his mind.
“I wish there were no years to look back on, and we would be strangers from now on! Perhaps being strangers is the best ending for us.”
Looking at the setting sun in the sky, in that instant, Long Xu suddenly became open-minded.
Love and affection are just seasonings in the long life. The sun will eventually set, just like life must have an end. Instead of wasting your limited time on these love and grudges, you might as well do a good job, let your family enjoy life, and have no regrets.
After figuring it out, Long Xu took more firm steps and strode towards home.
Long Xu's home is not too far from the bus station. It is a self-built adobe house in a residential area near the electromechanical factory. Five people live in two rooms. Long Xu and his younger brother Long Xiang sleep on a bunk bed, and his younger sister sleeps on a wooden bed. The three children share a room with a curtain in the middle.
When I got home, everyone had already finished dinner.
The house was too stuffy, so the parents were sitting on stools in the yard to cool off. The younger sister Long Mei was doing her homework in the house, while the second brother Long Xiang had gone off to play again.
"Why did you come back so late? I left some food for you. Come in and eat." Seeing Long Xu enter the yard, the mother stood up and muttered.
Long Xu reeked of alcohol, and the smell could be smelled from two or three meters away.
"you've been drinking?"
"Well, the deputy director treated me, so I had two extra drinks." Long Xu came up to his parents and said seriously, "Mom and Dad, I have something to tell you. I got a new job at a bakery, working as the deputy manager at the branch in Taihe City."
"What?"
"Didn't you say you were going to Teng County to pay the debt back today? Why did you change jobs?"
"Is this true? Are you drunk and talking nonsense to us?" Father Long Daxing also stopped waving the fan and looked at his eldest son blankly.
Long Daxing is an ordinary worker who works in an electromechanical factory. Apart from working on machine tools, he doesn't know anything else and his interpersonal relationships are very simple. This also led to his eldest son being unable to find a job after returning home, and he had no one to ask for help. Finally, the eldest son didn't want his parents to suffer, so he took the initiative to go to a scrap recycling company and became a rag collector.
Although the family's conditions are better than before, this matter has always been a knot in Long Daxing's heart.
Long Xu picked up the work clothes in his hand, took out the bakery work ID and showed it to his parents.
"real."
"The two people who testified for me last time are actually the director and deputy director of this bakery, but I didn't know it before. I went to pay them back today. Director Li thought I was trustworthy and had good character, so he asked if I would like to work with him, and I agreed."
Long Daxing snatched the work permit from his eldest son's hand and looked at it in the faint sunlight of the setting sun.
Tengxian Chunfeng Bakery, deputy manager of the Taihe City workstation, Long Xu.
A large red seal was stamped on the three-line handwritten work permit, which contained the name of his eldest son.
"It really is."
"How about that bakery? It's a public institution, right? There are quite a few small collectives out there now. You can't go to one of those. You never know when it might go bankrupt, and you'd end up with nothing." Long Daxing smiled and spoke to himself.
"Dad, I'm old enough now. I can judge for myself whether it's good or not. You don't have to worry about me. Do you know how much I earn a month as a deputy manager?" In order to reassure his parents, Long Xu deliberately turned the topic to salary.
"Our workshop director's monthly salary is 45 yuan. Can yours be that high?" Long Daxing said.
Long Xu pursed his lips and smiled: "It's really taller than this, and a lot taller."
"How much is it, son?" asked mother Chen Guixiang happily.
"70 yuan! That's just the basic salary, not including bonuses and other benefits."
"So high!" Chen Guixiang's mouth became an O shape in surprise, and her eyes widened.
"How is it possible? What factory can offer you such a high salary? Son, have you been cheated?" Long Daxing couldn't believe it. Such a high salary was much higher than that of the workshop director in their factory. How could this be possible?
"Really? When I signed up for the job, they specifically verified this number for me. It's definitely correct."
Long Xu replied with certainty. He could understand that his parents would not believe it so easily. After all, when he saw the basic monthly salary of 70 yuan, he was also a little skeptical. He even verified it with the elder sister who arranged for him to join the company.
"Oh my god, my son has met a noble person!" The first person to believe it was his mother Chen Guixiang. Her son has always been very outstanding. If others can make it, why can't her son?
Spring Breeze Bakery.
Spring Breeze Bread.
Long Daxing suddenly remembered that in their factory, several young workers did not eat lunch these past two days and each of them ate a piece of bread.
His apprentice wanted to give him one, but he refused.
The words written on the plastic bag at that time were "Spring Breeze" chicken drumstick bread.
Could it be that this is the bakery my son works in?
"Hey, Junk King is back. I was just looking for you. Why didn't you go to the educated youth gathering today? Liu Meng went." On the other side of the fence, Cheng Kun appeared at an inopportune time. He didn't care whether Long Xu's parents were present or not. He called Long Xu Junk King as soon as he opened his mouth.
In fact, Cheng Kun asked this question even though he knew the answer.
Originally, the news of the educated youth gathering was spread from one person to another.
Because Cheng Kun's house was next to Long Xu's, everyone asked Cheng Kun to inform Long Xu. However, this guy didn't tell Long Xu at all. Afterwards, he told everyone that Long Xu collected scrap and felt that everyone looked down on him, so he didn't want to come.
If dogs have ranks, Cheng Kun is definitely the worst one.
When Long Daxing and Chen Guixiang heard Cheng Kun calling his eldest son "Junk King", their faces turned ugly.
Chen Guixiang glared at Cheng Kun. "My Long Xu is not a rag-and-bone guy. He's now the deputy manager of a bakery. He's not like some people who claim to be teachers when they're just security guards at the primary school gates. They have green onions stuck in their noses. What kind of pretense is that?"
hehe···
"A security officer is better than Long Xu, the ragpicker. He's also the deputy manager of a bakery. Why doesn't he brag about his own factory director? Ha~~" Cheng Kun didn't believe it at all.
"Whether it's bragging or not is none of your business. Don't come to talk to me again in the future. How can you, a stinky doorman like you, be worthy of being friends with a deputy manager like me?" Long Xu did not tolerate Cheng Kun and directly gave him a taste of his own medicine.
"You brag so much, but you still have to get your hands on some trash tomorrow." Cheng Kun felt bored and left the fence with a cold snort.
Long Daxing looked at his wife and said, "You were a good kid when you were little. How come you became like this when you grew up? Why are you arguing with him?"
"He said my son is no good and even called me Junk King in front of us. If he calls me that again next time, I will teach him a lesson on behalf of his parents. What an uneducated guy!" Chen Guixiang is not someone who will swallow her grievances.