Material Empire

It was already more than 6 o'clock in the evening. On the second chemical road on the outskirts of the city, a middle-aged man in his 40s was holding an oil umbrella and walking slowly in the sparse winter rain. When the north wind struck, the man could not help but shivered. He looked up at the sky, then drew his clothes on, and continued to walk forward, without knowing where the target was.

The man's name was Yu Lihong, and he was a process engineer in Pujiang No.7 Plastic Factory. Just an hour ago, he had a big fight with his wife over sending money to his hometown. With a clumsy mouth, he was stopped by his sharp wife in just a few words. With shame, he could only run out of the house and calm down outside just like after each quarrel.

Yu Lihong came from a peasant family, and like all enterprise workers in rural areas in that era, he often sent money to his family to subsidize his life. His wife Li Hongmei is a native of Pujiang. She does not discriminate against her husband of rural origin, but there is an inviolable bottom line when it comes to sending money to her hometown, that is, 10 yuan per month. Never for any reason increase.

Yu Lihong is a filial son. When the Chinese New Year is celebrated, he always wants to send his parents a few more yuan so that the parents can go to the market to cut some meat and make dumplings. Every time he made this request to his wife, Li Hongmei, who had always been virtuous and thoughtful, would be furious, spreading out all the bills such as his son buying sneakers and his daughter's rubella, and asking her husband how to spend extra money.

Yu Lihong was unable to argue with his wife, because the reasons the wife gave were always valid. In recent years, his wife has used the talents of "snail shells as dojos" to build a home with a modest salary. At least the clothes of the whole family can go without patches, which is very It is rare. To make Yu Lihong say that his wife did something wrong, he really couldn't tell.

In desperation, Yu Lihong could only save pocket money from himself, accumulating less, and occasionally secretly sending an extra five or ten yuan to his home. Chat table filial piety. I do n’t know if Li Hongmei was really unaware of these things or pretended to be confused. In short, the couple have maintained at least some time without fighting because of such things.

This time. Yu Lihong received a letter from his mother saying that winter had come and his father had severe asthma. Yu Lihong was concerned, so he went home to discuss with Li Hongmei, and wanted to send 20 yuan more to go home, let his father go to the county to take a look, and prescribe some western medicine to go back to eat. Li Hongmei heard that she was furious and took out the envelope containing the living expenses from the drawer and threw it on Yu Lihong's face. Shouted loudly: "Just so much money at home, you can take it and send it all back. Tomorrow the whole family will drink northwest wind!"

After a quarrel, the final result was Li Hongmei crawling into the room and crying. He murmured to himself the hardships of running this home for more than a decade, and Yu Lihong could only escape with a rain umbrella under his umbrella.

Hey, wit!

Yu Lihong was tired, stood under a tree, looked at the dense rain and fog in front of his eyes, and sighed angrily.

After all. Still the income is too low. After working for so many years, I became an engineer with a monthly salary of 130 yuan; my wife is a worker and only 60 yuan a month. If they stay in the past, the couple has nearly 200 yuan, which is considered a high-income family. But now, what does this money do?

The market supply is much better than in the past. As long as you have money, you can buy meat, eggs, fish, and shrimp, but the price is really astounding. The family would add a meal casually on Sunday, and 10 yuan would be gone. There are more household appliances and better quality than before, but there are more than 1,000 color TVs, more than 400 washing machines, and any electric fans, recorders, rice cookers, electronic clocks ... Every household has them. If you do n’t have one, you can justify it ? But if you want to buy these things, you have to deposit a sum after paying the salary every month. This is also the money cut out from the teeth.

Also, my son and daughter are both old and want to make friends. As a parent, can you give me some money? I heard my son say, ask my girlfriend to eat ice cream **** in a small shop next to People's Square. One is more than 1 yuan. The girlfriend has to eat three at a time, and she also needs a girlfriend to eat, and three more ... If you dare to save money, wait for your son to become an old bachelor.

Can such a big family save 20 yuan for my father to see a doctor? The answer is definitely yes. But Li Hongmei also makes sense, that is, my hometown is not short of these 20 dollars, why have to wait to send it back from Pujiang? Yu Lihong can also imagine the situation at home. 20 yuan can definitely be obtained, but the old father who is frugal in his life is reluctant to spend these money on himself ...

If you have more money, you can go back to your hometown, take your parents to Pujiang, find a hospital for them, and have a good physical examination. The old man has suffered all his life, and his son has a responsibility to let them live a happy old age.

But ... this is just a wonderful dream. To take over the parents, at least it will cost 500 yuan, which is an astronomical figure that he can't bear.

It would be nice if you can be rated as the deputy chief, the deputy chief's salary can be 40-50 yuan more than now, so that he can be much more relaxed on hand ...

Yu Lihong's thoughts drifted in another direction. In recent years, he has not relaxed his research for a moment, and has made some research results in several resin formulations. He has also published a paper in the journal "Synthetic Resin". According to his conditions, he can actually be evaluated as a deputy chief engineer, and even if he works hard, it is possible to evaluate the chief engineer.

However, this is just a beautiful dream, because when he applied for promotion of the title in the factory, he found that academic results are not enough. You must also do a good job with the factory manager and the relevant leaders of the Municipal Chemical Industry Bureau. Relationship, otherwise your achievements will not be able to get into the eyes of others. Yu Lihong himself is not good at liaising with leaders. Although his wife Li Hongmei is capable, she is only a worker after all, and cannot reach the level where she can talk to leaders.

Therefore, the matter of the deputy chief engineer was dragged on again and again until the sea was sinking ...

Dad, Li Hong is incompetent, Li Hong is not filial ...

Facing the direction of his hometown, Yu Lihong murmured such a sentence, two lines of tears overflowed unconsciously from the corner of his eyes.

"dad!"

In the rain curtain, someone was calling out loud. Yu Lihong turned his head and looked away. There was no pedestrian behind him, but only a small car, slowly flashing with double flashing lights. Yu Lihong did not think that someone in the car would say hello to him, so he regarded the call just as his own hallucination, and shook his head to move on.

"dad!"

This time, the sound was closer. The car that Yu Lihong saw just now has reached a position parallel to him. The back row of windows facing him was shaken down, revealing the playful face of a girl. Yu Lihong wiped my short-sighted glasses with his hands, and finally saw clearly. The girl was his daughter Yu Xiaojuan who had just graduated from high school and was still at home.

"Xiaojuan, whose car are you in?" Yu Lihong asked in surprise. Yu Lihong knew the daughter's car. This is a Pusang sedan produced by Pujiang Automobile Factory. It is the new favorite of the nobles. People without a certain level cannot sit on it. The car is just an old Pujiang car.

"It's Tingting's car." Yu Xiaojuan said joyfully in the car. "Dad, come on, Tingting's leader wants to talk to you?"

"Which Tingting? Why is her unit's leader looking for me?" Before he knew it, the car had stopped, and Yu Xiaojuan pushed open the door in the car and greeted his father to get in. Seeing Yusi constantly drifting from the open door into the car, Yu Lihong felt that it was not polite, so he put up his umbrella and got into the car clumsily.

The car started again, and a girl sitting on the other side of Yu Xiaojuan leaned over and said to Li Hong, "Uncle Yu, remember me, I'm Peng Tingting."

"Oh, Tingting, you haven't come to play for a while." Yu Lihong recognized that this girl was a high school classmate of her daughter and had once visited her home. It is said that the girl's father is the manager of a construction company, but Yu Lihong never felt that there would be any intersection between her and her.

"Are you working?" A young man sitting in the front seat turned back and greeted Li Hong warmly, "We came to you at your house and listened to it. You came out for a walk, so we I took the liberty to follow. "

"Uh huh, yeah, the house is too sweltering, so I come out for a walk." Yu Lihong replied awkwardly, completely forgetting that he was now in the middle of the winter. People who came out for a walk because of the heat at home were basically classified as nerves. It's normal.

"Xiao Yu, when we came here, we saw a western restaurant on the side of the road. You drive there ~ www.readwn.com ~ Let's go to the western restaurant and sit with Yu Gong." That young man said Commanded the driver.

"I see." The driver agreed, and the car slightly speeded up, running over the water in the direction of the young man.

"You are ..." Yu Lihong looked at the car man in surprise and asked hesitantly.

"Oh, let me introduce myself. My name is Xia Yangjie, and I am the chief engineer of Haijie Technology Service Company. This is our deputy manager, called Yu Haitao. By the way, Xiao Peng is also working in our company and is in charge of administrative affairs. As for the purpose of our visit to you, it is not convenient to say in the car. Let ’s go to the restaurant to order something and talk while you eat. What do you think? ”The young man said politely.

"Haijie Company?" Yu Lihong was even more confused. He turned to see Peng Tingting and wanted Peng Tingting to give him an explanation. Peng Tingting just smiled at him secretly, and then took Yu Xiaojuan's arm, wondering what the whisper between the girls had gone.

ps:

This seems to be the fourth change ... Orange's character, do you recognize now? That's not good! Don't you want to cast a few monthly tickets to express your love for oranges?