Text/Yang Junguo
"Do not be happy with things, do not grieve with yourself" We often use this to persuade others and comfort ourselves. However, in reality, the mood often fluctuates with the weather encountered by the people encountered by the encounter, which is the so-called "unique eunuch tourist, partial shock phenology". The two things I have experienced recently have made me go from being at a loss to being overjoyed.
Open, as if relievedBefore the Spring Festival, one day after the new year, I washed the towel in the bathroom, and when I poured water, I found that the sewer pipe was blocked and the water flowed very slowly. Hurry to find the wire, take the flashlight, by the light, with the wire back and forth poke, this poke does not matter, "cure the deaf to cure the dumb", the original water is still seeping down, now it is motionless.
Professional things are done by professional people, so they have to resort to housekeeping. From the mobile phone address book, he found the number of the master who dredged the sewer, called it, and said that he was busy, if not in a hurry, wait an hour to come. Waiting is long, the mood is complicated. What a delay it is not to be able to use water now! Can the water upstairs be flooded? Can it be opened? All kinds of speculations, all kinds of hypotheses, floating in the mind.
It was hard to hear the doorbell ring, just like the patient's family was looking forward to the arrival of the 120 ambulance so urgent, so attentive, I quickly went out, greeted Master Gao, and helped him get the tools. While entering the door, he said: "Yesterday I blocked seven houses, all of them were cleaned years ago, panicked, some washed pig intestines with too much grease, and some poured rags into the sewers when pouring water." I started drying at five o'clock this morning, and the family had just poured the wire ball into the toilet. ”
Like a doctor's consultation, he asked about the scene before the blockage, looked at the extent of the blockage, observed the direction of the same section of the water pipe upstairs, and judged: "It's not easy to do, you see, it's in a place that is both sunken and curved." "I listened, not in a very optimistic mood. And he still seriously tried, first with a manual dredger, grabbing the handle, shaking around, but there was no effect, he said that the manual dredger can turn, the general can be opened, is not enough pressure? He pulled over the electric one, plugged in the latch, opened the switch, and adjusted the spring hard to push in, however, the spring was like a struggling snake, only fluttering back and forth, but could not move forward, or to no avail, no effect. He was also a little discouraged and I was a little disappointed.
He said, "Or I'll give you another way to buy some ignition alkali and melt it and pour it in." I asked, "Are you sure?" He said, "I can only try." "I said is there any other law?" He said: "The most thorough way is to change the tube. I said firmly, "You change it." He said, "You look easy, you have to smash the wall!" After the Spring Festival. "As soon as I listened, it was half cold, and there was a lot of water before the Spring Festival!" How can this be done? Very anxious, very depressed.
At this time, he looked back at the radiator, immediately remembered something, and asked: "Do you have plastic pipes at home?" I said yes, went to the storage room and handed it to him, he said, "Get another old towel." Only to see him insert one end of the plastic pipe into the sewer, and use a towel to plug the surroundings, take a screwdriver and insert it hard, make sure it is tight, connect the other end to the water release switch under the radiator, tie it tightly with a rib, open the switch, exhale, only to see that there is no water at the sewer that has not recoiled, he said happily: "Do the work, rush away." I immediately patted him on the back excitedly and said, "Thank you!" Thank you! He said: "Under sealed conditions, with the pressure of the heating pipe, the hair debris and the like will wash down." Take advantage of the hot water and then rinse hard. ”
He let go of the water for a while, making sure it was unimpeded, and then he packed up his tools satisfactorily. I asked, "How much?" He said, "50 pieces." I said gratefully, "Enough? He said, "Enough." "I used WeChat to turn around. Suddenly, like a relief. Otherwise, near the end of the year, the water pipe is not open, how to add to the blockage!
On the weekend, when I was eating breakfast, I suddenly found that there was water on the floor of the restaurant. Could it be that the bucket of water in the bucket is broken? Pull the bucket out and see, there are no cracks, no seepage. Took the mop and dragged it, it was clean, but in a moment there was again.
What's going on? Listen carefully, there is a "whoosh" sound, very subtle, smaller than the sound of mosquitoes and flies, turn on the light, still did not find the abnormality, open the mobile phone flashlight function, a photo, there is a stream of water like spider silk parabolic rapid spray, looking for water to find the source, the original wall in the heating pipe has a trachoma broken, very small, similar to a needle nose.
I thought about what to do, and the most urgent thing was not to let it spray all the time, spray all over the floor. I found a convenient bag to tie it up, did not spray, but still dripped down the edge of the bag, took a large plate and put it below, and then, when the plate was full, it was poured into the basin.
While operating in an emergency and extensive manner, we are thinking about how to fundamentally solve it.
Off, I saw a switch in front of the sand front, I thought, turn it off, nothing more than this group of heating is not used, it is estimated that it is not much colder, and then it has reached the end of February, after half a month and twenty days of heating, but take the pipe tongs to twist around, and there is no twisting, because many years of no movement may be rusty.
Change, replace this section of the pipe with a new one, think, this is the most thorough method, but it involves moving furniture, dismantling and decoration, turning off the main valve of heating, etc., which is more troublesome.
Anyway, let's find someone who does housekeeping first! Call a solar-powered person, meaning he can come and help turn off the rust switch, but people say it is very busy; and another phone call to install heating, explain the situation, he said it is worth changing the pipe, but came up with an idea called wrapping with strong tape, and there are sales in plumbing stores.
I hurriedly rode my bicycle to a familiar store, and the owner asked what to do, so he said, "Don't buy strong tape, a roll of twenty yuan, not for sale, waste." I'll give you a method, with a throat hoop. "I don't know what the throat hoop is, he explained is the clamp of the jam tube, also called the tighter the tighter. So I found one, cut a little bicycle scrap inner tube, and taught me how to use it.
How much is it, I ask? He said politely, forget it (meaning you don't want money). I said, you don't want money, and people will be embarrassed to come later. He said, let's take it. I took out my mobile phone and swept him a dollar, the Bluetooth speaker in the store: "WeChat to the account of one yuan." "I said: Passed ha. He said: Come here.
With a sense of trying and looking forward to it, I went home. Hurriedly flipping out the scissors, comparing the inner tire skin to the thickness of the trachoma's size water pipe and the width and narrowness of the throat hoop, it is very careful and sacred to cut out a strip with a width of 1 cm and a length of 3 cm, trying to trim the rules a little width and narrow fit. I found a plum blossom screwdriver, took a flashlight, opened it, and the dark corner suddenly brightened a lot.
I started the operation like a doctor with a knife for the first time, not very skilled, but forced to be calm. Lift the plate receiving the water up and move it, reverse the throat hoop screw, pull out the metal card, open the bayonet, first put the surface of the water pipe, cut open the plastic bag wrapped in the tube, the water at the trachoma suddenly shoots out like blood in the capillary vessels, I immediately take the inner tube to block, hold, move the throat hoop just placed on the inner tube, conveniently insert the card under the screw, slight correction, quickly rotate the screw. The more the screw is tightened, the more the card is extended, the more the throat hoop is contracted, the caliber becomes smaller, the inner tube is tightened more and more, the frequency of water droplets is obviously slower, and then the iron is hot, and then twisted twice, the inner tube is compacted by death, the trachoma is completely blocked, the dripping water does not leak, and it is done.
Spent a dollar, solved the problem, eliminated the trouble, suddenly felt the clouds open and the fog dispersed, and the joy was colorful.
Through this experience of "passing" and "blocking", I have some contemplation. Life in the world, living at home, sometimes encountering big ups and downs, sometimes encountering chickens and dogs, we all have to face, we all have to bear. But this kind of facing, this kind of bearing, is not to be at ease with the situation, to be poor and happy, not to do nothing, to be muddy, not to "feel refreshed by the spring of greed, to be happy in the middle of the road", but to actively solve problems, actively overcome difficulties, and actively change the situation. The peak turns around, the danger is turned into safety, the sense of conquest after the willow dark flowers, the sense of achievement, the sense of gratification that is called dripping and cheerful. Only out of the swamp, Fang feels more refreshed, only by turning over the mountain, Fang feels stratus in his chest.
The world's things, there is no ease, comfortable so that you can get, everything must be a hard work, in order to truly understand the mystery and have some understanding, some gains.
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