Master Brother(6)
In the days around 2010, Li Bing came more diligently than in the past year. He meant to find a piece of land, to run a farm like me, and to choose a dragon. I heard him say that he was familiar with some local officials, and he had become friends when he mixed around, and it was convenient to do things. He asked me several times about it. Once, after eating on Longli Street, Li Bing drank some wine, his cheeks were red, he had a cigarette in his mouth, and he spat out a heartfelt word to me. He said why he had to run a farm, he just wanted to learn from you and recruit people like us. He continued, I thought of people picking mineral water bottles, others pick plastic bottles, Brother Liu, you specially pick people, people like us have no use, it is you who turn waste into treasure, even one foot you can let him do what he can. I had never thought of it this way, and when I heard Li Bing's words, I broke out in a cold sweat. Li Bing said Brother Liu, you know no, for so many years, I have always taken you as an example, and I am a competitor, I just want to defeat you. These words made me cry and laugh.
I didn't need anyone to fight at all, I was already completely defeated. Because after the relevant management department of pig blue ear disease killed all our pigs, I died and struggled for almost two years, and finally returned to heaven and lacked skills. Banks, feed companies, and private individuals have accumulated debts of more than 800,000 yuan. At this critical juncture, Chang Kailong took advantage of my mother who was paralyzed by the wind in Guiyang Medical College, and called out from outside to a rag, yin sell a little yang sell a little, sold a lot of valuable things, and he left.
People's hearts are unpredictable, that Bijie guy often opens the dragon (another chapter), in fact, I still have the grace of life for him, if it were not for a young police officer from the Mazhi police station to tell me to go, he might have died of illness and starvation in the culvert of the highway.
In that year, we no longer had a penny on our books, and in order to avoid debts, I had to take a detour on many streets in Longli and Ergezhai. But I want to pay off these debts, and I can't leave the bills to my son, which has become my belief in living. I contracted out the pig farm and collected the rent. He also picked up and sold vegetables on Longli Street, and was ashamed to talk to all his friends.
I used every sum of money I had to pay off my debts, and even my payroll card was left in the hands of someone else. I was really poor to the extreme, once my adopted son Liu Ben's daughter Jia Mei was sick and hospitalized, but we had no money, Ben Er was anxious to cry on the other end of the phone, I found out the only valuable things left in the house, there were dozens of rebar, because it was too long to open the dragon to steal out, and there were two coils of steel, too heavy he could not move, so he stayed in the warehouse, I sold the rebar and pan steel to the Baoqian family who was repairing the house in Guanyinpo at a low price, which sent Jia Mei to the hospital. Later, I rented a stall at the Longli Comprehensive Farmers' Market myself, first from Wuli, and then from the stone slab whistle to sell vegetables, earning a few thousand yuan a month, plus my salary and writing fees were all used to pay off debts. I was so tired that I got up at 4 a.m. to cook, sold for a day, and went home in the evening to write novels until 10 o'clock. But the debt is decreasing every month, and I'm really happy.
When I first started renting a stall at the farmer's market, I really didn't have the capital, I pieced it together, really responded to that sentence, and borrowed money to know how few friends there were. I also called Li Bing and wanted to borrow two or three thousand yuan from him temporarily. But don't talk about interest, otherwise I'll never be able to pay it back. In my heart, Li Bing should be very rich, and borrowing this money is probably not a problem. He didn't refuse when he received the call, but I could tell at the end of the phone that his tone was not particularly painful, although I couldn't see the expression, I could feel it. The discomfort in my heart is only a blink of an eye, I think others may be unhappy for other things, and I am exhausted, and there is no other way.
I lowered my voice a little timidly and told him that he needed to pay the deadline for the money, and waited for him to send the money to the dragon. The man was poor and short, the horse was thin and long-haired, and I called him two or three times. Ten days later, he sent me the money, and when we met, he smiled apologetically and said to me, his hands were tight, so he dragged it out again and again, and said that he was also looking for a thousand cards to borrow from a friend who opened a supermarket, and talked about paying him back in three months, and the other party did not have so much cash and only borrowed a thousand. My smile immediately froze on my face, and my eyes were a little hot, and in an instant, I wanted to return the money to him on the spot, telling Li Bing that the money had been made up. But I can't do it, I've never been a vitriolic person. I struggled to control my emotions and squeezed out a bitter smile on my face. I'm afraid that Li Bing was somewhat embarrassed, and did not talk a few words about him and left, after a few days my anger must have subsided, thinking that everyone will have difficulties, I forgave Li Bing in my heart.
Three months actually passed quickly, one morning, I was selling vegetables busy, the mobile phone suddenly rang, it was Li Bing. He said quietly on the other end of the phone that the thousand dollars he had borrowed for help were two days away, and he was ready to take it back the next day and return it to someone else. In fact, I have long been mentally prepared, these days have been calculating, the day after tomorrow is exactly three months, no more, no less. I promised him in a calmer tone than Li Bing, that I was ready for him, and that he would be able to do whatever time he wanted tomorrow.
Li Bing came at noon the next day. My attitude cannot be said to be cold, but it is not enthusiastic either. He took the money, counted it over, figured it out, stood and said something out of the ordinary, trying to stay as long as he could. I knew he would come back this time, and maybe never see each other again. Sure enough, to this day, Li Bing has not called my mobile phone, and in the middle of the night, I still think of him.