I called out a few times in a row, sir,
He didn't react,
I crouched down and pushed him,
He was cold,
And it's stiff.
That's when I realized he might be dead.
1
After taking the college entrance examination in 2004, I was almost sure of the sad fact that I couldn't go to university, and my father talked to me and told me a lot of difficulties at home, hoping that I would earn some money during the holidays and use it for future re-study.
I'm not surprised. Part-time work is the most common thing in our county, many of my classmates have graduated from junior high school and have gone to Guangdong, Zhejiang and other coastal cities to break into the world, I also understand that my father is not really let me earn tuition, my tuition they have already saved enough, they want me to go out to endure some hardship, let the society temper and temper, taste some human warmth, so that not to be idle in the future, learn to become a prodigal child.
With the introduction of a relative, I entered a three-star hotel in the county town to work as a holiday worker. Because I was introduced by a relative, I was arranged to help the stove in the back kitchen, and it was said that I could learn some trades, and if I couldn't get into college in the future, I could also become a cook.
The kitchen manager is the old Gao of the cold food room, because I was introduced by someone (I have a background), and he asked me to learn cutting boards directly from him. Later, I heard that the apprentices who had just entered all started from the water platform where they killed fish and chickens, and every day they were drenched in blood, and their hands would be soaked in dirty water.
Hotel kitchen
Lao Gao is fifty years old, very fat, a happy person, and likes to make fun of me.
"Zheng Wa'er, why don't you let your relatives introduce you to the housekeeping department, there are many beautiful girls over there. Also, you can often see beautiful things at night. He winked at me, I smiled embarrassedly, and he said, "There are a lot of girls in our catering, if you have a fancy to it, go to the soak, there are more women and fewer men in our hotel, and those with handles are all sought-after goods, you see which of these little cubs does not have a three wives and four concubines." You are a student baby with fine skin and tender meat, and you can't kill those girls beautifully. ”
My face was redder, I laughed, and I was working harder.
Indeed, when I first entered the hotel, I found that there were many girls here, and most of them were very beautiful, which made me feel stressed during adolescence, and my physical and psychological attacks were stormy, which was very depressing.
I didn't dare to think too much, after all, it was also a holiday exercise, and I had to go back to class in the future. But I still love to learn how to cook, because I love to eat!
I practiced knife skills every day, learned to side dishes and ingredients for Lao Gao and Lao Jin to stir-fry hot dishes, and also went to the pastry room to help in my spare time. I am hardworking and honest, and the chefs in the back kitchen also like me, are willing to teach me skills, and often use me as an example and scold other apprentices. The masters scolded people very badly, almost every sentence with their mother, and every word pierced their hearts, which hurt people's self-esteem. You can also feel free to hit the apprentice or waiter on the head with a spoon, the kind of stainless steel spoon is very heavy and painful to beat. The other apprentices were very upset with me.
Every day from 2 to 5 p.m., it is time for the kitchen to rest. One day, I was the last to pack up my things and came out of the kitchen to go home, when Leng Buding was pressed into the corner by Li Xiaohui and four apprentices in the cold food room. Li Xiaohui slapped me twice, gritted his teeth and said, "I heard that you are very hard in the background, the masters are all spoiling you, causing us to be beaten all the time, how much you have yin against us behind your back." ”
I said, "I've never been in the dark, I'll tell the manager if I hit me again." ”
It was this sentence that made them anxious, and Li Xiaohui shouted: "If you dare to use the manager to press us, I will give you Shun Shun Mao today." ”
I felt that something was wrong, so I desperately pushed Li Xiaohui away, turned around and ran into the kitchen, and several of them immediately chased after me, and as soon as they entered the kitchen, they took a rolling pin, an oil spoon, and a frying pan, and came straight to me. I knew I had nowhere to hide, so I crouched down with my head in my hands and let them hit. At this moment, the foreman passed by and saw this scene, called the security guards and arrested a few of us to the manager.
The manager is the younger brother of the hotel owner, he is 1.88 meters tall, 200 pounds of body, often fierce and vicious, everyone is afraid of him. The boss is often absent, so the hotel is handed over to him to manage, and he is the emperor of the hotel and the living king of Hades. The manager asked what happened, and beat up Li Xiaohui, who took the lead in making trouble, and warned us that if there was a next time, we would all roll up and get out.
Since that time, I have often been attacked by the combined attacks of the apprentices, sometimes walking well, suddenly stretching out a leg to hook me, or inexplicably being scolded by the foreman, and occasionally being secretly spoiled, mixing flies, cockroaches, grasshoppers and the like into the dishes I cut, and the guests will inevitably complain about eating foreign objects, and finally they can find my head.
Lao Gao knew that it was those bad boys who made it bad, but he couldn't do anything about it, so he asked the manager to change my position.
From then on, I was transferred to the housekeeping department as a waiter. I was very aggrieved at the time, and for the first time I felt that society was so complicated, it was Lao Gao who enlightened me: "You just got out of school and don't understand it, the society is complicated, people's hearts are sinister, and it's the same everywhere." It's not as simple as your school, study hard, there's still a long way to go. ”
2
The hotel has a total of six floors, and the housekeeping department is on the fourth to sixth floors, and I am responsible for the coordination of the 30 rooms on the first floor of the sixth floor, that is, what the guests in which room they need, I am responsible for receiving and passing it to the corresponding service staff. The hotel is located in the most prosperous business district of the county, adjacent to the bus station, the rooms are full almost every day, and the guests are also mixed, and there are incidents almost every day.
The two girls I watched were Rarity and Qiaozhen, and the three of us worked 24-hour shifts, with my shift from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m.
When Qiaozhen and I changed shifts, she told me that if there was a small card at night, I must drive it away, and if I couldn't drive it away, I had to call the security guard. Also, between half past eleven and twelve o'clock, be sure to deliver food to guests at 622 and 628. The meal is ordered by them, and someone will bring it to them. I asked her why, and she said she'll find out when you've been working for a long time.
A small advertisement in the crack of the door
The first night delivery, I knocked on the door of room 622 with a lunch box, and the door was opened by a scantily clad girl, about twenty years old, wearing a corset, and her breasts were very big, I quickly lowered my head and didn't dare to look at her, she took the meal, simply said thank you, and closed the door. Room 628 was the same, but the woman was wearing less, and I didn't dare to look at it more.
Later, Lao Gao told me that these two girls were resident ladies of the hotel, protected by the boss, and had a fixed payment every month. They would call each room at night and ask if they wanted special services or something. We have a lot of mobile customers here, and the ladies have excellent business.
I asked Lao Gao, "Doesn't anyone care?"
Lao Gao showed an unfathomable expression, touched my head and said, "You don't understand this, you don't know society yet!"
A few days later, at ten o'clock in the evening, I heard the sound of rustling in the corridor, I thought there was a guest, so I poked my head out of the service room to take a look. I saw two little girls sneaking around the hallway, and when they looked left and right and saw that there was no one, they squatted down and stuffed cards into the cracks in each room. I quietly followed them, and when they turned around and saw me after stuffing their cards, I grabbed them and scared them into calling security. Both girls cried in fright, saying that they had only been hired to hand out flyers, not "young lady". Seeing that they were pitiful, I warned them not to come again, and let them go.
I understood that the boss did not allow the leaflet to be distributed in order to protect the business of the resident lady.
Since I was transferred to the housekeeping department, Lao Gao likes to come to me in his spare time. After getting off work at 10 o'clock in the evening, they always have to talk to me before going home, and sometimes they don't go home at all, so they live in my dormitory. I found that he was particularly interested in peachy news, and always asked if he heard any strange noises in the guest room at night, or asked me if there were people coming and going at 622 and 628 at night, etc.
I told him that I never went near the guest room, let alone eavesdropped on someone's door, except when the guest called me. Lao Gao looked very disappointed, his fat belly was always hanging on his legs, and he was supported by his hand from time to time. He always likes to tell me which waiter in the hotel slept with the leader again, or which official took care of which waitress, or which waitress and waiter stole in a private room and were caught by the foreman and deducted their wages. He asked me to pay attention to the observation that many big bosses would bring their juniors here to spend the night. He said that his eyes were very poisonous, and he could tell which couple came to open the house was a normal couple, which couple was the second wife of the package, and which one was a one-time transaction.
I sometimes tease him: "You're so interested in this, why don't you go to 622 or 628 to consume?"
He slapped me on the head and said, "I'm a decent person, a decent person in the north and south." ”
Later, I learned that Lao Gao was a hard-working man, his obesity was caused by kidney disease, and he lost his ability in that area, and his wife also ran away with the children and never came back, and he was alone at home. The curiosity he showed about women was purely a comfort to the soul.
3
Once, at about three o'clock in the morning, I got up to go to the toilet, heard crying in the corridor, hurried over to look, and saw someone fighting at the elevator entrance, and I immediately called the security guard. Because the headlights are turned off, the corridor is a little dim, and you can only see clearly when you walk to the entrance, there is a topless girl lying on her stomach at the elevator entrance, and there are blood marks on her body. A pair of middle-aged men and women next to him scuffled together, and the man screamed, and the woman's hair was torn. I worked with two security guards to pull the two people away from the fight, and the waitress dressed the girl who was lying on her stomach.
When I took it to the security room, I saw that the middle-aged man was actually my junior high school homeroom teacher, a very decent and strict teacher. He was visibly shocked when he saw me and asked me how I was working here. I said I was just working as a holiday worker, preparing to repeat my studies next year.
Seeing this, his wife shouted excitedly: "It turned out to be your student, let the students look at their teacher, who is a people's teacher on the surface, but he actually broke his shoes behind his back, wrapped his second wife, and lost his face, student, you must do a good job of publicity, so that everyone knows and knows your teacher's face." ”
The teacher covered his face and let out a long sigh.
After a while, the manager came, he checked the girl's wounds, asked about the general situation, and then called someone to go to the monitoring room to adjust the monitoring, and then asked whether the matter was public or private.
Neither woman spoke, and my teacher said, "You can do it." ”
Later, the teacher disappeared and has not been heard from since.
4
One night, a woman came in, dressed very fashionably, with heavy makeup, like a broad lady. A lot of big bags and small bags were lifted, it should have just finished the goods, and I didn't catch the night bus and had to stay in the hotel.
There is a small commodity market in our county, which is the largest wholesale and retail distribution center for small commodities in Northwest China.
Small commodity markets
I helped her carry her things to the room, and then told her to lock the doors and windows, and watch out for the electrical appliances. She thanked me very much, took out a twenty dollar tip, stuffed it into my pocket, and took my hand and shook it. I bowed in gratitude and withdrew.
At night, she came knocking on my dorm door, saying that the TV in her room wouldn't turn on, and asked me to see what was going on. I followed her to the guest room, but she closed the door with her backhand.
Her hair was wet and she had obviously just taken a shower, and I asked her if there was anything wrong with the TV and if she needed help. She took my hand and embarrassedly asked me if I could accompany her, she was very lonely outside.
Where did I have this experience, I hurriedly withdrew my hand and said, "Auntie, I didn't do this." I'm still a student. ”
She was reluctant: "Little brother, don't call me aunt." I'm just over 40. Not too old. You accompany me, I will give you money, you can ask as much as you want. How much do you earn as a waiter? ”
I shook my head awkwardly and kept explaining that I really didn't do this, that I was working time and that I couldn't leave my post or the boss would fire me. As I spoke, I stepped back.
She took three steps and two steps to follow, grabbed me and didn't let go, and said incoherently: "Little brother, don't go, just stay with me for a while, my sister is in good shape." You can do whatever you want. ”
I was under 18 years old at the time, and it was the first time I experienced this kind of thing, and I was scared and shy, and I blushed and apologized, and explained that she still held me and asked me to play with her. I had no choice but to call the front desk, find the foreman, and escape.
Later, I locked myself in my dorm room and didn't come out all night. For days after that, I felt like I had really committed a crime, and I had a psychological shadow.
5
Hotel service: What I am most afraid of is that the guests are sick in the middle of the night.
Once, three guests came in the middle of the night, and the two of them staggered into the room with a middle-aged man in the middle. I turned on the lights for them, helped the drunk man to bed, and changed his shoes and socks.
At about four o'clock in the morning, suddenly someone was shouting in the corridor and shouting at the waiter, someone was dying, help. I woke up from my dream and got dressed in a panic. It just so happened that Lao Gao and I chatted late that night, and didn't go back, so he gave me courage. We ran to the guest room, and it was the drunken guest, who was lying on the ground foaming at the mouth, his body shaking like an electric shock, and his two fists clenched tightly. I was just about to call the front desk to call an ambulance, and Lao Gao said, "Don't be afraid, it's the sheep who is crazy (epilepsy), who made him drink, doesn't this cost people's lives?"
The two guests looked at each other and said that they were also ordinary customer relations, who knew that he had this disease. Besides, he doesn't drink much.
Lao Gao seemed very calm, he picked up the man, and said to me: "I pinched others, you kicked his legs, kicked the point, and it passed in a while." ”
Lao Gao stroked a few times and pinched the man's man, and I was frightened and overwhelmed. Lao Gao scolded me for not being able to get dog meat on the table, kick my legs quickly. It dawned on me that I kept kicking the man's calf. After a minute or two, the man let out a sigh of relief.
Lao Gao threw down the man and said, "Okay, it's okay." Fill him with saliva and let him sleep. ”
The next day, those guests made a special trip to visit Lao Gao, brought him cigarettes and wine, and thanked him a thousand times. The old man was very nervous, and criticized the man for daring to drink because of his illness, and not to die in a small way? The man only said resignedly: "It is also a last resort, and it is not an example, and it is not an example!"
And so it was, but then something happened that became a nightmare for the rest of my life.
It was a mid-August day, and the weather was extremely hot, and the wind from the electric fan was hot. I can't wait to peel off a layer of piña, but the hotel has a rule that I must wear work clothes during work hours.
At about ten o'clock came a scrawny young man, with an ugly face, like Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings". When he entered the room, he asked me if the hotel had called for morning service, and he was going to catch a car at half past seven tomorrow. He must be woken up by seven o'clock.
I said, "No problem, I'll knock on the door at 6:50 p.m." ”
He said fiercely: "Okay, tomorrow I missed the car, take you and ask!"
At that time, I felt very uncomfortable in my heart, and I had to be murdered to serve others, which was very undignified.
I set the alarm clock and knocked on time the next day. But after knocking for a long time and no one answered, I remembered that he said last night that he couldn't wake up and asked me, a little scared, and after thinking twice, I still opened the door with the public key.
The moment I entered the door, I screamed in fright, the body was on the bed, the head was on the ground, the body was white, and the floor was full of used needles and needles.
Needles and needles
I called out to Mr. a few times, but he didn't respond, I squatted down and pushed him, and he was cold and stiff. That's when I realized he might be dead.
I called security and called the police. When the police came, they cordoned off the room, conducted an inquest, and I was called in to record a statement. It was later concluded that the man had died of a drug overdose.
Because of the death, that room hasn't been rented out for a long time.
Afraid that I would be frightened, my mother called me a few times, and my father also asked Mr. Yin Yang to wipe my "evil qi" with yellow paper, hoping that I would not be haunted by evil spirits.
In less than three months, I not only earned enough for tuition, but also experienced many things that I had never experienced before. The hotel is a condensed society, there are all kinds of things, all kinds of people, I have seen a lot, and I have learned a lot.
I finally got out of there when school started.
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