This story happened in the last century, and it was a strange thing that happened to Lao Zhang, a neighbor.
Time went back to the early 1980s, the spring breeze of reform and opening up was in the ascendant, and the national economic situation was very good. As a technical backbone in the city’s steel plant, Lao Zhang was often very busy. . But he didn’t feel bitter at all. According to his words: “I am a piece of socialism, where I need to move.”
Although Lao Zhang has a serious work attitude, he is careful. I can’t rub a grain of sand in my eyes. Because of this, Lao Zhang had an unpleasant relationship with his neighbor Lao Liu. The alley where Lao Zhang’s family lives is a dead end. Lao Zhang lives in the last one. Next door is the family of Lao Liu, the logistics director of the same factory. Lao Liu’s father left early, so Lao Liu took his old lady over to live with him. The old lady’s surname is Wang. Everyone calls her Granny Wang. She is about seventy years old. She has gray hair and a rickety waist. She wears coarse cloth clothes all day long, and she looks weak and windy. But in fact, Mrs. Wang is not dazzling or deaf, with sharp legs and feet, she opened her mouth and looked at her. The teeth of each mouth are sturdy and durable, and she can’t see the old age.
The old lady Wang lived in the countryside as a child and lived for decades. She moved into the city and was uncomfortable. She yelled that the city was too quiet to hear the cock and dog barking. I don’t sleep well, and I think the vegetables bought on the market are not fresh, and they are not as fresh and fragrant as the water they grow at home. After complaining for a few days, the old lady couldn’t help but toss herself. First, I took bamboo strips to build a chicken coop at my door, and raised several chickens, and then piled up a small vegetable garden with bricks on the other side, and planted some peppers, spring onions, leeks, etc. In this way, Mrs. Wang was at ease, and she found the feeling of her hometown in the countryside.
Granny Wang is comfortable, but Lao Zhang is not happy.
Because of work, Lao Zhang often worked overtime until late at night. He worked all day in front of the red boiler. He was sweating and he didn’t want to go home. , I just want to get a good sleep in bed. But since Mrs. Wang opened a “chicken farm” at the door of her house, Lao Zhang has never slept a full sleep. Every morning at four or five o’clock in the morning, Lao Zhang was sleeping soundly, and Grandma Wang’s cock began to crow and announce the dawn. Over there, Mrs. Wang woke up refreshedly amidst the cock crowing, but Lao Zhang was tossing and awake on the bed, and the cock croaked into Lao Zhang’s ears like a knife!
Lao Zhang has contacted Lao Liu several times for this, and asked Lao Liu to pay attention to the ethics of his neighbors. Lao Liu didn’t care, and dismissed Lao Zhang in a few words: Everyone came from the countryside, and was used to cock crows since childhood. Why, after living in the city for two years, he couldn’t hear the cock crow? The words made Lao Zhang flushed with anger. In fact, Lao Liu did this deliberately. Who made Lao Zhang grab his place when the unit evaluated the advanced title some time ago? Now Lao Zhang was anxious and shouted to find the old lady to settle the account. Lao Zhang’s wife Xiaoxia hurriedly grabbed Lao Zhang, persuading forbearance and forbearance, you and someone an old ladyToo common knowledge to make people laugh? Lao Zhang had to hold back his temper. In other words, if the pressure accumulates for a long time, it will erupt. No, in a rainy night, Lao Zhang’s temper can no longer stand. Like a volcanic eruption, he quarreled fiercely with Mrs. Wang.
It happened to rain heavily that night. In June, the rain was very urgent and fierce. The heavy rain made life hurt. Lao Zhang was so busy that he got off work until almost 12 o’clock. The road was slippery and he didn’t dare to ride his bicycle. Zhang pushed his car and walked home under the pouring rain. He finally walked to the entrance of the alley. Zhang just wanted to relax. , Suddenly slipped underfoot, and even fell to the ground with his car. Lao Zhang struggled to get up from the ground, ignoring the pain and grinning, he hurriedly picked up the bicycle that had fallen to the side. This bicycle was a rare object at the time. Whoever can own a bicycle is much more stylish than driving a car now. Lao Zhang spent only a year to buy a permanent brand. He treats this car more than he does. So he took a piece of cotton cloth dipped in motor oil to polish and wax the bicycle. After buying this car for more than half a year, he bought a new one. same.
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Lao Zhang helped the bicycle up and looked at him, he was dumbfounded: the head of the car fell out of shape, and the handlebar fell into a diagonal line; The paint was rubbed off on his body, revealing a silver-white skeleton; the leather seat was cut open, revealing an ugly white filler. Lao Zhang was stunned in the rain, as if he had lost his soul. Suddenly, Lao Zhang caught a glimpse of Mrs. Wang’s vegetable garden being washed down by heavy rain, and muddy water flowed all over the ground. This caused Lao Zhang to slip to the ground and break his car.
With a roar, Lao Zhang leaned his bicycle against the wall, flew up and knocked over Granny Wang’s chicken coop. For a while, there was the scream of a chicken in the sound of rain. sound.
After this quarrel, Lao Zhang and Lao Liu are considered to have settled. Although they were neighbors who looked up and looked down, they pretended not to see them whenever they met. Someone from the unit mediation did not make any progress. The female director who was so angry to persuade them to scold the two people for not being revolutionary.
Time flickered and more than a year passed, and it was midnight in the summer, Lao Zhang dragged his tired body and rode a permanent card home. There was a technical problem in the steel plant that night, dozens of tons of molten steel could not be poured out, Lao Zhang and his colleagues had not figured out what was going on for a long time, and he was overwhelmed with anxiety and sweating profusely. When he left work, Lao Zhang only felt a fire in his head, his eyes, mouth, nose and tongue tumbling outwards.
Lao Zhang rode his bicycle to the entrance of the hutong and saw this old lady sitting under the street lamp at the entrance of the hutong. She was wearing a good half-sleeved coat and swaying a fan in her hand. In enjoying the coolness, it was the old lady of the old Liu family.
Lao Zhang snorted, thinking that he didn’t go home in the middle of the night and sleep outside. Why? While thinking, pushing the bicycle into the alleyway, he raised his face and pretended not to see it.
Walked a few steps to the door of Lao Liu’s house, Lao Zhang