Mu Chen

35. Heavy snow

[-] was a dividing line for the xx factory. In this year, this star enterprise that everyone flocked to in Shicheng suffered a loss for the first time.

The factory manager Tang has been transferred away. Although the new factory manager understands the market, he is facing various problems such as backward products, low production efficiency, redundant personnel and shrinking sales, etc., which cannot be reversed for a while.

The factory started to set up a market research team and a product research and development department. At the same time, it streamlined its cadres, mobilized older workers to buy out, retire internally, and lay off temporary workers... These series of actions set the factory in motion, but it was inevitable that people would panic.

Lin Lan has been in the factory for the sixth year. Originally, there was an unwritten rule in the factory, that is, temporary workers who have worked for five years can be transferred to full-time employees as long as they perform well.

For this goal of becoming a full-time employee, Lin Lan has been working hard. No matter how sick she is, she fights with Yu Jianguo until she can't get out of bed, and she is reluctant to take a day off. This is for the bonus, but also for the good record.

But last year, it was really five years, but the factory was closed because of poor profitability.Now that there is a talk about dismissing temporary workers, Lin Lan was a little frightened for a while, only when she heard any news, she became extremely anxious.

At this time, not only could Yu Jianguo not be able to help, but seeing her anxious look made her even more irritable, and the two of them quarreled more frequently.

Even if it wasn't noisy, one was drinking and the other was silent in another room. The house was eerily quiet, as if a bigger outbreak was brewing.

January 1996, 1 was a Saturday, the first day of the twelfth lunar month according to the lunar calendar, and it was also Yu Yong's birthday in the lunar calendar.

Yu Yong was born on January 1986, 1.But the Yu family didn't have the habit of celebrating their children's birthdays, and the Mu family only celebrated birthdays in the Gregorian calendar.Although Mu Chen also celebrated children's birthdays in the past few years, they were all on the Gregorian calendar. Mu Chen said that the lunar calendar is hard to remember and easy to miss, but Yu Yong's simple birthday made him very happy, and he didn't care if it was the old Calendar or Gregorian calendar.

But birthday is when Mu Chen cooks a delicious meal for the child, and sends a small gift or something to make the child happy.

Inheriting the Mu family's birthday tradition, Mu Chen would ask Yu Yong to invite his friends to celebrate with him at first. Of course, in order not to embarrass the child's parents, Yu Jianguo and his wife were not invited, but Mu Chen Unfortunately, in the past few years, Yu Yong has never invited anyone.

Ask him if he has no classmates he wants to invite?Yu Yong actually said that he didn't want others to know about Brother Chen, and was afraid that Brother Chen would be snatched away, which made Mu Chen dumbfounded and warm at the same time.

On the 20th, there was a heavy snowfall that Shicheng had never seen in the past few years.Although Shicheng is located in the northwest, the coldest time in winter can occasionally reach minus [-] degrees, but overall it is not particularly cold, at least as soon as you enter the house, it is warm, unlike the south, where the indoors are much damper and colder than the outdoors.

Lin Lan had a rest that day, and Yu Jianguo was on the afternoon shift.It was fine at first, but when Lin Lan babbled again during lunch that she hadn't caught up with the good times, and was about to be fired before she had time to become a regular, Yu Jianguo felt annoyed for a while.

In fact, when there was a rumor at the beginning, he searched for everyone he could.The entrusted person also said that he would try to help as much as possible, saying that Lin Lan has been performing well does not necessarily mean that he will be fired.

He has repeatedly told Lin Lan about these situations, and he also said that even if he is really fired, he can find something to do outside.Anyway, their house is also allocated, the factory is getting worse and worse, and the wages of temporary workers are not high...

He even planned to ask Muwen's factory if he wanted someone. The two have been getting along well in the past few years, and Muwen's factory has been developing.

He also told Lin Lan about this, but Lin Lan insisted that the xx factory is a big state-owned enterprise, and Mu Wen's small factory can't compare with it: even if the xx factory collapses, the workers are also managed by the state. If Mu Wen's factory collapses, she can Who should I ask for reason?

No left or right, no matter what.Lin Lan kept on talking like this day after day, and Yu Jianguo's little patience was exhausted long ago.

The weather was very dark under heavy snow, and Yu Jianguo was not a very emotional person, and generally he would not affect his mood because of bad weather.

But seeing the only pot of noodle soup on the dining table, the sloppy house and his wife buzzing like flies, he still couldn't help being irritable and dropped the bowl, and began to yell at Lin Lan to take a break Don't know how to clean up, cook a good meal, just nagging endlessly...

But Lin Lan, who was terrified in her heart, not only did not get the slightest comfort, but faced with such indifferent accusations, she was even more aggrieved to the extreme.She immediately ridiculed that it was Yu Jianguo's incompetence that made her so worried. If Yu Jianguo could really find someone to help her, she would have become a regular last year...

Yu Yong left the dining table when Yu Jianguo threw the bowl, stood aside, saw his parents starting to quarrel, and quietly went out to Mu's house.

He had the key to Mu's house a few years ago. In fact, he usually lives in Mu's house a lot, especially on weekends.They had classes in elementary school for five and a half days, and Mu Chen was already a high school student, and he had to attend classes for six days.He usually stays at Mu's house on Saturdays.

The factory also implements a weekly rest system, that is, six days a week and five days a week.But Yu Jianguo doesn’t have any weekends when he works shifts, and he can take any days off during his shift. Lin Lan has weekends, but she doesn’t have the consciousness of “cooking a delicious meal at home on weekends and cleaning the house well”, it’s all very normal. the past.

On the contrary, Mu Chen, because he only has one day off in a week, he will cook some big dishes on this day, such as beef sauce, elbows and so on, which makes Yu Yong look forward to it.

Mu Chen said that he was going to see Grandpa Mu this week, and on Saturday Mu Wen would pick him up directly from school and return to the village.

Originally, it was because Yu Yong had no one in Mu's family that he returned to his own home, but now he encountered a dispute with his parents.But now, he has long been used to these routine noises, and he has learned to slip away in time when the situation is wrong. The most important thing is that he has a safe haven, so he won't be as scared as he was when he was a child.Of course, he doesn't even care.

He didn't know to what extent his parents were arguing.It was only later that I heard that because of a sudden power outage in the factory that afternoon, I got off work before 6 o'clock, and Yu Jianguo did not go home. He had been drinking in a small fry shop until the shop closed at [-] o'clock in the evening.Once I went out, I never came back.

This is a shop he often goes to. According to the shop owner, he was worried that he would go home alone in heavy snow. Instead of letting him ride a bicycle, he walked to the gate of the community with him before leaving.

But when sanitation workers found Yu Jianguo the next day, he was lying on his back on a snowdrift that had been swept up during the day by the side of the road, and the wind that blew up at night covered him with a thin layer of snow.

This location was more than 100 meters away from the main entrance of the community. No one knew what state he was in. Instead of going home, he went out again.

Muchen knew about it after receiving a call from Liu Xiaogang at ten o'clock in the morning. Several close classmates all knew the number of his hospital.

Mu Wen was also taken aback when he heard about it, and hurriedly drove back to the family area.He arrived at Yu's house first, but there was no one there, so he drove to the funeral home.

The trade union had already rented a small auditorium, but they didn't see the body, only Lin Lan was almost crying to death.The elder sisters were persuading something, while Yu Yong was standing on the side blankly, wearing a coat that someone gave him.

Mu Chen's heart throbbed suddenly, he ran over quickly, and hugged Yu Yong.

Yu Jianguo is a big man in the north, Lin Lan is 1.6 meters tall, Yu Yong is only ten years old, and his height is nearly 1.5 meters. Mu Chen held the child tightly in his arms, and spoke incoherently, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, brother is here, don't be afraid , baby, don't be afraid..."

Mu Wen, who was following behind, suddenly remembered the first time he saw Yu Yong. It was Lin Lan who was crying, and a group of people were persuading him. On the side, unconsciously sighed in my heart.

Fortunately, this time Mu Chen was here, Mu Wen saw that Mu Chen had already unzipped his down jacket and wrapped Yu Yong in it, so he went to the side to ask an acquaintance about the situation.

It has been rumored that Yu Jianguo was drunk and froze to death.The news spread very quickly in a small place, not to mention the terrified screams of the frightened sanitation workers.

The theory of dismissing temporary workers has long been very specific, and the couple's quarrels have never been avoided.In addition, the small fried shop is also a long-established shop for several years. The owner who was called by the police station to ask about the situation in the morning was also greatly frightened. Zhengxiang kept telling the people around him like Mrs. Lin:

How did Yu Jianguo drink all night, how he couldn't persuade him, Yu Jianguo said he could go back by himself, but he was worried, he had already sent him to the gate of the community, he didn't know that Yu's family was in Which building, if he knew, he would definitely send people to the door of the building...

So what happened was quickly pieced together.

The auditorium is not big, and Mu Chen has already heard several people saying that Yu Jianguo looked too miserable, too miserable, his body was frozen hard, he couldn't put it flat at all, he was carried on the stretcher on his side, and he couldn't press down with one leg turned up …

Thinking of how much Yu Yong has listened to, Mu Chen felt very distressed.He was very disgusted with the behavior of adults who only sighed and did not avoid children, but he was powerless to stop it.He didn't see Mu Wen again, so he wrapped the child and slowly moved to the farthest corner, wishing he could cover his ears so that he wouldn't hear anything.

I don't know how Yu Yong got the news. He was only wearing a sweater, no coat, a pair of cotton slippers on his feet, and he didn't even wear socks.Looking at the pair from his own house, it should have been at his house at the time, Mu Chen felt annoyed, why he didn't come back last night, and how did the child face these things alone.

He didn't dare to ask any questions, but wrapped the child completely in his coat and hugged him tightly.

After a long time, he felt that the sweater on his chest was wet, and the wet spots were getting bigger and bigger, and his heart was cold.

Yu Yong still didn't make any sound, but his arms wrapped around his waist tightly, his small body began to tremble slightly, and Mu Chen's tears flowed down all at once.