1999

Once the main chassis is settled, the next thing to do is to find a way to fix the display.This was not difficult for Wu Jiusheng. There are [-] or [-] factories in Pingxiang that specialize in electronic displays. After all, some of the spare parts on the production line failed to pass the quality inspection and found someone with channels. You can buy it at a very cheap price.

His fellow villager who works in the display workshop introduced him to a man named Simao, who is a relative of the head of the production department's hometown. He is not usually in the factory. He mainly helps the administration to connect with some peripheral buyers who want to buy electronic feet. fee.Wu Jiusheng knows that electronic foot waste is a fertilizer business, and those who are not related to the factory leaders generally cannot get it. He also knows that the sales from the production department are only for group wholesale. Get a substandard product, but the fellow villagers must take him to meet this person.

When he saw Si Mao, Si Mao was drinking in a private room with KTV in the most upscale living street.After hearing his reason for coming, Simao also showed a lack of interest, but he didn't immediately refuse to drive him away.The fellow countryman introduced him in a strange way, emphasizing Wu Jiusheng's current work unit.Si Mao also confirmed it once, and asked him if he was making semiconductor chips or if he was in the workshop for soldering and plating chip frames, Wu Jiusheng replied yes.Si Mao pondered for a while, and asked someone to bring a sales list to Wu Jiusheng. It was full of refurbished models that were processed as spare parts. They were wholesaled to companies in Huaqiangbei that specialize in parallel imports, and they were only sold at a discount of the market price.Wu Jiusheng didn't care about brands, he just picked the cheapest one.But Simao didn't agree right away. He asked Wu Jiusheng to agree to a condition of his own, to help him introduce the leader of the production management team of their production workshop. Friend, gave it to him.

Wu Jiusheng was a little puzzled. He was familiar with the leader of their production management team. He was an old worker in the workshop who had just been promoted at the beginning of this year. He had lived in the same dormitory with him. Similar, he is very decent and warm-hearted. It is said that there was a girlfriend in my hometown, and I just broke up after more than a year of long-distance relationship.

But that also made him worry. Ever since the team leader and his girlfriend had an affair, he was not in Pingxiang every weekend.

To the west of Pingxiang is Dongguan. There is a shuttle bus every half an hour in the factory area to take people to the bus terminal. From there, you can take a Golden Dragon minibus to the nearest bathhouse/city in Dongguan for 25 yuan.When it comes to bathing/city, most people know where it is. Wu Jiusheng wanted it, but he had never seen it with his own eyes. It is said that the group leader’s favorite recently is a bathing place called Huanxiyuan. In addition to bathing, there are also hourly rooms. They stayed overnight, stayed for two days, and returned to the dormitory on Sunday afternoon, waiting for work on Monday morning.Wu Jiusheng didn't know where to find Huanxiyuan, but if he waited until he came back to find Simao by himself, it would have to be delayed until next week, and he would have another week of free time in the middle of the night. Can continue to be bored to death.He is not a very patient person. He originally wanted to buy a cheap monitor with a few hundred yuan online, but after adding up the one-month deposit and rent paid in advance, he has already paid out more than 1000 yuan this month. The internet fee is fixed at 4000, and the meal costs 15. After the computer is ready, he wants to connect a network cable. Although the network fee is 10 to [-] a year, it can save him from going to the Internet cafe every month. He will talk to Huda again, and he also wants to install a separate air conditioner for the small room he lives in, otherwise it will be really hot, too hot, and his room still has a western sun, every time he takes a shower Within half an hour, my whole body was sweating profusely, and I couldn't sleep at all. Every morning when I woke up, my body seemed to be rotten.All these costs add up to nearly [-] yuan.He goes to get off work every month and always ends at the right time. Although absenteeism pay is not deducted, there is no overtime pay either. After deducting taxes, there is not much money left.Besides, the factory only pays wages on the [-]th of every month, and he has to pay the rent on the [-]th, and he has to leave the rent for the next month, which is really tight.Although Wu Jiusheng's usual habit of being extravagant might save him this trouble, but now it seems that a few hundred dollars for a monitor is still money, and it can be worth a month's worth of his cigarettes. The batch of monitors in the store, after refurbishment, must be of better quality than the cheap ones on the Internet, no matter how I think about it, it is still more cost-effective to get it directly from him.

Thinking of this, Wu Jiusheng gave up his plan to go shopping online, and went back to the Jiujiu BBQ guarded by Hu Da for the time being.

It was still hot in the barbecue for a long time.Huda is very stingy. Usually when there are no customers in the store, he doesn’t even turn on the electric fan. He just moves a stool and sits at the door, blows the draft that occasionally blows through the hall, takes several baskets by himself, and puts a pile of vegetables on the table. Where to pick it, and sometimes use bamboo sticks to thread meat skewers by yourself.When Wu Jiusheng walked into the shop, Hu Da was just making preparations. The shop was so hot that the smell of meat was so strong that Wu Jiusheng choked and coughed.He knew that there was actually an old-fashioned air conditioner in the room where Huda himself slept on the second floor. He originally suspected that Huda would secretly turn it on every night when he was asleep, and turn it off quickly when he got up in the morning until something happened. One day, the heat was unbearable, and I wanted to go to Huda's room to enjoy the cold air, only to find that the air conditioner in the room was not working.Huda said that it broke down last summer, the circuit was not stable, and there was a thunderstorm again, and it burned out for some reason.He didn't think it was a big deal not to have an air conditioner, so he just left it unrepaired.

Sometimes Wu Jiusheng felt that Hu Da didn't live like a human being.No matter how poor he is, he at least has a store, and when he collects the bills, he is called the boss, obviously there is no reason to be so frugal everywhere.Moreover, Hu Da doesn’t entertain, he doesn’t watch TV or surf the Internet, and he only has the cheapest Android phone that costs less than 1000 yuan. Wu Jiusheng can’t even use it to play card games. Alipay and WeChat are also used when receiving and paying.Wu Jiusheng imagined that if he lived like Hu Da, he would go crazy the next day.He can't stand it if he doesn't listen to a song or play a game with his mobile phone. For him, life is to keep trying new things. There are so many new things in this world, so many lively and beautiful things, and many things are considered as consumption by him. I can't afford it, I can't enjoy it, but even if he takes a look at it and understands it, he will feel happy and feel that staying in this land is a joyous thing.Because of this, he sometimes felt uncomfortable seeing Huda's living condition, and he sighed more in the long barbecue than he had sighed in the first half of his life combined.

When Hu Da heard the exaggerated lament of the other party, he could imagine that childish face who wanted to pretend to be mature. He didn't speak or move, and continued to do what he was doing, until suddenly his hands were on the table in front of him. After clapping three coins, Hu Da raised his head and heard Wu Jiusheng's voice saying hello:

"Drink your bottle of soda."

He watched Wu Jiusheng walking towards the back kitchen shaking his head, and when he came out he was holding a green glass bottle of Sprite in his hand.Wu Jiusheng put the bottle of soda at room temperature into the freezer at the door for him, took out a chilled one from the freezer, and opened the bottle cap with a screwdriver.

Huda raised an eyebrow.Ice cold soda is one yuan more expensive than normal temperature soda. Every time Wu Jiusheng uses the normal temperature soda in the store to exchange it for the frozen one in the freezer. Now, Huda has nothing to lose by doing business.Hu Da knew it well every time, but never said anything, and let him go.

Wu Jiusheng inserted a soft straw into the bottle and sat next to Huda's kebab bench with his hands on the table and started to drink.He doesn't stand or sit, and he likes to bite the pipe when he drinks soda, so that he squeaks when he drinks it.On weekends, the living streets in the factory area are so quiet that they seem to be haunted, and there is no business in the red light district.It is a rare day when you can go out for a while. Few young people will continue to stay in the town. Most of them will go to the customs or nearby cities to go shopping in shopping malls, buy some clothes, watch a movie and so on.Wu Jiusheng originally wanted to go too, but he was delayed because he wanted to see Simao, and he missed the shuttle bus at noon, and if he went to the city now, he would not be able to catch the bus back at night. Accommodation in the city is no better than in the town, One night's hotel money can cover him staying here for a month, and once he misses the time, he won't even think about going to play for a weekend.Wu Jiusheng missed it, and now he regrets it to death.

"Hey, Uncle..." When you're bored, you don't even enjoy drinking soft drinks. Wu Jiusheng has no choice but to talk to Hu Da, who is the most boring in front of you, "Have you ever been to Dongguan? Is it fun?"

Huda glanced at him.

"I've been there. It's so close, no one has ever been there. It's just fun. There are several gardens, there's a national forest park, and there's a museum. Lin Zexu banned smoking."

"Hey, who asked you if this is fun." Wu Jiusheng clicked his tongue, "I heard that there is nothing else in Dongguan, only those places are the most fun."

Huda frowned upon hearing this.

"Which places are those places?"

"Oh, it's not just those places," Wu Jiusheng said, winking and leaning towards him, "I heard from them that the crackdown has lasted for several years, and they are all listed as XX massage steaming, XX foot bath center , In fact, they are all doing the same business, as long as an acquaintance takes you there, they can call you Miss. Uncle, tell me the truth, have you ever been there? Is it fun?"

Hu Da stared at the young man's obvious expression for a while, and the corner of his mouth was slightly lowered, forming an arc carved with a knife.

"Why? When you get older, you start to miss women too?"

"How is it possible!" Wu Jiusheng retorted frankly, "I'm not interested in those things, it's boring, I might as well use my hands." He swayed his five fingers in front of Hu Da, Hu Da couldn't He smacked that hand patiently, and a little putty stood on Wu Jiusheng's hand.He snorted in disgust, and took a napkin from the tissue bag to wipe his hands.

"Stinky boy, what are you talking about?" Hu Da was still teaching him in a rough voice.

"It's true! It's such a long way to go, and it takes an hour to go back and forth. If you waste all your energy, wouldn't it just be a good ten minutes? I'd rather spend my time watching movies, playing games, and reading online novels. How happy."

Huda laughed.

"Just for ten minutes? Is that you?"

Wu Jiusheng pursed his mouth, obviously unhappy.

"Well, you like to talk or not, make fun of me, you old people like to brag, I read it online, the average level of Chinese young men is ten minutes, more than half an hour It’s called ejaculation disorder, it’s a disease! If you don’t want to tell me, I’ll ask someone else!”

"Hey, come back!" Hu Da suddenly roared, and stopped the young man who stood up and was about to go out the door, "You will be regarded as a pervert if you ask such a straightforward face to face. But, what is there to say, if you ask others, they won’t tell you everything, if you really want to tell you, that’s what you just said, it’s definitely bullshit.”

"Really?" Wu Jiusheng gave Hu Da a suspicious look, then went back to the table and sat down, looking at Hu Da who was obviously hesitant to speak with burning eyes.

"Well, I've been there. But that's it. It's not as exciting as you think, let alone fun." Huda sighed and said as if resigned to his fate.

"Really? What's it like inside?" The young man regained his energy immediately, his eyes wide open, like a student who is concentrating on asking for advice humbly.

"Just... go into a locker room, there are rows of lockers inside, you go in to find your own locker, the key you hold has a number on it, and the clothes are all prepared in the locker, and after you change it, you can buy it from another locker. Go out the door, there are rows of rooms, enter the room according to the room number on the number plate, and there will be a corresponding girl inside. Any service you want is agreed in advance, and the foreman will come to you for any temporary added items afterwards. You have to pay separately."

It was a matter that normal men yearn for, but Hu Da said it was really boring, and Wu Jiusheng frowned when he heard it.

"that's it?"

"That's all," Huda replied. "What else do you expect?"

Wu Jiusheng didn't know either, so he didn't continue to ask.Fortunately, he didn't continue to ask, otherwise Huda wouldn't know how to make it up.Hu Da had indeed been to the place Wu Jiusheng mentioned, but he only went there, and he had not really enjoyed the service inside. The friend who took him there back then originally wanted to help him find a girl to break the restriction, but Hu Da himself He was so nervous that he found a hundred unreasonable reasons and ran away.At that time, Hu Da didn't know why he was able to hold back, until later, by chance, he figured out the answer in a random place.It turned out that it wasn't that his concentration was so strong that ordinary people could bear it, it was that he didn't feel attractive at all.

Huda also went to the bathing pool, but it was not the kind of bathing pool that young people in the factory area went to by Golden Dragon minibus.In addition to those places, there is also a special kind of bath in this world, collectively known as men's baths, which only provide services for men.Going in to take a bath is still second, mainly to meet the special requirements of some people who can't see the light.

Huda is one of their customer groups.He likes men.

It's just that there are not many such special baths, and they are all opened in specific places. The factory area is remote, and it is not easy to go there once. Huda has been very abstinent in the past few years, and has not been there for a long time.

Wu Jiusheng on the opposite side saw him and stopped talking for a long time, knowing that he had chatted to death again.He shook the empty soda bottle in his hand and let out a Sprite-flavored burp.

The young man's skin was very fair. Huda saw the ups and downs of the Adam's apple on his neck, turned his face and lowered his head, swallowed a mouthful of saliva calmly.Seeing that he was getting closer, and his meat skewers were almost dressed, Hu Da wiped his hands on the rag, patted his trousers, stood up, and asked Wu Jiusheng, "Are you hungry? Are you hungry?" Have a meal?"

"Don't eat." Wu Jiusheng replied bluntly, and then his stomach "gurgled" by itself.

Huda froze.

"Really don't you want to eat?" He asked again, "There are still some fried noodles and fried noodles in the store. I will break two eggs, and you and I will finish the leftover side dishes from yesterday. This meal will not be charged. your money."

Unexpectedly, Wu Jiusheng still shook his head.

"Don't eat." He said firmly, and looked back at the back kitchen of the barbecue shop with disgust.

It’s not that he dislikes that Huda’s kitchen is not clean. If he really wants to talk about cleanliness, he can’t find a place where he can sit down and eat with peace of mind. At least he knows that Huda doesn’t use waste oil for cooking, which is pretty conscientious. that's it.What he disliked was Huda's habit of washing vegetables.When the vegetables are bought, they are washed in a large sink. After washing, cut them up, and put them in a large basin for stacking.But the weather is hot, and the leaves of the vegetables are easy to wilt, so Huda usually adds a basin full of water to soak the vegetables in a large basin.Although he didn't really come into contact with a place like the toilet, every time Wu Jiusheng passed there, or went to the toilet to urinate by himself, he always had the urge to vomit.So he resolutely refused to eat the meals made in Huda's shop, rented his house and slept for so long, and never ate it once.

Huda followed his gaze to the corner of the wall and understood what he meant.

With a full face of disgust, he pushed the big iron plate containing the meat skewers into the lower layer of the freezer and put them in place, walked into the kitchen cursingly, pulled out a separate small plastic basket from under the stove, and pulled out a small handful of fresh vegetables from the plastic bag , rinsed in the sink.

"Ha Bao, I know poverty is important."

He scolded people while washing the vegetables, but he still took out the leftover dried rice noodles and bean sprouts from the refrigerator, turned his head and shouted at Wu Jiusheng, "Damn it, I washed it fresh for you, do you want to eat it or not!"

Wu Jiusheng was still not at ease, so he poked his head into the kitchen to look around, then stretched his brows, hurriedly jumped over to rub Huda's shoulders and back, and said to him: "Eat, eat! Clean up now!" I'll eat the fried ones! It's agreed, I won't be charged!"

Hu Da just wanted to turn around and shoot him on the forehead, but Wu Jiusheng had already run away.

He ran out of the back kitchen and jumped up the stairs one step at a time.He still remembered that he had promised Huda that he would fix the air conditioner for him, since he couldn't play this weekend, he might as well do it now.

He opened Huda's door and leaned over the edge of the balcony outside the window to feel for the air conditioner on the wall.The air conditioner was fixed behind the signboard of Jiujiu BBQ on the second floor. Wu Jiusheng quickly opened the pipe and unplugged the connection cable of the machine in twos and twos.

It was very sunny on the balcony, and the room was even more stuffy. After returning to the room, Wu Jiusheng sweated uncontrollably. The sweat dripped all over his eyelashes, and fell into his eyes in the blink of an eye. It was salty and uncomfortable. , he wanted to replace Huda’s air conditioner with a new thermal fuse, and he kept blinking to block his vision, so he simply lifted up the clothes on his upper body, wiped the sweat on his head, threw it away, and started working shirtless Come.

When Hu Da came upstairs with two plates of steaming fried noodles and chopsticks, what he saw was the naked, sweaty back of a young man.

The old-fashioned air conditioner has been disassembled, leaving only a shell and a bunch of parts.Huda felt dizzy just looking at it.

"You can repair it, but if you take it apart and can't put it back together, you'll have to pay me!" He shouted at the young man's back.

Wu Jiusheng raised his hand to wipe his sweat.

"Come on, you are an antique thing, if you don't have me, you can only sell it as scrap iron. Today I will let you see what it means to turn decay into magic."

When the young man spoke, he was still concentrating on assembling, his eyes were not looking at the person who threatened him to lose money just now, but there was a sense of complacency in his tone that his tail was about to go up to the sky.Huda knew that it was impossible for him to turn his gaze around, so he held the plate, stood beside the young man and smiled silently.

The young man's hands are very dexterous. Just by looking at them, he can imagine the flexibility and agility of those hands when processing products on the assembly line.Wu Jiusheng is actually a very smart person. If he didn't love to play like this, he would endure more hardships and plan more for the future. Hu Da is almost sure that he will get better opportunities within a few years and save a lot of money. A sum of money will settle down the trajectory of life from now on.Too bad he doesn't do that.In fact, Hu Da didn’t know why young people indulged in such a playful life. Even if he was still young, and he was not in a hurry to think about major life events in the future, his parents would not let his son who went out to work so casually. Spend as much as you have, and you must try to persuade your children to save as much as possible.

He never asked about Wu Jiusheng's family situation, and Wu Jiusheng didn't say anything. Thinking about it now, he might have been too careless.

Thinking about it, Hu Da put Wu Jiusheng's plate of fried noodles on the bedside table and put it on the bedside.After Wu Jiusheng continued to work for a while, the circuit board was basically installed. He was really hungry, so he temporarily put down the tools in his hand, and picked up the plate to eat fried noodles.

The two of them ate a meal very quietly and quickly, and basically didn't stop to talk in the middle.

After Wu Jiusheng finished eating, just as he put down the plate, he picked up the parts on the ground and stuffed them back into the machine as they were.Hu Da took the empty dishes and went downstairs to wash and wash. After cleaning everything up, he returned to the second floor. The young man had basically restored the air conditioner to its original state.

They worked together to install the hanger back into the groove of the wall, connected the power supply, and turned on the switch. After the first few minutes of buzzing, the air conditioner started to run, and a long-lost cool breeze came through the fan blades, like a clear spring. In a hot and humid room like a steamer.Wu Jiusheng's face was flushed with heat, and he kept on the air conditioner, unwilling to move, and let out sighs of satisfaction.

Hu Da originally wanted to persuade him not to get so close, as the wind blowing like this would cause headaches, but the young man's unrestrained voice fell into his ears, and he took a look at the young man's flushed face, and quickly looked away.

"Uncle, let me fix it for you." Wu Jiusheng said with a smile.

Huda nodded.

"It counts that you have some skills."

Wu Jiusheng turned his face, and took his arm flatteringly.

"Uncle, Boss, for the sake of sweating and working hard, let me stay in your room for a while, it's too hot outside."

Huda hadn't thought of rejecting him.The young man did fix the air conditioner for him, so it is understandable to want to cool off for a while.It’s just that this is his own room after all. Huda looked at the young man covered in fine sweat, and wanted to tell him to go back to his own room, change clothes and have a good rest, but he had tried it before and knew that the structure on the second floor was ventilated. The door, the air-conditioning will go to no one knows where, even if the air-conditioning is turned on, it is still hot. If the young man wants to cool off, he can only close the door and stay in his own room.

The bed was the bed where he lay down and slept every night. The young man was a young man with his upper body uncovered, so it shouldn't be a big deal, but from his point of view, he always felt that there was something awkward in his heart.

But in the end, Hu Da didn't say anything, just nodded in acquiescence.

The young man got the answer, and as if he was about to receive an amnesty, he almost jumped up and down three times in joy, and collapsed on Huda's bed as soon as he stretched out his hands.

"The air conditioner is so comfortable..." Until Huda opened the door and was about to go downstairs to start a business, he was still sighing desperately.

"I have to start the stove in more than an hour, and you have to close it for me before the store starts evening business at four o'clock, do you hear me!" Before leaving the door, Hu Da told him like that.

Wu Jiusheng shook his arm and gave him an OK sign.

It was four o'clock in the afternoon, and the people who took the shuttle bus from outside the factory to play during the day all returned to Pingxiang by the afternoon shuttle bus.The Life Street, which had been peaceful for a day, suddenly became lively again, and people began to enter the store to order food and barbecue.Hu Da turned on the hanging fan on the wall on the first floor. When he was close to the base of the wall, he could still hear the roar of the air conditioner from upstairs. He also knew that Wu Jiusheng must have not turned off the air conditioner as agreed.He leveled the red-hot coals and warmed them at the bottom of the stove, then went up to the second floor and returned to his room.

The young man on the bed fell asleep peacefully. Because he was naked and in the air-conditioned room, he frowned slightly and fell asleep in a curled up position, looking like a malnourished chick who was lost and left behind.

Hu Da stood by the door and hesitated for a while, but still gave up the idea of ​​waking the young man up.For some reason, he didn't turn off the air conditioner, but just lowered the temperature, picked up a towel quilt from the foot of the bed, and gently placed it on the young man's body.

Wu Jiusheng's sweaty forehead hair was completely dry, drooping dryly on both sides of his forehead, casting a gentle shadow on that immature face.

Huda stretched out his hand, fiddled with them like stroking the mimosa, exited the room, and closed the door behind him.