My name is Yang Sen. I was born in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, a small city surrounded by mountains. After junior high school, I dropped out of school. After working in a car repair shop in my hometown for two years, I came to the dream city of Beijing through the introduction of a former co-worker who resigned. Beijing is unexpectedly big. Everything here is big. Although I can’t see the blue sky of my hometown, the prosperous city and the dazzling modern everything attract me and make me decide to work hard for this exaggeration that does not belong to me. My fellow villager is Yang Miao. We are from the same village. There are only two of us who come out of our village to work. There are many people with the surname Yang in the village, so naturally we have the same surname. He is the same age as me and is 19 this year. We used to be good brothers when we were in the car repair shop. He was fired by the boss last year because he had a fight with the people who came to repair the car. I heard that working as a courier in Beijing can earn at least twice as much as working as a small worker in the car repair shop. It is for this reason that I resolutely abandoned my hometown and came here to join him.
Let me introduce the two of us. He is 1.8 meters tall, and I am 1.83 meters tall, a little taller than him. We are both thin and tall. According to the words of our hometown, people like us are called “sorghum stalks”. We used to help with farm work at home, so we are dark, thin and tall. Later, the villagers called us “thin donkeys”. It is impossible for both of us to be called donkeys, how to distinguish them? Later, we each had our own nicknames, I was called “Big Donkey” and he was called “Second Donkey”. The origin of these names came from when we were swimming in the small river at the entrance of the village. In the summer at that time, all the boys in the village went to swim in the small river at the entrance of the village. The river was surrounded by mountains and formed a natural barrier. Only people on the river bank could see everything in the water. So we boys naturally had no worries. From the age of sixteen, our nicknames in the village were “Big Donkey” and “Second Donkey”. Not only did the boys of the same age call us that, but the adults also followed suit. Of course, they didn’t know the reason and just thought it was because we were dark, thin and tall.
I got off the train at Beijing North Station. Ever since I became a courier, I felt a sense of belonging. After all, the money is there! An income of several thousand a month, in our place, this amount is only available to the mayor, right?
I am happy every day. Although it is hard work, I have to go to the station to collect parcels at more than four in the morning, but if I am fast, I can deliver them in half a day.
The area I am in charge of is all scattered. But it seems that the volume is not large. It is not like the couriers in charge of office buildings, some of them can make more than 10,000 a month!
However, I am quite content. Three or four thousand is not a small amount for me. Besides, a new office building has opened in the area I am in charge of, and a company has already moved in. For this, Erlu asked me to treat him to a celebratory drink. After receiving the first month’s salary, we called another young man named Wang Feng to drink together. He made more than 500 yuan! I was so distressed, but looking at the more than 6,000 yuan left in my hand, I still felt like I was dreaming.
I sent 3,000 yuan back to my parents, and I thought the rest would be enough for myself. Who knew that after half a month, I only had 200 yuan left. Everything is expensive in Beijing, everything is incredibly expensive. Chives are four yuan per catty. What a price! It’s a sky-high price! Thinking about the chives in our fields, they are not fresher than this. They can be picked at will, no matter whose ridge they are. In our place, the least valuable are onions and chives. Why? They grow fast! One crop after another. How come in the city, even onions are three or four yuan? And I only give three stalks! Another big reason for spending money is that I met a lot of new friends. As a newcomer, I have to know some people so that I can do things better in the future. Besides, our job is to work in pairs. Although I was assigned to Erlu’s group, we were fine, but if there was an urgent matter and I couldn’t leave, it was common to ask colleagues to help pick it up. So, in our industry, more friends mean more help!
In Beijing, it costs 300 yuan to invite people to dinner. Fortunately, after a meal, everyone agreed to help me. In addition, with Erlu’s relationship, within two days, almost everyone in the company knew me. This Wang Feng was a frequent guest of my rounds of drinking. He was the one who originally lived in the same room with Erlu, but was later driven to sleep in the living room by Erlu because I came. He is
the same age as us, both 19 this year, and his hometown is Baoding. He is also tall and thin, 1.8 meters, but not as dark as us. Unlike us, he shaved his hair as short as possible when he did this, leaving only this pointy top of his head. He kept his hair half-long, and he would spend the whole morning in the only toilet in the house spraying it, either making it all the way to one side or all the way up. Anyway, it was just a little hair, and he would fiddle with it all day, which made us often hold our stomachs and knock on the door in the morning to ask him to hurry up.
After we got to know each other, it was not so bad. He would do his hair, and I would go directly to the toilet to do it. There was nothing to be shy about, after all, we were all young men. But every time he saw me, he would tilt his head, stare at me with wide eyes in surprise, and shout that I was a donkey. Every time this happened
, Erlu would laugh and lean against the door and say to him, “You have never seen the world!” He would also exaggeratedly gesture the length with his hands. What he gestured was not a donkey, but an elephant! During this month, Wang Feng and I had the best relationship. Before I came, Erlu had been very good with him. Apart from work, the three of us were inseparable. Erlu was a little playful, jumping and hopping. I was not as lively as him, but I was not as dull as Wang Feng. Wang Feng is a typical person who can’t do anything. He is always cool all day long. He pulls his hair on his temples whenever he wants. He is originally white and clean, but he makes his hair look fancy. From a distance, he looks like a young girl. He speaks in a low voice. I often tease him: “Wang Feng, if you were a young girl, I would make you… /
But every time I say this, Erlu and Wang Feng don’t respond. With Erlu’s personality, he must make a joke, but he just blinks a few times and doesn’t say anything more.
I didn’t think much about it at the time, but later, I found out what was going on. From then on, Wang Feng changed his identity in front of us. !
A month later, I became a formal employee, which means the company provided insurance for me. In fact, for children like us who come from the countryside, it doesn’t matter whether there is insurance or not, as long as we pay the money. In any case, becoming a formal employee can make you stand up straighter and even ride a bike with vigor. ‘ I had delivered all the items by 3:00 pm that day. The seller told me to pick them up at 4:30. I had no work to do and thought I had nowhere else to go. The sun was scorching outside, so I decided to go back to the dormitory and lie down for a while before going to the Taobao seller.
I rode my bike to the door of the unit. The parking place was just right so I could see the window of our basement when I lowered my head. I just glanced at it and was puzzled. In such a hot day, not only did they not open the window, but they also drew a curtain. Erlu and I sometimes don’t draw the curtain at night, so why did they draw the curtain in broad daylight? I was puzzled, but then I thought, Erlu is resting today, so he must be “drawing the curtain” in the room? I was happy and prepared to scare him. I walked into the basement and a cool breeze came over me. Huh! I breathed a sigh of relief. It was so comfortable!
I took out the key and opened the door carefully, trying not to make any noise…
The hallway was unusually dark. I didn’t turn on the light, and then I found that the door of the room we lived in was closed. I laughed in my heart. So you are doing this! I covered my mouth, stifled my laughter, tiptoed to the door of our room, raised my foot and prepared to kick the door open to scare him. I knew that our door was not locked and could not be locked from the inside. Thinking of kicking it out, I covered my mouth and laughed. Just as my foot was about to fly out, I heard a sound coming from the room…
What’s going on?
I quickly put my foot down gently and stood still. I must not make any sound at this time. ‘ I know that there is no other door inside the door. I gently stretched out my hand to pry open the door. The curtains inside shone with light, dyeing the room pink. x
There was a burst of exclamations from inside and outside the room!
I spoke first: “What are you two doing!”
Erlu didn’t say anything. “I’m asking you a question? Erlu! What are you two doing!” I was a little dissatisfied. Erlu is my good friend since childhood. We talk about everything. I can’t let him hide something from me. “Come in first and close the door” Erlu… When you didn’t come, we played like this… I “Have you tried it? If you have tried it, you won’t say this!” Erlu challenged. …………
After this, the three of us were less embarrassed.
“Do you two often play like this?”
“Yes! Wang Feng is my wife,” Erlu smiled as he stood on the bed.
Wang Feng didn’t say
anything, but Erlu seemed to remember something and turned to me and said, “We share happiness and adversity. We are brothers. Wang Feng is my wife and your wife as well. He will serve us in the future!” Erlu
saw that Wang Feng didn’t say anything, so he scolded him, “Hey! You! Are you talking about us?!”
Wang Feng looked up at me with a red face, and said in a low voice, “Well, yes…”
I saw that Erlu’s attitude towards Wang Feng was not the same as the three of us together, so I hurriedly asked him, “Why are you like this? He just finished sucking, why are you still yelling at him?”
Erlu smiled and said, “What do you know? Today is just the beginner level. You haven’t tried many fun things! You are the one who has endured these days. If you weren’t here, you wouldn’t be Wang Feng! You’d be a dog!!”
“Ah?!!” I didn’t understand what he meant. .But
then he heard Erlu yelling at Wang Feng: “Is that so?!!”
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