He had only been collecting scraps for a few days when this inexplicable incident of being beaten, arrested and compensated occurred, which made Chen Long extremely depressed and uncomfortable. The debt of 8,000 yuan seemed to fall from the sky, and there were also hundreds of yuan in violations.

Modified tricycles are subject to transportation penalties for over-height and overweight... The key is that the tricycles are required to remove the illegally installed batteries, which prevents them from traveling to collect scraps, and the income from this job will be greatly reduced...

Also depressed and uncomfortable was Old Man Shen. He had only taken Chen Long in to help him out of good intentions, but he didn't expect it to be a waste of help... Such an incident happened, and he was unjustly saddled with a huge debt.

, and he was also implicated...

When he came back from the police station after handling all the matters, Old Shen tried his best to comfort Chen Long. Of course, Chen Long also repeatedly assured him that he would work hard to collect scraps and make money, and first returned to him the more than 3,000 yuan he had given him.

Then repay the five thousand yuan on the IOU... Old Man Shen said that he believed in him and would not ask him to pay back the three thousand yuan first. If he was in a hurry to pay the five yuan IOU, he should pay the other IOU first. The key is that his wife must not let him do this in this matter.

You know, otherwise it will lead to unnecessary questioning and quarrels...

In the past few days, the waste collection has been carried back and forth by hand pushing a tricycle. Not to mention it is a lot of hard work. The key is that the movement has been seriously slowed down, so the money earned has been much less. This is not the way to go!

It was already noon when Chen Long came back with a cart full of scraps. When he returned to the area near the shantytown, there was a short uphill road. Chen Long used all his strength to slowly push the cart up. If it had been before

Whenever the old couple sees him, he will run over to help push him, but today he did not see the old couple. However, when a young woman sitting outside the shack door saw this, she immediately got up and walked over quickly to help him push from behind the car...

"Thank you, thank you..."

When he pushed the car and parked it near the shantytown, Chen Long was so excited that he thanked him repeatedly.

"You're welcome, you're welcome, it's just a push." ​​The woman smiled at him.

"Are you...are you here to see Uncle Shen and Aunt Lu? Are they not here?"

"Oh, Aunt Lu is my aunt, and I am her niece. My uncle drives a tricycle to collect scraps, and my aunt goes to the vegetable market to buy vegetables... You sit down and wait for a while, and then weigh your tricycle when they come back.

Scrap it." The woman said and brought a chair to Chen Long.

"Thank you. I won't sit down. You can sit down." Chen Long said, pointing to the faucet beside the shed, "I'm going to wash my hands..."

"Well, then please do as you please." The woman always looked at him with a smile.

Chen Long walked to the faucet, no longer caring about the woman's presence. He quickly took off his old clothes that were soaked with sweat. He turned on the faucet and rinsed the clothes thoroughly. He wrung out the water and used it as a towel to wash the clothes all over his body.

I wiped off the sweat... washed my face and rinsed my hands and feet repeatedly before turning off the faucet, wringing out my clothes again and hanging them on a bamboo pole next to me.

Then he went into his makeshift bed in the shack to look for clothes...

I found my upper body clothes and was about to put them on when I saw a woman walking in from outside.

"What's going on? Do you live here?" the woman asked curiously.

"Oh. This is my temporary residence. Your aunt and uncle took me in." Chen Long answered her.

"Oh, I see, I thought you were coming in here for a reason." The woman said and quickly backed out in embarrassment.

After putting on his clothes, Chen Long walked out. After washing and resting for a while, he felt much more comfortable. He began to put down the waste items on the tricycle and sort them into categories.

At this time, the woman was sitting on a chair nearby and watching Chen Long.

Chen Long was busy sorting and categorizing waste items. His curiosity made him occasionally look up at the woman. Only then did he notice the woman's appearance and clothing...

She should be about the same age as him, wearing a long dress with beige flowers and pale white crystal sandals. She has no accessories on her newly trimmed short hair that is slightly dyed red, which makes her look even more energetic when compared with her round face.

The shining golden jade pendants in her ears and a silver chain hanging around her neck fully showed her noble temperament...

Noticing that Chen Long looked up at her from time to time, the woman felt a little uncomfortable and embarrassed, so she stood up from the chair, walked to Chen Long and carefully squatted down to help him sort out the waste items: "Let me help you.

Bar."

"No, I don't need your help. Such a dirty job will get your hands and skirt dirty." Chen Long looked embarrassed and quickly stopped her.

"It's okay. It's boring to be idle anyway. I just need to be more careful." The woman insisted.

"How can I be so embarrassed... Then I'll thank you first."

"Don't be polite. Let me introduce myself. My name is Lu Tingting. I live in K City, Province F, where my aunt lives. I have been in this provincial capital for less than half a year, so I am not very familiar with it." Lu Tingting was the first to speak generously.

Introduce yourself.

"Oh, it's so nice to meet you. Let me introduce you too. My name is Chen Long, from G County in this province. I came here much later, not even a month ago."

"Haha, we are all new here, so let's make friends. We will look after and help each other in the future."

"Okay, but you should be much stronger than me. If you want to take care of me and help me, maybe I'm counting on you more."

"It's a joke. How can I, a weak woman, be as strong as you, a grown man? But I'm quite puzzled. Why don't you, a handsome young man, do a better, easier and cleaner job? Why do you have to do this?

What about a job like collecting rags that doesn’t make much money?”

"Hey, who wouldn't want to do a job that is easy, clean, and profitable? But I can't get along with it."

"What's going on? No one is stopping you from doing it, right? Unless you don't want to do it or have some special reason...can you tell me?"

"You're right, I don't have my ID card. It's hard to find a job wherever I go without my ID card."

"Why don't you have an ID card? Lost it? Can't you just go back and get a new one?"

"Sigh... I lost it not long ago. Let's go back and do it after the weather gets better."

"Oh. Why did you lose your ID card so accidentally! That's right. It's hard to move around without an ID card. It's inconvenient to do anything, let alone find a job!"

"Have you found any job that is more profitable than collecting rags and does not require an ID card? Introduce one to me. Just like the mutual care and help mentioned just now, I need your help now."

"This...let me think about it." Lu Tingting thought for a moment, "For example, those who deliver express delivery, food delivery, and part-time hourly jobs, such as dishwashing and sanitation in hotels, and water and electricity maintenance,

Moving and stuff like that... I think there are a lot of jobs suitable for you men!"

"Haha, thank you very much for giving me so many good work suggestions at once. Let me make a judgment. Those who deliver express takeout must have a car and be very familiar with the provincial capital. I know a little about water and electricity maintenance, and these are all at home.

I did it myself. Moving requires strength, which I have...but I still feel like I need an ID card. The key is that I don't even have a mobile phone right now..."

"Oh, I thought of one, setting up a street stall to shine shoes!" Speaking of setting up a street stall to shine shoes, Lu Tingting's eyes seemed to light up, "You know, because my education is low, in the first two months when I came here, I was everywhere.

I didn't find a suitable job. Later, I saw that the shoe-shining business on the street stalls was quite good, so I tried to buy some shoe polish and tools and went to the streets to set up street stalls with others. Haha, guess what? Every day

I can earn over a hundred dollars!"

"Then why didn't you do it later?"

"Because I later found a better job. However, although I could earn some money by shining shoes, it was quite dirty and tiring. Sometimes I felt that the work was quite lowly and I felt I was being left behind..."

"Then what good job did you find?"

"This is my current hospital escort job. I went to the hospital to see a doctor when I was sick, and accidentally discovered that there were some serious illnesses in the hospital. The family members of special patients always find someone to accompany them and take care of their relatives... Although this kind of job is also very difficult.

The working hours are tiring and long, but the pay is quite high..."

"Really, then you can introduce me to do this kind of escort work in the hospital. I'm not afraid of getting tired, and it doesn't matter if I work long hours. As long as I can make more money, I can do whatever you ask me to do!"

"Haha, you're not going crazy thinking about money, are you? Well, I'll do some research for you when I go back to work in the hospital. This kind of job doesn't come around all the time. You just have to come across it. Also.

, some patients are difficult to care for, some patients’ family members may not pay high salaries, and some patients’ family members may be very picky and dislike you for this and that for others... Recently, I met someone who has never been offended... Sigh,

If I don’t say it anymore, I’m afraid you won’t be able to bear it and won’t dare to do it.”

"It doesn't matter, I can bear it. I'm just a big boss from the countryside. I'm just a boss. I'm someone else's boss." It's normal for me to be scolded if I don't do well in my salary..."

"Haha, it's easy for you to say it. If you do it if you have the chance, you can really feel what it's like! Sometimes, I really want to set up a stall on the street and shine shoes to earn money and be free...

…”

Chen Long and Lu Tingting were chatting happily while sorting the scraps. At this time, Old Shen was driving his tricycle filled with scraps, and Aunt Lu was carrying a few bags of Qingrai and other things bought at the vegetable market.

Later came back.

Seeing that the person was back, Lu Tingting stopped helping Chen Long and followed her into the shanty kitchen to cook with her aunt.

Old Shen parked the car and came over to help Chen Long sort the scraps. After a while, Aunt Lu went out to the door of the shanty and shouted to Old Shen: "Old Shen, come back, I have something to talk to you about!"

Old Shen looked over, reluctantly threw down the scraps in his hands, and followed his wife back to the shanty.

"How much money do you have now?" the old lady asked the old man as soon as he entered the shanty.

"What do you want the money for? Is it for Tingting?"

"You don't care who I give it to!"

"Why are you such an old woman! Why do you pamper your Tingting so much? Every time she comes to ask you for money, you give it to her, and you don't ask her how she spends the money! She always has her own

Work, why can’t she even support herself?”

"How come you, an old man, are talking about my children like this!... She really wants money to treat her children this time. If she doesn't give the money back quickly, her children may not even be alive!"

"The last time I asked for money, I asked for money to treat my child. The same thing happened every time! It's been so many times and it's been so long. I'll die sooner! She asked you for money just to spend it on yourself and treat your child."

Illness is just an excuse!"

"No way! I won't give it to her directly this time. I have to go to the bank in person and transfer it back to her home. That's okay. Otherwise, you go with me! Just now she also directly videoed me to watch her being treated in the hospital.

The child is sick. He is so seriously ill and pitiful..." the old lady said, tears welling up in her eyes.

"I don't have any money now. I just spent all my money on collecting this junk car."

"How much does it cost to collect this car of junk? Don't lie to me! ... If I don't have it with me, then I'll go to the bank with you to get it, and I can transfer it to her house on the way, so you won't say I spent it on her.

"

"I dont go!"

"You don't want to go? That's okay, just give me your bank card and I'll go by myself!"
To be continued...