The municipal chemical factory that has been idle for many years is about to be developed. The people who came to pick up the scrap were blocked from the cordon by the staff, and they stared at the items they could pick up. I, who was in charge of the demolition work, witnessed t

The municipal chemical factory that has been idle for many years is about to be developed. The people who came to pick up the scrap were blocked from the cordon by the staff, and they stared at the items they could pick up.

, who was in charge of demolition work, witnessed the building being pushed down, thick dust rising, and the past was aroused in my heart.

That year, I worked as a private teacher in a village school, and my salary was only fifty or sixty yuan, and I couldn't get it to my hands in time. My family has a difficult life and owes thousands of yuan in debt. During the summer vacation, after finishing the work in the field, I thought about going out to earn some money for my family. At this time, my cousin told me that an uncle works in a chemical factory and can get fertilizers at the ex-factory price.

My cousin’s uncle is my uncle. We wanted to ask him to buy a few tons of low-priced fertilizers and transport them back to the village for sale, and make some price difference in between. I was very excited and borrowed money from my colleagues as principal and prepared to sell fertilizers. We walked more than ten kilometers of mountain road to the streets and towns and drove to the county town. When night fell, we walked into the family courtyard of the municipal chemical factory and knocked on the door of our aunt's house. My uncle hasn’t come home yet, so my aunt has received us. My aunt usually planted a few acres of land at her rural home. When she had less farm work, she came to the city to live for a while. When we met, we were naturally kind. She poured tea for us and washed the fruit. She reminded us that everything in the city is expensive and we save money when we go out. After my uncle got off work, he had social events outside, so we waited at his house. I heard from my aunt that they also opened a small shop in the street garden. We envy them very much.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, my uncle finally came back. He has a burly figure, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his black eyes rolled like abacus beads. He seemed very tired, and while making tea for him, he told him what we were going to do. He agreed readily. But after hearing the quantity we wanted, we said the quantity was a little small, and we both thought we were not arrogant. We can only smile. Then, my cousin took out the money he had prepared and handed it to him. He said that in recent days he helped others to drive out a lot of tons of fertilizer, and the indicators given to him by the leader have been used up, so let us go back and wait patiently. So we left our aunt's house with great gratitude. My aunt took us downstairs and suggested that we stay in a nearby small guesthouse, saying that it was cheap and affordable to live there. It is also close to her home, and she can cook for us. My aunt's words touched us very much.

My cousin and I walked out of the resident yard, feeling relaxed and happy, without a trace of fatigue. I thought to myself how glorious it would be if I could really get a few tons of fertilizer to transport it into the village. My cousin was more excited than me. He said that he had been suffering for a day and now he felt hungry. He said, let’s go to the night market, have two drinks and celebrate.

We lived in a guesthouse near the chemical factory, just waiting for our uncle to ask us to pick up the goods. My aunt has been to the guesthouse several times and asked us not to spend money randomly and to go to her house for dinner. We thought that if we made money by selling fertilizer this time, we must thank our aunt heavily. She is so good, and the fine morals of the women in her hometown are fully reflected in her.

Good things get a lot of hard work, we firmly believe in this sentence. I stayed in the guesthouse for two days, and on the third day, I couldn't stay anymore and went around the streets alone. I am in my twenties now, and the farthest place I go out is the county town. But every time I come, I come and go in a hurry, and this time I have to take a walk with my heart. I plan to wait until I get the money and go to the Guomao Building to buy clothes that are the same as those in the city.

When I turned to the street garden, a small shop under the building, through the glass door, I saw a man and a woman sitting in the store. The woman was young and beautiful, fashionable, and pouring tea. The man was wearing a pair of sunglasses and was enjoying the tea handed over by the woman with a delicious taste. I looked carefully and was startled, and hurriedly stopped. The man turned out to be his uncle. I walked briskly back to the guesthouse. At night, I slept in bed and had strange dreams.

A week passed, and before we could get the news of picking up the goods, we went to our aunt's house again, but we didn't see our uncle. My aunt said that he was on a business trip in another place, so we should not wait until we die. She said living in the city costs every day. I left my cousin to wait and went home first.A few days later, my cousin also went home and said that he had met his uncle. He assured him that after he recently brought the fertilizer, he personally hired a car to send it back to us.

We waited patiently at home, and we had no intention of going to work in the fields. We just hoped that our uncle would hire a car to bring the fertilizer, and imagined the scene of the villagers rushing to buy fertilizers. Day after day, the villagers who were waiting to buy us merchandise were secretly saying that we were not reliable, bragging, and secretly queuing up to buy fertilizers from the town to buy back. I saw it and didn't have the courage to stop them.

Autumn planting and autumn harvest began. I took 50 yuan for my cousin and asked him to go to the county town and urged his uncle to pull the fertilizer back as soon as possible. Two days later, my cousin came back. He said he had not seen his uncle, and his aunt said he was on a business trip in another province. Helplessly, after a few more days, I went to the county town again. When I arrived at my aunt's house, I didn't meet my elders, so I went to the small shop in the street garden, and the door was locked. I found a classmate who works in the government and asked for help. My classmate asked someone to find the sales director of the fertilizer factory and asked, and only found out that three months ago, my uncle was suspended from the fertilizer factory. The reason is that he sold fertilizers outside and misappropriated the payment for the goods. That day, I didn't know how I got home.

Later, my cousin and I went to the county town to find our uncle, but we couldn't see each other. But my aunt apologized to us repeatedly and returned part of the fertilizer payment. She also asked her son to write us an IOU and promised to pay it back as much as possible. Later, when we heard that our aunt had divorced him, we tore off the IOU written by our aunt.

With a loud bang, the last building of the chemical factory fell down. At this time, it was already nightfall and a strong wind blew in the sky. Those who pick up scraps are busy picking up all kinds of scraps. An old man with a hunchback slipped down to pick up a piece of plastic board , and I hurriedly helped him up. But his eyes that looked like abacus beads made my heart beat. I reached out and tried my best to hold him the plastic board. In the wind, he looked at me and I looked at him.

I'm sure he may not be able to recognize me, but I recognized him. (Author Tian Guangming)