Chapter 3: Mother
Soon, the resignation was completed. Because it was a private company. Li Mu suddenly resigned like Li Mu, who did not get the salary last month. However, Li Mu didn't care. He was so pleased.
After leaving the company, Li Mu picked up his mobile phone and checked it out. Then he bought a plane ticket to SX Province.
Li Mu planned to find his mother. Li Mu's mother is a woman named Li Mei. She is 47 years old this year. Li Mu's father is a son-in-law, so Li Mu follows his mother's surname.
Six years ago, my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. The family, which was originally a little money, was also penniless in an instant. He even owed some foreign debts. In recent years, my mother has been working on the construction site and brushing paint.
Although the foreign debt has been cleared, there is no spare money at home. So Li Mei is still working. She works hard for Li Mu's future RV.
Li Mu, who got on the plane, was thinking about how to explain to his mother how to suddenly become rich and how to convince his mother, a woman who had worked hard all her life, to come to Rongcheng to enjoy life with him.
Although I want to become richer when I have money, Li Mu looked at the string of zeros on the transparent screen and did not change the idea of becoming richer. I guess no matter how rich you are, you can only do this.
If this number is placed in the bank, it will be interest. It will never be used up in this life. What Li Mu is thinking about now is how to reduce this number. Li Mu has already raised 10 million to his card.
But the number on the screen has no need to drop by one except for the number changing. Twenty-four digits. What is this? Li Mu doesn't know how to compare it. Anyway, he should be richer than anyone else now. None of them.
After getting off the plane, Li Mu took a taxi directly to the construction site where his mother was. He looked at a deserted construction site. Apart from the dust and some big trees without leaves, there was only a building wrapped in a green protective net.
As soon as he got off the car, Li Mu stepped down and was covered in dust. Li Mu estimated that it was about half a centimeter thick. Because there was a lot of wind in SX province, many times when the wind blew, the dust flew everywhere, and all the places were covered with a layer of earthy yellow.
It is five-thirty in the afternoon, and Li Mu doesn't know where his mother lives. So he can only wait in the accommodation building on the construction site.
I just called my mother, but no one answered.
But this is also common. Li Mu called his mother at any time, but he didn't answer. Then his mother would not call him at around 6:30 in the afternoon. Li Mu was not in a hurry. It was estimated that his mother would finish work in more than an hour.
More than an hour later, people began to come to the accommodation building one after another. Groups of three or five were holding cigarettes and speaking inaccurate Mandarin. This group of people had one thing in common: that is, no one was dressed cleanly.
It is either the earthy yellow color of the soil, or the rust all over the body, or the white paint or the dry concrete. Li Mu even saw that many people had a thin layer of earthy yellow color on their eyebrows.
Finally, a woman wearing clothes wrapped in white paint came into Li Mu's eyes. She was about 1.68 meters tall and talked with a few men in the same dress. She was extremely generous.
Li Mei looked at the young man with very clean clothes at the entrance of the accommodation building and recognized Li Mu in an instant. This was a piece of meat that fell off her body. How could she not be familiar with it? She walked over quickly and Li Mu also met her.
As the middle-aged woman was getting closer and closer, a strand of black hair leaked out under her hard hat. However, this strand of black hair was wrapped in white paint. There were also sporadic white spots on her face. It was also paint.
"Mom." Li Mu shouted, suddenly choking.
"Xiaomu, why are you here? Are you not at work?" Li Mei didn't care about Li Mu's expression. Instead, she asked in confusion.
"Forget it, I'm here. Come with me first. I'll change my clothes and talk later." Li Mei didn't get too entangled. Instead, she pulled Li Mu into one of the prefabricated houses in the accommodation building.
When he walked into the prefabricated room, Li Mu immediately saw four iron beds on and off the bed. Some people lived in the bed, some beds were empty, with some tools and suitcases on it. Li Mei's bed was in the innermost corner. Some suitcases were placed on the bed. There was a wire underneath, and a blanket was hung on it. It was probably when I was sleeping, I pulled it up. I couldn't see the situation inside outside.
"Xiaomu, sit down first. I'll wash my face." Li Mei did not show much enthusiasm. She picked up a plastic basin and a towel from the empty bed opposite, and then left this simple room.
"Young man, are you smoking?" asked a man about fifty years old. He was also handing a cigarette in his hand.
Li Mu did not take the cigarette from his uncle's hand, and quickly took out the cigarette from his pocket and handed it to the uncle. Now the only one of the big brothers in his room. Just as he handed the cigarette, another middle-aged man in his thirties walked in with an iron basin. He was also holding a bottle of ice beer in his hand.
There were still some vegetables in the iron basin, but no trace of meat was seen.
Li Mu quickly handed one to the middle-aged man. The man was not polite and took it directly.
"Old Hu. Is this?" asked the younger man.
"Li Mei's son. By the way, young man, what's your name?"
"My name is Li Mu." Li Mu quickly answered.
Both of them were from Sichuan and Shu, so Li Mu started chatting with them. Soon, Li Mei stepped into the prefabricated house and rubbed her hands on her hair.
Li Mu looked at this face that had not been seen after half a year. Because of the upright summer, Li Mei also took off her coat, which was a red short-sleeved inside. Because of washing her hair, the short-sleeved sleeves were also pulled to her shoulders, revealing two completely different skin colors. One side is a normal Chinese skin color, and the other half is a little dark yellow.
There are some muscles on the arms under the short sleeves, which are even stronger than those on Li Mu's arms. There are even wrinkles on his face, and his whole body is dark yellow. This is his mother.
Li Mu knew that the most expensive skin care product his mother had ever used was baby cream. As for cosmetics, you don’t have to think about it, and you definitely don’t know how to use it.
"Mom, Uncle Hu, Brother Huang. Let's go and have a meal together." Li Mu sent an invitation. Li Mei frowned, but did not refute. She was used to being frugal. Although she lived together in this small room, she basically lived her own.
But Li Mu had already said it. Li Mei had no choice but to refute it, so she had to say, "Old Hu, Lao Huang. Let's go and have a bite together. Just treat it as a welcome to my incompetent son."
After Li Mu's persuasion, the two finally agreed. Brother Huang also put down the pot of meatless food in his hand.
Li Mu learned that Li Mei, Lao Hu and Lao Huang lived in this room.
On the construction site, this is normal, some couples live together. It is not uncommon for men and women to live in the same room.
Li Mu once thought that the place where he lived was a cramped residence. But when he saw his mother's place where he lived, Li Mu felt how luxurious his small cramped residence was.
Chapter completed!