"Uncle Hong, Uncle Hong, I'm here with Grandma Liu... Grandma gave it to me..." Xiaomi Li immediately poked her head out of the back door of the convenience store when she heard the shout, holding an ice cream egg roll in her hand, licking her mouth and face full of her face.

"Just take it for you! How do you say ice cream in English?" Taking advantage of the opportunity to scold Xiaomi Li, Hong Tao left the place of right and wrong in three steps and entered the convenience store.

"Don't scare the child, what else can I say about English when eating ice cream! Eat rice grains slowly, but don't dare to sip it too cold." The back door of the convenience store is in the yard, and it is also the door of the bedroom and living room of the old Gao couple. After entering, you can immediately have an intuitive understanding of what a room and half a kang is.

The room of more than 20 square meters is divided into two parts by high shelves, with a double bed, a chest of drawers and a folding table behind it. The rest are stuffed with goods, leaving only a narrow passage leading to the front.

The thin and small Aunt Liu was wearing a cleaner's orange top and lowered her head to clean up the beverage box. When she saw Hong Tao entering the house, she immediately put down her work and pulled the millet sitting on the mineral water behind her to protect her.

Her name is Liu Shufen, 50 yuan, from Zhumadian, Henan. Her wife is two years older than her and is also from the same place. Her surname is Gao. Every day, she has to go out to clean the nearby streets and alleys before dawn. She worked hard for a month and got only more than 1,000 yuan, and she didn't have to provide food. Accommodation is provided. Just in a public toilet a few hundred meters away, there is a small house of several square meters between men and women, and they have to share it with another worker.

If we really think of who was the earliest tenant after the renovation of this yard, Dave and Sherman would not be the first, and Lao Gao and Aunt Liu were the ones. When Hong Tao’s family renovated the yard, it was a bit of a big deal, which was equivalent to digging all the walls of the house and digging the foundation again. No matter how careful you are, you will inevitably disturb the surrounding neighbors.

They knew Hong Tao's urination nature and smiled on the surface, but they were really a little bit behind their backs. Dozens of bags of cement were covered well, and they were all soaked after a rain. In the middle of the night, no one knew who lifted the tarpaulin.

As long as the wood and bricks and tiles are not taken away at that time, people will not ask you if you want them. They will be less than half in one night, and there will be nothing left after a few more days.

Just take it and take it, and you have to be ashamed. In private, I passed the culprit on the cleaner who was in charge of this area of ​​cleaning. It was said that Lao Gao used his work to make things difficult for his hands and feet, and the wood, bricks, cement, and steel bars were secretly taken away for money.

In LC area, you will encounter such things every day. If you take less, you won’t say anything, but it will be too much to take and waste them. These things are also bought by money, and you will lose too much. The owner can’t explain it if you ask about it. Maybe you think the people from the engineering team have sold them.

The people from the engineering team became angry as soon as they heard this, and they were about to wait for Lao Gao to come and talk to him. Fortunately, Hong Tao happened to come to check the progress of the project, otherwise Lao Gao would have been unlucky. If the engineering team beat him up, it would be useless. The police would not find anyone even if they came.

Hong Tao didn't have to listen to everything and knew what was going on, but he couldn't let the engineering team send people to stare at the construction materials twenty-four hours a day. As the project deepened, there would be more and more materials. If you couldn't put them in the construction site, you would have to find open space nearby. Watching the piles all night wasting labor.

At this time, Lao Gao gave Hong Tao an idea, which was also a thank you to the resident for not accusing the good people. There is a garbage removal station on the south bank of Houhai. There are permanent employees in the station and a site for large garbage trucks. However, large garbage trucks do not come every day, and even if they come, they rarely stop for a long time. They usually leave after loading the garbage.

The person guarding the Qingyun Station is a fellow villager with Lao Gao. If Hong Tao is willing to spend some money, he is willing to pick up the materials with his fellow villagers to see if he can pile up the more expensive, delicate, afraid of wind, water, and pressure into the Qingyun Station first. He will not be afraid of people taking the remaining sand, stone, bricks and tiles on the construction site.

This was a great help, and Hong Tao did not forget the favor of the water. As long as he came to check the project progress, he would first find Lao Gao to understand the situation. After getting to know him, he would know Lao Gao's income and work nature, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

When they are old, they have to come out to suffer. It’s not that the children at home are unfilial, and children also have children. It’s not easy for anyone to live now. The old couple doesn’t want to drag down the children, and they want to make more money while they are still able to move out and earn more money. But in this way, they have to separate from each other. If Aunt Liu comes to work as a cleaner, they have to wait for the opportunity.

Hong Tao was also thinking about how to arrange the yard in the future. If he went out to play for a few days, wouldn’t it be a mess? I hope the tenants felt that it was unreliable and they had to have reliable eyes.

So he took the initiative to ask Lao Gao to rent his own house. If the rent is expensive, we will set up a convenience store for you to run it. We can keep the Houhai Bar Street and earn the rent back every month with our eyes closed, and the rest will be left to Lao Gao.

In addition to the fact that rent is equivalent to disguised exemption, Lao Gao also values ​​another advantage. The old woman at home can come here immediately. When she is old, she has to have a companion. With this room, she doesn’t have to squeeze into the cracks in the public toilet with her colleagues. That place is not a place for people to stay in summer.

Of course, Lao Gao was happy. After confirming that Hong Tao was really not talking about it, he immediately called his daughter to send his wife over, and did not wait until the house was built. He was a watchmaker on the construction site first, and he didn't have a penny salary. He squeezed a place in the shed during the day and stared at guarding the materials at night. The couple were stupid and could not speak polite words, so they could only thank them with practical actions.

In fact, even if the old Gao and his wife were able to do something, Hong Tao would not let them say thank you. Only three parties involved knew about this, and even their uncle didn't tell them. To the outside world, he said that Lao Gao's wife had put down the convenience store and was responsible for her own profits and losses. Hong Tao only rented the house and license, and he cleared both money and goods, and no one owed anyone.

If you don’t say that, the old Gao and his wife should not plan to be clean. Now the houses by the sea, especially the shops on the street, are full of golden lumps. Hong Tao is so kind to the old Gao and his wife, will inevitably attract all kinds of gossip. The ancients are no longer clouds, and the spitting stars drown people. When you are surrounded by such spitting stars, you can’t stand it even if you are a little thin.

"Why did you remove the good packaging?" Hong Tao didn't care about the ice cream in Xiaomili's hand, and looked at the pile of cardboard boxes beside Aunt Liu and wondered.

"The child's father came over to take away the things behind him in a while. I thought about how many things would be taken away, and I would take them away together." Aunt Liu's hometown had a strong accent. In the first two years, Hong Tao wanted to bring an interpreter. Now he is used to listening, so he doesn't have to ask questions again.

"Then you are a layman. If you knew that you had sold this way before, I would have taught you a lot. Mili, go and pull the watering pipes over. Let's save more weight for you Grandma Liu first! Aunt, don't sting these little cardboard boxes. Go and open all the cardboard boxes behind to see me cast the spell!"

These couples are standard Chinese working people. They don’t let go of any penny of money they can get with their physical strength. When they are clearing the garbage, they will take out the cartons and put them alone. After finishing the work, they will be transported home and stored in the corner behind the house. When they almost save up a car, they will be taken to the scrap station to sell it.

Hong Tao has never mentioned this for so many years. It is said that a lot of rags are piled up in the corner of the door, which makes him, a person who likes neatness, feels very uncomfortable. But when he thinks that Lao Gao is coming and going in the wind and rain, he is not afraid of being tired, and he is like an ant moving house, and he can't bear to say that he doesn't say anything.

Fortunately, Lao Gao is not a person who is more greedy and has not made a lot of broken bottles back, so he pretends not to see it. It will not be so uncomfortable to look at it.

"Oh, it's dirty, why are you doing it..." Aunt Liu didn't understand why the landlord was suddenly interested in a bunch of broken cardboard boxes, and followed behind in panic and was at a loss.

"...This, isn't this a scam?" Soon she understood what Hong Tao was going to do. The landlord opened the bundled cartons layer by layer, and used the watering nozzle to form the finest spray mode to spray water on it. He didn't spray too much, just moisten it, and did not spray around, and did not spray a few layers of the surface. After stacking and bundling, nothing could be seen from the outside, but the weight was much heavier.

"If you need to be pitted, you have to pit them. Last year, the carton box was 80 cents per kilogram, but this year it dropped to 60 cents. They are not even more pitiful? I'm right. You can't be too unruly in life, but it will also suffer if you are too obedient to the rules in this world. Look at the right time and don't spray them around!"

As soon as Aunt Liu said this, Hong Tao couldn't help but tell the truth. He lived for several lifetimes and did not experience the joy of being a good person once. Even if there was, it would be a moment and could not be continued.

If it were other tenants, Hong Tao would definitely not say these words casually. They saw and experienced them enough, so they didn’t need to remind themselves. But honest people like Aunt Liu who have spent most of their lives farming in their hometown suddenly came to the city and would have many life skills to learn.
Chapter completed!