【247】The Woman Riding a Tricycle
Garbage is often generated in restaurants. Every day, a woman comes to collect the garbage. Behind the woman, there is always a boy of six or seven years old.
Yu Fan saw that the woman was about forty years old, short and fat, with a peaceful appearance, a typical Chinese working woman. They were riding a broken tricycle with a squeaking wheel on the back.
Tricycles are used to load garbage. The garbage in restaurants is packed in advance. Women come here every day to sort the garbage and take it away. There are paper products and soup leftovers in the garbage. If you are lucky, you will encounter To the remaining unsold dishes.
Whenever the boy saw the intact leftover dishes, he would dance with joy, suck the snot into his nostrils, stare at the dishes with glaring eyes, and swallow his saliva.
Every time he saw this scene, he would think of his wolf-like younger brothers and sisters, and he would feel pity. He would secretly give the woman some cooked food when his boss or other colleagues were not around, and let her Take it home and feed it to your children.
The woman's grateful eyes and her son's happy look made him happy and uncomfortable.
Every day, women would come to collect the garbage on time before the restaurant closed. Once they arrived, they would spend an hour or so, sorting, packing, and then taking everything away. This routine was rarely interrupted and continued for a long time.
The woman's husband also collects garbage, but the garbage in this section is basically collected by the woman and her son. The woman pedals, and the son pushes behind. At night, the figure of the woman and her son pedaling on the road becomes dusk. A unique landscape upon arrival.
Both husband and wife came from rural areas. They made a living by collecting garbage in the city. They lived a miserable life but lived happily together until one day...
At closing time that day, the woman who collected the garbage and her son had not yet arrived, and all the colleagues left the restaurant one after another. Only Yu Fan could not leave. Who said that he was just a temporary worker doing chores, and he had to clear the restaurant. You can only leave after packing everything.
Because it is a restaurant, the garbage must be removed every day, otherwise there will be a peculiar smell. If customers complain, the street office, property management department, and food supervision department will come to your door and impose fines.
The woman didn't come. Yu Fan felt strange. Usually on heavy rainy days, women would be delayed in collecting garbage. They usually came on time. After waiting for a while, he saw the woman coming, but he didn't know why. She didn't. Come on a tricycle.
Garbage is usually piled up outside waiting for women to come, so Yu Fan had to go outside to see the woman hunched over sorting garbage from garbage bags in the dim light.
The woman was still wearing dark clothes. It was impossible to tell which part of her clothes was the color of clothes or the color of oil. There was still a lot of oil on her face, which lacked a shiny luster under the light.
Looking at her like this, I believe she hasn't been washed with hot water for a long time. But what's even more strange is that she came alone today, without bringing her son or riding a car. Her hair is messy, and the oil stains on her face seem to be still there. There were blood stains, as if he had fallen somewhere.
"What's the matter with you?" Yu Fan looked her up and down, "Don't you need to collect it today?"
"The tricycle broke down today. I'm going to sort out the garbage first. I'll take it away when my husband comes early in the morning tomorrow."
"Isn't that right? Before opening the store tomorrow morning, all the garbage must be cleared away, otherwise I will be dismissed from get out of class,"
"Okay, no problem," the woman replied, and then walked into the store to collect other garbage bags.
At this time, Yu Fan could see clearly with the help of the dim light. One of the woman's hands seemed to be broken. It was vertically on the shoulder. She walked with a limp. Judging from her current appearance, it was impossible for her to carry the garbage. bag.
"What did you do? Did you fall?"
"It's okay. I was just scratched by a car when I came here."
"It's dark, please be careful when you walk. It's not easy for you. It's so bad that I hurt you because of this piece of trash."
"Yes, it's not easy," the woman said in a very careful voice that sounded like she was crying.
Seeing that she really couldn't move the garbage bag, Yu Fan stepped forward and helped her drag it... Finally, he dragged the garbage bag out, picking up oil along the way. He hurriedly mopped each one with a mop, and then took it from the kitchen. He took out a package of cooked food and handed it to her and said, "Take this with you and give it to your son."
The woman lowered her head, as if hesitating, and after a while she tried to raise her head. With an unforgettable look of despair on her pale face, she looked at him and said, "Can you keep this here and give it to my husband tomorrow?"
He looked at the woman's face and listened to her incomprehensible words. A cold wind whizzed by and penetrated into his neck from the back of his neck. It was so cold that he shivered twice in a row. At the same time, at the wooden door of the kitchen, maybe The wind became stronger, and suddenly the wooden door closed with a bang, which frightened Yu Fan all over.
There were few pedestrians on the street, and the woman had been collecting garbage silently.
Yu Fan checked the store one by one, locked the door, and then went back to the inner hall to rest. This was because the boss was kind-hearted. Seeing that he was helpless, he moved a place for him in the back room of the store and put a place for him. A wire bed was provided for him to rest.
When he was about to take a rest, he turned around and looked at the woman sorting garbage under the dim light. She looked so lonely and helpless, and felt sour in his heart.
That night, Yu Fan tossed and turned in bed, unable to fall asleep. The pitiful appearance of a woman appeared in his mind for no apparent reason.
I originally expected that the garbage would have been picked up neatly when I went to work the next day. Unexpectedly, I was scolded by the store manager and asked why he didn't have someone take away the garbage last night.
Only then did he take a serious look, right? The garbage was still there, unsealed, and not a single bag was taken away. Yu Fan was angry that one month's salary had been deducted, and he couldn't help but cursed secretly: You are a Dead people are doing a lot of harm to others. You can throw me away like a dead rat and eat... eat shit. When you are angry, you throw the bag into the trash can.
In the afternoon, the woman's husband came looking disgraced. He kept picking up the trash without saying a word, with his head lowered.
Yu Fan scolded him and said, "Why are you here? Your mother-in-law came to clean up last night and then left. She didn't come by car, and she didn't take away the garbage. As a result, one month's salary was deducted from me..."
The woman's husband was completely stunned when he heard it at first. Later, with a trembling voice, he cried bitterly: "My wife died in a car accident last night. I was worried that no one would collect your garbage, so I came to clean it up. I still have to finish it." To take care of her funeral,"
Yu Fan was frightened by the words of the woman's husband. He looked in disbelief at this honest, honest man who seemed not to be lying. He was frightened for a while.
At this time, the wind blowing from nowhere blew the wooden door again and slammed it shut. The woman's husband raised his buttocks and the tricycle made a creaking sound and gradually moved away. Yu Fan looked around, He quickly ran into the inner hall, not daring to make a sound for a long time.
Chapter completed!