My Side Job is a Trader

"It was also during the time I was hospitalized that I met an old couple. Later, the old couple helped our family again. It is not an exaggeration to call them our family's saviors."

He Cuizhen then said something that Zhang Xin did not know.

"Do I know you?"

Zhang Xin was particularly impressed with Lincheng Town where he lived when he was a child. It can be said that from the time he could remember, to the few years between going to school at the age of seven, he basically lived on a boat and at a bend in the river in Lincheng Town.

He Cuizhen thought for a while and said, "You don't know each other, do you? They are not from Lincheng, nor have they been to Lincheng.

I heard from them that the area where they are often active is Yixing City, Suzhou Province, and they only met once or twice afterwards, and it was basically your dad who contacted them by phone. "

Li Xueer interrupted: "Wow! Uncle, did your family use mobile phones at that time?"

Zhang Xin recalled: "In 1997, our family did have a mobile phone, Nokia's, with a small screen. I still remember that at that time I liked to play the Snake game on the mobile phone."

"At that time, our family's economy was much better. The mobile phone was a gift from the gas station when your father applied for a gas card. Our family refilled diesel at that gas station for a year."

Zhang Xin explained to Li Xueer: "At that time, it cost thousands of dollars to add diesel oil to our family, and it is estimated that only two or three trips to the transportation business can be made for each addition of diesel oil, which is half a month. Go tens of thousands."

Li Xueer knew a little about the price of goods in the past nine years, and exclaimed: "Then your family was still poor at that time?"

He Cuizhen said: "As you have heard, diesel fuel is a cost. Every business trip requires various visas, permits, etc., as well as boat maintenance. Calculated, a business trip can only earn two to three thousand yuan, although it is cheaper than farming. It's better, but it's just barely living, and you have to pay off your debts."

Zhang Xin quickly brought back the topic and asked, "Don't talk about anything else, Mom, you haven't said who our family's savior is?"

He Cuizhen said: "That's an elderly couple who also run the boat, but it's just a cement boat with a capacity of only twenty or thirty tons..."

Zhang Xin seemed to think of something, and quickly asked: "Have you ever sailed together in Taihu Lake, leaning on the boat? Our iron boat traveled faster. Later, we met at the exit of Taihu Lake in Yixing, and we walked together the next day." of?"

"An old couple?"

"Yes, about 60 years old. You asked me to call you grandpa and grandma when I was having dinner on our boat that day."

He Cuizhen confirmed: "It should be them. Alas, you still remember this incident. You should be only five years old at that time."

"I remember a lot."

"It's that old couple. When you were just born, our first boat sank to the bottom of the river with the boat because the bottom of the boat hit a rock. It was winter just in time to pick you up and swim to the shore when you were still a baby, but fortunately the old couple took you in and took out a quilt to wrap you up, otherwise you would have been frozen to death that year."

He Cuizhen said with emotion: "People in that era were simple and kind, and they were not related to our family. Later, your father wanted to borrow money to buy another boat, but because our family had nothing, no one was willing to borrow it. In the end, it was The son of the old couple’s family was the guarantee, and that’s how we got enough money.”

Zhang Xin said: "Then our family owes them too much. Not only did they save my life, but they also guaranteed to lend money to my dad to make a comeback. This kindness will never be exaggerated in our family's life. I just don't know about grandparents. Are you still here, are you almost eighty years old now?"

He Cuizhen said: "The two old people are still there, and they should be in good health. Your father will call every year to say hello."

Zhang Xin said: "That's great, let's visit our house sometime."

"I want to come to visit and thank you. More than 20 years have passed in a flash. If I don't go to see him, I may not be able to see him in the future. After all, I am old."

He Cuizhen said: "That's what your father and I think. When you get married and start a business, the family will drive to their house so that they can know that our family has been doing well over the years, and how much help they have given to our family? In vain."

Zhang Xin said: "At least we have to wait until the girl gives birth to the child. I hope that grandpa and grandma will still be alive and healthy by then."

As soon as He Cuizhen recalled that experience, she couldn't help but her eyes turned red. It was really hard to look back on the past.

Li Xueer sat next to her and comforted her: "Mom, our family's conditions are better now, and it's exactly what I said, it's all hard work."

Zhang Xin also said: "That's right, our family is not short of money now, Mom, when Dad retires, you can go out and visit all parts of the country while your legs are still fast, and the places where I lived when I was young, all Walk around again, and those old friends of yours will also gather together, and everyone will have dinner together."

He Cuizhen said: "This is something that must be done sooner or later. Unfortunately, several people are no longer here. Feng Laosi and Zhang Fashun are both dead."

Zhang Xin asked in surprise, "Ah? They're not as old as you and dad, right? Why did they die so early?"

"I heard from your father that both of them had cancer, lung cancer."

Zhang Xin felt a little pity, because these people liked to tease him when he was young. At that time, because the family had foreign debts and the economy was relatively difficult, they often gave him some snacks such as fruit and sugar, so Zhang Xin also had some feelings for them. impression.

Zhang Xin said: "I remember the last time I saw them was when I was in the sixth grade of elementary school. At that time, you and my dad hadn't gone ashore to work. I was taken to the boat by you for a few days during the summer vacation. At that time, you I like to show off my achievements to others."

He Cuizhen said: "Yes, how many years have passed. In the blink of an eye, your father and I have been on the shore for more than ten years. Now you are going to get married and have children. Sometimes those things can be vividly remembered as if they happened yesterday."

"Okay, don't think about the past, let's take some time someday and go back to Lincheng to have a look, and some old friends are also meeting."

He Cuizhen pushed away her job and said to Zhang Xin, "Remember to clean up the table, Xiao Xueer and I have something to explain."

While talking, He Cuizhen dragged Li Xueer back to the room for some reason, while Zhang Xin cleaned up the dining table and washed the dishes.

After finishing the work, there was nothing else to do at home, so Zhang Xin sat on the sofa in the living room, looked at the inkstone on the coffee table, and could feel the cool breath rushing into the center of his eyebrows when he held it in his hand, and he could see a two-faced inkstone through the eyes of the sky. Sanmi's aura was constantly fluctuating.

"Feng Shui, fortune teller, the placenta is buried under the pagoda."

Zhang Xin instinctively associates several things, especially through He Cuizhen's narration, Zhang Xin feels that he may not be that simple, because once it is related to Feng Shui, fortune-telling and other things, it often gives people a mysterious feeling .