The small barber shop has a small face, and the walls are covered with newspapers tightly. In the middle, a small iron stove burns dry coal. The warm old man in the whole room is reading a newspaper in front of the window wearing reading glasses. When he saw Guo Degang leading Lin Ziwen in, he put down the newspaper and asked them to sit down.

Lin Ziwen sat on a small fire pit that was more than 30 cm wide by the wall. He suddenly felt warm under his butt, and the cold air in his body seemed to have dissipated halfway. It was comfortable and comfortable. Guo Degang asked Lin Ziwen: "Tell me, what happened in the cold weather and asked you to come to me specifically?"

Lin Ziwen was about to speak when the aunt selling bean sprouts outside shouted: "The fish seller, someone wants to buy fish."

Guo Degang quickly stood up and walked out, and said to Lin Ziwen: "You sit for a while, wait, I'll talk about it after I sell this scale."

It's a cold day, and there are only a handful of fish that can be sold a day. Guo Degang hurriedly ran out, not wanting to miss the business. Lin Ziwen saw the old man with a haircut and was focused on the newspaper, so he didn't chat with him, and put his feet in front of the stove to cook the fire.

The shoes were roasted until they were hot, and Guo Degang didn't come in either. Lin Ziwen sat for a few more minutes. It was estimated that he could sell more than ten scales at this time. There was no movement outside. Is there anything wrong? Lin Ziwen stood up and lay down on the window and saw that Guo Degang's fish car was still there, and the iron scale was pressing a sack to cover the fish, but the person was gone

Lin Ziwen greeted the old man with hairdressing and went out to ask the aunt who sold bean sprouts. The aunt said, "I just bought a few swordfish and left. Xiao Guo stood for a while and said something was wrong, and then ran in the direction of the man."

"What are you doing?" Lin Ziwen wondered in her heart, threw her empty schoolbag onto the wheelbarrow, and ran in the direction the aunt selling bean sprouts pointed out.

Running to the end of the market, Lin Ziwen finally found Guo Degang, and saw him squatting in a corner where no one was around, his shoulders twitching and crying silently.

"Xiao Guo, what's wrong? What's wrong?" Lin Ziwen ran over a few steps, pulled Guo Degang and asked.

Guo Degang sobbed a few times, wiped his face with his sleeves, opened his mouth and wanted to speak but didn't say it. He squatted on the ground and wanted to continue crying. Lin Ziwen pulled him up with great force, and said angry and said, "Master, what's the matter, crying like this bear, and not saying it's useless. I'm very capable, how can I go? Go to the hotel next to me to sit first, I'll treat you to some meal."

Guo Degang stopped crying. He just wiped his face with both hands and burst into tears. He was so cold that he felt so painful when the cold wind blew. He quickly put his hands into his sleeve and heard Lin Ziwen say he wanted to go to the hotel next to him. He stepped back and prevented Lin Ziwen from pulling it in.

"Go in and warm up first, sit down and say if you have something to do." Lin Ziwen was tough and dragged Guo Degang into a small restaurant.

The waiter in the small restaurant just saw Guo Degang squatting there and crying. He called the proprietress to watch the fun through the glass of the door. Seeing Lin Ziwen pull Guo Degang in. The proprietress wanted to greet the guests, but she didn't know what to say.

Lin Ziwen directly lifted the curtain of the small room next to her, pushed Guo Degang in first, then took out twenty yuan from his pocket and stuffed it into the boss's hand and said, "Go and fry a few hot dishes for me, boil a pot of white wine, please hurry up and ask your little waiter to send a pot of hot tea here first. Don't stand there after that, go to the kitchen to help, we have something to say."

Seeing that the child was speaking in a stern manner, the boss did not dare to neglect, he nodded repeatedly and hunched the waiter to the kitchen.

Lin Ziwen entered the single room. Guo Degang was sitting in the small fire pit inside, his eyes staring at the greasy tablecloth on the table, and he didn't move or speak, Lin Ziwen thought that this little Guo must have been very excited just now. Fortunately, he was about to bring him good news, hoping that he would be happier in a while.

Sitting on the kang next to Guo Degang, Lin Ziwen didn't say anything. After a while, the waiter brought the tea in and left. Lin Ziwen picked up two teacups and poured them all over and put them on the windowsill to cool down.

"Xiao Guo, I heard that your unit has changed its leader, and you were suspended from work in a few days to reflect on it?" Lin Ziwen asked.

Guo Degang was stunned, nodded without saying a word, Lin Ziwen asked again: "How much is a month's salary when you work at the unit?"

Guo Degang didn't look up, and his answer was very small: "Salary subsidies and other things are all calculated. It's about 170 or 80 yuan and is now suspended. There is only 30 yuan a month for living allowance."

"How much can I earn every day during the period of selling fish?"

"Maybe, I can earn ten dollars a day when I am too much, and I can save money when I am too little. Now it's cold now. Business is not good. This week, I haven't earned ten dollars in total." Guo Degang sighed vigorously, and the expression on his face seemed to be like the resentment accumulated in his chest could never be revealed.

"I didn't say anything, when will I let you go back?" Lin Ziwen took the tea on the windowsill and handed it to Guo Degang a cup

Guo Degang sighed again, Lin Ziwen frowned when he looked at him, Guo Degang said, "At the beginning, I thought, after writing the inspection, I handed it in, and gave me some gifts, and I will be able to go back in a few days. Who would have thought that before I found out where the leader lives, my colleagues in the unit told me quietly that someone had replaced my position, but the brother-in-law who came to the leader is now full, and the suspension of my job was not lifted. It seems that he wanted to drive me away."

Lin Ziwen was silent for a while. I guess the leader was fearless, otherwise who would dare to use power for personal gain so obviously? It seems that Xiao Guo’s job is about to be lost. "Then they can’t stop for you all the time. Even if you are at fault, you won’t fire you? Where can they drive you?"

Guo Degang said: "I asked someone to explore the news. Someone asked me to give me more gifts to my leader. It is probably impossible to reinstate the job. I guess I can be transferred to another position. But my family is so poor. Ziwen, you know that this gift may have to be given two months' salary. I don't want to do it anymore. Although it is not as good as a purchasing agent, I work hard and can earn a year's salary in a summer. I plan to save some money for a few years and rent a small storefront to do business."

Seeing that his emotions gradually stabilized, Lin Ziwen pulled the topic and said, "Who did you chase after just now? Why did you cry when you ran here?"

Guo Degang was silent for a while, lowered his head and rubbed his face hard with his hands. After a long time, he raised his head and said frustratedly: "I was cheated just now and lost more than 20 yuan at once. I have only made such a little money in the past half month, and I was taken away by that bastard all at once."

More than 20 yuan is nothing in the eyes of nouveau riche like Lin Ziwen. But for people like Guo Degang who died, have no relatives and have no reason, and have just paid off their old debts and are unemployed, but more than half a month of food costs, but Lin Ziwen knows that the reason for such a big blow to Guo Degang is not entirely due to the more than 20 yuan. It mainly comes from the pressure caused by unit, life, and future pressure on him for a period of time.

"Xiao Guo, isn't this awkward thing? What did you think when you chased that person just now?"

Guo Degang's eyes widened as if they could spit out fire: "I had no other thoughts at that time, and I just wanted to kill him and die with him, that bastard."

"How did he lie to you just now?"

"Well... he picked up a few carp first and asked me to weigh it. After calculating the price, he gave me a fifty-year-old. I didn't have enough change to find it, so he wanted to pick up two fish and buy a few less of them with your change. You know, I would earn less money by selling less one fish. I said I could go to someone else to find the whole money. When I borrowed twenty dollars from someone else and asked him for the change, he took it to count and said, "I remembered it, my pocket.

There was change in it, and then handed me the change I found, and took more than six yuan from my pocket to me. I gave him the fifty-year-old one, and he left." Guo Degang was excited when he said this, and took a sip of tea and continued: "I put the fish in my sack and covered it with a sack. When I went to find the meat seller who borrowed me to pay back the money, the money in my hand couldn't match. The meat seller saw that I counted the money several times, and when he asked what happened, he said, "I was skewed by someone."

Lin Ziwen interrupted and asked: "Have you been scattered with money? What is scattered with money?"

"I don't understand either. The meat seller said it after I realized that after he took the change I asked him, he took away a few pieces from the middle while counting them and returned the remaining money to me. He then took more than six dollars from his pocket to give me the money. The fifty one was called "Single money" Guo Degang said angrily

Lin Ziwen understood: "Oh... In the end, he bought the carp for more than six yuan and returned it to him for fifty yuan. He took more than twenty yuan out of the change you found.*** This kid is so scammed." Lin Zhiwen seemed to have seen this trick on an anti-fraud program on CCTV. At that time, Lin Zhiwen was still thinking after watching it. Sometimes the buy is indeed more important than selling. If you have a calculating or not, anyone may be cheated.
Chapter completed!