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Chapter 15 Even if it is death, I will let you die by my side (2)
They sent two people over to negotiate, with round waists and thick arms, bald heads with tattoos, a golden dog chain hanging around their necks, walking with a splayed figure, and wherever they sat, they looked like a puddle of mud.

"Come out to hang out, earn money together, and get rich together," the man with golden chain clenched his fist and raised his thumb, and poked himself on the back of the shoulder, "I don't know if you have inquired, but this piece of land is covered by our big brother." , everyone is also very face-saving, and you have to ask him to take a look at the big and small things in the vicinity. For this project, you only worshiped the Dragon King but not the pier. You don’t understand the rules. But I can't stand it."

"Then what should we do to give you big brother face?" Lao Liu squinted at the other party with a cigarette in his mouth. He came out to socialize in his teens, and this kind of world has been seen a lot.

"It's very simple. Give up the sidewalk project, and we will negotiate with the owner."

Lao Liu knocked off the soot with his index finger, and said, "You can do whatever you want, but we have to subcontract it to you."

Of course, the Jinlian guy can't agree. The purpose of their grabbing the project is to subcontract it out. If they transfer it from us again, they won't get much money, let alone whether they can transfer it again is a big problem.But this is our territory at present, the two of them can't overturn the table here, so they declined to go back to discuss, and left in a hurry.

The next day, the other party did not come back, but only asked the middleman to send a message, expressing that he did not accept Lao Liu's plan.The intermediary persuaded: "It's better not to be too stubborn, those people have a lot of tricks, and even the government is not willing to provoke them."

Lao Liu frowned and didn't speak.

"Brother Yang, do we want to let go? I heard that these rascals are very unreasonable, and they will definitely grab the project they fancy." Xiaomeng asked privately.

"I don't know, it depends on what Lao Liu wants," I said, "However, we have ready-made personnel and machinery, and we have to deal with board and lodging ourselves. It would be a pity to abandon this project."

After dark, Lao Liu asked me to take a walk on the seawall. Countless windmills were slowly turning in the night, the red lights on the top were constantly flashing, and the windmills were propelled by the wind blades, making a huge roar.Old Liu took a puff of his cigarette, and the end of the cigarette suddenly lit up, reflecting his troubled face, and the blue smoke he exhaled was blown away by the sea breeze.

"Little Lu, do you know why people climb up?" he asked.

I said, "For fame and fortune?"

Old Liu chuckled, and said: "Of course fame and wealth are good things, but look at those bosses, they earn tens of millions, even if they want to eat, drink and gamble, they can't spend it. Why continue?" ?”

"No one thinks too much money..."

Lao Liu sighed: "Maybe we don't know what it's like to have too much money in this life, but we know how hard it is to live with too little money. The more people are at the bottom, the more difficult it is to make money. So we have to go up Climb, climb an inch higher, the probability of being stepped on the shoulder will be less, otherwise even the flesh around your mouth will be snatched away."

I roughly realized the intention of Lao Liu's emotion, but I still didn't take the initiative to point it out.

"This convenience project can be done or not, and it will not affect our main project, but it is a private job, and the profits can be freely distributed by us. Between doing it and not doing it, it is a sum of money for our personal income. It’s a huge difference.” Lao Liu shook his hand vigorously and threw away the cigarette butt, “I don’t like to hand over opportunities to others, but Lao Feng is getting older and timid, so he is not willing to grab it, it depends on your intention now gone."

I looked at the cigarette butt rolling in the sea breeze, and thought of those two men with gold chains, and it was hard to make a decision for a while.

"Should I secure a five-figure figure this year, or go all out to get a six-figure figure, you should think about it carefully." Old Liu beat the side drum leisurely.

"Fight." I said.

"Have you thought about it?"

I nodded, "Yeah."

"Okay," Lao Liu took out two more cigarettes, handed one of them to me, and said, "Since it's been decided, then you go and say hello to the people below, and let them get ready, and don't worry if something happens. Back off, anyone who is fucking cowardly will get out of here early."

He seldom smokes for others, let alone light them, but when he pushed the flame of the lighter in front of me, I took it for granted.At this moment, I no longer wondered about the meaning of his cigarette, nor was I afraid of those hooligans wearing thick gold chains. I just thought about the handle of a coal shovel that was just broken the day before yesterday-it would soon be my closest comrade-in-arms.

"I'll make arrangements now." I said as I walked towards the prefabricated house where the workers lived.

"Little Lu," Lao Liu called me again.

"Ok?"

"This kind of thing is commonplace for our engineering workers, so don't have psychological pressure," he paused for a moment, and then said, "I don't know what will happen, maybe there is nothing, maybe it will happen more than I expected. Oops, if you really can't keep this project, then don't force it."

"Oh." I continued walking.

After all, Lao Liu is the boss. He pursues the maximization of interests, but he is also afraid of unbearable consequences.In the event of a disability accident, the parent company we are affiliated with will be downgraded, and we will also be held accountable. Maybe we will lose the chance to survive together.

His fingers were pinching the string, on which was a feathered arrow, aimed at the prey, and that prey was the ration of all.There was no turning back when he opened the bow. The moment he decided to let go of his fingers, there was no room for hesitation or retreat.

"Do it!" Half an hour later, the men's shouts almost lifted the roof of the prefabricated house.

It was a rare clear day by the seaside that day, all the windmills stood still, and four muck trucks drove up the long circular seawall, raising dust like billowing smoke from burning straw.The hooligans blocked the only access to the construction site with muck trucks, carrying wooden sticks, steel pipes, and even machetes in their hands, arrogantly claiming that the road would be closed if the project could not be completed.

They didn't brag, they didn't even get in the van that brought us water and food all day and night.Our cook wanted to go to the town to send living expenses to his son who was going to college, but was also stopped by the hooligans. The cook argued hard, but was slapped several times.

He is from the East China Sea in northern Jiangsu, where people are famous for their toughness, they can endure hardships but cannot be angered.He returned to the dormitory with his red and swollen face covered, sulking in bed, and did not cook. He only spoke out about his grievances after being repeatedly questioned by the workers.

"I lived for 58 years. When I was young, I went to the front line. Later, I relied on my handicrafts to make a living. I was not angry anywhere. Now, half of my body is in the loess, and I was slapped by a 30-[-]-year-old young man. I will not be able to lift my head in the next life." ’” he said.

His fellow countrymen immediately became furious, and quickly gathered a group of people. I also pulled out the handle of the coal shovel from the warehouse, and rushed to the intersection with the crowd.If we met those domineering guys in the city, we might all hide away and would rather suffer a little loss than provoke them, but this time is different.

I want to live, I want to make money, and I want to kill all the same kind who rob me of my job like a wild dog.

There were at least 40 participants on both sides, and after a few pushes, it turned into a bloody group fight, with sticks and steel pipes constantly flying.The opposite side is full of local hooligans, while most of the people on our side are simple workers, and the situation quickly fell to one side.

If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed that the gentleman-looking old Liu would also be vicious. He grabbed a guy's hair and tied it in a circle. In the sand.Xiao Meng was relatively thin. A hooligan grabbed him by the neck and pinned him to the ground. He was thrashing desperately like a drowning man, unable to get up.I rushed up and kicked that hooligan to temporarily rescue Xiaomeng, but the handle of the coal shovel in my hand did not fall down for a long time, for fear of hurting others.

Just this moment of hesitation, other thugs jumped up from behind, thumped the back of my head hard, and took my weapon away.I was stunned, my mind was in a state of confusion, I picked up a piece of wood and resisted indiscriminately, and I couldn't even see the enemy's position clearly.

I have to admit that I am not good at using violence, and that was the first time I participated in a gang fight.

If this is a serious battlefield, we are the ones being slaughtered.

Xiaomeng was soon besieged by other opponents, outnumbered, and his face was covered in blood.He usually has a gentle personality, but there is a powder keg hidden in his heart, once it is ignited, it will be out of control.Roaring, he climbed onto a wheeled excavator, slammed the accelerator, and the bucket slammed towards a muck truck. With a loud roar, the cab was deeply dented, and the windshield was shattered. Splash around.

"Damn it! I'm desperate!" He pulled the control lever again, and the shiny steel teeth pierced the cab without hesitation, and the seats and operating console inside were already in pieces, "Today, one life will be exchanged for several of your lives! Come whoever is not afraid of death!"

Unlike crawler excavators, wheeled excavators travel very fast. When it rushes towards the crowd with its bucket high, the hooligans are frightened and frightened.

"This guy is crazy!" they yelled as they fled in all directions.

Xiao Meng is indeed crazy.

We fight with sticks and fists, and it's not a big deal, even if we break a bone, it's not a big deal, but fighting with an excavator is another matter.Once Xiao Meng's anger was burning, his bravery index immediately exploded, and his IQ and EQ were all cleared. When the blood gushed out, he only needed to gently retract his wrist, and a living person was immediately patted into a lump of meat.

Lao Liu shouted at Xiao Meng from a distance: "Stop!"

"Tell him to stop!" Even the hooligans shouted.

But Xiaomeng's eyes are already red, and he doesn't care about these.

If this continues, Xiaomeng will be prosecuted for attempted murder even if he does not commit a murder. In a hurry, I opened my arms to block the front of the excavator and yelled: "Get off!"

Only then did Xiao Meng stop, and Lao Liu took the opportunity to climb up and pull out the key. At this moment, he realized that he had caused trouble, and his face turned pale with fright. No matter how we scolded him, he kept silent, as if he had lost his seven souls and six soul.

"I can't call you anymore, can I?" Old Liu asked.

Xiao Meng said, "I didn't hear..."

But it was precisely because of his almost crazy behavior that he finally calmed down the gang of domineering hooligans and kept our access road project.There are many villains in this world. What they possess is neither strength nor courage, but no scruples.They don't care about their own morality, they don't care about the life and death of others, and they don't care about the legal principles of society, so they can trample on the rights of ordinary people.

But they are also afraid of one kind of person—those who risk their lives, such as Xiao Meng who lost his temper.

The gang fight ended in our victory, but it was only a bad one, and despite the tight schedule and the good weather, we stopped work for two days because most of the men lost the lottery to some degree or another.The old cook stubbornly believed that we were standing out for him, so he specially cooked a few large pots of meat dishes for us, and Lao Liu took out a few bottles of Erguotou from the bottom of his box.

Only then did I realize that my left hand hurt so badly that I couldn't even hold my job.

"Is it serious?" Lao Liu asked.

I said, "Maybe it's twisted, it will be fine after a while."

Let's eat with bare hands, continue to work if there is nothing to do, and go to bed if you are injured. Lao Liu sent Xiaomeng to the town and asked him to take a ride home to avoid the limelight.For the next two days, we were restless. If the other party brought this matter to the police station, Xiaomeng would not be able to escape from prison.If we really come to that point, we firmly insist that he has resigned and left, and no matter what, we cannot let him take the blame.

Maybe it was because they were worried that they would hurt both sides, but the gang of hooligans didn't continue to entangle, nor did they call the police, and the two sides never violated each other.The wrecked muck truck was parked at the entrance of the construction site for a day, and they sent a flatbed trailer over. After a long time of tossing around, they couldn't get it done, so they had to ask a middleman to smooth things over, and asked us to push it with that wheeled excavator. .

"Then go and help them out." Lao Liu said to me.

I said: "Xiao Meng resigned and left, and my hand was injured, so there is no driver."

"It's not a child. Whatever temper you play, you come out to make a living. Do you still have a lifetime grudge?" The middleman also interjected to criticize.

He is the leader of the Coastal Lock Management Office, so he can't afford to offend him. He thinks I'm playing my temper, so I can't explain it anyhow.Lao Liu also frowned and gave me a wink, but I had no choice but to do so.

This was not a difficult task, but it took me more than half an hour to push the muck truck onto the flatbed trailer because it was really inconvenient to hold the joystick.After I was done, I grabbed the handrail and jumped down. A burst of severe pain spread from my left hand to my whole body like an electric current, and I burst into tears from the pain.

Seeing my pale face, Lao Liu hurriedly sent me to the hospital for an X-ray. The result of the diagnosis was a broken jaw and a torn tendon.

"How did this happen?" asked the doctor. "A fight?"

I nodded.

"You need a minor operation for this injury." The doctor looked at the film carefully under the light. "You take the diagnosis report and the film to the police station to report the injury. You can report him as an intentional injury causing disability."

I glanced at Lao Liu, just in time to meet his eyes, and quickly moved away.

Lao Liu has acquaintances in the hospital, and the operation is very simple. The next day, he asked his relationship to help me perform the operation, which cost five or six thousand at once.When there was no one around, Lao Liu asked, "What did you think about what the doctor said yesterday?"

"Then sue, and pay for some medical expenses and nutrition expenses."

(End of this chapter)