Chapter 41: Don’t be so stubborn anymore

Zhou Dongmeng squatted in front of the old man.

He lowered his eyes slightly and was carefully helping to treat the wound on his wrist.

The man spoke in a deep, mellow voice: "The wound is quite deep, it needs a few days to recover, be careful not to freeze the wound these days, old man."

The old man wrapped in a cotton quilt wiped his tears and said, "Good! Good! You are a good child."

Zhou Dongmeng smiled and asked, "Which unit are you from?"

Old man: "The 15th Brigade."

"The 15th Brigade?"

"Well, what's wrong?"

Zhou Dong pursed his lips, stood up and sat next to the old man: "One of my comrades is also from the 15th Brigade Reserve Battalion..."

"He died in a battle four years ago."

The old man asked in a hoarse voice: "How old are you?"

"Same age as me, should be 25 this year. After that battle, I was transferred to guard the border island, otherwise we would be in the same camp."

The old man looked at him, reached out and patted the man on the back: "There will always be sacrifices on this road."

"Without sacrifice, there would be no peaceful times like today."

Zhou Dongmeng spread his legs wide, resting his elbows on his thighs, blinking away the tears in his eyes, and turned to look at the old man beside him: "Then we must live as hard as we can and take a good look at this era for them."

"them……?"

The old man was stunned when he heard this, and vaguely remembered his three sacrificed sons.

The old man could no longer control himself and burst into tears, covering his face.

“Wuwuwuwuwu…”

Zhou Dongmeng was silent for a while, then said again: "Old man, next time you encounter something like this, just be patient."

He propped his knees up with his hands, stood up slowly, lowered his eyes and whispered, "I have already negotiated with the foreman. The compensation will be returned to you in full. You should also read carefully what is written in the contract."

"Old people have blurred vision and can't easily see the words. Just go find the village party secretary and ask them to help you. From now on... don't try to be stubborn anymore."

After Zhou Dongmeng finished giving all these instructions, he sighed silently.

"That's all right, old man. You should go home early. Be careful with your wounds and don't let them get wet. I'm leaving now and will come back to see you tomorrow."

The old man smiled at him and said, "Okay, thank you for today."

"It's OK."

Zhou Dong turned around suddenly, walked away, and headed towards the other end of the construction site.

He had not gone far when Lao Zhang came running up behind him and asked in a low voice, "Brother Zhou, what are you planning?"

"Brother, you heard it just now. Ask that old man to take the contract to the village party secretary."

Zhou Dong walked without stopping: "Yeah."

Lao Zhang was excited: "Then the villagers around here will all know the real amount of subsidies, right? When they get together, they will definitely quarrel with the foremen."

Zhou Dongmeng: “Really?”

He just said this casually.

Lao Zhang followed the man at a brisk pace. He looked at his sharp-edged profile, the scar on his broken eyebrow was particularly obvious, and his cold expression...

Lao Zhang groaned for a moment, thinking silently in his heart -

That makes absolutely no sense.

Brother Zhou is such a kind-hearted man, how could my sister-in-law not like him?

He raised his hand to rub his erection, and couldn't help turning his head to ask curiously, "Brother, there is one more thing I want to know. What did you say to the foreman just now that made him so crazy?"

As he spoke, Lao Zhang pointed to the Shura field behind them.

Zhou Dongmeng then stopped and looked back.

I saw the contractor swearing at a man, who should be the Xiao Wang he was looking for just now.

The contractor was probably too angry. He unbuttoned his shirt while cursing at her and finally pulled it off after a few tries.

Then he lifted up his clothes and threw them everywhere like a madman.

Zhou Dong stared at it for a while, said nothing, then turned around and continued walking forward.

Lao Zhang: "Brother, tell me."

Zhou Dongmeng: "Nothing else, I just mentioned the problems at the steel plant to him, and he probably couldn't accept it."

Old Zhang frowned: "That's it?"

"Um."

Old Zhang thought about it for a long time but still couldn't figure out why the problems at the steel plant had caused the foreman to become like this?

However, this matter has little to do with him, a brick-moving laborer.

Lao Zhang was too lazy to think about it anymore.