01 Tangled calls
Zhang Wei is very happy, super happy!
Even if he was stuck in traffic on the way to get off work, he would not feel irritated.
I saw him humming along with his head to the radio, while looking back and forth at the passing cars. If he found a beautiful driver driving the car, he would even stop humming immediately and whistle in an awkward manner.
As for quality, what is that? I guess Zhang Wei has already forgotten it.
Today, Zhang Wei's whole person exudes a certain excitement factor from the inside to the outside. It makes people feel very uncomfortable when they look at it. It is natural to think of an adjective - this person is floating.
People are in high spirits when happy events happen, and they immediately drift away if they don't pay attention! This is almost the case for Zhang Wei. Yes, he himself is very aware of this at this moment.
However, he just couldn't hold back this emotion that was very inappropriate for his age.
If you want to say that something good happened to Zhang Weizhen, it's not really a good thing. It was just his reimbursement for three months. The boss finally nodded and approved it, totaling 14,000.
Although the money is not much, for Zhang Wei, who has been living under the "poverty line" for less than half a year, it is undoubtedly a great blessing like nectar after a long drought.
When Zhang Wei thought that the balance in his card had changed from single digits to five digits, and he no longer had to scrimp on food and clothing in the near future, he felt extremely relieved!
Therefore, he drifted uncontrollably.
"When I was paying off the mortgage last month, I borrowed 4,000 from my wife. I will give her 5,000 when I get back. Let's see if she dares to say anything to me..."
Just when Zhang Wei was happily planning how to pretend to be an uncle in front of his wife, the cell phone placed on the dashboard rang.
Zhang Wei took the phone and took a look at it, and immediately he couldn't get up.
It was as if this text message instantly broke his floating invisible wings, and smashed his whole body from the clouds directly to the concrete floor. The bright smile on his face suddenly froze, and he was like a deflated rubber ball.
, gradually faded.
"How is it possible? I have to pay back more than 8,000 yuan for Huabei this month? I've stopped eating lunch for a month, why do I still owe so much?"
This was a text message indicating that the deduction was successful. Looking at this text message, Zhang Wei was a little unable to accept this fact. After all, the money he had just received was not yet warm. At this moment, the money had nothing to do with him.
But soon Zhang Wei thought of something and sighed helplessly.
Today is not only the repayment day for Huabei, but he also had two installments in the past two months.
"It's all the fault of that guy with the surname Ma. This bad old man is so bad. Not only did he come up with a thing like Huabei, but he was also able to pay for it in installments... As expected, the jokesters on the Internet were right. There are no good people with bad surnames.
He is always trying every possible means to control my wallet...forget it, my arms can't twist my thighs, I will never make installments in the future..."
Zhang Wei complained fiercely in his heart, and at the same time he was comforting himself and adjusting himself.
"Alas... there is less than a thousand left." Zhang Wei calculated in his mind the money he could finally keep and sighed helplessly.
"This is quite a lot. At least my financial situation has changed from a negative number to a positive number. This can be considered a qualitative leap..." Zhang Wei gave himself another dose of psychological therapy.
But this is Zhang Wei's best wish after all, because at this moment, Zhang Wei once again had habitual selective amnesia, and he forgot to include the mortgage loan.
If you include the more than 7,000 yuan in mortgage payments at the end of last month, he is still floating in the ocean of debt, and he is still at least 6,000 yuan away from landing.
If Zhang Wei had realized this, there would probably have been another piece of news in Shanghai that night - "On the evening rush hour, a greasy uncle drowned in his tears and died tragically in the car."
Because he had cried himself to death in the car.
However, blessings never come in pairs, and misfortunes never come singly. Ever since the publication of Shi Naian's "Water Margin", this very unscientific saying has been passed down, and has even become the default "hidden rule" in most people's minds today.
Just when Zhang Wei felt less uncomfortable, his cell phone rang again.
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta...
"I Got a Cold in That Corner" is the ringtone of Zhang Wei's mobile phone that he hasn't changed in four or five years. In addition to the trouble of changing the ringtone on his Apple phone, the main reason is because he likes to eat Dove chocolate.
As soon as I hear this ringtone, I can't help but think of the taste of Dove chocolate - "milky and silky."
Just because his wife said "eating chocolate makes people happy", he has used this ringtone for so many years. Now in the company, as long as this ringtone rings, everyone in the company knows that it is his mobile phone. This ringtone has become
A "signature" of Zhang Wei.
It's just that he is the only one who thinks it sounds good, and everyone else thinks it's "red", which means it's full of dirt.
This meme was invented by a talented colleague in their company. Zhang Wei foolishly thought he was talking about the red ringtone. After all, the literal meaning of the word "red" is similar to "red".
Zhang Wei admired the ringtone for a moment, then reached out and picked up the phone.
When he saw clearly the name of the caller, his heart thumped and he almost lost his grip on the phone.
The caller was Cao Daxin. Although this guy has a lot of gold in his name, he is a master who can't keep money.
When Zhang Wei saw this familiar name, he immediately had a bad feeling. The other person was most likely here to borrow money again.
Sighing in his heart, Zhang Wei hesitated for a while and did not dare to answer the call. Instead, he hurriedly threw the phone on the passenger seat, as if what he just held was not a phone but a hot potato.
It wasn't until the ringing stopped that Zhang Wei breathed a sigh of relief and secretly exclaimed, "It's so dangerous!"
Gently stroking the steering wheel and glancing at the oil gauge, which was about to bottom out, Zhang Wei nodded slightly to the instrument panel.
"Little Tutu, luckily you don't have Bluetooth. You have done a good job this time. The gasoline pipe will be full later." Zhang Wei, who has never refueled his car for more than 200 yuan, rarely said this generously.
Harsh words.
Before, he was very envious of cars with on-board Bluetooth function. He thought the function of automatically answering incoming calls was cool, very technological, and very advanced. However, at this moment, he was sincerely grateful for this Cerato, which he had driven for nine years, especially for this car.
The beggar's version of this car's configuration makes me applaud my wise choice.
But as soon as he finished speaking, the phone rang again.
This time Zhang Wei just glanced at his cell phone, then turned back and concentrated on driving, deceiving himself and pretending to be deaf.
However, the other party was obviously not prepared to let him go so easily. As soon as the ringing of the phone ended, it continued to ring within two seconds.
"What the hell, three fatal dunks in a row?" Zhang Wei couldn't help but cursed angrily.
However, this time the ringtone of the cell phone seemed to be connected to human nature, and it stopped abruptly just as Zhang Wei finished cursing.
Zhang Wei felt his heart suddenly stop as the ringtone sounded. After being stunned for two seconds, Zhang Wei suddenly came to his senses. Apparently the other party hung up the phone on his own initiative.
The darkened mobile phone screen did not light up again for a long time, and Zhang Wei gradually became uneasy.
"Could something have happened?"
The more Zhang Wei thought about it, the more frightened he became. His old parents were both in his hometown, and his mother had always been in poor health. When he went back during the Chinese New Year, he asked Cao Daxin, a young boy, to help him keep an eye on the situation at home, because both his parents had a common problem.
That is to report good things to your children but not bad things.
Finally, Zhang Wei picked up his cell phone and called back.
Chapter completed!