Northern Myanmar, the hell on earth I experienced

Chapter 2 Ominous Omen

"Let's go! Let's eat something and find a place to rest. A car will come to pick us up later tonight."

"Why late at night?"

I asked. After hearing this, I couldn't help but feel a little doubtful in my heart. Maybe it was because I was often kept in a small dark room by my stepparents since I was a child, so the dark night was an indescribable fear and uneasiness for me. It is also an ominous sign.

"Because now they are too busy working during the day."

"Oh!"

Then I looked around again at the not very busy street in front of me and took a deep breath. Now that you're here, make peace with it! Until this moment, Brother Hao still didn't tell me what he was going to do here, but I still stupidly believed him.

I followed Brother Hao into a restaurant, and the young lady at the front desk greeted Brother Hao enthusiastically.

"Brother Hao, long time no see."

"Long time no see! Same old thing, hurry up and I'm a little hungry."

Brother Hao greeted the front desk skillfully, and at first glance he was an old customer who frequented this place.

"Okay, let's sit down and have a cup of tea. I'll be ready soon."

After seeing me at the front desk, he was stunned and turned to look at Brother Hao.

"This this..."

Brother Hao glanced at me and said to her:

"It looks very similar, right? Her name is A Piao, and she will work with me from now on."

After Brother Hao finished speaking, the lady at the front desk quickly said to me:

"Hello, Sister Piao!"

I was so embarrassed that I didn’t know how to answer the call. I didn’t know what they meant by “similarity”, and I didn’t know why this girl who looked a little older than me would open her mouth to call me sister, so I I can only nod and smile.

Then I asked:

"Are you Chinese too?"

The other party smiled and replied:

"No, I'm of Chinese descent. There are many people like you here. Not only do we speak Chinese like you, but we also have the same living habits and eating habits."

"That's it!"

I nodded, and the disappointment in my heart suddenly disappeared by more than half, and instead I felt a little more cordial.

After sitting down, I continued to look around, and then said to Brother Hao:

"No wonder this place feels so similar to China. I just discovered that even the billboards are written in eye-catching Chinese."

"This is the old street, where Chinese people gather."

"That's it!"

After hearing this, I just felt very fresh. I never thought that there were Han compatriots like us in another country. Forgive me for being a country bumpkin. Let alone going abroad, I have never been abroad before.

"Are there many compatriots in the park?"

Regarding my question, Brother Hao wanted to laugh a little, but he still answered seriously:

"They are all from China and have the same dream of getting rich as you."

I nodded.

"very nice."

Unexpectedly, Brother Hao sneered.

But I didn’t care. The reason I thought it was really good was because there was a group of people working hard together for a common dream of wealth. Isn’t that a good thing?

My thoughts at the moment were very simple, and even thinking about it made me feel happy and even wanted to laugh, but I soon stopped laughing.

After dinner, according to the original plan, Brother Hao would take me to a hotel to take a rest, but just as we were getting up and leaving the restaurant, Brother Hao's cell phone rang, and Brother Hao picked it up directly.

"Alang, what's wrong?"

"Brother Hao, something happened over at Heipi. Several people ran away. He led others to chase him. I won't go to his place for now. In this way, I will go directly to your place. It will only take half an hour at most. You You’re still in Lao Cai now, right?”

"Correct."

"Then just wait for me, Ah Hui and I will be here soon."

"Okay, then I'll wait for you."

Since Brother Hao was driving the speakerphone, I naturally heard Alang’s words very clearly.

This conversation left me a little confused. What did it mean that so many people ran away?

Brother Hao glanced at me after hanging up the phone. There seemed to be a bit more greed in his eyes. I don't know if it was my imagination or something, but I always felt like I had seen this kind of look somewhere before.

Later I remembered that it was when I became an adult. Whenever I took a shower, my stepfather would look me up and down, that kind of almost perverted greed. Every time I think about it, I feel sick and restless. , but I soon learned that compared to my stepfather, the men in northern Myanmar are like turbulent animals in early spring.

They act as if they would die without that kind of thing, so they can't wait to see a woman.

"Brother Hao." I called him.

He immediately changed back to his old self.

"Oh, what's wrong?"

"What did Alang say on the phone just now that several people ran away?"

I whispered, my heart lifted a little, and I always felt like something was about to happen, but when I saw Brother Hao's handsome and alarming face, I felt like it wasn't the case.

"Oh, the work in the park is tiring and it's normal for people to often skip work and run away."

"Isn't it true that once you join the job, you can't leave no matter how hard or tiring the job is?"

I asked in a low voice again. At this time, I suddenly realized that there were many things that I had not had time to ask Brother Hao. These days, I have been listening to Brother Hao. Although he did not tell me that there is gold here, it gave me the illusion It seems to be a very easy thing to make money here.

"No, we are very tolerant towards our compatriots. It doesn't matter if you don't want to do anything, but you need to pay a certain amount of liquidated damages. After all, we are doing things according to the regulations. As the saying goes, there is no rule without rules. Some people absent themselves from work and bring trouble to the company. How can there be such a good thing if you don’t want to pay liquidated damages even though you will suffer a certain amount of losses?”

Although Brother Hao's explanation is reasonable and well-founded, I always feel that there are other hidden meanings, but I don't have time to examine it carefully.

I simply thought about it and then asked:

"How are liquidated damages calculated? Why don't they want to pay it? Is it because it's very high?"

Brother Hao frowned.

"It's not high, it's within their affordability, but they just don't want to give it."

"Oh, that's it! Then they really shouldn't be like that."

"That's not it."

After Brother Hao finished speaking, he looked at his watch.

"Since you have to wait a while, let me take you around the neighborhood!"

Brother Hao said.

I nodded, showing how big my heart was.

After Brother Hao paid the bill, he dragged my suitcase and took me for a walk around the old street, during which he bought me a meat bun. Which I didn’t want because I would already be full by then. But Brother Hao forced it on me.

"Try it, this Roujiamo tastes really good. Let's see if it's the same as the ones in China..."

After hearing what he said, I took it and started to eat it. It tasted really good and seemed to be no different from the Roujiamo I had eaten before, and the texture was crispier and there was more tenderloin inside.

Eating Roujiamo and looking at the eye-catching Chinese billboards everywhere, I feel as if I am still in China. So there is always an illusion, is this really outside Myanmar?

Perhaps because of this, there is no sadness at all about leaving home, but full of expectations for the future.

"Here, we have everything, and even more so over there in the park. We also have everything you like, like hot and sour noodles, potato noodles, and rice noodles."

Brother Hao introduced it to me while eating. In fact, he told me these words more than once. I almost memorized it.

"Then as long as you work hard, you will live a happy life."

I took over his words and said.

He was stunned for a second and then smiled:

"Yes, yes, I can answer quickly."

"Anyway, you are my assistant. You only need to follow my instructions from now on."

"it is good."

After eating the cake, it was already getting darker.

Brother Hao's phone rang again.

"Are you there? Where are you? Okay, I'll come right away."

After Brother Hao hung up the phone, he suddenly said to me seriously:

"Remember what I told you these days."