Chapter 1 Summer Construction Site
At noon, the sun was scorching the land of Jiangnan. On the three-story construction site in the suburbs, a young worker was pushing a cart on the squeaking bamboo scaffolding. The cart was filled with neat bricks. Beads of sweat as big as beans slid down the young face to the white shirt with two broken holes on the upper body. With a sound of hey, the bricks on the car were slumped onto the top floor by the young man.
"Tiger! Stop working on it, repair it for a while, wait until it cools down in the afternoon before drying it! Wash your hands and prepare for dinner!" A middle-aged man who looked about fifty years old said to the young man.
After hearing this, the young man took off the shiny gloves on his hands, threw them onto the car, picked up two bricks from the pile of bricks on the side, walked to the man in his fifties and sat down under his butt: "Old Qi! What delicious food did the boss lady prepare today? You have been waiting here so early today?"
"You little bastard said it seems that your uncle has never eaten anything, yes! You forgot that today is the day to pay wages. Uncle, I am ready to take full energy. I will follow my uncle to go around in the evening? The news article said that it is not good for young people to keep holding on forever!" The man surnamed Qi looked at the young man next to him and said with a chuckle.
A thirty-something person next to him was wearing a shabby and inferior camouflage uniform and heard it and said with a smile: "Old Qi! Are you okay? Don't wait for someone to take off your pants like that time, and you'll be stunned for a long time!" Before the words could be finished, the words caused a burst of laughter from the ragged workers sitting around the side.
Lao Qi was not angry and smiled and scolded at the group of people: "You guys are a bastard, you guys, you have been talking about what you have done ten years ago. Don't go out tonight if you bring them to the next night! There is also a guy who is in your thirties." Lao Qi stretched out his hand and pointed at the man in his thirties who had just spoken: "Your wife's hay is like a cat making a fuss, so you can't let everyone have a good night's sleep? Why did you bite your teeth at night? Your wife's voice is like killing a pig!"
The young man had just walked to the kettle and took a sip of water and immediately sprayed it out. The crowd next to him naturally laughed again, and followed the group of people and immediately began to talk about the topic of women. The small room of more than 20 square meters immediately became noisy.
"You guys are all in a hurry now? Come here to help, and you'll be thinking about the little things in your crotch all day long! After finishing your meal, you'll have some rest in the afternoon, and you've stopped working. It's been a half-day holiday. Go wherever you should go tonight! I'll save you from being upset when I see you!" A slightly thick voice from the empty door hole came from the empty door hole. Everyone looked up at the door hole and was silent. As soon as they finished speaking, a fat figure flashed out of the door hole.
The woman who came in looked around with a pair of small eyes on her fat round face. The half-yellow hair on her head was fixed into a cow dung shape with hair spray, and stood upright on her forehead. It is said that this hairstyle is the most popular among old ladies in the city. The neck on her shoulders is almost invisible and surrounded by several circles of fat meat. A white T-shirt is placed above her bucket-like waist, with a bloody monkey head painted on it, a pair of light-colored jeans below her waist, and a pair of slippers with a small blue flower on her feet. A red plastic bag in one hand contains a pot of vegetables, and a basket in the other hand contains bowls and chopsticks. She was like a standing egg, and she entered the house as she moved into the room.
Behind the woman, two young men with naked upper bodies, were basically unable to see any color on their pants like those sitting. She was carrying an iron bucket filled with white rice.
"Boss lady! Today's dress is fashionable." When Lao Qi saw the boss lady coming, he stood up from the brick to help pick up the plastic bag and basket in his hand and put it on the ground. The people in the room immediately gathered over, got the bowls and the rice served and started working hard.
The boss lady looked at Lao Qi and cursed, "You guys know how fashionable you are! You spend some money on a woman's belly!" Then she turned to the young man next to Lao Qi and said, "Jinhu, don't learn from these guys! Save some money well, and wait for two years to help you find a marriage for your family."
Jin Hu, the young man who was pushing the bricks just now, smiled at the proprietress without saying a word. He picked up the bowls from the basket and stood by the iron bucket to serve the rice. When he was at his own time, he served a full bowl, took the bowl full of white rice to the side of the vegetable basin, scooped a spoonful of meat soup and poured it on the white rice, and then piled a piece of big meat with oil on the rice, added a small spoon of pickles, sat back on the brick just now, stretched his head and washed the rice in the bowl.
"Why would you introduce your niece to the little tiger? Such a big girl doesn't have a man yet!" Gou Dan'er said to the boss's wife while picking up the rice from the bowl.
The boss lady sighed and said, "Goudan'er, I really thought about this, but now this girl, you can't even care about her niece or her own daughter. Everyone has a high vision and wants to find a young man in the city with a house and a car. Xiaohu can endure hardship and work hard, it's a pity for Xiaohu! It would be great if he could finish college."
The niece mentioned by the boss is an accountant on the construction site. She just graduated from a college and is now working on finance at the construction site. She is thinking about going into the workshop of a high-rise building, and like the young girls entering and leaving the building, she lives her dream nine to five life.
After hearing the boss's wife's words, Jin Hu's hand holding chopsticks shook slightly, and then he digged up the food again. As he was eating, his thoughts in his heart dissipated: Yes! If he could have shrunk his head at the beginning, would he be sitting in a building in this city, wearing air conditioning and dressed like his former classmates, instead of squatting on the construction site like he is now pushing cement, stone, bricks, etc.
Classmate Jin Hu's lips smiled slightly. He remembered that he accidentally passed by the entrance of a well-decorated restaurant two months ago and met those people who had lived with him for more than a year. At that time, he just wanted to go up and say hello, but when he saw that they were more than one meter away from him, he had an awkward smile in his eyes. They were wearing suits, shirtless and slippers, and their pants had not been washed for a few days and had a bit of bad smell. It was indeed a bit out of tune. Brother Tiger, who used to shout at him, is now just a migrant worker.
Well! There is only one person who likes to call me like this in this city. When I think of that taciturn boy, Jin Hu couldn't help but feel a little sad. He has been timid since he was a child. When he was in school, he relied on his own protection to avoid being bullied. In addition to his good academic performance, he was like a quail all day long, and he didn't even dare to speak loudly to others. He didn't know how to live in this big city that was almost cannibalistic in the future.
"What are you thinking? You're so enchanting." Lao Qi pressed his elbow against Jin Hu: "Is this missing your home? I don't miss you? I miss you and will follow me tonight!"
Jin Hu smiled and said, "It's nothing! You'd better go by yourself! I'm not very interested." After that, he continued to eat the rice in the bowl.
"Oh!" Lao Qi shrank his neck and turned his face to the boss lady behind him, saying, "What are you going to beat me? Big men can't go out to play if they are fine? They don't look like big men! Are you interested in little tigers and ready to part with Li Touer?"
The proprietress twisted her fat butt and walked towards the door, cursing: "I still fell in love with Xiaohu. When the girl at home becomes big, she will be recruited as a son-in-law!"
"Boss wife! Don't leave, let me explain clearly. Do you want it or your eldest son wants it? This is vague." Gou Dan'er said loudly to the door, and a burst of laughter immediately sounded around him.
Jin Hu also laughed, he just liked the atmosphere here. When we were having fun together, we would occasionally talk about expired jokes from other places, or like today, we would lead the conversation to someone and make a lot of laughter. No one would say that he had heard it, and everyone was always happy to listen. After a few hours of work, it would be nice to be willing to speak. Who cares about what he had heard it?
Although the boss’s wife is not good-mouthed, she sometimes has to be unreasonable. She is very busy when doing things, especially when she has to pay, and she is even more skilled. I heard that a few years ago, she was sleeping in the aisle of the people who owe money for two nights, and then she got everyone’s wages back. The husband and wife ask for money and her husband sings to do small projects for so many years. The debt outside is said to be less than 100,000 yuan. In the current era of white strips flying all over the sky, it has to be said that it is a small miracle. The boss’s wife has made great efforts inside. When people who know him mention Chen Cuimei, the boss’s wife of the Hongyun Construction Team, they will say that this woman is not simple.
The wages were paid in time, and the boss and his wife strictly controlled the quality. The workers were basically all villagers in the countryside and didn’t even cheat. Although they couldn’t receive any government fat projects, their reputation has been made over the years, and some private people have taken on their own houses. In a month like Jinhu, they can earn more than 3,000 or close to 4. Now, college students who have just graduated from Jianglin City generally cannot get so many.
The only seven young men who came in with Jin Hu were the only one who stayed there. No one else could endure such suffering. Only Jin Hu wanted to find a place to exhaust himself, so that he would not think about anything in his mind. To put it bluntly, he just found a place to torture him, which was torture him. After more than a month, he stayed with these migrant workers for a long time and wiped away the stimulating feelings of the ten thousand houses that he had never known before. There was nothing in his mind, and he pushed bricks all day long, and he gained the situation in his heart. There was no state of dissatisfaction that others said without comparison.
Chapter completed!