In the past three months, the atmosphere of the rental house has been full of twists and turns, and with Chen Kun's self-preservation, the atmosphere of the rental house has dropped to freezing point again. Under the same roof, their working hours are different, and the four of them rarely even have the opportunity to meet.

Zhang Li has been working overtime recently, working during the day and translating materials for others at night, and she can get five yuan for every 1,000 words translated. As the repayment date approached, she went home even later than Lu Shanmin. Huang Mei still went home every night with the smell of alcohol, sometimes at one or two o'clock in the morning, sometimes at three or four o'clock. Looking at the increasingly haggard faces of the two girls, Lu Shanmin was a little unbearable, and the men in the mountains all understood a truth, men should not let women work so hard. But what can he do, working on the construction site during the day and grilling barbecue in the barbecue restaurant at night, Lu Shanmin can't wait for a few more hours a day, so that he can find another job and relieve the pressure on the two girls.

After drinking with Tang Fei, back to the rental house, Zhang Li was sitting silently on the sofa.

"Still asleep"?

"Can't sleep".

Looking at Zhang Li's haggard face, Lu Shanmin was a little distressed.

"Go to sleep, you have to get up early to go to work tomorrow".

Zhang Li shook her head and said in a desperate tone: "Mountain people, there is still half a month left before the repayment date."

Lu Shanmin nodded.

As the repayment date approached, Zhang Li, a stubborn girl, seemed to be a little unbearable, and the whole person was like a deflated ball, "My salary in the past few months plus these two months of overtime pay can only save 10,000 yuan by the end of this month."

Lu Shanmin comforted: "Sister Li, don't worry, Uncle Dali said that he would give me a salary at the end of this month, about fifteen thousand."

Zhang Li sighed, "That's still far away."

"How much is there in Huangmei"?

Zhang Li shook her head, "She has only been working for a month, and she has paid the rent, how much is left."

"Don't worry, Sister Li, I have a friend who promised to lend me some money first."

Zhang Li looked at Lu Shanmin in surprise, he was a mountain villager who worked in a barbecue restaurant and construction site, and it had only been a few months since he arrived in the East China Sea, so what friend could borrow tens of thousands of yuan from him.

"Mountain people, you're not going to borrow usury, are you?"

Lu Shanmin smiled and shook his head, "Don't worry, Sister Li, it's not a loan shark."

Zhang Li was still a little uneasy, "Mountain people, that thing can't be touched, and if you don't die, you have to drag it out, if you don't die, we can't find Chen Ran to delay it for two months."

Lu Shanmin said with a smile: "It's really not a loan shark, since I promised to pay it back in three months, the people in the mountains don't lie."

Seeing that Lu Shanmin's appearance didn't look like lying, Zhang Li breathed a sigh of relief, and there was a faint smile on her face.

"During this time, I kind of understood, there are many people in this world who are icing on the cake, and there are very few people who send charcoal in the snow, and if we have the opportunity, we will invite your friend to a meal and thank him well."

Lu Shanmin nodded, "Well, you should rest assured now."

Zhang Li's haggard face had a hint of light, and she looked at Lu Shanmin lightly, "Shanmin, you are different from everyone I have ever seen."

Lu Shanmin smiled, Zeng Yaqian said this sentence, Chen Kun also said it, Zhang Li is the third person to say this.

"Sister Li, I'm just doing what I think I should do, grandpa often says, 'There are many things in this world that can't be distinguished from right and wrong, since you can't tell the difference, then just follow your heart'."

Zhang Li smiled lightly, "Your heart must be a pure heart."

Chen Dali's craftsmanship is bricklaying and wall laying, and after two months of rushing work, the frame of this building is basically completed. The rest of the work is the decoration.

It's time for him to settle the bill and move to another jobsite. He is in a good mood today, although the work assigned to this construction site is only four or five floors, but due to the overtime assault and the addition of Lu Shanmin, a capable general, it will be completed in a few months, and the money he earns is one or two percent more than before. Today is the day of checkout, and in two or three months it will be the Spring Festival, and if I take the money, it can be regarded as a good explanation to my family and seven or eight people.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Chen Dali took Lu Shanmin and others to the construction site to get the money, and a group of people were very excited, discussing how to spend the money along the way.

"Mountain people, how are you going to spend the money when you get it?" Chen Dali asked with a smile.

Lu Shanmin grinned, "I owe someone a sum of money, and I plan to pay it back first."

Chen Dali smiled and nodded, "The young man is good, it is the uncle who owes money these years, and it is the grandson who asks for money, you can think of paying back the money first, you are a man."

"What about you, Uncle Mighty"?

Chen Dali said with a smile: "I have also saved some money in the past few years, and I plan to go back to my hometown in two years to renovate the house, my son who is not angry is also not small, and he should get married in two years, so he has to save some wife for him", and then said with a smile, "Damn, it's all owed to him."

Lu Shanmin smiled, and couldn't help but think of Luo Zhixuan, thinking of his unimpressed father.

Chen Dali then said with some guilt: "I plan to buy a new set of clothes for my mother-in-law this year, I haven't bought anything for her all these years, marry me, she is really moldy for eight lifetimes."

Lu Shanmin smirked.

At half past nine o'clock, it was not until eleven o'clock in the morning that Liu Tao, the foreman of the contract, came with his handbag.

Chen Dali greeted him with a smile, took out the cigarette in his pocket and hurriedly handed it over. "Boss Liu, you can be counted as coming, if you don't come again, those rabbit cubs will have to swallow me alive."

I have heard workers mention Liu Tao before, a long time ago he was also a construction worker from other places, but people are more excited, and gradually got to know many project managers and construction workers of construction companies, and began to undertake some work on the construction site, and slowly became a contractor, and now there is no need to take a brick knife and ash tray.

Liu Tao is in his forties, his hair is neatly combed, he is wearing a gray suit and a black handbag under his arm. didn't take Chen Dali's cigarettes, took out a pack of Great China from his pocket and handed it to Chen Dali.

"Smoke mine, take it and scatter it for the brothers."

Chen Dali said with a smile, stretched out his hand to take the cigarette, and said, "Then I will thank Boss Liu on behalf of the brothers."

Liu Tao said with a smile, "Lao Chen, this construction site is doing well, I still have a few construction sites in the future, you have to continue to come over to help me when the time comes."

When Chen Dali heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, "Thank you Boss Liu for watching it, and you must remember our brothers when the time comes."

Liu Tao smiled and nodded, a look of embarrassment appeared on his face. "Hey, these days, the work is easy to do, and the money is hard to collect."

Chen Dali chuckled in his heart, and his smile immediately froze on his face. "Boss Liu, what do you mean by that"?

Liu Tao patted Chen Dali's shoulder, and said with a bitter face, "Lao Chen, I won't tell you, although this construction site is finished, but not all of it has been settled for me, what to say to wait for acceptance, but also wait for the owner's audit, all day long to ask me to prepare such and such information, I am also a local farmer, how can I understand those things, and when it is finished, I don't know when it will be."

Chen Dali frowned, a little anxious, "Boss Liu, we have artificial money, all these years, in this industry, I have never heard of waiting for any audit to pay, my brothers still have wives and children to support at home."

Liu Tao smiled bitterly and nodded, "I know, I'm not saying no, I still want to mix in this industry." Everyone is out to work, how can I not understand your difficulties. I thought, can you also understand my difficulties, only a small part of the money was paid to me on this project, and you don't know those people, and the money in hand has to be given to them layer by layer, otherwise how will I contract the project in the future, and where will you do the work. ”

took a puff of cigarette and said: "I'm also shy in my pocket, I want to give you a discussion, see if you can slow down, and wait for Party A to allocate money to me, I promise to give you the first time."

Chen Dali was anxious, and looked back at the seven or eight migrant workers under him, all of them still maintaining excited smiles, and they were still talking about how to spend the money after they got it.

"Boss Liu, I'm afraid this won't work, look at them, they're all looking forward to it."

Liu Tao sighed, "I know you're embarrassed, don't you think this will work, you go and do ideological work for them, and I'll give you an extra 5,000 yuan afterwards."

"Boss Liu,"

Liu Tao patted Chen Dali's shoulder, "It's decided, you're still afraid that I won't be able to escape, I will have several big projects in the East China Sea next year, and I will walk towards the depths of the construction site after speaking."

After Liu Tao left, Lu Shanmin and others, who were standing not far away, walked up to Chen Dali excitedly. Babbling asked:

"Brother Dali, how is it, when will Boss Liu give the money"?

Chen Dali's face was full of shame, these migrant workers living on Minsheng West Road were all called to this construction site by themselves, everyone worked hard for more than half a year, waiting for this most exciting moment, but the result was like this. In the past, in his hometown, he was also a person who dared to fight if he didn't agree with him, but this is the East China Sea, no matter how good the craftsmanship is, he can't earn a penny without the contractor to do the work, so he grovels to the contractor everywhere.

Seeing Chen Dali's head bowed in frustration, everyone realized that something might have gone wrong.

Lu Shanmin hurriedly asked, "Uncle Dali, is something wrong?"

Chen Dali sighed, "Boss Liu said that he hasn't gotten the money yet, and he needs to slow down for a while."

"What?" The excitement of the group of people just now instantly turned into anger.

"How can this work, my son is about to enter his third year of high school, and the cost next year will definitely be very high, just waiting for this money." Ma Feng said.

"My dad is sick and still in the hospital, and this is life-saving money." Feng Hui, a small worker together, also said anxiously.

A group of people gossip and are angry.

Another master named Wang Guoquan grabbed Chen Dali's arm, "I don't care what he says, this job was introduced by you, I just have to ask you for money."