Xi Shaoxuan came to the construction site this afternoon.

Although it was already late autumn, the people working on the construction site were all thinly dressed, all of them were sweating profusely, and their bodies were covered in mud, dust, rust, cement ash, and their skin was tanned.

Xi Shaoxuan stood there, although he was like an ordinary migrant worker, wearing a yellow hard hat and ordinary work clothes, but he stayed in the office all the year round, his skin was covered with white and white, standing here, even more like a steward than a supervisor wearing a white hard hat, which was out of place here.

There are many types of workers on construction sites, including plumbers, mechanical divisions, mechanics, handymen, carpenters, rebar workers, plasterers, plasterers, painters, decorators, electricians...... Of course, there are also high-tech jobs like data clerks and construction workers.

Xi Shaoxuan's job here is a plasterer, and his work is mainly responsible for wall putty plastering, roof plastering, and tile jointing.

Xi Shaoxuan climbed on the scaffold for the first time in his life, he stood at the height of the fifth floor, when he looked down from the scaffolding, she saw that the busy people below were as small as ants, he felt that every time he took a step, the scaffolding trembled a little, he clung to the scaffolding so hard that he didn't even dare to let go, let alone work.

Seeing this scene, Liu Qiyun, the eldest brother of migrant workers who plastered with him, couldn't help but laugh at him, "Haha, look at your mother, it's only the fifth floor, you don't dare to go up, let you climb to the top floor tomorrow, then it's okay." ”

His hearty voice was heard by others, and everyone couldn't help but laugh at Xi Shaoxuan, people in big cities like him are too cowardly, usually they live on more than ten floors or twenty floors, but let him stand on the scaffolding, he was even afraid of the fifth floor.

Xi Shaoxuan felt a little embarrassed, and he also laughed, wanting to resolve this embarrassment, "Isn't this the first time I've been on the scaffold? It's okay, brother, I'm not afraid!"

Saying that, Xi Shaoxuan picked up the iron trowel, dug a lump of cement and pasted it on the wall, and with the other hand, he grabbed the scaffolding and refused to let go, he wanted to paste the cement on the wall, but the cement stuck to the wall quickly fell down, and he couldn't scrape it no matter how he scraped it.

"Brother, you haven't done this before, have you?"

Xi Shaoxuan couldn't scrape it no matter how he scraped it, so he could only smile at her embarrassedly, "No, this is the first time I've done it." ”

"You look like you're the one who works in an office. ”

"Brother, how do you know?"

"Haha" Liu Qiyun laughed heartily, scraping the cement, and said: "When you go to that station, it gives me a different feeling, you see that your skin is so white, and you don't even have calluses on your hands, I see that you used to be in the office." ”

He then asked, "Why are you doing this job?"

Xi Shaoxuan didn't want to tell him the truth, so he lied to him and said: "I just lost my job, I have to pay off the car loan, the mortgage, and the children have grown up, I can't live without a job, I see that I make more money here, so I came here to work." ”

"You people in the city are also under a lot of pressure, and you don't have much money in your hands after paying off your car loan and housing loan every month. He laughed, "I'm telling you, my sons are all in college." ”

Speaking of this, Liu Qiyun's wrinkled face couldn't help but smile, "My daughter-in-law and I have worked hard for so many years and have saved a lot of money for my son. ”

"When he graduated from college, we would give all the money to our children to buy a house, and we would buy the house in full, so that my son would not have to pay the mortgage. ”

As soon as his son was mentioned, Liu Qiyun's words were endless, "My daughter-in-law and I have worked all our lives facing the loess with our backs to the sky, and we can't earn a few dollars in our lives, but my son is different, he has been admitted to university and can find a decent job in the future." ”

"We don't expect him to have much ability, how much money he makes, I just hope he can be a teacher, or a civil servant, with this iron rice bowl, you don't have to worry about it for the rest of your life, although he may not earn much, but our old couple has paved the way for him. He doesn't have to pay off the mortgage, he can find a comfortable job to sit in the office, and just live his life easily. ”

Hearing this, Xi Shaoxuan couldn't help but think of his parents, who used to be like this eldest brother and regarded themselves as their pride.

One of the words that his parents often said when he was a child was: "You must go to school hard, and when you are admitted to college and become a college student, you don't have to face the loess with your back to the sky like us, and do this kind of tiring and unprofitable work all your life." ”

Xi Shaoxuan used to not understand them very much, why do you have to study hard, why do you have to be admitted to university, why do you have to come to live in a big city?

Now that he has lived to middle age, he finally understands the hardships of his parents.

They have worked all their lives facing the loess with their backs to the sky, they have no education, they can only do dirty work, tiring work, day after day of fatigue, has made them feel extremely tired, in this miserable life, they live too tired.

So they put all their expectations on their children, hoping that their children will be admitted to college, find a decent job, and easily live for the rest of their lives.

After Xi Shaoxuan thought of his parents, he couldn't help but redden, he looked at the iron trowel he was holding in his hand, and he felt more and more sorry for his parents.

Why did he not listen to his parents' dissuasion to become a door-to-door son-in-law in the first place, if he listened to his parents, worked in peace, and then married a girl and lived a life of firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea with him.

But he chose to be a son-in-law, and then went to the sea to start a business, and now he is in debt, he is no longer the pride of his parents, and his life will be spent in debt.

He is sorry for his parents, sorry for their expectations, and ashamed of his parents' cultivation of him for more than 20 years.

Man is really a very strange animal, some people can enjoy the prosperity of the world just by being born in a powerful family, and some people grit their teeth and insist, do their best, but can only crawl and roll on the streets, people live all their lives, what do they live for?

The eldest brother was very cheerful, talking to him while working, he felt that this eldest brother was much easier to get along with than those people in the office, and there were not so many twists and turns, intrigues.

Xi Shaoxuan couldn't help but relax a little in his words, he tried to get his hands off the scaffolding, trying not to look at the ground, saving himself from being weak.