"Father, mother, I'm out of the house......" The boy picked up the burlap bag next to the bed, came to a picture frame, looked at the picture frame, a young couple and said a word, and then turned to go out.

It's been three months since he came to the city, and he's getting used to life here. Anyway, lonely or something, after twelve years, there is nothing more accustomed to him.

"A big city is a big city...... As long as you are willing to work hard, anyone can survive here. The boy picked up a discarded drink bottle, flattened it and put it in a sack. Luckily, you'll find one of those cans once in a while, and those things will pay a higher price.

In the bustling commercial street, as long as he is willing to look for it with his face, not to mention anything else, he started at eight o'clock, turned around a few times at twelve o'clock, and found several catties of plastic bottles, the key is still Coke and Sprite cans, found more than forty, one can be two cents!

"Six pounds of plastic bottles, forty-two cans, plus plastic bottles...... How about making up a whole six yuan for you?" The old aunt calculated, then took out a piece of five yuan, a piece of one yuan, and handed it over at random, shaking it impatiently.

"Gotcha!" the boy took it and put it in the pocket on the inside of his clothes. He sewed it on himself, and after a baptism in the metropolis, he began to know how to protect his money.

I found a park and took out a plastic lunch box with two steamed buns and a small bag of mustard in it. The young man ate steamed buns with mustard vegetables, and felt that his mouth was dry, so he took out a mineral water bottle and poured a sip of cool white water.

A pound of flour is only a dollar, and if you buy flour and yeast, you can make a lot of steamed buns. One package of mustard is a piece, and you can eat it for two days if you save a little, and three days if you are extreme. The mineral water bottle can be used after washing, and tap water can also be used if it is not cool.

"You can earn about fifteen yuan a day, two yuan a day, and an ......income of four hundred yuan a month," the young man smiled, many villagers in the township have less than a thousand yuan of income in a year. His two-month income is on top.

"Take a break for an hour, and then continue to find garbage!" The boy pulled out another book, which was a Chinese textbook for the first year of junior high school, and he could not go to school, but he could study on his own. Whether it's Chinese or math, if you don't understand it, you can read it a few more times, and if you look at it, you will understand. These books are all bought from the waste goods station, and a few copies are only one or two yuan.

It's rare that there are a lot of notes on it, and it can also help him understand the content faster. Occasionally, I can still turn it over, and I can still laugh at a special handwriting like 'XXX I love you' written somewhere.

"In the future, when I save enough money, I can apply for an adult college entrance examination, and then I will study a correspondence course and get a diploma, so I can be regarded as a college student, right?" The boy closed the book, and before he knew it, an hour had passed.

The break had passed, and he was busy again. There are actually a lot of waste pickers in this city, and the competition is not low, otherwise he would not be able to only pay six yuan a morning.

"Thank you, thank you!" Half an hour later, he came out of a foreign fast-food restaurant with an extra garbage bag in his hand. There are all kinds of paper cups, wrapping paper or something, to say the least, there are twenty catties. It's a pity that this kind of hodgepodge is only five cents per catty, and twenty catties is only ten yuan, not to mention that it is not available every day. At this point, I am afraid that this store will be stored for several days before it can weigh twenty pounds.

"Luck is coming, I really can't stop it, it's only half an hour and I earn more than I made in the morning!" the young man smiled, carrying the garbage bag and walking towards the waste station, twenty pounds, for the twelve-year-old, it was still a little heavy.

"If only I were eighteen years old......," the boy sighed, thinking that he could find a job for five or six hundred when he first came to this big city. Who knew that he was underage and others would not dare to use him, and in the end he could only go so far.

"Fourteen pieces, a little more than I thought...... What should I do, I've earned enough twenty today......" Twenty minutes later, the boy touched his inner pocket, where twenty yuan was already lying.

Of course, people don't think they have less money, but for him, who earns an average of fifteen yuan a day, and earns twenty a day, he will exceed the task.

"People can't be greedy, too greedy will lead to wealth. The old village chief's advice sounded in his ears, and the young man took a deep breath, gave up picking up garbage, and began to go home.

He said that he was home, but in fact it was an unfinished building in the suburbs, and every day he had to walk for an hour back from the city. So at noon, he didn't want to go back if he could.

"Thank you for giving me a place to stay!" Every time he came here, the boy couldn't help but fold his hands and salute this unfinished building. The main body of the building has been completed, and the exterior decoration has also been completed, and it is said that it was originally used as a large office building, so the area is quite large.

I heard that after the end of the contract, I owed a lot of money to the bank, so I put it on hold for three or five years. At that time, as long as it was renovated, it was actually okay, but in order to build this building into a landmark building that year, a lot of money was invested. At the price at that time, the cost was too high, and the housing prices at that time were not high.

No, it has been shelved for ten years, and there is still no real estate willing to take over. The buildings that were gorgeous back then are now outdated. After ten years of wind and rain, this building has become completely outdated, and now it is worthless to even renovate, and it is the right thing to tear down and rebuild. Unless it's a brain pump, there will be no one willing to spend money on this building.

"Are you back?" As soon as he arrived near the unfinished building, a homeless uncle came out and beckoned to the young man.

"Uncle Bai, are you coming back so early today?" the young man stepped forward to say hello, it was Uncle Bai who introduced him to this unfinished building a month ago, otherwise he wouldn't even have a place to stay. The rent of even a basement in a big city is super expensive.

"Where!" Uncle Bai shook his head, "Take a break, I'm not going out." I recently found a job on the construction site, and I have a few hundred yuan a month, as well as bonuses, and I am lucky enough to have thousands of dollars a month. ”

"Wow, I envy you so much!" The young man looked at Uncle Bai enviously, he had looked for him before, but the foreman didn't want him.

"Don't be envious, now that this foreman is very dark, I am not afraid of them bullying, and you may have to suffer if you change it. Uncle Bai smiled, then turned around and went out.

The boy said goodbye to Uncle Bai, and then returned to the second floor, where a rough room was used by him as his room. There was a rag hanging from the door, and it was a door. There was actually nothing in the room, some pots and pans, all of which were found by picking up garbage. Including a broken steamer, he found materials to repair it, and continued to use it.

Taking out the language book, he continued to read it, and from time to time he picked up a branch and wrote on the ground, as if he were practicing calligraphy.

"Write an essay about your parents' memories of more than 800 words......" Seeing the essay question at the back of the textbook, the teenager was silent.

He had never met his parents, and the village chief said that they were taken away by a mudslide shortly after he was born. Nothing was left, just a photo taken at the wedding.

"Eight hundred words, parents recalled...... What do I need to write?" the boy shook his head and tossed the textbook aside. Since he was a child, he grew up eating hundreds of meals in the township, and the township also pooled money to send him to primary school, but unfortunately there was no way to fund him to go to junior high school.

"Let's go out for a walk......" The young man was a little distracted, stood up, and walked out the door.

However, looking at this strange city that was beginning to become familiar, the boy felt so out of place, as if there was no place for himself in this city......