Chapter 55: Clearing the Wasteland
The master originally had a happy little family, and his acquaintance with her husband Ah Xiang was really accidental.
At that time, the master was introduced to no less than a dozen people, which also confirmed the accuracy of the truth that men are "visual animals" over and over again.
Her appearance is indeed a little strange, with a small round face, a pair of naked eyes under a single eyelid, and the thick eyelids always feel too heavy to lift. The cheeks bulged as if the rice was too full to chew. Chaotianbi really wishes he could bring an umbrella when it rains. A big mouth and a smile are easy to overcome. The most terrifying thing is that there is a palm-sized black spot on the side of the nose on the left side of the face, which is said to be a band. From a distance, it looks like you've taken a dip in a witch's magic pool.
Originally from a remote mountainous area, Ah Xiang was admitted to the city's Jianjiang University, where the architecture department is nationally famous, and his family had high hopes for the golden phoenix that flew out of his chicken nest. Ah Xiang's father walked through the streets, told the good news to the neighbors, bowed down to others, and made great efforts to make up for his son's first year's tuition.
The ravine is poor, people feel very fresh when they hear that they spend so much money to go to school, everyone can't even afford to eat, and they can still take out so much money to go to school, Ah Xiang and his father are not nervous. Seeing that my son has been in school for a year, and there is no income, how can I continue like this. The neighbors urged the old man to repay the money, and the old man had no choice but to sell several large tiled houses in the village that were originally going to marry his son, and paid off the neighbors' money.
It's good now, the old couple doesn't even have a place to live. They were afraid that their son would be worried, so they specially found someone to write a letter to their son, saying that the old couple was very good, and this year's harvest was not bad, and the village had paid again. and told his son to take care of himself when he was alone outside, pay attention to hot and cold food and drink, and let his son not worry about it. Study hard, and don't go back to the Chinese New Year this year. We old couples are going out to visit the house, not at home for the holidays. Be sure to take care.
Ah Xiang followed his parents' letter and was relieved. He knew he had come out of a poor ravine. Watching the students in the city eat, drink, and have fun together, I was very envious. But his own conditions are here, he really wants to mingle with his classmates, but the prices in the city are ridiculously high, and playing with everyone, can you always make people pay for it, and you can't always eat other people's.
He knew in his heart that his tuition for the second year had not yet been settled, so every day off, everyone went out in groups to play, but he could only be locked in the dormitory. In desperation, he thought that there were many places to employ people in the city, so he could try to find hourly workers to do it.
He came to a housekeeping company, looked at the recruitment information above, recruited housekeeping hourly workers, Ah Xiang went to the interview, the manager saw that he had a foreign accent and looked quite stocky, so he asked him to try it first. Give him the work of clearing the wasteland for a family.
Ah Xiang came to this house, just finished decorating, the wooden floor is full of latex paint paint dropped when painting, because the decoration has just been completed, the air is filled with a pungent smell of formaldehyde. A house of more than 100 square meters, let him open up the wasteland alone.
He took a long breath, rolled up his sleeves, and began the toil. He worked hard. Spread the rag on the ground, and rub it vigorously on his knees, while the owner stared at the sidelines, pointing from time to time. This added a bit of chaos to his irritable mood. Beads of sweat dripped down his neck and face onto the wooden floor. He felt a pain in his neck and shoulders. Although I studied very hard since I was a child, I have never suffered so much tiredness. He felt his limbs tremble. I wish I could find a place to lean for a while.
The host saw that he was working very hard, and poured her a glass of water from time to time. In fact, he was really thirsty, but looking at the bright big house, the clothes of the master's family, the crystal clear glass, thinking that he was a countryman, people were just polite, and I could keep it if I didn't drink this cup. Once used, the homeowner will have to throw the cup in the trash. In this world, the same people, there will always be high and low. Housing prices in this city are so high, and people's houses are still so big. How can this make himself a countryman!
He thought of his parents who were far away, and he had worked all his life looking forward to the sky and the earth on those rented terraces, expecting Master Guan to bring a few rains. Beads of sweat smashed those few grains of grain on the surface of the feet, and it was not enough to make ends meet except for the land rent.
Thinking of this, he encouraged himself again, buried his head and continued to work hard. After half a day's hard work, the wooden floor revealed the human figure. As soon as the floor of the whole house is clean, it looks extraordinarily tidy.
On the one hand, he wants to finish the work as soon as possible, on the other hand, the housekeeping company has a rule that you must not eat at the owner's house, which will affect the image of the company. This family is located in the central area, where the price of goods is frighteningly high, and you can't earn a few dollars a day doing this work, and buying a meal is equivalent to a day's work. Forget it, be hungry, be hungry!" he thought to himself.
In the afternoon, the main work is to clean the glass and clean up the kitchen, wipe the wall tiles, and paste the kitchen wallpaper.
He took out the glass artifact issued by the company, although the manager explained the usage when he came out. He didn't understand much, so he had to fumble and do it.
He broke open the double-sided glass window cleaner with his hands, applied the cleaning liquid to the cleaning cloth, put the corded one outside the window, and the one with the handle in the window, moved the safety column switch, and sucked it tightly to the glass. When I turned 90 degrees, I only listened to Gaba, and the glass made a crisp sound, and the thick hollow float glass instantly shattered into two halves.
At this moment, the face of the owner is as ugly as a dark cloud, as if a strong wind suddenly blows on a sunny day. The owner of the house said angrily: "Look at your frizziness, I knew something was going to happen, how did you do it, did you do it, did you do it, I just renovated the house, isn't this blocking us! I have to complain about your housekeeping company!"
As soon as these words came out, Ah Xiang's sweat dripped down, this was his first day working for someone else's housekeeping company, and he was counting on answering the phone here in the future. This job was hard for me to find, and if I was fired on the first day, I would lose my confidence.
He hurriedly apologized to the landlord and anxiously explained to the landlord in his native dialect: "I'm really sorry for breaking the glass of your house? Don't complain, otherwise my job will be gone, I went to school at Jianjiang University, in order to save some tuition for myself, I found this company to sell coolies to others. Please, you raise your noble hand, adults don't remember villains, don't complain!"
The landlord settled down, looked at his pleading expression again, and slowly agreed: "Okay, for the sake of the fact that it is not easy for you to come out to work, I will not complain, but you have to accompany me for the money of this glass! After all, it is quite expensive!"
Ah Xiang nodded gratefully, took out five red people from his pocket and handed them to the owner: "That's all I have on me, don't be too little, I'm really sorry for you!"
The owner nodded and said helplessly: "It's only like this!"
Ah Xiang felt very uncomfortable, he was hungry, he worked all day, and gave the owner money to accompany him, made amends, and returned this day's work to others for nothing, how can this be said!