At this time, the workers on the construction site have already begun to pack up their tools and prepare for work. At breakfast in the morning, Wu Jingsheng said that their engineering team would leave work half an hour later than other engineering teams in the afternoon. So Lu Yao endured hunger, quickened his pace, and ran towards the construction site where Wu Jingsheng and Ning Hao were working. He was going to get to the site before they got off work and do what he could. What he thought in his heart was that he couldn't eat the boss's food for nothing.

Lu Yao rushed to the construction site and saw Ning Hao, who was sweating bare-chested, waving a shovel in his hand, adjusting mortar, and other workers were busy in the drainage ditches on both sides of the road.

Lu Yao walked quickly to the side of the sand pile where Ning Hao was adjusting the mortar, picked up a shovel inserted in the sand pile, and helped Ning Hao adjust the mortar together.

"Lu Yao, how is it?, have you found a job?" Ning Hao asked.

"No, all construction sites only recruit large and medium workers, not small workers. Lu Yao replied.

"Don't worry, there are still two days, you look for it slowly. Just now, the boss went to the construction site, and he saw that I was very active, so I should be more satisfied. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, ask your cousin to talk to the boss again, maybe he will take you in. If the two of us work together, he can hire one less worker on the site. Ning Hao said while filling the ash bucket with mortar.

"Besides, how do you feel? Are you tired?" Lu Yao asked.

"Hey, can this work make me tired? How do we work in our hometown? In one morning, we can all harvest an acre of wheat and carry the wheat back to the drying field. This little bit of work on the construction site is just a fun time for us. I was in charge of the mortar of the four large construction ditches on both sides of the road, and I still had a lot of free time to help Wu Jingsheng move the big stones. Even Wu Jingsheng praised me for being a working person. Ning Hao shook his head vigorously, shook off the sweat on his face, and said complacently.

"That's good, as long as you can do it and persevere, I believe that it won't be long before you will become a big worker with a high salary, just like my cousin. Today, I have come full circle, and the most profound experience for me is that no matter what kind of work you do, the difference between having technology and not having technology is big. People with skills are welcome everywhere they go, and people without skills are not welcomed. Lu Yao said.

"Don't worry, with the ingenuity of you and me, it won't be long before we will become skilled workers with high wages, and we are more likely to become elites in the construction industry. I'm worried that the boss won't let me learn technology at his construction site?" Ning Hao asked.

"You don't have to worry about this, there is a shortage of big workers on all construction sites, and they can't be recruited outside, so they can only train themselves. As long as you are taken by the boss, I think it won't be long before he arranges for my cousin to teach you skills. Lu Yao said.

"I hope you have been running for a long time, you must be tired, don't help me, sit down on the stone next to you and rest." There is also herbal tea in that bucket, so you can drink it with a water scoop hanging on the edge of the bucket, which is shared. We're about to leave work, and after I send them this pile of mortar, I'll come back to clean up the site and pack up the tools. After Ning Hao finished speaking, he lifted a bucket of mortar in one hand, and jumped down to the left drainage ditch like a trot.

More than ten minutes later, Wu Jingsheng and other workers walked onto the road with tools from the gutter. Lu Yao helped Ning Hao send the remaining cement and water pipes back to the warehouse, and they pushed the trolley together, talking and laughing and walking back to the shed.

On the way back to the shed, Wu Jingsheng asked Lu Yao: "Where did you eat your lunch? The food we left for you was put in two porcelain bowls and placed on your bunk." ”

Lu Yao was very moved when he heard this, and said, "Thank you! I bought dry food outside to eat." Tomorrow at noon, you don't have to leave me food. ”

But Ning Hao immediately exposed Lu Yao's lie and asked, "What kind of dry food do you eat? Do you have the money to buy dry food? Oh, you have money, you have two hundred yuan, but you won't use it." Where did you get the dry food you ate? Was it given by a kind person? Don't say that it was left for you by Hao Dachun! I checked your backpack last night, and Hao Dachun didn't leave the rest of the fried mung beans for you at all, and you must have been hungry at noon!"

"Lu Yao, you can't treat yourself like this! I gave you money last night, you don't want it, say you still have money. I'm your cousin! If you're with me and you're still hungry, and you let me go back to my hometown, how can I face my family? How can I face your mother and my third aunt?" Wu Jingsheng asked with a scolding face.

"If you treat yourself like this, you are embarrassing us! My cousin and I are both doing things, can't we afford to support you alone? Lu Yao, you can't always be like this, you would rather treat yourself badly than trouble others. You and I, and your cousin, are all our own people, can you not treat us as outsiders? If you go hungry like this again, I guess you will fall before you can find a job. What do you want us to do? Do we still have the face to go back to our hometown? Now I strongly suggest that from tomorrow onwards, you go out and look for a job, or come back on time for dinner, or you spend those two hundred dollars. You really don't want to spend those two hundred yuan, so you borrow money from your cousin, and when it's time to start your salary, I'll pay back my cousin!" Ning Hao said loudly.

"Look at what you said, you all think of me as a panda, am I so delicate? I still can't be hungry for a meal or two. Don't worry, I'll be fine. Lu Yao laughed.

"Don't talk about those useless things! People are iron and steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic! You are so thin, and if you continue to be hungry, you will definitely get hungry. Even if you get a job, you can't do it. Lu Yao, you have to be obedient, you can't do this again in the future! Just now Ning Hao said that you still have two hundred yuan on you, right? Since you don't want to use it, there must be a reason for you, so I won't ask deeply. When I get back to the workshop, I'll borrow a hundred yuan from the boss, and I'll have to ask for it if you want it, and I'll have to ask for it if you don't!"

The day after tomorrow, you go out to look for a job, just like Ning Hao just said, either you come back on time to eat, or you can use the money I gave you to eat, you have to eat! As for the matter of repaying the money, there is no need for Ning Hao to worry about it. Lu Yao and I are cousins, am I still worried that he won't pay me back? Besides, when you come to me, can I make you starve? Lu Yao, I have to say a few more words to you, but you are also a scholar, and now that you have arrived in this open city, you should also be a little more open-minded. Of course, we can't lose our principles and bottom line of being a man, but in terms of handling things, we can be completely flexible, otherwise, you must be the one who suffers!" Wu Jingsheng said solemnly.