Lu Yao and Ning Hao immediately ran towards the mouth of the manhole, ready to say hello to Wu Jingsheng in the manhole. But the workers stood up and stopped them, saying, "Go and wait, don't go near the manhole." The wellhead has just been put on the mortar, which has not yet dried thoroughly and is easy to collapse. ”

"Hey, thank you, big brother!" Lu Yao responded, and quickly pulled Ning Hao back to the side of the road.

More than ten minutes passed, Ning Hao was a little irritable and restless, and Wu Jingsheng, who was working under the manhole, did not come up.

After another five minutes, the worker walked to the side of the road, brought a bamboo ladder about a foot long, and carefully placed it into the manhole. Lu Yao ran over in a few steps, ready to help.

"No, I'll do it myself, the mortar that has just been put on will fall off as soon as it touches it!" the worker hurriedly stopped. Lu Yao immediately stepped aside.

In a moment, a worker wearing a red hard hat and a soaked blue overalls, covered in mortar, slowly climbed up from a bamboo ladder standing in the middle of a manhole.

"Lu Yao, that tall and thin guy who is tanned like a carbon head is your cousin Wu Jingsheng? Is he from our Shanliang Province? Why is it so dark? Will we become like him after working for a long time?" Ning Hao asked.

"He's my cousin! Construction workers are like this, working in the sun every day, no matter how white their skin is, they will tan! What does it matter if there are black spots? As long as you are healthy!" Lu Yao responded.

At this time, Wu Jingsheng was already standing on the road. He took out the bamboo ladder with the workers above, hoisted the tools in the manhole up, and surrounded the four iron horses placed next to the manhole mouth, and wrapped them with warning tapes before shaking off the mortar on his body, taking off the hard hat, grinning, and walking towards Lu Yao and Ning Hao.

"Big cousin!" Lu Yao shouted excitedly, immediately ran over to Wu Jingsheng, and stretched out his hands.

"Lu Yao! Wait a minute, I haven't washed my hands yet! You two came here together? You didn't suffer much on the way, didn't you? Why are you still so thin? Let's go, I'll take you to the shed to wash your faces. Look at the dust on your face, you walked in, right? How did you find this place?" Wu Jingsheng asked with a smile, revealing a mouthful of big white teeth.

Ning Hao, who was still standing still, muttered in a low voice: "Wu Jingsheng is better than the others, and his teeth have not turned yellow yet." ”

After Lu Yao told him about the general situation all the way over, Wu Jingsheng smiled and said: "It seems that your luck is really good! At lunchtime, the foreman was going to arrange for me to go to the waiting building to do things, but because these two manholes were going to be reworked, they sent me here." If I really go to the terminal, it won't be so easy for you to find me. Wait a minute, I'll push the trolley on, and I'll be back to the shed right away!"

"Big cousin, we won't delay you from doing things, right?" Lu Yao asked.

"No! It's done, and it's almost time to get off work. After Wu Jingsheng finished speaking, he ran over to the worker who was pulling a trolley in one hand and took a trolley.

Lu Yao and Ning Hao followed Wu Jingsheng to the shed area and saw that all the sheds were framed by Nanzhu, and the roof and surrounding walls were tied with asbestos tiles. The entire dormitory area is connected by hundreds of sheds, which are orderly and regular.

Wu Jingsheng pushed the trolley and led Lu Yao and Ning Hao through several rows of sheds to the middle of the shed. Wu Jingsheng took out ash buckets, foam, trowels, ash spoons, mud boards, and other tools from the trolley, rinsed them under the water pipe, and put them in a tool shed next to him with the trolley.

Wu Jingsheng asked Lu Yao and Ning Hao to wait for a while, he entered a dormitory, and said politely to a man sitting in the lower bunk, with a flat head, bare shoulders, and a dark body: "Boss, my cousin and his neighbor are here, can you stay here?"

"The rework of the two manholes on the airport road is finished, right? He spoke with a strong eastern Cantonese accent.

"It's all done, there will definitely be no problem this time!" replied Wu Jingsheng.

"It's better not to have any more problems, otherwise we will be fined by the company! Didn't you say last time that only one cousin was going to come over to do things? Why do you have more neighbors? Now we do have more work, but we lack big and middle workers, not small workers. For your sake, I'll leave one person to work in our engineering team, and the other person can stay here for three days, and let him go out and find work on his own! The guy is cooking, you go and say hello to him, and from tonight onwards, add two people's meals to each meal. The boss said.

"Thank you, boss! My cousin and his neighbor are both in high school and are very smart, can you please ask the boss to introduce another job?" Wu Jingsheng asked.

You know that I only know people who are engaged in construction, and I am not familiar with the bosses who run factories and companies, so I can't help them. The boss said.

"Boss, although they have been studying for a few more years, they are all rural people, and there is no problem at all in bearing hardships and standing hard work. They are not short in stature, and they can do light and heavy jobs. Wu Jingsheng is still making the last effort, he wants the boss to take Lu Yao and Ning Hao down.

"I know what you mean, but at the moment I can only take one person. And that person must be obedient, able to endure hardships, and able to work. As for who to keep behind, you can see for yourself. After the boss finished speaking, he reached out and picked up the hookah gun placed at the foot of the bed, and took another puff.

Wu Jingsheng sighed helplessly, and could only turn around and walk out of the dormitory. He first went to the opposite kitchen, told the man to add two people's meals, and then came back to bring Lu Yao and Ning Hao into another dormitory, and arranged for two to go to bed.

Lu Yao and Ning Hao came out of the shower, and it was time for dinner. The rice on the construction site is open to eating, but the dish is a pot for five people, which contains meat and two different vegetarian dishes mixed together, which is not a small amount.

Since Lu Yao and Ning Hao had just arrived, the boss specially arranged for Wu Jingsheng, Lu Yao, and Ning Hao to have a dish. After Wu Jingsheng thanked the boss, he immediately went to the commissary outside to buy a bottle of Erguotou. At the same time, he also bought a bottle of local rice wine for the boss, which he knew he liked to drink.

This meal, everyone ate very happily. Especially Ning Hao, who had three bowls of rice in succession, his stomach was bulging and burping.

After being full of wine and food, Wu Jingsheng took Lu Yao and Ning Hao to take a walk on the road outside the shed, and by the way, he talked about the communication with the boss before the meal.