Chapter 8 Physical Work
A Transit-Trans van came galloping in the distance, and from the cab came down a middle-aged man with sparse hair and glasses, who had dark skin and looked very capable, shouted after getting out of the car: "Laborers carry the board upstairs, eighty tubes of lunch boxes a day, and those who do it hurry up and get on the car, and they will be ten." As soon as they heard this, Xiao Zhai and Li Hongyi came to live, threw down the paper shell and squeezed into the car, the middle-aged man saw that it was a young man and let him get into the car directly, and the car was already crowded with people in just one or two minutes, and those who did not have a seat squatted on the aisle.
The middle-aged man started the vehicle and drove west, "When you arrive at the construction site, you will work in pairs, one group will unload the carpentry board from the truck, one group will carry the hall on the first floor, and one group will carry the second floor from the hall...... After unloading and putting the goods away, pay for the settlement. "Began to divide the labor, and our group of ten people also divided it through discussion, Xiao Zhai and Li Hongyi were carried from the first floor to the second floor. received the job so quickly, and the two of them were thinking that eighty a day would be the first salary in their lives, which was beautiful.
This construction site is a big hotel that has just been built and is being renovated, there are three large trucks parked in front of the door, the car is full of stacks of wooden boards, the two of us have no experience This is also the first time to come to the construction site, see how to do the original experienced laborers. Seeing that they resisted two boards at a time, handed over to us from the hotel lobby, we also bent down our backs to take this one and almost let the ground go up, it was too heavy, step by step difficult steps to step on the steps to the second floor to get through the difficulty, this is just the beginning of trying this job is too sinful. One step, two steps...... Start counting from your heart and spread out the burden on your body. "You two boys, hurry up, you two have to work until midnight at this speed, you see that people are carrying the board again, you two are still grinding here, I pay my salary every day!" The middle-aged man shouted very dissatisfied, and the two of us had to speed up our pace, and the strength of the whole body to feed was also used, and finally arrived on the second floor and handed over to the next group. My waist kept getting up and suddenly felt as sore as falling apart, but I couldn't rest and ran to the first floor to pick up the board. "Xiao Zhai, how do you feel?" "It's really heavy, let's do it if we have a job, but I'm afraid that the two of us won't be able to survive noon and lie down, so we have to think of a way." The two of us walked with heavy steps as we spoke.
"There are no handrails on this staircase, let's put up the board from the first floor, you drag it from the bottom, and I pick it up from the top, can you save some effort?" Xiao Zhai said with a study, and I thought it was also a way to try it next time.
The two of us began to erect the board from the first floor according to the method Xiao Zhai said, he went to the second floor and then pulled up, I lifted it up from the bottom, and then I went up the stairs, and he helped me up and dragged it up for two reincarnations to the second floor. This is much less effort than going up to resist the board, according to this method, we transported more than 20 boards, arms began to tremble, when I thought of the three trucks at the door, a car has four packs, and the visual inspection must have 400 and three cars will get 1,200 sheets, which is less than a fraction. I wondered if I would be able to give my life here.
Dry until noon, the middle-aged man who sent us with a white plastic bag in both hands with a boxed lunch, for the two of us who just came to the construction site after school, it was like taking off a layer of skin, tired and hungry, sweat had already collapsed the jacket, as soon as I smelled the fragrance of the food, it was like seeing my father and mother, "Come and eat, and then dry, according to your speed, you have to work until midnight." The middle-aged man shouted dissatisfiedly. Ten of us took the lunch box and began to sit on the floor and eat. "It's not easy for you two to do this job with your physique. Just got out of school. There was a Northeast accent next to him, and the two of us turned our heads to see that it was a strong man with a tiger's back and a tattoo of the word "Yi" on his arm, and he exuded a Jianghu atmosphere, giving people a feeling of not daring to approach, "Big brother, you are right, just got out of school." The strong man didn't speak again, he devoured his meal, and after eating and patting the dirt on his fart, he took a sip of the tap water, and went upstairs again. After he left, Xiao Zhai and I seemed to let go of our hearts, and this domineering aura was like beating and killing the big brother in society. The two of us also quickly finished eating and sat down at the mouth of the first floor, and then threw down a white rope two fingers thick from the upstairs, which startled the two of us and looked up, "The rope is tied to the board and dragged up, saving effort." The familiar Northeast accent came from upstairs, and we looked at each other and said upstairs, "Thank you, big brother." "There was no more talk from upstairs.
With this rope, we have reduced a third of our strength in the afternoon, but the red hair on our hands that has been strangled by the rope shows a hot feeling.
It's been a really hard day, except for eating and peeing? has been struggling, slowly prostration of the body unconsciously began to shake the arms, about seven o'clock in the evening, finally finished unloading two cars of boards, ten of us around the middle-aged people in a circle, the middle-aged man holding a small bag in his hand has already prepared the money, sent to each of us, when he got the hand of the fifty yuan, a twenty yuan, a ten yuan three bills, Li Hongyi forgot the sourness on the body and the hot feeling on the palm, this is the first time he screened his ability to get the salary, the heart feels too good, although not much but down-to-earthใ
Sending us back to the "lazy market", we dispersed in a hurry, and after making an appointment with Xiao Zhai to be here tomorrow, we dragged our tired bodies back to Wang Wenming's house. As soon as I entered the house and saw my bed crawling on the bed, I wanted to lie down like this and didn't want to get up. Brother Wang staggered over, "What are you doing today, what is the big thing you kid are doing today? Covered in sweat and smelling, why are you tired like this bear?" I lay on the quilt and replied with my eyes closed: "Take over the hard work, earn eighty today, and then go to work tomorrow." Brother Wang answered: "Your kid's body is not the material for manual work, you only earn eighty when you are tired of this bear, and I earn one or two hundred when I sit there this day, do you want to go out with me?"
As soon as he heard this, Li Hongyi sat up from the bed and his eyes lit up, "Really?" "But you don't have these two brushes, and you can't show people, so let's go to the coolies." These words are like a basin of cold water splashed down from head to toe, Li Hongyi lay on the bed again and wanted to hear that his grandfather was also a well-known fortune teller in ten miles and eight towns at that time, it was by virtue of this plum blossom easy, I have read it several times, this technology is not good, although I know the process of starting and breaking the hexagram, sometimes it is accurate and sometimes it is not allowed, what is the problem? I don't know how long it took to fall asleep. The body is too tired and will definitely be sore the next day, and Li Hongyi himself is ready to meet the soreness. In the dream, I dreamed that I came to a familiar place, in front of my grandfather's grave in the woodland of Xishan, covered with layers of mist, and there was a figure in front of my grandfather's grave that was somewhat similar to my father's sitting on the grave smoking old sweat cigarettes, but when I got closer and looked closely, this was not my father, could it be a grandfather who had never met before? Then he opened his mouth and carefully called "grandpa", this person turned his head, a familiar face, exactly the same as in the photo, it was grandpa. "Baby, here, I didn't expect that your father, who was not a master, didn't have any understanding at all, but gave birth to a good grandson for me. As he spoke, he came to Li Hongyi, "Baby, reach over and I'll give you a pulse." "Since it's my grandfather, I'm not guarded. Grandpa kept muttering something in his mouth, and the hand around my neck kept beating. After a minute or two, a smile leaked from his face and said to me: "Baby, your life is to do what I do, this is fate, your noble person is about to appear, he is a great power, if he can accept you as an apprentice, it is also the blessing of our old Li family." Then he said: "You are easy to count the plum blossoms, it is your doubts I didn't understand back then, you need to ......" such a real dream, I don't know how long it took, I felt someone shake his body again, tired opened his eyes, Brother Wang's face appeared in front of him, "You kid laughed and cried for a while, were you tired yesterday? It's almost nine o'clock, I won't wake you up again, you will sleep for twelve hours, and the stinky boy delayed me from coming out of the stall." Seeing that I woke up, Brother Wang got up from my bed and hurriedly went out to turn around and said, "There is food on the table, don't forget to eat, you can't afford it, it's cold." โ
I sat up, thinking back to my dream last night, and I felt that I still remember what my grandfather said. Could such a clear dream be a dream? My noble man is about to appear? Confused, thinking that Xiao Zhai was still waiting for him in the lazy market, he casually picked up two mouthfuls of rice, and dragged his aching body out of Brother Wang's house.