In the mid-eighties, there was a gradual increase in the number of people working outside the countryside. Tens of millions of rural surplus laborers, with the dream of making money, left their hometowns, carried fertilizer bags, and came to the provincial capitals, special economic zones and other places in the land of southern Guangdong, entered the factory, and began to work and live. People call them "migrant workers".

As early as when Qin's father and mother visited her at the university, Qinyin already knew that her brother Qinsheng was working in the special economic zone. At this moment, Qin Yin is also thinking about visiting her brother like her parents visit her, and by the way, she expresses her concern for her brother.

Qin Yin told Yang Yun and Yang Yan about this idea, and the sisters also agreed to find Qin Yin with Qin Yin. However, Yang Yun said, there are migrant workers everywhere in the SEZs, and it is harder to find someone than all day. Qin Yin couldn't help but get discouraged.

Qin Yin clearly remembers that most of the migrant workers she met in the industrial park a few years ago were acquaintances from the same family or village, and after arriving in the special economic zone, they merged into the vast sea of migrant workers. Some of them snuggled under the city walls, in the sheds, and by the stations, waiting for their employers to take them to work. Whether it is digging toilets, sweeping roads, collecting rags, or pulling carts, shining shoes, loading and unloading goods, they all work hard. In an emerging city, the dirtiest, hardest, and most tiring strenuous work, the migrant workers have never flinched. It is precisely because the identity of this kind of migrant worker is still a farmer, which is very different from the workers recruited in the plan, and the working conditions are very poor, so Qin Yin chose to return to his hometown for the college entrance examination.

Remembering the construction and installation techniques he learned at the aqueduct site, he estimated that he would work at a construction site somewhere. Qin Yin told Yang Yun and Yang Yan about this idea.

Yang Yan heard that Qinyin's brother was doing construction work, and said something that made Qinyin worried: "Most people who are engaged in construction now lack safety production facilities, have no labor insurance benefits, and have to take care of themselves when they are sick or injured at work, and some even died in accidents." ”

Yang Yun hurriedly stopped her sister's words and said: "They collectively participated in the construction, highways, mines and other large-scale production labor in the Special Economic Zone, and created a brand-new city with their own hands, becoming an indispensable force in the city." ”

During the chat, Yang Yun recounted the scene when she first came to the special economic zone to work.

When she first arrived, Yang Yun lived in an iron house in the industrial area, which was about the size of the family's pigsty, and there were more than a dozen women living on the upper and lower floors. A small wooden ladder went upstairs, and under the ladder there was a large mess of shoes. Yang Yun was worried that the ladder was unstable, so she didn't dare to go up and down that ladder, and she didn't dare to go up the ladder every time someone supported her feet below. She remembers that one night, it was so hot upstairs that she woke up and felt something crawling on her body, so she grabbed it with her hand, turned on the light, and saw that it was a cockroach with many legs that she had never seen before, and she screamed in fright. One person woke up, and more than a dozen people were also awakened by the sound of screams. At noon the next day, I went to the simple shed to eat, there was no bowl, I used a plastic bag to eat, and when I ate the first bite of food, I almost knocked out a tooth, spit it out and saw that I had bitten a grain of sand.

It is precisely because of this experience that Yang Yun always takes special care of migrant workers. Yang Yun sighed: "Hey, several years have passed, and the treatment of migrant workers has not changed much. The city is changing every day, and it's changing every day, so ask yourself, how can I treat the workers in our garment factory well. ”

After listening to Yang Yun's part-time job story, Qin Yin couldn't help but miss her brother even more. At night, she often secretly felt sad: I don't know where my brother is now? As a migrant worker, is his life good? Is he still running around for three meals a day? Is he wandering in a certain corner of this familiar and unfamiliar city? Is he dreaming of homesickness in the lights of other people's homes?

Soon, Yang Yun's garment factory began to improve the living conditions of migrant workers. After discussing with Chen Qian, Yang Yun called a construction team and began to build new dormitories for foreign workers in the garment factory.

Perhaps out of longing for her brother, she often went to this construction site to experience life. She has experienced first-hand the work and life of migrant workers.

Most of the migrant workers who came to build the dormitory buildings were young farmers from Sichuan, Hubei, Henan and other regions close to the north. The oldest of them was nearly sixty years old, and the youngest was less than eighteen. At that time, there was no large-scale equipment in the place where the dormitory building was built, and bricks, cement, steel bars, etc., could only be carried by people and animals, which was extremely labor-intensive. Carrying a load full of bricks, the migrant workers walked on the construction site with difficulty, and some of them carried two or three bags of 100-pound cement and climbed the stairs with difficulty. On rainy days, although the construction site did not start, they were arranged to carry the stones, and the paths covered with gravel were so smooth that it was difficult to walk empty-handed. When the stones were carried out, they would casually fall on the floor that they thought were clean, looking very tired.

In normal times, migrant workers eat very simply, a bowl of vegetable soup and a few steamed buns are their meal. The migrant workers live in a plastic canopy with red and blue stripes tied to four tree branches, and there are no tent walls. Sometimes they live in the same tent with livestock, and the smell is very unpleasant. They have almost no cultural and recreational activities, and the heavy work of the whole day makes them paralyzed in the shack like mud, and where can they still think about those recreational activities.

Yang Yun was a well-meaning person in charge and installed a television set at the construction site. In the evening, the young men who still had a little energy left gathered in front of the TV and watched it hungrily.

Migrant workers build new dormitories for garment factories, while their own living conditions are very modest. Qin Yin came to visit the migrant workers at night and found that they had no safety facilities other than a wicker hat and an old construction site floor lamp. Some migrant workers slept in low, narrow tin cages, and some almost crawled in and out. Perhaps it is the harsh working conditions that make them feel that they are redundant to wear clothes, and the migrant workers are often naked. Some people even say they haven't worn clothes all summer. At the end of the construction site, four or five workers often share a wooden basin of water and bathe with laundry detergent. A wooden basin of water soon turned black, with a thick layer of gray-white foam floating on it.

In the night, Qin Yin's feet didn't know what to step on, so he wanted to borrow a bucket from a migrant worker to rinse it off. Qin Yin carried a bucket of water to the side of the iron cage where no one had passed through to rinse, the toilet had no light, and by the faint light, he looked down and saw that there was a place where he could step on his feet! Qin Yin pretended to be calm, washed out a small area with a bucket of water, and hurriedly rinsed his feet, and left the construction site under the pretext.

Qin Yin walked on the hazy road in the night, and his eyes were already moist. She thought about her brother in her heart, and thought that Brother Xiang was actually just a member of the migrant workers. Although they face a harsh living environment and have a hard time surviving, they still like to stay in the city and do the hardest and most tiring work.

In fact, not only the workers, even Yang Yun, who has squeezed from a migrant worker to a business leader, as well as Qin Yin and Yang Yan, who are about to enter the society, they, as well as them, all think that this is a rare good opportunity since ancient times, and they can't give up because of the hard work in the city, nor can they lose the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make money because the work is risky. They, and them, have old people and children at home, and even people like Qin Yin who are not yet married need to make money and get rich. Studying is just a way out of changing one's identity and escaping the countryside. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "Dream Chaser Huazhang Claw Book House" for free for the first time.