Fortunately, the driver's car arrived in a short time, and we all jumped into the car and set off in a mighty way.

More than 20 people in the car chattered, bumped for more than an hour, stopped a few times in the middle, some people went to make it convenient, some people looked for something to eat, and my brother and I ate pancakes for lunch. At first, everyone still talked and laughed, but after a long time, the bumpy bones were going to fall apart, and they were grizzled and tired, and they were willing to speak.

It wasn't until about two o'clock in the afternoon that we arrived at the old famous mountain, which is where we will be working for more than a month.

I looked around and felt emotional.

The villagers around this place all know that it is very desolate, and there is a drought for nine times in ten years, the land is very barren, and basically no crops are planted. Moreover, the barren grass that grows cannot be eaten, and animal husbandry cannot be developed.

No one wants to come to the old famous mountain.

But I know that in a few decades this will become a big industrial city, specializing in the production of some mobile phones and computer parts and things like that. Who would have thought that this place would one day be full of high-rise buildings and every inch of land?

If you can, buy a merchant here, and you can sit there and collect rent, how good is it?

"What do you think?" my brother said with a smile as he stood in front of me, "You seem to be very happy." ”

I smiled and nodded, "Because it's very open here." ”

"It's hard work here, oh, the boss is here. My brother raised his hand and pointed.

I saw a gray pickup truck speeding up this direction, bringing up a cloud of dust.

A man in a yellow plaid suit, in his early thirties, looked quite suffocating. With a cigarette in his mouth, he glanced at the people, as if he was satisfied.

After the reform and opening up, the first ones were all such bold second-rate people and the like. It was speculation before, but now they can do business, and these people are the most active and can make a fortune.

There were a lot of things in the car behind him, and I saw two bags of rice and a dozen cabbages. I thought to myself, this should be what we eat at this stage.

Seeing him, these people all flattered him: "Boss Wang, you are here, and you haven't seen him for a few days and are you handsome again?"

"No, Boss Wang, you are really spirited. At first glance, he looks like a rich prostitute!"

Boss Wang just laughed.

Someone said: "Is it still the same price this year?

"I'm grass, the price I'm giving you is already the highest, okay? That's the price. Boss Wang stepped on the cigarette butt under his feet, looking like a scoundrel.

Everyone complained for a while, thinking that the price would rise a little this time, but they couldn't help but flatter.

Boss Wang said with a smile: "Don't tell me that I'm useless, I'll put ugly words in front, you and Lao Tzu's sweet brother and sister are useless now." When the time comes, if you can't do a good job, Lao Tzu will not be soft on deducting money!"

And they all agreed.

My brother has been drilling wells for almost three years, and he can be regarded as a successful player, and with great strength, his salary is the highest, almost thirty yuan a day.

But the location of the well is not easy to find. My brother and the others waited until the experienced experts found the water source, and then they could work together to dig the well. The process is very hard, and there are places where there are not necessarily wells in the circle, and it may be useless to work for half a day. So there is no guarantee that you will be paid for a day. In addition, we have to do some other work, in short, the area where we work is on the east side of the river bubble.

The other women are responsible for chores, cooking and laundry, and if they have extra work, they can do it, and they don't pay for it.

It is a fixed job of 100 yuan a month, and the salary is not high, which is very hard, but because it is not easy for farmers to see cash now. At least you can buy two clothes for your children, pay tuition and something, so many people rush to do it. If it weren't for my brother's relationship, I probably wouldn't have been able to stay so easily.

They are all close to Boss Wang, I stood aside, looking at the large barren grassland, how tall one person is, and there are many wild flowers that I can't name, the color is a little purple and red, not very good-looking. But it's very fragrant.

It is said that this plant is very drought tolerant, so there is only such a thing here.

Walking a few dozen meters ahead, there is a river bubble, the water in it is very clear, it is used to wash clothes and cook water, and the opposite of the river bubble has been blocked by some wooden fences, it is said that the state wants to carry out projects here. It should be the piece of the high mountain peak.

Boss Wang just took a fancy to the project here, so he was going to dig a well here, no matter what he was doing, he needed water! The well here was found, and the engineering team had to pay if they wanted to use it, and they would definitely make a profit without losing money.

Boss Wang began to count at this time: "Okay, I'll see how many people come, one, two...... Twenty-four! Okay, that's all, divide into three groups, and start working in a moment. I've got someone to find a place, hurry up! ”

I was stunned, this is about to start working?

I whispered to my brother, "Where do we live?"

"I'll build a shack and sleep here. ”

I didn't speak, the conditions were hard enough.

The men went to install the machine and dig the well, and we women went to get a place to sleep, and supported it with a few logs, and first pounced on it with a bag of fertilizer, and then cut out the weeds like rice, and put them on the wooden shelves, and the proposed shacks were set up.

These women are all veterans, and they move quickly and quickly, and I am new here, so they let me do chores and go over there to mow the grass.

I bent down and didn't look up, brushing like cutting rice to make a barren haystack out, where it looked like a small mountain bag, and they all said that the work was decent.

"It seems that there is no shortage of hardships at home. ”

I smiled, I had been doing all this work in the transfer field for more than thirty years, until the later quarry for Jiaojiao to go to school.

The skill of cutting rice has seeped into my mind. With almost no brains, the movements of the hands are directly coherent.

My brother looked at me from time to time, and I smiled at him and waved the scythe in my hand very easily.

A total of two sheds were built, the larger one was for men. The small one is for women to sleep in, and the two sheds are about ten meters apart. There were some paper shells and wooden boards on Boss Wang's car, we took them over, spread them on the ground first, and then took out the bedding and covered it on it, so that it was not easy to get wet.

I asked the mosquitoes how neat they were: "On such a hot day, mosquitoes will definitely bite." ”

Boss Wang heard it and said with a smile: "Do you see these grasses? Grab a handful and burn it before going to bed, put it at the door, and it will repel mosquitoes." ”

I thought to myself, these wild grasses are quite functional.

Boss Wang pointed to the rice bags and vegetables on the car, and I hurriedly went to get them down.

"I bring food once every ten days, and these cabbages are ten days, and you calculate a little when you cook. ”

I saw a big piece of meat in the corner, a bag of potatoes, only three or four catties, only half a pot of oil pot, only soy sauce and salt for seasonings, and the heart said, it was really dark enough. So many people don't give anything else and can eat?

Boss Wang explained a few words to us and drove away in a small car, but they are big bosses, where can they live here and suffer with us?

A couple of us women started living cooking. It was divided into three fires. Find a few rocks and pile them over there, and then put the found pieces of wood and branches and wild grass underneath, and you can boil water to cook and stir-fry. It was a very hot day, and the heat of the choking and provoking flames gushed out, and I couldn't breathe several times when I was hot, and my lungs were coughing very painfully.

The sweat on his forehead flowed like a river, but he still needed to keep putting firewood and grass down.

I saw an eldest sister, pour rice and water into the big pot, pour salty salt and some potato cubes and cabbage slices into it, and cover the pot directly, the taste can be imagined, it is all half-cooked, and after it is served, pour some sauce, and it is a meal with vegetables.

I don't think it's too rich, and the woman on the side smiled: "Some can be eaten, if the boss delivers the food too late, it is estimated that we can only eat it with salty salt in the later stage." That's good. Save it. ”

I can only nod, and then a few people skillfully stew out the big piece of meat first, fry the oil, and then put the meat aside, only a little a day, afraid of spoiling, put it in the shade, and put cold water around, but I guess it can last for three or five days.

Someone else introduced to me that men can't just eat rice, so the boss also left some noodles and corn buns, and you can eat one day's steamed buns after eating rice for three days. I nodded, and humbly jotted it all down.

The eldest sister shouted loudly at this time, "It's time to eat!"

The people working there hurriedly agreed: "Hurry up and eat! Let's eat, let's eat, I'm starving!"

Everyone ran to the river bubble to wash, and then ran to this side shirtless.

I don't think this rice will taste good, those rice are the cheapest grains of small grains.

The lid on the top of the pot was leaking everywhere, the rice was a little half-cooked, and the black smoke was billowing and choking into the pot, and the whole rice was gray.

But when these people came, they all gobbled up, and they used the basins and lunch boxes they carried with them to fill the rice, and they ate in large gulps, and some people went to find branches without chopsticks. I broke it, took off the skin from the outside, and ate it.

I sat on the floor and ate as I watched a large black iron kettle boiling water. This water is the water from the ditch over there, and it must be clarified and boiled before drinking, and it is said that they did not like to drink boiled water at first, and drank raw water directly.

Anyway, the environment here is very poor.