Chen Qiaoshan now regrets it, why did he come to work in the brick factory yesterday, it was too hard.

The brick factory is in a mountain nest to the west of the town, and the mountain is a mountain of yellow clay, and most of the mountain has been dug up, and the dug up loess has been pulled into bricks.

The production process of the brick factory is backward, except for a brick-making machine, other work depends on manpower. There is not even a minimum excavator, and the soil is excavated by hand, and six or seven strong men can often be seen pushing the cart back and forth.

The brick factory covers a large area, and the ground is covered with a layer of yellow ash, which will leave obvious footprints when you step on it. Not far away, there is a hill-like coal gangue piled up, next to the coal pile is a large chimney tens of meters high, there is a row of simple row houses behind, not far away is a wide yard, on one side is the yard of neat red bricks, on the other side is the bricks that are still drying, this is the whole scene of the brick factory.

In the morning, Chen Weiguo took his son to find the contractor of the brick factory, the contractor was surnamed Zhou, and he heard that he was the brother of the brick factory owner, and everyone usually called him Boss Zhou.

Chen's father introduced his son to Boss Zhou, said some good things, and handed over two packs of Nanyang that he had just bought in the town.

I heard that Chen Qiaoshan had just finished the college entrance examination and wanted to come to the brick factory to do odd jobs, Boss Zhou stared at him for a long time, and said that he would work for two days to see the situation, and then send Chen Qiaoshan to pick up mud.

In fact, the brick factory is very short of people, the heavy work here is low, and the young and strong people have gone to work in the south, and the contractor may not look down on his students, or he may want to take advantage of the opportunity to lower his wages.

Chen Weiguo led Chen Qiaoshan to find a fifteen or sixteen child named Xiao Chen, please take care of Xiao Chen and leave first, he still has work to do, so he can't delay more.

Chen Weiguo's job is to cut mud strips in the row house, but the brick press is too backward, and the pressed mud strips need to be cut manually. His job is to stand at the exit of the brick press, hold a tool made of fine wire, and cut the pressed mud strips evenly, and the cut mud strips are dried to become bricks.

Cutting mud strips is a technical job, sometimes mixed with stone fragments or something, it is easy to break the thin wire, at this time it is necessary to quickly replace the wire, otherwise it will block the brick press.

Picking up mud is very simple, that is, take a shovel to pick up the mud there, and the smaller ones are shoveled up with a shovel and sent back.

Xiao Chen said that this is the easiest job in the brick factory, but the income is also relatively small, Xiao Chen can only get 13 yuan a day, and he averages less than 400 yuan a month, which is the least received by the brick factory.

The work is simple but not easy at all, the whole process has to keep tossing back and forth, after less than two hours, Chen Qiaoshan feels that his waist is no longer conscious, and his hand holding the shovel is also worn out, and he can't stop and rest in the middle, otherwise he will delay the work of the people behind him.

He and Xiao Chen quickly got acquainted, Xiao Chen was the same as Zeng Gang, he dropped out of school after graduating from junior high school and entered the brick factory, he was too young to go out to work and no one wanted him, so he could only work here first, Xiao Chen said that he would go to the south to make a lot of money when he was eighteen.

Life may be unfair, and education is the fairest way to change a person's destiny, but many rural children even have a luxury of studying.

Xiao Chen's big name is Chen Meng, and the people in the brick factory call him Xiao Chen, Xiao Chen calls Chen Qiaoshan Brother Chen, and Chen Qiaoshan calls him Xiao Chen with the crowd.

Xiao Chen is young but has the strength to take care of the newcomer Chen Qiaoshan, but even with Xiao Chen's help, he is so tired that he wants to live, the work of this brick factory is really not done by people, it seems that the ridicule on the Internet is really standing and talking without back pain.

Chen Qiaoshan held his breath and held on, he didn't want to retreat now, he couldn't let a few women in the Chen family laugh to death. In the middle, Boss Zhou came over twice, looked at his situation and left without saying anything.

Finally stayed up until noon, the machine stopped, Chen Qiaoshan sat on the ground, the vicinity was full of yellow mud, he couldn't care about it, his body was full of ash and mud, and he couldn't see the appearance of the student baby.

Xiao Chen said with a smile: "Brother Chen, you can, when I came on the first day, I couldn't stand it after two hours of drying, and tears came out." ”

"Lao Chen's son is a hard-working man, and he will be able to make a big difference in the future. ”

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Chen Qiaoshan listened to the praise of the people around him with a smile, he was already too tired to speak, he really wanted to leave, but he couldn't pull his face, who let him boast about Haikou last night, he couldn't afford to lose this person, and now he has to grit his teeth and persevere.

Lunch was provided free of charge by the brick factory, a bucket of meat that was said to be broth, and a large pot of cucumber lettuce and green beans was thrown on the ground, with two baskets of steamed buns next to it.

Chen Qiaoshan was already so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back, so he went up and took three steamed buns, scooped a spoonful of soup and half a spoonful of vegetables, and gnawed them directly, he never found that steamed buns could be so delicious.

Chen Weiguo walked over, took out a tightly tied plastic bag and handed it to him, only to see that it was filled with chopped bacon, shiny oil, thinking that Tao Xiuying should have specially prepared it for him, don't look at Chen's mother's words, in the end, she still feels sorry for her son.

first divided half of it to Chen Weiguo, and he gave the rest to Xiao Chen, and Xiao Chen didn't take it with a smile.

Thanks to Xiao Chen in the morning, the larger mud strips and mud blocks didn't let Chen Qiaoshan get his hands on them, otherwise he would definitely not be able to persevere. He was very grateful to this little brother who was three years younger than him, if it weren't for Xiao Chen, he would definitely be embarrassed in the morning.

When the afternoon started, Chen Qiaoshan, who had rested for a long time, felt that his body was very sore, and he forced himself to follow Xiao Chen to continue to pick up mud, and gritted his teeth until the afternoon work.

When he was out of work, Chen Weiguo came to him and asked a little ridiculously: "Can you do it? If not, just go home with me!"

Chen Qiaoshan was helpless, he wanted to go home directly, but he really couldn't pull his face, this could be regarded as a cocoon, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "It's nothing, I can do it!"

Chen Weiguo had no choice but to find the contractor again, he couldn't work in vain, he had to negotiate with others. After grinding for a long time, Boss Zhou said that Chen Qiaoshan was a short-term worker, and he could only open ten yuan a day, which was three yuan less than Xiao Chen.

The nearby workers all scolded Boss Zhou for being too picky, and he couldn't do this even if he was a student baby, so the contractor couldn't get through it and added another piece to him, eleven a day, three hundred and three for a month, almost a quarter of the salary of a civil servant.

When he got home, Chen Qiaoshan sat on the chair and didn't want to move, Xiao Wu, who had already come home from school, put a basin of hot water in front of him, took a towel and handed it to him, and asked about the brick factory with a chatter.

Looking at Xiao Wu who was standing beside him and serving diligently, Chen Qiaoshan felt inexplicably familiar, and after a while, he remembered that Chen Weiguo went home every night, and this girl was waiting on the side with tea and water.

He finally understood why Chen Weiguo always spoiled Xiao Wu, even Tao Xiuying was no exception, the little girl was kind and filial, and parents may care more about the intimacy of their children.

At dinner in the evening, in the face of Chen's mother's inquiry, Chen Qiaoshan, who had recovered slightly, couldn't help but brag about his work in the brick factory again, spitting and spitting, bluffing his three younger sisters into a daze, and the result was that when he went to bed at night, he lay on the bed with a sore back, and he regretted that he wanted to slap himself a few times.