Su Yi spent eight cents to buy a bus ticket to the city. Or she was lucky, in the afternoon, there were more than a dozen cadres at and above the section level in the county garment factory, who were going to the provincial capital for a meeting, and she had more than fifteen people. Only then did the station arrange a bus to take them to the provincial capital.

Otherwise, we will have to wait until tomorrow morning before the bus will be sent to the provincial capital.

Su Yi found a window seat and sat down, half-asleep and wandered in the car for more than two hours before arriving at the station in the city. She asked the doorman uncle outside the station for directions, spent a dime, and took a bus to the old public security compound in the southern suburbs of Zhanjiang City.

This is a small brick bungalow connected to each other, half of which belongs to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and the other half was sold by the Public Security Bureau to the Nanjiao Textile Factory as a public house, where many employees of the public security and textile factory, as well as their families, live.

The small bungalows are all detached, and the people who live in them are basically family members who are leaders in textile factories or public security bureaus, and the administrative level is below level 13. Those above level 13 live in tube buildings, and they may not be able to get a room.

Su Yi visually inspected that there were six rows of brick bungalows in this piece, with eight houses in each row. Each of the two rows of houses faces each other, with a path in between. The four houses facing each other share a small courtyard of 70 to 80 square meters. Vegetables were planted in the gardens and mud fields in almost every yard, and after a rough sweep, there were leeks, loofahs, cucumbers, cabbage, lotus white, sweet potatoes, garlic, green onions, turnips, potatoes, and ...... Fill the yard to the brim.

The house is all of the same structure, one covers an area of about 60 square meters: two bedrooms, a kitchen, and a hall. Each bungalow is equipped with a separate toilet, which is very convenient.

Unlike the tube building, where the conditions are better, there is a toilet and public bath on the first floor, and the poor condition is only one toilet and public bath in one building. It is inconvenient to take a bath and go to the toilet, and the smell in the toilet is also unpleasant.

Because of the age, moss has grown on many bricks and tiles of the small bungalow. In the crevices of the bricks, there are occasional bushes of wild grass swaggering in the wind, showing off their presence.

At this time, it was close to evening, and the workers of the textile factory got off work, some walked, some rode bicycles, and rushed to the compound like Su Yi.

Su Yi didn't use the direction instrument, followed the people, walked for about fifteen minutes, and stood in front of the bungalow that Xiao Gongan told her. The door of the house was closed, and Su Yi raised his hand and knocked on the door.

"Who?" asked warily.

Su Yi heard it, this was Yingzi's voice. She shouted loudly: "I'm Su Yi, is it Yingzi?"

"Sister Yi, you're finally here! We've been waiting for you for a long time. Yingzi, Da Ya and a few other girls were very happy to hear Su Yi's voice, and Xiao Gongan really didn't lie to them. They all ran to the gate and opened the door to welcome her in.

"Sister Yi, what's wrong with your face? And your hands, how did you hurt it?" Seeing the injury on Su Yi's face, the girls screamed in disbelief.

"When I went to save people, I was scratched a few times by the thorn bushes and branches in the forest, and it was no big deal. It doesn't hurt much now. Su Yi entered the room and sat down, picked up the warm boiled water that the eldest girl poured for her, and drank a bowl in one go.

She put the remaining peaches and plums on the table: "This is the fruit that the villager gave me, it has been washed, you can eat it separately." ”

The girls didn't do anything, these days, fruit is a rare thing, and it is generally not eaten. Even if the fruit trees of the house bear fruit, it will not be their turn to eat them.

The eldest girl went to the house and brought a bowl to Su Yi, "Sister Yi, this is the chopsticks lent to us by the master of the canteen of the Public Security Bureau, I scooped a bowl of sweet potato porridge for you, let's eat together." ”

"That's right, Sister Yi came by car from the county, and she definitely didn't have dinner. Just eat with us. The other girls sat around the table, picked up their dishes and chopsticks, and prepared to eat.

Only then did Su Yi see more than a dozen thick noodles and big steamed buns on the table, a large plate of hot and sour radish strips, a pot of boiled cabbage with little water in clear soup, and a few big roasted sweet potatoes. She looked at the girls who were eating deliciously: "This is your dinner?" Is this enough for them to eat?

"Hmm. Yingzi took a sip of porridge and smiled contentedly: "These things are already very good, we can basically eat six points full, and we won't be hungry and can't sleep at night." ”

"Yes, I've never eaten so well and been so full at home. I left home these days, I didn't have to do heavy work, and I could basically eat enough every day, I never dreamed that I would be able to live such a good life one day!"

"That's right. This is also thanks to Sister Yi and Xiao Gongan. We have money in our hands, and we can buy whatever we want. If it weren't for the expensive clothes, I would have liked to buy myself a new set of clothes to wear! ”

"Juanzi, don't mess around! If you really buy clothes, you will run out of money and have no money to buy food. We're not going to let you eat white food. ”

"I just think about it. I went to department stores and ready-to-wear stores and asked, and a new set of clothes, without a cloth ticket, was about 30 yuan at the cheapest! Thirty yuan was enough for me to eat for half a year, and I wasn't crazy. ”

"It's good that you know. The eldest girl looked up and saw Su Yi wearing new clothes, and asked her, "Sister Yi, is this a new one you bought? How much did it cost? You really don't know how to live." How much money do you have left?"

Su Yi saw the girls looking at him with envy and disapproval, and laughed dryly: "It didn't cost much." I have money, so you don't have to worry that I don't have anything to eat. ”

"You didn't buy anything other than clothes, did you?" the eldest girl and Yingzi were not worried, "Take out the money you have left and count it." Let's see how much is left?" If it's not enough, they will make up privately and buy food for Sister Yi, and they can't make her hungry.

"There are more than sixty pieces. Su Yi took out a handful of money and asked the little housekeeper Po Yingzi and the eldest girl to help her count it. In fact, she still has more than 110 yuan, but she can't tell them. Because the money from the sale of grain and flour cannot see the light of day.

After the two girls finished counting, they folded the money and gave it to her: "Don't spend money like this in the future." Our account has not yet fallen, where to live in the future, how to find money, are all problems, but we have to save money. ”

"That's right. The other girls chimed in.

"Have you figured out where to settle down?" Su Yi took a radish strip, put it on the steamed bun, took a bite, chewed a few times, drank a mouthful of porridge and swallowed it. The brown rice and thick noodles scraped her throat, and she was very unaccustomed to eating them, and some of them couldn't swallow.

Thinking that he would have to eat these things in the future, Su Yi suddenly felt a little helpless.

"We've been discussing it for the past few days, and we still want to find a village to live in around the city together. Yingzi replied: "We haven't studied much, we haven't graduated from elementary school, we can't do anything but farm work, if we settle in the city, we will definitely not find a job, then we can't live." ”

Juanzi came out after adding porridge, heard the words of the eldest girl, and nodded: "That's right." In the past few days, we have gone out to inquire about factories, restaurants, post offices, banks, supply and marketing cooperatives, primary schools, middle schools, and department stores in the city...... The minimum requirements for recruitment are all secondary school students or junior high school graduates. For those like us who haven't finished elementary school, unless they have the strength to do it, or they know a craft, or they have relatives to introduce them, they can't find a job at all. ”