Chapter 30: Life in the Courtyard

With a place to live, Wang Wei's next main thing is to find a job quickly, no job in this city, the little money Li Juan gave him can't last long, if he can't find a job again, he may not even be able to live in a house of two hundred yuan a month, and he can't even afford to eat a bowl of soup and rice for five yuan, so he has to find a job as soon as possible anyway.

That day in the town, Li Juan not only gave him a part of the cash, but also gave him a savings card of the Agricultural Bank, cash Wang Wei deposited in his card when he went to buy things yesterday, and there was money in the card that Lijuan gave him, but he didn't plan to move this money, and when he found a job, he saved enough 10,000 yuan, and he had to return it to Li Juan along with this bank card, and he couldn't take Li Juan's money. He knew that it was not easy for Li Juan to save this money, and the salary of the township health center was not high, which was saved by Li Juan's usual frugality, if in the city, Li Juan's monthly salary was not enough for those beauty-loving girls to buy cosmetics, but Li Juan was born with a beautiful face, her skin is also very good, and she is very good without any cosmetics, so she rarely buys a lot of cosmetics to decorate her face like a girl in the city, and even wants to improve her skin through cosmetics, so she has this savings for him. He knew that Li Juan gave him this money secretly, and Li Juan's family definitely didn't know that she gave him all the money, and she had to save money herself, which really hurt her.

In this city, the house of two hundred yuan a month is the worst, except for an old wooden bed and a set of dilapidated tables and chairs, there is no furniture in the house, there is no separate bathroom in the room, the toilet needs a public bathroom on the first floor, and the water room for washing clothes is also on the first floor, if you want to cook in the dormitory, the water has to be lifted up with a bucket from the first floor, which is hard for those who live on it, if it is a man, it is better, and the woman carries a bucket of water and then climbs to the fourth or fifth floor, it is really not easy! In addition to this, the water room and toilet are also * annoying to these people who live here, in the summer, the water room is okay to say, the wet point is nothing, but in winter it is not good. There is a layer of ice on the cement floor of the water room, you will slip if you are not careful, you will be injured if you slip and bump into it, there are not a few people who are injured because of the slip in winter, in order to prevent people from slipping, the landlord pressed two "careful slipping" signs at the door of the water room and the water room, or the kind of electrified, and you can see it clearly at night, but this sign does not seem to have much effect, or someone slips and falls every day, someone is injured, and if it is serious, you have to call the emergency phone to send it to the hospital. In the summer, the ground of the water room has never been dry, a large part of the people who live here are migrant workers working on the nearby construction site, dragging their families with their mouths, they work for a day, sweat a lot, and the whole body is covered with mud, if you don't wash at night, the mud body touches the bed, and the sheets immediately become black, so, in the summer, you can see that there are many men wearing pants in the water room washing their bodies, they are all strong, not afraid of cold water, use a basin to catch the cold water, pour it directly from the top of the head, the whole body is wet, after a day's work, this basin of water can make them relax all over the body, at this time you can hear all kinds of strange screams from the water room: "Uh-huh, uh-huh, oh-oh", don't think about it, their bodies are stimulated by cold water, and this cry is made by instinct. There are many construction sites in the vicinity, and most of the people who work are from the countryside, most of them are fellow villagers, or even from a village, and they come out to work together, and you can hear them talking in their hometown dialect in the water room, talking about what they have done that day, and some of them say that they want to buy something after they are paid, and some people say that they want to send money home after they are paid, add a new piece of furniture to their home, and buy a few new clothes for their parents. They talked and laughed in the water room, and the fatigue of pouring a basin of cold water on them was gone.

Many of these migrant workers are married, and they work outside the home, bringing their women out, and the work on the construction site is too hard for women to do, so they find a light job near the construction site to earn some pocket money, which can be regarded as reducing a burden on their men. Most of the work that the women on these construction sites can do in this city is the dirty work of restaurant waiters or dishwashers, and they are quite tired at the end of the day, but they earn pitiful wages, and they have to suffer resentment, but in order to live, they have to endure it, who makes them poor. There are also some women who have a way to find some easy work to do, such as working as a shopping guide in a shopping mall or a nanny in a city person's home, these jobs are relatively easy, they get off work early, and they can also help their men cook when they come back from work, so that tired men can eat hot and delicious meals as soon as they enter the door, and this is their home in this city. Of course, there are some women who don't go to work and are responsible for cooking for men, Wang Wei's next door lives such a young couple, the man is a technician on the construction site, or a big worker, earning more than other people on the construction site, so his wife did not go out to find a job, only responsible for his meals. After the men on these construction sites washed, those who had wives had to bring a basin of water to their wives and scrub them, and the women were inconvenient to wash themselves in broad daylight, and the men dispersed after bathing, and returned to their rented houses, which was their gentle township, in addition to home, the place where they were most nostalgic, and the most gentle harbor for them in this city. Sleeping in a simple room at night, tired, but holding their wife in their arms, feeling the temperature of her skin, they also forget about tiredness, in order to let her live a good life, what can they be tired of, think about the elderly parents and young children at home, they must work hard, without complaint to bear the responsibilities and hardships that life gives them. Young people's physical strength is still recovered quickly, after eating, those young people can still get together to play a few rounds of mahjong, or drink a little wine, chat about family life, talk about their ideas, they also have ideals, they also have to fight for their ideals, they will not give up easily. When the lights of the city are lit up, when there are fewer and fewer vehicles on the streets, they fall asleep with the city, knowing that tomorrow will be dawn, as soon as the day dawns, they will go to work on the construction site again, so that day after day of work, except that it rains and the work on the construction site cannot be done, they can not rest, or the work on the construction site is done, they can rest for a while, and then make plans.

Wang Wei admires these men very much, they do the hardest and most tiring work, but they never complain about the unfairness of life, they are very content, they are grateful, down-to-earth, every penny, every success is their own blood and sweat in exchange, they do not want a rich and noble life, they just want to be safe, this simple life, this is also a kind of happiness. Happiness is never about the accumulation of money and the control of power. On the contrary, money and power made him fearful, he was afraid that one day the money would not belong to him, and the power in his hands would be gone, so he would be a person with nothing.

Life has always been as simple as possible, life is also the simpler the better, simple life is easy to achieve, simple life is easier to satisfy, and it is happier, it is easy to be a simple person, do not think about things that do not belong to yourself, do not fight for goals that you can't achieve, do your own work, do not force yourself, do not embarrass others.

Wang Wei sat on the bed, he was thinking about what he was going to do now, he had to make some plans for himself, so that it would be more efficient and save time, for him, time was really money, and he would spend an extra day if he found a job one day later, which was not allowed for him.

Due to the hot weather and the stuffy house, Wang Wei opened the door of the house, so that there would be a cool breeze blowing in, but this door opened, and the stench from the toilet on the first floor came in with the cool breeze, and it must have been that bastard who forgot to flush the water. The toilet is public, there are 100 people living here, everyone uses this toilet, the sanitation of the toilet has been very poor, the smell is stinking, if there are a few more sloppy people forget to flush after going to the toilet, the hot day is really unbearable, who forgot to flush today, Wang Wei's thinking was broken by the smell.

"I can't stand it. Wang Wei scolded viciously in his heart, and closed the door with his hand, hot is hot! Although he was interrupted by the smell, Wang Wei quickly forgot about the smell, and returned to his own plan, his situation did not allow him to have a trace of relaxation, if he wasted time for the smell, or even wasted a job opportunity, it would be too worthless, besides, others can bear it, why can't he bear it, he is not a prince and young master, he can't even catch up with any migrant worker here, people have at least one job, and he is a real poor bastard, with nothing, the little money on his body is still given to him by Li Juan, and others will definitely laugh at him if it is passed on, what is the difference between him and eating soft riceIf he still complains about this and that, it is tantamount to slapping himself in the mouth, when a person has not yet been able to change the environment he is in and the reality he is experiencing, the best thing to do is to choose silence, and then explode in silence.

"Ma Dingguo, you don't flush the toilet after going to the toilet on a dog day, the shit is still so stinky, it stinks, if you don't flush the toilet again, the old lady will drive your family out and let you sleep on the street. The landlord was also smoky, the landlord was a little fat, and he spoke loudly, which was somewhat similar to the charter wife in Stephen Chow's movie "Kung Fu", she roared, and everyone upstairs and downstairs could hear it. It's no wonder that when dealing with this group of laborers, her temperament is not strong, her voice is not loud, she can't suppress them, and after getting along with them for a long time, she also has her own management methods.

"That's your fault, landlady, you've seen who's smelly, and the mayor's stinks. This man named Ma Dingguo responded to the landlady's words with a hippie smile, as soon as he said this, the people who watched the excitement upstairs and downstairs laughed, and the landlady's voice called Wang Wei out, he thought something had happened, but he didn't expect it to be a stinky thing, this stink can be tolerated by others, but the landlord's wife can't bear it, she also lives here, this stink affects her, she doesn't care if she can't do it, besides, she is the landlord, she doesn't care about it, who cares about it. To be selfish, if every day is so stinky, it is strange that the renter does not run away, no one rents a house, what does she take to make money, and how can she live if she has no money? Therefore, this is not just a simple matter of, but a matter related to the interests of many people, she must stand up to protect her own interests, which can not only avoid damage to her own interests, but also leave a good impression on those tenants, it is a matter of killing two birds with one stone, she must take care of it, and do it.

"If you don't clean the toilet for the old lady, the old lady will really kick out your family, and I don't have a shortage of people here. Just like you, you dare to compare with the mayor, the pulled by the mayor is more fragrant than yours, don't be unconvinced, you can taste it if you are not convinced. As soon as the landlady said this, everyone laughed, I haven't heard of anyone trying to taste, what a group of rough people! Wang Wei was also amused by their conversation, although this group of people spoke rudely, they were very good-hearted, the landlady spoke a little ugly, but the man named Ma Dingguo was not angry at all, and the people here have long been accustomed to this way of talking. If the landlady talks like this, most of them are fine, if she talks to you softly, then it's a bad thing, you have a problem, maybe you will really be swept out of the house by her, she is ruthless and no one can stop her, so people would rather listen to her scolding than listen to her serious speech.

"Won't I get it cleaned up? Isn't it just a piece of? As for you being so angry?" This Ma Dingguo is a Hui who has set up a stall at the corner of the street to grill mutton skewers. His time of work is different from others, others are working during the day, he only works when it is almost dark, set up a few tables at the street entrance, get a few umbrellas, a stall becomes, there are many people who come out for a walk at night in this season, a few acquaintances eat a few skewers of mutton skewers together, drink some beer, it is also a very comfortable life. Ma Dingguo is doing this business, he doesn't make much money, but he can still support his family, in fact, Ma Dingguo is not bad in all aspects, except that he can't remember to flush after going to the toilet, the landlady has a lot of quarrels with him for this, but every time he still forgets to flush.

"Wife, help flush the toilet, I still have something to do. Ma Dingguo shouted at the house he rented, he didn't want to do that little thing himself, he was a big man, he should do big things, not this little thing.

After Ma Dingguo finished speaking, a woman holding a headscarf came out, took her own broom and mop and walked to the toilet, Wang Wei saw Ma Dingguo's wife for the first time, his wife was very white-skinned, thin, very shy, and seemed to be a little afraid of Ma Dingguo. Wang Wei saw her look at Ma Dingguo's eyes timidly, this look was not like a woman looking at her man, but like a daughter who had done something wrong looking at her father, on the contrary, Ma Dingguo's eyes looked at his wife with a straight look, as if his words were holy decrees, there was no doubt, his wife had no right to doubt, as long as she carried it out.

"You poop yourself and let your wife wipe your ass, you're also a man. The landlady is unrelenting, she can't get used to Ma Dingguo always bullying his wife.

"Whether it's a man or not, you come and let's try it at night, and then you'll know if I'm a man or not." "This Ma Dingguo can dare to say anything, he is no different from the Han people in other aspects except for not eating pork, as soon as he said this, everyone laughed again, and he didn't care if the landlady was angry or not, anyway, all the people who live here are rough people, and it's nothing to say some foul words.

"You shit, the dog can't spit ivory out of his mouth. The landlady rushed out with a broom, scolding, while chasing Ma Dingguo, at the same time as the landlady rushed out, another broom also flew out of the toilet, which was thrown by Ma Dingguo's wife.

Ma Dingguo was kicked out of the door by the landlady, the landlady was a little fat, how could she catch up with Ma Dingguo, scare and scare him, lest he speak unscrupulously next time, say these ugly words, and make people laugh.