Seeing the end of the year, the weather has entered the cold season, and the three eight-story residential buildings that came up at the same time have reached the critical juncture of capping. In order to complete the concrete pouring of the building capping before the heavy snowfall, the operation time of each team was reduced by half.

The bricklayer class does not advance the wall at the same height as the whole, but on the premise of not working in the nest, a section of the wall is completed, and the carpenter then follows behind to tie the shell board, and every time the carpenter completes a section of the shell board, the reinforcing bar worker will immediately tie it behind.

For all types of work, whoever delays and retreats, the year-end bonus will be deducted.

As a result, the entire construction site worked overtime day and night, Xiao Yao's team of nine people, he left two men and two women ingredients, Wang Guoying went upstairs to locate the fabric, and he took three men to assault the materials (transport the finished steel bars to the roof) and binding, for a while, they were so busy that even the canteen was sent to the roof of the building.

A series of competitions were held between the various types of work in the three buildings, but the final key was in the steel class.

As long as 80% of the carpentry support shell is completed, the remaining reinforcement support can be supplemented when poured, but the structural reinforcement must be completed before the concrete can be poured.

One of the biggest problems in the steel bar class is to transport the accessories more than ten meters long, that is, the steel bar ingredients of the roof beams, such components are too long, the gantry crane can not be used, and it will bend if you don't pay attention to it, and it can only be passed manually.

Xiao Yao's team has only nine people, and he arranges one person for each layer of scaffolding, and even the girls are used as porters, and there are still two people missing. Because the ground and the top floor must be carried by two people, and the middle one person passes vertically to the roof.

Even if Xiao Yao is responsible for the work of two people on the ground, it is completely impossible to do without two people on the roof. The personnel on the construction site were tense, and all the teams were very busy, Xiao Yao thought that the only way to find someone to help was to go to the bricklayer class.

Although Xiao Yao did not interact with the bricklayer class during this time, the younger brother who now supervises the order of cooking every day is already very familiar with Xiao Yao, so Xiao Yao can only go to him to ask.

The younger brother who was building the wall, heard Xiao Yao say that he came to borrow two people to help with the materials, and he readily agreed to help.

He went to the squad leader to explain the matter, but was rejected by the squad leader. The meaning of the squad leader is very clear, they are also tight-staffed, the task is heavy, a radish and a pit, no one will raise an idler in vain.

"Squad leader, you see this, two can't do it, you give me one, I need at least one more person to run it, you just give it to one person. ”

Xiao Yao can be regarded as compressing the personnel in place, but the squad leader is still reluctant to speak.

"Why are you like this? My friend finally came to me for a favor, and I agreed, but you didn't give me any of them, so I was told to behave like a person?"

The younger brother was anxious and shouted at the squad leader.

"This is not something that people don't do! Which one of my dust-mixers, dust-lifters, brick-makers, and wall-building people will go away? I'm one person less, and the process is broken, but he can run, and I won't stop? You promised, you give. ”

After speaking, the leader of the bricklayer squad ran away in a huff, if it weren't for the fact that his younger brother was a rare good wall-builder in the bricklayer class, and dared to yell at him like this, he would have been fired directly. And what he didn't expect was that the younger brother yelled even louder at his back:

"I will give it, I will give it, and I promise that it will not be slower than others. ”

The younger brother and the squad leader were anxious, Xiao Yao didn't say anything when he looked at it, as long as he could borrow someone, it had nothing to do with him if they quarreled. The younger brother angrily took Xiao Yao back to the place where he built the wall, and said to a person who was carrying two ash buckets:

"Liu Jiali, don't do it yet, follow my brother to the steel bar class to help. ”

"Huh? I won't. ”

"If you are told to go, you will go, and he will not teach you. ”

If it weren't for hearing her younger brother call her name, and then hearing her voice, Xiao Yao really didn't notice that she was a woman. She saw her brother's menacing posture and looked a little flustered.

Xiao Yao looked at this petite and thin girl, and frowned, is this girl okay?

Liu Jiali was wearing a very ill-fitting labor cloth overalls, and the hem of the gown reached her knees.

A fat deep-brimmed hat covered the back of her head and forehead, and she couldn't see a single hair, her eyebrows were covered, leaving only a pair of big black eyes, her face was covered with dust, and she looked at Xiao Yao in fear.

Liu Jiali's pants are only visible at the lower half of the knee, which are full of plaster, and the original color cannot be seen. The shoes were outrageously large, completely inconsistent with her petite figure, and obviously not her own.

The ash bucket is a bricklayer who transports mortar in the field for a short distance, and does not have much effort, mainly to run back and forth with the ash bucket. This occupation is laborious but lightweight, mostly held by women, and is the lowest-paid occupation.

At this time, Xiao Yao has to do it if he can't do it. He didn't have time to delay here, and after thanking his younger brother, Xiao Yao took the girl to his team.

"Team Leader Xiao, you went for a long time to find a child laborer, is he okay?"

"Who said no? You and Xiao Xie stand on the third and fifth floors, just let her stabilize you on the fourth floor, you two remember it for me, she just helps you two in the middle, don't rely on her strength. If you drop the rebar, I'll settle accounts with you both. ”

Xiao Yao can only arrange the two strongest in the group to pass on Liu Jiali's upper and lower hands, and only in this way can Xiao Yao rest assured that she will join.

It was also at this time that Liu Jiali learned that Xiao Yao asked her to help pass the steel bars, and as long as she helped to help. It's not heavy, just stand there, don't run back and forth, it's no different from resting, she's tired these days.

Xiao Yao arranged Liu Jiali to the fourth floor, and the other personnel also went to the designated position to stand, and then began to pass the thick and long rebar that was bent into a certain shape. It took ten people half a day to transfer all the materials to the roof, and the rest of the process was binding.

After Liu Jiali finished the transmission, she left silently, and Xiao Yao was too busy to ask. Fifty-eight hours in a row, they didn't close their eyes. Four meals a day, all of them are sent to the roof of the building from the canteen, and everyone eats in the cold wind.

Binding steel bars, all squatting. Squatting tired, legs numb, they knelt on one knee in the gap between the steel mesh to tie, this knee hurts and then change to another, Wang Guoying and the three girls also survived like Xiao Yao.

The sky has eyes, Xiao Yao led everyone to work so hard, and in the three-building competition, he was the first to pass the quality acceptance. When Hong Bo heard this, he was very happy, and he said to the senior engineer that he would pay out of his own pocket and give Xiao Yao an extra 100 yuan on top of the original reward of 200 yuan.

Xiao Yao did not go back after the team completed the task in the assault, he had dinner and fell asleep directly on the bamboo fence bed in the shed. But when he woke up, he was displaced.

What made him even more embarrassed was that he didn't know how to sleep in Wang Guoying's shed, with dirty clothes and a quilt. He scrambled to his feet and exclaimed:

"What's going on? How did I get here?"

Xiao Yao slept well this night, the warm sunlight outside shone in along the unsealed gap of the bamboo fence, Wang Guoying, Zhang Hanxiang and Liu Yurou, the three girls, were already eating porridge.

"They can't sleep over there, they can only sleep in the Chase bunk for four people, they all sleep five, and they can't squeeze you. I discussed with Da Liu, and I carried you to our side. ”

"Xiao Yao, I didn't expect you to sleep so deeply, tossing you so much, you are still snoring, hehehe. ”

Wang Guoying and Zhang Hanxiang talked about Xiao Yao one after another, only Liu Yurou did not speak, but the faces of the three of them rose red at the same time.

"This ...... , alas, Da Liu should have woken me up with cold water, you ....... ”

"Team Leader Xiao, it's not that everyone can't bear to wake you up because you're too tired these days. We didn't say anything to the women, do you think you're still at a loss? Wang Guoying loves to be clean after work, so he directly covers you with the quilt and drills a quilt with me, are we still doing something wrong?"

Zhang Hanxiang saw that Xiao Yao was unhappy, and she was not happy, and the smile just now turned into a cold face.

"What are you talking about? Am I not worried about ruining your reputation?"

"What's this, our steel class is better. The women in the bricklayer class all slept in the same shed with the big guys, and they didn't dare to go out to sleep for fear of being bullied by the bad guys, so they used a bamboo fence to stop them. We work hard to earn money outside, and we should be able to take care of each other, not so much exquisite. ”

Wang Guoying's words made Xiao Yao feel deeply. Liu Yurou stood up and walked to the door before turning back to Xiao Yao and saying:

"Wash up, I'll see if I can get you porridge, I'm afraid it'll be cold." ”

"We worked overtime and didn't wash our faces and brush our teeth for days. You didn't bring a toothbrush either, so if you don't dislike it, use mine to deal with it. ”

Xiao Yao was going to rinse his mouth and wash his face. But when Wang Guoying said this, he really couldn't say "no". Seeing Xiao Yao nodding, Wang Guoying took out his toothbrush and squeezed a toothpaste the size of a peanut on the soft bristles.

"It's so little, I haven't brushed my teeth in a few days, I'm going to brush it well. ”

Xiao Yao brushed his teeth, squeezing the toothpaste all over the bristles of the toothbrush, he thought that Wang Guoying was afraid of squeezing, and he didn't dare to exert force, so he squeezed so much, but Zhang Hanxiang answered.

"That's too much, you're too little, we only use the size of soybeans every day, and if we squeeze too much, it's wasted. ”

Wang Guoying's face turned red when Zhang Hanxiang said it, and she reached out to take back the toothbrush and squeeze the toothpaste for Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao didn't give it to her, and went out directly to the pool. Although the cold water is not frozen, it is not far from freezing.

The act of squeezing toothpaste shows how important saving is in their hearts.

When they saw Xiao Yao coming out, they all gathered around and waited for Xiao Yao to brush his teeth, none of them mentioned Xiao Yao sleeping in the girl's shed last night, they only cared about one thing, how would the team leader divide the 200 yuan bonus that they had worked so hard to get.

Xiao Yao was brushing his teeth, of course it was impossible to say. But he didn't say anything after brushing his teeth, but went directly back to Wang Guoying's residence to send back the toothbrush, and the gang followed again.

"Team leader, the senior engineer said, we won the first place, and the 200 yuan bonus will be sent to our group when you get up. ”

The 200 yuan prize is an award set up in the competition, and everyone knows it. But no one knows what Humbor is going to add to him.