A city in the sun

Tian Zhongqiu came to the county seat under the mountain, a place where he could make money.

After burying his mother in the mountains, Tanakata exchanged his tricycle and the rest of the money for enough meat to fulfill his promise to crocodiles and goshawks.

Today is the fourth day of coming to this world, February 14, 1997, just a few days after the end of the Chinese New Year, and the first year of high school in the town should still be in class today.

Tian Zhongqiu walked from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, to the town, to the county, from the darkness to the light.

There wasn't much he could do, and he wanted to find a job at random to earn some money for his tuition and living expenses.

As for the reason why he chose to go to school instead of going out to start a business and make money, Tian Zhongqiu is a person who likes to follow the rules, a person who likes to learn, and a person who likes to solve problems from the top down.

With his ability to communicate and discern, Tanakata learned the address of the local labor market from several early risers.

In the labor market, there are locals watching the field, and the locals in the county town who are looking for work here and the villagers who are looking for work here will see them as their own fat sheep, and Tian Zhongqiu learned that everyone who is looking for work here needs to apply for a permit, and then they can get a month's "protection" here, and those who do not apply for a permit will be beaten.

Because he had not experienced this kind of life, Tian Zhongqiu communicated and chatted with several teenagers of the same age, and finally learned that the drivers who came here to recruit people were similar to the contractor foreman, and these people negotiated the price and number of people with the foreman of the construction site, and then the driver drove his own van to collect people, and took a fee of fifteen yuan from each person's remuneration, and generally found acquaintances.

The salary is calculated on a daily basis, and there are also things that are delayed for a few days, and it is paid by the driver when he comes back in the evening.

Tian Zhongqiu asked about the price of some types of work,

In the case that the rules can continue, Tian Zhongqiu likes to follow the rules.

However, today's luck is better, maybe the other party is resting today, and Tian Zhongqiu didn't meet those people.

"Ten people! One hundred and two small workers, moving bricks, mixing ashes, and pulling soil. One hundred and eighteen carpenters, masons, and reinforcing steel workers!"

Another wave of people pulled people, and after the driver shouted, a group of people surrounded them.

Tian Zhongqiu didn't want to squeeze into the crowd, so he stood aside and shouted inside, "Do you want a welder?"

"Yes!" the driver was collecting people, and when he heard that someone was a welder, he immediately agreed, but after seeing that it was a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy who spoke, he was not happy.

"Are you a welder?" the driver asked, skeptically.

Tian Zhongqiu has indeed learned this craft, and he knows a lot.

"Handles, argon arcs, and two guarantees, they will. Three packs of welding rods a day, the welding is not good, not reliable, I walked back by myself. Tian Zhongqiu replied very blandly.

The driver felt that this person was too confident, so he believed it a little, and the construction site was indeed short of welders, so he said: "Then you follow me, even if you brag or you don't want you to weld things over there, you don't have to come back, you can be a brick worker." ”

Tian Zhongqiu nodded, no nonsense.

"Okay, you sit in the passenger seat, and we'll rush over. The driver felt that Tian Zhongqiu's aura was too strong, and the honest appearance was not annoying, so he treated it as a junior.

Tian Zhongqiu was more silent after getting into the car, and when someone in the crowded crowd in the back compartment talked to him, he didn't pay attention to the other party.

"I'm driving! You say your own words, don't bother us!" The driver yelled at the back, mainly because Tian Zhongqiu's obviously preoccupied appearance made the driver feel that the people behind him were a little annoying, and he didn't think that this kid was too arrogant like those people behind.

There were ten people sitting in the back of the van, crowded into this small area, and the smell of sweat and smoke filled the car.

After arriving at the construction site, the driver talked to the foreman over there, but the contractor did not give Tian Zhongqiu a chance to make a move after seeing Tian Zhongqiu's age, and directly said no.

"Don't have a welder over there, you go and pull the ash. The driver took Tian Zhongqiu to an unfinished building on the construction site, and pointed to the cement, sand and gravel that were being mixed by three old men, "They will load it and pull it to the building over there, where someone will use this, as long as it doesn't delay the needs there." ”

"Hmm. ”

Tian Zhongqiu agreed, stepped forward and lifted the wheelbarrow full of concrete, pushed it around and walked to the building on the other side.

The driver looked at Tian Zhongqiu's movements, whether it was the direction of force or the balance of the wheelbarrow, which made the driver feel that this person should often work on the construction site, and one of the welders just mentioned should also be true.

After seeing that there was nothing to do here, the driver also went to do his own work, not only did he take the money, but also took the money of a small job, and went to move bricks with the people who came.

Pulling ash is not difficult, all it takes is strength, especially when pushing a cart of concrete up the steps along the planks.

Originally, someone should have helped him when he went up the steps, but Tian Zhongqiu was too lazy to talk nonsense with those old men because of this kind of thing, and would rather spend some effort than listen to these old men working on the construction site tell him the great principles of life.

Although it was February, Tian Zhongqiu was still sweating profusely in the environment of cement ash and construction sites, where the roads were uneven and full of iron slag nails.

No matter what the workers around him think, Tian Zhongqiu thought that since he wanted to earn this money, he should do his own thing, ignore the kind reminders of the old people, and did not take turns to find a place to rest like them.

These people will not help Tian Zhongqiu, and Tian Zhongqiu would rather be thunderous and have clean ears.

In the morning, it stopped at almost twelve o'clock, Tian Zhongqiu put a wooden board on the iron shelf, and after resting for a while, he walked out of the construction site, and it was half past one in the afternoon to start work, and there was enough time to eat and rest.

His body was covered in sweat and cement ash, and his face was dirty.

After spending one dollar to buy two steamed buns and one dollar to buy a bottle of mineral water with a loose mouth, Tian Zhongqiu ate while strolling casually, and then stopped when he saw a sign in front of a glass door.

Valentine's Day Surprise Event! From 8 p.m. to 8 p.m. on February 14th, the Internet is free for women!

Looking at the slogan above, Tian Zhongqiu remembered what day it was.

"It's Valentine's Day......"