We didn't settle the bill until the end of the year. I made 900 yuan, plus 300 yuan when I was making noodles, and that year, in 1993, I went out to work for the first time and earned 1,200 yuan. Rejoicing in my heart is joy, but it is also inevitable to regret.

Because I was delayed for a while at the beginning, and I liked to take a break from work to read books in the middle, in the end, no one who came later than me earned much. Those people looked disdainful in front of me, and Yun Zhi used this to sneer at me.

This is simply an insult to me who is arrogant. I was determined to surpass them in the next year. It just so happened that the boss Wang Zhixue told Yun Zhi that he would leave a few people to watch the construction site during the Chinese New Year, and said that he would subsidize the money. I signed up and stayed.

I was joined by my godfather's brother and another person. Both of them were bare, and with them, I was a little worried that I would be as single as they were.

After a busy day of preparation and preparation, everyone on the construction site went home for the Chinese New Year, leaving the three of us alone on the construction site.

In the half month when others went home for the New Year, the three of us cooked and ate on the stove in the construction site. Chinese New Year's Eve still made dumplings, we also fried a few dishes on the first day of the new year, and the three of us drank some wine together.

The other person who watched the construction site was a very non-verbal person, and on the first day of the new year he said that I might be as naked as him. When he said this, I wanted to get angry, but when I thought about it, there were three of us at a construction site, and we were making trouble and losing face.

I kept my anger to the bottom of my heart for the time being. But I said to myself, I must marry a wife, or I will be laughed at to death.

Time flies so fast, it's the Lantern Festival in a blink of an eye, and the time on the construction site is almost there. One day, the boss Wang Zhixue drove a car to the construction site. He came to see what was left on the site last year.

After some careful inspection, Wang Zhixue told Yun Zhi that a bundle of cables was missing. Yunzhi found the three of us to look at the construction site. We said that during the Chinese New Year, we never left the construction site in three steps, so how could we lose something?

But what Yun Zhi relayed to our boss said, no matter what you say, if you lose something, there will be no subsidies. When he says this, we can only consider ourselves unlucky.

When everything was settled, we were reassigned to the site. I was assigned to the South Mill. Our construction site is not far from XX University, and there are other boss-contracted jobs at that construction site. I heard that there is also a boss in Linxian County, Henan. But they are all just starting to be contract foremen, and they are not as rich as Wang Zhixue, so their lives are not as good as ours.

We can eat some fritters, porridge in the morning, rice or steamed buns at noon, and noodles in the evening. And they eat noodles three times a day.

The outside of the shed was made of bricks to make a makeshift pot, on top of which was an extra-large iron pot with half a pot of water, and under the pot was a variety of wooden planks discarded by the construction team as firewood.

After the water boiled, someone brought a large box of dry noodles and poured a large amount of cooking into the pot. As soon as the noodles were turned over in the pot, the worker came with a bowl.

So, the cook sprinkled the chopped green onion into the noodle pot, sprinkled a handful of salt and an appropriate amount of MSG, and everyone picked up long chopsticks around the pot and scooped it up.

This way of eating gives you goosebumps when you look at it. At this time, a few smart people from nowhere set up a few food stalls on the roadside next to the construction site to buy food.

They would put a wooden board on the pedal tricycle, and under the board was a coal stove with a variety of fried side dishes. Because the other owners did not have a good life, they became frequent customers of the small food stalls. However, the things made by the people outside are unhygienic and use low-quality oil.

But the workers don't care about that, as long as it's delicious. And workers usually have a mentality that they want to eat delicious food but do not want to borrow wages in advance, and the only way is to steal. Some people will find a few buckles to hide when they go to work, and take them out under the armpit when they get off work.

Of course, this kind of thing should be done in the spring, autumn and winter, when the clothes are worn a lot. After those buckles are taken out, they will be sold to scrap collectors at the price of one or two yuan. When the workers got the money, they went to patronize the small food stalls.

I didn't dare to steal, I could only look at the envy and anger of others. Finally one day, I made an exception and took a few broken tin boxes out, but I hadn't sold them yet, and Yun Zhi saw them and scolded me. Since then, I have never dared to steal anything from the construction site again.

What the construction team lacks most is women. Therefore, once a beautiful girl passes by the construction site and is seen by our group of working workers, she will definitely be "pierced by ten thousand eyes". We all widened our eyes, "all eyes in unison", and that kind of energy seemed to burn each other to ashes.

Just look at it, some are still whistling, whistling sharply, and some are shouting: "Pretty girl, come here." "You think those pretty girls can't hear?

However, some beautiful girls only pretend to be deaf to this kind of thing, and some run away quickly, desperately out of our sight.

Of course, there are also very hot babes who turn around and look at us with vicious eyes. We quickly withdrew our eyes, obediently did our work, and pretended to be very comfortable.

Sometimes, we treat our mother-in-law as a girl, and the married woman is naturally much more pungent than the little girl. People are not even ashamed, and after hearing the teasing words, they turn around and point at us and scold us.

When the workers saw this, they grimaced at each other, stuck out their tongues, and hurriedly moved from their original jobs to other places. And when the scolding woman passed by the side of the road again, none of the workers dared to come out and make trouble again.

This novel is from Reading Rim