Chapter 36: Deluxe Seating
In this way, we suffered for more than ten hours in the crowded, noisy, almost suffocating carriage before we arrived at Beijing Station. After getting off the train, we need to take a bus from the train station to Liangmaqiao, and then transfer to the construction site in Chaoyang District.
But Wang Yong told us that he had something to do elsewhere, so let's go first.
A few of us got on a bus under the leadership of Shihua. It was my first time on the bus, and I was a little excited and overwhelmed. It just so happened that there were very few people on that bus, and I had a backpack on my shoulder, and a quilt in a snakeskin bag in my right hand.
After sitting in one seat, it didn't look suitable, so I changed another seat; After changing seats, it didn't look good, so I changed seats. Instead, I stupidly sat in the conductor's seat (because I saw that seat was more luxurious) and was slapped by the conductor.
Shihua and I, my uncle, and the people brought by Wang Yong went to the construction site under the leadership of Shihua. The site was located on the side of a large highway and was surrounded by a guardrail that left a gate.
Entering through the gate, you can see several rows of houses made of asbestos tiles and red bricks. There is a sewage ditch on the north side of several rows of houses with an iron plate bridge over it. The bridge was not so much a bridge as it was three steel troughs. They are not welded together, leaving a gap of four or five centimeters in between, so they cannot be called bridges.
To the north of the shovel are several buildings about twenty stories high, and one has to look up to see their tops. All this made me, as a first-time migrant worker, feel fresh and exciting.
So, as soon as I arrived at the construction site, I was walking around there. But not long after I turned, Shihua told me to make the bed. We found a dry room, found some extra planks from the construction site, and made the bed. In the evening we ate the pancakes and bread that we brought.
On the second day, Na Yufang and Guofu also came with a few people. The people brought by Yufang include his second brother-in-law Wang Qingxiu and my cousin Lao Wu, who I haven't come out of five suits yet. I didn't know that there was a conflict between that Yufang and Shihua. The reason is the competition for favor.
Because Na Yufang is Yun Zhi's godson, she always wants to have the upper hand when she speaks and does things. The honest father has a good relationship with Yun Zhi. The two would always clash over a trivial matter, and they would have a feud.
Although they had never fought, they were secretly competing. After that Yufang brought people here, the other houses didn't live, but they wanted to squeeze a room with us. We made a few beds at the east end and they made a few beds at the west end.
One night, I don't know whether to turn on the lights or boil the water, Na Yufang and Shihua quarreled, and they were about to fight. Because I came with Shihua, I also quarreled with Yufang, and even wanted to beat him.
If you want to say that Yufang's nature is really soft, he is very powerful in front of Shihua, and as soon as I quarrel with him, he is like a turtle with a shrunken head and dare not speak. However, this incident makes a person very unaccustomed to it, he is my cousin Lao Wu who has not yet come out of the fifth suit.
He came with Yufang, so he naturally favored him. When he saw that Yufang was frightened by me, he sat up from the bed and tried to get out of bed and beat me. I'm not afraid of him, I just don't want to meet him in general. Also, we were cousins of a great-grandfather.
If you hurt your peace, first, if you have no one to help you when you are in trouble in the village, second, others will also read the jokes. So I chose to forbear. My cousin wanted to beat me because he accused me of turning my elbow outward, and he said that I was biased towards an outsider (Na Shihua didn't share our surname).
But I think he's selfish. If you come with Yufang, you can be biased towards him, but if I come with Shihua, can't you be biased towards Shihua? But you don't remember that we are cousins and want to beat me, if I can't bear it, then aren't we "born from the same root, why be too anxious to fry each other"?
Although I chose to tolerate at that time, we did not get along well in the following days.
The people brought by Yufang came for two days, and Guoqiang also came with more than a dozen people introduced by Yunzhi. As soon as so many people came, eating became the primary concern. Na Yufang suggested that the boss usually doesn't come until after the Lantern Festival every year. It's still early, so we'll cook and eat for the money ourselves, and wait until the boss comes.
We all agree with Yufang.
So, the big guys all took out the money left over from the train tickets, and bought oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, pots and pans, and made their own fires to cook.
The bricklayer who worked at home was in charge of building pots and stoves, and the cooks at home helped to make noodles, and those who didn't know anything collected firewood and chose vegetables - after some busy work, at noon or evening, we had a very delicious meal.
Readers and friends, as I said earlier, I have suffered so much from my parents, and God will repay me. Sure enough. We lived like that for a week or so, and while I was crossing the iron bridge over the sewage ditch, I accidentally fell and tore a big hole in my leg because I was in a panic.
Later, under the careful care of an old cousin (a relative) of his father, he slowly recovered. The cousin brought the food to me and said, "Baby, your life is too bitter." I made it like this the first time I went out, I really don't know what will happen in the future? "I listened to it, I wanted to say something, but I couldn't say anything.
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