Chapter 10: Days in the Brick Kiln Factory
After thinking about it, I finally figured out a way. I found an iron bucket from Fu Yong that he didn't want, and filled half a bucket of water from the pond. I carried the half bucket of water to the kiln and put it in a hot place. After about half an hour, the water was a little lukewarm.
I took the water to the plastic hut and washed my body casually, and then I put on my little pants and went naked to the pond, rubbed my shirt and pants in the water several times, wrung them out and went to the top of the kiln naked to put my clothes in a hot place.
I do all these things at night when I don't know it, and when I meet acquaintances halfway through (and I don't have acquaintances), I find a way to avoid them. Wake up very early in the morning and take off your clothes to dry and put them on. In this way, there is even a way to take a bath. It's not necessarily clean, but it's better than not at all.
It's really good to say that Fu will never be good, since I did the odd jobs and ate three meals a day at his place, he has never said anything. But his wife can't. He always said to me: "Nanyang (they all call me 'Nanyang'), why don't you go to a good place to beg for food and come to our bitter cold place."
You may not know, but we just had a disaster here last year: when the wheat was harvested, it rained and all the wheat here sprouted. She was telling the truth. Because the steamed buns we eat and the porridge we drink every day are gray-yellow. At first, I thought it was mixed with dirt.
But, having said that, your man has taken them in, and you are always nagging there, can they go away quietly? If it had been in the past, according to my character, I am afraid that I would have put down the bowl and left. However, I was afraid of death, and I didn't dare to take any more risks.
I don't know what the future will be like here, but I have a place to live for the time being. Hey, if people say two words, it's better than starving to death. Thinking of this, I was there to go along with it. However, I wish I had another way out and then I could get out of her.
I've had a lot of luck sometimes. I worked with the "old Red Army" for about a week, when a man named Wang Fuhai came to me and asked me to follow him on the brick machine he was leading. He also told me that he had heard about me, and that it was time for me to be homesick after being out for so long.
He said that if he had money, he would definitely take some money to let me go home. However, his family was also poor. I might as well work under him, wait for the wages, buy a set of clothes, and go home dressed up beautifully!
He said that, and I had no reason not to follow him.
Until now, whenever I think about it, I always wonder whether Wang Fuhai himself knew my situation and came to me, or whether Fu Yong didn't want to take care of me anymore at the instigation of his wife and let him come to me. In short, I have a way out for the time being, and I don't have to live under the fence anymore.
In fact, Wang Fuhai is just a foreman, and he has to work himself. The situation is like this: the brick kiln factory that paid forever did not have a large brick extruder at that time, and only hired three small brick extruders. The owners of these small brick extrusion machines are also called bosses.
The other two bosses of the family have people, but Li Youliang does not have them here. So, he wanted to find someone in a nearby village. Wang Fuhai's house is only more than a mile away from the brick kiln factory, so he often comes to the brick kiln factory. One day, after he heard about it, he volunteered to help Li Youliang find someone.
A total of ten people were found, including eleven of himself, and there was still one missing. Wang Fuhai found me. Of course, Li Youliang, the owner of the brick machine, has to give him some worry money every time he checks out, that is, the class fee.
Wang Fuhai is in his early twenties, and his appearance is not good, but he is very good at dealing with people, so he is well-known and respected in the nearby village.
With such a person, my life will be much better. Not only that, but that Wang Fuhai also took me to meet a lot of people. Among them, there are four racks, three kilns and so on. Moreover, he did everything he could to eliminate my worries.
He asked me to have dinner with Li Youliang, the owner of their brick machine, and Zhang He, Li Youliang's fellow countryman, and said that he would deduct the food expenses when the salary was calculated. At night, Zhang He and I slept in a shed next to the brick machine to watch the machine.
The shed was made of a few bamboo poles and a large plastic film of flowers, with ropes tied to the four corners, and the body was tied to large stones, and sometimes when the wind blew, the shed would rattle and make people feel as if it was about to be overturned. However, this shed can only be used for us to sleep on a sunny day.
As for the rain, we had to tear down the shed, cover the brick machine and diesel engine with film, and then hide in the three rooms of Wang Fuhai's second brother.
Wang Fuhai's second brother's house was only 100 meters away from the brick kiln factory and was built on a very high platform. Because he is single, it is much more convenient for Zhang He and I to live with him.
However, we were paid so low at that time. In addition, it always rained in the middle, and I worked on Li Youliang's brick machine for almost a month, and I didn't even earn a single piece of money.
This novel comes from reading books