"Come with me." The boss said. So, I followed him to a platform and waited for the bus. A car drove by, and the boss was about to get into the car, when he suddenly remembered something, so he turned around and asked me, "Have you had breakfast?" ”

"Nope." I say. "I forgot. Okay, you wait here for a while, and I'll come when I go. With that, he walked towards a place that sold breakfast.

After a while, he had carried about half a catty of fritters and a bag of soy milk in a convenience bag. "Let's get in the car and eat later." He told me, handing me the bag as he spoke.

When I got on the bus, there was a seat on it, I found a seat and sat down, opened the pouch, and started eating and drinking. After a few more stops, the people next to me got out of the car, and the boss came and sat down next to me and started chatting with me.

After learning about my situation, he introduced me to his situation. He said that he was originally from Gansu and came to Beijing because of his relatives. He said he also had his wife and a 10-year-old daughter at home.

In addition, there are two people who work, they are both from Anhui, one is called Xiao Shen, and the other is called Xiao Zhang. After speaking, he looked at the ID card I handed him again and said, "Oh, I forgot, you are also surnamed Zhang." I haven't screamed anymore. ”

"Is that Xiao Zhang as big as me?" I asked. "Two or three years older than you." "Then call him Da Zhang, call me Xiao Zhang." "That being said, Xiao Zhang screams smoothly, and Big Zhang screams disagreeable." "Then you can call me Henan." I say.

When the boss heard me say this, he only smiled and didn't speak. However, when I was at his house later, he called me and that Xiao Zhang both called Xiao Zhang, but he looked at one of them with his eyes when he called.

Still, when he called, it wasn't just once or twice that we both responded at the same time.

We chatted and chatted, and we had arrived at Xiaoying Station. I got off the train from Xiaoying Station, turned a few corners, and walked through a few small woods, and finally came to the yard rented by the boss.

It was a rural area at the time, and his yard was surrounded by houses of varying heights, row after row, just like the houses in our hometown. The courtyard rented by the boss is a courtyard house, and the houses are all made of red bricks and blue tiles.

As soon as I reached the middle of the courtyard, I saw a woman in her thirties standing at the door of the hall washing clothes in the washing machine. That's probably the hostess.

I hurriedly stepped forward and called, "Sister-in-law." "Strangely, the woman only looked at me with disdain, and ignored me. Could it be that he is a mute? Otherwise, they look down on people. I think, the boss is a very kind person, why is the boss lady like this?

Just as I was thinking about it, I saw a little girl jumping out of the house. The boss hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed her and said, "Niuniu, call uncle, the new uncle." ”

The little girl refused at first, but hid in her father's arms for a while before she sweetly called me "uncle". I stepped forward and touched her face with my hand, and the boss had already put her down.

I followed the boss to a side room on the left. The room was rectangular, large and spacious, with no gables in the middle, only a few concrete pillars supporting the roof. More than a meter away in the room was a large vat containing the powdered solution.

To the left of the jar was a coal stove burning six or seven honeycomb coals, and on the coal stove was a large iron pot, and a pot of boiling water was boiling in the iron pot; To the left of the pot of boiling water is a slightly smaller pot full of cold water. Between the two iron pots stood a person.

"This is Xiao Zhang." The boss pointed to a short, dark guy with nearsighted glasses and said, "Let him teach you what to do in the future?" ”

As he spoke, the boss turned around and pointed at me and said to Xiao Zhang: "He is also surnamed Zhang, and he is in your family, so teach him well in the future." "Okay." Xiao Zhang readily agreed.

The boss pointed to a person working by another tank and said, "That's Xiao Shen." I followed his finger and saw a stout, bearded man busy there. But he didn't leave a good impression on me, and I felt a little yin.

After the boss explained, he left. Xiao Zhang began to teach me to work. We need to first scoop the diluted powder solution with a spoon into a round iron plate made of iron sheet with edges, and then put the round iron plate mouth up on top of the boiling water in the boiling water pot, and constantly rotate the iron plate by hand to make it evenly heated.

When you feel that the noodles are ripe, you pick up the iron plate and put it in a pot of cold water to cool. After cooling, pour out the finished powder skin and pack it. In total, there are three iron discs in turn. I'm a very stupid person, people can turn the iron plate with one hand, but I have to use two hands.

I couldn't help it, I told my boss that I couldn't turn the iron plate with two hands. The boss said, as long as you know, two hands are two hands. Then, I kept practicing until I was done, and then I told my boss that I was going to go over and get my luggage.

The boss said, okay. Then he asked me if I had a fare. I said, no. He gave me two dollars (a few cents on the bus back then). I asked him again for the route to Chaoyang District, and he set off.

When I arrived at the restaurant, the old lady was not there, and Xiaofang happened to be in the house. When she saw me coming, she hurriedly greeted me and asked, "Have you found a job?" "yes, I'm here to get my luggage." "Oh, I installed it for you yesterday and put it in my room." With that, she led me into her room

As soon as I entered the house, I smelled the smell of toilet water. To be honest, I haven't been in a girl's boudoir yet. It's time to appreciate it today.

I saw two folded quilts on a large bed, and two pillows were placed on top of the quilt, one pink and one brown. "The brown one must be the old lady's, and the pink one is Xiaofang's." I think.

Next to the bed was a desk with a mirror, a comb, facial tissue, and so on. There was a pair of red slippers under the bed. On the other side of the bed against the corner, I saw my luggage, a snakeskin bag and a blue backpack, all neatly packed.

Seeing this, I looked at Xiaofang and couldn't help but feel grateful. I wanted to say something to her, but I didn't know what to say. Then, I walked to the corner, picked up my luggage, got up to leave, and deliberately stopped for a while.

That Xiaofang also seemed to want to say something, but never said it. Then, we looked at each other again, and I left the restaurant and walked towards the bus stop. We just missed out on fate.

The Chinese writer Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, famously said: When we were young, we gave up, thinking that it was just a relationship, but later we learned that it was actually a lifetime.

Now that I think about it, how did I not know to leave contact information with her in the first place? It is also a pity that the means of communication at that time were not very advanced. If it is now, it is much more convenient to leave the other party's QQ number and mobile phone number.

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