The blue sky was cloudless, the sun was blazing, and the whole construction site was covered in steaming heat, like a huge steamer, and the heat was unbearable.

Liu Xiangyu was standing in front of a rumbling mixer, waving his stout arms tanned by the sun, throwing sand and gravel into the mixer shovel after shovel, and his eyes occasionally glanced at the iron bucket covered with cement. Seeing a large pile of black concrete on the ground, he stopped filling the mixer with sand and gravel, stepped forward, bent down to lift the black plastic bucket, and used a shovel to fill it with concrete. After filling several barrels in one go, he looked up to see a thick iron cable slowly descending in mid-air, and after a while, it stopped waist-high. He grabbed the iron rope that was hot from the sun with one hand, and lifted the plastic bucket filled with concrete with the other hand and hung it on the iron hook, until all the iron hooks installed on the rope were filled with the cement bucket, and he tore his throat and yelled at the man standing on the top of the eight-story building. I only heard the click of the iron cable, and the iron cable that hung several cement barrels slowly rose, and the barrels swayed slowly overhead.

According to the convention, you can rest for a while at this time, so Liu Xiangyu held the shovel in one hand, looked up at the slowly rising sling and cement bucket, wiped his sweaty face with his right hand, and gently breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a kind of relaxation and happiness of a short rest. But he knew that this state could not be maintained for too long, and at most five minutes he would have to return to his tiring work, otherwise the overseer Lao He would definitely be scolded if he found out, and even punished by deducting wages. He is a thin-skinned young man with strong self-esteem, and it is already uncomfortable enough to be scolded, and it is even more unbearable to deduct his salary, because he is tired and tired of working on the construction site, just for money. Although he is not a person who attaches too much importance to money, he is still reluctant to let people deduct this hard-earned money, not to mention that he needs money very, very much now. Therefore, although rest is a beautiful thing, he does not dare to enjoy it overtime, and often before the allotted time, he returns to work, and he works very hard.

Due to the extremely hot weather and the work he had been doing for a long time, Liu Xiangyu was already sweating, the blue short-sleeved shirt on his body was wrung out of water, and the light gray suit shorts were also wet for most of his buttocks, and the whole person looked like he had been soaked in water. Although he felt hot and tired, he still swung his shovel vigorously to load the mixer with sand and cement, and the sweat slid through his sun-red face and rolled down into the mud like beads with broken threads. This is really not human work, but he has to do it for the sake of money, and at this moment he feels not only tiredness and hardship, but also an indescribable bitterness and helplessness. If he were an ordinary migrant worker, maybe he wouldn't have this feeling in his heart, but he is a college student, the so-called pride of the sky, and it is not surprising that he has this feeling.

Yes, Liu Xiangyu is not only a college student, but also a provincial key university, and his major is also good, which was a very popular economic and trade major at that time. Unfortunately, the times are not good, as soon as I graduated, I encountered the economic crisis that swept the world, and the domestic economy was also affected to a certain extent, and the situation was not very good. In this case, it is no exaggeration to say that it is difficult to find a satisfying job. Therefore, although Liu Xiangyu has a university diploma and has a professional advantage, after working hard in the talent exchange center for a while, the result is still empty-handed, and he has not found any decent job, and he is very depressed and depressed.

In fact, it's not just Liu Xiangyu, most of his college classmates are in this situation, the difference is that they didn't find a job they wanted, so they went home to gnaw at the old, but he is a very backbone person, and he disdains to be a fashionable gnawing old man, thinking that it is insulting to the dignity of a man. Besides, even if he wants to lower his posture to gnaw the old clan, he doesn't have this condition, because his parents are old farmers in remote mountain villages, and there are not a few children in the barren land, and the little sister is in high school in the county seat, and it is the time to spend money, and it is very difficult for his parents to maintain the family, where can he get money for him, a college student who has graduated, to gnaw! What's more unfortunate is that half a year ago, he received the news of his father's recurrence of old illness, although his father was not so heavy that he was bedridden, but he basically lost his labor force and could no longer sell coolies to earn money. In this way, not only does he have no reason to learn from those classmates and go home to eat his old age, but he also has to find a job to earn money, bear the burden of the family for his father, and do his best to solve the family's financial difficulties.

To tell the truth, Liu Xiangyu is an ambitious and ambitious young man, and he is also a high-achieving student in college, of course, he hopes to find a job that is the opposite of his major, and then work hard to get out of the sky that belongs to him in order to realize his personal ideals and pursuits. However, in response to that sentence, the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny, and after a few fights in succession, he realized that his ideals and reality can be difficult to integrate for a while, and he must accept the cruelty of reality, change his mind and find another way, otherwise he will not be able to solve problems for his parents. Since you can't be a white-collar worker, then go to a blue-collar worker and become a migrant worker.

Now I can't care about any profession or ideal, or what identity or status, as long as I have money to earn. He nestled in a rented house like a kennel pigsty, thought about it for a long time, and finally clenched his fist and slammed the square table that was about to fall apart, and gritted his teeth to make up his mind. Then, he took the box of instant noodles that served as lunch and soaked it in boiling water, and swallowed it all in one go, not even letting go of a mouthful of soup. Although he mostly used cheap instant noodles to satisfy his hunger during that time, almost to the point of being disgusted when he saw instant noodles, he still had to eat it all every time, and he was reluctant to waste a mouthful of soup, because he was short of money, and even if he ate instant noodles, he was often half-hungry. Throwing the empty noodle box into the trash can in the corner, he got up and went looking for a job.

After several twists and turns, Liu Xiangyu finally found a job, although this job is not very decent, and it cannot play what he has learned in his life, and it is quite hard and tiring, but it can bring him an income, although the income is not high, but he can take care of his own food and drink, and he can also send some money to his family to solve his urgent needs. Because of this, he followed the medium-sized and bearded contractor from the noisy labor market to the construction site where he is now, and began to do simple but hard work.