Liu Chao gave Ju An a round magnet, then patted Ju An's shoulder, and climbed up the ladder, Ju An grabbed his leg and said: "Your uncle, I'm not a child, I don't want to play this, I want to go up to the roof to work." After speaking, he lifted the ring magnet in his hand, and lifted it a few times, the more he looked at it, the more he looked like a small rope made by his father when he was two or three years old, dragging a porcelain wheel, your sister, I am not three years old, I am in my twenties, you let me drag this thing, drag this thing around the house to play, and lose people across the Pacific Ocean.

Liu Chao shook it twice, and when he couldn't shake it off, he said, "Damn!" It's dangerous on the roof, and you have no experience, so I won't let you go up if you die, and if you fall, Lao Tzu blames who goes, be obedient, just drag this down to play." After speaking, he explained: "In fact, this work is very important, if the nails are not handled properly, it will pierce people, so don't look at the work as inconspicuous, but it is very important, revolutionary work does not distinguish between high and low, we must obey the organizational arrangement, do not pick fat and pick thin."

Ju An thought for a while and said, "Your uncle, I still think that your kid is not well-intentioned and says that there is some conspiracy."

Liu Chao struggled: "There's a fart conspiracy, and it's not for you to play this all the time, go, first help the old man spread the plastic sheet here, and then start shoveling here first, go, don't grind and chirp."

Ju An had no choice but to let go of Liu Chao's pants. At this time, I heard the old white man who was dragging a large bag of things from the pickup truck shouting to Ju An: "Hey! Man, come and help."

Ju An hurriedly threw down the things in his hand, went over to help, and the two of them dragged the things behind the pickup truck, and then spread them out under the eaves, it turned out to be a large oil canvas, the weight was still very heavy, and the two of them still had some difficulty lifting it.

As soon as the canvas was unfurled, one of the guys on it shouted, "Guys, okay, okay, let's spread out, I'm ready to shovel the roof". Ju An and the old white man immediately dispersed, leaning on the pickup and watching the roof, a few guys with a square shovel in their hands, shoveling the roof, and then the shoveled down the roof slid down the roof onto the canvas below.

The old white man walked up to the pickup truck near the lawn, took out a large red radio from the pickup, a bit like the tape recorder style in Ju'an's home when he was a child, put it on the lawn, turned up the radio and played music.

The old white man took off his gloves and said to Juan: "Man, let's fix the roof for the first time, you don't live in this neighborhood, right, you're a friend of Steven."

Ju An smiled at him and said, "Yes, I am his friend, I didn't expect him to renovate the roof."

The old white man smiled and said to Ju An: "When I first moved here, Steve didn't either, everyone was used to living, so they helped each other, when our family repaired the roof, I asked him to help, at that time, his work, that is, what you are doing now, when I knew that he was doing work for the first time, I arranged a simple thing for him, and then did it a few times, and now it is doing well, the barbecue table in their backyard is done together, two days a week, I did it with him for nearly three months to do it, but unfortunately, now I am older, They won't let me go up to the roof."

Ju An said, "Do you like to do these kinds of work?"

The old white man smiled: "Yes, build a barbecue station, repair the roof, I also helped people build houses when I was young, look, the one with the blue baseball cap is my son." As he spoke, he pointed to the white man on the roof who was shoveling the old roof hard.

Ju An smiled and said, "The relationship between your community is really good."

The old white man smiled and said, "We all live together, and there is inevitably some difficulty, when Steve and the others first moved in, his wife and my wife became friends, and then we became acquainted."

After more than half an hour, a small area of the roof had been shoveled down, and the old white man beckoned Ju'an to come over and dumped the scrap into a large garbage truck-like car. Then the canvas was spread under another roof, waiting for the roofer to shovel the scrap.

At this time, a guy took a long ladder and leaned against the eaves of the freshly shoveled roof, and the man climbed the ladder and helped the roofer to spread a black material that was almost a meter or more than a meter to the edge of the roof.

Juan asked the old white man: "Why is this material only spread on the edges, but not in the middle?"

The old man explained: "This material is used for anti-freezing and anti-ice in winter, and there is no need to lay it in the middle."

Seeing that the guys had laid out the antifreeze material, and then looked at the blue material on it, the old man explained that this kind of material was waterproof and had no problem using it for decades. Looking at the few people who were busy laying materials on the roof, Ju An sighed that it is not easy to be a man in the United States.

watched a group of people finish laying the blue material, and then lay a kind of material on it, probably heat insulation or something, one by one close to each other.

Just thinking about it, the roof on both sides was also shoveled, and Ju An repeated the previous work, and put the roof into the garbage truck with the old white man.

A group of people were working in full swing, and from time to time there were people who echoed the songs on the radio and hummed loudly.

When it was almost noon, everyone didn't mean to stop, Ju An wore gloves, happily working with a group of people, feeling very happy, there was no feeling of doing coolies, but it was a bit like the school in the middle school every year when the school organized the weeding activity for the campus, happy mess.

When I was having fun, I heard a children's voice: "Chilled lemonade, a quart for a cup!" ”。 When I turned my head, I saw a few little girls last time who moved the cold drink stall nearby, and they were really business-minded.

Then the old white man walked over, and a little girl immediately shouted, "Grandfather, grandfather, do you want a glass of ice lemonade?" The old man nodded his head a few times, then took out the change and handed it to the little girl, who happily accepted it, and then handed him a glass of water.

Ju'an was also a little thirsty, so he walked over and bought a glass of water, and then he heard someone on the roof shouting, "Girls, do you have your drinks delivered to your door?"

Then the little girls were heard shouting, "yes!yes!".

The man upstairs returned: "Good! I'll have a drink." Then they heard that several people upstairs were in harmony with each other for a drink, and the little girls were very happy, and took a few drinks on a small tray and sent them to the eaves, and then several people went down to the roof, and each of them gave the little girl a steel hammer, and then took the water and drank it all, and then returned the empty cup to the little girl who brought the water.

The old white man smiled and said to Ju An: "That is my granddaughter, and the rest of the little girls are all nearby, and they made almost three dollars each from selling ice water last week, and they have tasted the sweetness."

Ju An said happily: "When I came, I saw them doing business, and as soon as I saw the car coming, it was very interesting to shout together."

"The main thing to let them do a little business is to let the children know that money is not so easy to earn, so they have to think about it the next time they spend money," said the old white man.

Ju An also paid attention to the cold drink stalls of the next few little girls in his busy spare time, every time he passed a car, the little girls would shout a few times, and the people who basically didn't want cold drinks would roll down the windows and wave at the little girls, and there was no business in a few cars, and the little girls were not discouraged, and they were still shouting happily when they saw the car.

Finally, a car stopped, bought a drink, the little girls will be happy, and after a while, Ju'an found that there were actually three cars lined up at the little girls' stall.

On Ju'an's side, a small half of the roof has been shoveled on the house, and in the middle, the old white man also drove this garbage truck to take out the garbage, and the time to go was not short, and when he came back, he told Ju'an that the garbage was dumped in the designated place, and it was a long way from here.

As soon as Ju An looked up, he saw Liu Chao holding a camera and shooting something on the roof.

"What are you doing with a camera to take pictures of the roof, is there still a check?" asked Ju An curiously.

"Yes, the city hall will arrange for people to come and check it, and there will be people from the insurance company, and these pictures are just for them to see what materials are used in it, and if they are not qualified, they have to see the materials used in your roof, and you have to take these pictures when you renovate the roof," the old white man explained.

It wasn't until about three o'clock in the afternoon that a group of children began to have lunch, which was very simple, just some grilled sausages and hamburgers, and chopped onions and vegetables on the side of the plate.

After a simple lunch and a break of more than twenty minutes, the group of people continued to work, and Ju An continued to start his unskilled work.

After being busy for a while, he saw that the little girls were chasing the two little boys, Ju An looked at it for a while, and realized that the two little guys saw that the little girls' business was good, so they said that they would also sell cold drinks tomorrow, which made the little girls very angry and drove the two little boys away.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the little girls closed their stalls and were called home for dinner.

Everyone here in Ju'an has been busy until dark, everyone finishes work, after the work, everyone drives home, Ben An still thinks, according to the tradition of our old school, how to have a meal at night. Who knew that these old beauties were too self-conscious, and they went home as soon as they finished work.

The next morning, everyone gathered here on time, had breakfast, and began to work busily, today's work was very smooth, everyone was more than one o'clock in the afternoon, it was all completed, only Ju'an was left, and dragged the magnet around the house to absorb iron nails, a group of Lao Mei packed up the tools, Liu Chao gave each person a salary, some Lao Mei accepted, some guys didn't ask for a penny, the old white man belonged to this category, and later Liu Chao explained to Ju'an, some people are unwilling to collect wages, It's just that they like to help others get something or something, in their eyes it's a hobby, and some people are quite good, such as the old white man, the two are too familiar, so they don't charge money.

After two days of busy work, Ju An was also ready to go home, and by the way, he also went to the Chinese-run supermarket in San Francisco to buy a lot of things, and only then did he know that a pound of tofu and a knife could not be beaten, and the dried silk was two or three dollars a pound.