The riverbed is full of pebbles, large and small, which glow dry white in the sun. The water is clear and transparent, flowing gently, flowing deep into the depths, turning a deep blue. Western-style carriages pulling red bricks passed in front of the earthen houses and drove along the debris road to the construction site of Luban New District.

The dust kicked up by the carriages, and the people on the side of the road stood there, watching the procession march down the road, the dust flying, and the leaves were blown up by the breeze and fell. The carriage went farther and farther, but the people standing on the side of the road were still looking at the carriage, and their eyes were full of longing.

A wooden shelf sign on the side of the road, but it is still crowded with people, people crowded there to look at the planning renderings of the "Luban New District", more people are there according to the total number of their own people, what kind of house should be rented, from February to the present, almost all the workers working in the Jianghuai Road mine have submitted rental applications.

The electric bell rang after work, in the scorching steelmaking workshop, a group of workers went out of the east gate, a group of workers entered from the west gate, the shift was completed in just a few minutes, after working for 8 hours in a row, taking a hot bath in the factory bathroom and resting for a few hours to eat a meal, and after working for another four hours, the last trace of strength has been exhausted, and the exhausted workers took a hot bath again, and the hot bath is the most relieving of fatigue.

In the past, after taking a shower, these workers would drag their tired bodies with them, and then return home to lie on the bed and snore without eating, but in recent months, there have always been some workers who drag their tired bodies on the company's internal tram to detour towards the new Naluban New District.

In the workshop, there are always some workers looking at other people triumphantly, although they are the same tired, but with an unconcealable pride on their faces, they only need to look at the smugness on their faces, and they know that they are workers who have moved into the new area after the completion of the first phase of the project.

Again, when the employees of Jianghuai Road Mining Company received a salary of one yuan or even two or three yuan, they once again felt grateful to the company and the chairman, what is their future life?

The life of a two-storey western-style building, burning running gas, running water, and lighting a foreign electric lamp is the job that every worker of the Jianghuai Road Mining Company yearns for, and in their opinion, this is still a life that will definitely be realized, as short as one and a half years, or as long as two years, and all workers can live in the western-style building.

How many times have you been here in two months? Zhao Xunjie can't remember clearly, anyway, as long as he gets off work every day, he will come to this Luban New District, take a few looks, and see the pride of those workers holding the shining key and opening the door, he almost can't wait to move in now.

The smooth asphalt pavement, in the past, can only be seen in the company's factory area, office area and management community, Zhao Xunjie will never forget, every time he sees this asphalt road, he felt a little tired at that time, and even lay directly on the ground, which is more comfortable than the broken bed at home.

On both sides of the street are neatly arranged two-storey red brick western-style buildings, in front of the western-style buildings are a foot away from the "sidewalk" is a well-manicured lawn, those green grasses are only a palm deep, such a place is not planted, it seems to be ruined, but it looks that comfortable.

"Uncle Bolt, look at this meadow!"

Bending down, Zhao Xunjie couldn't help but touch the neat grass with his hand.

"This cut is really that Qi, even if you are waiting for the crops in the countryside, you are afraid ......"

"Mai Xiaozi cut off, you still point to a ball!"

Looking at the grass Zhao Dazhuan muttered, it is good to move into this new area, but you also have to sign a contract with the company, what property, sanitation The company turned out more than a dozen names, according to those who moved in, this place is not only not allowed to build walls, what sanitation is not only to get the front of the house, the back of the house, the turf can not exceed six inches deep, the broken wrecks, broken tables, broken bed frames or something in the house, but also have to be cleared out, just what bathroom on the side, but also to be odorless, no stains, and the kitchen can not see oily.

The house looks comfortable, but it is not comfortable to live in, the investigators sent by the company, at least twice a month, will check at least twice a month, take the form to hit the wrong number, the first time is unqualified will be warned, the second time will be fined, the third time will be fired, the new tenants who move to a new house, every six days of rest, at least half a day's work, rent a cart to mow the grass, in the past only wash clothes and cook the girl, all day long there is to wipe the table, wipe the stove, shabu thatched house, even washing clothes, but also according to a fixed time to wash, to dry.

"Dog, this place is not comfortable to live in!"

said so, but Zhao Dazhuan looked at the people in the new house through the window, but his face was full of admiration.

"To be able to live in such a house, I will be content with death in this life!"

The mother-in-law of the family said this in the sky, but no, although it is not comfortable to live here, but when I was in the countryside, who would have thought that one day, I would move into a two-story western-style building.

The mother-in-law has been married since she gave birth to four babies to the Zhao family, for more than ten years, she has not enjoyed any blessings, and she has not eaten a few meals.

"Brother Da Shu, in the past, when we were in our hometown, that is, we took a bath in the summer, but now we wash twice a day, and we are used to not washing that day. This is the difference between city dwellers and country dwellers. ”

Zhao Xunjie's smiling words were only exchanged for a burst of laughter and scolding from Zhao Dazhuan.

"Dog, Xiao Jiezi, I just came to the factory to work for more than half a year, and you have become a city person!"

People in the city, these three words are a little weird, but they make people feel a little different, not only Zhao Xunjie thinks so, even Zhao Dazhuan now feels that he is not a mud leg in the countryside, but a city person in Ma'anshan, although this city is not a city, but it is bigger than the county seat he has been to in the past, and the people here are still rich.

At the beginning of the year, the family ate two meals of meat a month as if it were the New Year, but now every household can eat fish and meat every two days, what is the biggest change in Ma'anshan in the past six months? It is not the three iron-making blast furnaces and the four steel-making furnaces, the steel rolling mill and several new workshops put into use, nor is it the addition of a shipyard by the river.

It's the changes that have taken place in the workers here. The mothers-in-law of the workers who were responsible for delivering lunch to the factory every day still wore old clothes with patches sewn and patched, but after the Chinese New Year, the wages rose, and gradually their clothes became more beautiful.

And even the clothes of the workers in the factory have also changed, in the past, after taking a bath, most of them wore dirty and full of putty work clothes, and it was rare to change one for a few days, but now they have taken a bath and put on a new work clothes, as for the dirty clothes, they are left in the closet, washed once every two or three days, and the factory is not enough to change, so they go to the welfare society to spend a dollar to buy one, and even on Sunday, some workers and their wives and children go to the nearby mountains to play.

In his words, even if he can't be a technician with two hundred yuan a month, he will be a craftsman in the future, and when he is a craftsman, it will be sixty yuan a month, and if he is a great craftsman, it will be nearly 100 yuan.

Now it is so good that the children are looking at it.

"The rent of six yuan a month, I am now twenty-one yuan a month, and when I rent this house, I will take my daughter-in-law and my brother over, and when I take thirty yuan in the future, I will take my father and my mother, my father and my mother can grow vegetables, and I will take a few acres of land outside the city to grow vegetables, and in January, my eldest daughter, my mother, and my daughter-in-law can earn at least thirty yuan, so that my brother can go to school to study......"

Walking towards Zhao Xunjie and there to calculate his "future plan", the two walked to the second phase of the construction site of Luban New Village, the construction site is as busy as in the past, and among the workers who are working, there are some workers wearing blue oblique stripes to help push the brick cart and the ash, in order to be able to enter the new home a day earlier, some workers volunteer to come to the construction site to help during the break, of course, only to touch the second phase of the rental number of the workers.

In addition to the best craftsmen in the company like the first phase, half of the houses are determined by the workers who apply for rent, and who can live in the new house first, and the lucky person who touches the number is always the luckiest person.

"Hurry up! Lao Tzu has won the third draw! ”

If he is not too tired, maybe Zhao Dazhuan will also go into the construction site to help for a while, the house is about to go to the top, there are two weeks at most, and the third phase will start, maybe by August 15, the family will be able to move into this new house.

This Quan Zhao Dazhuan didn't have any previous complaints, and some just counted how many days he had left before he could fight into this new house.

When Zhao Dazhuan was thinking about his good days, a young man wearing a "melon skin hat" and a silk coat, accompanied by two or three attachés, was slowly walking from the other end of the street to the entrance of Xincun Street, walked to the tree and asked for a bowl of lotus root noodles, sat on the stall and ate it. While eating lotus root flour, he occasionally looked at the new houses that were being built on the construction site.

"This dog thing, it's really not a good thing!"

With the 20,000 taels of industrial coupons that had just been knocked out, he looked at the new house with red bricks and grass arranged neatly, and scolded hatefully.

"That's it, master, the people in this industrial company are really not good things!"

Yan Chongnian, who was standing there respectfully, heard what his master said, and hurriedly bent down to help him.

"In the past, when we were in Wuchang, not to mention the hairless offspring like the surname Hu, it was Sheng Xuanhuai who saw that you had to be respectful, no, the lord condescended to this industrial company, not to mention that the steel mill did not welcome ten miles out of the land, not to mention, even the surname Hu Gou didn't give a face-to-face meeting, and sent away so much silver as if he was asking for food......"

said in his mouth, Yan Chongnian's heart was hateful, when he was in Hubei in the past, he followed his master to Hanyang Iron Works, and the manager and director of the iron factory did not welcome him out of ten miles, and the master got the face he wanted, that is, he was a slave, and when he left, he would seal a big red envelope, so this Ma'anshan, there is no rule up and down.

"Dog, what kind of thing are these, I thought I was afraid of that foreign devil! Send a foreign devil away! ”

When Duanxu said this, he forgot that he was in the reception room of the steel factory, and when he saw that he was actually a foreign devil, he suddenly lost his confidence in his heart.

Through the words of the master, Yan Chongnian, who bowed lower at the waist, said again.

"Master, people say that this industrial company is a foreign master, but we see it today! The slave thought about it carefully, the master came here today, it was to give the industry a big face, even I, who was a slave, envied the blessing of this industry, which my slave knows, let alone them. However, according to the knowledge of the minions, these dogs, I'm afraid that there are no minions who think like this, and they are disrespectful to the master, and the minions are the minions of the master, but these minions don't know that they are slaves, and they forget that the minions are slaves to foreigners, and the minions think that the master can still bear this group of minions, and it is not a good feeling in their hearts! ”

Yan Chongnian said a lot of "slaves" in one breath, but he said it very smoothly, and the meaning was very clear, anyway, it was a stone.

Duanxu listened and couldn't help laughing.

"Chongnian, that is, you slave, has such a filial son, your family has entered the customs with Shunzhiye, which is my family's coat."

glanced at the humiliation of the master, Yan Chongnian, who was full of misery, and felt the filial piety of being a slave in his heart, or these clothes have filial piety and loyalty, when Shunzhi Ye committed that gangster, he turned this Han man into a banner man's clothed slave, how could there be trouble with "Su Bao" now!

Thinking about these recent days, the eldest brother in order to try the public office in the concession out of trouble, all day long, I can't help but feel the loyalty of being a slave, Yan Chongnian, this slave is more clear than the ordinary banner people, and those people in the house said that when the grandfather raised the army, whenever he said that the grandfather won the battle, he would be happy, showing eight teeth, how can the loyalty of this slave be comparable to ordinary people, there are fewer such slaves, and I must persuade the eldest brother to reuse it in the future, the officials of this place.

"I'll tell my eldest brother to see where there is a vacancy in these two rivers, so you can make up for it!"

The master's words only surprised Yan Chongnian, and he got up and kowtowed on the spot, ignoring the surprise of the boss who sold lotus root noodles next to him, and kept kowtowing.

"Master, you ...... The slave thanks the master for his kindness! Slave ...... I will live up to my master's ......"

Or if he is so excited that he can't even speak smoothly, Yan Chongnian will just keep kowtowing with tears streaming down his face, worshipping the grace of his master.

"That's it!"

Duan Xu waved his hand casually.

"If you have a heart, and you really have a deficiency when you look back, you will govern the local government well, especially if you let those chaotic parties wear loopholes, if you are a local official, they are all as loyal as Cong Ye, how can I have ...... in the Qing Dynasty?"

Before Duan Xu finished speaking, the half-eaten lotus root flour was taken away by the master of the stall.

"What are you doing, you ......"

The slave who stood and followed at the end of the body was busy drinking, and it happened that a gray dog was passing by the roadside, and the master of the stall put the half bowl of lotus root flour with meat on the side of the road without saying a word, and the gray dog who was strolling around saw that there was something to eat and took his head to eat it.

"This bowl is dirty with knives, and it's a pity that the remaining half of the lotus root powder is lost, feed the dog, I'm afraid of staining the dog's belly!"

As he spoke, the middle-aged man spit out the bucket next to him and took a mouthful of thick phlegm.

Seeing this scene, his eyes widened, he didn't expect that he would be so insulted that he would even dare to ...... And Yan Chongnian, who was kneeling beside him, suddenly jumped up when he saw that his master was humiliated.

"This dog minion! How dare you ......"

"Look, the dog slave is the dog thing that forgets the classics, the master is the master, the human!"

The middle-aged man in charge of the stall said that the two-foot-long bowl of big copper spoons reached the palm of his right hand, and the flesh on his face trembled, all prepared to teach him a lesson if this dog thing was still horizontal.

"You...... You ......"

Yan Chongnian's fingers were indiscriminate, his mouth trembled with hatred, his fingers trembled, but he couldn't speak when he opened his mouth.

"What are you, your family has forgotten your ancestors since hundreds of years ago, and you are willing to be a slave, what's the matter, I'm still afraid that people will say it, tell you, the master is not around, the bones on his body are still there, don't talk about you dog slave!"

The middle-aged man who was carrying the spoon looked sideways, sweeping the "master" who was sitting on the chair and was angry.

"It's your family's Jianzhou master who is here, and the master is not afraid, what kind of thing is Nurhachi, that is not our Ming Minions, and the ancestors of your masters are all slaves of our Han people, what are the minions of your minions here!"

The louder the voice grew, and a group of people gradually gathered around.

"Old and young masters, it's not reasonable to say this!"

"Good! Well said! ”

"Fourth Brother Li, that's the reason!"

"That's it, what are you slave dog slave doing here!"

"Not really! Be careful to turn back, our Han people have recovered the country, cut off your master's head, and pull you, a minion, out to parade the streets......"

The surroundings immediately shouted hello, not only the workers, but also the merchants and the company's policemen who came from other places all followed and cheered!

"Guys!"

The stall master who was called Fourth Brother Li bowed for a long time.

"Don't blame you, this Li Si is blind to this pair of dog eyes, and let this table and bench be stained by things that are not human, and this big guy will see a witness, and when this is not a human thing, I Li Si will burn the table and bench he has lying on as firewood!"

"Good! Fourth Brother Li, I said this to you, this month, I have to eat lotus root noodles here for half a month! ”

"Well done, Fourth Brother Li! This is what the masters of our Han family should say, like the dog slave who has forgotten the classics! ”

When people shouted good, the original angry face was already bloodless, and he dared to say anything more, as soon as he stood up, he fled outward like a run, and the original slave who was a dog and a man also fled with his master, only to hear bursts of laughter from behind.

"Get out! You bastard who isn't a slave enough."

"That's it, if you don't leave, you have to reward you with a mouthful......"

The shouts of scolding and cheering only echoed in the street, and the young man who had been standing on the opposite side of the street dressed as a worker looked at this scene with excitement in his eyes and a smile on his face.

The people's heart, this is the people's heart!

(To be continued)