Huangyuan City is centered on the Old Bridge, forming several major areas; The east of the bridge is collectively called Dongguan, because the bus station is here

-- This is the main "port" to the outside world -- there are many miscellaneous market stalls and service industries for outsiders.

Most of the outsiders who enter the city are actually rural craftsmen or pure farmers who come to make a living by collecting labor, and Dongguan Bridge is also a traditional market for selling labor, and it is often like a market full of craftsmen and small workers from all over the north, waiting for the contractors to come and "recruit workers".

The main part of the city is on the west bank of the Huangyuan River, and the streets of Dongguan extend through the Old Bridge to the Sparrow Mountain to the west

Below, it intersects with the north-south main street in a T-shape, and the north-south street on the west bank is the main artery of Huangyuan City, and the total length of the street is about five miles.

The middle section of the north and south streets and the east and west streets stretching out from Dongguan form the commercial center of the city, and it is also the most prosperous place in the city

Belt, South Street stretches along the Xiaonan River, most of which are party and government departments, and the northern section is the concentration of hotels, military sub-districts and schools.

In addition to the commercial area in the city center, people call the rest of the city Dongguan, Nanguan, and Beiguan, and Nanguan is mainly the world of cadres, so it is relatively quiet; Beiguan is neat, full of teenagers in military and student uniforms; Tian Xiaoxia usually studies in the school in Beiguan, and will return to her home in Nanguan on weekends, her father Tian Fujun will soon be the number one in the Huangyuan area, busy with work, and there are usually only her and her grandfather at home on weekends.

Shen Long didn't rush to find Tian Xiaoxia, before that, Sun Shaoping and Tian Xiaoxia had been cut off for almost a year, Tian Xiaoxia had been writing to Sun Shaoping, but because of the gap in the social status of the two, Sun Shaoping did not continue to reply to Tian Xiaoxia in the end, if he hadn't left home and came to Huangyuan, the two would probably not meet again, right?

It is a little abrupt to go to Tian Xiaoxia now, Shen Long plans to settle down in Huangyuan first, and then look for an opportunity to "meet" Tian Xiaoxia, preferably like Li.

Shen Long was not as flustered and overwhelmed as Sun Shaoping when he first came to Huangyuan, he walked to the Dongguan Bridge, and the sidewalks on both sides of the street were crowded with many people who were disheveled or tattered; Beside them were a roll of luggage as pitiful as his, some of which were pinned with hammers, drills, planers, chisels, square rulers, curved rulers, ink fountains, and tools made from broken blue balls.

Some of these people walked around in a panic, some sat insensitively, and some simply slept on the sidewalk with their bags on their pillows, waiting for the arrival of the recruiter.

They were the first batch of migrant workers in China, and they changed the appearance of countless cities, from dilapidated to beautiful, but they never won the respect of the cities.

Shen Long found a place on the bridge, put down his luggage, and then sat down on the bedding roll, carefully observing the two distinct groups of people, the men sitting on both sides of the bridge to do the work had wooden eyes, and their eyes were full of envy and inferiority when they looked at the city; And the long river of cars, bicycles, and pedestrians, although flowing around them, is actually another world; None of the cadres and citizens walking around the streets took a serious look at these outsiders living on the streets.

Occasionally, someone swept over them, and there was a lot of disgust in their eyes, as well as some pride in their social status, and they raised their chin slightly and proudly walked through the crowd, we are city people, and we are different from these poor men.

Whenever a bag foreman in an oil-stained shirt came to the bridge with a black stick smoke in his mouth, he was soon surrounded by a group of laborers; The foreman looked at the circle of people around him like he was buying livestock, and he was still pinching and fiddling on the people, seeing that the body was crooked, and then selecting a few people to take away; Those who were taken away were as happy as if they had joined the work, while those who were not picked had to return to their bedding rolls in discouragement, waiting for the next "savior" to come.

Shen Long didn't feel humiliated, he remembered the old godfather's famous saying, eat with your own strength, there is no shame; At this moment, he has a little bit of Zhong Yuemin's feeling that he was an educated youth in Baidian Village, Tucheng Commune, he regards this life as a simple experience, and sometimes when he thinks about it, Zhong Yuemin's lifestyle is indeed worthy of envy.

No matter what the situation, he can maintain an optimistic spirit of actively participating in life, and he can experience a variety of different lives at will, Shen Long has been an official, a scholar, a godfather of the underworld, and he has really never been a migrant worker, so it is not bad to experience it.

Of course, if Shen Long is doing this for the rest of his life, he will definitely not be happy, no matter who he is, he hopes to have a better life, otherwise Zhong Yuemin will not leave Baidian Village to become a soldier, Shen Long is now staying in Dongguan Bridge just to better experience Sun Shaoping's life and truly understand his inner world, once there is the right time and reason, he will definitely jump out of here.

By the time the sun was about to set, Shen Long hadn't found a job yet, not because he wasn't qualified, but because he had focused most of his energy on observation before, and he didn't come forward to recommend himself when the contractor came over.

The workers at the head of the bridge packed up their things and prepared to leave, and no one would come to recruit workers today, so it was better to find a place to deal with it overnight first, and then come back tomorrow.

Shen Long also left Qiaotou with them and began to look for a place to spend the night in the evening, although there were many small hotels nearby, but he did not have a letter of introduction, it was not easy to stay, and staying in a hotel did not match the identity of a laborer.

In this era, people from the countryside to the city were reluctant to spend this money, and they generally chose to go to their relatives and friends, and endure each other's disgusted eyes for a night; This is not to blame those relatives and friends in the city, if someone comes to stay overnight every once in a while, no one will have a good face.

Shen Long now has three choices, first of all, Sun Shaoping's good friend Jin Bo, Jin Bo's father Jin Junhai works as a driver in the Huangyuan Post and Telecommunications Bureau, Jin Bo follows him to do some chores at the post office, but Jin Bo's house is not spacious, Shen Long's past Jin Bo must be happy, but it is too troublesome for others.

followed by Sun Shaoping's distant uncle Ma Shun, he was in the Yanggou Brigade in Beiguan, but this relative was a little too far away, and Sun Shaoping found his first job through Ma Shun in the original book, but it also caused some conflicts.

Shen Long also gave up this plan, in addition to not liking Ma Shun's family very much, he was also worried that like the original book, he would be regarded as a son-in-law by Secretary Cao of the Yanggou Brigade.

So there is only one choice left for him, and that is the poet Jia Bing.

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