Entering the coal yard, many workers are busy.

The wagons carrying coal are parked on tracks not far away.

Workers shovel coal onto trolleys, which are then pushed up by cart workers along an inclined pallet and poured into open carts loaded with coal.

When Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa entered the coal yard, no one paid attention to them at all.

Pang Xuelin found a sign reading "Linxiong County Railway Station Freight Office Management Committee" in the bungalow on the right side of the coal yard, the door of the bungalow was open, and inside was an office, and a middle-aged man with ****** was sitting at his desk reading a newspaper.

Pang Xuelin knocked on the door.

The middle-aged man put down the newspaper, looked at the ragged Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa, and said, "Who are you looking for?" ”

Pang Xuelin said: "This comrade, I heard that the coal yard is recruiting workers here, do you think we will succeed?" ”

As he spoke, he took out a peony cigarette from his pocket and handed one to the middle-aged man.

"I don't smoke."

The middle-aged man waved his hand, looked at Pang Xuelin and the Shuiwa brothers, pondered for a moment, and said, "You are brothers? ”

Pang Xuelin nodded.

"Wait a minute."

As he spoke, he came out of the house and shouted to the workers who were working in the coal yard, "Captain Liu, Captain Liu......"

Soon, a rough man who looked five big and three thick trotted over and said, "Accountant Yang, are you looking for me?" ”

The middle-aged man said: "These two brothers want to work in the coal yard, aren't you short of manpower?" You take them over to see it, and if it's appropriate, arrange a job for someone else. ”

"Okay."

Captain Liu smiled, and then he turned his head to Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa and said, "You come with me." ”

Pang Xuelin laughed, hurriedly went up and took out a cigarette and handed it to Team Liu, saying, "Team Liu, you smoke." ”

"Young man, where are you from?"

"We are from Wangji Town."

"Wang Jizhen? Oops, do you know Daxinfang? ”

"You know, Da Xin Fang is not far from us, and we are from Xiao Xin Fang. Brother Liu, are you from Daxinfang? ”

Team Liu laughed and said, "My daughter-in-law is from Daxinfang, and she has to go over to visit her mother-in-law every New Year's Day. Folks, let me make it clear to you first, although the salary here is high, but the life is not easy, you have small arms and legs, if you can't bear it and can't keep up with our progress, then I can only let you go. By the way, how old are you. ”

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Don't worry, Brother Liu, don't look at the few taels of meat on my body, some of them have strength." In addition, I am eighteen years old this year, and this is my brother, twenty. ”

The water baby who followed behind Pang Xuelin also nodded and said, "Yes, Liu ...... Team Liu, we have strength. ”

Team Liu smiled: "Okay, then wait and work in a group, one shovels coal and the other pushes the cart." ”

"Okay, thank you Team Liu."

Pang Xuelin smiled with a smile.

He knew that Team Liu had good intentions, and if they were rashly allowed to cooperate with other workers, if they were not as smart as others in their work, it would be easy to make others dissatisfied.

They work in pairs and work a little slower, so that no one else notices.

Soon, the three of them came to the coal pile.

Team Liu said: "Let's stop, there are two newcomers, by the way, what's your name?" ”

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Just call me Lin Wazi, this is my brother Shui Wa." ”

Team Liu said: "Lin Wazi and Shui Wazi, the brothers are not very old, and everyone takes a little care of them when they work." ”

"Don't worry, Team Liu, it's all your own family."

"Lin Wazi, where are you?"

"Brother, we are from Wangji Town, come, smoke."

Pang Xuelin stepped forward and took out the peonies familiarly and gave them to everyone one by one, and soon became familiar with the workers.

A few workers saw that it was a peony cigarette, so they put the cigarette behind their ears and said with a smile: "Oh, Lin Wazi, you are not small, you will share the peony smoke when you come up." ”

Peony cigarettes two pieces of four packs, the average bottom of the people can not afford to smoke, in this great northwest loess slope, the locals generally smoke the galloping horse cigarettes produced by the Tianshui cigarette factory, only a few cents a pack.

At this time, Team Liu said: "Okay, let's all work, Lin Wazi, you and your brother go to get the empty shovel and wheelbarrow over there, and start working, you can do what others do." ”

"Okay."

Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa took the shovel and quickly began to work.

Pang Xuelin's body has been systematically modified, even if he travels to the new world, and the system turns him into a sixteen-year-old teenager, but the various abilities given by genetic optimizers have not disappeared.

Therefore, this intensity of manual labor was completely drizzle for him.

And the water baby is also the strength of a shoulder.

The two quickly filled the wheelbarrow, and the water baby grabbed the wheelbarrow, pushed the wheelbarrow along the ramp to the top of the coal truck, and then unloaded a cart of coal.

Only then did he return and continue to shovel coal and load the truck with Pang Xuelin.

Pang Xuelin said that the two took turns pushing the cart, but the water baby was unwilling to live or die.

said that there is no reason to let my brother work more.

Both of them are very quick with their hands and feet, and the water baby is willing to work hard, and the loading speed of the two is not much slower than those skilled workers.

Captain Liu, who had been observing the two of them not far away, couldn't help but nod secretly, obviously satisfied with their work.

It was not until six o'clock in the evening that all three wagons of coal were loaded.

Captain Liu beckoned the big guy to eat.

Soon, the workers gathered one by one and washed their faces around a faucet.

Shui Wa looked at the white tap water flowing out of the faucet, couldn't help but widen her eyes, and said a little incredulously: "This ...... Is this tap water? ”

Before Pang Xuelin could speak, a worker who looked to be in his thirties smiled and said, "I haven't seen it, this water is much sweeter than the water in the cellar." ”

Finally, it was Pang Xuelin's turn and Shui Wa, and Shui Wa said, "Lin Wazi, you go wash first." ”

"Okay."

Pang Xuelin stepped forward to wash off the soot on his body, and then took a few sips of water with both hands, and then said loudly: "Cool!" ”

During that time in Xiaoxinfang, drinking the water in the mud cellar every day, Pang Xuelin was about to vomit.

After Pang Xuelin finished washing, the water baby went up and carefully held the water and drank several sips, savored it carefully, a happy smile appeared on his face, and said, "Sweet." ”

Subsequently, Shui Wa learned from Pang Xuelin to wash the coal ash on their bodies.

Then it's time for dinner.

Dinner was white flour bun with cabbage and tofu soup.

There are a lot of oil stars floating on the soup, and you can even see one or two pieces of yellow and clear oil residue.

Everyone lined up, each made a bowl of soup and two steamed buns, and then squatted in the corner and ate them in a big gulp.

Shui Wa drank soup while eating buns, with a happy smile on her face: "Lin Wazi, it's really right to listen to you, the days outside are comfortable." ”

Pang Xuelin smiled and didn't say much.

After eating, Captain Liu knew that the two of them had not yet settled in the county, so he took them to the workers' dormitory.

Although it is said to be a dormitory, it is actually a chase shop, and it is a grinding teeth grinding and snoring when you sleep at night.

But it's not a matter for the water baby, his snoring is deeper than anyone else's.

Pang Xuelin was accustomed to the sleeping habits of the water baby, and he still fell asleep peacefully in such an environment.

In the next month, Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa worked in the coal yard with peace of mind.

The salary of eight yuan a day is not high if it is placed in a coastal city, but in this small county town located on the high slope of the loess in the northwest, it is considered a high salary.

There are many people who can't endure such hardships, and they can't stand it after working for a few days and then leave, and then come back when they have no money at hand.

On the contrary, the brothers Shuiwa and Pang Xuelin, who look thin and weak, and have worked hard for ten hours a day without being tired.

This is something that even Captain Liu admires very much.

By the end of the month, Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa had each received two hundred and forty yuan, adding up to four hundred and eight.

In the face of this huge amount of money, Shui Wa was a little confused.

Pang Xuelin is still the same, he found Team Liu and said, "Brother Liu, I want to take two days off." ”

"What's wrong?"

Team Liu looked at Pang Xuelin in puzzlement.

Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa brothers are the main force of the team, two people can top three or even four, if Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa want to go, Team Liu is really reluctant.

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "My uncle's family has been using a mud cellar to store water, and the water is easy to be sour and smelly, we have made money this time, and we are going to resist a few bags of cement to go back, and the original mud cellar will be repaired into a cement cellar, so that it will be much better to store water." ”

Team Liu said: "Okay, then I'll give you five days, and remember to come back after five days." ”

"Yes, definitely."

Pang Xuelin laughed.

Coming out of the coal yard and looking at the still prosperous county street, the water baby has a feeling of being separated from the world.

A month ago, when I first came to the county seat, I was carrying twenty yuan in my arms, looking at the dazzling goods on the commercial street of the county, and the water baby was at a loss.

A month later, when he saw it all again, his entire waist straightened a lot.

Don't panic when you have money in your hands.

But soon, the water baby wilted down and said, "Lin Wazi, where are we going?" ”

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Eat first, Brother Shuiwa, I have a treat today, please eat beef noodles." ”

The local beef noodles taste quite good, and the last time Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa first came to the county, they smelled the fragrance and drooled for a long time.

It's a pity that seeing the price of 10,000 beef noodles for two yuan, neither of them stepped into the store half a step.

Soon, Pang Xuelin took the water baby to a beef noodle restaurant, and after waiting for two large bowls of beef noodles to come, he added spicy and vinegar, and he was sweating profusely.

After eating and drinking, Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa went to buy five catties of pork belly, two catties of white sugar, one catty of brown sugar, two catties of dried red dates and one catty of white fungus.

Then, the two hurried all the way and finally arrived home before dark.

Seeing Lin Wazi and Shui Wazi returning with a full load, the third uncle and the third aunt were dumbfounded.

The third uncle said: "Shui Wa, you and Lin Wazi didn't do anything bad, right?" ”

Shui Wa smiled: "Dad, you can put eighteen hearts, these are all exchanged for me and Lin Wazi's strength." ”

Then, after Shuiwa arrived at the county seat, Pang Xuelin found the owner of the commissary to buy cigarettes, inquired about where there was a job, and how to find the coal yard of the railway station, and had a good relationship with the people inside, and then talked about it for a month.

The third uncle was almost stunned, he never thought that Lin Wazi, who had just turned sixteen, would be so atmospheric outside.

In the end, when Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa each took out two hundred yuan and put it in front of the third uncle and third aunt, the third uncle directly red-eyed.

It took a long time before he said: "Lin Wazi, I have received the money of the water baby, but your money ...... Uncle can't ask for it. ”

"Uncle, this is my filial piety to you and your aunt."

Pang Xuelin said with a smile.

The third uncle said: "Lin Wazi, your father and mother left early, these years have not been easy, you have to save this money and use it to marry your daughter-in-law in the future." ”

Pang Xuelin was silent for a moment, knelt down, and said: "Third uncle, third aunt, if you hadn't taken me in all these years, I might have lost my life a long time ago, and the grace of nurturing is difficult to repay, don't you even give me the opportunity to fulfill my filial piety?" ”

"Lin Wazi, what are you doing, hurry up, hurry up."

The third aunt wiped the corners of her eyes, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Pang Xuelin up.

Then, the third aunt turned her eyes to the third uncle and said: "His father, you see that Lin Wazi is also a filial piety, let's accept it for the time being, and we will help him keep this money for later use to marry his daughter-in-law." ”

The third uncle pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Nacheng, Lin Wazi, Uncle Na will help you keep this money first." ”

Pang Xuelin nodded, feeling that his nose was slightly sour.

Early the next morning, Pang Xuelin went to the town with the third uncle and Shui Wa to buy cement, and went to the brick factory to order red bricks.

Over the next few days, the family worked together to quickly build a brand new cement water cellar.

Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa were relieved, and the two returned to the county seat together and continued to work under Team Liu.

When it came to the Chinese New Year, the two of them had saved 600 yuan each of the 200 yuan they had given to the third uncle and aunt.

During the Chinese New Year, Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa brought back a large number of New Year's goods, and the family had a good New Year.

On the seventh day of the new year, Pang Xuelin found the third uncle and said, "Uncle, Brother Shui Wa and I are going to go out in two days." ”

The third uncle nodded with a smile and said: "Cheng, this time I went out to make money in the coal yard, and strive to build a big yard in the coming year, when you and Shuiwa have a room, and after two years, you will marry your daughter-in-law, maybe your third aunt and I will be able to hold our grandson soon." ”

Pang Xuelin pondered for a moment and said, "Uncle, Brother Shui Wa and I are not going to work in the coal yard. ”

"Not ready to do it in the coal yard? Why? Isn't that a good job? ”

The third uncle was a little surprised.

Pang Xuelin laughed and said: "Uncle, I want to go to the south with Brother Shuiwa, it's not a matter to stay in this small county town all the time, besides, the coal yard work, eight yuan a day is a high salary in our place, but if it is in the southern coastal city, this money is nothing at all." ”

The third uncle was silent for a long time, nodded and said, "That's it, you should be careful on the road, and when the place is settled, remember to write a letter to home." ”

"Uncle, did you agree?"

Pang Xuelin couldn't help but be taken aback, he had originally prepared a lot of rhetoric to deal with the third uncle.

The third uncle glared at him and said, "Lin Wazi, uncle knows that you have a good brain and a high heart. Even if I stop you now, I can't stop you all the time. But Uncle wants you to remember one sentence, when you go out, try to be kind to others, don't be afraid, don't make trouble, and finally, take care of your water baby. ”

As he spoke, the third uncle's eyes turned red.

Pang Xuelin nodded solemnly and said, "Don't worry, third uncle, I will definitely not let anyone bully Brother Shuiwa." ”