The two were extremely excited to meet, they hadn't seen each other for a few months, Wu Yiren had grown stronger, his skin had turned white, his clothes had changed, and his hair had been dyed yellow, and Ze Kuan almost couldn't recognize him.

Wu Yi looked at him with a smile and said, "Why are you still so dark and thin?" Look at me. Show him the muscles of his arm.

Ze Kuan smiled and said, "It may be that the food here in Guangzhou is better than in my hometown, so you eat for nothing." ”

Wu Yi said: "Not only is the food here good, but there are also more beautiful beauties than in the countryside. ”

Then he asked, "Did everything go well on the road?" Have you ever encountered a thief or a scammer? ”

He was embarrassed to tell what happened just now, Wu Yi smiled and patted his snakeskin bag, and said: "You are carrying this brand-name bag, people will know at a glance that you are a good starter who has just come out, and there are many complicated people outside, so you have to be careful everywhere." ”

Walking not far to the industrial zone, a tall archway reads "Oyster Hewei Industrial Zone", there are small shops, fast food restaurants, noodle restaurants, small supermarkets and lottery stations, small clinics, etc., Wu Yi said: "The factory does not include food, you have to eat here after work, you have to buy your own things, just buy them and bring them in, your pullback shoes are exposed toes, and you can change your pair here and go in!" ”

I took him into a small supermarket and helped him pick out the things he needed, and he said, "The money that came out was borrowed by my mother, not much, only cheap ones." ”

Wu Yi said: "It's cheap and not good, I don't know how to be thrifty, and I don't have any money left this month, but I will pay my salary on the 15th in a few days, and I will borrow you." ”

Zekuan said: "As long as it is cheap and can be used, I don't want to borrow money, I have to save money to go back to pay off the debt to my family." ”

Wu Yi nodded and said, "If I am as frugal and family-friendly as you, my parents don't know how happy they are." ”

In the end, the checkout cost almost 100 yuan, Zekuan sighed that the things in the big city are expensive, he opened the bag, and the clothes were wrapped in 10 yuan and 5 yuan, and then took off his shoes, and the socks were 100 yuan.

Wu Yi looked at it, shook his head with a smile, and the proprietress of the supermarket frowned like looking at a strange animal, holding her hands together and letting him put the money on the table by himself.

Zekuan also felt ashamed, but there was no way, he knew that the money was borrowed back by his mother with dignity and tears, and it was also his living expenses for the next month or so.

He took off the pull-back shoes that could see the toes at the broken toe and put on new shoes, he used to wear a pair of rubber shoes for a few dollars at school and was laughed at, so he picked mountain herbs and dug yellow eels during the summer vacation to earn money to buy these shoes, and wore them for more than two years, with a unique feeling.

Walking into the industrial area, unlike the magnificent archway, the factories are all rows of old brick buildings, which are in stark contrast to the high-rise buildings he saw along the way.

When he arrived at one of the factories, Wu Yi said: "This is the workshop, and the dormitory is at the back." Take him in from the factory gate, through the workshop, nearly two hundred square meters of the plant, there are sixty or seventy men and women working, everyone cast a curious look at Zekuan, in the face of so many strangers' eyes, he is a little uncomfortable.

Someone raised his hand to say hello, it was Zhao Wencheng, who was also introduced by Wu Yi.

Coming out of the back door to the dormitory, it is also an old brick structure, there are two rows of iron frame beds in it, a big fan on each side of the wall, a man is cleaning up the bed, about 20 years old, the right eye is white, seeing them, he greeted Zekuan very warmly: "You are Zekuan, right?" Hello. ”

Wu Yi introduced: "Zekuan, this is Wu Dangui, my friend, he is very good, you can ask him if you don't understand anything in the future." ”

Zekuan said, "Hello. ”

Wu Dangui said: "I think you must be tired from the car, and I have already cleaned up the lower bunk bed for you." ”

Zekuan said, "Thank you. ”

Wu Dangui said: "You're welcome, everyone will be workers in the future, I have to go back to the workshop, lest the boss say." After that, he went back to the workshop.

Zekuan said: "This person is so good, what's going on with his eyes?" ”

Wu Yi said: "When he was six years old, he was beaten by his father for stealing food, and accidentally hit his eye, and at first he thought that there was no big problem and he didn't go to treatment, but then he couldn't be cured, and he became one-eyed and semi-blind." ”

Ze Kuan listened and felt deep sympathy for Wu Dangui.

Wu Yi said: "He is always good to everyone, and I hope that others will not discriminate against him, but some guys in the factory still like to make fun of him, deliberately calling him Adan or Brother Shan, you don't want to call him like this to others, call him Agui or Guige, he likes others to call him Agui." ”

Zekuan nodded, a little puzzled, how could a poor and enthusiastic person still have someone to treat him like this.

Wu Yi continued: "His family is very poor, he went to school very late, his grades are very good, but he was forced to drop out of school to make money in the second year of junior high school, and he almost paid the tuition fees of his three younger brothers and sisters, so he usually saves money." ”

Zekuan felt even more sympathetic.

Wu Yi helped him make the bed while introducing the situation in the factory: "The factory is a transformer, the work is not hard, at least not like the sun and rain like farming at home, but the time is long, from 8 o'clock in the morning to 12 o'clock at noon, from 1 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon, and the normal work is nine hours." There are many orders to work overtime almost every night, just come in with a salary of 400 yuan, including not food, only half a year to rise 50, up to 600 cap, new employees overtime pay a piece of 51 hour, do more than a year of old employees two dollars an hour, pay wages on the 15th of each month, and rest a day on the 16th. ”

After making the bed, Wu Yi wanted to go back to work, and said to him at the door of the dormitory: "The whole row here is a dormitory area, and there are intersections at both ends to go out, but it is far away. Next door is the women's dormitory of our factory, and the open space next to it is a small garden, where there is a public toilet, you can go to the park to sit first, and then go out to eat after work. ”

Zekuan walked to the small park, there are hundreds of square meters, close to a stinky river about five meters wide, the river water is like ink, the smell is stinking, and the public toilet is on the edge of the river. There is also a fish pond in the park with water lilies, and although the water is a little muddy, there are beautiful koi fish. There are three tall kapok trees, as well as other flowers and trees such as osmanthus, hibiscus, and rhododendron, and the fragrance of the flowers is mixed with the smell. There is a large banyan tree on the opposite side of the river, and the canopy of the tree grows all the way to this side of the park. Flocks of sparrows were jumping and chirping on the ground, and turtledoves were on the banyan trees.

Zekuan didn't expect that there would be such a park with birds and flowers in such an industrial area, and it would be good to have time to read here.

The factory here doesn't seem to be large, and you can see the work inside from the back door and window, and there seems to be a garment factory across the park, with a lot of clothes and cloth piled up.

There was a burst of electric bells, and the factory was suddenly noisy, and it was about six o'clock when he got off work, so he left the park, and it happened that Wu Dangui came to the back door and called him: "Zekuan, go to dinner." ”

They walked through the workshop again, Wu Yi and Zhao Wencheng were waiting for them, Zhao Wencheng put his arm on Zekuan's shoulder very familiarly, and said, "There is another fellow countryman, and I will have a companion in the future." ”

Wu Yi said to him: "Don't take him badly. ”

Zhao Wencheng said: "What are you talking about, people are good boys, can I take them badly." ”

Out of the industrial area, into a fast food restaurant, there are a lot of people, all kinds of dialects.

Wu Yi said: "The dishes made in this store are better, two yuan for two vegetables and one meat; two pieces of five with two vegetables and two meats; For three pieces of two vegetables and three meats, you have to buy a meal ticket first, and you can add rice as you like. ”

Zekuan wants to save money, so he eats two vegetables and one meat, Zhao Wencheng said to him: "Do you want to save so much?" When I first arrived in Guangzhou, I didn't eat a good meal to celebrate. ”

Zekuan said: "I don't have much money, and I don't know if I can eat until the 15th of next month." ”

Zhao Wencheng said: "If you really want to save, then go to Chaotian Noodle Restaurant to eat a bowl of somen noodles for five cents, our single brother is familiar with it." ”

Wu Dangui's face turned red when he heard this.

Wu Yi said: "I want to go to work and eat that noodle and I am hungry, I said it, I will lend you if I don't have enough money." ”

Zhao Wencheng salivated and said to him: "Brother Yi, I am also poor this month, can you lend me some too?" ”

Wu Yi said: ", you still owe me fifty and haven't paid it back, if you gamble more on slot machines, you can't even afford to eat somen noodles." ”

After eating, Wu Yi also invited each of them to a one-dollar soda.

Ze Kuan was hungry and felt that this simple meal was particularly delicious, in fact, his family could probably only eat such a meal during the New Year's holidays, and when he drank a sip of soda, a cool breath rushed to his head, which felt very refreshing.

Zhao Wencheng asked Zekuan: "Hey, do you want to go to your dream lover who has a crush, I have her phone number and know her school address." ”

Zekuan pretended not to hear, Wu Yi said Zhao Wencheng: "What are you showing, do you think that Zekuan doesn't have her phone." ”

Zhao Wencheng said: "What I have is her mobile phone number, and she only bought the mobile phone this month. ”