The five of us waited at the bus stop for more than ten minutes before the bus arrived, and when we got on the bus, we all walked to the back, and there were not many people on the bus.

I, Lei Xiaohu and Xiao Yuanbao sat in the last row, and Li Yuancheng and Cao Yuanguo sat in the two seats in front of us.

I would look out the window, and the street lights on the side of the road would be yellow, and there would be cars overtaking me from time to time, and I could see people riding bicycles on the side of the road.

A few of them were chatting, and from time to time they asked me if I had arrived at my destination in such an hour.

got off the bus and followed Cao Yuanguo to the dormitory. Turning along the main road into the rows of high-rise buildings, we all looked up, and the dark sky could not see how high the buildings were, only saw that many windows were lit.

After turning a corner again, I didn't walk for long, and I saw that the downstairs in front of me was bright, and many people were eating.

"Brothers, let's have dinner in front of you, and then go back to sleep after eating." We heard the words and came to the spirit.

The five of them sat down in front of a food stall with a shed, the bench was a red plastic stool, and the table for eating was not high, and when they sat down, they found that it was only higher than their thighs.

For dinner, Cao Yuanguo ordered some skewers, and a pot of porridge, and took two bottles of beer, but Li Yuancheng and I didn't drink it, and slowly ate the skewers, and the porridge was cooked.

The dinner was very hearty and full, and everyone became more familiar with Cao Yuanguo, and they called him Brother Cao.

After eating, we touched our stomachs and went to Brother Cao's dormitory. After a while, he led us to a building, and took out the key to open the iron door on the first floor.

"Brother Cao, how many floors do you live on?" Lei Xiaohu asked.

"I live on the fourth floor, so I am full and climb slowly." Brother Cao replied hesitantly. When I entered the building, the staircase light suddenly lit on its own.

"Hey, sensor lights." Lei Xiaohu said in surprise. When I came to the fourth floor, there was a row of corridors at the entrance of the stairs, and I could see by the light that there were rooms on both sides, especially like a classroom in middle school.

Follow Brother Cao to a door with 408 written on it, open the door and enter. There is a bathroom on the right hand side of the entrance to the room, and you can see the bed, small table and wardrobe directly inside, the bed is like a double-layer iron bed in the school dormitory, and the wardrobe is a wooden wardrobe, which is not big.

I walked to the window and looked out to see the lights on in the window of the opposite building, and there were figures flickering.

"Draw the curtains, little ingots come and get this to get some water and boil it." Brother Cao commanded, and he was making the bed on the lower bed.

I took one last look downstairs to see the road below, and then pulled up the curtains. Li Yuancheng and Lei Xiaohu were sitting at the small table, I also walked over and picked up a plastic stool and sat down, the little ingots were also carrying the blue thermos flask out of the bathroom, came to the small table and put the thermos flask on the ground, Li Yuancheng moved, gave up some position, the little ingots reached out from the table and picked up the hot water stick to boil hot water and inserted it into the thermos flask, and then plugged the plug into the wall socket.

"Tonight, the three of you will sleep underneath, and I will sleep on it with Little Ingot Treasure." Brother Cao made the bed, sat on the edge of the bed and said, we don't have any opinions, and Xiao Yuanbao also walked over and sat on the edge of the bed together.

The five of them chatted like this, and Li Yuancheng asked, "Brother Cao, how much is the salary here for a month?" ”

"There are some small factories here, small factories are free, but the salary is not high, about 650 a month, and there are large factories a little farther away, the big factories are almost 700 a month, I work in a small factory, tomorrow we will go to the market to see the recruitment information." Brother Cao explained in detail.

"What is the Human Market?" I asked.

"The human market is the abbreviation of the talent market, and the recruitment information will be posted there, and sometimes the factory will also put a table there to recruit people, and interview on the spot, as long as it is suitable for the day, you can enter it. There are also casual workers who will also gather there, and the wages of temporary workers are basically paid on a daily basis. As he spoke, Brother Cao got up and went to the bathroom to get a basin and came out.

"Big brother, won't you go to work tomorrow?" Little Ingot asked, taking the basin with cold water from his hand and placing it on the ground.

"Tomorrow is Sunday, take a day off, take you around, look for a job." As he spoke, he pulled a towel from the bedside and handed it to Xiao Yuanbao.

Little Ingot took off his shoes and began to wash his feet, and we talked about something else. Xiao Yuanbao and Brother Cao went to bed after washing their feet first, but they didn't stop talking, and they talked until midnight before they gradually fell asleep.

On the first morning in a foreign land, I didn't hear the rooster croaking, and the three of us were crammed into the innermost part, and we slept upside down.

There was a noise on the upper bed, and the little ingots slipped down from it and went to the bathroom. After a while, Brother Cao also got up, and I woke up and heard the noise of people downstairs, and there were bicycles from time to time

The sound of a "jingle bell" bell. I turned around and looked at Lei Xiaohu, who was sleeping outside the bed, through Li Yuancheng's feet, and he was also looking at me with his eyes open.

"I'm up, I'm not sleeping." I said to Lei Xiaohu, and when he heard me say this, he sat up with a smile and slapped Li Yuancheng's buttocks.

"What are you doing?" Li Yuancheng was slapped coldly, sat up, and the two fought face-to-face a few times.

In this way, everyone got up, and I took out my clothes from my bag to change my clothes, and I had to pay attention to my image when looking for a job.

When I was touching my clothes, I found the small sign that I didn't know when I put it in my backpack at the bottom of the bag, and I also brought it over, and after taking out the small brand, I looked at it carefully in the morning sun, which was the first time I looked at it carefully in many years.

The last time I touched it, I remembered when I was a child, but I didn't look closely, maybe it was because I had stuffed it into my school bag at that time.

In the bright morning light, I looked at the small sign. It is brownish-black in color, with a cloud pattern delicately carved around the edges, and small round holes piercing through the gaps in the clouds, and there are nine around the edges; It looks like an oval with uneven edges, with a lightning-like crack in the middle, which is also pierced, and light can be seen through the small holes and cracks in the sunlight.

If you look closely, you can see that there are dense wooden grains, and there is a feeling of coldness in your hand, but it is not cold, it is a comfortable coldness.

"Yo, the line is broken? Now, this is with the red rope for you. "Brother Cao saw me sitting on the edge of the bed holding something and pondering, thinking that my pendant line was broken, so he took out a red rope from under the pillow on the top bunk and threw it to me.

I heard him speak, and another red rope was thrown on my thigh, and then I didn't think much about it, I thought this thing was quite good-looking, so I used the red rope thrown over to pass through a small hole, ready to make a pendant and hang it around my neck, and politely thanked me: "Thank you, Brother Cao." Brother Cao smiled and said, "No thanks, I also picked up the red rope." I didn't care, I hung the pendant around my neck and put it in my clothes, and then I saw Lei Xiaohu, who had been washed, come out.

I stood up and went to the bathroom to wash up. After everyone finished freshening up one by one, Brother Cao took us out for breakfast.

Breakfast was steamed cheong fun, several of us were eating it for the first time, and the tender cheong fun was paired with eggs, which felt very good.

After breakfast, Brother Cao took us on the bus and went to Renshi. After ten o'clock, I arrived at the people's market, and saw a building with a few big characters

"Southern Talent Market", there are already a lot of people walking around the building. When I got to the bottom of the building, there were a lot of cars parked on the side of the road, and I glanced at the house and saw a clock hanging on the wall.

At this time, the little ingots pulled me and said, "Come here, there is a recruitment information posted here." "I followed, squeezed through the crowd, and came to a place with bulletin boards on both sides.

Each bulletin board was full of people, and the five of us came to a notice board with fewer people, only to see all kinds of job postings on it.

I saw a job poster that read: Job Title: Hotel Manager; Requirements: high school degree or above, Cantonese, able to drink, male or female.

Address:Yuezhou City..... and so on. It turns out that there are so few people on this notice board because they are all highly requested recruitment information.

We scattered again and squeezed under the crowded signs. Just when I was looking around and was almost losing interest in a few signs, I saw a lot of people walking in the hall on the first floor, and I was curious to walk towards the hall when I saw this.

Just when I walked a few steps, someone pulled me from behind, I looked back and saw that it was Xiao Yuanbao, he opened his mouth and asked, "Xiao Linzi, where are you going?" I pointed to the hall on the first floor and said, "It seems that there are people recruiting people on the spot, and many people have passed, and I want to go there and see it." ”

"Oh, then I'll go with you," Xiao Yuan Bao was also interested when he heard it. Just as the two of us left the sign and walked to the recruitment office in the lobby on the first floor, we passed by an old man.

Suddenly, someone grabbed my right arm, I wondered when I turned around, only to see the old man who had just passed by looking at me and asking, "Little brother, are you looking for a job?" Looking at the middle-aged man who had just grabbed me, and then at the old man in front of him, I had doubts in my heart.

"Who are you?" The little ingots beside me saw that I was being pulled by someone, turned around and asked.

"Hehe, we are from the Tianshun transport team, and the two little brothers are here to find jobs, right?" The old man said with a pleasant face, and the middle-aged man next to him took out two business cards and handed them over.

I looked at the old man and wondered if he was the boss who had come to recruit workers. Did you just hold me down?

The person was right in front of me, and I immediately asked my doubts: "Hello boss, don't you know what's the matter with holding me?" The old man looked at me and Xiao Yuan Bao carefully, and when he heard my inquiry, he replied: "That's the case, I plan to come here today to recruit some people, but there are still two missing, I saw that the little brother is quite suitable just now, so let Xiao Wang hold you." "Seeing that the old man was about fifty years old, his hair was already a little silver, his round face was ruddy, he was wearing a Mao suit, and he was talking to us with his hands behind his back at this time.

"You mean to recruit us? What does that do? How much is the salary? The little ingots heard the meaning of the old man's words and asked with interest.

The old man turned sideways and pointed to a car and said, "If the two little brothers are interested, let's talk in the car, this is not the place to talk in the middle of the road." The middle-aged man next to him had already walked towards the car at this time.

Little Ingot and I looked at each other, and we were a little flattered by this. At this time, the three people who were at the sign had already come out of the crowd and walked over when they saw the two of us.

When the old man saw this, he said to us, "Then I'll go to the car and wait for you for a while." The old man turned around, and Brother Cao, Lei Xiaohu, and Li Yuancheng came to us.

Brother Cao asked, "What kind of work do you fancy to work?" Did you write it down? "Hearing Brother Cao's question, I told me what had just happened, and Xiao Yuanbao also added a few words on the side.

"Oh, it's convenient if the boss is here, so let's go over and ask about the situation!" After listening to what the two of us said, Brother Cao also said with great interest.

The five of us walked together to the car that the old man had just pointed out. When I got to the car, the door opened. The old man sat in the back seat and glanced at us.

Xiao Yuanbao and I came to the door of the car and said, "Boss, we want to know about the work situation and salary." The old man said with a smile: "Our team only recruits two people now, and the team includes room and board, and what about the salary...."The old man paused and then said: "The first month will be six hundred and fifty yuan, and if you do well, there will be a reward." ”

"What do you do with the team? We can't move anything too heavy. Xiao Yuanbao said on the side, I felt that the salary was not bad, and turned my head to look at Brother Cao.

The old man said unhurriedly: "You don't need to carry it, you can generally clean the vehicle or run errands with the car." But I won't be paid until I work for a full month. Brother Cao also heard it on the side, and the two of us turned around and the five of us got together to discuss.

"Why don't you two try it, the salary is not low." Brother Cao took the lead in speaking, and Li Yuancheng also said: "Yes, yes, I just looked at several jobs on the billboard, and the salaries are all six hundred to six hundred and five, and the requirements for more than seven hundred are high." ”

"What do you think?" I asked the little ingots around me. Little Ingot glanced at everyone and said, "Okay, go try it." After everyone finished discussing, I turned around and came to the car door and said to the old man: "Boss, we have thought about it, we can come to work, I don't know what to do next?" The old man nodded with satisfaction and said, "Don't worry, come to me this afternoon or tomorrow morning to find me at the address on the business card." ”

"Okay, let's get back and get ready." I was a little excited to say that my first job search went so smoothly.

The old man closed the car door and drove away.

"Where is the address?" Brother Cao asked, Xiao Yuanbao took out the two business cards he had just received from his pocket, Brother Cao took it and looked at it and said, "I don't know this place either, I'll go back and look at the map later." "Then we had lunch outside, and then we went back to Brother Cao's dormitory.

I don't want to continue to bother Brother Cao, people will start work tomorrow, and I plan to go to Tianshun Transport Team to report this afternoon.

On the bus back, I also told Xiao Yuanbao my thoughts, but he had no opinion, and felt that there was no difference between going early and going late.

I looked at the map in the dormitory and studied the bus route for a while, and I knew how many buses to take, and I wrote down the relevant routes in a notebook.

After two o'clock in the afternoon, Xiao Yuanbao and I set off with our schoolbags. I changed buses once along the way and finally arrived at the place two hours later.

After getting off the bus, looking for street signs and inquiring, I finally came to the gate of the Tianshun transportation team. It's not bustling here, and it's surrounded by small buildings of two or three floors.

The two of them walked through a potholed concrete road, and after a while, they saw a wooden sign hanging at the entrance of a courtyard, which was written in paint

"Tianshun Transport Team". Little Ingot and I walked into the yard and saw several trucks parked in the middle of the yard.

A little guy sitting by the door saw us come in and asked, "You two are the new recruits today?" "I nodded with Xiao Yuanbao, our eyes were still looking around, this place is really big, there are two-story bungalows on the opposite and right, and it seems to be a place to repair vehicles on the left.

"Then come with me." The little brother didn't care when he saw that the two of us were looking around, so he stood up and walked to the opposite building.

Follow the little brother up the stairs to the door of a room on the left side of the second floor. The little brother knocked on the door and heard a familiar voice from inside: "Come in".

The little brother opened the door and let the two of us go in, only to see a large table, the old man was sitting on a chair looking at something, heard the voice and raised his head to see the two of us coming in, put down the things in his hand, waved his hand to the door, and the little brother closed the door.

"Hello boss, we're here." Xiao Yuanbao said excitedly, and the old man nodded and beckoned to the two of us, "Come and sit down and talk." We both went to the table and sat down.

"The two little brothers have decided?" The old man asked again, and Xiao Yuanbao and I nodded together, and before we could speak, the old man continued: "Come, fill in these, and then give me your ID card." The old man had already put back what he had just seen, took out two forms from the drawer next to him and pushed them to us, and then took the ID cards with his hand.

I looked at the form and there were some personal information on it. In the top row, you will find your name, gender, age, and place of origin.

Then there is the year of birth, education level, and so on.

"If you don't know or are not sure, you don't need to fill it in." The old man said on the side. After filling out the form, the old man took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, then put it away and said, "Your name is Fenglin?" I nodded.

He turned his head to Xiao Yuanbao and said, "Your name is Cao Yuanbao?" Xiao Yuanbao also nodded, and we were both a little nervous.

The old man smiled slightly and said: "Don't be nervous, let me introduce myself, my name is Sui Tianshun, I am the boss of the Tianshun transportation team, I will call you Xiaofeng in the future, how about Xiaocao?" We didn't have any opinions, and we both nodded.

"Boss, what are we going to do next?" I asked, a little uncomfortable. The old man smiled even more and replied to me: "Haha, don't call me boss, just call me old." As for the next step, let Xiao Zhang take you two to familiarize yourself with the environment today, and tomorrow I will arrange someone to train you two related work. ”

"Thank you, old man." Little Ingot said.

"Thank you, old man." I followed suit.

"Xiao Zhang, come in." The old man shouted. The little brother who had just brought us in outside the door didn't leave, so he opened the door and asked, "Old man?" ”。

"Take them to arrange accommodation, and then let them get acquainted with the environment." The old man said.

"It's the old man, you two come with me." Little Ingot and I looked at the old man, and he waved his hand and said, "Go ahead."

Then he stood up and walked out the door with his backpack.