Chapter 22: The Workshop of the Black Heart

Although it was very hard, Dugu Yishi held on. Every time he went to bed very late, he fell asleep as soon as he lay down. I have to get up at seven o'clock the next day. It takes more than ten minutes to walk from Liuyun Xiaoke to the workshop, wash and eat for at least half an hour, and the workshop goes to work at eight o'clock. So during the overtime period, Yishi sleeps a maximum of four hours a day. Sleeping only four hours a day is too hard for a 10-year-old. Miss Yunyue saw that Dugu Yishi was so bitter, so she persuaded him to stop doing it, and said that she should find something else to do. But when Yishi resigned from Boss Zhang, Boss Zhang did not pay him. Boss Zhang said, everyone is as tired as you and don't do it, so who will do my work? I can't deliver on time, my customers want me to pay liquidated damages, who will pay for my losses? At least two months, you can get a month's salary, we are pressing a month's wages, otherwise the workers will run away, where can I find a dozen people to work at once? You can do it at the end of the year, all the money will be given to you, and you will not press a penny at the end of the year.

Dugu Yishi gritted his teeth and decided to continue to do it, secretly cheering himself up: "If others can do it, I must do it too!" When receiving chickens, ducks and geese, because it is a piecework wage, the salary of a chicken, duck and goose pigeon is a copper plate, but whether it is a chicken or a duck or a goose or a pigeon, there is a difference in size, some are small, some are large, and the washing and processing of large ones is more troublesome and time-consuming. When Wang Fatzi saw that he was alone and alone, and there was no fellow countryman, he bullied him, and when he divided the pieces, he always gave him the big pieces picked out by others.

There are a total of 12 workers in the workshop, five of whom are from the same village, and their homes are less than 30 miles away from Nanyan Town, so they like big insects to eat small insects, and small insects to eat caterpillars. In front of Wang Fatzi, they are small worms, and in front of them, one stone is a caterpillar. They often bully Koishi. Once, Ichishi went to eat at noon and came back to find that his two baskets were missing. Since the baskets are almost identical, Ichishi does not recognize his own basket. He saw that two of the five men had an extra basket each, so he went to ask, and they screamed disdainfully and asked, "Who said this is your basket? Helplessly, he got up early the next day, was the first to rush to the workshop, and seeing that no one else came, he took the opportunity to take two big baskets. Thankfully, the two big men didn't realize that he had taken their baskets, but yelled at the two men in the Gang of Five who had taken his baskets, "Scum, why are you taking my basket?" Yishi was terrified when he heard this, for fear that the big man would ask him questions. The big man continued to scold, "Then why do you both have an extra basket? Whoever you didn't take from us? No one else is missing, but we are less!" the big man picked up the basket and walked away in a menacing manner, and the two men did not say a word. Sure enough, "the wicked have their own wicked grinding", Yishi thought to himself. "Thankfully, the big guys didn't notice that I took their baskets. ”

Of the thirteen workers, only one stone plucked the goose's feathers very cleanly, and there was not a single fine hair left. Wang Fatzi said to a worker in his thirties, Dugu Yishi's hair is plucked cleanly, and your hair always has a few fine hairs. After hearing this, the worker looked at him with disdain, and said disdainfully, "How much can you get a day if you do it like him?" Yishi was very angry, but he also dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.

Because of the serious lack of sleep for more than a month, Dugu Yishi has not only had a toothache but also constipation in the past few days. He had to take advantage of the short break in the middle of the day to go to the clinic and buy some medicine to eat. It's not easy to make money, Dugu Yishi gritted his teeth and persevered for two months, and after getting a month's salary, he left the workshop in Nanyan Town that brought him pain and humiliation, and returned to Xushankou in Wanyue Village to continue chopping firewood, farming, farming and gardening.

Dugu Yishi paid for two months' accommodation in Liuyun Xiaoke, and then deducted the two months' food money and illness expenses that Old Man Dai gave him, and Dugu Yishi's reward for two months of hard work was only 300 copper plates. It's not worth it, it's really not worth it! Yishi felt extremely angry and helpless.

Lonely Yishi found that although Nanyan Town was good, he couldn't find the right thing to do there, and he couldn't gain a firm foothold there, so he had no choice but to leave in disgrace.

With this extremely lonely and depressed mood, Dugu Yishi returned to the home of the old man Dai in Xushankou in Crescent Village. Two months ago, he was so high-spirited, he seemed to think that he would definitely be able to earn money this time, and his life would make a qualitative leap from then on, he could start his new life in Nanyan Town, he could meet Miss Yunyue he liked often, and he could start a lot of dreams, and today proves how naïve and ignorant his ideas were and how idealistic they were. Now the ideal has come to naught, and the dream has turned into sorrow. It really responds to the saying "There is a great hope, and there is a great disappointment".

Feeling the lonely mood, Old Man Dai comforted him with kind words, and said to him earnestly: "Life is not smooth sailing, the future is bright, and the road is tortuous. I think the song "Love Fights to Win" sings very well - life is like waves on the sea, sometimes up and down. A stone, we must not get carried away when we get up, and we must keep the attachment in our hearts when we fall! Life may also go to extremes, it sometimes makes you poor, destitute, humble and lowly, but sometimes it makes you soar, noble and prominent, and popular against the sky. There are many such examples in history. Historical celebrities such as General Han Xin, who was humiliated by the rogue when he was down, and Goujian, the king of Yue, one of the Wu and Yue hegemony, was reduced to a fleshy footboard when the enemy leader got on the horse when he failed. General Han Xin eventually became the deadly nemesis of the overlord of Western Chu, and Gou Jian, the king of Yue, let the enemy head die and destroy the country. The fate of life is so peculiar that countless people hate it and make countless people love it. The important thing is not to forget the original intention and forge ahead! Use your own wisdom, perseverance, and diligence to change your fate, and not succumb to the arrangement of fate, and eventually become a strong man! Imagine that you were once very humble, you were a failure, you were once betrayed by others, you were once a lot behind others, but you did not forget your original intention, forged ahead, and finally laughed the best and laughed the best."