Recently, there has been a great shortage of manpower on construction sites in the city, and bosses have disregarded quality in order to rush the construction period. They tried every means to blindly carry out fatigue tactics on the construction site, they did not want quality, only the practice of speed, so that many young workers left the construction site one after another because of their physical exhaustion. The bosses saw that there were fewer and fewer laborers, and their eyes were red. They would rather pay twice as much to find someone to work in the village than leave a mess to build the next spring. That's not all, they still have a conscience behind their backs, secretly take the residents' building photos to the bank for loans, in order to open up the joints, they treat guests and give gifts, eat and drink, and completely ignore the lives and deaths of others.

Now the construction site is short of manpower, and they have to tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, and recruit people from all walks of life to work on the construction site.

In order to prevent long nights and dreams, the boss personally went into battle to direct the workers to work overtime in three shifts, and then fought at night, intending to rush to complete the project before the winter.

Rural people have no way to make money, can only rely on their strength to make a living, in order to earn more extra money, as soon as the hutong comes to recruit workers, they will flock away, many men in the village ignore the opposition of their families, in groups carrying luggage to the city to work, their chaotic footsteps, in the courtyard gate flashed lightly, and hurriedly walked over. When they were gone, the harvest was left to the women of the family.

But some people go, their brains are a little more flexible, and when they see that things are not good, they borrow money as an excuse, and they can come back with some money after finishing their work, but some people go to the construction site, and their heads are not open to elm pimples, and they just blindly bury their heads in work, and in the end, in addition to not collecting the grains, it seems that they can't even get the travel fee back.

Seeing this scene, Xiaohong suddenly remembered Xiao Si'er who was far away at the construction site, and his heart was lost again. Si'er is not in good health, he didn't eat a few days of milk when he was young, he just had a full moon and his mother went to the brick factory to go out of the kiln, almost raised by his grandmother, because of excessive food, malnutrition, his spleen and stomach are not in harmony, and his face is full of vegetables, his lips are peeling all year round, and his body is very thin. Dad didn't want him to stay in the yard, so he let him learn the trade.

Si'er didn't read much, and he dropped out of school at the age of thirteen to learn bricklayers from his master. Then go to work in other places all the year round, almost every year around the Spring Festival can stay at home for a month or two, as soon as the construction site starts, he has to go to the construction site with the master, they live in the empty house on all sides of the year to live hard, wherever they go, where is the temporary shelter.

In the past, Si'er followed the master to the city to build a building, often because Bao Gongtou was not trustworthy, after the building was capped, many foremen ran away with the money, leaving some unfinished buildings that cut corners, and were sued in court, making their master's and apprentice's wages for several years wasted. When a group of bricklayers and laborers finally found the foreman to ask for an account, they found that the debt was harder than the waist rod that asked for the account. Maybe they all have backers behind them, otherwise they wouldn't be so blatant. Once, when his father asked for money for him, he temporarily lived on a bed at a construction site, and the construction site caught fire in the middle of the night. After Dad came back, he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, squatting in the yard and smoking dry cigarettes one after another, he was depressed for a long time, and he didn't ease up.

How can there be so many fair things in the world! In this place far away from the emperor of the mountain, the boss owes the hard-earned money to the migrant workers, which is more vicious than killing them, but they are all full of fat brains and red faces, and they all drive famous cars, live in luxury houses, get away with it, and live a very nourishing life.

Now that there is a labor law and a good policy, Si'er and his master will go out to work again, and there is a labor market to support them, so there are not so many risks. Since the transformation of shantytowns in the city, their income has been getting better and better year by year. Si'er is a very family-friendly child, and the money he earned from the construction site, not a single one, was taken back and handed over to his mother. His mother saved all his money, and a lot of it, and kept it for him to use when he got married.

The afternoon sun shone obliquely in the courtyard, like a burning fire, emitting a white and bright light, piercing people's eyes.

After Xiaohong finished washing the clothes, she wrung out the water vigorously and dried them one by one on the clothes pole. Seeing that the clothes pole was not full, she went back to the house and opened the box, found a few worn clothes, and wanted to take them to the yard to wash.

She rummaged through it, and suddenly pulled out a red blouse from the box. This blouse was bought for her by my sister when she was working in the city with her first month's salary. At that time, my sister didn't earn much money, just enough to make ends meet, she was usually very cautious in spending money, and never spent money indiscriminately, but she never felt distressed when she bought a dress for her two younger sisters.

At that time, my sister bought two red clothes with different styles in the mall, one for my sister, and kept this one with a brighter color for herself. My sister also said that Xiaohong's skin was white and she looked better in red, so she specially bought it and gave it to her.

Sun Xiaohong likes this dress very much, and she has never been willing to wear it, when school started in the spring, she only wore it once, and then put it in the cabinet to press the bottom of the box like a treasure, and never wore it again. Now that she had found it and held it in her hand, she couldn't help but think of her sister again.

Sun Xiaohong has always felt that her sister is a person with a strong personality, much stronger than herself. My sister's life experience can be described as more and more twists and turns, and when it comes to her past, even she herself is embarrassed.

When my sister was in her third year of junior high school, due to the poor quality of teaching in the village, in order to let her sister get into a good high school, she was sent by her mother to the fourth aunt's house, which was far away from home. The fourth aunt's family also lives in the countryside, and the middle school there is not as good as the rumors say. Mom had to let her go, and my sister had no choice but to try.

The reason is that at that time, the fourth aunt was the principal of that middle school. This fourth aunt, Sun Xiaohong saw him when she was a few years old, and now she is in her twenties, I'm afraid she won't recognize this uncle when she walks to the other side.

Although the two families are not too close to each other, if my sister goes to their middle school, she will be well taken care of. Ten fingers are connected, sisters are connected, after all, this is a good relative that cannot be sought, and my sister is naturally willing to go.

In the eyes of people, they have to bow their heads. Before leaving, my mother, who is well versed in human affairs, sold a fat pig and specially asked someone to go to the city to buy a bicycle and give it to my sister. I also specially instructed my sister that when she got there, she should be diligent in her hands and feet, her mouth should be able to speak, her eyes should be decorated more, and when she is fine, she should help her fourth aunt do more work within her ability, and learn to take care of herself, don't keep running home if you have nothing to do, etc. Then there are many children in the fourth aunt's family, and she told her sister that if there are any bumpy little contradictions, she should hide a little and let a little, so as not to be gossiped and laughed at by others.

My sister also nodded and agreed at the time, she was also young, and in her mind, she kept fantasizing about how the fourth aunt's family would treat her, and she didn't think much about it, so she followed her father there in a daze.

In order to please his uncle, when his father drove a carriage to the fourth aunt's house to send his sister to school, he also brought more than 200 catties of millet to their family, which was regarded as a reward for my sister living in their house. After arriving there, the fourth aunt didn't even say a word of thanks, and sent her father away.

In life, some things are not as beautiful as imagined. On the first day my sister arrived at her house, the whole family was quite enthusiastic, but they didn't expect that just after the night, all the members of their family were revealed.

When my sister found out that the fourth aunt's house was in a mess, she immediately regretted it. It turns out that the fourth aunt-in-law, who seems to be beautiful on the surface, doesn't look at the people who usually talk and chew words, his mouth is full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but when it comes to right and wrong, he is like a shrew, and his mind is full of unacceptable vitriol.

He is a very narrow-minded person, very jealous, and can't see others better than him. In front of relatives and friends, whenever someone wants to surpass him in life, he tries his best to step on two feet before he can be pulled down. His sister didn't know anything about the past in his family, and since he beat his sister and went, he actually pretended to put up a poor score.

He came home from work every day to eat, and every meal had to set a separate square table, and then sat cross-legged on the kang, shouting and screaming to let the fourth aunt hot wine and change the dishes.

My sister felt that he was deliberately making things difficult for the fourth aunt to show herself. Later, I heard that the fourth aunt was a man who had no father and mother since he was a child, and he was with his aunt when he was a few years old.

When he was drunk, he gave orders to the whole family mercilessly, so that all his wife and children stood trembling on the wall, listening to him as if he were singing, and reprimanded him one by one. Some people say that the pockmarked face and beard are not to be crossed, and the most evil thing is the waist of the water snake. He was originally very rough in appearance, and he even had a hairy beard, starting a fire, like a hideous Hades.

As for the fourth aunt, in addition to being willing to endure any humiliation from him, she also has to face a lot of miscellaneous housework all day long, under his destruction and torture, the fourth aunt who cries and howls is like a crazy woman every day, not swearing three feet in heaven, or smashing dishes and smashing bowls and complaining about the sky.

With the connivance of the fourth aunt-in-law, the three sons and one daughter in their family all went against her, and she couldn't control anyone, so she could only foolishly vent her dissatisfaction with the things in the family.