The renovated school building is at the east end of the village, far away from Xiaohong's house. Out of the alley, walk two or three hundred meters to the east. Because of the scale of the expansion, the original two rows of classrooms on the campus were all knocked down. During the construction period, the engineering team used a large number of protective walls to surround the messy broken debris and impassable. In order to ensure that the children could move into the new classrooms in time for the start of school, the construction team worked overtime to erect a wall more than one meter high on the newly buried foundation.

At dawn, before dawn, Sun Xiaohong slowly opened her eyes. She squinted her eyes, stretched her waist, slowly crawled out of the bed, looked out the window, the carriage in the yard was gone, and Mom They might have been walking for more than an hour!

Sun Xiaohong guessed like this, she quickly put on the old clothes prepared in advance, turned around and folded the quilt, carried gloves, and walked out of the hut. I slept soundly at night, and when I woke up, I was blown by the wind when I went out, and I felt in a good mood.

"Isn't it just moving bricks, what's so great, I can do it if others can do it, and on the first day of doing such work, you must not drop the chain for yourself!" She stood in the courtyard, comforting herself, and then clenched her fists and mustered up the courage to raise her legs and walk towards the gate of the courtyard.

Seeing her strange appearance, Grandma hurriedly chased her out, followed behind Xiaohong and asked, "Xiaohong, why did you get up so early today?" Are you going out again? Where are you going? ”

"Grandma, don't ask, Sihuan came to me last night and asked me to go to the construction site with her! You weren't in the house at the time, so I won't tell you in detail, I'll go find her now. When my mom and they come back, you'll tell them I'm going to the construction site! Sun Xiaohong said, striding towards the door. By the time Grandma tried to talk to her again, she had already walked out of the courtyard.

"Why don't you discuss such a big matter with your mother? The work on the construction site, in addition to bricks, is cement, what do you say you can do, isn't this nonsense? Anyway, I can't stop you, see if your mother comes back and knows, how can she count you down! ”

"Grandma, don't get involved, look at how old I am, I'm still looking for my mother, and I'm not afraid of other people's jokes!" Sun Xiaohong sneered. Grandma is really old, she oppresses her mother at every turn, and she thinks she is scaring a three-year-old child!

"Xiaohong, you go there in a while to see the situation first, if you can't do it, come back quickly, don't do it hard. Look at Si'er's small physique, he has always been so thin, he is working the construction site, tired and tired, you can't be willful! Grandma repeatedly instructed that she wanted to persuade Sun Xiaohong with a thousand worries, but Sun Xiaohong still walked forward nonchalantly, and didn't put what she said into her ears at all. Grandma chattered behind Sun Xiaohong and chased her all the way to the outside of the hospital.

But her two legs walked too slowly, and by the time she chased out of the alley, Sun Xiaohong had disappeared.

"This kid wants to come out of it, and he doesn't know what he thinks in his heart, so he always screams with himself. The work on the construction site is so tiring, as long as she is so thin, what kind of work can she do? I can't see it for a long time, so I have to run back to her tired, what are you doing with that excitement! "Grandma always thought that Xiaohong hadn't grown up yet, so she went to work on the construction site, isn't it ridiculous? No matter how short the family is of money to spend, she doesn't need to show up to earn it.

Helpless, she muttered quietly for a long time, and no one in the house heard her, so she simply went back to the house and lit a pot of dry tobacco, sat on the kang head, and smoked slowly. After the death of grandpa, everyone in the family was busy, and there was a figure all day long, no one talked to her, grandma's face was even older, and her wrinkled face was a lot more sad.

There is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure. Grandma is a person who can't be idle, every night, my mother comes back from the field exhausted, as soon as she enters the door, she can smell the smell of those meals on the table, her heart is warm, she is tired outside for a day, and when she comes home, the whole person is much more relaxed, it seems that the whole house is warm.

After Sun Xiaohong hurriedly walked out of the alley, she met Sihuan head-on, and she was about to come to her house to look for her. The two men each carried a shovel and walked forward with a smile and a smile. The sun was already high, and the smell of boiled fragrant rice wafted out of the chimneys of every house, swirling over the village, and gradually diffused in the gentle wind.

When Sun Xiaohong and Sihuan came to the construction site, the master bricklayers had not yet arrived, so they stood under a willow tree in the corner and waited for a while. "Sihuan, look how good you are now! You can earn money and live again. You see, I don't know anything but a few words. If I had known that I am like this today, I wouldn't have gone to school at the beginning. How much precious time I'm wasting compared to you! For so many years, I have delayed everything I can, and I feel that I have lived in vain all these years, and I really sigh that I am not as good as others! Sun Xiaohong said dejectedly.

"Can we stop making jokes! I'm a rough man, dealing with reinforced concrete all day long, and I have nothing to compare to. I'll just tell you this, it's really ununderstandable to wander outside these days, without culture. What's wrong with reading too much, you see, people like me can only move bricks all day long, carry cement, work like a donkey, and live a happy life where people eat soil, I still envy you! If you don't even know how to do this job, you really don't know what to do in the future! ”

"Why are you better than me, guess what my mother said about me? I'm not afraid of your jokes when I say it! She said that the higher others read, the lower I read, the lower I read, and I can't pass anything, so I might as well go to the nursery class to review and reread all the lessons again. You say, can I feel good if she belittles me like this? Anyway, there is nothing to do in this life, so let's get by! Xiaohong lowered her eyes and said in a low tone.

"What your mother said was all angry words, she just hated iron and steel, do you still take it seriously? She's your mother, everything she says is for your good, and she won't let you earn money to support your family! You have studied for so many years, spent so many years of their hard-earned money, and you are still angry with your mother at home, I see if you are stupid! You see how nice my mother is, she usually doesn't tell me anything, and when it comes to expenses, she asks me for money, and sometimes, I really wonder if I am her money-making machine! Si Huan's words made Sun Xiaohong feel shocked, she listened to Si Huan's grievances speechlessly, and stopped complaining. seems to be an infinite scenery on the surface, but in fact, there is a hurdle in my heart that I can't get over.

As they spoke, several red motorcycles rushed in from outside the wide open protective wall. The conversation between the two men stopped immediately. Master Yao got off the motorcycle, took off his helmet, and pushed the motorcycle behind a big tree, and several other people followed. As soon as they arrived, Sihuan's brother also arrived. He got off the motorcycle and walked towards Master Yao. The two men stood under the tree, as if they were studying something important. Because it was too far away, Sihuan didn't know what they were talking about.

When the laborers had arrived, they picked up their tool bags and turned from behind the tree.

Si Huan saw his brother and Master Yao leading a group of disciples towards the newly built gable here, and immediately greeted him with a smile: "Master Yao, I brought you a brick-moving laborer today, my friend, unique culture, what do you think?" Sihuan said with a big grin at Master Yao.

"Sihuan, the work of moving bricks on the construction site, is not who can do it, anyone who can work on the construction site, are a good hand, you see her fine skin and tender meat, with a pair of hands with embroidery needles, it is not the material for heavy work at all, you let her come here to move bricks, less than fifty yuan, you have to get tired and lie down and can't get up, if she can stand on the construction site all morning, in my opinion, it is a full level, and she must not be tired to turn her head around!" Master Yao frowned, glanced at Brother Sihuan, and said expressionlessly.

"Isn't it just moving a few bricks, what's so great, it's also on the line. Today, I will move this brick, but I want her to see if my hand with a pen can be tired of these brick stacks. Hum! What a way to underestimate the poor. Master Yao's words were too ugly, Sun Xiaohong had never been accused in person, her face was red and white, and it became ugly.

Seeing Sun Xiaohong's sudden change in face, Sihuan's face was a little unbearable, she raised her face and said to Master Yao in a very unhappy tone: "You are wrong, they are all children from the crop yard, who has never done the work of moving bricks?" This work of moving bricks is not carrying stones, and I don't see anyone tired down. No matter how she is, it's good to be able to move bricks, don't judge people by their appearance, try it later, anyway, I found someone for you, do you have the final say? Okay, you stay. No, she just left, is it nice to say so many words that raise sand? Sun Xiaohong listened to their conversation, her heart felt as uncomfortable as being cut by the tip of a knife, her eyes were glowing with blood-red, and her heart was full of infinite resentment.

"In the end, it's an ambitious person, well, I won't talk nonsense. In front of your brother, you invited people here, and we didn't want her to go back, and I agreed to let her stay at the construction site. But the ugly words have to be talked about ahead, working on the construction site, the ears have to be a little more flexible, not to mention the eyes and the six roads, the ears have to listen to the eight directions, and the legs have to be a little diligent. I've just said that, so let's give it a try, right? If it works, the salary is not bad, if not, then don't blame me for being unkind. Master Yao said with a serious face.

He hadn't seen Sun Xiaohong working, and he might have thought that Sun Xiaohong had come to the construction site to fish in troubled waters, so he was reluctant to use it in the middle. After all, he has his share of this project, and he naturally has his share of the cost of labor, and he also has the right to decide whether to leave or stay of labor.

On the construction site, you say a word, he speaks, and the two of you come and go, arguing and chattering like a bargaining vendor in the market. They talked for a long time before deciding to let Sun Xiaohong stay at the construction site. The work on the construction site is monotonous, the miasma of black smoke, and the slightest movement of the body is covered in dust. According to Sun Xiaohong's stubborn temper, she couldn't stand such grievances anyway, but in order to prove that she was not a useless waste, she had to grit her teeth and endure it silently.