I said that I should stare at where to follow this is obviously a trick, according to what our ancestors said, the eyes must be straight, don't look at it, stare at what is wrong.

For this topic, Qiang Shun often pesters me, I always say to him, you are gentle, we are also people who have read the Four Books and the Five Classics. Qiang Shun will immediately refute, are we willing to read those books, it was forced by Chen Nose. I said, whether it was forced or not, we read it anyway, even if we can't be saints, we can't be laymen.

Who is Chen Nose, it is Chen Huibei, when we first left the house with him, we didn't get along very well with him, so we gave him such a nickname in private.

Time, just like that, day by day, there is no passion and no joy, and it is as plain as boiled water. In the blink of an eye, after the summer, it was autumn again.

After the autumn harvest, the contractor of our house-building class took over another job, and our contractor had a little ability, and he took on some large construction sites such as community office buildings, and rarely took this kind of small work for the farmer to build a house, but this time, he took over the two-story building of the main household, which is the kind of two-story building that is very common in our countryside, and the main house is quite far away from us, in a village dozens of miles east of our village.

Our rural households generally build houses in the spring, and few people build houses in the autumn. At that time, the foreman was a little puzzled, and he also said, why did their family build a house in the autumn, and they also traveled dozens of miles to ask acquaintances to come to us, and they didn't have a house building class in their local area?

A master mason followed up and said, "Whatever he is, let's go there first, we'll do it if we can, and if we can't, we'll do it."

At this time, we were building a low-rent building on a construction site, and the construction site was almost completed, and the construction site did not need so many people, so the contractor took out four mason masters and two small workers who moved bricks and ashes on the working ground, and the two small workers who were responsible for moving bricks and ashes were me and Qiang Shun.

On that day, we got on a motorized tricycle, pulled on a steel pipe frame and a tile knife, and suddenly bumped dozens of miles to the house.

We were greeted by a middle-aged man in his forties, and the introducer said that this was the main house.

The middle-aged man has a good family background, and there is a domineering "big brother" stuffed in his trouser pocket behind his buttocks. In today's words, the "big brother" at that time was a symbol of big money and local tyrants, and I and Qiangshun "big brother" were too rare, and I couldn't take my eyes off the middle-aged man's buttocks.

The place where they work is not in their village, but in a barren meadow to the north of their village, almost half a mile away from their village.

When I got to the place, it was not a new job, it was a second-that was half built, and the two walls on the first floor were almost complete. Around, there are a few courtyards scattered around, but they seem to have just been built this year, other courtyards are like that, only this one, surrounded by a barren grassland, lonely seems particularly abrupt, if you pass by here in the middle of the night, you still think it's a ghost building.

The contractor said to the middle-aged man, we can't take this job, the second-hand work is not easy to do, and the wall, the house is built up with four walls, why do you only build two walls in this house, and the two walls that are not built are hard to build again, and you have to re-hang the line to bite the stubble, and the four walls are not built together, the house will not be able to become a force in the future, and the wall will crack in a few years, and we really can't take this job.

As soon as the middle-aged man heard it, he said, second-hand work should be done as new work, not only does you eat and live, but after the building is built, I will also give you double the salary.

At that time, the wage for building a two-story building was more than 20,000 yuan, which was nearly 50,000 yuan. The cement and stone powder are ready-made, and the shelves are set up in the morning, and the walls will be officially started in the afternoon.

Our rural houses here are generally from the bottom to the top, three meters three in height, the south wall and the west wall of this family have been almost the same, about two meters seven or eight height, but the north wall and the east wall, at most less than two meters high, but standing on the ground is no longer reachable, you have to build a shelf to stand on the shelf.

The four master masons discussed, first built the north wall and the east wall, and then after the south wall and the west wall were leveled, the four walls were built together.

Once we're done, we're here for the real deal.

I worked until the second half of the morning, when the sun was about to set, and I suddenly felt a little hot and wrong, and I couldn't tell what was wrong, but something was wrong. When I was with Qiang Shun and Ash, Qiang Shun whispered to me, "Huang He, do you think that this ash is particularly heavy today?" ”

"Nope." I glanced at it and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Qiang Shun said: "When I put ash on the shelf, I feel that the ash is very heavy, and it looks like a child sitting on the iron drill. ”

I shook my head, "I don't feel gloomy, I just feel like there's something wrong here, I'm always feeling sullen and angry." ”

"I can't get out of breath either, I don't have any energy in my body." As he spoke, Qiang Shun walked towards the only path leading to their village, and then motioned for me to go to the path that was facing away from the side at this time, and when he turned his head, he saw a few people standing in their village, looking at us with their heads in a shrunken manner.

Qiang Shun said: "There have been several waves of people at the entrance of the village, and they all left for us. ”

As soon as Qiang Shun's words fell, the few people standing at the entrance of the village really turned their heads back.

I twisted my head back and asked, "Are they there?"

Qiang Shun smashed his mouth, "I don't know." ”

At this time, Qiang Shun motioned me to the entrance of the village and turned my head to take a look, and two people appeared on the road, like two old women, who were also shrinking their heads, and after a while, the two old women were still muttering to each other, looking sneaky. Qiang Shun and I looked at each other, puzzled.

Soon, it was completely dark, and the four master masons had used up the rest of the ash, and we called it a day.

At this moment, the old man of the lord's family came along the path, motioned for us to go with him, and he led us to a large courtyard not far away. As mentioned earlier, there are several courtyards near the place where we work, which seem to have been newly built, and the middle-aged man took us into one of them.

This yard is indeed newly built, and it is estimated that it has been built for less than two months. There is an east house kitchen on the second floor, but the windows and doors have not been installed, and the walls have not been painted, only two brand-new large iron doors are installed on the courtyard door, and the whole house is very damp, and it is cold and cold after entering.

In the courtyard, there was a boiler on the floor, and a woman was busy cooking by the stove.

We had our lunch meal at a restaurant in their village and didn't come here. The middle-aged man said that in the future, we will eat and sleep here.

Entering the house is a large living room with two heads, there is a large table and a few chairs, and the middle-aged man took us to each room, and there are several beds in each room, and there are quilts and mattresses on the beds, but they are all messy, as if someone has slept with them, and some of them have shoes under the bed, which are the yellow liberation shoes we wear when we work.

After the middle-aged man asked us to divide the bed by ourselves, the woman who cooked brought in the meal, and I had a hearty meal, a few stir-fried vegetables, and a large pot of soup and noodles.

The middle-aged man took out another box of liquor from another room and drank it with us.

Between eating and drinking, the middle-aged man explained to us that there is everything in this yard, alcohol and cigarettes, if you want to drink and smoke, you don't have to go outside to buy it, but after work, you'd better not go to the village to wander around, because there are a lot of dogs in the village, specializing in biting people, and sometimes a few wolves will run down the mountain, if you bite the dog or the wolf, it will be bad.

Their village is similar to ours, and it is also backed by a mountain, even a little closer than our village to the mountain.

The middle-aged man said that there are dogs in their village, we believe, because when they entered the village, they did see a few big dogs wandering on the road in the village, to say that there are wolves, this seems to be a little unlikely, we also live on the side of the mountain, he can't scare us, the wolves have long been afraid of people at this time, all of them have run into the mountains, and the number is not much, to say that they dare to run out of the mountains to harm the people outside the mountains, it is incredible.

The middle-aged man didn't believe it when he saw a few of us, and said, don't believe it, why are there so many dogs in our village, it's just for wolves, if you really don't believe me, you go out at night to try, but if something happens, don't come to me, it has nothing to do with me.

The foreman of the contractor listened and said that there was wine, smoke and food here, and what were they going out for, they wouldn't go out.

Early the next morning, the foreman drove back on a motorized tricycle, because he still had a stall on the construction site, and it was impossible for him to stay here with us.

On this day, there are still people standing at the entrance of the village looking at us, showing their heads and leaving, and I don't know what is wrong.

In the afternoon, as soon as the sun set, it was not yet dark, Qiang Shun and the gray was too heavy, and the iron drill was like a child sitting on it, but I didn't care, because I didn't feel the iron drill sinking, thinking that he might be tired for the past two days.

In the blink of an eye, it was completely dark. At this time, the north wall and the east wall have been built to catch up with the south wall and the west wall, I and Qiang Shun dare not be with the ash anymore, and then the ash is not used up, we have to work overtime, the bricks are prepared for the masters, and the rest of the ash is shoveled into the ash basin for them, and there is nothing for us to do, the two of them lit a cigarette and smoked while waiting for the end of work.

But at this time, there was a group of people at the entrance of the village, a group of people, several times more than the people who came to steal during the day, and we smoked cigarettes and saw that some of these people were talking to each other, and some were pointing fingers, which was particularly weird.

I wondered, where are these people?

At this moment, suddenly, a master on the shelf behind me suddenly "ahh I hurriedly pulled Qiangshun and ran towards the master.

From the place where the master fell to the ground, only one meter high, the ground is still soft ground, it is a special bit of back, and it will not be a big deal if it falls, I ran to him with Qiang Shun to help him, who knows that this master waved his hand, don't move me, his arm may be broken.

I was stunned when I heard it, obviously one leg hit the ground first, how could I break my arm?