The next morning, the weather cleared, and the sky above the imperial capital was shrouded in a colorful rainbow bridge.

Dijiang Bridge, the imperial capital, a construction site in the southwest.

Dijiang Bridge, this bridge with a long history is built on the most famous river in the imperial capital Lengyue City - Dijiang River, its bridge is 300 meters long, 10 meters wide, although it is not the largest bridge at that time, but it is an arch bridge with a very artistic style, the bridge body not only has the paintings carved by famous teachers, and the bridge corridor also has a large number of small sculptures made of white marble.

However, the vicissitudes of life, as the so-called prosperity will decline, at this time, the Dijiang Bridge, just like the Cold Moon Empire itself, has already been scarred, with a large amount of moss attached to the piers, no one knows if it can withstand the impact of the next flood!

At this time, there is a huge construction site on the southwest side of the Dijiang Bridge, during which many workers in shabby clothes are digging down, and among these workers, there is a combination of a man and two children who are particularly eye-catching.

It was a man with a grim face and half-white hair, and the two children beside him were a brother and sister.

Rolling his arms, the man skillfully took the big stone shovel out of the muddy pit and put it in the basket beside him, when the stone in the basket was half full, the brother and sister who stood on it began to drag the basket with great difficulty, and then when the basket was dragged out of the big pit, they poured the stone inside to the side, and then put the basket back again, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on,

The thick hemp rope had long been red from blood.

At this time, seeing his sweaty sister panting constantly, the boy said with concern: "You rest, I can do it!"

But the girl shook her head with a stubborn smile.

In order to survive, no matter how hard it is, they must grit their teeth and persevere, because they are civilians!

In this way, as time passed little by little, the scorching sun gradually rose, but the workers were still endlessly busy.

It wasn't until near noon that the bell rang in the hands of the overseers on the construction site, and when they heard the rattle, the tired workers were as happy as if bathed in divine grace, because it was a rare break from work, and it was payday.

The overseer of the construction site was a fat man, dressed decently, and sitting under the pergola, he stroked his mustache and dialed the abacus, like a miser.

Outside the pergola, there was already a long queue of people waiting to receive their wages.

"Looth!" the overseer called out one of the workers by name.

The worker at the front of the line immediately bowed his head and replied, "Master, I'm here!" Seeing that the overseer didn't speak but just glared at him, he immediately leaned his face over, and suddenly, a crisp mouth sound came out.

This is the perverted evil taste of this fat overseer, as a small nobleman, he usually nods and bows in humiliation in front of those big nobles, so, in order to make up for it, he vents this resentment on these down-and-out commoners under his hands.

And in order to survive, even if they have to be slapped, these civilians don't dare to say anything, they can only bear it, after all, if they leave here, maybe they will starve to death on the streets in a few days, and compared to the fear of death, what is a slap?

"Haha, good! Good job, this is your salary!" After a slap, the fat overseer was in a good mood and immediately burst out laughing.

And after satisfying his perverted bad taste, the fat overseer immediately excitedly handed over a bag of money bags containing more than a hundred copper coins to him, "Next, Aquino!"

"Smack!" another slap in the face.

"Next, Tarex. ”

As he said the name, the overseer's face suddenly clouded and his brow was as ugly as a twisted flower, and soon the tall man was standing in front of him, and he was followed by the two little imps.

To be honest, the overseer hated this man very much, because he was different from other workers, and when he was stared at, he felt unusually oppressed, and even a little out of breath.

And he is also the only one on the entire construction site who has not been slapped by him, of course, this is not the share of the two children around him, after all, with his protection, even the overseer does not dare to use too strong, who made this guy a mysterious man?

Therefore, after a moment of staring at each other, this time, the overseer was defeated again, but he still did not give up, "It doesn't matter if you don't want to, then let's do it as usual!" After saying that, he asked the foreman on the side to bring a bucket of foul-smelling feces and urine.

And the man named Tarex didn't speak, and it seemed that this was not the first time.

"You and those two children's wages are one and a half adults, just one hundred and fifty dollars, deducting thirty percent of the empire's personal income tax and other tax rates......" The overseer quickly dialed the abacus, "Your salary is ninety-three copper coins!"

With a cold snort, the Overseer tossed the copper coins into the barrel in front of everyone and cursed a few words.

There was still no expression on Tarex's face, and he lifted the bucket and stepped aside, and the siblings followed him quickly.

"It's a thatched stone, smelly and hard!" muttered the overseer dissatisfied.

"Then why don't you fire him?" said a foreman next to him.

In fact, the foreman didn't understand that this man named Tarex contradicted the overseers everywhere, and he didn't do a very good job, but the overseers still didn't fire them, which made some other people very puzzled.

Hearing this, the fat on the fat overseer's face twitched unnaturally, "Lao Tzu is happy, I just want to play with him like this, can you control it?" After glaring at the foreman, the overseer stood up and announced loudly: "I forgot to tell you, starting today, one hundred people will be fired on the construction site, and the working hours will be extended by one hour!"

"Huh?"

The many civilian coolies were in an uproar!

Soon, after the payment of the finished money, the list of those who were fired was announced, but Tarex did not look at it, because he was very confident, and those who were fired, some cried, some sat down on the ground, and some simply picked up the package and left here.

No one knows what will happen to these people tomorrow, and no one cares if they will have a job tomorrow, in short, those who stay leave the hope of living tomorrow, which is the blood and tears of civilians.

On the other side, when Tarex was about to reach for the copper coins in the dung bucket, the boy actually reached down first, he didn't want Tarex to touch the filthy excrement.

The boy's cheerful smile infected his sister, and the girl reached down and groped in the disgusting fecal water.

The choking stench suddenly wafted everywhere!

Soon, more than 90 coins were fished up, but although the money was fished out, these coins were so dirty that they could not be used without washing, and their hands were also stained with filthy and obscene, but there was no clean water nearby.

Are you going to starve again at noon today?

Leaning against the mound of earth, the girl looked at the large amount of coins in her hand in disappointment.

"Konishi, are you hungry?" the boy asked his sister with concern.

The pigtailed girl immediately shook her head, and she meekly knelt beside her brother and rested her head on his lap. She was hungry, but she didn't want to say anything. This stubborn personality is a complete copy of Tarex.

And at this moment, two fragrant steamed buns reached their mouths at the right time, and at the end of the other side of the steamed buns, the two saw a cold face.

Tarrix!

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