Liu Maomao panicked now, and he regretted that he shouldn't have walked to save a five-cent fare.

While thinking, he hesitated to walk forward, turned back, and couldn't turn back, he began to worry, scratching his head and thinking:

Why don't you know what to do? This is more than 40 miles away from the construction site, seeing that the sky is dark for a night, there is no village in front of it, there is no store in the back, where is the place to go? It's bad if you get lost.

He regretted that he had not listened to the advice of passers-by and only thought about saving money; I have already looked for two construction sites, and my age is young, no matter how Liu Maomao begged repeatedly, he was still kicked out by the construction site boss.

He carried the quilt and luggage on his back, and hurried step by step, he did not give up, his heart was still full of hope, he thought that there would always be a construction site that would take him in; After a few days of running around, he was too tired, and this time he was looking for a brick factory that he had inquired about, with black holes everywhere, and ethereal lights flashing in the distance, as if it was far away.

He began to worry that he was going to sleep in the wilderness tonight, so he smiled bitterly, put the quilt and luggage on his shoulders, and walked forward in the dark.

On the side of the road ahead, there was a faint pump room, and his eyes lit up, and a smile appeared on his face, and he quickened his pace, and the quilt swayed back and forth on his shoulder.

When he saw that there were corn stalks piled up in the pump room, he hurriedly put down the quilt and luggage, and moved out one bundle after another while holding the corn stalks, and then vacated a place where he could sleep, and put the corn stalks in it horizontally, two bundles of one layer, two bundles of one layer, and three layers, and left one to block the door, and when he was done, he went up and flattened it with his feet, stretched out the blanket and laid the quilt, put the package on one end, pressed it with his hand, and then went on the pillow and lay down in his clothes and tried it, and said to himself with a smile:

If you have a place to sleep, you can save five yuan of accommodation fees, he untied his luggage and took out the oil bun that his mother baked for him, only took out one in his mouth, and wrapped another one in his mouth, and wrapped another one in his luggage bag, leaving it to be hungry tomorrow and then replenished, after eating, he raised his sleeve and wiped his mouth, and lay down, although he was very tired but could not sleep.

Liu Maomao was thinking:

If you can't find a job tomorrow, you will be trapped, no matter what, you have to find a job, even if you kneel down to the boss, Grandpa Gao said, 'It is a dragon to be able to be big and small; Arrogance is not small, it is a root worm;

If Niuniu returns to the city, what will her mother do at home alone? It would be nice if Niang Niang and Niuniu went to live in the city together, Yi Niang's stubborn temper would never go, she was afraid of affecting others, she was just strong all her life, let herself suffer, and she didn't want to owe others favors, but she was extraordinarily poor and tormented by a kind character;

He has grown up himself, and now the only way is to earn money, only when he is rich will he not starve and freeze, he is really frightened by hunger and poverty, even frightened; His hope is to earn money, so that his mother and Niuniu can live like a high family, the more he thinks about it, the more he wants to find a construction site to work, he has to work hard, and when he earns money, his family will be rich, he thinks about not knowing when he falls asleep.

The next day, he came to the brick factory exhausted, and heard the roar of the brick extruder and the motor from afar, and he quickened his pace with a smile on his face.

He saw that the workers of the brick factory were busy, a rack car, a rack of soil was pushed into the funnel of the brick extrusion machine, watching the soil was eaten by the machine and came out of the square strips, and then cut into bricks by the cutting machine, the machine automatically pushed the bricks onto the bamboo plywood, which was bent down and lifted by the people standing on both sides, and placed on the waiting brick car, and when it was equipped with four bamboo plywood, it was full, and then the ...... was pushed down in the yard where the bricks were dried.

He watched intently, and walked towards the house not far away, where the boss worked, this is just hard work, just look at it once, there is no difficulty.

"Is the young man here to work?" A fifty or sixty-year-old uncle, named Li Dachun, a maintenance worker here, with a paper cigarette in his mouth, squinted his eyes, and used a wrench to pick up the outer tire of the rack car, and then picked up a big screwdriver, inserted it into the gap, and looked up and down a lot of Liu Maomao, who was tied in his hair and his face was flushed, and asked: "Have you ever worked in a brick factory?" ”

"Yes." Liu Maomao thought to himself that he couldn't say that he hadn't done it, and he had to have more eyes when he came out to work, if he hadn't done it, what if he didn't accept it? He took off the quilt, put down his luggage, looked up towards the room, and asked, "Uncle, is the boss there?" ”

"Hmph, I've worked in a brick factory, I don't think you've done it." Li Dachun blew off the cigarette butt with a pop.

"W-you still don't believe me?"

"The brick factory is all strong, eighteen or nineteen-year-old young men, I think you are fifteen or sixteen years old?" Li Dachun grinned with his teeth, and pressed the tire down vigorously: "I'm afraid the boss won't accept you, unless you are the baby of his uncle's second cousin's family, and you can also do some odd jobs." ”

Liu Maomao couldn't help but get nervous when he heard this, worried that he would be completely trapped here if he ran for nothing, and felt that this uncle spoke funny, and felt that there was still a glimmer of hope in his heart.

"The boss didn't just go out this morning to ask for brick money."

"When will you be back?"

"It's hard to say, maybe I'll be back in a while, maybe three or two days." Li Dachun glared at this side, and then said: "If you don't go to school at home at such an age, why do you come out and toss around?" ”

"Then I'll wait here." Maomao's face turned red to the root of his ears, and he looked at this uncle: "I, my family is poor." ”

"It's okay, anyway, there is food here, and everyone who lives in it sleeps on the big bunk, and I fall asleep as soon as the quilt is laid." Li Dachun took off the tire, threw it to the side, lit another cigarette, lit it, and then said:

"You just wait, wait for the boss to come back and say."

Mao Mao put his luggage and quilt on the bunk, and ran to the nearby village like a smoke, he found the consignment store, bought a pack of cigarettes with the only two and a half cents he carried, held it in his hand, and ran back.

Seeing Li Dachun, squatting there and looking in the toolbox, Mao Mao put the cigarette into the toolbox, Li Dachun looked up and smiled at Mao Mao, and said: "You clever ghost, don't rest if you want to work, the bricks that fell on the road will be cleaned up, maybe the boss will see it, I am happy, isn't it better to leave you with hysteria?" ”

Mao Mao was happy in her heart, this pack of cigarettes was not bought in vain, this trick was learned from Uncle Gao, thinking of this, Mao Mao's heart felt blocked.

"Come on from the set, give—if you're hungry, nibble first." Li Dachun went straight from the kitchen, pinched a steamed bun with two fingers and handed it to Liu Maomao, although his hand was covered with oil.

"Thank you, uncle." Maomao was very hungry, so she took it and gnawed on it with a smile.

Mao Mao walked around the brick factory and moved the bad bricks that fell on the road to the side, and the young man who pushed the cart smiled at him, and he felt very happy;

But he was worried again, if these bad blanks are cleaned up, the cart needs to go up a small bend slope, and the cart needs to accelerate in advance to rush up when going uphill, and this acceleration is turning this corner, the brick on the right side of the cart will be thrown out and fall on the road with inertia, and Liu Maomao will keep cleaning up.

Can this alone clear the road remain? Mao Mao was a little stunned in his heart, he very much hoped that the boss could keep him, he silently wished and looked forward to it in his heart.