Finally, they had a normal meal. Yellow brown rice, home-cooked dishes that didn't have much oil, vegetables, cucumbers, eggplants, and so on. Xiang Wentian and Goldie ate very well. It had been too long since he had tasted this kind of food. His stomach was about to rebel from the taste of steamed buns, steamed buns, and instant noodles.
Seeing the two of them like this, Huang Jin believed what Goldie said. They had been looking for a job for more than ten days but still couldn't find it. Otherwise, with Goldie's character in his hometown, he wouldn't be able to eat this kind of food. From the way they dressed, he could tell that the two brothers weren't doing well.
They were having dinner in the simple cafeteria at the construction site. Huang Jin had just gotten off work, and when he saw the two of them, he brought them over for dinner. Usually, he only knew that construction workers like him wolfed down their food like prisoners released from prison, but now he seemed more refined than these two.
The two of them ate three big bowls of rice before slowly drinking a bowl of tomato egg soup. Only then did he feel that his empty stomach had been filled. The yellow-haired man touched the oil on the corner of his mouth and asked Huang Jin's brother if they could come here to work. They didn't have any other requests. They just wanted to have a place to sleep and not starve.
Huang Jin couldn't help but smile." Goldie, you weren't like this when you were at home. Are you really willing to work at the construction site? You don't know, right? It's very hard to work. Can you bear it?"”
Only then did Xiang Wentian speak. He said with absolute certainty,"Brother Huang, as long as you can help us with our work here, we will definitely work hard to do everything else.”
Huang Jin looked at him. Both of them were white paper students. Obviously, they had not gone through much hardship. However, it seemed that they had suffered enough in Shenzhou these days and were eager to find a job. He was curious and had a good impression of this person who worked in the government. He explained,"Brother, it's not that I, Huang Jin, don't want to help you two come in. I'm just doing a small job here, so I don't have the ability. If you really want to come in and work, I can help you two meet Brother Ren. He's the master here, and I followed him here.”
The Brother Ren that Huang Jin mentioned did not live in the workers 'shed on the construction site. He rented another house, which was about one or two miles away from here. He only arrived after passing through two small alleys. After listening to Huang Jin's introduction, he found out that they were from the same village as Huang Jin. One of them even came out from the unit. He only said,"Don't be afraid of suffering when the time comes."
Xiang Wentian expressed that the two of them wouldn't leave even if they were begging for food. If Brother Ren could help them with the construction, he and Goldie wouldn't complain no matter how hard they worked. They would only work hard.
Brother Ren was from a nearby village with an alias. They were all from the same village, so he agreed to help. He asked them to follow Huang Jin to the shack where the workers lived and take a rest. Tomorrow, he would talk to the boss himself. It was probably not a big problem. It would not matter if there were one or two more people on the construction site.
There were not many people from the same hometown who came to the construction site with Huang Jin. Most of them came from Tianzhou Province. The small boss of this construction site was from Tianzhou Province, so naturally, there were more people from his hometown. Moreover, in Shenzhou, there were many people who came from Tianzhou Province to work as small workers. These people were not afraid of hardship and were strong enough, but they were not easy to talk to. On the way, Huang Jin instructed them not to talk nonsense. It would not do them any good to anger those people.
At night, they took a shower in a small temporary wooden shed beside the shed. It was surrounded by a circle of wooden planks that were used to make cast-in-place on the construction site. The door to the entrance was also nailed with the same kind of wooden planks. The roof was made of cheap asbestine tiles. The space inside was very large. There were several water fountains, which could accommodate several men to take a shower at the same time. Bathing in this place was no different from bathing in the river for the past few days. It was just a little covered up.
This was the first night he could sit on the grass and talk without worry after coming to Shenzhou for more than ten days. After taking a shower, Huang Jin and the others took them to a corner not far away from the construction site. There were greenery there. It was hot at night, and many people sat here to enjoy the cool.
He didn't want to talk much about his matters. He only said that he was working in Sandao Town's government and had applied for a leave without pay to work here. He planned to take advantage of his youth to venture out. The yellow-haired guy introduced them, saying that his boss had brought him here. They wouldn't have been so pitiful, but they had been switched at the Nanzhou Station and robbed of the few thousand yuan his boss had brought.
The villagers might not know him, but when it came to Lu Laosan, everyone had heard about him. Goldie also followed Lu Laosan. Now that he heard that Xiang Wentian was also Lu Laosan's boss, he was confused. However, seeing that he didn't want to say anything, he didn't ask further. Instead, he was polite to him, or rather, respectful.
The next day, Brother Ren told Xiang Wentian that they could go to the construction site. One of them was mixing the concrete downstairs, and the other went upstairs to help the master move the bricks. Relatively speaking, mixing the concrete downstairs was easier than moving bricks. As long as they put the cement and sand into the mortar, it was not like moving bricks from the bottom to the top of the stretcher. It was a laborious work.
Xiang Wentian took the initiative to say that he was going upstairs to move bricks and asked Goldie to stay downstairs. The blonde wanted to change. After all, he had never done heavy work before. He said,"Boss, you can't be tired." He said unhappily,"What's the matter? Aren't you going to listen to me?"”
The blonde didn't say anything. According to the construction requirements of the construction site, one should wear a safety helmet when going to the construction site. He knew this from books, but no one on the construction site said so, and it was rare to see anyone wearing a safety helmet. Other than a few workers who had a safety helmet on their heads, all the workers were working with a bald head. However, he had just arrived and wanted to make a living here. He did not take these small problems to heart like them, let alone think of anything else.
Xiang Wentian sent a master from Tianzhou to move the bricks. The master was very efficient. When a brick was in the master's hands, it was almost like Sun Wukong performing a magic trick. It made Little Xiang, who had come to work on the first day, flustered and did not have time to rest. It was unknown if it was Brother Ren who was careless or if the master who worked with him did not remind him. Xiang Wentian, who had never done such a thing before, did not know that moving bricks would hurt his hands. He had only moved less than two carts of bricks, but his hands, which had never done heavy work, had actually rubbed the rough bricks until they were covered in blood blisters. His hands immediately burned with pain.
The bricks upstairs were transported from the elevator below. They were loaded one cart after another with small carts. There could not be any delays unless it was time to rest or the master wanted to stop. Otherwise, it was impossible for a small worker like Xiang Wentian to stop. They were all counting the time. If you stopped for a while, you would delay the small cart behind you to deliver bricks, or you would delay the master's speed.
Master Wu saw the blood on the red brick and said in surprise,"Xiao Xiang, is this the blood on your hand? Why didn't you put on your gloves? How can your hands withstand the friction of this brick?”
Xiang Wentian didn't dare to ask for gloves, and he didn't know about it. If he wanted to buy them himself, he would rather have his hands polished than borrow money to buy gloves. He forced a smile and said,"It's nothing, Master Wu. This is only temporary.”
"But your hand is bleeding. It's not a joke. It'll be troublesome if it's infected.”Master Wu asked with concern.
He had just started work, so how could he think about resting? He was just a nameless worker. Xiang Wentian knew this in his heart and quickly said,"No need, Master Wu. Thank you for your concern. I'll be fine after a while.”
He remembered the villagers in the past. When their skin was bleeding, they could stop the bleeding by rubbing the dirt on it. He also touched the dirt on the ground. The bleeding had stopped somewhat, but he still had to use his hands. The bleeding could not be completely stopped and seeped out bit by bit. From the corner of his eye, Master Wu saw him clenching his teeth and holding it in. He suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. Was he and his fellow villagers too petty to even tolerate such a small worker?
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