Chapter 6: Suri
The four of them quickly agreed and were ready to follow the fat man to his construction site. In addition to the four of them, there were two others who were willing to go with them, one of them was called Lao Zhong, who was also in his fifties, dark and thin, and seemed to be an honest migrant worker, and the other was about thirty years old, but he looked very thin, as if a gust of wind could blow it away, and he didn't like to talk, and he was with Lao Zhong, who called him a crow's mouth.
Except for the six of them, the fat man greeted for a few more minutes, and none of them were willing to go. These six people, plus the existing dozen or so on the construction site, can basically meet the minimum personnel standards required by Party A. After choosing the person, the fat man arranged the rest to Lao Zhu, the assistant next to him, and drove the van first.
Lao Zhu is the person in charge of the construction site, very talkative, after Lao Zhu's introduction, everyone knows that the fat man's surname is Zou, which is the boss of the contractor team, everyone generally calls him Zou Boss or Zou Fat, who is timid and afraid of things and picks the door, so some people call him Zou Peel behind his back. Lao Zhu seems to have some opinions about the boss, and he almost didn't say anything good about Zou Fatzi in and out of his words.
The construction site is actually very close, just behind the building materials city less than a kilometer away from here, a few people carrying luggage, crossing the road, walking for more than ten minutes. According to Lao Zhu, Zou Fatzi is working in a five-story shopping mall, about 10,000 square meters, the main materials are supplied by Party A, and other secondary materials and labor are responsible for Boss Zou, with a total cost of about several million. At present, the main body of the frame structure has been completed, the walls are almost built, and the interior and exterior painting and flooring are being done. Party A's requirements for the construction period is very tight, must be completed within two months, but because the recent wheat harvest has begun to be harvested, many workers have gone home, so the construction site is relatively short of manpower, Party A had no choice but to compensate for some rush costs, during the busy farming period, the construction site according to the head of each worker per day to compensate eighty yuan, of course, this money is for the boss, the workers can not get. That is to say, Boss Zou only used 20 yuan per worker every day during the busy farming period, so Zou Fatzi went to Dashiqiao to recruit Qingfeng and Uncle Liang at a low price, even if they were old, weak, sick and disabled, they didn't care.
"Ah, where did Zou Fatzi catch the strong man? Why are they all old, weak, sick and disabled?" As soon as the few people walked to the gate, a gloating voice came. It was a young man, about twenty years old, dressed very well, with red lips and white teeth, a handsome face, oblique eyebrows, a high nose, and a handsome appearance, standing out from the crowd around a group of raunchy workers.
"Hehe, it's Xiao Su. This is the worker that the boss has just recruited in Dashiqiao. Lao Zhu saw the person coming and said helplessly.
The young man named Xiao Su said with a smile: "No wonder your boss is called Zou Papi behind his back, he is really calculating." These guys can earn up to 100 yuan a day, right? Doesn't he only have to pay 20 yuan a day? ”
"How can our boss have your uncle's wealth. Lao Zhu laughed dryly.
Xiao Su stared at Qingfeng twice, and said to Lao Zhu: "There is also a little Zhengtai, this Zou fat man is really getting more and more mixed up, and it doesn't matter if the older ones are older, why did they recruit a minor?
After Qingfeng understood, he couldn't cry or laugh, counting the time he was sealed in the pocket world, he should be nine hundred and fifty years old, and he was actually regarded as a minor.
"Don't talk nonsense, people just have a baby face, look a little tender, and they are all twenty years old this year. Lao Zhu explained beside him. In order to avoid trouble, Qingfeng said when Zou Fat Man recruited people about his age before entering the pocket world.
"Twenty years old, that's as old as me. In the past, there were hundreds of people on the entire construction site, and the youngest was in his thirties, and there was a crisscrossing generation gap everywhere, and I couldn't find someone to play with. Well, now I finally have a peer. Xiao Su walked up to Qingfeng, patted Qingfeng on the shoulder and said, "Little brother, what's your name?
How old are you little kid? You actually call me little brother? Qingfeng glanced at the young man, and didn't bother to pay attention to you.
"Ho, interesting. With a bun on your head, you have a lot of personality. Xiao Su smiled and said, "Don't look at me not much older than you, my brother has been in this area for two or three years, so I will mess with my brother in the future, right?" ”
Brother, this kid is really a self-cooked, and Qingfeng is even more speechless.
Lao Zhu hurriedly played a round next to him, and said with a smile: "Xiao Su, why are you dressed like a groom official today, and which eldest lady are you going to go out to?"
"I don't do this every day, I asked Ma Zi to go jumping. ”
"Hehe, you young people are still energetic, tired all day, and go out for a night of jumping. Lao Zhu said with some envy.
"Come on, I'm not poor with you, it's almost time to make an appointment, you're busy, I'll go first." Hey, that little brother, I'll play with you again. Xiao Su looked at the time, said hello, and walked out of the door quickly.
Waiting for the young man named Xiao Su to walk away, the kidnapper horse was a little curious and asked Lao Zhu: "That person is also the boss on the construction site?"
Lao Zhu smiled: "What kind of boss, it's similar to me." There is another boss surnamed Chen on this construction site, who is stronger than our boss Zou and has done two shops. That Xiao Su's name is Su Rui, who is Boss Chen's nephew, who stopped going to school after graduating from high school and came out to take care of the construction site for Boss Chen. Don't look at the suit he wears now, he is just like us on the construction site, but he likes to go out at night and fool around, and I heard that there are a lot of girls. ”
"Hehe, now a lot of young people are like this, they wear tattered clothes on the construction site during the day, they are tired like dogs, they are listless, and at night they completely become a different look, one by one they are dressed like noble sons, like clubbing, nightclubs, watching movies, doing everything, spending more than earning, I heard what is called the moonlight clan, and the concept of us old men is different. Uncle Liang shook his head and said.
Lao Zhu first led a few people to the dormitory, the brick shed was covered with asbestos tiles, which looked low and dark, and there were several bunk beds in it, and some of the beds were covered with futons, indicating that there were already people living there.
At about seven o'clock in the afternoon, the workers had already started to eat after work, and in the open space outside the canteen, there were more than a dozen squatting people, each holding a yellow enamel bowl and eating vigorously.
In the canteen, each person received a pair of chopsticks, and after serving the meal, he squatted outside the door and ate like other workers. The quality of the meal is very average, the steamed bun is steamed by the chef in the canteen, the color is yellow, the surface is rough, and it makes people have no appetite when they look at it; each person has a bowl of mung bean sprouts stir-fried vegetables, the bean sprouts do not know what process is used, each one is more than ten centimeters long, there is no oil and water in the dish, the taste is the same as chewing wax, fortunately, several people have eaten bitterly, and there is nothing picky about the meal, each person ate two steamed buns, a bowl of vegetables, and finally drank a bowl of noodle soup.
The beginning of June is basically the longest day of the year, generally after eight o'clock in the evening before dark, everyone has dinner, the sky is not dark, the house is so hot that it is breathless, so Uncle Liang proposed to go shopping in Shilipu, just arrived at the construction site of the five people out together, only the lazy king stayed in the dormitory to sleep.
At eight or nine o'clock in the evening is the most lively time of Shilipu, the streets of the village are full of people, the food stalls on both sides of the road are booming, what oil cake buns are spicy hot, braised pork fried chicken and mutton skewers, and beer and cold dishes big bowl of stewed noodles, the fragrance hooks those who have just gotten off work have a great appetite, and the already very narrow street is even more crowded.
"It's so lively, Uncle Liang, what are these shops for? Why are there so many people?" Qingfeng asked as he walked.
"This one is a supermarket, just like the consignment store in our countryside, which sells some daily necessities, groceries or something; the middle one is a small clinic, usually there is a small illness or something, reluctant to go to a big hospital, just take a look here, just buy some medicine; that one is a laundry room, now many young people are lazy, don't like to wash clothes, so they spend money to send that store to wash, dry cleaning and washing; the front one is a small hotel, only 30 yuan for a night; the back one is an Internet café, you can play games on the Internet, Watching a movie or something, these are small restaurants opposite, there are flavors in the east, west, north and south, you see that it is the Northeast dumpling restaurant, that is the mutton steamed bun in the northwest, that is the cross-bridge rice noodles in the south, that is the duck blood vermicelli in the east, and we have fried dough sticks and spicy soup here......" Uncle Liang introduced while walking.
Qingfeng didn't seem to understand it, but the others had figured out the general meaning, that is, some businesses, hospitals, inns, restaurants and so on, only the Internet café couldn't figure out what it was doing, anyway, there would be opportunities in the future, and there would be time to go in and have a look.
Along the way, Uncle Liang introduced happily, and others added a few words from time to time, Qingfeng listened very seriously, and walked until more than nine o'clock, and the number of people on the street still did not decrease. Seeing that it was not so hot anymore, several people began to walk back.
To be able to integrate into the life here so quickly, Aunt Zhang from Zhang Ji Noodle Restaurant has helped a lot, and now that she has stabilized, she should say hello to Aunt Zhang. When passing by Zhang Ji Noodle Shop, the other five people went back to the construction site first, and Qingfeng entered the noodle shop.
The noodle shop wasn't very busy, with only two or three customers eating. Qingfeng met Aunt Zhang and his son and daughter-in-law, and expressed his gratitude, Aunt Zhang's son and daughter-in-law are also honest businessmen, and they also repeatedly expressed their gratitude to Qingfeng for helping to drive away the gangsters who collected protection money in the afternoon, and then chatted for a while, Qingfeng came out of the noodle shop and prepared to go back to the construction site to rest.