Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven Starts with Five Dollars

Today, my younger brother came back from his hometown and brought back a few pieces of bacon, which is the most delicious meat on the pig, next to the hind legs. The bacon cured by my mother is delicious.A mother always thinks about her son and gives her the best.And what did I bring to my mother? I didn't tell my brother I decided to go to the construction site, no need to. I called Zhou Yuan and told her that my future would be better, and I asked her to persevere. If I couldn't persist, I could get a divorce. I think she saw me not only in poverty, but also in cowardice. I began to eagerly go out and look for construction sites.

I'm looking for a remote site so I don't run into people I know. Just after the Spring Festival, construction sites generally start relatively late, so I didn't find work. I can only live with my younger brother, and the two brothers share the same bunk at night. In the morning, I came to a construction site called AT and I ran into a guy.This man was a bit short and fat, and when he walked towards me, I could feel the sound of "dong dong" on the ground. He bluffed and asked me what I was doing, and I honestly replied that I came to see if the construction site had started, and wanted to find some work.

I was regarded as a liar by him, and he said that I was not like a migrant worker. I told him honestly that I was not a migrant worker before, but now that I am in a very bad situation, I want to make a living on the construction site. He still didn't believe it, and ran to the gate of the construction site alone to watch.After a while, he came back and asked me if I really wanted to make money. After getting my affirmative answer, he asked me to go with him. I think he may have gone to the gate of the construction site to find a porter just now.Because the Spring Festival has just passed, many porters from the countryside have not been in place yet, and no one can be found, so I was asked to help.

There is usually a material room on the construction site.He took me there and told me to move a cardboard box to a room in another building. I almost flinched the first time, I didn't expect the carton to be so heavy. He smiled beside him and said, "It's filled with iron." Through the gaps in the cardboard box, I saw that it was full of steel expansion screws. This carton screw weighs at least 70 to 80 kilograms. Although the distance is only 100 meters, I stopped several times before moving to the destination. Afterwards, he gave me ten dollars. He said that if it was an ordinary porter, he would only give five yuan.

In other words, the other five yuan contained some other meanings, maybe pity, maybe he felt embarrassed. I gave him five dollars back. I just want to be an ordinary porter and earn an ordinary money. Being artificially elevated has serious consequences. I asked him when the construction site would start, and asked him to introduce the foreman to me. I said that I can do anything and am not afraid of hardship. During the conversation, I learned that his surname is Chen, and everyone calls him Lao Chen.He is a very down-to-earth person, a relative of the main frame contractor on the construction site, who is in charge of the material.

Old Chen said that probably no foreman would accept me, because I looked very elegant, not like working material. I am disappointed.Originally, I thought it was easy to be a construction worker, as long as you want, anyone can do it. Now I understand that each group has its own track, and not everyone can enter this track, although it seems very simple. He suddenly said: "You can actually install the bridge, and I will introduce it to you then." I was overjoyed and wanted to pass a cigarette to express my thanks, but seeing that he was smoking a pack of ten yuan a pack, I didn't pass it.

He offered me a cigarette, but I said no. I had a lot of dreams about being a bridge erector, even though I'm sure that's not my life's job. The construction site will not start until the 16th day of the first lunar month. Unexpectedly, I received a call from Lao Chen today.Lao Chen asked me to do him a favor, buy 30 pieces of L20 galvanized pipes from the mechanical and electrical market and send them to the construction site, and give me 20 yuan a piece, including my labor and freight.He couldn't leave, and there were not many people on the construction site, so he thought of me.

He said he had bought one before for 18.5 yuan. Earn 1.5 yuan for one piece, and 45 yuan for 30 pieces.But he asked me to advance the money first, and then give it to me when I arrived at the construction site. I said I had no money to back it up.Lao Chen said that you asked the pipe seller to go to the construction site with you to collect payment. So I went to the electromechanical market and asked about the price.The thickness is different, and the price is also different, ranging from ten yuan to seventeen or eighteen yuan. I called and asked Lao Chen which one he wanted, and Lao Chen said that the general ones are fine, not too good.

I was worried, so I asked the boss who sells galvanized pipes to call Lao Chen to confirm the model he wanted, and then let the boss who sells galvanized pipes stock up. The galvanized pipe is negotiated at 14 yuan, a total of 420 yuan.Say good boss free shipping. When I arrived at the construction site, I told Old Chen that it was 14 yuan a piece, and I let him handle it according to my strength. Lao Chen paid 420 yuan for the goods and gave me 50 yuan as wages. In fact, I could have negotiated with the galvanized pipe seller and asked Lao Chen to charge 600 yuan, but I didn't do this.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, under the introduction of Lao Chen, I went to the AT construction site to work as a bridge installation worker.We install the bridge frame by sub-contract, a group of three people, and the installation costs 10 yuan per meter.In theory, a group can install 50 meters a day, but in reality it can only install 30 meters a day, because places like corners are very time-consuming. Calculated in this way, can't a person earn more than 3,000 yuan a month?No, sometimes I have to wait for materials, and there is not work every day. I was in the same group as Lao Liu and Xiao Zhang. At first they were unwilling to be in my group, saying that I was not suitable for work.I promise them that I can do the most tiring work for me, and they are willing.

The most tiring job is drilling, drilling holes in the wall with an electric hammer. The electric hammer is like a submachine gun in the hand. When the switch is pressed, the drill bit will "whoop". Looks like fun, but it's not. The bridge frame is hoisted, and the electric hammer has to be lifted above the head.Before finishing one eye shot, my hand was so sore that it didn't feel like it was my own. There is also dust that keeps getting into the eyes. But I have to grit my teeth and persevere. I promised to do the most tiring work. I hit one eye, then shook my hand hard, and then hit the second one.On the first day, I had nearly a hundred eyelids, and my arms were so painful that I couldn't lift them up. That night, I didn't go back to my brother's place, so I squeezed into Lao Liu's work shed. That night, I slept very soundly.