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Chapter 71 Li Changqing - Going Away

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    The scorching sun in August scorched the earth, and when you looked a little farther away, even your eyes were covered with a halo of heat.  However, people living on this land must work under the scorching sun in order to have a meal.  In the days of farmers, there are no working days and rest days. Their rest days are just another way of working in extreme weather.  For example, on rainy days in spring, they will pick the seeds to be planted in the spring;  They throw peanuts under the cloth tent; for example, in the winter snowstorm, they are finishing the unfinished farm work in autumn.  They never have enough work to do.

    Li Changqing has worked hard for a day in sweat. What he does is to tie steel bars. He stands on a steel bar frame that is more than ten to twenty meters high, holding tools for tying steel bars, and works non-stop in an assembly line.  Wear a heavy yellow hard hat even in hot weather.  His sweat has never stopped from the moment he stepped on the steel frame. When it was time for lunch, when he came down from the top, he wrung water from the vest he took off, like freshly washed clothes.  , rushing down, sweat with a salty taste, the same taste as tears.

    Li Changqing likes to eat fatty meat, but his wife and children do not eat fatty meat, so every year during the Chinese New Year, the leftover fat meat in the family is his.  Although he always felt guilty, he was also very happy to eat when he was sure that the children and daughter-in-law really couldn't eat greasy fat.  At this moment, Li Changqing, who had just started working on the steel frame, looked at the fragrant and attractive braised pork in the small stall next to him, swallowed his saliva, and turned around.  He can't spend five dollars to buy a bowl of meat. With five dollars, a daughter-in-law who knows how to live can buy two pieces of good fabric, make two new clothes for the children, or even buy a new dress for the children.  School bags are also better than being eaten by yourself.  He dragged his exhausted body into his shack. It was really not a home, let alone a qualified residence. It was just a shack to take in this poor man who left his hometown for a living.

    It was just a simple tent built with a few wooden sticks. Fortunately, Li Changqing was a good carpenter, so he re-fixed the dangling wooden sticks, and then covered them with felt, and put a layer of plastic sheeting on the outside.  , so that you are not afraid of rainy days.  However, although the rain cannot come in, so the wind cannot come in either.  Even if Li Changqing lifted the felt at the door, because there is no air convection, the air inside just stays in dead silence, and then under the scorching sun, it is no different from the steam of steamed buns.  Li Changqing is not afraid, as soon as he thinks that he will be paid 30 yuan a day, any suffering is not suffering in his eyes.  He can endure any hardships, as long as he thinks of giving money to his wife in the future to improve the situation at home, his heart is still full of joy.  Therefore, even if there are steamed buns and pickles in his mouth at the moment, he can still take a large bottle of cold water and send them into his stomach, let them decompose and convert them into sugar to provide energy for him to face the afternoon's work.  However, even though his spiritual world is tenacious, his body is always beaten by flesh.

    Looking around, apart from the overseer's boss, there was no one on the street.  The weather is hot and hot, only to earn a living and expose the leisurely cicada to the scorching sun. However, the cicada can no longer stand the heat, opened its throat, and let go of the biggest throat to yell at the heat.  The cicadas in Li Changqing's ears began to fade away, his eyes began to blur, and he suffered from heat stroke.  If he hadn't preserved the last sliver of sobriety, he would have fallen from the nearly twenty-meter steel frame at this moment, and the consequences would have been disastrous.  He finally saved the last of his strength, climbed down from the steel frame, and then fell on the hot ground. At this moment, he really wanted a bowl of cold water.

    When Li Changqing woke up again, although he didn't get a bowl of cold water, he did wait for a bowl of mung bean soup made for him by his kind owner. There was also rock sugar in the mung bean soup, which was the best thing to cool off in summer.  As an old man, although he didn't shed hypocritical tears, at that moment, the warmth, the gratitude gushing from the bottom of his heart as a human being with feelings, occupied his full heart.  However, even if he was resting, he couldn't rest at all. This airtight tent was so stuffy that he couldn't breathe.  In the middle of the night, he could only get up and go for a walk on the street.  At least the street is ventilated.

    Li Changqing, who had just walked out of the tent, saw that the owner was also enjoying the shade under the big tree, so he walked over.

    "Wake up, have you had the mung bean soup?" The host is a man in his fifties, and he is swinging a big cattail fan to enjoy the coolness under the huge tree.

    "Drink it, thank you master, take out such a precious thing and give it to me as a drink for coolies." Li Changqing's heart is full of gratitude.

    "What is expensive or not is something that people drink. If you work as a coolie, it's just a different job from mine."Although Li Changqing clearly felt the difference between his identity and his boss's, the man who was his boss didn't feel any dislike. Instead, he communicated with him in a more humble manner.  Added a layer of gratitude.

    They chatted about the household chores, seeming as cordial as a father and son.

    "It's not easy for you to support such a big family by yourself."

    "Hey, they are all my own wives and children. It's not easy, and it's not easy to let them suffer. A man can suffer as much as he wants, but he can't let his wife and children suffer with him."  Think so.  The wise owner can see that this is an honest young man.

    "You four golden flowers, don't you want to have a son?"

    Li Changqing, who was tanned by the sun, grinned, and his teeth, which were a little yellow, looked a little white in contrast to the dark.

    "Hey, I won't have a baby, I can't have a baby. The house at home was shoveled by a forklift, the fourth child was fined 10,000 yuan, and the daughter-in-law was dragged by the brigade to undergo a sterilization operation." His tone was full of calm,  He had such a painful experience, but he said it calmly at this moment.  Probably because I have experienced too much suffering, and I have lost the feeling of surprise or sentimentality for the suffering.  Or maybe, being forced by life, he has no feelings at all, and can only live like a money-making machine, panting, and then work harder to endure hardships for panting.

    "However, it's pretty good. I'm very satisfied with my four daughters. I'm not bragging. My daughters are all good at studying and are very filial. I just want to make more money and give all my four daughters out.  Going to go to college outside. I can¡¯t let my daughter live like me with her face turned to the loess and her back to the sky.¡± Thinking of his daughter, he grinned even wider.

    The host handed him a cigarette, and the two continued to chat.

    "Boss, I want to discuss something with you."

    The host exhaled and nodded to signal him to say.

    "Do you think this works? It's too hot during the day, and the body really can't stand it. Can we do it at night? I won't be lazy when I work at night, and it's cooler at night after all. I promise to work harder than during the day.  "The boss was breathing smoke, and didn't answer him.  He was just thinking, at such a young age, what was supporting him to live so hard without complaining, and thinking of his smile, he seemed to understand.  It is a simple thing, so simple that there is only one word, home!

    "Is there any more mung bean soup?"

    "Yes." Li Changqing was a little disappointed. He didn't expect that his boss not only refused, but also left without saying hello.

    "Come back to my place tomorrow, and I'll cook some for you. Don't forget, work hard for me tomorrow night."

    "Understood." This man is really strange, he would rather cook such precious mung bean soup for me, and let me work during the day.

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    "Give me a good job tomorrow night." He said tomorrow night.

    "Boss, do you mean tomorrow night? Did you agree?"

    "Tomorrow night." The host walked into his room with his hands behind his back.  Li Changqing walked towards the street excitedly.  For this simple and honest man, it is a great happiness to be able to have a free bowl of mung bean rock sugar water to drink in a different working time.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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