Dingding, the electric bell for lunch rang on time.

From the buildings built with steel and concrete, we ran out and walked out a group of workers, stepping on the water and sand, swarmed back to the dormitory to pick up the dishes and chopsticks, and ran straight to the kitchen.

At the door, there were already a long column.

At the front, there were young people's faces. While waiting anxiously, they impatiently knocked the bowls and chopsticks to the sky.

"What are you knocking, what are you knocking, do you want to eat?" Master Qinzai held the spoon and knocked on the iron basin with a bang.

"Master Liu, I'm almost starving to death. I've eaten a bun a long time ago. You're good, hurry up and start a meal." The first young man rolled up his clothes and patted his exposed belly.

"What's the hurry!" Master Liu glared, took the cooked soup and hot rice from his wife one by one, and placed it on the wooden table.

The food was very simple, a pot of potatoes and vegetables stewed, a bucket of burnt rice, and a few baskets of hard steamed buns left in the morning.

"Why is it a cold steamed bun chowder again, there is no meat at all." Several hungry young men were disappointed.

Master Liu had a hot temper, and he waved his hand, "Don't be rude, don't eat, get out of your stall!"

"Don't let it go, Master Liu, I haven't used up my ticket this month!"

Every day, the same drama will be staged, complaining like a child, but in the end, I still eat the food made by Master Liu, which is so delicious!

"Bills." Master Liu skillfully made food and food, and paid for the other.

Tickets, hard currency on the construction site. Every 15th of a month, dozens of workers on the construction site have to go to Master Liu’s kitchen to register and pay for the ticket. The average price of a ticket is three yuan. Compared with the stalls outside, it is obviously cheap and cheap, and it is useless. It can only be used up. Because of this, some people play cards at night, and some people simply don’t need money and bet directly on the meal ticket. Some people have won for half a year, but the construction period is only three months left.

Li San and the others had no money, but Master Li Tugen, who had just returned from work, was very pleased to the head of the steel bar team. He greeted Master Liu, "Master Liu, the money for these people is in my account."

Everyone was surprised. Three yuan per person, twenty-one yuan for seven yuan. In Shaanxi, they could eat two large bowls of mutton soaked buns that were enough to fill their stomachs in the county restaurant.

However, here, Li Zhongniu and others looked down at the enamel bowl. The browned rice was soaked in a spoonful of turbid vegetable soup, and they felt aggrieved and difficult to swallow. There was even more luck in it. There was a seasoning for serving dishes in the rice soup. A dead fly floated on the soup noodles. The sharp eyes of them were sour water in their stomachs for a moment.

The foreman's surname is Li. He never washes his hair when he works, and his hair is unkempt and dirt. Sometimes his hands are covered with dust and soil. He doesn't wash it even if he is not very dirty. He holds a bowl and eats it as if nothing is done.

While chewing, he said, "You are like Tugen. They all come from Shaanxi. You have a lot of pasta. Are you a habit of eating?"

Except for Li San, the horse opened and closed, the others forced themselves to smile, "Okay, OK."

"Today is not the time. Master Liu didn't have time to make steamed buns, so it was enough to deal with the elderly. You newcomers will have to eat."

"What are you looking at?"

When Li Tugen saw Li Zhongniu, Li Chao and the others disliked and resisted it. They stared at the eyes of the bull and knocked on the bowl with chopsticks, "Didn't you see the three brothers of Renli? Why are you doing stupid things? Eat!"

Seeing Li San eating voraciously, he looked at each other and some people complained, "Tukun, why is this rice so messy? It's not as good as the village mother."

"Qiu, what are you doing? The landlord's wife is so delicate!" Li Tugen suddenly turned dark and shouted angrily: "Damn, don't forget that you are all from the fields. What kind of land is planted in the fields and you can't eat them in your stomach! That year, I didn't eat all the wild vegetables, plants and barks, so I can't eat them?"

"However... there is Cang..."

"Go to the case (going on the same side), what's wrong with flies! It's your blessing to have flies. You can't find any more food if you want to add more!"

The scoldings pursed their lips and felt very aggrieved.

Li Tugen had a stern face, "Remember what you do when you go to the city! You work hard to make money. If you don't eat, you will lose your energy and feel as weak as a soft persimmon. How can you make money!"

There is no such thing as being delicate in the countryside. If you eat braised vegetables, you will be satisfied with your meal. There is no dirty or burnt or burnt. But, one by one, one by one, took Li Tugen all the way, whether exaggerated or not, thinking that there will be a world when you enter the Jiangkou Shanghai Stock Exchange, and your mind is filled with strange and beautiful vision. Unexpectedly, just sucking the air on the riverside different from Shaanxi, you will wake up a bowl of rice in front of you.

It turns out that the rice bowls in the city are not so easy to serve. The rice in the city is not all delicious.

Gradually, the fever and swollen head trembled suddenly as soon as it was watered, and it instantly returned to reality. The gap made them dejected.

Li San is alone, and he is calm and eats it all. He has a lot of appetite and has to eat at least two large bowls of trouser noodles when he is at home. At present, a meal is fixed, and it is estimated that it is only five or six cents of full.

Everyone saw that he had eaten with relish. Look at me, I look at you. With him set an example, he put away his frustration and no longer cared about whether there were any hiding stones and insects, and they all buried their heads in the rice.

Foreman Li comforted him, "At noon, you will have a meal first. In the evening, the construction site specially held a welcome banquet for newcomers this time. At that time, the dishes were not only like this, they were full of sumptuous!"

Li Tugen was eating very quickly. He took the last sip of vegetable soup, took out the whole pack of Li Qunyan and gave it to Foreman Li, and asked for instructions carefully: "Master, do you think you will arrange them now so that you can do a quick job tomorrow?"

"Wow, Li Qunyan! Tuzi, you're bleeding heavily this time!" Foreman Li sniffed a sip of tobacco and put the cigarette in his ear. "Are you guys putting on a pig's nose and pretending to be too much in front of them? Now you are afraid that the matter of making a guarantee is going to be a shame, right?"

"Master, don't take your forehead and make you happy!" Li Tugen's dark and rough face turned red, and he scratched his head awkwardly and grinned, as he could tell that he was being thoughtful.

After finishing the joke, Foreman Li turned to a stern look and said, "Okay, then I'll tell you something in advance so that you can understand the situation. Otherwise, if something goes wrong, you might blame me."

Out of etiquette, Li San put down the bowl with the leftover rice, and followed the same thing, and put down the bowl that had been eaten halfway.

When Foreman Li noticed their actions, he saw that it was out of respect. He nodded with relief and waved his hand: "Eat, it's okay, continue eating before you finish it. It doesn't matter while eating. You should know that eating at the construction site is the biggest thing. Apart from slag, there is nothing more to eat than eating. Do you know why?"

"Because as Tuzi said, we are here to work hard and work hard, and we don't have enough food to eat. How can you earn this money and eat this business!"

Foreman Li said as he looked into Li San's bowl, "What kind of meal is usually eaten?"

"Eight liang."

"Good guy, half a pound. At most, five taels are on the construction site. Can you eat enough?"

"It's done, my stomach won't scream."

As soon as he asked questions and answers, Foreman Li felt Li San's simplicity and honesty, and couldn't help but feel a little fond of him. He wanted to grab the white steamed buns in the bowl, but suddenly he thought of the greasy stains on his hands, so he immediately used chopsticks to pick them up for him.

He smiled and said, "Don't think it's dirty, just take it and push it."

"How can it be!"

Li San was not pretentious and said nothing, so he picked up the bowl and asked someone to put the steamed buns in it. He grabbed the steamed buns without saying anything, and ate the remaining soup Lao Ye.

Foreman Li nodded and said, "Now, the most important thing to you is this division of labor. If you don't say secret words, we will say ugly words in the front. Don't think that they are all recruited by the locals and are working at the same time. They are just doing the same job, which is impossible!"

He took off the orange safety helmet he was wearing, and he put it behind him to put it on his butt. "Actually, newcomers like you can't do anything. At best, they are just a small worker, working hard to sell some strength, being a laborer, like moving, like vigilance, don't complain if you are tired if you are tired. After all, you don't have the skills, so when you get the wages at the end of the month, you must not feel that you have two or three less than what you have to pay in the account at the end of the year, do you understand!"

"Puff, two or three hundred!" One person heard this and squirted out all the rice he had eaten into his mouth on the spot.

Foreman Li glanced at him: "Why, do you think it's too much or too little?"

"Two or three hundred, that's not worth hundreds of eggs!" the man said excitedly, "It's time to have dozens of old hens born for dozens of days. You must do it with your breasts."

"Haha, that's OK. But I just happened to earn more than this one. Hey, you guys are just about to catch up. There were three steel bar workers in the steel bar group a few days ago, and I couldn't find a veteran to recruit temporary workers. After discussing with the foreman, I planned to be an apprentice from a newcomer and teach you how to do steel bars step by step..."

"How do you do this job?"

"It's not simple or difficult, it's just making steel bars and tying steel bars. It's definitely not possible without getting started."

Li Tugen added as he saw the opportunity, "You are lucky, do you know if you know! At this construction site, if no master is willing to teach you a craft, if you make a craft at the same construction site, you will be a laborer and you will know nothing, so you will transport bricks and transport them. This time, the master will accept apprentices, which is equivalent to giving you the opportunity to learn the craftsmanship. This is an "iron rice bowl" that you can't exchange for without any money!"

"Is that true! Then, when will the foreman choose?" Li Zhongniu said urgently.

"In this way, when the banquet is over, I will visit your door and choose two of you from the seven. The water will not flow to the outsiders' fields."

Foreman Li lit a cigarette and spit out a cigarette ring, "There is another thing I put in front of me and said, don't blame anyone who has not been selected, and don't marry someone who has chosen, and don't be a son-in-law and beat gongs. It's not necessary to do it. Remember, whether it's steel bars or a handyman, they all have their own ways of working and each have their own ways of tiring. On the construction site, having a craft does make a lot of money, but playing hard on the construction site is the foundation. Believe me, as long as you do more work, the more money you will naturally earn."

In an instant, a harmonious scene suddenly became tense and sharp.

Everyone, except Li San and Ma Kaiquan, were excited and stared at the position of the steel bar worker. Therefore, they looked at the people around them, their eyes were filled with vigilance and suspicion, and they were worried that someone would take away their good job.

Among them, Li Zhongniu couldn't help but said urgently: "Then Master Li, what kind of person do you recruit him?"

"You will know this when the time comes, so you will naturally not be in a hurry. But now, you will finish your meal and go back to the dormitory to clean up. In the evening, I hope you will let go of your welcome banquet and get to know the elderly in each group well, and try to get along well with each other, which will not harm you."

Foreman Li did not tell him the pan and avoided the topic: "Okay, I've said that, I'll have a rest. I'm going to the construction site. Tugen, take them back to the dormitory and ask them to sort out their luggage, bedding and so on. I guess the foreman will go to the dormitory for a while to check."
Chapter completed!