When I woke up, the room was still dark.
Shi Zhen went to bed early last night, and naturally woke up early today. He got up from the bed, removed the bolt, opened the wooden door and walked out.
It was still dark and a little cold, but it was all very real.
He is back.
Shi Zhen had the urge to shout to the sky, unspeakably happy.
Taking a deep breath, the coolness in his lungs let Shi Zhen know that making money is imminent.
If nothing else, he and Shi Xinghuo lived here, so they had to buy some daily necessities.
Like toilets.
The villages in J City are all connected to water and electricity, but almost no one installs flush toilets.
The kennel is usually at the back of the house, and a hut will be specially built, and a toilet will be placed at home, so that you don’t have to run outside if you want to go to the toilet at night.
As for him and Shi Xinghuo, they were both men, so they could make do without a toilet for a short time, but definitely not for a long time.
Also... If he has no money, how can Guan Baiyu live a good life
In his last life, he was able to recruit a group of villagers as contractors to make money because his uncle, Shi Xinghuo's father, lent him 20,000 in compensation from the contractor after Shi Xinghuo's death.
Now that he is so poor, he doesn't even have the money to get the villagers out of the village. How can he have the money to buy tools
In J City, family planning is well implemented, and there are almost no excess births in rural areas.
However, according to the regulations of Province Z, if the first child with a rural household registration has a daughter, he can have another child, so many rural families still have two children.
However, if someone gave birth to a daughter for the first time, there would be no second child. First, no one can guarantee that the second one will be a son. Second, there are some local factories that recruit female workers. Women have jobs and naturally have a straight waist. .
Guan Baiyu's adoptive parents have only one daughter, and Guan Jianguo has only one daughter.
Guan Jianguo's daughter, who was four or five years old, was one of the children who played at the door yesterday. She had short hair, a round face that was tanned, and her eyes were black and white. She looked very cute.
Shi Zhen saw that the door next door was open, and when he went in to look for Guan Jianguo, he saw this cute child holding a bowl of the eldest and drinking porridge.
People here usually eat porridge in the morning and rice at noon and evening.
But in the end, if you are not rich, the side dishes are relatively ordinary. At this moment, there is a big bowl of pickles on the table, and the whole family eats it together.
"Uncle Guan, is there a place to recruit workers nearby? We want to find a job." Shi Zhen explained his purpose.
Yesterday, he told Guan Jianguo that he and Shi Xinghuo had come here from the village next door to look for work and to find relatives.
Guan Jianguo looks a bit fierce, but has a good temper: "It's hard to find a job, if you are women, you can go to the chemical fiber factory and textile factory to ask, you are male, many factories don't... But you can do small jobs ."
There are quite a lot of factories in Anshan Town, especially in the past few years, many of those villages have learned from Huaxi Village, and many have set up factories.
There are two large factories in their village, one is a chemical fiber factory and the other is a cement factory.
However, factories generally recruit female workers, and if one worker is missing, someone will soon make up for it, and it will not be the turn of outsiders.
Guan Jianguo just recited a few words, saying that his wife used to work in a chemical fiber factory for several years, but after giving birth to a child and wanting to nurse the child, they were not allowed to go, and they were replaced by others.
As for men, the cement factory needs men, but it is not easy to get in. He has a friend who works in the cement factory, and he asked the cadres in the town to tell him to enter.
However, there are many places to find small workers. Guan Jianguo remembered one thing when he said: "I know a person who also drives a tractor. He has been selling mud recently, and he wants to find someone to help dredging. Will you? But he only needs one person."
"We are willing." Shi Zhen said without hesitation.
He only has about thirty yuan left now, and in terms of purchasing power, it is less than three hundred yuan in future generations.
The so-called mud selling means digging mud and selling it to cement factories.
This kind of generally has to find a place where dredging can be done, and then dig the mud hard and send it to the cement plant.
The man who drives the tractor works hard to dig by himself. If he can't make a few dollars a day, he will hire someone to help dig.
As for that person, he originally asked his brother-in-law to help him dig mud and earn ten yuan a day, but his brother-in-law was too lazy and asked him to use a tractor every day to go to his mother-in-law's house and wait for someone to wake up. The mud dug was less than half of what he dug himself.
He couldn't take it anymore, so he decided to replace him.
Shi Zhen remembered that in his last life, he worked as a small laborer in J City at this time, and his income was ten yuan a day. The price was quite high, but he should be very tired.
Shi Zhen told Guan Jianguo that he and Shi Xinghuo could work together first, and then let Shi Xinghuo work there alone.
In Shi Xinghuo's situation, he could only do physical work, but the construction sites of these years are not as careful as later generations, and there are many safety hazards.
Shi Zhen didn't dare to let Shi Xinghuo go to the construction site. It was better to let Shi Xinghuo do the simple physical work of dredging.
As for himself, Shi Zhen wanted to find another job.
Guan Jianguo asked Shi Zhen and Shi Xinghuo to drink porridge at his house, and then took the two to the house of the man who drove the tractor.
That man was about the same age as Guan Jianguo, and like Guan Jianguo, he worked hard to save money and bought a tractor to make money.
After listening to Guan Jianguo's introduction, he was willing to accept Shi Zhen and Shi Xinghuo, but also said: "Even if there are two of you, I will only give ten yuan a day. If you work slowly, it will be even less."
Shi Zhen agreed immediately.
When he met Guan Jianguo through Guan Baiyu in his last life, Guan Jianguo no longer drove a tractor, but a van.
He went to Guan Jianguo to rent a house. In fact, he wanted to pass Guan Jianguo's way and let Shi Xinghuo find a job to move the goods.
Of course, if he can't find another job temporarily, he can also move the goods first.
Now, dredging is similar to moving cargo.
Shi Zhen and Shi Xinghuo sat in the tractor, and when they got to the dredging place, they worked hard without thinking about it.
He and Shi Xinghuo were used to doing work in the village. Although they looked thin, they were strong.
Although he was rich later in his last life, he didn't actually enjoy it much. Now, he does not exclude him from doing manual work.
The man driving the tractor worked with the two of them. After a while, the three of them filled a truckload of mud, leaving the man stunned.
In the past, he and his brother-in-law worked together, and he could only dig one cart in the morning.
When the car was full, the man drove the mud to the cement factory.
When he went to deliver the mud, Shi Zhen and Shi Xinghuo were not idle, and continued digging with their hoes.
When that person arrives, use a shovel to load the dug out into their car.
To sell mud, the principle is that the more you sell, the more you get. Shi Zhen and Shi Xinghuo worked very diligently and dug a lot of people. In the end, this person not only brought them home for a lunch, but also after finishing the work in the evening. Fifteen dollars was given.
After all, he made a lot more than usual today.
As for dinner at noon... He is also a farmer. Apart from driving a tractor, he also farms. Now is not the time to eat a big pot of rice. They do their best to serve the fields, and there is still enough food.
Shi Zhen accepted the fifteen dollars this man gave.
When he was working with this person, he kept chatting and asked a lot of things in the local dialect, including Guan Baiyu's situation.
Guan Baiyu has not had a good life these years.
Guan Baiyu's adoptive father and Guan Baiyu's biological father actually had a bad relationship when they were young.
Guan Baiyu's father was fostered in the Guan family and gave the Guan family money. In the 1950s and 1960s, this money was not a small amount for the Guan family, and it could even save lives.
Therefore, the old lady of the Guan family is very kind to Guan Baiyu's father. If there is anything delicious to drink, she always sticks to Guan Baiyu's father first.
Guan Baiyu's adoptive father has been mistreated a lot, and naturally he has a bad relationship with Guan Baiyu's biological father.
Later, Guan Baiyu was brought back. Although he was registered with his household, he was not willing to take care of it. When he had his own children, he was even more lazy to take care of Guan Baiyu.
But in the eyes of the villagers, he has done a very good job. After all, Guan Baiyu has grown up well, and he has not let Guan Baiyu do any work.
But for people to live, food alone is not enough. Guan Baiyu needs clothes, shoes, stationery, etc. Guan Baiyu can't buy them without giving money, so these years, Guan Baiyu basically wears other people's old clothes.
When this person talked about Guan Baiyu, he was a little sympathetic, but he didn't feel that Guan Baiyu's adoptive parents did something wrong.
Shi Zhen didn't hold any grudge against Guan Baiyu's adoptive parents. In his previous life, Guan Baiyu had been in contact with them all the time, and it was not close, so he just walked around like an ordinary relative.
And that couple, after Guan Baiyu followed him, did not ask Guan Baiyu for money. After Guan Baiyu lost money in raising chickens when he was in high school, they concentrated on farming. In the end, they relied on growing vegetables and selling them for money. The days are getting better.
Guan Baiyu's younger sister did not continue to study after graduating from junior high school, but went to learn barbering, and later opened a barber shop and made a lot of money.
When he died, this person had moved the barber shop from Anshan Town to Changxi City in order to make it easier for her child to study, and her son had just been admitted to the best high school in Changxi City.
In the evening, Shi Zhen and Shi Xinghuo ate the unfinished rice noodles and rabbit meat they brought from the village.
After eating, Shi Zhen looked at Shi Xinghuo: "Brother, I'm going out, you stay at home."
He was going to talk to Guan Baiyu.
After seeing Guan Baiyu at noon yesterday, he has been thinking about how to get in touch with Guan Baiyu, and now he has already thought about it.
Shi Zhen went to knock on the door of Bai Yu's house.
Guan Baiyu quickly opened the door and saw Shi Zhen's face showing surprise.
Shi Zhen smiled at him: "You are Guan Baiyu, right? I'm your cousin."