People these days go to bed early and get up early. Shi Zhen has to go to work at 7:30 in the morning, then work until 11:00 to have lunch, then continue to work after 12:00, and finish work at 4:30 in the afternoon.
It takes eight hours to work together, but Iron Man can’t work all the time. It’s okay to stand and rest for a while. In the afternoon, everyone will stop to eat something, otherwise they will be too hungry.
Of course, it's impossible to eat too well. I usually eat some steamed buns. Yesterday, I ate buns with pickled vegetables and dried tofu.
Yesterday, Shi Zhen went to work on his first day, and he was not familiar with everyone, but today he is familiar with everyone around him.
He has been in business, and it is not difficult for him to make people feel good about him.
After getting to know each other, everyone started chatting from all over the world, and some people asked where Shi Zhen's family came from, and why he came out to work as a small worker at such a young age.
Small workers are all tiring work. The locals in J City are generally reluctant to have their children come out to do hard work at a young age.
Shi Zhendao: "My home is quite far away. I'm not here. I'm here to find my cousin... As for small jobs, I can't find any other jobs."
He was talking, but the work at hand did not stop.
The person who was chatting with him touched a cigarette from his pocket and rested in the middle of the river with a shovel. Seeing that Shi Zhen was busy, he asked, "Your parents are really willing."
"The family is too poor, what's there to be reluctant to give up?"
"That's why it's time to work harder to make money and marry a daughter-in-law." The man sighed.
This man is in his 40s and is used to suffering. He used to be unable to eat enough, but now he talks to Shi Zhen like this because his child is about the same age as Shi Zhen.
Seeing that Shi Zhen was working hard, he talked about something else: "The days are really getting better. I used to almost starve to death. Who would have thought that now I can not only eat as much as I can, but also eat meat from time to time."
The vegetables on their construction sites will be more or less fat, so that they will not have the energy to work.
Shi Zhen took advantage of the situation to chat with him, and by the way, he learned about Anshan Town at this time.
Although he still remembers some things at this time, the specific situation still needs to be communicated with people to understand.
In this era, some things that can be industrially produced and are very cheap in later generations are quite expensive, and some things are very cheap. In addition, this place is worthy of being a coastal area and a place where private enterprises are developed. Everyone wants to do business. .
Today's lunch is pork blood tofu soup.
The pig's blood tofu soup is hot, with a thick layer of lard and chopped green onion floating on it, as well as the lard residue from boiling the lard.
Shi Zhen ate half a bowl, and planned to take the rest back to Guan Baiyu.
"Old Wang, what's for snacks in the afternoon?" the forty-year-old worker who chatted with Shi Zhen before asked the little leader who was in charge of them.
The person who saw Shi Zhen "offering" five yuan a day and accepting Shi Zhen as a small laborer was called Wang Chengfa. Hearing this person's question, he said, "I'll wait and buy some glutinous rice cakes."
Pot glutinous rice cake is a local snack. It is made by mixing glutinous rice flour with water into a paste, and then sticking it on a large hot iron pot and drying it. It can be eaten directly or soaked in hot water.
When new guests come to the door, the host will definitely make a bowl of brown sugar pot glutinous rice.
"It doesn't matter if that thing is full, can you give it instant noodles?" Someone asked: "Before, some of them did small jobs, and they gave each person a pack of instant noodles for the afternoon snack!"
"Thinking beautifully, some places don't even care about rice, they don't give snacks!" Wang Chengfa said, glutinous rice cakes are very cheap, and instant noodles are not cheap!
In the afternoon, he only bought a big bag of hot pot and came back, and spent a few cents to buy boiled water from a nearby place that sold boiled water. He asked everyone to take out the cups they brought, soak them in a bowl for each of them, and put them away. Some saccharin.
Saccharin is a kind of sugar substitute. It is not sugar, but if you put a little bit, it is very sweet.
Shi Zhen didn't want the saccharin that has long since disappeared in later generations. Everyone else wanted it. Some people wanted to eat something sweeter, so they added more saccharin, but the taste was bitter, but after adding more water, it was still sweet in the end.
In the past two days, water leaked into the shoes from time to time. Shi Zhen's feet became fat and wrinkled after soaking in too much water. He tried to dry them, but his toes were almost numb.
"Uncle Wang, how much is a pack of instant noodles?" Shi Zhen asked Wang Chengfa.
He remembered that when he first came to J City in his last life, Shi Xinghuo saw someone eating instant noodles on the construction site, and he was very greedy... It's a pity that he didn't buy it for Shi Xinghuo.
Also about White Feather.
Guan Baiyu grew up with his grandmother. For an old rural lady of his grandma's age, she would like to split a penny into two flowers, so Guan Baiyu definitely won't have the chance to eat instant noodles.
Wang Chengfa said, "Seven cents a pack."
This price is very high compared to the income at this time, but after Shi Zhen got off work, he still went to buy two packs.
It was only after I bought it that I found out that a pack of instant noodles for 70 cents had only one seasoning packet in it.
Going home in the evening, Shi Zhen gave Shi Xinghuo a pack, and took the remaining pack, as well as half a cup of pig blood tofu soup left over at noon, to Guan Baiyu's place.
He left work early, and when Guan Baiyu just came back, before cooking, Shi Zhen asked him if he wanted instant noodles.
Guan Baiyu was stunned for a while before he said, "No, I'll eat it next time."
After a while, he whispered again: "I haven't eaten instant noodles yet."
When the fifteen-year-old boy said this, he was a little embarrassed, and then smiled at Shi Zhen again.
Shi Zhen's heart was bulging, and he couldn't tell what he felt.
Guan Baiyu's appearance looks very good, and now he smiles, revealing two small tiger teeth, which is indescribably cute.
If Guan Baiyu could have a child, he and Guan Baiyu's child would already be so old.
Shi Zhen said: "I will set fire for you."
Guan Baiyu did not refuse: "Okay."
Shi Zhen started the fire, and Guan Baiyu put water in the pot and put the rice. When he saw whether there was any clean straw in the rice, he took it out and put it aside.
When it was over, he steamed another bowl of pickled vegetables on the pot without putting any oil.
When his grandmother was there, he was actually doing okay, even... He didn't think he was any different from the people around him.
Everyone was poor then.
But his grandmother died two years ago, and the people around him slowly became wealthy, and everything changed.
His adoptive parents didn't care about him completely. The tuition fee of more than 200 yuan per semester was still paid to him, but there was nothing else, and he was embarrassed to ask them for money.
Salt is cheap, so he won't be able to afford it, but there's no such thing as oil.
Others can use their own rapeseed to change the oil in the oil mill, but where did he get the rapeseed
He didn't expect that suddenly there would be a... cousin appearing.
Guan Baiyu looked at Shi Zhen, paused and then called out, "Brother, thank you."
Shi Zhen was taken aback.
He remembered that Guan Baiyu was a bit cold and didn't like to approach people, so he always thought that it would take several days before Guan Baiyu would accept him.
In the end, it was only the third day that Guan Baiyu called "brother"
"Do you recognize me?" Shi Zhen asked.
Guan Baiyu is puzzled—this is his cousin, how can he deny it
Shi Zhen originally thought about Xu Xutuzhi, and slowly became familiar with Guan Baiyu, but now Guan Baiyu called him brother... Some things can be done quickly.
Shi Zhen said: "You recognize me and you are willing to call me brother. Don't worry, I will take care of you in the future! Let me buy some food from tomorrow, and come to your place to eat, so that you can eat better!"
He had already made this plan. If he buys some food and fires on Guan Baiyu's side, the three of them will be able to improve their meals.