Chapter 87: Wan Qiu's Return
In the past few days, the construction site has been relocated, just next to the kiln under the hills outside Quartz Village. Previously, the boss had prepared dry firewood, some kerosene and some plain bricks made of soil.
The reason why it is called a plain brick is that the brick itself has not been baked for a few days and nights after a fire, and is still very fragile. Just a light touch can cause missing corners and marks to break.
On that night, because the bricks that had been in the kiln for three or four days were almost complete, during dinner tonight, foreman Yihao said that he would work overtime tonight. Before the rain had fallen, he would quickly move the bricks in while the stars were still under the sky. Otherwise, he would be really unsure until tomorrow, right? It was going to rain, and my mother wanted...ah...ah!
All the personnel, including him, have to work.
This evening, foreman Yihao also specially found his boss, saying that the weather forecast may rain heavily tomorrow, so he asked the boss to help him find a few strong young men to move bricks. Naturally, he would have to pay more wages. As for how much more, the foreman didn't speak up.
The landlord took the family and young people from seven or eight villages, and more than 20 people moved the plain bricks one after another.
A black layer of clouds rose from the southeast, and from time to time, the clouds slowly covered with lightning.
Until midnight, when the clouds covered it, thunder suddenly broke out, and lightning continued, and the entire shrouded earth sounded from afar to the sky.
The cold wind blew sparsely, blew across the mountains, across the lake, and the sound of the treetops gradually sounded. The unclosed window kept blowing back and forth and then slapped violently on the window ridge, but it was always repeated.
The half-closed door was poured into the house by the wind, blowing down the crumbling aluminum box on the hill, and the baskets hanging on the beams kept swaying back and forth rhythmically.
The tarpaulins that were still covered with plain bricks were too late to press with stones, were poured in by the wind and then supported. The entire tarpaulins seemed to be lifted by a giant's hand, and they were raised to the sky, spreading like waves and slapped on the treetops, and then fluttering in the wind like sails.
The bare bricks that were removed and the few remaining were unable to withstand the strong wind and collapsed in a bang, turning into piles of mud.
The lightning and thunder were approaching the sky, causing the voices to disappear completely into the huge thunder.
"Quick, pull the tarp down." The ethereal sound was soon blown into the distance by the strong wind.
"Wanqiu, hurry."
More than a dozen young people pulled a corner of the tarpaulin and walked in the strong wind. Even the kerosene lamp that had just been fixed nearby had been blown to the ground by the wind and broke into countless pieces, and the flames were clearly shaking in the dark corners.
More than twenty people pulled the tarpaulin and pressed it on it with large nearby stones. Then several young and middle-aged people in the village rushed to their homes before the rain came.
Yihao directed the dolls to quickly ignite the fire to avoid getting worse after heavy rain. Then he arranged for people to take turns to watch the night before the rest returned to the village first.
Ivanqiu was looking at it as it was raining, but she thought about going back, but she didn't expect Yihao to keep him and Wan Jiang.
Next to the kiln is a small wooden house with a low bed inside. All the supplies on the bed are quilts and blankets bought by Yihao before.
But you can't sleep at this time!
Before Yi Hao finished speaking, the heavy rain, like beans, hit it and it was obviously a slight tingling feeling when it hit his arm.
The heavy rain poured in, and the eight people at the moment ignored how many people the cabin could accommodate, and all hid in.
Ivanqiu and Ivanjiang could only run to the thatched house where the firewood was piled with firewood to hide for a while, because the thatched house was close to the kiln and could add firewood nearby at any time. Ivanqiu was a little hot because of the burning fire wind waves. Outside the house was filled with cold wind and heavy rain.
Seeing the momentum, it is necessary to trample mountains and rivers and destroy the river bank. However, no matter how loud it sounds outside, Ivanqiu spreads out the straw, tied it to it with a coat, then lay flat and curl up his coat, and wrap his own tightly.
Tiredness followed, and the swaying fire fell asleep lightly on the edge of the alternating cold and heat.
Because moving bricks consumed a lot of energy, Yi Wanjiang leaned against the stigma not far away, closed his eyes slightly, tilted his head and grinned, and saliva slowly flowed down the corner of his clothes to the sleeves. Then the saliva slowly flowed down the sleeves, soaking a large piece of sleeves into the grass and into the ground.
With a thunderous sound, Ivanjiang was frightened and woke up from the straw.
I raised my left hand and saw that it had only been half an hour, and it seemed like a century had passed in my dream.
Ivanjiang looked up at the wooden house. The light inside was still shaking, and the reflected light seemed to be no one inside.
While he and Ivanqiu were sleeping, Yihao pulled a large tarpaulin under the bed, and the six people walked towards the entrance of the village together. After only a ten-minute heavy rain, the ditch on one side of the road was filled with the ditch. The rapid water flowed to the bottom quickly, flowing through the instep, flushing out the cow dung that had not been cleaned in time on the roadside, and rinsing out the dead branches and grass.
The six people were all wearing liberation shoes, and they could only let the water soak. The road surface was uneven, so they were not walking fast, just like duckweed encountered countless whirlpools in the water, sometimes drifting under trees, sometimes drifting under big rocks, and sometimes being rolled into whirlpools and popping out from the other side.
As the foreman, Yihao naturally surrounded him, just like sending each other to the prince, setting up a square formation under the high-speed arrows to guard the death.
A lightning light from the horizon flashed straight down the hill not far away, and then a loud explosion sounded. All the six people walking on the mountain path were immediately scared and their faces turned pale. Some young people threw down their tarpaulins and rushed towards the village desperately.
Because of fear, one of the crowd had already left a corner, and the rest of the people also left the tarpaulin down. A figure followed closely by a figure, like a escaping mouse, and strolled away all his limbs and strolled to a safe place.
Three figures, four figures, five figures...
Before the fifth figure came out, it was Yi Jiaxing who covered his forehead with his hands and turned around and shouted at Yi Hao: "I ran away too, this...thunder is even better than her mother."
"Better than her mother." Naturally, it refers to the mother-in-law.
Who can get married and get married and get married and can use three tricks?
No car, no house, no deposit is the concern of many handsome guys. However, although Yi Jiaxing is already married, he remembers the glorious years when he was forced to vomit blood by his mother-in-law, and always keeps in mind his mother-in-law's teachings, "If you don't have a house, what marriage will you get? If you don't have a deposit, what marriage will you get?"
So whenever he encounters something scary, he always remembers his mother-in-law's past and intimidation.
And when he often mentions these brothers, he always says, "Better than her mother."
Yi Hao had a cold face, dragged the tarp, murmured in a low voice, saying, "It's heavier than her mother!"
The next morning, from the heavy rain last night, it turned into the drizzle of this morning. The drizzle was as soft as silk, as if it was cleaning the fine grass in the mountains last night due to the heavy rain last night, and slowly rubbing away the dirt from the soil splashed on the ground.
The thunder only roared occasionally, but there was no big deal, and the wind gradually stopped.
Yihao held an umbrella and walked towards this side with the rice and vegetables just prepared by the owner.
Because I was rained yesterday, I made rapid coughs from time to time.
Ivanqiu and Ivanjiang were still adding dry firewood to the kiln. When they heard the violent coughing sound, they turned around at the same time. They saw the foreman wearing a raincoat and a thick cotton jacket and an umbrella in his hand. The two looked at Yihao like a fool, thinking to themselves, "Don't this fart with taking off their pants? Is it that hot this day?"
Then the two of them looked up at the sky at the same time, and the rain had become much lighter.
It seemed that they could feel the strange eyes of the two, "It was too cold last night, and they both caught a cold." Yi Hao squeezed his smile and said, "The food is still hot, you eat quickly. Why didn't the fire last night be extinguished?"
"If this continues, it is probably possible to be able to leave the kiln in a few days."
Ivanjiang couldn't wait to eat the rice bowl with his hands, chewing the food with relish, and said vaguely: "We met the boss, otherwise how many days would it take? It would probably take half a month!"
Yi Hao walked to the kiln and said calmly: "When I was negotiating the contract, I had already made it clear that the price could not be paid at all, so I could only let them pay for it themselves, not to mention how can we come from all the way and not get some oil and water?"
This smart foreman can always make the right judgment and choice at the right time.
As we said before, he was originally a cattle dealer, but later he turned into a contractor. When he was just contracting, he began to slowly understand the local labor costs. Obviously, the local labor costs were much higher than those at home. So he repeatedly emphasized during the first time that the results must make the villagers feel that his skills are very satisfactory.
After that, his wishful thinking started, killing the local ones, and then he dominated the family and finally raised the wages to build a better house.
Due to the influence of the city, the locals naturally feel that this requirement is not too much. Compared with the local sloppy handicrafts, people are the least willing to contract for locals to make.
Perhaps it is because neighbors talk about money and have less money and poor workmanship. Under these vicious cycles, locals are eventually forced to develop in a foreign land.
"When will the foundation be dug?" Ivanqiu looked at Yihao in confusion.
"I've seen the days before, on the 26th of this month, in the afternoon."
After breakfast, Ivanqiu and Ivanjiang went to the wooden house to take a nap.
Yihao returned to the village headquarters. Today, it was raining, so no other job was arranged, and everyone else went out to fish.
While Ivanqiu and Ivanjiang were sleeping soundly, a black-bolted wind snake slowly crawled out of the bed because the rainy night last night was too big and its nest was completely submerged, so everyone could only climb to a higher place.
This nest was obtained by tracing a wild rat before.
That day, when the wind-blown snake stretched its slowly and smooth body on the branches, it suddenly found a wild mouse that was foraging here.
The body, which was plated on the treetops, slowly stretched and followed the mouse's path, quietly swinging its body. Hunger told it to eat the other party for days and nights without having to eat.
The wind-chasing snake crawled over rocks, grass, ditches, and then came to the entrance of the wild rat's cave. When the rat came out again, it arched its body and rushed forward, biting it impartially on the mouse's neck. Until the mouse lost its struggle and died of its venom, it slowly swallowed the mouse alive and then occupied the cave as king.
The snake did not expect that one night a week later, an unprecedented heavy rainstorm occurred. Under the turmoil of floods and the erosion of rainwater, the cave collapsed quickly, and it could only climb out of the wet and dirty cave with difficulty.
The wind-blown snake spitted out a long snake letter and tried to climb out under the ground of the wooden house.
When it twisted its body and squeezed into the gap in the corner, it squeezed out the wooden stick leaning behind the door, and a sound of short wood hitting the floor. Ivanjiang, who was sleeping outside, woke up first, rubbed his blood-filled eyes and looked into the corner, and saw blurry black lines fiddling back and forth there.
As the shadow projected in his eyes became clearer and clearer, Ivanjiang took a breath of air conditioning. He was frightened and slowed down his movements. He patted Ivanqiu beside him, but his eyes never moved away and stared at the body of the snake. It was never seen.
"Wanqiu...Wanqiu...Wanqiu." The couplet shouted three times, shaking Ivanqiu to wake up.
"Hi! Don't call me, sleep for a while."
Ivanqiu narrowed his eyes and did not open his eyes to look at Ivanjiang.
“There are…snakes…”
Hearing the two words that Ivanjiang shouted behind him, Ivanqiu opened his eyes and frowned and looked at Ivanjiang who was afraid of this moment.
I guess I must have seen something.
Ivanqiu slowly sat up from the bed, and looked at Ivanqiu with a dull expression and slowly moved to the place where his eyes were touching...?
Ivanqiu's eyes also changed from calm to horror, and his eyes widened even wider and wider until he screamed, "Ah...a snake!"
Then he turned around and pushed open the window and crawled out of the window.
After Ivanqiu screamed, the snake's body swung harder and suddenly its head came out along the crack of the door. Its innocent eyes were staring at Ivanjiang, but the snake's letter was vomiting more and more frequently.
Ivanjiang turned his head and shouted, "Wanqiu, don't leave!" The voice seemed to be about to cry.
Ivanjiang ran to the edge of the kiln with his stomach covering his stomach and said to Ivanqiu, who was also covering his stomach in front of him: "You... run so fast, don't wait for me!"
After calming down for a moment, Ivanqiu looked at Ivanjiang, "Do you have the courage to catch the snake with me?"
"I won't go! If you want to go, you will go by yourself. The snake in the room is too big. I don't believe it if I don't have a 70-8-pound pound."
Ivanqiu's eyes rolled and asked, "Do you want to change your shoes?" Ivanqiu pointed at the dirty Jiefang shoes under his feet, "I want to change them, so we'll grab them now, and then buy them for a few dollars. Anyway, we don't have enough money."
Ivanqiu looked at Ivanjiang with a pale face and then said, "I just want to change more pairs of shoes. This is the weather..." As he said that, he looked at the sky.
He knew that Ivanjiang was most afraid of snakes. When he first transferred to school, he had one in his class.
A very naughty guy hides animals in the pen boxes of different classmates every day, and the most common ones you see are naturally caterpillars.
However, after a long time, he felt a little tired of it, and then there was a prank that scared Ivanjiang, who had just arrived.
When class was in, Ivanjiang opened the pen box and found a snake inside, and he was shocked and fainted.
Since then, whenever you encounter a snake halfway, you either kill it or run as far as you go.
However, at this time, Ivanqiu asked him to share part of the money for the Snake together, and he could also buy a pair of liberation shoes. So why not do it?
"Then I'll take the shoulder pole, I can help you hold it down later, grab it...you can grab it yourself."
Chapter completed!