"I...I don't like eating eggs." Ji Ningxue paused and drank the porridge with her head down.
Lu Yu fell silent, but didn't say much, just lowered his head and ate silently.
Some things are just good if you understand them in your heart.
The current predicament is only temporary, Lu Yu will give Ji Ningxue a good life.
After the meal, Ji Ningxue brought clean clothes and skillfully buttoned Lu Yu's clothes as she usually did when taking care of her.
"It's getting cold outside, so you need to wear more clothes." Ji Ningxue said seriously.
Lu Yu looked at Ji Ningxue again. At this time, the clothes on her body were extremely thin.
"Okay! Wait for me at home." Lu Yu touched Ji Ningxue's hair.
"Yes, my wife is waiting for your return at home." Ji Ningxue nodded obediently.
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Lu Yu went out to look for a job and came to a construction site.
The place where they live is relatively remote, located in the suburban development zone of Haidong City, surrounded by many places to be developed.
If you take just two steps, you can see the roar of machines and the construction site where construction is intensifying.
Lu Yu is the same as Ji Ningxue. Although they are very capable and will be accepted by any company they go to, they still can't do it because of their status.
I can only find these physical jobs that I can do without registering information and make money to support my family.
Money, Lu Yu needs some money urgently now.
Even to apply for a certificate, you still need money.
Moreover, the weather was getting colder and colder, but Ji Ningxue didn't even have a cotton-padded coat for the winter.
If possible, Lu Yu would like to take Ji Ningxue to another place to live. The environment in that compound is really not good.
Although I have a tiger in my heart, I still have to find a place to settle down first.
Lu Yu walked along the road and turned directly into a construction site.
I saw some workers carrying cement, so I thought of it and walked up.
Five or six workers were busy, and next to them there was a middle-aged man wearing a safety helmet, holding a notebook and writing something down.
"Hello, are you still hiring here?" Lu Yu walked up and asked politely.
Hearing this, the middle-aged man handed the notebook to the person next to him, looked at Lu Yu up and down, waved his hand and said, "No move, no move."
"I can do it." Lu Yu explained.
"What can you do? With your small body, can you carry a hundred pounds of cement?"
"Don't carry a few bags when the time comes. If something goes wrong if you're tired, we'll still have to take care of your medical expenses! Let's go, let's go." The middle-aged man waved his hand impatiently.
"I really can." Lu Yu insisted.
The middle-aged man waved his hands impatiently and said, "Go ahead, carry a bag and I'll take a look. Don't blame me if it gets hit."
Several workers also stopped working, looked at Lu Yu and said, "Young man, this is not a job you can do. It's dirty and tiring. Go find something else."
"Yes, you can earn a hundred or ten yuan a day as a small worker on a construction site. Although you can earn a little more here, your body will definitely not be able to bear it."
"Don't think that you are too young to show off your talent. You really can't do this job."
Lu Yu knew that these workers also had good intentions, but he didn't say anything and walked to the cement pile.
Looking at the dust on the cement bag and the clean clothes Ji Ningxue had washed for him, Lu Yu hesitated for a moment.
"If you can't do it, leave quickly and don't delay things." The middle-aged man waved his hand and said.
Lu Yu no longer hesitated, reached out and grabbed one side of the cement bag, exerted a little force, and easily lifted the cement bag.
"Snapped!"
The cement bag hit his shoulder, making a crisp sound.
"Huh?" The worker next to him was stunned when he saw this.
Before they could be too surprised, Lu Yu bent down slightly, grabbed a bag of cement again, and carried it on his shoulders.
Each of his left and right shoulders carried a bag, and he looked very relaxed without even taking a breath.
If it weren't for the inconvenience of carrying it, Lu Yu felt that he could add two more bags.
"Good boy." Several workers exclaimed.
"Crack."
The middle-aged man in charge of recording the quantity dropped the notebook in his hand to the ground with a clatter.
"Young man is awesome!" a worker praised.
"Okay! You can stay."
The middle-aged man came to his senses, picked up the record book and said: "The commission for a bag of cement is one yuan, the more you work, the more you will get, and your salary will be paid every day, let's start working!"
"Here, don't you need to remember your name?" Lu Yu asked with some confusion.
"No, you are worker No. 6, go ahead." The middle-aged man waved his hand.
"Young man, our work is done by people at the bottom. No one at the bottom cares about us. We don't even need to remember their names. Just work hard."
A slightly older worker reached out and patted Lu Yu on the shoulder.
Lu Yu didn't care and immediately started carrying cement.
One dollar per bag, if you carry more, you should be able to buy Ji Ningxue some thick clothes.
The weather is slowly turning cooler, causing the temperature to drop a lot.
Lu Yu felt a little chilly at first, but as she carried bags of cement, she was already sweating profusely.
From head to toe, it was covered with cement dust.
Lu Yu didn't care at all. He carried two bags each time, and his speed was not slow at all.
From morning to noon, Lu Yu and several workers went to the canteen to eat a few bites of food and then returned again to continue carrying the load.
At the end of the day, Lu Yu was exhausted.
Although he has a strong physical fitness, this kind of high-intensity labor of 100 kilograms at a time is still a bit unbearable for him.
After all, he has not exercised for several months.
Moreover, the injuries from the fight with Hou Yuanhang and the others yesterday have not fully recovered yet.
"Okay! You did a good job today. I originally thought it would take two days to finish."
The middle-aged foreman was very happy and gave Lu Yu several people a bottle of mineral water each.
Lu Yu quickly unscrewed it, imitated the actions of the workers, raised the bottle into the air, opened his mouth to drink the water.
If the mouth of the bottle is directly facing your mouth, the cement on your face and mouth will be absorbed and you will drink it with it.
"The wages have been paid."
The middle-aged man opened his handbag, followed the records in the notebook, and began to distribute money to Lu Yu and others.
"No. 6, I carried 590 bags. I'll give you a total of 600!"
When the middle-aged foreman handed out money to Lu Yu, he looked very grand and said.
Most of the workers received about 400 yuan, and Lu Yu alone received 600 yuan.
However, Lu Yu frowned slightly and did not reach out to take the six hundred yuan.
Lu Yu made a rough calculation while carrying cement.
Although I didn’t write it down accurately, I knew it must be more than 600 bags.
Including several workers nearby, it must have cost more than four hundred yuan.
After all, the total tonnage of cement is here. If the wages of several people are added up, it does not match the number of cement bags.
This money is very important to Lu Yu now, and he has to carry it out in bags.
Therefore, he wanted to ask the foreman if the records were wrong.
"Mao Gong, look at the record book. Did you remember it wrong?" Lu Yu frowned and said.
Mao Gong is the middle-aged foreman named Mao Guangfei.
"Wrong memory?" Mao Guangfei immediately glared and said: "Young man, don't make trouble, I personally made these records, how could it be wrong?"
"Also, everyone else is right, but you are the only one who is wrong?" Mao Guangfei said in a somewhat impatient tone.
"Are you right?" Lu Yu turned to look at the workers.
"Young man, cough, take the money and go home quickly. There may be work tomorrow."
The older worker coughed lightly and reached out to pat Lu Yu on the shoulder.