Drifting

Tan Qing, with a mediocre mind and a lively mind, didn't get into college, and went to work on a construction site during the summer vacation that year, hoping to earn some money to go on a graduation trip.

He carried a canvas travel bag with the logo of the food store printed on it, and drove to the construction site by himself.The foreman looked at him in the temporary hut, biting a cigarette butt between his dry and chapped lips, and said impatiently, "Are you an adult? What can you do? Build walls, measure, move bricks, have you ever done this?"

Tan lightly smiled and said, "I'm an adult, I haven't learned it before, but I'm willing to learn it."

The foreman stood up, like weighing a small boar, touched his shoulders, kicked his buttocks, he was indeed firm and tight, although he was young, but powerful, he immediately made a decision: "Okay, register, leave your ID number, home address and contact Phone call. The wages are paid in cash, calculated by working hours, and the minimum guarantee is 3500. If you can’t do it well, get out.”

In this way, Tan Qing became a small worker on the construction site.In the morning, I arranged a hut to sleep in. After eating a simple two dishes and one soup at noon, I left for the construction site in the afternoon.

"Tsk tsk." The foreman, wearing a yellow hard hat, looked at Tan Qing from a distance, as if chatting with the workers next to him, "This kid is quite capable."

Tan Qing didn't feel too tired when he was working, but when he sat on the hard plank bed, when his butt touched the bedding, it was as if his spine had been pulled out one by one.

After lying down for a while, the worker in the next bed came back from the shower and called him to take a shower.

"Thanks." Tan smiled lightly, and walked along to the worker with half a bottle of shower gel.

The shower room is also temporarily built.No rain showerheads and no slippery granite.Nylon cloth separates each narrow space that can only accommodate one person to turn around and squat down. A faucet is installed on the opposite wall with a rubber tube on it.The air smelled of cheap body wash, sweat and urine.

When Tan Qing came out of the shower, she saw a naked person sitting on a plastic stool, her short black hair was covered with foam, and she was rubbing it with a pair of small, white hands like a child.His back was facing Tan Qing, the skin on his back was very white, because his waist was arched, and the skin of the spine was clearly stretched, and there was a chilling feeling under the water flow.

"Is anyone there?" the man said suddenly.

Tan Qing didn't answer.

He stood up on his own, only for Tan Qing to see his thin outline clearly.A naked man with slender limbs, especially his legs, thin like an antelope, even his undeveloped genitals are thin.

He staggered and leaned on the wall, not knowing that someone was watching him. The blind man fumbled on the nylon wall like an elephant, as if he was fumbling for a towel on a hook.

He touched the towel, wiped off the water droplets accumulated on the eyelashes, and wiped his face again. When he opened his eyes, he saw a man standing outside the door frame looking at him, his eyes were faint, and the water droplets on his short black hair had not yet It was too late to be steamed dry by the heat.

This was the first time Cheng Sidu saw Tan Qing.

Cheng Sidu screamed "Ah", covered his lower body with a towel like a little girl, and then covered his bare chest with his thin arms indiscriminately. His face was pale and uncertain for a while before he seemed to realize that He was a man, so he breathed a sigh of relief.He stared at Tan Qing, and said fiercely, "What are you standing at the door looking at?"

"Sorry." Tan Qing's apology came quickly, "I'm passing by."

Cheng Sidu looked at him, wanted to say something to question him, but felt that it was unnecessary, so he shrank back into the cubicle again.

When he came out, Tan Qing had already left.

The moon came out at night, hanging dizzily in the sky, as if shaking.Cheng Sidu was holding a basin with a change of clothes and underwear in it, pulled on his slippers, lowered his head to identify the gravel path under the moonlight, and walked back to the small dilapidated bungalow.

The night in the suburbs is very quiet.

Cheng Sidu's younger sister was sitting on the wire bed, hugging a plush bear and watching a pirated DVD. He watched it with her. It was called Princess Thumb.Cheng's mother was applying nail polish next to the dressing table. When she heard him go upstairs, she didn't raise her head, "I'm back."

Cheng Sidu hugged his younger sister on his lap, watched cartoons with her, and asked casually, "Where's Dad?"

"I'm still paying downstairs. Pay the wages today." Cheng's mother put her slender fingers close to the old desk lamp, looked at it carefully, wrinkled her nose as if remembering something, and said with a little disgust: "A large group of men are gathered together, it stinks .”

Cheng Sidu didn't speak.

He looked down and saw his own two slender legs, like a girl's legs.The smelly man in Cheng's mother's eyes was fierce, muscular, and smelly, but he was indeed a real man.

Him, he was a little too skinny.

"Have you taken the medicine yet?" Mother Cheng asked again.

"Well, I've drank it." He is in poor health and has been drinking medicine all year round. It's a medicine jar.The medicine jars are either so thin that the sleeves are empty and can't hide two taels of meat, or they are puffy and pale, lying on the bed like a cocoon that can't hatch.

Cheng Sidu is thin.

When Tan Qing got up in the middle of the night, his coworkers asked him what he was doing, and he said he was peeing, so the two of them went together.

Finding a low bush, water was pouring, Tan Qing saw the lighted old small house not far away, "Is there someone living in this place?"

"The foreman's family lives there." The worker began to tie up his trouser belt. "It was originally a dilapidated house. The foreman loved his wife very much. He repaired the stairs and windows, and installed the air conditioner. Now their family, including a son and daughter, live in it." there."

Speaking of this, the worker smiled meaningfully, "Have you seen his son? It's about the same age as you, motherfucker."

Tan Qing didn't answer, "I'm fine, let's go."

Tan Qing saw Cheng Sidu again at noon two days later.

Tan Qing was assigned to the farthest construction site, and there was a little accident. When he came back, it was almost 12:30.

He got into the dining hall with a dirty and smelly body, and there was no one in the dining hall long ago.After the workers have eaten, those who are at noon are unwilling to work and must take a rest.He looked into the bucket, and there was still some spicy fried cabbage left, and some tofu left in the fish soup, but the rice was left to dry, and it had already rotted.

Tan Qing was serving rice with a spoon, when he heard someone coming in from behind, he subconsciously said: "There is no more food."

"Ah?...Oh." The boy's voice was very clear.

Tan Qing felt more and more smoke was coming from her throat and her lungs were on fire, and she couldn't speak clearly.

He turned his head and met Cheng Sidu's eyes.Cheng Sidu just came along the trail, and after 3 minutes in the sun, there was a faint sandy golden blush on his cheeks, he looked a little shy.

"It's you." Cheng Sidu blinked.

Tan Qing didn't plan to talk to him, and served the meal by herself.

Cheng Sidu didn't feel that Tan Qing was unwilling to talk to him, he subconsciously thought that he was just not very talkative.He leaned over and took a look, "Hey, this rice is spoiled."

Tan glanced at him lightly.

Cheng Sidu put the lunch box in his hand on the table, "My sister doesn't want to eat lunch today, she hasn't touched it, and the dishes are all clean, but it's in the air-conditioned room, it's a bit cold. If you don't mind..."

Tan Qing had no reason to eat bad food again, so she straddled the long bench with her long legs, said "Thank you", and bowed her head to start eating.

Cheng Sidu sat across from him with some familiarity, and said enthusiastically: "The canteen opens in the early half of the eleventh, and there will be no food after twelve o'clock. You should hurry up next time."

Tan Qingting nodded indifferently.

"How old are you?" Cheng Sidu seemed to be chattering.He looked at Tan Qing's face, he was quite handsome, with sharp and clear outlines, and there was a touch of velvet around his lips, he should be very young.

"Twenty." He randomly pulled out a number.

"Then you are a little older than me. My birthday is in August, and I am only nineteen."

Cheng Sidu looked at Tan Qing warmly, and smiled with a good temper, a familiar face, and a heartless smile.