Reborn to Strive

People these days go to bed early and get up early. Shi Zhen starts work at 07:30 in the morning, then works until 04:30 for lunch, continues at [-]:[-] and finishes work at [-]:[-] in the afternoon.

It takes eight hours to work together, but it is impossible for Iron Man to work all the time. It is 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. Usually, I eat steamed buns. Yesterday I ate buns stuffed with pickled vegetables and dried tofu.

Yesterday was Shi Zhen's first day at work, and he wasn't very familiar with everyone, but today he became familiar with everyone around him.

He has been in the business field, and it is not difficult for him to make people feel good about him.

After getting acquainted, everyone chatted in different places, and some people asked where Shi Zhen's family was, and why he came out to do small jobs at such a young age.

Small workers are tiring jobs, and the locals in J city are generally reluctant to let their children come out to do hard work at a young age.

Shi Zhendao: "My home is quite far away, so I'm not here. I came here to find my cousin... As for working as a small worker, I can't find another job."

He was talking, but the work on his hands didn't stop.

The person who was chatting with him took a cigarette out of his pocket and took a rest 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 is there to be reluctant about?"

"That's why you should work harder so that you can make money and marry a wife." The man sighed.

This man was in his 40s, and he was used to suffering. He didn't even have enough to eat before. Now he talks to Shi Zhen like this because his child is about the same age as Shi Zhen.

Seeing Shi Zhen working hard, he talked about something else: "The days are getting better and better. I almost starved to death before. Who would have thought that now I can not only eat all I can, but also eat meat from time to time."

The dishes on their construction site will more or less put some fat in order to prevent them from being exhausted.

Shi Zhen took advantage of the opportunity to chat with him, and learned about Anshan Town at this time by the way.

Although he still remembered some things at this time, but the specific situation still needs to be communicated with others to understand.

In this day and age, some things that can be produced industrially so that they 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 it is also worthy of being a place where private enterprises are developed. Everyone wants to do business .

The dish for lunch today is pork blood tofu soup.

The pork blood tofu soup is hot, with a thick layer of lard and green onion floating on it, as well as lard residue from boiled lard.

Shi Zhen ate half a bowl, and planned to take the rest back to Guan Baiyu.

"Old Wang, what do you have for afternoon snack?" The 40-year-old worker who was chatting with Shi Zhen before asked the little leader who was in charge of them.

The person who took Shi Zhen to work as a laborer was Wang Chengfa, who saw that Shi Zhen "offered" five yuan a day, and when he heard this person's questioning, he said, "I'll go buy some pancakes later."

Guoci is a local snack. Glutinous rice flour is mixed with water to make a paste. It is made by sticking a circle on a large hot iron pan and drying. It can be eaten directly or soaked in hot water.

When new guests come here, the host will definitely make a bowl of brown sugar pot rice.

"No matter how full that thing is, can I give instant noodles?" Someone asked: "Before, some of them went to work as small workers, and they gave each person a pack of instant noodles for afternoon snacks!"

"It's a good idea, some places don't even care about food and don't give snacks!" Wang Chengfa said, Guozi is very cheap, but instant noodles are not cheap!

In the afternoon, he only bought a big bag of Guoci, and spent a few cents to buy boiled water from a nearby place selling boiled water. He asked everyone to take out the cups they brought, brewed a bowl for each of them, and put it away. Some saccharine.

Saccharin is a kind of sugar substitute. It is not sugar, but as long as it is put in a little bit, it will be very sweet.

Shi Zhen didn't want saccharin, which has long since disappeared in later generations, but everyone else wanted it. Some people wanted something sweeter, so they added more saccharin, but it tasted bitter, but 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 from soaking in too much water. He tried to dry them, but the toes were almost numb due to the cold.

"Uncle Wang, how much is a pack of instant noodles?" Shi Zhen asked Wang Chengfa.

He remembered that when Shi Xinghuo first came to J City in his previous life, he 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.

And Guan Baiyu.

Guan Baiyu grew up with his grandma, an old lady in the countryside at the age of his grandma, who would like to spend two pennies, Guan Baiyu must have no chance to eat instant noodles.

Wang Chengfa said, "Seventy cents a pack."

This price is very high compared to the income at this time, but after Shi Zhen left work, he still bought two packs.

It was only after I bought it that I realized that there was only one seasoning packet in the seventy cents a pack of instant noodles.

Going home at night, Shi Zhen gave Shi Xinghuo a pack, and took the rest of the pack, and half a cup of pork blood tofu soup left at noon, to Guan Baiyu's place.

He got off work early, and when Guan Baiyu came back, before cooking, Shi Zhen asked him if he wanted instant noodles.

Guan Baiyu was stunned for a moment before saying: "No, I will eat next time."

After a while, he whispered again: "I haven't eaten instant noodles yet."

When the 15-year-old boy said this, he felt a little embarrassed, and then smiled at Shi Zhen after he finished speaking.

Shi Zhen's heart was full, and he couldn't tell what it was like.

Guan Baiyu's appearance is very obedient, but now he smiles, showing two small canine teeth, which is even more indescribably cute.

If Guan Baiyu could have a child, he and Guan Baiyu's child would have grown up already.

Shi Zhen said, "I'll light a fire for you."

Guan Baiyu did not refuse: "Okay."

Shi Zhen lit the fire, and Guan Baiyu put water and rice in the pot, and when he saw that there were any straw stalks in the rice, he took them out and put them aside.

When it was over, he steamed another bowl of pickles on the wok without putting any oil.

When his grandma was around, he was actually doing well, even...he didn't feel any difference between him and the people around him.

Everyone was poor then.

But two years ago, when his grandmother passed away, and the people around him gradually became richer, everything changed.

It's not that his adoptive parents don't completely ignore him. He still pays the tuition fee of more than 200 yuan a semester, but there is nothing else, and he is too embarrassed to ask them for money.

Salt is cheap, so he can't afford it, but oil and the like are gone.

Others can use their own rapeseed to go to the oil workshop to change the oil, but where does he get the rapeseed?

He didn't expect that suddenly a...cousin would appear.

Guan Baiyu looked at Shi Zhen, paused and then called out: "Brother, thank you."

Shi Zhen was taken aback.

He remembered that Guan Baiyu had a cold temper and didn't like to approach people, so he always thought that it would take several days before Guan Baiyu would accept him.

It turned out that it was only the third day, and Guan Baiyu called "Brother"?

"You recognize me?" Shi Zhen asked.

Guan Baiyu was puzzled - this was his cousin, how could he deny it?

Shi Zhen was thinking about Xu Tuzhi, and gradually got acquainted with Guan Baiyu, but now Guan Baiyu called brother... There are some things that can be done quickly.

Shi Zhendao: "If you recognize me, just be willing to call me brother. Don't worry, I will take care of you in the future! How about this, I will buy a la carte from tomorrow, come to your place for dinner, let you eat better!"

He had planned this for a long time. If he buys some food and fires at Guan Baiyu's side, the meals of the three of them will be improved.