The Science Fiction World of Xueba

Chapter 425 Going Further Away

Entering the coal yard, many workers are busy.

The coal wagon was parked on the track not far away.

Workers use iron shovels to shovel the coal onto the trolley, and then the cart workers push it up along a sloping board, and pour it into the gondola for coal.

When Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa entered the coal yard, no one paid any attention to them.

Pang Xuelin found a sign of "Linxiong County Railway Station Freight Management Committee" in the bungalow on the right side of the coal yard. The door of the bungalow was open, and there was an office inside. Read newspaper at desk.

Pang Xuelin knocked on the door.

The middle-aged man put down the newspaper, looked at Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa in shabby clothes, and said, "Who are you looking for?"

Pang Xuelin said: "Comrade, I heard that the coal yard is recruiting workers. Do you think we can do it?"

As he spoke, he took out a peony cigarette from his pocket and handed one to the middle-aged man.

"I don't smoke."

The middle-aged man waved his hands, looked at the brothers Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa, pondered for a moment, and said, "Are you two brothers?"

Pang Xuelin nodded.

"Wait a minute."

With that said, he came out of the house and called out to the workers working at the coal yard: "Captain Liu, Captain Liu..."

Soon, a thick and thick man trotted over and said, "Accountant Yang, are you looking for me?"

The middle-aged man said: "These two brothers want to work in the coal yard. Aren't you short of manpower? You can take them there to have a look, and if it's suitable, arrange a job for them."

"okay."

Captain Liu smiled, then he turned his head to Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa and said, "Come with me."

Pang Xuelin laughed, and hurriedly went up to take out a cigarette and handed it to Team Liu, saying, "Captain Liu, you smoke."

"Young man, where are you from?"

"We are from Wangji Town."

"Wang Jizhen? Oops,

Do you know Daxinfang? "

"I know, Daxinfang is not far from us, and we belong to Xiaoxinfang. Brother Liu, are you from Daxinfang?"

Liu Dui laughed and said, "My daughter-in-law is from Daxinfang, and she has to visit her husband and mother-in-law every year and holiday. For those of you who live in the village, let me make it clear to you that although the wages here are high, the work is not easy. Small arms and legs, if you can’t bear it and can’t keep up with our progress, then I can only let you go. By the way, how old are you.”

Pang Xuelin smiled and said: "Don't worry, brother Liu, don't look at me. I don't have a lot of flesh, but I have strength. Besides, I'm eighteen this year, and this is my brother, twenty."

Shui Wa, who was following Pang Xuelin, also nodded and said, "Yes, Liu...Liu team, we have strength."

Team Liu smiled and said, "Okay, then let's work together as a team, one shovels coal and the other pushes a cart."

"Okay, thank you Team Liu."

Pang Xuelin said with a smile.

He knew that Team Liu had good intentions. If they were rashly allowed to cooperate with other workers, if they were not as clever as others in their work, it would easily make others feel dissatisfied.

They work in teams of two, and work a little slower without anyone noticing.

Soon, the three came to the coal pile.

Team Liu said: "Everyone stop, two newcomers are here, by the way, what's your name?"

Pang Xuelin smiled and said, "Just call me Lin Wazi, this is my elder brother Shuiwa."

Liu Dui said: "Lin Wazi and Shui Wazi, the two brothers are not very old, everyone should take care of them when they are working."

"Don't worry, Team Liu, they are all from our own family."

"Lin Wazi, where are you from?"

"Brother, we are from Wangji Town, come and smoke."

Pang Xuelin stepped forward, took out peonies and gave them to everyone one by one, and soon became acquainted with the workers.

When a few workers saw that it was peony cigarettes, they put the cigarettes behind their ears and said with a smile: "Oh, Lin Wazi, you have a lot of skill, and you will share peony cigarettes when you come up."

Peony cigarettes are two yuan and four packs, and ordinary people at the bottom cannot afford to smoke them. On this high loess slope in the northwest, locals usually smoke Benma cigarettes produced by Tianshui Cigarette Factory for only a few cents a pack.

At this time, Team Liu said: "Okay, let's work, Lin Wazi, you and your brother went to get the empty shovel and wheelbarrow over there, let's start working, you can do whatever others do." Dry."

"okay."

Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa took the shovel and started working soon.

Pang Xuelin's body has undergone systematic transformation. Even if he travels to a new world and the system turns him into a sixteen-year-old boy, the various abilities endowed by the genetic optimizer have not disappeared.

Therefore, this kind of intensity of physical labor is completely drizzle for him.

And Shuiwazi is also full of strength.

The two quickly filled the wheelbarrow, Shui Wa snatched the wheelbarrow, pushed the wheelbarrow along the ramp to the top of the coal gondola, and unloaded a load of coal.

Only then did I return, and continued to shovel coal and load the truck with Pang Xuelin.

Pang Xuelin said that the two took turns pushing the cart, but Shuiwa was unwilling to do so.

There is no reason to ask my younger brother to work more.

Both of them were quick in their hands and feet, and with the fact that Shuiwa was willing to work hard, their loading speed was not much slower than those skilled workers.

Captain Liu, who had been observing the two of them not far away, couldn't help but secretly nodded, apparently satisfied with their work.

We worked until six o'clock in the evening, and the three wagons of coal were all loaded.

Captain Liu greeted everyone to eat.

Soon, the workers gathered together one by one and washed their faces around a faucet.

Shuiwa looked at the white water flowing out of the faucet, couldn't help but widen her eyes, and said in disbelief, "This...is this tap water?"

Before Pang Xuelin could speak, a worker who looked to be in his thirties smiled and said, "I haven't seen it before, this water is much sweeter than the water in the cellar."

Finally it was Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa's turn, and Shuiwa said: "Linwazi, go wash first."

"OK."

Pang Xuelin stepped forward to wash off the soot on his body, took a few sips of water with both hands, and then said loudly: "Excellent!"

During the time in Xiaoxinfang, Pang Xuelin almost vomited after drinking the water in the mud cellar every day.

After Pang Xuelin finished washing, Shuiwa went up and carefully took a few sips of water, savored it carefully, and said with a happy smile on her face, "Sweet."

Later, Shuiwa followed Pang Xuelin and the others to wash off the soot on their bodies.

Then it's dinner time.

Dinner is white flour steamed buns with cabbage tofu soup.

There are a lot of oil stars floating on the soup, and even one or two pieces of yellow oil residue can be seen.

Everyone lined up, each made a bowl of soup and two steamed buns, and then squatted in the corner and ate it.

Shui Wa gulped down the steamed buns while drinking the soup, with a happy smile on her face: "Lin Wazi, I'm sure you're right, life outside is so comfortable."

Pang Xuelin smiled and didn't say much.

After eating, Captain Liu knew that the two of them had no place to stay in the county, so he took them to the workers' dormitory.

Although it is said to be a dormitory, it is actually a Chase shop. At night, people grind their teeth when they sleep, and those who snore snore.

But it is not a problem for Shuiwa, his snoring is heavier than anyone else.

On the contrary, Pang Xuelin fell asleep peacefully in such an environment because he was used to Shuiwa's sleeping habits.

In the next month, Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa started working in the coal yard with peace of mind.

The salary of eight yuan per day is not high if it is placed in a coastal city, but it is considered a high salary in this small county located on the high slope of the loess in the northwest.

There are many people who can't bear such hardships. After working for a few days, they can't stand it and leave, and then come back when they have no money at hand.

On the contrary, the two brothers Shuiwa and Pang Xuelin, who looked thin and frail, did ten hours of unshakable high-intensity labor every day. For a month, they didn't complain of suffering or tiredness at all.

Even Captain Liu admired this.

When the wages were settled at the end of the month, Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa each received two hundred and forty yuan, adding up to a total of four hundred and eighty yuan.

Facing this huge sum of money, Shui Wa was a little confused.

Pang Xuelin remained the same, he found Team Liu and said, "Brother Liu, I would like to ask for two days off."

"What's wrong?"

Team Liu looked at Pang Xuelin in puzzlement.

Brothers Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa are the main force of the team, and they can stand up to three or even four. If Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa want to leave, Team Liu is really reluctant.

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "My uncle's family has always used mud pits to store water, and the water tends to be sour and smelly. We have made money this time, and we are going to buy a few bags of cement to go back and build the original mud cellar into a cement cellar. If we store water like this Much better."

Team Liu said: "Okay, then I'll give you five days, remember to come back after five days."

"Okay, sure."

Pang Xuelin laughed.

Coming out of the coal yard, looking at the still bustling streets of the county town, Shuiwa felt as if she had been a lifetime away.

A month ago, when she first came to the county seat, with twenty yuan in her pocket, she was at a loss when she saw the dazzling array of goods on the commercial street in the county seat.

A month later, when he saw all this again, his whole waist straightened a lot.

Don't panic if you have money in your hand.

But soon, Shuiwa became wilted and said, "Lin Wazi, where are we going?"

Pang Xuelin smiled and said, "Let's eat first, brother Shuiwa, today I treat you to beef noodles."

The local beef noodles are delicious. When Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa first came to the county last time, they drool for a long time when they smelled the aroma.

It's a pity, seeing the price of 10,000 beef noodles at two yuan, neither of them stepped into the shop.

Soon, Pang Xuelin brought Shuiwa to a beef noodle restaurant. After two large bowls of beef noodles came, he added spicy peppers and vinegar, sweating profusely.

After eating and drinking enough, Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa went to buy five catties of pork belly, two catties of white sugar, one catty of brown sugar, two catties of dried red dates and one catty of white fungus.

Afterwards, the two hurried all the way, and finally arrived home before dark.

Seeing Lin Wazi and Shui Wazi returning home with a full load, the third uncle and the third aunt were dumbfounded.

The third uncle said: "Shuiwa, you and Linwazi didn't do anything bad, did they?"

Shui Wa smiled and said, "Father, you can rest assured, these are all obtained by Lin Wazi and me with hard work."

Then, after Shuiwa took the two of them to the county seat, how did Pang Xuelin find the owner of the canteen to buy cigarettes, find out where there was work, and how did he find the coal yard of the railway station, establish a good relationship with the people inside, and then did it for a month. Come on.

The third uncle was almost dumbfounded, he never thought that Lin Wazi, who had just turned sixteen, would be so grand outside.

In the end, when Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa each took out 200 yuan and put it in front of the third uncle and the third aunt, the third uncle's eyes turned red.

After a long time, he finally said: "Lin Wazi, I have accepted Shuiwa's money, but your money...uncle can't take it."

"Uncle, this is my honor to you and your aunt."

Pang Xuelin laughed.

The third uncle said: "Lin Wazi, your parents left early, these years have not been easy, you have to save the money, and use it when you marry a wife in the future."

Pang Xuelin was silent for a moment, knelt down, and said: "Third Uncle, Third Aunt, if you hadn't taken me in all these years, I might have died long ago. The kindness of nurturing is hard to repay, and you don't even give me a chance to show my filial piety." me?"

"Lin Wazi, what are you doing, get up quickly."

The third aunt wiped the corners of her eyes, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Pang Xuelin up.

Afterwards, the third aunt turned her eyes to the third uncle and said, "His father, you see Lin Wazi is also very filial, so let's take it for now, and let's save the money for him to marry a wife later."

The third uncle pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "Well, Lin Wazi, this money will be kept by Uncle Lin for you first."

Pang Xuelin nodded, feeling his nose a little sour.

Early the next morning, Pang Xuelin, his third uncle and Shui Wa went to the town to buy cement, and went to the brick factory to order red bricks.

In the next few days, the family worked together and quickly built a brand new cement water cellar.

Only then did Pang Xuelin and Shuiwa feel relieved, and they returned to the county together to continue working under Team Liu.

By the time of the new year, the two hundred yuan that the two had given to their third uncle and three aunts had saved six hundred yuan each.

During the Chinese New Year, Pang Xuelin and Shui Wa brought back a large number of new year's goods, and the family had a good year.

On the seventh day of the lunar new year, Pang Xuelin found his third uncle and said, "Uncle, Brother Shuiwa and I are going to go out in two days."

The third uncle smiled and nodded and said: "Success, this time I will go out to earn money in the coal yard, and try to build a big yard in the next year. Then you and Shuiwa will share a room. After two years, when you marry a wife, maybe Your third aunt and I will soon be able to hold a grandson."

Pang Xuelin pondered for a moment, then said, "Uncle, Brother Shuiwa and I are not going to work in the coal yard anymore."

"Not going to work in the coal yard? Why? Isn't that a good job?"

The third uncle was a little surprised.

Pang Xuelin laughed, and said: "Uncle, I want to go to the south with Brother Shuiwa. It's not a problem to stay in this small county all the time. Besides, eight yuan a day is considered a job in the coal yard here. The salary is high, but in the southern coastal cities, this amount of money is nothing at all."

The third uncle was silent for a while, then nodded and said: "That's it, be careful on the road, and when the place is settled down, remember to write a letter to the family."

"Uncle, you agreed?"

Pang Xuelin couldn't help being taken aback, he had prepared a lot of excuses to deal with the third uncle.

The third uncle glared at him and said, "Lin Wazi, uncle knows that you have a smart head and a high spirit. Even if I stop you now, I can't stop you forever. But I hope you remember one sentence, when you go out, try to be kind to others." , don’t be afraid of trouble, don’t cause trouble, and finally, take good care of you Shui Wa brother.”

As he spoke, third uncle's eyes turned red.

Pang Xuelin nodded solemnly, and said, "Don't worry, third uncle, I will never let anyone bully Brother Shuiwa."

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