"Master Chen slows down a little bit, don't be distracted by the leaning on both sides, stay alert..."

Master Chen is the excavator left behind, and the other one has been transferred to the family yard of the retreat.

After staring for a long time, Xiao Qi went to paint the exterior wall and looked at it. Boss Li and the others became more proficient. It is estimated that the exterior wall renovation work that was prepared in about two days will come to an end.

"Xiaoqi, I heard that your mother-in-law came here? This is the pear I bought in the morning, but it is sweet. After I wash it, you can take it to your mother-in-law to eat."

"Xiaoqi, are you here? I took a bag of grapes from the country and I specially left a bag for you. There is a seam on the wall at the door of my house. Can you help me get it?"

Xiao Qi reached out and took the grapes and looked at them, "Oh, these grapes are quite big, Sister Fang, is it convenient for your relatives in the country to get the roots of grapes? I will plant them for my grandfather's house."

Sister Fang smiled and nodded, Xiao Qi turned and yelled at Old Li not far away, "Brother Li, take a bucket of mortar to make up the wall for Sister Fang's house in a moment!"

Sister Fang suddenly became more and more diligent, pulling Xiao Qi to fill him with a bag of salt garlic pickled by the family's mother-in-law.

Anyway, it only takes ten to twenty minutes to do these things, and the materials used are still given by the boss.

The internal wall problems are not in their control, but a little patching can get the residents of the community to treat them more friendly and cooperate when necessary. Xiao Qi shook a few bags and walked to the ditch.

Hmm, I can get some gifts, which is great.

"Rabbit, eat some grapes, washed."

Xiao Qi put the bag on the stone table next to Ning Qian, took out the bag with grapes and handed it to Ning Qian.

Ning Qian was sitting in a small open-air garden with stone benches and tables not far from the ditch. Of course, it was a garden. In fact, the courtyard of the electric manufacturer was just like before. Even the green belts were circled as vegetable plots. Grass and trees, no flowers.

Ning Qian was sitting a little bored, although she said she wanted to follow Xiao Qi, but Xiao Qi was as busy as a top when she went to the construction site, and in some places she was not suitable to follow.

Seeing that Xiao Qi didn't know where to go, and when he came back carrying so many things, Ning Qian smiled, "Where did it come from? There are fruit trees in this community?"

That's definitely not there. If there are, they can be screwed by people when they are basically young and astringent.

"It's boring if someone else gave it? Would you like me to send you back later?"

Xiao Qi turned his head and looked at the situation not far away. He stood by without sitting down, and was busy talking to Ning Qian.

Ning Qian shook her head, first peeled a grape, stretched her arm and stuffed it into Xiao Qi's mouth, "No, it's past five o'clock, and you will be off work in two hours, right?"

Ning Qian had enough patience if there was nothing else. It was boring, but she didn't want to wait any longer.

Moreover, Ning Qian also saw how busy and tired Xiao Qi was. Although he had to do everything by himself compared to before, she was physically and mentally exhausted.

Considering that Xiao Qi made money like this, Ning Qian can also understand Xiao Qi's frugality in life.

"I'll just bring two books next time I come."

Ning Qian finished stuffing grapes, plucked another one and peeled it for herself.

Xiao Qi chewed on the grapes and smiled openly. He was getting more and more slimy, and he was so inseparable from him, right?

"Ah, okay, then I'll go ahead and buy something delicious for you later."

It's not a child, and it can be coaxed with something delicious.

Ning Qian grabbed Xiao Qi's arm, and took the time to stuff him with a grape, "Don't worry about me, you are busy with you."

I don't care about it, but Xiao Qi still has to turn his head to look at Ning Qian from time to time, making the workers laugh at Xiao Qi.

"It's different for the boss to marry a wife. I don't want to let it go on the construction site, so I have to bring it over."

"When you first got married, which man was unfamiliar with a woman? But boss, did you have a pain in your neck?"

"Go, go, my wife is good-looking, of course you have to look more, you know what a fart!"

Xiao Qi went back openly, causing a burst of laughter from the workers.

This group of men who are not bachelors are better than bachelors. They can only go home for the Chinese New Year for many years, and they will be scared of their wives. They still worry about the family for a year or two. After waiting for a few years, they are used to it. , The men outside are also used to moving and wandering from one construction site to another. They also work daily to make money and occasionally make a phone call to send money back.

Xiao Qi doesn't comment on other people's lives or lives. Anyway, even if he is begging for food, he must tie the rabbit to the belt of his pants and take it away.

Because that is his net worth, leaving it to the elderly and children to use and consume himself instead of using it. What is it called?

It won’t take a few days to put down the sewer pipes in the courtyard of the electric manufacturer. It is estimated that it will take two days to discard the old sewer pipes and switch to the new pipe network.

Xiao Qi still didn't let Ning Qian wait too long. He checked the progress of the work. Xiao Qi asked Lao Wang to pay more attention to him. He went out of the safety net and took Ning Qian away in advance.

Even if there are excavators, workers and equipment work in a seven- to eight-meter-wide safety net before the ditch is backfilled. After the pipeline is buried, the road is initially repaired and the safety net is completely removed.

"Let's go to the family retreat and take a round trip and then go home. Are you hungry? Do you want to drink water or eat something?"

Xiao Qi tried to find a convenient store or snack bar that was convenient for parking. Ning Qian put Xiao Qi's arm in her hand and shook her head.

Xiao Qi glanced at the bag at Ning Qian’s feet. There were indeed not many grapes in the bag. He made sure that Ning Qian hadn’t lied, so he didn’t waste time looking for the store. "

This time Xiao Qi asked Ning Qian to wait for him in the car, and from the back seat of the car, he took a small exquisite handbag with wedding candy left over from yesterday's wedding.

Ning Qian thought that Xiao Qi was given to the workers at the construction site, and didn't think too much about it, waiting in the car obediently.

When Xiao Qi passed by the security room, he stood for a while, handed a few packets of wedding candy from his handbag to the security guard inside, and then pointed to the car not far away and looked at him.

Although Furong City was safe enough for the frontier where Xiao Qi had stayed, but who knew exactly when something would happen.

"Congratulations, Master Xiao, don't worry, let's stare."

The security eldest smiled honestly, and he seemed to have some friendship with Xiao Qi, and Xiao Qi also said that he would come out in a while, and it wouldn't take long for them to help pay attention to the people in the car, by the way.

Xiao Qi entered the community and didn't rush to see the progress of the construction site. Instead, he walked to a first-floor security door and knocked on the door. Guo Yuan, who knocked on the door acoustically, was polite.

The one who opened the door was an old man with gray hair wearing rimless glasses. He opened the door and saw Xiao Qi. He immediately raised his hand and took off his glasses and raised his chin slightly. "It's you, why, what do you want to do when you come?"

When speaking, he unconsciously took the posture of reprimanding his subordinates. The old man’s eyebrows were so deep that he had been chiseled by a chisel with an iron hammer. The lines on both sides of his lips were drooping. An uncomfortable temper.

Xiao Qi smiled, and raised his right hand slightly to indicate the handbag with Double Happiness on his hand, "Old leader, I went back to get married yesterday, and I brought you some wedding candy today. The brother on the security side has already sent it. After thinking about it, you can be regarded as the teacher who taught me a meal, so I brought you some."

This old man was the old leader who caught Xiao Qi and scolded Xiao Qi when he digged the pipe last time, so Xiao Qicai said so.

The full name of this community is the family hospital of the Ministry of Railways' cadre rest house, and most of the people who live now are leaders of cadres who have retired from the Ministry of Railways.

Although Xiao Qi had fancy this point when he delineated the community, Xiao Qi, who had experience, was not flabbergasted. He didn't get in and aimed at someone who did what he wanted to do.

Hugging your thighs When you have the opportunity to hug, you should naturally seize the opportunity, but when you can't find an opportunity, you should be patient and lurking.

After all, these people are all old foxes. They experienced a lot when they were young, and they also managed people under their hands. Regardless of their personalities, those who have been leaders will look good when encountering things, and those who are habitual will think more.

Sometimes it is more wrong to do too much. It is better to say less and do less, and hug your thighs if they are destined.

Xiao Qi's knowledge of this old man was limited to those he knew when chatting with the security guard occasionally.

The old man's surname is Xiao, which is a different word with the same pronunciation as Xiao Qi. Before he retired, he was from the Ministry of Railways. When he was young, he was a technician of the survey team and followed the railway repairing troops across the country.

Later in 1973, in order to keep his only son in the city, the old man Xiao, who was only in his forties, vacated his post and asked his son to take up the job.

As a result, the road construction team dug a tunnel in the southern province of H province that year. Unexplained explosive gas was dug. The entire tunnel was blown up. Old man Xiao’s son was directly melted by the high temperature, but he was finally rescued but failed to survive. ,Gone.

Old man Xiao's wife was so angry that he immediately followed, so only Old Man Xiao was left.

People have to eat and drink Lhasa while they are alive. The unit re-employed Old Man Xiao. It is estimated that there is still some mentality to make up for him.

Without the family, the work unit is no different from the home. Old man Xiao devoted himself to the work unit. In Xiao Qi's view, although he changed him, he would certainly not do that, but he would be great for great people. Xiao Qi still admired the matter.

Old man Xiao looked down at the bag in Xiao Qi's hand. He painted a pair of big-headed men and women in traditional Chinese wedding dresses, with red double happiness printed in the middle of their heads.

Old Man Xiao was silent and didn't have the same eyes, nose, or nose, but stared at the bag in a daze.

Xiao Qi didn't wait stupidly. He directly reached out and hung the bag on the hook nailed on the inner wall of the door frame. "If you can't bite the candy, I will slowly sweeten my mouth. I'll go first."

Turned around and took two steps with his trouser pockets in his pockets, Xiao Qi thought for a while, then frowned and turned to look at Old Man Xiao, "I said the leader, if you are bored, go to my construction site and take a look at them. First, they helped me supervise their work, and second, they can learn more. Don't worry, I said hello to them, and they don't dare to beat you up even if your saliva is sprayed on their faces."

This remark finally caused Old Man Xiao to react a little. He raised his drooping eyelids and glanced at Xiao Qi silently.

Xiao Qi wasn't angry either, anyway, he didn't throw the wedding candy out and it was pretty good.

The old man Xiao, who closed the door, looked up again at the strangely painted pair of newcomers in front of the hook on the handbag. He didn't know what the painting was like at the moment. His head is so big and his eyes are round and he hasn't been on Xiaojun yet. I painted well at the kindergarten.

Xiaojun said at that time that he didn't want to be a surveyor in his unit, but he wanted to go to the countryside to see how farmers live on the land, and he also said that he wanted to bring a drawing board to the countryside...

Old man Xiao's muddy eyes filled the wrinkles and gullies of his face with warm tears, as if he had drawn a map on his face.

Not to mention, this little man painted a bit strangely in ancient times, but look at the celebration.

When young people get married these days, they all use such bags to hold wedding candy?

How much candies are needed? If Xiaojun used this bag to hold candies when he got married, he would have to save money and exchange tickets with the people in the unit to buy them.

Xiao Qi sent the sugar out, regardless of the subsequent development, and turned to the side where the workers and the excavator were working.

The sewer ditch here is estimated to be able to be taken down after two and a half days of working with an excavator. When Xiong Laosi has finished off the pipe from the power plant’s affiliated hospital, it will be connected in time.

If you have already done the first-hand work and continue to do it in another place, it is easy and familiar, and it will also make Xiao Qi less energy to stare here.

It is Lao Lai, Lao Gun, the monkey Lao Zhang and the four who are leveling the ditch here, and there are four old people in the hands of Xiao Qi on each side of the two communities. In two days, Zhang Fugui will give him Chen Dawu and the four of them. After that, Xiao Qi had more than ten workers in his hands.

As far as a wild construction team is concerned, it can be considered medium-sized, and when Xiao Qi gets a job in the future, he will be able to look generously at larger jobs.

"Boss, I'm going to take a vacation to the frontier tomorrow, and I was thinking about calling you later to talk about this."

The old stick standing in the ditch shoveling dirt raised his shovel and threw his head up and saw Xiao Qi standing on the side instructing the monkey to move the pile of dirt farther, and quickly wiped his face and said with his throat. Screamed.

Xiao Qi was shocked, and squatted directly on the edge to talk to the old gun, "Why are you going to the frontier suddenly? What happened?"

Old Gun'er had no relatives either. When he was a child, his father died with his mother and went to his stepdad’s place. After a while, his mother fell ill and disappeared. So the old stick was thrown out.

Some villages are simple and honest, but others are bad. This is why there is a saying that one side is nurturing one person. It happens that the old stick does not have that luck. There are people in the village who steal chickens and dogs, sell yin, kill people and set fires, but they are unintentionally kind. To be willing to feed the old stick.

The old gun was taken away by an unnamed old man who was begging for food in their village. The beggar had to grow up a little bit when he was fourteen or five years old. Only then can he come out and find something to do. Fill the belly with money.

It can be said that when Lao Gun'er grew up like this, he didn't even follow the path of stealing chickens and dogs, killing people and arson.

The old gun sighed with a pestle on the handle of the shovel, "It's a brother I met in the frontier a few years ago. He is fat and has asthma. He took a nap while working on the construction site the other day. I can't get up even after sleeping."

No one can say exactly how it was missing, because people didn't have any signs before, and ate a large pot of bibimbap in a stainless steel pot at noon that day.

"Back when I was there, he took good care of me, let me live in his rented house, and also covered my food. Now that others are gone and burned to ashes, the only eldest brother in my hometown is unwilling to go when he receives a call from the contractor. Take him back to his hometown for burial, and the contractor contacted me."

Since Lao Lai got the old mobile phone that Xiao Qi gave before, Lao Guner and the others have used that number to contact friends and family.

The old gun had also contacted this friend before, and he also discussed that his friend would also come and follow him, who is now a contractor, who knows that in a few days, this person will be gone.

Speaking of this, the old gun couldn't help but sighed again. It's not enough to say that it's hard to hurt your heart. Old Gun'er has a more Buddha-natured nature.

His friend just went underground in advance, anyway, he will go down after a few years, and there will be a time to meet again.

The old gun is because he thought of himself, and then of his friend’s eldest brother, the foreman in the frontier was willing to buy him round-trip air tickets, but the eldest brother knew that the brother had no savings in the frontier, and the foreman would not lose money. , So I said that my hometown is still busy plowing the land and can't walk away.

The contractor was angry and asked him what to do with his ashes. The eldest brother could directly say what he wanted to do, and the contractor was so angry that the contractor scolded, "I'm not as good as a pig or dog."

So, sometimes it's useless to have a brother by blood, and the old gun doesn't know who else will handle his funeral after his death.

Don't ask for burial or burial, but at least someone is willing to throw the burned ashes into the earthy river to finish the work, right?

Xiao Qi was silent for a while and didn't say anything. He stood up and took out his trouser pocket and took out two hundred yuan. "Okay, I don't have much money with me. You take this money and spend it on the road."

The old gun shook his head and waved his hand and stepped back, "No need, boss, the contractor over there said that I will cover all the expenses for me back and forth."

Xiao Qi sighed, "Do you have to pay for peeing in a place outside, and you have to be reimbursed for that money? Don't worry, it's an advance payment."

The old gun reached out and took it, "Thank you, boss, my brother and I will remember your love today."

Xiao Qi smiled and waved his hand, but he didn't want a dead person to remember him.

The author has something to say: Xiao Qi: If I don't have the ability to make money to support my family and have to go to work, pick up **** and put my wife into a stand beside me and help me carry bags.

Ning Qian: ...Huh?

Xiao Qi: Uh...hey, look at you, man and me. Even if you go to the sea to be a duck, you can definitely make money to support your family. I'm just a metaphor for being infertile!

Ning Qian: ...then you should pick up the trash

PS: In this chapter, the explosion of tunnel excavation and the death of the contractor packs round-trip air tickets, but the eldest brother of the person concerned is still unwilling to delay farming to collect the ashes. These two things are true.