Foolish Man

Ning Qian's younger sister seized the opportunity there to try to correct her sister's love concept. After leaving school in the morning, Xiao Qi went straight to Xicheng District, where most of the construction sites are located.

Although Furong City is already a big city, construction has been underway since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, but in big cities, development is not only economic, but also city planning. Construction will definitely never be finished. Unless the economy is in a downturn, there is really no way to do it.

It's not that Xiao Qi can't find a waiter who can cover food and accommodation, a dishwasher, a hair salon, an apprentice, and the like, but he doesn't want to simply live.

Others make money and get rich in order to enjoy the material life of abundance. Xiao Qi just likes to eat porridge and steamed buns, which is a kind of spiritual enjoyment and satisfaction.

In 2002, it can be said that the construction industry is the best time to make a fortune. At this time, Xiao Qi was just a twelve-year-old baby who just came out of the village and came out of the village to work.

People would take care of him at most at the beginning of the month so that he could help in the canteen on the construction site to help out and eat. After all, life is not easy for everyone, and it is kind enough not to cheat others.

Xiao Qi can be said to be very familiar with this environment, even if he has lived a rich life for more than ten years, these memory experiences are still not unfamiliar.

Xiao Qi went to a construction site with a shed mixer buzzing, standing there looking up and watching the crane slab transporting bricks and concrete up and down, a worker turned his head to look at him curiously, Xiao Qi rushed to the people in a daze. laugh.

Soon a middle-aged man wearing a red hat came over from a short distance, patted the gray on his body and looked up and down Xiao Qi, "Young man, this is not the place where you should be. It depends on your weak literary skills, so it's better to go. Look elsewhere."

Today Xiao Qi is still thin and thin, and the flesh on his cheeks is sunken.

Xiao Qi smiled, put down the blanket he was carrying, raised his hand to take out a pack of cigarettes from his jacket and purse, and handed a cigarette to the red hat with his hands and feet proficiently, "Boss, don't look at me thin, but I am authentic. Dao's farmers come out of the village, and they can't finish without anything else."

Xiao Qi doesn't smoke himself, not because he hates the smell of cigarettes, but because he feels a waste of money. What's more, this thing is easily addictive, so in the past Xiao Qi would only smoke one when someone passed him a cigarette.

But he can do whatever he wants. Now he is poor and white. He has to go to the camp and hand over cigarettes to the big brothers from time to time. So before, he went to the roadside stall to buy a pack of cigarettes at a reasonable price.

It's like handing cigarettes in this ordinary time. It doesn't require how good the cigarettes are. The most important thing is that the posture must be full.

The red hat snorted noncommitantly, watching Xiao Qi's meeting, reached out and took the cigarette, "You don't look like you are basking in the sun, don't fool me."

After being demolished, Xiao Qi did not dare, "It was true that I did not do this before, but I used to be a surveyor on the frontier. I came back for more than half a year when something happened. When I got down, I just thought not to be too far away from home, do I come out to find a job to earn money to support the family?"

Looking at Xiao Qi's temperament and the look in his eyes, the red hat really believed it a bit.

Some people were white quickly, and "Xiao Qi" was originally not the person who was qualified to live a spoiled life. He was white, but he could not grow a thin skin and tender flesh. Looking at it, he really told Xiao Qi. The words are right.

Lying and talking nonsense is just as normal for Xiao Qi as eating and drinking water. Even if the polygraph comes in, it will definitely not detect the problem.

The red hat nodded, "Since you are a construction worker, then you will stay and work with your replacement to smooth out the concrete."

The so-called "leveling" is to measure the position of the floor slab of each floor at several horizontal points when the high-rise model is used to make the concrete structure, and then bounce the line to facilitate the later operation of the worker according to the ink line.

This is a job that tests the construction workers’ measurement skills. The Red Hat also looks at Xiao Qi when he talks about measurement with confidence. If he can find a construction worker who is unfamiliar with this place to help him do this, the salary can be reduced. He can also form a good bond, and if he does any more work in the future, he won't worry about not finding a skilled worker in this area.

Nowadays there are a lot of people working on construction sites in Furong City, but not many who know the skills. If the roads or community roads can find a half-filled water to work together, but they dare not dare to contract high-rise buildings. careless.

The red hat is named Zhang Fugui, and he also came from the village. In the first two years, he successfully changed from a migrant worker to a contractor. After two years of work, he has also gone from a small job at the beginning to now being able to work alone. Include the civil construction process of a few units.

As soon as this kind of work comes out, if one or two buildings can be undertaken, it will be able to do one or two years. If the workers have stable jobs to do them, it is easy to recruit workers. The more workers he can do, the more jobs he can do. Basically, you can earn hundreds of thousands after finishing the work.

Xiao Qi didn't persuade him, thanked Boss Zhang with a smile, and the workers called by Zhang Fugui went to the work shed to put their luggage first.

Xiao Qi didn't have anything valuable in his luggage, and even his clothes were in tatters. He threw the bag and the bedding on the long wooden board, and went out again without worry.

"Little brother, where are you? It looks like a book, Waha."

"Brother, I'm from China City, my province. I used to work in the frontier area. I only returned to my hometown for half a year. I'm going to find a job in my hometown and take care of it."

"It's such a rationale, it must be hei's good to be able to do it in my hometown."

"Brother, are you from Yunnan?"

Xiao Qi chatted with the middle-aged man who led the way casually, and while revealing his information to make people feel that he and them were the same, psychologically he first distanced himself, and he was also learning about the migrant worker team.

The work shed is a real shed. Today, there is no regulation of the accommodation conditions on the construction site by the leaders a decade later. In the future, workers working on the construction site will still be able to live in temporary mobile benzene board houses.

Now? The contractor organized the workers under his own hands and randomly found a corner on the construction site that was far away from the construction floor, leveled the ground a little bit, and used wooden boards to randomly take nails to create a shed.

When it rains and you find a leaking corner, you can temporarily climb up to patch it with wooden boards. A curtain is directly hung at the door, and the bed inside is padded with bricks and covered with long and wide wooden boards on both sides. As soon as the shop slid over, it was like the Northeast Dachang Kang, and the workers spread their own bedding next to each other, one berth per person.

Xiao Qi came late, and the quilt was just next to the door. Some clutter was pushed aside and put away temporarily. After a while, everyone went back to the shed to pick up their own things and claim their own bed. Give it out.

At the beginning of a project, as Party A who has contracted out the entire project, it needs to achieve the basic "three connections and one leveling", that is, access to electricity and water.

The last is the basic leveling of the entire site. The leveling includes that there are no obstacles on the construction site, and the transplantation and felling of trees and the like within the construction area is completed.

And on this basis, the civil construction of the initial entry needs to be careful and accurate in the measurement of the horizontal line, otherwise it will also affect the subsequent processes.

Of course, if the post-process is not allowed to continue, the contractor responsible for civil construction must be approved. Rework and rework are trivial matters. If it is serious, you will even be asked for compensation and then be kicked out of the project.

This circle is big and big, but small is also small. If someone makes a big mistake, the big boss behind the double bag will definitely not dare to use this person.

Losing money is second, mainly because of delays in the construction period. Those things placed on the construction site for an extra day are all money, and even the big boss of the trench can't withstand such a toss.

Zhang Fugui was so confident that Xiao Qi was so confident in this area that he accepted Xiao Qi so easily. Otherwise, ordinary contracting bosses would not easily use outsiders, let alone Xiao Qi proactively approach the door.

Furong City is an inland city. If there are a lot of temporary workers on the frontier construction sites, they don’t like to use temporary workers. Temporary workers all have to pay for them, and if you work for a few days, you will have to pester you. Get paid, or you won’t work all day long to haunt you.

For single-package bosses like Zhang Fugui and others who contract labor, they all rely on their own money to pay for the workers in the early stage. The contractor was going to pester the big boss for money with a bald head.

Therefore, it is like meeting temporary workers who have to pay for a few days, and it is the most troublesome for bosses like Zhang Fugui. In the end, they would rather get more people from their hometown than ask for temporary workers outside.

After all, the labor money that my hometown brings can be delayed for a while, and it can be shirked for a year, two, three or four years.

Of course, Xiao Qi understands these doorways, so he enters the venue as a technician, or it doesn't matter if the treatment is poor, it's hard to say whether he can enter the venue to work and live in the shed.

Obviously Zhang Fugui still valued Xiao Qi a little bit. He waited for Xiao Qi to come back, and personally led him to the hand of the substitute.

Substitutes should originally refer to construction workers and technicians, but the contractor here is more able to barely help to look at the technical aspects, mainly instead of the contractor to help supervise the work scheduling workers, most of which are close to the contractor and trustworthy. That kind of person.

"Green Gou'er, you take this baby to the whole copy to see his technique."

The green dog's name is Zhang Fuqing, the younger brother of Zhang Fugui. He is white in his thirties. He is a clean and tidy man on the entire construction site.

A ballpoint pen is also hung on the belt used as a bookmark in the workbook. It seems to be used to record the work situation of the workers. Later, the contractor will pay the workers to settle the wages.

The workers themselves also recorded the working days. There are a pair of working days on both sides. If there is no problem, the wages will be calculated and the workers will be paid when the contractor gets the money.

Zhang Fuqing looked up and down Xiao Qi two times curiously. I heard that he was going to take Xiao Qi to copy the line. Zhang Fuqing nodded understandingly, raised his hand and beckoned to Xiao Qi, "Let’s go, I’ll take you to the next building first. foot."

The ground at the foot of the stairs was also to be cemented. Xiao Qi raised his hand to understand and cleared it without any problem. He turned around and said to Zhang Fugui before leaving with Zhang Fuqing with a smile.

Now Zhang Fugui is in charge of civil engineering, which is the foundation part of the building, including earthwork, pile foundation, masonry, concrete and steel engineering, roofing and the like.

To put it bluntly, to repair the house, you need to dig the foundation stone under the ground, make a steel mold, which is the so-called mold, and then pour the concrete in. The interior also needs to lay the layered floor and stairs to make the initial frame of the house floor.

The contractor at the back will build bricks and paint on the basis of this frame. After the bricks are laid, the workers at the back will be able to lay the floor directly on the floor without worrying about blowing and raining.

"The first point, count down, negative zero, zero, eight and three..."

Although he hadn't measured it by himself for many years, Xiao Qi took the instrument and didn't do it at all. After getting a few numbers, he could directly calculate the specific size of the filling or digging.

Zhang Fuqing helped hold the tower ruler in the distance and asked Xiao Qi to adjust the level measurement.

Hearing what Xiao Qi said, Zhang Fuqing didn't say a word, quietly clamped the tower ruler with his elbow, and freed his hand to write down the numbers on the notebook in his hand.

Before digging the earth and stone, Zhang Fugui had already spent money to ask a construction worker to come and help to measure it. The level data on the ground floor was still kept, and he remembered it for a while before showing it to his cousin.

If the data is not bad, it means that Xiao Qi does have two brushes. In the future, they don't have to spend money on the construction site, but they will accompany the face to ask the construction staff to come and help with the measurement.

Zhang Fuqing is at a junior high school level. He can write and read. He doesn't know how to do measurement. He didn't want to learn in the past, but he doesn't have a foundation when he is old, and his brain is not so brilliant.

He spent his cousin’s money to study for a year and a half, and now he’s still half-filled, and he doesn’t dare to use his own skills to copy the line. If there is a problem with the level, the high-rise building is not. Easier than road sidewalks.

Xiao Qi's arrival would not threaten his replacement position, so Zhang Fuqing would not have any other thoughts about Xiao Qi, but sincerely wanted to help his cousin win Xiao Qi.

"Brother, how many units has the boss contracted?"

This area is a newly-developed community. Xiao Qi thought that if he could get familiar with the land through Zhang Fugui's place, it would be a starting point for him to get some road work from the Shuangbao boss in the future.

"My eldest brother took one temporarily, and if he does it quickly, he can take some other work."

One building is just a few unit buildings. The more work is not the better, because generally Party A will delay the construction period. Although the construction period will generally be delayed for one month and a half, you can’t be sure about the things signed in the contract. Will people suddenly force you when the time comes.

Therefore, the contractor’s work is based on the workers in his hands.

No one who was engaged in municipal real estate development and road construction in the frontiers didn't want to stay in their hometown to do construction, but there is no way, the hometown in inland cities has been divided up by others.

If you want to get in and get a share of the pie, it must be more difficult, even barefoot contractors like them can't even touch the door in any direction.

Now that Xiao Qi could have a chance to get in here directly, that would definitely be better.

Xiao Qi was proficient in his work. After measuring more than 20 points where there were data that could now be compared and referenced, Zhang Fuqing temporarily asked Xiao Qi to take a rest next to him, and went to Zhang Fugui with the recorded data.

Although Xiao Qi himself doesn't like to read and learn to pretend to be gentle, but as long as it allows him to live a good life, it is the head hanging beam, the piercing eyelid and the toothpick supported on the eyelid, which can persist in learning to go into his head, which also caused him to learn. No matter how long you will never forget.

"Xiaoqi, okay, you are good at your skills. Brother, I will give you the surveying of the construction site in the future. Usually you will follow your Qinggou brother to learn substitute work. When there is no survey, you will help him take care of the construction site."

Zhang Fugui received several units this time, as well as a few other small jobs. Zhang Fugui was alone and lacking skills, so he had to take care of everything.

Workers are all doing heavenly work. If someone cares, they will do more work. If no one cares, then they will be lazy and chatting while working lazily. In this way, those who lose money will become the labor wages of Zhang Fugui, the contractor. Substitute shifts are absolutely indispensable.

Xiao Qi was given a substitute job by Zhang Fugui as soon as he arrived. If ordinary people must be worried about not being able to control others, Xiao Qi would not persuade him at all.

He hadn't done this kind of thing before. He was a middle-aged veteran. He should be close to him, he should be close to him, and he should never be soft when he is ready to stand up.

Being a contractor is not the same as a contemporary shift supervisor. To put it in layman's terms, the contractor is a black face and a substitute is a white face.

Because substitute shifts are in direct contact with workers and have such a sensitive job as supervising workers, it is even more a test of how the white-faced substitute shift can master the soft and hard standards.

It not only allows the workers to listen to you willingly to work and transfer jobs, but also allows the contractor to do more work with the least amount of labor.

Say Xiao Qi has a good temper?

It must be impossible, Xiao Qi just knows what kind of temper to face what kind of person.

It was so terrible at the beginning, but it was only because at that point, most people needed to hold him, so Xiao Qi was able to think whatever he wanted unscrupulously, maximizing himself within a limited range. How to be comfortable.

But in the face of people who need him to hold him, Xiao Qi is definitely the kind of good-tempered, talkative and troublesome.

No one specifically taught Xiao Qi in these personal relationships. It could almost be said that all of this was caused by Xiao Qi's stumbling and groping in the society, and he did things more based on intuition.

Many people who look down on people like Xiao Qi think that Xiao Qi is bullying and fearing hardship. But in the final analysis, what can someone like Xiao Qi have to bully? Why should I feel wronged to fear weakness?

Anyway, only with food can we speak of spine, and only with money can we hold humanity. Xiao Qi firmly believes that society is like this.

Zhang Fugui whispered to Zhang Fuqing, and finally called Xiao Qi to come over. Xiao Qi smiled and waved to the mixer master who was talking before talking for a while, then turned around and ran to Zhang Fugui.

"Brother Xiaoqi, you are good at this. Brother will first give you one hundred yuan a day's wages. If you do well in the future, I will add it to you."

At this time, there are only forty-five days for big jobs and more than 20 small jobs, and the daily meal expenses are deducted, which is five yuan a day.

But Xiao Qi did the job of a construction worker. He was responsible for both the technical part and the management and dispatching of the workers. This salary is not that high, but for Xiao Qi, it is better not to be calculated as a monthly salary or even an annual salary.

Xiao Qi just settled down on the construction site of Qingcheng Yaju Phase II in Xicheng District and started to work as a construction worker and a substitute. Zhang Fugui saw Xiao Qi coming. I am happy, and directly added 10 yuan a day to Xiao Qi, which is one hundred and one a day.

Excluding the five yuan a day for meals, one hundred and five can be moved, which is really jealous.

Fortunately, the contractor generally does not let the workers and a third person other than himself know the specific wages, otherwise Xiao Qi must make a group of people envy and jealous.

Xicheng District was originally the old district of Furong City. Even if it is now divided into a reconstruction area, there are still several large square markets, the most famous being the "Lotus Pond".

Inside is a large wholesale market, many people in Furong City like to come here to "taobao".

The so-called Taobao, it really depends on eyesight and bargaining ability, because the merchants in the "lotus pond" are raising their necks and shouting, and a piece of ordinary jeans can shout the price of an international brand.

If people who come for the first time must be frightened, they will either leave directly or hesitate to repay the price in half. If they simply leave, the merchants don’t care. Such people are probably not good at earning money.

What's more, the income of the merchants here comes more from the wholesale of the subordinate counties and urban areas, and the scattered customers are the kind of living expenses.

Hesitated and paid half the price, it is the big fat sheep in the eyes of the merchants, because they usually bid the price five or six times higher, and the price is cheap, such as five or six yuan, and they can even shout. For fifty or sixty yuan, that is a tenfold increase.

However, the people who come here often are calm and calm, carefully reviewing the quality of the goods, even if they like it in their hearts, they must be disgusting.

The boss pulls someone to sell, and the customer just makes a low price with a hesitant or undesirable appearance, and the two sides talk about it, anyway, it is a psychological warfare.

One of the most common scenes here is that the customer walks far away holding hands without looking back. The boss sees that the other party does not come back and is willing to be soft. In addition, the price is also a bit profitable, and the boss will definitely make a noise. Call the customer back.

The boss made a displeased look at a loss and filled the customer with the goods in the bag. After earning money, he still said that this is the cost price, and the customer must take care of the business in the future.

Locals like Ning Qian are naturally familiar with these doorways, but it is precisely because of this that they prefer to come to the "Lotus Pond" if they have nothing to do, like Taobao, they often buy them at a cheap price. It’s just like finding money to be happy for a while.

Although Ning Qian's family conditions are fairly good, compared to ordinary people, Ning Qian, as the eldest daughter of the family, is not only diligent in housework, but also very tight with her wallet in terms of food and clothing.

On this day, Ning Qian accompanied her girlfriends to stroll around the "Lotus Pond" and bought two favorite summer dresses. It was already noon, so she simply had lunch at a nearby street snack bar before going to wait for the bus.

The construction site of the second phase of Qingcheng Residence is not far from the "Lotus Pond". I heard that the "Lotus Pond" will be relocated next year, and the original place will be demolished to build a commercial office building.

The weather was getting warmer, and there was a big worker among the workers on his birthday. Zhang Fugui simply gave the workers a day off, and paid a dozen or so old people who had been with him for two years to eat out in a small shop.

Xiao Qi is naturally indispensable as the construction worker and substitute in the team today. Being able to have a good meal for free, Xiao Qi would naturally not miss it. He smiled and murmured with other workers, pooled money to buy a few boxes of beer, and a group of people ate and drank directly at the nearby snack bar.

The author has something to say: Qing Gou'er: My name is Zhang Fuqing, and you can call me Fuqing kindly [sincere smile

About the nickname "Xiaoqi":

At first, Xiao Qi didn't think there was anything. Until many years later, he accidentally watched anime with a little girl, and there was a Japanese cat in it, which was called "Xiao Qi" after the translation, and Boss Xiao's mentality suddenly burst.

PS: There are people from Yunnan in the courtyard house we live in today. They like to say "de" as "what" when they talk. In fact, it is quite similar to Sichuan dialect, and there is no unintelligibility.

And "Qing Gouer" is actually the name of a certain uncle in the group of migrant workers from my parents. Everyone calls him that, and I don't know what his real name is.