Alpine pasture

Chapter 55
Liu Chao gave Ju An a round magnet, then patted Ju An on the shoulder, and then climbed up the ladder, Ju An grabbed his leg and said, "Your uncle, I am not a child, I don't want to play this, I'm going to work on the roof."After I finished speaking, I lifted the ring magnet in my hand and lifted it a few times. The more I saw it, the more I looked like the kind of small rope that my father made for me when I was two or three years old, dragging a porcelain wheel, your sister, I am not three years old, I am Someone in their twenties, you let me drag this thing around the house and play with it, and it's shameful to throw it across the Pacific Ocean.

Liu Chao shook it twice, and he said, "Damn it! It's dangerous on the roof, and you are inexperienced. If you say you die, I won't let you go up. If you fall, I will blame who will go. Be good and drag it below. play this."After finishing speaking, he explained: "Actually, this work is very important. If the nails are not handled properly, people will be stuck, so don't look at the work, but it is very important. Revolutionary work does not distinguish between high and low, it must obey the organization's arrangements, and don't pick on it. Fat and thin".

Ju An thought for a while and said, "Your uncle, I still think your kid is not at ease, saying there is some conspiracy."

Liu Chao struggled hard: "There's a fart conspiracy, it's not for you to play with this all the time, go, help the old man to spread the plastic sheet here, and immediately start shoveling here, go, don't grind it. of".

Ju An had to let go of Liu Chao's pants.At this time, I heard the old white man who was dragging a large bag of things from the pickup and shouted to Ju An: "Hey! Buddy, come and help."

Ju An hurriedly dropped the things in his hand and went over to help. The two people dragged the things from the back of the pickup, and then spread them out under the eaves. It turned out to be a large canvas with a heavy weight. It's exhausting.

As soon as the canvas was spread out, one of the guys above shouted, "Guys, are you ready? Let's spread it out. I'm ready to shovel the roof."Ju An and the old white man immediately dispersed, leaning on the pickup truck and looking at the roof with a square shovel in their hands, they were shovelling the roof, and then the shoveled things fell down the roof and onto the oil canvas below.

The old white man walked to the pickup near the lawn, took out a large red radio from the pickup, a bit like the tape recorder that Ju An had at home when he was a child, put it on the lawn, tuned the station and played the music.

The old white man took off his gloves and said to Ju An, "Dude, this is the first time to repair a roof. You don't live in this community, right? You are Steven's friend."

Ju An smiled at him and said, "Yes, I'm his friend, I didn't expect him to renovate the roof."

The old white man smiled and said to Ju An: "When we first moved here, Steve didn't know either. Everyone was used to living there, so they helped each other. When we repaired the roof, we asked him to help. His work is what you are doing now. At that time, when you knew that he was doing work for the first time, you arranged a simple task for him, and then did it a few times. Now it is doing well. The barbecue in their backyard is everyone. We did it together, two days a week, I worked with him for nearly three months, but unfortunately, now that I'm older, they won't let me go on the roof."

Ju An said: "Do you like doing these jobs very much?"

The old white man smiled and said, "Yes, I built a barbecue and repaired the roof. When I was young, I even helped others build houses. Look, the one with the blue baseball cap is my son."He pointed to the white man on the roof who was shoveling the old roof.

Ju An said with a smile: "The relationship between your community is really good."

The old white man said with a smile, "They all live together, so it is inevitable that there is some difficulty. When Steve and the others first moved in, his wife became friends with my wife, and then we became acquainted."

After more than half an hour, a small side of the roof had been shoveled down, and the old white man greeted Ju An and dumped the shoveled waste into a large garbage truck-like car.Then spread the canvas under the other eaves, waiting for the roofer to shovel the scraps down.

At this time, a guy held a long ladder and leaned against the eaves that had just been shoveled. The person climbed up the ladder and helped the roofer to spread a black material that is more than one meter long to the edge of the roof.

Ju An asked the old white man, "Why is this material only laid on the edges and not in the middle?"

The old man explained: "This material is used for anti-freezing and anti-icing in winter, and there is no need to lay in the middle."

Watching these guys lay out antifreeze material, and then see that they are covered with a blue material, the old man explained that this is waterproof and can be used for decades without any problem.Looking at the busy people covered with materials on the roof, Ju An sighed that being a man in America is not easy.

Watching a group of people have finished laying the blue material, and then spread some kind of material on it, presumably for heat insulation or something, and they were tightly pressed together one by one.

Just thinking about it, the two outer roofs have been shoveled out, so Ju An repeated the previous work, and the old white man put the roof into the garbage truck.

A group of people are working in full swing, and from time to time there are people who echo the songs on the radio and hum along loudly.

When it was almost noon, no one wanted to stop. Ju An was wearing gloves and happily working with a group of people. He felt very happy and didn't feel like doing coolies. It was a bit like when the middle school started every year. , The school organized the weeding activity on the campus, and it was a complete mess.

When I was working happily, I heard a child's voice: "Iced lemonade, a quart glass!".Turning around and looking, the little girls I saw last time have moved the cold drink stall nearby. They are really business-minded.

At this time, the old white man walked over, and a little girl immediately shouted, "Grandfather, grandfather, do you want a glass of ice lemonade?"The old man nodded a few times immediately, then took out the change and handed it to the little girl. The little girl accepted it happily, and then handed him a glass of water.

Ju An was also a little thirsty, so he walked over and bought a glass of water, and then heard someone on the roof shout, "Girls, will your drinks be delivered to your door?"

Then I heard the little girl shouting: "yes! yes!".

The man upstairs replied: "That's good! I'll have a drink."Then I heard a few people upstairs agreeing to drink a cup. The little girls were very happy. They used a small tray to hold a few cups of drinks and sent them to the eaves. Then a few people went down the roof, and everyone gave a small The girl took a steel pot, then took the water and drank it, and then returned the empty disposable cup to the little girl who delivered the water.

The old white man smiled and said to Ju An, "That's my granddaughter. The rest of the little girls are nearby. Last week, they made almost three dollars each selling ice water, and they tasted the sweetness."

Ju An said happily: "I saw them doing business when I came, and it was interesting to shout together as soon as I saw the car coming."

The old white man said: "Let them do some small business mainly to let the children know that money is not easy to earn, so they must think about it the next time they spend money."

In her busy spare time, Ju An also paid attention to the cold drink stalls of the next few girls. Every time they passed a car, the little girl would shout a few times. People who basically didn't want cold drinks would roll down the window and look at the little girl. The girls waved their hands and passed a few cars, but there was no business. The little girls were not discouraged, they were still shouting happily when they saw the car.

Finally, a car stopped and bought a quilt drink, and the little girls would have a happy meeting. After a while, Ju'an found that there were actually three cars lined up in a small queue at the little girls' stall.

On Ju An's side, a small half of the roof has been shoveled out on the house. In the middle, the old white man drove the garbage truck to take out the garbage. It was not too long. When he came back, he told Ju An that the garbage was all Fall in the designated place, there is some way from here.

As soon as Ju An looked up, he saw Liu Chao taking a camera on the roof and taking pictures.

"What are you doing with the camera to take pictures of the roof? Is there any inspection?" Ju An asked curiously.

"Yes, the city hall will arrange for people to come and check, and people from the insurance company. These photos are just to let them see what materials are used inside, and if they are unqualified, they must see the materials used in your roof. Renovation The roof has to shoot these," the old white man explained.

When it was after [-] o'clock in the afternoon, a group of people started to eat lunch. It was very simple, it was some sausages and hamburgers, and there were chopped onions and vegetables on the plate. We old and middle-aged people have a lot to deal with.

After eating a simple lunch and resting for more than 20 minutes, a group of people continued to work, and Ju An also continued to start his unskilled work.

After being busy for a while, I saw the little girls chasing the two little boys. After watching for a while, Ju An realized that the two little guys saw that the little girls were doing well, so they said that they would also sell cold drinks tomorrow. , which made the little girls very angry and drove the two little boys away.

When it was after [-] o'clock in the afternoon, the little girls closed the stall and were called by the adults to go home for dinner.

Everyone here in Ju'an was busy until it was dark, and then everyone stopped work. After work, everyone drove their cars home. At first, An was thinking that according to the tradition of our old and middle school, we have to have a meal at night.Who knew that these old beauties were too self-conscious, and went home after work.

In the early morning of the next day, everyone gathered here again on time. After breakfast, they started to work again. Today's work went very smoothly. After one o'clock in the afternoon, everyone was finished, and only the remaining Ju An was still dragging magnets around the house to attract iron nails. A bunch of Lao Mei packed up the tools, and Liu Chao paid everyone a salary. Some Lao Mei accepted it, and some guys didn’t ask for a penny. Caucasians belong to this category. Later, Liu Chao explained to Ju An that some people do not want to receive wages, but just like to help others get something. In their opinion, it is a hobby. Some people are quite good, such as old people. White people, the two families are too familiar, so they didn't receive any money.

After two days of busy work, Ju An was also ready to go home. On the way, he went to a Chinese-run supermarket in San Francisco to buy a lot of things. After going there, he realized that a piece of tofu a pound could not be beaten by a dollar, and the dried silk was even worse. It was two or three dollars a pound, damn it, I ended up buying a bunch of stuff and shipping it back through the airline.

(End of this chapter)