Suona sound deep in the mountains

As soon as we entered the enclosure, the iron gate closed behind us.The man took us to a small room where a fat man was sitting on the edge of the bed, getting ready for bed.Another coquettish woman was tidying up the house, and it seemed that she was about to go to bed.After we entered the house, the person who brought us babbled a few words in Cantonese, and then asked us, "Do you have an ID card?" I said, "Yes." "Take a look!" I took out my ID card and showed it to the person on the bed, carefully compared me with the photo on the ID card, and then returned it to me, saying, "Don't walk around here. , start work tomorrow."

The man who took us was a tall, thin man with passable features.He took us to a row of low houses and opened a door. Inside was a row of bunks, half of which were empty.The man confessed: "Go to bed early! Get up at five o'clock tomorrow morning for dinner, and start work at six o'clock. Don't delay!"

It was almost midnight, we were tired, sleepy and hungry, but we couldn't care less, took out the quilt from the snakeskin bag we brought, spread it on the bunk, climbed into bed and fell asleep.

I don't know how long I slept, but I only heard the sound of getting up in the workshop, and the boss's shout: "Get up, get up!" Uncle Fu and I also woke up, followed suit, and walked out the door, only to see that the sky had not yet appeared. It's bright, and there are bright electric lights in the classroom.After everyone got up, before they had time to wash their faces and rinse their mouths, they picked up the bowls and chopsticks one by one to serve rice in a big pot. Sautéed salted sour kale.Uncle Fu and I also served the rice with the others, and ate some vegetables in a big bowl. Although it was brown rice, the pickled cabbage was bitter and salty, and it was crunchy with a bite.But we were really hungry, but we ate with relish.

As soon as the meal was over, everyone hurriedly loaded the gun drills, sledgehammers, shovels and hoes into a large truck, which also had several bucket trucks and dozens of bags of cement.After everyone climbed into the car, the car drove out of the gate and drove towards the road in front of the gate.

The car drove for about 10 minutes and stopped in front of a tunnel.Everyone got out of the car, unloaded everything on the car, and the car drove away again.The tall, lanky guy was a construction foreman.He asked Uncle Fu: "Old man, can you build stone walls?"

Uncle Fu said: "Yes." "Well, then, you do a big job and go to build walls." He gave Uncle Fu a pair of leather gloves.The man pointed at me again and said: "You are so small, you can't lift stones, you go to clear the foundation and dig the earth!" In this way, everyone was assigned by him, and everyone did their own work.

It turned out that the mountain in front of the tunnel caused a landslide, and we built slope protection for the landslide.The soil from the original landslide has been removed.I was arranged to dig soil at the foot of the mountain with a few people.The soil is extremely sticky, and every time you dig a hoe, a large piece of mud sticks to the hoe and cannot fall off. You have to work hard to get it off with your hands or other objects, and the digging speed is very slow.But the plumber doesn't matter, as long as you don't stop.Once you stop to rest, he will come over and urge you loudly, even insulting.

I have never seen Uncle Fu build stone walls at home, but after he built a few big stones, the foreman was very satisfied and praised him for his good work.

It turns out that people in the mountains deal with rocks at every turn. If the field ridge is broken here, the small bridge is broken there, and the road is broken, they will repair it by themselves.After a long time, it will naturally be worth half a mason.

I don't know how long this tunnel is, but above the entrance, there are a few large characters engraved on a big stone: "Jinpanling Tunnel".

This place name is very deep in my memory.After more than twenty years, I still remember it very clearly.

I saw that the big truck that took us to the construction site would pull a load of stones or a load of sand every so often.This car is dedicated to this construction site.

At twelve o'clock, we were pulled back to have lunch.The life of Chinese food is the same, even those dishes that were not finished for breakfast, just added some new ones.

When I got off work late, it was dark, and I ate dinner by the electric light.

Everything here seems to be militarized, and there is no rush to do anything.Those who had eaten earlier brought buckets, poured two scoops of hot water into a large pot, added some cold water, and then went to take a bath—but in Lingnan dialect, it is not called "bath" but "shower".

The old man from Sichuan said: "I tell you, this boss runs a black shop. People here come and go every day. He usually doesn't pay wages. The same is true for us. We came out of our hometown and couldn't find work. I found it here. After working for two more days, you will see that you eat these things every day in your life, how can you eat them! All the people who left are crying..."

I can't help being very surprised.So haven't we jumped into a pit of fire?

For more than ten days in a row, we all ate, started work, took a bath, slept like this, and ate the same salted vegetables for every meal.When you are working, the supervisor is by your side, so that you cannot rest for a moment.For the first three or four days, my hands and feet were sore and I felt weak.Even though I have been working in the fields for a year at home, I feel too tired. After taking a shower every night, I just want to go to bed and lie down quickly.But after a few days, the feeling of tiredness is not so obvious.

Speaking of Uncle Fu, Uncle Fu felt the same way.We only slept quietly at night, and there was no physical commotion to speak of.

Gradually, everyone on the construction site became familiar with each other, and I gradually discovered that newcomers would arrive in about two days, and familiar faces would keep leaving.

Uncle Fu and I no longer have time to make out together, only at night, after taking a shower, and going to bed, we can hug for a very short time under the cover of the blanket, but we fell asleep soon.

When I hugged Uncle Fu's body, I felt that his whole body seemed to have lost weight.Take a closer look at his complexion, there is a faint disheveled look.

I was thinking, I can't do this job for too long.Should we leave?

The next day, while we were working on the construction site, someone suddenly shouted: "It's bad! The old man fainted!"

This "old man" was a nickname given to him by those people after seeing Uncle Fu's big guy that night.

When I heard that Uncle Fu had an accident, my sky seemed to be falling.I hurried to Uncle Fu, only to see him holding a stone, and he passed out on the spot with his eyes slightly closed.The foreman also came over. Seeing the situation, he hurriedly stopped a car on the road and sent us to the emergency room of the hospital.After a burst of emergency first aid measures, the doctor told us: "The patient is extremely deficient in nutrition and needs to be hospitalized." Uncle Fu was already awake at that time, and when he heard that he was going to be hospitalized, he was worried that he had no money, so he said: "Doctor, I don't want to be hospitalized. I I'm leaving now."

The doctor said: "I still need to do some checks!" Uncle Fu didn't have to do the checkups, and the person who accompanied our irregular foreman paid for the emergency treatment fee and the bus fare.We will walk back.The Daoban where we live is very close to the hospital.

I don't know if it was because he was afraid that Uncle Fu would die on their construction site or for some other reason, that night, the fat boss unexpectedly called Uncle Fu and me over, saying that he would pay us the bill and told us to leave tomorrow.

After receiving the several hundred yuan wages that the two of us worked hard for more than half a month, we felt more at ease.With this money, it will be much easier to find a job in the future.