time for sysyphus

In the six months since he left the slums, Lin Si lived a life of ups and downs and suffered a lot.

Sometimes he felt that he was looking for guilt, but thinking about it again, he should just look for guilt.

In order not to let Ji Zhongnian find out, he did not choose to stay in the slums, but fled all the way from the west city to the east city.He expected that Ji Zhongnian would definitely not have guessed that he was here.

Because people from the west city come to the east city, it sounds like they are asking for trouble, and it is said that they are asking for their own destruction.

With a West City ID card, Lin Si suffered discrimination and prejudice in the East City, and could not find a normal job at all.

In the first two months, he was impoverished, wandering around the city, sleeping with the scavengers under the overpass, eating some leftovers, and being exposed to wind and rain day and night, and the days became more and more difficult every day.

Occasionally he would dream of Ji Zhongnian, the life in Ji's family, and those happy and happy moments before, but when he woke up halfway, what he saw was only a dark and boundless sky.

The most difficult thing is not the poverty of material life, but the longing and indelible love day after day.

Later, the situation gradually improved, and he finally found a cheap job—with no pay, including food and housing, and he had to do all kinds of chores, so he barely survived in this bustling city.

Up to now, the former Lazy Lin has been self-reliant for almost half a year.

Today is the weekend, but in order to save more money, Lin Si didn't give himself time to rest. Instead, he went to a construction site near the pier to work as a temporary worker carrying stones.

Most of the muscular men on the construction site were tanned. Only Lin Si was white and thin. When he was carrying things, the slate on his shoulders was thicker than his body.

Originally, the contractor refused to hire him, but he said that he only wanted half the salary of others, so he finally got the job.

"Asi, come here!" The contractor waved to him, smoking a white cigarette.

"Hey——" Lin Si immediately put down a few sips of water and ran over diligently, "What's wrong, brother? Is there anything I can do?"

The contractor pointed to the pile of building materials next to him, and said to him: "You go to pull the truck that is loaded with cement this afternoon, just...just pull [-] trucks."

"no problem."

While Lins was working in the dusty sand under the scorching sun and sweat, a valuable black Maybach pulled up outside the construction site.

After the door of the Maybach opened slowly, a man in a neat suit got out of the car, and someone next to him held an umbrella to shade him, his shiny leather shoes stepped on the gravel, and the people following him wished to use their ties to polish him.

"Mr. Ji, this is the site. The original asking price was 300 billion. Opinions within the group were divided. The bidding will start next Wednesday, so this matter has to be decided as soon as possible." said in a tone.

Ji Zhongnian loosened his tie and was not used to such rough places. He looked around for a week and said, "Well, let's go in and have a look first."

Because the road ahead has many potholes, no cars can drive in. The group of them walked along the main road and planned to walk in directly from this entrance.

However, before they took a few steps, a group of workers in white coats and orange helmets, all pulling carts full of cement and steel, passed in front of them.

Because the carts were too heavy, the workers walked very slowly, and Ji Zhongnian even got a little impatient to wait.

When the last worker was about to finish walking, the cart he was pushing was accidentally stuck by a rock on the ground, the wheels fell over, the cart suddenly lost its balance, and fell sideways on the spot with a "bang", and the cement inside The bags all rolled out.

The worker hurriedly bent down to pick it up. He was in a hurry. With two arms that were as thin as firewood, he struggled to lift the cart, and then threw the cement bag, which weighed more than 100 kilograms, into it with difficulty.

Probably because of his emaciated physique, he was obviously unable to do what he wanted to do, and he was clumsy in lifting and lifting. The hard hat on his head was all crooked, obliquely blocking his face covered with stains and sweat.

"Cough," Ji Zhongnian frowned, and made a deep, impatient voice, which seemed to be urging.

It's just that when he urged, after a low and recognizable voice came out, the worker froze all over, not only did not speed up his movements, but also froze there like a statue.

The boss was urging, and the subordinates around him were all alert, fearing that Mr. Ji would be displeased, they sternly said to the worker: "I told you to hurry up, didn't you hear? Be quick!"

The worker just woke up like a dream, and immediately moved, gritted his teeth, picked up all the things, piled them crookedly in the car, and pulled up the small cart to leave.

He lowered his head and looked embarrassed, as if he was about to flee.

But just as he took a step, he heard the deep voice from Mr. Ji behind him again: "Lin... Si?"

The worker's footsteps stopped suddenly.

Ji Zhongnian couldn't believe it.

Standing under the black umbrella supported by Wei Ping, he looked at Lin Si standing under the scorching sun, his pupils filled with astonishment.

That's it, we meet again.

One of them was under the comfortable shade, and the other was under the venomous sunlight. They stayed with each other for a long time, and they were all surprised by this unexpected meeting.

In the past few months, Ji Zhongnian has imagined countless times what kind of life Lin Si is living now: Either he moved to a more pleasant and comfortable environment, or he found a job suitable for leisure, or Or, met someone who took him away.

But Ji Zhongnian would never have imagined that Lin Si would have turned into this appearance——

His sweat-soaked clothes were shabby and shabby, his shoulders were as thin as a sheet of paper, and his whole body was covered in dirty dust. Only the orange safety helmet was the most eye-catching.

The condition of Lins...seems even worse than in the slums.

"Lin Si?" Ji Zhongnian called again, confirming.

The corners of his mouth trembled undetectably. He stepped forward and squeezed Lin Si's wrist tightly, like a pair of hard iron tongs. His strength was so great that it almost crushed Lin Si's wrist bones.

"Where have you been in the past few months?" Ji Zhongnian seemed to be biting out every word.

Lins was speechless.

"Why can't I find you no matter how hard I look?" Ji Zhongnian took a deep breath and asked him, "You seem to have evaporated from the world!"

What Lin Si didn't know was that when he was wandering around in the east city, Ji Zhongnian spent a lot of manpower and material resources in order to find him. He sent people to search almost the entire slums, but unfortunately found nothing.

At the moment, facing Ji Zhongnian's questioning, Lin Si had almost retracted his whole head into his shoulders.

He never thought that he would meet Ji Zhongnian again in this situation, his first reaction was to panic, he just wanted to run away, and he didn't want Ji Zhongnian to see him like this.

"...You, you got the wrong person!!" Lin Si turned around and ran away.