Chapter 156 Man and Slave

The riverbed is full of pebbles, big and small, dry and white in the sun. The river is clear and transparent, flowing gently, flowing deep into the depths and turning dark blue. Western-style carriages with red bricks passed in front of the earthen house and drove along the debris road to the Luban New District construction site ahead.

The dust raised by the carriage, and the people on the roadside stood there, watching the team marching on the road. The dust was flying, and the leaves were blown up and falling by the breeze. The carriage went further and further, but the people standing by the roadside were still looking at the carriage with longing in their eyes.

A wooden shelf on the roadside is still full of people. People are crowded there to look at the planning renderings of the "Luban New Area", but more people are there according to the number of people who should rent what kind of house they should rent. From February to now, almost all the workers working in the Jianghuai Road mine have handed over the rent. Housing application.

The electric bell rang. In the burning steelmaking workshop, a group of workers went out of the east gate and a group of workers entered from the west gate. The handover was only completed in a few minutes. After working for 8 hours in a row, I took a hot bath in the factory bathroom for a few hours and had a meal. After working for another four hours, it had been With the last bit of strength, the tired workers took a hot bath again, which could best relieve their fatigue.

In the past, after taking a shower, these workers would drag their tired bodies, and then return home to lie down at **. They don't have time to eat and snore. However, in recent months, every day, there are always some workers who drag their tired bodies and take the company's internal tram detour towards Naluban New District.

In the workshop, there are always some workers looking at others proudly. Although they are equally tired, they have unconcealed complacency on their faces. They only need to look at the complacency on that side to know that they are workers who moved into the new area after the completion of the first phase of the project.

Once again, when the employees of Jianghuai Road Mining Company get a salary of one yuan or even two or three yuan, they are once again grateful to the company and the chairman. What is the future life?

The life of a two-story small foreign-style building, burning tap gas, using tap water, and lighting foreign electric lights is the job that every worker of Jianghuai Road mining company yearns for. And in their opinion, this is still a life that will definitely be realized, ranging from a year and a half to more than two years. All workers can live in a foreign-style building.

How many times have you been here in two months? Zhao Xunjie can't remember clearly. Anyway, as long as he gets off work every day, he will come to the Luban New District. Looking at the pride of those workers holding shiny keys and opening the door, he almost couldn't wait to move in now.

The flat asphalt road used to be seen only in the company's factory area, office area and management community. Zhao Xunjie will never be forgotten. Every time I saw this asphalt road, I felt a little tired at that time, and even lay directly on the ground. Lying on the ground was more comfortable than the broken bed at home.

On both sides of the street are neatly arranged two-story red brick buildings. The front of the building is full of carefully manned lawns one foot away from the "swalk". Those green grasses have been repaired only one palm deep. There is no vegetables planted in such a place. It seems to be ruined, but it looks comfortable.

"Uncle Shuanzi, look at this grass!"

Zhao Xunjie bent down and couldn't help touching the neat grass with his hand.

"This cut is really Qi, even serving crops in the countryside..."

"Mai Xiaozi cut it off, and you still point to the ball!"

Looking at the grass, Zhao Dashuan muttered that it's good to move into this new area, but you also need to sign a contract with the company. The property management and hygiene company found more than a dozen names. According to those who moved in, this place is not only not allowed to build walls, but also the hygiene is not only good in front of and behind the house. The turf should not be more than six inches deep. The broken catkins, broken tables, rotten bed shelves and so on in the room must also be cleared out. The bathroom next to it should also be odor-free, stain-free, and there should be no oily smell in the kitchen.

The house looks comfortable, but it is not comfortable to live in. The investigators sent by the company will check at least twice a month from time to time, take the form and type the right and wrong number. The first time they are not qualified will be warned, the second time they will be fined, and the third time they will be fired. New guests who move to the new house will take a day off every six days. In a short period of half a day, she rented a cart to cut the grass. The women who used to only wash clothes and cook were there all day long, such as wiping the table, the stove, and the hut. Even when washing clothes, they had to wash and bask in the sun at a fixed time.

"Dog said, it's not comfortable to live in this place!"

He said so, but Zhao Dashuan looked at the people in the new house through the window, but his face was full of admiration.

"It's enough to live in such a house in my life!"

My mother-in-law said so in the sky, but it's not true. Although it's not comfortable to live here, in the countryside, who would have thought that one day she would move into these two-story foreign-style buildings.

My mother-in-law got married and gave birth to four children for the Zhao family. For more than ten years, she has not enjoyed any blessings, and she has not eaten a few meals. She took it over last year and lived there for half of her life.

"Brother Shuan, when I used to take a shower in my hometown, that is, summer, but now I wash it twice a day. I'm used to not being comfortable if I don't wash it that day. In the past, the clothes could be branded with mud. Now if the clothes are dirty, we feel uncomfortable. This is the difference between urban people and rural people.

Zhao Xunjie's smiling words were only exchanged for Zhao Dashuan's laughter and scolding.

"The dog said, Xiao Jiezi, just came to the factory to work for more than half a year, and you have become a cityman!"

City people, these three words are a little strange, but they make people feel a little different. Not only Zhao Xunjie thinks so, but even Zhao Dashuan now feels that he is not a clay leg in the countryside, but a city in Ma'anshan. Although this city is not a city, it is bigger than the county he has been to in the past, and the people here. And money.

At the beginning of the year, eating two meals of meat a month was like the Spring Festival, but now every family can eat fish every two days. What is the biggest change in Ma'anshan in the past six months? It's not the use of the three iron blast furnaces and four steelmaking furnaces and several new workshops of steel mills, nor is it the introduction of an extra shipyard by the river.

It's the changes that have happened to the workers here. The women-in-laws of the workers who were responsible for sending lunch to the factory every day were still wearing patched and patched clothes before the New Year, but after the Spring Festival, the salary rose, and their clothes gradually became more beautiful.

And the clothes of the workers in the factory have also changed. In the past, after taking a shower, most of them wore dirty work clothes full of putty, and it was rare to change one for a few days, but now after taking a shower, they put on a new work clothes. As for the dirty clothes, they are left. In the wardrobe, it was washed once every two or three days, and the factory didn't send enough money to change it, so I went to the welfare society to spend one yuan to buy one. Even on Sunday, some workers and their wives and children went to the nearby mountains.

He even went there to study, and he was crazy. Now after school, he goes directly to the "Silent Library" to do homework and read books. In his words, even if he can't be a technician of 200 yuan a month, he will still be a craftsman in the future. As a craftsman, it will be 60 yuan a month. If he is a big worker. The craftsman is nearly 100 yuan.

Now the good day makes the children look at it.

"The rent is six yuan a month. I am now 21 yuan a month. When I rent this house, I will take my daughter-in-law and my brother. When I take 30 yuan later, I will take my father and my mother. My father and my mother can grow vegetables and grow vegetables outside the city. In a month, I grow up, my mother and my daughter-in-law. I can earn at least 30 yuan to let my brother go to school..."

Walking towards, Zhao Xunjie was thinking about his "future plan" there. The two walked to the second phase of the construction site of Luban New Village. The construction site was as busy as in the past, and among the working workers, there were some workers in blue diagonal stripe cloth to help push brick trucks and gray, in order to be a day earlier. Entering this new home, some workers volunteered to come to the construction site to help during the break. Of course, they are only limited to the workers who rent a house in the second phase.

In addition to the best craftsmen left to the company in Phase II, half of the houses are determined by the workers who apply to rent a house. Who can live in the new house first, and touching the number is always the luckiest person.

"Hurry up! I won the third phase!"

If it hadn't been too tired, maybe Zhao Dashuan would have gone to the construction site to help work for a while. The house is about to be roofed. There are still two weeks at most, and the third phase will start. Maybe the family can move into the new house before August 15.

This Zhao Dashuan doesn't have the previous complaints. Some just count how many days he has left to enter the new house.

When Zhao Dashuan was thinking about his good words, a young man wearing a "melon skin hat" and silk clothes, accompanied by two or three attendants, was slowly walking to the entrance of Xincun Street from the other end of the street, walked to the tree under the tree and asked for a bowl of lotus root powder and sat on the stall to eat. While eating lotus root powder, he occasionally looked at the new houses on the construction site.

"This dog is really not funny!"

With the newly knocked 20,000 taels of industrial coupon, looking at this new house with neatly arranged red bricks and grass, he scolded with hatred.

"That's right, master, the people in this industrial company are really not funny!"

Yan Chongnian, who stood there respectfully, listened to the master's words and quickly bent down his waist to help.

"In the past, when we were in Wuchang, not to mention the hairless descendants surnamed Hu, even Sheng Xuanhuai, you had to respect me when he saw me. Well, I condescending to this industrial company today, not to mention that the steel factory did not meet ten miles away, and even the thing surnamed Hu didn't meet me, as if to send away. Send away such a little money like begging..."

He said, but Yan Chongnian was hateful in his heart. When he was in Hubei in the past, he followed his master to the Hanyang Iron Factory. The manager and the master of the iron factory did not go ten miles away. The master got the face he wanted, or he was a slave. When he left, he would still seal it. With a big red envelope, there is no rule in Ma'anshan up and down.

"Dog, what kind of things are these? I actually thought I was afraid of that foreign devil! It's time for a foreign devil to send me away!"

When Duanxu said this, he forgot that in the reception room of the steel factory, when he saw that he was a foreign devil, he suddenly lost confidence. Although he was invited to dinner, he would feel uncomfortable for himself when he saw the foreign devils in his heart.

With the words of the master just now, Yan Chongnian, who was lower at the waist, said.

"Master, people say that this industrial company is a foreign master. It's true that we met today! I thought about it carefully. The master came here today to give the great face of the industry. Even I, a slave, envy the blessing of this industry. I, a slave, know this, let alone them. However, according to the slave's knowledge, these dogs are afraid that there are no slaves who think like this. It's disrespectful to the master. The slaves are the master's slaves, but these slaves don't know that they are slaves. They forget that the slaves have become slaves for foreigners. The slaves think that the master can still stand this group of slaves. It's so uncomfortable!"

Yan Chongnian said a large pile of "slaves" in one breath, but he said it very smoothly, and the meaning was also very clear. Anyway, it was a stone.

Duan Xu listened and couldn't help laughing.

"Chongnian, that is, you, a slave. With such a filial son, your family entered the customs from Master Shunzhi, which is my coat of clothing."

After looking at the humiliation of the slave, Yan Chongnian, who was full of misery, felt the filial piety of this slave from the bottom of his heart, or these bags had filial piety and loyalty. At the beginning, Master Shunzhi committed the crime of that bastard, which turned the Han people into the flag-in-clad slaves. Now how could the trouble of "Su Bao" come out!

Thinking about the recent days, in order to make trouble in the trial of the public in the concession, the eldest brother frowned all day long, and he couldn't help feeling the loyalty of being a slave. Yan Chongnian, a slave, was more loyal than ordinary flag man. When he told those servants in the mansion that the old man had raised the army, every time he talked about the The grandfather was proud when he won the battle. He met and showed his joy and showed his eight teeth. The loyalty of this slave can't be compared with ordinary people. There are few such slaves. In the future, he must persuade the eldest brother to reuse it. The officials in this place.

"I'll tell my eldest brother to see where there is a vacancy in these two rivers. You can make up for it!"

The master's words only surprised Yan Chongnian. He got up and kowtowed. Despite the surprise of the boss selling lotus root powder next to him, he kept kowtowing.

"Master, you... I thank you for your kindness! I will definitely... I will live up to the master..."

Or he can't even speak smoothly with excitement. Yan Chongnian will just kowtows his head with tears on his face and worship the grace of the master.

"That's all!"

Duan Xu waved his hand casually.

"If you have the intention, if there is a real deficiency when you look back, you should govern the locality, especially those who let those chaotic parties go through the gap. If the local officials are as loyal as Mr. Cong, how can I be in the Qing Dynasty..."

Before Duan Xu finished speaking, half of the lotus root powder was taken away by the master of the palm stall.

"What are you doing, you..."

The slave who stood with Duan Xu was busy drinking at first sight. It happened that a greyhound was passing by the roadside. The master of the palm stall put half a bowl of lotus root powder with meat on the roadside without a word. The walking gray dog ate it as soon as he saw something to eat.

"This bowl is stained by the knife, and it's a pity that half of the lotus root powder is lost. Feed the dog, I'm afraid of staining the dog's stomach!"

The middle-aged man, who was talking, spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm in the bucket next to him.

Seeing this scene, Duanxu's eyes widened. He didn't expect that he would be insulted like this, and even dared to... Yan Chongnian, who was kneeling beside him and full of tears, suddenly jumped up when he saw that his master had been humiliated.

"This dog slave! How dare you..."

"You don't think so, the dog slave is the dog who betrays the book and forgets the sect. The man is a man, he is a man!"

In the middle-aged man's words on the palm stall, the two-foot-long bowl of big copper spoon palmed his palm to his right hand, and the flesh on his face trembled. If the dog was still horizontal, he would wave the spoon to teach him a lesson.

"You...you..."

Yan Chongnian's fingers were so abusive, and his mouth trembled and his fingers trembled, but he couldn't speak when he opened his mouth.

"What are you? Your family has forgotten your ancestors hundreds of years ago. You are willing to be a slave. What's the matter? I'm afraid that people will say it. I tell you that I don't have anyone else, and the bones on my body are still there. Don't say you are a dog slave!"

The middle-aged man with a spoon swept the blue-faced "master" sitting on the chair.

"It's your Jianzhou master who came, and I'm not afraid of it. What is Nurhachi? That's not the slave of our Daming. The ancestors of your master are all slaves of our Han people. What's the strength of your slave here!"

The voice became louder and louder, and a group of people gradually gathered around.

"Old and young men, it's unreasonable to say this!"

"Good! Well said!"

"Brother Li, that's the reason!"

"That's right, you slave dog slave here!"

"It's true! Be careful to look back, we Han people have returned to the country, cut off your master's head, and dragged you out to the street..."

The surroundings suddenly cheered, not only the workers, but also the merchants from other places and the police of the company followed and cheered!

"Master!"

He was called the palm master of the fourth brother Li, and he saluteed.

"Don't blame the man. Today, Li Si is blind in this pair of dog eyes, so that this is not a human thing stains the table and bench. Today, the big guy sees a certificate. When this is not a human thing, I, Li Si burned the table and bench he has been lying on as a firewood!"

"Good! Fourth Brother Li, I have to eat lotus root powder here for half a month this month!"

"Good job, Fourth Brother Li! This is what the men of our Han family should say. It's like the dog slave who has forgotten the scriptures!"

When people shouted, the original blue face had already lost their blood color. At this time, they dared to say anything more. As soon as they stood up, they fled out as if they were running away. The original slave who relied on the power of the dog also fled with the master, and only listened to the bursts of laughter from behind.

"Get out of here! You are not a slave enough bastard"

"That's right, if you don't leave, I will have to reward you..."

The scolding and shouting only echoed on the street, and a young man who had been standing on the street dressed as a worker looked at this scene with excitement in his eyes and a smile on his face.

People's hearts, this is the hearts of the people!

(to be continued)