Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1976, working life (2)

Wei Tie and his wife were loving each other like water, and the others were also chatting after eating.

"Wei Huo, Wei Tie still has vision."

"The price of this house has risen a lot before it was handed over."

"Now I've got a promotion and a salary increase. I'm living a comfortable life."

"Isn't that right? This house has gone up so well. Before the Chinese New Year, it was only sold for more than 300 taels of silver. Now after the Chinese New Year, it has risen to four to five hundred taels of silver. This increase is too fast."

"I don't know either. We rural people don't know this."

"Buy a house for a few hundred taels of silver. This house is made of reinforced concrete. How can it be worth so much money?"

"Yeah, yeah, even if I have money, I won't buy a house in this city. If I don't know the world, I'd rather build a beautiful house at home and live in it more comfortably."

"That's right, that's why Wei Tie bought a house in the city when he was rich."

"It will be Ching Ming in a while. It seems that there will be a five-day holiday. Do you all go home?"

"I really want to go back, and I don't know what's going on at home, whether the child will cry with his grandparents, and whether he has enough to eat."

"I also want to go back. Five days is enough. I will go home to see my parents and children, and I will also bring home the money I earned in the past few months to build a new house."

"That's right, when we go back together, I'm homesick too."

When it came to going home, everyone immediately became more homesick, and they missed their parents and children even more.

Some wives didn't follow, so naturally they missed their wives very much.

Just thinking about the way to go home, everyone couldn't help but feel sore feet. When we came here, we had walked for two full days to arrive in Chengdu.

It takes four days of walking back and forth to go home, which will make my legs sore.

"How about buying a bicycle and riding home?"

Someone thought about it and suggested it.

"Bicycles are too expensive. The cheapest ones cost more than ten taels of silver. After working for a few months, we managed to save some money. If we buy a bicycle, we are really reluctant."

"Yeah, yeah, the bike is still too expensive."

"The little money we have on hand is not spent. If we want to buy a bicycle or a house, the money will be very little."

Everyone was chatting, while Yang Dawa sat silently beside her brother-in-law Xiong Yazi and listened.

He still doesn't understand these things very well, and the money he earns every month is also handed over to his sister Yang Shanhua for safekeeping, and he follows his sister and brother-in-law, and almost everything is decided by his sister and brother-in-law.

"Tomorrow is the weekend, and you can rest comfortably for another day. Do you have any plans?"

At this time, someone talked about the weekend, which immediately made everyone feel relieved.

It's pretty good to have one day off every week.

"How about we go to the football field to watch football together?"

"Don't go, don't go, you have to buy tickets to watch football, and the cheapest one costs a hundred dollars. If you have that much money, you might as well go and have a good meal."

"That's right. What's so interesting about this football game? It's better to go to the theater to watch a movie. It's much cheaper to watch a movie in a theater. You can go in and occupy it for a dozen coins."

"Yes, yes, let's go to the theater. The scholar Zhuangyuanlang I saw last time is really good."

"I also go to the theater. It's really good, but there are so many people in the theater this weekend, we have to go there early."

"I won't go to the theater. I'm going to look around here in Chengdu. The construction site is too tiring. I wonder if I can change to a lighter job in the future, or do some small business by myself."

"It's not so easy to do business. Don't lose only your pants."

"That's right, if you work hard now, you'll have a good life, so why bother?"

Everyone discussed the arrangements for the weekend.

"Did you go to the slave market?"

At this time, someone suddenly asked mysteriously.

"Slave market?"

"What's the fun over there?"

"Oh, there are so many interesting places, you will know when you go."

"Those white slaves from Europe took off their clothes one by one, their skin was white, and everything was exposed."

"Haha, you boy is really stubborn."

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help laughing.

"Go~go~"

"I've already found out what you guys know. You only need fifty or sixty taels of silver to buy a female slave in the slave market."

"A lot of big families will buy some slaves and go back to raise them as maids or concubines."

"Do you still want to buy slaves and be concubines?"

"Why not?"

"You only have a few taels of silver a month, and this slave costs dozens of taels of silver. Can you afford it?"

"So, I just wanted to do some business or something. I feel that all businesses in Chengdu are doing very well now. It seems that the business of selling steamed buns on the roadside is very good."

"That's true, especially those next to the factories. The business is particularly good in the morning."

"Let me tell you, if this person wants to pursue, he must be like Wei Tie, buy a house in this city, marry a beautiful woman, and have a concubine. This is life. Don't always think about it. Work on this construction site for the rest of your life.”

"You have pursuits, kid, put in more effort when doing things, don't be unable to do this, and can't afford that."

"Haha, yes, yes."

Everyone chatted happily.

Dawa Yang listened carefully. He was very curious about the outside world, but he didn't understand anything, so he always listened to what his brother-in-law said, and seldom said anything. He just kept everyone's words in his heart.

"Everything is good in this city, but it costs money everywhere."

"The house I live in is also very comfortable, and my life is very convenient. There is also running water, and even going to the toilet is different from that in the mountains."

Thinking of her hometown, Yang Dawa suddenly understood why her sister and brother-in-law had a bad appetite every time they came to his home.

Even if there is meat, the meat is very ordinary and tastes bad, but the food outside is delicious and very fragrant.

Thinking about the house she lived in, Yang Dawa couldn't help feeling numb all over her scalp and itching all over her body.

The place in the house is really not comparable to the city here. Even the place where the workers live is much better than the house.

The place where I live is no different from that of a pigsty. There are too many small animals of all kinds, and my whole body is itchy, which makes me uncomfortable.

"I have earned money, so I will go back to my hometown and continue to live that kind of life?"

Yang Dawa kept thinking in her heart.

Although she misses her parents and younger siblings in her hometown, Yang Dawa suddenly feels a sense of resistance when she thinks of continuing to live that kind of life after returning home.

He now understands the reason why these Han people are not willing to associate with their Yi people. In the hearts of these Han people, they probably think that their side is dirty and poor. Gifts and such.

"I guess I can't go back to my hometown."

Yang Dawa suddenly felt in her heart that she might never go back to her hometown to live.

Yang Dawa couldn't see any hope, any future in the place of her hometown.

Poverty and backwardness have been like this from generation to generation, and no changes have been seen for hundreds or thousands of years.

Dawa Yang doesn't want to live like this again, nor does she want her own children to live like this again, with no hope or future.

"Well, in the future, I will be like Brother Wei Tie, buy a house in this city, and marry a beautiful woman from the Han family!"

Yang Dawa also silently made up her mind in her heart, and vowed in her heart that she would also take root in this city, and if she wanted to take root here, she would never go back to the mountains to live that kind of hopeless life.

(End of this chapter)