bookbashuk Chapter 127
Chapter 127
“My name is Zhou Ran, you can just call me Xiao Zhou, uncle!”
Lao Fang laughed when he heard Zhou Ran’s title: “Uncle? Haha, young man, I’m only fifty-five years old. I should be about the same age as your dad, right? There are disabled people on the construction site. You young people can make some money.” Leave quickly, you can’t stay in this place.”
Zhou Ran couldn’t help but be stunned when he heard Lao Fang’s age. He looked like he was sixty years old when he was in his fifties. Although he had never met his father, Lao Lu was the most striking contrast. Lao Lu was only five years old this year. He is more than ten years old, but compared with Lao Fang, he is completely more than ten years younger!
“Sorry, uncle, I’m blind.” Zhou Ran apologized with a smile.
Lao Fang waved his hand and said, “It’s okay. Let’s go. I’ll introduce you to the brothers in our team.”
Soon, Lao Fang took Zhou Ran to a scaffolding.
“Brothers, come out and recognize me. The captain has paired us with a new little brother today.”
After Lao Fang finished speaking, a few figures appeared scattered on the scaffolding. Their faces were covered with sweat, but they all smiled and said hello when they saw Zhou Zhou.
Because Zhou Ran put on makeup before coming today, his face was dark and he was wearing a safety helmet, so no one recognized his identity.
“Lao Li, Xiao Zhou will clean up the little things here with you today. You can help take care of it.”
Lao Fang handed Zhou Ran over to an uncle who was about the same age as him. The uncle pushed the cart and looked at Zhou Ran and said calmly: “Follow me.”
Zhou Ran nodded hurriedly and followed Lao Li to the corner of the construction site. The other party told him that he only needed to clean up the garbage that the workers had cleaned up, and try to make it look as tidy as possible. If nothing happened, he could sit aside and rest.
Generally speaking, the level of tiring work of this job is indeed terrifyingly simple and easy compared to other workers. Of course, Zhou Ran also observed that this kind of work is only done by older people.
For example, Lao Li seems to be several years older than Lao Fang, so he has always been doing this job on the construction site.
Zhou Ran found that Lao Li spoke very little and always had a dark face when anyone greeted him. And it was not just Lao Li. All the workers under Lao Fang were very indifferent, except when he came just now and Lao Fang asked them to say hello. Everyone smiled politely, and after that, Zhou Ran almost didn’t see their smiling faces.
Maybe it was because he was too tired from work. Although Zhou Ran was curious at this time, he was comforting himself in his heart.
The workload in the morning was not very heavy. Zhou Ran took a break after pushing the trolley twice, and it was soon time for lunch.
According to Lao Fang, they are outsourced construction teams, so no one takes care of the food. They buy food outside after get off work. However, in order to save money, everyone does not want to eat too good, so they just have a bowl of stew and then add it. Just two steamed buns can deal with it.
Looking at the food these workers were eating, Zhou Ran felt uncomfortable. They were also the fathers of the children at home, the husbands of the wives at home, and the sons of the parents at home, but they worked so hard here just to earn some hard money.
“Is this enough to fill you up?”
Zhou Ran looked at the worker buying stew next door and couldn’t help but wonder.
Because he saw that although there were many stews, there was no meat in them at all. They were all ordinary vegetarian dishes.
Old Li next to him said calmly: “Just deal with it once you’re not hungry. We haven’t been paid for almost a year. Haha, it would be nice to have money to eat.”
“No salary for a year?” Zhou Ran couldn’t help but frown when he heard this.
Lao Fang said in a deep voice beside him: “Okay, stop talking, finish your work early, go back and have a rest, and continue working in the afternoon.”
All the workers under me numbly took out their money and started queuing up to buy food.
“Uncle Fang, Uncle Li, don’t buy it yet. I’ll treat you to the meal today.”
After saying this, Zhou Ran directly told the roadside stall owner to put together some better lunch boxes.
Seeing this, several workers all started to refuse excitedly.
“Xiao Zhou, you just came here and didn’t make much money, so I asked you to treat me. There is no such rule. So, let me treat you to today’s meal.”
After saying this, Lao Fang hurriedly took out his mobile phone and prepared to scan the QR code.
But Zhou Ran stood in front: “Uncle Fang, I’m not here to work. The way I make money is easier than yours, so you don’t have to worry about me, okay?”
Hearing Zhou Ran’s words, Lao Fang and others couldn’t help but be stunned.
Zhou Ran didn’t hesitate to scan the code first, then paid and was done.
In this way, Lao Fang’s eight workers all carried the box lunches with three dishes and one soup and ate them hungrily.
There was finally a smile on everyone’s faces, and the eyes they looked at Zhou Ran became very friendly.
At this time in the live broadcast room, many viewers are watching
Very sad.
“I always thought that the workers were hardworking, but I didn’t expect that after Zhou Ran experienced the workers today, we really saw the hard-working brother workers.”
“Earning one’s own hard-earned money is worthy of praise. Every worker brother is the most beautiful architect in this city.”
“Well, if Zhou Ran hadn’t appeared, Lao Fang and the others would have been eating this every day. I even saw that there seemed to be a lot of flies flying into the stews just now.”
“This is a worker. The uncle just said that he hasn’t been paid for almost a year. I’m just wondering why the relevant departments don’t take care of it.”
“Yes, it’s a bit outrageous to not have been paid for almost a year. I was wondering just now, what is going on?”
“…”
The audience was discussing in the live broadcast room.
At this time, at the scene, Zhou Ran also chatted with Lao Fang while eating.
“Uncle Fang, I just heard from Uncle Li that wages haven’t been paid for almost a year. What’s going on? Didn’t you respond if wages haven’t been paid for so long?”
Before Lao Fang spoke, a worker next to him said calmly: “Is the reaction useful? It’s not just us, many workers in this area have not received wages for almost a year.”
“Haha, every time I go there, I’m told that the project can’t make any money, so I’ll let everyone work on it first. We don’t believe it. If we don’t believe it, then we’ll make a fuss. But they have already prepared for it. It’s useless for you to make a fuss, because the bosses We have already partnered with the project department.”
After hearing the words of these two workers, Zhou Ran felt extremely depressed at this moment.
Lao Fang ate his meal and said with a smile: “It’s okay. I’ll be back by the end of the year. You guys, just work hard and don’t think too much.”
“Lao Fang, how many times have you told us this? Do you think you believe it? Anyway, it’s just this month. If there is no news about this month’s salary, then I will go and fight with the people in the project department and write a report to the superiors. If Donghai City doesn’t work, I’ll write to the province, because I don’t believe it’s dark all day.”