Riding your favorite tandem bike
No more traffic jams
Humming cheerful music.
Li Weidong rode his bicycle back to the courtyard.
As soon as they entered the middle courtyard, they heard a quarrel.
"Master Liu, your skills are not good at this. I will deduct some money from you when the wages are settled later."
"Why can't it work?"
"Look, the wall is not even at all. It looks like it has been gnawed by a dog."
The mason looked at where Jia Zhang was pointing, with an angry expression on his dark face: "Sister-in-law, that's a brick. It must be uneven. If you want it to be smooth, you have to put a layer of lime on it."
"Anyway, I don't care. If you don't get it right, I'll just deduct your wages."
Jia Zhang's triangular eyes were slanted, with his hands clasped in his arms, as if he was determined to be a mason.
I have to deduct at least three yuan, which is just enough to buy painkillers this month.
The onlookers shook their heads in disdain when they saw Jia Zhang being so unreasonable.
It stands to reason that lime should be used to build houses and walls.
However, Jia Zhang felt that quicklime was too expensive and forced the masons to use yellow mud mixed with straw to build the wall.
This is already difficult to do.
Fortunately, the mason's skills are good.
After a lot of effort, I finally built more than half of it.
Who would have thought that when the wall was almost finished, Mrs. Jia Zhang started to find faults.
Either the wall is uneven or the mud is not strong.
In a word, it's just a deduction.
This time, the masons quoted the lowest price for the Jia family's house repair work, because Yi Zhonghai was the one who brokered it, which was a total of seven yuan and fifty cents.
At the end of the afternoon, the mason had already been deducted ten dollars.
He couldn't earn a penny, so the plasterer still had to pay two and a half dollars.
In the words of Jia Zhang.
This is an opportunity for masons to practice their skills. So much material has been wasted, and you still want wages?
Replace who.
No one can stand it.
The mason originally came to work for the Jia family for the sake of his nephew.
Seeing this situation, I couldn't bear it anymore.
I packed up my belongings and got ready to leave.
"I won't do it anymore. I'm unlucky for this job, so I won't do it anymore."
Seeing the mason laying down his work, Mrs. Jia Zhang was not in a hurry.
He held his arms in his arms and watched quietly there, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised and a hint of excitement flashing in his eyes.
Anyway, there was only a little work left, and she would hire someone to repair it later, and that would be it.
"It's better to leave than give it away. Anyway, I won't give you money. For the sake of my face, I won't ask you for the money you owe me."
Jia Zhang's triangular eyes were slanted, and she raised her head arrogantly, "Who makes me a kind-hearted person. I will accumulate blessings and do good deeds throughout my life!"
"You" the mason almost fainted from anger.
An honest and simple mason who has been working for most of his life.
I have never seen such an unreasonable owner.
Even the landlords before liberation would not deduct wages from their wages.
Just at this time.
Li Aiguo happened to walk in pushing his bicycle.
After learning the ins and outs of the matter.
He smiled and said, "It's just a coincidence, Master. I think your skills are good. I just need to put a big pot at home. I'll have to trouble you in two days."
Masons rely on their craftsmanship for a living.
After spending so many days at Jia's house, I couldn't get any money, and I was worried about the children's tuition fees.
Hearing this, he nodded excitedly: "Okay, don't worry, I will definitely do a good job for you."
"I'm not worried about your craftsmanship, but after so many days of work at Jia's house, is it all in vain?"
"What harm, what can we do if we encounter such an unreasonable person!" The mason sighed while holding his tools.
"It's unreasonable. In this day and age, does anyone still dare to play rogue with the working people?"
Li Aiguo tied up his bicycle and walked to Jia Zhang.
Jia Zhang thought of her previous encounters and subconsciously shrank her neck.
But feeling that he had lost his momentum, he stiffened his neck again and glared at Li Aiguo.
"Li Aiguo, this matter has nothing to do with you. Stop meddling in other people's business."
"It doesn't matter? Your Jia family is a resident of our compound and now owes the working people remuneration for their labor. If this matter spreads, it means that our courtyard is bullying the working people."
Li Aiguo said coldly: "The behavior of your Jia family is to put a shit basin on my head and discredit the Siheyuan. Does it have anything to do with me?"
When Jia Zhang saw Li Aiguo getting involved, she knew she was in trouble.
But I never expected it.
Li Aiguo actually labeled her as "bullying working people".
Moreover, other residents in the compound were also implicated.
Things are in trouble.
really.
The residents who were watching frowned and started talking about it.
"Yes, this mason is very skilled. It's very inappropriate for Jia Zhang to do this."
"Jia Zhang belongs to our Siheyuan. If word spreads, people will definitely accuse us Siheyuan people of being unreasonable."
"If the sub-district office finds out, will it affect the selection of advanced compounds?"
Yi Zhonghai put his hands behind his back.
He has been standing by the Crescent Moon Gate.
The mason is the second uncle of his apprentice Fu Cheng.
Seeing Mr. Jia and Zhang embarrass the mason, he was in a dilemma.
but.
How can an apprentice be as important as a son?
Yi Zhonghai finally chose not to come forward.
Who admits it.
Now Li Aiguo's words have put a big label on Jia Zhang.
If it were really confirmed, Ms. Jia and Zhang would have to face criticism from the street office.
"Sister-in-law of the Jia family, you have to pay others for their labor. This is an eternal truth."
Yi Zhonghai stepped forward with his hands behind his back, like a feudal patriarch, and said slowly.
"But..." Jia Zhang rolled her eyes.
Yi Zhonghai quietly leaned into her ear and said, "Jia Dongxu is about to take the fitter promotion exam. You don't want Dongxu to fail the exam, right?"
Jia Zhang shut her mouth.
Yi Zhonghai looked at the mason: "Master Liu, you are Fu Cheng's second uncle, and I am Fu Cheng's master. Give me a face today and finish the rest of the work."
"I won't do it anymore. Even if you don't give me a penny, I won't do it anymore." The mason is also a person with a temper.
With Li Aiguo standing beside him, Yi Zhonghai certainly wouldn't dare not give him money.
Finally, the Jia family paid five yuan to settle the matter.
Mrs. Jia Zhang watched the mason take the banknotes and put them into his pocket with his hands covered with soil, and his teeth chattered in anger.
She used the money to buy painkillers.
It's really a waste to give it to a mud-legged person.
certainly.
What she hated most was Li Aiguo.
As soon as this thief came back, he ruined the good things of the Jia family.
It's so abominable.
no.
We can't just let it go.
This guy can't stay here.
When Dongxu comes back, he must discuss with Dongxu how to get rid of Li Aiguo.
The light burst out from Jia Zhang's eyes.
"Young man, I really want to thank you this time. Without you, I would definitely not get my salary back."
Inside the Li family house.
The bricklayer looked at Li Aiguo with a grateful face.
"You're welcome."
Li Aiguo waved his hand: "It is only natural to work and receive money!"
This era has the largest number of working people, and there is no such thing as illegal wage payment.
Anyone who dares to deduct wages from working people will be hung on a telephone pole tomorrow.
Not even the King of Heaven can do it.
Li Aiguo said it!
"Master, my stove has been in disrepair for a long time and can no longer be used. I want you to make a new one."
The plasterer has been a master for many years.
We are a designer, construction team, and estimator all in one.
Soon, a brand new pot stove was designed based on Li Aiguo's idea.
"Young man, I've done some calculations. To satisfy your idea, I need 500 bricks and 600 kilograms of quicklime."
Perhaps in order to save money for Li Aiguo, the bricklayer changed his mind and said, "Actually, yellow clay will work, but it won't be strong."
"Where's the cement?"
"Ah?!" The bricklayer was confused.
"I mean, how about we use cement?" Li Aiguo said.
"Of course cement is the best, it's strong and beautiful, but it's a pipe product and it's hard to get it on the market."
Masons have worked with cement before.
That was when we were building a house with a resident in the compound, and the resident spent a lot of money to get it.
"Don't worry about it, I have my own solution."
Li Aiguo raised his head and looked at the roof, then at the mottled walls, and suddenly asked: "If we repair all those small holes and then repaint the walls, how much cement will it take?"
"At least one ton." The bricklayer carefully reported a number.
"Okay!" Li Aiguo said, "You go back first. When I get the cement, I will let you know."
"well."
Although he promised, the mason no longer had confidence in this job.
I can still get one or two bags of cement.
But one ton of cement requires approval.
Li Aiguo's family conditions seem to be ordinary.
How can I get the approval slip?
Li Aiguo couldn't get the approval slip, but Wang Dakui could.
Wang Dakui has been in the pigeon market for many years, and he has an old customer who happens to be the deputy director of a cement factory.
There is a lot of 'non-compliant' cement in the cement factory, which will be given to workers and cadres as welfare.
That guy seems to particularly like eating the rice from Jincheng Station.
We can exchange rice for cement.
certainly.
We have to wait until the Beijing-Tianjin trade line is opened before making plans for these matters.
When we get out of the car tomorrow, we can go to Jincheng and discuss the trade line with the fat little black man.
After Li Aiguo made up his mind.
Carrying the gifts brought back by Liu Tianquan and Liu Diquan, I arrived at Aunt Liu's house.
I met Liu Haizhong on the way.
Since becoming a train driver, Liu Haizhong would say hello every time he saw Li Aiguo.
Unexpectedly, this time he turned his head and pretended not to see it.
The small eyes on the fat head and big ears were round, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, looking a little angry.
what is going on?
I'm not in the courtyard these days, how can I offend Liu Haizhong?
Li Aiguo was puzzled.
(End of chapter)
