Reborn to Strive

From J City to Changxi City, it takes five to ten minutes by bus, and the ticket is four yuan.

For Shi Zhen, who had less than one hundred yuan in all his possessions, the eight yuan ticket for the two of them was a lot of money.

Shi Xinghuo had already finished the six buns in his hand, and looked out the car window excitedly.

Shi Zhen also watched the scene outside the window silently.

City J in 94 was far less developed than later generations, but the houses on the roadside and farmland were almost all small two-story buildings.

It's just that these small buildings are not as western-looking as they were later, and most of them have the simplest appearance. The walls are only plastered with white lime, and the tiles are also black.

He remembered that in the next few years, J City developed rapidly. In the past few years, wealthy families in the countryside would demolish these houses and build small buildings with novel styles and tiled walls. The house built by others looks better than the villas in the urban community.

Arriving at Changxi City along the national highway, Shi Zhen took Shi Xinghuo to board a bus and went straight to Anshan Town.

The countryside in J City is well developed. Changxi City is one of the top [-] counties in the country, and the towns below are also richer than each other and have a larger population.

There is a bus from Changxi City to Anshan Town in half an hour. Get on the bus and buy a ticket, which costs [-] yuan per person.

The bus stopped from time to time along the way, and people got on the bus one after another.

Shi Zhen and Shi Xinghuo's attires were rather shabby, and there were not as many migrant workers these days, so everyone looked at them curiously.

When Shi Zhen was young, he hated this kind of gaze. At that time, he had high self-esteem and always felt that others looked down on him, so when he had some money, he thought about wearing clothes well and using them well, but now he has long since lost this idea.

The two of them took a car and soon came to Anshan Town.

Anshan Town has "mountain" in its name, but in fact there is no mountain. It is a small town in the south of the Yangtze River with dense water networks and fertile land. In ancient times, it was even a county seat.

Guan Baiyu lives here.

Thinking of Guan Baiyu, Shi Zhen's heart trembled, and a sore, itchy, numb feeling spread from his heart to his whole body, making him unable to walk.

After he brought Shi Xinghuo to City J in his previous life, he didn't come to Anshan Town. He was always looking for a job in City J, and he finally found it, that is, as a "small worker" on the construction site.

There are many kinds of work on the construction site, such as masonry, carpentry, plumbers and other skilled jobs, the wages are higher, and they will be honored as "Master". Those jobs that do not require skills are all " They go to the construction site to do unskilled work, which is also called "doing a small job".

On the construction site, someone needs to move bricks, mix cement, and do various chores. Naturally, many small workers are needed.

The work was hard and tiring. He and Shi Xinghuo worked as small laborers on the construction site for about ten hours a day, and the contractor promised ten yuan a day's wages.

They have dug river silt, moved bricks, demolished houses, and done all sorts of miscellaneous jobs early in the morning. The contractors always withheld their money or delayed paying them.

But Shi Zhen endured it.

He wants to learn technology on the construction site.

He has made all plans, and when he has learned what he wants to learn, he will go back to the village and pull some folks out to work.

He can't take on big projects, but in the rural areas of J City, there are many people who want to build houses.

He can take over the work of building self-built houses from farmers.

There are also local people in J City who help people build houses, but they are not enough at all. As long as their fees are not high, they don't have to worry about not having work to do!

He thought well, but an accident happened.

That day, Shi Xinghuo was moving bricks, when a pile of bricks suddenly fell from the scaffolding, and Shi Xinghuo, who didn't have a safety helmet, was smashed to the ground.

Shi Xinghuo was saved when he was sent to the hospital, but the contractor refused to pay a penny for the medical expenses.

Although Shi Xinghuo is stupid, he has no problems in life. He is also very obedient, and he is especially hardworking when it comes to physical work.

On the construction site, because of his honesty, he did more work than other small workers like him.

Now he was injured because of potential safety hazards at the construction site. The contractor not only refused to pay the medical expenses, but also protected the mason who did not put the bricks away, because the mason was from the same village as the contractor.

Shi Zhen almost knelt down and begged for Shi Xinghuo's medical expenses at that time. As a result, the family drove the car and ate at the big hotel, and only paid them the several hundred yuan in wages owed to them. hurt.

Seeing that Shi Xinghuo was about to die after a simple operation without follow-up treatment, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he managed to arrest the contractor, beat him up, and forced his family to take money.

The family of the contractor called the police, and Shi Zhen was sent to the detention center for kidnapping, extortion, wounding and other crimes.

He kidnapped people in order to ask for medical expenses. After all, he was not sentenced, and he was released after staying in the detention center for a few months. But when he came out, Shi Xinghuo was already dead.

And the contractor, after paying 5 yuan, continued to live his happy life.

He was young and energetic at the time, so naturally he couldn't bear the loss of a life like this, and made up his mind to take revenge on that contractor, and also wanted to get ahead, so that this kind of thing would never happen again.

After that, according to his own plan, he took a group of young people in the group to Changxi City below J City, and ran around the countryside around Changxi City, building houses for others to earn money.

He used this to save his first pot of gold in his life. Later, when Changxi City and the surrounding small towns started demolition, they even took on some larger projects.

J city is highly competitive and he can't beat others, but in a small place, he can get along like a fish in water.

He met Guan Baiyu in 98.

At that time, he was 22 and had some money, so he began to think about getting married and having children.

In the end, I didn't get married yet, so I met Guan Baiyu first.

Guan Baiyu was brought to work on the construction site by a bricklayer he knew.

The 19-year-old young man is very handsome, with red lips and white teeth. When he saw it for the first time, his eyes lit up.

However, he paid attention to Guan Baiyu not because of Guan Baiyu's appearance, but because Guan Baiyu was incompatible with the construction site.

He is weak and weak, wearing a pair of glasses, he doesn't look like doing physical labor, and when others are playing cards at noon, he holds a book and reads.

Shi Zhen went over to glance at his book, but couldn't understand it at all.

He later found out that it was a textbook for adult self-examination.

After Guan Baiyu dropped out of high school, he wanted to take the self-examination, and he was studying at the time.

People on the construction site respect scholars, so everyone treats Guan Baiyu well and takes good care of him. He has more and more contacts with Guan Baiyu, and he likes Guan Baiyu more and more.

He didn't know anything about homosexuality at that time, and he didn't know his own mind. It wasn't until one time when he was drunk and hugged and kissed Guan Baiyu who was sending him home that he realized that there was something wrong with him.

After that, he only cared about his own happiness and coaxed Guan Baiyu to be nice to him.

At that time, the Internet was underdeveloped, and people were strictly guarded against sex. Guan Baiyu was only 19 years old and knew nothing. He was coaxed and lied to by him, so he stayed with him.

He lives like Guan Baiyu and his wife.

But he couldn't help Guan Baiyu.

At that time, he was very ambitious, and all he cared about was fame and fortune, and he just wanted to get ahead and become a rich man.

This thought cannot be wrong.

But he originally wanted to make money to make the people around him live a better life, but as time went by, he had already deviated from his original intention.

Because of interests, his relatives and friends turned against each other, and because of his busy schedule, he and Guan Baiyu also stayed together less and separated more.

At that time, he still had no sense of responsibility, and he was already with Guan Baiyu, but he still wanted to find someone to marry and have children.

It's just... Before he could do anything, something happened.

At that time, he had been with Guan Baiyu for six years. During these six years, taking advantage of the development and construction in J City, his career skyrocketed.

In these years, he has also acted a little extreme. After getting rich, he got into a fight with the contractor who refused to pay Shi Xinghuo's medical expenses at the beginning.

The two competed for workers, for projects, and for everything.

In order to suppress that person, he did a lot of things that he hated at first, and he eventually became a person that he hated.

He won the fight.

As for the contractor, he got rich too fast and got into many bad habits, including gambling. He first lost a lot of money, and then he went to speculate in stocks in order to make money. If you invest elsewhere, you will lose everything...

But even so, because everyone in J City knows that this person is rich, this person can always use various methods to borrow money for investment, or ask relatives and friends to borrow money from the bank for him.

The project under this man has never stopped, and he insists on doing it.

But Shi Zhen troubled this person several times, robbed the project that this person regarded as a life-saving straw, and made public the news that this person had gone bankrupt.

The decency that this person had maintained by moving around disappeared in an instant. The workers whom he owed wages, the friends who had given him many investments, the relatives whom he tricked him into going to the bank to give him loans...all of them came to him.

Shi Zhen felt a little uneasy when he thought about what happened back then.

He was overjoyed when he learned that his enemy was bankrupt, and even bought firecrackers to set off, but he never thought that after the man was desperate, he wanted to die with him and drove a car to hit him.

He didn't die, but Guan Baiyu died.

Guan Baiyu was really unlucky to meet him.

She was coaxed by him to take a detour to be with a man, to wash and cook for him, and to help him do things, and in the end she even lost her life.

After Guan Baiyu's death, he was in a daze for a long time, and he handed over the company's affairs to others. Every day, he stayed at home and read the books Guan Baiyu bought home.

When he was young, he didn't like to read books, and at most he listened to martial arts stories on the radio. After Guan Baiyu died, he read a lot.

After reading too many books, his thoughts changed.

Shi Zhen walked out of the small bus station in Anshan Town with a snakeskin bag in his hand.

Everything in this era is small in his eyes.

The "big bridge" with only two lanes is small, the spacious national highway in the eyes of others is small, and the bus station is even smaller.

After all, in the next 20 years, the entire city of J will be demolished and under construction, changing almost every year.

There are countless opportunities and a bright future here.

More importantly, there is a lively Guan Baiyu here.

Shi Zhen smiled, sincerely.