I finally waited for this day. On the 10th of each month, it is the day when the workers of the cotton mill pay their wages.

A few days ago, I had to think about how to spend my first month’s salary. The apprentice’s salary is 14 yuan, 8 yuan, and the remaining 6 yuan is spent. I bought some daily necessities and had a good meal in the cafeteria. I had to grit my teeth and buy some leftovers, so I had to go to Xinhua Bookstore to buy two books. Since the master started lending books to me, my desire for books has become stronger and stronger. Seeing the words that made me love come and go in a hurry, I always felt indescribable melancholy, and I also thought about owning several books I loved.

The day before the salary was paid, on the evening of the 9th, I returned to the guesthouse after get off work. As soon as I passed the woods, I saw from afar, my father and his "big golden deer" standing in the twilight in front of the yard.

"Dad, why are you here?" I rushed over and looked at my father happily.

"I'll get my salary tomorrow, I'll get the money." My father changed his previous seriousness, and his face was full of bright smiles.

"I'll just help you get it. I'll take it back next time I go home, so I'll have to go there for you." My father ran so far to get his salary, but he didn't let me help him get it back, which made me feel a little puzzled.

My father glanced at me without responding, pointed to the gate of the courtyard and urged, "Stop talking, hurry up and let me in, drink water and rest."

I quickly opened the yard gate, let my father into the yard, and helped him push the bicycle to the power distribution room behind. My father unloaded two wilted cabbages for winter from the "Big Golden Deer" and a pile of pancakes wrapped tightly.

"This is your food ration for next month. Your mother baked it for the middle of the night last night." Dad pointed at the yellow burrito and said boastingly.

At the age of sixteen, it was the time for boys to grow and develop. Doing maintenance work every day is a labor that consumes energy and physical strength, so it is really upsetting to eat three pancakes a day from the beginning of the moon to the end of the moon, from fresh to mold. Now, seeing the original wheat pancakes changed to corn pancakes, I feel even more aggrieved and I feel a little angry.

"I've been eating for a month." I muttered dissatisfiedly, and my father didn't seem to hear it.

At night, I was squeezed into the same bed with my father again, and I tried my best to stagnate away from his stinky feet. My father didn't feel the unhappiness in my heart, and lay on the bed and chatted excitedly: "I found out that you, Uncle Cui, will be back soon. This time we didn't prepare anything. Next time I hit the house, I will definitely catch two little roosters who didn't scream. Thank you very much."

"Do you think everyone is like scar eyes, and you are interested in your little rooster?" My father choked in anger.

"What scar eyes, why are you rude?" Dad was obviously annoyed, "If you don't give the little rooster, can you live here in peace? Your Uncle Cui would be like a 'boy chicken', saying that it can strengthen the aphrodisiac and nourish the kidneys, you don't understand this."

"I don't bother to understand!" I muttered, turning over and not willing to pay attention to him anymore.

"How are you doing in the preservation class?"

"Um."

"Can you get along with everyone? Don't ignore others all day long like Lu Yu."

"Um."

"What are you always 'um'?" Dad was a little discouraged when he saw that I didn't want to pay attention to him. He smiled for a moment before muttering to himself, "This old Xu is really too shameful. Why did you find such a master for you? My pack of 'Peak Horse' cigarette was thrown away in vain."

"What's wrong with this master?" I heard my father belittle his master and opened my eyes again, "Lu Yu is good at treating people well. Besides, his father is a big man from Lu. Isn't my mother the most fond of mentioning this matter when she was alive? If it weren't for him..."

I suddenly realized that I was a little confused and hurriedly stopped the conversation. When my father heard me swallowing half of the words, he suddenly sat up straight, "It's not him... what's wrong with him?"

"Nothing is wrong? Go to bed, you have to go to work tomorrow morning." I didn't want my father to know about Lu Yu's helping me to stand up, so I quickly pretended to go to bed, shut up and stopped saying anything.

That night, the first spring thunder sounded, and the drizzle fell for most of the night. When I went to the pool in front of the building to wash, I was surprised to find that the tender green grass buds in the entire courtyard were drilled out of the ground like embroidery needles.

During breakfast, my father said he had gone back after he received his salary. I asked him in a little surprise, "You have received both of us, I don't have a penny, how can I spend next month?"

My father looked at me in surprise: "It's not expensive to take a bath in the factory. I'll send soap and towels every quarter. I'll leave you a dollar, which is enough to buy a toothbrush and toothpaste. I used to spend almost nothing every month."

My father made me feel depressed, but I felt difficult to tell the difference. I felt like I had something in my mouth and couldn't speak.

My father didn't feel the change in my mood, and continued to say with a gaze: "Now, we both earned our salary, and we should save money. In two years, we will renovate the main hall at home and build three large tiled houses. Let your second concubine tell you the wife of the house. I will be able to fulfill my merits in this life."

When my father said this, Qingyun's cheeks flushed red, and the deep wrinkles on his forehead bloomed. Looking at his addicted look, I felt sour in my heart. The corn pancake that I had just eaten was also filled with sourness in my stomach.

"I'm getting married? I don't know the year of the monkey and the month of the horse." I vomited sore mouth and muttered in a low voice.

"What is the year of the monkey? It's time to say it quickly, it's the matter in front of you. Your second concubine came to match you, and they have been running several times." Dad was a little angry and started yelling at me.

"If I don't go to the factory, will she come to our house to talk to us about the media?" I snorted disdainfully.

My father was so choked by me that he couldn't find a reason. Looking at his angry and anxious embarrassment, I felt relieved and turned my head to go to work.

When I was waiting for me to come back from get off work, I saw a complete 2 yuan note under the pillow of the bed. It was the pocket money left by my father. It seemed that my complaints early in the morning still worked.

After my father left for more than a week, in order to get through the work, the master and I returned to the security class in the evening. There was no one left in the room. I packed up the scattered tools, and the master took a towel and soap, waited for me to leave the workshop together and walked towards the bathroom.

The evening breeze blew gently, and the master asked as he walked, "How are you reading recently?"

"Okay, interesting." Along the way, there were female workers who came out of the bath. I glanced back and forth with my eyes and replied casually.

"What's the point?" The master continued to ask from the side without realizing that I was distracted.

"Well...why...what..." I stopped my eyes and thought seriously. "It's just fun and fun, and sometimes I'm very touched. After reading a book, I always think about what will happen in the future. I am concerned about the lives and destiny of the characters in the book, and I know many places and things in the world, and it seems that I have figured out some truths."

"You kid is a bit of a beginner in reading books. You have started to develop towards 'talented'. I didn't choose the wrong one at the beginning." The master happily patted my shoulder.

When the master was chatting, my eyes turned again, scanning back and forth in the fat swallows and thin, hoping to see the outstanding figure of Yin Hong.

There were not many people in the bathroom. When I was taking off my clothes, I covered my lower body intentionally or unintentionally. The master glanced at me strangely: "You kid should practice your muscles well."

After hearing the master’s reminder, looking at his smooth muscles and looking at his bean sprout-like figure, I felt a little ashamed and couldn’t help but beg for the master: “Master, will I follow you to practice martial arts?”

The master had taken off his clothes and stared at me naked for several seconds: "Do you really want to practice martial arts? That's a big deal."

I saw the master's serious look and thought to myself that there was a way to go, and I couldn't help but feel happy: "Master, I can endure hardship."

After hearing my words, the master pondered for a moment, and finally nodded gently: "Okay, as long as you can endure hardships, but remember, practice martial arts early in the morning and endure hardships for life. You must practice boxing every day. As the saying goes, "If you keep your mouth and your hands, you will never leave your hands."

"Master, I remember." I felt a sense of joy.

In fact, I had long thought about making myself stronger. First, no one dared to bully me anymore, and second, I could even walk in the workshop like a master, attracting a lot of hot eyes. Of course, this is my own little thought and I can't tell you to the master.

I took off my whole body and went to the large pond, soaked in boiling hot water to drive away the chill and labor of my body. It was the most pleasant enjoyment of the preservation workers in the day. The master and I closed our eyes and soaked for 20 minutes. We felt that the skin all over our body began to soften and the heat soaked the internal organs. The master stood up and called me to come up and make soap. After rinsing in the shower, we helped each other to rub each other's backs red. At this time, people kept coming up to greet the master, and the master chatted with others.

"Hurry up and go back to have a meal. After dinner, you go to the entrance of the cinema to find me and I'll invite you to watch a movie." For some reason, the master has been in a particularly good mood these days.

The master's words made me excited. To be honest, since I took over from work to the factory, when I passed by the dormitory area every day, I heard all kinds of noises coming from the cinema, and my heart was itchy. However, I had never stepped in once, because the movie tickets cost one cent per cent, I was discouraged because I was so clean that I almost didn't have a penny.
Chapter completed!