A strange encounter of a part-time job

At the age of 16, due to the large population of the family, my father would only honestly keep a few acres of thin fields, and can not engage in side business like other people in the village, my mother's eyes and bad, the family really can not get money for our siblings to study, I am the oldest in the family, had no choice but to drop out of school at home. At this time, several young people are working in the nearby villages, and a distant cousin of mine happened to be working in Dongguan, Guangdong, so I asked my relatives for my cousin's address and set out on a journey to Guangdong with the 200 yuan my father sold piglets for.

I managed to squeeze onto the train to Guangzhou, never having traveled before, I was curious about everything. The train started, and even though the aisle was full of people, I walked around excitedly, and when I reached the carriage joint, I felt tired and leaned on the door to rest. After about 20 minutes, the number of people around me gradually increased. Suddenly, several people blocked me on the side of the car door, one of them insisted that I stole 300 yuan from him, I said I did not steal, and there are two guys full of cross-faced meat like wolves - staring at me, but also with a knee to my stomach. To prove my innocence, I took out only 130 yuan I had from my underwear pocket and said, "This is all I have on me, you can search if you don't believe me." Before I finished my words, the person who said I stole the money grabbed the money in my hand and said, "This money is exactly mine!" The other two men kicked me while saying, "Kid, see how you dare to steal!" Their feet just kicked me in the waist, so I bent over in pain, and when I straightened up, the men had disappeared. I was so anxious that I cried and told the people watching that I didn't steal the money and that 130 yuan was the only money I had on me. At that moment a woman said: "They are a few people, thieves shouting to catch thieves!" I got up and went to look for them, but the men evaporated, and I foolishly found my way through the cars until the train arrived at Guangzhou Station.

After leaving the station, I searched my body and found only 3 yuan and a train ticket. I spent 1 yuan to buy bread to fill my hunger, and then took my cousin's address and stopped a van bound for Dongguan after being pointed out. I told the driver that I had no money and asked him to help take me to Dongguan. The driver cursed a crazy, no money still want to take the car, and then a step on the gas and run away. Finally, I stopped the car, and directly on the seat, the conductor came to me to buy a ticket, I said I do not have money, I want Dongguan to find my cousin, begging him to help give me a ride. After saying all the good things, the conductor agreed.

After arriving in Dongguan, I finally found the factory where my cousin was located after a lot of trouble, and it was already completely dark. I reported my cousin's name to the factory gatekeeper, who said the man had left the factory two days ago. I asked him where he had gone, and the doorman said he didn't know. Now I was anxious and didn't know what to do. I was alone in this strange city, penniless and with no relatives.

I walked aimlessly on the road in the industrial area, and when I came to a bridge, I couldn't walk anymore. I saw a bridge hole, I did not even think about it and went in. A feel, the original early sleep here, I will also lie down next to. Anyway, I was penniless and not afraid of people stealing, not afraid of people robbing, and too tired, and soon fell asleep.

When I woke up the next day, I started to ask one by one in front of the factories in the industrial area, looking for a job to make ends meet, and the answer was amazingly consistent - there is no recruitment. I hadn't eaten for days and was so hungry that my chest was pressed against my back. When I passed by a construction site and saw the rebar already tied on the site, a thought came to me.

It was hard to stay up until dark, and so the site lights out, I guess the workers are asleep, I took out the long-prepared woven bags into the site, and those who can be packed into the bags of rebar picked up a bag full of seventy to eighty pounds. I carried it up to the door a few steps, maybe a few days without food, feel very strenuous then put down, but accidentally bumped into a stone. "Bam" sounded especially loud in the darkness of the night.

"Quite?" From behind came - a voice breaking, I stood still in fear of the atmosphere and did not dare to come out, the suffocating silence, suddenly a flashlight shone, so I have nowhere to hide. I heard someone shout: "There are thieves!" I thought it was over, my heart was racing, but I just didn't know how to escape. The next person came up to me and shone his flashlight on the bag of rebar. By the light of the flashlight, I could see that the person standing in front of me was an old man in his 60s. The old man said, "Did you take these? If I hadn't come out to pee, these bars would have been stolen from you! Young, do not learn good, do this kind of unseemly things can get rich?" I said, "Grandpa, this is my first time. I came here to look for my cousin, but I couldn't find him, I couldn't find a job, and my money was robbed on the train. I have not eaten for several days ......" At this time several young people from the shed out loud shouted there are thieves, surrounding me to fight, the old man rushed to discourage me: "are out of people, this young man is also really a difficult situation. " Hearing this, I can no longer stop my tears, days of aggression so I let out a loud voice of grief. The old man touched my stomach and said, "What are you hungry for?" After saying that, he led me into the shed, and then brought a bowl of leftover rice. I took the bowl and gobbled it up.