Perhaps it was because he was relatively old, so he did not hear Brucille’s words very clearly.
So he stopped and pricked up his ears. “What did you say?”
“I say you don’t know Du Bo. Du Bo, have you heard of him?”
Brucille said under his ear, but he was afraid that the sound was too loud to break his eardrums. Fortunately, he heard it clearly this time.
He nodded and said, “Little Du, I know. You can always go to the joint house in front. This house is almost torn down. Only the couple still stick to the couple. I don’t know if we old-fashioned people should live in the new house first or the cemetery first.”
After that, he waved his hand and walked out of the village.
He had been looking forward to the front door of the couplet, which was the old-fashioned type with the red couplets on it. Although the color faded a few months ago, the sonorous handwriting was still visible.
The Ginseng: Good luck all year round in a year; The Ginseng: The treasures of all directions enter the home; horizontal approval: home and everything is prosperous.
It could be seen that Du Bo was looking forward to this year’s good life. He hoped that at this moment, although he could not make money in all directions, at least everything would go well with his family.
He gently let out a murky breath and then knocked on the door softly.
“Du Bo, are you there?”
It was not Du Bo who opened the door, but a long-haired woman with an oval face. She was holding a two or three-year-old boy in her arms.
She asked shyly, “Hello, are you looking for Du Bo?”
“Hello, are you Li Yan? I am Du Bo’s friend Brucille. I met him at the class meeting a few days ago. I was busy these days and just left today. So I came to see my brother. Is he at work?”
Li Yan seemed to know Brucille. She said, “Come in and sit down. Du Bo mentioned you a few days ago when he came back from the party. I heard that you are now a big boss.”
“It’s nothing. I brought some fruit to the children.”
He placed the fruits in his hands on the floor. There were two very small rooms in the house. It was obvious that Li Yan was an expert. The inside of the room was very clean. It was a stark contrast to the rubbish heap outside.
After entering the house, Brucille really saw a pair of twin sons. Their eyes were as big as black beans and very handsome.
“Where is Du Bo?”
“He was going to have a rest today. He needed a part-time job in the construction site ahead, so he went to help us earn more money. Wait for me, I’ll call him.”
There was almost no decent furniture in this house, and the three of them were wearing ordinary clothes. He knew that Du Bo was a countryman, and it was difficult for him to find a place to settle down in the city. This life might be what he used to be.
He got up and said, “It’s all right. I’ll go and see you take care of the baby.”
Li Yan didn’t use a high-sounding excuse for the man. Instead, it sounded more simple to say that she was going to do part-time jobs.
Brucille put the leather bag on the table and turned to the construction site ahead. He said that it was construction site, but in fact, he built a wall around the village in the city.
From a distance, he saw Du Bo sweating profusely, picking up red bricks one by one and giving them to the masons under the hot sun.
“Ai, Du Bo, Ju Bo.”
Brucille, standing dozens of meters away, shouted at him. When Du Bo heard someone calling him, he looked up and found that it turned out to be his good brother.
He straightened up and replied, “Wait a minute, I’ll be right there.”
This guy was energetic from the bottom of his bones. Brucille didn’t think this guy could be as good as he was today.
Du Bo stood up and walked over to the possible foreman. “Li Ye, my family’s relatives can’t work today.”
“Xiao Du, are you f*cking joking with me? We’ve agreed that we’ll do it all day long. You can’t get a penny even if you leave now.”
“It’s okay. Just take it as me helping you this morning. It’s free.”
Li Zhen didn’t make things difficult for him. After all, he had done it for free for so long.
But at this time, the foreman said, “Boy, are you treating this as your home garden? You can come and go as you wish. Who else can you do today?”
“Wang Gong, there are indeed relatives in my family. Besides, aren’t there a few others? I don’t want my wages.”
To everyone’s surprise, Wang Gong slapped Du Bo in the face with gloves, which made Du Bo lose his bearings. Du Bo fell on his elbows and knees in the pile of bricks, and all his skin was broken.
Wang Gong shouted, “Stop! All of you! Let’s have a good evaluation. Is this guy going to quit now?”
Standing in the distance, Brucille felt that something was wrong. Du Bo was surrounded by several people, as if he had been beaten just now. He strode over with quick steps.
Several clay-tiled workers looked at Du Bo with the knives in their hands. Du Bo said, “Li Ye, why don’t you say something to me? I don’t even want the change Qianxue. Besides, it’s not like there’s no one doing this job, why bother me?”
Li Gong was obviously not as good-tempered as Wang Gong. Wang Gong grabbed Du Bo, who was lying in the bricks, and scolded, “This piece of land belongs to me. Besides, you’re still living here. If you don’t finish your work today, I’ll tear down your house tonight and let your beautiful wife sleep in the street with her two sons.”
At this moment, Brucille stepped out and grabbed Wang Gong’s hand that was stuck in Du Bo’s neck, and then forcefully pulled it over for him. Wang Gong’s face was pale and his wrist was almost broken.
“Ouch, ouch, it hurts…”
Brucille grabbed a brick and threw it at the head.
“You bastard, you can touch my brother as well?”
As soon as he came up, he killed them, which frightened the craftsmen around him to take a few steps back. Young people tend to be impulsive. If he attacked Wang Qiang again, he would basically be scrapped.
Wang Gong covered his bloody head and cried, “Who the fuck are you?”
Leaving the brick behind, Brucille raised his fist and hit the face more than ten times. Wang Gong was beaten so hard that he didn’t dare to fart and fell to the ground desperately like a pug.
Brucille scolded, “I don’t care which street you are in. I remember you are my brother, and you want to tear down their house. I have my words here today. If my brother loses a hair, I will chop you into minced meat.”
All the people present were silent. No one believed that such an honest Du Bo had such a violent brother.
After the two left, Du Bo smiled and said, “After you fight like this, I want to fight with them. I won’t have a chance.”
“Knock it off. This bunch of bastards are just low-class bones that bully the weak and fear the strong. I’ll cut him every time I see him.”
Dubo asked in puzzlement, “You’re really straight now. You were as timid as me when you were in school. Tell me, did you buy the lottery prize?”
“B*llshit. Didn’t I tell you? I just found a good wife and became a live-in son-in-law. Now I’m living a good life.”
The two of them returned home laughing and talking. Li Yan saw that Du Bo was injured and asked, “Why are you still injured?”
Du Bo waved his hand and said, “Do you think I hang noodles for others? How can I not get injured in carrying bricks? It’s all right.”