Early this morning, after Lin Yuxun had breakfast with Cheng Haodani at school, he came to the building to work as usual.
He worked hard in the morning to clean the top four floors of the ten-story building, then went to school and had lunch with Cheng Hao and Danny. Then he hurried here and started cleaning the remaining five floors.
He had almost finished cleaning the fourth floor. Once he cleaned the remaining second and third floors, his work for the day would be done.
He began to think about what to do after get off work.
He didn't have much living expenses left, but today was already Friday, and payday would be coming in two days... He didn't need to be too frugal with his money.
He thought he could buy some more hot dogs tonight. Compared to sausages, Cheng Hao seemed to like hot dogs more.
That’s right, the sausage he bought before was the cheapest one, which must not have tasted good to Cheng Hao.
In addition to hot dogs and bread, vegetables and fruits also need to be bought. Cheng Hao said that we need to eat nutritiously...
He was thinking and working at the same time and didn't feel tired at all.
Even when he thought of Danny who would write "I love you" and Cheng Hao who would be waiting for him at home, he felt full of energy.
In the past, when he returned home, the house was always quiet and dead silent, which made him feel heavy all over. But now it is different. Now when he returns home, the house is always full of laughter, which makes him want to laugh from the bottom of his heart.
He likes his current home.
However, all his good mood disappeared when he saw Cheng Hao and Danny appear in front of him.
He knew how dirty and miserable he was.
He has been working all day, and his work clothes are covered in dirt. They must be very ugly. Will Cheng Hao feel disgusted when he sees him?
He knew Cheng Hao thought he was studying, and he hoped Cheng Hao thought so, but now, Cheng Hao saw...
Lin Yuxun was extremely panicked. He wanted to hide, but there was nowhere to hide.
When he saw Cheng Hao's face become so ugly, his heart sank even more.
Will Cheng Hao dislike him? Will he leave?
He was willing to support Cheng Hao as long as Cheng Hao was willing to live with him. If Cheng Hao left... he really didn't want to live the kind of desperate life he had before, which made him unable to see the end.
Lin Yuxun stared at Cheng Hao closely, waiting for Cheng Hao's verdict.
As a result, Cheng Hao actually smiled at him and asked him if he had any more rubber gloves.
Lin Yuxun suspected that he had misheard: "What did you say?"
Cheng Hao asked again. He noticed that Lin Yuxun was nervous, so he behaved more gently.
Lin Yuxun said: "You don't have to help me, I can do it myself. I can do it quickly and it won't take long."
Cheng Hao said, "If we two work together, it will be faster."
"This job is very dirty..." Lin Yuxun was a little embarrassed.
"It's okay, I'm not afraid of getting dirty." Cheng Hao said.
Cheng Hao was certainly afraid of dirt. He used to clean his own room, but he had never cleaned a house like this. There were some things here that made him feel disgusted just by looking at them.
But he couldn't let Lin Yuxun clean alone.
Lin Yuxun remained silent. Cheng Hao rolled up his sleeves and said, "If you don't have rubber gloves, I'll just clean like this."
Lin Yuxun quickly said, "There are gloves and work clothes... I'll get them for you."
Lin Yuxun ran out and came back after a while with a set of work clothes and rubber gloves.
This work clothes is exactly the same as the one Lin Yuxun is wearing, but it looks particularly loose when Lin Yuxun wears it, while it fits Cheng Hao perfectly. He even makes the work clothes look tall and handsome.
Cheng Hao put on his clothes and rubber gloves, and saw Danny standing there in a daze, looking at a loss. After thinking for a moment, he gave Danny a broom, demonstrated to him how to sweep the floor, and asked him to sweep the floor beside him.
Danny had obviously never done this kind of work before and was very unskilled, but he did it very seriously.
Seeing this, Cheng Hao immediately gave him a thumbs up: "Danny, you are awesome!"
Danny was immediately happy after being praised like this, but Lin Yuxun was a little confused: "Danny..."
"You've worked so hard, you should let Danny know," Cheng Hao said. He had discovered that although Lin Yuxun grew up abroad, his personality and behavior were very similar to those of many parents in China. No matter how hard they worked, they would never let their family, especially their children, know, and they were not good at expressing their feelings.
Lin Yuxun and Danny actually have a deep relationship, but when he first came, the communication between the two was shockingly little!
"I'm not tired." Lin Yuxun said quickly.
"Isn't this hard work? How old are you?" Cheng Hao said.
The way Cheng Hao spoke sounded like an elder scolding a younger one.
Lin Yuxun was embarrassed. Cheng Hao was only one year older than him. Why was he talking to him in such a tone?
At this time, Cheng Hao said: "Of course, you are better than Danny. You can support a family at such a young age."
Lin Yuxun was stunned. He had started working part-time a long time ago, but this was the first time someone said he was great.
Lin Yuxun was so happy that his eyes turned red. He could only lower his head.
It feels great that for the first time someone knows and understands the pressure and hardship he has felt in recent years.
When living with his father, Lin Yuxun never worked.
His father did the lowest level of manual labor and didn't earn much, but because he didn't smoke or drink, it was enough to support both father and son, and Lin Yuxun didn't need to work extra.
He was very young at that time and had no place to work.
But when he was twelve, his father died, and after he moved here to live with his mother, he started working.
His mother was also "working" in this building at the time.
She is a rare Chinese and has a good business, but she also spends a lot of money and is always short of money - she likes to drink and smoke marijuana.
She was always drunk and would give her two sons some money to buy food when she remembered, but there were also times when she would not give him and Danny a penny for a month.
Although he could receive food relief and eat free lunch at school, the source of money was too unstable and he still felt uneasy.
So he found a job as a milkman. He would get up at two in the morning, pick up the milk, and then ride his bicycle to deliver it to every household.
The salary of delivering milk was not as high as his current job, but it did not affect his schooling, and he did not have to pay rent at that time, so he was very satisfied with it.
But later, his mother never woke up after getting drunk one time.
He and Danny were separated and sent to different foster homes.
The family that took him in disliked everything about him, and were particularly disgusted by his behavior of not washing his hair or brushing his teeth. If he found even a little bit of trash in the trash can and didn't take it out, the family would fly into a rage, thinking he was ill-mannered and would beat him.
In that family, whatever he did was wrong.
But he could bear it at the time, at least they gave him food and a place to stay.
As for being scolded every day and occasionally beaten, he actually doesn't care. After all, his mother treated him the same way.
But he was worried about Danny, so he secretly went to find Danny, only to find that Danny's situation was worse than his.
Danny couldn't hear or speak, and he couldn't do many things. The family didn't like him very much. What's more, there were other children in the family who always bullied Danny.
When he found Danny, he was not only injured, but also sick and had a fever, but the family didn't even notice it!
He insisted on taking Danny with him and asked his mother's friend to bring him fever-reducing medicine. Danny finally got better, but his foster family did not allow him to keep Danny. In the end, he had to live alone with Danny.
He used the money he had secretly saved from delivering milk to rent a house and settled down in this community.
After finding a place to live, he went to look for a job, but his original job as a milkman had already been taken away by someone else.
He finally found a cleaning job.
The rooms in this building would be full of guests at night, but there would be no one there during the day, so he could come and clean. Although the work was a lot and very dirty, the income was good and he was very satisfied. The only trouble was that some of his former classmates had their eyes on him and were always trying to steal his money.
Fortunately, he always leaves some behind.
Lin Yuxun was thinking about something, but he worked very fast. However, Cheng Hao, who had never done such work before, caused trouble for Lin Yuxun.
After thinking for a while, Cheng Hao said, "I'll go to the next room to clean." If he and Lin Yuxun worked in the same room, not only would Lin Yuxun's work efficiency be reduced due to his lack of experience, but it would also make Lin Yuxun uncomfortable. It would be better for them to separate.
When he cleans, the floor may not be so clean, but it is always faster for Lin Yuxun to clean the room again than to let Lin Yuxun clean it all.
Thinking this, Cheng Hao went next door.
These rooms are not big, with only a bed and a bathroom inside, and a lot of things scattered on the floor.
I'm afraid that every room here will have several couples sleeping in it at night.
Cheng Hao cleaned up the dirt, mopped it briefly, and then asked Lin Yuxun to wipe it again. After cooperating with each other, they finished the work very quickly.
In the past, when Lin Yuxun was alone, it would usually take him until after five o'clock to finish all his work, but today, he finished all his work by four-thirty. Then he took Cheng Hao to the laundry room to change clothes and wash his face.
"Are you the only one cleaning this building?" Cheng Hao asked.
Lin Yuxun said: "Not really, there are others... She is responsible for changing the sheets and washing them in the laundry room."
"Will you be very tired?" Cheng Hao asked again.
"No, I'm more skilled now, and I can clean very quickly," Lin Yuxun said. When he first arrived, his speed was slow, and it often took him until eight or nine in the evening to clean the entire building. Now it's really much faster.
Cheng Hao asked again: "How long have you been working here?"
"Not long..." Lin Yuxun lowered his head and refused to say more.
"Have you done other jobs before?" Cheng Hao asked again.
"I used to work as a milkman." Lin Yuxun said.
Lin Yuxun was reluctant to talk about this, but Cheng Hao could probably guess what he had experienced based on what Chester said.
Chester said that Lin Yuxun had not been to school since his mother passed away, so he had been working in his current job for about a year. As for when his mother was still alive, he probably worked as a milkman.
In the United States, milkmen are required to deliver milk before the householder gets up. In addition, the area is vast and sparsely populated, so many milkmen have to get up in the middle of the night to deliver the milk within the specified time... Lin Yuxun was only twelve or thirteen years old at the time, and it must have been very hard for him.
Cheng Hao also knew that there was no shortage of people living in poverty in this world, but now that he had encountered one, he was still a little shocked.
What you see with your own eyes is always more shocking than what you hear about.
When the two left the building, there were more women in the shops downstairs. In addition, there were some women standing on the street posing coquettishly.
Cheng Hao once again told Danny not to look around and left with Danny in his arms.
After leaving this area, Lin Yuxun asked, "Shall we go buy something to eat?"
Cheng Hao nodded and walked forward with Lin Yuxun.
Lin Yuxun took Cheng Hao into a small supermarket.
It is cheaper to buy things in big supermarkets, but they are far away from the slums. They have no way to go there without a car, so they can only spend more money to buy things in small supermarkets.
The small supermarket sells vegetables, fruits, bread, sausages, hot dogs, etc. There are many types of bread.
Cheng Hao took a look and found that the bread Lin Yuxun bought was the cheapest of all the bread.
He felt increasingly uncomfortable.
There are all kinds of bread and cakes here, and Lin Yuxun has probably never eaten those delicious and expensive little things.
Cheng Hao didn't say anything while Lin Yuxun was shopping, but on the way back, he took some bread to eat. After eating, he said, "Lin Yuxun, I found a job as a waiter in a bar and I have to go to work tonight."
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