Chapter 128 Don't be afraid of me~
"Hey, Li Ye, let's go to the cement factory first! After you unload the truck, hurry up and load another truck before they get off work."
"Ah? You won't wait for me?"
"You've been following me for two days, you know the way, hurry up!"
"Aren't you afraid that my new driver will die on the way?"
"You are an experienced driver, I can tell at a glance"
“.”
A convoy rumbled away from the construction site, leaving only Li Ye and his broken car.
There was still a whole truckload of cement waiting to be unloaded, but the construction workers had just unloaded seven or eight truckloads and were now exhausted. They sat in the shade and drank water listlessly. They were unable to unload Li Ye's truck for the time being.
With the arrival of spring, Kyoto University has regained its vitality. The construction of new teaching buildings and administrative buildings has begun. The amount of bricks, tiles, cement, steel bars and other building materials required is very large.
Judging from the current service attitude of the factory, even if you pay and take a car to pick up the goods yourself, you still have to satisfy people.
Li Ye was very lucky. While other classmates were marching in step under the scorching sun, he followed the drivers of the fleet and started to move things around like ants moving house.
Now it is popular to work hard and fast. The school's car fleet has to set out early in the morning, arrive before the steel mills and cement plants start work, and then rush back after loading the goods. When the last car comes back in the afternoon, the food in the cafeteria is cold.
As for the newcomer, Li Ye, he was taken care of on the first day, but naturally became the last car on the second day.
"College student, come sit here for a while. We'll unload the car for you once we have a chance to catch our breath."
The construction worker under the shade smiled and waved to Li Ye, asking him to come over and rest for a while.
"I'm not a college student now. I'm just a miserable person."
Li Ye sighed and found a place to sit down in the shade.
These construction workers are all regular employees of the construction company. Li Ye can't urge them to do what they want, so he can only let them do what they want.
It's impossible to let Li Ye unload the truck by himself. Unloading cement in the hot summer, do you think your skin is not rough enough and not manly enough?
"College students are college students. No matter how hard your life is, it will only last for a while. When you graduate, you will be so stylish."
“Heh~”
Li Ye didn't say anything. He felt sore all over his body and really wanted to find an air-conditioned room to have a massage and a good sleep.
"Hey, college student, let me tell you, if you really find it tiring, you have to think of a way to get in touch with Captain Liao of the fleet and ask him to arrange the first car for you every day."
The construction worker next to him was very enthusiastic and gave Li Ye an idea.
"I know the first car is better! But how can it be my turn?"
Why doesn't Li Ye know the benefits of being the first car?
Although we left early in the morning, it was still cool!
I am the first one to finish work in the afternoon and I leave work half an hour early!
But there are several veterans in the team. Do you have what it takes to compete with them?
"Then why don't you go find Section Chief Zheng? You are not actually under the control of the team. As long as Section Chief Zheng says something, Captain Liao can't ignore him."
"Looking for Chief Zheng?" Li Ye shook his head. "Forget it. It's only half a month. Just hold on and it will pass."
"Half a month? Hehe." The enthusiastic construction worker said, "If you have a good temper, I will pull you over for a walk whenever the team is short of people. Would you be happy to have you on duty on Sundays?"
I don't mind.
Li Ye had already thought about it. He had promised his class teacher Mu Yuning that he would spend the next half month. If he was drafted again in the future, he would ask the canteen to improve the food every day.
Braised beef today, braised donkey meat tomorrow, and mutton soup with steamed buns the day after tomorrow. Whatever animal you want to eat, just get it when you see it on the road.
Anyway, he won't rely on his driving skills to make a living in the future, so why bother using the name "Ma Sha" to intimidate people?
"Hey, Chief Zheng is here, figure it out for yourself!"
Li Ye looked up and saw Section Chief Zheng pushing a large thermos bucket towards him.
There was mung bean soup in the thermos. It was still very hot in Beijing in early September. The work on the construction site was very tiring. As the section chief of the logistics department, he was like a housekeeper and had to take everything into consideration.
"Hey, are you tired? Drink the mung bean soup and take a rest, then quickly unload the car! Don't bully classmate Li."
"That's impossible! After we finish our soup, we'll rest for five minutes and then unload the truck."
A group of workers went to drink mung bean soup, but Section Chief Zheng came over and sat next to Li Ye.
He took out a lunch box from his cloth bag and when he opened it, he found two popsicles wrapped in a towel inside.
He handed one to Li Ye and asked, "Student Li Ye, how do you feel?"
Li Ye took the popsicle and said with a wry smile: "I feel like my crotch is about to be pickled. What do you say, Chief?"
“.”
“Hahahahaha~”
Section Chief Zheng was stunned for a moment, then he burst into laughter. Even the construction workers around who heard it couldn't help laughing.
In a hot working environment, people sweat too quickly and the air does not dry them quickly, so the salt on their pants will accumulate, causing redness, swelling and stinging on the delicate skin, which is very uncomfortable.
Anyone who has done hard work knows how it feels. Although Section Chief Zheng and his colleagues are not from Dongshan, they can understand the meaning of "pickled crotch".
With just this one word, Li Ye successfully joined the ranks of the working people.
Section Chief Zheng smiled and asked, "You have an interesting student. Do you regret it?"
Li Ye regretted it, really regretted it.
He thought that the voluntary labor at Kyoto University was just like picking wheat ears in elementary and middle school. He could do the work while taking over a shift and helping out happily.
As a result, when he arrived, he was not treated as a "jobber" at all. Instead, he was directly assigned an old Liberation bicycle that was more than ten years old, and used it as a full-time laborer.
Li Ye is in trouble!
He drove Lao Huo's Dongfeng 140 in Qingshui County. Although he felt a little awkward at first, he was able to coordinate himself well thanks to his flexible body and young strength.
But once I got on this old Liberation, oh my god, turning the steering wheel was like exercising my arm strength and muscles, and nothing felt right.
He stepped on the accelerator to the floor, but the car just wouldn't move, like an old cow gasping for breath. The transmission couldn't find a gear and it kept making a rattling sound. Li Ye was afraid that he would use too much force and break it.
This is because Peking University has related majors, and students come here to do voluntary labor and keep the cars in good condition!
Otherwise, Li Ye would doubt whether he could mobilize this old guy.
Li Ye was quite puzzled. Why did they trust him, a new driver, so much?
Later he understood that there was no such thing as a "new driver" these days. Every driver had climbed up the ladder from being an apprentice and had at least half a year of driving experience. They were not comparable to the quick-made drivers who could get a license in twenty days in later generations.
But since he had accepted the job, Li Ye accepted it. Otherwise, Chief Zheng would say something to Mu Yuning and write a comment on him - this student starts well but ends badly, has no patience and no integrity. Wouldn't it be a waste of time to go to college?
"It's impossible for me to regret it, but to be honest with you, Chief Zheng, I have only driven a Dongfeng 140 before. My master told me about the old Jiefang, and he said something that I didn't quite understand."
"What don't you understand? Tell me." Section Chief Zheng became interested.
Li Ye said: "He said that compared with the Dongfeng 140, the old Jiefang car is just like a young girl in her twenties suddenly changing into a middle-aged man in his fifties or sixties.
It’s ugly and hard to use.”
“Hahahahaha~”
Everyone was laughing so hard that they were crooked. Even Section Chief Zheng, who was wearing glasses and looked serious, couldn't help laughing.
Dirty jokes! Men love to hear them.
"You really don't understand what I'm saying. When you have a partner in the future, you will probably understand."
Section Chief Zheng joked with Li Ye with a smile, and then said: "I will talk to Lao Liao tomorrow. Those sly guys in his team are too outrageous. They really treat you as their apprentice!"
Li Ye said embarrassedly: "It's nothing actually. Maybe everyone has a family, and I'm a single man."
"You can't bully a bachelor like this!"
Mu Yuning's voice suddenly sounded not far away.
The beautiful head teacher walked over with a smile and exchanged a few words with Section Chief Zheng.
Then Section Chief Zheng gave Li Ye a very high evaluation, saying that he was hardworking, capable, skilled, and not afraid of hardship or fatigue, which made Li Ye feel embarrassed.
When the construction workers started to unload the truck, Mu Yuning said to Li Ye alone: "The Student Union is developing new members among the freshmen. Please write me an application for joining the union quickly, otherwise I will not be able to recommend you."
“.”
Faced with the kindness of the beautiful teacher, Li Ye became alert.
Could it be that they think my donkey is very capable and plan to use it to pull the mill for a long time?
. . . . . . .
At six o'clock in the evening, Li Ye dragged his tired body back to the dormitory. As soon as he entered the dormitory, he was envied by a group of roommates.
"Li Ye, I saw you driving past the playground today, you looked so impressive~"
"Li Ye, you are so lucky. Our instructor is too strict. Two people fainted today."
Li Ye couldn't hear them chattering. After more than ten hours of hard work a day in hot weather, he almost wished he could faint and get hospitalized in the school hospital.
"Li Ye, someone is looking for you downstairs. It's a woman."
A shout startled half of the people in the corridor.
All the boys stuck their heads out of the window, looking for the "girl".
In the universities of 1982, there were definitely more men than women, and there was no ratio between men and women at all.
Just look at Jiang Xiaoyan and you will know that to be able to raise a female college student at this time, it takes a very special family and it is extremely difficult.
So when Li Ye said that day that he had a date with a girl, Wu Runfu, a prominent figure in society, suffered a severe mental blow and told several of his buddies in the dormitory.
Then, Li Ye, the youngest student, actually had the status of "big brother" in the dormitory.
Everyone, whether they have something to do or not, wants to ask him for advice and experience.
[Fuck, what experience do you need? As long as you look like me, just lie still and the girl will take the initiative. ]
Li Ye climbed up from the bed, stretched his head to look out the window, and saw Wen Leyu holding a small cloth bag, standing gracefully downstairs.
In fact, there was no restriction on girls entering the boys' dormitories at Peking University at that time, but there might be many unsightly places in the boys' dormitories in the summer, so girls rarely went up.
"Please wait for me for five minutes!"
Li Ye shouted, picked up the washbasin and rushed into the washroom to take a shower, changed into a T-shirt and shorts, and went downstairs in slippers.
After going downstairs, Li Ye asked Wen Leyu to go out for a walk.
But Wen Leyu smiled at Li Ye and asked, "Can you still walk?"
"Yes, I must. What good things did you bring me?"
The small cloth bag in Wen Leyu's hand must be for Li Ye.
Li Ye took it and looked at it. There were a bunch of talcum powder, Pechoin, pearl cream and other cosmetics inside, which were all the cosmetics that girls liked to use in the 1980s.
Li Ye touched his face and said with a smile: "You can see that I have become darker!"
Wen Leyu smiled, pointed with two fingers a millimeter apart, and said, "It's a little darker, but... it looks better."
Look, even the little girl's lies sound so nice.
However, the aesthetic standards for men in this era are indeed a bit tougher. Li Ye also has a tough side, but his handsome side is even more amazing.
"Let's go! Let's go for a walk by the lake."
"good."
The two of them walked along the lake, and from time to time they met a couple talking about love, and slowly they were infected by something.
The two couldn't help but think of the parasol they saw when they were rowing out in Houhai a few days ago.
Wen Leyu turned her head to look at Li Ye, and happened to see that Li Ye was also looking at her.
The eyes of both of them seemed to be particularly bright today.
Li Ye suddenly asked: "Do you still remember the first time you glared at me last fall?"
Last fall, on the first day Wen Leyu went to the County No. 2 Middle School, he sat at the same table with Li Ye, and they stared at each other for a long time.
Wen Leyu pursed her lips and smiled for a long time before saying, "I remember, but you were different back then than you are now."
"What's the difference?"
Wen Leyu lowered his head, and after a moment he smiled and said, “You were very bold and your eyes were pure then, but now you seem to be timid.
Sometimes I feel like you are afraid of me. I think about it over and over again but I still can’t figure out why you are afraid of me. "
Li Ye: “.”
Silly boy, because I'm not a scumbag!
Only when you really care will you be afraid!
Afraid of making you unhappy, afraid of making you lose your temper,
If you don't care, I'm afraid of you!
As the breeze blew and night fell, the couples on campus gradually became bolder.
They no longer strictly adhere to the "20 centimeters" safe distance between opposite sexes, and they are affectionate and open their hearts to each other.
Wen Leyu's fingers accidentally touched Li Ye's hand, and then they naturally hooked together and never separated.
She said softly: "Don't be afraid of me~, I'm not that powerful."
(End of this chapter)
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