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Chapter 1 First Meeting

Duan Zhuo always thought that only the summer in his hometown was the most sultry, but he didn't expect the climate in Nancheng to be even worse.

As soon as he got off the train, he was hit by a steaming heat wave. After staying up for more than ten minutes, he walked out of the train station and bought a bottle of ice water at a small roadside shop to cool off.

The five-hour hard seat made his back ache, his body stretched, and his eyes became much clearer.

There are not many pedestrians on the street in this season, the sun is pouring down, and the asphalt road in the distance seems to have just been splashed with water. Duan Zhuo dragged his suitcase and walked over, and the water flowed further away.

A row of orange and green public bicycles were parked in an orderly manner on the side of the road. He walked over to study the steps.In his hometown, there is only such a public bicycle rental point in the urban area. He rarely has the opportunity to go to the urban area for consumption, so he has never used it.

The first step was to scan the QR code, and he took out the smart phone for the elderly that was given as a gift from his bag.

It was fully charged before coming here, and it hadn’t been used much, but it was only 20.00% at the moment. He clicked on WeChat before it would automatically shut down.

After waiting for about 3 minutes, the address book interface was finally displayed. He quickly aimed at the frame, and a small rotating white circle appeared in the center of the interface, but it kept rotating like this.

The sun was scorching hot, Duan Zhuo was like a husband guarding the door of the delivery room, waiting so hard that he was about to sweat.

The interface is stuck, and the phone automatically shuts down.

With the sound of cicadas chirping, he sighed depressingly.

After another three or four kilometers, it seemed as if entering the city from the suburbs, the streets became narrower and wider, and the residential buildings and shops on both sides gradually became denser.

The tingling pain in his feet forced him to slow down his walking speed. The shoes on his feet were bought last year and they no longer fit. In addition, he had walked a lot before the train, and his toes and heels were torn.

He was sitting in a flower bed by the side of the road to rest, and accidentally saw a recruitment notice posted in front of a shop.

To be precise, this is just a courier station for sending and receiving parcels occasionally. On the big red paper, there are four big characters "urgently recruiting part-time jobs" written crookedly, and the hourly salary is negotiable.

Right now Duan Zhuo is in need of a temporary job, so he hurriedly got up and walked over, his figure reflected in the floor-to-ceiling glass windows.

The furnishings inside are extremely simple. There is a computer desk near the door, and the rest are multi-layered shelves filled with cartons. It looks like a place where manual work is required.

Not busy at the moment, a chubby man in his 30s was sitting in a leather chair looking at his mobile phone, with a black raccoon cat bigger than a palm curled up at his feet.

Duan Zhuo adjusted his crooked collar to the french door, pushed the door open, and ample air-conditioning rushed in, sweeping away the heat accumulated all the way, so comfortable that he wanted to lie on the ground and sleep for a while.

Seeing someone enter the door, Cihuamao still turned its belly and stretched without vigilance.The uncle was playing mahjong on his mobile phone and said without raising his head, "Take it yourself."

Duan Zhuo didn't understand what it meant, pointed to the recruitment notice pasted on the glass door, and asked, "Is this place still recruiting?"

The uncle still had a half-burned cigarette in his mouth, and their eyes met and looked at each other through the lingering smoke.

Maybe because he thought Duan Zhuo had a good physique, the uncle put down his phone: "Trick, have you ever done this job before?"

Duan Zhuo shook his head honestly. In order to win opportunities for himself, he quickly added: "But I am a fast learner, able to do physical work, and not afraid of hardship. I often help people move goods in my hometown."

"Where is your hometown?"

Duan Zhuo reported the name of the county seat, the uncle squinted his eyes in confusion, so he also reported the province where his hometown is located, the uncle then gave a long "oh" and said, "It's quite far away, why did you come here? Are you working?"

"I'm here to go to school..." Duan Zhuo licked the seam of his lips, lowered his brows and eyes, and looked at the pot of limp green radishes on the table, "But I haven't saved enough for tuition."

He lied in the second half of the sentence. He has enough tuition fees for a school year and 2000 yuan for living expenses. However, the prices here are higher than those in his hometown. If he doesn’t find a job as soon as possible, his life will be very difficult in the future. .

Now that he's out of high school, no one will send money into his account anymore.

The uncle's pair of slender single eyelids were stretched a lot in an instant, and he asked with concern and gossip: "Why is the tuition not enough? The family didn't pay it?"

Duan Zhuo pursed his lips.

Almost everyone in the hometown knew about the mess at home, and finally escaped, not wanting to be used as a topic of conversation after dinner, so he nodded indifferently, and changed the subject: "Can I provide board and lodging here?"

"Meals can be included." The uncle's eyes shifted to the suitcase behind Duan Zhuo, with a troubled look on his face, "I don't provide accommodation here, you have to find another house, but it may not be easy to find in the short term."

Duan Zhuo suddenly became envious of the kitten rolling wantonly on a pile of ragged clothes.

He was a little hesitant. If he walked down, he might be able to find a job that included board and lodging, but his sore toes didn't allow him to walk any further.

While weighing, the uncle suddenly stood up from the chair, hooked Duan Zhuo, and led him to go inside.

The uncle is not tall, about 1.6 meters five, and Duan Zhuo can clearly see the dry but sparse hair on his head, just like a bare wheat field in winter.

There is a door at the end of the room, and inside is a long and narrow bathroom of about six or seven square meters.

The uncle pointed to the sink and said, "You can wash and brush your teeth here, and sleep behind the computer desk at night, there is more space there."

The height difference between the two was nearly [-] centimeters, Duan Zhuo probed, easily passed the uncle's shiny head, and took a look inside.

The tiled pavement of the bathroom, the toilet and the sink are fairly clean, and there is a foldable recliner leaning against the wall, which is probably used by the uncle for his lunch break. The backrest looks like a mahjong tile, and it looks a bit old.

The uncle backed out and said, "If you find it inconvenient, you can go to find a hotel near the university town. There are dozens of hotels a night, but the sanitary conditions are a bit poor, and it may not be as good as mine."

Duan Zhuo is not a child who has never suffered. When he was the poorest, he slept on overpasses and dark alleys, and experienced the days of eating only one steamed bun for three days.There are food, sleep and the company of kittens here, he is already very satisfied.

"That's it, it's good."

Probably his sincerity moved the other party, the uncle frowned, showing a very simple and honest smile, reminding Duan Zhuo of the uncle who often delivered milk and rice to him in the charity organization.

The uncle asked Duan Zhuo again for a photocopy of his ID card. After seeing the date of birth, his eyes widened in shock: "You are only 16 years old?"

Duan Zhuo was worried that his boss would give up his job because of his young age, so he immediately said: "16 years old is not considered a child laborer."

The boss didn't speak, but still stared at him with a probing gaze, Duan Zhuo reluctantly gave in: "My salary can be less."

"It's not about money. Are you still in high school?"

"No, I've already graduated, and I'm going to be a freshman." Duan Zhuo read a trace of doubt from the other person's eyes, took out the admission notice from his bag, and explained, "I skipped grades when I was in elementary school."

"So good?" The uncle saw the name on the notice and showed approval. "My eldest daughter is about to enter her third year of high school. Can you help her with her homework?"

Duan Zhuo is most afraid of giving homework tutoring, because he is not good at socializing and cannot explain the problem-solving ideas clearly, but in this case, he can only agree with a smile: "Of course."

After successfully signing the contract, the uncle demonstrated the workflow to Duan Zhuo.

The daily work of the post station is to process the packages sent by the courier into the warehouse, paste the corresponding barcode slips, put them on the shelves in order, and then remind those customers who pick up the packages to scan the codes to leave the warehouse.

It sounds simple, but any step must not be left behind. Once an error occurs and the package is lost, you will have to lose money according to the price.The uncle said that the most valuable thing he ever lost was a set of photographic equipment, which was equivalent to a month for nothing.

Duan Zhuo felt distressed, and promised: "I will be careful."

As soon as the words fell, the courier brother happened to come to the door, and the uncle ordered him to unload and store the goods as a matter of course.

The courier boy chatted with the boss of the post station. From their conversation, Duan Zhuo learned that the uncle's surname was Lin, and his wife was about to give birth to a second child, and the due date was this month, so he was anxious to find employees.

In the next period of time, it is likely that he will be the only one with the cat guarding the station.

The courier vehicles arrived one after another, and Duan Zhuo was busy all afternoon, becoming more and more proficient in operation, and even learned to place orders and send mail.

During the short break, Uncle Lin went out to buy two boxed lunches and came back, telling Duan Zhuo to finish eating quickly, because the pick-up peak was from [-]:[-] pm to [-]:[-] pm, and there was no time to eat at all.

"This will be your job in the future, can you bear it?" Uncle Lin asked.

Duan Zhuo nodded, tore a piece of chicken leg meat and fed it to the kitten, the little thing sat on his lap and refused to get off.

In the evening, as Uncle Lin said, there was a flood of people, and Duan Zhuo gradually felt that this job was not easy, because new events were triggered all the time.

There was a child who helped his father pick up the courier, but he remembered the wrong number and burst into tears; the old man wanted to find the package, but he didn’t know how to check the pick-up number, so he needed his help; the old man who was dizzy misread the number and took someone else’s package away .

Duan Zhuo went in and out, he was so busy that he had to rely on Uncle Lin to help deal with these emergencies.

By the time everything was done, it was past eight o'clock.

Duan Zhuo followed Uncle Lin again, unpacking and stacking the cardboard boxes all over the floor, then tied them with cloth strips, and piled them in the corner.

Uncle Lin seemed very satisfied with his performance and paid the salary for the whole afternoon.

When saying goodbye, he patted Duan Zhuo on the shoulder: "Go to bed early, call me anytime if you have anything to do, and I will bring you breakfast tomorrow."

Duan Zhuo nodded and thanked.

As soon as the person left, he slid down and sat on the pile of cardboard in the corner, kneading the swollen muscles in his legs. After a day of exhaustion, his bones were about to fall apart.

There were two blisters, one big and one small, on the heels on both sides, and a layer of skin was scraped off the toes, but this was very common, so he didn't take it seriously, and was going to take a shower first.

There is a rolling shutter door outside the French door of the post station. Duan Zhuo found the switch on the wall, but the rolling shutter door stopped at two thirds of the way down. He opened it and closed it again, but the result was still the same. I don’t know what was stuck .

Uncle Lin said on the phone: "The rolling shutter door is broken, just lock the glass door inside."

"Oh."

Duan Zhuo hung up the phone, but did not lock the door. He planned to go to the nearby supermarket to buy some food and daily necessities after taking a shower. He was not used to having dinner so early. After several hours of busy work, his stomach was already empty.

Before taking a shower, he dug out the vest and shorts from the suitcase. He only brought a pair of shoes when he went out this time, and stepped into the bathroom barefoot helplessly.

There were only toilets and washstands in the narrow corridor, and a one-meter-long PVC water pipe was connected to the faucet. He took off his clothes and stood by the washstand to adjust the water temperature.

The mirror on the wall is very low, and only reflects the area from his collarbone to his lower abdomen. He holds one end of the water pipe against his head, and the water flows along his skin, washing away the tiredness of the day. Take a breath.

Halfway through the wash, there was a knock on the door outside.

"Uncle, I want to get a courier."

Duan Zhuo froze, looked down at his naked body, not knowing what to do.

It should be a young girl who spoke, her voice was childish, Duan Zhuo turned off the faucet, and heard another person talking.

"Uncle should go out, we'll come back tomorrow." The man's voice was clear and clean, sounding very young.

"But the light inside is still on."

"Then try shouting again."

It seems that the child is in a hurry to pick up the courier, Duan Zhuo didn't care to dry himself, put on the shorts neatly, and turned the vest in his hand while walking.

Before he had time to put it on, he heard an exaggerated and strange cry, and Duan Zhuo froze in fright.

——The glass door was not closed, the girl got in at some point, her body stiffened, her pupils dilated, and her eyes met his.

The next second, the girl seemed to be humiliated, covered her eyes and shouted: "Brother! Come in quickly! There is a naked man inside!"

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