Chapter 165: Buddies
A family of three surrounded the stove and ate a burger with boiling water in the middle of the night, but it was the best thing they had eaten in more than a month.
There are fewer and fewer people jumping outside. Now the owner of the family has also found a job. From their family's point of view, life is getting better.
Steve stuffed a beef burger and almost broke his belly, but lying on his back on the old wooden bed, listening to the cold wind outside, he slept very securely that night.
Although hamburger is not the cream cake in the dream, the days are almost the same as the good days in the dream. Although I don't know when this Wilson enterprise came out, his heart is full of gratitude.
Early the next morning, his parents left home very early, and he also got up very early to help with work, such as burning the fire and preparing food.
His mother is a little malnourished and weak, but she still insists on going out to work. She is going to clean and make money in a wealthy area a few blocks away.
He went back to his small room to read after he had eaten. He thought that this textbook would be useless.
But before he could read for a while, he heard someone knocking on his glass secretly.
looked up, it turned out to be his little friend Bucky, he looked left and right in a ghostly manner, with a trademark smile on his face.
"Steve, go out and play~"
Steve did not open the window in good spirits. The structure of their apartment building is like this. There is a small window in the hallway. If it can be opened to allow a thin child to pass through, it must be locked at home. Then slipped out of this window.
"Did your father not let you study at home?"
Bucky waved his hand indifferently, turned in from the window, and sat down on Steve's cot.
"What's so good about the book? When I go back to school some time later, some have time to read." The black-haired boy drew his ears. He had no interest in this.
Steve knew it would happen. Bucky has the same personality as his father. To say that letting him study honestly at home would be more uncomfortable than killing him.
"If he comes back from get off work and finds you ran away, then you are dead."
Bucky scratched his head: "He won't know, as long as we come back before he gets off work, can we do it?"
"Don't, just go if you want to play, don't pull me, my father told me to be a useful person to the country, and I must study hard."
Steve hurriedly refused. Once Bucky started playing, he never had a sense of time. The key point was that his skin was thick and thick, and how Uncle Tom beat him would be of no avail.
Bucky's eyes rolled and changed the subject.
"Did you eat that burger yesterday?" Bucky was lying on Steve's bed.
"Well, I ate a sandwich this morning." Steve was absent-minded.
"That's beef, right?" Bucky rolled over again, and he felt a little wet on the pillow.
"Well, it should be." Steve was expressionless.
"Where did this cow come from, Tennessee?" Bucky sniffed the pillow. These wet marks had a fishy smell. It should be saliva, not tears.
"Who knows, I have never seen a cow in the city." Steve sighed.
"Do you think they will bring other food back today?" Bucky avoided the trace of saliva and turned the pillow over.
"No way? The boss can't deliver things to the workers every day." Steve replied helplessly.
"That's right, I still remember those rich people on the street, they were all stingy." Bucky squirmed and rolled around on the bed like a bug.
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Steve keeps his eyes on the textbook, but Bucky keeps talking next to him like Grandma Mary downstairs, making him unable to concentrate.
But whenever Steve turns his head and looks at him with serious eyes, he will pretend to be innocent again and whistle.
"Well, where do you want to play today?"
Steve finally couldn't stand it anymore. His little friend was going to drive him crazy. In this case, even holding a book is just a waste of time.
"Yesterday's burger wrapper, did you read it?" Bucky took a crumpled kraft paper from his pocket.
"Look, there is a W letter on it, and the small print below it says Wilson Enterprise." Steve put down his textbook and turned to look at his friend.
"I have never heard of such a big company in the city before. I heard from my father that they recruited more than 10,000 people last night and the docks were full."
Bucky said mysteriously, winking at Steve and making faces.
Steve already understands what he wants to do. To be honest, he is indeed curious about this company, but he is not as curious as Bucky, so he needs to find out immediately.
"Listen to me, Bucky, about the situation of this company, you can ask your father at night, even if we find it now, what shall we do next?"
Bucky got up from the bed, he leaned close to Steve, eager to try in his dark eyes.
"Aren’t you curious? Last night they sent out at least hundreds of thousands of burgers and sandwiches. I mean if... if there are extras~www.NovelMTL.com~ can we ask for more? We’ve been hungry for more than a month, and I don’t want to go hungry anymore. The more food, the better?”
I have to say that Bucky’s remarks are also Steve’s feelings. His heart is moved, but whether it is begging or picking up, it is not something that should be done.
"No, Bucky, we can go to see where our father works, but we can't do things like asking for food."
Bucky nodded, indicating that Steve was right, but he never thought of being a beggar.
"I didn't say it was begging. Although we are not strong enough, we can read and calculate. You think, yesterday they recruited so many people, there must be a lot of follow-up work today, such as registering phone numbers, writing job numbers and We can do small things like work licenses in exchange for food. This is income from labor, so don’t feel ashamed.”
Many people do not have a phone in their homes, but there is always something to record, right?
The suggestion to trade labor for food is really smart. Bucky has never been smarter than himself.
There is only one opportunity like this, and the two of them can get a lot of food in just one or two days at most, which can reduce the burden on the family and understand this mysterious company.
Steve was moved by him. He stood up to change his clothes and buttoned his cap on his head.
"Well, I will leave a note for my mother first, and then we will go out."
"Haha, this is my Steve, I am waiting for you."
Bucky stood up happily and kept walking around the room, urging Steve to move faster.
There is never a shortage of smart people in the city. He can think of things that a child can think of. Others must also think of it. Although they only want to pick some boring jobs that adults don't like, the sooner they go, the better.
