The scorching sun in the sky is like fire, scorching the creatures on the dry land.
Hosseini climbed up from the dilapidated adobe bed and glanced at the sky outside through the window with several pieces of broken glass.
It hasn't rained for a long time, and the land is extremely dry. The nearby well has dried up. Even if you pick up the soil at the bottom of the well, you can't feel a trace of moisture.
If this continues, I'm afraid people will really die!
Hosseini has been accustomed to death since he was a child. From the time he can remember, he and the people around him have been struggling for survival. Many acquaintances and childhood playmates died one after another while growing up.
In a place like this, death may have become a relief.
Although life is full of suffering, life still has to go on. As long as he survives, Hosseini will continue to struggle to support his family.
He has a wife and three children. The little ones are just like him, running around in old clothes, while he and his wife worry about filling their stomachs all day long.
Fortunately, most people in the village are like this. Compared with each other, Hosseini feels that life is not so hard.
Everything is afraid of comparison. In this environment that is insulated from prosperity and impetuousness, people cannot see hope, so they will not have so many selfish thoughts, and their thoughts will be much purer.
The only thought in the hearts of men like Hosseini around him is to make life better and not to continue fighting.
Putting on the wrinkled clothes, Hosseini walked out of the house. The dazzling sunlight made his eyes narrow slightly. He lowered his head subconsciously and glanced at the adobe wall not far away from the corner of his eye.
Several men in tattered clothes and somewhat stooped figures were gathering together, talking quietly.
After seeing Hosseini coming, they simply said hello and started chatting together.
Recently, a new mine has been built not far away, specializing in collecting the kind of colored stones that the people of Asia are very fond of. Hosseini and these men are going to ask to see if they still want miners.
Although that kind of mining work is dangerous and hard, and the special smell of cutting stones can almost choke people to death, it can provide Hosseini and others with a salary that can fill their stomachs.
Hosseini and the others are not afraid of hardship or fatigue, because they have always made money through hard work, and they have no choice if they are forced by life.
The only thing that worries them is that if the mines don’t recruit people, then they will have no money to live, and their families and children will go hungry.
Two more thin young men came over. Everyone had arrived, and Hosseini and the others were preparing to walk to the mine.
Just when everyone had just reached the entrance of the village, several cars suddenly drove into the village. When the cars stopped, several men with rifles jumped out of the cars.
In addition to these men, there were also several men and women from the Asian League. They glanced at Hosseini and others and walked over directly.
Hosseini looked at these people with cold eyes and glanced at the rifles in the hands of the guards. His eyes were vaguely nostalgic, and there was also a hint of pain, which was later replaced by numbness.
"Hello, we are staff of Shenglong Group and want to recruit workers here. Where are the elders in the village?"
A man from the Asian League in casual clothes asked, but his eyes scanned everyone's hands, with a smile on his face.
The translator next to him said something to Hosseini and others, and after getting the answer, he told the young man.
"By the way, where are you going? Do you want a good job?"
After the young man learned the elder's address, he did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he casually asked Hosseini and others.
Hosseini and others, who were about to find a job, were stunned when they heard this, looked at each other, and then he asked: "What kind of job and how much can you pay?"
"The salary is very high, so high that you can't imagine it, but you have to go far away and can't go home for a long time!"
The young man said lightly, and then looked at Hosseini and others intently.
"Can you tell me what kind of job it is and how much it pays? If you don't explain clearly, the young men in our village will not follow you!
Of course, if you give us enough money, we can do whatever you want!"
The old man next to Hosseini suddenly said something. He looked at the young man with a look of understanding on his wrinkled face.
Perhaps he had seen the intention of the young man and others, so he said such a sentence.
"A one-time payment of 150,000 U.S. dollars, but you have to sign a contract, and the place of work is not here, but in Loucheng World!"
The young man gave the answer, looked at the old man and added: "We don't just want young people, if there are people who have been carrying guns all their lives like you, we will also admit them!"
The old man frowned slightly when he heard this, looked at the young man and asked again: "Is this life money? It's really a lot. Where is the world of Loucheng?"
The young man heard this and shook his head: "It's not money for selling your life, it's just an advance salary. As for where the Loucheng World is, you can ask about it, because many people know that place now.
If you think about it, go to the town ahead for an interview. Once you pass, I will give you a sum of money on the spot!"
After saying this, the young man from Yameng stopped looking for the village elders. Instead, he jumped into the car and went straight to the next village.
Hosseini and others looked at the convoy disappearing into the dust and turned to look at the old man, as if wanting to hear his opinion.
The old man has been fighting all his life, and if he can survive in the hail of bullets, he can definitely be regarded as an old fox that has become a spirit.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, the old man sighed: "Since this man has taken a fancy to our fighting ability, he must still be able to continue fighting in that world of buildings and cities.
But a one-time payment of 150,000 yuan is worth it. At least it can help the family live a good life without going hungry.
Old man, I plan to go take a look, but I don’t care what you think."
After saying this, the old man turned back to his home, not planning to go to the mine to ask about work.
I didn't expect that my old life could be worth so much money. In this case, why would I hesitate when I was about to die?
Hosseini and others looked at each other. No one said anything, but everyone had a look of eagerness on their faces.
One hundred and fifty thousand U.S. dollars, for Hosseini and the people of this country, this is simply an astronomical sum!
Back at home, my wife was gathering wild vegetables on the ground and mixing them with a kind of coarse grain, which is today's food.
After seeing Hosseini's figure, a look of disappointment flashed in his wife's eyes, and then she lowered her head in silence and continued working.
My husband had just left home not long ago, and now he has returned home. Apparently, he has no hope of work.
Thinking of the fact that the children would continue to starve in the coming days, my wife's eyes became dim, and tears silently ran down her rough cheeks.
Hosseini's children ran past the door. Their shabby clothes were covered with dust. They lay barefoot and glanced at the food cooked by their wife and swallowed.
Children get hungry easily, and they are not full to the point of eating, so even when they see those rough foods, they still salivate.
Hosseini watched the scene in front of him silently, feeling that his chest was congested. He took a few deep breaths, and then squatted down next to his wife.
The wife looked up at Hosseini in astonishment because she felt her husband's behavior today was a bit strange.
"There was a Shenglong Group that wanted to recruit people just now. Once accepted, they will give you 150,000 US dollars, but they have to work in a far away place and won't be able to come back for a long time.
I want to give it a try. If I am admitted, the children will not have to go hungry."
After saying these words, Hosseini turned around and walked out of the house, facing the scorching sun, and walked straight to the town more than ten kilometers away.!