Provincial City
Xiao Yuan spent a day moving bricks at a construction site, riding a beat-up bicycle he got from who knows where back to the rented house.
After he and Xiao Qin arrived in the Provincial City, just buying a set of clothes left them with hardly any money in hand.
Without a penny in hand, trying to make money was exceedingly difficult, and after turning every way possible, Xiao Yuan could only move bricks at the construction site.
He managed to find Xiao Qin a job as a caregiver.
Xiao Qin looked after two patients alone at the hospital, exhausted every day, earning hardly US$ 20.
Xiao Yuan earned a bit more moving bricks at the construction site.
He found those day-pay jobs, where he earned based on how many bricks he moved in a day and got paid in the evening; although it was short-term work, it was decent pay if he put in the effort.
Xiao Yuan had not done such work in many lifetimes, and at first, it was really a struggle for him.
