After saying that, everyone was silent or silent, although Zhong Shiguo said just a joke that seemed funny, but everyone present could see that this was not the helplessness caused by economic backwardness?

Yang Limin, as a person of later generations, was even more deeply shocked, he did not expect that people today could do so much for a meal.

You must know that in the later life, there are all kinds of foods to eat, not to mention a meal of rice, and even some people disdain to eat pork. What is said to be high in fat and heavy in cholesterol...... You will gain weight if you eat it.

But apart from some of the older generations who still adhere to the concept of thrift, who still remembers those hard years?

Peng Gang sighed and groaned for a while before saying, "So it's not easy! The peasants have the hardships of the peasants, and we workers also have the hardships of the workers. Although it is said that we have an iron rice bowl, it doesn't cost anything? There is a water bill for drinking water, an electricity bill for electricity, a fee for eating vegetables, and even a five-cent toilet fee for going to the toilet when you are in a hurry to urinate outside! They all say that we rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to draft water, and this year's land is contracted to the households, and the peasants have a little hope, but what about us? We can't just guard the class, and we can't mix high or low!"

"Yes, those workers in the factory had no choice but to secretly make some shoes and sell them!" Ma Qianqian added, "So, we didn't do it even if we knew what was going on?"

"Who said it wasn't?" At this time, Wang Ying was walking over with a plate of scrambled eggs, she put the plate on the table and said: "The double workers in the factory are okay to say, two people together have a salary of about 80 yuan a month, but those single workers are old." Thirty or forty yuan to eat and drink, and to take care of the old and the young, it's fine on weekdays, but if there is a sore, don't you borrow money everywhere?

Last month, his daughter-in-law fainted at home, and if Aunt Wang hadn't passed by, she might have gotten what would have happened! Later, a group of people from the packaging workshop were busy and sent to the hospital, but when they were examined, they were actually malnourished and severely anemic. You don't know, the two of them are crying in front of so many people in the hospital!"

It is not a secret that the packaging of this old and Hu thing is not a secret, and it is rumored that the factory will be full of rumors the next day after the accident. Although in the end, the factory department held a meeting to help place Lao and Hu's daughter-in-law in the Aimin Labor Service Company, a large collective enterprise in the factory, but it was more of a sense of sadness and grief for the families of other single workers.

Because the situation of the old and Hu families is not the same as theirs?

It's just that the labor service company is only a subsidiary of the factory after all, not to mention that it is still a subsidiary enterprise that only loses money and never makes a profit, even if the salary is low, how many people can it accommodate?

Listening to Wang Ying's words, Yang Limin's heart tightened for no reason. He has never experienced this difficult era, but he can only understand the pain of the old man and the Hu family from this one-sided statement.

He couldn't help asking, "Auntie, didn't you say that those workers would make some shoes to sell in private?"

"Do you think everyone can make shoes?" Ma Xiangqian glanced at Yang Limin angrily.

Obviously, he felt very ashamed that Yang Limin asked this unnutritious question.

However, looking at Yang Limin's dazed look and really not understanding, he still explained: "The shoe factory, like other factories, is also divided into skilled workers and ordinary. Skilled workers are the three types of work such as blanking, upper case and lower case. As for other grinding, packaging, and other things that have no technical content, they are all ordinary workers. You also know how to make shoes, do you think you can make shoes just by using the packaging?"

Yang Limin recalled that the workers of this era were not what he imagined, every worker was an all-round little hand, and not everyone could learn to work in other positions in their spare time.

However, he still did not give up and asked: "Uncle Ma, but didn't so many family members in our factory organize themselves to make some shoes to sell? When I was in the city, I saw many self-employed people selling some products! The so-called clothing, food, housing and transportation, the shoes we make can barely be counted on the word 'line', it is impossible that there is no business, right?"

As Yang Limin said, in 79 years, with the delivery of production to households, the country has also relaxed the threshold for doing business, and many self-employed people have sprung up like mushrooms after the rain.

Although these people are just making a small fuss, as the spring breeze of reform blows all over China, self-employed people have gradually ushered in the best era.

Although making shoes is not a high-tech industry, its future as a necessity of life is still very good.

And from Yang Limin's point of view, the skills of the employees of Aimin Factory are good, and the natural quality of the shoes made is also good, which means that the sales abroad will not be too bad.

With the free materials and tools in the factory, even if a person only makes two pairs of shoes a day, it may be higher than a worker's salary in a month, and why not end up with a situation where he faints because of poor nutrition caused by poor life.

"There is business, but there are so many materials there!" Zhong Shiguo smiled bitterly and said: "It's better if you just make cloth shoes, although there are not many leftovers for making fabrics, but at least you don't need outsoles and heels." In this way, a pair of shoes can be sold for a dollar or two. But if you want to make military rubber or leather shoes, you can't do it. Even if there is a little scrap in the case of mass production, it is only a minority after all. So, in fact, even if the workers' families have the heart to do it, at best, they can make a three-pairless shoe in a month. That's less than ten dollars!"

Ten dollars may seem like a lot, but it's not much.

The most important thing is that even if a large family has these ten yuan, the life that can be improved is very limited.

But with these ten dollars, it's better than nothing, isn't it?

The three of them talked for a while, although they had their own thoughts about this kind of thing, but after all, they couldn't control the right to talk after dinner.

Yang Limin naturally has no way to change these problems, all say that the farts and shares decide the head, although he has now become the deputy chief of the technology transfer department of Aimin Factory, but after all, he has not yet taken office, even if he is still a newcomer, he is more than enough to be a spectator.

However, after this chat, Yang Limin also learned some basic information about the Aimin factory, generally speaking, the workers are still lovely, and the leaders are also clear, but in this era full of opportunities, the future is still bleak.