Yuan Qiuhua used to be the editor of the internal newspaper of Dongguan Yuyuan Shoe Manufacturing Factory, she found the department manager in charge of personnel, so she arranged her sister to the packaging workshop of the sixth factory, the factory was in charge of food and housing, working overtime until 10 o'clock at night every day, and earning a monthly salary of about 2,000 yuan. Workers get piecework wages, get more for more work, get less for less work, and don't work for nothing. Packing a pair of shoes is only a dime, including cutting threads, stuffing paper, tying shoelaces, stacking bags, packing shoe boxes, bundling boxes, and pushing them into storage. I have to pack 800 pairs a day, work hard, rub my fingerprints, stand on swollen legs and feet, and endure hardships to earn money.

If you work in a factory, you don't pay a deposit, but you have to keep your wages down, and you don't pay your wages for the first month, and you don't pay your wages until the last day of the second month. Yuan Chunhua and others have a stable economic income, so they send money back on a monthly basis, not only for child support, but also for her husband's living expenses. She only left 100 yuan for pocket money, ate clear soup and little rice in the cafeteria, did not go to restaurants, did not eat supper, lived in noisy collective dormitories, did not rent single rooms, did not buy new clothes, did not go out of the factory to play, and saved money to help her husband support the family.

But Yuan Chunhua is a mother after all, why don't you want a child? When she mentioned it, she cried bitterly, sad, and miserable.

Yuan Qiuhua knew the situation of the Zhang family, and he didn't dare to tell his sister about the child, and he didn't even know how to comfort him.

Yuan Chunhua is a person of few words and sincere duty, she has no ambition, marries a worker, and just wants to live a peaceful and stable life. She is not resisting the idea that the old man has to have grandchildren, but she has no intention of having another child now, the burden of three children is heavy enough, her husband has been laid off again, how can she live a few more? She does not resent her mother-in-law for taking her grandson partially, as long as the family regulations allow, which mother is not willing to raise her children?

She knows that it is impossible for the child's mother-in-law not to take over the care, and there is nothing to worry about, but how can she not think about it day and night, and worry about it?

Yuan Chunhua is in the county seat, and he is a forging worker in a light industry machinery factory, and forging is also a technical job. Because I am a newcomer, I am not familiar with the place, so I can only work as a packer temporarily. Packaging does not require much skill, and the new hands do not even need to be trained, the team leader will teach them, and they will be familiar with them for a few days. This Yue Yuen shoe manufacturing factory, in Gaobu Town's low chong, Xiaotan, Shangjiang City, each has three branches, the production of sports shoes exported to Japan, exported to Europe tourist shoes, exported to the Americas of casual shoes, with 50,000 employees, in Dongguan Huangjiang Town there are Yucheng Shoe Factory, in Zhuhai Jida there is Baocheng Shoe Factory, Zhongshan Sanxiang also Baoyuan Shoe Factory. Although the salary is paid on time, but the management system is strict, the slightest carelessness, will be fined, into the workshop did not wear uniforms, shoes, a fine of 10 yuan, off the countertop, the ground is not cleaned, a fine of 10 yuan, the goods are not classified and neat, a fine of 10 yuan, chat noisy, a fine of 10 yuan, noisy fights, a fine of 50 yuan. At the end of each month, employees find themselves late and leave early, a total of more than 10 minutes, deducted 50 yuan for full attendance, for more than three days of leave, deducted 100 yuan for seniority, because of more than 5% of defective products, was deducted 300 yuan of basic salary.

A dormitory for eight people lives together, with four high and low beds, afraid that employees use rice cookers to cook, induction cookers for cooking, no sockets, the balcony is a bathroom, showering, laundry, convenient place, no lights for power saving. The food in the canteen, in addition to rice, meat dishes are shredded meat stir-fried, potatoes, peppers, bean sprouts, lettuce, vegetarian vegetables are greens, cabbage, radish, winter melon, pumpkin, tofu, reincarnation, soup is the old three kinds of turns, pig blood kelp, egg flower seaweed, chicken rack vegetables. In order to encourage employees to work overtime, the factory gives overtime employees extra meals, eats chicken wings, drinks milk, distributes bread after work, and serves as supper.

Staying in the obscure closed workshop all day, breathing glue, leather, plastic, boxes, sweat, athlete's foot, and the hot and humid climate, mixed with the smelly and poisonous air, engaged in fine and slow packaging, working for eight hours in a row, and then working overtime for three hours, Yuan Chunhua felt that her vision was blurred, dizzy, nauseous, and hungry and thirsty, and the mechanical repetitive work had made her tired and collapsed. When she returned to the dormitory, she was pale and in a trance, she didn't even have the strength to speak, she didn't even have the mood to clean, she climbed into bed, fell asleep, like a dead person.

The action of the staff is not free, the work team leader stares at you to do, the management is very strict, the slightest discrepancy, then ask for rework, even if it has been put into storage, as long as the fault is checked, it will be returned to the workshop, must be reworked in the whole box, the whole vehicle container rework, and even the whole order rework. Rework, neither piecework nor hourly wages, not to mention free, but also fines. If you have something to ask for leave, your goods can't be piled up there without packaging, delaying the delivery deadline of the order, you have to pay cash, beg others to take over the class, and help you complete your job. Man is like a beast imprisoned in a cage, with only space for size, without any room for maneuvering or circling. When she went to work the next day, she began to think in her heart, how to leave this position?

General workers are not as well-paid as blue-collar workers, and manual work is not as profitable as technical work. In the shoe factory, the sewing worker can earn 4,000 a month, which is the highest salary, and the high car earns more money than the flat car. Yuan Chunhua knows that simple and easy-to-understand manual work, hard work in overtime, and competition for learning to catch up and help others will not make people rich, and she should spend the least amount of time and use knowledge and skills to earn more money. The poor family background made her have to endure it.

It wasn't until half a year later that she received New Year's benefits, year-end bonuses, annual leave red envelopes, and started work, so she jumped ship and went to the mold factory in Liaobu Town, with a monthly salary of 3,000.