Looking at the temporary workers grinning with their work clothes in their hands, Ito Yousuke didn't scold these people, he knew the mood of these people at this time, he didn't look much better than these people when he first got the work clothes, the same grinning, the same fall in love with the dark blue.

"You have time to wear this dress in the future, now I will talk about the time to go to work tomorrow, you fifteen people will be put on all the work clothes before six o'clock tomorrow morning, and arrive at the factory to participate in the pre-job training, which is what all the workers in our factory need to do, so you will not be an exception, now the time is not early, I will not say more, and then it will be too late for your family to be anxious.

After saying that, Ito Usuke took the fifteen newly recruited temporary workers out of the factory.

"Oda-kun entered our cherry blossom factory this time, and now we have to work together, so that we can drink together again in the future, I still remember the last time we drank together, you didn't miss me, this time I finally have a chance to get it back. ”

After sending the temporary workers out of the factory, Ito Usuke took Oda Saina to the rest room to pick up the fried fish stew that had been stored at noon from his work cabinet, and laughed at each other as he walked.

Listening to Ito Yousuke's teasing, Oda Saina didn't know how to answer, he really wanted to use the original appearance, but the other party was now his boss, and he didn't know if he would dislike the other party if he followed the original appearance, so he thought about it for a while and decided to call the other party by title.

"I thank Deputy Foreman Ito for being able to enter the factory this time, and my subordinates will definitely invite the deputy foreman to drink if I have the opportunity in the future. ”

Ito Usuke, who was still laughing in front, immediately stopped when he heard Oda Wasina's words, and then turned his head to look at the other party.

"Oda-kun, although I'm your boss now, but this is only when I'm the foreman, and I hope we'll be the same as before after work, so you don't have to be called the deputy foreman after work in the future, it's too raw. ”

After saying that, Ito Usuke walked towards the lounge again, but he didn't speak.

Looking at Ito Yousuke who was walking in front, Oda Saina felt very uncomfortable in his heart. He felt that he had just ruined the relationship between his friends, but he had just done it according to the rules of society, and he didn't know if he had done anything wrong, in his head. It's hard to be friends between superiors and subordinates, because those are two classes of people.

Silence, Ito Usuke remained silent after saying those words to Oda Sanina, until he spoke again when he handed the two fried fish stews in a lunch box to Oda Sanina.

"Oda-kun. Friends are heart-to-heart, and friends are for life, so I hope we can be best friends and give. ”

After Oda Sane took the lunch box from Ito's right assistant, he was silent for two seconds and suddenly looked up and said, "I'll invite you to drink when I pay my salary next month, and I'm going to get you drunk Ito-kun this time." ”

"Haha, I'll wait for you, I'll tell you that my alcohol consumption has increased a lot, and it's no longer as unbearable as before. ”

Just a few words. The relationship between Ito Usuke and Oda Wasae has returned to the way it used to be, and even the two have become better, and sometimes the relationship between men is just a matter of a few words.

Rokumachime, Tsukiji, a place where the poor live in Tokyo, although the people living in it are poor, but they are more humane than the rest of Tokyo, because these poor people take care of each other, and the relationship between neighbors who live on the same street is not to be said, and everyone will come out to help when there is a problem, and it is because of this solidarity. These people who live in Tsukiji Rokucho will live in peace, and although there have been a lot of refugees in Tsukiji Rokucho recently, the security situation has deteriorated a lot, but in general, it has not affected the residents.

Every night. On one of the largest streets in Rokumachi, Tsukiji, the residents of the neighborhood would sell whatever they could not use, and these people would use flashlights or oil lamps to light up a small stall, which made it a small night market similar to a black market. Very lively.

Oda who came out of the factory hurriedly walked home all the way, although he walked very fast, but it was almost seven o'clock when he walked to Tsukiji Rokumachime, he could guess that Hanako and daughter at home must be in a hurry, usually he would be home before five o'clock in the afternoon, and it was the first time that he didn't come home so late today.

Oda Sawa hugged the work clothes wrapped in a cloth bag tightly in his arms, and the lunch box of fried fish and stew in his hand was also tightened, for fear of being squeezed by the crowded crowd at the night market, but he knew that there were many pickpockets in it now.

"The croquettes that have just come out of the pot, fresh meatballs, octopus balls, and radish and vegetable balls, are delicious and filling. ”

Oda Saina, who was squeezing forward with the crowd, heard the shouting of the meatballs seller on the side of the road, and stopped thinking for a while, he was very familiar with this meatball seller, when he was still working in the cloth shop, he would buy one or two meatballs for his daughter every month, but since he was unemployed, he never bought for his daughter again, it happened that today he brought two servings of fried fish and stew in the factory, and then bought some meatballs to go back to eat as a staple food, just as a celebration of his re-finding of work.

Thinking of this, Oda Saina immediately squeezed towards the cart that sold meatballs, and since croquettes are too expensive foods, there were not too many people in front of the cart, so he easily came to the cart.

"Guest, what meatballs do you need, my meatballs here are the largest meatballs in the whole town, the weight of a meatball can top one and a half of other sellers, the most affordable, these are just fried out of the pot, absolutely hot and delicious, fresh meatballs ten dollars a piece, octopus balls eight dollars a piece, radish vegetable balls five dollars a piece, each ball is ten, I don't know which one the guests want to buy?"

As soon as Oda Wasa stood in front of the cart, the owner who bought the croquettes began to enthusiastically introduce his own croquettes to him, but his brows furrowed when he heard this, because the meatballs were expensive.

"Boss, I also bought balls at your house before, why has the price of your balls increased, you are not sincere in doing this, are you lying to me?" ”

Hearing Oda Saina's questioning question, the boss who sold croquettes hurriedly hugged and said: "Oh, guest, you must not say that, I Qingtian Tufei has been working on this street for three years, and the people around me know my integrity. My food raw materials have also become more expensive, just say that the price of this octopus is about to be the same price as rice, and fresh meat is half more expensive than rice, and if the raw materials are so expensive, if I don't increase the price, I will only lose money. So please bear with me. ”

Oda Saina, the croquette boss, fully believes that he knows best what the situation is outside, and now there are people queuing up at the government relief grain exchange point 24 hours a day, and there are more veterans on the street, squatting on the street corner all day long. The eyes are red from hunger, and occasionally there will be hungry people who can't stand the outburst of robbery, these are the situations on the market, which shows what the situation of food in society has been tight.

"Well, the boss is right. ”

Hearing Oda Saina's words, the boss who bought the croquettes hurriedly thanked him.

Looking at the three kinds of balls on the cart, Oda Saina touched the seventy-eight yuan in his arms again, and finally decided to buy some of everything, so that his wife Hanako could also eat with him.

"The boss brought me two meatballs and one octopus ball. Two servings of radish and vegetable meatballs. ”

"Thirty-eight dollars, these two meatballs are included, thank you for taking care of them, if you eat well, please come again next time." ”

After handing over the money, he took the brown paper bag with croquettes handed over by the boss and put it in the net pocket of the lunch box, and then Oda Saina spent another ten dollars to buy two small bottles of sake at the boss's car stall, and after doing this, he quickly squeezed into the crowd and rushed home, because it was not early.

Walk through the lively night market streets. Oda Sadao turned into a dark alley, there was no light in the alley, but he was extremely familiar with the terrain here, and he turned around in the alley. After a while, he walked to his door.

"Knock, knock, knock"

Not long after knocking on the door, there was a sound of kicking and running in the courtyard, followed by a soft inquiry from behind the door.

"Hello, this is the Oda family, who are you?"

Oda Hayina, who was outside the door, only heard the voice inside the door and knew that it was his daughter Oda Haruka. That glutinous voice was all too familiar to him.

"Chunxiang, open the door, it's Dad back. ”

As soon as Oda Sawasa's words fell, there was a shout of joy from inside the door, followed by a clattering sound of the door opening.

"Dad, why did you come back so late, my mother and I are going to starve to death, my mother started to wash people's clothes in the morning, and she hasn't eaten until now, and Chunxiang only ate a dry cake. ”

Oda Saina, who had just turned around and closed the door, burst into tears when he heard his daughter's words, and he knew that his wife Hanako must have not eaten for a day in order to save rations, and in order to leave the saved rations for him and his daughter, this is not the first time that this kind of thing has happened.

In the days when Oda Sawasai lost his work in the cloth shop, in addition to relying on him to go out to work to make money, the family also had to rely on his wife to wash other people's clothes to earn money, washing ten pieces of clothes for two yuan, and constantly scrubbing clothes every day, his wife's tender hands had already grinded out of the cheeks, which he saw in his eyes, and he was also distressed, but he had no way to live, but now that he has a job again, he will definitely not let his wife help others wash clothes.

With the effort of turning around, Oda Hayina wiped away the tears that had just flowed with his sleeve, and then said to his daughter Chunxiang beside him: "Chunxiang, let's go into the house quickly, today Dad brought delicious food, there are your favorite fried meatballs, and other delicious ones." ”

"Oh oh oh, Dad, you actually bought me fried meatballs, it's so good, Haruka hasn't eaten meat for a long time. ”

"I'm sure you'll have a full meal today, Dad bought a lot. ”

As soon as he entered the house, Oda Hayina saw his pale wife Hanako waiting at the door.

"Husband, you're back, you've worked hard, Hanako has prepared hot water for you, please wash, and you can eat when you're done. ”

Looking at his wife who greeted him, Oda Hayina knew that the other party must be worried, because through the oil lamp in the house, he could see his wife's hands pinching and pinching, as the husband of the other party, he knew too much about his wife's habit, and whenever he encountered something that worried his wife, his wife would behave like this.

"Hanako, I'm worried about coming back late today, but today is a good day for our family, I'll tell you when we eat later, No, you take these things, there is food in this net pocket, you pour it out and serve it to the table." I'll go wash it. ”

Taking the things handed over by Oda Saina, Oda Hanako only felt a sinking in her hand, she didn't know why her husband would spend money to buy so many things today, but she wouldn't ask. After all, men and women have no right to interfere in doing things, which is the most basic rule of being a Japanese woman.

As soon as Oda Saina, who finished washing, entered the house and saw his daughter Haruka staring at the dishes on the table and swallowing saliva, he knew that his daughter must be hungry.

"Okay, Haruka eat it. ”

Hearing Oda Saina's words, Haruka Oda, who had long been hungry, immediately wanted to grab a meatball with her hand, but her mother beat her down as soon as her little hand was halfway out.

"There are no rules. I don't know if my father can't eat when he's not served, can't he wait for a while?"

"Oh, Hanako, am I not here? let Haruka eat it, and you can eat it too. ”

Oda Hayina, who had just sat down, watched his wife teach his daughter a lesson, and immediately used his chopsticks to clip two meatballs for his daughter and put them in a bowl, and then he sandwiched two for his wife, and finally he opened the two bottles of sake he bought on the way back and poured himself a glass, and then poured a glass for his wife.

"Come Hanako to have a drink with me, and I'll tell you a good thing after this drink. ”

"Hi"

"Z"

"Whew. It's been a long time since I've drunk sake, it's so delicious, our family had a really hard time some time ago!"

After drinking a small glass of sake and sighing for a while, Oda Hayina continued to speak: "Hanako, I have good news for you, I have found a job again, and it is a pretty good job, it is the Sakura Canning Factory in Nihonbashi District, I was hired as a temporary worker by the factory today, as long as I can work there for half a year." Then I can turn into a regular worker, do you know how I am treated now? ”

After Oda Sainai finished speaking, he glanced at his wife, saw that she shook her head to indicate that she didn't know, took a sip of her wine glass and continued, "Now I have a salary of three yen a month. There is also a paid rest day every month, the factory will send me two cans of canned food every month, and two sets of clothes, pants, shoes, hats and socks every year, and it is said that a building will be built for our employees to live in this year, and then our family can also live in a building, and there are many benefits. I can't finish talking about it for a while. ”

Even if Oda Hayina only said this, it shocked Oda Hanako, she didn't expect that her husband would be able to enter a factory with such good conditions, and their family might live upstairs in the future.

This really made Oda Hanako unexpected, so she said loudly after her husband finished speaking: "Si Guoyi, my husband is really amazing, he can actually enter a factory with such good conditions to work, Hanako is really happy, so that our family's life will be much better in the future." ”

Seeing the adoration of his wife, Oda Hayina felt very satisfied, and being able to let his women worship him was something that all men have, and of course he would be no exception.

"I'll start going to work tomorrow, then Hanako you don't have to prepare food for me, the food in the factory is very good, this fried fish stew on the table is the dish in the factory canteen at noon, so that the vegetable canteen will do it every day, and I can bring home some good dishes for you and Chunxiang from time to time to improve the food. ”

Hearing her husband say that the fried fish stew on the table was actually a dish in the factory canteen, Oda Hanako was even more surprised, she didn't expect that the treatment of the factory would be so good, it seems that her husband has really entered a great place, which makes her excited and want to cry, but she knows that today is a good day for her husband, she can't cry, because tears are ominous.

Seeing his wife with red eyes, Oda Hayina just wanted to say something when he heard his daughter on the side say, "Dad, will you be able to eat these delicious foods every day in the future?"

Seeing that his daughter Chunxiang was eating with a mouth full of oil, Oda Hayina didn't scold him, because he couldn't remember how long his daughter hadn't been like this.

"Well, I can't eat it every day, but Dad will definitely bring back a delicious food for Chunxiang every week, just like the fried fish and stew in the lunch box on the table, and Dad will bring back delicious canned food for Chunxiang at the end of the month, and Chunxiang promises not to eat it. ”

Hearing Dad's words, Oda Haruka put her fingers in her mouth and asked glutinously, "Dad, is that canned food better than fried fish stew?"

"Of course, it's better than fried fish and stew, and the canned food is very delicious, and you can eat it when Dad brings back Chunxiang at the end of the month." ”

Unlike her daughter, Oda Hanako knows the price of this can, he has seen this thing in the market, a small can costs more than one yen, sometimes two yen, such a valuable food is heard by her husband to bring back to the child to eat, and she whispered at the moment: "Husband, this can is too expensive." It's too wasteful to take it back and give it to Haruka to eat. ”

"It's okay, my father, who works in a cannery, wouldn't it be a failure if he hadn't let his family eat canned food, and it didn't matter if I ate it once. ”

"Come Hanako, you eat a little more meat. I've been suffering for you these days, and our family will be fine in the future, so you won't go out tomorrow to pick up those laundry jobs, it's enough to have me at home. ”

"Hey, I'll go outside in the future. Hanako will take care of the house. ”

Oda Saina's words made Oda Sadao very satisfied, he has always been a big man in his heart, and he has been watching his wife help others wash clothes for more than half a year, and he feels very uncomfortable, and now he has finally become the pillar of the family again, and he no longer needs to let his wife scrub clothes for others.

Then there was not much sound of talking at the dinner table, the whole family was eating with their heads down, and the two fried fish stews and five meatballs brought back by Oda Hayeda were eaten by the family of three, and even some soup was eaten by Oda Hayina with hard cakes.

After the meal, Oda Wasa sat on the tatami mat and watched his wife clean up the table. He got up and took the cloth bag that Ito had borrowed from Yousuke.

"Hanako, let's take a look at the new work clothes issued by our factory. ”

After finishing speaking, Oda Hayina took out the clothes, pants, shoes, hats, and socks from the cloth bag.

Hanako Oda, who was kneeling on the side, took the work clothes out of her husband and looked at them carefully, with her eyes, she immediately judged that this set of work clothes was pure cotton, such a cotton dress on the street now, at least three yen or more, and now this full set of pants, shoes, hats and socks, he estimated that it would be at least fifteen yen or more, because she estimated that only the pair of black leather shoes would cost ten yen.

After taking out all the clothes, Oda Hayina said to his wife Hanako, "How about Hanako." It's a beautiful set of overalls, I've never seen it before, and it's much more beautiful than the workers I've seen before. ”

"Husband, your factory actually issued such good work clothes, these are all new. I really didn't expect it, Hanako remembered that Keita Okada, who was on the street a while ago, was looking for a job in a shipyard in the port area, and the factory only sent him a shirt, and it was old, and there was nothing else, so he was still envied by those people on the street. If those people knew that my husband had such beautiful overalls, they would be envious to death. ”

Oda Saina, who was trying on new leather shoes, heard his wife say that Empress Dowager Okada Kei, and said disdainfully: "When that guy Okada came back and told the neighbors that he was admitted to the shipyard, he almost lifted his head to the sky, and I used to talk to him and ignored him, but now it seems that his shipyard work is nothing more than that, a regular worker is only two yen and fifty yuan a month, such a salary is not as good as my temporary worker, and I have inquired about their shipyard afterwards, do you know how long he has to work every day?"

Speaking of this, Oda Wasa glanced at his wife, and then continued: "Keita Okada's shipyard where he works is fourteen hours a day, which is almost exhausting, and I really don't know how he persevered in such a job. ”

Hearing her husband say this, Oda Hanako was a little puzzled and said: "Husband, although Keita Okada's fourteen hours of work in the shipyard are a little more, but it is only two hours more, which is not too difficult to accept? ”

Hearing his wife's question, Oda Saina coughed dryly, and then he remembered that the cloth shop where he used to work was also twelve hours, not that Keita Okada worked too long, but that he was working too little time now, and thinking of this made him even more proud.

"Ahem, isn't that hard to accept? Do you know how much our factory works every day?"

"Twelve hours?"

"Twelve hours is the treatment that other black-hearted exploiters give to workers, but our factory is the most humane factory in Japan, you only need to work nine hours a day, and if you still work after nine hours, then there is overtime pay. ”

Hearing these Oda Hanako was really shocked, he didn't expect his husband to work so little time every day, this is simply, she doesn't know what to say.

"I'm afraid that the treatment of the husband is comparable to that of the adults in those governments, Hanako is really proud of you, husband. ”

Speaking of which, Hanako Oda couldn't control her emotions anymore, and tears flowed out directly.

Seeing his wife crying, Oda Saina, of course, knew why, and immediately hugged his wife to comfort her.

Hugging can comfort people, Oda Hanako was hugged by her husband and immediately controlled her emotions, wiped away her tears and whispered: "Hanako shouldn't shed tears on such a good day, please punish your husband." ”

"Punishment, of course I have to punish you well, I'm very angry now, but I'd better keep it for the night, haha......"

Of course, Oda Hanako understood her husband's words, and whispered with a red face at the moment: "Hanako will definitely let her husband extinguish the fire, please rest assured." ”

At night, Oda Saina enjoyed the special care of his wife, and he felt that his wife was unprecedentedly gentle, and this gentleness made all the accumulated fire disappear.

In fact, it was not only Oda Hayina who received special care on this night, but also the other fourteen hired temporary workers, who also told their families about their admission to the Sakura Cannery after returning home, and also told their families about their treatment as temporary workers. (To be continued.) )

PS: Nearly 7000 words of big chapter, thank you to those book friends who have been supporting the disappearance, I thank you!