The pulp washing lady is pitiful, and who is not pitiful among the neighbors? Everyone was dressed in shabby clothes and looked numb in a queue to fetch water.

Ah Fen's mother herself is an unemployed female worker, and her life is tight, and she has no way to stand up for her more embarrassed neighbors. However, where she doesn't need to spend money, she is quite nice to her neighbors across the curtain.

When it comes to money, the two families care about each other.

For example, when they started with a kerosene lamp, the American company Mobil has now dominated the kerosene market in Shanghai, and the kerosene lamps produced are also the most energy-efficient. So they decided to use the Mobil brand.

However, when the two families live and the kerosene matter, they will always encounter the trouble that you use more and I use less, and the two sides will secretly compete psychologically. In the end, they had to separate.

Each family has its own family, and when the accounts are settled at the end of the month, Ah Fen's mother calculates the kerosene money of her family for the month and gives birth to a few copper plates, and she will be very happy.

When it was not a matter of money, the two neighbors who were separated by a curtain helped each other, and they made do with each other for many years. To put it bluntly, they are all poor.

Ah Fen's mother made great efforts to get the tap water from the tin bucket back into the room, and saw that her neighbor's family had also returned. Say hello with a smile:

"Came back so early today? I have freshly drawn water, you can use it as you like! ”

The neighbor Ah Qiao's mother and her family of country brothers were all ugly, and the atmosphere was a little silent. After a long time, Ah Qiao's mother came to this side of the curtain and greeted Ah Fen's mother:

"It's really hard for you to help us fetch water every day!"

Ah Fen's mother wiped her sweat and smiled very honestly:

"What is this, you guys are too angry, we are one house, don't talk to two families, hahaha!"

Ah Qiao's mother's face turned a little red, but after all, she still made up her mind:

"My brother's family has not found a way to make a living for several days, and you know the background of our family. Surely they can't be fed. So what my brother meant was to let my eldest niece and daughter do the contracting! ”

"Wrapper?"

Ah Fen's mother was a little surprised, contract labor is a special form of employment, workers first package their labor to a foreman. Then the foreman will find them a job, and the foreman will exploit four-fifths of the actual wage of the worker. Workers who live in big cities and know even the slightest bit of the inside story will not choose this way.

The contractor usually takes advantage of the famine to go downstream to lie to people. However, this year's textile industry is really sluggish, coupled with strikes. Many female workers have been suspended from work, and they can't find a job to eat at home.

The requirements of the contractors are low, so they are still very popular with the factory owners, and the current work rate is quite high.

Thinking of this, Ah Fen's mother was also desolate in her heart, and she sighed again, feeling a little speechless.

Ah Qiao's mother also sighed, and finally began to endure the shame in her heart, and said:

"We have also been in Shanghai for so many years, how can we let our niece do the contract work. So what I mean is, it's better to let my eldest niece and daughter go to Ah Fen's job first, and then let's look for it slowly, there is always a better one. ”

It is a very shameful thing to have already introduced the job to others, and to have your own relatives replace it, which is capricious and normal people will not do it.

If it was two years earlier, according to the qualifications and skills of the two of them. It would have been easy to arrange a few child laborers in a textile factory, but now they are all in business.

Cang Liao is full of etiquette. Therefore, since people have already mixed up with this kind of process, it is important to eat.

Ah Fen's mother was silent for a while, and had to nod her head in agreement. She knew that her daughter's job was actually a rough maid who did cleaning, and her master would not look at it. It is also very easy for the guarantor to change people. You don't even need to report to your master, you just need to communicate with the senior maid.

The coarse female workers who work as cleaners in the rich people's homes are very weak.

Ah Qiao's mother can introduce this job, naturally because she is familiar with the senior maid in a wealthy family, and it is easy to steal the pillars like this.

The twelve-year-old maid Ah Fen walked home briskly, washed her clothes with her hands and feet, and hung them in the room with a clothesline.

Ah Fen's mother told Ah Fen about the current situation.

Ah Fen remembered the cloud-like sofa in the rich man's house and the fragrant living room, and suddenly burst into tears, disagreeing with Rang Xian.

After a night of trouble, the neighbor A Qiao's mother also found out in her conscience, and felt that she was really sorry not to go, so she took back this mentions.

However, her eldest niece from the countryside was a little naïve, she heard that she had no job to do, and she was about to starve, and it was impossible to eat lo mein again. It's all Ah Fen who is unwilling to let Xian and give her a bite to eat. So on impulse, he used scissors to cut Affin's light green overalls into strips of cloth and small rags.

The light green overalls of the little girl Ah Fen, in the heart of the little girl Ah Fen, it is a dream-like dress, and she can get close to the clouds and heaven by wearing her.

Now that it has been cut into pieces, the little girl has gone crazy, and she wants to find the neighbor's country girl desperately.

The parents of both families were sneering, and the pain was unbearable.

Ah Fen's father came back from work, listened to the family's account of what happened, and cautiously said:

"I have a way to save five dollars a month."

Everyone thought it was incredible, since they could save five dollars, it would be better than arguing over the work of these four dollars.

Ah Fen's father saw that everyone was interested, so he gave a detailed explanation.

But it turned out that the house they live in now costs five yuan a month's rent. Now many of their co-workers no longer rent houses.

Instead, he went to a shantytown in Pudong to build his own shantytown, so that he only needed to pay a management fee of one yuan to the landowner every year.

Although the living conditions are much worse, after all, they are also sheltered from the wind and rain, and the burden of rent has been reduced all of a sudden. That's a good thing.

The three families in one room deliberated seriously for one night, and decided to hurry up or not to rush late, so as not to occupy the good place by others, so they immediately started to build three shacks in the next few days.

The root cause of the two families getting to this point is that the female workers have lost their jobs, the income of the two families has been cut in half, and the balance of food and clothing that was barely maintained has been broken.

The more essential reason is that the consumption power of the workers is so poor that there is no market for the large quantities of goods produced by the capitalists. Now that? Faced with all these difficulties, the solution is still to further reduce their living needs. This will only make things worse and worse.

However, things did not go in a worse direction.

This is the most difficult day for the two families, as for the future, China's textile industry has a new turn, diligent and calculating people, will always get better and better.

…… (To be continued.) )

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