In terms of various provinces and cities in China, Shanghainese are one of the most famous people who can live. The snail lion shell is a dojo, although the sparrows are small and have all the organs, they are calculating to maintain the most exquisite life within their ability.

In a contiguous pigeon cage house in Pidgin, the family of three of the female worker Ah Fen Ma and the female worker Ah Qiao's mother and the family of four share a house of more than 10 square meters, and the two families only use a shabby cloth curtain to divide their respective spaces.

In such a difficult situation, the two families still help each other. Ah Qiao's mother introduced twelve-year-old Ah Fen to a job as a little maid.

Ah Fen has only been working for a few days, and Ah Qiao's uncle has also come to join the family with his wife and daughter. So three families are crammed into one room, so that if a bed can only sleep three people side by side, it can be squeezed into four people by arranging it to sleep in reverse. The reverse is that you sleep with your head next to her feet, and besides, there are more options, and you can sleep under the bed!

Uncle Qiao in the countryside will also tell some naïve words about the countryside:

"I've heard people say for a long time that people in the city sleep in beds, and now I can be regarded as knowledge."

This is not an irony, for they sleep in the countryside on clay kang made of mud mixed with straw, and the overhead bed made of wood is also a novelty for them.

In the morning, the sky in the east had just revealed the white of the fish's belly, and the three families got up early. Ah Fen's mother moved the briquette stove to the yard to prepare breakfast.

Aunt Aqiao and her daughter Aqiao's cousin in the countryside, the mother and daughter scooped water in a lead bucket and washed their faces. Say hello to your neighbors who live together:

"Mother Ah Fen, do you cook vegetables? How to move the stove so far! ”

Ah Fen's mother laughs:

"That's right, I'll bring lunch to Ah Fen and fry a shallot. I'm afraid I'll choke you. Just go away. ”

Stir-fried shallots always have a great flavor.

Aunt Aqiao is the most simple countryman, and she cracked her mouth:

"You city people are too particular, and the taste of the onion pot is good! There is disgust there. ”

Ah Fen's mother cut the shallots, and was about to stir-fry, her face stiffened, and the green onions were put in the oil pot, and there would always be a loud "fried". However, now she has long since run out of vegetable oil. How could this "explosion" not be heard.

The neighbor's country relatives are there. It's a real loss of face.

Ah Fen's mother put the iron pot on the briquette stove and burned it for more time than usual, until the bottom of the iron pot turned red iron. Only then did she throw the chopped shallots into it, and sure enough, a similar "fried" sounded as she wished.

After the three families had breakfast, the adults and half-grown girls all went out together to find opportunities to work. Only a five-year-old Ah Qiao was left at home, with a two-year-old brother.

Come back in the evening. Ah Fen's father mentioned to everyone:

"Now the place to build a shed outside has been chosen, but the materials are still missing, and the tarpaulin can be bought with some old ones, and the poles are too expensive."

Because the new Uncle Qiao's family couldn't find a place to work. So the three families discussed a way to save money, and they were going to go to the suburbs to build a shanty to live in, so that they could save money on this pigeon cage house.

Ah Qiao's father asked:

"Can't you cut it yourself on the mountain in the distance?"

Ah Fen's father smiled bitterly:

"It all has a master. Even the grassroots can't wait to sell it for money! ”

Ah Qiao's father asked:

"What about someone else's? All bought? ”

Ah Fen's father has inquired about all these things. He said:

"Most of them were brought from the countryside, and some went out to pick them up, pick them up!"

Just now he said that even the grassroots are sold for money, and now he says that the building materials of the shantytowns are picked up, and there are subtle loopholes in this, but in fact, the things they pick up are half picked up and half stolen.

Ah Qiao's uncle immediately answered:

"Everyone can pick it up, why can't we pick it up, I'll take the child's mother out tomorrow, anyway, it's not easy to find a job, so I'll build the shanty first."

So these three families, you and me, spent three months, just like the swallow, with its mouth to pick up the mud and pick up the branches, little by little to prepare the materials for building the shanty.

In the evening of that day, Uncle Ah Qiao came back to the pigeon cage, scooped cold water in a lead bucket, drank wildly, took a breath, and said:

"The shanties over there are all done, and the houses here will be quickly topped up, and the sooner the day you can save a day's money."

Ah Qiao's mother suddenly walked back and said with a happy face:

"Oh, it's a good thing to sue you, Meihua Textile Factory has recruited workers, veterans give twenty yuan, and novices also have ten yuan, you all hurry up and clean up, and follow me to see the work early tomorrow morning."

Ah Fen's mother had an incredible surprise:

"Really?"

Ah Qiao's mother laughed:

"Such a thing, how can it be joked, everyone goes, Sister Qiao, her uncle, aunt, and cousin all go."

Early the next morning, everyone went to see the workers, and the Meihua Textile Factory was not very picky, basically looking at the neat hands and feet, they all stayed. Uncle Qiao, Aunt Qiao, and Cousin Qiao all said that they would be paid ten yuan. It's simply incredible.

The original skilled female worker Ah Fen's mother is even more amazing, and her salary can be calculated to 20 yuan.

As soon as the connoisseur made a move, he knew if there was any, and when he tried the work, Ah Fen's mother said that she had been doing it for nearly 20 years, and she moved the two fingers of one hand to connect the thread.

So in one day, everyone had jobs, and only the young Ah Qiao siblings remained at home during the day.

Several people worked for a few days, all of them got used to it, the only thing was that the old skilled female worker Ah Fen's mother encountered some problems, and several of her former workers came to visit her and pass on some news to her:

"Your Meihua is given 20 yuan, but now the newly opened Xianghua is given 30 yuan, I think you are a neat person, not to earn this introduction fee."

This is the corner of the prying, from half a year ago to unemployment, to now it has become fragrant, and it is being vigorously grabbed by various textile factories.

Ah Fen's mother struggled painfully for a few days, and finally quit the invitation of her co-workers:

"I think, I'm still working in Meihua, the boss foreman is very kind, as a worker, the first thing is to be honest and down-to-earth."

can refuse the salary difference of ten yuan, this Ah Fen's mother's spiritual realm can be regarded as reaching a certain level, but her kindness and contentment are not in vain, Meihua's boss is a well-informed person, only a month or two later, she made up for the difference in money, and more and more.

Everyone is working, in order to get to work, so the newly built shanty in the suburbs is idle, and the three families are still crammed into a pigeon cage.

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The next chapter is being revised.,I'll see it tomorrow.。 (To be continued.) )