The streets of Badong County at night are dark, and the two lanterns can only shine a halo of three or five steps, but fortunately, the inn in the county seat is also very close, and they arrived at the inn after walking for about ten minutes.

An incandescent lamp was hung on the lintel at the entrance of the inn, and the light flickered on and off because the voltage was very unstable. Even so, it can give people a lot of hope, this is not a wild place, and there are lights of civilization.

As the head of the Lei family said, although their Badong County is poor and remote, they have also accumulated some newspapers in Shanghai at home, and they also have some communication with Shanghai, a prosperous place.

There are a few pharmacists from Shanghai living in the inn in Badong County, and the local area is rich in a kind of scutellaria, which looks like a sweet potato dried with skin, and is a widely used traditional Chinese medicine.

Director Qian walked into the inn and told the shop to make a few bowls of hot noodles mixed with sesame sauce, which is a delicious local food, and their local dialect is called hot dry noodles.

The shopkeeper quickly nodded in agreement.

Director Qian walked to the middle of the courtyard of the inn and saw that several wings on the west side were lit up, which was very noisy, and it was the sound of eating and drinking and guessing fists.

The shopkeeper explained with a smile:

"Over there, it's also your distinguished guest from Shanghai, who is recruiting."

Li Si, a pharmacist, put his two hands in the cuffs of his black cotton robe, spat at the wing room over there, and scolded in a low voice:

"Liars"

turned around again and smiled flatteringly at Director Qian.

The lights were in a trance, and Director Qian walked into the guest room and couldn't see his face clearly.

The pharmacist Li Si followed him into the door, probably because he was ashamed that the reminders at the Lei family's banquet were not in place, and Li Si began to explain to him in detail those recruiters from Shanghai.

The textile industry is a very large industry, and because of the opening up of the atmosphere in the Republic of China, the workers of the yarn mill went on strike and marched twice a day.

The bosses of the textile industry are also troubled by this kind of free labor, and simply use a large proportion of contract labor.

Bonded labor was a semi-slave system in which foremen went to remote villages or disaster-stricken areas to lure peasants into taking their minor children to work in the cities.

The boss of this line of work has a very neat mouth, and can turn a straw into a gold bar:

"I live in a Western-style company house, and I eat fish. With two days off a month, we take it to the road to play. ”

"Hey, dozens of stories tall houses, two-story cars, all kinds of good-looking and useful foreign things......"

"Fellow, you have to see it in your life! After three years, the money earned in the future will belong to you, we are fellow villagers and have friendships. The child was handed over to me to take with me, what was wrong, can I still go back to my hometown? ”

But in fact, they did live in bungalows, but dozens of people could fit in one house. The scenery of Shanghai is indeed varied, but they have to be escorted on the way to work to prevent escape.

As for the food, it was really pig food, boiled indiscriminately. Wearing, ragged clothes are not enough to describe shabby.

The workers deceived by the contractor paid a very low value, generally fifteen silver dollars for three years, and only thirty silver dollars at most.

These workers were escorted to work in factories every day, earning eight to twelve silver dollars a month, and the money went to the pocket of the foreman.

Coal ink strips are not enough to describe the blackness of the hearts and livers of those contract foremen.

The number of contractors brought by each contractor also indicates their pomp and property. Thirty or fifty people less, more than one hundred and fifty people.

The pompous contractor can not only lend money, buy land, build houses, but also deal in tea houses, bathrooms, and barber shops.

They went to the factory to negotiate the salary with the boss in place of the contract workers, and directly said cruel things to the factory boss:

"If you are disobedient, you just beat it, kill it, and we will come and burn it."

The lives of the workers are all sent to others, simply because of information asymmetry. The country people are ignorant.

Director Qian couldn't listen to the workers' affairs anymore, and he waved his hand to stop the introduction of the pharmacist Li Si. The shop brought in a few bowls of hot dry noodles, stirred with fragrant sesame paste, and sprinkled with some bright red chili powder.

Director Qian only ate a few bites and put it down, and covered a few quilts after going to bed, but there was still no heat.

Director Qian later traveled extensively. I've been to the Arctic Ocean, I've visited Antarctica.

He said that the winter in Badong County is very cold.

The people around him explained playfully that because the temperature is not as high as that of the south, and it is not as heated as the north, the air humidity is high, so it is cold and erodes the bones.

On the second day, the head of the Lei family came to visit with his uncle and younger generations, and Director Qian hosted a banquet to entertain them.

Director Qian drank until his face was flushed, and he looked very interested, pointed to a junior of the Lei family and praised him, saying that he had a fate with him, rolled up the sleeves of his cotton robe, took off a golden watch, counted it as a gift, and put it on the junior on the spot.

During the banquet, everyone in the Lei family was given a pack of cigarettes brought from Shanghai, and a few gasoline lighters, they smoked a pack, and the rest were put in their sleeves, and the lighters were also put in.

Here, the Lei family wrote and signed the letter of appointment as a consultant of Ping An Pharmaceutical Factory.

At the same inn, the foremen from Shanghai also began to write the deeds of the contractors.

"The term is three years, the package fee is 20 silver dollars, within three years, the food and lodging provided by the worker, the introduction of work, the money is returned to the collection of the worker, life and death illness listen to the mandate of heaven, pay 10 silver dollars first, and pay two pieces of silver, I am afraid that there is no evidence, and this deed is true."

Life and death and illness listen to the destiny of heaven!

The words of the contractor are wild, but the contract is rigorous in black and white.

The villagers listened to their preaches and promises, and drew a cross on the deed and pressed a handprint. They can't read.

The people of Badong County are simple.

Director Qian easily got the Lei family and put forward one last small request:

"It is not rude to go to the tomb of the Thunder God Doctor to pay respects."

The Lei family once had a miracle doctor, Lei Yunshang, who has been deceased for more than 30 years, and is the uncle of the head of the Lei family.

The Lei family began to hesitate and glanced at each other.

In the end, the junior of the Lei family, who got the gold watch of Director Qian, was a newborn calf, and he was arrogant, and volunteered to say:

"No problem, I'll go to worship my ancestors every year, I'll bring Director Qian over."

The Lei family members were still hesitant, the cemetery of the Thunder Divine Doctor was still thirty miles away from the county seat, and that was the real remote and wild place.

In the end, the head of the Lei family was unwilling to offend the nobles from Shanghai, and he said a few words:

"Your clothes are too luxurious, you need to change them, and prepare two more days' dry food." Don't talk on the way back and forth. ”

Director Qian and his entourage's clothes, in Shanghai, have been asked to change once by the pharmacist Li Si. What I wear now is ordinary green cloth cotton robes and cotton boots, and I really can't see anything good.

But this body also costs twenty yuan, a life money in Badong County.

…… Dividing line ......

Bao Gong is copied from the Chinese textbook of middle school, everyone should be familiar with it, Xia Yan is a member of the Republic of China, and the words are refined, so there is no need to write this article in detail.

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