Chapter Twenty-Three: Forced Marriage

At the end of the year, Daoguang Plastic Toy Factory has entered a difficult black period every year. When the Spring Festival is approaching every year www.biquge.info the turnover of employees is particularly large. Wang Mei from the personnel department is always in the most pain at this time. On the one hand, the production department was urging her to recruit people, and on the other hand, she had to deal with a lot of leave, resignation, absenteeism and other affairs. The contradiction of labor shortage was concentrated in the nearly three months after the year before and after the year. This year is especially obvious, there is still a month before the Spring Festival, and the wave of going home has already swept in. Many employees began to secretly make phone calls, surf the Internet, and book train tickets and bus tickets home during working hours. Or contact fellow villagers, classmates, friends, relatives, etc. The Spring Festival should be the most solemn festival in our country, if you have money or not, go home for the New Year. In the past, transportation was not as developed as it is now, and there were not so many choices, now there are flying in the sky, running on the ground, walking on the water, public, private, there are more ways to go home, and the pockets are bulging, not that everyone is rich, but there are few people who are so poor that they can't even afford to go home. So now most people who can go back will go home. There are also some people who are unwilling to suffer with the Spring Festival, so they will not return, but this is only a very small minority. In the past, when the conditions were not ripe, most migrant workers could only have a single thought of returning home, but now it has become a concrete action. Whether they can take leave or not is not their consideration, their focus is on how to go home. Plane tickets are too expensive, hard taking the train is the first choice, and where the train can't go, then the car. I really don't have a ticket, so I gritted my teeth and saw if I could buy a plane ticket.

"Home", the most important concept for Orientals, is more important than anything else at this time.

At this time, a large number of orders from Daoguang Plastic Toy Factory flew in like snowflakes, because the peak season for product sales is in May and June, but the transportation road is far away, generally by sea, such as arriving in Europe and the United States, it will take a few months on the road. Wholesalers and retailers also need a certain stocking cycle, so the general customers are required to ship before the year, but if it is not possible, it can only be delayed until the beginning of the year, that is, before the fifteenth day of the New Year. From Chinese New Year's Eve to New Year's Fifteen, how many Chinese still have the mind to work, even if the factory requires the start of work, there will not be a few factories back to the factory, even if three or two people come back, the mind is still in the atmosphere of the Spring Festival, besides, a production line does not need to be three or five workers can be opened. If you can't ship on time, you will face claims, air freight and other problems.

Li Hanming has been anxious these days. In addition to pure, there are several customers who ask about delivery by email several times a day, and at the weekly production meeting, Hong Huangtian always has an aggrieved bitter melon face for the delayed production completion date

"What if no one calls me? Now I work overtime until 10 o'clock every day. It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice. "Now the weekly meeting has become a grievance meeting for each department.

Chen Tianlei and Wang Mei can't help it. Nearby labor agencies have been contacted, streets, factories, telephone poles, vegetable markets, public toilets, etc., all the places with a large number of people have posted job advertisements, although this practice does not comply with the relevant regulations, but it is also forced to no choice. But even if they did, not many people came.

February 3rd is the Spring Festival, and now it is December 30th. According to previous estimates, it should be in mid-January that personnel fluctuations began, and the peak of attrition will be after January 25. But this year's signs are clearly unusual. Li Hanming first summoned Sun Ping, Chen Tianlei, Hong Huangtian, and Wang Mei to hold a small meeting to study the countermeasures for stabilizing the personnel. The following decisions were made after deliberation.

1. Those who do not go home from January to February 15 will be rewarded with 300 yuan per person without asking for leave;

2. It is not allowed to take more than two days of long vacation from January to February 15.

3. In addition, if you can introduce acquaintances, classmates, friends and relatives into the factory, as long as you meet the conditions and have been in the factory for two consecutive months, you will be rewarded with 100 yuan for introducing a person.

4. The evaluation between various departments, the department with the least stable turnover rate will give a certain departmental reward, and the control of the bonus will be handed over to the supervisor. Conversely, department heads with high turnover rates are criticized or penalized.

After this notice was conveyed, it did play a certain role. In addition, the supervisors have also done ideological work for the employees, mainly from the aspects of the Spring Festival transportation crowd and the large number of votes, the high cost and so on to guide them to withdraw the idea of going home. Now we all have mobile phones, and we can also make videos. During the Spring Festival, you can chat with your family, just like face-to-face, so why bother to rush home with effort and money. After this peak season, it's not too late to go home on vacation. Some people not only did not go back themselves, but also introduced a few people who were at home. On the other hand, this is a good opportunity to enter the factory.

Li Xiaohong, a statistician in the printing workshop, was worried the day after receiving the notice. She received a call from her parents saying that the boy who had sent him the photo last week had decided to go home on Jan. 8. The parents of the two families have agreed to hold a wedding banquet for them on January 18. Who's married? Wu Xiaohong thought angrily after hanging up her father's phone. I didn't see each other, so I set the day. Is there still such a thing in this society? Surely no one believes it when it comes to saying it. But this is true, and it is not an exaggeration at all. This boy can't be regarded as a complete stranger, he is Wu Xiaohong's classmate, but he is a classmate from elementary school, and he hasn't seen him for almost twenty years now, and he doesn't remember what he looks like at all.

Wu Xiaohong had just started work and was writing and filling out the form when her father's phone call came in and told her about such a decision.

Wu Xiaohong said, "Why are you in such a hurry, I haven't seen anyone before?" ”

The father said loudly: "Didn't you send the photo the other day?" Didn't you see it? ”

"I've seen the photo.,How is that person.,Character,Personality.,Hobbies... None of this is clear. ”

"You don't have to worry about this, your mother and I have understood, this child is good, working in Shanghai, just built a new house in his hometown, a two-story, small villa. The parents are also young, and there is only one sister in the family, and the younger sister is also available, so I will wait for my brother to get married before getting married. ”

"I mean his character."

"Haven't you been in touch too? I asked you the day before yesterday, and you said it was okay. β€œ

"Alas, Dad! He has good conditions, why didn't he find a partner? If it's really so good, don't wait in line for him to pick it? ”

"Don't you think that people rely on you? Mainly because you are his classmate, he said that he had an impression and a feeling for you, so he agreed. Hurry up and come back! ”

"I'm ... I don't have to take any leave, and the factory is very busy. ”

"If you don't take leave, you have to come back. It just so happened that you and Zhang Jian got married, so you went to Shanghai with him. I heard his mother say that Zhang Jian is a small boss in Shanghai. ”

"I know. Isn't it just a contractor? ”

"What's so bad about the contractor? Xiaohong, you don't know this condition in our family. You're twenty-seven, and now you've finally met someone who has good conditions in all aspects, and it's rare for people to take a fancy to you. What are you waiting for? Is it the job that matters, or is it your marriage that matters? Be obedient, come back quickly, and quit if you don't want to ask for leave! There's still a lot to prepare for coming back! ”

The father hung up the phone without saying anything, and after Wu Xiaohong put down the phone, she no longer had the heart to write a report.

Speaking from the heart, what my father said was not unreasonable. She really doesn't know what Zhang Jian is like. Now she was not thinking about that, but her heart began to ache once she was about to leave the place where she had lived for three years.

In life, it is normal to have encounters and partings. And some partings can be a kind of goodbye. Once she leaves this place, if, as her father said, she will go to Shanghai with that person in the future, won't she be separated from him forever? The feeling she had been hiding in her heart, she knew it was just wishful thinking, and he seemed completely unaware of her feelings. But she is used to it, she herself doesn't know from which day, she looks forward to going to work, because when she goes to work, she can often see him, see him hold meetings with employees, see him teach employees to scrape the board by hand, see him busy in and out of the plate making room, and of course, she can also see her making reports, accounting wages, and counting attendance. When it rains, he will tell her to close the window, and when the wind blows, he will ask her if she is cold and if she would like to add a coat of his. When she accidentally made a mistake in the report, he advised her not to blame herself too much, and to pay attention to it next time。。。。。 In the more than a thousand days they have been together, they have unknowingly become each other's relatives.

Now, however, she was leaving him. She understood that leaving him at this time would undoubtedly throw more pressure on him. It's not just that the work she is doing now has to be done by him, but more importantly, when the company has just announced a decision, his department staff has violated the decision, what do other people think of him? What does Mr. Lee think of him?

She was so distraught that she simply stood up, knowing that he was now scraping the board himself on the shop floor. Tomorrow is New Year's Day, this is a statutory holiday, and the whole factory must have a day off tomorrow, but the day after tomorrow is the 2nd. My father said that she had scheduled to get married on the 18th, and even if she delayed it any longer, she wouldn't be able to delay it for a few days.

When she walked to the first ramp of the printing workshop, Li Gang happened to be there, saw her coming, thought she was looking for her, stopped and asked, "Ah Hong, is there something?" ”

Wu Xiaohong didn't know why, her eyes were red, and she shook her head,

Li Gang didn't notice anything unusual, the production in the past few days was too tight. There are not enough people, and he can't wait to grow two more hands, so that he can do more things and delay the progress of the later departments. As the head of the department, he has long regarded the affairs of the factory as his own. When he saw her shake her head, thinking that it was okay to look for him, he started scraping again. While scraping the board, he asked her, "Is the report ready?" When it was done, it was quickly given to Minister Hong, who was waiting for our data to adjust production. When he said this, his eyes were fixed on the screen. If he raised his head and glanced at Wu Xiaohong at this time, then he could find that her eyes were full of tears.

In the past few days, there are few printers, and there is no way to complete the production plan in full, so every morning the actual completed data must be reported to Minister Hong, and he will adjust the production of the next process according to the actual situation.

"Hmm. Okay," Wu Xiaohong agreed in a low voice.

Wu Xiaohong looked at Li Gang, who was wearing an apron made of blue PVC film tied around his waist, with colorful ink on the sleeves of his jacket, and his face was slightly tired, and he stopped talking. She stayed there for a few seconds before turning away.

Let's get the report done first. He just said that Minister Hong was waiting for it. She really wanted to stay by his side all the time, she would do whatever he needed her, but...