At this time, Zhao Siniang didn't know that she was going to be involved with the old Zhao family again, and her father was asking for hardships again, and she was still busy in Baiweitang.

Today's Zhao Siniang's family not only owns six shops in the west of the city, workshops outside the city and this Baiwei Tang, but also has a teahouse and several branches.

In addition, in addition to the above-mentioned stores directly operated by her family, there are also many chain stores opened in cooperation with others, such as clear soup shops, lo-mei shops, roast meat shops and sweet tea shops. The employees in these chain stores can be dispatched by Zhao Siniang's family or recruited by the cooperative merchants themselves. However, in order to ensure the purity of the taste, most of the kitchen staff in the chain are directly dispatched by Zhao Siniang's family, and their salaries are paid by her family, which is still affiliated with her family.

In short, Zhao Siniang's family has only been developing in Fucheng for half a year, and there are nearly 200 employees.

It's a good thing to develop quickly, but it's a bit troublesome to just launch New Year's goods. In order to avoid being too busy, Zhao Siniang set the distribution time from the 24th to the 26th of the lunar month, and let the employees choose one of the days to receive it.

After taking this simple diversion measure, the temporarily designated distribution area in front of Baiweitang was finally not very crowded, but there were several long queues all the time.

It is said that if it is only two hundred copies of New Year's goods and sent them for three days, there will be no time to be free, which is too unreasonable. It turned out that Zhao Siniang's family not only sent New Year's goods to their own employees, but also to the elderly and children who held Baiweitang meal cards under the repeated requests of her family's good old people.

All the regular employees of Zhao Siniang's family can receive two catties of pork, two salted ducks, two catties of preserved eggs, two catties of sugar, two catties of pastries, two jars of rice wine, two jars of soy sauce and two muslin rulers, and the types of New Year's goods remain unchanged for employees who are still in the probation period. The number is halved.

As for those old people and children, they were given two catties of pork bones, two catties of tofu, and two catties of brown sugar. Ten catties of vermicelli, ten catties of dried potatoes and two coarse cloth rulers, plus two small bags of halva. Considering that the amount of goods in these years is not light and the tofu is not easy to carry, Zhao Siniang informed as early as a few days ago that the elderly and children do not have to come to pick it up in person, and Baiweitang will be responsible for door-to-door delivery at that time.

But on the day of the distribution of New Year's goods, Zhao Siniang got up early in the morning and came over to help. Considering that she was very early and hardworking, when she arrived at Baiweitang, she was surprised to find that the neighborhood was already full of people. As soon as I inquired, it turned out that many old people and children were waiting for the dawn of the day, and planned to bring back the New Year's goods by hand.

Zhao Siniang pouted. Secretly, don't be tired of panic!

In fact, there is a reason why people don't stay here in person, okay!

It turned out that Zhao Siniang's family ordered a total of five pigs of about 200 catties in order to send New Year's goods. In order to save some trouble, the pigs were transported directly to the back of Baiweitang. Bring in a butcher and slaughter on the spot. Kill now and score now.

However, Zhao Siniang, who was not very sure, only said that the pork bones were distributed, but did not say which part of the pork bones were distributed, and the difference between the ribs and the big bones was lost. For those of them who don't even have spare money to buy pork bones all year round, of course, they must cherish this hard-won opportunity and strive for more oil and water.

So, everyone gathered near the locust tree next to Baiwei Hall, staring at the butcher under the tree to kill pigs and dismantle bones. Take as many bones as you can from your own image.

In other words, killing pigs is not a trivial task, which is not only tiring but also time-consuming. It takes half a day to kill a pig, to say the least. Although the butcher came early, and began to sharpen his knife at dawn, Huo Huo Xiang fattened the pig, but it is estimated that it will take time to kill a pig.

Although Zhao Siniang felt that these old people and children were purely asking for hardship, she couldn't bear it when she saw them waiting in the scorching cold wind with yellow faces and thin muscles. So, she set up a simple stove in front of Baiweitang, pressed a big pot on it, and then took some ingredients from the shop, made a simple and quick hot and sour tofu soup, and distributed a bowl of hot soup to everyone. When the first pig was killed, she had the pig's water, head, tail, and trotters cleaned up, and then thrown into a washed cauldron to boil after a little pickling.

Don't look at Zhao Siniang's cooking method is simple and rough, but the whole pig soup made is unexpectedly delicious. The aroma of the pot not only made the old people and children around swallow their saliva, but also attracted many shanty dwellers living in shantytowns a few miles away, including many skinny old and young.

According to Zhao Siniang's original division, the shantytown is also one of the four jurisdictions of her family's relief, so most of these old and young people can also get meal cards, and they can use the card to receive New Year's goods, instead of standing aside in fear, looking at it but not daring to move forward.

In fact, the number of people who came to collect the meal card in the shantytown was not large, which is not to say that the shanty-dwellers did not need help, on the contrary, they should be the ones who need help the most in the entire secluded capital.

The reason why so few shanty dwellers come to collect cards is because of Zhao Siniang's draconian regulations, which require applicants to submit poverty certificates issued by the local government. However, in order to obtain this kind of certificate, a major premise must be satisfied, that is, the applicant must have a proper management.

Nine out of ten of the so-called shanty dwellers are homeless. Although these displaced people were much luckier than their companions who died on the way, they finally broke through many obstacles and entered the city alive. However, the capital of the city is not a happy land, and the capital of a state will not provide a shelter for these untouchables. It's just nothing to look for, don't even think about it. So without the help of the imperial court, except for a very small number of them who broke out of a way out, most of them lived in shelters with ventilation on all sides and became shanty people. Then, as the court had expected, the shack dwellers gradually and quietly died, taking all the trouble with them.

Since the imperial court has adopted such a negative attitude towards the displaced people, it is conceivable that it will never apply for a new household registration for the displaced people free of charge. Except for a small number of people who are active and spend money to find connections to get household registration, the vast majority of displaced people have become black households. It can be said that more than eighty percent of the shantytowns living in shantytowns now do not have household registration, and the court naturally bothered to arrange for these black households without household registration to take care of them. At most, the shantytown is in charge of the remaining two adults, who are basically from poor local families.

In other words, only a few locals in the shantytown can meet Zhao Siniang's family's requirements and receive some assistance, while most of the displaced people who lack food and clothing are still isolated and struggling on the death line. (To be continued.) )