Chapter 13 Zhang Baotong entered the factory to work

After Aunt Hao left, she cleaned up the things in the house, and took Xiuxiu to Hanyuandian Market to buy vegetables. www.biquge.info Xiuxiu asked Aunt Hao, "Auntie, there is a Chongming Road market across the road, why do you have to go to this Hanyuandian Market to buy vegetables?" Aunt Hao said, "The dishes here in Hanyuandian Market are cheap." A handful of green vegetables on Chongming Road costs five dimes, and you can buy them here for only two triangles. Xiuxiu asked, "The two markets are only three or four hundred meters apart, why can the price of vegetables be so different?" Aunt Hao said, "The Hanyuandian market is relatively large and the tax is less, so the vegetable farmers like to come here, and most of the Chongming Road are fixed stalls, and the tax is more, so the vegetable price is also high." Then, Aunt Hao said, "Don't look at the difference between two triangles of a handful of dishes, if you count it over time, you will save a lot of money." This money is nothing to the rich, but to the poor, it is a lot of money. The two of them talked as they walked, and it was soon noon. Aunt Hao hurriedly cooked, because the child had to come back from school at noon to eat.

After eating, Aunt Hao took Xiuxiu to play mahjong in front of the neighbor's house. When the neighbors saw Aunt Hao taking Xiuxiu, they asked, "Who are you?" Aunt Hao said, "It's my niece from my hometown, who came to Xi'an to find work." Everyone looked at Aunt Hao with envy and said, "Aunt Hao, you don't look good, your niece is so beautiful." ”

Aunt Hao was not angry, and said, "If I were beautiful, I would have followed the section chief and director to live in a high-rise building, and I would have gone out to take the red flag Audisantana, how could I follow Lao Hao to live this poor and bitter life?" This made everyone laugh.

Playing cards with Aunt Hao was a group of old women, and they were all playing small cards with one corner and two corners. Xiuxiu sat next to Aunt Hao and watched people play cards. However, Xiuxiu is not interested in playing cards at all, first, playing cards is not only a waste of time, but also easy to quarrel and quarrel for the small money you win and I lose. Therefore, Xiuxiu fell asleep when she looked at it, and Aunt Hao asked her to go back to the house to sleep.

As soon as she returned to the house and fell asleep, Uncle Hao rode back. Xiuxiu hurriedly came to cook for Uncle Hao. Uncle Hao sat down and picked up a large tea jar and drank tea, while watching Xiuxiu cook. Xiuxiu quickly cooked the meal and brought it to Uncle Hao, while watching Uncle Hao eat, she asked Uncle Hao, "Uncle, how much can you earn by going out to install a water heater for others?" Uncle Hao said, "That's thirty yuan." Xiuxiu asked again, "Uncle, how many units can you install in a day?" Uncle Hao said, "You can install up to three or four units a day, but under normal circumstances, you can only install one unit a day, and sometimes you can't even install one when you don't work." But Uncle Hao added, "However, sometimes I also repair pipes and paint houses for others." In short, the breadwinner is quite reliable. ”

After Uncle Hao had eaten, Xiuxiu said to Aunt Hao, "Auntie, I'm going out to an acquaintance to bring my things." Aunt Hao said, "Is there a lot of things?" Let your uncle come over and get it for you. Xiuxiu said, "There aren't many things, I can take them myself." With that, he walked to Xujiawan.

When he came to the landlord's yard and saw that Zhixian's tricycle was still parked in the yard, Xiuxiu knew that Zhixian must have gone to play mahjong again. She didn't want to alarm the people in the courtyard, so she quietly went upstairs, opened the door and took her purse and travel bag, and then quietly left, but as soon as she entered, she saw the landlady standing in front of her door, waving to her mysteriously.

She went in the landlord's door and asked, "Auntie, what's the matter?" The landlady asked quietly, "Where have you been all these days?" Xiuxiu said, "I went to a relative to look for work." The landlady said to her, "Shixian brought an outside woman to live last night. Xiuxiu smiled disapprovingly and said, "What does this have to do with me?" I don't care. So saying, he went upstairs, but the landlady was puzzled. Xiuxiu took out the key and opened the door, sorted out her things, put them in her bag, and then, left the key on the table, and went out with a travel bag and a leather bag.

When she returned to Hao's house with her travel bag, Uncle Hao said to her, "Xiu, I have asked someone to find you a job as a door." This work is not difficult to do, that is, the sun-dried knots are rolled into a few inches long with a knife, and then the knots are filled in the gap between the door plates. Xiuxiu said, "Uncle, thank you so much." ”

Early the next morning, Uncle Hao rode his bicycle to a wood factory on the side of a road near the northern suburbs, and found a man named Zhang who was guarding the gate. Old man Zhang asked Uncle Hao to wait in the gatehouse, and he took Xiuxiu to the general manager's office. A boss surnamed Cai took a look at Xiuxiu, asked Xiuxiu to sit on the sofa and wait, and then called a small manager surnamed Cai.

Manager Cai is a very young man, she entered the office and called out to Boss Cai, "Uncle, you call me?" Boss Cai said to Manager Cai, "This is new, you take her to the workshop to arrange it." Manager Cai answered and said to Xiuxiu, "Follow me." ”

Xiuxiu followed Manager Cai out of the general manager's office, followed the aisle in the factory, passed by several large and simple factories, and came to the largest factory near the gate. The factory is about 40 meters long, 20 meters wide, and more than 10 meters high, with eight large windows and four large gates. The room was ventilated on all sides, the door was open, and there were no facilities inside, just a large flat concrete floor.

The concrete floor is filled with and piled up with wooden doors, both installed and uninstalled. Between the doors and the piles of wooden doors, about thirty or forty girls and women were working nervously. Manager Cai took Xiuxiu around the big house, and then called a girl named Yingying over and said to her, "This is a new arrival, you teach her." Then, he said to Xiuxiu, "You learn from Yingying today first, and start working officially tomorrow." ”

Yingying, who is also an unmarried girl, smiled at Xiuxiu and said to Xiuxiu in a Shangnan accent, "What's your name?" Xiuxiu said, "My name is Xiuxiu." Yingying said, "My name is Yingying." Then, he took her to her place of work, asked Xiuxiu to tie the knuckle rod with a knife to a certain length, and then taught Xiuxiu to place the knuckle rod in the door frame. When the knuckle rod is neatly filled, a piece of work is considered complete, and the others come and move to another workshop to seal and paint. Then, a very beautiful looking door is ready.

In her hometown, she had also seen carpenters make doors, all of which were made of very thick solid wood planks nailed together. I've never seen anyone else make a door in this way. But she knew that such doors, while beautiful in appearance, were not as strong and durable as those made of solid wood.

You really don't need to learn this kind of work, you can learn it after watching it once. Although this work is not difficult to do, it also has quality requirements, and the salary is calculated according to the piecework under the condition of ensuring the quality. You can only earn one dollar and two dimes for each door you do. Xiuxiu calculated that the fastest people here worked non-stop from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. a day, and could do fifteen or sixteen doors at most, which means that they could earn eighteen to twenty yuan. Because the factory is in charge of eating and living, Xiuxiu also moved to live in the factory. In this way, you can no longer bother troublesome people, and you can work overtime at any time. Because the girls and women who work here work very hard, they don't work overtime until eleven or twelve o'clock every night and refuse to go back to the house to sleep.