The pharmaceutical factory is completely closed on the 28th of the lunar month. Gu Ye not only doubled the wages of the employees, but also doubled the bonuses. Those who work hard and make outstanding contributions will receive four to five times the usual wages in Layue. The highest employee took ten taels of silver!

In addition, Gu Ye also prepared rich New Year's goods for them - ten catties of pork, two chickens, two fish, a piece of venison, half a piece of cloth, and a box of exquisite pastries. Employees can have a big fat year! This has to be said that the young owner is more thoughtful.

Some families are used to suffering, and after receiving wages, they are not willing to buy many New Year's goods. Now it's okay, the young owners have thought of it. Not to mention eating at home, there are also gifts from relatives.

In previous years, going to my grandmother's house and taking a few eggs and a coarse cloth was already a good gift. This year, you can cut two catties of meat and add a piece of cloth, but what the young owner gave them is muslin, the kind that most people are reluctant to buy. Not to mention more face.

Employees who live in and around the town are held as if they were successful ministers when they return home. Although these of them who signed a living deed can only do unskilled work such as purifying medicine and decoction, they also received four or five taels of silver to go home, not to mention a whole basket of New Year's goods!

Zhang Xiaomei, the little girl from the pharmacy who had been cared for by Gu Ye, returned home with a basket full of New Year's goods. Her family lives in a slum-like area to the south of Yancheng, where most of the people are poor or have fled from the city. Zhang Xiaomei's family came to Yancheng after a drought in their hometown a few years ago.

Outsiders like them, who have no land, rely only on the men of their families to do hard labor, and can't even eat enough, where can they have the money to repair their houses? Therefore, Zhang Xiaomei's family was crammed into a shack with leaky air everywhere. This year's life is better, and Zhang Xiaomei's salary has been paid almost penny. Cotton clothes and quilts have been added to the house, and it is not as difficult as in previous years. In the slums, almost every winter, people freeze to death and die!

"My sister is back!" A thin little turnip head, dressed in a wide new cotton coat, jumped up to meet him. Behind him, a tall and thin boy followed and took over the heavy back basket in Zhang Xiaomei's hand.

The old lady of the neighbor's house, grinning with a leaky mouth, asked with a smile: "Meizi, have you sent New Year's goods?" What did your owner send you this time? ”

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the pharmaceutical factory distributed mooncakes and meat, which made the neighbors envious. The old lady of the neighbor usually takes good care of their family, and when the family is busy, she also helps them watch the children. Zhang Xiaomei's mother gave her two moon cakes.

After the old lady ate it, she said that the mooncakes issued by the plum owner tasted better than the most expensive Tongfangzhai in the city! In fact, how can she afford to eat Tongfangzhai's pastries? In her opinion, no matter how delicious the moon cakes are, they are not as good as the two pieces that Meizi's family gave her!

Zhang Xiaomei smiled at the old man and said, "It's nothing, it's just a piece of meat and a box of snacks!" Grandma Li, you wait, I'll send you two pieces of dim sum to taste in a while! ”

When Mrs. Li heard this, she laughed so much that she couldn't even see her eyes: "You have a lot of children, keep them for yourself!" Saying this, I thought in my heart that during the Chinese New Year, the daughter who married far away will come back this year, and these two pastries will be kept for the grandchildren to try.

Watching Zhang Xiaomei's brother and sister enter her shack, the neighbors who heard the movement and came out to watch were talking:

"The daughter of the Zhang family is out of work, the salary of the pharmaceutical factory is high, and the treatment is good, not only giving money, clothes, but also meat and snacks from time to time. Look at it this time, it has also sent a lot, enough for the Zhang family to have a fat year! ”

"Not really! You see that in the past half a year, the life of the Zhang family has been getting better and better. The children have made new winter clothes, and the food at home has skyrocketed! When I was younger, I smelled her eating meat! ”

"If only someone in our family could work in the pharmaceutical factory, even if it is to watch the door, there will be a salary of several hundred wen a month!"

"Yes, yes! I don't know if the pharmaceutical company still recruits people? ”

The neighbors looked at each other thoughtfully, then turned back to their shacks. They all planned to go to Zhang's house in the evening to find out if the pharmaceutical factory had any intention of accepting people.

Zhang Xiaomei's brother Zhang Shishi, carrying a heavy back basket, was very happy in his heart. Back home, Mei Ziniang took the back basket and lifted the straw on it, revealing a large piece of pork belly, two fat hens, and fish more than a foot long.

The smile on Mei Ziniang's face couldn't be hidden. She carefully took these out of the basket and hung them by the window. She took out the half of the cloth, spread it on the kang, and pondered that her nephew was about to get married, so she sent a piece of muslin cloth to make a new dress for her nephew. As for the two boxes of dim sum, take one box back too......

Mei Ziniang's maiden home is in Yancheng, and she fled to her mother's house at the beginning. However, her mother's family was not well-off, and it took a lot of effort to settle them down in the first place. In their most difficult time, a few catties of grain and dozens of copper plates sent by their mother's brother allowed them to get through the difficulties.

In previous years, the family was poor, and the children couldn't support it, although I wanted to send some eye-catching New Year's gifts to my mother's family, but the family situation did not allow it. When she returned to her parents' home this year, she was finally able to raise her head in front of her sisters.

Zhang Xiaomei took out six taels of silver from the inner pocket of her clothes and put them on her dilapidated kang table. When Mei Ziniang saw it, she immediately widened her eyes and said in surprise: "Why are there so many?" ”

When I first learned by chance, the pharmaceutical company was recruiting male and female workers ranging from 12 to 15 years old, including food and housing, as well as wages. Originally, she didn't agree with her daughter's going. The girl's family goes out to earn money, and she doesn't come back at night, it will make people talk, and it may affect the daughter's marriage in the future.

However, Zhang Xiaomei insisted on going, and secretly hid her from going to the interview, and when the girl pressed her handprint on the deed paper and everything was settled, Mei Ziniang objected to it to no avail. She never expected that her daughter would go to work in a pharmaceutical factory and bring back one or two pieces of silver in the first month, which was more than what her father earned by working outside for three months.

In the following days, the girl could bring back one tael or two taels of silver every month. Every Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, meat and snacks are also distributed! The girl eats and lives well in the pharmaceutical factory, and she is given two new clothes every season.

This silenced the people who were pointing fingers at their family and saying that they let their daughters go out to work. Of course, those who can't look down on other people's good broken mouths still have a few sour words! Some people are like this, hating people and laughing at others!

Zhang Xiaomei pursed her lips and smiled, with a smug emotion in her eyes: "Mother, I volunteered to stay in the pharmaceutical factory and work overtime." This month, the salary and bonus are doubled. In addition, I worked hard, I was the most efficient in the group, and I was selected as an advanced employee, and I was awarded two taels of silver! I'm still a little bit, the highest in the factory, and I took a full ten taels of silver! ”

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Sometimes, I question myself in my heart: in order to write an essay, I am so tired that my cervical and lumbar spine are not good, my friends are gradually estranged, and I have no time to date and am single...... Is it all worth it?