Chapter 15: Relief
"Well, make a few more flushing toilets, and install them for grandma and aunts when the time comes, so that it will not be inconvenient for them to go to the toilet outside."
The deaf old lady is not young, she is sixty-three years old this year, such an age may not be too big in modern times, but in the fifties and sixties, this age is already considered an old birthday star.
At that time, the average life expectancy was less than forty years old, and sixty-three years old, which was really the age of longevity.
In addition, there is a lack of materials in this era, and there are no nutritional products at all, so once this person reaches the age of fifty, his physical fitness will decline sharply.
Just like a deaf old lady, her current physical fitness is not good, as long as the climate changes, it is easy to catch a cold, a cold, at least lie in bed for half a month, and if you fall, at least a few months to be able to get better, this is all due to her poor physical fitness.
Therefore, at her age and physical fitness, it is really unsafe to go to the toilet outside, especially after snow in winter, or when the road surface is frozen in the rain, it is even more dangerous.
According to Zhou Jianguo's knowledge, in winter, the deaf old lady could not go to the toilet at that time, she usually prepared a toilet at home, but even so, dangers often appeared.
It's impossible for her not to go out and empty the toilet, and once it snows outside and the road is frozen, do you say that going out to empty the toilet and washing the toilet in such a situation is safe for a sixty-three-year-old man?!
It is with this in mind that this time Zhou Jianguo is also going to build a modern toilet for the deaf old lady and install a flushing toilet, so that she will no longer have to worry about going to the toilet in the future.
You can go on as long as you want, and you can go on as long as you want, and you don't have to worry about the urging outside.
The deaf old lady is pretending to be here, and the aunt must not be able to forget it.
An aunt has really regarded her predecessor as her own son over the years, so she should be treated the same.
Time passed quickly, and by the time Zhou Jianguo came out of the Cave Heaven World, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon.
It seems that the time is still very early, but don't forget, Zhou Jianguo has prepared a large table of meals today, and the preparation time of several big dishes in it is not short, so it is just right to prepare at this time.
Aunt Yi also happened to come over at this time, and she came to help make dinner.
Zhou Jianguo is only thirteen years old, and he is a child in the eyes of an aunt, so when it is time to cook, an aunt comes over and wants to help.
"Jianguo, you go wash the vegetables, I'll kill the chickens." As soon as she entered the house, Aunt Yi picked up the rooster on the side and prepared to go outside to kill it.
"Auntie, no need, these bloody things are still left to our men to do, you go wash the vegetables." Zhou Jianguo hurriedly snatched the rooster and said with a smile.
Killing chickens is not an easy thing, especially plucking chicken feathers, which is even more tiring, and as long as you throw them into the cave world, you can easily kill them, so it is better to let an aunt wash the vegetables and kill the chickens by yourself, so that both of them are easy.
"Our founding has really grown up!" An aunt said with a relieved face, she felt for the first time that Zhou Jianguo in front of her had indeed grown up, and he was no longer the child he was before.
"Okay, then Jianguo, you go to kill chickens, Auntie, I'll wash the vegetables!" Aunt Yi smiled and picked up the sweet potato vine on the side and went out to clean it.
Men need to exercise, and killing chickens and seeing blood is also a kind of exercise.
"Aunt Yi, there are more than five catties of tender peanuts here, you can wash them out together." Zhou Jianguo handed the tender peanuts under the table to an aunt.
"Tender peanuts?" An aunt looked at it with a puzzled face, and found that it was really tender peanuts, and couldn't help asking: "Jianguo, how can there be tender peanuts now?" It's so fresh, like it has just been dug out of the soil. ”
It's March, and generally speaking, young peanuts are only available in June or July.
"Auntie, these are all grown in the greenhouse." Zhou Jianguo pushed everything on the greenhouse: "Not only the tender peanuts, these sweet potato vines are also produced in the greenhouse." ”
"It turned out to be a greenhouse!" Aunt Yi nodded, she had also heard of the greenhouse, but ordinary people couldn't buy it at all. Of course, even if you buy it, most people won't buy it because the price is too high.
"Jianguo, can you buy vegetables in the greenhouse in the future, it's too expensive, we people still eat some radish, cabbage is enough." Aunt Yi said with a painful face.
Without Zhou Jianguo saying anything, she knew that these tender peanuts and sweet potato vines definitely cost a lot of money, although an aunt didn't know how much money it spent, but seeing Zhou Jianguo's lavish spending, she couldn't help but say a word.
"Auntie, rest assured, the price I bought these tender peanuts and fresh vegetables is not expensive, that is, three or four cents a catty, and a few of my uncles are in charge of the greenhouse, so don't worry, I won't use them indiscriminately." Zhou Jianguo explained.
Zhou Jianguo is actually not lying, because in his memory, there are indeed two uncles, who are responsible for some greenhouses, and when his parents were still there, he often took him to those greenhouses to play in winter.
"Oh, I remember, when Zhou Hai and they were still there, they did often take you to play in the greenhouse." Aunt Yi remembered, but soon she looked at Zhou Jianguo very carefully, with a hint of uneasiness in her eyes.
Zhou Jianguo understood that Aunt Yi was afraid that he would remember the past again, and that he would be unhappy, so he would be so careful.
"Auntie, don't worry, it's been so long, I'm fine." Zhou Jianguo said.
"Besides, I want to live well, this is the best reward for my parents and their spirits in the sky, so from now on, I will live well!"
"Good!" An aunt shouted, her face full of gratification: "Jianguo, you can think like this, Aunt Yi is relieved, Amitabha Buddha ......."
Aunt Yi was so happy that she even read out the Buddha name, it was obvious that she had been worried about this matter in her heart before, but now with Zhou Jianguo's words, the big stone in her heart finally fell.
"Aunt Yi, thank you!" Zhou Jianguo said with moist eyes.
"Thank you, you're an aunt I've seen since I was a child." Aunt Yi also had a hint of water in her eyes.
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In the third workshop of the rolling mill, Qin Huairu raised her head with a tired face, and carefully put aside the processed parts in her hand.
To be honest, the female workers who can stay on the front line are all strong men, and ordinary women really can't stay.
Not to mention the weight of the processed parts, just when using the machine, it takes considerable strength to operate, if you don't have a hundred pounds of strength, you really can't turn this machine.
Although Qin Huairu is from a rural area and has the strength to handle it, it is indeed unbearable for her to operate these machines for a long time.
Women, in this regard, are inherently inferior to men.
She also wants to study hard and raise her level, but how to say it, she may not be in harmony with the machine, and she can cope with rough processing, but when it comes to fine processing, I don't know how, she just can't do it well, either worse here, or worse where, over the years, to be honest, Qin Huairu herself has given up promotion.
Someone said, since you can't be a front-line worker, then transfer to logistics, like a kitchen or something, isn't it okay, this is easy, and there is some extra money, isn't it better in comparison.
If you say that, then you don't understand the huge gap between kitchen helpers and frontline workers.
Yes, if Qin Huairu wants to be transferred to the kitchen to help with the kitchen, it is really not difficult, at least He Yuzhu will definitely help, but why did Qin Huairu never think about this, did she not see it, or was there some other reason?
Qin Huairu had actually seen it a long time ago, but she didn't want to be transferred to the kitchen.
Although the work on the production line is hard and torturous, the status is much higher than that of kitchen helpers, and the benefits of this type of work are also many, because it is heavy physical work, so the food quota allocated every month is really not low.
Taking the kitchen helper as an example, because there is no need to do heavy physical work, the monthly fixed grain is only twenty-three catties, and like the front-line job that Qin Huairu is staying in now, because it is heavy physical work, the monthly fixed grain is forty-six catties, which is twice as much as the previous one.
In this era when a mouthful of food can save a life, an extra 23 catties of food is difficult for everyone to resist.
Especially for a family like Qin Huairu, these twenty-three catties of grain are really life-saving food.
Qin Huairu is very sober, if she goes to help in the kitchen, there are indeed some benefits under the unspoken rules, but these benefits add up, and they are definitely not as much as these twenty-three catties of grain, or even less than half.
Besides, the factory will also subsidize some things for front-line workers every month, some times it is money, and the money is not much, two or three yuan, but these two or three yuan are not small money for Qin Huairu, whose salary is just in her early twenties.
Of course, it's not money every time, sometimes some canteen meat tickets will be subsidized, and in summer, popsicle tickets, soda tickets, and coal tickets in winter will be subsidized, etc., the benefits are really a lot, so how could Qin Huairu be willing to transfer away from the front line.
Finally, and most importantly, the salary of kitchen helpers is really low, sixteen yuan a month and five, which can be said to be the lowest wage in the factory, Qin Huairu don't look at it now, it is still a first-class worker, but the salary is much higher than that of kitchen helpers, a full twenty-seven yuan and five cents, a full eleven more, so how could Qin Huairu be willing to transfer to the kitchen helper.