"Qiu Min, you agreed so quickly without even asking me how much cloth I'll give you. You'll suffer a loss this way."
Qiu Min was stunned, looked at Cui Jiemin for a long time, then smiled and shook her head. She always remembered Cheng Qiao's words, trust people when you employ them, and don't employ them if you don't trust them. Once you lose trust, it will be difficult to see them again in the future.
Cui Jiemin was very experienced. He could tell what Qiu Min was thinking at a glance. He exhaled and laughed, "I'm short of a lot of things. I want everything that's in short supply in the market."
Qiu Min's eyes lit up. She knew that Cui Jiemin was extending an olive branch to her, so she nodded in agreement. Cheng Qiao said that she would give her a discount of 10% compared to the supply and marketing cooperative.
Shouhou had been waiting for news at the gate of the textile factory. When he learned that the goods could be shipped today, he hurried to the house. Qiu Min also jumped onto the back rack of the bicycle. She and Cheng Qiao wanted to get some things to show Cui Jiemin.
"Qiu Min, now that you've jumped up here, our relationship is confirmed."
The skinny monkey propped up one foot and spoke in a cold voice, but his trembling voice betrayed him. Qiu Min smiled. She nodded vigorously and found that the skinny monkey couldn't turn around at all. Alas, his hair turned white.
"I know. I'm sure."
"Qiu Min, when I make money, I will buy a small house so that I can marry you."
The skinny monkey finally waited for the flowers to bloom and the moon to shine. He happily spoke out his true feelings. When he heard the words "house" and "marriage", Qiu Min blushed.
Shouhou's real name is Hou Fabao. He lives in a shantytown in a small house with three rooms. Shouhou's parents gave birth to six siblings. The eldest sister, the second sister and the third sister are already married, and the eldest brother and the second brother are also married.
The two brothers occupied two small rooms, while Skinny Monkey and his parents lived in the largest room, which was only about thirteen or fourteen square meters. This room was not only used for sleeping, but also for eating, stacking food and talking.
So there is no fixed bed for Skinny Monkey to sleep on at home. At night, two benches and a door panel are used as his sleeping place. They have to be taken apart in the morning, otherwise he can't even walk.
The two soon arrived at the dilapidated house. Qiu Min had never been to this place, but she knew that this was where Shouhou and the others hid things. She looked left and right carefully, and made sure that there was no one there before getting out of the car.
As soon as I entered the yard of the house, I saw an ox cart with several large sacks on it. When I opened them, I saw they were all strips of soap.
"Sister Qiu Min, here are 2,000 bars of soap. I'll give you 4 cents in interest. If you have tickets, just give me half and you can keep the rest."
"That won't do. Director Cui said she has 800 soap tickets. If you don't have enough, give me defective cloth. I have to give you at least half of the defective cloth."
"Let's talk about it later. Does Director Cui want anything else?"
"Yes, she said she wants all the hot-selling items."
Qiu Min's face flushed, and it was obvious that she was too excited. Cheng Qiao smiled and took out a small backpack, which contained a piece of pork, a pound of milk powder and a chemical comb.
When Qiu Min saw the things, he knew they would be easy to sell, and he nodded excitedly. Shouhou glanced at Li Huan, and when he saw him nod, he suddenly felt much better, as he could finally work and make money.
The two of them drove the ox cart to the textile factory. Cui Jiemin took one look at the soap and was extremely satisfied. He immediately asked someone to go to the finance office to get the money and bills and give them to Qiu Min.
He then took them to the warehouse, took out some cloth with blurred patterns and defective edges, and gave them to Qiu Min in full according to the price outside.
"Brother Monkey, I have to go home, otherwise my family will get suspicious. Take the money, the ticket, and the cloth and go find Cheng Qiao and the others."
"You trust me so much."
“Don’t doubt the people you employ, and don’t employ those you doubt.”
Qiu Min smiled and turned away, but in his mind he was calculating the money he had earned today. Oh my God, there was actually eighty yuan, and so many tickets and cloth. It seemed that he would be able to pay off his debts soon.
Cheng Qiao was extremely excited as she took 720 yuan, 400 soap tickets, and a large stack of cloth. This was the first time she made money using things in the space. Why did she feel so good
Skinny Monkey was grinning from ear to ear. He was in a hurry to deal with the bills and cloth so that he could exchange them for money for Qiu Min as soon as possible.
Li Huan and his companion also drove the ox cart back. What they didn't know was that at noon, a tractor loaded with bricks drove into Xiangyang Village.
It was only at this time that the villagers realized that Li Huan had actually bought bricks to build the wall. They all shook their heads secretly, thinking that a second-rate man is a second-rate man who doesn't feel sorry for spending a woman's money.
Chen Weimin was so angry that he gnashed his teeth. His daughter had never come back since she got married. Zhaodi was worried about her only daughter, so she bought some cakes and went to Wang Tuzi's house to see her daughter.
While eating the cakes they bought, Wang the butcher proudly told them that he had found a decent job for Chen Chunhua, so Chen Chunhua had no time to go back to her parents' home except during the holidays.
Zhaodi returned home satisfied and boasted everywhere about her capable son-in-law, who helped Chunhua find a decent job, making many young girls and wives in the village envious.
If it weren't for the local dog from Xiangqian Village who saw Chen Chunhua at the brick kiln factory, they would still be kept in the dark. So when Zhaodi got the news, she specially took Chen Weimin to the brick kiln factory to take a look. Just this one look made her feel sad.
Their daughter, who had grown up as their darling, no longer looked as cute as she once did. She had a piece of cloth of unclear color wrapped around her head and was wearing heavy work clothes that were all dusty.
The pretty face was covered with mud marks, her eyes were red and swollen, and her lips were cracked, which made them feel so distressed that they didn't know what to do.
It turned out that Wang Butzi still had some connections. Although one could make money working in the brick kiln factory, it was all hard labor and not suitable for women at all.
So Chen Chunhua was assigned to the embryo dragging group, which was the easiest job in the brick kiln factory. There were a lot of women there, and of course the salary was lower than in other departments.
Chen Chunhua and another woman dragged a flatbed truck full of bricks, weighing about 800 to 900 kilograms, from the production machine to the drying yard. It took them about half a mile to go back and forth, and they worked from six in the morning to twelve at night.
The wages at the brick kiln factory are paid on a ten-day cycle, from six in the morning to twelve at night, and the ten-day wage is fifteen yuan. If you feel you can't hold on, you can run away after collecting the wages after ten days.
But Wang Tuzi had already advanced one month's salary to Chen Chunhua. Even if Chen Chunhua couldn't work, she had to finish this month's work, otherwise she would have to return the money.
Chen Chunhua resolutely agreed to continue working. She had been completely conquered by Wang Tuzi's endless cruel tactics, or rather, she was frightened. She would rather do hard work at the construction site every day than stay at home and eat free meals.