Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1480, Daming Winter 1
In a suite in the Shuxiang Yayuan Community in the southern suburbs of Beijing.

Before dawn, Sun Erniang got up, lit the whale oil lamp, and started preparing breakfast for her son and herself in the kitchen.

While kneading the flour, looking at the heavy snow falling outside the window, and hearing the howling cold wind, Erniang Sun couldn't help laughing.

I am unfortunate, but also lucky.

The heavy snow outside the window brought her thoughts back to ten years ago.

At that time, she had just given birth to a child, but her husband died of illness, and there was a famine in Beizhili, and there was no food in the house. She had no choice but to take the child out to beg.

It's just that there was a famine at that time, and there was no food at all. Seeing that the child in his arms was about to starve to death, he didn't even have the strength to cry. When he arrived at the capital, he was not allowed to enter the city.

Fortunately, I met Liu Jin. At that time, Liu Jin was running a coal factory in Xishan. Seeing that their mother and child were pitiful, he asked her to cook at the Xishan coal mine and named his son.

Time flies, ten years will pass in a blink of an eye,
Sun Erniang never dreamed that she would be able to have today.

Not only did he raise his son alone, he is already eleven years old now, and he is about to go to middle school. With excellent grades, he will definitely be able to enter university in the future.

Moreover, he is now a workshop director of the capital textile factory under Liu Jin's command. He is in charge of hundreds of female workers. He can get more than ten taels of silver a month, and he even bought a house of his own here in the capital.

"I don't know how I got here."

Sun Erniang smiled slightly, thinking of the hard times she lived in the past, she didn't know how she survived.

"If it weren't for Mr. Liu, I'm afraid our mother and son would have been dead for a long time."

After Sun Erniang finished cooking the noodles, she carried them to the living room and to the place where the memorial tablet was enshrined in the house, and there was Liu Jin's longevity tablet on the top.

As usual, she came to the memorial tablet, lit a stick of incense, and prayed earnestly: "God bless Mr. Liu with no disease or disaster, and a long life!"

"Article~article, it's time to get up, eat and go to school~"

After finishing all this, he shouted towards the bedroom again.

"I know~"

His son Wenwen's voice sounded a bit lazy, but soon, he was still very sensible, dressed and came to the restaurant to prepare for dinner.

Sun Erniang looked at her son while eating. After ten years, he has grown into a young man, tall and handsome.

Thinking back when he was still a baby, he had no milk, and he was so hungry that he had no energy to cry, but now he was about to grow up.

"Go and kowtow to Mr. Liu~"

Sun Erniang looked at the article and said.

"Oh~"

After hearing the article, he came to the memorial tablet and kowtowed respectfully.

Since he was a child, he has heard about Liu Jin countless times. He heard his mother say that Liu Jin is the great benefactor of his family. If there were no Liu Jin, the poor mother and son would have starved to death. , Frozen to death, how can there be today.

"Let's eat. Remember to put on that leather jacket when you go to school after eating. It's snowing like goose feathers outside, and it's very cold."

Sun Erniang said while picking up vegetables for her son.

"understood."

The article nodded and said, he was very sensible since he was a child, and rarely worried Sun Erniang.

"Eat more meat, now is the time to grow your body, eat more meat to grow taller~"

"These are all mutton. The mutton transported from the grasslands of the Western Regions is more tender than the mutton from the northern grasslands. You should also eat more of this fish."

Looking at her son, Erniang Sun was smiling all over her face, and kept feeding him food, but she only ate noodles.

"Mom, you can eat too~"

The article is also for Sun Erniang, very sensible.

"Haha, good, good~"

Sun Erniang smiled gratifiedly.

Soon, breakfast was finished, and the sky had begun to brighten. Wen Zhang put on thick clothes, went to school happily with his friends in the community.

After washing the dishes in a hurry, Sun Erniang also came downstairs and started to walk into the factory.

The snow on the road was very thick, but with more and more pedestrians, everyone quickly stepped on the snow to create roads leading to all directions.

It's just that the road is very slippery, and you will slip if you are not careful, but Sun Erniang walked so fast that she fell several times in a row. Fortunately, they all fell on the thick blood, and it was not a big deal matter.

She didn't care about this either, she didn't want to be late.

Since working in the industry under Liu Jin, she has never been late, not only because she loves her current job, but more importantly, she has a mentality of repaying gratitude and feels that she must do her duty well Come to be worthy of Liu Jin.

When they came to the factory area, they could already see the spacious concrete roads, full of people rushing to work.

In the howling cold wind, everyone was wearing thick clothes, felt hats, and snowflakes all over their bodies, but they all rushed to the factory in a hurry.

As for the factories here, there are workers who arrived first at the gates and started to shovel the snow, clearing the snow from the gates of the factories and the main roads inside and outside the factories. The four-wheeled carriage began to move.

This is winter in Beijing.

Even though the cold wind is howling and the snow is falling, it is still very lively. Factories are still running continuously, and people rushing to work can be seen everywhere on the concrete roads.

In the shops on the streets and alleys, you can see the shops selling hot breakfast and morning tea, which are full of people, all eating breakfast in a hurry and rushing to work.

In the factories, the roar of the machines, the sound of the workers working in full swing, and the continuous production of goods, even in winter, still cannot stop the capitalists from exploiting the workers.

The tens of thousands of factories, workshops, and commercial firms in the capital did not stop operating because of the heavy snow in winter.

The majestic imperial city, the crowded inner city, the high-rise new district outside the city, the factory area with chimneys, the billowing white smoke, and the busy figures in every corner of the capital constitute the extremely busy winter scene of the entire capital. .

A huge city with a population of several million is like a huge monster lying on the ground, and everyone in it is like an ant in a huge ant nest, extremely busy.

Compared with the prosperous scene in the Beijing-Tianjin area in winter, the railway Nanshan Village in the Liaodong area looks much more comfortable here.

In Li Damao's brand new home, Li Damao was drinking wine and chatting with a few people who had a good relationship with him in the village.

Winter in Liaodong is a long season when there is nothing to do, and everyone usually spends it on the kang chatting and bragging.

"Brother Big Mao, your new house is really nice, the kang is very warm, and the fireplace is quite comfortable."

Ding Dazhu carefully looked at Li Damao's new home, and said full of praise.

They all immigrated from the customs to Liaodong, and they have immigrated for several years.

In the past, the houses everyone lived in were all built by the imperial court, and the houses were made of wood. However, in the past two years, it has become popular to build reinforced concrete houses here in Liaodong, but they need to pay for it by themselves. establish.

Li Damao's family is the first one to build a new house here in Nanshan Village, and they just moved into the new house this year.

"That's right, don't look at how much money was spent, Brother Da Mao, I heard that it cost several hundred taels of silver, right?"

Zhang Laosan next to him also asked tentatively.

"It cost more than [-] taels of silver, and several cars were used for the steel bars. How thick is the wall, so it won't be cold in winter."

Li Damao nodded with a smile, then gestured and said.

"It's still Big Brother who made money~"

When the others heard it, they immediately followed suit.

"It doesn't matter if it's money or not, everyone's life is much better than before."

"When I was in my hometown in Shaanxi, I was worried when winter came. I basically ran out of food in the house, so I could only lie on the bed and starve."

Li Damao smiled, but looking at the heavy snow outside, he recalled the hard days before.

"Don't mention it, in the past, where was the life of a human being?"

"It's embarrassing to say it. I used to only have a pair of cotton trousers in my house. When I go out this winter, I can only wear them alone. The rest of the people can only lie under the quilt."

When Ding Dazhu heard it, he also followed suit.

"The days before were really sad, and I don't know how I got here."

"It's winter, and I have nothing to eat, clothes and shoes to wear. I'm half dead in the cold and half hungry in winter."

"It's not like now. We don't have to do anything in winter. We just sit and talk every day, and we feel uncomfortable when we eat too much. We have to go outside in the snow to consume our energy."

Zhang Laosan also nodded and said.

"I'm dissatisfied with everyone saying that when people heard that they were going to immigrate to Liaodong, I was still unwilling to come. When the time comes, the village will draw lots. After the lottery is drawn, my mother-in-law will still want to live with me."

"Isn't it? I heard that Liaodong is a place of bitter cold. It's so cold that it's dying. Who knew that I could live a life like this."

"Ding Dazhu, I heard that you took a North Korean concubine, you are now living the life of a rich landlord."

"Yes, yes, how about this North Korean concubine?"

"Haha, that's it. Women, once the lights go dark, it's almost the same. If you want to take concubines, you can go too. Those North Koreans want to marry here, and they are willing to be concubines."

"I don't dare, the tigress at home will eat me up and take concubines~"

"Grain prices have dropped again this year, and I don't know what to plant next year."

"Grow potatoes. Potatoes are easy to sell now. Beijing and Tianjin are very easy to sell in winter."

"Growing melon seeds is also good~ I heard that someone has made a lot of money growing melon seeds."

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(End of this chapter)