Happy peasant girl

Chapter 224 Paying wages (1)
Linqingxi's original plan was to recruit a hundred female workers for shoe soles, but in the end, too many people came, and many even knelt down and begged Mrs. Ye for a chance to be assessed.

In the end, for the sake of fairness, the one hundred best needlework was selected from the hometown of Linjia Village, and the one hundred best needlework were selected by those who had no relationship with each other. At the gate of Nayuan, he refused to leave.

"Xi girl, what do you think about this? They are all poor people, and some are refugees from other places. I don't know where they got the news that we are going to recruit female workers, and they all came here at once." Sitting in his yard, he said distressedly.

"Grandmother, our factory has not officially opened yet, so everyone can't come in. The 200 people are too much. Why don't you choose another [-] people to sew shoe uppers, but the wages will be lower than those for shoe soles. You can only give me ten Wen for the shoe upper." Linqingxi was also in a dilemma, suddenly there were a hundred more workers, and these people all wanted to live in Nayuan.

Originally, she meant to let some female workers who were close to her stay home, but when they heard that Nashoe Sole could not go out of the garden, they didn’t want to go back at night, because Nayuan would provide a bonfire, and they could continue to Nashoe Sole after dinner. .

"Okay, okay, you can leave this matter to grandma!" Among those who failed the election or hadn't come to take the real assessment, Mrs. Ye found several people who were good at needlework, and they were not as good as they were. To be honest, it costs ten cents to sew a shoe upper, and this clumsy woman can sew five or six shoe uppers a day, which is a lot.

Ye's enthusiasm is to make Nayuan more crowded. There is no way. After discussing with Lin Renyi, Linqingxi asked someone to tear down a courtyard wall of Nayuan, and then extended the courtyard a lot. The kind of wooden beds with upper and lower floors are placed inside, so that more people live there.

The consequences of having too many female workers are not limited to these. Mu's and the others have to make more sacks to supply the people in the garden with shoe soles. Moreover, the quality, speed, and perseverance of the two hundred female workers are far beyond According to Qingxi's expectation and imagination, one day, He Huaihua bought seven pairs of shoe soles by herself from morning till night.

"They are really scary!" Linqingxi and Jingxiu said in admiration while drinking tea in Xiyuan.

"Hehe, shouldn't Xi'er be happy that they are so capable? How does it look, you don't seem to be as happy as you imagined?" Jing Xiu looked at her and said.

"As an 'acting factory manager', I am naturally very happy that they are so capable, but on the other hand, I feel sorry for them. There are endless jobs in the world. How can you work so hard? Do you know, Jingxiu, They secretly concealed their illnesses, and they were still putting on the soles of their shoes stitch by stitch. Some of them had been doing the soles for a long time, and their eyes were a little red and swollen. Grandma asked them to rest, but they refused to say anything." Lin Qingxi I thought, if these female workers were in modern times, they would all be able to win the "Good Employee Award", and no boss would dislike them.

"Xi'er, these people seem to be living in a sinking swamp. You gave them a life-saving rope, how could they not hold on to it firmly? Even if you and Grandma feel sorry for them and thank you, they will They will still do this, because they want to live, their family members also want to live, and they also want to live better, this is human nature, and it is also their respective destiny." Jing Xiu will be cold in the Qingxi cup He poured out the tea and poured her another cup of hot tea. Although the weather has been hot recently, Linqingxi doesn't seem to like drinking herbal tea.

"Destiny? The road is made by a person, and a person's life is limited. If you don't have a good body, how can you continue to work hard for the life you want! They still haven't learned to cherish themselves." Ma Ling used to say to her It is said that the nature of a woman is dedication, but she feels that dedication and cherishing herself are not contradictory, but the thinking of ancient women is rigid, and it is probably difficult to change their thinking, unless she uses her "brainwashing education".

"Don't talk too much about others, you haven't learned to love yourself, haven't you eaten and rested properly these few days!" Jing Xiu's words contained slight reproach and distress.

"I...I'm too busy!" Alas, she really has the mouth to talk about others, but not herself, and she also forgets to sleep and eat when she is busy.

One month after the establishment of the cloth shoe factory, it can barely supply the shoes and clothing shops in the capital. Although the price of cloth shoes with thousand-ply soles in the capital has risen again and again, many people still spend their money to buy them.

Wealthy families buy more shoe soles, because there is an embroiderer in the mansion, and they can ask the embroiderer to make more exquisite uppers. As for the embroidered shoes of Hunan embroidery that are sold in the shop for women, they must be measured and taken to the shop for customization. , It takes a month or two to get new shoes to wear, even so, many people are willing to wait.

Nayuan is very lively every day, Linqingxi asked people to erect a large wooden board in the yard, on which was written the name of each female worker, and behind it was the total number of soles they paid out, which made everyone who walked into Nayuan One can clearly see who has received the most soles, and at the same time can arouse everyone's enthusiasm.

The top three are He Huaihua, He Xueer and Xie Yingying. The three of them bought 160 eight pairs of soles, 160 pairs of soles and 150 pairs of eight soles in a month, and the quality of these soles is also the best.

On the day of salary payment, Mrs. Ye was responsible for the wages of the female workers in the Fara Garden, and Lin Qingxi and Jasmine also came to help. Jasmine is not only in charge of the accounts of the Xi Garden, she is also helping to manage the accounts of the cloth shoe factory.

"Everyone, please line up and come one by one. You should know how many pairs of qualified soles you have accepted in a month. Your wages are in your wallet. You have a day off tomorrow. One of you has I haven’t been home for a month, and this time I was paid, and I bought some good things for the parents and children at home, hehe!” Now Ye Shi is getting younger and younger, she and her old sisters spend all day with young people like Nayuan. When people hold the soles of their shoes together, they feel as if they have returned to their girlhood.

The female workers lined up in front of Mrs. Ye with some nervousness and anticipation. Their faces were full of smiles that could not be concealed. After a month of hard work, it was finally time to pay their wages.

"He Xiaohua!" Jasmine read with her purse in one hand and her payroll in the other.

"I... I'm here!" He Xiaohua walked out of the team somewhat at a loss.

Jasmine handed her the purse, and said with a smile, "This is your first month's wages, and there are two feet of coarse cloth."

He Xiaohua took the purse a little nervously, but hesitated about the two-foot cloth that Jasmine handed over, and asked in puzzlement, "Why... why is there still cloth?"

At this time, Lin Qingxi said with a smile on the side: "Your performance this month is very good, I discussed it with my senior brother, and according to the speed and quality of your shoes, as well as your performance in various aspects, all of you will be divided into three groups. There are three grades, and it is decided to give you different rewards, the general reward is two feet of coarse cloth, the better ones are rewarded with two feet of fine cloth, and the better ones are rewarded with silver and fine cloth."

(End of this chapter)