The history of struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 228

After listening to Han Qianluo's idea, Liu Linchu praised again and again: "Yes, Xiaoluo's idea is very good. This cotton feels very warm and soft when held in the hand. It must be very soft if it is made into a quilt. Comfortable."

"That's right, so I have to make it quickly, before it gets cold, so that we will have warm quilts in winter." Han Qianluo said that he wished he could make it now.

"Then don't be too tired." Liu Linchu warned with great concern.

Han Qianluo immediately started to pick cotton seeds, and Liu Linchu also helped here for a while, and did not leave until after lunch. However, Han Qingquan, who had nothing to do, also came to help pick cotton seeds, but the speed was still very slow. Not much was produced in the evening.

After dinner in the evening, Han Qianluo sat to rest in the yard, and after a while Han Qingquan also sat down beside him and said, "Xiao Luo, should we invite some people to help with the work, or we can do it by ourselves. I'm afraid it will take a long time to remove all these cotton seeds."

"I also have this idea, so I'll go find someone tomorrow." Han Qianluo said.

"Now that the wheat has been planted, most of the people are now at home. There are many idle people in Qianyang. I think it's good to ask them to come and help." Han Qingquan said.

Han Qianluo thought about it, but she actually felt that it was not good for such familiar people to work, because they are very familiar with each other, so they would be more casual when working, and they would be ashamed to criticize if they did not do well, but if Going outside to find someone is more likely to attract gossip, so she is a little tangled and doesn't know what to do.

"Xiao Luo, is there a problem?" Han Qingquan asked a little puzzled.

Han Qianluo hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother, I'm a little worried that if we ask the people who came with us to help, it is easy to cause conflicts, but if we go outside to find someone, it seems that it is easy to make people feel that we look down on them."

Han Qingquan smiled and replied: "Xiao Luo, you think too much, how can it be so complicated." Hearing what his elder brother didn't care about, Han Qianluo suddenly felt that maybe he really thought too much, so he relaxed Said: "Then I will find someone tomorrow."

"Well, no problem, you can go find it tomorrow." Han Qingquan said, then stopped talking, came over for a while, stood up and said, "I'm going to sleep."

Han Qianluo suddenly remembered what Yunhong had said before, so he quickly said, "Brother, wait for a while."

"What's wrong?" Han Qingquan stopped and asked in confusion.

Han Qianluo turned around with his upper body, leaned on the back of the chair and said, "Brother, I heard that Yunhong said that you were a follower for someone before, is it true?"

"What's the matter, do you not recognize me as a big brother because I have been a follower for others?" Han Qingquan asked jokingly, and then walked to the bedroom inside without waiting for Han Qianluo's answer.

Han Qianluo was taken aback for a moment, and found that Yunhong was right. The eldest brother was really repulsed to mention this matter. She couldn't help guessing that if they weren't brother and sister, maybe Han Qingquan had already put on a straight face at this moment. , which made her a little puzzled, what happened during that time that made her eldest brother so unwilling to talk about it.

After resting in the yard for a while, Han Qianluo will also go to sleep in the bedroom. While sleeping, she carefully thought about hiring a short-term laborer. She thought that it would be fine to find a woman to do such an easy job as cottonseed. up.

When having breakfast the next morning, Han Qianluo asked the long-term workers, "Which of you has the loudest voice?" maximum."

"After dinner, you go out with me for a walk." Han Qianluo said.

"Yes, Miss Han." The young man replied.

After breakfast, Han Qianluo found the gong at home, took the young man out, and told him what he was going to shout later, then Han Qianluo started to beat the gong, and the young man shouted loudly. Shouted: "We're hiring. The Han family is hiring short-term workers. We only want women, not men."

The two circled around Qianyangli, and finally returned home, and found that all the girls from the same village had come. Whether they were really interested or wanted to do part-time jobs, even if they were watching the excitement, these people were very happy. of.

"Qianluo, is your family looking for a short-term worker?" A woman asked first when she saw her come back.

"Yes." Han Qianluo replied.

At this time, another woman said with some concern: "Qianluo, what are you hiring short-term workers for? I'm afraid it's not good to work with those men?"

Han Qianluo quickly explained: "The short-term workers hired this time are not working with them, they are in another yard."

After saying this, some women were moved, and began to ask some specific questions: "Qianluo, if we go, what will we do, and how much money can we make a day?"

Han Qianluo grabbed a handful of cotton and said: "The thing is very simple, just pick out the cotton seeds from the cotton. How much you can earn depends on how fast you work, but you can earn at least ten yuan a day. If you are fast , Twenty Wen is also possible."

When I say this, many women are moved, because if they do part-time jobs now, even a strong man can only spend about [-] Wen a day, and some of them are even less than [-] Wen.What these women usually do is to weave and do needlework at home. Now they suddenly know that there is such an opportunity to make money in front of them, and the money they earn is not less than that of men, so they are all moved.

Han Qianluo saw that they were all moved, so he quickly asked: "Anyway, there is no farm work now, do you want to come?"

"It's a very good job, but I can't make my own decision on this matter. I have to go back and discuss it with the head of the house. I'll go back and discuss it first, and come back later." After speaking, a woman left in a hurry.

The other women also expressed that they would go back and discuss with the man in charge before making a decision, and then they all hurried back.Han Qianluo knew that this was a very normal thing. After all, this kind of thing had never happened before, and now he began to think of his husband as the god, so everything had to be made by the man in the family.

However, it also said that everyone went back to discuss, and there were a few girls who were [-], [-], [-], [-], and stayed. Han Qianluo asked, "Are you all willing to do part-time jobs?"

"Yes, Sister Han, when can I start working?" A 14-year-old round-faced girl asked.

Han Qianluo smiled and said, "If you want, you can start working now." The girls quickly said, "Sister Han, we can start now."

"Then wait a while, find a stool to sit on first." Han Qianluo said, dragged a sack of cotton from the room and put it in front of them, and then took out some smaller sacks for them, saying: "You Put the picked cotton in there, don't get confused, I will weigh the cotton you picked after the end, and give you money according to the weight." Then I found a few small pots for cottonseed.

Not long after, some women came back and expressed their willingness to do part-time work, but not all women were willing, and many people did not come after returning home. Obviously, the result of the discussion was that they did not want to do part-time work, but Han Qian Luo doesn't mind, anyway, these people are enough.

Han Qianluo had been paying close attention to their work while they were working, paying attention to the quality of their work, and quickly reminded them if they found any cotton that had not been cleaned.

In the evening, Han Qianluo weighed the clean cotton they picked, and then gave them today's wages. The fastest mover earned fifteen coins, and the slowest mover also earned eleven coins. After getting the money, they all went back happily.

Perhaps because of the incentive of money, those people came to pick cotton early every day in the next few days. Because these people were too hardworking, they removed all the cotton seeds within ten days.

After all the work was done, those people still had some unfinished business. After finishing the work, they all said: "Qianluo, next time you have such a thing, you must remember to find us."

"Don't worry, I will definitely come to you again if I need help in the future." Han Qianluo said, and then those people took the money and went back contentedly.

After cleaning the cotton seeds, it will be October. Seeing that the day of marriage is getting closer and closer, Han Qianluo will also start preparing things for marriage, so he can only temporarily put down the work in hand. Get the important things done first.

For the marriage at this time, all Han Qianluo knows is the part of the worship that she sees every time. As for what specific preparations need to be prepared, she really doesn't know at all, and she doesn't have a mother, so she won't Someone taught her these things.

Fortunately, Han Qianluo still had a second aunt, so she had to go to the second aunt and ask her what to prepare, so after breakfast in the morning, she hurried to the second aunt's house.

"Second Aunt." Han Qianluo walked to the door of Second Aunt Wang's house and shouted loudly.

Upon hearing the shout, Mrs. Wang poked her head out of the room, saw it was Han Qianluo, and said, "So it's Qianluo, what's the matter here so early?"

Han Qianluo walked in, unceremoniously moved a stool over to sit down, and said directly: "Second Aunt, I just want to ask, do you need to prepare anything for getting married?"

"Oh, look at me, why did I ignore this matter, I forgot that you brothers and sisters don't have mothers, I should have come to tell you earlier." Second Aunt Wang said exaggeratedly, but it seemed a little fake.

(End of this chapter)