Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 510 The big man in the eyes of ordinary people

When he got to the ready-made clothing market, Song Xiaoyu realized what a crowd is. This street is full of clothes, men's and women's clothes, all kinds of materials, and all kinds of styles. The whole street is full of people like a tide. There are quite a lot of people in each store, and the stores that sell clothes are even a little bit overwhelmed.

Song Xiaoyu heard the prices discussed by those people, but they were not cheap. Clothes made of cotton cost more than ten or twenty renminbi each, and a complete set might not be able to get it without fifty renminbi. He pulled Song involuntarily. The corner of Tao's clothes said, "Why, why don't we buy it, it's quite expensive."

"Hehe, you don't know that! These clothes are produced by our garment factory in Weinan. In the whole Tang Dynasty, the ready-made clothes on this street are the cheapest. Why do you think there are so many people here! Many people around Clothes shops in the county town, and even outside Guanzhong, have to get their goods here, I have acquaintances here, otherwise there will be less to buy, and they will be sold too rarely!"

"That's it, it's still cheap?"

"Of course, this kind of cotton material is very comfortable to wear. Hu merchants buy tens of thousands of cotton fabrics from textile factories a year! Farmers grow cotton, sell it to textile factories to get seeds, weave it into cloth, and dye it. Dyeing in the cloth factory, and then going to the garment factory to make clothes, requires a lot of materials and labor costs. After a few days, the Hu merchants will sell out the goods brought over from the Western Regions in Chang'an, and when they arrive in Weinan to buy in large numbers, You can’t get it at this price.”

While explaining, Song Tao walked into a shop, and said to a little girl who sold clothes, "Sanniang, I have a brother from the same town who just came from Yuezhou. Look at his figure and get him two sets." Try shirts and trousers, and underwear too! I’ll go to the leather goods store to buy him a belt and shoes, and I’ll pay for him later.”

"Tch, I was afraid that you might not be able to run away, Director Song, but ah! You men are careless in handling things. You want to buy shoes for this brother, do you know his size?" In the store, the young girl in the uniform of a salesperson Seeing Song Tao coming in, he was overjoyed and said with charming eyes.

"Yo, if you hadn't reminded me, I would have forgotten, Xiaoyu, what size shoes do you wear?"

"What size is it?" Song Xiaoyu was dumbfounded when he heard this question.

"A person who just came from home doesn't know the size. I'll take a ruler and measure it for him."

As the girl said, she brought a ruler over, gesticulated on Song Xiaoyu's smelly straw sandals, and said, "Size 38."

Song Xiaoyu shrank his feet in embarrassment, but Song Tao patted him on the shoulder generously and said, "Don't be embarrassed, it's normal to try on clothes and shoes, her name is Xu Sanniang, and she is my best friend." , you just follow her arrangement, I will go to the leather goods store on the next street first, the tricycle is still waiting at the intersection!"

"Picture, good match, uh, okay!"

"Go, go, who is your girlfriend!" Xu Sanniang seemed very annoyed, but her face was shy and shouted, and the other waitresses in the same store burst into giggles.

Song Tao walked out of the store quickly with a smile, and Song Xiaoyu, who habitually obeyed Song Tao's arrangement, was pushed into a small room by Xu Sanniang. Xu Sanniang handed him some clothes, and briefly It was obvious that Xu Sanniang had seen many people like him who came to a clothing store for the first time to buy clothes.

After a while, Song Xiaoyu's clothes were ready. This cotton material was the softest material he had ever touched. The close-fitting and warm feeling was much more comfortable than the burlap material he wore before.

It was the kind of gown that needed to be buttoned. He tossed twice before he could fasten the buttons to the buttonholes. It was just that the length of the trousers was suitable, but the waist was a little too loose. When he came out with his trousers up, he wanted to tell Xu Sanniang that the trousers were not suitable and he needed to wear a belt, but Xu Sanniang told him to just put on the belt immediately.

Sure enough, as soon as Xu Sanniang finished speaking, Song Tao twisted a burlap bag containing two pairs of shoes, walked in from the door with a belt, handed the belt to him and said, "Put it on the buckle of the trousers, the belt The button is placed in the middle of the stomach, and the tongue of the belt goes through the button. There is a movable bayonet on it, and you can buckle it firmly by turning it slightly backwards. But I only bought you a belt with an iron buckle, and you can earn it yourself Once you get the money, you can exchange it for a copper buckle, or a silver buckle.”

"What are you spending that money for?"

Song Xiaoyu followed what Song Tao said, while looking at Song Tao's waist, he saw a silver belt buckle, engraved with patterns, very beautiful, probably at least two or three times heavy, not counting the production The wages, the silver alone, are worth two or three pennies.

At this time, Song Tao had already talked to Xu Sanniang, "We have a visitor today, I went to the vegetable market to buy some good food, you come and help me take care of it, and have a good meal at home by the way."

"That depends on whether my second sister has time, I dare not go alone."

Xu Sanniang's mouth was a bit delayed, but her face was full of joy. Song Tao knew that she would definitely come tonight, so he pulled Song Xiaoyu, waved to her, and quickly said to the waiter in Taiyi. Go to the tricycle at the intersection of the market, get on the tricycle, and soon they arrived at the area with rows of tall buildings. Song Xiaoyu had never seen such a tall house, as if the city wall had been hollowed out.

Soon, Song Tao took him to the door of a building. After removing the bag from the car, he gave the man who stepped on the car two pennies extra, meaning to trouble him for waiting for a while and delay After a while, the two walked up the stairs together carrying their bags.

Song Tao can also be regarded as the middle-level leader of the shipyard. He manages more than 1000 people, with a monthly salary of more than 20 yuan, as well as year-end performance bonuses and various festival benefits. Adding up, the annual income is almost 300 yuan. After working for more than two years, his savings have already exceeded [-] Guan.

So, he directly bought a well-decorated three-bedroom apartment, and it was on the fifth floor along the main road. The viewing angle was very good. When he opened the door with the key, Song Xiaoyu immediately felt that he had entered another world. Everything in the house was too delicate for him.

"There is water on the charcoal stove, you put the water in the bathtub, warm it up, put toilet water, make a soap for decontamination, take a good soak, wear new clothes after soaking, there are cotton socks in the drawer, you wear new ones, there is a shoe cabinet at the door Slippers, you only wear the leather shoes I just bought for you when you go out, and they are all in the shoe cabinet..."

Song Tao didn't even have time to show him his new house carefully, and soon taught him how to use the bathing device, and then went downstairs to buy vegetables.

Song Tao poured a lot of that fragrant thing into the white porcelain bathtub. After taking a bath, Song Xiaoyu had never felt so clean, and his skin was still fragrant. He just came out of the bathtub, dried his body with a clean white towel, and rinsed the bathtub with fresh water. After putting on new cotton clothes, he felt comfortable all over. The burlap shirt, he really didn't want to go back to it again.

Then, he visited the living room, and went to the wide balcony. As far as he could see, there were houses and people. This place is really a magical place.

Not long after, Song Tao came back from outside with big bags and small bags. There were more than ten kinds of ingredients, including vegetarian, raw, and cooked. Yu explained everything about Weinan, and soon he knew why Song Tao bought clothes for him as soon as he came, because two days later, at the job fair of the shipyard, the governor of Anbei, Gongsun Zhengming of Nongguo, would personally To inspect the site.

In fact, since the establishment of Datang Exploration Co., Ltd., Sun Zhengming has spent most of his time in Weinan, because the training of talents cannot be completed in a day or two. However, technology research and equipment manufacturing must start now. At first, recently, Song Tao met this big man once or twice in the shipyard.

If Song Xiaoyu can be appreciated by Sun Zhengming at the recruitment meeting two days later and become a core technician trained by the shipyard, his future achievements may surpass his own. After all, he is seven or eight years younger than himself.

During dinner, Xu Sanniang and her older sister Xu Erniang came to Song Tao's house. With the help of their sisters, Song Xiaoyu soon had the richest and most delicious meal in his life. Then, he finally If he knew why Song Tao didn't meet Xu Sanniang, he also knew what it meant to be a good friend.

It turned out that they were just waiting for Xu Erniang to get married, and then they got married. Those who work in Weinan now usually see each other as men and women, and go directly to a matchmaker to propose marriage. Almost no one would refuse a leadership-level bachelor.

A senior skilled worker like him has already been able to obtain the status of a first-class citizen. It is basically a [-]% chance to pass the engineering exam. If you practice as an official, you can also get a good evaluation. Naturally, it is no problem to be an official. It's just that, at his level, he no longer needs to take the engineering exam, and the factory will directly report to the court.

In the end, Song Tao told Song Xiaoyu that it is not too difficult to earn what he has now in Weinan. As long as he is willing to work hard and study hard, he will have everything in two or three years. Cherish the opportunity two days later, once Sun Zhengming finds a talent, he will soon become a big shot in Weinan, not to mention hardcover houses, even luxury hardcover houses, and some will live there.

I had a very happy dinner, the spring bed made Song Xiaoyu sleep very comfortably, and had a beautiful dream, and then two days later, when Song Tao went to work, he gave him a lot of things to recognize and learn, When he was in the village, Song Tao only taught him how to make wood and do manual work. Now, he actually taught him to recognize special rulers, numbers on tools, and some simple Chinese characters. Teach him for two hours, but forcibly instilled some new knowledge into him.

Then, finally came the day of the job fair for the shipyard. Under Song Tao's guidance, Song Xiaoyu dressed up very energetically. Early in the morning, he followed Song Tao to the super large vacant dock area next to the Wei River.

There are many applicants, as many as one or two thousand. Song Xiaoyu feels that he is under a lot of pressure, because Song Tao's expectation for him is not just to enter the shipyard, but to enter the technical training department of the shipyard and become a The core technicians of the future shipyard.

Not long after, a well-dressed young man walked into the workshop surrounded by everyone. Immediately, Song Xiaoyu saw Song Tao and the eager eyes of many people in the field. He knew that this The person must be the big man Sun Zhengming they said.

It's a pity that after seeing the number of people in the workshop, Sun Zhengming said with an unhappy expression, "There are so few people, it means that the conditions we offer are not good enough, the welfare benefits continue to increase, and the publicity is also necessary." To strengthen, we must more than double the number of boatmen within this year."

(End of this chapter)