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Gu Mingyue flipped through the roster and picked up a calligraphy brush.

"Three or four hundred people came today, but only fifty were accepted. Once the news gets out, even more people will come tomorrow."

She paused for a moment and glanced towards the door.

"Go find a wooden board. A big one, big enough to hang by the door."

Half an hour later.

A rectangular wooden board has appeared at the entrance of Su's Cloth Shop. It has fifty squares drawn on it, arranged in five rows and ten columns.

The first four squares in the first row have been marked with an "X" in ink.

Gu Mingyue had Su Wan interviewed and hired her in front of everyone.

First, look at the appearance and finger dexterity.

For every student admitted, Su Wan immediately crossed out a square on the wooden board.

Those who were not admitted but were selected as pending candidates stepped out of the line, stood to the side, and received a banner announcing their supplementary admission slots.

One of the young wives who wasn't chosen got anxious and grabbed Su Wan's sleeve, refusing to let go.

"Shopkeeper, my family is really starving, please have mercy and take one more person in..."

Su Wan glanced at Gu Mingyue.

Gu Mingyue shook her head.

Su Wan gritted her teeth and said softly, "Don't worry, sister. There's another round of supplementary enrollment tomorrow. Come back tomorrow morning, and there will definitely be supplementary enrollment slots available then, so you'll definitely get a spot."

The woman thanked Su Wanzhi profusely, her eyes reddening as she left, repeatedly confirming that she could have a spot reserved for her in the supplementary enrollment the next day.

The forks on the wooden plank kept multiplying.

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Each time a square is crossed out, the people in line move forward one step.

The previously relaxed group gradually tensed up, the atmosphere became tense, and even the voices became quieter.

The people in line behind were craning their necks to look ahead.

Seeing the few remaining spaces on the wooden board, everyone looked anxious, rubbing their hands and stamping their feet.

The twentieth person to be admitted to Pujitang was a short, plump old woman.

A broad smile spread across her kind face.

The shop assistant brought some things out from the back room.

A brand new indigo work uniform.

The fabric was handwoven cotton by Su Wan, with dense stitches and even stitches.

A small white cloth label, about the size of a palm, was sewn onto the collar, with the three characters "Pujitang" embroidered on it in ink thread.

The handwriting is neat and the strokes are clear; even someone who can't read would find it respectable.

Then, he took out a string of pork.

It was tied with straw rope, red and white stripes, and shiny.

It trembled slightly as it hung on my hand, the oily coating glistening in the afternoon sun.

Behind that was a bag of white rice and a bag of white flour, weighing about ten pounds in total, all tightly bound together.

Finally, there was a bunch of bright green scallions, their leaves glistening with water droplets, looking as fresh as if they had just been pulled from the ground.

When the short, plump old woman took the item, her heart trembled and her hands shook.

"This...this is all for me?"

"Joining benefits," Su Wan said in a clear voice. "All female workers who are hired will receive them on the same day."

The old woman held the pork and rice noodles, her lips trembling for a long time before she finally managed to utter a single sentence.

"I...I've lived forty years, and this is the first time my employer has ever given me pork, rice, and noodles while I'm working!"

After saying this, her eyes gleamed with excitement. She bowed to thank the shopkeeper and left with her head held high.

I was so proud!

The people in line next to them all craned their necks to watch.

Several people stood on tiptoe and pushed each other to squeeze forward.

The hanging basket of pork swayed in the sunlight, attracting attention.

There was a moment of silence.

Then the crowd erupted.

"Good heavens! They give you pork, rice, noodles, and even uniforms just for going to work?!"

"My goodness! No wonder it's so hard to become a clerk at Pujitang! The requirements are high, but the employer also offers good things!"

An old man passing by stopped, clicked his tongue twice, craned his neck to look for a while, and tugged at the sleeve of the vegetable-selling aunt next to him.

"If any woman or daughter can get a job at Pujitang, it's truly a stroke of good luck."

"Oh! That's right!" The vegetable vendor rubbed her hands together, pacing anxiously back and forth. "I hope ours will be allowed to stay a little while later!"

The old man praised her all the way to the front of the line, and secretly took ten coins from Su Wan's shop assistant for the third time.

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As the spots were filled one by one, the queue gradually became restless.

The people in the back of the line started to get restless and began to peek forward one after another.

The women, who had been chatting and laughing, all fell silent and stared intently at the wooden board at the doorway.

Several women who hadn't gotten a number huddled together and discussed the matter in hushed tones.

"You must come before dawn tomorrow."

"You must go out when the rooster crows for the first time!"

"You bring your sister-in-law along, and I'll invite my cousin too."

The spaces on the wooden planks at the doorway are decreasing one by one.

With each one crossed out, the onlookers grew more anxious.

Some people started chanting Buddhist mantras, some put their hands together and bowed to the sky, and many more just stared intently at the wooden board, their eyes aching but they couldn't bear to blink.

Just after noon, all fifty spots for the day were filled.

When Su Wan marked the last cross on the wooden board, a collective gasp rippled through the crowd, followed by a chorus of sighs of regret.

Su Wan got up and walked to the door, following the employer's instructions, asking those who hadn't been registered to come back tomorrow.

As the crowd dispersed, the buzzing of conversations in the alley carried far.

Some people walked quite a distance away, but they were still looking back at the wooden board covered with crosses at the entrance of the shop.

Su Wan stood at the door, looking at the wooden board.

He gently touched the fifty dark crosses on it with his fingertips.

My heart is burning.

She turned her head and saw Gu Mingyue sitting behind the counter, fiddling with an abacus.

With deft fingertips, the beads clicked and clattered.

Su Wan stepped forward and asked, "Boss, how much did you spend today?"

"Fifty sets of work clothes, at 200 cash per set, that's 10 taels. Pork, rice, flour, and scallions, at 150 cash per serving, that's 7.5 taels. Referral bonus is 3 taels. Including the cost of the buns and wages for those little beggars, all the odds and ends added up, today's total cost was less than 22 taels of silver."

She moved the last bead and put her hand down.

Twenty-two taels.

Su Wan silently repeated the number in her mind.

Back when she worked at the cloth shop, 22 taels was her annual revenue.

But what we gained from spending those twenty-two taels today is something that money can't buy.

That's the signboard, the reputation, the four hundred pairs of eyes behind the fifty crosses on that wooden board.

"Manager Su,"

Gu Mingyue's voice brought Su Wan back to her senses.

"Have those kids make another trip tomorrow. Use a different script, and add fuel to the fire."

"Okay, boss."

Su Wan walked to the counter, just about to ask what to say.

Gu Mingyue had already written it down on the paper.

Su Wan took it and looked down at it.

There was a line of text written on it.

"If a family's daughter can earn money to supplement the family income, that family must be extremely fortunate. A capable daughter is a blessing to her husband and family. A daughter who can help support her family will have her dowry doubled when she gets married."

Su Wan's lips twitched slightly.

She brings good fortune to her husband and family.

The bride price has doubled.

She knew this world all too well.

The parents said they loved their daughter dearly, but as soon as they heard the words "double the bride price," all their obsession vanished.

It's not that they don't love their children; it's that poverty forces people to be calculating, and worldly comparisons make it impossible for them to be indifferent.

These two sentences struck a chord with him.

You don't need to lecture them with grand principles; just tell them:

Your daughter going out to work and earning money will bring prosperity to the family!

This is a sales tactic used to change people's mindset.

As long as this trend of "women can also make money" spreads throughout Jiangzhou City...

"Master."

Su Wan raised her head.

His eyes were full of admiration, mixed with a touch of bittersweet regret for not having met sooner.

"You've hit the nail on the head."

Gu Mingyue folded the paper and put it into Su Wan's palm.

His expression was indifferent, and his voice was very steady, as if he had seen countless people and understood their hearts.

"They won't leave their homes unless you hit them where it hurts."

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