Chapter 226: cheap labor 2
Fuck! She spends nearly two hours putting together a matchbox every night. Two hours of physical and energy consumption, how can she have to have a steamed bun to top it? In this case, the consumption is greater than the effort, so what else is there to do?
Great, I don't know how the original owner persevered. She did this work until the match factory closed down. No matter how busy and tired she was during the day, she had to work overtime to earn this extra money at night.
Alright, I looked at the little girl with her eye sockets on the backrest chair on the other side of the stove, nodding her head drowsily. She reached out and turned over the sweet potato slices on the tongs on the stove to make sure that several slices of steamed buns had been baked until brown and crispy. He picked it up and handed it to the little girl who had been dozing off.
After a glance at Wang Qingqing, he quickly stuffed a piece of steamed bread into his mouth and said vaguely, "Thank you mom."
Wang Qingqing squeezed the sweet potato chips on the stove and put it in her mouth and nodded to her: "Eat it."
She stroked her cherishly, and then smiled at Wang Qingqing with a very satisfied look.
The little girl's behavior made Wang Qingqing frown. She reached out and took out the steamed buns that the little girl had put into the pocket of her coat with great difficulty: "Put it in your pocket to attract mice, It's all eaten."
Wang Qingqing stared at her after she finished eating the steamed buns, picked up an enamel jar with a few large pieces of glaze dropped from the cup, and poured her half a cup of warm water. After mixing hot water, the mother and daughter hurriedly washed and fell asleep.
In the early morning of the next day, Wang Qingqing wrapped the little girl into a ball and carried it by her side, holding a cardboard box and went out the door.
"Da Yuan's daughter-in-law!" A short and strong elder sister-in-law who was brushing the spittoon under the public faucet at the entrance of the alley greeted Wang Qingqing warmly: "Go to the street to exchange matchboxes?"
"Yes." Wang Qingqing smiled and nodded: "Sister-in-law Huaihua is not going to work today?"
It was locked firmly by a large iron lock.
"Well, isn't it the tenth again? The family is about to break." Wang Qingqing smiled bitterly: "The **** went to the work unit with his father, so he could have a full meal."
"If you want me to say that your family's Dayuan really won't feel heartbroken, that bastard, like his father, only cares about himself, as long as he is full or not hungry, you are so kind to him. ." Sister-in-law Huai Hua kept her hands and took a brush made of reed heads and repeatedly brushed two coarse porcelain spittoons under the faucet.
This spittoon is actually a urinal. Every household does not have a toilet. At night, the toilet is in the spittoon or toilet. In the morning, it is brought to the public toilet outside the alley and dumped. After returning from the public toilet, just Scrub it under the public faucet, so you can use it at night.
"We are far from the railway station in Tiexi, but who doesn't go to work like this? Didn't you come with a bicycle? Riding a bicycle is at most two Ten minutes, but your family is very expensive, you have to live in dormitory, hey, it is enough to occupy a bed in the unit, and the food and food tickets are all spent in the canteen of the unit, but he has enough to eat. Well, why didn't you think about how you and Er Niu Niang are still hungry at home? If he brings his ticket home, will your family stop at the end of the month?"
After brushing the spittoon, Sister-in-Law Huaihua did not rush to leave, she put the brush aside and scolded Wang Qingqing with a bit of anger: "You! You are too temperamental. Let's face it, if our old Zhao dared to do this, I would have already put the cucumber racks up for him. You are good. What he says should you do, even if you can endure starvation yourself, consider it for Er Niu? Look at your second girl, she looks like a bean sprout."
It's all in his own hands, if he doesn't give it to me, I can still grab it? I can't beat it, and I can't win even if I scold me, I really can't help it."
Hua Hua's sister-in-law glanced at Wang Qingqing's slender body and sighed helplessly: "Yes, as the old saying goes, men are afraid of entering the wrong profession, and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man. If a man is killed, that woman will be ruined in her lifetime, and a man will be a ninja no matter how **** he is, and if he has children, how can he be separated from him?"
Wang Qingqing freed one hand and took out the handkerchief in her pocket to wipe her eyes: "Sister-in-law, you're busy, I'll go and hand over this matchbox."
"Hey, Da Yuan's daughter-in-law, today the kiln shop in the eastern suburbs collects lotus white (cabbage)." Sister-in-law Huaihua lowered her voice and said to Wang Qingqing: "I'll take you there, let's pick it up. I ordered some vegetable leaves and roots to pickle, so you don't have to buy winter vegetables this year."
"This, this feeling is good, but I don't have a car or anything. I just picked it up, and I can't get it back." Looking at his knuckles, he was very skeptical about how many leaves and vegetable roots he could get back.
Tricycle, if you pick up the vegetables, are you afraid that you won't be able to get them back?" Sister-in-law Huaihua goes to the eastern suburbs every year to pick up vegetables and leaves, and she is already familiar with this process.
"Hey, thank you, sister-in-law." Wang Qingqing thanked him repeatedly: "sister-in-law, wait for me to hand over this matchbox, otherwise I won't be able to get the money for cigarettes."
Everything was ready, Wang Qingqing and Huaihua's sister-in-law successfully borrowed a tricycle, only the eastern suburbs are not close to the city, and the road was full of potholes and uneven dirt roads as soon as they left the city, and the two pedaled all the way After three rounds reached the destination, Wang Qingqing was already sweating profusely.
"Don't take off your jacket, and don't open your arms." Rao is a strong and strong sister-in-law of Huaihua, and she was so tired that she was panting. She stretched a towel into her clothes to wipe the sweat, while He panted and explained to Wang Qingqing: "Quickly wipe off the sweat, this is agitated by the cold wind, it's not a joke if you catch a cold, and it won't help without medicine for three or five yuan."
Wang Qingqing didn't care anymore after being said so by Sister-in-law of Sophora japonica, and quickly imitated the sister-in-law of Sophora japonica. She put the towel into her clothes and wiped the sweat off her body.
Wang Qingqing looked around while wiping sweat, the fields in early winter were empty but not desolate, the vast fields were divided into large and small blocks by criss-cross paths, and the color of each block was They are all different, some are the true color of yellow earth, some are the tender green of wheat seedlings, and some are the pale green of lotus white.
Sister-in-law Huaihua led Wang Qingqing to park the tricycle in a vegetable field that had already been harvested. A large field beside them was being harvested. On the dirt road, the villagers wielded sickles and chopped down the cabbage roots one by one. The women who followed them first peeled off the outer layers of old leaves, and then took a kitchen knife to chop down the roots a few times to clean up.
The old leaves on the outside are removed, and the lotus white becomes the white of the lotus. The women carefully put the trimmed cabbage into the basket, and when the basket is full, use the strength The big man took the pole to the side of the road and put it on the liberation card. These vegetables will be transported to several surrounding cities and become "winter vegetables" that citizens can only buy with their rations.
The formed vegetables are waiting for us to pick up, and there will be many people waiting for a while, don’t talk about these, the vegetables roots and leaves can only be picked up by grabbing them.”
Is the competition so fierce? Wang Qingqing was shocked. She picked up the prepared kitchen knife and started to work in a hurry. The cabbage root chopped the part with the soil and threw it into the car. The slightly tender leaves were picked up and thrown into the car. , the cabbage without the heart was also chopped down and thrown into the car.
Wang Qingqing was agile, and she picked up most of the car in a short time. As expected by Mrs. Sophora japonica, more and more people came to pick up vegetable leaves in the vegetable field. Bicycles came with woven bags and baskets, some pushed unicycles, some pulled carts, and some came with sacks without any vehicles.
The fellow villagers who collect vegetables next to them don’t care about them, and occasionally say a word or two, “Not everyone in the city lives comfortably”, “The people who don’t have a unit in the city are better than us. It's been bad."
Wang Qingqing bowed her head and said nothing, she quickly collected the vegetable leaves, and soon the car was full, she stopped, took out the dried buns wrapped in basket cloth and broke a piece for Er Niu Let her hold and chew, open an aluminum lunch box and drink two sips of cold boiled water, and then start to help sister-in-law Sophora japonica.
Sister-in-law Sophora japonica has a large family, and there is not enough vegetables to eat. She took a roll of bamboo mat and erected it around the tricycle, which more than doubled the carrying capacity of the tricycle. Wang Qingqing To help her, the two of them chatted and did it, the tricycle was already full as soon as the sun started to slant westward.
"Let's go back." After completing the task ahead of time, Sister-in-law Huaihua was in a good mood: "You are very quick in your hands and feet. It is much faster than in previous years to have you help me today."
"I only have this advantage left." Wang Qingqing laughed at herself.
"How can it be! You also have the biggest advantage—you look good." With the help of Wang Qingqing, Sister-in-Law Huaihua tied the bamboo mat with rope again: "Tell me about you , based on your cute little appearance, but if you change to a gentleman, you have to hold you in the palm of your hand, so why did you find Peng Dayuan?"
How did the original owner find Peng Dayuan? solid knot.
"Hey." After tying up the car, Sister-in-Law Huaihua approached Wang Qingqing and said mysteriously, "I've heard people say that Dayuan is not good at that, right?"