Little lucky girl from the peasant family: Queen Splendid

Chapter 109 Sweet Dates and Sticks

Outside the courtyard wall on the east side of the Yun family compound, it is sheltered from the wind and the sun.A row of thatched huts had been set up a few days ago, and ten earthen stoves were set up near the base of the wall. The largest iron pot was placed on the stove eye. Pao Er.

Sister-in-law Yuan and the others invited a group of women and children to the shed, and asked the women and children to sit separately. While Aunt Li was bringing people to the bowls and chopsticks to serve the porridge, Yunying took Xiaoqing with them. Pen and paper began to ask questions one by one.

Although the women were staring at the steaming pots and stoves, they still had some sense of propriety, and whenever Yunying asked, they would say whatever they asked.Those children were so hungry that they bit their fingers, and their fronts were soaked with saliva, without realizing it.

Aunt Li was heartbroken, and quickly sprinkled some coarse salt into the cauldron.These refugees have been starving for a long time, and their stomachs are already very thin. If they eat too much suddenly, they will be prone to accidents. They can only drink some corn porridge and slowly nourish them. Only when their stomachs get used to it can they return to normal.

However, the Yun family are not stingy people, potato chips and shredded cabbage were already added to the corn porridge, and adding a little salt is also a rare delicacy.

Yunying had just finished inquiring about the two tables, and the corn porridge was brought up. The women and children couldn't bear it anymore, picked up the bowls and started drinking.From time to time, children shed tears when they were scalded, but they refused to put down the pottery bowl in their hands.

Aunt Li patted her legs to persuade, "Drink slowly, there is still some in the pot, don't burn your mouth."

It's a pity that no one listened to her. At this time, everyone's eyes and hearts were captured by a bowl of corn porridge, so how could they remember anything else.

Ding Wei also saw that her eye circles were red, and beckoned to Yun Ying to wait for a while before asking, so as not to delay the women from filling their stomachs.

Soon, the glutinous rice porridge in the delicious cauldron was eaten up. Some children even licked the bowl clean, and finally looked eagerly at the empty pot. It was very pitiful.

Sister-in-law Yuan and the others persuaded while collecting the bowls and chopsticks, "Everyone, fill up your stomachs first. When the host's house still has food at noon, you will never be hungry. Don't worry."

After they finally snatched the bowls and chopsticks back from the children's hands, Yunying continued to inquire, and then took a thick account book and walked up to Ding Wei, reporting in a low voice, "Girl, there are 280 women in total, one One hundred and six children."

"Okay, let's make reasonable arrangements according to the work they are good at. Cutting requires 20 people, wadding cotton requires 100 people, and sewing requires [-] people. In addition, those who are not good at sewing cotton clothes will be assigned to make cotton shoes. Those who are not good at work will be assigned to do chores."

Ding Wei assigned the work carefully, and finally looked at Sister-in-law Yuan and others standing aside and said with a smile, "There are so many people eating, and Aunt Li has to take care of the family. Let’s take over the work. When you get busy, you probably won’t have time to go home and eat, so why don’t you just eat here. Let me explain to the head of Yuanzhuang, let him count you as a work point every day, how?"

"Okay, thank you girl."

In times of war like this, food is the most precious thing.As long as they come to do the work, the family not only saves a ration, but also earns a wage. How could Sister-in-Law Yuan refuse, laughing so much that she wished she could go home immediately to announce the good news.

Ding Wei explained a few more words, then looked at the women and children who had been looking at her quietly and constrainedly, and said seriously, "Ladies and sisters-in-law, I'm afraid you have all heard the notice posted in front of the government office. Our Yunjiazhuang is not a place to do good deeds. After you enter the gate of Zhuangzi, you will become the female workers of Yun's quilt workshop. As long as you don't be lazy and do your work according to the order, I guarantee that you will not starve or suffer from cold. Children will also have a ration. Of course, there is no free food in the world. Children should also arrange some work within their ability according to their age, and they are even taught to read and write every night."

"is this real?"

As soon as Ding Wei finished speaking, several women stood up excitedly. They all looked good-looking and young, and it was obvious that they were not ordinary farmers before they fell into trouble.Otherwise, I will never pay so much attention to children's reading at such a time.

Ding Wei didn't want to get to the bottom of where they came from, so she nodded in agreement, but her face sank when she spoke again, "However, everyone should know. There must be a lot of fabric and cotton in the workshop, and there are even people If someone dares to neglect their work or do bad things, just catch one, and the whole group will be kicked out of the workshop. At that time, whoever brings the child to freeze to death in the snow, don't blame me for being cruel!"

A group of women were discussing secretly just now, but when they heard this, they seemed to have been poured cold water on their heads, and immediately shrank their necks and calmed down.Some quick-witted people were already looking around, trying to find some good-tempered and hard-working people to work in the same group.

Ding Wei ignored their small thoughts, gave Yunying a wink and went back to the yard.

Yunying nodded, as if carelessly raised her hand, she kicked a stool leg and broke it, scaring all the women and children to be more honest.

As a result, both the grouping and the distribution of work went smoothly.

Although Zhuangzi had already made preparations, it was still too hasty, and the construction of the new workshop was still underway, so the few extra rooms and pig houses were tidied up for the time being.The bunk was built early, with thick straw mats. During the day, I sat on the bunk to do work, and at night, I lay down on the bunk and slept on it.

I have to say that the conditions are really simple, but it is much warmer than the grass shack under the tree.The women and children were very happy, and everyone hurriedly got busy, for fear that the master would drive them out again.

The women received the fabric and cotton needlework, and the cutting team quickly cut them in three sizes, large, medium and small. An old woman who had been doing chores had already carried them to the next room, and the staff in the cotton wool team were all relatively older. , carefully wadding the light yellow cotton evenly and thickly before sending it to the needlework group for sewing.

With such an assembly line operation, everyone is repeating the same work, and after only a short while of getting familiar with it, they can do it quickly and well.

After Sister-in-law Yuan and the others finished stewing the radishes and steaming the steamed noodles, forty or fifty cotton-padded clothes were put in the baskets according to size, and there were seven or eight pairs of cotton-padded shoes that took a lot of work and energy.

Not only the people in the village were amazed, even the female workers couldn't believe that they could be so agile.
On the contrary, Ding Wei was still a little dissatisfied with this speed. After thinking about it, she consulted with Mrs. Cheng, and changed the cotton belt into buttons, the cotton shoes into short boots, and even made the leftovers after cutting. It became a cloth strip as wide as a child's palm.

After the dinner for the female workers, Ding Wei announced the reform and announced a new measure, more pay for more work.In addition to the work that must be done every day, if you do one more job, you will get an extra salary.Cutting is relatively easy, one piece is one penny, cotton wool is one penny, and needlework is two pennies.

As a result, the female workers were ecstatic after hearing this.

People are greedy animals. When they are starving, they look forward to having a bowl of hot porridge, but when they are full and warm, they start to worry about having no money in their pockets.Now the master's family not only provides food and clothing, but also pays wages. This is simply a great joy.

Needless to say, in the afternoon, everyone felt as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and the needles and threads were flying. After dark, there were more than [-] cotton-padded clothes and more than a dozen pairs of shoes than in the morning.If there were not too many oil lamps available, the women would even light lamps and boil oil to keep busy.

Ding Wei looked at the cotton-padded clothes and shoes, and saw that the stitches were very fine, so she was a little relieved.

She is not a stingy person either. Gong Zhiming sent someone to deliver food, so the women got extra wages before dinner the next night. Although each person only had three to five yuan, many people were happy. tears.

With money at your side, even if you live outside, you can always buy food for your children and keep your innocence.

In this way, under the combination of grace and power, the Yun's quilt workshop opened in full swing.Although there are [-] more people in the village, it is quiet during the daytime. The women are rushing to work, and the children, the older ones, go up the mountain to cut firewood, or dig up the soil on the sunny side of the orchard, looking for hibernation. The worm eggs go back to feed the chickens.

In the evening, women go to the stream to wash in small groups after eating, while children sit in rows in the warm kitchen, reading and writing with Cheng Dayou, a part-time teacher.As for the Four Treasures of the Study, Ding Wei didn't need to order them. The sensible children found branches and sand by themselves.Needless to say, it caused the mothers who came to visit secretly to wipe away their tears.

While taking care of the huge Zhuangzi, Ding Wei took good care of An Geer, but no matter how busy she was, she would cook and prepare the meals by herself before noon.

When she got up early that day, she saw that the sky was a bit dark, and it was obvious that there was going to be a snowstorm, so she called Yunying over to inquire. After a while, she heard that she had sewed a thousand sets of cotton-padded clothes and [-] pairs of cotton-padded shoes. She couldn't bear it anymore, and hurriedly packed some food, and finally took the carriage to send the first batch of finished products to the city, and by the way, she also visited the person she was thinking about day and night.

Of course, she would not admit to the last reason.

In the government office of Qianzhou, there was still a murderous air in the busyness, and the people who couldn't bear the loneliness and came out to walk around all detoured.

Ding Wei followed the convoy to the front of the government office, Cheng Dayou jumped off the carriage and greeted the guard in front of the door, asking him to go in and report on his behalf, but I don't know if the guard was born dull, or he thought he was guarding the door of the government office, She is three points nobler than others, yet she squinted her eyes, and refused to tell her life and death.

Ding Wei waited impatiently in the car, so she jumped down with her package and food box, and asked loudly, "What happened?"

Cheng Dayou saw his master asking the question in person, and felt that he was not good at doing things, so he was very annoyed, but he could only whisper a few words in response to his scalp.

Ding Wei frowned and stepped forward, before she could speak, she went to see an acquaintance coming out of the door, so she smiled, "General Yuchi, are you going out?" "

(End of this chapter)