The Resplendent Farming Apothecary

The pharmaceutical factory has a complete holiday on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month. Gu Ye not only doubled the wages of the employees, but also doubled the bonuses. Those who work hard and make outstanding contributions will receive four to five times the usual wages in the twelfth lunar month. The highest employee got 10 taels of silver!

In addition, Gu Ye also prepared a wealth of New Year's goods for them - ten catties of pork, two chickens, two fish, a piece of venison, half a piece of cloth, and a box of delicate pastries. Employees can have a big fat year! It has to be said that the young master has been more thoughtful.

Some people are used to the hardships, and after receiving the wages, they are not willing to buy many New Year's goods. This is good, the young master has all thought of it for them. Not to mention eating at home, there are also gifts for visiting relatives.

In previous years, I went to my grandmother's house to get a few eggs and a piece of sackcloth, which was a good gift. This year, they can cut two catties of meat and add a piece of cloth. The muslin cloth sent to them by the young master is the kind that most people are reluctant to buy. Not to mention too much face.

The employees who lived in the town and the surrounding area were held at home as if they were successful ministers. Although those who signed the living contract can only do unskilled work such as purification and decoction, they also received four or five taels of silver to go home, not to mention a whole basket of New Year's goods!

Zhang Xiaomei, the little girl from Jing Pharmacy who had been cared for by Gu Ye, returned home with a basket full of New Year's goods. Her family lives in a slum-like area in the south of Yancheng, where most of them are from poor families or from migrants who have fled. Zhang Xiaomei's family came to Yancheng because of the drought in their hometown a few years ago.

Migrants like them don't have any fields, they only rely on the men in their families to do hard work, and they can't even get enough to eat. How can they have enough money to build a house? Therefore, Zhang Xiaomei's family was crowded into a shack that was leaking everywhere. This year, life was better. Zhang Xiaomei's wages were paid almost without a cent. I added cotton coats and quilts at home, which is not as difficult as in previous years. In slums, almost every winter, people freeze to death!

Sister is back! A thin little radish head, wearing a new wide cotton padded coat, jumped up to greet him. Behind him, a tall and thin teenager came over and took the heavy backpack in Zhang Xiaomei's hands.

The old lady in the neighbor's house grinned and asked with a smile: Meizi, have you sent New Year's goods? What good things did your employer send you this time?

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the pharmaceutical factory distributed moon cakes and meat, but the neighbors were envious. The old lady of the neighbor usually takes good care of their family, and when the family is busy, she also helps them look after their children. Zhang Xiaomei's mother gave her two moon cakes.

After the old lady ate it, she said that the moon cakes made by Meizi's owner were better than the most expensive Tongfangzhai in the city! In fact, how could she afford Tongfangzhai's cakes? In her opinion, no matter how delicious the moon cakes are, they are not as good as the two pieces that the plum family gave her!

Zhang Xiaomei smiled at the old man and said, It's nothing, it's just a piece of meat and a box of snacks! Grandma Li, please wait, I'll send you two pieces of snacks later!

When Mrs. Li heard the words, she laughed so hard that she could barely see her eyes: You have many children, keep it for yourself! She said this, but she thought in her heart that during the Chinese New Year, the daughter who was married far away will want to eat this year. When I came back, I kept these two cakes for my grandchildren to try.

Watching Zhang Xiaomei's brothers and sisters enter her shack, the neighbors who heard the movement and came out to watch were talking about:

The daughter of the Zhang family is very promising. The pharmaceutical factory has high wages and good treatment. Not only does it give money and clothes, but also meat and snacks from time to time. Looking at it this time, it has also sent a lot, enough for the Zhang family to have a fat year. Yes!

That's not it! Look at the Zhang family's life in the past six months. The children have all made new winter clothes, and the food at home has skyrocketed! When I was young, I even smelled that her family was eating meat!

It would be great if someone in our family could work in a pharmaceutical factory. Even a gatekeeper would be paid a few hundred cents a month!

Yes, yes! I don't know if the pharmaceutical factory still recruits people?

The neighbors looked at each other thoughtfully and turned back to their shacks. They all planned to go to Zhang's house in the evening to find out if the pharmaceutical factory had any intention of making money.

Zhang Xiaomei's elder brother, Zhang Shitou, was very happy with his heavy backpack. Back home, Mei Ziniang took the basket and lifted the straw, revealing a large piece of pork belly, two fat hens, and fish over a foot long.

The smile on Mei Ziniang's face could not be hidden. She took these carefully out of the basket and hung them by the window. She took out the half of the cloth and spread it on the kang, thinking that her nephew was getting married soon, and sent a piece of muslin cloth to make a new dress for her nephew. As for the two boxes of dim sum, take one back...

Mei Ziniang's natal family was in Yancheng, and she came to her natal family when she fled. However, her family was not well off, and it took a lot of effort to settle them down. When they were in the most difficult time, the few catties of grain and dozens of copper plates sent by their parents' brothers helped them get through the difficult time.

In previous years, the family was poor and the children couldn't support them. Although I wanted to give some nice New Year gifts to my parents' family, the family situation did not allow it. When she returned to her parents' home this year, she was finally able to raise her head in front of her sisters.

Zhang Xiaomei took out six taels of silver from the inner pocket of her clothes and put it on her shabby kang table. When Mei Ziniang saw it, she immediately widened her eyes and said in surprise, Why so many?

At the beginning, I accidentally learned that the pharmaceutical factory was recruiting workers, saying that it was recruiting male and female workers ranging from 12 to 15 years old, including food, accommodation and wages. Originally, she did not agree with her daughter to go. The girl went out to make money, and she didn't come back at night, which would make people talk about it, and it might affect her daughter's marriage in the future.

However, Zhang Xiaomei insisted on going, and secretly went to the interview without her knowledge. When her daughter put her handprint on the deed paper and everything was settled, it would be useless for Mei Ziniang to object. She never imagined that her daughter would go to work in a pharmaceutical factory and bring back a tael of silver in the first month, which is more than what her father earned by working outside for three months as a coolie.

In the days that followed, the niece could bring back one or two taels of silver every month. Every Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, meat and snacks are also distributed! The girl eats well and lives well in the pharmaceutical factory, and she also sends out two new clothes every season.

This made the people who originally pointed their finger at their family, saying that they let their daughter go out to work, shut up. Of course, those who don't look down on the good mouth of others still have some sour words! Some people are like this, they hate others and laugh at others!

Zhang Xiaomei pursed her lips and smiled, her eyes showing pride: Mother, I voluntarily stay in the pharmaceutical factory to work overtime. This month's wages and bonuses have doubled. Coupled with my hard work, I am the most efficient in the group and was selected. For the advanced employees, I was awarded another 2 taels of silver! I still have a small amount, the highest in the factory, took a full 10 taels of silver!

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Sometimes, I ask myself in my heart: In order to write, I am so tired that my cervical and lumbar spine are not good, my friends are gradually estranged, I have no time to date and I am single... Is all this worth it?