Beijing Chaoyang Vegetable Market is the busiest vegetable market in Beijing.
It was still dark, and dozens of fully loaded trucks arrived at the vegetable market in the dark.
Before the truck had stopped, the loaders who had been waiting outside the warehouse swarmed over, picked up the vegetables in sacks, and carried them into the warehouse.
Porters are temporary workers, and their wages are calculated based on the quantity and weight of the items moved.
What they carry on their shoulders is not sacks, but the family's firewood, rice, oil and salt, which are the children's tuition fees.
A sack of vegetables weighed more than 100 kilograms, and it was very difficult to carry it on the body. After several trips, white mist came out of the porters' heads, and their clothes were soaked with sweat.
Their whole bodies ached and their steps became erratic, but they were not willing to stop and take a breath.
Among a group of strong men, the thin second girl stood out particularly.
The sack on her shoulders almost covered her entire body.
She almost ran all the way, picked up the sack and rushed into the warehouse, leaving the sack in the warehouse.
"Treasury manager, one hundred and twenty kilograms."
Then, without having time to take a breath, he quickly rushed out of the warehouse.
After a while, another man rushed in carrying a sack.
"Treasury manager, one hundred and fifty kilograms."
Maybe she was a little tired this time. She bent down, held her knees, and gasped for air. Sweat flowed down her dark cheeks, dripped to the ground, and fell into pieces.
....
The treasurer was a middle-aged man in his fifties. He looked at her with some pity.
"Second girl, don't be so aggressive when you work, just take it easy."
"Oh, it's okay. I'm used to farm work in the countryside." The second girl waved her hands and smiled.
"You are still young and don't understand the power of it. A few years ago, we had a strong man here who could withstand three hundred kilograms of vegetables at a time. As a result, he fell down from exhaustion in less than two years. Now
I can only lie in bed and rely on decoctions to survive every day, so you should just take it easy..."
The treasurer kept chattering for a long time. He raised his head and saw that the second girl was no longer in front of him. He shook his head with a wry smile and murmured to himself: "These young people just don't listen to advice."
The moving work usually lasts two hours.
By that time, the trucks were empty and customers gradually appeared in the vegetable market. Only then could the porters take a breath and begin to enjoy the few benefits of this job.
A bowl of bean juice and two steamed buns.
After eating and drinking, and the fatigue on their bodies had subsided a lot, the porters gathered together to chat and wait for new jobs.
According to the regulations of the vegetable market, all trucks transporting vegetables need to enter Beijing before early morning and be unloaded.
only.
The road conditions are complicated these days, especially for trucks coming from surrounding provinces. They often miss their schedule due to delays on the road.
Therefore, during the day, there are still trucks transporting vegetables arriving at the vegetable market one after another.
Temporary workers have to stay at the vegetable market, waiting for new jobs.
At noon, most of the porters went back to eat, and only the warehouse manager and the second girl were left in the warehouse.
The warehouse manager brought a meal from the canteen and looked at Er Yatou: "Er girl, you might as well go back. It's lunch time. Even if those drivers enter Beijing, they will eat on the roadside until the afternoon.
Just brought the truck over."
The second girl shook her head: "Uncle, my man will help me deliver food later."
The warehouse manager understood the second girl's thoughts and didn't say anything more. He held the stick noodle porridge and started drinking it.
Listening to the trivial chewing sound, the second girl's throat and eyes trembled twice, and she looked outside the door.
Soon, a figure appeared outside the door.
The second girl jumped up happily and ran out: "Dazhi, you are here."
"Isn't it too late? The matchmaking was not very good today, and it wasted time."
Liu Dazhi took the second girl to a secluded place.
He took out the lunch box wrapped tightly in tattered cotton cloth from his arms and handed it to the second girl: "It's still hot, eat it quickly."
"Uh-huh."
The second girl nodded and opened the lunch box. White mist came out of the warm rice.
"Why are you making rice for me again? We only have a little rice at home, and I still save it to make rice porridge for the children. As you know, Erbao likes rice porridge the most."
"Ahem, I forgot." Liu Dazhi scratched his head, but there was no embarrassment on his face.
The second girl didn't say anything more. She knew what Liu Dazhi was thinking.
Chat while eating.
The second girl was chewing the fragrant rice and looked up at Liu Dazhi:
"Dazhi, we can't go on like this. You just get three walnuts and two dates every month. My salary here is not high. Food and drink are very tight. Recently, the teacher has been urging Dabao and Erbao.
The tuition is gone, and my mother is sick, so I have to buy snacks to see her."
Mentioning these things, Liu Dazhi's face darkened: "If you wait a little longer, there will always be a way. A living person cannot be suffocated to death."
"That's what I said, but..."
The second girl paused and put down her lunch box: "It would be great if I also had an urban household registration. Our money is enough."
The second girl has a rural household registration and has no food bank account.
According to the household registration regulations, several of Liu Dazhi's children do not have food allowances.
They need to spend a lot of money every month to buy food stamps from the pigeon market.
"Don't think so much. No matter how difficult the life is, there will always be a way to get over it." Liu Dazhi hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "I have already thought about it. I am ready to resign from the factory and work as a temporary worker like you. This way I can earn more.
a little."
"Ah?" The second girl was stunned.
She turned her head and looked at Liu Dazhi in surprise: "Are you really going to resign?"
Having been married to Liu Dazhi for so many years, she knows this man very well.
Liu Dazhi is in poor health and has average abilities. What he is most proud of is his status as a formal worker.
Even if this regular worker is just a temporary worker in a third-tier factory, it is enough to make Liu Dazhi proud in front of a rural girl like her.
Now Liu Dazhi is actually willing to resign...
Liu Dazhi nodded heavily: "Have you not noticed that there has been a lot of shortage of supplies in the market recently? In the past, you could still buy pork in the vegetable market at noon, but now after eight o'clock in the morning, there is no meat on the shelf.
empty."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "What does this have to do with your resignation?" Er Yatou was confused.
She couldn't figure out what the relationship between pork and the condiment factory was. The condiment factory didn't need pork to produce condiments.
Liu Dazhi's face was serious: "With less pork, there will definitely be less seasoning. You also know that our seasoning factory stopped working because of a lack of raw materials. With things like this now, raw materials will definitely be more scarce. I originally wanted to wait a few more years until
The seasoning factory has restarted production. It seems there is no hope. You might as well find a temporary job, and you won't have to work so hard."
"..."
The second girl felt a little moved in her heart.
After she married Liu Dazhi, she was often bitten behind her back by the women in the village.
Qin Huairu from Qinjiagou married into the city and lived a good life. She didn't do any work and was dressed in shabby clothes.
What about you? Isn’t it embarrassing to have to work as a porter at the vegetable market?
These two girls can endure it. As long as the family can be harmonious and beautiful, life will be able to pass no matter how difficult it is.
Now Liu Dazhi is actually willing to give up his proud identity for the sake of this family...
The second girl has little education, can't speak in coherent sentences, and can't say those sweet words.
Finally, he choked out a sentence: "You are a very good person."
"The same to you."
....
Just when the two of them were tired, there was a rush of footsteps in the distance.
Liu Dazhi followed the sound and looked over. The person who came was a middle-aged man in his thirties, wearing a uniform from a condiment factory.
"Team Leader Zhang, why are you here?" Liu Dazhi stood up, seemed to realize something, and quickly explained: "Team Leader, I came to the vegetable market to deliver food to my wife, not as a temporary worker...
..”
After saying that, he seemed to realize something and smiled bitterly: "Forget it, I'm going to resign anyway, why are you talking about this?"
"Resign? Are you going to resign?" Team Leader Zhang stared wide-eyed: "Hey, what's wrong with you kid? I came here to inform you that our seasoning factory can resume work, but you are actually planning to resign. It's a pity."
"Yes, I plan to resign...what, resume work?"
Liu Dazhi suddenly stood up and looked at Team Leader Zhang in disbelief.
“If there are no raw materials in the workshop, how can we produce them?”
"I heard it was acquired by Rolling Mill Laboratory."
"What is an acquisition?"
"Oh, no matter what the acquisition is, as long as we can produce normally, we can get full wages."
Team leader Zhang interrupted him and said excitedly: "Comrades have been distributed in the factory. All employees who want to work in the new seasoning factory must undergo training and pass the skills test. If you still want to work, hurry up
Go to the factory to sign up."
With that said, he was about to leave, but Liu Dazhi held him back: "Lao Zhang, where are you training?"
"Well, I forgot to tell you. The training is at the Employee Skills Training Center to the west of our factory. But you must first go to the entrance of the steel rolling mill laboratory to sign up and fill out the form before you can participate in the training class. I won't tell you anymore, I have to hurry up
Go sign up."
When the voice came, Lao Zhang's people had disappeared.
"Training center...sign up...work..."
"Why does it feel like a dream?"
Seeing that Liu Dazhi was still a little dazed, Erya threw away his lunch box, hugged him and shook him twice: "Dazhi, why are you hesitating? Hurry up and sign up. If you go late, there may not be a place. We worked hard."
I’ve been looking forward to this opportunity, so I can’t delay it.”
"Yes, yes, wife, I'll go then." Liu Dazhi came to his senses.
"Hurry up and wait for your good news!" The second girl's face blossomed with joy, and her dull eyes became lively.
As long as Dazhi can work and get a monthly salary of thirty yuan, his family's life will be better.
....
Liu Dazhi rushed all the way to the steel rolling mill laboratory with the hope of the second girl in mind.
Seeing the long queue outside the laboratory, he felt a little cold.
"There are so many people lining up, can it be our turn?"
Stand at the end of the line and say hello to a worker you know well.
"Don't worry, the director of the laboratory just said that as long as they meet the conditions, the new seasoning factory will accept them." Wang ** stepped forward and looked forward.
"....Take it all." Liu Dazhi was slightly relieved, but soon became worried again.
"Hey, Old Liu, what does it mean to meet the conditions?"
Wang ** said: "There's nothing else. The main thing is to be diligent and not to catch fish. I heard that the salary standards in the new factory are different from before."
"Different? What's different?" Liu Dazhi was curious.
"In the past, we worked in a big pot. We worked more and less, but the salary was the same."
Being idle is also idle. Wang ** patiently explained: "The wages in the new factory are based on the output."
"Isn't this the same as temporary workers?" Liu Dazhi frowned.
This approach reminded Liu Dazhi of the poverty alleviation workshop.
He himself didn't mind this approach, but he felt a little uncomfortable.
In the past, no matter how much you worked, you could get the same salary as long as you were a regular employee.
Now I have to work hard, and no one would be willing to change me.
Wang ** smiled: "If you don't want to join the new factory, the laboratory will give you a severance pay. Director Li just said that as long as you join the factory and work hard, you are guaranteed to get four
ten bucks."
"Forty yuan!" Liu Dazhi's eyes lit up.
The resistance to the new system that I had in my heart just now disappeared without a trace.
With forty yuan, it might only take two years to pay off the debt.
certainly.
Not everyone thinks so.
As we were queuing up, a quarrel suddenly broke out in front of us.
"Hey, the people in your laboratory are too overbearing. We are originally employees of the seasoning factory, why do we need to be trained!"
"Also, with a basic salary of only 5 yuan per month, you are sending beggars away."
"I quit, everyone, stop queuing up and let's go find the factory director."
Liu Dazhi stood on tiptoe and looked up. There were five people making trouble, all of them young people.
He also knew everyone. He used to be an employee of a condiment factory, and the leader was named Zhang Fan.
This man had entered the seasoning factory through his relationship with Deputy Director Li a few years ago, and was assigned a job of mixing seasonings in the workshop.
However, I never worked a day at work, and I could only see him on pay days every month.
The few people around Zhang Fan were in a similar situation to him. They were often absent from work for three days and two. Even if they stayed in the workshop, they were just wandering around and not really working.
The leaders of the condiment factory often criticized them, but they couldn't fire them. In addition, the factory was from the top, so the factory leaders would not make themselves uncomfortable because of a few workers.
Now that the seasoning factory has been taken over by the laboratory, the laboratory has changed the salary standards. People like Zhang Fan who are unwilling to work can only get a basic salary every month.
It's not even half of what it is now, so naturally they are dissatisfied.
Liu Dazhi felt vaguely worried for the leaders of the laboratory.
People like Zhang Fan are the kind of shameless thugs who make no major mistakes but keep making small ones. They are also good at inciting workers and are not easy to deal with.
"Comrade, we will pay 50 yuan in compensation to every worker who voluntarily resigns. Please stop making trouble."
Zhang Fan saw Zhang Qingcui, who was in charge of registration, blushing and her attitude became even more arrogant.
"boom!"
He slapped his hand on the table and said coldly: "Fifty yuan? What are you sending to the beggars! Now even if I don't work, I can still get twelve yuan every month!"
