In a suite in Shuxiangyayuan Community in the southern suburbs of Beijing.
Before dawn, Sun Erniang had already gotten up, lit a whale oil lamp, and started preparing breakfast for her son and herself in the kitchen.
While kneading the flour, she looked at the heavy snow falling outside the window, and then heard the howling cold wind, and Sun Erniang couldn't help but laugh.
I am unfortunate, but also lucky.
The heavy snow outside the window brought her thoughts back to ten years ago.
At that time, she had just given birth to a child, but her husband died of illness. There was a famine in Beizhili, and the family had no food. She had no choice but to take the child out to beg.
It was just that there was a famine at that time, and there was no food at all. Seeing that the child in his arms was about to starve to death, he had no strength to even cry. When he got to the capital, he was not allowed to enter the city.
Fortunately, I met Liu Jin. At that time, Liu Jin was running a coal factory here in Xishan. Seeing that the mother and son were pitiful, he asked her to cook in the Xishan coal mine and named his son.
Time flies, and ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Sun Erniang never dreamed that she would be where she is today.
Not only did I raise my son by myself, he is now eleven years old and will soon go to middle school. With excellent grades, he will definitely be able to go to college in the future.
Moreover, he is now a workshop director at the Beijing Textile Factory under Liu Jin. He is in charge of hundreds of female workers. He can earn more than ten taels of silver a month and has even bought a house of his own here in the capital.
"I don't know how I got here back then."
Sun Erniang smiled slightly, thinking of the hard days she had lived in the past, she didn't know how she survived.
"If it hadn't been for Mr. Liu, I'm afraid our mother and son would have been dead long ago."
Sun Erniang cooked the noodles and brought them to the living room and to the place where the memorial tablets were enshrined. On top was Liu Jin's longevity tablet.
As usual, she came to the memorial tablet, lit a stick of incense, and prayed seriously: "God bless Mr. Liu, no illness, no disaster, and a long life!"
"Wenwen~ Wenwen, it's time to get up, eat and go to school~"
After doing all this, he shouted to the bedroom again.
"Got it~"
My son's voice sounded lazily, but soon he got dressed very sensibly and came to the restaurant to prepare for dinner.
Sun Erniang looked at her son while eating. Ten years later, he had grown into a young man, tall and handsome in appearance.
I remember that when he was still a baby, he had no milk and he was so hungry that he had no strength to cry. But now he is almost grown up.
"Go and kowtow to Mr. Liu~"
Sun Erniang read the article and then said.
"Oh~"
As soon as I heard the article, I came to the memorial tablet and kowtowed respectfully.
He has heard about Liu Jin countless times since he was a child. He heard his mother say that Liu Jin was the great benefactor of his family. If Liu Jin had not been there, the mother and son would have starved to death. , frozen to death, where would I be today?
"Let's eat. Remember to put on that leather jacket when you go to school. It's snowing heavily outside and it's very cold."
Sun Erniang said as she was picking up vegetables for her son.
"knew."
Wen Wen nodded and said, "I have been very sensible since I was a child and rarely let Sun Erniang worry."
"Eat more meat. Now is the time to grow taller. Eat more meat and grow taller~"
"These are all mutton. The mutton transported from the grasslands of the Western Regions is more tender than the mutton from the northern grasslands. You can also eat more fish."
Looking at her son, Sun Erniang was smiling and kept bringing him vegetables, but she only ate noodles.
"Mom, you eat too~"
Wen Wen also picks up food for Sun Erniang, and is very sensible.
"Haha, okay, okay~"
Sun Erniang smiled happily.
Soon, breakfast was finished, and the sky started to get brighter. Wen Zhang put on thick clothes, went north to pack his schoolbag, and went to school happily with his friends in the community.
After Sun Erniang hurriedly washed the dishes, she also came downstairs and started walking into the factory.
The snow on the road was very thick, but as more and more pedestrians came, everyone quickly carved out roads leading in all directions on the snow.
It's just that the road is very slippery, and you will slip if you are not careful, but Sun Erniang walked so fast that she fell several times in succession. Fortunately, she always fell on thick blood, so it was nothing serious.
matter.
She didn't care about it, she didn't want to be late.
Since working in Liu Jin's industry, she has never been late, not only because she loves her current job, but more importantly, she has a repaying mentality and feels that she must do her part well.
Only when you come can you be worthy of Liu Jin.
When we arrived at the factory area, we could already see the wide concrete roads, filled with people rushing to work.
In the cold wind howling, everyone was wearing thick clothes and felt hats, and their bodies were covered with snowflakes, but they all hurried to the factory.
As for the factories, there are workers who have arrived at the entrance and are beginning to shovel the snow, clearing the snow from the factory entrance and the internal and external thoroughfares. At the same time, white smoke can be seen rising inside the factory, and it is a lively scene.
The carriage began to move.
This is the winter in Beijing.
Even though the cold wind is howling and the snow is falling, it is still very lively. Factories are still in continuous operation, and people hurried to work can be seen everywhere on the cement roads.
In the shops on the streets and alleys, you can see shops selling hot breakfast and morning tea. They are full of people, eating breakfast in a hurry and rushing to work.
In factories, the roar of machines, the sound of workers working enthusiastically, and the continuous production of goods, even in winter, still cannot stop the capitalists from exploiting workers.
There are tens of thousands of factories, workshops, and businesses in the capital, large and small, but they have not stopped operating at all because of the heavy winter snow.
The majestic imperial city, the crowded inner city, the new areas outside the city with many high-rise buildings, the factory areas with standing chimneys, the billowing white smoke, and the busy figures in every corner of the capital, make up the busy winter scene of the entire capital.
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A huge city with a population of several million stretches across the earth like a huge monster. Everyone in it is like an ant in a huge ant nest, extremely busy.
Compared with the prosperous scene in the Beijing-Tianjin area in winter, the Nanshan Village on the Liaodong Railway seems much more comfortable.
In Li Damao's brand-new home, Li Damao was drinking wine, bragging and chatting with a few people in the village who had good relations with him.
Winter in Liaodong is a long season when there is nothing to do. Everyone basically spends their days sitting on the kang, chatting and bragging.
"Brother Da Mao, your new house is really nice. The kang is very warm, and the fireplace is also quite comfortable."
Ding Dazhu looked at Li Damao's new home carefully and said with praise.
They all immigrated to Liaodong from within the Pass, and they have been immigrating for several years.
In the past, the houses that everyone lived in were all built by the imperial court, and they were made of wood. However, in the past two years, it has also become popular to build reinforced concrete houses in Liaodong, but you need to pay for it yourself.
establish.
Li Damao's family was the first family to build a new house in Nanshan Village. They just moved into their new house this year.
"That's right, don't look at how much money it cost. Brother Da Mao, I heard it cost several hundred taels of silver, right?"
Zhang Laosan next to him also asked tentatively.
"It cost more than three hundred taels of silver, and several trucks of steel bars were used. The wall is so thick, so it won't be cold in the winter."
Li Damao smiled and nodded, then gestured and said.
"Brother Da Mao has made some money~"
When the others heard this, they immediately followed suit.
"It doesn't matter whether you have money or not. Everyone's life is much better than before."
"When I was in my hometown in Shaanxi, I was always worried when winter came. The food in the house was basically all gone in the winter, and the family could only lie in bed and starve."
Li Damao smiled, but looking at the heavy snow falling outside, he recalled the hard days in the past.
"Don't mention it. Those days in the past were not the kind of life people lived."
"It's embarrassing to say this. I used to have only one pair of cotton trousers at home. This winter, when I go out, I can only wear them alone, and the rest of us can only lie under the quilt."
When Ding Dazhu heard this, he also followed suit.
"The past days were really sad, and I don't know how I got over it."
"It's winter, and we have nothing to eat, and we don't have any clothes or shoes. It's so cold that we're almost to death, and we're so hungry."
"It's not like now. We don't have to do anything this winter. We just sit and chat every day. We feel uncomfortable after eating too much. We have to go outside in the snow to use up our abundant energy."
Zhang Laosan also nodded and said.
"People are dissatisfied and say that when everyone heard that they were going to immigrate to Liaodong, I was still unwilling to come. When the time came, the village would draw lots. After the lottery was drawn, my mother-in-law would still fight with me to the death."
"Isn't that true? I heard that Liaodong is a bitterly cold place. It's freezing to death. Who knew we could live like this?"
"Ding Dazhu, I heard that you have a house of Korean concubines. You are living like a wealthy landlord."
"Yes, yes, how about this Korean concubine?"
"Haha, that's it. As for women, once the lights are dark, that's about it. If you want to take a concubine, you can go there. Those Koreans want to get married, and they are also willing to be concubines."
"I don't dare. The tigress at home will eat me and take a concubine~"
"Food prices have dropped again this year, and I don't know what to plant next year."
"Grow potatoes. Potatoes are very popular now. They are very popular in Beijing and Tianjin in the winter."
"It's not bad to grow melon seeds~ I heard that some people make a lot of money from growing melon seeds."
