The next day, early in the morning, almost everyone left the public room and went to various places to do dirty and tiring hard work.
The mother in the bunk next to Ximenyu also took the little girl to work. Zhang Xiaoyu asked: "Auntie, what do you do?"
The mother looked at Zhang Xiaoyu quite well and replied: "We work at the Bruce Rice Factory."
"Rice factory?"
"Yes, it's a relatively good company. The salary is thirty yuan a month."
"It's so low," Zhang Xiaoyu said in shock.
The mother said: "Compared with other people in mines and other places, my job is better. Their salary is only 20 yuan, and some are only 10 yuan a month. For those people, it takes three or four days.
Only then can I cook and eat once.”
"Oh, Auntie, where is your husband?" Zhang Xiaoyu asked.
"Husband? I don't have a husband. Very few people here have husbands. We all don't have enough to eat, so how can we have a husband? My child was born after being raped."
"Oh how pitiful."
"What do you do?"
Zhang Xiaoyu said: "We don't have a job yet, but wait a minute, my husband is going to interview for a job as a servant."
The mother laughed and said: "My servant, is it so easy to get such a good golden rice bowl?" After saying that, she left in a hurry.
Zhang Xiaoyu smiled bitterly.
Zhang Xiaoyu felt a little hungry again, but he had to wait until night to cook. He saved as much as he could. It was already rare to have one meal a day. Only rich people could afford three meals a day.
After Ximenyu got up, he habitually wanted to brush his teeth and wash his face, but this was a delusion.
There is a serious water shortage here. There is no water for cooking. It is so impractical to brush your teeth and wash your face.
Most of the people here have not known how to take a shower for ten years, and their bodies are covered in layers of dirt.
Ximenyu can only get used to this kind of life.
Ximen Yu said: "What did you call me just now? Did you call me husband? Hehehehe."
Ximenyu hugged Zhang Xiaoyu, but Zhang Xiaoyu was shy and said nothing.
Ximenyu wanted to kiss Xiaoyu, but he hadn't brushed his teeth in a few days and couldn't kiss her.
"I'm going to apply for a job as a servant. Looking at it now, I have to admit that the job of a servant is really a golden rice bowl."
"Yes, let's go together"
"good"
Ximenyu and Zhang Xiaoyu went to the Kaffir gentleman's house together.
When Ximenyu came yesterday, he thought that the Kaffirs were not rich at all. The house he lived in was only more than fifty square meters. But today, Ximenyu had a completely different feeling. Ximenyu felt that the Kaffirs were really rich.
, can live in such a big house, but Ximen Yu only has less than one cubic meter of space for him and Xiaoyu to squeeze in.
Outside the Kaffirs' house, applicants for the position of servants had already formed a long queue on the street.
Ximenyu could only queue up obediently. Everyone here was almost in the seventh to eleventh level in terms of strength. Ximenyu was as small as a drop of water blending into a stream.
After waiting in line until three o'clock in the afternoon, it was finally Ximenyu's turn to be interviewed.
The interviewer was the butler of the Kafir family. The butler said: "You look very weak, not even tenth level. Once you are eliminated, walk away silently. Don't say anything to me. I don't have time to say another word to you."
, there are thousands of people lining up behind me, thank you for your cooperation.”
Seeing that the housekeeper had said this, Ximen Yu could say nothing and left silently.
Ximenyu found Zhang Xiaoyu, and Zhang Xiaoyu asked nervously: "How is it? Is there any chance to grab this golden rice bowl?"
Ximenyu smiled bitterly and said: "There is no chance, that's all. It seems that I am not suitable for this golden rice bowl."
Ximenyu nodded and said: "Okay, let's take a look and see if there are any business opportunities."
"Um"
Zhang Xiaoyu had already gone around a bit today. How could there be business opportunities in such a place where birds don't poop?
Ximenyu first went to the Dahong Rice Factory and asked if he wanted to recruit people. The rice factory is where gray rice is made. The process of making gray rice is very complicated and does not grow in paddy fields. Even water is scarce here. Where can there be paddy fields?
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"Go away, there is no need to recruit people. Our Dahong Rice Factory has not hired workers for at least ten years."
Ximenyu cursed secretly, "If you don't want it, just don't want it. Why are you yelling?"
Ximenyu and Xiaoyu went to other places, such as fabric factories, quarries, water plants, etc. Every place did not need to recruit people.
Although there is a lack of water here, it does not mean that there is no water at all. It is just that only the truly rich can afford water.
Ximenyu went to another place, which was a furniture manufacturing factory.
Furniture is very cheap here. If everyone has money to buy rice directly, who has spare money to buy furniture? Therefore, the monthly salary in the furniture factory is less than five yuan.
However, if you can't find a job, you have to try your luck with five dollars. Five dollars is better than nothing.
Five Yuan Ming coins can buy ten kilograms of rice. If one person eats half a kilogram at a time, he can only eat for twenty days. Of course, this is theoretical. In fact, he still needs money for black charcoal.
How can you cook without black charcoal? Of course, the premise is that you are sleeping on the streets and cannot live in public housing. The lowest monthly rent in public housing is five yuan.
Life here can be as miserable as it is. Want to do business here? Zhang Xiaoyu really can't think of it. It depends on whether Ximenyu has a business mind.
"Boss, please, hire me. I haven't eaten for two days. Please, hire me."
When Ximenyu and Zhang Xiaoyu arrived at a furniture factory called Haoyong, they heard a cry of begging at the gate, and a man kneeling at the door of the furniture factory.
When Ximenyu and Zhang Xiaoyu saw that man, they were shocked. They actually knew each other. It was the man named Oduer who was imprisoned together. After he was released by the city defender, he began to fight for his life.
It was a pity that he had nothing to eat for two days. He didn't have a penny on him and couldn't find a job. He was so hungry that he searched almost all the factories and didn't need to recruit people. Finally he came to this place.
At the furniture factory, he was kicked away again. Odu'er couldn't bear it anymore and had to kneel down and beg. Unexpectedly, he was bumped into by Ximen Yu and Zhang Xiaoyu.
After going through all the hardships here, I have no dignity left.
Think about the night when we first came in. When we were at the home of two city defenders, the city defenders asked each of them to eat a spoonful of rice. At that time, they didn't even bother. Is this called rice? Can it be eaten? If dogs don't eat it outside.
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After these two days, they finally knew that this gray rice was really rare.
It has been two days, no, it has been three days including the day he came in. For three days, he has not drank a drop of water or eaten a mouthful of food. Odu'er has long been hungry and has no strength.