In mid-February, the last 300 or so employees of the textile factory also moved to Fanjiazhuang.
This group of employees were employees whose spouses had errands in Tianjin. They were able to move to Fanjiazhuang smoothly thanks to the various demands generated by the bustling Fanjiazhuang.
Now the residents of Fanjiazhuang have great spending power: more than 2,000 masons need to eat and drink every day, the 1,300 worker families who have moved into Fanjiazhuang earlier have various consumption every day, and there are 2,000 workers who earn three taels a month.
Soldiers from the Selective Regiment occasionally go out to the camp to spend money.
The consumption of these thousands of people has driven demand in various industries, making Fanjiazhuang full of businesses: rice sellers, vegetable sellers, oil sellers, meat sellers, cloth and silk sellers, tailors, and earthen pot sellers.
Those who sell iron pots, blacksmiths, porcelain, gourds, chopsticks, boxes, firewood, furniture, door locks, headscarves and hats, restaurants, tea gardens,
Those who opened hook bars, storytellers, singers, and private schools taught, and all kinds of shops and venues were gradually opened, all opened by bosses and merchants from Tianjin.
However, Fanjiazhuang is forty miles away from Acropolis. It is impossible for these business owners to hire people from Tianjin Acropolis to do things. Otherwise, the hired workers would come from Acropolis to Fanjiazhuang every day to work, and they would have no time to sleep. These shops and businesses must be in
Local hiring of manpower created a huge demand for manpower in Fanjiazhuang.
However, the residents in Fanjiazhuang are all craftsmen and workers, and there are very few idle people who can go out to work to meet the labor needs of these service industries. Vendors in Fanjiazhuang have always been in a shortage of workers.
It wasn't until Li Zhi moved the last 300 or so workers in the textile factory and the soap workshop to Fanjiazhuang that the labor demand in Fanjiazhuang was alleviated. More than 300 workers' spouses appeared in the labor market and were immediately absorbed by all walks of life that were short of workers.
Already.
For example, after Huang Gui, a laborer of the textile factory worker Yang, moved to Fanjiazhuang, he quickly found a job as a handyman in a restaurant, with a dinner every day and a monthly salary of one, two or four yuan, which was much higher than what he originally earned in Acropolis.
Still high.
With his new job, Huang Gui no longer had to worry about leaving his hometown and quickly integrated into the life of Fanjiazhuang.
That night, Huang Gui waited for the restaurant to close, washed his hands, and walked to his villa on Chongwu Street.
Huang Gui's family rented an entire villa on Chongwu Street.
Huang Gui's wife Yang works in a textile factory and earns 20 taels per month for food. Her income plus Huang Gui's 1 tael or 4 taels per month gives the family an income of 3 taels or 4 taels per month.
It was enough to cover the expenses of a family of four. When Yang moved to Fanjiazhuang, she said she liked the cleanliness of a single house, so she insisted on renting an entire house, but Huang Gui couldn't resist her.
However, the rent of two cents and seven cents a month is not high, and the Huang family can afford it now.
Huang Gui walked home and saw his daughter Daya and son Shitou playing with other children in front of the house under the moonlight, playing a game of catch. When the two children saw their father coming home, they stopped playing and ran to Huang Gui
around.
"Daddy is home!"
Huang Gui touched Shitou's head, smiled and asked Da Ya: "Have you eaten anything tonight?"
Daya said: "We scooped out the rice and vegetables in the pot and ate ourselves. We were full! Shitou and I each ate half of the meat buns in the pot!"
Shitou was about to speak when Daya snatched him away. He could only look at Huang Gui with wide eyes.
"Has mother come back?"
Daya rushed to answer: "Mom is back. Are you lighting a lamp and reading something in the room upstairs?"
Huang Gui was stunned and asked, "What are you looking at, mother?"
Da Ya rushed to say: "I don't know!"
Huang Gui nodded, let the two children continue playing, and then opened the door and entered the house. After entering the house, Huang Gui saw a bright light upstairs and walked upstairs.
The small villa has four rooms. Huang Gui and Yang live in a room downstairs, and the two children live in a room upstairs. There is also an empty room for storing sundries. The one with the light on is for storing sundries.
room of things.
Huang Gui walked to the door of the room and saw Mrs. Yang's face with joy. She was happily looking at a piece of paper of unknown content. In front of the tung oil lamp, the 26-year-old Yang was illuminated golden by the light of the lamp.
The color is yellow, but it looks very beautiful, which makes Huang Gui crazy.
His wife was also a beauty before marrying him. She has endured hardships with him these years, Huang Gui thought to himself.
Yang suddenly noticed Huang Gui at the door and hid the paper in his hand behind his back in a panic.
Huang Gui walked into the room and said with a smile: "You are off work!"
Yang shook his head and spat: "It's time to get off work!"
Huang Gui asked again: "How are you getting along with your coworkers today? What's new?"
Yang tilted his head and said, "There's nothing new. Every day is just weaving, eating, weaving, and eating!"
Huang Gui echoed, "It sounds quite boring, doing the same thing every day."
Yang glared at Huang Gui and said, "Isn't it just weaving? It's hard to find a job with such a high monthly salary even if you are holding a lantern! If you have money, you can support your family!"
Huang Gui smiled and said: "That's true, since you went to the Li family weaving workshop, our family's life has become much better!"
Ms. Yang smiled. Since she worked in the weaving mill, her status in the family has improved a lot. Now her husband always obeys her and does not argue with her.
After thinking about it, Yang suddenly took out the piece of paper hidden behind her, placed it gently on the table, and said to Huang Gui with a smile: "Let me show it to you!"
Huang Gui saw that his wife had taken out the things she had hidden behind her, and curiously looked under the lamp. He saw that the paper was densely covered with small characters, and there were two fingerprints at the bottom, but Huang Gui could not understand a single word.
.
"Stone mother, what is this?"
Yang proudly pointed to the two names at the bottom of the paper and said, "You always recognize these two names, right? This is your name Huang Gui, and this is my name Yang Xiuniang!"
Huang Gui nodded and said, "I recognize these two names!"
Yang proudly puffed up her chest and said loudly: "This is the land deed! The land deed of our house!"
Huang Gui was stunned for a moment and finally understood. He thought for a long time, swallowed his saliva and said helplessly: "You still don't listen to me and bought this house?"
Yang suddenly put away her pride, glanced at her husband with fear, and said, "I won't listen to you when I buy a house, so you don't want me?"
Huang Gui said helplessly: "How could I not want you?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Yang laughed again and said loudly: "That's OK! Look, our family has our own house. This beautiful villa now belongs to our family. How happy it is!"
Huang Guinana said: "Didn't I tell you not to buy? It's better to rent than buy!"
Yang didn't listen, and shook her head and said: "It costs two yuan and seven cents to rent this house every month. After fifteen years of renting, the owner will recover the cost of building the house. At that time, we will still have to pay rent every month. If we buy a house, we will still have to pay rent every month."
It’s different. I borrowed fifty taels of silver from my employer to buy this house, and then borrowed another five taels to buy the furniture furnished by my boss. Calculating the interest of 4%, my boss deducted four cents and three cents of silver from my monthly payment, and deducted ten cents.
The loan will be paid off in five years, and the house will be ours! Then we won’t have to pay to live in the house!”
"Huang Gui, you said that if you spend only one and six cents more per month, you can have your own house. How can there be such a bargain in the world? Wouldn't you be a fool not to buy such a good thing?"
Huang Gui sat on the bed and said nothing.
Yang asked dissatisfiedly: "Huang Gui, do you mean what I said?"
Huang Gui said angrily: "When you insisted on renting an entire villa a few days ago, you made up your mind to buy this house, right!?"
Ms. Yang was a little panicked, looked at her husband's face and said nothing.
After thinking about it, Huang Gui said angrily: "This costs four dollars a month! What if we have another child and the family doesn't have enough money?"
When Ms. Yang heard her husband's words, she breathed a sigh of relief and said loudly: "The head of the house has enough and enough money. In addition to the monthly payment to the boss, our family still has two taels, nine cents and seven cents of silver every month.
Even adding one more person is enough money. The worst we can do is save some money and make a few new sets of clothes. If money is tight, we can rent out this unused room and earn seven cents more a month!"
"Besides! This house is so big! If Shi Shi gets married, we won't have to buy a house for him!"
Huang Gui's face looked better when he heard that Yang was willing to give birth to another child for him. When he heard that Yang said about stone marriage in the future, Huang Gui gradually figured it out and put away his angry face.
Huang Gui said: "If you are willing to have another child, I will follow you!"
Yang glared at Huang Gui and said, "If I have my own house, I would be willing to have another baby! If I rent a house, I won't have another baby!"
The knot in his heart was opened, and Huang Gui opened his smile and leaned in front of the oil lamp to read the land deed with his wife.
"With this title deed, this house belongs to us?"
Yang said: "Of course! Look at these two words, these two words are 'land deed', and look at the name, 'Li Zhi', this is the name of Mr. Fu Qianhu, and this land deed means Fu Qianhu
Sold this building to us!”
Huang Gui murmured: "I never thought our family could have such a nice house!"
When Mrs. Yang heard this, she said with a smile on her face: "Yes, our family can have such a good house! Look at this wall, this roof, what a good house! Come to work in the Li family weaving mill
Before, I never dreamed that I could live in such a nice house!"
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