In March, the garment workshop started working. The collected duck feathers had to be cleaned before they could be processed. Last year, Cao Xiangnan had a plan to increase the production of down jackets this year, so he encouraged everyone to raise ducks.

Originally, not many people raised ducks here. Compared with raising ducks, everyone preferred to raise chickens. The eggs were more expensive than duck eggs. No one wanted duck eggs, and ducks could not be sold for much money. In fact, as long as there are people who want the ducks they raise, everyone is still willing to raise ducks.

A duck is a treasure from head to toe. It is delicious whether it is roasted or salted. There are a hundred ways to eat duck in later generations. Cao Xiangnan is not afraid that the duck is not delicious. As long as the duck is delicious, people will like it and the duck will be sold. The duck with sauce processed in the workshop is also selling well. Later, there will be duck with sauce, and the demand for duck has greatly increased.

After the New Year, Cao Xiangnan took Li Mei, the manager, to visit several large duck farmers and discussed duck breeding. He invested a sum of money last year to let people raise ducks, and recovered the cost in one year. The farmers made money and also intended to expand breeding.

The carriage came back from outside and stopped at the door of the clothing workshop.

Li Mei followed her boss out for a run, and the two came back together. She got off the carriage, stood beside the carriage and listened to her boss's instructions, nodded and said, "Please rest assured, I will do a good job."

"Well, I trust you guys to do your job, I won't go in, you go in and do your thing." Cao Xiangnan didn't get off the carriage, he had other things to do, so he let Li Mei go in and do his thing. He told Yuan Xiaozi to go and let down the curtain.

Seeing that her boss's carriage had left, Li Mei took a deep breath and walked in.

The garment workshop is gradually getting on the right track. The guys in the workshop are more capable than each other. He has trained a group of capable managers. Cao Xiangnan is also relieved about this. He plans to select some people and send them to Nanyang later. I just don't know if these guys are willing to go to Nanyang so far. This matter needs to be discussed later.

When they come back on the first day of March, there will be an assessment waiting for these guys.

So when these guys come back after the New Year, there will be a cruel assessment waiting for them. Those who pass will be promoted and get a salary. Those who fail this time will have to take a make-up exam next time. If they fail the next time, it will be embarrassing.

Cao Xiangnan, the boss, will not let his people off easily. He offers such a high salary, so you have to show a corresponding attitude. Those who are competent can continue to stay, and those who are not competent can only leave.

"I'm so nervous, what if I don't pass?"

They work in the garment factory for such a high salary, and this salary makes their lives better. You know, this garment factory is not for everyone to enter, and they are lucky to be able to enter.

But even if they enter, they have to keep working hard if they want to stay.

"No, don't be nervous. We will definitely pass the exam if we try our best." The person who said this actually had no confidence in his heart. As the chief manager, Li Mei knew that all eyes were on him. If he did not do well, someone else would take his place. Therefore, he had to do every step well and strive to get the best grades in every assessment. Only then would he be qualified to sit in this position. Therefore, he had to work harder than everyone else.

Unknowingly, the brothers in the garment workshop had become different. They were no longer as cowardly as before. In order to stay, they all studied hard. Qi Wanfeng

slept until the sun was about to set during this afternoon nap, and then he woke up.

When he woke up, both children were still asleep. Looking at the two children beside him, Qi Wanfeng showed the most gentle smile in his eyes. With him accompanying the children, they could sleep longer. He sat up and was about to get out of bed, but found that Lele moved and opened his eyes to look at him. "Lele is awake too, do you want to get up, or sleep with Baoer for a while?" Qi Wanfeng kissed the fat boy who just woke up. His face was round and soft. His Lele was smart since he was a child, and he could understand everything the adults said.

Qi Wanfeng, the mother, never doubted his child. The child came out of his belly. He watched him grow up. Except that he was a little smarter and more sensible than other children, Qi Wanfeng didn't think his child was any different from other children. Cao Ruile turned his head and glanced at Baoer who was still sleeping, and uttered two words, "Go to sleep."

Otherwise, he knew that Baoer would cry when he woke up and didn't see him. He didn't like Baoer crying at all, it was too noisy.

"Okay." Qi Wanfeng touched the child, took out the urine pot and wanted to hold the child down to pee, saying, "Come, mother will hold you down to pee." The little belly was bulging with urine, and he reached out and touched it.

"Do it yourself." It means that he should do it himself. Cao Ruile had a wooden face, but he was actually embarrassed.

"Well, do it yourself, don't pee in your pants, Auntie will bring you a glass of water." Qi Wanfeng said, and went out with a glass of water. After the child had finished peeing, he fed the child water and let Lele continue to sleep with Baoer.

He knew that with Lele by his side, he knew that Lele would take good care of Baoer, so he went out to prepare dinner. After a while, Anan and the other children would go home from school.

Auntie Liu had also come back from outside at this time. He saw that the main house was quiet and he didn't hear the voices of the two children, so he knew that the mistress and the two young masters were taking a nap. He didn't disturb the mistress, and he and his master were busy in the yard.

When he saw the mistress coming out of the house, he knew that the mistress had woken up and walked over.

Qi Wanfeng saw Aunt Liu and asked her about Sun Bailian's situation. Aunt Liu said it was good there, so he didn't go there either. The children would be back soon, so he started to cook dinner. Aunt Liu stayed to help him.

The sky was full of clouds in the west. The snow on the mountain gradually melted, revealing the trees covered by the snow. The grass and trees on the ground sprouted little buds, and soon it was full of green again. When the smoke from cooking rose in the village, the children in the academy also finished school and went home in groups of three or five.

Looking at their companions going home, the homeless children left in the academy were envious.

When it was time to go to the academy, the meals in the canteen were ready. The children who stayed in the academy could take their food bags to the canteen to get a meal, which was their dinner.

The meals in the canteen were not rich, but they could fill their stomachs. For three meals a day, breakfast and lunch were usually porridge, steamed bread and some side dishes, and dinner was coarse grains, rice and noodles. You could smell a little oil in the dishes, see a little meat, and occasionally add some meat.

For these children who were homeless and helpless at a young age, the days in the academy were their safe haven. They had food to eat, a house to live in, and a teacher to teach them how to read and write. For them, it was like a dream.

"Dou'er, what are you daydreaming about? Eat quickly. After you're full, we can clean up the cafeteria quickly so that we can go back to review the lesson that the teacher taught us today." An older boy said to the younger boy.

They have exams every semester, and the top three students get rewards. Last semester, the top three students got three guan of money for the first place, and one guan of money for the third place.

"Yeah." The little boy who was stuffing rice into his mouth nodded, with a pair of big and bright eyes. Hongdou was one of the few little brothers in this group of children.

Hongdou lost his mother when he was very young. After his father remarried and his mother gave birth to a younger brother, his mother asked him to do all the work at home. When he didn't do it well, his mother often beat and scolded him and didn't give him food. In the end, she wanted to sell him, so he ran away from home. He

wandered outside for two years, begging on the street with the older boys. He was hungry and almost died of illness, but he survived. Later, they heard that this place could take in children like them who had no father and no mother, and there were books to read and food to eat. He wanted to see if it was true, so he called his good friend Qiang to come.

They came here and spent a winter. There was a teacher who taught them to read and write. They had a house to live in when it snowed, thick clothes to wear, and a warm fire burning in the house. They had food to eat and didn't have to go hungry. There was no friend around who died silently after sleeping.

Hongdou didn't know what death was before, but later he gradually understood that they had dug a pit and buried their best friend in the last winter. He would never see that friend again, and he was sad for a long time.

They had to live and live well.

In addition to the teacher and his wife who were very kind to them in the academy, there was also a very good uncle who would bring them food and clothes. That uncle would call him Little Hongdou like everyone else, and Hongdou liked that uncle the most.

If only he was that uncle's child, Hongdou thought with some sadness.

The several bowls of food in the cafeteria were quickly taken away. The children who found a seat to eat finished the food in their food bags. These children were all hungry, so they ate very quickly. They finished their meals and left soon after they got them. In the end, they even drank up the whole pot of soup.

After the meal, the team of children who were to clean the cafeteria stayed behind to clean up, and could only go back after they finished.

The academy has classes for seven days, and they can rest for two days after every five days of classes. For the children who stayed in the academy, these two days were their work time. They had to work to offset the money they spent on studying and eating in the academy. The academy did not support them for nothing. They had to work to have books to study and food to eat.

In the spring, they worked in the fields. The older ones helped to turn the soil and plant the crops, while the younger ones pulled weeds and did lighter work. When it was harvest time, they helped to harvest the crops. What they liked most was to go to the mountains with adults to pick fruits in the fall. When they picked fruits, they could eat until they were full and carry the fruits back.

Tomorrow was a rest day and they did not have to go to class. They had to work in the fields.

When the sun was about to set in the west, people who had been busy outside all day returned home.

Hearing the sound of wheels, the children playing in the yard knew that their father/uncle had returned, and a group of children rushed to the returning father/uncle, shouting "father, father" and "uncle, uncle".

"Hey." Cao Xiangnan was hungry when he got home. As soon as he entered the door, he saw the children running towards him. The children at his feet surrounded him and shouted "father, uncle", but he couldn't respond. He smiled, touched a few little radishes, and asked, "Have you eaten?"

"I have eaten." The children chattered.

"Oh oh oh."

"Yes, yes, yes." "Really? That's great."

Qi Wanfeng in the house knew that her husband had returned when he heard the voice. She stood at the door and smiled as she watched her husband being surrounded by a group of children. Xiaobaoer, who was following at his feet, also joined in the fun with his short legs. Lele followed his mother and did not go.

Seeing that Xiaobaoer had also come running, he was short and had short legs, so he could only babble outside. Cao Xiangnan smiled helplessly, picked up the youngest and hugged him, then looked up and met a pair of eyes that were smiling at him.

Across the air, the two people's eyes met, you looked at me, I looked at you...