Chapter 151 A Generator
Seeing these women covered in scars and with unfinished quilts beside them, Xia Xiaoman and the other two immediately guessed that these people were workers who were forced to work here.
Fu Baiwei said softly, "Don't be afraid, we are not here to kill you. Were you captured by those bad guys? In addition to you, are there other people here?"
When the group of women saw that Fu Baiwei and the others didn't look like they were about to take action, they gradually calmed down.
"You, are you here to save us?"
Fu Baiwei smiled and nodded, "Yes, we are here to rescue you. Can you tell me why you are here?"
Before she finished speaking, one of the women burst into tears, "Wow! Finally someone came to save us! Wow, I can go home, I can go home..."
The other women also wiped their tears excitedly, "We were deceived." said a woman with dark skin.
"The three of them and I heard a woman named Wang say that we were looking for seamstresses, so we came here for an interview. Who knew that after we came in, we would be locked up in this house, taking apart cotton-padded clothes every day and taking out the cotton from them to make quilts."
"I wanted to go home, but they beat me before I even walked out the door." She wiped her tears and said in a sobbing voice: "We have to get up at 6 o'clock in the morning to work, and we can go to bed at 12 o'clock at night. We only get one meal a day, and it's just two whole grain cakes..."
Xia Xiaoman: “…”
This black workshop is too cruel! The donkeys in the production team were not exploited like this!
Listening to these women's crying, Xia Xiaoman and the others roughly knew what this building was used for.
As the eternal night fell and the temperature turned cooler, some people saw a business opportunity. They collected cotton-padded fabrics and had people strip the clothes off the dead.
In order to earn more supplies, they cut open the cotton clothes they collected, exchanged the cotton inside for clothes of the dead, and used the cotton to make quilts.
But because there was a shortage of seamstresses, they tricked some seamstresses into coming in by pretending to be recruiting workers.
Wang Dandan was originally one of the victims of the scam. At first, she tried to escape, but she was caught and beaten before she could escape from the workshop.
After being exploited for a long time, Wang Dandan's mentality gradually changed. In order to make herself feel better, she took the initiative to hook up with a small leader and helped the workshop to deceive more tailors to come in.
Among these women, four were deceived by Wang Dandan in the name of recruiting workers. The rest came here to buy clothes because they heard that there were cheap cotton clothes here. Wang Dandan saw that they were alone, so she arrested them all.
"Originally this place only sold shady cotton-padded clothes. Later, for some reason, those beasts started to steal customers' supplies. If someone came to buy cotton-padded clothes with supplies in their hands, they would be beaten up and have their supplies taken away. Men would be let go after being beaten, but women..."
The woman didn't say anything else, but everyone knew what would happen to a single woman when she was caught by a group of men.
"Some of the shabby cotton-padded clothes and quilts we made will be sold at trading points, and some will be sold on the black market..." At this point, the woman frowned, "These shabby cotton-padded clothes and quilts are not only of poor quality, but they may also cause diseases if used for a long time."
"Some of the cloth they took out had sticky liquid on them. It was smelly and fishy, like... like it was picked up from a rotting corpse..."
"Those beasts didn't even wash it for us. They just rubbed it with dirt and asked us to sew it into our cotton clothes..."
When Fu Baiwei and Wang Shijin heard that half of these substandard cotton-padded jackets were delivered to the trading point, they felt very uneasy. They immediately took out the cotton-padded jackets they had just bought at the trading point and examined them carefully. They felt that they did not look like substandard cotton-padded jackets and were slightly relieved.
"Is this the only workshop like this?" Xia Xiaoman asked.
The woman shook her head. "This is just one of the small workshops. I heard from those beasts that there are many workshops like ours in other places."
She paused, then continued, "My dear kind people, I have said everything I need to say. Can you please let us go?"
Upon hearing this, Fu Baiwei and Wang Shijin subconsciously looked at Xia Xiaoman.
Xia Xiaoman shrugged and said, "You two make the decision. I'll go upstairs and take a look." After saying that, she went up to the third floor without looking back.
In addition to a pile of inferior cotton-padded clothes and quilts, the third floor also contained supplies that were swindled and looted by Wang Dandan and his gang.
Xia Xiaoman did not go to look at the pile of supplies, but continued to search the bedrooms. After opening one of the bedrooms, she finally saw what she was interested in: a generator.
Eternal night appears, and it is dark 24 hours a day. If you want to sew cotton-padded clothes and quilts, you must provide a light source.
This black workshop mainly produces clothes and quilts, which are flammable items. They themselves know that the tailors who make clothes and quilts were all captured by them and have great resentment towards them. If they use open flames to provide light, if someone ignites the workshop impulsively, it will be more trouble than gain.
So they got a small generator to provide lighting for the building.
Xia Xiaoman found the generator and took a look at it. The power generation capacity was only about 20 kilowatts, which was a bit small, but enough.
"Diesel generator?!" Wang Shijin, who had just come upstairs, was pleasantly surprised. "This is a good thing! I didn't expect that I could bring back a generator after going out."
Xia Xiaoman said, "I want this generator, and you two can divide the other supplies between yourselves."
Wang Shijin was stunned. "Don't you have a generator?"
"That one is broken, and even if it wasn't broken, do you think the solar generator can still be used in such weather?" Xia Xiaoman asked back.
Wang Shijin: “…”
Afraid that Wang Shijin and the others would disagree, Xia Xiaoman added, "I just took a look and there are quite a few supplies in the bedroom opposite. There are rice, flour, seasonings, compressed biscuits, instant noodles, bacon, and some clean cotton clothes and quilts."
"In comparison, the supplies in the bedroom opposite are what you urgently need right now. The generator is not that useful in the eternal night, right?"
Wang Shijin and Fu Baiwei looked at each other, and they went to take a look in the bedroom opposite. There were indeed a lot of supplies in the bedroom, all of which they were in short supply.
"Okay! Then I'll give you this generator, and Weiwei and I will share the other supplies." After saying that, he thought of something and said, "One more thing. After I move the supplies here, I plan to report the illegal workshop. Otherwise, I'm afraid someone will buy clothes stained with corpse water."
It is tolerable that their clothes are dirty, but if they are carrying corpse water and some infectious disease is exposed, they may not be spared.
Xia Xiaoman nodded, "You guys are welcome to do whatever you want, but don't drag me along, just pretend I've never been here."
She doesn't want to take credit, nor does she want to get into trouble. Only by keeping a low profile can one live a long life.
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