Please, let me go.
Wang Guangying looked at Ji Hehua with a pleading face, clasped his hands together and begged her silently.
Xie Xuezhen looked at Ji Hehua nervously, with a pleading look on his face.
Ji Hehua was not the kind of person who liked to stir up trouble, so she softened her heart when she saw the two of them like this.
"Lotus? Were you the one who spoke just now?"
Wu Meili lifted the door curtain again and looked at Ji Hehua with surprise.
Ji Hehua smiled sweetly, "I was the one who spoke. I just explained some of the family compound's rules. There was no quarrel."
Wu Meili's eyes fell on Xie Xuezhen and Wang Guangying. She had some impression of these two people. They were villagers living near the staff quarters.
Thinking that the family compound has many rules, he believed Ji Hehua's words and said to the two with a smile: "The family compound is different from the outside world. There are many rules here. When I first came here, I didn't understand anything and made a lot of jokes. You will understand it when you get familiar with it."
Wang and Jie nodded hurriedly in agreement, and the little episode was over.
Qiao Baozhu inspected the goods quite quickly and soon it was the two's turn to deliver the goods.
Ever since the news that making shoe soles could make money spread, many villagers nearby have sent their own shoe soles here.
Qiao Baozhu was not averse to people from outside the family compound coming to deliver the goods. Instead, she hoped to mobilize all the educated youth and villagers nearby.
As long as there are enough people and the quality is high enough, a small processing plant can be set up after reaching a certain scale.
Not only will everyone have an extra income, she can also make more money from it and achieve financial freedom sooner.
"Your craftsmanship is really good. The soles you submitted are flawless. All 10 pairs of soles are up to standard."
Qiao Baozhu nodded in approval, took out a handful of money from a tin box, counted the money and handed it to the two.
"You two can sign this and go home."
Xie Xuezhen and Wang Guangying didn't expect that they could actually make money by sewing shoe soles. Each of them held five dollars in their hands. Although the money was not much, they felt warm in their hearts.
"Sign? I can't read."
Xie Xuezhen's face turned red with shame and she rubbed her pants helplessly, wishing she could put her head in her crotch.
"It's okay. I can write."
Wang Guangying volunteered to take the pen and wrote his own name on the account book, and then wrote Li Xuezhen's name crookedly.
"It doesn't matter if you can't write. Just put your fingerprint on your name."
Qiao Baozhu spoke softly, without a trace of contempt in her attitude.
The more Xie Xuezhen felt that she was approachable, the more nervous she became. He walked forward with gritted teeth, stretched out his index finger and pressed it in the ink pad, then pressed it down randomly along the position that Qiao Baozhu pointed.
"alright."
After seeing the two of them sign, Qiao Baozhu smiled and said to them, "Recently, there have been a lot of people coming to deliver goods, and the delivery date has also changed. You can come to my place to deliver goods on the 5th, 15th, and 25th of every month."
"Can I recommend someone else? My mother's craftsmanship is better than mine. She can also sew shoe soles when she's free at home."
Xie Xuezhen looked at Qiao Baozhu nervously, fearing that she would dislike him.
"As long as the quality and quantity are guaranteed, we will charge as much as you come."
After Qiao Baozhu finished speaking, Xie Xuezhen breathed a sigh of relief. There were other family members in the room who had not left after delivering the goods. When they heard Qiao Baozhu's words, they were also happy.
A group of young wives cheered and thanked Qiao Baozhu from the bottom of their hearts for helping them find a way to make money.
"In fact, there are many opportunities to make money in the city. You can make money at home by pasting paper boxes, washing sacks, and unpacking cotton yarn."
Xie Xuezhen was delighted to hear this and asked excitedly, "I can do all these jobs. My children are not young anymore, and it's boring to stay at home in the winter. Why don't we do some handicrafts together to earn some money?"
Everyone nodded and looked at Qiao Baozhu with expectation.
Qiao Baozhu smiled and told everyone, "I also think this is a good opportunity. I will discuss it with my man and see if the comrades in the logistics department of the army can help coordinate it."
"I'll talk to Sister Zhang from the Women's Federation and see if they have any good ideas."
"Everyone, start making money by sewing shoe soles first. I will let you know if there are other ways to make money in the future."
Everyone received their wages and good news from Qiao Baozhu. When leaving Qiao Baozhu's house, everyone had a smile on their face.
Everyone feels that life is becoming more and more hopeful and they are full of energy.
After everyone left, Qiao Baozhu's work had not stopped. She packed the soles she had just collected into different sacks according to the different shoe sizes.
"Baozhu, what you just said was a lie to them, right?"
Wu Meili helped Qiao Baozhu tie up the mouth of the sack, and then asked the doubts in her heart.
"I'm telling the truth, I'm not lying."
Wu Meili pointed at the sacks all over the floor and asked with a smile: "This room is almost full. Where are you going to put more boxes and sacks?"
Qiao Baozhu smiled calmly, "There are always more solutions than problems. These things don't have to be installed in my house."
“My house isn’t big enough.”
Wu Meili blurted out with a bitter look on her face: "Ji Hehua's house is spacious, and she has an empty pigsty."
Qiao Baozhu: ...
"Forget it, you don't have to worry about this. Just focus on sewing your soles, and I'll discuss it with Sister Zhang later."
Wu Meili grinned: "Just look for Sister Zhang, she's the director of the Women's Federation, she can help you."
Before Qiao Baozhu went to find Zhang Cuilian, Zhang Cuilian came to her door first.
"Baozhu, I have something important to tell you."
Zhang Cuilian rushed into the house in a hurry. It was a cold winter day and her cheeks and neck were covered in sweat.
It can be seen that he ran all the way here.
Qiao Baozhu glanced at the clock on the table. It was not yet time to get off work. Something big must have happened.
"Something happened to my Shen Xiao?"
Qiao Baozhu's heart skipped a beat and she instinctively thought of the worst.
"It's not Captain Shen, it's your family."
When she heard that something had happened to a family member, Qiao Baozhu's eyelids twitched wildly. She grabbed Zhang Cuilian's hand and spoke with a tearful tone.
"What happened to my parents? What happened to them?"
Without waiting for Zhang Cuilian to speak, Qiao Baozhu grabbed the coat and scarf hanging on the hanger and rushed out.
Qiao Baozhu racked her brains and thought hard, carefully recalling what had happened in the city at that time.
"What could have happened to my mom at home? Gas poisoning? Or did something happen to my dad?"
Qiao Baozhu's legs were weak, her hands were shaking as she put on her clothes, a scarf was wrapped around her neck, and she was in a panic.
"They are not your parents in the city, but your biological parents and your sister."
Seeing that Qiao Baozhu was so frightened, Zhang Cuilian quickly began to explain.
It turned out to be Qiao Changgui's family, not the adoptive parents...
Qiao Baozhu's heart suddenly settled down.
Her body went limp like noodles and she collapsed to the ground.
The moment she sat on the ground, Qiao Baozhu realized the piercing pain in her heart.
I was too nervous just now and had been holding my breath. Now that I relaxed, I took deep breaths.
He sat on the ground to relax for a while, then slowly sat down on the kang while holding onto the wall.
"What's going on over there?"
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