Everyone is accustomed to bringing a basket to work, so when they come across wild vegetables while weeding, they can just pick them and bring them back.
Otherwise, the whole family works all day and has little time to go up the mountain. If they can only dig a basket of wild vegetables when they go, it is not worth wasting time.
"My eldest brother, are they coming back for dinner or are they being sent to the fields?"
Sometimes the place of work is quite far away, so when I go out in the morning I just take some dry food and pickles with me. The round trip is really far.
Jiang Ersao slapped her forehead and remembered that she had not yet informed Jiang Mengxue.
"Look at me, I've completely forgotten all this. Last year, my aunt came back and said the county cannery was hiring. Later, my brother-in-law asked his comrades to write some letters of introduction for us, and as soon as the cannery expanded in the spring, they all went there.
The cannery is still under construction and it is estimated that it will be officially operational in the next two months.
They are just helping out with odd jobs now, and are considered temporary workers, earning 16 yuan a month. I heard that once they become regular employees, their salary will be close to 30 yuan."
Originally, the brothers had planned to stop by the Feiyue Brigade to tell Jiang Mengxue when they got off work one day. However, the few times they returned home recently, it was almost dark, so it was really too late.
Everyone in the family, young and old, had to go to work or school, leaving only the two pregnant women to take a day off. It was tiring for them to walk such a long distance.
But everyone has been busy recently, and the people from the two teams haven't visited their relatives, and there's no way for them to pass on a message.
Jiang Mengxue had indeed forgotten about this matter.
The county cannery is going to expand. The weather was too cold in the months before and after the New Year. Now that the weather has finally warmed up a bit, we have hired a lot of people to work.
Jiang Dachun and several others went to apply for jobs as workers in a cannery, but because they had been working in the countryside for many years and were tall and strong, they were retained early to build the factory.
The distance from the county to Taoyuan Brigade is at least dozens of miles. It is hard to say how long it will take to walk back and forth. If you take a car back and forth, it will be a considerable expense.
Judging from the personalities of Jiang Dachun and others, they may not be willing to do so.
"Sister-in-law, do my brother and his friends live in the county now, or do they commute back and forth every day?"
If you run back and forth every day, wouldn't it take several hours to travel?
"No, they said they arranged a temporary dormitory for me and even took two quilts with me. I can only come back once a week or ten days or half a month."
Jiang Mengxue lowered her eyes and nodded.
A few people helped to prepare the meal, and then those who had finished work came back.
No one expected Jiang Mengxue to come today. Before Jiang's mother had time to wash her hands, she pulled Jiang Mengxue back into the house.
"Why are you here today? Did something happen?"
As he said that, he glanced at Jiang Mengxue's belly and thought, there's nothing wrong with that.
"I'm fine. My second mother went to my aunt's house today. I came back to see her since I had nothing to do. If I have nothing to do, I'll go back in the afternoon."
Jiang's mother felt relieved at this moment, as long as nothing happened.
"Mom, how long have my brother and his team been working there? When will the factory expansion be completed and we can start working?"
Talking about her sons' jobs, Jiang's mother felt very happy.
"I don't understand this, but I heard from your brothers that we can start working in the workshop next month. I heard that the machines have been purchased a long time ago, and we can start operating as soon as the factory is completed.
This time, it's all thanks to my son-in-law. Your brother and his friends said that the factory was recruiting and there were at least a few hundred people who showed up that day, if not a thousand. If it weren't for the letter of recommendation from my son-in-law, your brother and his friends definitely wouldn't have been selected. And those old city people didn't get the job either."
Jiang's mother is still discussing with Jiang's father that they cannot let their son-in-law help with this job for free.
No matter how much a job pays, I can't let my son-in-law suffer a loss. My daughter pays off her job slowly every month.
Although the sons could not give much, Jiang's mother still knew roughly how much they had.
"Daughter, tell me the truth. How much did your son-in-law spend on finding jobs for your brothers? You have to ask your brothers to pay you back. If you don't have enough, you can pay it back slowly when you get a job."
Jiang's father and mother may not have any special abilities, but they try to be fair to their children.
Jiang Mengxue couldn't talk about this matter. Gu Qingbei and Xu Ming were old comrades-in-arms. Given their relationship, the letters of introduction they issued were just a casual matter. If Gu Qingbei was really polite to him, it would be awkward.
So apart from bringing gifts when he first came back, Gu Qingbei didn't mention anything else.
Jiang Mengxue also didn't want to get into so much debt with her brothers and sisters. If she really collected the money, Jiang Mengxue would not be polite to her brothers. She couldn't pay a large sum of money for them for nothing.
But this matter was just a casual one, and the couple knew how they would interact with Xu Ming in the future.
"Mom, this was done by a comrade from Peking University and Tsinghua University. He's the head of the cannery, and Peking University and Tsinghua University asked him to do this without spending a penny.
Since you didn't spend any money, it's impossible for me to charge my brothers any more money. You can just tell them directly.
Having a job in the city is better than working in the countryside. Let them work hard and try to bring my sister-in-law and children to the city in the future."
In the next twenty years, as long as my sisters-in-law and children keep their household registration in the countryside and don't move to the city, they can come back to work when it's time to do so, and they can earn enough to feed themselves.
However, there may not be a chance to move to the city. Even if you are lucky enough to get a house in the future, it will be a small house of at most ten or twenty square meters.
It's really cramped for a family to live in such a crowded place.
To be honest, city dwellers nowadays don’t live as comfortably as country dwellers.
Not to mention the house we live in, the countryside is big and the living space is spacious.
Most of the people in the city live together as a family, old and young, or even three generations of a family. They have no choice but to make do with this until they can get a separate house.
Speaking of food rations, the city's monthly food supply of twenty to thirty kilograms is not enough to eat. People even have to buy expensive food on the black market, otherwise the family can only tighten their belts and never have enough to eat.
The countryside distributes several hundred kilograms of grain every year, and each family goes up the mountain to find some wild vegetables, wild fruits, various walnuts and chestnuts, and all kinds of miscellaneous things, which together add up to quite a lot.
Some people who have relatives in the city would send some grain to the city to support their relatives after receiving the annual grain distribution.
So although everyone envies city people, there are pros and cons, and life in the countryside is not that bad either.
Of course, this is limited to certain areas. In rural areas where the land is barren and the annual output is extremely low, people can starve to death.
Jiang Mengxue stayed at the Jiang family for dinner.
Gu Xiaogu and her family also returned home, and Li Cuiying brought a rabbit that Gu Zhenjiang caught in the mountains.
Regardless of whether it was superstition or not, they didn't dare let Jiang Mengxue eat the rabbit, but they couldn't cook it for the two of them to eat alone, so they might as well bring it out as a gift.
Gu Xiaogu's eldest daughter-in-law likes to interact with her mother-in-law's relatives the most, and always brings a lot of good things.
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