Chapter 75 Selection of Salespersons for Supply and Marketing Cooperatives

What Director Zheng wanted to ask, of course, was about wanting Xia Juanjuan to work as a salesperson in the supply and marketing cooperative.

"Every time you come to buy something, including the last time you went to the county town to purchase goods, I have inspected you. You are good at arithmetic and have a good memory, and you are efficient and decisive. I have already reported this to the superiors. As for the allowance, Song Xiuyue was given seven work points per day for a month, plus one yuan. I have negotiated for you to get nine work points plus two yuan! How about it? If you agree, you can start work tomorrow."

Then she came closer and said in a low voice, "Also, although you are just a salesperson, the leader said that if you do a good job, you can be promoted to a full-time employee of a state-owned department store! By then, you and your kids' rural household registration may be converted to commercial grain household registration in the city!"

Director Zheng's family is actually from the county, and is considered a commodity grain household, but they were sent to work in a supply and marketing cooperative branch store in the township.

It is a hard requirement for the supply and marketing cooperatives to hire someone with a rural household registration as a salesperson, which is one of the manifestations of the close ties between workers and farmers.

She knew that Xia Juanjuan's man was a soldier and received a monthly allowance of several dozen yuan, so he didn't need the two yuan and nine work points a day.

But commodity grain accounts are different!

In those days, leaving the rural household registration meant that you no longer had to work hard in the fields to make a living. You would receive a fixed salary and food stamps and industrial coupons every month. Apart from anything else, if you became a salesperson in a state-owned company, you could earn more than ten yuan a month!

Moreover, there will be a chance to get a house in the future, and my children can go to elementary and junior high schools in the county, and they will be assigned jobs when they grow up...

This is much more promising than the farmers who have nothing but the little harvest from the fields and still have to pay public grain!

This was also the reason why she thought about it for a long time and finally spoke to Xia Juanjuan.

What Xia Juanjuan immediately thought of was that with the identity of a salesperson, she would be able to legitimately ask the village to issue a letter of introduction to the county.

As for becoming a regular employee or transferring to a commercial grain household, she had no interest at all.

But she immediately rejected the idea.

Being a salesperson means reporting for duty almost every day, and even if it is easy to get a letter of introduction to the county, she still has to work, and it is impossible for her to go to the black market to sell things or do other things.

She is not stupid. She is willing to give up her freedom just for the convenience of going to the county.

Besides, she now has the ability to teleport in space. Once she becomes proficient in using it, she won’t need a letter of introduction to go to the county!

However, Xia Juanjuan would not be so foolish as to refuse immediately.

After all, Director Zheng’s suggestion is absolutely rare for ordinary rural women.

If she refused immediately, wouldn't that be taking her kindness for granted and offending others for nothing?

Therefore, Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Director Zheng, thank you so much! As a woman, I can't make the decision on this matter. Let me send a telegram to discuss it with my husband and then give you an answer. Is that okay with you?"

Director Zheng smiled and said, "Why not? Just let me know when you've thought it over! By the way, I have to go back to the county to buy more goods in a couple of days. If you're free, come with me and help me with the accounts."

This proposal was exactly what Xia Juanjuan wanted, so she readily agreed: "Of course, no problem!"

Xia Juanjuan asked again: "Director Zheng, does our supply and marketing cooperative sell pencils and manuscript paper?"

Xiaowen will be six years old after the Chinese New Year. Xiaowu and Beibei will be five and four years old respectively. It is almost time for them to go to school.

Since I have nothing to do in winter, I can teach them to write some simple words to lay a solid foundation.

Director Zheng was stunned when he heard this.

She also has two children at home, both of whom attend the workers' children's school in the county. The older one is in the first grade of junior high school, and the younger one is in the fifth grade of elementary school. So she immediately thought that Xia Juanjuan bought paper and pens most likely for the children's schooling.

In the countryside, having enough to eat is the right thing to do, and children are half laborers and can earn work points.

Therefore, although there are simple primary schools in the town, many rural families are unwilling to send their children to school to learn to read and write. Even if they do send their children, many of them just fish for three days and dry the nets for two days, and do not study seriously.

There are very few people like Xia Juanjuan who take the initiative to buy paper and pens for their children so that they can learn to read in advance.

Director Zheng couldn't help but look at Xia Juanjuan with surprise and admiration.

"I have paper and pens! They're for the kids at home to study, right? My kids have some old textbooks that they used, I'll bring them to you tomorrow."

Upon hearing this, Xia Juanjuan immediately smiled and said, "Thank you so much, Director Zheng!"

With textbooks from this era, she can teach more effectively.

After paying for the paper and pen, Xia Juanjuan did not go to the black market in the town this time and went straight back.

I put the things back home first, then went to Zhou Qiuhe's house with the milk powder.

Zhou Qiuhe was holding her six or seven-month-old son Dongbao in her arms, rocking him while looking at the family's work points book and muttering to herself.

"On the first day of November, Li Jie repaired the pig pen for the commune, earning 10 work points. I cut grass to feed the pigs, earning 8 work points. Huan Huan and Ying Ying picked up firewood, earning 2 and 1 points respectively, which makes a total of 21 work points for the day. On the second day, I worked half a day, which makes a total of 14 points... From November to today, the total work points are 123 points. 10 work points are 15 cents, which is 1.845 yuan... Alas..."

After working hard for more than half a month, the whole family, young and old, joined in the work. After adding up the work points they earned and buying a packet of milk powder for Dongbao, they were left with only a little more than 30 cents.

Although there is nothing we can do about it because it is the idle season in winter, this winter is really too hard to endure.

Zhou Qiuhe stared at the work points sheet with a sad face and didn't notice Xia Juanjuan coming.

When Xia Juanjuan heard her calculation, she was a little surprised at first, and then something moved her mind.

Dongbao saw that his mother ignored him, so he pouted and started crying. Zhou Qiuhe came to her senses and hurried to comfort him. Then she saw Xia Juanjuan and couldn't help but smile: "Juanjuan? Why didn't you say hello when you came? I didn't even see you."

Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "I'm going to settle the score with you, so I didn't dare to interrupt you."

Zhou Qiuhe was a little embarrassed: "There's nothing much to calculate. There's no farm work to do in winter, and I can't earn work points by going out, so I just took it out to calculate and pass the time..."

Xia Juanjuan didn't expose her, she put the two bags of milk powder on the table and said with a smile: "Since you didn't accept the ten yuan yesterday, I bought the milk powder. It's considered as my purchase for Dongbao. You have no right to refuse it on his behalf."

When Zhou Qiuhe heard this, her face turned even redder.

She was actually just worried about the milk powder.

What she normally eats is not very nutritious. She ran out of milk three or four months after giving birth to Dongbao. Now Dongbao is still young, and his nutritional development cannot keep up without milk powder. Therefore, she would rather the adults suffer a little and buy milk powder for the child to mix with rice soup.

It's just that the work points for most of the month are enough to buy a pack of milk powder. The Chinese New Year is just over a month away, and it's even more impossible to earn work points from agricultural work in Leshan. So, if I buy milk powder, I won't have money for the Chinese New Year...