Chapter 209 Helping with Work
Xie Zheyu asked: "Pengfei is so flattering, isn't he afraid of getting a needle in the cloth?"
"My mother kept records. Every day at the start of the work, someone would hand out needles. If they were broken or bent, they had to be returned for replacements. The broken needle tips had to be found. It wasn't to save money, but because she was afraid my sisters and aunts would get hurt. So there couldn't be any needles in the scraps of cloth."
"Wow! You've thought of that!"
“I’m also worried that customers will get pricked when they put on their clothes!”
"Oh! That's right!"
The two walked to the packaging group, which was a large table with a quality inspection area on one side and a packaging area on the other.
Xie Zheyu saw a familiar face and thought he was seeing things, then he heard Tunan call out "Shanshan".
Wu Shanshan raised her head and responded with "Brother Tunan", her eyes glanced at Xie Zheyu, but she quickly began to focus on the work at hand.
Tuanan had already left, but Xie Zheyu was still standing there, watching Wu Shanshan fold the shirt neatly and put it into the packaging bag.
"Zheyu, let's go!"
“Oh, here it comes!”
Xie Zheyu caught up with Tunan, and when he saw that he had walked far away, he whispered:
"Wu Shanshan..."
"We are all neighbors, so I come to help." Tuanan didn't say much. He didn't know how familiar the two were with each other.
Every weekend, Wu Shanshan comes to work for a morning shift. Of course, she can't tell others that she is working, so she just says she is helping.
Huang Ling never paid her wages, and Wu Shanshan never mentioned it.
But the two of them had a certain tacit understanding, as if they could understand each other and trust each other very much.
Like all pieceworkers, Huang Ling gave her an account book in which she recorded the amount of work she did, but her name was not on the cover. After Wu Shanshan turned sixteen, Huang Ling would pay her the previous salary in one lump sum.
In this way, Huang Ling was helping Wu Shanshan, and at the same time Wu Shanshan did not implicate Huang Ling.
After seeing Wu Shanshan twice, Tuanan probably understood.
He knew that Wu Shanshan's help for his mother was different from Pengfei's. His mother treated Pengfei as a family member and was always willing to give back, but Wu Shanshan was different.
After the two of them came back from a walk, Huang Ling heard that no one was at Xie Zheyu's home, so she invited him to have lunch.
Xie Zheyu was a straightforward boy and readily agreed. He helped Tuanan assemble the cartons and then packed the finished products into the cartons, doing some physical work that boys can do.
Huang Ling never stopped them from working and didn't feel sorry for them at all.
At this time, Lin Dongzhe poked his head out of the office. When he heard that Tunan and the others had arrived, he had been itching to try it.
"Auntie, Brother Tunan..."
"go back!"
"I......"
"I know you are anxious, but don't be anxious. The more you need to stay calm at times like this, the more you should not be affected. Finish the things at hand seriously before going to play with them." Huang Ling stopped him with a look.
"Auntie, I know. I'm just... Oh! Comrade Song Ying! You can't just hit people!"
Song Ying's bamboo stick had already hit him in front of him, and Dongzhe retracted his head back into the office.
"Why are you trying to reason with him? A stick is the most effective! He scored so low on the math test, and he still has the nerve to play around! Who is he being honest with? Is he being honest with you for making up for the summer or is he being honest with Xiaoting for checking his homework every day? If you hadn't stopped me, I would have beaten him to death!"
Song Ying threw the bamboo stick in her hand onto the windowsill and said angrily.
"This semester has been fine, but the child also makes mistakes sometimes," Huang Ling advised.
"That's right, it was a mistake, a mistake, it was really a mistake." Dongzhe answered from inside the house.
After a lot of effort, Dongzhe finally finished the paper and handed it to Xiaoting for grading.
Xiaoting was grading while he bowed.
"Hello Xiaoting, great Xiaoting, just toss it for 0.5!"
Xiao Ting rolled her eyes at him and said, "If you bow again, I'll slam you down!"
Dongzhe immediately made a zipper-like motion around his mouth and shut it.
When he saw Xiaoting let out a sigh, he knew that it was 80 points.
At this moment, Tunan and Xie Zheyu came over, and Dongzhe said proudly: "Brother Tunan, 85, haha, passed the standard!"
Tunan picked up the test paper, took a look at it, smiled and shook his head: "Xiaoting, I'll give you four words."
Xiaoting looked at her brother helplessly.
"Which four words are 'dedication and responsibility'?" Dongzhe continued.
"Truthless and soft-hearted!" It was Xie Zheyu who answered him.
"ah!"
"Right," Tunan pointed at a question and said, "Xiaoting helped you find the answer in the railway you built. Isn't it just too soft-hearted?"
Dongzhe finally understood and bowed to Xiaoting again.
It is not convenient to prepare lunch in a large pot in the garment factory, so lunch is packed at a small restaurant outside the back door. Every morning when we go to work, we determine the number of people who will eat, and the small restaurant will prepare the food and deliver it in lunch boxes. It is convenient and delicious, and the boss can get good prices for long-term business.
Since there were guests today, Huang Ling asked the boss to cook a few more dishes and send them over.
"Auntie, then I won't be polite." Xie Zheyu has a good personality and he said happily.
He tilted his head slightly and looked at the sisters and aunts who were eating at several other large tables in the lounge, but Wu Shanshan was not among them.
"What's wrong?" Huang Ling, who had sharp eyes, saw that he was looking for someone, so she asked.
"Oh, where is Wu Shanshan? I saw her helping just now." He asked generously.
"Shanshan is not eating here, she went home." Huang Ling told Xie Zheyu.
Wu Shanshan will go back before noon. Now she cooks for one week and then stops for one week, and it is assumed that Zhang Min will cook for the next week.
However, Zhang Min was usually at school and only came home on Sundays, so she was actually pushing the cooking to Zhang A-mei. Zhang A-mei was reluctant to let Zhang Min cook on Sundays, so she would either cook for herself or bring food from the factory.
Ever since Wu Shanshan started attending No. 1 Middle School, the Wu family has not seen any meat except rotten and broken eggs.
Wu Shanshan is not picky. She cooks whatever she is given and eats whatever she is given, as long as she is not hungry.
This week, it was her turn to cook, so she went home before noon.
"Eat quickly! You don't usually do physical work! How are you? Are you tired?" Huang Ling asked with a smile.
"It's true. When I was moving, I thought it was just a few boxes of clothes, but my hands did feel a little sore. However, I'm a little better than Tuanan, but... not much better." Xie Zheyu joked.
"What are you talking about! I'm definitely better than you." Tuanan was not happy.
"You'll know after we have dinner!" Xie Zheyu tilted his head.
"Let's compete!" Tuanan raised his chin.
"Yes, Bibi." Huang Ling nodded.
Dongzhe picked up a piece of pork ribs and put it in his mouth, mumbling, "Auntie Huang wins no matter how you look at it."
Everyone looked at him, their eyes seemed to say: How dare you.
"Let's do another set of questions in the afternoon." Huang Ling smiled and put a piece of cabbage stalk into his bowl, saying very gently.
Dongzhe: "...Can I take back...what I said just now?"
Everyone shook their heads at him in perfect sync.
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