Chapter 23 Road
As soon as May comes, the weather becomes hot and the scorching sun makes people dizzy.
May, June and July are the off-season for garment factories. In order to ensure that everyone can get a basic wage, the amount of work assigned each day is limited.
Lin Qiu pedaled the sewing machine quickly and finished her part of the task. After lunch, she walked home under the scorching sun without even asking for a day off.
The old employees have gained experience and are looking for ways to do odd jobs. Lin Qiu has also been thinking about what kind of business he should do these days, otherwise it will be difficult to pay the rent with this little salary.
Lin Qiu returned home, took out his notebook, and did some calculations. He felt a little worried. A hundred yuan salary this month would be great.
One hundred yuan is not a small amount if you put it in your hometown, but you still need money for food, clothing, housing and transportation in Shenzhen. The original plan was to cover the monthly expenses by myself and save up Wang Xiuren's salary. Now it seems that this plan is a bit difficult to implement, at least in the off-season, unless I can find a way to make money.
The sun was getting stronger at noon, and the air seemed to be still, without a trace of wind. Even with the windows open, the small rental house still felt like a steamer and was very stuffy. Even though the people in the room were fanning themselves with palm-leaf fans, they were still sweating profusely and felt sticky all over. They had no choice but to run to the bathroom to take another shower. Lin Qiu finally understood why people in Pengcheng called taking a bath "showering".
In the afternoon, Lin Qiu went to the nursery to pick up Wang Shan and took her home. He was absent-minded along the way and was almost hit by a bicycle. Suddenly, she looked at the white foam box on the back of the bicycle and an idea came to her mind.
The more Lin Qiu thought about it, the more feasible it seemed to him. For a moment he was full of confidence and walked with great confidence. After picking up Wang Shan, she bought a popsicle on the roadside for the first time, folded it in half, and shared half between mother and daughter.
"Mom, I'm so happy today!" Wang Shan licked the popsicle, her eyes smiling into crescent shapes.
This was the first time that Lin Qiu bought popsicles for Wang Shan. She was young and he was afraid that she would get diarrhea if she ate something cold. In fact, Lin Qiu felt a little regretful when he bit the popsicle.
The mother and daughter enjoyed some icy popsicles, went to the vegetable market, and returned to their rental house carrying some lean meat and a cucumber.
The weather was hot, so Lin Qiu asked Wang Shan to sit on the mat on the ground and play, then he boiled water to cook noodles. After the noodles were cooked, he rinsed them with cold water three times, added a little oil and mixed them evenly, then spread them in a drain basket.
Cut the cucumber into shreds and put it in a bowl for later use. Chop the lean meat and ginger into foam, stir-fry with oil, add the prepared sauce and simmer on low heat for ten minutes. When the sauce is reduced, put it in a bowl and let it cool. The sauce depends on your preference. Lin Qiu likes to make the sauce by adding soybean paste, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, cooking wine and water.
After a simple meal, Lin Qiu was already soaked and had to take another shower.
The first thing Wang Xiuren did when he got home was to wash off the sawdust on his body. In the summer, people sweat a lot and the sawdust stuck to their skin, making them itchy. The more they scratched, the more itchy it became.
After washing, Lin Qiu had already divided the noodles into three bowls. Three bowls of different sizes were lined up in a row. The shiny cold noodles were topped with fragrant meat sauce and crispy cucumbers, which whetted the appetite of the family who had lost their appetite due to the hot weather.
This simple meal of cold noodles filled the family of three’s stomachs. After eating, they were not in a hurry to wash the dishes, but sat on the cool mat to digest the food.
"What do you think about me going to wholesale popsicles and selling them on the street every afternoon?" Lin Qiu looked at Wang Xiuren.
"Selling popsicles!" Wang Xiuren wondered, "Why would you want to do this?"
"There are fewer and fewer orders in the factory now, and the work assigned to me can be completed in less than two hours." Lin Qiu was a little worried, "Others are also looking for ways to get by, otherwise it will be difficult to get through the next few months!"
Wang Xiuren really didn't expect that the off-season for the garment factory would be so quiet. Even the largest factory in the area, Hongxiu, was like this. Wouldn't the other small factories have to close down and stop production?
"Don't worry, Brother Man will come to the construction site tomorrow, I will go to him to ask and then decide." Wang Xiuren turned his head to look at her, "Brother Man has been in this area for so many years, he knows a little bit about everything."
"That's fine!" Lin Qiu agreed, "I was originally thinking about earning more money to buy a fan! Oh!"
"Buy it!" Wang Xiuren looked at his daughter's red face, "You have to buy it. The weather is getting hotter!"
"Let's take a closer look!" Lin Qiu was still thinking about selling popsicles.
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The next day, when Yang Guiman arrived at the construction site, he saw Wang Xiuren looking at him as if he wanted to ask for something.
After inspecting the construction site, Yang Guiman called Wang Xiuren aside and said, "Tell me! What's the matter? Do you want to withdraw money?"
"No! No!" Wang Xiuren waved his hands quickly, "My wife wants to sell popsicles in bulk, and I don't know if this is a good idea, so I want to ask Brother Man for advice."
"I thought it was something else!" Yang Guiman was relieved. He was uneasy because the boy had been staring at him. "Didn't your wife work in the garment factory? Why is she selling popsicles again?"
"It's the off-season now. There's not much work to do in the garment factory. She wants to find a way to earn some living expenses."
"Your wife is good, she's a hard-working person!" Yang Guiman nodded and praised. After thinking for a while, he said, "Ask your wife to go to the old popsicle factory in Xixiang tomorrow to find Director Chen. He's in charge of wholesale popsicles. I'll call him later."
"Thank you, Brother Man! Thank you, Brother Man!" Wang Xiuren was extremely grateful, "I'm sorry to have caused trouble for you again, Brother Man!"
"It's a small matter. Don't take it to heart!" Yang Guiman felt that this was not a big deal. It was just a matter of pulling a string. The popsicle factory had to wholesale the popsicles anyway, so it didn't matter who they sold them to. It doesn't take away his money.
"By the way, do you have a bicycle?" Yang Guiman asked Wang Xiuren, who was smiling foolishly.
Wang Xiuren was a little confused, "No. What's the matter?"
"You silly boy! Do you want your wife to carry boxes and go out to sell popsicles?" Yang Mangui gave Wang Xiuren a slap on the face, "You silly boy who doesn't know how to love his wife!"
"I have an old bicycle. It's a bit broken, but it's still usable. You can push it back after get off work today and return it to me when you don't want to use it anymore!" Yang Guiman was determined to help him to the end.
"Brother Man..." Wang Xiuren looked at Yang Guiman with emotion, his eyes red.
"Don't look at me with such disgusting eyes! You are such a sissy!" Yang Guiman was very disgusted. "Thank me, just help me do my job well and supervise me more strictly!"
Wang Xiuren patted his chest and assured, "I would do the same thing even if you didn't tell me, Brother Man!"
"Okay, go do something!"
The reason why Yang Guiman helped was, on the one hand, because of their fellow countrymen and Zhao Dalong's face, but more importantly, he admired hardworking people. Although he didn't have much education, he believed in this saying: God rewards hard work. Wang Xiuren comes to the construction site every day as long as there is work to do. In his eyes, he is a hard-working man. Although he has never met Wang Xiuren's wife, he has heard that she earns a high salary in the garment factory, so she must be not bad. He wanted to see how far this couple could go through hard work.
A diligent family will prosper; a diligent person will accomplish his tasks.
Life will never treat unfairly any diligent and positive person. The strong ones in life will always be those who work hard. When you are diligent enough and work hard enough, luck will naturally knock on your door.
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