Since the foundation of the construction site was laid, a considerable number of villagers have come here every day after dinner to check on the progress.
As the factory began to take shape, villagers came to check on it more and more frequently. At first, they would come once or twice a day, but now they would come to take a look whenever they had a spare moment.
In the words of the construction workers, this project was done as if there were hundreds of supervisors watching over it from morning till night, leaving no room for sloppy work.
More than when the factory will be completed and open for business, the surrounding villagers are concerned about when the factory's recruitment assessment will begin.
In order to pass the recruitment assessment, everyone did their best.
Some people attend literacy classes every single day without fail; some seek tutoring from their children who are in elementary school; and some even set their sights on their children who are working far away from home.
"Oh, Third Aunt, your Tiger's back."
"Yes, the factory is almost finished, so I'm having my son Tiger come back and give it a try. If he succeeds, then we won't have to go a year or two without seeing him."
"That's such a pity! Tiger's job outside pays over two thousand a month! Our factory here only pays a thousand, what a difference!"
Tiger's mother sighed upon hearing this, saying helplessly, "What can we do? Those characters look like gibberish; I can't understand a single one of them. I just can't learn them."
As she spoke, Tiger's mother changed the subject, her expression becoming smug, and she laughed, "My Tiger is different. He went all the way to sixth grade! He can write and draw, so there's definitely no problem with that!"
"Besides, it sounds like earning two thousand yuan a month in the city is a lot, but you have to spend money on food, housing, and everything else. You can't save any money at all. Look at my roof, it's been leaking for years. If I really made money, wouldn't I have built a new one long ago?"
"And another thing, I wouldn't have told you all this if we weren't so close," Tiger's mother whispered mysteriously in the man's ear.
"Didn't Secretary Li say a few days ago that Boss Xu got money from the officials and is going to build more than a thousand greenhouses here next spring? He'll rent them all out to us to grow crops, and Boss Xu will even buy them all. We won't have to worry about selling them!"
After Tiger comes back, I'll let him work in the factory. He'll eat at the factory and live at home; he should be able to save up a few thousand yuan. Then, I'll use that money to rent a greenhouse from Boss Xu and grow crops. You know, I may not be able to learn to read, but I'm a pro at farming, aren't I?"
The man initially thought it was a bit strange that Tiger's mother had called Tiger back, but as he listened, he suddenly realized that what Tiger's mother said made a lot of sense!
Reading and writing are not our strong suits, but farming is!
After figuring out the reason, the man found a clumsy excuse to end the conversation, hurriedly returned home, and picked up the phone before he could even catch his breath.
"Hey, Stone, come back right now. What's wrong? The village factory is hiring, didn't you know?"
One tells ten, ten tell a hundred.
After that day, several young faces, usually only seen during the Lunar New Year, appeared in the surrounding villages every day. With the return of these young people, the villages were like old trees sprouting new buds, radiating new vitality.
Li Sixin was well aware of the purpose of these young people's return, but he had no objection to it and even welcomed it quite a bit.
It's important to understand that the decline of a region usually begins with population loss.
Take Hezibao for example. It has more than 300 households and a permanent population of 2,700 and 32 people. Just looking at the numbers, it seems pretty good, right?
However, the actual registered population of Hezibao is 4,367! The difference is entirely comprised of young and middle-aged laborers aged 14 to 60!
To develop, we need a sufficient labor force; to have a sufficient labor force, we need enough jobs; to have enough jobs, we need to develop; however, the village's permanent residents are mostly elderly, weak, sick, or disabled, with very few capable of providing the main labor force.
Each link is interconnected, and without external influences, this becomes a vicious cycle.
Fortunately, Mr. Xu arrived. He brought money, sales channels, and people, and within three months, he broke this troublesome vicious cycle, and young people who had gone out to work began to return!
Although there aren't many young people returning yet, everything is difficult at the beginning. Once the first batch of returning young people have made money, many more will come back.
After all, if it weren't for the pressures of life, who wouldn't want to live a harmonious and happy life with their family, and who would want to leave their hometown?
Amidst the villagers' eager anticipation, the opening ceremony of Xu's Food Processing Factory finally began!
The ceremony was not as grand as the groundbreaking ceremony, nor did it involve as many leaders, but it was even more enthusiastic than the original groundbreaking ceremony. Not only did all the villagers from the seven villages in Hezibao participate, but many people from villages within a five-kilometer radius of Hezibao also came to join in the fun.
Amidst thunderous applause, Xu An went on stage, took the microphone handed to him by the host, tapped it lightly to produce two muffled 'thump-thump' sounds, and then brought the microphone to his lips, smiling as he asked, "Aren't you all looking forward to the upcoming recruitment assessment?"
This question brought the atmosphere to its peak, with all sorts of answers emerging.
Yes, that's right!
"When will it start?"
"How can we possibly pass the exam with so many people?"
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