Li Yuanqing glared angrily: "Li Laosan, you've gone too far! How dare you speak like that? This is Advisor Yu from the military compound, who came to collect our mangoes. He's our brigade's benefactor. If you harm a single hair on our benefactor's head, I'll skin you alive!"
Upon hearing that they had come to collect mangoes, Li Laosan immediately changed his tune, "So you've come to collect mangoes. Comrade Yu, I was wrong, I'll put the stick down right now."
Seeing that he put down the stick, Yu Yao didn't say anything, but her gaze remained wary.
Old Li's eyes darted around. "Comrade Yu, you've received the mangoes today, shouldn't you settle the bill?"
With the money, he can gamble a couple more times, and he's sure to win this time.
Upon hearing this, Li Yuanqing kicked him in the butt, "I know what kind of shit you're going to take the moment you stick your butt out. Don't even think about getting this money. Even if we're settling the bill, we'll pay off the debt first, and then divide it up by the headcount."
Upon hearing that he would get a share of the money, Li Laosan looked at Yu Yao as if she were a god of wealth, covering his backside and smiling ingratiatingly, "It's good that there's money to share."
Yu Yao clearly saw the change in Li Laosan's attitude.
She suddenly realized that conventional methods couldn't be used to deal with this kind of person.
Today, Li Laosan was willing to stop abusing Li Xiaohong and her mother because of money, and also because of money. Perhaps money is the best way to deter these people than the deterrent effect of the law.
She can stop people like Li Laosan for a while, but not forever.
The root cause is that women's status is too low, and this low status cannot be improved by slogans alone; the economic base determines the superstructure.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
With this in mind, Yu Yao made a decision.
However, the most important thing right now is to take Li Xiaohong and her daughter to the barefoot doctor for a check-up.
Li Yuanqing led the way, while Yu Yao and Li Xiaohong supported Li Xiaohong's mother behind them.
When they arrived at the barefoot doctor's house, the doctor examined her and said there was nothing seriously wrong. He gave her some medicinal wine for sprains and bruises and told her and her mother to apply it to the wounds.
As for Li Laosan, who beat people, he took the money from the house and disappeared without a trace.
Li Yuanqing was worried that this incident would affect Yu Yao's impression of their brigade, so he came to Yu Yao to explain.
"It was indeed our fault for not doing our job properly this time, and you had to see us make a fool of ourselves. Don't worry, we'll be more careful in the future. You know, Li Laosan is Li Laosan, but the rest of us in the brigade are really nice. You definitely won't regret buying our mangoes..."
Li Yuanqing's words only expressed his concerns about the future cooperation, without a trace of sympathy for the plight of Li Xiaohong and her daughter. Perhaps in his heart, he also believed that it was only natural for a man to beat his wife, and that there was nothing wrong with it.
They might also think she's making a mountain out of a molehill.
Yu Yao also knew that due to the limitations of the times, it was not uncommon for men to beat their wives and for parents to exploit their daughters. It was impossible for her to solve the problem on her own.
There are definitely more than one man like Li Laosan in the brigade. This is true not only in Qingshuiwan, but also in other production teams and even in the military family compound.
However, Yu Yao could not stand idly by, nor could she simply let it go.
Since she had encountered this situation today, she wanted to do something within her power for the women in the brigade who had suffered the same fate as Li Xiaohong and her daughter.
So she listened patiently to what Li Yuanqing had to say and told him that she would not be prejudiced against the Qingshuiwan Brigade because of this.
"Captain Li, we previously promised to outsource the preliminary preparations for the dried mangoes to your team. That promise still stands. However, I have one request."
Li Yuanqing paused for a moment, then asked, "What are your requirements?"
"Food processing involves complicated and meticulous steps, and we need people with patience and attention to detail to do it. I hope you can give priority to assigning this work to female comrades in your brigade or comrades with some manual skills but physical disabilities."
Yu Yao's meaning was very clear: these tasks should only be done by the women and vulnerable groups in their brigade, and the tall, strong, and capable men should not try to take the work points.
After thinking about it, Li Yuanqing agreed.
After all, he still hopes to have a long-term partnership with the side business group.
Moreover, Yu Yao is right; women do have an advantage over men in doing these things.
Seeing that he agreed, Yu Yao continued, "After all, we are in the food processing business, and dried mangoes are meant to be eaten. If the people who come to make them have any bruises or wounds, they may carry bacteria, which could cause problems with the dried mangoes. So please make sure that the captain pays attention and ensures that the people who come to make dried mangoes do not have any wounds or bruises."
Since Li Yuanqing had already agreed, he naturally wouldn't let things fall apart in these areas. He immediately said, "Comrade Yu, don't worry, I'll immediately notify the members of the brigade to come to the brigade office for a meeting to clarify this matter."
"Then I'll have to trouble you, Captain. We can start teaching everyone this afternoon."
Since we've just started working together, both parties need to build trust, so the purchase of mangoes and the outsourcing of production are settled on the same day.
These women were paid by weight for cleaning, peeling, slicing, and other tasks. In the evening, Yu Yao would settle the payment with the brigade, and the brigade leader would keep a portion of it as a reserve fund and distribute the rest to the women according to their work points.
Hopefully, the families of these women will treat them better, for the sake of money.
Although this method only addresses the symptoms and not the root cause, it can still allow these women who are abused by their husbands or oppressed by their parents to earn some real money.
Money gives people courage. A woman's greatest confidence comes from earning money with her own hands.
With confidence comes hope and the weapons to protect oneself.
On the first day, Yu Yao only asked the Qingshuiwan Brigade to pick 10,000 catties of mangoes. People from the sideline group followed along, and they picked out the biggest and sweetest mangoes.
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