Cheng Maixiang had a good idea. The news about the Shuangshui Village Garment Factory spread throughout Linwen High School like wildfire in just one day.
No matter what era it is, it is natural for girls to love beauty. Even if the social constraints are strict, there will always be people who do some borderline things in private.
In addition, after the most stringent decade, social atmosphere has become significantly more open-minded, allowing many women who love beauty and have enough money to boldly pursue fashion.
This is also thanks to Feng Yan's big mouth, who did a lot of publicity for Cheng Maixiang. By the weekend, Cheng Maixiang had received orders for fifteen sets of clothes and nearly thirty handkerchiefs, most of which were from students, and even from two young female teachers who taught music and art.
Cheng Maixiang went back home on the weekend and carefully picked out fifteen sets of freshly made clothes from the garment warehouse, and also selected thirty handkerchiefs of various patterns and colors and packed them up.
"Wow, our Maizi is really capable. It's only been a week since school started, and he's already got so many orders. If this continues, the garment factory will definitely be prosperous."
Aunt Liu looked at Cheng Maixiang's bulging backpack, and her wrinkled face smiled like a flower.
The rest of the aunts and sisters-in-law all echoed her words, and Cheng's mother was also very happy. Now the county supply and marketing cooperative was very satisfied with the clothes made by the garment workshop. The last time she went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy fabric, she happened to run into Manager Wu. Manager Wu praised the garment workshop highly and urged it to quickly put the finished clothes on the shelves.
Because the garment workshop was doing a booming business, there was originally one day off every week. However, these aunts and sisters who were used to working hard all automatically canceled their vacations and continued to work in the garment workshop on weekends.
Everyone had the same idea. After all, they got a commission for every piece of clothing they made, and no one paid them for resting. It was the farmers' duty to work every day, so why should they imitate those city workers?
Cheng Maixiang had no choice but to revise the system.
The one-day-off-per-week system remains unchanged. If a person misses a day off during the week for some reason, the leave can be accumulated and taken as an extra day at one time. If there is any leave left at the end of the year, a certain bonus will be given according to the garment factory's profit for that year.
As soon as this system was introduced, the garment factory became bustling again, and people were even more reluctant to take a vacation. After all, there would be rewards for not taking a break, which had never happened in the countryside in all these years.
Today's garment factory has become a hot commodity in the eyes of villagers, and many people are trying their best to get a job there. Cheng Maiqing was so desperate that he had to refuse, saying that the brigade would not be in charge of the garment factory, and just took the year-end bonus and handed the job over to Cheng's mother.
Fortunately, Cheng's mother was tough and refused the man.
Seeing everyone's enthusiasm for production, Cheng Maixiang wanted to add fuel to the fire and said with a smile, "Aunties, there is another good news. The garment factory is paying wages today, and you can collect last month's wages."
As expected, everyone cheered. Shen Qingyun's wife smiled and asked, "Maizi, it's not even a month yet, why are you paying us so soon?"
Cheng Maixiang asked her mother to get the account book, while taking out the payroll book she had made, "Well, didn't the contract we signed stipulate that wages are paid on the 10th of each month? Today is the 8th, and if we don't pay it now, the date will be delayed."
Although everyone signed the contract, they were all concerned about receiving their monthly salary and receiving compensation if they were laid off. No one really paid attention to the salary payment date. Now that they saw that Cheng Maixiang took the contract so seriously and even strictly followed the salary payment date, they felt that following her was absolutely the right choice.
Cheng's mother brought the account book, and Cheng Maixiang took the attendance list and checked the information with the payroll. After the verification was correct, the people who received the salary signed and fingerprinted the form and took away their money.
The accounts made by Cheng's mother were clear and easy to understand, and Cheng Maixiang's payroll was also very detailed and careful. There was no mistake in the money of the thirteen workers, and everyone was convinced.
Although the garment workshop was only opened in late August and only half a month has passed, everyone has made a lot of clothes and embroidery, and naturally they have also received a lot of money. The most was earned by Shen Qingyun's wife, nine yuan, and the least was earned by four or five yuan.
Everyone was in high spirits and planned to go home and show off. It was lunchtime, so everyone went home to eat. Cheng's mother and Cheng Maixiang locked the door and prepared to go home as well.
Today, Lin Jiayu naturally followed Cheng Maixiang back to Shuangshui Village. Cheng's mother was busy with the garment workshop, so Cheng's eldest sister-in-law chose this day to rest and entertain him at home. However, Cheng's second sister-in-law was not at home either, and Cheng Maixiang couldn't help but ask her.
It would have been fine if she hadn't been asked, but as soon as she was asked, Cheng's mother's face darkened.
"For the first two days, I could still come to the workshop every day. Although I was doing just enough work, it was manageable. After a week, I disappeared. Every day, either I did the work or Qiaomai came to help. My aunt and sister would also help me when they saw that I was too busy."
It turned out that she had guessed it! Her second sister-in-law had always been dreaming of getting something for nothing. She was lucky to marry into a family with a solid foundation like the Cheng family. Otherwise, if she was so lazy, she would have been starving if she had married into an ordinary family!
Cheng Maiqing's house is to the south of Cheng's mother's, only three or four hundred meters away. The three tiled houses face north and south, and the small yard is usually full of vegetables and fruits.
As soon as Cheng Maixiang and her mother stepped into the yard, they saw Qiaomai chasing Lin Jiayu around the yard. Aiguo was helping Cheng's wife light the fire and cook under the stove by the south wall. He turned his head from time to time to glance at his giggling sister and rolled his eyes in disgust.
Silly roe deer, it’s just a childish game of eagle catching chickens, but you’re having so much fun playing it!
Seeing the two people coming in, Lin Jiayu hurriedly stopped and was hugged tightly by Qiaomai who came after him. Qiaomai jumped three feet high with joy, "Haha, Uncle Lin, I won, you have to give me those three White Rabbit candies."
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