A few days after returning from the provincial capital, it was the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, which was the Lunar New Year's Eve. Although the female workers in the garment workshop wanted to work a few more days, Cheng Maixiang thought that every family had to clean and prepare New Year's goods, and the female workers were the main force in doing these things, so she decided to give the garment workshop a holiday.
As for the wages and bonuses that everyone is most concerned about, Cheng Maixiang has been preparing for them and has been busy with accounting these days, striving to distribute the money to each female worker as soon as possible.
It has been five months since the garment factory opened, but the profits have far exceeded Cheng Maixiang's original imagination. Both the county supply and marketing cooperative and the city have made quite good profits. Of course, the number of orders that Cheng Maixiang has received privately from the school is also considerable, and the Ruan Peiling sisters have also introduced many customers.
After these five months, after deducting costs, the garment factory's net profit exceeded 7,000 yuan. After deducting the more than 1,000 yuan in wages paid to workers, there was still a profit of 6,000 yuan.
According to the original contract, Cheng Maixiang was to receive 2,000 yuan, and the remaining 4,000 yuan would belong to the Shuangshui Village Brigade.
Cheng Maiqing did not break his promise. Shuangshui Village had about a hundred households and about a thousand people. Cheng Maiqing distributed the money equally to everyone at four yuan per person.
As for the two thousand yuan from Cheng Maixiang, she also planned to give it all to her sister, but Cheng Maixiang refused. She had already made up her mind that she would only take 20% of the money, and use the remaining 80% to expand the production scale, buy sewing machines and fabrics, and hire more people to work in the garment workshop.
After the distribution of income was determined, the Shuangshui Village Brigade quickly posted a notice on red paper, notifying the villagers to come to the brigade office on the day of the Little New Year to collect their money.
Shuangshui Village suddenly became boiling!
According to this standard, even a newborn baby in the village can receive four yuan, and each family in the village has at least four people, so they can receive sixteen yuan. Some families with more than ten people can receive forty yuan.
Forty yuan is more than a worker’s monthly salary, enough to have a prosperous New Year!
As soon as the notice was posted, the Shuangshui Village Brigade Office was surrounded by a crowd of people. Villagers lined up outside the brigade office to collect their family money. Everyone had a smile on their face and was laughing and talking happily.
Even the elders who used to put on airs when meeting Cheng Maiqing were now politely calling him Captain Cheng. Cheng Maiqing was so shocked that he kept declining. Later, he could not stand the enthusiasm of the villagers any more, so he entrusted the matter of distributing the money to other brigade cadres and accountants in the village, and went to find a quiet place to hide.
The garment workshop was also filled with joy. All the female workers came to Cheng's mother to collect their wages and bonuses. Cheng Maixiang kept her word and converted all the unused leave into bonuses and distributed them to them.
Compared with the villagers, these female workers were even more excited because they were also villagers. Now they received their wages at the garment workshop, while the men in their families received their wages at the brigade headquarters. Those who received the most received almost two hundred yuan, which was something they could not earn in the past few years. They did not expect to receive so much money in just five months at the garment workshop. This further strengthened everyone's belief in working hard in the garment workshop.
"Maizi, I heard from Aunt Cheng that you only took 400 yuan this time, and you invested the rest of the money in our garment factory, right?" Shen Qingyun's wife asked curiously while helping Cheng's mother distribute the money.
Cheng Maixiang was sitting aside chatting with Lin Qingwan. When she heard her ask this, she smiled and said, "Yes, Sister Shen, you can see that our clothing factory is too small. Once we encounter a large order, we can't deliver on time. We have to transfer clothes from Guangzhou to support it.
Manager Wu also discussed this with me a few days ago. I thought the money we were going to share wouldn't be of much use for the time being, so after discussing it with my mother, we decided to do it this way."
"Maizi, you're too stupid. That's what the contract stipulated. You should have gotten that much. If we really wanted to buy sewing machines to expand production, you and the team would have had to contribute according to the agreed-upon split. You were so generous and paid everything, and the team got it all without missing a cent. You're really at a loss!"
Aunt Liu has always been on good terms with Cheng's mother. Ever since she learned about this, she has been standing up for Cheng Maixiang. Compared to some people in the village who received the money but secretly complained that the Cheng family got a larger share, she is considered to be really sensible.
Cheng Maixiang smiled but said nothing, but she was very pleased. In the past few months, she often mentioned the contract in front of these aunts and sisters, and successfully gave them a solid understanding of the spirit of contract. That is, if you sign a contract, you should either not sign it or abide by it if you have signed it. Otherwise, it is a breach of contract and you must be responsible.
When Aunt Liu started talking, all the female workers in the workshop echoed her. One of them said, "I was just on my way to the garment workshop when I heard someone say that Maizi was paid too much. I couldn't help but scold him.
Without wheat, I have this clothing shop, and I can let you spend the New Year's holiday and get paid for nothing. This is simply pie in the sky, and you are taking advantage of it. He listened to my reasonable words and didn't dare to retort, so he left in disgrace.
"That's right. For the past five months, Maizi has been negotiating with Manager Wu of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative for the garment factory. A young girl has been running around to Guangzhou to sign contracts with large garment factories, and she's also been getting orders everywhere. How much has she put in? Others haven't seen it. Are the people at our garment factory blind? And she even dares to criticize her in front of us? People like her shouldn't be given any money."
"Also, my neighbor deliberately made sarcastic remarks in front of me, congratulating us on getting over a hundred dollars, and hoping to find a good wife for his son.
Humph, isn't it because she only took 20 yuan because her family is small that she feels angry? When we were working hard in the garment factory, she was still sleeping at home. She only sees others getting rich but doesn't see them suffering. People like this are hateful!
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