Chapter 359 Chen Yu Proposes Marriage
1,800 yuan is not a small amount, but as long as you can make 300 pairs of qualified shoes every month, you can earn 150 yuan.
When Yang Xiue returned home and told Feng Gang the number, Feng Gang looked incredulous.
He really underestimated the shoemaking team. A wool textile factory's annual output value is only tens of thousands of yuan, but this small shoemaking team, which hasn't even reached a certain scale, can generate 1,800 yuan in revenue for the group!
Feng Gang said earnestly, "Then you really have to work hard in the future. If you do well, you can make a great contribution to the troupe, and it's not impossible for you to be awarded the March 8th Red Banner Pacesetter title."
Yang Xiu'e sighed and said, "I definitely want to do a good job, but I feel like I don't know anything. Right now, all I've learned is accounting and how to check if shoes are up to standard, thanks to Zhao Hongying. Back when we went to the countryside to organize manpower, Wei Zhao and Zhao Hongying were the ones leading the charge. Today, when we went to negotiate prices, I didn't even show up. It was Song Lubai who negotiated the price down from seven mao to one yuan. Old Feng, find me a place where I can learn. If I continue like this, I'll be ashamed of myself..."
Yang Xiu'e wasn't someone who just wanted glory without putting in any effort. Over time, she realized she couldn't win people's respect, and she felt ashamed if she didn't learn something.
Yang Xiue recounted her experience of selling cloth shoes that day. After listening, Feng Gang said, "What else do you want to learn? What you can do now is enough to support your shoe-making class. Song Lubai has already negotiated the price for you. Just keep it that way from now on. Anyway, she wants to set up a food workshop. Her help to you now is also to prepare for the food workshop."
From initially rejecting the idea of setting up a food workshop to now being indifferent, Feng Gang's change of heart is precisely because he saw the potential of the shoemaking class.
If the shoemaking class can really earn 1,800 a year, he will benefit from it in the future.
Yang Xiu'e didn't like hearing this. She said angrily, "Do you expect me to have Song Lubai come with me next time I go to the neighboring county to negotiate prices? How can we rely on others every day?"
Feng Gang said, "Then why don't you go and learn from her?"
Yang Xiu'e was extremely frustrated. "What's wrong with wanting to learn something? Why don't you want me to learn?"
Feng Gang just didn't want a woman to be better than him: "I didn't stop you from learning. You've been doing it for two months now, haven't you already learned it? Otherwise, how did you manage to send this batch of shoes out successfully? From now on, it'll be the same as before, there won't be any problems. Don't worry, if anything happens, just come to me."
Yang Xiue nodded and said, "Okay, I'll ask you. Go and tell the regiment to bring back more cloth for making shoes. Song Lubai said that there's no guarantee that other regiments won't follow our example. Not only will we not be able to buy cloth, but our regiment's market will also be taken over by other regiments. We still need to go to local county towns to promote cloth shoes, so we need more cloth to support us."
Fabric is a precious commodity, and the last batch we obtained was already quite difficult. If we need more in the future, we will have to seek support from the division headquarters.
Since it was a serious matter, Feng Gang didn't refuse and decided to discuss it with Wei Yang.
Song Lubai started cooking as soon as she got home. Wei Yang had gone to the Fifth Company in the morning to check on the construction progress of the canal sluice gate. He didn't know if he would come back today, since the Fifth Company was more than ten miles away from the regimental headquarters, and it would take more than forty minutes to get there by tractor.
Song Lubai steamed the cornbread, then put the wild vegetables that Chen Shaohua and the others had picked up by the roadside, along with the remaining pickled cabbage, into boiling water and cooked them together. After rinsing them in cold water, she added some salt, vinegar, and soy sauce, and that was how she made do with a meal.
While she was cooking, Chen Shaohua squatted on the ground and chopped the wild vegetables for feeding the chickens. He chopped the vegetables into small pieces on a rotten wooden board, then put them into a broken wooden basin and mixed them with the wheat bran for feeding the pigs and water.
There are four chicks, about a month old, in the coop. Wei Yang bought them from the chicken farm in the regiment a while ago.
A family can raise two chickens. Song Lubai and Wei Yang can be considered a family, Wei Zhao, Chen Yu and their three children can be considered a family, and four chickens are just right.
Two hens are raised until they lay eggs, and two roosters are raised to adulthood and kept for food. After that, two more roosters can be raised, and the next batch can be kept for the New Year.
Chen Yu returned just as the meal was finished.
Chen Yu brought back two steamed buns from the cafeteria.
While the group was eating in the courtyard, Wei Zhao, who was parched, entered the courtyard and drank a whole teacup of well water.
"I received a letter for you at noon today. I put it under my pillow in my room. I'll go get it for you in a bit. How was today? Looks like you've already sent the shoes out."
Song Lubai recounted the day's events, and Wei Zhao nodded, saying, "Not bad, that's a good start. However, we need to keep up with the fabric supply. Fabric is hard to buy, so we need to plan ahead..."
After finishing talking about the shoe-making class, Wei Zhao said, "Miao Feng was supposed to get married, but Tang Xuewen attacked someone yesterday and ended up getting beaten up himself. The two of them ended up at the police station."
As soon as she finished speaking, Song Lubai and Chen Yu both looked over, and stopped chewing.
No woman dislikes excitement, including Chen Yu, who usually appears quiet and doesn't like to join in the fun.
Wei Zhao took another sip of water and continued, "The man Miao Feng found was a first-time bride. He was a technician from the landscaping company. Apart from being seven or eight years older than Miao Feng, there was nothing else wrong with him."
Song Lubai asked curiously, "What did the police station say?"
Wei Zhao: "Tang Xuewen started it, and he got a really bad beating. The police at the local station gave them a verbal warning and let them go. Tang Xuewen kept harassing Miao Feng, and Miao Feng had no choice but to go to the Women's Federation. This guy saw that Miao Feng was getting married again, so he just went all out. I need to think of a way to teach him a lesson so that he will never dare to harass Miao Feng again."
Song Lubai said, "Go find his boss and tell him to discipline him properly."
Wei Zhao said with a headache, "He keeps saying that I got rid of his wife, and if I don't find him another one, he will keep bothering Miao Feng in the future."
Chen Yu curled her lip and said, "He's dreaming. If he keeps making a scene, he'll never find a wife. Who would be blind to marry him?"
It was rare for Song Lubai to see such a vivid expression on Chen Yu's face; she could only say that people like Tang Xuewen were indeed quite hateful.
"Oh, I just remembered someone."
Chen Yu excitedly slammed her chopsticks down on the table with a crisp sound.
Everyone at the table turned to look at her.
Whom did you think of?
Chen Yu's eyes gleamed, and she whispered, "There's a woman in our cafeteria named Pang. She's incredibly strong and capable; she's as good as two men. Tell her to Tang Xuewen."
Song Lubai disagreed, saying, "Giving such a capable person to Tang Xuewen is too good for him! Tang Xuewen doesn't deserve it!"
Wei Zhao nodded in agreement.
Chen Yu: "You haven't heard me finish yet. She can lift a huge pot by herself. Even Chef Zhai isn't as strong as her. She has a really loud voice, the loudest in our cafeteria!"
Chen Yu gave a thumbs up.
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