In the end, Mai Laosan recruited ten people in the village.

Just like Mai Xiangnan, it’s one dollar a day.

You will be paid according to the number of days you work.

Settlement is made on the last day of each month.

If you don't do your job well, you will be deducted money. If you deduct too much, you don't need to come next month.

As for what is considered "poor performance", the factory has special documents that clearly state it in black and white.

After all, when it comes to money, we cannot make empty statements or allow subjective and arbitrary judgments, otherwise it is likely to cause dissatisfaction among the workers.

If you put it out in advance and say the ugly things up front, it will be much easier for everyone to accept it.

Moreover, this can prevent people from slacking off and wasting time, thus improving production efficiency.

Because of the fear of being fired, naturally I dare not be lazy.

This idea was proposed by Song Hewei, otherwise Mai Lao San would not have thought of it.

It seems that living a second life is still useful.

After this incident, Mai Laosan began to use Song Hewei, thinking that people from big cities have different ideas in their minds.

Song Hewei naturally felt the change in Mai Laosan's attitude, so she performed even harder.

Suddenly one day, Song Hewei received a letter from her hometown.

To be precise, it was a telegram sent by Liu Chunmei.

Liu Chunmei is Song Hewei's stepmother.

Didn’t Yan Feng sell the Lotus brand sewing machine to Beijing?

However, it is sold through black market channels.

At the beginning, the black market price in Beijing was 98 yuan per unit, but now due to the tight supply, it has been driven up to 118 yuan per unit!

That's it, and there's still no demand for it!

Liu Chunmei's younger brother Liu Tianqi was involved in the black market, but he was just doing small business, selling zippers, hair ties and the like.

It’s not that we don’t want to sell other things, but we don’t have the supply.

Liu Tianqi naturally knew that Lotus brand sewing machines were so popular.

Moreover, he happened to know Zhao Xudong, who sold sewing machines.

Seeing that the other party’s shipments were always sold out, Liu Tianqi was really envious!

Think about how he sells hairbands and zippers, each time he sells them for a few cents or a dime, but the other party would pay a huge three-digit sum of money at a time. Just thinking about it makes me itchy!

So, Liu Tianqi spent a huge sum of five dollars to treat Zhao Xudong to a restaurant, in order to find out the supply of Lotus brand sewing machines.

Zhao Xudong is not a fool. How could he tell others about such a hot commodity? It’s not like he can’t sell it himself!

Not to mention three or five units, he can sell even thirty or fifty units!

Therefore, Zhao Xudong continued to eat and drink, but he refused to tell Liu Tianqi about the source of the goods.

Liu Tianqi originally thought that this matter was hopeless.

But suddenly one day, Zhao Xudong took the initiative to find him and talked about the Lotus brand sewing machine.

The reason was that Li Quan, the supply middleman of Zhao Xudong, suddenly said that he had something to do at home and didn't want to do the job anymore, but he could tell him the real source information of the sewing machine.

Of course, it's not free.

Zhao Xudong had tasted the sweetness before, so naturally he was unwilling to give up.

So he spent a lot of money to buy this news.

Thus I learned about Lotus Village and Lotus Factory.

Seeing that Zhao Xudong acted decisively, Li Quan kindly reminded him not to go forward rashly.

Because it is 1977 now. Even though the government has basically turned a blind eye to the black market, it cannot bring it to the table.

If Zhao Xudong suddenly went to Lianhua Village to pick up the goods, no one would pay attention to him.

Mai Laosan is not a fool, of course he would not openly deal with the black market. If his factory is closed down because of this, where would he go to cry?

So, there is no need to think about it. If Zhao Xudong dares to go, he will definitely be beaten up and then kicked out!

The goods that Li Quan had obtained before were not directly from Lianhua Village.

As for where he got it, Li Quan would naturally not tell Zhao Xudong easily.

Because that is another price.

Zhao Xudong already knew the news about the source factory, so of course he didn't want to waste money to buy information from any middleman.

So I decided to find another way myself.

If it really doesn't work, he will come to Li Quan then.

Hard work pays off. After making inquiries from many sources, Zhao Xudong learned that Liu Tianqi had a niece who was working in Lianhua Village.

You say, isn’t this a coincidence?

Liu Tianqi invited him to dinner a few days ago and wanted to join him!

With the help of Liu Tianqi's niece, there was a 50% chance of success.

Liu Tianqi was ecstatic when he heard the news!

But he doesn't have much capital, so he still needs Zhao Xudong.

Otherwise he could just ditch the other party and go it alone.

Zhao Xudong naturally understood that Liu Tianqi was not a good person, but it didn’t matter, because he didn’t want to be tied to Liu Tianqi for a long time.

By the time he got in touch with Lianhua Village, it was probably not Liu Tianqi who dumped him, but he who dumped Liu Tianqi first.

In this way, Liu Tianqi immediately found his sister Liu Chunmei and asked about Song Hewei's situation in Lianhua Village.

Liu Chunmei has never cared much about her stepdaughter, so how would she know?

Last year during the Chinese New Year, she didn't let Song Hewei come back!

But after hearing her brother say that she could make a lot of money, Liu Chunmei immediately spent a huge amount of money to send a telegram to Song Hewei, asking her to call the factory office at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, as she had something to say.

Liu Chunmei's home didn't have a telephone, so whenever she needed to make an urgent call, she would run to the factory office.

Many people in the machinery factory’s family compound do this.

Of course, the factory office charges money for making and receiving calls.

Otherwise, with tens of thousands of employees in the factory making phone calls for no reason, the monthly phone bill would be enormous!

Song Hewei originally didn't want to bother with Liu Chunmei, but a few days later, Liu Chunmei sent her another telegram asking her to call back.

Song Hewei thought about it and finally decided to call back.

Maybe her father was sick and hospitalized, so Liu Chunmei was looking for her so anxiously.

Although Song Weizi favors boys over girls and is extremely henpecked, she has suffered a lot of unfair treatment since childhood.

But he is still her biological father after all. If he is about to die, she, as a child, still has to go and see him off.

There was a telephone installed at the Lotus Factory, right in the factory director Mai Laosan’s office.

Originally, Mai Laosan didn't want to install it because installing a telephone these days is very expensive, and answering the phone also costs money.

But since Mai Sui had made the final decision, Mai Lao San dared not disobey.

Song Hewei has been doing a good job recently and has gained popularity in front of Mai Lao San, so it's okay for her to borrow her phone to make a call.

Otherwise, you can only go to the commune to fight, which takes at least an hour to go there and back.

When the call was connected, the person speaking on the other end was not Liu Chunmei, but Liu Tianqi.

The other party was not polite at all and did not even pretend to ask Song Hewei how she was doing in the countryside. He went straight to the point and asked about the sewing machine.

Of course Song Hewei knew that their factory had cooperation with the black market. Back then, when Mai Lao San didn't dare to do it, she even instigated him.

However, she didn't expect that Yan Feng was so capable that he even sold sewing machines to the capital.