Chapter 113: The Reform of Shanghuai Village [Fourth update, please follow]

One set of procedures is completed.

When he came out, Lu Yang had upgraded his car to the most fashionable Santana sedan driven by the bosses of that era.

Middle-aged Mr. Lu drove Lu Yang's truck. Apart from the windows on both sides leaking air, a big hole was smashed on the front hood, and paint peeling in many places, there were no major problems with it.

Student Lu Ming, with a bruised face and nose, dragged his suitcase, and walked into the waiting room of the train station with tears and snot on his face.

God is my witness.

This was definitely not done by Lu Yang or the public security comrades.

It was his father who beat Lao Lu.

When the father saw that his son was still alive, he took out the Seven Wolves. Old Lu is keeping up with the times and no longer spoiling his son. This is a good thing.

With the pleasure of helping others, Lu Yang inserted the key, turned the key, and started the engine of the Santana sedan. With the sound that was pleasant to the man's ears, he stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, feeling extremely refreshed.

Return to Shanghuai Village.

This is another incident that caused a sensation.

"That kid from the Lu family has made it big again!"

"Yes, I'm driving a car now."

"Oh, I regret it so much. Why didn't I like him at the beginning? The fourth son of Yin has a daughter, and I have a daughter too. Look at his daughter, she is skinny and doesn't look like she can give birth to a son. How can she be better than my daughter? My daughter has big arms, a thick waist, and a round butt. The key is that she has plenty of milk. She will definitely give birth to a big fat boy in the future. Whoever marries my daughter will be truly blessed."

"Come on, Yin Shisan, your daughter is a tank, not everyone can control her, and Yang Ge'er may not be interested in her."

"Whose daughter is this, you say? Are you looking for a beating?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

The idle men in the village burst into laughter at once.

However, I really envy Lu Yang.

But there was no point in being envious. The only thing they could be thankful for now was that what Lu Yang said at the end of last year was still true. After the beginning of the year, he really opened the garment factory, benefiting everyone in the village.

Even now, when people greet each other on the street, they no longer ask: "Have you eaten?"

Instead, ask: "Has your family bought a sewing machine?"

“I haven’t bought it yet!”

"You have to buy it quickly. Don't be reluctant to spend money. You have to sell everything you have to buy it."

"A pair of pants costs 8 cents, a piece of clothing costs 1 cents, and a set costs 2 cents. My wife can make 2 sets a day and earn 30 yuan, which is 6 yuan a month, more than those workers with stable jobs in the city. To be honest, I'm going to buy a TV one of these days. I want to have that thing and find some entertainment in the evening."

“Wow, can you really earn that much?”

"Of course not, how could this be false?"

"That's not right. Why can my wife only make eight or nine sets of clothes a day and earn one dollar and seventy or eighty cents, which means only forty or fifty yuan a month at most, and she has to work hard all day long. She used to bring me footbath water, but now she dares to ask me to bring her footbath water." "Hey, that's because your wife is too lazy. You are lazy too. Do you know how my wife makes clothes? Now she basically doesn't do other work. She just sits on the sewing machine every day, washing dishes, washing clothes, and cooking. I do all these. I also have to cut threads, turn over covers, help organize small materials, and fold clothes. These small odd jobs either have to wait for the children to come back from school, or I can do them. See, isn't this more efficient? Otherwise, she has to cook, wash clothes, do housework, and take care of children. How much time can a woman spend in front of a sewing machine in a day?"

"So that's how it is. I thought a woman could earn that much as long as she worked harder. It turns out that the whole family is helping with the work. That's fine. I earn less, anyway, fifty or sixty a month. It's enough to spend if I save. Let's go and have a drink."

Same job, different people, different choices, different destinies.

Shanghuai Village is undergoing earth-shaking changes.

In the past, we always talked about reform and opening up.

But after more than ten years of reform and opening up, this small poor mountain village is still the same small poor mountain village as before.

It was not until this year that Lu Yang opened a garment factory. It seemed that overnight, the wind of reform came like a spring breeze, and every household enjoyed its benefits.

Every day here is different.

Tea Mountain.

Inevitably, it was also affected.

At this time, several shareholders in the town, mainly Brother Bao and Brother Guangbei, were plotting behind closed doors.

“The progress is a bit slow now.”

"This won't work. We have already found out that the coal seam in this place is very shallow. We only need to dig up the top four or five meters of soil, and underneath is all peat. This is a one-time deal. We have to be fast and accurate, and dig as much as possible in the shortest time. So we don't have enough workers and cars, and we have to buy at least two more large trucks."

"Then take out a loan. I have connections. I can use this tea plantation as collateral."

"Where are the workers?"

“Why did so many people apply last year, but only so few workers are hired this year?”

"The wages we offer are too low, and the work they do is not planting tea trees as agreed before. They are just digging soil, knocking stones, and transporting soil and stones out all day long. Many people complain that this work is too tiring and even more tiring than working in the fields."

"What the hell? A bunch of peasants, it's good enough to get a salary, but you still complain that the salary is too low?"

"Brother Bao, there is something wrong now. The man surnamed Lu has recently opened a garment factory in the village. I heard it is quite big. He has hired many women from the village to work for him. It is said that some of them can earn 100 to 180 yuan a month. The men in their families don't have to work anymore. They just need to take good care of their wives."

"Fuck, why is Lu everywhere? Where's his cousin? Is he still unwilling to cooperate with us?"

"That guy had been tempted before, but after falling out with Ma Lao San, he was determined not to cooperate with us this time. It is said that they are in Xiahuai Village, and this time they are also recruiting workers for the garment factory of that guy surnamed Lu. The couple recently pooled money and bought a second-hand sewing machine from his father-in-law. Then they went to make clothes for his cousin's garment factory with a flattering face."

"Fuck, this guy is really talented. He forced him to kneel in public, and he was so shameless that he could earn money to make me die without surrendering."

"Okay, let's not talk about this guy. Since we can't win him over, forget it. Oh, doesn't he have a brother-in-law? He follows us around for food and drinks all day long, and he recognizes you as his elder brother. Let's get him. Sell him some shares of the tea factory at a low price, and then let him and Ma Lao San come together to take the blame for us in the future."

"This... okay."

"As for the workers, if it's not enough, just pay them more. There's not much work to do anyway. Once we find the coal seam, we'll start closing the mountain. By the way, where's the big wolf dog I asked you to buy?"

"Already in contact."

(End of this chapter)