Otherworldly Days

Chapter 441

In March, the garment workshop started work, and the recovered duck feathers had to be cleaned before they could be processed.Last year, Cao Xiangnan planned to increase the production of down jackets this year, so he encouraged everyone to raise ducks.

Originally, there were not many people who raised ducks here. Compared with raising ducks, people prefer to raise chickens. Eggs are sold more expensively than duck eggs. No one wants duck eggs, and ducks can’t be sold for a few dollars.In fact, as long as someone wants the ducks raised, everyone is still willing to raise ducks.

A duck is full of treasures. Roast duck and stewed meat are both delicious. There are a hundred ways to eat duck in later generations. Cao Xiangnan is not afraid that the duck is not delicious. As long as the duck is delicious, people will love it. That duck has a market.The sauced salted duck processed in the workshop is also sold well, and there are sauced ducks in the back, which greatly increases the demand for ducks.

Years later, Cao Xiangnan took Li Mei and Manager Li to several large duck-raising households and talked about duck breeding. He invested a sum of money last year to let people raise ducks, and the cost was recovered within a year. The households have made money and intend to expand breeding.

The carriage came back from outside and stopped at the gate of the garment workshop.

Li Mei went out with his master for a run, and the two came back together. He got off the carriage, stood beside the carriage and listened to his master's orders, nodded and said, "Don't worry, my master, I will take care of this matter."

"Well, I don't worry about your work. I won't go in. You can go in and do your work." Cao Xiangnan didn't get out of the car. He had other things to do. He asked Li Mei to go in and do his work. The boy left and lowered the curtain.

Seeing the owner's carriage leaving, Li Mei took a deep breath before going inside.

The clothing workshop is gradually getting on the right track. The buddies in the workshop are more capable than each other. He has cultivated a group of capable managers. Cao Xiangnan is also relieved here. He plans to select some people to go to Nanyang later. , I just don’t know if these buddies are willing to go as far as Nanyang, this matter will be discussed later.

When I came back on the first day of March, there was an assessment waiting for these buddies.

So when these buddies come back after the Chinese New Year, there will be a cruel assessment waiting for them. Those who pass it will be promoted and their salary will be raised. If they fail this time, they will make up the exam next time. .

Cao Xiangnan, the boss, will not let his subordinates down. He paid such a high salary, you have to show a corresponding attitude, stay if you are competent, and ask you to leave if you are not competent.

"I'm so nervous, what if I don't pass?"

They work here in the garment workshop for such high wages, and the wages have made their lives better. You must know that not casual people can enter this garment workshop, and it is their luck that they can enter.

But even if they come in, they have to work hard if they want to stay.

"No, don't be nervous. We'll do our best and we'll definitely pass the exam." The person who said this actually didn't know what to do. Li Mei, as the chief manager, knew that all eyes were on him, Someone who is not good will replace it, so he must do every step well, and strive to get the best grades in every assessment, so that he is eligible to sit in this position, so he must be better than all the others. Everyone works hard.

Unknowingly, the buddies in the garment workshop have changed into a different look, as if they have lost their cowardly and timid appearance. In order to let themselves stay, they are all studying hard.

This afternoon nap, I slept until the sunset was about to set, and prayed for the evening breeze to wake up.

When he woke up, the two children were still asleep. Looking at the two children beside him, Qi Wanfeng had the most gentle smile in his eyes, and he could sleep longer with the children.He sat up and was about to get out of bed, but found that Lele moved and opened his eyes and looked at him, "Lele is awake too, do you want to get up, or sleep with Bao'er for a while?" Qi Wanfeng kissed just now The fat boy who woke up had a round, soft face full of flesh.His Lele has been smart since he was a child, and he can understand what adults say.

Qi Wanfeng, the mother, has never doubted his child. The child came out of his stomach. He watched it grow up. Apart from being a little smarter and more sensible than other children, Qi Wanfeng didn't feel that he was a child. Cao Ruile turned her head and glanced at Bao'er who was still sleeping, and said two words, "Go to sleep."

Otherwise, he knew that he would cry when Bao'er woke up, he didn't like Bao'er crying at all, it was too noisy.

"Okay." Qi Wanfeng touched the child, took the urinal and wanted to hold the child down to pee, and said, "Come on, Ah Mu will hold you down to pee." I reached out and touched it.

"Myself." It meant that he came by himself, Cao Ruile put on a wooden face, but he was actually embarrassed.

"Okay, you do it yourself, don't pee your pants, E-Mum will bring you a glass of water to drink." After saying that, Qi Wanfeng went out with a smile and came in with a glass of water. After the child finished urinating, he fed the child After drinking water, let Lele continue to sleep with Bao'er.

He knew that Lele was here. He knew that Lele would take good care of Bao'er, so he went out to prepare dinner. After a while, An'an's children also came home from school.

At this time Liu Ah has also come back from the outside, he saw that the main house was quiet, and he didn't hear the voice of the two children, so he knew that the mistress and the two little boys were taking a nap, and he didn't bother The mistress, and his master got busy in the yard.

When she saw the mistress coming out of the house, she knew that the mistress had woken up and came over.

When Qi Wanfeng met Liu Ahmo, he asked him about the situation at Sun Bailian's side, and Liu Ahmo said that it was very good there, so he didn't go there either.After a while the children will be back, he started to make dinner, and Ama Liu stayed here to help him.

To the west is the sky full of clouds, and the snow on the mountains has gradually melted until the trees covered by the snow are exposed, and the grass and trees on the ground sprout little buds, and soon it will be full of green again.When the smoke rose in the village, the children in the academy also left school and went home in small groups.

Looking at the companions who went home, the eyes of the homeless children who stayed in the academy were envious.

When school ends at the academy, the meals in the cafeteria are ready. The children who stay in the academy take their food pockets to the cafeteria to get a meal. This is their dinner.

The food in the cafeteria is not rich, but it can fill your stomach.There are three meals a day, porridge, water, steamed buns and side dishes for breakfast and lunch, coarse grains, rice and pasta for dinner. There is a little oily smell in the dishes, and there is a little meat. Occasionally, some meat is added to them.

The days in the academy, for these homeless and helpless children at a young age, this is their safe haven, where they can have food, a house to live in, and a teacher who teaches them to read and write. It was like a dream to them.

"Dou'er, what are you in a daze for? Eat quickly, we'll clean up the cafeteria quickly when we're full, and we can go back to review the book that Mr. taught today." An older boy said to a younger brother.

They have exams every semester, and the top three in the exam will be rewarded. The top three in the last semester, No. 1 will get three consecutive money, and No. 3 will also get regular money.

"Yeah." The little brother who put food in his mouth nodded, with big and bright eyes, Hongdou is one of the few brothers in this group of children.

Hongdou lost his mother when he was very young. After his father remarried, after Emma gave birth to a younger brother, Emma asked him to do all the work at home. He ate, and finally sold him, so he ran away from home.

He wandered outside for two years and begged on the street with his older boys. He was hungry and almost died of illness, but he survived.Later, when they heard that they could take in children without parents or parents here, and they could have food and study here, he wanted to see if it was true, so he called a good strong boy to come here.

They came here for a whole winter, and a gentleman taught them to read and write. When it snowed, they had a house to live in, and they had thick clothes to wear. There was a warm fire in the house. They had food to eat, and they didn’t need to be hungry. Stomach, there is no friend around me who left silently after a nap.

Hongdou didn't know what death was before, but later he gradually understood that they dug a hole for their best friend last winter and buried him in the soil, and they would never see that friend again. He was sad for a long time.

They want to live, live well.

In addition to being very kind to them in the academy, there is also a very good uncle who will bring them food and clothes. That uncle will call him Xiaohongdou like everyone else, and Hongdou likes that uncle the most.

If only he was that uncle's child, Hongdou thought sadly.

The few pots of food in the cafeteria were quickly emptied, and the children who found a place to sit down and eat finished the food in their food pockets. These children were all hungry children, and they ate very hard. Hurry up, I finished eating and left in a short time after getting the food, and finally even drank the pot of soup clean.

After eating, a group of children who had their turn to clean up the cafeteria would stay and clean up, and they could only go back when they were done.

Classes in the academy take seven days as a round, and they can have two days off for every five days of class.For the children who stayed in the academy, these two days are their working time. They have to work to offset their money for studying and eating in the academy. The academy does not feed them for nothing. You have to work to read and eat.

At this time of spring, they go to work in the fields. The older ones help plow and plant the fields, while the younger ones pull weeds and do lighter work.When the grain is harvested, they will help to collect the grain. What they like most is to go to the mountains with the adults to pick fruits in autumn. When picking fruits, they can eat until their stomachs are full and transport the picked fruits back.

Tomorrow is a rest day and they don't have to go to class. They are going to work in the fields.

The sun is about to go down in the west, and only those who have been busy outside for a day will return home.

Hearing the sound of the wheels, the children playing in the yard knew that daddy/uncle was back, and a group of children rushed towards the daddy/uncle who came back, shouting "Daddy, daddy" Uncle Uncle".

"Hey." Cao Xiangnan would go home hungry. As soon as he entered the door, he saw children running towards him, and the children at his feet shouted "Uncle Daddy" around him. Little Luobotou asked, "Have you eaten?"

"It's time to eat." The children chirped.

"Oh oh oh."

"Yeah yeah" "Yeah? That's great."

Qi Wanfeng in the room knew that Fulang had come back when he heard the sound. Standing at the door, he smiled and saw Fulang surrounded by a group of children, and Xiao Baoer, who was following at his feet, also went to join in the fun with short legs, happily Le followed his mother's side and didn't go.

Seeing Xiao Bao'er also running over, with short legs, he could only yell outside, Cao Xiangnan smiled helplessly, picked up the smallest one and hugged him, and looked up to meet the eyes smiling at him eye.

Across the air, the eyes of the two people met, you looked at me, I looked at you...