Daming: I help my wife be the empress

"There are vegetables, tofu, and steamed eggs!" During dinner, Sun Yunping couldn't help but surprise when he saw the dishes brought by his mother.

The ten-year-old sister Yunxiu brought another bowl of salted beans and steamed brown rice. This is the meal for the family of four tonight.

Sun Tie, who was chopping firewood, washed his hands and sat in the thatched hut, looked at the food and said with emotion: "It's rare for us to eat such a good meal when we are in our hometown in Huai'an."

"Isn't it?" 14-year-old Sun Yunping, who has experienced the experience of fleeing from Huai'an to Nanjing, is already very sensible. Although he is very happy to eat tofu and eggs, he still can't help asking: "Mom, what are you doing tonight?" Eat so well?"

He Yunniang said with a smile: "Today, the quilt factory paid wages, including bonuses, there are eight renminbi of silver. The price of rice has dropped to three-thirds, and our family has survived in Nanjing, so I want to have a good meal to celebrate a bit."

"The quilt factory pays wages in half a month?" Sun Yunping was very surprised.

"The supervisor in the factory said that the higher-ups knew that many of the female workers in our factory were from refugees, and their families were in difficulties, so they sympathized with us, so they set a rule of paying wages every half a month."

Sun Yunping muttered dissatisfiedly, "Why doesn't the watch factory show consideration to our apprentices and pay wages earlier."

Hearing this, Sun Tie reached out and hit Sun Yunping with chopsticks, and said sternly, "Are you going to become a wolf with eyes? The watch factory is willing to accept you as an apprentice and pay you one or two taels of silver a month. A good meal is already a great benevolence and righteousness.

If you are an apprentice in other places, I don't know how many gifts you will have to give, and you may not be able to fax things for ten years of work.

It's just that you are not satisfied, you don't think about the kindness of the Holy One in your heart, but you are dissatisfied. Could it be that your conscience has been eaten by dogs? ! "

Sun Yunping blushed immediately after being scolded by his father Sun Tie, but couldn't help but argue: "I just said it casually... and I also passed three tests when I entered the watch factory."

"You still dare to be stubborn?!" Sun Tie got up angrily, and made a gesture to beat his son.

He Yunniang hurriedly stopped her, "Why are you angry with the child in the hot weather, eat quickly."

Pushing her husband to sit down, He Yunniang couldn't help but said: "Yunping, no matter what you said just now, whether you meant it or not, you shouldn't say it. This is at home. If people outside hear it, it's ungrateful to call you ungrateful." It's light, maybe you will be fired by the watch factory, you know?"

Sun Yunping blushed and nodded, "Got it."

Sun Tie scolded again: "I always say that he is a child, and he should get married at the age of 14. How can he still be so frizzy?"

Although Sun Yunping still felt wronged in his heart, he didn't dare to speak back.One is that he is afraid of his father, and the other is that he is absolutely ashamed of his father.

Last month, several factories run by the government were recruiting people among refugees. My mother, He Yunniang, was hired by a quilt factory because of her fast and easy needlework. My father was also hired by a cement factory—although I don’t know what the cement factory does. But the monthly money is five taels!

It's definitely a good job, and it's decent to work in a government-run factory.

But because he passed the triple exam, he was hired as an apprentice by the watch factory.Then the government learned about the situation of their family, and said that two men and one woman were hired by the management factory like theirs, and only one man and one woman could be recruited, saying that they wanted to make as many people as possible work and earn money. .

In other words, only one of him and his father, Sun Tie, could work in a government-run factory.

After discussing with the parents, they all said that although they didn't know what the watch factory did, they had to go through triple exams to recruit apprentices, and all the recruits were young people who could read and write, so they must have a bright future.

So Sun Tie gave up his work in the cement factory and continued to work at the wharf.

The work on the pier is dirty and tiring, and the wages are not much. On the contrary, Sun Tie, the head of the family, is now the one with the least income in the family.

Sun Yunping knew his father's difficulties, if he didn't feel wronged today, he wouldn't say a word.

After dinner, the family cleaned up and went to bed early.

The thatched hut is very simple, with only three small rooms separated, it can't cover the strong wind and rain, and you have to cook outside.It was only built with the help of the government, which is better than the broken tents they used to hide in the refugee camp.

Of course, it is quite far from the city gate, several miles away. He Yunniang and Sun Yunping are going to work in the city, and Sun Tie is going to the pier.

As for the younger sister, Xiu Niang, she stayed at home to do some housework such as cleaning and laundry, and also took care of the small vegetable garden behind the house.

In the past, when fleeing to a different place and living in no fixed place, the Sun family would never dare to keep a little girl in a temporary home, because no one can guarantee that the child will not be snatched by traffickers.

But now the government has set up a patrol station in their refugee resettlement site, and there are still some elected people in the resettlement site to manage it. Only with order and children's safety can the adults among the refugees go out to work with peace of mind.

When He Yunniang came to the quilt factory in the outer city, it was half an hour before she started work, and even the female workers who lived in the city did not arrive.

She didn't chat with other female workers, but cleaned the workshop where she worked—in her view, this factory was a factory where many people gathered together to weave and make clothes, quilts, and boots for military men. However, due to a lot of work, a workshop is set up under the factory, a workshop is set up under the workshop, and the workshop is divided into groups.

He Yunniang was assigned to the embroidery workshop because her embroidery work was good and fast. Soldiers also had to embroider some patterns and characters on their clothes. After she was assigned to the embroidery workshop, she even recognized a dozen characters.

In the beginning, she worked diligently because of her nature, but she wanted to be worthy of the high wages paid by the factory. She did not expect that because of her diligence, she would even get a reward, which is what the factory called a bonus, and she was even praised by the factory manager in public.

Although she was not the only one who won the bonus, there were only three people in each workshop.

After cleaning the workshop, He Yunniang saw the workshop steward rushing over with several workshop stewards.

"Those who have come, don't be idle, and clean up the workshops quickly. An official from the Ministry of Industry will come to inspect today!"

The female workers immediately got busy when they heard this.

In fact, when they got off work yesterday, they had already cleaned it, but it wasn't necessarily completely clean.

On the contrary, He Yunniang's workshop was cleaned twice, and it was clean, and there was no work for a while.

Aunt Zhao, the workshop supervisor, came over, nodded to He Yunniang with satisfaction, and said, "Yunniang, today's inspection by the Ministry of Industry may talk to a model worker like you, you have to be mentally prepared."

"Ah?" He Yunniang became nervous when she heard that, "How should I prepare?"

Aunt Zhao held her hand and said with a smile: "What Shangguan asks, you just answer truthfully. If possible, try to speak well, but don't lie to Shangguan, and don't be so nervous like you are now."

"I, I've never talked to the official, so I can't help but feel nervous." He Yunniang was about to cry anxiously, "Guan Zhao, can you change someone?"

"Why are you panicking?" Mrs. Zhao raised her face slightly, "I only said that I might talk to you, but I didn't say that it must be you, and I didn't let you do anything embarrassing. What is there to panic about?"

He Yunniang was trained to bow her head, she didn't dare to say any more, and replied: "I know."

A female worker in the workshop who was jealous of He Yunniang snickered when she saw this, and was stared at by Aunt Zhao, and they all pretended to be busy again.

In this way, soon it was time to go to work, and all the female workers began to work.

At this time, no one dared to be lazy. Although Mrs. Zhao, the supervisor of the workshop, was a nice person, if someone was lazy and delayed the work, she would report to deduct wages.

Seeing that the time passed quickly, but the Shangguan who came to inspect from the Ministry of Industry was nowhere to be seen, He Yunniang breathed a sigh of relief.

Unexpectedly, just after Sishizhong (there is a special person in the factory to tell the time), the manager of the workshop suddenly brought someone to inform, saying that the saint has arrived outside the factory and will come in for inspection soon!
All the female workers and Aunt Zhao were shocked.

But the steward of the workshop said sharply again: "Shangguan said, let the workshops work normally, work hard, and make no mistakes. If the sage asks something, answer it truthfully, answer it carefully, and don't lose the work in the factory." face!"

The group of female workers not only hadn't seen any big scenes, but they were still in a daze and flustered state for a while.

Fang Guanshi frowned, and said again: "Don't panic, you at least hesitate to prepare a cup of tea, prepare carefully!"

Aunt Zhao finally woke up, and hurriedly replied: "Yes!"

Immediately, he scolded all the female workers, and quickly restored the production order of the workshop.

In this way, after about a cup of tea, groups of well-armored imperial guards lined up along the road outside the workshop, and some people went into the workshop to check, causing the female workers to panic again.

The officers and soldiers who inspected were friendly and pleasant, and they only asked repeatedly: "If the Holy Majesty comes in, you should work at your work stations and don't move around. Only whoever the Holy Majesty calls can come over, understand?"

The female workers nodded hurriedly.

After another cup of tea, He Yunniang and the others heard a large group of footsteps approaching, and stopped at the door of the workshop—this workshop is quite spacious, and the door is also very large, more than one foot wide.

"Well, not bad." A clear and majestic female voice said, "I heard that your factory only evaluates model workers. Is there any in this workshop?"

"Yes, yes, yes." It turned out to be the factory director's voice, trembling.

"Call her over, I'll ask a few words."

"He Yunniang? He Yunniang still not coming to see you?"

When she heard her name being called, Mrs. He Yun was stunned. She was dragged by Mrs. Zhao to a group of people before she managed to recover, and then hurriedly knelt down, not knowing what she said.

It wasn't until a pair of jade hands helped her up that she calmed down inexplicably, but her mind was still frozen.

She knew that the fairy-like woman in front of her was the current Holy Majesty, the first empress of Ming Dynasty, a fairy descended from the earth.

It's just that she never thought that His Majesty would talk to such a lowly peasant woman in such a good manner, and even reached out to help her, which only made her wonder if she was dreaming.

The Holy Majesty asked a few words and left, but she still couldn't get back to her senses, and Aunt Zhao returned to her post like a puppet and sat there. She felt the embroidery needles and threads, and then she woke up.

Looking around, I saw that the female workers around me slowed down, and all cast envious eyes, but they couldn't feel jealous anymore.

Aunt Zhao said with a smile all over her face: "Young lady Yun is so lucky to be approved by the sage. Work hard, I might have to trouble you to take care of me in the future, auntie."