Dreaming of Lion Rock: Recipe in Hand

Chapter 227 Shichun's First Salary Payment

The most exciting news in Shizi Township in the past two days is that Chunni’s new factory is about to pay the first month’s salary!

Chunni is a legendary figure in Shizi Township. Her parents died when she was very young, and she managed to raise her younger brother and sister. Her elder brother became an officer, her younger sister became a college student, and her younger brother also had excellent grades. The villagers all praised them.

Chunni herself was even more extraordinary. She was self-taught, went to an agricultural university, and led people from all over the country to plant dry rice seedlings. The yield per mu of dry rice seedlings was 10% to 20% higher than before, so all the villagers who benefited were grateful. Because of this, Chunni became a technical researcher at the Provincial Agricultural Bureau and got a stable job.

You might think Chunni is satisfied with this, but no, she also opened a restaurant and a clothing store, and the money she earned is more than she can spend in her lifetime.

She is successful in everything she does.

Therefore, Shizi Township blindly worships Chunni. When they heard that Chunni had opened a new factory, many people in Shizi Mountain went to apply for the job, hoping that Chunni could keep them.

In the end, Chunni only kept more than 20 people, which made those who were hired very happy. Those who were not hired were not discouraged. After all, Chunni could do anything. If she didn't get the job this time, there would be next time, and the next time.

That’s right, the people of Lion Rock have such confidence in Chunni, they know that Shichun will become big and strong one day!

Chunni didn't know about these thoughts. She had opened up the market in Chengdu and made money, so she had to pay the wages on time and in full to reassure the people!

Shichun didn't have a finance department, so Chunni had no choice but to roll up her sleeves and do it herself. There weren't many employees, so Chunni spent half a day to make the payroll. Then she notified Li Shuhua and Bai Shu of the time to pay the wages.

The first month's salary payment was not just about salary, but also about some welfare products. Considering that most of Shichun's employees are now women, Chunni decided to give each person two packs of Shichun.

Ahem, as an employee of Shichun, how can I not use Shichun? I don’t know the benefits of sanitary napkins!

Of course, in addition to the factory’s own products, Chunni also bought other things, such as pork, white sugar, winter melon candy, etc.

"Hello everyone, I believe everyone should know me!" It was Chunni's first time meeting all the employees, and she was a little nervous. But when she saw the familiar faces in the audience, her heart suddenly settled down, and she was in the mood to tell jokes.

"Hahahaha!"

"know."

"You don't have to know anyone, but you have to know our Director Yang."

"..."

The atmosphere seemed to liven up all of a sudden, and Chunni relaxed a little more.

"Although everyone knows me, I won't introduce myself! Thank you all for your hard work this month. Shichun is developing in a good direction. I also hope that everyone here will continue to work hard and make persistent efforts to shine in their own positions. Today is the first time our factory has paid wages. I believe everyone has been looking forward to it for a long time!?"

The employees in the audience had already been whispering to each other and engaging in a heated discussion!

"A monthly salary of 30 yuan is on par with the wages of workers in the county textile factory!"

"After I get paid, I'll go buy some meat and go home to celebrate. My family hasn't eaten meat since the Chinese New Year, and it tastes bad."

"Come on, it's already this late and there's still meat left? It's better to buy some tomorrow."

"I want to take the money home. I still owe the school the tuition for my two daughters!"

"I want to buy some candy..."

"I want to see a doctor for my mother-in-law..."

Chunni clapped her hands, signaling everyone to be quiet. She didn't mind everyone's whispering.

In everyone's eyes, the first salary you earn is special and meaningful.

Seeing the employees' irrepressible excitement, Chunni smiled and said, "Now, Manager Bai, please bring the people from your department with me. The rest of you will wait here."

Chunni took people to move the welfare she prepared to the auditorium. When Shichun's employees saw what Baishu moved to the auditorium, their eyes widened and they looked around in disbelief.

Chunni raised the corners of her mouth, clapped her hands and said, "Okay, now it's time to start paying wages. Those whose names I call can come to me to collect their wages."

The auditorium was silent and all sounds disappeared!

"Li Shuhua."

"Here." Li Shuhua quickly came to Chunni's desk.

"This is your salary details. Please check if it is correct. If it is correct, please write your name in the blank space at the back." Chunni said seriously.

Li Shuhua took Chunni's salary slip and looked at it. Her eyes suddenly widened. She looked at Chunni in disbelief and murmured, "How can it be so much?"

"This is what you deserve." Chunni said lightly.

Li Shuhua calmly wrote her name on the salary slip, but there was a glimmer of tears in her eyes.

Chunni counted out the money to Li Shuhua, and signaled Bai Shu to take out four pounds of meat, two pounds of white sugar, one pound of winter melon candy, and two packs of Shichun and handed them to Li Shuhua.

Li Shuhua happily accepted it and made up her mind that she would follow Chunni for the rest of her life to repay her for her support and encouragement along the way.

"Wang Fengzhi." Chunni started to send the second person.

Wang Fengzhi was a young girl of eighteen or nineteen years old. She stroked the two big braids on her chest, adjusted the corners of her clothes, and then walked up to Chunni with confidence.

Chunni also handed her a pay slip, "Confirm it!"

Wang Fengzhi's round eyes widened even more. She asked Chunni: "Director Yang, how could there be more than 40? Could it be that I calculated it wrong?"

Chunni thought the girl in front of her was very cute!

"No, it's just the basic salary plus your piece rate, that's it."

Wang Fengzhi held the salary slip and looked at it for a long time before writing down her name.

"Director Yang, I am so lucky to have the opportunity to work in this factory! Thank you Shichun, thank you!" Wang Fengzhi actually bowed deeply to Chunni.

No one could understand her mood at this moment, except Chunni.

Wang Fengzhi had a miserable life. Not long after she was born, her two-year-old brother died of a fever. Her parents despised her bad luck and beat and scolded her.

Then her mother gave birth to a younger sister, and her parents blamed her for that, saying she had not set a good example. Later, when she was five years old, her father fell off a cliff and died. Her mother thought she was unlucky, so she abandoned her and her sister and remarried and went to live elsewhere.

Since then, Wang Fengzhi and her sister grew up with their blind grandmother until her grandmother passed away a few years ago.

Not only her parents, grandparents, but also many people in the village secretly said that she had a bad fate and would bring bad luck to her relatives. Fortunately, the people in Lion Mountain were simple and honest, and those gossiping wives were not evil people. Even if they disliked the two sisters, they did not do anything to them, but just talked about it.

Wang Fengzhi had long been accustomed to it, and she was relaxed, thinking that it would not hurt her to say so. She thought that she would always have such a bad fate.

When Shichun was recruiting workers, she just came with the attitude of giving it a try, but unexpectedly, she passed the recruitment exam in one go.

She felt that her life got better from that day on.

Wang Fengzhi took out her patched handkerchief and carefully put away the largest sum of money she had ever earned. She wanted to save the money and build two, no, three mud-brick houses. She didn't want to live in the drafty cowshed anymore.

Bai Shu handed Wang Fengzhi two pounds of meat, one pound of white sugar, and one pound of winter melon candy, and jokingly said, "Don't drop your golden beans! Take the candy back and sweeten your mouth!"

"You haven't tried winter melon candy yet, it's so sweet!" someone else replied.

"She's a pretty little girl, but she looks so ugly when she cries!"

Wang Fengzhi burst out laughing. It was great that someone didn't mind that her tears would bring bad luck. It was great that someone was willing to joke with her.

"Next person……"

It took Chunni two hours to distribute the wages, which was past the usual time to get off work. But there was no dissatisfaction in the eyes of the people, and they left in groups of three or four, talking and laughing.

When Shichun's employees returned to the village, Lion Rock was like a boiling pot, boiling with excitement.

"The salary in Shichun is so high. It's almost the same as that in the county steel plant!" Some people simply envy the high salary in Shichun.

"My son, you have to work hard in Shichun! Look at Xiaoxi next door, he gets more piecework wages than you. Are you lazy during work hours? That won't do. You finally got into Shichun, don't let the factory fire you! You don't know that there is a long queue of people in the village who want to work in Shichun."

"I know, I will work hard, and next time I will definitely get more salary than Xiaoxi!" This is Shichun's employee, who secretly made up his mind to work hard and strive to earn a high salary.

"Oh, Grandma Yang, did you see that? Chunni's factory has meat and sugar today! I, an old woman, am so envious. I wish I was born 30 years earlier. I would definitely work with Chunni so that I could eat meat every month." This was pure envy.

"Oh! Xiaohuaer, hurry up and study, it's good to study! Look, your second cousin went to work at Shichun after studying, and she got a salary of more than 30 yuan in the first month. That's much more than what your old man earns in a month. So, it's better to study! Only by reading more and being educated can you get a job in a factory and earn a salary." This is for those who are striving for progress.

"It took a long time for Shichun to expand its enrollment. I want to get in, my brother from my mother's side wants to get in, and my eldest sister-in-law wants to get in..."

"Boss, hurry up and send the old lady to the county tomorrow, maybe her eyesight will be cured!" In the bustling Shizishan, there is a villager's home. The head of the household named Yi Ronghua received a salary of 50 yuan today, and he gave it to his wife without missing a cent. His wife cried with joy, because her old mother finally had money to treat her illness.

Anyway, the first batch of Shichun employees received their wages, and they were all grateful, with happy smiles on their faces. They became Shichun's die-hard fans and worked until retirement; they and their families spread the good news of Shichun everywhere, making the Shichun brand famous in Shizishan and even Tuoxian.