Snowflakes woke up in the middle of the night, the bed was cold and cold, the quilt was extremely thin, and the straw was padded under the sheets, because there was no good weather recently, and the straw had no time to dry, and it was wet and heavy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

She shivered, and couldn't help but wrap the quilt tighter. It's not useful, but feel better.

Unable to sleep anymore, Snowflake was in the dark with her eyes wide open.

She remembers the life in Li Kee's workshop, where she is busy but down-to-earth, and she can get a salary if she doesn't work on schedule for one day every day. Her favorite thing is to call it a day and see the foreman write down her day's work.

After spending a year in Fangzhou, she even feels like she has become a Fangzhou person.

Although the uniforms they wore were uniform, the fabric was very good, and the color was also very good, compared to the homespun cloth that their family had woven before, I don't know how much softer and brighter it was, and there were two sets of clothes in the workshop every season. Spring, summer, autumn and winter are eight sets of clothes a year, which is completely enough for her to wear, and over the course of a year, although the color of the clothes has faded a little, they are all good, no broken and no patches.

I can eat well in the workshop, and I can eat three meals a day, so I don't have to go hungry. In the past, there was always a period of time at home when I had to eat vegetable porridge, and even most of the time there were only two meals a day, and most of them were thin.

Xuehua's favorite thing is to have their own time in the workshop, after getting up in the morning and washing, they will do morning exercises, have morning meetings, and then go to the morning shift, but they work two shifts a day, and there will be an hour break in the middle, six hours of work, and four hours of rest in the evening.

In fact, she can't sleep so much, she sleeps about three hours a day, and in the extra time, she likes to do some needlework and embroidery, and sometimes, she doesn't do anything, watching the sunset and sunset on the balcony of the dormitory. Or listen to the dormitory sisters chatting about family life, she will also practice Chinese, and even learn to write her own Chinese name.

In the past, she was at home, called Ah Hua, and everyone called her that.

Later, after she learned Chinese with the eldest sister of the group leader, she gave herself a Chinese name, called Xuehua, because she heard her mother say that it snowed on the day she was born.

Recalling the year in the workshop, Snowflake couldn't sleep anymore. She likes that kind of life, easier, more comfortable, it's only been a year, she's white, she's fat, she's no longer black and thin, and she's no longer dizzy.

No more patched clothes and no more hungry as often.

Thinking about it, it was dawn.

Outside, the rooster was crowing and she was still lying on the bed. Usually, they would not get up until dawn to take a shower, and then go to the morning exercise and morning meeting.

As a result, after a while, the mother's shouts sounded outside.

"Ah Hua, let's go fetch water."

The previous life suddenly came back to me, when she was at home before, she had to get up before dawn every day, she didn't have the habit of sleeping lazy, and she couldn't sleep lazy like this.

Lifting the thin quilt that had been covering for a long time and not being warm, Xuehua got up.

She took off her pajamas, took out the winter overalls she had placed next to the bed and changed them into, took her hat and put them on, and put on her shoes.

When I opened the door, a cold wind blew in my face.

My mother was passing by, and when she saw her dressed, she was stunned for a moment, and then immediately said, "How did you wear such good clothes, it's not the time for the New Year, it's time to change." You have to fetch water in a while, and you have to go to collect firewood in the morning, and you can't bear to break such good clothes. ”

Snowflake stood there stunned.

She has worn this dress every day for the past year.

At the urging of her mother, Xuehua finally turned around and went back to the house, looking for a while but not finding her old clothes.

"Mother, where are my clothes?"

The mother came in while wiping the water from her hands.

"Don't look for it, I'll give you all those clothes for your sisters. You can change this one and wear mine. ”

Mother went out, and came in again, and had already taken a set of coarse cloth clothes, which were mother's, and there were several patches on them, and this dress was gray, and it was not even dyed.

"I'm still stunned to do something, change it on."

Xuehua was a little reluctant to change out of her own clothes, and then changed into her mother's old clothes.

"This dress is actually a little small on you, and after going to Fangzhou for a year, you have grown flesh on your body." The mother looked at her daughter from the side.

Xuehua frowned, this dress always felt uncomfortable, it was too small, and it was old and worn, and a little dirty.

"Mother, how long has it been since this dress has been washed?"

"Anyway, I haven't worn this dress a few times."

"I haven't washed it several times?"

"How can clothes be washed from time to time, it costs to wash them once, and they are easy to break."

When Xuehua is in the workshop, the underwear is basically changed once a day, and there are special pajamas for sleeping at night, even if it is the outside overalls, it is washed once a day in summer, and in winter, it is changed once every three days at most.

She remembered that the family did not wash their clothes so often in winter, and sometimes they only changed them once in ten days and a half months. Even because of the cold weather in winter, they sometimes don't take a bath all winter.

I miss life in the workshop, and when I go out with a bucket in my mother's old clothes, Snowflake can't help but think about it again.

It was cold outside, and the sky was still faintly bright.

There was still unmelted snow on the ground, and walking on it creaked, leaving two rows of footprints behind it.

In winter, it is very difficult to get water, and the well platform is frozen, so you have to be careful, and it is easy to slip and fall if you are not careful. There is a lot of water that needs to be fetched at home, and Xuehua has several pigs and sheep at home. Every day, the family has to cook pig food, which requires a lot of water.

Every morning, you have to carry at least five loads of water.

Standing on the edge of the well platform, he vigorously carried a bucket in his hand to draw water, and he had to carry five loads of water one morning, and at least four buckets of water for one load.

In winter, the water level in the well is very low, and the rope of the bucket has to be put three or four zhang to get water, and it becomes extremely difficult to lift water up again and again.

After carrying water four times and filling two large buckets, Snowflake was already exhausted and panting. She found that she used to be very thin, but it was not difficult to fetch water in the morning, and now that she has grown healthier, she has only taken a load of water, but she is already a little unbearable.

Putting the pole away, she crouched down and stood up. The shoulders were heavy, a load of water had been lifted on her shoulders, and she was careful under her feet, and she carried the water slowly towards her home.

From the well to the house, there are more than 100 steps. The road where the snow has not melted is the most difficult to walk.

As soon as she arrived at the door of the house with the water, Xuehua saw the foreman Ma Jin standing there.

Seeing Ma Jin, Xuehua felt a warm current in her heart, when she was outside, especially when she just went out, she was in a different place and was not adaptable, and the foreman Ma Jin was their guide, helping them everywhere.

"Head."

Xuehua used the customary name of Ma Jin when he was in Fangzhou.

Ma Jin greeted him with a smile, "Carry water, let's go pour water first, I'll talk to you about something." ”

"What's the matter, head?" After pouring the water, Xuehua came over with an empty bucket, but there was some expectation in his tone.

Ma Jin was not in a hurry, and asked with a smile, "How do you feel when you return home?" ”

Xuehua smiled, "When I was in Fangzhou, I thought about my home day and night, and when I just returned to the village yesterday, I cried happily, but after a night, I missed Fangzhou instead." ”

"It's normal, and so am I. I've seen the outside world, where do you want to stay in this small cottage? Here, there is endless work to be done every day, but life never changes at all, day after day, life is extremely hard, but it can't even solve the problem of food and clothing, let alone comfortable days. ”

"Head, what's wrong?"

"Xuehua, I think you are a diligent and hard-working girl, and I can see that you are unwilling to live this life in the village now, and you have a spirit in your bones that is unwilling to be dull."

Snowflake is a little embarrassed.

"But I was born here."

"We can't change where we come from, but we can change our lives by our own efforts. You know Lee Sang, right? ”

Xuehua nodded, who in the world doesn't know Li Xiang. Even in the dormitory of their workshop, everyone talked about Li Xiang the most. Although she doesn't talk nonsense like those sisters, she actually has a dream with Li Xiang.

Every time she dreamed, it always made her difficult to sleep for a long time.

"The imperial court wants to divide the princes, Li Xianggong is the first, the fief is hundreds of miles, in the northwest of Fengzhou, it is said that Li Xiang wants to build three surrendered cities on his territory, and also build a Tunzhuang ranch business town, build a workshop and so on. There will be a lot of opportunities there, and I'm ready to go there. ”

Snowflake looked at Ma Jin, waiting for him to continue.

"Xuehua, the surrendered city will be broader than Fangzhou, and there will be more opportunities there. I'm going to go to the Surrendered City to break through, and I'm going to bring a group of people over, would you like to go there with me? ”

Going to the surrendered city, going to the far northwest, this is something that Xuehua has not thought about.

"Isn't it very far, farther than Fangzhou to Xiangyang?"

"Far away, much farther, Li Xiangguo's fief is about the size of three Xiangzhou, and the road is ten times as far as our Fangzhou to Xiangzhou. But there are also more opportunities there, Snowflake, how much did you earn in the last year? ”

"More than fifteen thousand dollars." Snowflake Road.

Of course, Ma Jin knows this number, and Xuehua's salary is still paid by him.

"Follow me to the surrender city, I am going to open a processing workshop there, and then I will directly do external processing for Li Ji Workshop, I will take the goods back, and then make it for you, and give you a guarantee and a piecework, more work and more rewards. I can guarantee that you will at least double what you made last year. ”

"And, I'm asking you to be the leader of my class."

Snowflake was startled by Ma Jin's words.

"Double the amount you earn in a year? More than 15,000 times over, that's more than 30,000, and ask me to be the team leader? ”

"That's right, if you used to be a team leader, you earned more, the team you led, the work you did, I will give you a percentage according to your performance, the more you do, the better, the more you will get a commission."

Go to the surrendered city, make a lot of money, and be a team leader.

Snowflake's heart flew away at once, and she agreed almost without hesitation.

"Head, I'll go with you to the surrender city!"