"Hey, Chen Zhen, you and your wife went shopping for clothes. Your packaging doesn't look like you bought it in the market. It feels high-end!"
"You said you didn't know. Chen Zhen is already a big boss outside. He has a small factory and a small storefront. The money you earn in a day is what you earn in a month!"
"Chen Zhen, you are the one who enjoys a happy life. You have such a beautiful wife and you make money. I feel like you have to be the most promising person in this match factory this year!"
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Since the Chinese New Year is coming soon, everyone spends more time outside. Various people who have just returned from the market to buy new year's goods, as well as some elders who have finally had some time off during the Chinese New Year, all looked at Chen Zhen and joked.
Those people didn't have any ill intentions. It's the tradition of match factory workers. If a family has good conditions and becomes prosperous, they will always make fun of them. Chen Zhen said with a smile: "What kind of big boss is this? These are just some miscellaneous brands." , I’ll invest two fans of pork in the canteen so that everyone can have a better meal before the Chinese New Year!”
"Okay, Chen Zhen is a reliable person. He also thinks about everyone after making money!"
Everyone was talking and laughing.
Passing by the surrounding dormitories and bungalows, through the windows you can see a group of old people chatting around the stove, with a few sweet potatoes and oranges roasted on it. The wrinkles on their faces seem to tell the story of their many years of experience in the match factory.
The children were restless at home, playing in twos and threes with the snowflakes outside with their oversized gloves, running around, as if they were very new to everything in the match factory.
The smell of matches in the air seemed to be getting stronger at this moment. Chen Zhen and Zhang Baixue smiled together, lowered their heads and walked back home.
The twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month is approaching the end of the year. This day is a bit special. In the history of Pingjiang, on this day, shops with facades cannot open their doors to make money. As the saying goes, guard your money this year, and at home, you must open your home in the morning. Clean the windows and doors in the morning and clean the glass at home. As the saying goes, money will come in easily. If you don’t open it, money will be lost.
Early in the morning, there was a roaring and vibrating sound of two kicks, which lasted for nearly dozens of times. It seemed that Pingjiang Match Factory had this custom from unknown time, and played as many times as it had been since its establishment.
The sound of two kicks in succession made everyone in the match factory shout, and all the workshops of the factory stopped. Chen Zhen and Zhang Baixue woke up in a daze, stretched out and got up. .
"Open the window and open the door. Grandpa, the God of Wealth, is coming quickly..."
After getting up, Chen Zhen put on his clothes and muttered the old sayings that his father often mentioned during the Chinese New Year. Zhang Baixue was not idle either. He simply warmed up last night's leftovers and took out the cleaning tools.
Every household got busy, and so did Sun Ergou, who was arranged by me to clean the windows outside. Chen Zhen and Sun Ergou looked at each other and laughed.
"Ergou, come here, I have something for you!"
Zhang Baixue stood at the door and greeted with a smile. Sun Ergou dropped the glass-cleaning newspaper in his hand and ran over. He wiped his water-stained hands and said, "Why, sister-in-law, you have to give me a red envelope before the first month of the year." , then I can..."
"Snapped!"
Chen Zhen slapped the other person on the neck directly and said: "How old are you and asking your sister-in-law for a red envelope? What is your seniority? It seems that you still have less work to do."
"Uncle, Ergou is lazy outside, please arrange some more work for him!"
Chen Zhen shouted loudly at Sun Ergou's house, and Sun Ergou quickly covered Chen Zhen's mouth: "Keep your voice down, if my dad knows, then I will be beaten to death!"
This scene also made the surrounding neighbors burst into laughter, and the taste of the new year also came up.
Zhang Baixue patted Chen Zhen gently to stop the trouble, then took out a woolen sweater he bought yesterday and said: "This is for Mengjuan. I bought two specially. We two sisters can wear one." the same!"
"Ah! For Mengjuan?"
"Sister-in-law, you've moved me so much. It's really troublesome for you and Brother Zhen to worry about Mengjuan's clothes when you go out to buy clothes!"
Sun Ergou looked at Zhang Baixue with a look on his face, Zhang Baixue also smiled, and Sun Ergou was being mean again at this time: "Brother Zhen, what did you go out to buy for me? I'll go in and pick it out?"
"Bah! I'm bringing you something? You still have the nerve to say that when I earn back the cost of that batch of bad apples, I'll buy it for you. That's a good idea!"
How could Chen Zhen and Sun Ergou not know about Sun Ergou's little thoughts after being together for such a long time? Sun Ergou was speechless and speechless. Then Sun Ergou said to Zhang Baixue: "Sister-in-law, I Thank you for Mengjuan. Also, you should rest quickly. Brother Zhen was the health committee member when he was in school. If you don’t let him do it, who else will do it..."
Before Sun Ergou finished speaking, Chen Zhen was about to kick him. Fortunately, Sun Ergou ran fast and dodged. However, Zhang Baixue became more energetic: "Hey, hey, hey? Chen Zhen, you Didn’t I say that you were a study committee member when you were in school, why are you a health committee member?”
"That...that bitch is talking nonsense."
"Nonsense? Don't run, stop!"
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Watching a group of people working in a lively manner, they no longer felt tired for a while, and a lot of the fatigue in their hearts was relieved.
It was time to cook meat in the afternoon. The aroma of meat from door to door in the match factory covered the original smell of matches. The hot pots in every house couldn't stop all afternoon. Chen Zhen usually didn't cook much, but this was the time. At this time, Chen Zhen became the main force, and he couldn't stop working for a while, and it didn't end until eight or nine in the evening.
On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, the day before New Year's Eve, the match factory also started its own welfare as a big factory. They went door to door to receive some rice, flour, oil, eggs, etc. based on the number of people. Pots, bowls, pans and other new gadgets were all placed under the office building, and even Next to it was a cart full of buckets, with live fish jumping in them.
The union chairman was so busy at this time that he barely got twenty hours of sleep a week. He was greeting people in line back and forth, and the busy people jumped on their backs, and his voice became like a male duck: "Everyone is..." Keep an inventory of things, don’t take less, don’t take more, everyone has a share, don’t crowd in!”
The workers have benefits, and the benefits of the factory director and other senior leaders are indispensable. All the extra items or rare gadgets purchased are brought home at night.
The leaders also exchanged a few polite words without needing to do so, but basically put things down. No one had any complaints, after all, who let them be the leaders!
In addition, a stage was set up early in the evening at the entrance of the bathhouse. The annual Match Factory New Year Party is not to be missed.
