lcionline Chapter 164 Change
Chapter 164 Change
Zhang Dachuan is 68 years old this year, and looks even older than Wang Chunping, who is in her early 80s.
Zhang Dachuan, who was originally the pillar of the family, was injured on a construction site a few years ago. The black-hearted boss did not buy insurance. Zhang Dachuan could have saved his leg, but had to choose amputation due to the expensive medical expenses.
This time, he went from being a provider to being provided for, and the huge gap made him attempt suicide several times.
It took much persuasion from Zhang Qiang and many other people in the village to gradually dissuade him from committing suicide.
Zhang Dachuan's wife is 66 years old this year. She cultivates the few acres of land at home by herself and is also responsible for Zhang Dachuan's food and daily life. They have a son who works outside and did not come back for the New Year in order to earn more money.
"Dachuan, why don't you give Zhang Heng a call and ask him to come back to the village to work? The factory is hiring. I can still talk to him. You two old people haven't seen your children for several years."
Zhang Qiang knew that Zhang Heng, who had only graduated from elementary school, could only find a job in a factory and could save very little money in a month, let alone start a family.
If he could return to the village, he could take care of his elderly parents, earn money, and maybe even marry a wife and complete the most important event in his life.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Dachuan would be lying if he said he wasn't moved.
So under Zhang Qiang's persuasion, Zhang Dachuan's attitude softened. He slid the wheelchair that Zhang Heng bought for him to the side of the bedside table and took out a well-preserved piece of paper from the drawer.
"It has Xiaoheng's phone number. We old couple don't have a mobile phone. Secretary, please give him a call. I'll pay for the call."
As he spoke, Zhang Dachuan reached into his pocket and took out two one-dollar bills. These were left for him by Zhang Ju in case she was afraid that he would buy something.
Zhang Qiang waved his hand and confiscated Zhang Dachuan's money.
"Did you forget? Voice calls are free now. Save this money to buy candy for your grandchildren in the future."
"Okay, okay," Zhang Dachuan's smile became more genuine, "Let's call Xiao Heng now. I wonder how this kid is doing recently?"
After a long wait for the bell to ring, a somewhat childish voice sounded.
"Hey?"
Zhang Dachuan's hand holding the phone was shaking slightly.
"Xiao Heng."
At this time, a young man wearing a yellow vest who had just delivered a takeaway was a little bit unbelievable.
"Dad? Why did you think of calling me?"
After the father and son exchanged a few pleasantries, Zhang Qiang took the phone and started talking about business with Zhang Heng.
Zhang Heng was happy to hear that a factory was going to be built in the village. However, when Zhang Qiang asked him to come back to work in the factory, Zhang Heng was a little hesitant.
He now works as a delivery boy in the city. After deducting the monthly rent, water, electricity, gas, and food expenses, he can save more than 3,000 yuan.
According to the party secretary, working in a village factory pays 2,700 or 2,800 yuan a month, which is actually not much different from what one can save.
But Zhang Heng himself had worked in a factory and knew the factory rules. He had to go to get off work and leave on time every day, work on an assembly line, and had no freedom at all.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have chosen to deliver food instead of working in a factory.
Zhang Heng didn't want to deceive the branch secretary, so he told Zhang Qiang about his difficulties.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Qiang laughed.
"Xiao Heng, the factories in our village are different from those outside."
Zhang Qiang has learned a lot of information about the charcoal factory in the past few days, and now he finally has something to talk about.
"Our factory is easy. We just put the weeds and wood into the grinder and grind them. Then we put them into the furnace and wait for eight or ten hours. Then they turn into powder. Then we add some chemicals and we get charcoal."
"It's just some hard work at most. The rest of the time you can play with your phone, brag, or rest. It's all fine as long as it doesn't affect production. Besides, they said we get off work in three shifts and we get off work on time."
The more Zhang Heng listened, the more excited he became. Although the pay was a little lower, this job was really easy.
This job has two of these: high pay, little work, and is close to home.
Thinking that he hadn't been home for two years and that all the household affairs were taken care of by his mother alone, Zhang Heng gritted his teeth and decided to go back.
Anyway, if it doesn't work out, he can just come back and deliver food.
Zhang Qiang nodded to Zhang Dachuan, indicating that everything was settled.
Zhang Dachuan also breathed a sigh of relief and a smile appeared on his face.
In just these few days, he laughed more times than in all the previous years combined.
Just as Zhang Qiang had advised him before, life can't always be bad, maybe things will get better as time goes by.
"I have to tell my wife to clean up Xiaoheng's room. I just got a new quilt. I'll spread it out on him after it's been exposed to the sun. He can sleep on the new quilt when he comes back."
Seeing that Zhang Dachuan's family had been dealt with, Zhang Qiang went to the next one.
The factory initially recruited six people, and he reserved one for Zhang Yang because their family had the best relationship with Jiang Jiang. As for the remaining five, he was somewhat selfish and reserved one for his own son. The other positions were given to the families with the most difficult conditions in the village.
He went to several companies and no one refused this job which was almost like giving money away.
Li Yue's family, her husband died early, and she raised three children alone. A job can greatly improve their family's life.
Old Zhang, whose original name was Zhang Zhang, had a son who had a fever when he was a child. The adults were busy with farm work and didn't notice it. By the time he was sent to the town hospital overnight, he was already unconscious due to the fever. Even now that he has grown up, he is still a little silly.
Wang Jin's family didn't have anything too tragic, but they had eight elderly people to support, including their grandparents, grandparents-in-law, and both sets of parents, so Zhang Qiang also included him in the list.
There was one vacancy left, which Zhang Qiang reserved for the siblings Zhou Tao and Zhou Xiaoxia, allowing them to take turns to work.
The two siblings have just entered high school. The federal government now implements nine years of compulsory education. Starting from high school, they have to pay tuition and various miscellaneous fees. Their family is in financial difficulty, so they plan to support only one of them to go to school.
Both children are over sixteen years old. If they work part-time and study part-time, maybe they can both finish their studies.
As for the parents of the two children, Zhang Qiang shook his head.
The mother ran away with someone, and the father had been missing for a long time and didn't care about the children at all. The two elderly people in the family were not suitable to work in the factory.
Jiang Jiang didn't expect that she was just looking for an excuse to build a shelter in the name of building a factory, and to stock up some charcoal in preparation for the upcoming cold wave.
In ten years, with an investment of several hundred thousand, the entire village was changed.
At this time, she happened to encounter a troublesome matter.