The old factory’s walls have been demolished and most of the area needs to be rebuilt. We do need to hire some laborers to come to the construction site to move bricks and carry cement. But can these aunts and sisters handle such heavy physical work?

"How about letting the men in your family come to work on the construction site, and you can rest at home for another two months?" Jiang Tian suggested kindly.

A sister-in-law named Jin quickly waved her hands and said, "No, no, no, let's do it ourselves. It's just moving bricks and cement, right? I even fetch my own drinking water at home."

Mrs. Jin lives in the old city. Many old houses are not like the buildings today. Every household has running water. The street where they live uses public taps. The tap water they use at home has to be carried back home in buckets from the public taps.

Another one, called Sister Kuai, also said with a smile that she wanted to come to the construction site to work on her own.

Sister Kuai’s family makes tofu. Before she got married, she could even carry more than 100 kilograms of soybeans, let alone move bricks?

Mrs. Wei, Aunt Wan, and the remaining dozen or so female workers all patted their chests and said that even though they used to work on the assembly line in the factory, in fact, they had done all kinds of heavy and tiring work at home.

If they hadn't wanted to wait for the factory to open, they would have wanted to find a job at a construction site to carry bricks and sacks after not having received salary for two months.

However, what they didn't have the courage to tell Jiang Tian, ​​the small boss, was that the reason why they would rather work hard themselves than let the men in their families go to work was because they were afraid that once the job was in the hands of a man, it would be difficult to take it back.

In the past two years, many factories in the provincial capital have closed down. In the past, their men all worked in those large state-owned factories. Later, the factories went bankrupt and the men became unemployed. The parents-in-law had secretly made trouble countless times, asking them to give their jobs to the men.

Anyway, if a woman doesn't have a job, she can still go home to take care of her husband and children. How can a grown man not have a job?

If a man tells others that he wants the woman in his family to go out to work and earn money to support the family, where will he put his face?

There were indeed a few female workers in the factory who couldn't stand the nagging of their in-laws and gave up their jobs to their husbands.

At first, the whole family praised her for being sensible and a good woman who cared about her family.

But what then?

Without a job, the salary she used to receive every month became the man's. Her family began to despise her for not having a job, not earning money, and relying on a man for support.

It was obvious that the money the man gave her was used to buy groceries and various daily necessities for the family, but according to her parents-in-law and her husband, the money was all spent by her.

They regretted it, but they had already given up their jobs, and the sanitary napkin factory was not owned by their family. The factory allowed them to transfer the company internally once, which was already a gesture of respect for the old employees. How could they let their whole family switch jobs?

When they were working in the factory, they could buy some cheap, defective sanitary napkins at an internal price and use them themselves or sell them to others.

But now, if they want to ask men for money to buy some cheap sanitary napkins from the factory, they have to beg them several times before they can get the money.

There are a few men in the family with bad tempers who even beat their wives at home because they asked them for money to buy sanitary napkins!

They were all former colleagues. Seeing how miserable these female workers are now after giving up their jobs to their men, how could they dare to give up their jobs?

Isn’t it just moving bricks and carrying cement?

After two months of hard work, as long as they can keep this job, it will be their lifelong stable job.

At this moment, for some reason, the women suddenly felt that having a job that guaranteed a stable income was more reliable than having a man?

…

The renovation project of the sanitary napkin factory was also undertaken by Uncle Hu's construction company. Jiang Tian, ​​the client, wanted to arrange a dozen workers to work there, but it was just a matter of words.

However, in order not to cause trouble for her uncle, Jiang Tian still made an agreement with them that during the time they worked on the construction site, they would be paid by the construction company, which meant that they were workers hired by the construction contractor and had to follow the contractor's arrangements in everything.

"Don't worry, young boss. We know that you have to eat the food of whose house you serve." Sister Kuai agreed quickly.

The others also thought it was okay. They all understood what Jiang Tian meant. Wasn't it just that the factory wasn't paying wages during this period, so she was helping to introduce them to the construction company to do odd jobs?

As long as they can make money, and don't have to be beaten to the ground by their men just to buy a pack of sanitary napkins, they are willing to endure any hardship!

It just so happened that Jiang Tian also wanted to take this opportunity to ask her uncle's subordinates to help check the character of these female workers and whether they had any intention of repenting and reforming.

In order to help others to the end, Jiang Tian immediately invited the project manager over. After discussing the working hours and wages face to face, these female workers would be able to come to the construction site to work early tomorrow morning.

…

Sister Kuai was happy that she had hope for work and had unexpectedly found a part-time job. On the way back, she saw a roadside stall selling fish. Thinking of her daughter saying that she hadn't eaten fish for a long time, she gritted her teeth and picked a larger silver carp.

This kind of silver carp is not as delicious as the black carp, and has a stronger earthy smell, but it is the cheapest among domestic fish. Such a big silver carp cost less than two yuan, and it can be cut in half, which is enough for two meals for the family. Sister Kuai felt that she had bought a good deal.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered the house with the silver carp, her mother-in-law said in a sarcastic tone:

"You and your wife have both been laid off, and your family is so poor that they can barely afford to eat, and you still spend money to buy fish?"

Before she finished her words, the man rushed out of the house, waiting for the big fish in Sister Kuai's hand, with a look in his eyes as if he wanted to eat someone.

"Mom is right. Our family is so poor that we can barely make ends meet. We can't find a job anywhere. And you still spend money to buy fish? Where did you get the money? Did you hide some private money?"

As he said this, he was about to search Sister Kuai's shirt pockets.

Sister Kuai didn't expect that when she kindly took out her private money and bought a fish for the whole family, her mother-in-law and husband not only didn't say a single heartwarming word, but they actually slandered her for hiding the private money?

Don’t they know whether she has saved any money over the years?

The hardware factory where her husband works often has trouble paying wages, and doesn't the family of several people rely on her salary to make ends meet?

When she was working in the factory, she had no time to buy groceries, so she had to set aside half of her salary every month for her mother-in-law's living expenses. However, what the family ate every day was either bean sprouts, tofu, or various vegetable leaves that her mother-in-law picked up at the vegetable market. They rarely ate meat once a week.

Where did the money that my mother-in-law saved go?

A family war caused by a silver carp is about to break out...