Laizhou.

Donkey carts stopped one by one, and the Dezhou gang members shouted and drove the refugees out of the car and arranged them. They reported the situation to several officials in Laizhou: "This group brought a total of 130 craftsmen and 576 people, and they have all been brought here. The next group will arrive in two days..."

Huang Dingmao stood in the crowd with his little family. He looked at him and saw that the official in Laizhou in front of him looked different. He didn't dare to look at it anymore. He glanced at it for several times before he realized... It turned out that the sleeves were different. The sleeves in the official uniforms in Shandong were not wide sleeves, but narrow sleeves, which looked more neat and capable than the official master I had seen before.

I heard the Laizhou official say to the Dezhou gang members again: "Everyone will have a day off first, and a batch of weapons will be transported to Dezhou tomorrow..."

Someone led these craftsmen to an open space. After a while, several officials came up and held a list and shouted: "Call out of the list. The carpenter came first, and if he was called, he would stand here. Someone took you to the shipyard. Do you know? Wang Dafu..."

After calling twenty households in a row, it was the blacksmith's turn.

Huang Dingmao listened with his ears. When he heard his name calling, he quickly responded and led his family out of the line.

There were fifteen blacksmiths, all of which were ordered and led by someone.

As we walked along, we saw huge houses everywhere, mostly stone walls and mud walls, with few wooden walls, but there were still buzzing sounds from them, making them lively.

Huang Dingmao had never seen such a big house in his life, and he widened his eyes and was amazed.

After a while, when he entered a zone, Huang Dingmao knew that it was the sound of iron dissolving and iron thrusting. He thought that this was the place where he worked in the future.

But no matter how you ask, you just pull the person over and continue to make a blacksmith?

He thought of taking a look at these big workshops. The official who led him kept walking around the big workshop and took them to the row of houses behind him.

"Do you want to divide the house?" someone whispered.

Huang Dingmao couldn't believe that there was no such good thing, but he couldn't help but look forward to it.

Then the official pointed his hand, pointed at a house and said, "He Dazhuang, your family lives here."

Fifteen families were excited.

"It really needs to be divided."

Huang Dingmao stood on tiptoe, looking forward to it.

Finally, the official pointed to a room and shouted, "Huang Dingmao, your family lives here."

Huang Dingmao was shocked and took his family into the house.

The house is actually very small and has no yard. But this is the first time in Huang Dingmao that such a small house can be divided into five internal organs. The family of four can barely live in two rooms.

After putting down the tribute, I looked around and then some officials came in to distribute things one by one.

Each person divided a small sign with the words "Tie Sifang".

There are also several tickets, which read "bath quotations", saying that they are used to take a bath in the bathhouse.

The official solemnly explained: "Remember, men can only go to men's bathhouses, and women can only go to women's bathhouses. If you dare to run around, you will be caught and beaten to death."

"The little one must not dare to run around."

Next are some daily necessities.

In the end, several notes called "Grain Sale" were distributed.

"You have to collect this grain."

"Official, what is this?"

"The food here is uniformly allocated. How much food do you eat every month? If you have money, you have to have food coupons. If you want food coupons, you can only earn it by working. Do you understand?"

"I understand, I am very capable of working!" Huang Dingmao focused on the key point.

The official said, "No matter how hard you can work, it's useless. One person can't earn food coupons for four people. If you don't raise idle people here, your family will have to work."

"Then what can my wife do?"

"Of course someone will make arrangements later." The official said, his eyes swept over Huang Xiaohua and Huang Xiaomu, and asked, "How old are you two kids?"

"My daughter is seventeen, and her son is sixteen."

"Can you read?"

"My son can recognize a few words, not many."

"What a pity. If you are two years younger, you can send it to the school to study, and you will have a great future after giving food and accommodation."

The official said, shook his head, stood up, and then explained: "Prepare for a while, and go to the workshop in a quarter of an hour."

"Let's start today?"

“There are no idle people here.”

"Yes, yes." Huang Dingmao nodded quickly and asked again: "My son Xiaomu, can he be a helper for me? Is it also considered a job?"

"When I arrived at the factory, the production team leader had seen the craftsmanship before talking about it."

"Okay." Huang Dingmao was still confident in his craftsmanship.

Immediately afterwards, another team of managers came over outside, and there were men and women.

"Let's come out. I've done my job. If you want to have enough food, you can choose the good job as soon as possible."

Huang Dingmao's family was going out and he heard He Dazhuang brag about his wife: "Now there is a shortage of blacksmiths here, you are lucky. When other refugees come here, they are not as good as you..."

The dozen men and women in charge of the other side were standing separately, shouting one by one without any haste.

"Those who can weave cloth come here."

"Stand here if you can sew armor..."

The two managers who stood at the end did not shout, stood with their hands behind their backs. It seemed that they would take over the person who could not do anything.

Huang Dingmao looked at his eyes and saw a few female managers who were also majestic. He couldn't help but whisper to his wife Niu Juan: "It would be great if you'll get to this point one day."

Niu Juan was completely confused and had no time to gossip with him. After thinking about it, she pulled Huang Xiaohua to the team sewing armor there.

Huang Xiaomu pulled Huang Dingmao and asked, "Dad, why don't they recruit soldiers?"

He Dazhuang heard this aside and responded proudly: "Of course there are recruitment, so we were recruited in Dezhou. But we did not recruit us craftsmen, which means that our craftsmen are in short supply."

Huang Xiaomu was a little regretful. He didn't want to be a shortage of craftsmen. His mind was full of cavalry teams running past the official road that day.

Huang Dingmao slapped Huang Xiaomu and taught a lesson: "Don't think about those useless things, inherit your father's skills."

Then I suddenly saw another team of people coming in there. The team was quite old, and there was a little girl in white. More than a dozen managers turned around and looked at them, shouting: "Miss Xier, you are here too, where is Doctor Song?"

"Brother Song is not available, Uncle Zhao, our ambulance team will recruit another 300 people..."

"So many? Wait until the next batch of refugees come? This batch was sent first by the craftsmen and Jiaxiao. But if Miss Xier wants people, you can pick them first..."

The little girl named Xier nodded and smiled, "Thank you Uncle Zhao."

The manager named Zhao shouted, "Are you going to the ambulance team? The food and wages are twice as much as ordinary jobs. After learning to rescue, you will have a good house... But you have to think it through, maybe you will be on the battlefield in the future."

The refugees started whispering, they were just a little confused and had no idea.

Someone asked in a low voice: "Can a woman go too?"

"Yes." Xier replied, "As long as you can do things, no matter how men and women are treated equally."

Huang Dingmao heard that he was going to the battlefield, but he didn't think the rescue team was anything good. He slapped his hand and pressed it on the shoulder of Huang Boy not to let him move.

However, Huang Xiaohua ran out and asked, "Can I go? I'm not... illiterate."

"Can."

Huang Dingmao was very anxious and was about to go up to stop him, but the manager of the iron factory there had already arrived.

"Blacksmiths come with me, don't be too slow."

The iron factory is in charge of the business and is in full swing. He walks with a square scarf in his hand and sweats while walking. He walks very quickly and shouts as he walks: "Hurry up, don't miss the work of this month..."

Huang Dingmao and others were led by the manager to the iron factory. When he turned around, he saw that his daughter Huang Xiaohua was already standing behind the Xier girl.

The road from the house to the factory is also clean and tidy. From time to time, I saw officers and soldiers patrolling back and forth, and the garrison was very strict. Huang Dingmao dared not say much and entered the factory honestly.

Then someone came to take the exam for their craftsmanship, and then they were assigned to work under a foreman.

Huang Dingmao and five people in a team. Their foreman named Jiang Dazhuang took out a hollow small iron pillar and another mold to try it out for them twice.

"How many gun barrels can you cast in a day?"

"Three." Someone responded.

Someone also replied: "Four."

Huang Dingmao thought to himself that he would be able to sell some strength and cast five in a day, but he didn't want to show off and lowered his head and didn't care.

"Everyone is inspected, and those who fail will be fined. But the more we do, the better, the more wages and grains we make, do you understand?"

...

It was already evening this day, and Huang Dingmao thought he was just familiar with his work on the first day. Unexpectedly, he was pressed to work until the evening, which made him so tired.

Fortunately, I am responsible for the meal here, and I eat quite a lot, and each person has a piece of meat.

In Huang Dingmao's opinion, it is like a god who can live a full life like a god.

Until the hour of Hai, Huang Dingmao and Huang Xiaomu cast a gun barrel together and handed it to Jiang Dazhuang. Jiang Dazhuang was very satisfied with him and took notes. He also explained to him: "This is your performance this month."

Huang Dingmao didn’t understand what performance is, but the more he did, the more he got.

When the bell rang outside, Jiang Dazhuang gathered the newcomers and explained: "After you finish your work, go back to your own house. Don't run around. Running around will be taken as a tenant and beheaded..."

Huang Dingmao's neck shrank again, and he made up his mind not to go anywhere.

"Go back, rest for five hours, come to work tomorrow at Mao hour. If you arrive on time, you will have steamed buns to eat..."

Huang Dingmao and his son returned to their new home, and Niu Juan and Huang Xiaohua also came back. They did not dare to visit their neighbors, so the whole family gathered together and chattered about what they saw today.

Niu Juan rubbed her eyes and said, "I kept sitting there sewing the armor, sewing it constantly. In the evening, I divided a bowl of dry rice and two dishes. The last time I ate dry rice was the same as the previous year..."

She had no more experiences.

Huang Xiaohua kept talking.

"Dad, mom, do you know? The ambulance team is the best job here. They taught me to recognize words. Look, this is one, which is different from the word "one" in other places. Simply, the two words are different. I have to learn to catch medicinal products and learn first aid... It is said that it will take half a month to get the exam. If I can pass the exam, I will get clothes, and I will have food and silver to replenish you every month. Miss Xier said that our parents should not be inferior to boys' children..."

Huang Dingmao finally couldn't help but cursed: "Shut up. Do you know why there are so many benefits? You will be killed in the future, stupid boy."
To be continued...