"Qi Chongwei, Chen Gangshan, Zheng Zhilong, let me explain this to you!
Because your personnel files are not held by our First Branch Factory, whether you are Grade Four workers, Grade Five workers, regular workers, or cadres, we have no way to sort you out separately.
And what we are issuing to you is only a living allowance, not wages, so it will be distributed according to the standard rate of eight yuan and fifty cents per day. Please understand.
Also, you were here for a total of twenty-six days. Our factory director specifically instructed us to count it as a full month, which comes to two hundred and fifty-five yuan per person. If you have no objections, please sign here."
"..."
The young girl from the First Branch Factory's Finance Department was not very old, but she handled matters crisply and spoke with a sharp tongue. She explained that regardless of age or rank, Qi Old Si and the others would all receive eight yuan and fifty cents per day.
Then, with an unquestionable manner and swift efficiency, she had Qi Old Si and the others collect their money and leave at once.
Naturally, Qi Old Si and the others had no objections. They knew that the First Branch Factory's workers earned high wages, but what did that have to do with them? The young girl had already said it—their personnel files were still at Hongxing Factory!
Besides, two hundred and fifty-five yuan was not a small sum! It was seventy or eighty yuan more than they earned at Hongxing Factory.
More importantly, to Qi Old Si and the others, those two hundred and fifty-five yuan were "pure profit."
From the moment they had entered the First Branch Factory for inspection and practical training, the First Branch Factory had