“Wow, Huai Ru is so lucky. Your husband, Dong Xu, was rated as a first-class machinist. His monthly salary is 33 yuan!”
Although Jia Dong Xu didn't pass the exam for a second-class machinist this time, his original salary was 27.5 yuan. After the rating, it rose to 33 yuan.
It's equivalent to 33 yuan in the second set of currency, which is considered a high salary among the young people in the courtyard!
Yang Rui Hua also had a beaming smile on her face, but she didn't mention that Yan Bu Gui was rated as a ninth-grade elementary school teacher with a monthly salary of 32 yuan.
Xu Fu Gui hummed a tune as he walked in. Liu Hai Zhong raised an eyebrow: “Hey, Old Xu, you look in a good mood. What's your rating?”
Xu Fu Gui: “I'm a seventh-grade projectionist, with a monthly salary of 40.5 yuan!”
Liu Hai Zhong was pleased: “You're a bit behind me. I'm a sixth-grade blacksmith, with a monthly salary of 72.3 yuan!”
Xu Fu Gui: “Well, you can't compare with us! I get an allowance every time I go to the countryside to show movies!”
He doesn't just get an allowance. When he goes to people's workplaces, they give him lots of things.
He gets free food and gifts, so his monthly income is no less than Liu Hai Zhong's!
Jia Dong Xu boasted: “Second Uncle, you're still behind my master. My master is now a seventh-grade machinist, with a monthly salary of 84.5 yuan!”
Liu Hai Zhong was unconvinced. He always wanted to replace Yi Hai Zhong and become the first elder in the courtyard. Now Yi Hai Zhong had become a seventh-grade machinist, and he was outdone again!
Yi Hai Zhong pretended not to care, pretending to look around: “Hey, Zhuzi? Zhuzi should have taken the rating exam, too!”
Sha Zhu: “First Elder, I'm here! The rating exam for our kitchen is slow. You see, I cook so well, that Factory Manager Yang kept me for a long time!”
Yi Hai Zhong, Jia Dong Xu, and Qin Huai Ru's faces froze.
How did Sha Zhu end up here?
Didn't he go to Bao Cheng to look for He Da Qing?
Sha Zhu was beaming with pride, feeling grateful to Liu Hui Zhen in his heart. After all, it was thanks to her reminder that he got this golden opportunity.
Xu Da Mao looked at Sha Zhu's smug look: “Tsk, you're just a stinking cook. What did the factory manager keep you for?
You only graduated from elementary school. I'm about to graduate from middle school!”
Sha Zhu said proudly: “Of course he kept me to cook! What's the use of graduating from middle school? Can you make money? You little rascal, do you know how much my grandpa earns a month now?
37.5 yuan!”
“37.5 yuan?”
The neighbors in the courtyard gasped.
“That's impossible!”
Jia Dong Xu's face turned green. Everyone in the courtyard had just said he was the most promising young man, but Sha Zhu, younger than him, actually earned more than him?
Why?
Xu Fu Gui: “Zhuzi, I know people in the kitchen. Even if you passed the exam for an eighth-grade cook, you should only get 35.5 yuan a month. Your salary doesn't seem right.”
Xu Da Mao: “Bragger! You little rascal, you must have not taken the rating exam. You're just boasting!”
Yi Hai Zhong felt a slight sense of relief when he heard that Sha Zhu was bragging. It seemed that Sha Zhu really missed it, but why didn't he go to Bao Cheng? Did he receive a message halfway?
Sha Zhu: “You little rascal, are you saying you're clueless? I, He Yu Zhu, am an eighth-grade cook, with a monthly salary of 35.5 yuan. But Factory Manager Yang tasted the dishes I made, and he thought they were delicious.
He also said he would let me make all the dishes for the steel mill's reception, and he promoted me to be the head chef, with a monthly allowance of 20 yuan. That adds up to 37.5 yuan!”
“Head chef? Wow, Zhuzi, you're really successful!”
Liu Hai Zhong's eyes were filled with envy. He dreamed of becoming a leader, even just a team leader in the workshop, but he never got there.
Now this rascal, Sha Zhu, had become the head chef first, and he deserved it?
Sha Zhu hummed a tune and walked directly towards his room. Today, no one in the courtyard had more face than him, Sha Zhu!
He was the most successful young man!
Xu Da Mao's face was green with anger: “Dad, hurry up and find me a job! I have to surpass that little rascal, Sha Zhu!”
Xu Da Mao was stomping his feet in anger!
Jia Dong Xu's face was even greener. Sha Zhu's salary was so much higher than his!
Yi Hai Zhong's face was grim. For the first time, he felt a sense of unease. It seemed that something was slipping out of his control in this courtyard.
Originally, Yi Hai Zhong looked down on Sha Zhu, but with his means, he was confident he could control him.
But Sha Zhu had told him that he was going to Bao Cheng, and he never went.
What went wrong?
Sha Zhu returned home, picked up one of the lunchboxes, and went towards the west courtyard.
“Wow, you see, yesterday Sha Zhu took things to the west courtyard, and today he's going there again. That Liu Hui Zhen is really something. In our courtyard, no one except Grandma Lou has ever eaten Sha Zhu's lunchbox!”
“Who says not? Sha Zhu must have meat and vegetables today. I could smell the deliciousness from far away!”
Yi Hai Zhong's face was even more grim. What was Sha Zhu doing?
Could it be that Liu Hui Zhen and Sha Zhu talked about his rating?
However, Yi Hai Zhong quickly dismissed this idea because Liu Hui Zhen wasn't a worker, she was an illiterate who only knew how to take care of children and do odd jobs.
She wouldn't have the ability to understand something like a rating exam!
They say there are no secrets in the courtyard, and Shen Yuan Chao experienced it firsthand today.
He was lying at home, listening to the courtyard buzzing with excitement, discussing the eighth-grade salary standard!
Speaking of which, this eighth-grade worker system should have been implemented in 1950 from the Songjiang River area. Then, it gradually began to be implemented on a small scale from 1952, and it was only fully implemented after the joint state-private ownership in 1956!
He didn't expect the steel mill to implement the eighth-grade wage system so early.
And it was clear that due to Shen Yuan Chao's arrival, Liu Hui Zhen's life path had changed. Sha Zhu, because of Liu Hui Zhen, had passed the exam for an eighth-grade cook ahead of schedule, not only becoming a chef but also gaining the favor of Factory Manager Yang, becoming the head chef of the kitchen.
The future tyrant of the steel mill's kitchen was born early due to his butterfly effect.
He needed to work harder too!
Thinking about this, Shen Yuan Chao began to roll over again, using all his strength.
“Brother is so amazing, he rolled over again!”
“Mom, you're back. Mom, brother rolled over 12 times today!”
Liu Hui Zhen's eyes were full of joy: “Really? Rolling over is a good thing, it means you're growing healthy! Let me see, our little Yuan Chao, how did you roll over?”
Yu Shui: “Come on, Yuan Chao brother, roll over!”
Shen You Chu and Shen You Tian clapped their hands: “Brother, come on!”
Shen Yuan Chao rolled over three more times amidst the cheers.
Liu Hui Zhen kissed his cheek happily: “My Yuan Chao is so amazing!”
Shen Yuan Chao looked at his system panel:
【Baby Stage: Growth Task: Roll over 1000 times. Current Progress: 24/1000】