Cheng Wanwan just opened her mouth.
Wen didn't even ask how much the salary would be, and just agreed.
In the morning, she would go to the fields to pull weeds and apply fertilizer, and in the afternoon she would basically do some chores at home, including collecting lanterns.
Cheng Wanwan smiled and said, "Then I'll give you two cents a day, is that okay?"
Mrs. Sun on the side listened, with a trace of pride in her eyes. The second sister-in-law worked hard every day and didn't know how to fight for it. The eldest sister-in-law also came to help, and she was only given two cents to help collect the lanterns. Wow, she earned at least 2 cents from peeling off lanterns in one day. Ten copper plates.
Old Mrs. Zhao pulled Cheng Wanwan to the side: "Are you a rich man? Pay this person and pay that person. No amount of money is enough for you to build like this!"
Cheng Wanwan said: "Mom, how could I let myself lose money? Don't worry, I won't lose money."
The picking fee for ten kilograms of lanterns is twenty cents, and the peeling fee is five cents. The scrubbing fee is twenty-five cents, which adds up to fifty cents. It does sound like a lot, but ten kilograms of lanterns can make five buckets of ice. For about four to five hundred bowls of rice noodles, she could get eight to nine hundred cents, which was just a drop of money.
Such cheap labor is simply not possible in modern society.
She also figured out that instead of hiding it and exhausting herself to death, she might as well ask someone for help.
Everyone makes money together, and no one has time to scheme against anyone else.
At this moment, many people passed by the house. Cheng Wanwan said to the passers-by: "From now on, if everyone has lanterns, they will be sent here. The price will be the same."
The villagers went back to tell each other, and soon someone brought over the lanterns that the children had picked during the day.
Mrs. Wen took out the scale at home, put the 40 cents that Cheng Wanwan had just given in her pocket, and started to collect the lanterns for the first time.
The process is very simple, just pay the money and deliver the goods in one hand, and it’s done in an instant.
The collected lanterns were sent to Mrs. Sun, who sat on a low stool and began to peel the lantern seeds. At first, she felt very proud.
But gradually, she stopped laughing. She kept sitting still peeling the lantern, unable to do any work. On the other hand, the second sister-in-law, after collecting one person's lantern, could continue to sit down and knit straw sandals and mend clothes. Nothing is delayed.
And her hands were busy, peeling the seeds non-stop.
The old lady was still admonishing: "It's your own business to collect money for your work. You also have to do the chores at home. My third daughter-in-law, it's your turn to boil the water."
Mrs. Sun had no choice but to put aside peeling off the lantern for the time being and turned around to boil water.
She asked Chunhua and Donghua to help her peel it off. Donghua was still young and couldn't sit still. After peeling it for a while, she ran out to play. Chunhua was the oldest girl. The old lady asked her to do some chores from time to time, but she didn't do anything. Fa sat down and worked all the time.
That night, Mrs. Wen easily collected twenty-five kilograms of lanterns, settled her accounts, and went to bed.
Mrs. Sun, on the other hand, sat beside the bed, grabbing the two girls and peeling them off together until they were young, but not even half of them came out.
The next day, Mrs. Sun had two dark circles under her eyes, and her two daughters looked listless. She had not slept well and could not continue sleeping. She wanted to go to the ground to pull weeds in the morning when the sun was not strong, but there was no lantern. After peeling it off, I could only tell the two girls to have some snacks.
When Cheng Wanwan got up and went to clean up the yard, she saw Sun in the distance walking non-stop into the fields, looking anxious.
She smiled softly. It took at least five or six hours to peel more than twenty kilograms of lanterns a day. With the help of spring flowers and winter flowers, it would only take two hours. It passed in less than half a day. Sun was so busy. , it is impossible to cause trouble again in a short period of time.
However, Cheng Wanwan still underestimated Mrs. Sun's face. After Mrs. Sun pulled the grass from her two acres of land, she wandered in front of her house.
Seeing Zhao Da's oxcart parked at the gate of Cheng Wanwan's yard, Mrs. Sun asked in various ways.
"His third aunt is free." Cheng Wanwan urged lightly, "Have you finished peeling the lanterns you collected yesterday? I need to use them here. If his third aunt can't finish them, I'll ask the loach girl to help with them. My business can’t wait.”
Mrs. Sun immediately said: "I'll finish peeling it off soon. I'll send the spring flowers over later."
She turned around and hurried home. Although this job was troublesome and time-consuming, it was indeed quite profitable. How could she give it to Aunt Wang?
When she went back and saw Wenshi leisurely mending clothes for her children, her heart began to sour again. The second sister-in-law could get two pennies just by sitting and collecting lanterns. These two pennies seemed to be picked up for free, and she earned two pennies. Money is so hard to come by. Comparing them two by one makes Sun even more heartbroken.
But she didn't dare to complain, because if her sister-in-law really stopped letting her do it, she wouldn't get a penny.
Sun sighed and made breakfast. She had to finish breakfast for the whole family before she could start her own work.
Cheng Wanwan and her family had already eaten early
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Last night, Zhao Ergou didn't come back, and her old mother's heart still fell into her belly. I don't know when, but she actually regarded these boys as her own sons. She was worried that they would not have enough to eat and that they would not have enough clothes to wear. Nuan, worried that the children will be bullied when they go out...
Zhao Ergou was not at home, and Cheng Wanwan and Zhao Sanniu went to town to deliver goods.
Six buckets of ice powder were placed on the oxcart, and the mother and son sat on each side. The oxcart went to Ping'an Town first, and each of the two restaurants delivered half a bucket. Then it went to Hekou Town, first to two restaurants that opened opposite each other, and then to Academy.
After delivering the goods before noon, Cheng Wanwan asked Zhao Da to wait at the city gate while she took Zhao Sanniu for a walk.
She wanted to buy some chickens and ducks, and Aunt Wang also asked her to bring some ducks back. Sure enough, there was a chicken and duck seller on the street. It was the same man from last time. When he saw Cheng Wanwan, he immediately greeted her warmly: "My little chickens are little The ducks are sold cheaply, eight cents each, you can choose whatever you want, the male ones are free of charge!"
There were forty or fifty chickens and ducks in each of the two cages, chirping and quacking incessantly.
The chickens and ducks this time seemed to be more energetic than last time, but the price was also two cents more expensive. Cheng Wanwan started to bargain: "I want all the ducks and twenty chicks. Please give me a real price." "
The man sighed: "This time the chickens and ducks have been raised for a few more days, otherwise they would not be so strong. I have to count the food they eat these days. Eight cents for one is really cheap, but my sister-in-law is Old customer, I also want to do business again, I can pay seven cents a piece, can you do it?"
"Let's do this. If you buy a rooster or duck, you don't need to refund the money. Each one costs six cents." Cheng Wanwan shook his head, "If it's too expensive, I can't afford it. I don't have food to eat at home, so why raise a chicken?" Chickens and ducks, forget it, I won’t buy it.”
She made a move to leave.
The man had no choice but to call her back: "It can be seen that my sister-in-law really wants it, so let's take them all away for six cents each, including the chickens. No one else will take care of the few remaining ones?"
As soon as the two of them came back and forth, they settled on the price.
Fifty ducks and thirty-nine chickens, Cheng Wanwan spent an extra two cents and bought two cages together.
After buying chicken and duck, Cheng Wanwan walked to the place where pens, inks, paper and inkstones were sold.
