The Dragon Boat Festival in the Chu family's old house has always been grand and joyful. As long as there are customs that have been heard of, such as making rice dumplings, drinking realgar wine, wearing sachets with colorful ropes, hanging mugwort, etc., Shen Luzhu will give them to the family In terms of people arrangement, the festive atmosphere must be full.
Especially this year, there is a new addition to the family, and the Zhengzheng children are especially loved by the elders, making the Dragon Boat Festival in the Chu family's old house extra lively this year.
The joyful and lively atmosphere is always very easy to infect others. Several families near the Chu family also followed suit, and the flavor of the Dragon Boat Festival suddenly became more intense.
Many people in the village would sigh when they saw it. Why do they feel that since Boss Chu and his family were driven out of the backing village, how come they feel that the whole village has become more harmonious!
After the Dragon Boat Festival, the young couple rested for two days and opened a shop more than usual.
The paper money that could be sold a few days in advance was not enough. Shen Luzhu just wanted to use his shop to create some momentum for the subsequent formation of the funeral team.
As soon as the news came out that Chu's shop was recruiting workers again, within two days, it became the center of discussions in the village after dinner.
It also happened to be the slack time when the villagers had just planted crops. Although there were not many people with money to buy paper, there were quite a few people who came to the shop to have fun and inquire about information.
"Daughter-in-law of the Chu family, they all said that your family is recruiting workers again. Do you plan to hire more people this time? Do you think I can make it, aunt?"
"Auntie, our family does have plans to recruit workers, but this time we are only recruiting male workers. Does Auntie have any relatives who would like to come over and give it a try?"
Although he was chatting with others, Shen Luzhu kept paying attention to the movements of his fat son. When he saw that he stuffed the cloth tiger in his hand into his mouth again, he quickly pressed down Zhengzheng who was trying to struggle with one hand and held it with the other. Buhuhu took it out gently.
Since May, the weather has been getting warmer and warmer, and Shen Luzhu has begun to try to take Zhengzheng out for a spin.
Either in the yard of one's own house, or in the shop, or sometimes going to the yard of my cousin's house next door to bask in the sun and enjoy the wind, which is always good for children's health.
Zhengzheng, who is now more than four months old, has long been able to turn over and over on the kang skillfully by himself. Not only has his range of activities increased, but the boy's active nature and curiosity are also obviously more intense. Only A Niang naturally prefers to stay in a shop where strangers often come and go compared to Li Hua's room.
Seeing that the other party didn't think twice, the aunt rejected her, and asked with some persistence: "Your job of making paper money requires carefulness. Why do you only recruit men? Aunt, I do the work. No worse than a man!"
"Auntie, you misunderstood. The workers we are recruiting this time are not for paper money work. We want to create a funeral team, so we only recruit male workers."
"It's so good to be doing paper money business, why is there a funeral procession again? Can you make money from that thing?"
"This matter does not conflict with our family's paper money business. I thought we would do it together. As for whether we can make money, I can't say yet, but you have to try to find out, right?"
Another aunt listened curiously and hurriedly interrupted: "Daughter-in-law of the Chu family, what do you do as a funeral team? Show people Feng Shui, find cemeteries, and take care of mundane matters? You two are so young. Yes, do you still understand this?"
Shen Luzhu was stunned when he heard this. The aunt's words reminded her that they could not only help people with physical work such as digging tombs, carrying coffins, and building funeral sheds, but they could also do some technical work.
Just like what this aunt said, it's a new business to find some yin and yang gentlemen who know Feng Shui and funeral customs to help the host family find a cemetery and take care of the day-to-day affairs, isn't it?
But for now, they still have to assemble the most basic funeral team first, and do the most basic things first. The rest can wait until the business is stable in the future.
Chu Yi saw his wife suddenly froze, and guessed that she was probably thinking of something else. He reached out and hugged back his fat son who had rolled over to the bedside, and then answered for her: "It's just some physical work for the time being, like riding a horse." Funeral sheds, digging graves, carrying coffins to funerals, etc.”
The aunt had obviously not thought that the young couple's funeral team was doing these things, and she muttered in confusion: "
These things can't be done by just asking some relatives and neighbors to help. Why do we need to find a special funeral team? I don't think this deal of yours is right. "
The aunt who wanted to recommend herself before also advised: "Yeah, I'm afraid this business won't work. You guys from the Chu family, don't mess around and lose money later! I think, just do this paper money business honestly. That's great. If you think you're not making enough now, then make the workshop bigger and hire more workers. If you sell it for a while, you'll have everything!"
The new deal was not favored by the villagers, but the young couple was not upset at all. They had already thought of this situation before, or this scene was actually what they wanted to happen.
After running a shop selling paper money for so long, Shen Luzhu slowly figured out some tricks. Probably because there are very few leisure and entertainment activities on weekdays. People in their village especially like to get together to chat about trivial matters about their boss. Gossip about the Xi family.
If there is something that you want to publicize, the best way is to arouse the interest of the villagers and let everyone discuss it. The more lively everyone talks, the faster it will be publicized.
Just like this moment, everyone who hears it, whether they want to come to work or simply come to join in the fun, will ask a few questions curiously. After asking, they will not stop asking, but they will also chat with others when they go back.
Shen Luzhu explained with a smile: "Of course it is possible to ask relatives and neighbors for help, but then you have to go door to door to ask people for help. Besides, people may not be willing to help. Instead of wasting time and asking for favors, , then you might as well come to us directly, it would save you worry and effort!"
Chu Yi also said: "The people in the funeral team will all be ready by then. All we need to do is say hello and work can start at any time."
Shen Luzhu nodded and continued to add in a tacit understanding: "Yes, there are many of us, and it would take an hour to find someone else. Maybe we can get it done in just one stick of incense!"
Asking relatives and neighbors for help is not free. When the time comes, you will need money and favors, so it is better to find someone like us. "
Those aunts and ladies who came to the shop to join in the fun listened to Shen Luzhu's words and thought about it carefully: "It seems to be true. If the same money can be used to solve the problem, who would be willing to go door to door? Come to ask for help, but I don’t want to do it anyway.”
"Yes, sometimes people may not be willing to help. For example, if someone who is not so close comes to our door, wouldn't it be very difficult for us?"
But there are still some people who think this matter is not very reliable: "This is a rule passed down in the village for hundreds of years. Whoever has a simple matter does not ask everyone for help. If you ask me for help, I will find you again." Come back to help, I helped others, but when I turn back to my own affairs, I am asked to hire someone myself, so I won’t do it!”
"I'm not even talking about whether there are people who have paid money to look for me. I think it's hard to find people here. We all know that Bai Shier has a lot of help. Who would rush to do this job for a living?" Anyway, if I kill the men in my family, I won’t ask them to do this!”
No matter what the people in the backing village thought, the fact that the Chu family wanted to recruit male workers and form a funeral team was eventually publicized according to the wish of the young couple, and within a few days everyone in the village knew about it.
If everyone else was talking about something new, then Uncle Chu would be very upset. He had obviously moved out of the backing village, but still, from time to time, some short-sighted people would come to his house and say that. If things are going well over there, or how lively the Dragon Boat Festival is over there, or the business there is getting bigger and bigger, it would be really unlucky to form a funeral team!
However, these young couples didn't know about it. At first, some people would come to them and talk about it. Later, they saw that the two couples didn't seem to care. Gradually, no one mentioned it anymore, leaving only Uncle Chu and his family. Secretly gritting his teeth, but there was nothing he could do.
After the excitement of the past few days, those who came to visit again were those who wanted to apply for the funeral team. As Uncle Chu had expected, most of them were from poor families.
They all thought about the generous remuneration when the Chu family's workshop was recruiting people. Although this job sounds a little less pleasant now, compared with those flashy things, money is more important.
This time the young couple recruited workers not as carefully as before. They didn’t have many requirements, as long as they were
Those who were strong and able to exert their strength were selected. After some screening, some from different villages were specially kept.
More than a dozen middle-aged men stood in the Chu family's shop, suddenly making the originally spacious room seem a bit crowded.
Chu Yi stood behind the counter and explained to everyone: "The jobs we are recruiting this time are for white-collar jobs. They mainly do the hard work of setting up mourning sheds and carrying coffins for funerals. If any brother has any taboos, , it’s nothing, just say it and you can leave now.”
The person who came to their family should have known what they wanted to do this time, but the young couple felt that it was better to explain it more clearly and make trouble beforehand rather than something go wrong later.
Seeing that no one had any objections, Shen Luzhu explained their ideas in detail. This time, the young couple was not so much recruiting workers, but it could actually be said to be cooperation. The young couple was responsible for recruiting business and making unified arrangements.
Everyone in the funeral team usually only needs to stay in their own homes. When there is work, they go directly to the master's house to do work.
The wages are paid one at a time. The young couple is responsible for negotiating the price, deducting the commission, and dividing the rest equally among everyone. This does not delay the family's farm work and does not affect the money earned. The more you work, the more you get, and the less you work, the less you get.
Although it may be less than the copper coins you get after being asked to help by some people, the number of times will definitely be incomparable, and the price each time is fixed, and there will not be a situation of more and less once, and the overall calculation It’s also a lot of income.
