"But new snacks are not so easy to make."
Tao Zhu's voice became increasingly muffled.
"Well... let's learn about snacks tonight instead of reading before going to bed."
Brother Zhu is a studious person who cherishes the opportunity to learn Chinese characters. After doing some intimate exercises in the evening, he always reviews the characters he learned during the day.
Since he is so worried about the family business at this time, tonight's literacy lesson will be changed to learning snacks.
"Ah? Do you also have other snacks?" Tao Zhu was surprised.
"I've read a lot of miscellaneous books about food before, and they contain a lot of snack recipes. Come on, let's go back and I'll teach you."
"Okay!" Tao Zhu's eyes were bright, and he pulled Li Qiao toward home, his steps obviously much lighter.
When he got home, Li Qiao took out the glutinous rice used to make maltose: "Glutinous rice can actually make a lot of snacks, but today we are making a more troublesome one called steamer cake."
"Zeng cake?"
"Yes. In addition, glutinous rice can also be used to make green dumplings. Green dumplings require mugwort. Although the freshest season of mugwort has passed, we can still make do with it."
Li Qiao said again.
"Can you make snacks with mugwort?" Li Qiao was surprised.
Wormwood is bitter.
"Yes, the world is so big, and every place has its own specialty snacks. Now that we are making specialty snacks from other places, at least the market in Pingcheng must be ours."
"Then let's try it quickly." Tao Zhu was surprised and wanted to do it himself.
If he didn't make these two new snacks quickly, he would definitely not be able to sleep well at night.
He must keep the good days he has now!
"Tomorrow we will build a shed over the three stoves next to the vegetable field and cover the three stoves." Li Qiao thought for a while and decided to renovate the yard.
Nowadays, people come and go at home, so in order to keep the dim sum recipe, we have to build a shed.
Also, it’s really time to recruit workers.
He and Brother Zhu couldn't make several kinds of snacks.
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Chapter 34 Recruiting people (ends with inverted V) Start selling maltose
However, when it comes to recruiting workers, who should be hired specifically?
People like Han Xiaoyan who plan to make their own snacks must not accept them.
But for now, who can keep their snacks a secret?
Li Qiao and Tao Zhu discussed for a while, and it wasn't until noon the next day that they finally decided on the candidate.
At noon, Li Liang came and sprayed water on the wheat making maltose.
Li Qiao then talked to him about recruiting workers.
"Brother, is Dashan willing to help? Thirty-five cents a day, including food. He mainly does some chores every day, such as when the villagers come to sell things, he is responsible for weighing and keeping accounts."
For a while, he couldn't find anyone he could trust to make snacks, so Li Qiao had no choice but to get away from these chores.
Villagers come here from time to time to sell things, which quite affects his work.
The reason why he chose Li Dashan was, firstly, that the child had a good character, and secondly, when Li Liang had lost all his money to pay off his gambling debts, the marriage that Li Dashan had hoped for was ruined. The younger brother did not accept the idea of supporting his younger brother, Eunuch Mo. And the rotten uncle.
The original person ruined Li Dashan's marriage, but Li Dashan didn't complain and still treated the original person like his brother-in-law.
The original person was too shameless to take this child's life-long affairs seriously.
But Li Qiao was embarrassed.
Therefore, when he wanted to recruit people, he thought of Li Dashan.
If Li Dashan had a stable and good job, it would definitely be easier to get married than it is now.
Of course, there is another very important point:
Li Dashan is literate.
Li Dashan and Yuan Shen were two years apart. They had a good relationship when they were young, and Yuan Shen taught Li Dashan how to read.
However, children from farm families have to work since they were young, so Li Dashan's daily study time was very short. In addition, the original person only came back once a month and was fascinated by the colorful world of the county, so this teaching did not continue. Too long.
But Li Dashan knew how to read after all. Although not much, he still had the ability to write a few words with missing arms and legs with a brush.
Therefore, it seems that Li Qiao and Tao Zhu finally want to ask Li Dashan to come and help.
Of course, this also has to be agreed by Li Liang Wang Guihua.
After all, at Li Dashan's age, he is considered a strong laborer in the countryside and can do any physical work. Especially Li Liang Wang Osmanthus also wants to make maltose.
"Huh? Let Dashan come here, thirty-five cents a day? Isn't this too high!"
Li Liang was surprised when he heard this and immediately waved his hand.
"Now that the wheat is harvested at home, all that is left is threshing and drying. If you are too busy, just ask him to help. No wages are required."
Although his family grows a lot of wheat, the wheat sickle was introduced later. In addition, in the first few days, the villagers helped his family cut a lot of wheat in order to test the performance of the wheat sickle, so this year his wheat was harvested early.
The rest of the work is not so urgent, Dashan can come to help.
Listening to this, Li Qiao knew that Li Liang was not being polite, that's what he thought.
Li Qiao also shook his head: "How can we not give him wages? Dashan has reached the age of proposing marriage. It's time for him to earn some money so that he can marry a wife or a husband."
"No, no, no, aren't we going to make maltose at home soon? We already have a small business, are we still worried that we won't be able to marry a husband?"
"The income from maltose belongs to you and sister-in-law. The salary I pay Dashan belongs to Dashan himself. You and sister-in-law cannot take it."
Knowing that Li Liang was doing it for his own good, Li Qiao tried to persuade him with great patience.
Li Liang couldn't argue with him, so he could only agree, but he still felt that thirty-five cents a day was too high. You must know that strong long-term workers like Wang Xiuying could only get the high wage of thirty cents a day during the autumn wheat harvest.
But now Dashan can get a higher salary of thirty-five cents just for weighing things and keeping accounts!
Dashan is not worthy of the work he does.
Not long after Li Liang left, Li Dashan came.
As soon as he came over, Li Qiao first asked him if he had eaten.
Knowing that Tao Zhu had already made lunch before he had time to eat, he let him eat first.
Tao Zhu makes fried noodles. Although it is his first time to make it, he is very talented and gives 100% concentration, so the taste is very authentic.
Li Dashan ate a small pot of oil-splashed noodles and was very satisfied.
His Zhuge's cooking skills are not inferior to his mother's at all, but in his family, cooking is not like this on weekdays.
His mother was reluctant to let her brothers eat such all-white noodles with open stomachs, because the three brothers were all growing up. If they had open stomachs, they could eat ten kilograms of noodles in one meal and still be unable to stop.
Therefore, his noodles are all multigrain noodles with only a small amount of flour.
As for such oily noodles, his mother is even more reluctant to part with it, because it is lard!
"Uncle, you don't need to pay me any wages, just take care of the food." He said to Li Qiao with a smile.
"You can't live without a bite. Here, the basket, you go cut the wormwood and pick out the tenderest leaves." Li Qiao gave him the basket.
"Mugwort? What are you doing cutting wormwood at this time?" Li Dashan was confused as he grabbed his backpack.
"It's for making snacks. Go quickly. When you come back, you have to go up the mountain to cut down small trees. I want to build a shed." Li Qiao pointed to the three stoves.
"...Okay." Li Dashan grabbed his backpack and trotted up the mountain.
The folks who came to Li Qiao's house to sell things saw that Li Qiao had arranged everything for Li Dashan, so they praised Li Dashan a few words and said that he was diligent.
Unexpectedly, Li Qiao announced with a smile that he hired Li Dashan for thirty-five cents a day to do all kinds of chores.
As soon as Li Qiao said these words, there were countless exclamations.
What?
You just hired Wang Xiuying to carry water, and now you hire Li Dashan?
And for doing such a small amount of work, you were actually paid thirty-five cents a day? !
Li Qiao is so generous!
The dealers have never given such high wages.
Li Qiao is so rich!
As expected, he was the one doing business with Wangyue Tower.
Li Qiao is so kind to his own people!
The couple Li Liang and Wang Guihua finally had their fortunes turn around. Years of hard work have paid off. Li Qiao knows how to repay his kindness. I'm envious!
The villagers looked at Li Qiao with more enthusiasm and recommended themselves one after another. They can do any job. If Li Qiao recruits more workers, he must think of them!
Li Qiao nodded. If there is a suitable job in the future, he will definitely consider the villagers.
But for now, he still has to come home.
Li Dashan saw that Li Qiao's brother-in-law paid him such a high salary, so he naturally worked hard. It only took him and Li Qiao Taozhu three days to build the shed.
The shed was not very big, measuring fifty square meters. It was covered with mugwort and wheat straw, and was covered with a layer of mud.
This method is relatively crude, but currently Li Qiao doesn't have enough money, so he can only deal with it like this first.
When I make money in the future, I can build a grand brick house with large tiles and a clean workshop.
