When Li Erniu learned that as long as he worked hard, he could get five taels of silver a month, his first feeling was incredible.
Their ancestors were all diligent farmers. After several generations of hard work, they also saved a lot of family property and purchased a lot of land.
In their family's concept, farmers only need to cultivate land, and the more land, the better.
The problem is, even if he and his elder brother work hard, the money they earn throughout the year is not as much as what they can earn from mining coal for three months.
Although the gift was an IOU, not real money, he didn't mind. Anyway, he believed that his benefactor would not lie to them.
the other side……
Jiang Yifeng looked at the victims eating pigs and drinking water with happy faces, and he couldn't help but laugh.
Even though pig offal is a low-grade ingredient in this world, in the previous life, the price of pig offal was more expensive than pork. After all, as long as you can make it, it tastes even better than pork.
As for why he suddenly paid salaries to the victims, he mainly realized that there were great risks in letting the victims work for free.
It's not that he is worried that the victims will be disobedient. He has many ways to make the victims work. The problem is that human nature can only share hardships, not blessings.
When no one has enough to eat, they may form a rope and push in one direction.
However, once life gets better, problems will be exposed. Some people who are lazy by nature will cheat and work less hard.
If everyone's benefits are the same at this time, this will make those who work hard feel dissatisfied, which will lead to their unwillingness to work hard.
This is human nature, not even Jiang Yifeng can do anything about it.
The only thing he can do is to pay salaries so that those who work more can get more salaries.
certainly……
For the victims, what Jiang Yifeng wanted was money.
But in Jiang Yifeng's eyes, these are just pieces of paper, and you can get as much as you want.
It is destined that these IOUs can only be circulated among the victims and can only be used to buy things Jiang Yifeng brought.
"Bad guy!"
Just when Jiang Yifeng praised his intelligence, an inappropriate voice suddenly sounded.
When everyone looked around, they saw a girl, Pianzi, holding her waist with one hand and pointing at Jiang Yifeng with the other.
"Da Ya, don't talk nonsense, this is our benefactor."
Da Ya's grandmother, the old woman, quickly stepped forward to pull Da Ya back.
"It's fine."
Jiang Yifeng smiled and waved his hand, looked at the little girl and asked: "Da Ya, I gave you your chicken, what did I do wrong?"
Da Ya was not afraid of Jiang Yifeng at all and said aggrievedly: "Last time you said you would take me to Su City to eat delicious food, but as soon as I agreed to you, you complained to my grandma and I was beaten up."
"This girl, she has been thinking about eating all day long, and unexpectedly...haha..."
"As expected of Lao Li's family, he can eat, sleep and work."
"Haha...I was accusing my benefactor of being a bad person and eating a lot of food at the same time. I was laughing so hard..."
People around looked at Da Ya's cute appearance and couldn't help laughing.
"That's what you should fight."
Jiang Yifeng suddenly became serious, "If you are willing to come with me if I say I will take you to eat, does that mean you will follow them if others say so?"
As soon as these words came out, the faces of the victims who were still laughing suddenly turned ugly. They understood what Jiang Yifeng meant, which was child abduction.
Because everyone is busy rebuilding their homes, they don't pay much attention to children, but if a child is really lost, it will be a disaster for the family.
Thinking of this, families with children educate their children not to follow strangers casually.
"But what if I want to eat delicious food?" Da Ya asked.
"How about this!"
Jiang Yifeng thought for a while and smiled slightly, "In a few days, you will all go to school to study. If you can recognize ten words, I will give you a piece of candy."
After speaking, he looked at the other children and said, "Not just Da Ya, anyone who knows ten words can get a piece of candy."
"You didn't lie to me this time?"
"I lied to you that you are a puppy, otherwise we will hook up."
"good!"
Daya nodded heavily, stretched out her chubby hand, "Hang yourself with a hook, and it won't change for a hundred years. Then put a seal on it."
Jiang Yifeng stamped his seal solemnly and continued: "You must also promise me not to eat food given by strangers."
"How dare I!"
Daya glanced at the old woman secretly, rubbed her butt and said, "If my second uncle hadn't come back yesterday, I would have almost been beaten to death."
"Ha ha……"
The people around laughed again.
The meal lasted until late at night, and everyone was very happy with it. The pigs they brought were all eaten cleanly, and even some were not enough.
After all, for young people like Li Erniu, rice is always served in small pots. When pigs pour water on top, they can finish it in a short time.
And, one portion is not enough, most of them are two portions.
Just like that, in the end, not to mention the pigs in the water, not even a drop of soup was left, everything was drank up.
…
At the same time, Su Yingxue suffered from insomnia.
For some unknown reason, she just couldn't sleep tonight. This was the first time this happened.
So, she turned on the lamp, sat down at the desk, took out a storybook and started reading.
This was one of the few entertainments she had. When she was in a bad mood and needed a rest, she would use her wordbook to pass the time.
However, she only read a few pages and then closed the book.
If it were in the past, she would have been extremely fascinated by it. Such a storybook could be read in three nights.
But now, the words in the book cannot enter her mind at all. As soon as she turns the page of what she just read, she will forget everything, let alone the detailed plot.
Even though the storybook she is reading now is written by Mr. Storybook, whom she particularly likes.
"I don't know how the two of them are doing outside."
Su Yingxue supported her chin with one hand, turned to look out the window, looked at the full moon outside the window, listened to the chirping of insects, and murmured to herself.
At this moment, her eyes were attracted by a bundle on the desk, and she hesitated and took it over.
But after thinking for a moment, she put it back with a blushing face and spat: "This filthy idiot actually stuffed two dirty books into me. How shameless."
In fact, she read both "Water Margin" and "Jin Ping Mei" and commented that they were really well written.
It's not that the writing is good, but the plot is very attractive, especially "Water Margin", where every character is portrayed with great depth, as if they are all alive.
In comparison, "Jin Ping Mei" is not as good, but it is still a good book.
Apart from the embarrassing plots in the novel, the whole book still has many merits, especially the depiction of the dark side of human nature.
The whole book is about desire, a man's desire for a woman, a man's desire for material things... Desire is written to the extreme, which has never appeared in a novel before.
"That's it!"
Su Yingxue found an excuse for herself to read, "Books are for reading. If you don't read them, they won't be books. At worst, I will read them with a critical eye."
