"How much does Tian Xin'er pay?"
The woman who asked the question stared at her granddaughter, who usually didn't show much attention at home. She didn't understand how Tian Xin'er fell in love with this stupid person. Compared to other granddaughters, this one can't beat her with a stick. In case it is returned, it is better to change to a smart one.
"Four hundred coppers per person."
"How much?!" The mother-in-law was confused. The man in the family couldn't earn this even if he went out to carry goods and worked hard.
As soon as these words came out, questions came one after another.
"How long will it take? Should I give out copper coins every day, or do I give them out after everything is done?"
The girl who answered was called Hongzao. Seeing the whole family looking at her in shock, they didn't even want to eat. She could only put down her chopsticks and replied carefully:
"Sister Tian Xin'er said that it's not certain how long we'll work. It's a guaranteed job. If our group is quick and things go well, there may be no more work in half a month. We can just wait for it to dry. But if it doesn't go well. , it doesn’t matter whether it’s twenty or thirty days.”
Hongzao was suddenly pinched by her auntie, and said hurriedly: "It's every day. Coins will be paid out every day, and the work will be settled that night."
What Hongzao didn't tell her family was that Tian Xin'er knew that these girls had never touched money, so they agreed to give them copper coins every day. He also said that in this way, they can happily touch the fruits of a day's work every night when they go to bed, feel practical and motivated, and go to bed happily looking forward to the morning.
This situation is common in the village, which is one of the reasons why many girls are anxious to get married.
Only when most girls get married can they be the masters of their own family and have access to the money that belongs to their own family.
Even though Hong Zao had imagined that she wouldn't be able to keep it until she fell asleep, but if she could take it back and touch it all the way, she could still show it to her father, right?
However, what makes Hongzao most happy is that during the working days, the Xu family has food and shelter for five days.
They were told to stay away from home for five days and to live in the Xu family's new house.
These girls have only heard of the four large houses that they had never seen before in the Xu family. They had secretly envied them, but they never dared to think that they would live in them one day.
Also, I have long heard that Grandma Xu’s cooking is delicious and can smell good for thousands of miles, so she can also have a chance to try it.
Five days was enough for her to catch her breath, without having to face the fact that her family was already poor, and she was scolded and pinched every day after the house collapsed.
Hongzao has no mother, just like Xu Tianxin'er, she collapsed within two years of giving birth and died. Her aunts and uncles always taught her a lesson as an elder. Fortunately, she still had a biological father.
But in the eyes of Hongzao's father, although his daughter has a father left, he is not as good as Xu Jiatian Xin'er.
Because some fathers are still alive and don't care at home, but the child still suffers the same injustice as if the father is dead.
And some fathers die, but they are still legends many years later. Most people can't fight it. I heard that even the old lady from another village didn't dare to say anything bad when she saw Xu Youtian hugging her daughter and laughing. She just praised her a few times.
At this time, Hongzao's father was very moved by the Xu family and gave his daughter a hand, so that after the child earned money, he could be well-received at home and eat more.
Hearing this, he said: "You work hard. You will be responsible for food and shelter for five days. It may be tiring work. You don't have time to go home."
When Hongzao's aunts, aunts and cousins heard this, they couldn't hold back their jealousy. Who would treat him to a meal for nothing? He would be exhausted to death just to be paid such a high salary and still take care of the meal.
But Hongzao felt that this didn't seem to be the case. When Tian Xin'er's sister said she was in charge of the food, her tone was normal. She also said that they could use it as a kang at night, live together, and use it as a test water pipe to take a bath together.
Hong Zao Gengxin Tian Xin'er's sister didn't want to exhaust them to death, but wanted them to take the opportunity to eat for a few days.
Yes, Hongzao’s sixth sense is very accurate.
Another reason why Xu Tianxin is in charge of the five-day meal is that her mother will select a few days to teach which family to cook.
When the time comes, she will cook it once, and those who are learning will do it once or even twice, because they want to see how many bowls they can sell if they make a big pot.
Grandma said that her family had already planned to invite the builder of the house to have a meal.
She also said that she would treat the working girls to her family’s share. The girls here are miserable. Look at the list you made, and they are all unpopular in the family. They must not have enough to eat.
And what you eat in your mouth
They really belong to those girls. How much money they are given is just a pass. It is far better to reward hard work by cooking a meal, so that the little girls can have more strength to work.
That's the way it is.
But there were many other people talking to the Hongzao family that night. They were both jealous and confused about such high wages.
The confused person asked, "What do I want you to do tomorrow morning?"
"Follow the car to Chaluhe Village." The famous salt-alkali land in Chaluhe Village. The most famous thing there is that there are many wild castor seeds.
In recent years, when the situation has been bad, poor families in the village will go to Chanchaluhe Village to pick castor seeds.
Crush the castor beans with a stone mill and boil them in water, and a layer of oil will emerge. As for other deep skills, people in the village don’t know them. Leave that layer of oil behind for the stew. .z.
Although if you don't eat it well, it can poison people. Many people have died and others have been poisoned. But the real poor don't eat oil all year round, and they don't have any oil or water in their stomachs, so they can't care about that much.
I always pick up some castor for cooking throughout the year.
But what made the villagers discuss it enthusiastically was that this was the strange thing.
I heard that hiring people is not for making bath beans and laundry soap? Why do you still need to use oil? Who can use oil to clean their face and clothes? Isn’t this nonsense?
If you don't need oil, what can you do with castor beans?
"I understand. Eat and give it to the caravan!"
"Quickly pull him down. We don't have anyone like that in our village. Besides, we brought back dozens of jars of oil this time."
At the same time, the Xu family was also discussing passionately.
The eldest brother of Lao Wan's family said: "I understand, if I make pork belly casserole, I should make fish head, stewed tofu and serve with pancakes for takeout."
Mrs. Xu patted the kang mat and said, "What you said is so right. I don't use fish heads at home, and I don't use them too much. I can sell them to you cheaply."
Her family makes fish floss, and there is a lot left over.
The eldest brother of the Lao Wan family said: "I can also make fish balls and stewed tofu."
Mrs. Xu: "Yes, that's it. My family also sells fish balls. I can wholesale them directly to save you trouble. Just come in and cook."
Wang Yusheng smiled and rubbed his hands together, and hesitated a little embarrassedly: "Auntie, can you help my family think about it? You always said that we should make pickled cabbage soup with pie, but what kind of filling should we use? It can save costs and make money." "
Mrs. Xu looked at everyone and said seriously: "If you want to make a filling with oil, you can't include a completely vegetarian filling. Even if you want to save costs on your pancakes, you still have to put oil and meat in a big pot of pickled cabbage soup."
She used her eldest son as an example.
Her eldest son was valued by others and went out to sell goods. After traveling back and forth for more than four months, he got himself a wife and added land to the family.
So don't underestimate those who sell goods. From now on, they will be collectively known as escorts.
"On that trip, I will earn at least dozens of taels. Especially since we are selling overseas, we are not just a small businessman dumping a few trucks of goods from the prefecture to the county. You can imagine how much the remuneration will be for each person.
What do I mean? Compared with ordinary people, ordinary escorts are not poor.
If you feed people food without oil or water, it will be cold to begin with, so it’s hard to get to the place where you eat and you’ll end up with watery soup. It would be weird if I eat it next time. I don’t want everyone to come to my house, I want us all to make money. "
The other families nodded after hearing this, but the difficulties faced by the Wang family were real. First, he borrowed money from the Xu family to buy land and build a house, which depleted his family's wealth. Now that he is opening a restaurant, he needs to save some grain, salt, seasonings and buy pots, which is another big expense.
Wang Yusheng felt that it would be cost-effective to stock up on pork, cook soup, bake pies, and how much it would cost to sell it. He wanted Mrs. Xu to give her some ideas to save money and retain customers.
Mrs. Xu really said: "You use oil to stew cabbage, stew sauerkraut, and you also use oil to make meat patties. Including those of you who make lunch boxes, you can also use oil to stir-fry. It is better to use oil to stir-fry than buying suet, and ready-made oil." , and pork is a bargain.”
"But where is the grease? Animal oil." No one can buy suet, so they go to the pork stall to follow it.
"Yes!" Her granddaughter is about to make soap and boil lard every day.
However, in order to save costs, her granddaughter also mixes castor oil with vegetable oil.
seed oil. I heard that it is good to mix vegetable oil and animal oil to make soap. Animal oil is stable, the soap locust will not deform, and vegetable oil can remove stains.
"I said yes, don't worry." Including Yanba, Mrs. Xu thought to herself, don't worry, just wait for me to come and have a private chat, and everything can be arranged.
Several companies finally breathed a sigh of relief. They only saved money by stocking up on oil.
While he was talking, Guan Ertuo came into the room with a happy face.
I've been having a meeting all day and I haven't seen this person.
Mrs. Xu heard that Guan Ertu helped people shed blood to recognize their relatives and went to other villages to earn money. Seeing how well they were made, she guessed that they must have stopped by the cemetery to buy some.
He wants to become an immortal and eat the fruit all the time. No faith at all.
But it was a fall? Could it be that his face was really blue, not from a fall, but from being beaten?
Guan Ertu had no time to talk about himself. If the truth was told, he was really beaten because the family disliked him for drawing too much blood. They said that instead of using blood to identify relatives, he came to their house and filled him with blood sausage. They squeezed blood again and again. They couldn't even scold him. no.
Guan Ertu had no time to say this: "Who do you think is back?"
Mrs. Xu never settled the bill for Guan Ertu because she had to wait for the full table to come back and settle the bill together at the end, otherwise the accounts would be messed up.
So Guan Ertuo was happier than anyone else to see the table full at this time, but to be honest, he was shocked when they first met in the forest.
Because you can tell by looking at Mrs. Xu’s reaction.
"Emma, who are you? The table!"
The whole table is dressed up like a matchmaker, and they travel around selling condoms so that they don't get noticed. It's just that when you are outside, you dress a little rough without cosmetics.
When Master Lin Zhengying saw the whole table, he didn't know which talisman to use to suppress such a ghost.
