Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 99 Hiring People
After listening to Lu Xiaosi's words, Qiu looked for Ma Erya behind her back, and tactfully refused the marriage.

It's not right to say that she refused directly, Qiu just said, Xiaoqing is still young, and the family has just had a better life this year, thinking that her daughter will stay at home for a few more years.

Although none of these words said that they were unwilling, but no one was a fool, and they knew that they were unwilling.

Qiu was afraid that Ma Erya would be unhappy, but she didn't expect that Ma Erya was more afraid of hurting the harmony of the two families than she was.

This matter ended so quietly, except for the Li family couple, the Lu family couple, and Lu Yange, no one else knew about it.

Including the parties concerned, Li Tantan and Lu Xiaoqing, both of them were also kept in the dark and didn't know anything about it.

Seeing that the autumn harvest is coming soon, everyone is busy preparing the tools for the autumn harvest in the past two days.

The family needs to prepare a few sickles for harvesting rice. They are not cheap. A good sickle costs one tael or five dollars a piece.

The Qi family ordered sixteen sickles, seven forks, shovels for digging, and rakes for digging at the blacksmith shop...

The six families don't have much land, but three acres of land.

But the Lu family has a lot of land, Lu Quan said earlier, when the time comes, the big guy has collected the grain in his own land, and he has to help his family collect it.

Of course, everyone is not allowed to help in vain, [-] Wen per mu of land, how much money is paid for the amount of mu, and the Lu family also provides breakfast and lunch.

Originally, Lu Quan and Qiu's plan was a salary of 25 Wen per person per day, which was not low, even if they went to the pier to hire those bag bearers to do the work, they were also willing.

It was still Lu Xingge who proposed that [-] Wen per mu of land, including harvesting and transportation.

It is no problem for a strong laborer to mow an acre of rice without rest a day.

As for transporting rice and picking rice ears, these do not necessarily require strong labor.

A family can have two strong laborers to harvest rice for his family, plus the wife and children of the family to help transport, and at least one hundred yuan a day.

In order to make more money, no one will be lazy, and must work hard.

In this way, the rice in the field can also be played earlier.Even if it is raining, as long as the rice is on the field, there is nothing to be afraid of.

It’s a big deal, just pile it on the shelf and cover it for a few days, and then thresh and dry it in the sun when the weather clears up.

The Lu family said they wanted to hire someone to harvest the rice, but the other six families expressed that they didn't want money.

But Lu Quan also said, if you don't want money, my family can't ask you for help, then I will go to the dock to hire someone.

Anyway, my family’s dozens of acres of land can’t be harvested by me, my husband and wife and a few children alone, and we will have to hire people every year in the future.No way, you don’t want money every year.

Now that we have talked about this, everyone no longer refuses.

Fifty cents per mu of land, everyone wants to do this job.

Although each family's three mu of land can harvest three to four hundred catties of rice per mu, the rice belongs to shopkeeper Li.At the beginning, shopkeeper Li left the rice for them to collect. It was agreed that one mu of land would be paid according to three hundred catties of grain, regardless of whether it was good or bad.

The three hundred catties per mu of land is counted to the big guy, and it seems that the big guy has taken advantage of it.

If the harvest is good, you can also receive [-] mu.Even if the harvest is mediocre, at least three hundred and forty to fifty catties can be received.

It is equivalent to three acres of land for everyone, and more than 100 catties of grain can be produced, and they are not required to pay taxes.

If that's the case alone, it's really worth it.

But farming depends on God’s life. You don’t think the weather will be smooth and the weather will be smooth, and the weather will be beautiful when you think of the weather.

If the year is not good, it is not impossible to harvest three hundred catties or less per mu of land.

This year, the weather is good. Everyone used to be old-fashioned croppers. You can tell by looking at the ears of rice in the field. As long as there are no accidents in the later stage, 350 catties per mu of land is enough.

The extra forty or fifty catties of grain is equivalent to the wages that shopkeeper Li gave everyone.

It seems that the salary is much higher than the Lu family's fifty cents per mu, but the risk is also great.

If there are a few more rains during the autumn harvest, the rice cannot be harvested for a while, and the production must be reduced.

I was almost lucky. Before harvest, there was a heavy rain and a strong wind, and the rice fell down. Not to mention the rice that fell down was difficult to harvest. After the rain, the buds sprouted and fell into the mud. All that wasted was grain.

No matter how bad luck was, it rained before the rice was harvested. The rain fell for a long time, and the mature ears of rice would fall before harvesting.At that time, maybe two hundred catties and one mu of land will not be collected, let alone earned.

Those who farm the land depend on God for food.

When God opens his eyes, this life will be easier. When God closes his eyes, there will be times when there is no harvest.

At the beginning, Lu Quan went back and said, if there is anyone willing to take over Li's land, just pay the money of three hundred catties of grain to Li.

None of the big guys are unwilling.

As long as the grain can be received, the family will have more than 100 catties of rice.

The rice is all polished rice when it comes out of the husk, and the polished rice can be exchanged for brown rice, and one catty can be exchanged for two and a half catties of brown rice.

Shopkeeper Li also said that with Lu Quan as a guarantee, he can refuse the big guy's food money first, and then give the money after the big guy collects the food.

However, if you give money now, the price of grain will be calculated according to the current price of grain.

The Lu family and the other six families all gave money to shopkeeper Li based on the current grain price. Although the price will drop a wave every year when new grain comes out, this drop is only temporary.

Last year and the year before were both disaster years, and food prices were getting higher every year.

This year, the big guys were still counting on the return of food prices, but the Red Tassel Army came again.

The price of grain has risen instead of falling. Looking at the price of rice in the grain shop, no one dares to gamble, so he gave the money now, at least the grain is his own.

Whether it is rising or falling, the whole family guarantees that they will not starve to death.

What's more, shopkeeper Li didn't cheat them either.Shopkeeper Li's land is two taels of silver cheaper than other people's homes.

No matter how much the grain falls, it can still fall below the two taels of silver.

After discussing how to harvest, everyone is ready to make a batch of mud for building houses before the autumn harvest.

If the mud is thrown out now, if the weather is fine and there is no rain, it will be almost dried after the autumn harvest, and then the house can be built directly.

Lu Quan thinks more than the other six families, the reed mat where the grain is stored.If it does not rain in the threshing ground where the grain is dried, it is necessary to use plant ash and water to compact it.

Also, he wants to buy a cow, or a mule.

There is a lot of land in the family, and it is definitely not enough for him to plow the plow alone.

To buy mules or cows, you have to go to Nanyang County. There are very few livestock for sale in Jiangjiaba, and even if there are, they are the kind with bad teeth.

Buying livestock is also a big deal for farmers.

If he wanted to go to Nanyang to buy cattle, he had to walk there, and it would take him two days to go back and forth.

If you have cows or mules, you have to find someone to build an ox cart. This must be arranged with the carpenter in advance, and the autumn harvest will not be in time if it is too late.

"Little Four said that we need to buy a bigger and thicker tarpaulin to prevent the rain from dampening the food."

Thinking that this requires money, and that also requires money, Lu Quan couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Fortunately, at least the homes he thought of could be bought.

If it were half a year ago, these things would have been beyond his imagination.

(End of this chapter)