Villager of Daming

Chapter 1285: Craftsmanship Grading Rules

"Ouch! Today's lunch box tastes... uh... different."

Ling'er wants to make lunch boxes, and her friends have no objection, so just do it!
Everyone has their own responsibilities. When the lunch box restaurant is open, pots of dishes are prepared, which are no different from before and are all the cheapest dishes.

Nowadays, whichever vegetables have high yields in the vegetable fields have become the first choice for lunch box restaurants.

Eggplant, cucumber and winter melon are all good right now. Have some mustard soup, or stir-fry the remaining lard residue with spinach to make a meat dish.

Four dishes and one soup, plus shredded mustard tuber pickles, and steamed rice, three cents per portion.

The yard is still as big as before, but more dishes are cooked because they need to be supplied to people from other places, or they can be distributed and sold elsewhere.

Some people like to eat in the courtyard of Danqing Box Restaurant. It feels like a ritual and they can get the same boxed lunch even if they are waiting at their workplace.

The people who were having dinner took their plates and asked the familiar apprentices from Xiaqiu Village to serve their meals. After they sat down to eat, they suddenly realized something was wrong.

"What's the difference?" A young man wondered. He was new here today, and when he came to eat, someone said that the dishes would remain the same today and would not change because they were cheap.

The young man looked and found that it was true. Fortunately, three cents could fill him up, mainly because there were many varieties of dishes. Otherwise, he would only have to spend two cents to eat rice and pickles.

Or you can eat a bowl of rice noodles, which also costs two cents. It’s such a big bowl, and you can drink it together with the soup, and you will feel refreshed all over.

You can get four dishes and a soup for three cents. You won’t find another restaurant like this in Yingtian Prefecture.

"It has changed. It tastes better than these days, but the dishes are still the same."

Another person who has been working here for half a year agreed that it was delicious.

"If it's delicious, buy another one and take it away. Originally, you couldn't take it away and could only eat it here. Now there's no one in charge and you can borrow the plate. Remember to bring it with you next time you come."

A man who should be the leader who led this small group of people to find work spoke up, and then carefully tasted the fried spinach with oil residue.

"Yes, next time you want to eat it, I don't know when it will be, it all depends on luck." Someone from another small team agreed with a smile.

The young man looked confused: "Aren't there boxed lunches every day?"

“We have boxed lunches every day, but the boxed lunches made by the teenagers in Xiaqiu Village are not available every day.

Fortunately, I had to work today, otherwise I would have missed this opportunity.

Anyone who didn’t go to work today and didn’t buy a lunch box, go cry! Hehehehe…”

The person who just sat down with the food tray started laughing before he even started eating. No, he laughed.

"Hey Hey……"

"Hey Hey……"

The others seemed to be infected and started laughing, and the laughter gave the new guy a chill.

……

"It's finally our turn to eat. More and more people are buying lunch boxes now. How many apprentices are left? Let's recruit more people!"

The fifth brother, Zhu Su, waited with an empty stomach. The people in Xiaqiu Village cooked one pot after another, and it took him a full hour to get enough for the lunch box.

This was because someone had helped prepare the dishes beforehand. Otherwise, from selecting the vegetables to washing, cutting and cooking them, they would not have been able to handle it with just the number of people they had.

"Your Highness, there are other people selling lunch boxes." Shopkeeper Xu said at the table next to him: "They sell them for four cents and five cents.

There was a little more meat in the dish. Since there were people living far away, we ate what they cooked. Our lunch boxes were cold when we delivered them.

It is impossible for people from far away to come here or other places where we sell lunch boxes to eat.

One of them is opened by an apprentice here. He has been trained for just three months and the business is doing well.

Other apprentices who started their apprenticeship with me went to work as executive chefs in other large restaurants. If it weren’t for our village helping to train them, I would have hired a few apprentices.”

Xu Yuan looked like he wanted to recruit apprentices for the box-type restaurant chef, but in fact, he couldn't find one. Apprentices were very good for other places, but they were far behind Fuhualou. Fuhualou's staff gradually improved, and the original waiters became supervisors of some kind of restaurant, and they received dividends.

Newcomers must sign a contract of at least five years, if they are waiters, and those in the kitchen must sign a ten-year contract.

"Sister Ling'er, what is an executive chef?"

Gegehaji didn't understand. She just heard that people who had been apprentices here could become head chefs in other restaurants.

“The executive chef is responsible for the entire kitchen, from purchasing to sales, plus the scheduling and dispatching of kitchen staff.

In addition, the executive chef is required to have good cooking skills and needs to review the dishes produced by the kitchen. Bad dishes will not be served.

In fact, the contract signed with the apprentices has not expired yet, so they are not allowed to leave. If they want to leave, they need to pay compensation.

We let them go, so that they can go out and develop the economy, which is a good opportunity for them to make more money.

They agreed that every worker would donate 10% of their wages to the orphanage every month for ten consecutive years."

Ling'er had just found out about it not long ago. It was a small matter, and the villagers arranged it themselves.

The telegrams have not been sent yet, and we will mention it after we come back.

Heya Food Restaurant continues to recruit new employees by recruiting old employees, and some employees are willing to leave, thinking that they can make a lot of money.

Some people think that they have not learned it yet, so they just need to complete the "contract" and talk about it later.

Those who want to stay are all good at cooking. The more they learn, the more they realize how bad they are, including in management.

There is little room for improvement for those who leave, and no matter how hard they try they cannot improve. So they might as well take advantage of the fact that Xiaqiu Village is willing to let them go and go out to earn more money.

……

After the meal, everyone went to see the convenience area. There were many people here, and the businessmen doing business and the workers waiting to be hired were basically clearly distinguished.

The two parties are in a cooperative relationship, but also in a contradictory relationship. On one hand, they want to pay less, while on the other hand, they are thinking about how to ask for more money.

“That’s it for today. Starting next year, the court will conduct skill assessments and certifications for each type of work.

Once you have the certificate, you will have a basic wage range, which is divided into five levels, from low to high, indicating the type of work.

People who know more can get more certificates and find jobs more easily.

Even laborers have skills. Those who know how to work can get twice the result with half the effort. When supplying materials for building a house, it is easy for others to receive the materials.”

The person who spoke at this time was Wang Yiqian. He did not meet the assessment requirements, and he was responsible for arranging people to assess other people.

He may not be the best in any aspect, but he is definitely the most trusted person in Xiaqiu Village. He is steady and has died once, so he will not make the same mistake again.

In daily life, he took care of his co-workers. When it came to engineering, he didn't give them any face and almost forced them to redo the work. He was especially strict in production safety.

"Level five is the most powerful, right?" Gegehaji blinked.

"No, level eight is the best! Level five is the highest standard for civilian assessments. The people who assess them are probably level six or seven, and level eight is not involved.

Unless there is someone who is more capable than the examiner, only level 8 will take action.

For example, for the eighth-level carpenter, the assessment content is to be given two pieces of wood and placed in two rooms. Without using a ruler or square, one has to use a carving knife to carve a wooden comb in two places, separating the comb in the middle.

After the carving is completed, the two pieces of wood are taken and put together, and the mortise and tenon joints fit in perfectly. This is one of the assessment items for level eight carpentry, and there are nine more.

When all are achieved, it is level eight. Eight is the highest number, and nine is too large.

Yi Qian only has three level eight certificates, but he is always asked to be in charge of administration. He has little time to practice, which wastes his time!"

The head of the village introduced the levels and then introduced Wang Yiqian’s certificate. Wang Yiqian also has other level seven and level six certificates!

(End of this chapter)