Make a lot of money!I got rich in the year of famine

Chapter 14
Not bothering the two masters, last time the Cao family only blocked the hole in the wall and repaired the courtyard wall a little.

Mr. Fan worked very hard and asked his son to chop bamboo. The two men took out all the chicken coops and spent an afternoon mixing mud to make adobe.

Fan Xiaoshan also knows a little carpentry, sawing and planing in the yard, and built a shelf for the kitchen to hold dishes and chopsticks.

Lunch was still made in the main room, and Shen Hui cooked a pot of noodles, but there was nothing to do, the table was covered in dust, and it was inconvenient to roll the noodles.

But in the morning she boiled the lard and packed it in small earthen jars.

When cooking the noodle soup, scoop out half a spoonful of lard, and sprinkle some chopped green onion when it comes out of the pot. The aroma will spread out for two miles.

When the aroma of rice wafted out, Fan Xiaoshan was a little absent-minded. The hammer in his hand failed to obey and almost hit his hand.

"Good-for-nothing!" Boss Fan kicked him in the butt. "Didn't your mother make wild vegetable dumplings before leaving? Just eat them if you're hungry. Don't worry about your boss's food. It's not easy."

When going out to work, some employers will provide lunch, while others will not, it all depends on the generosity of the employer.

Some simple farmers, even if they only have one pot of porridge, will serve them some.

But today, the owner of this household only has two helpless girls living in these two shabby houses. He looks pitiful, so he might as well forget it!

Huo Lin was holding a bowl of gnocchi and was about to send it to the next door. When he ran to the yard and saw the two of them still standing, he urged: "Uncle Fan, why don't you two go in to eat? Sister Hui has already served it."

As soon as the words fell, Shen Qing stood at the door and shouted.

The father and father looked at each other, Boss Fan nodded, and then Fan Xiaoshan dared to run.

The noodle soup made by the eldest sister of the Shen family is so delicious. The noodles are soft and cooked through, with a layer of oil floating on it. When you take a sip of the soup, your mouth will be filled with oil.

He couldn't help but praised: "Your family can afford lard! It's so rich!"

Boss Fan wanted to kick him again, "Eat your food, why are you talking so much?"

After delivering the meal, Huo Lin hurried back and squatted next to them with a bowl in hand, sucking and saying: "The lard I bought in the town yesterday, and the lard I boiled just this morning, can't it be delicious?" Ouch...it's so hot."

Shen Qing smiled and said: "Can't you talk after you finish eating?"

Huo Lin stopped talking and buried himself in eating noodles.

Boss Fan finished a bowl of noodles in a few mouthfuls. He looked at the small iron pot and put the bowl down.

Shen Qing hurriedly picked up the bowl, "Uncle Fan, brother Xiaoshan, you two don't restrain yourself, eat freely, all you do is physical work, you won't have strength if you don't eat enough."

She filled another bowl and handed it over.

Boss Fan was very embarrassed, "Girl, if we eat freely, we can finish the meal in another pot. When your aunt was leaving, she packed wild vegetable dumplings for us. That's all right, don't worry about us, you don't have enough food. There is so much, how can you eat it freely?"

Shen Hui said ashamedly: "We just moved here, and there really isn't much food."

Boss Fan held the bowl and asked: "I heard from Huo Lin, do you plan to plant this wasteland outside the door?"

Shen Qing nodded, "At that time, if we want to hire people, we will need at least five or six labors. If Uncle Fan is free, both of you will come, and we will pay as much as others pay."

Boss Fan was a little puzzled, "Girl, if you want to plow ten acres of wasteland, it will take six people two days, including clearing the fields and ditches, which will cost a lot of money!"

"It's natural. Uncle Huo said that the next few days will be sunny, so I plan to cut the weeds and dry them first, and then burn them to make fertilizer. My vegetable garden must also be tidy. Uncle Fan, can I hire Brother Xiaoshan to come over to help?" We two sisters really can’t do the work for a few days.” She missed the machine in her previous life very much, and it was done in half an hour.

Boss Fan patted his chest, "What's the problem with the vegetable garden, our father and I can clean it up for you in an hour."

"Our vegetable garden is about an acre, and the small river ditch behind the house needs to be dug and widened. I want to enclose the bamboo forest behind so that it will be easier to raise chickens in the future. The ditch is used to raise ducks, and a row of bamboo fences need to be built around the outside. , to prevent them from being thrown around. There are many ferocious beasts in the mountains, so it is safer this way..."

She rambled on for a long time, and the Fan family's eyes widened as they listened.

Fan Xiaoshan sighed: "You two, grow so many vegetables, raise so many chickens and ducks, how can you eat it all!"

Shen Huidao: "Of course we don't eat it ourselves, we can sell it!"

Fan Xiaoshan still didn't understand, "These things can't be sold for a lot of money, they can only be exchanged for needles and thread, and they are not easy to raise. Just feeding them will cost a lot of food."

Shen Qing smiled lightly and said: "That depends on how you sell it. In short, I have a lot of work at home, and I have to clean it up before the spring warms. The two of us alone can't finish it even if we are exhausted, so we have to hire someone."

Boss Fan hesitated, he was a little worried about the wages, because the girl's stall was too big.

The matchmaker told her son about the marriage, because their family was in the mountains, and the woman's family had to ask for a lot of gifts before they were willing to marry into the mountains. Both of them were worried about this matter!

If you can't get paid, your work will be in vain and your time will be wasted.

Shen Qing glanced at her sister, Shen Hui understood, and immediately went back to the house to grab a bag of money and hand it to her.

Shen Qing exchanged five taels of silver for copper plates yesterday and put them in jars for easy use.

"Uncle Fan, I heard Huo Lin say that the long-term workers outside are paid [-] Wen a day. You two have done a lot of work today, so I will give you [-] Wen a day. Do you think so?"

One tael of silver here is standard customization, and below is the copper plate.

Ordinary people use copper plates, and they can only use silver ingots when they go to big stores to buy things.

Last night, Shen Hui twisted the rope and strung the copper plates together by ten, so it will be enough to count twenty strings.

"Sure, of course. Then we will come back to tidy up the vegetable garden tomorrow morning, and we will finish it in one day. Later, if you want to open up wasteland, ask Huo Lin to enter the mountain to let me know, and I will help you find someone." Boss Fan is very happy, some employers will default on money , Some jobs will be bargained after the job is done, I didn't expect these two girls to give money so happily, after all, they are children.

"Then, it's one hundred Wen a day, and two meals a day."

"Eighty cents is enough. We don't have to go to the town, we just work at the foot of the mountain, and it's close to home, and you also take care of the food, which is very good."

"It's better to calculate it this way. Besides, we are all fellow villagers, so you won't let me suffer? Oh, by the way, there is also the chicken and duck boy's money. Uncle Fan, you can calculate how much it is, and I will give it to you." And gave.”

Finally, she gave another fifty coins.

After everyone left, Shen Hui was a little puzzled, "Uncle Fan said eighty cents a day, why did you insist on one hundred cents? Even if you give eighty cents, they won't suffer. Besides, our family's food management is better than theirs." The food you eat at home is much better.”

Shen Qing was thinking about other things in his mind, "Sister, we don't make such small calculations, the people in the mountains are honest, look at these chickens and ducklings, if you really go to the town to buy them, it must be more than fifty coins, Uncle Fan also Explain that he will bring some vegetables for feed, he will remember our kindness in his heart, and he will think about us for everything, that's enough."

(End of this chapter)