The lucky girl in the village has a good way of making money.

Chapter 500 Recruitment
Mrs. Lu asked everyone to sit down and told them not to be polite. "We are so busy and haven't prepared any good dishes. Sister Guifang, Shiliu, Chunni, please don't complain about the simplicity."

"Sister De, what you said is true. We are all strangers. Besides, I think the dish is very good. Sister Zhu's cooking skills are really good!" Fan smiled and continued.

Shi Liu looked at the dishes on the table and nodded. Although she didn't prepare any elaborate dishes due to time constraints, she still put a lot of thought into the dishes.

I steamed the fish, and also made a dish of fish fillet. The celery and pork shreds were also stir-fried to perfection. You can tell at a glance that they were cooked with great skill...

Although I didn’t make any Kung Fu soup like chicken soup, I did make a cabbage and pork soup.

Then there is the ham stewed with bamboo shoots, which is so delicious, as well as the green Chinese cabbage fried with mushrooms and leek fried with eggs.

There is also a chicken stewed rice cake -

Mrs. Lu had to introduce the chicken. "My mother's hometown in Guangling County doesn't smoke bacon. They make salted meat. They also use salt and soy sauce to pickle it, but they just need to air-dry it. In addition, chickens and ducks are also made into Fengcun. You can try it. How does this salted chicken taste?"

It is popular for every household in Damingfu to smoke bacon in winter. When a family kills a pig for the New Year, the meat will be cut into strips, marinated and dried, and then smoked with tree branches. The smoked bacon is very fragrant and is hung on the beam in the kitchen and eaten for the whole year.

But except for the area around Daming Prefecture, there seems to be very little smoked bacon in other places. Generally, meat that is needed for preservation is made into salted meat, which is not as red and black as bacon, and is very difficult to wash.

Shi Liu had eaten this kind of salted chicken in her previous life. Her college roommates were from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they loved eating this kind of chicken. After the holiday, she brought some salted chicken for her roommates to eat.

Compared to fresh chicken, she still can't get used to this salted chicken, just like she doesn't like bacon very much.

Fresh is better.

However, she was very supportive and took a piece of salted chicken to taste it, then nodded along with Mrs. Fan and said it was okay.

It was indeed quite good. The taste was richer, saltier and more fragrant than what she had eaten in her previous life. Especially the rice cake that was wrapped in the salty taste and stewed until soft. The taste was beyond words.

Pomegranate loves to eat delicious food, and Mrs. Zhu’s cooking skills are really good. Several dishes are very much to Pomegranate’s taste, making her forget that she is a guest and she enjoys the meal very much.

Mrs. Lu watched secretly, and was very happy in her heart. She thought pomegranate was good in every way, and watching her eat was actually very pleasing to the eye. Being able to eat is a blessing, and it would be better to eat more.

Besides, the fact that pomegranates can be eaten freely also shows that they don't treat her as an outsider.

Mrs. Lu was very happy. Seeing Shi Pomegranate eating with relish, she even ate half a bowl of rice more than usual.

After the meal, Mrs. Lu really wished she could eat with Shi Liu every day in the future.

When you eat with someone who enjoys eating, even the food you eat doesn’t taste good.

She also noticed that the dishes cooked by Mrs. Zhu were very much to Shi Liu's taste. She would have to have a good talk with Mrs. Zhu later and ask her to cook more dishes. When Shi Liu came home, she would cook for her in different ways.

It's a shame to say that she is good at embroidery, but her cooking skills are just so-so. She can only stew a sweet soup or something.

I wonder if pomegranates like sweet soup...

Mrs. Lu wanted to keep Shi Liu and the others to sit for a while longer, so she went to stew some sweet soup and wait until mid-afternoon for them to drink the soup.

But after sitting for a cup of tea after the meal, Shi Liu asked to leave, and Lu could only give up with regret.

Thinking that there would be plenty of opportunities in the future, she became happy and stood up to personally see Shi Liu and the others out.

……

As soon as the news that the Li family wanted to recruit workers again but this time they only wanted people who knew how to sew spread, as Shi Liu had expected, many people came from the village early in the morning. Many of them came early with fellow villagers who worked in the sheep workshop.

There were also some people who lived far away, but they were rushing to Xiahe Village one after another.

Shi Liu specially had the gate of Qinghe Workshop opened and invited everyone to go inside to take shelter from the wind, sit down to rest their feet, and drink some hot ginger soup to warm their bodies.

When the time was almost right and the people who were supposed to come had probably all arrived, Shi Liu went to the Qinghe workshop with Fan and Huang Chunni.

The entrance hall was already packed with people. The women were sitting together chattering, making it as lively as a vegetable market.

But when they saw Shi Liu come in, they immediately fell silent and stared at Shi Liu with wide eyes, curiously.

They all knew, without even waiting for someone to introduce it, that this must be the Li family pomegranate.

You can tell by looking at his age and his demeanor.

There were many teenage girls in the crowd. When they saw Shi Liu's bright and beautiful clothes, and then looked at their own best clothes which they had put on because they came to recruit workers today, they could not help but lower their heads, tiptoe touching toes, and they all thought to themselves: This is Miss Shi Liu, she is so pretty!
Shi Liu was also shocked when she saw the crowded place. She didn't expect so many people would come. And so many of them knew how to sew?

So I just asked.

A woman said, "I can't make clothes, I can only mend them, is that okay?"

There was also a woman who said, "I do embroidery work at an embroidery shop in the city. My embroidery skills are pretty good!"

Shi Liu asked Fan to coordinate and divide these people up. Those who took over the embroidery work and those who thought their embroidery skills were good stood in one group, and the others stood in another group.

After a short while, two groups of people stood in the hall, but it was obvious that the former group had more than half fewer people than the latter.

It is simple to mend clothes, but there are very few people who can do embroidery. After all, you can't learn embroidery without the conditions.

At that moment, Shi Liu asked Fan and Huang Chunni to test the embroidery skills of those who knew how to embroider. Those who they thought were suitable would stay, and she would go to another group of people.

It's fine as long as the opening of the stuffing is sewn carefully, but it also requires carefulness and patience. After all, if the cotton is not stuffed properly, the doll will not look good.

After some investigation and questioning, Shi Liu selected forty people based on his impression.

Fan and Huang Chunni also picked out about twenty people, and there were only about ten people left.

The people who were chosen were overjoyed, while the rest who were not chosen were extremely disappointed, and even begged Shi Liu to accept them as well.

Shi Liu only said that these were all they needed for now, and that they would be hired first when they were recruited in the future. This pacified these people, and he asked the maid to bring two steamed buns to each of them, and then let them go back first.

For the remaining sixty or so people who were recruited, Shi Liu explained their wages and benefits. Those who were good at sewing and making puppet figures would be paid by piecework, and their wages would vary.

The stuffing workers were paid according to the size of the stuffed dolls. The small ones were paid 3 to 8 wen each, while the large ones were paid 15 to 30 wen each. The wages were also different. The workers were paid according to the piecework and were paid on time every month.

When everyone heard this, they were overjoyed and asked when they would start work.

Shi Liu asked them to start work early tomorrow morning. The workshop was just opposite Shanghe Village. They should gather at the entrance of the village tomorrow morning and someone would take them in.

Then I gave each of them two steamed buns to eat on the way and asked them to go home and prepare first.

Everyone got a job and went home with steamed buns in their hands, smiling all the way.