Chapter 92: Don’t You Have Points in Your Heart?

August 3, 2023Ai Hrist

Mrs. Kong didn’t expect her daughter-in-law to let her take care of the people.

She raised her head and asked hesitantly: “Can I do it?”

She has a soft temper, but she still has self-knowledge.

She was afraid that if she can’t manage it well, it will delay my daughter-in-law’s affairs.

Shi Qingluo looked at her reassuringly: “Mother, you can do it.”

“There are only a few people in our family. When the workshop expands in the future, I’m afraid that someone will steal the recipe or break the rules, so I need someone trustworthy to take care of it. Mother, you try it first.”

She was more patient with this mother-in-law.

To change the other party’s temperament, she has to take her time. No one can become a big fat man by eating just one bite.

Give trust first, and then throw out a little sense of responsibility. She believed that with the other party’s temperament, she cannot refuse.

Sure enough, Mrs. Kong also felt that it made sense when she heard it, and she encouraged herself after thinking about it: “Okay, then I will try first.”

Shi Qingluo said with a smile: “When the time comes, I will let my younger sister take care of it for you.”

As long as she dares to go out and take the first step, the fear that always lingered will come out of its shell.

Hearing that her daughter would help, Mrs. Kong felt more relieved: “Okay, we will try our best to do a good job!”

After dinner, Shi Qingluo and Xiao Hanzheng went to the patriarch’s house.

Not long after, the village chief knocked on the gong at the entrance of the village.

The sound of the gong was not small, as long as it was struck heavily, almost everyone in the village can hear it.

This also represents that patriarch was calling the whole village for a meeting.

Except for those who had already picked up tofu to sell, or went out on business, the rest of the villagers came.

When everyone arrived, the patriarch looked at everyone and said: “Today Dalang’s wife has something to say, so I called you all over.”

Because of tofu, saltpeter, popsicles, and other things, the income of the villagers has continued to increase in the past two months.

Therefore, everyone respected Shi Qingluo.

Except for a few ungrateful people, the others know that today’s day was brought about by Shi Qingluo, so they were also grateful.

Of course, those few ungrateful people were gradually excluded from the plan for the whole village to make a fortune.

A woman said with a smile: “If there is anything wrong, Dalang’s wife, just tell me.”

Shi Qingluo didn’t make any detours: “I have researched a kind of incense that can kill mosquitoes, so I plan to recruit people to make mosquito coils in the current sugar mill.”

“But this time it’s not a delicate work, and it doesn’t take much effort, so I plan to recruit only women to work.”

“As long as they are girls over the age of twelve, they can sign up, and I will screen it again.”

“Those who will be selected, will go to work every morning, and get off work before dinner in the afternoon. Breakfast and lunch will be provided in the workshop.”

“The salary is 100 pennies per month.”

As soon as her voice fell, the villagers were shocked.

“What? 100 pennies per month, including breakfast and lunch.”

“My man used to go to the county to work, he only earned 100 pennies a month, and he tried hard to get up early and work late every day.”

“I heard that the food in Xiao Family’s workshop is quite good. Anyway, it’s much better than the food at home.”

“The key is to work in the village. If something happened at home, someone can immediately call you.”

The women, old women, and girls in the village couldn’t help being excited.

Before, whether it was building houses and workshops at the entrance of the village, or building Taoist Temples on the mountain, the Xiao Family hired men.

Only the tofu workshop and the cooks employ a few women. The wages were quite high and they also include food.

Everyone looked at the faces of several people, and they were much more ruddy than before they went to work under the Xiao Family, and they had gained weight, so many women were envious.

But now, they didn’t expect to recruit women to work. This was an opportunity for them.

In this day and age, in such a poor village, every household wants to split a penny in half.

One hundred pennies per month, and only recruiting women, this was something that no one dared to think about before.

As long as the family members have no brain disease, they will not prevent the women in the family from working.

“Dalang’s wife, is this true? Then see if I can do it!”

The woman who spoke first couldn’t help asking.

Shi Qinglou laughed and said: “Of course it’s true.”

“Auntie, you are a hardworking person, so it is naturally possible.”

“However, I’ll have to ask my little sister-in-law to come here to sign up for a while.” There was no rule without rules.

The Aunt said excitedly: “I’ll sign up, I’ll sign in a while.”

A man couldn’t help asking: “What about the rest?”

Shi Qingluo replied: “We won’t be recruiting for the time being, but when the lacquer workshop opens, we will recruit workers. We need men at that time.”

It takes a lot of effort and work to make lacquer, so men were more suitable.

Many men in the village were disappointed, but when they heard this, they all said happily: “That’s good.”

The weather was too hot recently, and the tofu will be sour if you pick it up too far, so they can only sell it nearby.

When people gather, the competition will increase, so the business was not as good as before. They have to wait for the weather to cool down.

Besides, it was not a busy time for farming recently, so many people want to find a job under the Xiao Family.

After all, the distance was close, the salary was good, and the meal was included, which they can’t find in the county town.

What’s more, they can also enjoy the happiness of working under the blessed apprentice of the Old Immortal Master.

Next, all those who wanted to register to go to Xiao Baili went to register.

Shi Qingluo didn’t delay any further. When she got the list, she quickly picked out the people who she wanted to hire.

After a period of integration, plus the special inquiry of Xiao Hanyi and Xiao Baili, she still has a good understanding of the people in the whole village.

Which ones were diligent, which ones were lazy, which ones liked gossip, etc? She mastered them.

On this list, as long as women in the village can do active work, basically, all of them have signed up.

There were about two hundred people.

However, she wanted to make a lot of mosquito coils, so the more people can do the job, the better. After all, it was still summer, and who will buy mosquito coils in winter?

Thus, those who were too lazy to work, or who were not very good-natured were eliminated. Shi Qingluo asked the rest to work in the sugar workshop tomorrow for remaining more than a hundred people.

At that time, she was thinking about expanding the scale or setting aside some sites for other things, so the workshops were relatively large.

Some people were disappointed or a little unhappy when they heard that they were not selected, but they didn’t say anything.

After all, among these people, there were some problems with themselves, such as laziness, such as not being clean.

A certain family, seeing that none of the members of their family was selected, the old lady couldn’t accept it.

“Dalang’s wife, why is there no one in my family? Our family is a well-known hardworking family in the village.”

This family was indeed very diligent in the village.

Everyone was a little surprised that their family was not selected.

Shi Qingluo knew that this person would jump out.

Why did she ask the patriarch to call all the people in the village, and she also asked everyone to sign up and choose? Naturally, this was what she was waiting for.

It was okay to lead the whole village to become rich, but she can’t be too gentle.

There should be a bottom line. She should be gentle when it should be gentle, and severe when it should be severe.

It was necessary to kill chickens and monkeys.

She looked at the old lady, but instead asked: “Why didn’t your family get selected? Don’t you have any points in your heart?”

The old lady was a little confused: “What point? Our family never offend you.”

But after saying this, she was a little cautious.

Shi Qingluo didn’t go around in circles and said straight to the point: “Your son is the servant from the Wu Family Inn. He went back to the village and asked you to provoke Old Lady Xiao to deal with our family, and you went to her.”

“Since your family stabbed us in the back, why should I choose your family?”

Today, she will let everyone know that she will not help anyone who betrays or stabs them in the back.