When Ye Chuqiu and Lin Erhu came back from Dongyang City, the homestead had changed a lot compared to before. Many weeds had been cleared away, and some stones were dug out and piled aside. The land originally reserved for building houses was gone.
Get rid of the obstruction of weeds and reveal its original appearance.
"Sister-in-law, you are back."
It was Li Youmei who saw Ye Chuqiu earlier than Lin Dahu and the others. She pulled Ye Chuqiu to the group of women and introduced to them: "This is my sister-in-law, her maiden name is Ye. She has lived in the city before and is knowledgeable."
, and also literate.”
He also said to Ye Chuqiu: "Sister-in-law, these sisters-in-law are all invited by me to work. I was thinking that we are just cutting grass on the ground, women can also help, so I said something to Brother Tiesheng and asked everyone to do it.
Called over."
In just half a day, Li Youmei seemed to have gotten to know Huang Tiesheng, and became quite familiar with these working women.
"It's very good, brothers and sisters, you are thoughtful." Ye Chuqiu nodded to everyone, "Thank you for your hard work."
"It's not hard work, it's not hard work, it's all as it should be."
Several women hurriedly said that it was obvious that Huang Tiesheng had really taken the trouble and invited relatively simple women.
Ye Chuqiu and his family's homestead is in a mountainous area. The bare mountain is full of thorns and potholes, so they have to cut off the thorns first, fill in the potholes, and dig some of the mountainous land before they can build a house.
This woman is really good at her job. The soil dug out from the top can be filled in just right. In this way, after a piece of flat land is dug out and the foundation is laid, a house can be built.
In fact, women can do the job of building a house, but men nowadays are biased against women and are only willing to let them do some small jobs, and are not willing to let them participate in big things like building a house.
Ye Chuqiu and the others followed the local customs, so naturally they wouldn't ask for it, but there was no problem at all if they asked them to help level the ground, pick up dirt, and pick up stones.
The stones excavated from the mountains can also be used to build houses and lay foundations.
After saying hello to everyone, Ye Chuqiu found Lin Dahu and asked him, "Dahu, how do you calculate the wages for these workers when you ask them to work?"
"Twenty cents a day, including two meals." Lin Dahu replied.
"Not bad." Ye Chuqiu nodded and asked: "What about your second uncle and third uncle's family? We have been separated from them for eight hundred years. Although my mother helped them a lot during the escape, after all, we are
If we separate our families, we can’t even get involved in building a house, right?”
"Second uncle, third uncle and their families don't invite anyone. They said that their place is small and they plan to work slowly." Lin Dahu replied.
"Ah? If we don't hire people, how long will they have to work in such a big place?" Ye Chuqiu glanced at them and said, "Aren't there a lot of people working in their place?"
"That's the person hired by the second aunt. The second aunt is smart. She went to the village and hired a lot of aunts to work. These aunts only had to pay twelve cents a day for their work. Then she called all these aunts to us.
To do the work, call the men to their homesteads."
Dahu scratched his head and said with some embarrassment.
When Ye Chuqiu heard this, he also had a question mark on his face. What kind of operation did Li Youmei do? He said that these women did a good job, but then he took the workers he hired for twelve cents and exchanged them for the workers he hired for twenty cents.
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Ye Chuqiu said somewhat unhappily: "Dahu, Mom, I think you are quite smart usually, but you just want to see her take advantage of us?"
"Mom, you were not here before. The second aunt just poured people a pot of tea and called them to her homestead. There is nothing my son can do." Lin Dahu lowered his head and said.
"You, you really want to save face."
Ye Chuqiu said, turned around and looked at the workers who came to work, clapped his hands, "Come on, let's take a break first, come here and drink two cups of sugar water to quench your thirst."
While Ye Chuqiu was talking, he asked Zhao Hehua on the side to stir the sugar water.
Sugar water is a good thing these days. Some women from poor families may not be able to drink a bowl of sugar water even after giving birth, so Ye Chuqiu's move can be considered generous.
Hearing that there was sugar water, everyone put down their work and came over. Ye Chuqiu asked Sanhu to pour sugar water for everyone, and said: "My fellow villagers, Lin Ye, I am being polite. This time
I am destined to settle in Lin'an Village and live next to everyone in the future, so I need your help."
Ye Chuqiu spoke beautifully, but her words were a bit clumsy. Everyone didn't know how to reply, so they all just nodded in agreement.
Ye Chuqiu added: "Today I invite everyone to come and work. The wages are twenty cents for men and twelve cents for women. Two meals are included. Dahu, show us our homestead and come to our house.
Yes, I asked my son Lin Dahu for money every evening. Half of the wages were paid in cash every day, and the rest was settled after the work was completed.
My second brother's family lives over there, and working at his place is the same as working at mine. It's just that when the work is done, you have to ask them for wages."
After that, she took out a few more pieces of white paper and said, "Come here and say your name. I will write down the account so that I can calculate wages for you later."
"Qingyun, Qingshi, come here and see if you need workers to do it at your place? I can help you keep the accounts together." Ye Chuqiu shouted to them.
"Sister-in-law, our family is in a small place. Let's build a wooden house to live in first. The house will be built slowly later, so we don't have to bother the big guys." Lin Qingyun ran over and said with a slightly red face: "Just now the villagers
You made a mistake, I will do some work and return it to you when the time comes."
"That's not necessary."
Ye Chuqiu smiled at him, "Then you go quickly, the villagers don't know that we are three families. If we go to the wrong place again, remember to remind them, don't let them do it in vain."
"well."
Lin Qingyun nodded repeatedly, and Li Youmei's expression on the side was ugly. She did not expect that Ye Chuqiu would call all the villagers away as soon as Ye Chuqiu came. Originally, she wanted to do a few prostitutes for free.
"Let's all get busy."
Ye Chuqiu ignored the couple and waited until he had memorized everyone's names before waving them to go to work.
Then, she stood up and walked to Huang Tiesheng, "Brother Tiesheng, thanks for your help, why don't you see Sanniang? It's troublesome for her to cook at home alone. If you don't mind, let her come over to eat. I happened to buy meat today.
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"No need to bother." Huang Tiesheng waved his hand, and Ye Chuqiu looked at Lin Dahu, "Dahu, take your sister and invite Sanniang over for dinner."
Taking Wufeng with him was mainly to avoid suspicion. Lin Dahu agreed and took his sister down. On the way, he was still a little annoyed and complained to Wufeng: "I didn't expect that the second aunt had this idea. I thought
She just wanted to take advantage of our family a little bit, but I didn’t expect that she wanted to take advantage of a big advantage. Hey, my mother will definitely dislike me for being useless now."
Wufeng turned to look at him and gave him an "Are you talking to me?" expression. Lin Dahu reached out and rubbed her head, "Hey, I won't say anything anymore, I will continue to work hard."