After dinner, Mei Zhonghua confessed to Li Mingyun, "Today I settled all the workers' accounts, and the harvesting of wheat has begun. I must let the family go home and work."
Li Mingyun was sulking at the mention of this, but he didn't have any episodes. He just asked patiently, "Just say how much money you paid everyone this time, and how much did you lose yourself?"
"In fact, it's really not much. There are close to one hundred workers for big workers, close to fifty workers for small workers, and more than eight hundred dollars have been settled just for the wages. Excluding the material money, I really didn't make much money... God, I also made two or three hundred..."
Mei Zhonghua is obviously lacking in confidence. According to his estimation, to build a house, it will fall to at least four or five hundred yuan, but the profit is less than half of what he estimated. I am afraid that it is not as good as the store every month. The benefits too!
"Only two or three hundred?"
Before, Li Mingyun would not say that, but now she has a broader vision than before, and when she has more knowledge, she realizes that Mei Zhonghua was a bit in vain this time. It took nearly two months to make two or three hundred, and one hundred or so in a month. Although this is still much higher than ordinary people’s wages, but in terms of building a house, the profit is But it's very low.
But who can blame this
Had it not been for Mei Zhonghua to make his own proposal, he had to increase the wages of Dagong by 50 cents, and he would have increased by more than a hundred over the wages of these four great jobs!
"Mingyun, this is the first time I have helped someone build a house. I really have no experience. If I definitely won't just make so much next time."
"Are you embarrassed to say this? You are not earning less, but you are dividing up all the money you earn. The daily wage of a big job is 50 cents more, and four big jobs are two yuan. You can calculate these two months. Isn't it more than a hundred?"
Mei Zhonghua blushed, "It's alright, let's not talk about this, let's talk about something else?"
"I have nothing to say."
Li Mingyun thought that those great workers had gotten a hundred and ten yuan in these two months, but her brother-in-law only had a poor fifty or sixty... He still did the work of those great workers, so he couldn't help being wronged for his own people.
"Mingyun, can you tell me what happened to your purchase this time? Aren't you afraid to run so far?"
"What's so scary about this? If I'm alone, I must be a little scared... But
This time I was with Ran Ran. Don't look at our family's very young age, but it has the backbone. It's a lot of peace of mind to have her with me. "
When Mei Zhonghua heard it, she became proud again, "Of course, you don't want to think about whose girl this is, all the cleverness is just following me."
"You are so stinky!"
Li Mingyun arranged, “It’s okay if the house is built on your side. Let’s go to Beiguan to help tomorrow. My father and my mother will do the work over there. It’s really too busy... At the moment, only Mingqin and Mingyue can help. A woman can't be better than a man, and you will start cutting wheat tomorrow morning. You must pass."
"That's okay, cutting wheat is not a big deal, I can't do anything else, but farming is a good hand."
Seeing that he had a better attitude, Li Mingyun didn't feel embarrassed to care about him anymore.
The next day, Mei Zhonghua really got up very early to help Lao Zhang’s family harvest the wheat. Li Mingyun originally wanted to go back to help, but was stopped by Mei Zhonghua, “You must be exhausted if you go out for two days to buy goods. Now, stay at home well. I promise to help our parents and mothers with the work in the field, so that you won’t worry about it a little bit."
Although Li Mingyun didn't go to the ground, he didn't idle either. He called Mei Xiaoran's sister and brother early, "Don't sleep late, Lei Lei, please buy more steamed buns and fried dough sticks and send them to grandma's home. The winery bought some rice wine and delivered it to the field."
This is an unwritten practice during wheat harvest.
In order not to affect the harvest, everyone has prepared eggs and pancakes. These delicious foods that are not commonly eaten are delivered to the ground, firstly to save time, and secondly, so that the workers can eat and work well. The rice wine bought from the winery is not the kind of high-concentration rice wine, but the kind of rice wine mixed with water, which is mainly used to quench thirst and is sold to everyone as a drink.
As soon as Li Mingyun confessed, Mei Xiaoran's sister and brother got busy.
But Mei Xiaoran also made a request, she wants to ride her mother's Phoenix bike. In such a hot day, if you ride the bike, you will definitely save a lot of time and cooler.
Li Mingyun agreed without saying anything.
Twenty minutes later, Mei Xiaoran's sister and brother rode a phoenix bike and drove along the small road in the farmland...
Although the weather is very hot, the breeze is still breezy when riding on the bicycle. This is only just over 7 o'clock in the morning, everywhere on the road.
You can see farmers cutting wheat in full swing.
Since the policy change, the enthusiasm of farmers has been mobilized.
In particular, the big contract has just been introduced. In the past, everyone farmed, no matter how many kinds of land they were, the final harvest had to be given to the public. But now there are more crops and more harvests, and they are all in their own homes. The farmers must work harder than before. Besides, this is also the first year of the implementation of large-scale contracting. Everyone is afraid that the policy will change, so they will take advantage of how much they can collect now... If the prevailing trend changes again, everyone will not suffer.
When Mei Xiaoran's sister and brother came to the site, they saw that part of the wheat from the grandmother's house had already been harvested.
Mei Zhonghua was standing on the shady ground with his hips akimbo, "It is estimated that it will take two days to harvest the land, but I have heard the weather forecast that it might rain recently. We have to take advantage of the good day to quickly harvest the wheat. That's fine."
"Grandpa, Dad, the two of us are here to bring water and food!"
Grandma Li looked back and saw that the two grandsons were riding on the bike, and their faces were flushed, and she felt a little distressed, "Your mother is so true. Let the two of you run errands on such a hot day?"
"Grandma, this is what we two want to come by ourselves."
There were a total of seven or eight people who came to harvest wheat in the morning. Everyone had worked all morning. This meeting was indeed thirsty and tired. Seeing the food sent by Mei Xiaoran and brother, they couldn't help but stop and start eating.
Grandma Li saw the steamed buns fried dough sticks and the eggs that Li Mingyun had cooked herself, and she felt distressed, "These foods can cost a lot of money, and Mingyun is now becoming more and more lavish."
Mei Zhonghua laughed and ridiculed, "Mom, Mingyun is making up for it. She didn't come to work by herself, and she was overwhelmed, so she asked the children to come over for food. She is so good!"
These few words amused everyone.
Zhao Jun even laughed, "Brother Mei, you are tearing down my eldest sister's station."
"Isn't it? Come on, let's finish our work quickly, and while the sun is still not so poisonous, it would be a little bit more to collect."
Mei Zhonghua urged everyone, then turned to ask Mei Xiaoran sister and brother, "Have you two eaten?"
Mei Xiaolei replied honestly, "We were busy coming over to deliver food early in the morning, how can we have time to eat?"
However, Mei Xiaoran said cleverly, "Dad, you don't have to worry about us. I will go back to eat with Lei Lei in a while, but we both want to eat good food."
(End of this chapter)