When Mrs. Wang scolded people on the first day, the villagers did not refute, so that Mrs. Wang was given the illusion that the villagers were resigned. On the second day, Mrs. Wang scolded even more.
Several villagers endured until the evening of the next day, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, so they approached Mr. Lu and asked Mr. Lu to pay off their wages for two days. They didn't want to do it anymore.
"What's the matter, why don't you stop doing it?" Mr. Lu said a little unhappy.
The leading man said: "Master Lu, everyone is here to make money, not to be scolded. If you settle the wages, we won't do it."
Mr. Lu frowned in embarrassment, feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart. Mr. Lu privately felt that he spent money to hire people to do the work, so what's wrong with listening to a few scoldings? The old man can buy so many lands, and he is very respectable in the village, but in his heart, he looks down on the people in the village.
Several helpers united the front, which made Mr. Lu feel that his majesty had been challenged, and he couldn't help being a little annoyed.
When Mrs. Wang heard several people pestering Mr. Lu for money, she immediately exploded. "If you don't work hard, you still want wages, you are beautiful."
The villagers were not to be trifled with, and they became angry when they heard this.
"What's the matter, you want to renege on your debt, what if you don't want to pay?"
"One or two knows how to be lazy, and you still have the face to ask for wages. Just you people, I am willing to invite you, you should burn the incense."
Zhang Danian, the leader, looked unhappy, and said: "Old lady, what are you talking about? There are so many important places in this season. It's not work for whom to work! We can't work for you day and night."
"That's right, the people who went to work at Grandma Shen's house before got 30 Wen a day, and there are two steamed buns at noon."
"Working so hard for the Lu family, I don't even have a bowl of hot soup at noon, so I just know how to remind me."
When Mrs. Wang heard a few people mention Grandma Shen, she exploded immediately. When Shen Chi pointed it out to Chen Xiaocai, Mrs. Wang regarded Mrs. Shen as one of Lu Lin's gang. Mrs. Wang thought in her heart that Mrs. Shen's money was spent. Lu Lin, he was very angry before.
Mrs. Wang had a big quarrel with some helpers. Mrs. Wang cursed at them with a poisonous mouth, which made the faces of those clumsy-tongued men turn red.
A man got agitated, and directly brought out the fact that Wang had forced his son to death, and then went to Chen Xiaomi's house to steal money.
Wang was hated when people said she stole money, because she didn't do that at all, but no one believed it.
Mrs. Wang and several villagers quarreled and almost started a fight. Finally, Li Zheng was called to mediate, and the flags and drums died down.
The result of the incident was that Mr. Lu paid a few laborers, but everyone withdrew five cents, because Mrs. Wang felt that they were not working hard. If it wasn't for Li Zheng's mediation, Mrs. Wang would have deducted more money .
In his heart, Mr. Lu felt that the old woman was too talkative and offended everyone. He also felt that the villagers were too disrespectful. He spent money to invite these people to find trouble, but these people are still making such a fuss. His wages are enough. High, the work of a few villagers is not very good, but they are a little greedy.
The men felt a little angry, but they didn't want to go to war for the five cents. However, in this way, the reputation of the Lu family in the village suddenly became bad.
When the men went home and told the story, the mother-in-law at home was naturally a little angry.
Some people in the village said that Mr. Lu is not kind. He married his grandson a daughter-in-law and spent tens of taels of money without blinking his eyes. .
A few villagers quit, and Mr. Lu didn't care much. From Mr. Lu's point of view, if you have money, are you afraid that you won't be able to invite people? However, when I hired someone again, I found that no one was willing to do it. Mr. Lu made some inquiries and found that it was rumored among the villagers that he likes to renege on his debts, so you must be cautious when working for him. If this is not done well, the wages will be deducted Yes, in the end, it will be done for nothing.
Several villagers on the road pointed at Mr. Lu and made Mr. Lu very angry.
The Lu family couldn't invite anyone, so in the end Lizheng came forward and invited someone for Mr. Lu. However, the newcomer asked to pay first before working, and if he didn't accept it, he couldn't do the deduction of money.
Mr. Lu had no choice but to agree.
When Mr. Lu came back to his senses, he realized that his family had been scolded unkindly for a few pennies, so he could only endure it.
The Lu family's harvest was stumbling, but they finally harvested all the grain in the field.
After the autumn harvest, a few autumn winds blew, the weather became colder and colder, and there was a faint tendency to enter winter.
The business in Lu Lin's shop is getting better and better.
Dolls are more influential than schoolbags
Many merchants went to Lu Lin's shops to buy goods and resell them to other places.
In order to make up for the shortage of manpower, Lu Lin bought two women who can sew from Yazi.
The two women are named Magpie and Lin Chun.
Magpie was twenty-six years old. When Magpie was young, his family was poor. He was sold by his parents to a rich family and was given the name Magpie. Later, he forgot his real name and worked for that family with trepidation. Although Magpie was only twenty-six years old, Maybe it's because of too much work, but he looks like a person in his thirties or forties.
After the magpie got old, the rich family fell into poverty and couldn't afford to support so many maids, so they sold the magpie again.
The other one, Lin Chun, was also twenty-three years old. Her husband died, and her mother-in-law sold her because she said she was celibate.
The arrival of Magpie and Lin Chun greatly relieved the pressure on Grandma Shen and Yunniang, and Lu Lin asked Grandma Shen to teach them how to make dolls.
After all, Grandma Shen is getting old, her eyesight has deteriorated, and her work is becoming more and more difficult. Some time ago, for fear of delaying the Zheng family, Grandma Shen took the initiative to ask Lu Lin about a replacement.
Now that Lu Lin asked her to teach people to work, Grandma Shen was greatly relieved.
With Shen Chi not around, Grandma Shen was a little lonely, the two new women were poor people, Grandma Shen still had some sympathy for them, Grandma Shen didn't feel bored staying with them.
Shen Chi was not there, and after Magpie and Lin Chun came, they lived in a room with Grandma Shen.
Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi were walking on the street, and Chen Xiaomi looked around curiously.
This year's harvest is good, and many farmers have bright smiles on their faces.
Lu Lin saw a few mountain people selling mountain products, and bought some mountain treasures.
Chen Xiaomi looked at what Lu Lin bought and pouted, "Actually, this kind of thing is everywhere on the mountain, so you don't need to buy it at all."
"In the past, it was very difficult to buy mountain products, and what's more, the ones you bought were probably fake..." Chen Xiaomi knew that Lu Lin was talking about another world before, and Chen Xiaomi always felt that it was a very magical place. You can't finish eating rice, but you can't eat mountain delicacies.
Chen Xiaomi curled her lips and said, "If you like it, you can buy more."
"You don't need to buy too much." Lu Lin glanced at the market in the distance, and happened to see a familiar person, "It's Uncle Liu."
Chen Xiaomi blinked and said, "It's true, I haven't seen you for a while."
Lu Lin used to think that the houses in the country were small, so he asked Liu Guiyong and others to renovate them. However, there are many things in the town now, and the houses in the country are not going much anymore. Whenever Chen Xiaomiming thinks of the houses in the country, he feels a little pity.
"Uncle Liu is selling sweet potatoes!" Lu Lin said in confusion. Last year, sweet potatoes were unsalable. Are you still planting sweet potatoes this year
"Would you like to make some more sweet potato wine?" Chen Xiaomi asked with a glance at Lu Lin.
Lu Lin nodded, and said, "That's good." If you make wine, you can get money very quickly. Although the dolls sell well, you can't put all your eggs in one basket. Multiple sources of income are always good. .
"Uncle Liu." Chen Xiaomi stepped forward and greeted him.
"Young Master Lin, Brother Xiaomi, there are two of them!" Huaxia Commercial Firm has a great reputation, and Liu Guiyong has also inquired about the situation of the two of them, knowing that Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi are now working for the big boss in the town and earning a lot of money. Now there are many people in the countryside making money by making embroidery for Huaxia Commercial Firm.
The villagers are always in awe of the rich, so that Liu Guiyong became a little cautious when he saw Chen Xiaomi and Lu Lin.
"Uncle Liu, don't you sell sweet potatoes to grain stores?" Chen Xiaomi asked.
Liu Guiyong sighed, and said worriedly: "It's too small, the grain store won't accept it."
Chen Xiaomi took a look at a sweet potato and said, "Such a small sweet potato is not enough to eat!"
Lu Lin bumped Chen Xiaomi with his elbow, and Chen Xiaomi smiled embarrassingly.
Liu Guiyong didn't mind either, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Xiaomi, don't look at our small sweet potato, but it's very sweet, but the appearance is a little bit worse! So much so that it can't be sold at all, hey, my family grows it. It’s quite rare, and there are quite a few people in our village who have grown this kind of thing, if it can’t be sold, I don’t know how to survive the winter.”
Lu Lin was a little puzzled and said, "Didn't it be that sweet potatoes were unsalable last year? Why did we plant so many again?"
Liu Guiyong said embarrassingly: "This... In fact, we were deceived by someone."
Chen Xiaomi was a little puzzled and said, "Did someone deceive you?"
Liu Guiyong sighed and explained: "The price of sweet potatoes was not high last year, and everyone didn't want to grow sweet potatoes. A man named Liu Qi came here a few years ago."
"Liu Qi said that he has good varieties of sweet potatoes from the south. This kind of sweet potatoes are much sweeter than our sweet potatoes. They are very popular with the nobles in the south. Let us plant them. He came to harvest them in autumn. The sweet potatoes he planted are grown. It can sell for several times the price of local sweet potatoes, so I can assure you that you don’t have to worry about it.”
Everyone didn't believe it at first, but since the man's all-around demeanor didn't seem like he would be a liar, everyone believed it.
Chen Xiaomi tilted her head and said, "Didn't he come over this year?"
"It's coming, but he said that our sweet potatoes are too small, they must have not been planted well, they do not meet the standards, and he is not happy to accept them."
Chen Xiaomi was a little puzzled and said: "Didn't he bring the good seeds? It is also his responsibility to grow them smaller, but why did they become smaller?"
Lu Lin tilted his head and said, "Maybe it's the difference in geographical environment." The climate in the south is different from here, and the terrain and soil should also be different, so the sweet potatoes grown are not the same.
Chen Xiaomi rolled his eyes and said, "Uncle Liu, do you know this Liu Qi? Does he have anything to do with your village?"
Liu Guiyong nodded and said: "Yes, the Liu family used to be poor. Before Liu Qi's father, he went out to run a business. I heard that he made a lot of money. He also bought a house and a shop in the south, and took in a few concubines. Waiter, the family is very rich."
Lu Lin blinked, and probably understood why the people in Dawan Village believed Liu Qi. Liu Qi's father was a successful man from Dawan Village.
Chen Xiaomi looked at Lu Lin and said, "If it's really sweet, you can buy some."
Lu Lin nodded and said, "Yes." You can brew some sweet potato wine. The size of sweet potatoes is not small, and you can brew sweet potato wine. If the sweet potatoes are sweet, you can save a little sugar.
Lu Lin bought a hundred catties of sweet potatoes and asked Yunniang to steam some sweet potatoes to eat.
Chen Mai likes this kind of sweet potato so much that he ate three of them at once.
Qin Lang and Qin Ming were half-grown boys, at the age of a poor old man, Lu Lin let the two children eat whatever they wanted, and they ate more than a dozen at once.
Chen Xiaomi ate the sweet potato and said, "It's really sweet, but it's a little smaller, and it disappeared after a few bites."
There are quite a lot of people waiting to eat on his side. Sweet potatoes are not expensive, and they can be eaten as well. If they can't be eaten and turned into wine, they won't be wasted. "
Lu Lin glanced at Chen Xiaomi and said, "If you like it, I'll buy more."
Chen Xiaomi nodded and said, "Alright."