Chapter 301 Shi Hui

Shi Hui immediately nodded and agreed: "Yes, of course I wouldn't, but this job is hard and dirty, I'm afraid not many people are willing to do it."

"I don't think so. I'll take you back to rest first. I might have to trouble you to stay here at night."

"Wait a minute, let me take a look at the situation of your pig farm first." As she said that, she began to check the situation of the pig farm.

Old Lady Wen looked at her from behind: "Yi Yi, this person is quite interesting."

"I think so too. I think she'll surprise me."

Shi Hui walked around and came over: "Your pig farm is well built, and the pigs are well taken care of. I'll come back to check on them after I rest for a while."

"Thank you for your help."

"No trouble, this is my job."

Old Mrs. Wen and the others took Shi Hui home and temporarily arranged her in Zhu Tao's room. Axiang hasn't come back yet, and when Axiang comes back, he will probably have to share a room with Wen Zhenyi.

Ma Yinghe also felt that the room at home was tight: "It would be better if there are no more people coming in recently, otherwise this house will be full of people."

Wen Zhenyi was not worried because Master Chang and his team had already come here and had started construction at the entrance of the village.

He also brought the school drawings to Wen Zhenyi.

After Wen Zhenyi showed it to Shen Xiucai and found no problems, he let them start working together.

Now the villagers have nothing to do after the autumn harvest, so they run to the village entrance to help. Normally, they only need to be paid twenty cents for a meal a day.

This was considered a very high wage anywhere, but Wen Zhen just waved his hand and raised the wage to one or two taels of silver a month, including two meals.

As soon as the wages were paid, everyone who was able to work in the village went to the village entrance, and people from other villages chased Master Chang every day, begging him to come here to work.

Wen Zhenyi never skimped on food. He prepared white rice, white flour buns, chicken, duck, fish, mutton offal, beef offal and other items in different ways for the villagers who went to work.

Everyone worked even harder, and the construction progress of the house changed day by day.

Wen Zhenyi calculated the time and realized that it was time for her to go to the county town, as it was almost the 15th.

Shi Hui's arrival solved many of their pig-raising problems. Although a few piglets died due to difficult births, most of them survived.

In the autumn harvest, Wen Zhenyi collected all the potatoes and sweet potatoes planted by the people and prepared to feed the animals in the pig farm. He even collected all the sweet potato vines and potato vines.

The villagers got a good income again, and they were all as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood. After finishing the chores at the village entrance, they went to dig the land and plant sweet potatoes.

Wen Zhenyi was really afraid that they would die suddenly when he saw them working so hard, so he had to go find the village chief and ask him to tell the villagers not to work so hard.

When Ah Xiang returned, he did not bring back the tenants of the fertile land under her name: "Master, these are still tenants."

Wen Zhenyi looked at the people who came back with her. Basically, each family sent someone who had a say. "Did Axiang tell you the details?"

"I've already said that, boss, thank you for not raising our rent."

"You're welcome. I hope you'll take good care of these fertile fields next year."

"We will."

"The contracts I signed with you are one-year contracts. If you don't do well, you will be replaced next year."

"We understand."

Wen Zhenyi took out all the written contracts and asked, "Can you read?"

The tenant farmers quickly shook their heads: "We can't read."

"Then I'll read it to you. If it's okay, you can give me a fingerprint."

The tenant farmers nodded.

Wen Zhenyi read the contents of the contract again, and seeing that they had no objection, she pressed her fingerprints at the place she said.

The contract was in duplicate. She kept one copy for herself and gave one copy back to the tenant farmers: "If the crops are good, we will renew the contract next year."

"good."

Wen Zhenyi asked Axiang to take them around and had lunch at the construction site. "Axiang, when you send them back, go to the cloth shop and buy some cloth for them."

"Master, how many horses does a family need?"

"Are there many people?"

“There are quite a lot of people in each household.”

Wen Zhenyi calculated in his mind that the price of a piece of cotton cloth was about four hundred and eighty to five hundred wen, while the price of a piece of hemp cloth was much cheaper, between two hundred and forty to two hundred and fifty wen.

Nowadays, people are reluctant to wear good cotton cloth when working. One reason is that it is not durable, and the other is that they are reluctant to wear it: "I see that the hemp cloth they are wearing is all patched up. Please buy them five pieces of hemp cloth."

"Okay, I'll buy them some at the cloth shop when I send them back."

"When you come back, we should set off for the county town."

"I'll be back as soon as possible."

The tenant farmers didn't expect that when they returned, each of them would have five pieces of ramie cloth in their hands. Although it was not cotton cloth, it was the best gift for them who had not had a new piece of clothing all year round.

These ramie cloths can be used to make new clothes for the elderly and children in the family. They should be able to wear them by the New Year.

Shi Hui has completely gotten used to the life here. Her arrival has increased the number of piglets in the pig farm, and the previous piglets have now grown into big pigs.

Wen Chengwen locked up all the castrated pigs together. These were the pigs that could be sold, and the others were kept for breeding piglets.

However, the number of these slaughtered pigs is not large, and we cannot guarantee that we can supply a pig every day. We can only kill one every few days to satisfy everyone's cravings.

Ma Yinghe and Old Lady Wen are going to the town together this time, leaving all the household affairs to Old Man Wen.

"Old man, spread the word about our current farmland and say we want to rent it out, with a 30% rent."

"Okay, I'll spread the word right away, and if there's a suitable property I'll rent it out."

"We are leaving now. You have to take care of the village and the family."

"Don't worry, take me to say hello to the Yue family."

For convenience, Wen Zhenyi brought back a horse and bought a carriage. In order to make the carriage comfortable, she also brought some unused bedding into the carriage.

Mrs. Wen sat on it and said, "These are all soft."

"Grandma, you don't know how bumpy this road is."

"We used to walk a lot in the past. Back then, we used ox carts. We couldn't reach the county town in a whole day and had to stop along the way to rest for a night."

"Aren't you afraid?"

"It's not bad here, there are quite a few people on the official road."

"Too."

"Yiyi, your noodle machine has been made for a while now, but you must be too busy to use it."

"That's right, but now everything is fine. I have Xiao Taozi in the store, Aunt Shi Hui is here at the pig farm, and Aunt Qin and the others are helping out at home. I should be able to free up my hands to do other things now that I'm back."