Before entering the mountains today, Su Qingluan had thought about how to make everyone more motivated. The simplest way is - the more work, the more pay.

However, this time, the Xie family only needs a total of 30 sets of trial products, and larger batches of production will take at least ten days to half a month.

Considering that jam does not contain preservatives or vacuum or inert gas preservation technology, Su Qingluan must ensure that the raw materials are as fresh as possible.

Because of this, the shorter the time interval between the moment of successful picking and the moment of making jam, the better.

What's more, the maturity and appearance of the picked fruits are strictly controlled. Those that are overripe or still green and affect the taste will not be selected.

It is precisely because of the layers of screening that although wild fruit trees are everywhere in the mountains, the fruits that meet the picking conditions are not as common as imagined.

If you sacrifice quality in pursuit of quantity, not only will the gain outweigh the loss, but it will also affect the subsequent jam production.

In order to prevent these people from "accidentally damaging" the unripe fruits, Su Qingluan stipulated that for every kilogram of unqualified fruits picked, one kilogram of qualified fruits would be offset. In this way, the group that picked the most fruits would pay an extra 20 cents per person today, and the group leader would pay an extra 30 cents.

With this rule, everyone is afraid of picking too many "unqualified products" and offsetting the results of their hard work, so they will carefully check again and again before picking.

Although the overall picking speed has slowed down, the pass rate has been greatly improved. It is no longer like at the beginning when fruits of all qualities were thrown into the woven baskets.

However, this creates a problem - before, when we were not so concerned about the pass rate, any fruit that looked similar could be thrown into the woven basket. But this time, if we want to ensure absolute pass rate, then some fruits that look similar cannot be counted as fruits just to be on the safe side.

Therefore, the number of fruits that can be called qualified products is greatly reduced.

In fact, the hills behind Huaxi Village were filled with wild fruit trees. Otherwise, Su Qingluan wouldn't have used such free raw materials. Moreover, everyone was from Huaxi Village and was very familiar with where the fruit trees were.

However, if the distance to the gathering place is too far, a lot of physical strength and time will be spent just on the road. Although picking fruits will be relatively unaffected, the rest of the time cost and energy will be multiplied. How far to go is something that every team leader needs to consider - if possible, it is naturally best to use the area closest to the gathering point as the collection area.

However, there are only one or two favorable terrains, but there are five groups, plus Su Qingluan's group - although Su Qingluan instructed her two "followers" from the beginning to proceed steadily and not compare with other groups - so different groups began to fight openly and secretly for the favorable terrain.

In fact, at the beginning, the team members were just secretly using some tricks, but there were always a few people with hot tempers. After a while, they couldn't stand each other, and some of them started to be sarcastic to each other.

The yin and yang gangs were so angry that some people couldn't help but fight. Soon, several people were twisted into a ball like a twist of dough. This was the scene when Su Qingluan discovered the commotion.

Su Qingluan looked at the pile of people on the ground, sneered and shouted, "Get up! If you fight again, don't you want your wages for today?!"

With that shout, everyone quieted down. The few people who were scuffling on the ground also quickly stood up.

Su Qingluan looked at the many fruits damaged by the pushing and fighting, and sneered at the onlookers: "Don't you want to watch? Pick up all these rotten fruits later. No matter which group they are from, they will be considered unqualified bad fruits!"

This fight mainly involved groups two and three, and the other groups were just there to make trouble or watch, so the fruits that were damaged were those of these two groups.

After hearing what Su Qingluan said, the remaining three groups cleaned up the "battlefield" dejectedly and quickly concentrated on their work. At the same time, they were also somewhat glad that they did not act rashly.

The people in Groups 2 and 3 weren't having such a good time. Su Qingluan looked at these people standing in a row, looking dejected, and couldn't help but sneer, "It seems like the work isn't busy or tiring enough. Did I pay you to fight? You're fighting over two pieces of fruit! You're really capable!"

Everyone lowered their heads and remained silent.

Su Qingluan walked up to the two team leaders and said, "Especially you two. As team leaders, you should play a role in resolving conflicts and regulating emotions. I'm paying you a little more because I hope you can do a good job of managing these people! Otherwise, what else can I do with the extra money?!"

"But we didn't participate in the fight..." One of them was unconvinced.

"Yeah, you guys don't have the upper hand," Su Qingluan said unhappily, "You're having fun fanning the flames from the sidelines! 'Do it the dirty way,' wasn't it you who said that? You're quite experienced, aren't you?"

The man lowered his head and said nothing.

Su Qingluan continued to scold, "You could have discussed and divided the area to pick the fruit in different directions, or you could have cooperated to pick more fruit. But you chose the stupidest way! Not only did it bring you no benefit, but it also ruined the fruit you already had. What were you trying to achieve?"

The two team leaders also lowered their heads. Some of the remaining team members were still a little indignant, but after Su Qingluan said this, they probably felt that they were a little stupid and lowered their heads and kept silent.

Su Qing saw that the unconvinced expressions on their faces had disappeared, and he sighed, "If I hadn't had to, I wouldn't want to punish you—earning a little money isn't easy. But if I don't punish you this time, without any sign of regret, it will make the others who didn't fight or cause trouble feel unfair, so I'm going to deduct twenty cents from each member of Groups 2 and 3."

"Also, since team leaders are supposed to play a management role, and this time it was clearly the two team leaders who failed in their duties, you will also have to deduct an additional twenty cents."

Seeing them looking even more dejected, Su Qingluan said coldly, "How long do you want to sit here in a daze? In the previous competition, your two groups probably had little hope of winning the championship, but why not try to win third place?"

Seeing several people looking up at Su Qingluan with confused expressions, Liu Yunniang felt desperate about what was going on in these people's heads - these people really weren't listening to Qingluan's words.

"Didn't Qingluan say it just now? Although the first place will get twenty cents more in salary, the second place will still get ten cents, and even the third place will get five cents more!" Liu Yunniang said with some regret.

As the saying goes, even a mosquito leg is still meat, and this is just a single day's work! If you can earn five cents a day, it will be a considerable amount in a month!