Chapter 116: Red Eyes

After hearing about these benefits, everyone in the village expressed their support. On the surface, their wages had been reduced, but in fact, Xia Wu bought insurance for them and gave them a share of the profits. As long as Xia Wu made money, they could also share the money, which was more than what they could earn from a fixed salary.

The villagers lined up one by one to sign the contract, and Yang Mingkai was responsible for registering the information.

Xia Wu had no accounting talent, so he had to borrow someone from the village committee. Yang Mingkai had been doing accounting for decades and was the best at bookkeeping, so Xia Wu asked him to help and be responsible for matters such as paying salaries in the future.

After working for an entire afternoon, I finally entered the employee information, and their insurance will be paid for the next time they get paid.

Suddenly, Yang Shuhua raised his hand and asked, "Um, Xiao Wu, what is the name of our company?"

He has already started working, but he still doesn't know what the company is called.

"Yeah, I forgot to ask, what's the name of the company?"

Xia Wu smiled and said, "Just call it Taoyuan Villa Co., Ltd."

She hopes to build Yanggou Village into a paradise that can accommodate restless souls and provide a breathing space for people who do not like the secular life of nine to five.

Isn’t this the paradise that Tao Yuanming talked about?

Everyone seemed happy with the name.

After signing the contract, everyone dispersed and went about their own business. Xia Wu was still packing up her things when Yang Guofeng came over and asked, "Xiao Wu, the other people in the village asked me to come over and ask, are you hiring any more people?"

Xia Wu slapped his forehead, realizing that he had forgotten to mention this matter.

"We're hiring, of course, and we'll give priority to people from our village. Uncle Guofeng, I have something else I want to discuss with you. I'd like to ask you to be the HR of our company. Would you be willing?"

Yang Guofeng scratched his head and sat down opposite Xia Wu. He felt a little reserved and embarrassed. "Xiao Wu, what is this HR you are talking about? Explain it to me. I don't understand this."

Xia Wu smiled and said, "Just like Accountant Yang, he is responsible for the company's finances, and HR is human resources, mainly responsible for recruiting matters."

She could have found someone in the village if she wanted to, so why did Xia Wu go to the trouble of asking Yang Guofeng to handle the personnel matters? She had two main considerations. One was Yang Guofeng's salary. As the village secretary, he had provided her with countless assistance, all free, selfless, and dedicated.

Yang Guofeng did this for the development of the whole village, but he also provided a lot of convenience to Xia Wu. Now that she has established a company, she wants to benefit the development of the whole village. She can't just leave Yang Guofeng, who has worked hard, aside. To make everyone rich, no one should be left out.

If we give Yang Guofeng money directly, it would be an insult to him and he would not accept it. It would be only right to find him a position and give him money and benefits.

The second consideration is to prevent problems before they occur.

Although most people in the village are good and know how to be grateful, people's hearts are fickle. Xia Wu had good intentions, but he was afraid of attracting troublemakers. Good intentions may lead to bad results, and one bad apple can spoil the whole barrel.

As the village secretary, Yang Guofeng has influence in the village and knows the nature of each villager. With him in charge of personnel matters, whether it is recruiting people or handling some emergencies among employees, he has enough authority.

Just like how she dealt with the conflicts between Guihua's mother and her sons and daughters-in-law before.

Xia Wu believed Yang Guofeng unconditionally on this point.

Xia Wu explained it clearly to Yang Guofeng, and Yang Guofeng understood her intention and agreed immediately. He was good at this and capable.

"Then I'll trouble you, Uncle Guofeng. I plan to raise cattle first. Let's build the cowshed first. At the same time, I need to find someone suitable to buy cattle. Do you know where to buy cattle?"

"I'll ask around for you. There's no rush."

It's not something that can be rushed. They have plenty of time and can develop slowly.

Everything will be easy once the money is in place. Xia Wu wants to build a cattle shed, so he goes to Sannong.com to learn from farmers. They all build modern cattle sheds to provide a good living environment for the cattle.

After getting the drawings, the next step was construction. Xia Wu was already familiar with finding a construction foreman nearby. The foreman in charge of the construction of her homestay introduced her to an acquaintance. After confirming that everything was correct, she purchased materials and started building the cowshed.

The mountains and hills were extremely busy. During the period of contract signing, the villagers were in an extremely excited state and worked very hard.

The scenes on the day of signing the contract were filmed by Yang Hongwen. After editing, Xia Wu released the video with the title "I made an important decision."

Shao Yun is a working class person who graduated from university many years ago. With the help of the foreign languages ​​and two minor languages ​​she learned by herself during university, she found a very good job after graduation. Her salary was 5,000 to 6,000 yuan at the beginning, and now it has increased to over 10,000 yuan. In addition to her main job, she also takes some private translation work online, and her monthly income can be about 10,000 to 20,000 yuan.

It sounds good, but she lives in a big city, Shanghai, and this salary level is only enough for her to eat and drink, plus save some money. As for staying in Shanghai to develop and buy a house to settle down?

Haha, Shao Yun had this idea when she just graduated, but now she doesn’t think about it anymore.

As she got older, Shao Yun was in an even more difficult situation. Her family urged her to return to her hometown to get married and find a stable job, but Shao Yun couldn't find a good job in her hometown.

Either there is no five social insurances and one housing fund, or there is no weekend off. I don’t understand why cattle and horses are abused worse in small places than in big cities.

She had been in a seven-year relationship before, which started in college. She survived the graduation breakup season, but she couldn't survive the daily necessities of life of ordinary people.

The relationship ended with the man cheating on his wife with his only daughter in Shanghai. Since then, Shao Yun felt that she had become indifferent to many things.

The neon lights outside the bus were beautiful. Shao Yun leaned against the glass window. Although she was not yet thirty years old, she looked exhausted.

She lives alone, her rent is over 3,000 yuan, and she has no plans to get married. She needs to treat herself well, otherwise what's the point of making money? She thought about going home to cook a couple of dishes, make some wine, and eat while watching "The Legend of Zhen Huan". After dinner, she would rest for a while, as she still had two private translation orders to complete today.

Shao Yun's life is like this, ordinary and plain, nothing bad about it, but not that great either.

She always felt lost, like a duckweed, going wherever the wind took her.

Following the crowd out of the car, Shao Yun returned to his apartment where he lived alone. He turned on "Empresses in the Palace" and turned up the volume to the maximum as background music to prevent his room from being too silent.

She opened the refrigerator and found several bags of vegetables categorized in the fresh produce section. She bought them from an online blogger named Xia Xia, who said they were organic vegetables. They tasted really good, better than those sold in supermarkets.

A package of fresh vegetables is delivered every week. Before opening the package, she doesn’t know what vegetables are in the package, so opening the package every week is one of the things she looks forward to most.

Shao Yun planned to stir-fry some green beans, smash two cucumbers to make a cold cucumber salad, and cut a plate of raw tomatoes, sprinkle them with sugar and drink with wine. It seemed that she was missing some meat dishes, so she opened her phone to order takeout. She ordered some duck food, but didn't buy much. It cost her nearly sixty or seventy yuan.

The Shanghai currency is not worth spending.

But since she is alone, she should always be nice to herself.

While ordering takeout, Shao Yun saw the push notification that Xia Xia had posted a new video. She hoped it would be a long video so that she could eat with Xia Xia's video later.

I prepared and cooked the dishes by myself. The dishes were simple and were ready in less than twenty minutes. I put a bowl of rice on the table, opened the tablet and set it up, and "The Legend of Zhen Huan" was playing.

The takeaway hadn't arrived yet, so she took out a bottle of green plum wine from the wine cabinet. Xia Xia had put green plum wine on the shelves some time ago, and she was lucky enough to grab two bottles. She liked them very much.

It is said that the next time green plum wine will be on the shelves will be next year, so Shao Yun was very frugal when drinking it. Despite this, the first bottle of wine was almost finished.

Pour ice cubes into a glass, add plum wine and sparkling water. Bubbles will rise up and then burst. The light green plum wine exudes a fresh scent, giving people an inexplicable feeling of coolness.

Everything was ready, so she took a few photos and posted them on her Moments with a sun emoticon.

The doorbell rang. Shao Yun turned on her phone and saw from the surveillance video that the delivery man put the takeaway in the basket as she requested. After making sure that the man had left, she went out to get it.

Women living alone always have to be more cautious, and Shao Yun has become accustomed to it.

After the duck goods were arranged, Shao Yun exited the video software, opened Kuaishou, found Special Attention, clicked on it, and sure enough, there was a new video that she hadn't watched. A smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, wondering what Xia Xia's video was about today.

The video was fifteen minutes long, which was more than enough for her to have a meal.

Shao Yun picked up some kidney beans with chopsticks and the video started playing.

"Hurry up, Xiao Wu said she has something important to announce, let's all go quickly."

The camera was a little shaky, and with a few conversations, the picture showed that several villagers from Yanggou Village were walking towards Yantou Mountain, talking about what would happen next.

Xia Wu gave them half a day off and asked them not to work, saying that he had an important announcement to make, but he didn't say what it was. The villagers had different opinions on the matter, and some were worried that Xia Wu might not be able to run the business well and would have to move to another place, and then they would lose their source of income.

Outside the video, Shao Yun frowned. That shouldn't be the case, right? What if Xia Xia stopped selling vegetables? Her daily source of happiness would be gone.

You know, she didn't cook before. She would order takeout after get off work every day and lie down after eating. It was completely different from now.

With the same doubts as the villagers, Shao Yun continued to read.

The video camera turned and blogger Xia Xia appeared in the bright government hall. She said to the camera, "I have something important to do today. Do you know what I am going to do?"

"Yes, that's right, I'm going to start a company!"

Originally, she was just a self-employed person and didn't need to set up a company. After all, it was just a small hill where she sold some fruits and vegetables. There was no need to use the company's name.

But after Xia Wu asked the staff at the window about the five insurances and one fund paid for employees, Shao Yun finally understood. She knew that Xia Xia had recruited many villagers to work for her, and also took in the left-behind elderly in the village for free meals in the mountains. She had always admired Xia Xia's approach, which was why she always believed in and supported Xia Xia.

But paying the five social insurances and one housing fund for the villagers is completely unnecessary, right? As a worker, she knows the inside story: many companies will evade paying the five social insurances and one housing fund for their employees. Some use internships as an excuse, while others use the excuse of informal employees. Small companies don't mention the five social insurances and one housing fund at all, while large companies blatantly use outsourcing to save a lot of money.

The purpose of many companies and enterprises is to make profits and generate income. If the common people don’t suffer, how can the bosses drive luxury cars and live in villas?

But now Xia Xia’s purpose of setting up a company is to pay five insurances and one fund for some elderly people in the village. This is too outrageous!

Shao Yun was not the only one who was shocked. She saw many people in the barrage typing question marks and were all shocked.

Continuing to watch, I found that Xia Xia wanted to pay insurance for the villagers. Taking into account practical factors, she proposed to pay according to different situations. Some people paid three insurances, and some people paid five insurances and one fund. The villagers all agreed. Whether it was Xia Xia or the villagers, the communication went smoothly.

Some villagers who worked for her even offered to not pay for maternity insurance, which was useless to them, so as to save some money.

Out of good intentions, Xia Xia did something that she shouldn't have to do. The villagers, knowing Xia Xia's good intentions, took the initiative to think about saving some money for her.

It's rare to see such a non-confrontational boss and employees on the Internet, which makes people feel soft-hearted.

Xia Wu then announced a series of company benefits, and the barrage of comments went viral. One of the comments said, "Are you still hiring?" and it was liked more than 9,000 times.

Shao Yun silently gave a thumbs-up to this comment and continued reading. She finally understood Xia Xia's intention. She wanted to give these ordinary farmers who had never experienced security a hope of a safety net, so that they would have someone to rely on and be well-supported in their old age.

Although she contracted the mountain, its operation could not be separated from the help of the villagers. Xia Wu linked the employees' salaries to the company's development, which was equivalent to linking personal property with collective interests.

This has both advantages and disadvantages.

As a veteran worker, Shao Yun can more or less feel the pros and cons of doing so, and is inevitably worried. But at the moment, seeing the heated discussions in the video, the villagers with excited faces, and seeing Xia Xia with eyes as bright as stars as she talks about her ideals, everything seems so idealistic, yet full of a brilliance that makes people yearn for it.

If you can live in such a collective environment, will work still be such a painful thing?

After watching the video, many people were almost envious. Shao Yun was also envious, but she still took a wait-and-see attitude. After all, working at home would definitely not earn much, which was just to give these middle-aged people a meal without having to go out to work.

After finishing the meal, Shao Yun did not clean up the mess immediately. She opened the video to read the comments, and then she saw a comment.

"Let me tell you the truth. Xia Xia's salary is not as low as you think. Some employees who only do basic work and work no more than six hours a day have a base salary of 1,800 yuan, and commissions are unknown. After all, the new salary system has just been implemented. But before, they were about 2,700 yuan per month. Everyone in the countryside knows that this salary level is actually not low. Another group of people have stable jobs and heavy workloads. Their salary is about 5,000 to 6,000 yuan, plus they pay five insurances and one fund. They work close to home, have food provided, and don't have to pay rent. You know how valuable it is~"

This video was pushed to the top. When Shao Yun clicked into his account, he saw his latest video, which was located in Yanggou Village. The video showed the face of a young man who was eating peaches helplessly in a peach orchard. The background sound was a bunch of gossips from rural aunties.

It turns out he is from Yanggou Village, no wonder he knows so much

This time Shao Yun was really envious!