Wang Qiang gave a wry smile. "Isn't it? When the regular workers are at their worst, they eat two-grain flatbreads. And when we temporary workers are at our best, we eat two-grain flatbreads. The most common thing we eat is sweet potato chips ground into powder and made into a wok with cornmeal..."

Chu Tian and Chu Min exchanged a glance, and after a moment's thought, Chu Tian spoke again, "Brother Wang Qiang, my second brother and I can promise that as long as you work for us, I won't say more. We will not eat mixed grain dumplings for our three meals a day. At worst, we will have two-grain flatbreads. We will provide meat once every three days. We have also decided to temporarily pay you one yuan a day. If you do a good job, your salary will only increase in the future, not decrease!"

Wang Qiang's hands trembled. "Are you sure?"

"Of course! Doesn't Brother Wang Qiang know what kind of people we are?"

"No, of course I know what kind of people you two are."

"It's just that the conditions are not bad. Why don't you find a construction team from the city to do the work?"

Listening to Wang Qiang's doubts, Chu Tian smiled and said, "Brother Wang Qiang, you also said that there are not many construction teams in the city who can really do the job. Basically, the ones who do a good job are temporary workers. Even if we find a construction team in the city, they will charge a high price, but they will still let the temporary workers do the work!"

"Since it's still temporary workers who are doing the work in the end, why don't we just hire those temporary workers? We can save money and let the temporary workers earn money at the same time?"

Wang Qiang understood everything and smiled, "Okay, since you trust us so much, I will definitely help you organize a team with the best skills!"

Chu Min smiled and said, "Brother Wang Qiang, we won't let you work in vain. Chu Tian and I have discussed it and decided to make you the foreman. When everyone is recruited, you will help supervise them in building the house. Your salary will be the same as the workers for the time being. What do you say?"

He and Chu Tian both planned not to resign before the autumn harvest. During this period, they would travel back and forth between southern and northern Xinjiang, collect more supplies and resell them to earn more money.

Therefore, during this period, neither of them had time to monitor the construction of the house every day, so they privately agreed to spend some money to let the responsible Wang Qiang manage the people who were doing the work. This way, they could feel at ease and better supervise those people to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the situation.

Wang Qiang's eyes lit up, and he immediately patted his chest and assured, "Chu Min, Chu Tian, ​​don't worry, I will definitely take good care of you."

Chu Tian nodded, "Brother Wang Qiang, how many people can you recruit?"

Wang Qiang thought for a moment and then said, "I currently know ten people, but I'm not sure if all ten can come."

Chu Tian raised his eyebrows when he heard this. "Brother Wang Qiang, I don't require all ten people to come, but at least five master craftsmen are needed. Otherwise, there will be too few people and the progress will be too slow. My second brother and I have a total of eight houses to build, and we require that each house be at least three stories high..."

"It's already the end of March, and winter only lasts about seven months at most, so we can only work for six or seven months. We don't expect to finish all the construction within these six or seven months, but we do want to finish the two buildings this year..."

Wang Qiang nodded, then froze for a moment, raised his head and looked at Chu Tian, ​​"Five master chefs? What do you mean?"

Chu Tian nodded. "Yes, what I mean is, we can hire a few laborers to do odd jobs! The salary will definitely not be the same as the master chef. At the beginning, it will only be 60 cents a day. If they do a good job later, we can give them the same salary as the master chef."

Wang Qiang stood up excitedly, "Really?"

Ignoring Wang Qiang's excited expression, Chu Min interrupted, "It's true. By the way, we also need a cook who will live in the city and prepare three meals a day for the workers."

Wang Qiang was stunned for a moment, then hesitated for a moment and said, "Can I, can I let my wife go?"

Because he had a lame leg in his early years and could not do any heavy work, all the housework fell on his wife, who was so tired that she fell ill. Fortunately, the children have all married and had children in recent years, so she no longer has to do many housework.

Chu Min and Chu Tian looked at each other, and seeing that Chu Tian had no objection, he nodded, "Okay, sister-in-law is hardworking, we are very relieved to leave the cooking work to her."

Finally, Wang Qiang said that it happened to be spring plowing these days, and they probably couldn't do it, but fortunately the spring plowing was about to end, so he would go to them after work every day to ask and confirm.

Chu Tian and Chu Min also said that they had just recently gone to order cement and bricks, and were looking for where to order the cement board he mentioned.

After walking out of Wang Qiang's house, Chu Min frowned and asked, "I didn't expect that building a building would require cement slabs and steel bars? Forget about the cement slabs, they sound like they're made of cement, but where can I buy the steel bars?"

Chu Tian thought for a moment and said, "Second brother, aren't you going to the cement factory to order cement tomorrow? Then why don't you ask the factory director if he's the one to order the cement slabs from?"

"After I order the red bricks tomorrow, I'll go to the steel mill and ask Youjun's father-in-law if I can order the steel bars from the steel mill!"

Chu Min nodded, thought for a moment, and then instructed, "Don't go empty-handed, bring some gifts..."

Chu Tian curled his lips and smiled, "Second brother, I'm not a child, I understand the ways of the world!"

Early the next morning, the two brothers went their separate ways. Because they didn't know how many bricks they would need at the moment, they could only order as many as possible. In total, they ordered one million red bricks. Upon hearing this, the brick factory, which never took on any work during the spring plowing period, immediately took the job and promised to work overtime to produce 100,000 bricks within ten days.

Chu Tian said that he was not in a hurry and that he would just burn 50,000 bricks within ten days and then burn more slowly afterwards. After all, the old houses in their city yard had not been demolished yet, and even if they were demolished, they would still need to dig foundations and the like.

After paying a deposit of 5,000 yuan, Chu Tian took out two bottles of Wuliangye and some fruits and other rare foods from the space, got on his bicycle and drove towards the steel plant.

"Chu Tian?"

Liu Jiali's father, Director Liu, heard the guard say that someone was looking for him outside the gate, so he quickly handed the work in his hands to the young clerk and hurried out of the steel factory. As soon as he came out, he saw Chu Tian pushing a cart and standing at the gate of the steel factory.

Chu Tian heard the voice and quickly looked at Director Liu, smiling and greeting him, "Director Liu."

Director Liu waved his hand. "Why call me Director Liu? We are relatives. Just call me uncle."

"Uncle Liu."

"Well, what do you want from me?"

Chu Tian raised his hand and glanced at the time. Seeing that it was almost time to get off work at noon, he thought for a moment and suggested, "Uncle, do you have time? If you do, let's go to the state-owned restaurant and eat and talk."

Director Liu glanced at Chu Tian after hearing this, thought for a moment, and nodded, "Okay, then I'll go back and explain it first."