Chapter 386 An eight-month-old baby called mom?
Li Dayun explained anxiously.
"The day's wages for a skilled worker are 15 yuan, and the day's wages for a laborer are 10 yuan. You see, there are eight people, a total of one skilled worker and two laborers, who are responsible for carrying mud and stones. In addition, the miscellaneous expenses are also recorded here. In total, we worked for two and a half months. There were a few days of rain and snow, and we couldn't start work. These are all recorded. I didn't count a penny more."
Ye Xiaomei stared at Li Dayun in a daze. The uncle had a sad face. She had never seen a contractor treat herself like this before.
"Heaven and earth can testify that I absolutely do not care about a penny more." Li Dayun can swear on this with a clear conscience.
Ye Xiaomei was brought back to reality by Uncle Li's words. She quickly responded, "That's not what I meant, Uncle. What I meant was that the salary is too low. What about the food? If you take away some of the food, then... wouldn't it be even less?"
This time it was Li Dayun's turn to be stunned. He thought the girl was saying that he was immoral and made a random offer.
This time he reacted and sighed, saying, "Brothers are all very frugal. We come here to make money, so we can't afford to eat and drink lavishly. Basically, we eat mixed noodles with salted vegetables and a couple of sips of tea. Otherwise, if we don't have enough money to go home at the end of the month, wouldn't we be sorry to our families?"
Ye Xiaomei nodded: "Then do you have evidence to prove that it is that much money?"
Li Dayun panicked all of a sudden, and tapped his account book vigorously with his fingers like twitching garlic: "It's written down in this account book..." He was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks. Could it be that this girl also wanted to default on the debt?
Li Dayun didn't calm down until Ye Xiaomei took out money from her cloth bag, counted out more than eight hundred yuan and placed it on the corner of the table.
"Uncle, I suggest you sign contracts with each household. The labor costs must be clearly stated. If the payment is not made within the deadline, it should be clearly stated in black and white. It can be fined or not responsible at all. In short, if you go to collect the payment based on the book you wrote, there will be many loopholes."
After Ye Xiaomei finished speaking, Li Dayun's pupils shrank and he fell into deep thought. He looked this girl up and down. She could recite four-character idioms one after another fluently, and it was obvious that she was a well-educated girl.
Ye Xiaomei added: "Even if I say the other way around, what if I don't admit what you said about the master worker making 15 yuan a day and the unskilled worker making 10 yuan? For example, if I say I remember you said the master worker made 8 yuan and the unskilled worker only made 3 yuan, how would you defend yourself? How would you produce evidence? And if I want to cheat, how would you prove that you didn't tamper with the account book?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the honest Li Dayun reacted suddenly. The indignation on his face quickly disappeared, and his butt slowly fell down. He was at a loss for a while, and then he seemed to have figured it out.
The girl reminded him with good intentions, so she sighed:
"You are right, girl, but...but I have only graduated from elementary school, I...I don't know these."
As he spoke, Li Dayun rubbed his scalp vigorously, and his teeth made a chattering sound.
Seeing him so distressed, Ye Xiaomei added, "In fact, the wages of skilled workers in the city have risen to 30 yuan a day, and unskilled workers are 15 yuan. If you want to lead a construction team well, you must learn to read the contract and know how to protect yourself before you have more room for development.
Besides, the contractor has never seen you so tired. The contractor gets the commission from the middleman, handles some intermediary matters, and mediates issues with the contractor."
At this point, Ye Xiaomei wanted to sigh, but she could also sympathize with the uncle. If you are illiterate, it is really easy to be fooled by people using word games.
Think about Liang Zhenghuai. He had already gotten to the point where he had projects and people were begging him to take on the contracts. But that was in the past. He had his father-in-law as a backer, didn't he? But he just made a lot of money.
If this honest uncle in front of me had no background and no education, he would have had difficulty making any progress.
"Ah? So high?" Li Dayun's eyes were red and he was shocked at this moment.
"Well, I'm talking about low prices. If a skilled worker has many years of work experience, he's at the master level and his daily wage is higher."
Ye Xiaomei had an idea in her mind that there must be a reason why such an illiterate old man could have so many people following him, maybe it was because he was an honest person.
Li Dayun's expression changed from tangled to happy and overjoyed. Then he sighed and said:
"Thank you, girl. I'll pay my salary first and then I'll find a way to learn."
When he left, he ran away.
At this moment, Ye Xiaomei glanced towards the guest room and found a gap. Wang Lan's eyes instantly retracted.
Obviously, she saw the whole process.
Ye Xiaomei took the opportunity to push the door open and walked in. The little thing on the bed woke up and was sucking her fingers loudly.
Unexpectedly, Wang Lan was standing beside the bed. She reflexively spread her hands and clenched them. Perhaps she felt that what she did was too obvious, so she quickly put her hands down and said with a smile:
"Did you give the money?"
"Yeah." Ye Xiaomei walked to the head of the bed, wanting to hug her son.
Wang Lan quickly took the water bottle from the cabinet: "The child is thirsty and needs to drink water. He just peed."
This action just happened to stop Ye Xiaomei.
Wang Lan shook the bottle and said, "You have to blow it to cool it down, so as not to burn the baby."
Ye Xiaomei's face darkened. She didn't notice it when she just got home, but now it was obvious that she didn't want him to touch her again and again.
Seeing Wang Lan feeding the child water skillfully, Ye Xiaomei stared at the soft ball.
As soon as she put them down, Wang Lan said cheerfully, "Look, the kids really like me as their grandma. As long as I'm around, they won't cry or make a fuss."
Even as he spoke, he still did not move away from the head of the bed, as if to prevent Ye Xiaomei from getting close to him. He had to stick his butt up high even when pretending to clean the table.
"Aa ...
Ye Xiaomei's pupils shrank.
At the same time, Wang Lan looked at the child and then at Ye Xiaomei in disbelief, as if she had seen a ghost.
The child lowered his eyes and looked hard at Ye Xiaomei's face at the corner of the bed. This was terrible.
"Oh my god, Mommy..."
"..." Wang Lan's mind buzzed, and she quickly touched the baby's face:
"Xiao Mei, you've been on the car for such a long time, go to bed quickly, I'll take care of the kids, they both pee a lot at night, you're too tired to get up."
Ye Xiaomei's heart shuddered, and she had not yet recovered from the unclear call. She had not felt such a shock when she gave birth to the child. This call of "Mom" seemed to be full of great magic.
"Mom, it's okay to hold my child." Ye Xiaomei stepped forward, took the bottle from her hand, grabbed Wang Lan's wrist with her other hand and pulled her to the end of the bed.
Wang Lan, who was a very strong person, was caught off guard. When she came to her senses, her daughter-in-law had already picked up the child. She reminded him with an unpleasant expression:
"Be careful, children are weak, don't hurt them. Daughters-in-law of your age have little experience in taking care of children."
Ye Xiaomei pretended not to hear anything. She looked at the child's little mouth slurping water from the bottle. His two eyes looked at her like black grapes. That chubby feeling made her feel inexplicably at ease.
The more Wang Lan watched, the more uneasy she felt. She seemed to have really heard the baby calling her mother, but it sounded vague and more like whispers:
"Xiao Mei, it's getting late, you should go to bed quickly."
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