"You must be very surprised, right?" Sister Feng changed the subject and asked Lin Xiangyi with a smile: "Why are the villagers so enthusiastic about you today?"
Speaking of this, Lin Xiangyi was indeed quite curious: "Why?"
"I knew you didn't know," Sister Feng said complacently, "Didn't your family build a workshop recently? You must be hiring people, right? They just want to see if they can make themselves familiar to you. If you can ask them to work in your house, they can earn extra income, right?"
Lin Xiangyi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "So it's because of this."
"Are you still hiring?" Sister Feng looked at Lin Xiangyi eagerly.
Lin Xiangyi glanced at her and nodded, "Yes."
Sister Feng's eyes lit up: "Then look at me. I eat less and work more. If you hire me, it will definitely be worth it."
She puffed out her chest and almost patted it to make a promise to Lin Xiangyi.
Lin Xiangyi is not stupid either. She knew what kind of person Feng Jie was on the first day she married Xie Qingxiao.
Although she didn't want to be hostile to Feng Jie and took the initiative to show goodwill to her, the best relationship with such a person is to neither be hostile nor close to her. Otherwise, one day she would be stabbed in the back because of conflicting interests without knowing it.
"We've already made other plans for recruiting people, Sister Feng, I'm sorry," Lin Xiangyi politely refused.
"Ah?" Sister Feng was a little disappointed when she heard that: "Okay then."
"However," Lin Xiangyi changed the subject, "our family is in great need of firewood right now. Sister Feng, if you have nothing else to do, you can go up the mountain and help us chop some firewood. We will then give you a price based on the quality of the firewood."
Before, Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi made braised food and sold it using firewood that Xie's father and mother had picked up during the slack season. Later, when the firewood was almost used up, they bought coal from outside.
However, coal is more expensive than firewood. If you can find someone to get firewood, it will be more economical.
Fengjie's eyes lit up again when she heard this. Firewood is one of the most commonly used energy sources nowadays, and there have always been units and institutions in the city collecting firewood.
Some villages and production teams would call on villagers and members to go up the mountain to chop firewood during the slack season and then sell it to the city.
As for individuals, private transactions were not allowed in the past, but after it was allowed, few people would get firewood to sell, because the cost of firewood was low and it could not be sold at a high price. If one wanted to make a profit from it, they could only sell at a small profit and in large quantities.
Personal strength is limited, and there is no means of transportation. It is really not worth it to carry the heavy firewood to sell by manpower.
But if Lin Xiangyi and the others wanted firewood, that would be different!
Their home is in the village, so the distance problem has been solved, and the supply has been increased, so won’t the money come?
Sister Feng said immediately, "That's great! It's settled then. I'll get you firewood and you'll pay according to the quality."
"Okay!" Lin Xiangyi said with a smile. After chatting with Fengjie for a few more words, they parted ways.
Lin Xiangyi and Fengjie were chatting just now, and many people saw it. As soon as Lin Xiangyi left, someone came up to Fengjie and asked, "Fengjie, what did you say to her just now? She was smiling so happily, didn't she ask you to work at their house?"
"It would be nice if they let me work for them," Sister Feng said with a smile, "but their small workshop is not that big, and the Xie family has so many relatives, why would they look for an outsider like me instead of their relatives?"
"Then why are you smiling so happily?" someone asked.
Sister Feng almost blurted out the matter of Lin Xiangyi collecting firewood, but then she thought, if she told others about it now, wouldn't someone come to steal her business? She quickly put away the smile on her face and waved her hand to say no.
Everyone: “…” They don’t believe it.
Fengjie didn't care whether they believed it or not. She just ran away quickly when she found an opportunity.
However, Fengjie's little plan did not come true. In the next two days, she called on her family to go to the mountain to chop firewood and bring it to Xie's house to sell for money, but they were seen.
Someone went to ask Lin Xiangyi and found out that his family collected firewood. After that, more and more people went up the mountain to chop firewood and sold it to Lin Xiangyi.
Lin Xiangyi received it without delay.
This is a later story.
After Lin Xiangyi separated from Feng Jie, she took a walk and then went home. Xie Qingxiao also came back, and she told him about this matter.
Xie Qingxiao pondered for a moment and said, "We are in the food business, and we are still in the initial stage. If we are looking for workers, we should look for some trustworthy people."
Lin Xiangyi thought the same thing, so she said, "I don't have anyone I can trust, do you have any?"
Xie Qingxiao raised an eyebrow at her and asked, "Do you think I have it?"
Lin Xiangyi understood that Xie Qingxiao must have a lot of friends, but most of them were probably careless men who were not suitable to come to their house to do cleaning and kitchen work.
"Why don't we ask parents later if there are other trustworthy relatives coming over?" Xie Qingxiao suggested.
This was the only way, Lin Xiangyi nodded: "Okay."
So after dinner that night, they told Xie's father and mother.
"Mom and Dad, the workshop is almost completed. Qingxiao and I are planning to recruit some more people. However, we are not very familiar with the people in the village. Do you have any reliable people to recommend?" Lin Xiangyi asked.
"Xiang Yi, how many people do you need for the workshop?" Xie's mother asked, "We definitely have enough people. We have many relatives, including quite a few members of the Xie family. It's the off-season and everyone has time. As long as we pay them, they'll be happy to come and help."
"We need fifteen more people," Lin Xiangyi said. They are now mainly recruiting people who can help with cleaning and transportation.
Originally there were seven people cleaning the internal organs. After supplying Liu A-nai and the others, Xie Guoqiang was called over, making a total of eight people.
At present, the transportation of goods is handled by Xie Qingxiao, Zhang Pengfei and Xie Guoqiang.
After the workshop officially opens, the main work of these eight people will have to be adjusted.
She is in charge of finance; Xie Qingxiao is in charge of management; Zhang Pengfei is in charge of business; Xie's father, Xie's mother and Su Xiaomei can shift their focus to the kitchen; Aunt Xie is more powerful and is an expert in cleaning, so she can be asked to manage the cleaners; as for Xie Guoqiang, he will be responsible for transportation.
"So many?" Xie's mother was a little surprised. Although she knew that the workshop would definitely hire people, this number was much more than she expected.
"Not much," Xie Qingxiao said, and he took a notebook from the side and handed it to Xie's mother, saying, "This is the number of orders we have received so far. With more than 20 people doing these orders, it's about the same."
What Xie Qingxiao didn't say was that these were only the quantities that had been ordered from him so far. There were also some other people who came to him but learned that they were unable to supply the goods at the moment so there was no follow-up.
Once the workshop opens, there will probably be a group of repeat customers.
Xie's mother took the notebook from Xie Qingxiao's hand, and Xie's father also leaned over to take a look. They were shocked when they saw it.
There are so many?
If you calculate it this way, then hiring another ten people is indeed not a lot.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
