She looked up and asked hesitantly, "Can I do it?"
She herself has a soft personality, and she is aware of this.
I’m afraid I won’t be able to manage it well and delay my wife’s affairs.
Shi Qingluo looked at her soothingly, "Mom will definitely be able to do it."
"There are only a few of us in our family. If the workshop expands in the future, we're afraid someone will steal the recipe or break the rules, so we need someone we can trust to manage it. Mom, let's try it first."
She is quite patient with her mother-in-law.
If you want to change someone's temperament, you have to do it slowly. You can't become a fat man in one breath.
Give trust first, then throw a little bit of responsibility out there, and believe that the other person will not be able to refuse because of their personality.
Sure enough, when Xiao's mother heard it, she thought it made sense and encouraged herself, "Okay, then I'll try it."
Shi Qingluo smiled and said, "I'll let my younger sister help you take care of it when the time comes."
As long as you dare to take the first step, the thing to be afraid of is to always hide in your shell.
Hearing that her daughter would help, Xiao's mother felt more relieved, "Okay, we will definitely work hard!"
After dinner, Shi Qingluo and Xiao Hanzheng went to the clan leader’s house.
Soon, the village chief struck the gong at the entrance of the village.
The sound of the gong is quite loud. If it is struck hard, almost everyone in the village can hear it.
It also represents the clan leader, who is to call a meeting of the entire village.
Except for those who were carrying tofu to sell or who were out for other things, the rest of the villagers came.
When everyone was present, the clan leader looked at everyone and said, "Da Lang's wife has something to say today, so I called you all over."
Thanks to tofu, saltpeter, popsicles and other items, the villagers' income has been increasing in the past month or two.
That's why everyone still respects Shi Qingluo.
Except for a few ungrateful people, everyone else knew that today's life was brought to them by Shi Qingluo, so they were grateful.
Of course, those few ungrateful people were gradually excluded from the village's plan to get rich.
A woman smiled and said, "Whatever Dalang's wife has to say, just tell me."
Shi Qingluo didn't beat around the bush. "I have developed a kind of incense that can kill mosquitoes, so I plan to hire people to make mosquito coils in my current sugar factory."
"But this time it's all delicate work, and it doesn't require much effort, so I plan to only hire women to do the work."
"As long as you are a woman over the age of twelve, you can sign up. I will screen them again."
"Those who are settled here will start work at dawn every morning and finish work before dinner in the afternoon. They can eat breakfast and lunch in the workshop."
"One hundred coins a month."
As soon as she finished speaking, the villagers were shocked.
"What? One hundred coins a month, including breakfast and lunch."
"My husband used to work in the county town, earning only 100 wen a month, and he had to get up early and go to bed late every day, which was very hard."
"I heard that the food in the Xiao family's workshop is pretty good. It's much better than what we eat at home anyway."
"The key is to work in the village so that if anything happens at home, there will be someone to take care of it."
The women, old ladies and young girls in the village couldn't help but get excited.
Before, whether it was repairing the houses and workshops at the entrance of the village or the Taoist temple on the mountain, the Xiao family hired men.
Only the tofu workshop and the cooks employed a few women, who were paid well and provided with food.
Everyone saw that their complexions were much rosier and they had gained weight than before they went to work for the Xiao family, so many women were envious.
Now I don’t think of recruiting women specifically to do the work, which is an opportunity for them.
In such a poor village in those days, every household would like to split every penny into several halves.
One hundred coins per month, and only recruiting women, this was something that no one would have dared to think about in the past.
As long as the family members are not stupid, they will not stop the women in the family from working.
"Da Lang's wife, is this true? Then do you think I can do it?"
Shi Qingluo smiled and said, "Of course it's true."
"Auntie, you are a hard-working person, so of course you can do it."
"But you still have to come and register with my younger sister later." There is no order without rules.
The auntie said excitedly, "Report it. I'll go report it in a moment."
One man couldn't help but ask: "Are you not hiring any other workers?"
Shi Qingluo replied: "Not for the time being, but when the lacquer workshop opens, we will still recruit workers, and we will need men."
Painting requires a lot of effort and is hard work, so men are more suitable for this job.
Many men in the village were disappointed, but when they heard this, they all said happily, "Okay."
The weather has been too hot recently, and the tofu will become sour if you carry it too far away, so you can only sell it nearby.
When people gather together, competition becomes fierce, so business is not as good as before. We have to wait until the weather cools down.
In addition, it is not the busy farming season recently, so many people want to find a job in the Xiao family.
After all, it is close, the salary is good and meals are provided, and you can't find such a job in the county town.
In particular, you can also share in the scholar's joy and the blessings of the old immortal's disciple, and everyone will be happy.
Next, everyone who wants to sign up goes to Xiao Xiaomei to register.
Shi Qingluo did not delay. He got the list on the spot and pointed out the people he wanted.
After such a period of integration, and by asking Erlang and Xiao Xiaomei to inquire, she had gained some understanding of the families in the entire village.
I have a basic understanding of which ones are diligent, which ones are lazy, which ones like to gossip, etc.
Almost all the women in the village who were able to work signed up for this list.
There are about two hundred people.
However, there are many mosquito coils to be made now, and the production can be done quickly because there are many people. After all, we have to make them while it is still summer, otherwise no one will buy mosquito coils in winter.
So those who were lazy or had bad character were eliminated, and Shi Qingluo asked the remaining one hundred people to go to work in the sugar workshop tomorrow.
At that time, we were thinking about expanding the scale, or dividing some land to do other things, so several workshops were built on a relatively large scale.
Some people were disappointed or a little unhappy when they heard that they were not selected, but they didn't say anything.
After all, each of these people has some problems of their own, such as laziness, uncleanliness, etc.
But the old lady in one family was not happy when she saw that no one in her family was selected.
"Wife of Dalang, why is there no one from my family? We are a well-known hardworking family in the village."
This family is indeed very hardworking in the village.
Everyone was a little surprised that their family was not selected.
Shi Qingluo knew that this person would jump out.
Why did she ask the clan leader to call all the people in the village, and why did she let them sign up for the selection in public? Of course, she was waiting for this scene.
There's nothing wrong with leading the whole village to prosperity, but you can't be too gentle.
Know when to relax and when to be strict. Be gentle when necessary and be strict when necessary.
It is necessary to kill the chicken to scare the monkey.
She looked at the old lady and asked, "Why didn't your family get selected? Don't you have any idea?"
The old lady was a little confused. "What's the point? We have never offended you before."
But after saying this, I felt a little guilty.
Shi Qingluo didn't beat around the bush and said straight to the point: "Your son is the waiter of the Wu Family Inn. He came back to the village before and asked you to instigate Mrs. Xiao to deal with my family, but you went."
"Why should I choose someone from your family when your family is stabbing us in the back?"
Today she wants to let everyone know that she will not play with anyone who betrays or stabs them in the back.
(End of this chapter)
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