Because they were sitting in the sun, Su Qingluan subconsciously narrowed her eyes: That was Zhaodi and... a young man named Chen Zhi from their village.
Chen Zhiren is as his name suggests, he is indeed very "competent". At the beginning, he was just an inconspicuous worker in the store who was responsible for picking fruits.
At first, the young man was very low-key and it seemed that he had no significant advantages. After all, as long as one is careful enough, picking fruits can always be done very well. After all, this thing does not require much technical content and it is a matter of "practice makes perfect".
However, as they spent more time together, Su Qingluan gradually became more familiar with the temperaments of the dozens of people under her, and discovered that although Chen Zhi's work skills were mediocre, he was outstanding in one aspect, which was "mediating fights."
It is normal for dozens of people to have some bumps and bumps with each other when working together. However, if there is a disagreement between colleagues, it usually doesn't affect anything. However, sometimes you need to work overtime to rush a task, and you are already angry. It is not appropriate to work with someone who has just had an argument or even a fight.
At the very least, this situation will affect the progress of the project. At the most, if the two people start to harbor resentment, it is unpredictable what kind of trouble will arise in the future.
Therefore, Su Qingluan’s principle is that if conflicts can be eased on the spot, don’t keep them in your heart.
However, mediating a fight is a technical task that depends on the individual's skill set, and not everyone can do it. Su Qingluan didn't have the time to spare. In addition to ensuring the villagers' food and clothing, she also had to take care of their psychological problems and interpersonal relationships.
Therefore, Su Qingluan's attitude towards "mediating a fight" is to adopt a Buddhist approach. If she can persuade, she will do so. If she can't, she will transfer the two people who have a feud to two work "departments" where they don't interact much.
If they still couldn't help but "make trouble" after all this, Su Qingluan would simply pay them a compensation for that month's wages and let them go wherever they wanted - this was a serious workplace and they couldn't afford such a picky person.
However, Su Qingluan noticed several times that this big brother, Chen Zhi, always had a smile on his face, as if nothing was a big deal, and he would reason with others in a gentle and reasonable manner. However, if someone was really dissatisfied, he would be very strong, usually working in the fields or lifting heavy objects all day, so he had a lot of strength and was not afraid of being unreasonable.
Seeing that this man had great ability in "interpersonal relationship management", Su Qingluan promoted him to be the manager of the group of people picking fruits. Chen Shun was also very conscientious and responsible.
Su Qingluan had secretly considered the idea of marrying someone sooner or later, so she decided to consider Chen Shun. However, she quickly dismissed the idea. Chen Shun seemed to be good-tempered and cheerful, but he was actually quite chauvinistic.
It's not that weird as a straight male cancer, but Chen Shun has lamented to Su Qingluan more than once that anyone who marries her will feel ashamed because they can never beat her in making money.
When Su Qingluan heard this, she immediately crossed this person out of the category of "selectable candidates." However, she still asked with a half-smile, "Why, if your future wife earns more than you one day, will you be so angry that you divorce her?"
"How could that be?" Chen Zhi shook his head. "If we become a family after marriage, then it wouldn't matter. But before the wedding, seeing a woman who is more capable than you would still be unconvinced, right?"
"Because I'm a woman?"
Chen Zhi was frank and nodded honestly: "I don't like strong women."
Although the other party said so, Su Qingluan did not intend to criticize anything - she could not stand the other party's machismo, but she would not marry this man, and no one is perfect. In this era, if "disrespecting women" means being a bad person, then there would be few good men.
However, seeing Chen Zhi and the usually introverted and gentle Zhaodi so close to each other, Su Qingluan had a hunch that there was something fishy going on between the two.
Although she didn't intend to act like the Queen Mother who separated the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and in Su Qingluan's opinion, it was hard to say whether it was better for Zhaodi to get married or not because of her complicated family situation, but Zhaodi had been working honestly by her side for more than a year, and people could always develop feelings for each other.
If five fingers are not evenly aligned, people's hearts are even more biased. Su Qingluan admitted that even though they all worked at "Su Ji", she was biased.
Su Qingluan's most favored employee was undoubtedly Liu Yunniang. The two had a life-or-death relationship, and the Liu family and the Su family had a special bond. It's no exaggeration to say that if there was a family in this era that could make Su Qingluan sleep peacefully, the Liu family would definitely be it.
But apart from the special existence of Liu Yunniang, Su Qingluan was relatively partial to Aunt Zou and Zhaodi. And between these two people, she loved Zhaodi more.
Aunt Zou was often beaten and scolded by her husband at home. In the beginning, Su Qingluan often asked Aunt Zou to work overtime or night shifts in order to reduce her contact with her husband. More importantly, Su Qingluan learned from gossip with Aunt Zou that her husband was not completely idle during the day, but often drank heavily at night.
When drunk, she would lose her temper. If Aunt Zou said something wrong, or if she said nothing at all, simply because the man disliked her, she would be beaten. The severity of the beating depended on how much the man drank and his mood. There was no pattern to it.
So when Su Qingluan first learned about this, she always tried to find ways to get Aunt Zou to work overtime or night shift, so that the man would sober up the next day, and at least Aunt Zou could "escape."
As for the idea of a divorce, it was too far-fetched. Although the laws of this dynasty clearly stipulated that a divorce was allowed, Huaxi Village was a remote place, especially a "family affair" between a couple. Even if the local county magistrate was a relatively honest official, he was not willing to get involved in such family affairs.
Most importantly, Aunt Zou herself was unwilling to leave her husband. Not to mention a divorce, she would even try to avoid being assigned to work overtime at night.
Su Qingluan didn't know what Aunt Zou was thinking, but she couldn't impose her own ideas on her. She could only try her best to prevent her from being bullied within her ability.
...Or from Aunt Zou's perspective, this is not "bullying", it's just that their head of the family is occasionally in a "bad mood".
However, in contrast, Zhaodi really felt puzzled and aggrieved about being ignored at home. She worked very hard to make money, indeed in order to make her father and mother look up to her more.
Of course, at the beginning, her goal was indeed achieved - seeing Zhaodi suddenly bring home a lot of things including silver, money, food and clothes, Zhaodi's parents were very happy.
After all, even if Zhaodi worked hard at home, she couldn't sell grain or eggs for so much money.
But later, as Zhaodi gradually reached the age to get married, her parents no longer thought so.
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