Su Qingluan's change did not cause much commotion. After all, with such a heavy workload nowadays, only two meals a day, breakfast and dinner, were not enough for most people.
But if we want to continue recruiting new people, it will take at least two or three days. In these two or three days, do we have to prepare our own food after working hard for a whole morning?
It sounds kind of tragic anyway.
"The second thing is what everyone is looking forward to the most today," Su Qingluan said, looking at everyone. "After we return to the village, I will distribute today's wages and agreed rewards to each group based on the total amount of fruit they picked today. Each group should take good care of their fruits. Damaging them is not worth it!"
In fact, if these fruits are just placed in woven baskets on the road without being shaken violently, there will be no obvious damage within at least one or two days because the freshly picked fruits are very full and firm, and the peel also has a certain protective effect.
However, considering that Group 2 and Group 3 had just been fighting, Su Qingluan asked each group to go back separately, with four "logistics team members" in between. This way, they could see if anyone in the front or back continued to fight or cause trouble, and also prevent them from tripping each other up.
Thinking of this, the group quickly returned to Huaxi Village.
Because they were all villagers in the village and knew each other, when they heard that Su Qingluan and the others wanted to borrow a scale to weigh the goods, the villagers agreed very readily.
In order to prevent someone from adding weight to their own group or under-weighing other groups, Su Qingluan came up with an idea: the five groups would transfer two people from the previous group to their own group as "supervisors", that is, the first group would transfer two people to the second group, the second group would transfer two people to the third group, and so on, until the fifth group would transfer two people to the first group.
In this way, all objections to the results were eliminated.
Not surprisingly, the first place went to Group 4, one of the three groups that were not involved in the fight; but what surprised Su Qingluan was that the second place - or to be more precise, tied for second place - was Groups 2 and 3 that had been involved in the fight.
Group 5 wasn't much behind Group 1, and lost by a narrow margin. However, considering Groups 2 and 3 had destroyed a significant amount of the fruit they had already picked during the fight, they were considered to have "caught up later," so both groups accepted their defeat with aplomb.
But despite this, some people still find it incredible:
"Groups 2 and 3 were clearly so far behind at the beginning..."
"That's right, their two groups actually overtook us."
"If the fight hadn't delayed us for so long and damaged so many fruits, I'm afraid the second and third groups would have tied for first place today."
"I think so too..."
Everyone was talking about it, but Su Qingluan was very satisfied after seeing the cooperation between the two groups.
So, according to the agreement, Su Qingluan gave rewards to Groups 2 and 3 based on the second-place finish. However, because they were tied for second place, the other two groups fell out of the top three and therefore received no rewards.
Zhaodi and Aunt Zou were not among these people because they were transferred to the logistics department and their wages were calculated separately from Liu Yunniang.
Seeing that everyone was discussing this very heatedly, Su Qingluan simply explained the cooperation between the two groups to everyone: "Being able to learn to cooperate with each other is something that is very worthy of praise. Of course, there are also some unreasonable aspects of this matter. For example, when two teams cooperate, the number of people is twice that of other teams, and the efficiency of cooperation will be higher."
Su Qingluan looked at the other members who hadn't received any rewards and gave them a soothing look. "I know this kind of cooperation is exploiting a loophole, but I didn't specify that groups couldn't cooperate before. However, I'll come up with a more detailed list of rewards and punishments tonight, and they'll all be implemented tomorrow. As for today, since I don't have any rules in place, I can't punish you with something that doesn't exist yet."
What's more, Su Qingluan only noticed later that there was a very big loophole in this kind of "collaboration" between groups - if five groups worked together, even if all five groups were slacking off, as long as they agreed to divide the fruits into five equal parts, then these groups would tie for first place.
By that time, not only would Su Qingluan's gains be greatly reduced, but she would also have to pay a large additional "bonus".
Su Qingluan knew that, given the villagers' simple personalities, the likelihood of such a thing happening was slim. But whether she was being too judgmental or too dark, countless experiences from her past life had taught her that, no matter the circumstances, never overestimate human limits, and never underestimate them.
So in order to avoid regrets in the future, Su Qingluan simply decided to nip this hidden danger in the bud.
After paying today's wages, everyone wanted to go back. Su Qingluan used her leather badge to attract everyone's attention and said, "Everyone, please don't leave yet. I have something to discuss with you."
Su Qingluan looked at the baskets of fruit she had already picked. "As everyone knows, even though the weather has turned cooler, the fruit will easily break or even rot if it's not processed quickly. So, we need to find a place to process the fruit we picked today as soon as possible."
The pre-processed fruits are washed, boiled, most of the water evaporated and a large amount of sugar and salt are added to make preliminary jam, which has a much stronger preservative ability than raw fruits.
We are all farmers who work hard in the fields, so we still have some common sense. So we all said that our homes are nearby and we can go to their homes.
Su Qingluan shook her head. "The next step requires a lot of containers and seasonings. Also, you have to be careful and slow when making the jam. You can't use a high heat, otherwise it will burn. So this process can't be completed in a short time."
"But it's almost noon now, and everyone needs to go back and prepare dinner..."
Su Qingluan nodded upon hearing this. "I naturally understand everyone's difficulties, so this matter is based on the principle of voluntariness. Considering that this will take up everyone's rest time, anyone who stays overtime today will be paid double the daytime wage."
Sure enough, upon hearing that tonight's overtime was voluntary, most people wanted to leave. But as soon as Su Qingluan offered "double the daytime wages," everyone's eyes lit up.
Why do farmers, after finally ending a year of hard farming season, have to go out to work again when the cold winter is approaching? Isn’t it just for that Mr. Kong Fang?
So except for a few people who had to go back because someone at home was waiting for them to cook, such as Aunt Zou, the vast majority of the rest decided to stay and work overtime.
As for staying up late tonight and having to continue working tomorrow morning, everyone said: It's a joke. It's normal not to sleep for three days and three nights during the busy farming season. What's wrong with staying up late occasionally?
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