Seeing the two people opposite her with confused expressions, not quite understanding the meaning of her words, Su Qingluan explained more clearly: "Although I tried my best to get you all back before preparing dinner tonight, because we are still in the 'adaptation' stage, the workload today is actually not as high as it would be at 'full capacity'."
As she spoke, she looked up and down at the two frail men across from her. "Even this level of labor requires climbing up and down, which is quite physically demanding. Given your physical condition, can you two really handle it? You know, if you collapsed from exhaustion, I'd be very troubled."
"I understand what you mean, Madam Su. I'll eat it, I'll eat it!" Aunt Zou quickly peeled the egg, carefully leaving no trace of egg white on the shell. "I will definitely not hold you back. Please don't fire me!"
As she spoke, she pulled Zhaodi, who was in a daze, and said, "Hurry up and eat, or else if you really can't keep up, you'll lose this job! It's one hundred and ten coins a day!"
As long as they can work for ten consecutive days, they can even earn more than one or two taels of silver! This kind of "high salary" is something they had never dared to think about before!
Zhaodi also came back to her senses and nodded vigorously: "That's because the Su family is kind. There are not many employers who are so kind!" As she said that, she began to eat eggs in big mouthfuls.
Su Qingluan felt a little embarrassed when she heard the other party's grateful words - in fact, in essence, if you look at the profits these people can create for her, it is far more than what they get.
But the same thing goes, foods like jam, or any food that needs to be delivered through a transportation chain in this era, are subject to various harsh conditions and even have obvious time limits.
Because of this, long-term stable income cannot be guaranteed.
In this case, she should not pay wages that exceed the upper limit of the market price. Otherwise, once everyone is "spoiled" by high salaries and there are no jobs with the same salary after the jam production stops, these people will have a huge psychological gap, and there may be subsequent troubles.
After all, in her previous life, Su Qingluan had seen corporate executives who became unemployed in middle age. Some of them became decadent and negative because they could not find a job with a satisfactory salary; some simply lost their goals in life and ended their lives; even worse, some simply started to retaliate against society on impulse and did many irreversible things.
Therefore, maintaining "market price stability" is a rule she must abide by, otherwise it will be a troublesome thing for everyone.
This is why, although Su Qingluan saw that winter was getting closer and closer, many people had not made adequate preparations for the winter for various reasons. She wanted to share the money with everyone but she couldn't do that.
After all, helping others must be done to the best of one's ability.
The upper and lower limits of human nature are unimaginable.
Fortunately, at least so far, the Su family has managed to "keep their wealth hidden". For most people, although the Su family has been doing well in the offal soup business recently, it is hard-earned money after all, and there is a limit to how much it can earn.
Even if someone is jealous behind your back, they will only say a few words at most.
However, if Su Qingluan's share of Hongfulou and the amount of the deposit given to her by the Xie family were to be leaked, the Su family would probably have a hard time.
Su Qingluan was very sure that a sum of tens or hundreds of taels was enough to drive some people to extremes, not to mention that the Su family's wealth was more than that - money could move people's hearts.
Originally, Su Qingluan thought that as fellow villagers, the people of Huaxi were simple and honest, so they would not do anything.
But from today's observation, not to mention that there are still scoundrels like Aunt Zou's husband in the village, even those who were eliminated for various reasons are hidden dangers.
As the saying goes, one must be on guard against others...
"What are you thinking about?" Liu Yunniang's voice interrupted Su Qingluan's thoughts, "They've all left. You should go back quickly. It's still early today. I'll go home too."
"It's already 3 p.m., is it too late for you to go back and cook?" Su Qingluan was stunned.
"There's still time. I can reach this distance in less than half an hour!" Liu Yunniang said as her feet sped up and she was gone in the blink of an eye.
Although Su Qingluan hoped that Liu Yunniang would live with her, at least the living environment would be better, but as the saying goes, home is always the best, and she could not make such a self-righteous decision.
Although the "work preparations" on the first day went smoothly, Su Qingluan knew that all the problems would gradually become apparent later.
Sure enough, when they officially started making the fruit jam the next day, because only ten sets of thirty servings of fruit jam were needed, and Su Qingluan took into account the high probability of making more fruit jam in the future, she could not "drain the pond to catch all the fish" by picking fruits this time.
Therefore, Su Qingluan only prepared one backpack for each group to hold the picked fruits.
"We have to spend the whole day in the mountains today, so it will be very hard. I hope everyone will help each other and overcome difficulties together!" After the "mobilization", Su Qingluan led everyone into the mountains, while Liu Yunniang walked at the end. One reason was to prevent people from getting lost, and more importantly, to prevent someone from leaving the team without permission and using "getting lost" as an excuse to avoid work.
After all, if someone is really missing, no one knows whether he is really missing or just pretending.
Because each group only has one backpack, and each team member has different physical fitness. The wild fruits they are targeting are different from herbaceous berries such as "Baby's Breath", which grow in bushes or roadside corners.
Wild fruits are generally small shrubs - they are called small shrubs only relative to those towering fruit trees, and many of them grow to a height of more than one person.
That is why, in order not to damage the fruit and maintain the integrity of the skin, you must not shake the fruit tree roughly and wait for the fruit to fall to the ground, with everyone squatting on the ground to pick it up. Someone must carefully reach out or even climb the tree to pick it.
Then how everyone divides the work becomes a science - it depends not only on the picking technique, but also on the degree of tacit cooperation among everyone.
Unlike yesterday when people could "fight alone", when we adopt the "team collaboration" mode today, various problems are exposed.
There were two people fighting over the least busy job; one was responsible for climbing the tree to pick the fruits, while the other was responsible for catching them, but they always missed, which made the picker furious; there were also people with personalities where one was impatient and the other was slow, and they ended up disliking each other and ignored each other...
All in all, it was a happy team yesterday, but in less than half a day, all kinds of problems arose.
Liu Yunniang looked at Su Qingluan's calm demeanor and quietly approached: "Is it okay for these people to be so noisy?"
"This is unavoidable," Su Qingluan sighed. "Any group that gets along together always needs a period of adjustment. As long as there's no major chaos—"
Before Su Qingluan finished speaking, her expression froze: Oh no, the big mess is about to happen...
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