Chapter 327 Becoming a Small Contractor
In this era, labor is not worth much. If you do this kind of physical work in the city, you will be paid one yuan a day as long as you have food and accommodation.
Zhou Ergu's house was to be demolished and rebuilt, and where the workers would live was a problem.
Shang Ruoting also gave some pertinent advice on this point, which was to build a simple shed in the empty space in the yard for the workers to live in. The weather was warm at this time, and as long as it could shelter from the wind and rain, it would be enough.
As for the problem of cooking, a simple stove was built in the yard, and a woman in the village was hired to prepare three meals a day. In this way, everything was solved.
Tan Chen roughly calculated that Zhao Fa helped find six workers in the village. Together with Zhang Wenfu and himself, there were eight people in total. With the addition of a woman who cooked, there were nine people in total.
The wage of one yuan per person per day, plus the food expenses, the cost is at least 13 yuan.
As for the time it takes to build the houses, if these people work from morning to night every day, it will take at least 20 days to complete all four houses.
In this case, the cost will be at least 260 yuan.
According to what my wife said, if he were to take on this job, he would be the foreman and would get the lion's share of the profits. Therefore, he planned to pay at least 400 yuan, and this was the friendly price he gave to Zhou Ergu.
"Director Zhou, I've calculated that the labor costs for building your house will be at least 400 yuan. Of course, the furniture will be charged separately."
Among the people recommended by Zhao Fa, there were several who could do carpentry work. They had asked those people to help with the furniture for their home.
Zhou Ergu had her own calculations regarding the wages. The price in her mind was RMB. Now that the price offered by Tan Chen was even less than her budget, she naturally agreed to it.
This is also good. Not only does it save her money, but it also saves her worry.
Shang Ruoting and Tan Chen both knew that contracting such a job would cost at least 100 yuan. Because the person who wanted to build the house was Zhou Ergu, although the two parties were in a cooperative relationship, she had helped them solve many problems after all, so 400 yuan was just a symbolic profit.
The two parties reached a consensus and signed the contract quickly. Zhou Ergu paid 70% of the fee in advance, and the remaining 30% would be paid after the project was completed and accepted.
This was also proposed by Tan Chen on his own initiative. Zhou Ergu felt very useful about it. In this way, she also had a certain guarantee.
Now, no matter how much or how little he earns, Tan Chen has become a small contractor.
This also laid a solid foundation for his future development.
The start time of work is set for tomorrow. Before Shang Ruoting and Tan Chen left Zhuang City, they were still thinking about the sales of roast chicken and roast duck. Therefore, the two followed Zhou Ergu to the South Street Food Store again.
A queue appeared again in front of the South Street Grocery Store, and people were looking forward to it.
"Let me tell you, I just gritted my teeth and bought half a roast chicken, and it tastes..." It's so delicious.
"This time I came here, I plan to buy half a roast duck to try."
"There are so many people queuing up. Will they be sold out by the time we get to the line?"
"It depends on your luck! I didn't buy the mushrooms sold at the South Street grocery store last time."
When Zhou Ergu saw this scene, the corners of her lips twitched. Ever since she met this young couple, there have been several such buying sprees at South Street Grocery Store, which had never happened before.
A few people squeezed through the crowd and went straight to the counter selling roast chicken and roast duck.
I saw Xiao Li busy there.
As soon as he looked up, he saw Zhou Ergu.
"Director Zhou, our roast chicken and roast duck are almost out of stock. Can you get some more?"
Aunt Zhou Er...
I also want to import some more, but they have to have the goods.
"Ruoting, Tan Chen, seeing how prosperous the prepared food business is, shouldn't you consider making some long-term plans?"
Shang Ruoting shook her head and refused on the spot.
"Director Zhou, you know that I have a lot of work to do at home, so I don't have time to do this. This is also because we have so many roosters and ducks at home, so I have no choice but to do this."
Zhou Ergu knew that this was the result, but she asked this question because she was unwilling to accept it.
She had originally planned to wait until Shang Ruoting had delivered all the roast chickens and roast ducks before settling the payment together, but now seeing that the ones delivered today were sold out immediately, Zhou Ergu directly gave the payment to the two of them.
They earned another 1,600 yuan, which was nearly twice the price they earned from selling the chickens and ducks as meat. Shang Ruoting felt that the hard work of her and her grandmother over the past few days had not been in vain.
The two men saw that the roast chickens and roast ducks were sold out at a rapid speed before they said goodbye to Zhou Ergu and left.
On the way, Shang Ruoting discussed with Tan Chen: "Grandma helped make the roast chicken and roast duck, so we should share some of the money we earn with her."
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