The person who came was actually Shen Yusong.
Seeing everyone's expressions, Shen Yusong felt uncomfortable for a moment, but he quickly regained his composure.
"Why are you looking at me like that? I'm telling the truth. I can read and do math. Since we need to hire help, I'm more reliable than those two babies."
Everyone: "..."
The two dolls didn't trick anyone!
The village head couldn't help but sigh, "Yusong, didn't you go to town with your parents to make braised meat? Why are you back?"
Upon hearing this, Shen Yusong felt a little embarrassed: "A while ago, Shen Qingyao was in charge of the Qi family. She wanted to make braised meat, so she asked us to come and help. Later, she stopped being in charge, and when the Qi family patriarch woke up, the braised meat business stopped..."
Everyone knows about this.
Since Shen Qingyao disappeared, Master Qi has taken over the reins of the Qi family again.
The braised meat business was shut down the next day.
Originally, relying on their experience in making braised meat, the uncle and aunt's family wanted to start their own braised meat business. However, unexpectedly, the shop they rented caught fire that very night.
Fortunately, the fire wasn't too severe; it only burned down the kitchen, and the large iron pot used for braising meat was smashed by the roof beams.
Nobody's stupid. A neighbor advised, "If you want to live, you should quit this braised meat business and do something else."
When the landlord saw that the house was on fire, he immediately kicked the whole family out.
The family had no choice but to give up their braised meat business.
Once you're out there, who wants to go back?
I'd be too ashamed to go back!
The family still wanted to find work in town.
Unfortunately, the people of Hengshui Town all knew what kind of people they were, and dared not hire them for work, for fear that their secret recipe would be stolen.
They just want to rent a new place, but they can't find one.
Nobody wanted to rent a house to him, and eventually it caught fire and became ruins.
It was clear that unless Shen Qingyu forgave their family, no one in the entire Hengshui town would dare to hire them.
So the family of three had no choice but to find a cave in the back of the mountain to hide in, and sent Shen Yusong back to find out what was going on.
Shen Yusong is shameless. It was his mother who stole the spice packet, not him, so he shamelessly came over.
Uncle Village Head sighed: "I'm your cousin, so you shouldn't be the one to blame for this despicable thing..."
Shen Yusong quickly chimed in, "Really? Really! I wasn't involved. I just listened to my mother and went to town to work..."
The village head looked at the righteous Shen Yusong with a complicated expression: "But I can't help you with this matter today."
“If I help you and then anger Qingyu, causing the sweet potato starch workshop to go out of business, it won’t just be you who suffers the loss, but the entire village and the villagers in the surrounding villages will also suffer the loss.”
“For the sake of the whole village and the whole clan, I can’t ask you to work in the sweet potato flour workshop.”
Upon hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement.
Nowadays, when villagers go to sell sweet potatoes, each household digs two loads of sweet potatoes a day, washes them clean, removes the mud and sand from the pits, dries them, and then delivers them to the village, easily earning two taels of silver!
Although each household didn't grow much due to water shortage, they could still sell about twenty taels of silver each!
With this little money, even with the soaring prices of food, we can still get through the year by drinking some thick porridge!
If everyone's source of income is cut off because of Shen Yusong, I'm afraid everyone would be tempted to kill!
Someone said, "Your family has always been capable. Go to the sweet potato factory for a few more days, learn this skill, and then drive the sweet potato flour factory out of business. Then none of us will be able to survive!"
"Yes, yes, yes!"
"I wouldn't dare invite you!"
"Your braised meat is delicious. Why don't you go and try it in other prefectures?"
With everyone chiming in, they quickly blocked Shen Yusong's path.
Shen Yusong's face was grim. He glanced at everyone, gritted his teeth, and looked at the village head: "Village head, I understand why you say that."
“But my family also planted sweet potatoes before. Although we haven’t been home these days and the sweet potatoes haven’t grown very well, we still have some harvest.”
"Could you sell my sweet potatoes to sweet potato flour factories?"
"At least give my family some travel expenses so we can go to the neighboring prefecture to make a living, right?"
After these words were spoken, everyone fell silent.
To be honest, no one wanted to agree.
But what if we don't agree, and this family refuses to leave Shenjia Village?
We can't just stand by and watch them starve to death, can we?
Uncle Lizheng thought for a moment and said, "I need to ask Qingyu about this. I can only agree to it if she gives her consent."
"Then I'll wait for Uncle Village Head's letter!" Shen Yusong breathed a sigh of relief, didn't press the matter, and turned to leave.
He wanted to go and check on his sweet potato field to see how the harvest was going.
After seeing off the gossiping crowd, Uncle Village Head, seeing that it was still not dark, summarized the situation and went to Shen Qingyu's house.
Shen Qingyu was just about to have dinner when she saw him coming over and quickly invited him to join her.
When Uncle Village Head saw the abundant dishes, he was almost unable to move, and declined a couple of times, feeling embarrassed: "Oh, no need, I can't accept that."
Zhao Yuzhu smiled and tugged at his sleeve: "Don't be shy, just grab a bite if you happen to be here."
When people have money, things are different. Look at these rich and meaty dishes; ordinary people can't even afford to eat them during the Lunar New Year.
Uncle Village Head sighed and sat down.
When the mixed grain rice was served, Qi Yunxiao invited everyone to eat.
Uncle Village Head initially tried to control his food intake, but the dishes were just too delicious, and he ended up eating too much without realizing it...
He put down his chopsticks, feeling a little embarrassed, and explained his purpose to Shen Qingyu and the others.
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