Chapter 142: Poaching in Public
Shopkeeper Ma immediately denied it, "Look, you must have remembered it wrongly. I clearly told you at the beginning that you can go back to take care of your mother, and your position here is still reserved for you."
Zhang Chengye finally saw what it meant to confuse right and wrong. At the beginning, he threw away his pride and begged Manager Ma, but he was ruthlessly rejected. Now he turned his back on him and refused to acknowledge his promise. He had never seen such a shameless person before.
Lin Xi smiled and stood between the two of them. "I'm really sorry, shopkeeper, Zhang Chengye is now mine, so please don't think about these things that you shouldn't think about."
"What do you mean by your people?" Shopkeeper Ma was startled by Lin Xi's sudden appearance, and became even more displeased when he heard her words, "Zhang Chengye is obviously from Wanlifang!"
"Bring out the evidence. When a store hires a clerk, it has to sign a document. Where is Zhang Chengye's?" Lin Xi asked.
The big men who followed the two of them came back and heard what Lin Xi said. They quickly reported to the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, this woman burned Zhang Chengye's contract!"
Shopkeeper Ma widened his eyes. He had never seen such a fierce woman before, but he soon smiled again.
"You idiots, what you just took was not Zhang Chengye's contract, but someone else's." Shopkeeper Ma ordered others to take it, "Zhang Chengye's is still here with me."
After hearing this, those people finally felt relieved. They were still worried that they would mess up and be blamed by Manager Ma.
Since the tearing is wrong, there is no problem.
In a blink of an eye, Shopkeeper Ma took out a new contract and placed it in front of Lin Xi. "Look carefully, woman, Zhang Chengye belongs to my Wanlifang, there is no doubt about it."
Lin Xi glanced at the contract and burst out laughing, "I never thought that the owner of Wanlifang could not read a single word. The person who signed it is clearly named Zhang San. What does he have to do with Zhang Chengye?"
After saying that, Lin Xi looked Shopkeeper Ma up and down again, with undisguised contempt in his eyes.
Shopkeeper Ma felt very annoyed at having lost face in front of his subordinates, and he lowered his head to look at the documents.
Damn it, this woman can actually read. She is obviously a country woman, how could she know how to read.
"Shopkeeper Ma, I asked around before I came here. It was you who took the initiative to dismiss Zhang Chengye. Now you insist on saying that he is your man. Aren't you too shameless? Your Wanlifang is a well-known place after all. Aren't you afraid of being ridiculed by your peers for doing such a thing?" Lin Xi said sarcastically.
Shopkeeper Ma's expression was uglier than ever before. "Then how can you prove that Zhang Chengye is your man?"
"Here is the document, Shopkeeper Ma. You should be able to read, right?" Lin Xi took out the document he had just signed and placed it in front of Shopkeeper Ma. "Everyone, my place is not a big place, nor is it as famous as Wanlifang, but I do things uprightly. One is one, two is two. I will never play word games like this. The document signed between Zhang Chengye and I specifies all the benefits."
Lin Xi paused, "I just saw it on your document, it says the salary is only one tael of silver per month."
Hearing this, the people around were stunned.
"We are clearly getting three taels and five hundred coins a month now."
"Of course, if he is willing to give it now, then he can give it. If one day he doesn't want to give it anymore, he can immediately just give you one or two taels of silver, and you won't have any way to do anything about it." Lin Xi said lightly.
"Isn't this a lie?" someone whispered.
Shopkeeper Ma said, "That's what it says, but think about it, have we in Wanlifang ever treated you unfairly?"
Lin Xi smiled and said, "I don't know what the wages are here, but I pay Zhang Chengye ten taels of silver a month, and the others who help out will not be paid less than six taels of silver a month."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's hearts were stirred and they immediately turned against Lin Xi.
"Can it really be six taels?" someone asked cautiously.
"Of course, I never tell lies." Lin Xi smiled, "These things are written in black and white on the contract. If I don't pay, you can take this paper to the government to sue me."
When these people heard that they could win the lawsuit against the officials, they suddenly felt that Linxi was an excellent place to go, and they looked at Zhang Chengye with great envy in their eyes.
"Ten taels of silver?" Shopkeeper Ma calmed down and sneered, "Which boss can pay such a high salary? You are just bragging."
"Am I bragging?" Lin Xi smiled and took out a hundred taels of silver from his pocket. "I can pay in advance now, Shopkeeper Ma. Not everyone works with Wanlifang and is reluctant to give them money."
Lin Xi gave it as she said, and stuffed the 100 taels of silver directly into Zhang Chengye's pocket in front of everyone, "So, are you still worried about your mother's medical expenses now?"
Zhang Chengye stared at the banknote in his hand in a daze. He had never seen so much money in his life, but this money——
"I can't take it," Zhang Chengye pushed the banknote back. "I haven't done any work, how can I take your money first? Even if I starve to death, I won't take this money."
Lin Xi was stunned. She didn't expect that this guy was a man of integrity. No wonder she liked him.
"Just keep it with peace of mind. You won't have any monthly pay for the next ten months." Lin Xi said, "After you go to my place, I will have someone build two separate houses for you. They will be made of the best yellow mud, which will not be too cold in winter or too hot in summer, and will be more conducive to your mother's recovery. And you don't have to worry about food. I'm in the meat business, so you can eat as much pork as you want. If you want, you can raise some chickens. There's also the rice in my field. Anyway, you can't eat it all, so you can eat as much as you want."
Zhang Chengye was stunned by Lin Xi's words. Is there really such a good place in the world, and he happened to find it?
But looking at the banknotes in his hand, it didn't seem like something he had imagined.
Not only Zhang Chengye couldn't believe it, but the people around him were also stunned by Lin Xi's words.
Being able to eat white rice every meal and meat every day is like celebrating the New Year every day. Wherever this place is, they also want to go.
Shopkeeper Ma could see what his subordinates were thinking. "It sounds good, but who knows if it's true or not. I'm afraid they may have lured people into a valley and then bullied them to death."
Lin Xi said calmly, "As long as people come, I can pay them a year's salary in advance, so that they can feel at ease."
Shopkeeper Ma was speechless. How could anyone do business like this in the world? He would lose money sooner or later!
"What do you think, Shopkeeper Ma? Do you still insist that Zhang Chengye is from your Wanlifang? If you still insist, I can't do anything about it. Let's take our respective things and go to the prefect to seek justice." Lin Xi said.
Although Manager Ma was a tough guy, he felt a deep-seated fear when facing the governor.
"You don't want to?" Lin Xi deliberately said, "Then I will take Zhang Chengye away. By the way, if anyone else wants to come, they can find me at Lin's in Fenghe Town."
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