Chapter 82 I’m so envious and jealous!
Because it is too expensive.
This carriage is pulled by two horses, so it has great horsepower.
Normally, one horse is enough to carry people, but if heavy objects are to be carried, two horses are needed.
Every country person knows that this kind of carriage is not cheap.
She said that she rented the place from Xu's Company so that it would be convenient to deliver goods to Xu's Company. Therefore, the rent she was given was cheap, so that it would not attract attention.
Also, it was difficult to explain to Mrs. Zhou where the money for buying a carriage came from. They were in the tofu business, which was just a small business, and most of the money was used to build a new house. Where did they get the huge sum of money to buy a carriage?
It’s better to say it’s rented and be done with it.
As for the future, after I make money, I will buy the carriage and make it back.
So, this is what Zhou Lang should have said to everyone when he came back.
Such a large carriage was parked at the door, and the Zhou family was currently building a new house, so there were a lot of people coming to help watch the fun, so everyone came to watch.
That's why it's so lively.
After seeing Lin Shiqi coming back, there was another round of envious greetings.
Mrs. Zhou said, "Hey, it's just an oxcart. It takes a little longer to go there and back. It must cost a lot of money to rent a horse carriage, right?"
Generally speaking, they are not happy about it.
Lin Shiqi explained, "Mom, Xu's Company has placed more orders with us, and one ox cart can no longer carry them all. It just so happens that Xu's Company has an idle horse carriage to rent to us, so we rented it. In the future, we can deliver goods faster and carry more things."
When Mrs. Zhou heard that the order had been added, she smiled and said, "Well, you two can do whatever you want. I can't control you."
She just waits to get the money every day.
When the villagers heard this, they were filled with envy and jealousy!
Lin Shiqi went out to do his work, so Old Man Zhou went to return the ox cart to the headman's house in person.
Mrs. Zhou was standing next to the carriage, and the compliments she received were more than she had ever heard in her entire life.
It feels so refreshing.
The rented carriage was also the Zhou family's carriage.
Even rich people cannot afford to rent such a large carriage for a long time.
It's so painful to rent a house temporarily.
The fourth brother and his wife really made her embarrassed.
Suddenly, she felt emotional again. She had worked hard for several years to save thirty taels of silver, which was worth it. She had to use it to treat the fourth son's illness.
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This lively scene was seen with a pair of cold eyes.
It was the gentle young man, Zhou Qinan.
He had a gentle expression but cold eyes.
After coming back from the last month-long vacation and learning about the situation at home, he went home every day on the grounds that the food at school was not as good as at home and that he wanted to go to school as Zhou Lang did, going to school every day and returning home for dinner at night.
Old Man Zhou naturally agreed happily.
Wang was also happy and was very interested in cooking every day.
Zhou Qinan didn't like seeing such changes in the Zhou family, as if they were getting further and further away from his control.
All from tofu?
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The problem that Lin Shiqi is facing now is that the order volume has increased by 500 kilograms every day.
There is not enough manpower at home.
These are all manual jobs, not machine-generated jobs, so we can't work 24 hours a day.
There must be a limit on cattle and horses.
The men in the family can actually help, as they are all building the new house now.
Both sides are too busy.
After asking Mrs. Zhou for permission, I decided to recruit two capable sisters-in-law to come and work.
The wages are the same as those of Lao Zhou's family, twenty cents a day, and two meals are included.
Mrs. Zhou didn't want to let outsiders make money, but she really didn't have enough manpower, so she agreed with Lin Shiqi's opinion.
Find two women with nimble hands and feet to come and work.
This news was not spread to the outside. Mrs. Zhou was popular in Taohua Village and had good relationships with many mothers-in-law and aunts. She sent a message to the two families with whom she was closest, asking them to send their most capable daughter-in-law to come and work.
Without saying a word, the two families sent their daughters-in-law over.
He said he would do it for free.
Lin Shiqi said that was not possible. If he could help for free for one or two days, but ten days or eight days, wouldn’t the other person’s family be dissatisfied?
It must be given.
If you don’t collect it, you don’t have to come to work.
The two capable daughters-in-law had no choice but to stay and do the work first.
Lin Shiqi taught Liu and Zhou everything she needed to teach. She didn't need to train the newcomers herself, so she let Liu or Zhou do it.
It saves a lot of trouble.
The two daughters-in-law are really capable, dexterous and smart.
You can get started right away.
I can also handle heavy work.
He is not picky about whether it is rough or fine work.
Lin Shiqi saw it and was quite satisfied. He thought that Mrs. Zhou had good taste in selecting people.
The problem of food is easy to solve. Anyway, meals are provided when building a new house every day.
Eat together.
The two daughters-in-law were about to collect money at first, but after eating the meal at Old Zhou's house, they felt embarrassed to do so.
To be honest, the food at Old Zhou’s house is so rich.
They are happy to eat such good food and work for free.
It's not enough for them to be willing, their families must also be happy and they have to be paid.
Seeing that they were really paying them, they felt it would be awkward to refuse, so they accepted it.
On the second day, many people in the village came to make friends with Mrs. Zhou. It was not uncommon for those who had a good relationship with her in the past to come and make friends with her. Even those who had quarreled with her in the past, had a fight with her, or had a minor grudge against her came to apologize to her for no apparent reason. Some were so exaggerated that they slapped themselves in the face, said sorry to Mrs. Zhou, and asked her to forgive their mistakes.
In the end, everything comes back to one topic: if the Zhou family needs to hire someone in the future, just ask, because they have plenty of capable daughters-in-law and young girls.
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This old lady Zhou is so beautiful that she walks every day with her chest held high.
To be honest, she had lived for most of her life and was about to die, but her life reached its peak because of the old man.
It’s such a great sense of accomplishment.
It was such a great time.
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It was the middle of the night and everyone in Zhou's family was fast asleep.
The men worked so hard to build the new house during the day that they snored loudly at night.
The women were also very busy, and most of them sounded very sweet when they fell asleep.
No one would wake up in the middle of the night unless they were awakened by the urge to pee.
With a creaking sound of the door opening, a woman came out of the big room.
It was not completely dark at night, there was still some moonlight, which could cast shadows on the ground.
She wrapped her coat tightly around her, shivering with cold and looking around.
Then, he walked towards the backyard stealthily, not like he was going to the toilet.
Sure enough, when she passed by the kitchen, she opened the kitchen door and went in...
Come to the shelf where tofu is placed.
The tofu was still warm, as Lin Shiqi and the others had just rested for a short while.
Everything has been sorted and is being kept here, waiting to be delivered to Xu's Company tomorrow morning.
There are fifteen plates of tofu.
One board weighs one hundred pounds.
All the quantities are here.
Old man Zhou specially made a sturdy wooden rack, layer by layer, and each layer can just hold a board.
I saw the woman stealthily taking a bowl and mixing some unknown liquid, and smearing it on the white and tender tofu.
Suddenly, the tofu changed color.
She wiped the board two or three times in a row.
When she was about to wipe the fourth board, suddenly, her hand was clamped by someone.
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