After seeing off the servants, Lin Chaonan and Lin Chaobei drove the horse-drawn carriage and the ox-drawn cart, following behind Lin Chaoyang who was driving the ox-drawn cart, towards the village that the village chief had mentioned.
Of course, under the blazing sun, they couldn't let Village Chief Lin sit in his own oxcart to bask in the sun, so he was sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. Although it wasn't very spacious and didn't have any cushions or backrests, there were peaches that Yue Jiuyue had bought earlier and a few bamboo tubes inside, which allowed Village Chief Lin to experience the leisurely comfort of riding in a horse-drawn carriage.
It was really awesome!
Meanwhile, Yue Jiuyue, who stayed at home, was also busy. Fearing that the fruit tree seedlings she brought back might not survive if left for a day or two, she quickly went to the village chief's house and found the village chief's younger brother, Lin Jianing, to ask him to help find a few people to dig the holes.
We don't need too many people, and someone has to measure the location of the pit to prevent people from digging randomly and wasting their time.
Lin Jianing quickly found twenty strong young men and four older men to help measure the distance. They were all experienced farmers and didn't need any tools to measure the land; they could just use their eyes to get a rough estimate.
Yue Jiuyue had no objections. No matter how many pits could be dug, if they weren't used up this year, they could be used again next year. As long as the pits were dug properly, they wouldn't be wasted.
"Some of them only want the wages; some want half the wages and want to trade the other half for some duck eggs, goose eggs, baby rabbits or something; some don't want the wages at all and want to trade for a few old hens, and some want to trade for piglets. They're not in a hurry to trade for piglets; they'll trade whenever they get them."
It's easy to negotiate wages, but if you want to pay in kind, you need to make that clear in advance. Who knows if Yue Jiuyue's family is willing to make the exchange, even though they have quite a lot of poultry and livestock.
pig?
If Lin Jianing hadn't mentioned it, Yue Jiuyue would have forgotten that her family still raised several pigs, and apparently, they had given birth to piglets recently.
Because pigs are too dirty, Lin Chaonan and Lin Chaobei built the pigsty far away. Usually, only Liu would feed the pigs. Some family members liked rabbits, some liked chickens, ducks and geese, some liked cows, some liked horses, and everyone liked cats and dogs. Surprisingly, no one liked pigs.
They all clearly like eating pork, even though their family mostly eats chicken and rabbit. During holidays, they'll buy half a pig, and no one seems to miss out on a bite, yet no one feeds the pig.
"Okay, either way is fine."
How could Yue Jiuyue disagree? The number of poultry and livestock in the house was increasing, and the smell of chicken droppings could be smelled when eating at home. She had originally planned to build chicken coops and rabbit hutches along with the fence, and to build them far apart.
Now that someone is willing to take it, there's one less person producing waste, and the smell will be reduced a little bit, although it probably won't make much difference. At least it's a little less.
Once the wages were agreed upon, everyone started working.
Yue Jiuyue doesn't provide meals here, only water.
The epidemic has only just ended, less than a year ago, and everyone still remembers it vividly. So everyone has learned their lesson: we must drink boiled water, and even in summer we must drink cooled boiled water.
So, just boiling water was enough to keep Liu busy. After the boiled water cooled down, Erhu would carry it up the mountain for the people who came to work to drink.
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