That noon, the Lin brothers indeed brought back another truckload of fruit trees, but there were fewer than fifty of them.
But they also brought back two people. It is said that all the fruit trees in their village were successfully propagated by these two people. Lin Chaobei said that his family needed tens of thousands of fruit trees. Even if the two of them worked non-stop all year round, they could not propagate that many fruit tree seedlings. In order to earn this money, the two of them simply came back with Lin Chaonan and the others.
Because the two brothers who went to the village to buy fruit tree seedlings couldn't make the decision on their own, the two of them came here this time to discuss an employment contract with Yue Jiuyue.
It's good to make money, even if it's less. It's better than letting someone else make the money, right?
They came with this in mind. Although Yue Jiuyue was a fresh graduate and didn't understand social etiquette or other people's thoughts, she could still guess some of their simple intentions.
Therefore, she refused the two men's exorbitant demands for wages. Anyway, if the price was too high, she could simply go back to the village from yesterday to buy fruit tree seedlings next year, or inquire around near the county town when she had time. She wouldn't really let these mountains remain empty.
"Fifty coins a day is too expensive! How about twenty coins a day? I'll hire the two of you for a month, and you two guarantee to plant three thousand fruit trees for me, which means each of you can guarantee to plant fifty fruit trees a day. Other conditions are out of the question!"
Yue Jiuyue was very dissatisfied with their demand of fifty copper coins a day. Not to mention that she suspected the two men might not be very good people, even if the old man from the village who knew how to plant fruit trees had come yesterday, Yue Jiuyue would not have paid him fifty copper coins a day.
"Twenty coins a day? That's far too little!"
Furthermore, they are required to plant fifty fruit trees a day, so they must plant at least sixty or seventy trees a day, otherwise how can they guarantee the survival rate?
Planting sixty or seventy trees a day is fine if someone helps, but if the two of them are doing it all by themselves, they'll be exhausted every day!
The reason they married women from the next village was to learn a trade so they wouldn't have to toil away farming anymore. Little did they expect that one day they'd still have to work themselves to the bone farming, which contradicted their original intention of negotiating employment contracts.
They weren't planning to swindle money; they just figured the family didn't know how to propagate fruit trees, so they could just plant a few every day and fool them. They could earn at least thirty or forty coins a day. If they could drag it out for a year or two, they'd be rolling in money!
However, ideals are often grand, but reality is harsh. The wonderful ideas died before they could even be implemented, and they even seemed poised to ruin themselves.
“These past two years have been filled with natural disasters, and we haven’t had any extra money to hire people to do the work. If it weren’t for the fact that you two really know how to plant fruit trees, I wouldn’t have paid you two. Twenty copper coins! That’s twenty copper coins! And that’s for a day! One person! In a month, the money I would have paid to hire you two would be enough for me to buy several hundred catties of old rice at the grain store in town!”
Yue Jiuyue felt a pang of heartache just thinking about it; that was more than an ounce of silver!
Therefore, women, whether girls or women, are a strange kind of creature. They buy hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of cosmetics, clothes and shoes, but they are reluctant to pay eight or even six dollars for postage, thinking it is too expensive.
Yue Jiuyue had this kind of mentality.
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