Chen Mazi had many thoughts on his mind, and immediately expressed his concerns.
Granny Wang has damaged the reputation of their village. They'll say whatever they want to say, fearing that some people who don't know better might deliberately come and cause trouble.
I heard that Master Zhang is cursing Yunhe Village every day.
Lin Jinyue thought for a moment and said, "Let them work two extra hours each day, and they'll get one tael of silver a month. They'll have eggs in the morning and meat at noon. Tell them that we only have a limited number of people to recruit, and we won't be hiring anymore after today. Also, we won't be hiring anyone from Wangxi Village."
"As for their mischief, when the time comes, we'll have the villagers supervise. If anyone is caught causing trouble, they'll be rewarded with five taels of silver."
These people must be building structures, repairing roads, and clearing the dense jungle on the outskirts.
They couldn't reach the core of their village.
Lin Jinyue was not worried about any other problems arising.
Upon hearing Lin Jinyue's words, Chen Mazi immediately set off to search for people in nearby villages.
Right now, Wang the matchmaker is still chatting with someone inside the house, going on and on about how wicked the people in Yunhe Village are.
The other old women, who had never even left Wangxi Village, also joined in the cursing.
The matchmaker was very pleased with the scene.
She sat cross-legged on the bamboo bed, thinking that so many fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls in Yunhe Village were still unmarried, and they must all be anxious and worried.
Who knows when they might come begging to her?
The matchmaker was very pleased with herself.
Yunhe Village is rich. If someone wants to ask her for help, they'll have to bring a lot of good stuff with them.
She was calculating and planning, but she never expected that Yunhe Village wasn't in a hurry for the children to get married at all.
The Qiaohua sisters, for example, are almost twenty years old, but neither of them has any plans to get married.
They specifically asked Jiang Yun and Lin Jinyue, and they both said that whether or not they could get married was not a big deal. Anyway, their village could now establish female households, and if they wanted to have children in the future, they could leave the father and keep the child.
Those newly settled maids and servants who gained favor with their masters would be introduced to men as concubines or to servants of equal social standing. As for those who moved out to work for Lin Jinyue, they felt that having a place to settle down and make a living was already a luxury.
Getting married a few years later is not a rush.
In Yunhe Village, no one really made any demands of Wang the matchmaker. Everyone was putting in their best effort; those without money wanted to make money, and those with money were thinking about how to make the village better.
That evening, several men came aggressively and started banging on Wang Pozi's door.
Granny Wang was a little confused. "What's wrong with you all?"
The leader was Wang Ergou from the village chief's family.
Wang Ergou angrily said, "Old Wang, what exactly do you mean? You keep talking nonsense all day long, and you've caused a lot of trouble for the people in our village."
Others echoed this sentiment:
"Matchmaker Wang, you should go get your illness treated! You're always gossiping and talking nonsense like a crazy old woman!"
"Quick! Let's tie her up and take her to Yunhe Village to apologize!"
Even the matchmaker was a little confused.
How come these people have two different faces?
Weren't we all together in Yunhe Village yesterday?
At the time, they didn't say that at all. They were all extremely jealous, envious that the people of Yunhe Village could make money and have meat at every meal. During the New Year, the cured meat and sausages were like free, and anyone in the village could eat as much as they wanted.
They were so hungry!
It was precisely because of envy that everyone echoed Wang the matchmaker's gossipy remarks.
Matchmaker Wang racked her brains but couldn't understand how these people could change their attitude in just one night.
Matchmaker Wang hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with you two?"
With everyone talking at once, Wang the matchmaker finally understood the situation.
She was absolutely furious.
That damned Chen Mazi.
An hour ago, Chen Mazi led a few people with pens and ink to register the number of people in each village.
Chen Mazi acted all high and mighty, shouting as soon as he entered the village, "We're hiring! One tael of silver a month, meals included, eggs and meat every day, all you can eat!"
"There are restrictions on the number of workers and the qualifications; it's first-come, first-served."
Some people who initially had a bad impression of Yunhe Village because of Granny Wang all came over.
"Oh, my family, choose my family, my husband is strong and doesn't have any burdens."
"Make way, my husband is much stronger!"
Many people started arguing about it.
People from other villages also came, fearing that their village would fall behind and they would fill all the positions by then.
There's also someone from Wangxi Village: "Look at my family, my family is from Wangxi Village next door. My husband is as strong as an ox, one of us is as good as two."
The woman pushed the man behind her forward, and the man lifted a large rock.
But Chen Mazi still shook his head: "I don't want anyone from your Wangxi Village."
Without giving them a chance to speak, Chen Mazi rattled off a string of words, "Hurry up and move on to the next one, I still have several villages to visit!"
With the others pushing and shoving, and fewer competitors like Wang Xicun, wouldn't their chances of being selected be much greater?
Moreover, Wangxi Village is wealthy, with good land and plenty of arable land. The men in the village are all strong and robust, so if they wanted to hire people for manual labor, they would definitely choose the strong and robust ones.
In just a short while, whenever anyone from Wangxi Village was spotted, everyone would push them aside, deliberately saying, "They've already said they're not hiring people from Wangxi Village, so get out of the way and don't do your serious business in front of us."
The people of Wangxi Village finally couldn't take it anymore and went to beg Chen Mazi in a humble and polite manner.
Chen Mazi is a shrewd man; he had his eye on those big guys in Wangxi Village long ago. They were truly worth two men each, which would save him a lot of money.
He hesitated and said, "Well, I can't make this decision myself. As you know, I was originally from Chenjia Village, but I later settled in Yunhe Village. That's why they gave me this job because I'm a local."
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