Chapter 213 Earning Money with Your Own Hands
Meng Qingyin breathed a sigh of relief when the members of the Robbery Alliance finally entered the chicken farm.
She glanced at the workers Zheng Shi had called over and was surprised to find several familiar faces among them.
There were people begging and selling their misery at the market that day, there were members of the security team, and... fortune tellers?
It seems their business is quite extensive.
Zheng Shiyi introduced her to Meng Qingyin, who nodded slightly and asked them to wait a moment while she sent her friends to pick her up.
Zheng Yi, dissatisfied, tugged at Zheng Shi: "Why do I feel like we're just cabbages to be picked over?"
Zheng Shibai glared at him: "You're lucky to even have the chance to be a cabbage, why are you being so picky?"
He was being disliked by his own brother, but that was indeed the case, so Zheng Yi remained silent.
Seeing this, Zheng Shi said, "Brother, if you feel it's embarrassing to be chosen, you might as well go back and just find someone else to come over."
Sigh, I miss his older brother. He's always been a man of his word in the organization, so it's understandable that he can't change his mindset right away.
Just as Zheng Yi was about to speak, he spotted someone approaching from a distance.
Among them was someone he missed day and night.
Zheng Yi's eyes widened, and his breathing became rapid: "Ruolan, it's Ruolan!"
He rushed up to Chen Leying, his voice tinged with grievance: "Ruolan, are you really so heartless as to abandon me?"
Chen Leying frowned. Why did this lunatic come here too?
She ignored Zheng Yi and went straight to Meng Qingyin.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Meng Qingyin said, "You can choose some people that you find pleasing to the eye and take them away."
Zheng Yi immediately said, "I choose Ruolan!"
Meng Qingyin was speechless: "Who told you to choose? You were the one being chosen."
As a member of the workforce, he was even chosen?
Zheng Yi didn't care and looked at Chen Leying eagerly: "Ruolan, choose me! I'm full of energy!"
Chen Leying glanced at him and uttered two words, "Crazy."
She pointed to a few people at random, "The ten of you, come with me."
Among those she chose was Zheng San, who was highly skilled in combat, with a muscular physique, and looked like a good worker.
Zheng Yi glared at Zheng San, who felt like he had been wronged. It was his sister-in-law who had chosen him, not the other way around!
Why take your anger out on him?
Zheng San wanted to cry but had no tears.
After glaring at Zheng San, Zheng Yi turned to Chen Leying with a pitiful, tearful expression: "I'm very capable too..."
Chen Leying ignored him completely and left with her people.
Zheng San was in a real dilemma; he couldn't leave, and he couldn't stay either!
Suddenly, Zheng Shi's somewhat puzzled voice rang out: "Strange, why is there an extra person?"
Zheng Yi quickly turned around and saw that the others had already been led away, leaving 21 people behind.
Zheng Shi quickly realized, "I didn't include myself just now."
He was a little worried; what should he do now that there was an extra person?
Just as Meng Qingyin was about to speak, Zheng Yi ran over to Chen Leying with a happy expression: "Then I'm free now, I'll go help Ruolan!"
Zheng Shiyou scratched his head awkwardly: "My older brother... he probably misses his sister-in-law too much."
Meng Qingyin found it very strange.
Chen Leying said that she did not know Zheng Yi at all, so why did Zheng Yi believe that she was Ruolan?
Is it because the two look alike?
But even if they look alike, are their personalities and ways of doing things the same?
She looked at Zheng Shi and asked, "Your sister-in-law... is very similar to Chen Leying? Are their styles of doing things the same?"
Zheng Shi shook his head, "I don't know, I've never even met my sister-in-law."
Meng Qingyin asked in surprise, "Never seen it before?"
Zheng Shi explained, but Meng Qingyin still had many doubts.
Zheng Shi said that Zheng Yi spent almost every day with Zheng San during that period, but Zheng San never saw Ruolan.
How did Zheng Yi and Ruolan meet and fall in love in such a short time?
But does Ruolan really exist?
Is she related to Chen Leying?
Meng Qingyin's mind was full of questions, but she couldn't find the answers at all.
She had no choice but to put those questions aside for the time being and continue collecting eggs.
Midway through, she put on a "fatigue" status and contacted Fei Qiu. With a light tap of his finger, Meng Qingyin felt all her fatigue vanish.
Zheng Shi and his team, on the other hand, don't have a fatigue level; they can rest for a while when they get tired and then continue working.
At noon, Li the blacksmith brought them lunch. Although it was a communal meal, it tasted especially delicious when everyone was gathered together.
The group finished work at 5:30 pm and came to the door to weigh themselves.
When settling wages with the members of the Robbery Alliance, Lu Cheng suddenly realized he didn't have that much money on hand: "..."
He collected eggs for him all day, and the people who were expecting to collect their wages watched him intently, afraid that he would take their labor for free.
Lu Cheng gave an awkward smile: "I definitely won't delay your wages, please wait a moment..."
He came to Meng Qingyin for help, and Meng Qingyin asked directly, "How much do you need?"
Lu Cheng: "They collected a total of 1200 catties of eggs. The wages were 36 silver coins, and the cost of buying the eggs was 2.4 gold coins, which is 2.76 gold coins. I still have some left. You can lend me 2.7 gold coins."
After saying that, he asked somewhat embarrassedly, "You also need to buy eggs, do you have enough money on hand?"
"That's enough." Meng Qingyin transferred the money to him directly, and Lu Cheng quickly went to settle the wages for the other workers.
Meng Qingyin quickly settled the wages for Zheng Shi and the others. The twenty people had collected a total of 1,300 catties of eggs, and their wages were 78 silver coins.
Holding the money tightly in both hands, Zheng Shi felt that his back had never been so straight as today.
Money earned honestly with your own hands is money you can spend with peace of mind.
He sincerely thanked her: "Heroine, thank you for giving us a chance. From now on, our Robber Alliance will earn money with our own hands."
Meng Qingyin: "Yes, let's not go back to the same old path."
Zheng Shi assured him, "Absolutely not!"
Over there, Zheng Yi seemed to have been traumatized, his head drooping listlessly, like a walking corpse.
Meng Qingyin guessed that Chen Leying and Zheng Shi might have said something that made him realize the reality and feel utterly hopeless.
Aunt Wang was also very satisfied with Zheng Shi and the others' performance today. She even said that they could come to the chicken farm to help collect eggs in the future, and the wages would be the same as today, three coins per pound.
Zheng agreed with a beaming smile, then left with a group of people.
Meng Qingyin calculated the cost of the eggs.
One pound of eggs costs 20 copper coins, and the wage for hiring someone to collect the eggs is 3 copper coins, so the cost is 23 copper coins.
But Aunt Wang sells eggs for 25 copper coins per pound, so naturally she can't sell them for less than that.
She also needs to make money, so she definitely can't sell it for 23 copper coins a pound, otherwise why would she bother with all that effort?
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