Chen Siwu?
Xie Xian narrowed his eyes and recalled carefully.
It seemed that he had never heard of this name.
Even his appearance was very unfamiliar.
So he asked tentatively: "Have we met before?"
Chen Siwu chuckled: "You haven't seen me, but I have seen you! I have seen both of you!"
"I was a refugee who came here to escape the war. Are you often with Lord Fang? I've seen you on the street!"
"Master Fang has done me a favor! May I ask... Is Master Fang here too?"
Xie Xian and Zhou Tie suddenly understood.
It’s not surprising that they were refugees.
Xie Xian smiled and shook his head: "No, Lord Fang is in Beijing, maybe I'll have a chance to come again in the future."
After hearing this, Chen Siwu showed a trace of disappointment on his face.
"Hey, shopkeeper, your business is pretty good. You were a refugee before, but now you've opened your own shop!" Xie Xian exclaimed.
Upon hearing this, Chen Siwu became happy again in an instant.
He looked at his humble tea stall with pride.
There were two malnourished waiters inside, busy serving tea to the guests.
"Speaking of which, this is all thanks to Lord Fang! He gave me fifty taels of silver, which gave me the capital to open the tea stall."
Xie Xian asked: "How is your life now? Are you making money?"
Chen Siwu was happy again: "Profit! I have finally made a comeback!!"
Thinking back, he was very happy working for the Sun family at first.
But over time, people naturally have higher demands on life.
But before his salary increased, his title of "Quality Worker" began to faze people.
After all, I'm old, and no matter how hard I work, I can't compete with a guy in his twenties.
The Sun family's housekeeper was very sharp-eyed and lowered his salary on the spot.
Later, he lost interest in life and chose to slack off at the construction site.
But it was a construction site after all, there were supervisors, and it was very dry, and there was no way to touch it!
Fortunately, he still had the fifty taels of silver that Fang Zhengyi had awarded him.
He gritted his teeth and cursed her, he quit!
He didn't get the overtime pay, and had to pay fifty cents to the Sun family for the loss of work clothes, and then he went out to start his own business!
Fortunately, co-workers usually gather together to chat, so he is very familiar with their needs.
These laborers usually want to drink some thirst-quenching and refreshing tea.
But where did the tea stall come from when there was so much dust everywhere?
So! Chen Siwu boldly opened his own tea stall!
He rented a piece of vacant land for two taels of silver a month, and got a lot of inferior tea for not much money, which he would brew a whole jar of at a time.
Workers come, drink as much as you want for two cents! Unlimited refills!
Although the capital was small and the profit was tiny, it was already starting to make a profit a little bit, and of course, later on, some higher quality tea was added.
When Xie Xian heard that he had made money, he was also very pleased and encouraged him, "Great! Although your tea stall is small, the prices are fair and affordable. Your business will definitely grow bigger in the future!"
Chen Siwu smiled and said, "Oh, thank you for your good wishes!" But then he turned around and began to sigh, "Oh, but it's a pity that Lord Fang didn't come."
"You don't know, once Lord Fang leaves, we laborers will suffer."
Zhou Tie slammed the table when he heard this and said, "What? Our Lord Fang told us not to mistreat refugees, so how come someone dares to bully others after he left?"
Chen Siwu immediately complained: "That's right!"
"It was fine in the first two months after Lord Fang left, but after that, those damn landlords started to cut our wages."
Xie Xian frowned and asked, "Why don't you just go work for other companies if you want to reduce your wages? Could it be that they have united?"
"No! It's because our workers charge too low a price! You don't know, because the school outside the city offers free admission to children under the age of twelve, if the word gets out, many people from other places will come here for this!"
"Just think about it, so many people suddenly flocked to the city just to send their children to school for free and have food to eat. He would not have such high demands on himself."
"Later, the landlords who were looking for workers only provided two meals a day to get people to work, so no one could get paid."
After listening to Chen Siwu’s complaints, Zhou Tie raised his eyes and looked at Xie Xian.
"We haven't finished our work yet...what should we do?"
Xie Xian looked at the workers who were still busy on the street and said, "We were in a hurry at the beginning, so this is inevitable. Now that we are here, it seems we have to find a way to solve it. Shopkeeper, I see you have two assistants here, how much do they make a month?"
"What kind of wages do you want? Two meals a day, work if you want!"
“........”
Xie Xian looked at the honest and simple Chen Siwu in silence.
You opened a shabby tea stall, and it's no different from the dog landlord you mentioned...
Seeing that the two of them were silent, Chen Siwu took the initiative to say, "I just heard you two talking about salt dealers... Do you want to buy private salt?"
Zhou Tie and Xie Xian immediately looked at each other in surprise.
There was an unexpected gain!
Xie Xian hurriedly asked in a low voice: "Not bad! Do you know where to sell contraband salt?"
"have no idea."
“.......”
Chen Siwu looked up and recalled, then hesitantly said: "It's really not available now, and you can't buy it anywhere!"
"It was available before. When I was working for the Sun family, I saw them buying private salt!"
"We had many workers at that time, and it was boring to work without salt."
"The Sun family was reluctant to add salt, and later, seeing that no one was working hard, they had no choice but to buy more salt. I saw him sneaking around with the salt dealer with my own eyes, and I knew that they must have bought private salt!"
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