Chapter 100 Building a House (Part 2)
Mrs. Cui and Cui Hejin also thought this was appropriate.
The three of them had a good discussion about building the house and finalized some details.
Jiang Zhiluo said, "Mom, Uncle Village Head and the others will help take care of it. We'll send some things over later."
Mrs. Cui smiled and said, "It's natural. It's human nature."
Old Madam Cui felt that Jiang Zhiluo had thought things through very carefully during the discussion just now.
Cui Hejin doesn't talk much. He usually says a few words when something needs to be added.
Everyone on both sides supported Jiang Zhiluo's idea.
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The next day it stopped raining, so Cui Hejin went to school to teach.
As for Mrs. Cui, she was communicating with the village head about building a house.
No matter what Jiang Zhiluo wanted to help with, both Mrs. Cui and Cui Hejin insisted that she rest at home and not work or be exposed to the cold wind for a few days.
The weather was still a bit cold after the rain.
The next day after the rain stopped, the village head called a meeting of villagers and told them about the Cui family building a house. He would not provide them with food, but would pay ten cents per day for each laborer.
Most of the villagers brought their own stools and sat under the old locust tree to listen to the headman speak.
Whenever there are important matters in the village, they are discussed here.
Sometimes there are too many things to do and it is tiring to just stand. After a long time, everyone will get used to bringing stools and mats from home so that they don’t feel tired when sitting.
"What? Ten cents a day? Is that true?"
When a woman heard this, she became excited and asked loudly.
Everyone looked at the head of the village.
"Yes, Brother Zhou, can the Cui family really afford the wages?"
"That's right. Actually, everyone in the village knows what's going on. It's okay to go and help out when you're not busy."
In fact, it is just providing meals, and no one will say anything whether it is done well or not.
"Ten coins a day, and if you work for half a month, that's over a hundred coins."
More than a hundred coins is really a lot of money for the villagers.
With this money, those who don’t have enough food at home can buy some food so they don’t go hungry.
You don’t have to be stingy when buying things on a daily basis.
“It’s normal for the Cui family to have no house to build.”
"It's good to have a salary, that's better than having food provided."
"Yes, we are all in our own village. It's the same whether we go home for dinner or not. The villages are very close. We can eat and then go back to work."
Most of the villagers cannot afford to pay wages, so they help each other with everything and just provide meals as a token of their appreciation.
Anyway, everyone is free, so they can still contribute some effort.
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Everyone started talking and expressing their doubts.
The village head waited until everyone had finished speaking, then began to explain, "The Cui family is a respectable family, they don't just talk nonsense. Each laborer will be paid ten cents a day, and you will be paid once the work is completed that day. Don't worry."
"The Cui family went to town to sell some things a while ago and had some copper coins. To thank everyone for their help before, they said they would pay them according to their wages. They also wanted to help everyone out."
"Everyone knows that there's no shortage of labor right now. During the slack season, you're often shortchanged when trying to find work. Even moving things at the dock might not be a job for you."
"We are working for our village, so we can't be lazy."
Although I know that everyone in the village is a good person, the village head still needs to remind and criticize them.
"It's natural. Even if we don't get paid, we still have to work hard."
But everyone felt relieved when they thought that the Cui family knew what was good and what was bad and remembered everyone's help.
However, some women were surprised to hear that the Cui family had made money by selling some things. They also wanted to make money, and some of them wanted to go back and ask the Cui family.
After the village head finished talking to the villagers, he started counting the number of people.
The able-bodied laborers in the village signed up, and the village head counted the number of people.
Including some fifteen-year-old boys, they also have quite a bit of strength and everyone wants to earn ten cents.
The village head saw that they were indeed capable and strong, so he also added them.
Anyway, Jiang Zhiluo said that the more people the better, as long as they are capable of doing the work and don't hold us back.
Then there are some people from Xingshan Village.
After the discussion, construction began the next day.
Jiang Zhiluo also rested at home for four days. She settled several hundred coins every day, and she felt a little distressed when she took them out.
She became more and more anxious to do business and make money.
"Mom, I'm well now. I really don't need to rest anymore."
"Building a house now costs at least several hundred coins a day. It will cost ten taels of silver to build it for half a month. We must quickly find a way to start a business and make money."
"Zhiluo, your health is the most important thing. He Jin told you not to get tired before we went to school."
"Mom, I know. I'm really well now. I can't stay idle."
Seeing that Jiang Zhiluo was very persistent, Mrs. Cui also relaxed when she saw that her complexion had improved and she seemed to have strength again.
Jiang Zhiluo had lunch that day and went to town in the afternoon carrying a backpack.
Mother and Cui Hejin ran out of medicinal herbs, so Jiang Zhiluo had to go to the clinic to buy them.
When Jiang Zhiluo went to Xinglin Clinic, the doctors and servants there recognized her.
"Miss Jiang is here!"
"Our young master has personally taken people to various places to look for medicinal herbs, and is not in the store."
Jiang Zhiluo explained: "I'm not here to see your young master, I'm here to get some medicine."
Jiang Zhiluo took out two prescriptions and handed them to the medicine boy.
They are all common medicinal herbs.
She couldn't afford some precious medicinal herbs for the time being, so she could only improve the prescription.
Although the medicinal herbs are usually not expensive, they can also nourish the bodies of Madam Cui and Cui Hejin.
Just getting three prescriptions cost him seven taels of silver.
Jiang Zhiluo couldn't help but sigh that medicinal herbs were really expensive.
No wonder when the villagers have headaches and fevers, they use folk remedies if possible and resist the disease if possible, and rarely come to the clinic to get medicine.
It seems that we still need to seize the time and make money quickly.
Then she went to buy some seasonings and spices, spending more than one or two taels of silver, and then went to Lin Zhuzhu's butcher stall.
Lin Zhuzhu instantly perked up when she saw Jiang Zhiluo, "Oh, Sister Jiang, you're finally here."
"If you don't come, I'll go to your house to see you after I close my stall."
"You have no idea how many people have come to my butcher's stall these past few days to buy braised food, but there's nothing there. Many people are complaining."
"I think they might have gone somewhere else to buy brine."
"Several old customers told me that although they buy it at other places at a lower price, the taste is just different. The broth tastes very different, so they would rather buy it here. I've come to ask several times when it's available."
"If it weren't for your villager Zhou saying that your family was busy building a house, I would have thought you had given up your braised food business."
Lin Zhuzhu was originally as listless as a frost-bitten eggplant, but when she saw Jiang Zhiluo coming, she instantly perked up.
He chattered on for quite a while.
By the way, I settled the money from selling braised food that day to Jiang Zhiluo.
Jiang Zhiluo received more than a thousand coins.
By the way, I also learned about some market conditions in recent days.
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