Pei Shaorong and Mo Xiaobao stayed at home all day and made a fortune quietly, but the people in the village didn't know about it. Many old people shook their heads and said that young people would not be able to live without elders watching over them.
Lin Ge'er had previously suggested that Pei Shaorong follow his man to the town to work, and he had taken it to heart. His man worked as a laborer at the dock, and although it was a bit tiring, he still earned a few dozen cents a day, which was a very good income.
When the strong men in the village are not busy in the fields, they will go to the dock to do hard labor to earn money to supplement their family income. However, there are many people at the dock, and if you don’t have a familiar coolie to lead you, you will easily be excluded by everyone.
Brother Lin has a good relationship with Mo Xiaobao, and his boss treats him well. He is willing to take Pei Shaorong with him, so Brother Lin came to the Pei family specifically to tell them.
If Pei Shaorong was really as poor as the villagers thought, he would definitely go back to work, but now he has other ways to make more money so he definitely won't do the hard labor.
Pei Shaorong politely rejected Lin Ge'er, but he still kept his kindness in mind. After thinking it over, Pei Shaorong decided to help Lin Ge'er's family.
He is just like this. He will remember whoever is good to him. Mo Xiaobao said that although Lin Ge'er's in-laws are not very poor, they are not rich either.
After all, the families who marry young men here are generally not wealthy, and the slightly more affluent families will not give up their daughters who are good at bearing children to marry young men.
Brother Lin and Mo Xiaobao have been good friends for many years. When they were in the mountains, he also saw that Brother Lin was really helping Abao.
It was not a difficult task for him to lend a helping hand. Pei Shaorong also wanted to call Aunt Qin to help. Aunt Qin had helped him a lot since he came here. Although it was just a few words of advice, it was a real help.
There is not much work to do in the fields during this period and everyone is not busy. Pei Shaorong plans to ask Aunt Qin and Lin Ge'er's family to come over to help him burn the charcoal for making candied fruit.
He and Mo Xiaobao were too busy to handle the mountain products they had collected earlier and needed help.
There is also the kebab business, which is not profitable for ordinary people, but is definitely a big source of income for Pei Shaorong. Don't underestimate the two cents a day, which is already very high for ordinary people.
When the time comes, I will ask Aunt Qin and Brother Lin's families to help together, and I will pay them for their work. I believe they will be willing to do so since there is no work in the fields now.
There is income from the dock, but it is very tiring, and the commute to town every day is long and hard. Now that every household is not busy, the docks are overcrowded and the income has been greatly reduced.
Pei Shaorong told Aunt Qin, Uncle Qin, and Brother Lin and his husband about his idea of coming home for dinner.
"Aunt Qin, Uncle Qin, Brother Lin and Brother Xue, I won't say any more polite words. I called you here today mainly because I want to tell you something..."
Lin Ge'er's husband Pei Shaorong had met him at the wedding and in the village on weekdays. He was two years older than him. His name was Xue Tieshi. He was as strong as a bull and looked like a very steady man.
"I'm going to make dried hawthorn fruit to sell, but Xiaobao and I are too busy to handle it, so I'd like to ask you for help. How about 30 cents per person per day?"
This was the salary Pei Shaorong decided to pay after careful consideration. Thirty cents was about the same as a day's income for a laborer at the dock, so the two families would not suffer any loss.
He can afford this amount with the money he has now. If everyone does a good job and he earns a lot, he doesn't mind giving out some red envelopes.
Moreover, he also gave 30 cents to Aunt Qin and Brother Lin, the two weaker laborers, which is definitely not a low amount for their two families. I believe that Aunt Qin and Brother Lin will definitely agree to it.
If he paid too little and asked people to give up high wages to help him, Pei Shaorong would feel uncomfortable, regardless of whether they were willing to do so.
Aunt Qin and Brother Lin were a little surprised to hear this. They didn't expect that Pei Shaorong actually wanted to make preserved fruits and sell them.
This preserved fruit is indeed a precious snack, and most people in the village can make it, but because it requires sugar, everyone is reluctant to spend the money.
"Brother, the cost of making preserved fruits is too high. How much money can you make? If you need help, just call us. Why pay? Thirty cents per person per day. Brother, you are not treating money as money!"
Aunt Qin was a straightforward person. Who doesn't like to make money? But the wages Pei Shaorong mentioned were too high. Forget about giving it to the man, but she herself felt that paying thirty cents for her and Lin Ge'er's help was too much.
As for making preserved fruits, not only her, Uncle Qin and Brother Lin and his wife also think that it is not very good. The cost is so high and it is impossible to make any money. Otherwise, everyone in the village would make preserved fruits and sell them!
"Aunt Qin, I have considered these in detail. The cost is a bit high, but there is still profit. As you know, my family has no land now. If I don't find a way, life will be difficult..."
Pei Shaorong looked embarrassed. His actual situation was not as bad as he said, but the whole village knew that he was poor, and he couldn't act as if he was actually rich.
"Hunting in the mountains is too dangerous and won't last long. You can't go into the mountains in winter. And if something happens to me and Abao is left alone, I don't have any brothers or sisters to take care of him. The money I have is enough for this gamble. If it goes well, I can buy a field and farm with Abao next year..."
Both Aunt Qin and Lin Ge'er understood what he said. Lin Ge'er's husband Xue Tieshi was silent for a while before speaking.
"Brother Pei, since you have such a plan, you should have thought it through in detail. My husband and I will help you with this job, but the wages won't be that high. You can charge me 20 cents and my husband 10 cents will be enough..."
Xue Tieshi thought about it and agreed. Since the Pei family said to give it a try, it proved that he was sure of making money, otherwise he would not have spent such a huge amount of money.
The wages he offered were indeed a bit high. They didn't need that much. Thirty cents would be enough for him and Brother Lin.
Pei Shaorong might not earn as much as he did at the dock, but it was easy and close to home in the village, making it convenient for him to take care of his family.
Aunt Qin thought about it and nodded in agreement. Her opinion was the same as Xue Tieshi's. She felt that the wages did not need to be that high. It was just a matter of physical labor. Thirty cents per person was not a low price in the town.
"Aunt Qin and Brother Xue, you can rest assured to take the wages. My job is not easy. Thirty cents per person is definitely worth it. It's just that I can't pay you right away. I can only give you silver after the work is done. I wonder if you are willing to do this job?"
Pei Shaorong smiled and said that it was not that he could not give the money immediately, but as he had said before, he was a poor boy now and had no money. He also could not tell others that he had basically no capital to do all this.
The Qin family and Lin Ge'er's family are indeed nice people, but there is no need for him to reveal his secrets to them. The reason why he is confident in letting them help with making preserved fruits and processing mountain products is because these two skills are not too secret.
He has no plans to share the money-making craft of making persimmon cakes with others. It's not that he is selfish. He himself is not very rich now, and his family is counting on making money from persimmon cakes in the future.
Selling grilled skewers and making preserved fruits are only temporary businesses. Persimmon cakes, growing crops in the future, and growing fruit trees that he had thought of before are his family's long-term survival businesses.
The cost of preserved fruits is really high for ordinary people, and sugar is not cheap here. He is making preserved fruits now because he relies on the large amount of sugar he brought from the modern times in his space, which he cannot finish eating in a short time and does not cost money.
After hearing what Pei Shaorong said, Aunt Qin and Brother Lin looked at each other, nodded and smiled, "Yes, of course. There is no woman in the village who can earn thirty cents a day. Auntie has picked up a bargain this time. Big brother is a capable person!"
Since the original owner is not worried about the wages and is willing to pay, there is no reason to refuse the money that is delivered to the door. Thirty cents per person a day, and the two couples of the two families can earn sixty cents a day in total, which is much more profitable than doing odd jobs in town.
Everyone has been idle these two days, and there is no shortage of temporary workers in the town, so the wages are getting lower and lower. Helping Pei Shaorong, they are making money no matter how you look at it!
Once things were agreed upon, Pei Shaorong and Mo Xiaobao secretly put the persimmons that had been dried and pressed into cakes into a jar and waited for white frost to form on them, and then they led everyone to work together.
Mo Xiaobao, Lin Ge'er and Aunt Qin continued to process the remaining hawthorns, wild walnuts and other mountain products they had collected before at home. Uncle Qin and Xue Tieshi were burning charcoal on the mountain to prepare for the next step of cooking sugar.
As for Pei Shaorong himself, he went to the town to sell skewers every day. Although he asked Aunt Qin and Lin Ge'er's family to help and had to pay them, in reality his family still made the most money.
The income from selling skewers every day is more than enough to pay his workers and make him feel a lot more relaxed. Now many villagers have flocked to the town to do part-time work, and his skewers are not expensive, so his business is very hot.
With four more people helping, the job went much faster. Aunt Qin and Brother Lin's families wanted to take Pei Shaorong's wages of thirty cents each, and they worked very hard.
The winter in Linjiang Village is very cold, so the villagers here know how to burn charcoal themselves. Without Pei Shaorong asking, Uncle Qin and Xue Tieshi will do the job well on their own.
Pei Shaorong felt that these jobs were not easy, but for the Qin family and Lin Ge'er's family, they were simply too comfortable. They felt a little guilty for taking only 30 cents as a wage, so they worked even harder.
It took him half a month to complete the work of burning charcoal, cooking hawthorns with sugar, and making, soaking, and drying the preserved fruits. Everyone knew the skills, so there was no need for his guidance.
There are also mountain products such as wild walnuts, pine nuts and chestnuts, which are made into dried goods according to his requirements.
Pei Shaorong could only say that he was very satisfied with the efficiency. When he heard Aunt Qin and Brother Lin's families saying that they felt bad for getting paid so high for such an "easy" job, Pei Shaorong felt his face getting hot.
He felt like a capitalist who exploited labor, paying others less than a fraction of what he earned. He felt so embarrassed...
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