Ye Caiping and her daughter Ye Hufen left with their bags.
Ye Sanquan's wife said with envy, "800 coins a month! If I had known, I would have gone to feed the livestock and do housework for my younger sister."
Aunt Ye rolled her eyes at her: "Don't you have to do any work for us? Do you think they paid 800 coins to hire someone to slack off?"
Sanquan's wife choked for a moment, then laughed and said, "I was just joking! But the wages are really high. The head of the household, a grown man, only earns 900 coins a month delivering goods for his little sister. That's only 100 coins more than a little maid."
Aunt Ye was a little annoyed: "What, Xiao Yan isn't good enough? What's wrong with a girl? If you ask me, San Quan has it much easier than Xiao Yan."
"Once this delivery is done, you can go straight home and rest. Housework doesn't have a set time; haven't you ever done housework before?"
Sanquan's wife choked, lowered her head, and dared not utter a sound.
Si Quan's wife lowered her head and chuckled to herself, while Wu Quan's wife, who had only entered the family before the New Year, dared not utter a sound.
...
Ye Caiping led Ye Hufen and her daughter home and let Yang Xiaoyan choose a room.
“Jin’er and Huan’er live in the east wing, where there is still an empty room,” Ye Caiping said.
Where do your great-grandparents live?
"Here, the north room on the left."
“Then I’ll choose the first room in the west wing. It’s close to my great-grandmother, so if she calls me, I’ll hear her.”
Ye Caiping gave Yang Xiaoyan an approving look: "Good. All the furniture and bedding there are new, you can use them directly."
"Thank you, Auntie. I'll go get ready right away."
Ye Hufen and her daughter went inside together to put away their luggage.
Grandma Ye and Grandpa Ye had just returned from the livestock shed. Ye Caiping then told them about Xiao Yan coming to help.
Grandma Ye glared at Ye Caiping, a mixture of happiness and reproach in her eyes.
“We’re not that weak, that you should find someone to come back and help us.”
"It's time for Mom and Dad to enjoy their retirement. Now, let's have someone help out. In a year or two, I'll buy two servants so you don't have to do anything and can just rest and bask in the sun every day."
The elderly couple, Mrs. Ye and her husband, laughed when they heard this.
Later that evening, Ye Jin'er and Ye Huan'er also returned.
The two sisters breathed a sigh of relief upon learning that Yang Xiaoyan would be helping out at home.
This will make things much easier for them, and they'll also have more playmates.
"Has the recruitment been completed?" Ye Caiping asked.
"Yes, the list is here." Ye Jin'er handed the completed list to Ye Caiping.
The mother and her two daughters arrived at Ye Caiping's workspace, which was originally a small side room but has now been converted into her small study, with a private outhouse in the back.
She has been in this world for half a year now, and she is quite familiar with the people in the village.
The list was two pages long, with almost every household in the village having someone sign up, and some families even signing up together.
Ye Caiping took a pen and marked the names of the people she was interested in one by one.
Receiving and counting goods, roasting raw materials, grinding raw materials, loading raw materials, mixing raw materials, packing and sealing with wax, labeling, handling...
She's just opened for business, so hiring 25 people is enough.
When she had finished marking half of it, Ye Caiping flipped through the pages and said, "Huh, I don't see the Hu family's name on the list."
"Hmm, Sister Xiuxiu didn't report either," Ye Jin'er said.
Ye Caiping nodded: "Hu Xiuxiu is trying to avoid suspicion, afraid of causing us trouble."
After thinking for a moment, Ye Caiping wrote Hu Xiaosan's name directly on the paper.
The two sisters were taken aback. Ye Jin'er said, "Mother wants to use people from the Hu family?"
"The third and fourth kids are doing well. Hu Xiaosan is already 14, he can work now."
"Isn't Mother afraid that Xiuxiu might suddenly become agitated?"
Ye Caiping laughed: "What's there to be afraid of? If she causes trouble, just fire her. We'll never use anyone from her family again."
It's not like it's some kind of monster. Someone like Xiuxiu's mother, if she can ruin someone once, she can ruin them a second time.
She wanted to give those children a chance.
Soon, Ye Caiping wrote down the candidates on a piece of paper.
Ye Siquan, Zhao Shuisheng, Ye Zhuzi, Tie Niu's wife, Hu Xiaosan...
There were 15 men and 10 women.
Ye Caiping asked the Ye Jin'er sisters to post the list on the big banyan tree.
The villagers looked at the list; those who were selected were overjoyed, while those who weren't were disappointed.
Bajin's wife returned home disappointed and, upon seeing Ye Lizheng, said, "Why wasn't Bajin selected?"
Ye Lizheng said, "Isn't Bajin delivering goods?"
"I heard from Sister Wei that the restaurants will all use pre-packaged ingredients from now on, and there will be no need for suppliers. At that time, Ba Jin will be out of work."
"Nonsense, doesn't Caiping know better than you? She's shrewd and calculating; she'd rather lose money than let our family suffer."
"Hmm." Eight-pound wife didn't say much and went back to her room to sew shoe soles.
The Hu family—
Hu Xiuxiu looked at Hu Xiaosan with surprise: "Xiaosan, when did you sign up?"
The fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh children were all looking at him.
Hu Xiaosan, the most honest of the brothers, looked completely bewildered: "I...I didn't sign up."
Hu Xiuxiu was stunned: "Could it be that Brother Yong gave you special treatment?"
“Brother Yong isn’t that kind of person,” Hu Xiaosi said. “I think it must be Aunt Caiping who wants to help us.”
Hu Xiuxiu was somewhat incredulous, feeling both uneasy and overjoyed.
If the third mistress has a job, and with the harvest from the fields, even if she gets married, the fourth mistress and her family won't go hungry.
"He wouldn't help me this morning, but this time he used connections to get the mistress in." Xiuxiu's mother walked in like a whirlwind.
Hu Xiuxiu frowned.
Hu Xiaosi said, "No, my sister has never left the house. My third brother was selected because he signed up himself."
"That Jin-jie who writes calligraphy is soft-hearted. I begged her for a long time, praised her for being pretty, and picked flowers for her to wear before she finally agreed to help get Third Brother into prison. She even said that if Third Brother doesn't do a good job, she won't want him anymore."
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