Chapter 67 Recruitment [VIP]
The dim oil lamp reflected the figures of the two people in the house in front of the window.
After drinking a bowl of hot water, Chen Yao still felt thirsty. The dry throat forced her to lick her moist lips inadvertently.
"I want more." Chen Yao held out the empty bowl to Yang Jizong.
After drinking another bowl of hot water, she felt much better. She thanked Yang Jizong who was accompanying her and turned around to go back to her room to rest.
Yang Jizong stepped forward and blocked her way.
Chen Yao's heart skipped a beat, thinking he was going to do something shocking.
Who would have thought that she would hear the person in front of her ask her: "Don't you like the book I gave you?"
Books? Oh, so you’re just asking about books!
Chen Yao gradually let down her guard, but still felt a little uncomfortable: "I haven't read that book yet, but I'm sure I like it if you gave it to me."
"really?"
"Of course it's true."
Upon hearing this, Yang Jizong lowered his head slightly and faced Shen Yao. Their breaths entangled together, and they were about to touch those wet lips.
Chen Yao closed her eyes nervously.
At the same time, heavy and hurried footsteps suddenly came from outside the kitchen, which scared Shen Yaoqing so much that she immediately woke up, pushed Yang Jizong away, and kept some distance from him.
Shen Qingshan pushed the door open and walked in. He looked at the two people in the room and snorted.
"What are you doing in the kitchen if you're not sleeping? Huh?"
Chen Yao shrank her neck and acted like a quail. She was too guilty to dare to look up and meet her old father's eyes. She stammered, "Dad, I want some water."
"You just drank water. Did you do anything else irrelevant?" He was not asking his daughter this question, but questioning Yang Jizong, as if he wanted to see the truth from Yang Jizong's eyes.
He was young once too, so don't think he couldn't see the awkwardness between the two of them. Just drink water in the middle of the night, why blush? Before he came in, he saw the two of them huddled together from outside.
Yang Jizong's voice was a little low, and he said seriously that he didn't do anything else.
"It's better not to. I will keep an eye on you all the time. Go back to your room and sleep." Shen Qingshan walked between the two of them, removed the oil lamp on the stove, and drove them out of the kitchen.
He didn't return to the house until he saw his daughter and Yang Jizong enter their rooms and close the doors.
Huang Xing sat leaning against the headboard of the bed and couldn't help but scold her husband when he returned: "Ayao and Zi'an are a respectable couple, why are you messing around?"
What a serious couple.
Shen Qingshan was not willing to argue with his wife for outsiders. He blew out the oil lamp and lay back in bed.
Yang Wenying hugged the quilt and looked at Chen Yao in the room, her eyes full of shock.
"You and my brother were caught having a tryst by your uncle!"
Chen Yao took off her outer garment, lay back in the quilt and whispered back, "What nonsense are you talking about? We didn't have a tryst. I was thirsty and got some water, and I happened to run into your brother when I went out."
"I don't believe it. It must be my brother who has been waiting for you with great care." Yang Wenying reached out and poked Chen Yao's hot cheek.
"Wait for me? Why are you waiting for me in the middle of the night?"
"I'll wait for you to get up and drink some water, then I'll express my feelings to you. Do you two have..."
Before Yang Wenying could finish her words, Chen Yao covered her mouth with her hand. Why was the little girl talking nonsense when she was still young?
The mud house was not soundproof, and the voices of the two people inevitably reached Yang Jizong's ears.
He was indeed trying very hard, but before he could express his feelings, he was nipped in the bud by Shen's father.
During the first month of the lunar year, relatives and neighbors visit each other.
This year's Spring Festival, the Shen family was much more lively than in previous years. All the children in the village who attended school came to the Shen family on the third day of the junior high school to wish their teachers a happy new year.
It was also on this day that Chen Yao learned that the older boys in the village would go to the city to find work after the Chinese New Year.
It’s not that they don’t want to study, but they have to earn money to buy food, and paying rent after the autumn harvest is even more urgent.
"So what kind of work are you planning to find in the city?" Chen Yao looked at the students crowded in the house and couldn't help but worry about their future.
"Sister Yao, when my father and I went to the city to buy New Year's goods for the villagers before the New Year, we saw that many restaurants in the city were recruiting waiters. I planned to go with them to work as a waiter." The speaker was Li Jia Dalang, who was eighteen years old this year.
Several teenagers of the same age as Li Dalang also nodded in unison.
Not everyone can work as a waiter in a restaurant. One has to be smart and good at speaking. It would be even better if he can read and do accounting.
It is for this reason that these young people in the village have become more aware of the importance of reading and writing.
If it weren't for the school in the village, with the Yang brothers and sisters and Zhao Xiaofu teaching them literacy, and A Yao sister teaching them math, they would have had to deal with the loess earth all their lives, or die in the quarry for not being able to pay the rent.
If they were still illiterate like before, even if they entered the city, they would not recognize that the red paper posted at the door of the restaurant was recruiting workers, and even if they worked as laborers outside, they would not be able to calculate how much they could earn in a day.
So now that they have this way out, even if they don’t continue to stay in the village to study, they are very grateful to the teachers.
"Teacher Shen, we will always remember the algorithm formula you taught us and practice it every day. Don't you often say that opportunities
Chen Yao nodded beside her. Yes, she had said that.
"Let's start with waiters. The more we work, the more we learn and the more we understand, we will definitely be able to move up from waiters to accountants in the future." Li Dalang and others sat on the benches, their backs straight, full of expectations for the future.
Luodunzi, Chunya, her face is red from crying.
They were reluctant to see these brothers leave, even though they were all studying very hard and had learned a lot of words.
In the main house, Shen Qingshan heard the crying of children coming from Yang Jizong's room. He could no longer sit still and stood up to see what was going on.
He hasn't moved yet.
"It's nothing serious. It's just the kids' work. I can't bear to leave home and I'm crying. It's okay."
Upon hearing this, Shen Qingshan and Huang Songbai looked at each other.
I took this opportunity to inform everyone that we would build a silkworm room in Wanhe Township and a rabbit house in the village after the spring thaw.
"No wonder I saw you guys cutting down trees in the mountains a few days ago. Why didn't you tell us about such a big thing earlier so we could help you?"
"That's right. Look at the school in our village. It was built by everyone together. We all have experience."
The villagers all talked one after another and were determined to take charge of the matter.
Shen Qingshan quickly raised his hand to signal everyone to listen to him first.
This work definitely requires everyone's help, but more importantly, these two places also need to recruit workers.
"Qingshan, you are recruiting workers, then we..." Li Dalang's father was so excited that he was incoherent. Then his son would not have to go to the city.
"Oh my god, Qingshan, pine and cypress, how can we thank you so much? I have to kowtow to you."
We are all from the same village and are parents to each other, so how can we really kowtow to each other?
Shen Qingshan and Huang Songbai stopped everyone.
"We're not hiring all of them. The elders in Wanhe Township were raising silkworms, so we only need five men. Since you're from outside, you'll be provided with food while you work. You can come back together at night, or rest anywhere else."
Everyone's eyes lit up and they looked at each other. There were only five people left, so who would go?
No matter who can go, they cannot fight and quarrel here, and there is no need to make others unhappy during the New Year.
"We all know each other well in our village. No matter who we choose, they won't be cunning or do bad things. You can choose Qingshan."
"That's right." Everyone responded in unison.
If there really is someone who is evil, once he is discovered, the whole village will drown him in spit. Not only will he be replaced, but he will also be unable to gain a foothold in the village.
"Okay, then I'll choose." Shen Qingshan looked at everyone in the room.
Shitou's father, Luodunzi's father, and Chunya's father, the three of them who were close to him, naturally had to go.
The remaining two are the most honest and kind-hearted people in the village, and their family backgrounds are the smallest.
The five people who were chosen were very excited and wanted to ask for their wages, but they couldn't open their mouths.
"The wages are 200 wen a month. If you work hard and learn well, you will get an additional 100 wen at the end of each month. However, if you kill your silkworms and fail to produce cocoons, you will be fined."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the room gasped.
"We will definitely work hard and study hard." The five people responded loudly.
Shen Qingshan added that not only did they need to recruit workers to raise silkworms, but they also had to recruit five women in the village who could reel silk.
"What is silk reeling? No one in our village has ever heard of it, so I'm afraid they don't know how to do it." Stone's father leaned forward.
Shen Qingshan then told everyone that her daughter would teach them how to reel silk, and that as long as they were careful and willing to learn, they would definitely be able to learn it.
"Are you safe when your daughters and daughters-in-law go out?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Old Zheng was about to open his mouth to say no, saying that a woman should not show her face in public. But before the words came to his lips, his wife clamped her throat firmly.
Each household had some considerations and did not respond immediately.
Shitou's mother, on the other hand, raised her hand to indicate her willingness to go. "I'm not afraid of any criticism from my own shadow. This is a legitimate job. If I'm chosen, I can earn money for the family. Would you, my father, mind me showing up in public?"
Shi Tou Niang looked at the men in the room and naturally knew what they were worried about.
"Of course not." Stone's father held his wife's hand. They had been married for many years and he had to support his wife.
Seeing that Shitou's parents were of one mind, the women who followed them into the room all glared at their husbands.
The candidates for silk reeling were not decided immediately, but had to wait until the spring when the cocoons were available. If anyone was willing to come, they could first go to Wanhe Township to take a look and try their hand before making a decision.
Of course the wages remain the same.
After hearing this, the women in the room secretly cheered in their hearts, grabbed the skins of their men, and waited for them to go home.
Huang Songbai stood up from the bench and poured some water for his brother-in-law to soothe his throat, and then he started to take care of his rabbit house.
The rabbit house in the village is also looking to recruit people.
"Then how many people are there in this group? If there are too many people, I won't let Dalang and the others enter the city."
"That's right, that's right." If you can make money without leaving the village, why go to the city?
"The rabbit farm won't need many people at first. If the children want to go to the city, let them come. It will take five people to raise the rabbits and cut the grass, and five more to skin them. If any of you are good at sewing, I will have to hire ten people to make gloves, armholes, collars, and pendants."
The wages are the same, but in the village, food and accommodation are not provided. At the end of the month, whoever raises rabbits well will be rewarded with 100 coins, but if one dies, you have to pay to buy it back home.
A wild rabbit sold for eighty cents at the Huangji Supply and Marketing Cooperative. If the rabbit died accidentally, you would have to pay eighty cents to buy it back home for consumption.
"Oh, that needs to be raised carefully. Who can afford to eat it?" Someone spoke in the corner, and everyone agreed.
Huang Songbai finished speaking in one breath, and the villagers who were originally eager to try did not dare to speak anymore.
Raising rabbits and cutting grass is simple, but it takes some effort to fatten the rabbits, keep them from dying, and make their fur shiny.
There are also tasks like skinning and sewing fur. Although they sound simple, everyone knows that none of them are easy.
Shen Qingshan and Huang Songbai finished discussing these two important matters. Except for the five people who would raise silkworms, the rest had not been finalized.
"Don't worry, raising silkworms and reeling silk won't officially start until early March. Go back and discuss it first. If anyone wants to come, you can come to my house to sign up starting tomorrow."
After Shen Qingshan finished speaking, Huang Songbai followed up and said, "If anyone is willing to raise rabbits, you can come to my house tomorrow to catch some rabbits and raise them. The first one to raise them will be paid monthly."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone became excited again and threw those concerns behind their minds.
The brave ones will die of overeating, and the timid ones will die of starvation. They wish they could go home with Huang Songbai and raise a rabbit.
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