Chapter 130 Everyone Becomes Stronger
"Change!" The Feng family nodded heavily without hesitation.
If they were not from the same village as Shen Qing, how could such a good thing happen to them!
Shen Qing continued, "We passed by a bamboo forest on the way here. Now we need to bring back some bamboo. Whether it's cutting the bamboo, transporting it back, sawing it into bamboo sections, or roasting it, there are corresponding wages. If you are willing to do it, go to Xiang Zhong to inquire about it, sign a confidentiality agreement, and then you can start."
Today's Qili Village is like being on a solitary boat. Unlike when they were in the village with their mother's family and relatives and friends, now they are alone. Especially since the Zhang Heshun and Wang Fugui families with evil intentions moved to other villages, the whole village has been purified and become more pure.
If you want to make your business bigger and stronger, you can't just rely on a few people in your family, and it would be a waste to leave so much labor in the village unused.
However, trust is trust, but necessary precautions must still be taken, that is, to sign a confidentiality agreement and bind it in black and white. Once there are people with bad intentions, at least you are not in a completely passive position!
Being kind also requires edge.
When the Feng family heard that there was other work to do, they immediately ran towards Shen Qing's resting place, fearing that it would be too late and it would be gone.
When they arrived, Jiang Xiangzhong read the confidentiality agreement to them, focusing on the liquidated damages. Fearing they might not understand, he explained it repeatedly before asking, "Uncle Feng, do you understand everything?"
"Oh, what's so hard to understand? Isn't it just that you can't tell outsiders how to do these things? I'm stupid, how could I tell outsiders?"
"Yes, if we tell outsiders, they will also use it to make brushes to make money. If we can't sell our brushes, how will we earn money?"
"Xiang Zhong, you don't know how rare it is to have a stable job! Especially this job is not tiring and has so many benefits. Don't say that my family won't tell others. If I find out, whoever dares to tell outsiders will be the first one to be spared!
He will definitely be beaten so badly that his parents won’t even recognize him!"
Jiang Xiangzhong couldn't help but smile.
For the first time, I didn't feel disgusted by the vulgar words, and I even liked them a little.
"Okay, you guys put your fingerprints where your names are, and then you can go with my second brother to cut some bamboo and bring it back."
Shen Qing went to the next house.
The Zhou family was no less shocked than the Feng family, perhaps even more so.
"I, we are outsiders, do you trust us?" Zhou Dashan asked hesitantly.
Shen Qing: .....The only thing she is worried about is his character, and it has nothing to do with how long he has been in the village.
The Zhang and Wang families are both elders in the village, but she dare not use them even after signing a confidentiality agreement!
She smiled and said, "We all need to sign an agreement. If it's leaked, the amount of compensation I'm afraid I won't be able to pay back in several lifetimes. Think it over carefully."
The Zhou family's first reaction was: "Don't worry, we will never leak it!"
Shen Qing has such trust in the Zhou family, an outsider. If the news gets out, what will become of them?
For such a big business, it is reasonable to lose a lot of money. It would be fine if they didn't leak it.
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The Jiang family members all have their own livelihoods, so Shen Qing doesn't need to be hired.
We hired all the other families. Unlike when we were in the village and only subcontracted the process of polishing the pen barrel, now, except for the technology of degreasing and deodorizing the raw materials, which is mastered by our own family, the rest are all subcontracted out.
To remove fat and odor from the raw materials, one only needs to soak them in wood ash or lime and water. The large wooden barrels on the road are also pulled by ox carts. The men of the Jiang family have the easiest job in the entire team.
It's relaxing on the road, but it's busy during the rest time.
It wasn't just the Jiang family; every household in the entire team was doing the same. Even the children, who were only a few years old, were collecting firewood and digging wild vegetables - of course, they couldn't go far and could only work under the eyes of the villagers.
In places near big rivers and lakes, the men go fishing. In places where there are only ponds, the men and women make brushes together.
The lard residue was bought a long time ago. Two kilograms was nothing to Shen Qing. For a large family of more than ten or twenty people, it could be used up in two or three meals.
But for the villagers who only eat meat a few times a year, they can put more than ten of them in stews, chop a few of them up and throw them into soups, and there will still be some left over after eating them for six or seven days.
Nowadays, every household cooks three meals a day.
In the morning, cook a pot of wild vegetable porridge, add a few chopped lard residues, and pair it with wild vegetable dumplings. It is a hot, sweet and filling breakfast.
For lunch, we had a soup of wild vegetables and dumplings stewed with lard residue; at night, we didn’t have to work out, so we used to just have a bowl of porridge, but now we have fish soup and a pancake made with white flour.
From time to time, Shen Qing would send over fried fish. The fish bones were crispy, and the batter on top was made entirely of white flour. When fried in oil, they turned golden and moist, and tasted much better than the fish wrapped inside!
If you eat well, you will have strength, and you can do work and earn wages during your rest time. If you don’t steal or rob, you will have income every day. For everyone, life on the road of escape is better than in the village!
From the old to the young, everyone was extremely satisfied.
Jiang Yang was very satisfied with the current situation of the team. In fact, they did not walk that far every day. When they were fast, they could walk fifty or sixty miles. In bad weather, they could walk thirty or forty miles. But not only him, but even his son-in-law Xie Qingshan was not worried.
It takes about three to six days to travel from one city to another. No matter how long the time is, as soon as Shen Qing arrives in a city, he will sell all the brushes he has made and give silver to each household.
At the same time, free up space in the car to lighten the load and continue with the next batch.
He and Yingzi calculated that in just over twenty days, every household in the village had received between five and seven taels of silver. Although this was earned by the cooperation of more than ten people in the family, it was also because Shen Qing provided a way to make money. Otherwise, having strength would be useless and would not be able to turn into silver!
But anyway, since I could earn money along the way, why bother rushing? After all, the bamboo would become scarcer the further north I went, and by the time I could no longer make brushes, it wouldn't be too late to rush.
"I don't think we'll find any bamboo if we go any further. The villagers are making a lot of money, so I wonder how disappointed they will be when they find out." Xie Qingshan couldn't help but worry as he watched every household busy making brushes.
If such a profitable business were to disappear, the one who would suffer the most would not be Shen Qing, but every household in the village.
It is not easy for them to have a job that earns them money.
Zhou Yan became worried. Their Jiang family had their own business, but all her brothers from her mother's side followed Shen Qing to make money!
During these days, she didn't know how many times she had heard the Zhou family praise Shen Qing, nor how many times her family had laughed at her.
She couldn't imagine earning money while fleeing, even earning more in less than a month than she had in a whole year...
Jiang Ying was more optimistic and said with a smile, "It can't be helped. But we've not only earned money these days, but you see, aren't the people in our village stronger?"
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