It’s no wonder that Xu Can is useless. When it comes to the food at the Qiao family, he immediately surrenders.
It's obviously the same ingredients, but why does the taste of the food turned out to be different when it comes into the hands of the Qiao family's kitchen?
Especially the pork, which is said to be as cheap as dirt by the rich, once it reaches the hands of the Qiao family's kitchen, it is fried, stir-fried, stewed, and braised in various ways.
It's so delicious that you want to swallow your tongue. Who cares whether it's cheap or not at this time?
Just eat it!
At this time, Xu Can was not staring at the pork elbow, but was busy using his chopsticks. His upbringing did not allow him to pick it up and eat it.
But during the past few days at the Qiao family, the power of the flying chopsticks has been increasing rapidly.
How can it be okay if it's not fast? If it's slower, it will be gone. Few people here will give in to him!
Then he looked at his servant Chu Yuan, who was holding a bun in his left hand and noodles in his right hand, slurping the noodles as if he wanted to bury his head in the bowl.
There were also those who planned to put the rations allocated to them into their pockets and take them back to give to their parents, wives and children.
"Hey, hey, hey, I'm talking to you, I'm talking to you? Why are you hiding? Take it out quickly. I've told you so many times not to put it in your pocket or take it out. Are you all deaf or don't take my words seriously?
It's not easy for the old lady to have compassion on you all. Every meal has meat, vegetables, and white flour buns, so you can eat with your stomachs open, but what's the big deal about you eating and taking them?"
Cao Laosan was furious. He pulled up a hired worker and took out a white flour bun from his pocket. In the middle of the bun was a large piece of braised pork!
This is a way of eating that has become popular in Qiao's family recently.
The man was caught red-handed, his face red, and he lowered his head to explain: "Butler Cao, I was wrong. My wife was in confinement and she only drank water. She didn't even have rice soup. Now rice is 120 coins per pound, which is really unaffordable. Seeing the child starving to death, I had no choice. Butler Cao, please forgive me this time. I won't do it again!"
"Butler Cao, don't be angry. He knows he was wrong and he won't dare to do it again next time. Let's just forget it this time!" Someone who came from the same place as him stood up and spoke well of him.
"Yeah, give him a chance!"
"that is....."
Butler Cao snorted, "If you are wrong, you are wrong. If you admit your mistake and don't punish me, then what rules does the Qiao family have? Isn't the contract we signed with you just a waste of paper?
Those who want to plead for him, if we don't pay you on time after work every day according to regulations, are you happy?"
After Butler Cao said this, no one wanted to plead for mercy anymore!
Of course they are not happy about it. Without this salary, it would be their wives, children and elders who would starve to death!
Cao Laosan now understood why the old lady insisted on clear rewards and punishments. Some loopholes really could not be opened. Besides, those who came to beg for mercy were often using other people's things to do charity, and once their own interests were damaged, they would immediately become silent.
“Next time something like this happens, I will not only punish him, but everyone in his group will be punished, especially the team leader. The Qiao family didn’t give you an extra five cents just to let you take the money and do nothing.
These rules were agreed upon by both parties at the beginning, and they are written in black and white. If you break the rules first, please leave.
In this world, everyone has a hard time! But no matter how hard it is, our Qiao family has not treated you unfairly, right? Don't push your luck and don't know what's good for you!
Humph, go look outside, can you find a restaurant in the whole of Dajing Country that serves food as good as ours?"
After what Butler Cao said, the group of people were no longer able to refute.
Then he announced the punishment for this man: "Since this is your first offense, two days' wages will be deducted and your meals will be reduced by half! If you refuse to obey, you will be asked to pay and leave immediately!"
What happened in the front yard reached Qiao Xin's ears in less than a cup of tea, and she called for housekeeper Cao to come over.
"You did a great job today. One is one, two is two. Those who deserve punishment should be punished, and those who deserve reward should be rewarded. If there are loopholes, they must not be opened. You must pay more attention later to prevent the people in his group from bullying."
"Thank you for the compliment, Madam. Don't worry, Madam!"
"Is what he said true?"
Butler Cao hesitated for a moment and said, "It's true! I also want to let him go, but if I really do that, wouldn't it be like taking the boss's things and doing myself a favor?
Which of these hired workers doesn't have difficulties at home? If we let him go, others will do the same thing in the future. Will we have to let others go too? Then no one will obey the discipline anymore."
"It's not the scarcity that's worrying, but the inequality. That's the truth. How much food do we have left, eldest brother and wife?"
"Mom, our family originally had a two-year reserve of grain, and you bought a lot every month. Now we still have tens of thousands of kilograms of fine grain and 200,000 kilograms of coarse grain."
"What is the current price of food outside?"
"This month alone, the price has increased from 30 wen per pound to 120 wen!"
It's obvious that someone is taking advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble!
"Madam, the grain prices are obviously abnormal!"
Qiao Xin nodded and said, “I know, but we can’t do anything about it, and we have no right to interfere, let alone get involved.
How about this, you go ask those employees if they are willing to exchange their twenty cents wages for half a pound of coarse grains and one ounce of fine grains every day!"
Steward Cao became anxious. The twenty cents he offered as a salary was already the highest in Weizhou Prefecture. Now he was generous with his food donations, which might easily offend other noble families.
"Madam, I'm afraid we'll offend a lot of people this way!"
"It doesn't matter. We, the Qiao family, don't need to worry about what others think when we do things. Just leave 50,000 kilograms of reserve grain untouched. When we have new grain in the fall, we don't have to worry about having nothing to eat at home. The refugees outside are the government and the court's business, but we can hire helpers for our family, and we should help them if we can."
Qiao Xin never treated her family members or hired help badly when it came to food.
If you want the horse to run, let it eat good grass.
If you are an employer who doesn't even let your employees have enough food to eat, don't expect your employees to work for you wholeheartedly.
Qiao Xin felt that there was no need for the Qiao family to be like the wealthy families of today, only giving the hired workers coarse grain biscuits, and in limited quantities.
How much economic value can a worker who cannot get enough food every day create?
Although everyone says nowadays that human life is worthless, a quick calculation of the economic bill will show that the cost of a person from birth to the time he or she can create value is far greater than that of a cow or a horse.
What Dajing lacks right now is not land, but suitable labor.
The Qiao family still has thousands of acres of land granted by His Majesty waiting to be cultivated, and the Qiao family must not allow any news of mistreating the farmhands to appear at this time.
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