If you want to buy talent, it's more reliable to go to the official brokerage, because most of the people there are from families whose property has been confiscated, and there are all sorts of people there.
Private teeth are different; the servants in private teeth are usually either sold by themselves or sold by their parents.
Or they might have made a mistake and been sold off by their master. Generally, families would keep good cooks and stewards tightly in their own hands and would not be willing to let them go.
The two of them arrived at a very opportune time, just in time to encounter a group of servants who had just been brought back last night. Among them were the talents that Xu Han needed.
Xu Han couldn't help but marvel at how incredibly lucky she'd been lately, getting whatever she wanted.
When Wei Yaren saw Lu Chuan and Xu Han arrive, he asked about their needs and then disregarded the rules, bringing out the person who hadn't yet recovered.
Wei Yaren explained to the people who had just been brought over yesterday, "These people arrived yesterday afternoon and haven't had a proper rest yet. They do look a little unwell, but there's nothing wrong with them. They'll be fine after some rest."
Xu Han looked at the people in front of her and saw that they were indeed not in good condition. After asking around, she chose a male chef who was very good at cooking and a wife who was very straightforward and efficient.
It is said that this woman was most skilled at making pickled vegetables and other similar dishes, and she worked in the kitchen preparing side dishes.
This person is exactly the talent Xu Han needs right now. In the future, the mountain produce shop will definitely sell all kinds of pickles, which will solve the manpower problem of making pickles.
Although nowadays, every household pickles a lot of seasonal vegetables every year, some people's pickles don't taste good. The taste of pickles varies from person to person.
Even though the method is the same, some people's pickled food just doesn't taste good.
Or if the pickling process goes bad by accident, then there will be no pickled vegetables to eat in the second half of the year, especially in winter when there are not many vegetables to eat.
Without pickles, there are far fewer dishes to eat with rice.
Pickling vegetables is also troublesome. In the future, when shops start selling pickled vegetables, some people may not choose to pickle them themselves.
Most importantly, Xu Han had never seen any pickled vegetables for sale before; she always pickled them at home for her own consumption. So, selling pickled vegetables in the shop might allow her to make a lot of money in the future.
Let's try selling some this year first. If business is good, we can pickle more next year.
As for the batch of pickled vegetables that the family had made, Xu Han wasn't worried about not being able to sell them. There were plenty of mouths to feed in the family, so what was there to fear? They could make sure they ate everything they wanted.
But I digress. Let's get back to the reason why we bought that lady.
More importantly, the woman and the male cook happened to be husband and wife, and they didn't have any children yet. Not long after they got married, their family suffered a misfortune.
The reason for buying this woman was because of the male cook; otherwise, given Xu Han's tight budget, she really wouldn't want to buy another one.
The two of them spent a total of 32 taels of silver, which was indeed more expensive than for ordinary people.
However, since it was about hiring chefs, Xu Han didn't just ask around. Instead, she borrowed the official's kitchen and had each of them prepare a signature dish. After tasting the dishes, the male chef's dishes were the most to Xu Han and Lu Chuan's liking.
After paying the money, the couple took them back to their house.
On the way, Xu Han asked them their names and ages. The man was called Wei Yan and the woman was called Guo Daya. They were both young, only in their early twenties.
Don't let their young age fool you; they're both quite skilled. They've been helping out in the kitchen since they were little and have been cooking for quite some time. Xu Han was very pleased with the two she chose this time.
Back at the house, after arranging their accommodations and all other matters, Xu Han and Lu Chuan hurried off to the mountain produce shop.
When they arrived at the shop, they saw Li Wen training the staff.
Since opening a shop was an idea from the beginning, when Xu Han bought Li Wen and the others, she gave them their first task: to teach them to read and do arithmetic.
Some older servants are not required to do much; as long as they can do simple accounting, that's enough, as these are very basic skills that almost everyone can do.
Although they are just farmers who toil in the soil, they have their own set of accounting rules. They can't figure out overly complicated accounts, but they can still figure out the ones they use frequently in daily life.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be alive now; they would have been swindled out of everything, leaving them with nothing.
After Li Wen's brief instruction, their accounting skills improved even more.
Most importantly, the servants greatly admired scholars, and their greatest wish in life was for their children to be able to read and write, as long as they didn't have to work in the fields like they did.
When Li Wen started calling them, everyone studied very hard, and even Zhu Qiang and the others learned their own names.
Some of the younger students studied very diligently, and everyone cherished the opportunity to learn to read.
The teaching results were remarkable in a short period of time. Xu Han was quite satisfied with the outcome.
He instructed Li Wen and Ju Xiang to teach the people below to read whenever they had time, not expecting them to be very good at it, but just to recognize the most basic characters used in daily life.
As for writing, there were no great requirements. Xu Han didn't even buy them paper and pens. Writing wasn't particularly important to them, and they didn't come into contact with it in their daily lives.
Even if one day I really need to write with a pen, I can just use charcoal pencils, which are easier to control.
Under Xu Han's influence, Li Wen now often carries a charcoal pencil with him when he goes out. Whenever he needs to record something, he writes it down in a small notebook he carries with him, and then copies it over when he gets back.
Right now, Li Wen is using his little notebook to teach them how to remember the price of everything.
Seeing this, Xu Han smiled and asked, "How was it? Can you remember it?"
Li Wen wiped non-existent sweat from his forehead and said, "It's alright, but there are a lot of things in the shop, so it's easy to get confused at first."
Xu Han suddenly remembered the item labels in the supermarket in her previous life, and said, "This is simple. You can just hang a price right above each item, and write down how much it costs per kilogram. This will not only make it convenient for customers who come to buy things, but also for you."
Furthermore, you can also put the price on the weighing area, so you can just glance at it when you weigh the item if you can't remember it.
If you still can't recognize all the characters, just write the numbers in the installation order. When you change items, you can simply change the price.
Alternatively, you could just run over to where the items are kept and take a look.
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