Maomao hugged Lin Feng's neck and asked, "When did your uncle arrive? Are you staying here tonight?"
He liked playing with his uncle. In his memory, he seemed to have sat on his uncle's shoulders and was carried by him to run wildly across the mountains.
"I'm not leaving tonight. I'll rush back tomorrow. I'm sorry to bother you tonight!"
Lin looked at her younger brother with some anger. It had been many years since her younger brother went out to do business and had not spent the night here.
Mrs. Lin asked Lin Feng to look after Maomao first while she went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
There were no good ingredients at home, only some eggs, cabbage, beans and eggplant.
I simply fried a few dishes and made some flatbreads.
Soon, the others came back from the mountains one after another.
Lin scooped up some food and handed it to her aunt: "I made some extra food, you can take it back so you don't have to cook it again!"
Liu was not polite and took the food from her brother's wife swiftly and went home in a leisurely manner.
When Li Yan returned home, she found that her uncle had arrived. She couldn't wait to go up to him and ask him if there was any hope for Lian Qiao.
But the little cousin clung to his uncle and refused to let go, insisting that his uncle hug him and lift him up high.
Li Yan had no choice but to wait until dinner time to talk about it.
Lin brought the food to the table and invited everyone to come and eat, and only then did Maomao stop.
Lin Feng sat down without hesitation: "You should prepare some medicinal herbs for me first. I will be going to the south soon, so I can take the forsythia with me to explore the market."
Li Yan thought that it would take at most half a month before her uncle went to the south of the Yangtze River. So relying on the sun to dry the food was too slow. She could only steam it in a pot for half an hour and then dry it in the sun. That way it might be much faster!
Li Erlang asked, "Now that many forsythias on this mountain have entered the harvest season, it's probably too late for us to harvest them with just the few of us here. Yan'er suggests going to the village and hiring some more people to help pick them. What do you think, second brother?"
Lin Feng thought for a moment: "Hiring someone is indeed a good idea, but I haven't sold any forsythia yet. Do you have any money to pay them?"
After taking a bite of the dish, he said, "The key point is how much this forsythia can be sold for. This is the most important thing! It's related to how much you can earn in a day!"
Li Yan spoke out her thoughts, "A few days ago, I went to town and sold over ten pounds of forsythia. Doctor Zhou gave me fourteen cents per pound, the freshly picked price. Later, I asked him if five pounds of wet forsythia could be processed into one pound of medicinal material, which would fetch around seventy or eighty cents! So I thought I could get a much better price if I sold it south!"
Lin Feng suggested: "Why don't you use the price of this place as the basis for your hiring?"
Li Erlang asked again, "What's the standard starting wage? Is it still twelve wen a day?"
Li Yan stopped him, saying, "No! This fixed wage model won't motivate everyone. People who pick more will see others who pick less getting paid the same. Over time, everyone will get lazy!"
Li Erlang thought his daughter's words made sense, so he asked, "What do you think is the most appropriate way to calculate wages?"
"I've been observing for the past two days. My grandparents and uncle can pick around 20 kilograms a day, while I usually pick around 15 kilograms. Let's pay by the kilogram. That's the fairest way!"
After hearing his careful observation, Li Erlang stopped worrying and everyone agreed to pay by the kilogram.
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