Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

According to Grandpa Lin, they need to provide a certain amount of instant noodles to the Quartermaster Department every month. In addition to the scattered orders for instant noodles and distilled liquor from outside, the workload of everyone in the village is already saturated. If they want to expand production, they will need to add more manpower.

Which businessman doesn't want to become more famous and make more money? But we still need to do things within our means.

Whether they are making instant noodles or distilled liquor, if they rashly go out and find strangers to do it, to be honest, Grandpa and everyone else are more worried that the same thing as what happened to the Luo family will happen again.

If you don't want the secret recipe to be leaked, the safest way is to find a human trafficker to buy a slave. As long as you hold the slave's birth contract, you don't have to worry about him betraying his master.

But after all, when farmers really want to buy people, everyone feels uncomfortable, as they always think that only rich landlords and gentry can buy people to serve them...

Lin Xiaoyue could guess what Grandpa hadn't finished saying.

After thinking about it for a while, he proposed to Grandpa. Didn't I meet people from Linjia Village and Ergou Village outside the gate of Yongzhou City? I remember that some of them should have landed in several villages under Wanbao Town.

Since the buyer feels uncomfortable, then let's find those people. Compared with strangers, these people are at least familiar and know each other well.

We can pick out some hardworking, practical and capable people to do the work.

It depends on whether you sign a contract or outsource some of the less important processes to them and then pay them a piece-rate commission.

Fearing that Grandpa didn't know much about "labor contracting" and "piecework", Lin Xiaoyue patiently explained to him what "labor contracting" and "piecework commission" were. She also used the example of several blacksmiths in Wanbao Town who contracted to make bicycles and roller skates.

Grandpa listened carefully to what Lin Xiaoyue said, stroking his chin and a small tuft of mustache, and agreed with it. But when he heard about the 30-70 profit split, he was confused. Was it too much?

Lin Xiaoyue smiled and shook her head, indicating that on the one hand, she did have good intentions, to repay the masters who had devoted themselves to teaching her, a little girl, the blacksmithing skills; on the other hand, the masters also took on the labor and materials and did the heavy work while making the products.

Therefore, with a 3:7 split, Lin Xiaoyue is not actually at a disadvantage.

Of course, what is more important is that she not only has income from roller skates and bicycles, but the most important part is actually from glass.

"We should repay every drop of kindness with a spring. This is how we should live." Grandpa twirled his moustache and nodded in agreement. He was very supportive of Lin Xiaoyue's approach.

After talking to Lin Xiaoyue, Grandpa's panic calmed down. He turned around and went to find Lin Baotian and his men with his hands behind his back, asking them to go to the villages below to look for people from Linjia Village and Ergou Village who had ended up in the villages below. He should first find out who was left behind and make a list. He would then ask Ergou to help him see which people were practical and capable and would not cheat or play tricks, and he could also pull some of them over to do the work.

Lin Baotian and several other men couldn't help cheering after hearing what the grandfather said.

Nowadays, although they don't have to go up the mountain to hunt or go down to the fields to farm, they are still busy in front of the stove every day, although it is not suitable for these peasants like them to stay away from cooking.

But doing the same thing over and over again, doing repetitive things every day, the key is that you are so busy that you can't even take a moment to breathe, and you fall asleep as soon as you touch the bed at night, which is also very tiring.

Although the men also wanted to add more people, they were afraid of leaking the secret and were reluctant to say it out loud.

Now that Grandpa Lin has spoken, how can everyone not cheer?

So everyone started to work very fast, using their hands and feet to work for half a day. In the afternoon, they were so restless that they could not wait to pull up a few animal carts, whip them in the air and make them snap, and quickly leave the farm to go to the villages below.

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On the other hand, the head of the Hong family, a small trader, and his eldest son Hong Fuhai, who were rejected by Lin's father, returned to the town dejectedly. As soon as they entered the house, they ran into the wife in the front hall who had gone out shopping and bought a bunch of useless gold hairpins and silver jewelry. At this time, they were gesticulating to each other in the front hall, talking and laughing.

The mother and daughter were talking and laughing, but when they saw the father and son who had just returned from outside with sad faces, the smiles in their eyes and mouths froze in an instant, and were replaced by an expression of as expected.

Ever since the couple had a big fight last time, Mrs. Hong has been angry with the head of the Hong family. She also knows that he is going to take his eldest son out to visit that peasant family today, saying that he wants to discuss some business cooperation with them.

Haha, according to her, that peasant was just like a pheasant that suddenly flew to the top of the tree and won the favor of the emperor and was named the village chief. So what? No matter how colorful its feathers were, it was still a pheasant that was not worthy of being presented on the table. What kind of business could be discussed with such a peasant...

Mrs. Hong felt that her husband had simply lost his mind.

Seeing the gloomy faces of the father and son, Mrs. Hong snorted, raised her chin slightly, and held her head high with disdain, "See, I told you, don't waste your time and energy. A bunch of empty-headed, shabby-dressed peasants are not worth your while to befriend them. Isn't this just a waste of time?"

"Yes, Dad. You and my brother have been in the business for many years. How can you be so fond of the food made by those low-class people? In my opinion, those things are only coveted by those inexperienced soldiers and refugees. I really don't know what you are thinking. How can you be so fond of such a small business?"

Except for the hardship she experienced on the road during the period of fleeing famine, Hong Xinxin, the youngest daughter of the Hong family, has always been the treasure of her parents for the past 15 years. Even if she fell from the clouds now, she felt that she had only fallen from the ninth heaven to the eighth heaven. She still went out to squander and play every day, continuing her extravagant life as a "young lady of a wealthy family", and completely ignored the hard work her father and brother put in for the family.

The most important thing is that she felt, just like her mother, that one of the peasants was named village chief by the emperor. He must have used some despicable and dirty means to get such a huge advantage. He definitely did not get the title by his real ability.

Anyway, Hong Xinxin would never admit that she felt bad and was even worse than a wild girl who played in the mud all day in the countryside.

"Okay, stop talking. Do you really think that business is as easy as falling from the sky? If that's the case, go out and find me a good business that doesn't require too much investment and can make a lot of money."

The head of the Hong family was already in a bad mood, and his wife was adding to his frustration. It would be strange if he wasn't furious.