Traveling to an ancient peasant family: I got rich by doing business

Including Pei Mingzhu, there are eight people in the courtyard at the moment, but only Li Yu has experience in hiring people.

Naturally, everyone looked at Li Yu.

"I do have a plan." Li Yu said, "I want to pay them according to the amount of glutinous rice and date cakes they make. For example, if they make ten, they will get one cent, and if they make a hundred, they will get ten cents."

Aunt Wu and the others looked at each other and thought this method was feasible.

There is a lot of preparation work in the early stages of making glutinous rice and date cakes, but rolling out the dough and squeezing date paste into the dough in the later stages are very simple. For people like them, they can make nearly eighty date cakes in an hour if they only do the later stages.

So one hundred date cakes may sound like a lot, but once you become proficient at it, you can earn around fifteen cents in just two hours a day.

This wage is not low, at least it is more than what those men who do odd jobs in the county earn.

After a serious discussion, they unanimously decided to use Li Yu's method.

*

After the wages were set, Aunt Wu and the village chief's wife wasted no time and immediately went to the village to explain the situation to the selected women and asked them if they were willing to help.

Influenced by Li Yu and Aunt Wu, there is no woman in the village who doesn't want to make money, so when the selected people learned that they had the opportunity to make money, they were all willing. Two of them who didn't have a good family situation even cried excitedly and kept thanking the village head's wife and Aunt Wu.

The two of them just said no, and then asked them to go to the courtyard in the afternoon to learn how to make glutinous rice and date cakes.

*

Since everyone can teach, in the afternoon Li Yu just went to the courtyard to check on the situation and left everything else to Aunt Wu and the others.

She continued to busy herself with braised meat and dishes at home.

In the huge courtyard, Lin and Han Xiaocao washed, cut and skewered vegetables, Han Sheng made meat paste, and Han Xiaomei lit the fire. Everyone had something to do.

However, Lin seemed a little absent-minded today and seemed to be worried about something.

Li Yu saw this, put all the new meat into the pot, and then walked under the tree to talk to Lin.

"Mrs. Lin, I see you seem to be worried today, is there anything I can help you with?"

Lin looked up and her face suddenly turned red.

Li Yu: “?”

Lin hesitated, "Xiu Wen's wife, will you still hire people for your... dim sum business? I have nothing to do in the mornings. If you still want to hire people, can you hire me? I can go there to work in the mornings."

So it was this matter that made her so embarrassed.

Li Yu smiled and said, "They will probably hire more people in the future. I'll tell you in advance when the time comes."

Lin smiled and said, "Thank you."

Li Yu shook her head and said no. In fact, even if Lin didn't say anything, she would give her other work to do next. Not only would she give her work, she would also give her a raise.

This also goes for Han Xiaocao and Han Sheng. All three of them are hardworking, and she will never treat them unfairly.

*

Thanks to the praise from Princess Jianing, Li Ji Food Store's business was more than three times more popular when it reopened after eight days of suspension.

In order to eat the braised pork that the princess liked, the wealthy families in the town sent their servants to line up early to buy it.

Those from other towns were no less eager, some had their servants buy the food for them, and some even came to eat it themselves.

Some people who don't have much money, out of curiosity about the braised meat, also come with their wallets to buy a few taels to try it out.

Regular customers of the food store, such as Boss Hu and Zhou Laosan, have to tell Li Yu in advance if they want to eat meat recently, and ask Li Yu to save it for them, otherwise they will not be able to buy it.

*

As for the dim sum business, just as Li Yu said, after the first day, the orders for date cakes from businessmen from other towns continued to increase.

By the fifth day, they had to hire four more people to make date paste in the courtyard.

Since then, they have employed twelve people.

"I never dared to think so before." After a busy day's work, Aunt Wu sat on a chair in the main hall of the courtyard and smiled from ear to ear. "I heard from Mingzhu that after deducting the cost and labor, our net profit this month is almost twenty taels, and it's not even half a month yet."

"Thanks to Mrs. Xiu Wen, without her leading us, we wouldn't be able to earn so much money." Zhou Qinghe poured tea for Li Yu to express his gratitude to her.

Li Yu took a sip and said with a smile: "The success of the business is the result of everyone's concerted efforts. Everyone should thank themselves."

"You can't say that. You are the one who should be thanked the most." The village chief's wife took out a box and put it on the table. "This is a thank-you gift from us."

Li Yu didn't expect them to be so polite and immediately declined.

"Just keep it. It's not expensive." Liu Guilan opened the box and revealed the brush inside. "You love to write. We saw that your brush was not working well, so we went to the bookstore to buy two. If you don't keep it, you are looking down on us!"

Li Yu had no choice but to accept it.

*

The days continued to pass slowly, and in the blink of an eye, most of July had passed.

The twelve people recruited have become familiar with their respective work processes and have become skilled workers.

Li Yu saw that they were working diligently, and thought that nothing serious would happen with Aunt Wu and others watching over them, so she didn't pay much attention.

Until this day, someone came to see her.

*

Looking at the haggard man in front of him, Li Yu took a half step back, "What are you doing here?"

Han Xiuwu lowered his head, his body was hunched, and half of his hair was white.

It has only been more than a month since Yang Qiuyue left, and he has aged more than ten years.

"I...I'm looking for you." Han Xiuwu said in a hoarse voice, "It's about Wang An's family. Wang An's wife is helping you make snacks."

Li Yu knows Wang An's wife. She is a short woman who doesn't like to talk but works efficiently. Now she follows Aunt Wu to make glutinous rice and date cakes every day.

"Their family affairs seem to have nothing to do with me." Li Yu said.

Han Xiuwu pinched his fingers awkwardly, "It does matter. I went up the mountain to chop wood yesterday and heard Wang An talking to his mother. Wang An said that you value his wife, but her salary is low. He plans to ask his wife to ask for a salary increase in the next two days, otherwise he will stop working."

Li Yu: “…”

"Xiu Wen's wife, there's something wrong with Wang An and her mother, you have to be careful." Han Xiuwu said, and stood still.

Li Yu digested what he said before looking at him again, "You have something else to say."

She didn't use a question, but an affirmative sentence.

Han Xiuwu's lips moved, like a mosquito humming, "Xiu Wen's wife, I'm sorry, it was all my fault before."

Li Yu couldn't say forgiveness because Yang Qiuyue really wanted to kill her, Han Zheng and Han Xiaomei, but he was indifferent.

Han Xiuwu knew that she would not answer, so he said sorry again and left.

Li Yu turned around and went back to the house without waiting for him to go far.

She sat on the chair, drinking tea and thinking about what Han Xiuwu said.

She thought that no matter whether he lied or not, she had to remind Aunt Wu to keep an eye on Wang An's wife.