Fisherman

Two days ago, Zhao Qian spread the news that he was going to hire someone. After eating early this morning, someone finally came to the door.

"Is it here?"

"The repair is too grand!"

Four or five people, both men and women, had already gathered in front of the gate of the house, looking up at the tall gate, hesitating and daring not to enter.

"Didn't you look at the Zhao residence written on the top?"

After a while, another person who could read came, and everyone said: "If we can read, we will go in."

At this time, the door of the house made a dull sound, Wang Tian opened the door, and he looked around at the people outside: "Are you all here looking for errands?"

The people outside saw that it was a ten-year-old boy who came to open the door, wearing a thick cotton coat that everyone envied, looking very energetic, and respectfully said: "Yes."

Wang Tian pulled the door aside: "Come in."

Everyone followed behind him, walking through the courtyard and small corridors, the people who watched were dazzled, and thought to themselves: If you can work in such a big mansion, you must be paid a lot, and it is really grand , There is also a face when you go out.

"Master, the person has arrived."

Zhao Qian was peeling peanuts for Brother Zhou in the hall. He raised his eyelids and glanced at the people who were rubbing their hands awkwardly. All he saw were the simple and low-level people. It could be seen from the patched old clothes. He put down his hands Peanut, asked: "Talk about what you can do one by one."

"My name is Zhu Rong. I can cook, and I can do heavy and tiring work. I used to do some errands at the old man's house." The person who spoke was a man in his forties.

Zhao Qian nodded after listening, and didn't comment much, just said: "Next."

The next one was a peasant woman who came out to find a job because her family was really difficult. After some self-introduction and questioning, Zhao Qian asked everyone to leave their addresses: "I know all about your situation, go back first, when the time comes I will If you are satisfied, you will call someone to notify you directly.”

"Thank you, Master Zhao."

After the people left, the house became deserted again. Seeing that no one was left behind, Brother Zhou asked, "Brother Zhao, is there no one left?"

"It's not impossible. The conditions are good, but you should be more cautious when you hire people to do things at home. Besides, you have a child now, and everything can't be wrong. I asked them to leave their addresses so that people can inquire about them. Check out the details and see how the word-of-mouth is with other people."

Wang Tian refilled the tea for the two: "Master is still thoughtful."

Zhao Qian waited for the people under his command to check all the applicants, and it was almost New Year's Eve to call the right person into the house, and it was a bit of a hassle, but he hurriedly called into the house if he didn't know the person clearly. More on that later.

With more people in the family, he felt relieved a lot. It would be much more convenient for him to go out when someone was waiting for Brother Zhou. As the New Year approached, he bought a lot of New Year's goods at the market, but they were not for his family, but for the store. The employees bought a lot of miscellaneous things and asked them to send them back to the house. As for the family's new year's goods, the servants went to buy them.

Brother Zhou has nothing to do all day long, just in time to sort and pack the New Year's goods, and give them to everyone on the end of the year.Brother Zhou looked at the goods delivered by the waiters in various shops. There were a lot of meat, vegetables, rice grains, and fabrics. They were all very real things, and the people at the bottom also liked them For these, he secretly thought that Brother Zhao was becoming more and more thoughtful in doing things.

He carefully packed dry goods such as rice, grain, and cloth into a bag, and put vegetables and meat in another bag. Thanks to Wang Tian's help, the two of them got rid of a lot of things.

"Brother Zhao said that during the Chinese New Year, we will invite some guests to our house for dinner, and then I will let you cook barbecue for everyone."

Wang Tian couldn't help feeling a little nervous: "If you don't do well, you will be ashamed of Master! I have to take advantage of these few days to practice hard."

"It's okay, don't worry, they are all acquaintances, no one will laugh at you, besides, Brother Zhao also affirmed your craftsmanship before, it will not be bad."

Hearing Brother Zhou's praise, Wang Tian scratched his head in embarrassment, but insisted: "That still needs to be practiced."

"Okay. Anyway, the barbecue shop has not been open for the past few days. You can move it back and practice your skills earlier, so Brother Zhao can hand over the shop to you earlier."

On the second day, Zhou Geer went to Ririxian in person, and the Chinese New Year will be two days away. Ririxian is also preparing to close and give the employees a few days off. I'm looking at everyone, otherwise I have to wait until next year. When he was working in the restaurant, he got along very well with everyone. This is not easy for his temperament.

At the end of the month, I worked two or three days less than the previous month, but the wages I received were not only the same as before, but even a little more. Who can be unhappy when it’s Chinese New Year? They are packing up and going out of business, Brother Zhou Er came in in a hurry.

"Brother Zhou, how is your health?"

Huang Er was the first to see him and came up to greet him with a smile.

"pretty good."

Hearing the sound, the boys all put down their work and surrounded them. They were either concerned about the children or their bodies. When Zhao Qian came down from the stairs, he saw that Brother Zhou was dizzy when asked, so he went in and pulled him away. Come out: "Okay, Shao Yu has something for you when you come here, if you don't take it, you will have nothing."

Hearing this, everyone fell silent, Brother Zhou glanced at Zhao Qian puzzled, it was clear that he had prepared it, how could it be him.

Zhao Qian asked someone to bring the things in, and then whispered to Brother Zhou: "You can distribute it to everyone, I don't know how to distribute it."

"Ok."

In response to Zhao Qian's words, he picked up the things, gave Sun Xiong and Huang Er two bags first, and said, "It's some New Year's goods prepared by Brother Zhao and I. There are not many things. I wish you all a happy new year."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. Those who had been mistresses here before or not had never met a shop that delivered New Year’s goods before, and they were a little at a loss for a while, so they turned their curious eyes to Huang Erhe, who had already received the New Year’s goods. Sun Xiong, the two of them hugged the two heavy paper bags and eagerly opened a corner.

"Ah! It's meat!"

"There's still cloth!"

"I'm afraid there are three catties of meat."

Hearing the surprised voices of the two, everyone was very excited, Zhou Geer was still a little worried that Zhao Ge's intentions would not be recognized by everyone, seeing that everyone was waiting for him to post with great anticipation, my heart calmed down, Hurry up and distribute the New Year's goods to everyone.

"thanks, thanks."

The voices sounded one after another, and Brother Zhou's heart warmed up.After the New Year's goods were delivered, Ririxian packed up and closed the door, and the couple went to the gambling house in a sedan chair again. The wind outside the sedan chair was a bit strong, and the curtain blew from time to time. Zhao Qian mentioned that Brother Zhou gathered up his collar: "Don't catch a cold."

Zhou Ge'er's attention was not on the sedan chair, so he simply opened the curtain, poked his head out, looked outside for a while, his voice was a little raised, and he heard it unexpectedly: "Brother Zhao, look, it's starting to snow outside. Already!"

He stretched his neck and looked out, and sure enough, thin snowflakes were falling: "I said it was so cold, so it was snowing."

"Then we can store ice again."

He took him into his arms and slowly lowered the curtain: "Yes, and I need to store more ice cubes."

Next year, he decided to introduce a new way of eating seafood in the restaurant. At that time, ice cubes will be indispensable, and a cellar will be dug to store ice cubes.

After the two chatted about what happened in the cave before, the sedan chair had already stopped outside the gambling house, there were still quite a few people gambling inside at the moment, he helped Brother Zhou get off the sedan chair, and Zhong Jiu came out to meet him.

"Why, aren't you ready yet? Didn't you say it's a holiday." He couldn't help being a little surprised to see that the casino was still open as usual.

After Zhong Jiu led the two of them upstairs, he said: "Brothers all said that there is no need to have a holiday. The more people come to the gambling house during the Chinese New Year, the more customers will come to the gambling house. It will cost a lot of money to close the shop these days."

As he said that, he pointed to the downstairs and motioned Zhao Qian to look at him: "The man with the rabbit fur around his neck is a rich man. It's the first time he entered our casino. It's extremely generous, and it sounds like it's from the county."

In fact, Zhao Qian noticed it when he entered the door. Not only was the man dressed decently, but the big finger ring and the gold ring on his hand were also very eye-catching. He knew all the rich people in the market. , even though there is money to be made, he still persuaded: "You can't earn enough money. After working hard for a year, you have to go home for a year."

"The brothers have discussed it. Those who want to go home for the New Year will go back, and those who want to stay will stay. Some brothers have people in their families, but some brothers have no one in their families. They have not yet married a wife and have children. There is only one person. There is nowhere to go."

He thought for a while: "How many people will stay?"

"Including me, there are eight in total."

Usually there are twenty people in the gambling house, including the thugs and the gamblers, only a few who are busy coming over. Before he could say anything, Zhong Jiu said again: "There are two more families who live in the market, go back After the New Year’s Eve dinner, they said they would come over to help.”

Everything has been arranged, and he can't say anything else. The employees insist on working overtime, and the boss has no reason to disagree. After the winter, the saltworks will stop working, and the income will drop a lot. Paying wages to all the employees, after some calculations, the money saved before is almost the same, it doesn't matter if the gambling shop is open, after all, everyone is willing to spend money during the Chinese New Year.

So he said: "Then those who didn't go back during the holidays, the wages for these brothers will be tripled, and they will still have a good meal on New Year's Eve, and the food and drinks will be charged to my account."

Zhong Jiu happily agreed, since Zhao Qian took over the gambling house, the business has been booming, not only the wages of the brothers have increased, but also the people who were accepted by the original opponent Di Guangzu did not come to find fault, although they still have each other in their hearts It's a pity, but on the surface it's much better than before. All this was brought to them by Zhao Qian. They didn't expect such a good thing to happen during the Chinese New Year.

"Then I'm going to tell my brothers."

Zhao Qian nodded.

Seeing Zhong Jiu go downstairs, Brother Zhou looked at him: "Are we done talking?"

Zhao Qian stood up and stretched out her hand: "It's all settled, let's put these things aside, and it's time for us to go back and have a good New Year."

Since Brother Zhou had a child, his whole person has softened a lot, not as cold as before. He put his hand in his palm and smiled: "Okay."