OBS Chapter 948 We were all refugees
Chapter 948 We were all refugees
They came back during the Chinese New Year and said that dim sum chefs can earn four taels of silver a month. If sales are good this month, there will be extra money. The more they sell, the more money they get. When business is good, they can even earn seven taels of silver a month each!
Seven taels, they will have to work for three months!
Although everyone wanted to be chosen, they shouldn't be too unscrupulous in front of Zhou Guo. Many pairs of eyes looked at her with expectation.
Zhou Guo said: "Don't worry, as long as you work hard and are willing to endure hardships, even if you are not selected now, there will be opportunities in the future. After all, we can't just open these few dim sum shops."
Everyone became even happier after hearing what she said. Opening a shop would be great, as it meant that all of them had the potential to become pastry chefs.
Look at the young men who came with Wu Jiang. There are only two or three left on the farm, and they are all managers.
The group of people who left were transferred to various shops to work as shopkeepers and accountants. They earned as much as the dim sum chefs every month, or even more.
Although they had quite a few of them, some could earn four or five taels a month, but wandering around in the village was far less respectable than working in a shop.
Everyone wants to go out and do something.
Zhou Guo knew all of these people, and she knew roughly what personality each of them had, so she didn't have to think too much about choosing them, and she made her decision in the blink of an eye.
Those who were selected were overjoyed, and those who were not selected were not dissatisfied.
These two people are indeed clever and hardworking. No matter how hard or tired they are, they never complain. They are all very convinced.
After Zhou Guo selected the people, he asked them to go down and prepare, and he would have someone send them to Chengding tomorrow.
The rest of the people walked away, and she looked at the children.
Asked: "How is it, are you used to it here?"
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she felt dazed, as if she had asked the same question when she picked up Fatty and Erpang.
Before I knew it, several years had passed.
Several people nodded happily, "It's great here, we can eat well, dress well, and get so much money every month. People don't look down on us just because we are beggars. Instead, they take good care of us."
This place is just like the home they remember. No, it’s even better than home.
Zhou Guo said: "We all came here with the same status, so how could we look down on you? You should know that everyone here, including me, was once a refugee, and there are people like you here."
Several people widened their eyes in surprise. Although they knew that many people here were refugees, no one told them that even their master was once a refugee?
"Master, Master, you were really a refugee before?"
Zhou Guo said: "Of course, why would I lie to you about this? My family used to live in the south. Several years ago, there was chaos in the south and a war broke out. We had no choice but to flee. It was a long way to get here."
Looking at the few people in a daze, she said: "Okay, the past is in the past, and now is the most important thing. Now that you are here, you should work hard and learn more things. It is always good to learn more."
"Master, they all say that when you learn more words, you can go out and become the shopkeeper in the shop, and even the manager, right?"
Zhou Guo looked at the person who was speaking and saw that he was the youngest among them, about eight or nine years old, or maybe older. After all, he was not well fed for many years and his body was thinner than his peers.
She nodded and said, "That's right, but the prerequisite is that you have to study hard. If you want to be a shopkeeper or a manager, you have to have the ability. This is not something that ordinary people can do."
Several people nodded heavily, "Got it, we will study hard."
Zhou Guo left with satisfaction.
During the Great Heat and Lesser Heat, I went to the mountains to check out the mushroom seed fields and mushroom trees. All these things are almost ready, and we can plant the seeds in half a month.
Over the years, Li and Wu Ya also learned how to sow seeds. Although they were used to doing rough labor, they would get the hang of it after doing it a few times.
She doesn't have to worry about this, she can basically let go of this aspect of the household now.
After visiting this place, she went to take a look at the mushroom mountain in the next village. The mountain has been cleaned up more and more neatly in recent years, the developed land has become larger and larger, and more and more land can be cultivated. This year, almost all of it has bloomed, and the seeds prepared are much more than in previous years.
These mushrooms will be shipped to Nanhe next year. Even if we can’t sell a lot, I think we can still sell some.
It's better to plant more. At worst, there are other places to go. You can buy two shops in one place, one grain shop and one mountain product shop, and you can sell a lot of them.
On the second day, the two selected people went to Chengding with the new tea recipe.
A few days later, Erpang wrote to say that both groups had arrived.
They have tried to make several finished products. The two master chefs are quite skilled. The cakes they made are both beautiful and delicious, not much different from those in Yunzhou. With the addition of these new teas, the cakes are not much worse than those in Yunzhou.
Zhou Guo felt relieved.
At this time, crabs are approaching the end of their season.
A few days later, Hu Zi rushed back overnight with the account books from various places and handed them to Zhou Guo.
She looked at the person standing opposite her and said, "He has lost a lot of weight."
Hu Zi glanced at her and said, "Master, you are not much better."
Zhou Guo touched his face. He had recovered a lot in the past half month at home.
Asked: "How was it?"
Hu Zi said, "The four farms in Chengding Huaiyang have a total of more than 300,000 crabs, and there are still some seedlings that have not been sold. All the money has been deposited in the warehouse, and the account books are in it."
He didn't know how much money the several places had earned in total. Zhou Guo had always been in charge of the general accounting.
She nodded and took the account book belonging to Lu County, Yunzhou, which was on the table. All five account books were complete.
"You go down."
Before Hu Zi left, he still lit two lamps for her.
Late at night, when everyone was asleep, Zhou Guo opened Cheng Ding's account book.
By the time I finished my calculations, it was almost dawn.
She turned off the lights, closed her eyes on the chaise longue, and slept until the sun rose.
The sunlight came in through the window, sprinkling on the orchid grass beside it, reflecting the light.
The house was quiet, with Li being the only one in the backyard.
She looked up and saw that she had gotten up, so she said, "There's food left for you in the kitchen. I'll ask Mrs. Deng to bring it out."
"Here they come." Mrs. Deng and the others quickly brought out the food. The master was already up, so how could they be so careless? They had been paying attention to him the whole morning.
Zhou Guo washed his face and rinsed his mouth, then sat down at the dining table and asked, "Where is my master? Where are my sister-in-law and Xiaohua?"
Li sighed, "The master has gone to meet his old friend. As for your sister-in-law, she has gone back to her parents' home with your aunt and Xiaohua."
Zhou Guo drank a mouthful of porridge, took a bite of a crab roe bun, closed his eyes contentedly, and only after taking a bite did he remember to ask, "What happened to her family?"
Li said, "What else could it be? It's just that the two elders are not feeling well, so you can ask your sister-in-law to go back and take a look."