OBS Chapter 113 Can I read serious books too?
Chapter 113 Can I read serious books too?
Seeing him like this, Xie Yuting encouraged him, "Third brother, isn't it just about finding a few skilled young ladies and wives in the village?
It is the slack season for farmers, and the village is full of women gathering together to chat, many of whom are very skillful.
It’s a no-brainer.”
Xie Changlin still looked a little embarrassed. "I know this, but I don't know what the criteria are for finding someone."
Xie Changshan thought for a moment and said, "If I, who is clumsy as I am, can learn to weave these things, it must be no problem for a woman who can sew.
Since all of them are OK, let's look for one among our uncles and relatives."
Kong Rong divided the pears from small to large. He divided them according to the closeness of relationship. The reason is not difficult to imagine.
During the slack season, everyone has nothing to do, so being able to earn some extra money to supplement the family income is a great thing.
Everyone wants to compete for good things, and without a selection standard that can convince people, it will cause dissatisfaction among many people.
Dissatisfaction not only leads to gossip, but also makes it easy for jealous people to do bad things.
The standard of closeness and distance is very convincing because it has been used in rural areas for thousands of years, with family members first and outsiders second, and relatives first and distant relatives second. No one can say anything about this.
But Wen Wan didn’t want to be led by this set of standards.
Wen Wan said: "Brother, your consideration is correct, but we are hiring workers now, not looking for help for a wedding at home.
Relatives are difficult to manage and conflicts are likely to arise over time.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that no relatives should be recruited.
When it comes to recruiting workers, the most important thing is not whether they are relatives or how skillful they are, but that they must be reliable.
Even if a reliable person is a little bit stupid, he will do the task you entrust to him meticulously and not let you worry about anything.
Smart people tend to show extreme behavior. They will either use their cleverness to ruin big things, or they will fool you, or they will think they are so great that your small temple cannot accommodate such a big Buddha. So they will just walk away halfway through the work and even call you an idiot before leaving.
If you add that this "smart" person is a relative, once a conflict arises, your reputation among relatives will become very bad.
To sum up, the key point is whether the person is reliable; whether they are relatives is not the primary issue.
The only thing is that we recruit workers in an impartial manner, and we pay them for their work, regardless of any personal feelings."
Xie Changshan still doesn't quite understand it now, but soon, Zhang Lan will make him understand it deeply.
Xie Changlin felt that what Wen Wan said was right. It is inevitable that things between relatives will be sticky and entangled. It is okay if you meet someone who is reasonable. If you meet someone who is unreasonable, you can be fair to him, but he will talk to you about the relationship between relatives.
Of course, if there are reliable and sensible relatives, they will naturally not refuse.
Just like Wen Wan said, the key point is whether the person is reliable, not whether they are relatives.
But this matter is a bit difficult to handle. He can only be familiar with the young girls and wives in the village, but he has no idea whether they are reliable or not.
You can't just ask someone 'Are you reliable?'
Even if you can ask directly, will people be willing to tell the truth?
Even if people are telling the truth, reliability is too subjective. Different standards of measurement may lead to very different results.
It's really difficult.
Seeing his dilemma, Wen Wan said, "If you want to start a business and become a boss, you can't avoid these things. Even if you can avoid them now, you will definitely not be able to avoid them in the future.
It’s actually not difficult to know whether a person is reliable or not.
You can go around the village tomorrow and see whose house is very clean. It doesn’t matter if the children’s clothes are old, as long as they are washed very clean.
The most important point is to see who is unwilling to gather together to gossip about the Zhang and Li families.
People who talk a lot are mostly unreliable.
Big brother can also recall who worked efficiently and methodically in the production team.
To sum up, it is not difficult to pick out five or six reliable people from such a large village.”
Confucius said more than two thousand years ago: Those who are good at speaking and have an ingratiating appearance are seldom kind.
When judging a person, don’t look at what he says, look at what he does.
People have limited energy. If you spend part of it on talking and chatting, there will be less energy available for doing things, and there is a high probability that things will not be done well.
If you can keep your household affairs in order, you will also do other things well.
Brothers Xie Changshan and Xie Changlin both thought this was a credible idea. After looking at each other, they decided to go around the village early tomorrow morning.
Xie Changqing, who had been listening to their discussion without saying a word, slightly narrowed his dark eyes and looked at Wen Wan's delicate profile, a cloud of doubts arose in his heart.
He had flipped through a few of her novels when he had nothing to do. Apart from all the stories about love and decadence, the most profound one was "One Hundred Years of Solitude". He was scared off by the long list of names of the protagonists in the novel after only turning two pages.
The theories she is talking about now all seem to have been tested in practice, and none of them come from novels.
The more I watch her, the less I understand her.
Noticing his gaze, Wen Wan turned to look at him, eyes clear and smile sweetly, "What's wrong?"
The moment she smiled, it seemed as if the person who had just talked was someone else, and the innocent-looking little girl in front of her was her.
"Do the novels you read teach you how to do business?" Xie Changqing asked.
Wen Wanxin said, what nonsense are you talking about? If a novelist knows how to do business, why would he write such a stupid novel? He should just do business and make money.
But she couldn't say that it was accumulated by her previous generation when they were doing business.
The fact that he asked this showed that he was beginning to doubt. He should stop saying this kind of bullshit that he learned from novels.
I really didn't expect that Xie Changqing, a rough man who thought reading was like hypnosis, would actually doubt this.
Is it possible that cleverness is innate and has little to do with whether or not one learns knowledge later in life?
Wen Wan smiled and said, "Of course not, in addition to reading novels, I also read serious books, okay?
Are these economics and psychology taught well? If you fall asleep as soon as you read, you certainly won’t understand.”
These words really hit the nail on the head for Xie Changqing, who has been cramming his knowledge of Western economics, finance, and some intersecting consumer psychology in the past few months.
What Wen Wan said is somewhat related, but only somewhat related, and it is definitely impossible to explain it without practicing it.
However, in front of so many people, Xie Changqing didn't want to interrogate her, so he nodded as a tacit acceptance of her explanation.
But I didn't expect that Xie Changlin, whether out of tact or simply eager to learn, actually asked: "Second sister-in-law, can you lend me those books you mentioned?"
"..." Wen Wan was stunned. "I found it in the town library. There are several bookshelves filled with these books. They all look the same no matter which one you look at."
After seeing off the brothers Xie Changshan and Xie Changlin, and when the couple locked the door, Xie Changqing grabbed her, put her on the desk, squeezed himself between her legs, and tortured her severely.
Sensing the danger, Wen Wan twisted her body to try to get rid of his big hand on her slender waist, "What do you want to do now?"
Xie Changqing looked at her with gloomy eyes, and the corners of his lips curled up into a smile, expecting her to stammer and make excuses.
They stared at each other for a few seconds, and Wen Wan felt Xie Changqing's other arm stretched back. She thought he was going to pull her clothes again and was about to glare at him angrily.
Unexpectedly, the next second, he had a novel in his hand.
Xie Changqing looked at her without blinking, taking the books from the shelf one by one, shaking them in front of her eyes, and then throwing them on the table next to her.