Chapter 146: Recruitment
"Girl, this year is not good, you asked your father to sell all the grain, how will you live in the future?" Shen Yunting suddenly asked worriedly, the price of this grain will only get higher and higher, and now that it is sold, it seems that it is making money, but I am afraid that the price of grain will be higher in the future.
Shen Lan smiled before saying: "Uncle, everyone knows that my family has grain, if I don't sell it, I'm afraid it will cause disputes in the future, and now that I sell it, at least it won't make people misunderstand that my family has a lot of grain, right?" ā
Listening to Shen Lan's explanation, Shen Yunting also nodded, although he didn't want to admit it, but sometimes human nature is really hard to say, or the girl in front of him is transparent, knowing that these grains may not be able to be kept in his hands, so Xiaoquan sold the grain.
"Your worries are also justified, but in this case, your family has enough food to eat?" Shen Yunting asked with concern.
Shen Lan nodded and said, "After all, it's enough to eat until next year, no matter what, you have to keep the rations, right?" ā
Shen Yunting nodded, knowing that Shen Lan was not acting recklessly, and he was relieved.
"You are in good hands, I am assured." Shen Yunting held his beard and nodded.
"Uncle, since you think your nephew is doing things safely, I don't know if I should say it or not." Shen Lan changed her words and looked at Shen Yunting with a smile.
Shen Yunting smiled when he heard this, and said jokingly: "You ghost girl, what is there to say in front of me?" ā
Hearing this, Shen Lan stopped selling Guanzi, and said frankly: "Uncle also saw it, there are more and more displaced people, I'm afraid that our village is not easy to deal with, why not temporarily move to Yuanjiaji, Yuanjiaji is the largest town in this area after all, there are many young and middle-aged people, and there is a black tiger village to rely on, but it is much safer than the village." ā
Shen Yunting nodded, but also agreed with Shen Lan's mention of yƬ, but people have always had a plot of falling in love with their families, especially when it comes to people of Shen Yunting's age, even more so, although Yuanjiaji is also within the scope of Jixian County, but for Shen Yunting after all, it is not his homeland, so he doesn't want to leave his home at all until he has to do so.
"Lan Niang, uncle knows that you care about me, but the situation is not so bad, you don't have too many scruples, these homeless people will flood once in a few years, you don't want to see the wind and rain, and the people in our village are not afraid." Shen Yunting smiled and persuaded him, after all, Lan Niang's knowledge was limited, so she was intimidated by these homeless people, in fact, where is there so strict.
Shen Lan didn't know that homeless people were so common in this era, and thought it was an accidental event, but listening to Shen Yunting's tone, she suddenly felt that she would not make too much of a fuss, otherwise how could Shen Yunting be so calm, not only Shen Yunting, but also Shen Xiaoquan and others, and they were not overly nervous, the villages she went to all sent people to guard the entrance of the village, and almost all of them refused to allow the homeless people to enter, it seems that this homeless incident is really not an occasional thing.
In this way, Shen Lan didn't force it, since these aborigines didn't think it was a big deal, then she didn't need to be so nervous, and she didn't have to persuade everyone to go to Yuan's house to live.
"Since the uncle knows in his heart, his niece doesn't force it, but when he is free in the future, he hopes that the uncle will go to his niece and move around more." Shen Lan smiled and spoke.
"Okay, I'm free, Uncle and your brother Renjie are going to bother you, don't hate us." Shen Yunting quipped, and Shen Lan hurriedly said: "How can it be, Uncle and Brother Renjie are distinguished guests who can't be invited by many people, how can they bother me." ā
Shen Yunting laughed loudly when he heard this, and the uncle and nephew chatted for a while, until Shen Mei came to find Shen Lan to go back, Shen Lan hurriedly said goodbye and followed Shen Mei back to Shen's house.
"Lan Niang, come here." Yuan Tian greeted Shen Lan, Shen Lan hurriedly stepped forward, Yuan Tian said: "Now the price of grain is still high, your family's millet is fifty-eight stones, I count you fifty-eight taels of silver, your father's millet here has thirty-four stones, buckwheat forty-eight stones, I count him seventy-eight taels of silver, what do you think?" ā
Shen Lan calculated in her heart, this millet should be one or two stones, and buckwheat is more than nine dollars of silver and one stone, the price is not too high and not too low, the key is that Shen Lan wants to sell favors to Yuan Tian, but she doesn't care about the price, so she nodded and said, "Okay, just do it according to Brother Yuan's wishes." ā
Since Shen Lan agreed, Yuan Tian was not verbose, and immediately called someone to come over to settle the bill for Shen's father and daughter, Shen Lan handed Shen Xiaoquan's silver to him, asked him to collect it carefully, and told him to be careful on weekdays, and don't forget to take Shen Zhao's back, etc., so he took his share of the silver and said goodbye to Shen Xiaoquan, and then got into his own carriage and followed Yuan Tian and them back.
On the way, Yuan Tian let people go to Songjia Village first to call out the people who stayed there before to wait on the side of the road, and then everyone went back to the village together, so when passing by Songjia Village, he saw a carriage parked outside the village, when the two teams were in a team, the convoy went in the direction of Yuanjiaji and Heihu Mountain, because of the grain, the road was not very peaceful, occasionally there were unknown homeless people looking at the car, looking like they would pounce on and snatch at any time, naturally someone really did this, At this time, the people under Yuan Tian were not soft at all, and they directly whipped the whip, and the people who pounced on them were dying before they gave up, and they came down several times, and finally arrived at Yuan's house.
Yuan Tian asked Pan Qingping to continue to stay in Shen Lan's shop, and sent a subordinate to Pan Qingping, which shows that Pan Qingping's status in the cottage is not low, but these have nothing to do with Shen Lan, so Shen Lan didn't inquire carefully, Pan Qingping sent Shen Lan back to the small courtyard, and then took his subordinates back to Shiweixuan.
Shen Lan finally breathed a sigh of relief when she went home, on the way back, she met several groups of people who wanted to rob, sure enough, the world is not peaceful, it seems that she can't go out of the town casually in the future, thinking of this Shen Lan is a little annoyed, so how to send food in the future, she will cover it up in the past, but now she can't even go out of the town lightly, and suddenly there are a lot of vegetables and chickens and ducks that will definitely arouse suspicion, it seems that it is better to keep a low profile.
Yuan Jiaji's life does not seem to be affected by the outside, it is still quiet and peaceful, but it is not completely unaffected, at least as the days go by, Yuan Jiaji can buy fewer and fewer things, at first Shen Lan because she can't go out of the town alone, the ingredients to be used in her own restaurant have to go outside to purchase, but when she buys, she adds more portions inside, in addition to this, Shen Lan also mobilized Yan Niang to plant all kinds of bean sprouts and sprouts in her memory, so that she can barely provide some fresh vegetables to her restaurant, so as not to run out of stock.
Because of these fresh ingredients, Shiweixuan is naturally welcomed by some upper-class people, and dozens of tables have to be booked out every day, and there are fewer meals in the hall, but in this way, Shiweixuan's business has also improved, Shen Lan thinks it is good, not enough She also knows that this is because God has the convenience of this drought, after all, it is not a long-term thing, and it is the right way to develop more cheap and high-quality food in the future.
In addition, the third brother's plan to collect grain is not very smooth, most of the time he can't buy food if he has money in his hand, after all, the big guy doesn't know when the drought will pass, so Shen Lan has to think of something else, although she has space in hand, but she is very scarce manpower, she can't think about letting her do everything by herself like before.
On this day, a big carriage came to the homeless gathering place outside the Yuan family's market, and an old servant in his fifties rushed to come, the carriage was half-new, not old, and it was not a very tall feeling, the door was opened from the inside, and I saw a slightly chubby boy bending down and walking out of the car, jumping directly from the car.
This homeless gathering place is a forest outside Yuanjiaji, and the trees inside have been cleared a lot, so there is a large open space, and a lot of shacks have been built with wood in the open space, some of the shacks are lying weak people, some of the shacks are empty, and some of the shacks are burning fires in front of them.
The weather has turned cold in November, but these homeless people are still unclothed, and few of them wear thicker clothes, seeing this situation, Shen Lan frowned slightly, yes, the person dressed by this son is indeed Shen Lan, but ordinary people seem to be absolutely unrecognizable, because this person is obviously almost ten centimeters taller than Shen Lan, and his body is also a lot fatter, his face is slightly darkened, and he wears a black crown on his head, although the robe on his body is not silk and satin, but it is also well matched.
"Is there anyone who wants to go to work, including food and shelter, and receive an additional ten cents a day?" After Shen Lan got off the car, Lao Guo Tou also got off the car, stood beside Shen Lan and asked loudly.
"Me."
"Me."
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Suddenly, a circle of people swarmed up, shouting actively one by one, Shen Lan couldn't help frowning slightly, although the weather was cold, being fed by a group of people who hadn't bathed for a long time, it didn't taste good.
"Stop, stop, my son-in-law is here to choose someone to work today, everyone is lined up, so that it is convenient for my son-in-law to choose someone, isn't it?" Old Guo Tou hurriedly protected Shen Lan behind him, and then said to the crowd.
"Uncle, what kind of person do you want to choose? I'm strong, I can do any dirty work, and I don't want that ten cents, as long as I can eat my stomach. Suddenly, someone shouted.
"I don't want money, just eat enough." For a while, the crowd was excited, and all kinds of cheap quotations sounded one after another.
Shen Lan pulled off Lao Guotou's clothes slightly, Lao Guotou hurriedly turned his head to look at Shen Lan, Shen Lan whispered to him for a while, Lao Guotou nodded and faced everyone again. R1152