Chapter 50 Talking about hiring
After Tao Pu received the money from Zhao Yuan and Huang Qiming, he immediately went to the doctor in the town, told him about the symptoms of his wife and son's illness, prescribed medicine, bought some grain at the grain store in the market, and took his daughter back to the shed outside Zhao Yuan's new home.
Although the owner of such a large house was not there, Tao Pu, who had no choice, had to live in the shed outside the new house, but fortunately, Zhao Yuan did not dismantle the shed when he went back, and planned to use this shed as a firewood shed in the future.
After boiling a pot of porridge with newly bought grain, let the hungry family eat it, and then decocted the medicine prescribed from the doctor, and after his wife and son drank it and fell asleep, he took his daughter to sweep the snow around Zhao Yuan's new house, returned to the shed to bake the fire, and thought about the way out.
"Dad, you know what? The shed we live in is actually from Engong's family. Tao Yingchun suddenly pushed open the door of the shed and said loudly.
"What do you say, such a coincidence! Are the Engong family back, let's go meet them. Tao Pu said in surprise when he heard his daughter's words.
"Coming back, I went outside to scoop water and saw them come back in front of the door of the new house." Tao Yingchun nodded and said.
Zhao Yuan took out the key and opened the door of the new house, the red brick house did not look damp, the walls of the river sand mixed with lime whitewash were basically dry, and the room looked very bright.
In this era, there are no chemicals used in the house, and there are almost no harmful gases such as formaldehyde, so as long as the moisture in the new house is gone, you can basically move in.
"Uncle, that sister and uncle are here."
"Haha, uncle, I didn't expect you to be here by such a coincidence." When Zhao Yuan heard Luoluo's words, he walked out of the room, greeted Tao Pu's father and daughter, and said with a laugh.
"I'm ashamed, Childe is not at home, so we will live directly in your house." Tao Pu said ashamedly.
"These are all trivial matters, please sit down, haven't you asked your uncle for your surname?" Zhao Yuan motioned for Tao Pu's father and daughter to sit down on the stool.
"Don't be expensive, my name is Tao Pu, the little girl Tao Yingchun, what do you call Engong?"
"I'm also an ordinary farmer, in a village not far from here, my name is Zhao Yuan, by the way, Uncle Tao, where did you come from, don't you listen to the accent from Shudi?"
"We came from Jiangzhou, this way, alas!" Tao Pu sighed.
"Is there any disaster in my hometown, Jiangzhou is far away from us?" Zhao Yuan asked.
"War, chaos, my family, everyone fled to a foreign country to avoid the war, and then I heard that Shu is very stable, so I begged for food all the way, to Shu, I wanted to find a job to do, but I also lived, but I didn't expect a heavy snowfall, Neiko and his son fell ill all of a sudden......" Tao Pu's tone seemed a little calm to tell about his family's experience, now it is finally the road to meet nobles, the most difficult time is in the past.
"It's really not easy, Uncle Tao, I take the liberty of asking, do you still plan to go back to your hometown?" Zhao Yuan asked.
"If I don't go back, everything in my hometown has been ruined, a few acres of land at home have also been occupied, and in our town, my family was originally doing a small business of a food shop, and it's all gone." Tao Pu shook his head and said.
"Oh, Uncle Tao will still do business, in this case, why don't you stay and help me, it just so happens that my family bought a yard in the market today, and after renovating it in the future, I am also going to do some business." Zhao Yuan said directly.
"We all know that Engong's family is kind, and I will give our deed to Engong in a while." Tao Pu nodded and said, after experiencing despair, he was even more grateful for Zhao Yuan's help.
"Don't, what do I want your deed to do, you burn that thing, if it falls into the hands of someone else, there will inevitably be twists and turns." Zhao Yuan shook his head and said.
Although buying and selling people was very common in this era, and many large families had many servants who were completely unfree, Zhao Yuan could not accept this kind of thing that restricted the freedom of other people's lives, and did not intend to accept Tao Pu's deed, but planned to sign a contract and hire them to help his family work.
"Thank you!" Tao Pu said with tears in the corners of his eyes, if he can get by, who is willing to sell himself as a slave.
"In this way, let's sign an employment contract, write it down in black and white, you help me work, I will pay you wages, Uncle Tao, what do you think." Zhao Yuan said.
"Okay, let's listen to Engong, and we'll burn the deed in a while."
"In that case, Uncle Tao, don't call me Engong, just call me the owner." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
"Okay, the owner, we need to stay here for a while, if it weren't for the money from the owner and that Boss Huang, we don't know what to do." Tao Pu nodded and said.
"By the way, are your aunt and little brother okay?"
"After eating food and medicine, it should be fine, they are all tired, this way, they can't eat enough and don't wear warm, and it's a miracle that they only get sick until now." Tao Pu shook his head.
"That's good, let's go to the doctor tomorrow to have a look, by the way, Uncle Tao, you can move to this house first, I will rent it to you, and it will be deducted from your salary later." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
"Then what's the matter, we're living in a shed, you're a new house, and you haven't moved in yet, how can you let us live in first." Tao Pu waved his hand again and again and said.
"It's okay, I don't pay attention to this, the house is just a place to live." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.
"No, we are people in distress, just have a place to live, I'm embarrassed to occupy the owner's house with such a good shed, how can we live in this house again." Tao Pu said resolutely.
"Okay then, Uncle Tao, let's see what you still lack, I can help you buy it." Zhao Yuan thought that the shed where he had built a house for so long should have no problem for the Tao family to live in, so he didn't persuade him again.
"There is no shortage, there is money from the owner and the boss Huang, and there is enough food and everything, but this heavy snow covers the mountain, and some of the firewood piled up by the owner behind the house is used."
"It's okay, by the way, I just bought some food here, Uncle Tao, you can take some and use it, Xiaoying, you go to the donkey cart to get some vegetables." Zhao Yuan said to Meng Ying on the side.
"Okay, this girl, you can go with me and get it." Meng Ying said to Tao Yingchun.
"We're going to help, too." Luoluo and Xiaobao said.
"Go ahead." Zhao Yuan said with a smile, I bought a lot of vegetables in the market today, and put them in the donkey cart, but unfortunately I didn't buy meat, and when I left, I asked Tao Pu to go to the market with me and buy some meat for them, after all, they were here for the New Year.
"Well, then we'll be ashamed." Tao Pu was moved, as an unknown person, he was so good to his family all of a sudden, and he didn't know how to thank him.
"Okay, Uncle Tao, it will be fine in the future, we will go back in a while, and the new house will have to trouble Uncle Tao to help you watch a little, although there is nothing."
"Don't worry, owner, I will definitely take care of it." Tao Pu said with moist corners of his eyes, secretly thinking that he must repay the great kindness of Zhao Yuan's family in the future.
"Uncle Tao will go to the market with us in a while, and we will sign the employment contract." Zhao Yuan said with a smile, the main thing is to go to the market to buy some meat for Tao Pu and let him bring it back.
Meng Ying divided more than half of some of the vegetables on the donkey cart and helped Tao Yingchun move to the shed, seeing a pot with some gaps on the stove outside the shed, Meng Ying remembered that when she returned to Zhaojiazhuang, she put the pots and bowls and other things in the kitchen, and after putting the vegetables in the shed, she went to the kitchen to take out a set of pots and bowls and other things and gave them to Tao Yingchun's family.
Originally, Zhao Yuan didn't plan to lock the door, so that Tao Pu's family could live in the new house in case something happened, but Tao Pu resolutely asked Zhao Yuan to lock the door.
"Okay, then let's go, Luoluo, Xiaobao, Xiaoying, get in the car, Uncle Tao, you can sit on it too." After talking about the things purchased today and used in the new house were unloaded into the house, Zhao Yuan locked the door and prepared to drive the donkey cart back to the market.