After two recruitments, there are now 22 employees in the soap workshop, all of whom are honest and responsible members of the Zhao clan in Taocun. The reason why only people from their own clan are recruited is to know the roots, which is easy to manage, and secondly, it can also avoid the leakage of production technology to the greatest extent. Based on these two points, Zhao Xin is really reluctant to make an exception from the perspective of the workshop manager, but in the end, blood is thicker than water, and the eldest brother has spoken.

Zhao Xin glanced at Zhao Yan quietly, and saw that he was napping with his eyes closed, so he made up his mind in his heart.

"Big brother and sister-in-law, this matter ......"

Zhao Xin was about to say that this matter was easy to do, but Zhao Quan next to Leng Buding interjected: "This thing is not easy to do...... Eldest brother, sister-in-law, don't look at the second brother as the manager of the workshop, nominally he still occupies a little share of the workshop, but in fact, the workshop is up and down the inside and out. Wang Yuanwai values the second brother, so he asked him to go back to our peach village to recruit people, recruiting people who are honest and know their roots, if the kid of that family has a bad temperament, and after entering the workshop, he cheats and cheats, which is the second brother's fault. ”

How much does Zhao Xin occupy in the workshop, whether talking in the workshop counts, Zhao Quan naturally knows it, but Dafang doesn't know, so he said this, Zhao Zhuang and Wang believe it out of ten, after all, how much ability the second brother Zhao Xin has, as the eldest brother and sister-in-law, he still knows it, to say that Zhao Xin is lucky, and he is valued and promoted by Wang Yuan, this is quite reasonable, but to say that Zhao Xin directly carp jumped over the dragon gate, and he can be on an equal footing with Wang Ye, which is a little unrealistic in the eyes of most people at this time.

"Oh, how is this good?" Although Wang has a pungent temperament, she is a country fool in the end, with a narrow vision and little knowledge, and she was easily fooled by Zhao Quan, who has been trained and more sleek.

Zhao Quanchong second brother Zhao Xin blinked, and secretly said in his heart, the second brother is too kind-hearted, and he is also a little square, he doesn't know what kind of character the sister-in-law has, if he agrees now, the sister-in-law will definitely kick his nose in the face in the future, and after recruiting Da Lang and his brother-in-law into the workshop, maybe in a few days, Da Lang and his two cousins will have to be recruited again.

Zhao Xin is not unsophisticated, after receiving Zhao Quan's hint, he understood what he meant after a little thought, just then he cared about the righteousness of his brother and brotherhood, but he didn't think much about it, and was interrupted by Zhao Quan at this time, but he also knew that this matter could not be easily agreed.

"Big brother and sister-in-law, what the third brother said is right, the king is noble and values me, so he handed over the workshop to me to take care of, at this time the workshop is full of manpower, if you recruit people at will, it is really not good to treat the king diplomatically."

Zhao Xin glanced at the eldest brother and sister-in-law when he said this, and when he saw the two of them hanging their heads, he felt that the heat should be almost over, so he said again: "But since it is related to the family affairs of the eldest man, how can I, the second uncle, ignore it." Big brother and sister-in-law, how is the kid temperament of that family? Have you seen it? If I am an honest and reliable child, I will go and talk to Wang Yuanwai, and ask him to recruit people into the workshop for my sake. ”

Zhao Zhuang was an honest man, and when he heard this, he hurriedly said: "How can this be done?" I've never seen that kid, if you really cause trouble to your second brother at that time, I'll ...... I really don't have the face to see you. ”

The person who spoke in the big house has always been the Wang family, she first glanced at her man fiercely, and then opened her mouth with a little weakness and said: "I have seen the kid of that family, he doesn't talk much when he is in front of people, and he seems to be an honest person." Why don't I ask someone to call him, his second uncle, you take a look first, and if it works, let him try it in the workshop? ”

Wang's words were very unconfident, and after she finished speaking, she couldn't help but slander in her heart, since Da Lang and his second uncle recruited hired workers from Tao Village, these days the women with long tongues in the village always talk about this, working in the workshop has 500 literary wages a month, eating and living, you can eat meat once in three days, and there are extra red envelopes during the New Year's holidays, what do you say is there to promote, so that people from all over the country know, this is good, if you want to tell your baby son a family affair, you have to look at people's faces at both ends......

Zhao Xin naturally didn't know the resentment in Wang's heart, he nodded and said, "Okay, just do what your sister-in-law says." Now the soap produced in the workshop is in short supply, and you have to go to work on the fourth day of the new year, today on the first day of the new year, Xiaolang and I will go back to the town in the second half of tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow to pay a New Year's greeting to the king, the sister-in-law had better call someone over as soon as possible to let me see, if it is okay, the fourth day of the new year will call him to work in the workshop. ”

Hearing this, the Wang family immediately raised his eyebrows, and nodded again and again: "That family is not far away, and it lives in Huotouzhuang in the northwest, so I will ask someone to carry the letter." ”

Zhao Yan was closing his eyes and pretending to sleep the whole time, in fact, he was just acting like a person, his mind was clearer than anyone else, except for the third uncle's little Nier who was younger than him, everyone else was his elder, so there were some things Zhao Yan really couldn't say, fortunately, the third uncle Zhao Quan After more than half a year of experience, he was much more sleek than the cheap father, and he also played the role of white face very well, Zhao Yan was naturally happy and light, but he knew that when the Wang family entrusted someone to give the letter, he would definitely tell the son of that family to behave honestly after coming. It's just that Zhao Yan doesn't care, if the kid in that family is good-natured, if he is lazy and lazy, cheating and cheating, Zhao Yan will also ask his father to recruit him into the workshop at that time, but he will not let him contact the specific production process, and wait until his cousin Zhao Qi gets married, and then find a reason to give him some money, and then send him away.

Fortunately, cousin Zhao Qi's future uncle is the same as uncle Zhao Zhuang, both of whom can't beat a fart with three sticks, and at first glance he is an honest child who has never seen the world.

When he returned to the town to pay New Year's greetings to Li Fuzi, Zhao Yan learned that the time for this year's county test had been set, which was on the tenth day of February, just over a month ago. This is a bit of a time crunch for Zhao Yan, so he didn't dare to slack off after returning to the town, and even the lively Shangyuan Festival never went out to play, but stayed at home to read and practice calligraphy behind closed doors.

The lights of the third watch and the fifth watch of the chicken are when the boy is studying. Zhao Yan always thought that this was a metaphor, he always had to sleep enough to be energetic when he studied on weekdays, but he didn't expect that the county exam required five watches and began to enter.

The fifth watch is four or five o'clock in the morning, and the students who participated in the county examination are close to home, and it is not much later to get up again in the third and fourth watches, and the students who are far away from home and have no money to live in the inn are unlucky, and they don't know how long they can sleep one night.

Zhao Yan woke up in less than four watches, and only after half the weather in the quilt did he lift the quilt and start dressing with extraordinary courage, and after he finished washing, his father Zhao Xin had already warmed up a few hard-boiled eggs yesterday, and the father and son wiped out the eggs in twos and threes, and then went to the state city in the dark.

The city gate of the Ming Dynasty is generally closed at five o'clock (more than eight o'clock in the evening), and opened at five o'clock in the morning (more than four o'clock in the morning), but today is a special case, the people who came to participate in the county examination do not know how many, if they do not open the city gate early, they can only use bamboo baskets and other things to drag people to the city, and they do not know how much time will be delayed, and the four city gates have been opened early.

It is only three miles from the old state town to the state city, it is very close, along the way, Zhao Yan saw that the four fields were pedestrians with torches and lanterns, and the stars gathered into countless stars, which were naturally the readers who participated in the county examination, otherwise no one would be idle and run out in the middle of the night to find excitement.

Entering the state city, these scholars and people from the people, in turn, with lanterns and torches, converged from the four gates to the state school, if you look at it from a high place, it has the posture of a hundred rivers and seas.

Before arriving at the state school, it was already a sea of people, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was shoulder to shoulder, and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was like a cloud, Zhao Yan and his father and dad got into it, trying to find the four candidates who were tied to Zhao Yan in the crowd, but they were in a vast sea of people, and the father and son were floating and sinking in it, and in the end, they sweated profusely, but they didn't find any of them.

It will be the fifth watch, and the officials of the state government will finally come out to maintain order. These officials waved the water and fire sticks in their hands and scolded fiercely, and after exerting their strength and shouting hoarsely, they finally isolated the irrelevant people, and Zhao Yan saw the four benevolent brothers who were leisurely watching the scenery at the gate of the state school.

"Brother Liu, Brother Wang, Brother Li, Brother Qian, you will make it easy to find in the next while." Zhao Yan put the basket on the ground, wiped the sweat on his face, and looked at the four young men in their twenties and smiled.

Brother Qian among the four is the only son of the famous doctor Qian Dafu in Jiuzhou Town, named Qian Liangcai, Xu inherited his father's doctor's generous heart, and his temperament is very gentle, seeing Zhao Yan's sweaty appearance, he smiled and took out the sweat towel in his arms and handed it over, and said: "I stayed in the city in the next night, I came earlier, and fortunately I was supported by Brother Liu's servants, but I was less tortured." ”

A young student with a cynical smile on his face next to him smiled when he heard this: "It's just a trivial matter, why worry about it." ”

This young man's name is Liu Jing, he is the eldest son of the Liu family in Shicao Wei Village, Liu Zhongshi, the servant of the household department, is his grandfather, and he also has an uncle named Liu Xuan, who is the secretary of the Henan Provincial Inspectorate, and is the son of a real official family.

Among the other two, one is named Wang Xian, a distant relative of Wang Yewang's big family, with a mediocre family background, a wooden person, and does not like to speak, and the other is named Li Xun, who is not comparable to Liu Jing.