Five days later, a lot of people came to the Zhuangzi of Zhang Wang's two families, wearing coarse linen clothes, holding sickles in their hands into the rice field to start harvesting, and the cut rice was immediately threshed.

Elsewhere, the farming is almost over, only some of the winter wheat that needs to be planted in the ground, and the market is once again bustling with people, and unlike in normal days, the stalls selling tea and snacks in the market are asking for several times more than usual.

The people who came to work had already said that all the water and food should be in the hands of the men who hired them, the proprietors of the grain shops, and now the people who bought and sold in the bazaar became rich.

"Deliberately, they must have done it on purpose, the store asked people to go back quickly and sent the news at noon today, they gave money and began to increase the price of things in the bazaar, such a big Zhuangzi, even this little money has to be calculated, I really can't figure it out."

In the Shuiyunjian Restaurant, in a box with a view of the rice fields from the window, a proprietor drank tea and complained while looking around.

"This is not a small amount of money, a bowl of tea that usually costs a penny and a few dim sums, now it costs three cents without dim sum, we have hired two hundred people, and the tea is the same as a cow drink, plus three meals in the morning, noon and evening, at the end of the day, they will get more than ten taels of silver, according to this situation, they will earn at least fifty taels in three days."

The other proprietor calculated clearly, just this money can find a few ships to transport grain back and forth, Zhangjia Zhuangzi refused to eat at all, calculated everywhere, collected more than half of the seeds in the field, changed 24 shops in the capital, and even had a two-story restaurant.

"Don't talk about the two of you, we have taken a lot of advantage, a pound of seeds is sixty-five yuan in the end, and the store that bought it deliberately increased the price of one percent, so that the seeds are less than sixty yuan a pound, and the seeds are more profitable than growing grain, hundreds of times the price."

Lu Dongjia estimated there, this time the seeds they bought were worth more than 14,000 taels of silver, and the rest of them, if they found someone else to buy, they still didn't sell 3 or 4,000 taels of silver, and if they were exchanged for ordinary grain, it was nothing more than about 300 taels, but the grain was not shelled, and it still had a shell.

Jin Dongjia, who was also waiting for the people below to hurry up and work, also agreed, "Brother Lu is right, those twenty-four shops, only the restaurant on the second floor is slightly more expensive, with four thousand taels of silver, and the others add up to more than nine thousand taels, and the extra report is more than one thousand taels, let the hired people eat hard, how much can they eat?" They must not be allowed to bring their own dry food and drink water from the river. ”

"Brother Jin is not right to say this, Steward Zhang personally said it a few days ago, let us make a profit in the middle, and they will pay half of the grain freight sold to them, but they are picking money everywhere, and the ship is required to be designated by them, I have already asked people to inquire, and it is half expensive.

The carriages and horses that were transported to their Zhuangzi were also fixed, and they asked for half more, and we had to watch here, and the wine they gave them was not sold in the usual water, and the same was true of the dishes they cooked, didn't it cost money? In addition, I didn't need them to harvest, and I saved some manpower, and I heard that I went to the mountains to repair other places. ”

The proprietor who spoke first always felt uncomfortable when he said one thing after another.

Jin Dongjia shook his head, "We usually have to eat, which time is not a good point?" This table is only thirty or fifty taels, and if you count everything, it is only a few hundred taels of silver, and it is still earned. ”

Jin Dongjia is also not very comfortable, there is not much money, more than a dozen people can share a little, mainly because they are constantly calculated, and those who do business want to calculate others.

"You see, the people who went to the mountains of Zhang Wang and Zhuangzi have returned? Why are there so many people, about 300 people, with scythes in their hands, what are they going to do? Could it be that you want to help us collect it? ”

While everyone was eating snacks and tea there, a man standing by the window pointed down and said curiously.

Everyone got up one after another and looked down, isn't it, there are a lot of people there, judging from the same clothes, it is undoubtedly the Zhuang of the Zhang and Wang families, only they are so atmospheric, specially making the same clothes for the Zhuang households.

The men rushed to the field with their sickles and began to harvest, and after watching for a while, the people were relieved that they were not taking the best ones they had painted, but their own.

"Quick, it's too fast, look at other people's households, one can top the two we found." Wang Dongjia saw the speed of the people on both sides of the work, and said enviously there.

"It's not comparable, if the farmer is willing, he can eat meat for two or three days, and what we are looking for is elsewhere, where did he get so much spare money? If you don't accept it in the morning, you don't collect it in the evening, why do they also accept it when we find someone here? ”

Lu Dongjia's eyes are a little farsighted, and they can see the difference between the bodies and bones of the people on both sides, Zhang Wang's family is also shirtless, and the flesh on their bodies is piece by piece, and then look at what they and others are looking for, it is only better than skin and bones.

Everyone was puzzled, so they could only sit back and drink tea again, chatting about some business matters, and in a flash, the sun was in the middle.

"It's time to eat, it's time to eat." As soon as the proprietors found their men to order food and drinks, they heard someone shouting loudly below.

The people who were near the window looked down, and saw many people coming out of the market, some pushing carts and some carrying burdens, shouting and waving to the people they had hired in the fields.

"It's time to eat, the people in the bazaar are good, and they were delivered here." The proprietor turned back to the others who were looking at him.

"Oh, that would save you a few steps." Several proprietors said at the same time.

"I'll see." Lu Dongjia saw that there were only a few cold dishes on the table, and he didn't plan to eat them immediately, so he also leaned over and looked down, looked at them for a while, and said:

"There are a lot of things, look at the trolleys, it's enough for five or six hundred people to eat, oh, I understand, the Zhuang households of the Zhang and Wang families also eat together."

As soon as he finished speaking, the people who had gathered together to prepare for the meal suddenly became confused, and several of the people who had been hired by them quarreled with the people who delivered the meal, far away, and the voices were mixed, and they couldn't distinguish what was arguing, and they could vaguely hear the voices of 'why', 'doing the same job', 'not doing it', and so on.

"What's going on? Didn't you send food? Man, go ask. Lu Dongjia couldn't figure it out, and shouted to the guy who was waiting at the door of the room ready to serve at any time.

The guy answered, turned around and ran, and after a while, the people from Zhang Wang's family over there had already eaten, and when he and the others hired were still arguing there, the guy ran back again.

"Back to the guest officer, you quarreled because the food was different, and the people you were looking for felt that the food was not as good as that of Zhang Wang's two households."

The guy said breathlessly.

"You guys, the food clips made for us in the bazaar?" One proprietor asked.

"No, there are small rice, steamed buns with sorghum noodles, there is an egg drop soup, and there is an egg fried leek, these are all good to make." The guy counted the meals and said.

"Isn't that bad? Isn't it as good as what they usually eat? I don't think they're going to ask for pay. The questioning proprietor slapped the table angrily.

"Don't worry, man, let me ask you, what do the Zhuangzi of the two Zhuangzi families of King Zhang eat?" Jin Dongjia waved his hand at the man, and asked the guy again.

The guy also counted "thin noodles and pancakes, fried shredded pork with green onions, white-cut chicken, blanched bamboo shoots, eggplant with meat foam, and a bowl of dried tofu shredded and pork soup, lined with broken fungus, hooked thickener, and hot sauce, two or two dishes can be rolled in the cake and smeared with hot sauce to eat, and the other two can be made however you want." ”

As soon as the man's voice fell, all the proprietors didn't know what to say, no wonder the people they found were unwilling, so they worked together, waiting to eat, their side was a dish and a soup, and the staple food was also worthless, and the staple food was a thin dough cake, plus four dishes and a soup several times better.

As soon as the two were compared, the gap came out, and of course the people who worked were unwilling, so they were all sent from the bazaar, so they were treated differently.

"Man, what the Zhuang households of Zhang and Wang eat is also made by the market?" Jin Dongjia thought for a moment and asked.

"If you say yes, no, it's just a stove over there, and they're all harvesting rice, and they're building a fire next to it, and they're afraid that the water will run away, and it's good to finish the meal just in time for the market, so I'll send it over together." The guy replied respectfully.

"Just in time? Okay, then let me ask you, do you know how much a soup like those four dishes cost? ”

"This small one is really not clear, it is estimated that it will take two taels of silver, one person, after all, there are fungus in the soup, they eat a lot, the hot sauce is not cheap, and there is also those meat or something."

The man shook his head in embarrassment, and thought for a moment before giving him the price he had pondered.

The proprietors looked at each other, sighed at the same time, and the first to speak in the morning said, "Am I right?" Aren't they going to let us transport this seed back well, and one person will ask for two taels of silver, and two hundred people, four hundred taels of silver, and give it? Two days is eight hundred taels. ”

Now all the people nodded and admitted, if they really forced the people below to eat the things prepared by the bazaar, they would also eat them, but it was hard to say how much effort they put into their work.

"Brother Jin, what should I do?" One proprietor asked.

"Man, you go down and let the bazaar add a meat dish, and add it at ten cents per person, plus some rice, three cents per person." Jin Dongjia didn't have a good way to do it, so he had to do it.

The guy said: "Jin Dongjia, how much to add depends on how many plates to be filled, according to the portion, what should they do if they eat more?" Is it hard not to let you eat it? There are also the original ones that have already been done, and it seems that they can't be returned, right? ”