Chapter 12 Recruiting Families
"Young master, young master, hurry up!"
Still in a hazy sleep, Ye Qiu was pulled up, only to see Meng Niu running to the side of the bed to fetch his clothes, and shouted to him anxiously. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Slow down, slow down, what's so urgent, wake me up early in the morning?" Ye Qiu said with a yawn while getting dressed.
"Young master, there are a lot of people outside the courtyard, all looking for you......"
"I'll go!" Ye Qiu was startled, his mind was still a little confused, he had been keeping quiet for the past few days, it didn't seem that he had done anything bad, right? Could it be the mess left by the ex? No, no one can recognize themselves now!
Thinking about it like this, he hurriedly asked, "What are you doing here?" ”
"Young Master, did you forget?" Meng Niu looked at Ye Qiu, who was a little flustered, and suddenly explained to him a little uncertainly, "Didn't you ask Lu Lao and them to bring all the young girls in the family yesterday, Lu Lao and they have already come over, I heard that you are still sleeping, so I didn't dare to disturb you, Sister Qing'er is still outside to greet them, let me come and tell you to get up...... Oh, young master, why are you beating me? ”
"! You're scaring me! If you don't hit you, who will go! "Ye Qiu unceremoniously rewarded him with a 'headshot', this guy also spoke with a pant, too infuriating!
"Young master, let's go out quickly, everyone is waiting outside, Sister Qing'er said, she doesn't know how to choose." Meng Niu covered his head and said innocently.
"Let's go, take a look, just recruit some today." Ye Qiu nodded, and straightened his hair in front of the bronze mirror, this ancient man had long hair, he had always been very unaccustomed to it.
"Ye Gongzi is out, Ye Gongzi is good!"
As soon as he saw Ye Qiu coming to the courtyard, Lu Ming and several older craftsmen took the lead to greet him, and Ye Qiu also returned the salute.
"Ye Gongzi, this is Xiao Luneng, he has been well-behaved since he was a child, obedient and sensible, and he is also conscientious and loyal, and he will never let you down!" Lu Ming was very insightful, and immediately pushed a young man beside him in front of Ye Qiu and opened his mouth to introduce.
"Ye Gongzi, this little calf of my family is not bad, nothing else, it is just that he is born with great strength, and it is no problem to lift three or five hundred catties of things casually, you can take him and do the strength work, and keep it to your satisfaction!" The big hammer also took out a miniature version of his 'little hammer' with one hand, and when he introduced it, he slapped it on his son's shoulder, and the 'little hammer' didn't seem to hurt at all, and his complexion remained unchanged, and he really had his father's demeanor.
"Everyone, please wait a moment," Seeing that the other craftsmen were also about to nominate their children, Ye Qiu hurriedly raised his hand to stop them, and then said, "Regarding the matter of recruiting family members, we all talked about it yesterday, and the matter of monthly money, I repeat it again, it is a monthly case of one or two silver per month, regardless of men and women, it is this treatment!" You still have a chance to think about it now, and if you feel that it is less, you can quit! ”
The scene was quiet for a while, no one exited, Ye Qiu looked around, and continued: "Everyone is so enthusiastic today, bringing so many people here, I am also very happy, then, now please all the men stand on my left hand side, cough cough, Lu Lao, you don't join in the fun, just go to the side with Meng Niu to watch, that, the woman stands on my right hand!" ”
As soon as the words fell, the crowd immediately divided into three pulls, one pulled the boy and boy to stand on the left, the other pulled the girl to the right, and Lu Ming and the craftsmen followed Meng Niu to stand behind Ye Qiu.
Ye Qiu looked at the two piles of young men and women who were sparsely pulled, and counted silently in his heart, there were seventeen men and eight women, fortunately he said yesterday that he was younger, and those who came today were all between sixteen and nineteen years old, all of whom were children of craftsmen's families, from them, Ye Qiu could see that the old craftsmen had put a lot of effort into raising their sons, all of them had round waists and broad shoulders, especially the 'little hammer', which looked much stronger than an adult man.
The women are much thinner, and some of them look a little malnourished, of course, there are exceptions, for example, they are also the daughter of the Big Hammer family, and they are a clone of the 'Little Hammer', and they are also dressed as men, only the face can barely tell that it is a woman.
"That, you, you, you...... And you, you, come out. Ye Qiu ordered the five teenagers in one breath, and then asked them to stand in place, and ran in to take out charcoal pens and paper.
"Report your names and I'll record them." Ye Qiu brought a stool, squatted in front of the stool and spread out the paper.
"Childe, I'm called Hammer! Little Hammer! "'Little Hammer' was the first to speak, his voice like that of his father, like beating a brass drum.
Ye Qiu wrote down his name, and the young man standing behind the little hammer also reported his name, and it was all in the same format: "Childe, my name is Luneng!" "Childe, my name is Chen Shu!" "Childe, my name is Liu Lei!" "Childe, I bark, I call the dog......"
Ye Qiu wrote down several people, and when he was the last one, he almost broke the pen, the name dog was very common in ancient times, Ye Qiu didn't think it was strange, but most of them were nicknames, and only civilian families would appear to use them as names, but this dog only reported a name, not a surname, Ye Qiu couldn't help but look up at the young man and asked, "Don't you have a surname?" ”
"I don't have a surname!" The dog man looks like a little hammer, but his voice is far less loud than his, but a little low, which is caused by his inner inferiority.
"Childe, the dog came from other places before, his parents just took him to Hangzhou and died of illness not long after, leaving him alone, his parents have never said anything about family affairs, I only know that they came from the north, but I don't know what his surname is." A craftsman who knew the dog's background walked up to Ye Qiu and whispered.
Ye Qiu nodded silently, the north and west of the Great Song Dynasty have been fighting for many years, although the court spends a lot of money every year to buy a short period of peace, but the lives of the people on the border still have not changed, and they still live a life of hunger, many people have to be reduced to homeless, migrating to other big cities, on the way to migration, the road is far away and people are scarce, these people have scarce food and thin clothing, and many people are frozen to death or starved to death halfway.
"Dog...... Dog, since you are going to be the head of my Ye family, this name naturally can't be called like this anymore," Ye Qiu thought for a while, and immediately said solemnly to the dog, "From today on, you follow my surname Ye, and your name will be Ye Fei." ”
"Don't hurry up, thank you young master for the name!"
Lu Ming slapped the head of the dog who was in a daze, the dog was big, but very clever, and immediately knelt on his knees and knocked Ye Qiu three times on the head.
Ye Qiu's strength was not as strong as his, and he couldn't pull it up, so he had to say helplessly: "Ye Fei, you get up, in the future, like Meng Niu, follow me and be a sidekick!" ”
Dog, no, Ye Fei hurriedly kowtowed three more times, and said "Thank you, young master", then he got up numbly, patted the dust on his hands and body, and stood with Meng Niu.
The reason why Ye Qiu chose him instead of choosing a little hammer that looked stronger was that when he glanced at it for the first time, he found that Ye Fei's eyes had more light than others, and he was also the only one among these people who dared to look at him.
Then, he chose one of the women who looked better than the others, after asking, not only would he take care of the housework, but also make good dishes, Ye Qiu just wanted to find a girl like this, although there are not many things at home now, but all for Qing'er to do alone, this is not what he wants, he only hopes that Qing'er can live a more leisurely life in the future, she has been tired for so many years, it is time to sit down and enjoy the happiness.
It's just that Ye Qiu didn't see that when he chose this girl, Qing'er, who had been hiding in the hall and watching all this silently, suddenly felt as if he had become a redundant character in the Ye family, and couldn't help but feel uncomfortable in his heart, covering his mouth to prevent himself from crying, and quickly turned around and ran back to the bedroom.
Ye Qiu didn't notice Qing'er's abnormality, he was also recording the woman's name, and then said: "Okay, let's choose these people today, the others will go back today, during the time when the workshop is being built, Lu Lao, if you want helpers, you can also take them over, report to me together when it is finished, and also give them a salary, and after the workshop opens, then arrange to enter the workshop to work, and at that time, the monthly rate will increase by at least ten times!" ”
As soon as Ye Qiu's words came out, the young girls who were not selected were originally a little disappointed, but they were quickly covered up by excitement, they heard the elders say it in their own homes last night, and they couldn't believe it at the time, after seeing this Ye Gongzi today, they opened a monthly fee of one or two silver, and now they said that the workmanship of the workshop has increased tenfold, which made them instantly have a stronger impression of Ye Qiu.
"That's it, let's go back first," Ye Qiu waved his hand and let them leave first, leaving only the selected few people and craftsmen.
"Now there is nothing to be assigned to you to do, Meng Niu, you take them to the north of the city to find a larger courtyard, as their dormitory, and when the workshop starts, the new arrivals will also be distributed there, if the price is right, buy it, if it is too expensive, rent it first." Ye Qiu instructed Meng Niu.
He began to feel that his current small courtyard was too small, and there was no way for many people to live, these days Meng Niu has been making bunks in the hall, and the bed has not been slept, if he didn't want to sleep in the bed, Qing'er couldn't refuse him, so he could only shyly let him continue to squeeze a bed with himself in the bedroom.
Fortunately, Meng Niu never asked about such a thing, Ye Qiu still thought he was honest and honest, but he didn't know that Meng Niu had already regarded the two of them as a couple, Ye Qiu was the master, Qing'er was his personal ring, and he was going to sleep, Meng Niu knew that big families were like this......