The woman cautiously asked, "Can I sell only two acres of land to survive this famine, and I still have to make a living from farming, and I can't sell them all." ”

When the rich man bought the land, he wanted the people to sell him all the land they had, and he wanted the fields to be joined together, not to buy the fragments.

Yu Jiao nodded gently, "Yes." ”

The woman breathed a sigh of relief and said in a loud voice, "Good girl, you are such a good man. ”

Seeing this, the others also said, "Then I will sell two acres of land first to deal with emergencies." ”

Listening to the noise in the courtyard, Yu Poria walked out of the stove room and said to Yu Jiao, "The porridge is ready." ”

Yu Jiao nodded, and said to the refugees in the courtyard, "Everyone eat some porridge first, I still have something to say, and then you decide how much land to sell." ”

The men carried the porridge bucket to the courtyard, and the refugees took turns to receive the porridge, squatted on the ground and ate it.

The rice porridge donated by Yu's grain shop is not superficial, and the porridge is viscous and can ward off hunger.

Unlike some hypocritical people, who say that it is soup kitchen, the porridge is mixed with sediment and drained like a clear soup, these refugees know it in their hearts, so they are particularly grateful to Yu Jiao.

The courtyard was full of the sound of swallowing porridge, Yu Jiao took a sip of tea, and said loudly, "I bought your field, I want to find someone to help plant it, if any of you want to sell all the fields, I am willing to hire his family to farm for me, no matter what the harvest is, I can manage the family's annual rations, and pay him the salary, which is linked to the harvest of the field." ”

Yu Jiao's words caused an uproar in this group of people, after all, after a year of hard work, as long as the harvest is not good, the family's rations will be tight, if the field is sold, do not worry about the annual rations, and there can be extra wages to get, which sounds really a rare good thing.

"The girl said that she was working, but she had to sign a deed of sale?" A man who wants to sell his children into a large family as slaves because of the famine asks aloud.

"It's not a death contract, it's a employment contract." Yu Jiao explained, "Unlike selling yourself into slavery, I just hired you to work for me, belong to your owner, and do a good job of farming, and everything else has nothing to do with me, you are still free, just my workers, not my slaves." ”

"How much does that girl pay us a year?" Someone asked aloud.

Seeing that there was something to say, Yu Lingling moved a chair for Yu Jiao and made her a pot of tea.

Yu Jiao sat down on the chair and said slowly, "The north produces more than one stone of grain per mu, which everyone knows, but natural disasters and insect pests, who can't say for sure, so as long as the yield per mu reaches the average, the labor who works can receive eight taels of wages a year, if it does not reach the average, then it can only receive four taels, if the field is planted well, the harvest is higher than the average, the wage can go up, and the number of increases is two percent of the harvest." ”

Almost all of these people are illiterate, they are not good at arithmetic, and they don't understand Yu Jiao's words very well.

"What's the mean?" Someone asked in a whisper.

Yu Jiao took a sip of tea and explained, "Let me make an analogy, the field you planted yields one stone per mu, he is two stones, she is three stones, and the average is the grain yield of the three of you per mu together, and then averaged down, that is to say, if the yield per mu reaches two stones, you can receive ten taels of wages." ”

Yu Jiao pointed at the two stones and three stones of grain and smirked, and one of them said, "That means that we can get eight taels of wages." He pointed to the man who produced 'one stone' of grain, "He can only get five taels of wages?" ”

The man was suddenly a little unhappy, and muttered, "Girl, I'm a good farmer!" They can grow two or three stones, and so can I! ”

Yu Jiao chuckled lightly and continued, "One stone of grain is subject to the grain price of the year, take the price of grain in the north before the flood, the yield of three stones per mu This person planted four acres of land, and the total grain output was twelve stones, one stone and six dollars, and the market value of twelve stones of grain was seven or two two dollars, and the salary of two percent was one or two or four dollars and four yuan, which means that he could receive a salary of nine or four dollars. ”

Hearing this amount, many people were very moved, but they still asked cautiously, "Then if there is a flood like this year, the fields are flooded, and there is no harvest, will you still give us enough rations and pay us wages?" ”

Yu Jiao smiled and nodded, "As usual, I will draft the deed paper, and the deed paper will be written clearly, and the county government will keep it when you cross the road in the official mansion, and the county government will keep it, so you can rest assured." ”

"Girl, I have seven acres of land at home, and I want to sell them all!" Hearing Yu Jiao say this, these people have no worries, especially those with a large family population, you must know that they work hard to serve farmers all year round, and they have to worry about drought and flood locust plagues all day long, even if the rations are enough, it is difficult to have more money left.

"I have twelve acres at home, and I sold them all!" Immediately afterwards, the voices of people who wanted to sell all the fields came and went.

Yu Jiao raised her palm and pressed it down, and these people quickly fell silent.

"I still have to say some ugly things in advance, hire you to work, if you don't work hard and want to get paid, I will never allow it here." Yu Jiao's tone turned cold, "It's not a natural or man-made disaster, but it's lazy and slippery, the yield per mu is one-third different from the average, and the salary is nothing!" I will also terminate the employment contract with him. ”