Chapter 52: Preparation
After pasting the red paper, Cai Xiaoxiao and Zhao Kangcheng set off for the town.
In the early morning, the villagers woke up one after another, and when they passed by Zhao Kangcheng's home, they all saw a striking red paper pasted on the wall, on which a series of words were written with a black brush.
There are illiterate curious people who ask the literate ones: "What is written on it?" ”
The literate man stepped forward to look at it and said, "It's a job recruitment information, saying that the villagers are invited to help build a house, and the salary is ...... Twenty copper plates! ”
"Twenty copper plates?" The crowd was amazed. This salary can be said to be lucrative.
"But it's close to the back mountain, it's dangerous." Someone said.
"Yes, yes, if you run into a beast, it's over."
"However, most beasts don't come down during the day, do they?" Someone else said, "And twenty copper plates are really not cheap." ”
"Yes, yes......"
On the one hand, it was the awe of the back mountain, and on the other hand, it was the heart of the salary, everyone was a little hesitant, not knowing how to choose, and then left one after another.
Old man Cai also learned about the recruitment information, although he was very excited about the twenty copper plates, he was afraid of death, so he decided to ignore the news.
On the other side, Cai Xiaoxiao and Zhao Kangcheng arrived at the store, and now there are three people in the store to help, so Cai Xiaoxiao and Zhao Kangcheng are a lot easier, Cai Xiaoxiao goes to the store every day, as long as the ingredients needed for breakfast are ready, and then see what kind of dim sum and desserts are almost out and then make up, basically there is nothing to be busy with, occasionally she will take the time to fill the amount of hot sauce, after all, since there is a young man, she can't break it even if she wants to.
By the way, the young man's name is Zheng Yi, and he is the famous young master of the Zheng family in this town, dragging his blessing, Cai Xiaoxiao's hot sauce business is particularly good, and it can be said that hot sauce is one of the most important sources of income in her store at present.
"Do I need to stock in the store today?" Cai Xiaoxiao asked Cai Yan, now Cai Yan is responsible for counting the number of goods in the store, and then told Cai Xiaoxiao if she needs to buy goods.
"Madam, there is no need to buy goods at the moment, the goods in the store are still sufficient." Cai Yan replied.
"That's good, then I'll leave it to you, we want to see the bricks and cement." Cai Xiaoxiao said.
"Bricks and cement?" Zhao Wu and the others were puzzled, "Are the lord and lady going to build something?" ”
"Hmm." Cai Xiaoxiao nodded, "Prepare for the new house." ”
"New house? Is it to build a new house in the village? Zhao Jie thought that Cai Xiaoxiao and Zhao Kangcheng had inadvertently mentioned it before, and asked.
"Hmm." Zhao Kangcheng answered.
"That's really congratulations to the lord and the lady." The three of them smiled and said, "Is there anything we can do to help?" Cai Yan asked.
"You guys just take care of the store, let's go." Waving at the three of them, Cai Xiaoxiao and Zhao Kangcheng left the store and went to the place where cement and stone bricks were sold.
Zhao Kangcheng, the place where the bricks are sold, went to see the bricks last time, so they went to see the bricks first, because at present, they only made houses, and the wall was put aside first, so they only looked at the price of red bricks.
The price of bricks is very cheap, one copper plate can buy ten bricks, so calculated, the house should not need much silver to build, which makes Cai Xiaoxiao very satisfied, because then there is extra money to build a fence.
Because he was not sure how many bricks to use, Cai Xiaoxiao discussed with Zhao Kangcheng and decided to book the number of bricks for ten taels of silver first.
The next thing is to look at cement, cement is much more expensive than bricks, a bag costs a tael of silver! Cai Xiaoxiao only needs three bags for the time being.
Whether it was bricks or cement, she told the boss to come back in the evening to get it, paid the deposit, and the two went back to the store.
After a busy day, Cai Xiaoxiao and Zhao Kangcheng returned to the village, Cai Xiaoxiao was thinking all the way, how many people would be willing to help, although she lowered her expectations a lot, but when she really saw the number of people, she was still very disappointed - because there were only three scattered people, and one of them was actually -
"Uncle Zhang?" Cai Xiaoxiao and Zhao Kangcheng looked at Uncle Zhang in surprise, "Why are you here?" ”
"What, aren't you looking for workers here? That's why I'm here. Uncle Zhang said.
"But, but ......"
"Don't make trouble Uncle Zhang, we are young people who need to build a house, you ......" Zhao Kangcheng wanted to persuade Uncle Zhang not to come nonsense, but Uncle Zhang was not happy to hear it:
"What do you mean by that? Do you think I'm old? Yes? ”
The other two villagers laughed.
Zhao Kangcheng was helpless and said: "Uncle Zhang, we understand that you have that heart, but this job is really not suitable for you, if something happens to you, how can we explain to Aunt Zhang?" ”
Cai Xiaoxiao also said: "Uncle Zhang, didn't you tell Aunt Zhang that you wanted to participate, right?" ”
"Forehead......" Uncle Zhang was stunned, his eyes fluttering.
"Sure enough......" Cai Xiaoxiao knew that she had guessed correctly, and helplessly held her forehead, "Uncle Zhang, you better go back quickly, otherwise that Aunt Zhang will be in a hurry at home." ”
With the help of Aunt Zhang, the two finally persuaded Uncle Zhang to leave, and the remaining two, Cai Xiaoxiao and Zhao Kangcheng, also knew each other, they were two rare orphans in the village, one was named Zhang Mu and the other was Li Yuan, who was only about twenty years old.
When asked why they came, they said it was for life, after all, twenty copper plates a month was really too tempting for them.
"But the back mountain is dangerous, and you've heard about it." Cai Xiaoxiao reminded, "Do you want to participate in this way?" ”
"yes, I know." Li Yuan nodded, "But that's just everyone's rumor, isn't it, I haven't really seen the beast go down the mountain." ”
He's a smart man. Cai Xiaoxiao commented in her heart.
"In that case, how about you come over and work when we have all the people we have recruited?" Cai Xiaoxiao asked.
"No problem." Both of them have no opinion.
After registering the names of the two on the paper and sending the two away, Cai Xiaoxiao lay on the table in frustration: "It's not okay to have only two people, Xianggong, what should I do?" ”
"Then as I said before, I'll go to the tooth market tomorrow to see if there is anyone who can use it." Zhao Kangcheng said.
"That's all it can be." Originally, she also wanted to use the opportunity to build a house to let the villagers make a fortune, it seems that everyone's awe of the back mountain is far greater than the temptation of money.
Cai Xiaoxiao shook his head funny, and Zhao Kangcheng put away the table, and the two went to the courtyard, Zhao Wangshi asked them how they were recruiting, and the two shook their heads, which Zhao Wangshi also looked expected.