Chapter Twenty-Seven: Meeting the White Lotus
With the help of Qi Ling and Aunt Zhao, the Peach Blossom Flower Picking Team finally filled several cloth bags before sunset.
Everyone transported the picked flowers back to the courtyard of Aunt Zhao's house, and they all hesitated, you push me, I push you, and they looked like they had something to say to Qi Ling.
Qi Ling knew it and knew that they wanted them to pay this half-day's salary first.
As for why they didn't speak, it was because there was no precedent for any family to pay half a day's wages for their work. But they couldn't believe that such a high salary was in the first place, so they were afraid that Qi Ling was just fooling them.
At lunchtime, Qi Ling asked Gu Jinfeng for hundreds of copper plates, and planned to pay the workers in the workshop in the afternoon after they finished their work, so she was expected to see this kind of scene at this time.
"Let's line up first, I'm going to start paying this half-day's salary!" Qi Ling shouted as he stood in the middle of the courtyard.
Hearing that the salary was going to be paid, everyone except Aunt Zhao and Peach Blossom came up, and their faces were full of joy.
Aunt Zhao and Peach Blossom were worried that Qi Ling would send her salary before it opened, and they were worried that she would not have enough money in her hand.
"We said before that a person would have fifty copper plates a day, but today he only worked for half a day, so one person only issued twenty-five copper plates." Qi Ling was afraid of any disputes, so he explained clearly before sending money.
"Of course, we only worked for half a day, if you send us a day's salary, we don't dare to accept it, how can there be such a good thing in the world, we are down-to-earth, do a day's work and get a day's salary, everyone said yes?"
One of the workers was a straightforward little daughter-in-law who said that she was unforgiving in the village on weekdays, but she was a very good person.
"That's not it, you don't have to worry about it, we all understand it." Everyone nodded in agreement.
Seeing this, Qi Ling asked everyone to line up, and each of them sent twenty-five copper plates, and she planned to send them again when there was no one for a while.
The family background that can come to work is not too good, and dozens of copper plates have been able to be used in the village for more than half a month, so everyone is very happy with the wages they have received.
In the morning, the aunt of the Liu family, holding the money with a look of disbelief on her face, muttered to herself: "It turns out that I can really pay so much salary every day, until just now, I was worried that the money would not be sent in my hand." ”
"Yes, it's only half a day's worth today, and tomorrow if we do a day's work, we'll pay another day, which is really a lot, comparable to two days' wages in some places where we work." An eldest lady standing next to Aunt Liu said.
"Owner, will we be paid on the same day in the future?" Some people are worried that Qi Ling is just doing it today, and he won't be so timely in the future.
"Of course, in the future, when we finish work every evening, we will pay everyone's wages for the day here."
Qi Ling used to be in modern times, and he had seen the kind of unscrupulous bosses who were in arrears of wages on the social news, forcing employees to pull banners to collect debts, and he was very ashamed of those bosses in his heart, and of course he would not be that kind of person.
In the midst of everyone's joy, suddenly a discordant voice appeared.
"The owner, why don't you also pay Aunt Zhao and Peach Blossom's wages, are their wages higher than ours? But everyone is doing the same work today, so why are they paid more than us? ”
Sure enough, it was the lotus fragrance who said this, she was already a little thin, and she spoke softly, but she looked like she was thinking about people, but as soon as she said this, it undoubtedly made people feel that Qi Ling was a little unfair.
In modern times, there is a special name called "White Lotus". This kind of white lotus basically has a weak appearance, and she always looks angry, as if the whole world is bullying her.
Isn't this lotus fragrance a white lotus, she deliberately provoked trouble several times, but in the end, she looked like she had been wronged, broke her teeth and swallowed it alive, Qi Ling really didn't like this person.
If it weren't for the fact that it would take some more effort to find another person, and now I don't know why she is so hostile to herself, if she doesn't keep it by her side, she doesn't know what trouble she will bring to herself, Qi Ling really wants to fire her directly, but now she can only endure her for a few more days.
But it's not that easy to find trouble!
"I'll say it directly in front of everyone today, Aunt Zhao and Peach Blossom will be the little stewards of our workshop in the future, if I'm not there one day, they will pay everyone and take everyone to do things, so naturally their wages are higher than everyone, do you have any opinions?"
Peach Blossom didn't pay Aunt Zhao and the others directly just now because of this reason, Qi Ling is most familiar with them in this village, so naturally he will think more about them if there is any benefit, which is also human nature.
"Nope." Everyone at the bottom shook their heads except for Hexiang, their thoughts were very simple, it was already good to earn so much salary every day, why should they think about anything else.
Qi Ling saw that everyone was very responsible, and nodded silently in his heart.
The mentality of contentment is very good, there are always people in the world who have a higher salary than you, live a more comfortable life than you, if you see one, you will envy one, and even question why others live better than you, then you can only live a lifetime of pain in this kind of unbelievable emotion.
Qi Ling actually has some ideas in her heart, she will never always supply that rouge shop, sooner or later she will have her own shop, and a few people in her small workshop will definitely not be enough at that time, so she will definitely recruit more people in the future.
Among these people now, they will all become old employees when the time comes, and they will definitely be treated better. But she won't say this idea to everyone right now, but she still has to encourage them.
"But don't worry, if anyone does a good job in the future, I will also give her processing money, our rule here is that capable people earn more."
When they heard that they would have to raise their wages in the future, everyone was full of joy and looked eager to try.
Fifty copper plates is already a lot, and it can still rise again, so I must work hard to increase my wages again! That's what everyone thinks on their minds.
Qi Ling didn't know that his words had actually aroused the enthusiasm of the workers, but he had no intention of inserting willows into the willows.
Seeing everyone like this, Hexiang didn't dare to say anything anymore, but she felt more and more that Qi Ling was a very cunning person, and her hatred for her became stronger and stronger.