Chen Xiao and Chunhong were talking, and a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy entered the store.

"Excuse me, is Shi Jingliang here?" The teenager asked.

Shi Jingliang is the daimyo of Xiao Shi, but few people call him a daimyō.

"Little Stone, someone is looking for you!" Chen Xiao shouted at the backyard.

Little Stone was washing things in the backyard and came out wiping his hands.

"Zhang Shun! When did you get back? Little Stone was very surprised to see the boy.

Hearing Zhang Shun, Chen Xiao looked at the young man. He was dressed in a kudzu cloth shirt, and looked polite, and his face was a little immature at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and he was taller than a small stone.

He is Zhang Shun, the son of Zhang Lizheng? If you look closely, the father and son look quite alike.

I heard Zhang Lizheng say before that his son followed the shopkeeper to Bac Ninh County, where the Sheng'an has an iron mine.

"Came back yesterday. I heard my dad say that you are here, and I will come to you today. Zhang Shun looks good when he laughs, he is a handsome little boy.

"By the way, I brought a snake, I heard that ......" Zhang Shun looked at Chen Xiao: "You are Chen Dongjia, right?" ”

"Yes." Chen Xiao smiled at him.

"I heard my dad talk about you last night. He said you like to eat snake meat, and it just so happened that we caught some snakes at home, so I will bring you one. ”

As he spoke, he lifted the sack in his hand.

Chunhong was admiring the handsome young man, and when she heard him say snake, her face changed. He lifted the sack again, and Chunhong took three steps back in fright.

"Thank you! Thank you dad for me. ”

Some time ago, Chen Xiao went to Nangou Village, and the peppers have been planted for more than a month, and they are growing well. She had a meal at Zhang Lizheng's house, and casually chatted about how she met Xiao Shi, Zhang Lizheng knew that she liked to eat snakes, and said that snakes would often be seen in the fields after May, and she would catch one for her when the time came.

Xiaoshi and Zhang Shun met by snake catchers. Before Zhang Shun went to Sheng'an to do business, the two of them often made an appointment to go out to catch snakes together.

"Come and sit in the backyard." Chen Xiao greeted.

"Thank you, I'll go to the business in a while." Zhang Shun said to Xiao Shi: "I heard that you cut the noodles very well, can you cut the bowl of noodles for me?" ”

Two teenagers who know each other very well are not polite when they talk to each other.

"Okay, I'll take the snake to the back first."

Little Stone took the sack and sent it to the backyard.

In the backyard, Fang Yu lay on a rocking chair, closing his eyes and recuperating.

Others look at him very leisurely, in fact, he is cultivating.

It's not good to practice behind closed doors in the room, so he bought a rocking chair and put it in the yard. He shook his eyes with his eyes closed, like an old woman.

"Brother Fang, there's a snake here, I'll put it in a clay pot."

Little Stone said hello in advance. Don't be like Wenxiu's sister-in-law last time, be startled.

Fang Yu did not answer. His body was cultivating, and his divine consciousness was very clear. He heard what they said just now.

The small stone turned the sack upside down and put the snake in the clay pot.

Regaining its freedom, the snake tried to crawl out, but as soon as its head reached the mouth of the tank, in an instant it retracted and lay obediently at the bottom of the tank.

Put the snake on the small stone and go to the front shop to cut noodles.

Chen Xiao chatted with Zhang Shun. In fact, about Zhang Shun's situation, his father has already introduced it.

He is 16 years old this year, and has been in Sheng'an for two years, because he is literate, diligent, and clever, and the shopkeeper takes him with him for training. He often ran around with the shopkeeper, sometimes going out for a month or two.

Regarding Chen Xiao, Zhang Lizheng also told his son. She entrusted him to plant peppers, and she bought all the peppers she planted, and she paid three dollars a pound. According to her, one acre of land is conservatively estimated to be six or seven hundred catties. In short, it is more cost-effective to grow peppers than rice, so he first planted ten acres to try.

The two chatted for a while, and the little stone came. Chen Xiao said hello and went back to the backyard.

Looking at the small stone face, Zhang Shun said:

"I was thinking about getting you into the business, but I didn't expect you to settle here. What do you think? It's okay here. ”

The business guy is required to be over fourteen years old, and Xiao Shi was not yet fourteen years old before.

The little stone said while cutting the dough:

"I don't want to enter the Sheng'an."

"Sheng'an is not only a place in Anxian County, you can go to Bac Ninh, Nanzhong, and Jinghe."

"Wherever you go, the big shopkeeper will go."

His mother is in Gao Can, the big shopkeeper of Sheng'an Firm, and the treatment is not bad.

Gao Can was a native of Xiling and was sent to South Vietnam to serve as the chief treasurer. He had a wife and children in Xiling, and took two more concubines on the side of Nanyue.

Xiaoshi's mother, she didn't say that she was a concubine at the time, but later gave birth to a son, and she was actually a concubine.

Gao Can's other two concubines are also from South Vietnam. Xiao Shi heard that the two of them were sorry for his mother, and after Gao Can found out, they beat him, and the two of them were honest from then on.

Speaking of which, Gao Can is actually quite good to his mother. Gao Can would give his mother silver, and his mother would give him the silver. In the past, when the little stone could not make money, he took it, but when he could earn money, he never asked for it again.

"How much silver do you have a month here?" Zhang Shun asked.

Hearing this, Xiao Shi smiled: "Guess what." ”

"Three-two?"

Little Stone shook his head.

"Four taels?"

Little Stone wanted to nod, but shook his head anyway.

"It can't be five taels!"

Zhang Shun is an account clerk and is very clear about all kinds of different levels of wages. Generally, the two or three taels of the running hall, the small stones will cut the noodles, and the salary may be more, but this is just a small restaurant, and the salary is not much more.

"My salary is not fixed. Combined, her and I are paid 20% of the net profit. He said and pointed to Chunhong.

Zhang Shun was stunned, there is still such a salary?

"Now our business has just started, three or four taels a month, and when the business is good in the future, the salary will be more."

Zhang Shun calculated according to the average restaurant he knew, if the business here reached a certain scale......

He said: "If business improves, I'm afraid we will have to hire more people!" When the time comes, if the salary is still 20%, ......"

Xiaoshi waved his hand: "It doesn't matter! The most important thing is to be happy, and I'm happy here. ”

In fact, he knew that Sister Chen had a business that had not yet started, for example, she asked Zhang Shun's father to grow peppers and raise chickens, making it clear that there would be other businesses in the future.

Xiao Shi looked indifferent, but Chunhong's face changed when she heard it.

How did she not think about it.

Last month's net profit was 20%, which was 926 coins of silver, and she and Xiaoshi each got 428. If another person is hired, and the two will not change, then she will only have three or two.

Zhang Shun smiled: "It's good if you're happy." ”

He took his leave after eating the knife-cut noodles. As long as he doesn't go to other places to do a long business, he is in the county almost every day, and the two of them can meet at any time, so they don't have to talk much at this time. Besides, he still has something to do.

After Zhang Shun left, Chunhong fell into deep thought.

Originally, she thought that according to this momentum, she would be able to pay off twenty taels of silver in four or five months.

But

If you hire more people......