Fight the Giants

  Chapter 461 Know people and make good use of them

  Huo Xi led An An to the outside of the courtyard, and saw Huo Erhuai and Wu Dongsheng Wu Qiushui brothers talking about something.

  Huo Xi turned to look at Huo Nian, Huo Nian nodded to her, and said in a low voice, "That student Wu Dong asked father to do a job, but father said he couldn't decide."

  Huo Xi understood in his heart as soon as he heard it. It seems that the life of his family is not easy after they quit their nationality. He walked over.

   Wu Dongsheng appeared from Huo Xi and saw her. He didn't expect that he had resolutely left his slavery at the beginning, and now he came to his door again. But now life can't go on, and I don't care too much. The sage also said that a man must bend and stretch, and a family must live.

  Wu Dongsheng was thinking in a daze, Wu Qiushui had already walked towards Huo Xi.

   Opened his mouth a little embarrassedly: "My brother, he wants to find some work in our village."

  At the beginning, his elder brother was the head of the Zhuangzi. He used to live in the Zhuangzi.

   Unexpectedly, in just a few years, his brother's life is not as good as his own.

  Huo Xi looked at Wu Dongsheng, "Are you looking for work alone, or as a family?"

  U Dongsheng was a little embarrassed when asked, "I'm looking for a job by myself."

At the beginning, I left my nationality and settled down in a nearby village. I saved money and bought ten acres of land. I sent my son to study. I can't even read books.

One mu of land produces about four stones of grain per season. He also followed Zhuangzi's example and planted grain for two seasons, but even so, the seeds cost money, and the farm tools cost money. After deducting the land tax and small tax, he left the family to eat Yes, one mu of land can't save two taels of silver a year.

  He imitated Zhuangzi and planted mulberry seedlings on the field stalks and raised some silkworms. Even so, he didn't have a few taels of silver left over a year.

  Looking at the second brother’s family again, they don’t have to worry about food and drink, and they get monthly silver. Working in Zhuangzi’s workshop, they can get a lot of money every month. The two nephews, one in the village and the other in the shop, have been reused.

  My niece, Youxi, works on the Zhuangzi, and she can get one or two taels of silver a month. When she got married last year, the owner of the village gave her a dowry of twenty taels, plus what she saved herself, which is even more beautiful than his youngest daughter getting married.

  Even his old mother was able to get a tael of silver a month for doing some casual work in the workshop, and distributed cloth and meat during the New Year.

  Udon felt a little ashamed. How come I'm not as good as my younger brother's family when I'm out of school.

  He has been the head of the Zhuangzi, and he knows what kind of life the slaves in the Zhuangzi live. How can the Zhuangzi he left be different from others.

   Wu Dongsheng looked at the young boss in front of him. I heard that even her parents listened to her. She is young and has extraordinary means. Those hands are hands that make money.

  Wu Dongsheng regained his composure, and showed his loyalty to Huo Xi very much.

  Huo Xi sized him up while listening. This family was a little arrogant, and she could tell from the beginning. Studying and taking the imperial examination, it is too difficult for a family with no background to support a scholar with a reputation.

   Now it’s hard to survive, and only Wu Dongsheng came out to find a job. Others are afraid that they still can't bear to lose face.

   "Do you want to naturalize?"

Wu Dong choked, "I'm not naturalized. But I will be loyal to my family. I have been the head of the farm for more than ten years, and I know the affairs of the farm. I can do accounts and read the books, and do business with people Negotiations, I think I can handle them."

  U Dongsheng recommended himself to Huo Xi, talking about using his various advantages.

  Huo Xi thought, according to her thinking, she would never use this kind of person again. But at the beginning, his old mother and brother's family were left behind, and they communicated in private, but they couldn't tear each other apart.

  Wu Dongsheng has some abilities, he is shrewd and practical, and it is best to have such a person in his hands. It is better to offend a gentleman than to offend a villain. For such a person, it is more beneficial for him to use him than not to use him.

   "What kind of work are you looking for?"

  Wu Dongsheng was overjoyed, "I would like to listen to the arrangement of the master."

  Huo Xi pondered for a while. With U Dongsheng's status, it is most suitable for him to deal with Zhuangzi and farmers.

  He used to be the head of the village and managed the servants. He considers himself superior. He talks about business with the head of the village and the farmers in the village.

After thinking for a while, he said: "After the New Year, I will arrange for you to take people to collect grain, and I will give you money for two or two months in January. If you can meet the grain harvest target, I will give you an extra bonus. The more you receive, the more rewards you will receive. "

   "Yes. Thank you for your boss's trust. Dongsheng will be loyal and serve the master." Wu Dongsheng was so excited that he didn't expect this little boss to use him regardless of the past.

  Wu Qiushui was also happy for his brother, and thanked Huo Xi and Huo Erhuai repeatedly. The two brothers walked away together, walking briskly.

  Huo Erhuai frowned, he didn't want to use such repetitive people.

  Back then when his family was so short of people, Xi'er wanted to keep him, but he didn't understand his family's difficulties, so he turned around and left with his family. Now that there is no shortage of people in his family, his family can't live on anymore, and they come back to work again.

   "Xi'er, we don't have any shortage of people now. Why do we need such a person?"

"Father, he has been the head of the village for so many years, and he is familiar with the servants in the village, and his family is in the village. It is impossible to prevent him from interacting. He is also familiar with the heads of the surrounding villages. In hand, it is better than offending him and letting him trip us outside."

   "Then why don't we drive his family out?"

Huo Xi smiled: "Then the current Zhuangtou Qi Da's family will also be evicted? Qi Da and Wu Qiushui are relatives. The servants in this village are more or less related, and they will all be driven out. Besides, Qi Da and Wu Qiushui The Qiushui family are working very hard."

  Huo Erhuai couldn't bear to drive everyone away. After all these years, these servants worked hard and were obedient, so he used them easily. It's just that I still have feelings for this udon student.

When I went back and chatted with Mrs. Yang, Mrs. Yang said to him: "You have also collected grain, and you know the difficulties. When you go to the village, and people ask for it, you don't even check it, and you don't ask for the price. This family Poor, that family is also pitiful, the returned millet is either not enough to weigh two pounds, or it is soaked in sand and stones, and the millet has a lot of empty shells and shriveled."

  Huo Erhuai looked embarrassed.

  Yang gave him a glare, his father was kind and soft-hearted, Xi'er asked him to collect food outside, he always had big hands when he saw people living in unsatisfactory situations. It doesn't matter if you have big hands, if people don't let you check it, you will always be cheated.

  But she is also thin-skinned, it is best for someone like Udon Sheng to do this kind of thing.

"Wu Dongsheng is shrewd and thoughtful. I don't like him either, but Xi'er is right. I'd rather offend a gentleman than a villain. What if he trips us up outside? Then he will collect the food." At that time, if we let our people follow, he will not be able to do anything."

  Huo Erhuai nodded after hearing this: "I just don't like people who repeat themselves like this. But now that we're giving him benefits and taking care of his family, he should focus on doing things for our family, right?"

   Does anyone know how much a plastic cup of rice weighs? I remember that I used to eat rice at school, and I could eat two taels of rice, and two taels of rice should not be equal to two taels of rice. I eat a little more than half of a plastic cup of rice at a meal, and I don't know how much it weighs.

  (end of this chapter)