Yoshida Mii

Chapter 233 The Workshop Starts

When the wheat is harvested and every family has planted corn and sorghum, Dongbao's workshop will start to work as Xia Chan's neighing becomes louder day by day.

A few days before the start of work, Dong Bao sat at the table and scribbled on the paper, writing the names of her favorite supervisors. It was impossible for her and Mrs. Li to stare at the workshop every day, and they had to be managed by trustworthy people.Lin Fu is the first Dong Bao can trust, of course it is the position of the manager, but the workshop has many types of business, in addition to tofu, there are also yuba, bean curd, bean curd, bean sprouts... Lin Fu is not a superman, no It may be possible to manage everything.

The remaining people who manage the various small departments will have to choose carefully.

Dong Bao has some headaches, Da Rong is simple and honest, but not smart enough, he has some problems with managing people, Da Wei is smart enough, but both he and He Hua belong to the kind of people who are too smart, it is difficult for Dong Bao to guarantee that Da Wei and his wife will be like Gui Zhi Darong and his wife cling to them so wholeheartedly, but she is even more worried about other people. Although Dawei and Hehua are smart, but after getting along for so long, Dongbao can at least guarantee that they have no bad intentions.

In fact, it is more convenient to sign a death contract... Dong Bao couldn't help sighing when he thought of Wang Wu's words.

"What are you worrying about?" Mrs. Li opened the curtain and came in, and handed me the sliced ​​melon that had been chilled with well water.

Dong Bao took it with a smile, took a bite, the cold sweet taste immediately suppressed the restlessness in his heart, and said to Mrs. Li: "Who do you want to be the steward of the workshop? When I was in Anzhou, someone I knew said that it would be better to sign the death contract for all these managers, so that I can feel more at ease when doing things, and there is not so much trouble."

"Oh, how can I do that!" Mrs. Li clapped her hands and shook her head, "We are all from the village, how can we have the nerve to sign a death contract with someone? For so long, they have helped us a lot, and we are not from the city. Some big family here... let’s forget about the death contract.”

Dong Bao knew that Li Shi would never agree to sign death contracts for those helpers and managers. In essence, Li Shi is still a peasant woman, and she hasn't realized that she can be counted as a landlord class. She just thinks that everyone It belongs to a villager. She opens a workshop to help the villagers earn wages, and earns some by herself. To open a workshop, she has to buy out the family. It's really... buying people or something, that's done by a big family, she can't do it Don't even dare to do this.

"I know." Dong Bao said with a smile. Anyway, it has been signed for ten years. At least for these ten years, the stewards should try their best to work for her. After ten years, I should leave it to Lin Shi. By then , Lin Shi should have grown into a man who can protect her from wind and rain.

Lin Fu walks with the wind these days, and the corners of his eyes and brows are filled with joy and pride that cannot be wiped away. He will soon be the chief manager of the workshop. He and Qiuxia have discussed it countless times. daughter-in-law disappointed.

Long before the wheat was harvested, after the news spread that Mrs. Li was going to open a workshop, the bosses of many shops in Yuanshui came over and asked if they wanted to sell tofu and tofu skin from Mrs. Li. Yuanshui is not a small town. Open a few tofu shops, and you can sell them. Besides, tofu is not a precious thing, and ordinary people can afford it.

Hearing that the workshop will also make yuba, tofu clothes and other dry goods that can be stored for a long time, the bosses are even more excited, because fools can't see the business opportunities inside.

Not only the boss of Yuanshui, but also many people from shops in the county, Anzhou and Qingzhou came to inquire about the news. The boss of Qingzhou is easy to say, Li Shi always asks them to talk to Lin Fu, Dongbao writes a contract, how many soybean products to supply every day , when to pay the deposit and the like.As for the owner of Anzhou, Lin Fu persuaded him to go back with apologetic words, because he had already negotiated with Wang Cong's shop, and Baoji's products were only supplied to Wang's shop, and there was no way to supply them.

The businessmen from Anzhou were naturally very disappointed and very regretful, but no one dared to complain, who made themselves not as quick as the Wang family?Besides, in the territory of Anzhou, who would dare to challenge the Wang family?Not only is the family powerful, but there are also many shops, and they are everywhere in Anzhou, so they can't compete.Isn't it just the tofu business? Let the Wang family monopolize it. Without the tofu business and other things, the family will not be unable to survive.

The workshop chose to open on May [-]th, which was a good day for Mrs. Li to find her husband.Early in the morning, Mr. Yan drove his family to Tagouji in a flatbed cart pulled by Dahui.

When Mrs. Li and the others were still far away from the entrance of Tagouji Village, a child guarding there rushed to the entrance of the village to report, "Here we come, Mrs. Li and Master Yan are here!"

Lin Fu and the others had been waiting at the entrance of the village for a long time, and when Mrs. Li and his cart arrived, they all rushed over excitedly, saying hello.

"Hey..." This is the first time that Mrs. Li has received such a grand treatment. Even the county magistrate may not be as popular as her when she travels. She blushed excitedly for a while and couldn't speak well. What, we are all from the village... don't engage in those fake things."

Surrounded by the crowd, Dong Bao and the others also got off the cart, letting Gui Zi lead the donkey cart to follow. When they reached the entrance of the workshop, Lin Fu took out the key hanging around his neck and opened the key hanging on the gate of the workshop. The big iron lock, and various tools are placed in the clean and spacious courtyard, displayed in front of everyone. Many people saw the scene in the workshop for the first time, and they all stood on tiptoes and stretched their necks to watch curiously.

Dong Bao suspected that all the old people and children from the entire Tagouji had come. The women gathered together with smiles, carrying dolls on their backs, and holding shoe soles in their hands. I went to a place to talk about the workshop, and proudly said that one of my sons or daughter-in-law had gone to work. In the smog, everyone was rosy, full of hope and expectation.

There were also many unfamiliar faces she didn't recognize, who looked enviously at the magnificent workshop in front of them, probably from other villages.

But among these people, there are no adults from the Song family, Da Mao and Er Mao are there, fighting with a bunch of snot-nosed children in the crowd, Da Mao is almost eleven, and he still looks completely heartless .

This is also what Dong Bao expected. The Song family will definitely not come to watch this excitement. They are proud and self-respecting. Of course, if they come to find various excuses to ask for money from time to time, they have to put on a look Money is a natural posture, and this pride and self-esteem can appear more real.

Dayong had already come over with a long bamboo pole as thick as an arm, and [-] bright red firecrackers had already been wrapped around the bamboo pole. When the children saw the firecrackers, they all cheered and clapped their hands to follow behind Dayong. Longer firecrackers mean they have more firecrackers to pick up after they are set off.

Lin Fu stood at the door of the workshop with a red face, coughed twice and cleared his throat, and the noisy crowd immediately fell silent.Lin Fu said loudly: "Today is a good day for the opening of Mrs. Li's workshop. Let's invite Mrs. Li to say a few words to everyone!"

Only the village head who sold the land to Dongbao and several important managers of Lin Fu know that the actual owner of the workshop is Dongbao. is the master.

Mrs. Li didn't expect that Lin Fu would go up to speak in front of everyone, shook his head repeatedly, blushed and waved his hands: "How can I say anything? I can't say it! You can just say it!"

Dawei and his supervisors quickly laughed and said: "Miss Li, everyone is waiting for you, go up and tell us a few words, no one in our village will say anything!"

"Yes, Mrs. Li, go up and say something!"

Li looked back at Master Yan and Dong Bao, both of them smiled encouragingly at her.

"Go up and say a few words." Lord Yan laughed softly, "You can say whatever you want in your heart, don't be afraid, I'm here."

Xiao Xu happily pushed Li Shi, "Mother, go up, everyone will let you talk!"

Encouraged by her husband and children, Mrs. Li became more confident. She rubbed her hands and said with an embarrassed smile, "Then I'll go up and talk about it?"

"Go, mother!" Dong Bao said, blinked again, and smiled in Li's ear: "They have to listen to what you say, and they have to applaud! Don't worry about anything."

Now that Mrs. Li is their food and clothing parent, if they want to work in the workshop to earn money, why not try their best to curry favor with the boss?

Li-shi smiled and nodded Dong Bao's forehead, "This girl!" As she spoke, Li-shi blushed slightly and walked to the gate.

Faced with hundreds of pairs of eyes staring at her, Li Shi was obviously not used to it. She blushed and didn't know what to say, and suddenly forgot what she had just thought about in her heart.

The onlookers stared at Mrs. Li. She wore a moon-white silk gown on her upper body, and a pleated skirt of lake blue floral muslin underneath. Her black hair was tied up in a bun behind her head, and she wore a silver hairpin. There are two pearl earrings the size of soybeans hanging on her ears.She doesn't look rich in her attire, but she looks like the kind of lady who is living a prosperous and comfortable life, and she doesn't look like a woman in her early thirties. If others don't recognize Li Shi, they will at most think Li Shi is 26.

"Ms. Li, this is a reward for suffering!" The women watching the fun whispered among the women, "I suffered so much at the old Song's house, and I felt pitiful... Now I look at her life. Just one or two years of effort, tsk tsk! No one can compare!"

"That's right! The old Song's family is immoral! There is such a good daughter-in-law and she scolds the sky. I heard that she doesn't get enough food, and she works like a cow! Mrs. Li is tired and sick, and she is not willing to spend money. , He just threw people and children out!"

"It deserves it! There's no place for them to regret it now!"

Some people from other villages didn't know what was going on here, so they hurriedly asked. For a while, the entrance of the workshop became lively again, with whispers.

"Everyone be quiet, let's listen to what Miss Li has to say." Lin Fu laughed loudly.

(End of this chapter)