After entering the main hall and sitting down, Ma quickly brought honey water to her. Knowing that she didn't like drinking tea, she specially prepared honey water.
Others who went to wash their hands followed.
There wasn't much room in the main hall, and half of the people were standing in the corridor. Everyone was looking inside, waiting for Song Qiu to say something.
Song Qiu took a sip of honey water, then looked at the crowd and said, "That's why I'm here today."
"I said before when I signed the work contract that I hired you for the needs of the inn, but right now you don't know anything, so I have to train you until you are all familiar with it."
Just like Meng Chaoqun and the others, they also got to know each other in the inn for three months before they could go out and take charge of their own affairs. Moreover, they already had their own skills. For example, Zhong knew how to work on the stove, and Meng Chaoqun knew how to read and write and plan.
It’s easy to get familiar with the disk, so it’s quick to get familiar with it.
But Huang Qi and others have never done anything before, so they have a lot to learn.
"So, what we have to do today is to look at your respective abilities and assign you things you can learn."
Song Qiu thought about it for two days and planned to divide the work between them and learn their own strengths.
The waiter's job is the simplest, as long as he greets people with a smile, has nimble legs and feet, and can always see in his eyes.
Secondly, arranging the carriages and horses is also simple, which is to receive guests, feed the horses with water and fodder, and take good care of them.
Finally, the work of the kitchen and the work of the shopkeeper cannot be careless and must be carefully selected.
When selecting people, Song Qiu plans to first select those who will cook in the kitchen and those who are suitable to be the shopkeeper.
As a shopkeeper, it is most clear that a person must be smart and eager to learn, and it is best to have a foundation of literacy.
Among these people, only Huang Qi knew some words, while Liuzi was smooth-talking, always smiled when meeting everyone, he was also smart, and he was a good young man.
Song Qiu picked and picked, but felt that the two of them had the potential to be cultivated as shopkeepers, so he asked them to step aside first.
Then there's the kitchen chores.
Song Qiu asked carefully. Among these people, girls including Yue'er can cook. They used to have three meals a day. They only know how to make porridge and make some side dishes. Others can't.
But the best thing is that you have a foundation and can learn from it.
In addition, everyone on the boy's side said that Bench and Shunzi are good at kitchen knives. They used to beg for money, and when they got more copper coins, they would buy a cheap meal of pig hearts, lungs and other offal and go back to make tooth sacrifices.
It is also a meat dish. In order to eat two more slices per person, it must be cut thinly, and Bench and Shunzi are the best cuts.
When Song Qiu heard this, he was also pleasantly surprised. He knew he was good at knife skills. If he practiced more, he could become a side dish as well.
Then another group of people were selected.
All that's left is the waiter and the people to arrange the carriages and horses.
All the young people, including Mu Mu, are hard-working and capable. This is an easy task, as long as you study more and practice more, you can do it.
After dividing these major jobs, Song Qiu inspected them one by one, and then selected a few of the most spiritual ones, planning to take them away later, send them to the inn, and give them to Tao Zheng and others to learn from them first.
There was only one inn for practical training, so naturally only batches came.
Huang Qi was the first one. He had a foundation of literacy, so he went to follow Tao Zheng and asked him to practice writing and learn abacus.
As for the sixth son, although he was also a good candidate to be a shopkeeper, he didn't know a word yet, so Song Qiu put him in the next batch. Before that, he would go to Zhuangzi to run errands with Lin Desheng and learn how to read.
Yue'er and Huang Qi were a couple, so naturally they had to go together. She was good at cooking and was quick to learn, so they went to the inn to learn from Wang and the others first.
The other one, Bench, also went to the inn kitchen to learn how to cut and prepare vegetables.
Then I picked two little girls, Ah Yin and Xiao Yi, to go to the inn, where they could help wash the dishes and do odd jobs.
From the rest, she picked four more: Tian Gen'er, Dazhong, Nail and Xiaoma, and went to the waiter's job of arranging carriages and horses.
Two more people, Mian Mian and Fangzi, were selected to go to the tea shed to help and familiarize themselves with the tea shed's regulations.
This time, we will arrange to go out to eleven.
Song Qiu thought for a while, picked out two more, and planned to send them to the dessert shop in the town. If nothing else, he first wanted to familiarize himself with entertaining guests.
Of the thirty-six, there are only twenty-three left. The sixth son also has something to do, which is equivalent to twenty-two left.
These twenty-two, let’s not rush for now and stay in Zhuangzi to do other things.
Song Qiu had arrangements, but those who were not singled out were all anxious. They also wanted to have something to do quickly and did not want to be idle.
Even small dogs, such as dogs, are worried that they will not have any work arrangements and will live and eat in vain.
Especially wood, because his sister needs to take medicine and he has paid her wages in advance. If she doesn't do anything, she won't feel at ease.
Song Qiu looked at it and smiled and said: "I won't be idle. Zhuangzi, there are other things you need to do. Do the Zhuangzi's things first, and then I will slowly transfer you to the inn."
Everyone listened and felt a little at ease.
But what did Zhuangzi do?
Hurry up and arrange for them to do it!
Taking advantage of the fact that the sun was still small and not too hot, Song Qiu took the lead in person, carrying a basket, carrying wood and others carrying baskets on their backs, and left the village, heading for the five acres of pepper fields in front of the village.
go.
"Have you seen these peppers? These are all from Zhuangzi. The first thing you have to do is to pick off these red peppers and send them back to Zhuangzi."
Picking red peppers is such a simple task that a child of any age can do it.
Song Qiu took the lead and entered the pepper field. While picking, he also demonstrated clearly to them, "In addition to picking the red ones, you can also pick the half-red and half-black ones, but they are still green. Just keep them as long as you want."
Two days later, we’ll pick them again later.”
At that moment, Mu Mu and others carefully stood in the pepper ridge and began to pick red peppers.
Huang Qi, who was picked out first, and Song Qiu, who was still there at the moment, followed them to pick peppers.
The land in Lishugou is all paddy field, and all paddy is grown. It is the time to break paddy here, the sun is not bright yet, and some villagers are breaking paddy in the fields.
Seeing the commotion here, someone couldn't help but come over and ask, "Song Xiaodong's family, are they going to collect red peppers?"
Song Qiu raised his head and looked over. When he saw it was Huang Dafu, he replied: "Are all your peppers red?"
Huang Dafu wiped his sweat and said: "Not yet, my family has planted three acres of peppers. They were planted later than your five acres, my little boss. Now some of them are starting to turn black, and they haven't turned red yet!"
"Really? I just remembered that my five acres of land were planted earlier, so you guys shouldn't be so quick. Don't be in a hurry. I'll harvest them later when they are all red."
Song Qiu said: "Don't worry, I told you to harvest as many as you want. Even if they are red, they won't rot in the ground!"
Huang Dafu smiled naively, "I trust my little boss, so I'm not afraid! Just looking at my little boss, you picked up red peppers right now. I'm curious to ask!"
Song Qiu picked the peppers from these five acres of land first, so it was natural that he had an arrangement.
The peppers will be harvested in half a month, and the land will be cleared by then. She also wants to plant a second crop of peppers in July.
If she grows more crops, she can harvest tens of thousands more pounds. She can also make more bean paste, red oil, etc., as well as dried chili peppers. Although they are not sold, they are for the inn's own use and are indispensable all year round.