Chapter 403 The chaos before the restaurant opened
Chapter 403 The chaos before the restaurant opened
Lin Jinxiao looked around and looked at the busy craftsmen around him, thinking that next year the yard would be full of flowers and it would be very pleasant.
Looking up at the top of my head, I saw pink oil-paper umbrellas held up high by bamboo poles standing neatly everywhere. Various patterns of flowers and birds were interspersed in the umbrellas, giving the whole garden a unique beauty.
At the end of the paper umbrella is a small courtyard surrounded by bamboo fences.
Chu Nanzhi pulled Lin Jinxiao and continued to walk in. Seeing him looking at the courtyard in a daze, she couldn't help but explain to him: "The guest rooms in the two-story pavilion on the right side of the restaurant are for ordinary overnight guests. Go inside
When these dozens of small courtyards are fully completed, they can be provided to distinguished guests who come to stay for a short stay."
In my own world, it should be named after a vacation villa.
"Many ordinary people may not be able to afford such a luxurious courtyard throughout their lives, but they can occasionally spend a few taels of silver to experience the life of such a wealthy compound."
After Chu Nanzhi said with a smile, Lin Jinxiao looked at her with admiration again.
It seems that I underestimated her again.
She really has a business mind and has all kinds of novel ideas.
He is a very sentimental person who transformed the originally boring yard into something so interesting.
The group of people listened to Chu Nanzhi's speech indifferently. As soon as they stepped onto the stone arch bridge, they heard a loud noise coming from the pond in the distance.
Chu Nanzhi took a closer look and saw that it was Zhou. Liu Piaopiao argued with the person again.
Liu Yun recognized him as a villager from Tong'an Village and rushed over first.
Seeing this, Chu Nanzhi followed closely with Lin Jinxiao and the little treasures.
"Isn't this the eldest sister of the Zhang family? What's going on? It's fine. Why are you still arguing?"
Liu Yun stepped forward and pulled the middle-aged woman who was quarreling with Liu Piaopiao and asked urgently.
Chu Nanzhi also glanced at the leading woman and realized that she learned cooking from Liu Piaopiao.
Then he looked at the pond, where Ma Laifu was leading the fishermen from Haikang County to arrange the fish.
She had no choice but to look at her aunt and Mrs. Zhou first, and looked at Mrs. Zhang with a heavy gaze.
Mrs. Zhang hurriedly walked to Chu Nanzhi and bowed her body respectfully: "Nan Zhi, ah, Madam Chu, it's not that the servants are not keeping their word, it's just that there is really no other way. We must go back to the village."
"What happened?"
Chu Nanzhi looked at the group of women surrounding her and asked hesitantly.
She had previously asked Liu Yun to recruit a dozen women and a dozen male handymen in the village. During this period, she had been training them with the Zhou family and the Chu family sisters on various matters in the kitchen and restaurant. Now she saw
It's about to open, but they actually want to give it up, which is really embarrassing.
Mrs. Zhang and the women around her looked at each other in disbelief, still unable to speak, and finally had to grit their teeth and said: "Ms. Chu, Sister Liu, please don't press me anymore, we have to go back anyway."
Liu Piaopian was so angry that she gasped: "Mrs. Zhang, you are not kind. When my second sister mentioned this in the village, you all rushed to enter the city. Now my niece Nanzhi has made arrangements for you.
I have started working, settled into a place of residence, and I have been training you for nearly a month. You are just thinking about throwing away your hands and leaving at this time, which is unjustifiable both emotionally and rationally."
Chu Nanzhi stopped her angry aunt and comforted everyone:
"Ladies, if you have any difficulties or difficulties, you can tell me. I will try my best to help you. As my aunt said, you have been here for almost a month, and you can get it right away.
You’ve already earned a month’s wages, so why would you want to leave? Is it possible that you can earn more than one tael of silver in a month in the village?”
Although her tone was as calm as possible, these women and male servants did not dare to say a word.
Lin Jinxiao roughly guessed the clues, looked at everyone with a cold expression, and said solemnly: "But the Qi family is making things difficult for you?"
As soon as he finished speaking, many villagers in Tong'an Village were frightened and lowered their heads with guilty conscience.
Lin Jinxiao reminded Chu Nanzhi immediately that most of the fields in Tong'an Village belong to the Qi family, with a small amount owned by Concubine Yue, the Shen family and several other wealthy families.
If I hired these villagers myself, I'd be afraid that many families would be hired by the Qi family.
Chu Nanzhi secretly gritted his teeth. The Qi family was really his nemesis, it was really hateful, but after all, the land belonged to others, and it would not be illegal for him not to rent it.
However, Lin Jinxiao couldn't swallow this breath and said sternly: "In broad daylight and the world is bright, I don't believe that the Qi family has the ability to act arrogantly under my nose."
Mrs. Zhang was so frightened that she knelt down on the ground and cried: "Mr. Lin, you also know that most of us in Tong'an Village have to rely on the Qi family's fields to feed our families. Although you have issued a land equalization policy, we
The only official fields in Tong'an Village are at the foot of Nanhua Mountain and are rented to mulberry farmers who raise silkworms. We can't go outside the village to cultivate other official fields.
The autumn harvest has just begun, and the weather is not good. The harvested grain is limited, and we can’t even pay the rent, let alone the court’s taxes. We can’t take care of this, but we can’t take care of the other. I thought
Come to Chu Niangzi Restaurant to earn some money to supplement the family's expenses and pay the rent early. Who would have thought that the Qi family would be urging me to pay for the rent, otherwise the land would be taken back."
"If you earn more than one tael a month in the city, why not plant a few acres of land in the village?"
Lin Jinxiao was a little frustrated: "I'm afraid only my wife can give me this kind of treatment."
"What Mr. Lin said is absolutely true, and we also know it."
Mrs. Zhang started to cry as she spoke: "But the Qi family said that if we can't pay the rent on time, he will sell my two daughters to a brothel. We just paid the taxes to the court. Where can we go?"
I can still pay the Qi family's rent."
As soon as these words came out, several people knelt down and cried: "We are too. My little girl is young, how can she bear such humiliation?"
Chu Nanzhi suppressed her anger and looked at the other silent people: "What about your situation?"
"We, we are just worried that the whole family will have no way of living if the Qi family takes over."
"Master Lin just said that you can earn ten taels of silver a year in the restaurant, so you can support your family even if you don't farm."
Chu Nanzhi looked at everyone with a confused look.
Those people hesitated for a long time, and finally a little girl from the Chu family spoke out:
"Sister Chu, we all know that you give us a generous monthly salary, and we also want to stay. Even if a rough girl like us comes to a wealthy family, she can earn at most five or six hundred yuan a month, and we don't care about food and accommodation. Sister Chu
But it's different. The most incompetent servant among us can be given a monthly salary of one or two cents, and he is also responsible for food and housing, and is sent home every few days. How can you get such good treatment?"
The little girl suddenly frowned when she said this: "But we are worried that such a good job will not last long, so we still want to hold on to the few acres of farmland at home."
Chu Nanzhi couldn't laugh or cry when she heard this.
Can't this stinky girl hope that she will be better?
I originally thought that giving everyone better benefits would better retain people, but I didn't expect that it would actually make them uneasy.
After all, this is human nature and cannot be explained in detail.
Butler Zhao, who came over after hearing the news, was so angry that his brows trembled and he shouted angrily:
"What nonsense are you crows talking about? Mrs. Chu has good intentions, but you treat her like a donkey. Since you think your monthly salary is too high, then just treat it like a servant of the Zhao family. There are many people in our house who are looking forward to it."
Where is the restaurant?
Besides, Madam Chu also has a share of my grandfather’s restaurant, so it’s possible that I can’t afford your one or two taels of silver per month, not to mention that Madam Chu is now the Princess of Pingning, so she won’t do anything to you.”