"Gouzi, hurry up and grind the soy milk. Do you still want to marry your aunt before the Chinese New Year?"
Zhao Heishan was patrolling the yard. He was now the manager of the Liu Family Snow Salt Workshop. If he saw anyone slacking off, he would immediately scold him.
At this time, Zhao Erhu was grinding soybean milk. He just took a breath when he was scolded by Zhao Heishan and had to quickly turn the millstone. Zhao Erhu was not afraid of anyone but the stern-faced Zhao Heishan.
"Uncle Heishan~"
Liu Jin came to the yard and watched the Zhao family working non-stop despite the heavy snow. Everyone had a layer of snow on their bodies and they were still busy with no intention of resting.
"I think we should all take a break. The food at my house has just been cooked. Let's have a meal together at my house."
"Brother Jin, how can this be possible? Your family is not a landlord or a wealthy family. How can you eat at your house every day? My family's food is almost ready. After finishing this, we will go back to eat."
Seeing Liu Jin, Zhao Heishan finally had a smile on his dark face.
In just over a month, Xueyan has sold two batches. With the money earned from Xueyan, Zhao Heishan and his family have also changed their guns.
In previous years, this would have been the time when Zhao Heishan was most worried.
It's winter, it's snowing again, there's basically nothing to do, but there are more than a dozen mouths in the house that still need to be fed, plus the cold weather, winter clothes, firewood, charcoal fires, etc.
These things are enough to make his hair turn gray.
Of course, this is not only the case for Zhao Heishan, but also for the entire Xiahe Village. Every winter is the time when children in Xiahe Village are beaten the most.
The adults with frowning faces, worrying about the next meal, and worrying about the winter have become extremely irritable, hitting their children and wives at every turn, and the cries of children and mothers almost envelope the whole place.
winter.
But it's different now.
Everyone in Zhao Heishan's family is wearing brand-new cotton-padded clothes, which are very warm, and their faces are rosy and shiny. They are obviously well-fed, warmly dressed, and living a life that was unimaginable before.
And all of this was brought about by Liu Jin in front of him, so Zhao Heishan's family now obeys Liu Jin's words, and Zhao Heishan also respects Liu Jin even more.
I used to respect Liu Jin because Liu Jin was a scholar and would definitely become famous in the future. In addition, Liu Jin's father had helped his family and saved their lives.
Now, it was more because Liu Jin was able to keep his family well-fed, clothed warmly, and even had money in hand to prepare to build a new house and call Zhao Erhu his mother-in-law.
"What's a meal? Come on, come on, let's all take a break, rest, rest, wash your hands and get ready to eat."
Liu Jin smiled and shook his head and said, in fact, Liu Jin had asked his mother Wang to prepare more meals beforehand because it was time to divide the money again.
Yesterday was the beginning of the month. Zhang Tianhao arrived as scheduled and bought the newly refined snow salt from Liu Jin. According to the agreement between Liu Jin and Zhao Heishan's family, the salt will be sold on the first day of the new year, silver will be divided on the second day of the new year, and the salt will be sold on the fifteenth day.
Sixteen cents of silver.
So every time on the second or sixteenth day of the Lunar New Year, Liu Jin would ask his mother Wang to prepare a good meal to reward the Zhao family and at the same time divide the money.
After hearing Liu Jin's words, the Zhao family looked at Zhao Heishan one by one. Seeing that he had no objection, they happily put down their work and prepared to eat.
Every time Liu Jin invites him to dinner, it's like celebrating the New Year. Good food and good dishes are prepared, and large pieces of braised pork are paired with fragrant white rice. This is definitely a great enjoyment in life.
Although the Zhao Heishan family is now making money with Liu Jin, they are absolutely reluctant to cut meat and eat white rice. After all, they have a large population and are used to being poor. They have always lived frugally.
In Liu Jin's restaurant, there were still only five people sitting at the dinner table, Liu Jin, Wang, Zhao Heishan, Zhao Dahu and Zhao Erhu. The other Zhao family members were not allowed to go to the table. They each held a bowl beside them and ate happily, sweating all over the food.
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"Uncle Heishan, last time we extracted a total of more than 2,000 kilograms of snow salt and sold it for almost 300 taels of silver. This achievement is 30 taels of silver. Can you calculate this number?"
After having enough wine and food, Liu Jin also took out his account books and began to reconcile the accounts in detail with Zhao Heishan's family.
Both parties knew exactly how many kilograms of snow salt were extracted and how much they sold for. After all, both parties were personally involved in the entire process, so no one could hide it from the other.
"Yes, Brother Jin, the number is correct."
When it came to the matter of silver, the smile on Zhao Heishan's face became even brighter.
"This is 30 taels of silver. The other 10 taels of silver are considered as bonuses from me."
Liu Jin nodded, then took out 40 taels of silver and small ingots of 10 taels each, and placed four of them on the table.
"Why is this so embarrassing?"
The smile on Zhao Heishan's dark face became even brighter. When he divided the money for the first time, Liu Jin also gave him a bonus. At first, he didn't understand what the bonus was, but Liu Jin finally understood after explaining it.
Unexpectedly, this time, Liu Jin also paid a bonus, and a one-time bonus of 10 taels of silver. You must know that 10 taels of silver is not a small amount. 3 taels of silver is enough to marry Zhao Erhu a mother-in-law. This
10 taels of silver was enough for their family to buy a house, furniture and other items.
"You deserve this. Without your hard work, we wouldn't be able to refine 2,000 kilograms of snow salt in half a month. Please accept it."
Liu Jin smiled and said.
This is true. Ever since the Zhao Heishan family tasted the benefits of sharing money last time, their enthusiasm for work has been fully aroused. The family is working as hard as they can, working day and night.
Liu Jin, who came from a later generation, knew very well that if you want a horse to run fast, you must feed it well, so the bonus system came into being.
A mere 10 taels of silver is nothing compared to the money gained from selling salt this time, but it can greatly stimulate the enthusiasm of Zhao Heishan's family to work and earn more money for Liu Jin.
"Thank you, Brother Jin~"
Zhao Heishan thanked Liu Jin very respectfully and took the money. His dark face was smiling from ear to ear. He had never had so much money. If he hadn't followed Liu Jin twice, he would probably have lost his money.
I'm going crazy with joy now.
"Brother Jin, someone in the village is spying on us. What do you think we should do?"
Then Zhao Heishan showed a sad look on his face again, thought for a while and said.
"I also know that, there will definitely be people who are spying on us."
Hearing Zhao Heishan's words, Liu Jin couldn't help but frown. After all, there were some things that couldn't be hidden from the neighbors forever.