Poor family mother and son

Chapter 39
After breakfast the next day, Chu Qing took Xiaobao to Village Chief Wu's house.

Today, the contract must be signed, paid, and then sent to the government for verification and sealing.It is very convenient to have a carriage.Hearing that someone in Wukeshu Village bought land to stamp, Xu Guangze, the county magistrate, went out to have a look. When he heard that it was "Ms. Yuan", he even asked about it himself.Not for anything else, just to see what this person who must remember kindness in the hearts of Lord Zongbing and Lord Zhizhou looks like.

It was also because of the intervention of the county magistrate that the stamping went smoothly.Xu Zhixian also knew that Chu Qing wanted to build a brick kiln.Yes, not a smithy, but a brick kiln.

After Chu Qing went back yesterday, he calculated that for 1000 taels of silver, in addition to buying land, he had to hire people to prepare the land, build a workshop, buy all kinds of goods, and hire a blacksmith.

Instead of doing this, it is better to build a small brick kiln first, and burn out the bricks for building the blast furnace for yourself, and also burn some building bricks, which can be sold for money and also make the materials for yourself in advance.High territories of fired bricks are all over the hills.Coal costs money, it's an expense.Everything else is petty cash.In this way, a few hundred taels of silver can be done.

To burn bricks, you have to fire refractory bricks, so as to lay a good foundation for smelting iron ore in the future.Moreover, refractory bricks are also easy to sell, and big families are willing to buy them.Can sell for a price.

More than 100 mu of land, that's more than two miles along the official road.Building a brick kiln will not take up too much space, and there will be more than enough room for blast furnaces, forging iron rooms, and grinding rooms in the future.Moreover, the place where the head is held can directly go to the official road, and the transportation is convenient.

Xu Zhixian thought this person was quite interesting.Although she is a woman, she has a big heart.With a child by my side every day, there are still so many ideas.Xu Zhixian didn't bother to ask in vain, and pointed out where to find workers for Chu Qing.

Chu Qing went to the place Xu Zhixian said.There is no labor market in this era.But this place, which looks like a market in the countryside, has a lot of ragged people squatting on the ground waiting to be hired.These are real refugees."By-products" of war.

Chu Qing asked about their respective directors and hired twenty people.She intends to "make full use" of these people, not just to build and build houses.20 Wen per person per day, and take care of the meals, but they have to cook by themselves.

Now that the land was bought and people were hired, Chu Qing bought some coarse grains, hoes, etc., took a group of horses and went back.He had to take advantage of the village chief to accompany him, otherwise Chu Qing was not sure that he would be safe with such people.

It was too early to go back to the village.Chu Qing discussed two more things with Village Chief Wu: [-]. Order vegetables in the village;

Chu Qing felt that he would buy food in the county town. Anyway, the village didn't have any surplus food, but every household in the vegetable village could grow it. Buying it from them could still generate income for them.

As for the IOU of Five Trees, it was because Chu Qing didn't know how many trees on the mountain would be cut down.Chu Qing believes that the ancestors of Wukeshu Village were very far-sighted, and they understood the importance of the environment to people.In this era, people all know the truth of "leaning on a big tree to enjoy the shade", but they also think that there are endless trees on the mountain.So there are no measures to protect the environment.

Small-scale "infrastructure" has been vigorously carried out.The hired [-] people were clearly asked to cook and eat independently in the wasteland, and the grain and vegetables for the day were just placed in the open space.After lunch, these people immediately cleared the wasteland.

In one afternoon, these young and strong men did many things.When it was time for dinner, Chu Qing was a little dumbfounded.

Because twenty young and strong came here at once, Chu Qing naturally had no right or ability to find a place to live in the village, so they had to start from scratch and figure out their own place to live.

When it was time for dinner, Chu Qing came over to see what these people were doing.Chu Qing was having a headache about how they should spend the night.As a result, everyone built simple shacks.

Chu Qing was curious.These people are also very capable of surviving in the wild.Just wanted to ask.Out of the group of men came out the tallest one, who looked about 22, tall, dark, with strong facial features.

It seems that this is their recognized leader.When Chu Qing asked, sure enough, these people were in the "bazaar" in the county, and this young man would often take them along to do short-term work for others, and they were quite influential.

"What's your name?" Chu Qing asked.

"There are hundreds of surnames, but no names." He said.

"Ah?" Chu Qing was confused.

"I am an orphan. I grew up in the Salesian Bureau until I was five years old. I was abducted by human traffickers. I fell ill on the road and was thrown on the side of the road." The young man said flatly, as if endorsing a letter.

"Later, I crawled into a shack in a village and was discovered by the villagers. Because the people in the village were poor, no family could afford to support me, but everyone was kind, and the whole village raised me together, and each family gave me a bite to eat. Yes, they raised me up. I ate Baijia rice and wore Baijia clothes. Later, an old man in the village said that I might as well be named 'Baijia'. Later, Donglun people came to grab food and slaughtered the village. I was I went to chop firewood for the villagers and escaped unharmed, but when I came back, there were no living people in the village."

The corner of the young man's jaw bulged, jumping and jumping, revealing his emotions hidden under his calm face.

Chu Qing didn't say anything for a while.The war is cruel, and the life of the people on the border is also precarious.

"You guys worked very fast today. How did you do it?" Chu Qing asked.

"Twenty people, divided into two groups, one group cleared the stones on the wasteland, and the other group went up the mountain to find wood."

"Looking for...wood?" Chu Qing didn't understand this short sentence, didn't he cut down trees?
"Well, look for wood. We have few tools. Besides, the trees cut down are too wet to use. There are dead trees in the back mountain, which are quite dry, just enough." Baijia said.

There are dead trees in the back mountain, why haven't I seen them?Where did you find it?

"You left the food and vegetables and left. We know you want to see if we can really work here. So we worked hard." Baijia said.

My mind was pierced, embarrassing!
"My boss, don't worry, we finally found a job, and you paid a lot of money. We will work hard." Baijia promised.

"Okay," Chu Qing also said bluntly, "Say, wages are paid monthly or daily?"

"It's monthly. You can rest assured that we have no place to spend money on our work. But you have to come to see it at least every two days." Baijia was worried that there was a woman, and everyone had something to come to find.

"No problem." Chu Qinghui would come every day, why not watch the progress of his project.

Seeing that they had built an open-air earthen stove, Chu Qing put down five catties of pork and left.I have to go find Village Chief Wu again.These refugees need to be registered, so as not to cause any future troubles.

Talked about my thoughts with Village Chief Wu:
[-]. Please ask Village Chief Wu to go to the county again tomorrow, and ask the county government to send someone to register these hired workers, so as to avoid causing trouble to himself and the village.

[-]. Ask the village head to help inform and select the villagers, and help build houses for a fee.

Chu Qing has officially transferred the job of cooking for the school to Zhang Erni, so it is difficult for her to live in the school anymore, she needs her own house.With such a large wasteland, it happened that even his own house was settled together.

When Village Chief Wu heard this, it was a good thing!While there are still some days before the busy farming season, the villagers can earn some income.Talked about building the house with Village Chief Wu, and discussed asking the women in the village to help cook and pay.

He also discussed with Wu Dalang whether he could ask Wu Dalang to help with the purchase of raw materials.The delayed farm work is done by these hired workers.And also give Wu Dalang a certain amount of remuneration.Wu Dalang happily agreed.Chu Qing left the purchase list and the carriage to Wu Dalang, and took Xiaobao back with a relaxed mood.

(End of this chapter)