latelenovela Chapter 184 Earns More Than Working
Chapter 184 Earns More Than Working
After the job posting was put up, people started coming to apply for jobs one after another.
Tian Tian instructed Xiao Si to hand out card cards to people, recording the street or village they were from.
"No to Qingliu Village!!" she specifically reminded Xiao Si.
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The next morning, Tian Tian arrived at Qianjiazhuangzi.
Zhang Fusheng hasn't arrived yet, and neither have the workers.
She accessed the system...
I first bought solar panels and a power bank. The solar panels were placed directly on the ground, and the two solar panels were connected in parallel to a power bank.
A total of fifty power banks were connected.
I bought another 100 fully automatic vacuum sealing machines with ultraviolet light sterilization function, which cost 50 taels.
Two sealing machines are plugged into each power bank.
They also selected vacuum bags that were 20 centimeters wide and 30 centimeters high, which could hold two ears of corn at a time. They bought 400,000 bags, which cost a total of 100 taels of silver.
At Chen Shi (7-9 AM), the workers who had received their time cards yesterday arrived.
Groups of four.
One person peeled the corn husks, another packed them into bags, and the two of them vacuum-sealed them.
The sealing machine that Tian Tian bought can seal two bags at a time, which is four corn kernels.
However, it uses ultraviolet light for sterilization, so the vacuuming process takes fifteen seconds.
In this way... including the sorting time, it takes about thirty seconds to seal four ears of corn per machine.
That's eight per minute; with one hundred machines, that's eight hundred per minute.
It costs 48,000 per hour.
Working ten hours a day, 480,000...
That's roughly the amount that those eighty workers harvest in a day.
Workers gradually arrived...
The sealing machine is very easy to use. Tian Tian taught everyone a little, and they all learned how.
As the machine started running, the air in the vacuum bag was sucked out, and the vacuum bag adhered to the corn...
Finally, the machine heats the film...
Everyone was curious, but no one dared to touch anything.
But every time I take the sealed bag off, I can't help but take a few more glances at it.
They didn't understand why the corn was wrapped up like that.
When Zhang Fusheng arrived, he was somewhat surprised to learn that Tian Tian was also there.
After stamping the corn-picking workers' names, he went to the village to find her.
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Liu Xianglan has come again.
She returned empty-handed yesterday and was thoroughly ridiculed by Old Lady Feng.
One sentence in particular reminded her.
Grandma Feng glanced at her and said, "You just came back like that? Didn't you know to bring back a few ears of corn for us to try?"
"You didn't get the job done, and you didn't even bring back a single ear of corn. What was the point of your trip?"
Liu Xianglan was annoyed at the time, wondering why she hadn't picked a few ears of corn to try.
Such a large piece of land, and hardly anyone is watching it.
With so many people working in the fields, Zhang Fusheng couldn't keep an eye on everyone.
If she picked some corn and hid it in her pocket, then crept far into the cornfield and then circled back onto the road...
Just then, she saw Zhang Fusheng leave.
He pulled his headscarf over his face and quickly plunged into the cornfield.
The corn stalks were upright, and the leaves were broad and long. Once she went inside, she couldn't see outside or anyone else.
All you could see was a plump corn cob standing upright on a thick corn stalk.
She tied her clothes into a pocket and began to husk corn.
The pockets of the clothes weren't big, but they still held a dozen or twenty ears of corn.
Unable to let go of it any longer, she followed her memory and headed in the opposite direction from where Zhang Fusheng was.
She walked for about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn before turning towards the side of the road...
When she turned the corner, she found that she was already quite far from where Zhang Fusheng was.
She carefully slipped to the side of the road, and only breathed a sigh of relief when she was sure she couldn't see anyone.
Looking at the corn cob in my pocket, I couldn't help but feel excited.
Today wasn't a wasted trip after all.
Liu Xianglan didn't know...
Zhao Jinhua, who was following behind her, watched everything she did.
Zhao Jinhua also knew that with Liu Xianglan coming over every day to keep watch, it was impossible for her to work here.
So when we saw Liu Xianglan go in to pick corn...
She also gained inspiration.
So she followed Liu Xianglan, picking corn along the way, filling her pocket to the brim, and followed Liu Xianglan out...
The two went to the county town one after the other.
As soon as Liu Xianglan entered the county town, the corn in her arms was targeted.
"Hey, Auntie."
Feeling guilty, Liu Xianglan instinctively covered the corn.
"Is this corn?"
Liu Xianglan looked at the other person warily, "What are you doing?"
The person who stopped Liu Xianglan was the same person who had tasted corn at Baishi Teahouse the day before.
He had never seen corn in its natural state, but he had seen corn, corn husk, and corn silk all separately.
And what Liu Xianglan had in her pocket happened to be corn silk and corn husks...and a faint smell of corn.
That's why he was certain it was corn.
"Are you selling this corn?" He was a merchant and knew that he could go to Qianjiazhuang to buy goods in five days.
But he's craving it now.
He couldn't stop thinking about the corn after eating it yesterday.
Liu Xianglan looked him up and down...
The man quoted a price directly: "Six coins each, I'll buy them all."
The price of the second young lady Tian was five coins, but she couldn't buy it now, so he added one coin.
Upon hearing this, Liu Xianglan asked, "Six coins each?"
Her bag contains nearly twenty... wouldn't that be enough to sell for over a hundred coins?
Isn't that more than what you earn in a day of work?
"Sell, I'll sell," Liu Xianglan nodded repeatedly.
But she still knew that she had picked the corn secretly.
She carried the corn to a nearby alley and beckoned the man over.
The man went past...
I'll sell it to you!
Liu Xianglan placed the corn on the ground... "One, two..."
There are eighteen in total.
She pulled three closer to herself, saying, "These are for you."
Feng Wuliu was often not at home; only she, her mother-in-law, and her father-in-law lived at home.
"Fifteen, ninety coins." The man didn't hesitate at all and counted out one hundred coins for her. "I'll give you one hundred coins."
Thinking that he would be able to eat corn today, he was in a good mood, and giving an extra ten coins was no big deal.
But Liu Xianglan was very excited.
She took the coin and thanked him repeatedly, saying, "Thank you, thank you so much."
As the man was about to leave, she stopped him, saying, "Shopkeeper, do you still want it tomorrow? If you do, then wait here."
"Yes, yes, yes!" the man nodded. "I'll take as many as you have!"
Liu Xianglan carefully put the silver away, hugged the remaining three ears of corn to her chest, and quickly left.
As soon as she left, Zhao Jinhua emerged from the shadows, caught up with the man who had just left, and pulled him into another alley.
"Shopkeeper, I also have corn here, would you like some?"
"Yes, I want it."
They were also six coins each. Zhao Jinhua sold twelve, and the man gave her eighty coins.
"Do you have any more tomorrow?" the man asked.
"I have it, tomorrow... wait in this alley."
Zhao Jinhua carried the remaining six ears of corn out of the city...