Chapter 1012: Chapter 1012: The New Year Has Arrived_1 Chapter 1012: Chapter 1012: The New Year Has Arrived_1 “Look, none of them are good people; Grandpa managed to gather so many top-notch ones together, his eye for talent is really fierce.”
Sitting in the carriage on the way back to the manor, Qiao Xiaomai clicked her tongue in amazent.
“Li Rou, she’s sly and cunning, the silent dogs are the ones that bite. Those who caused trouble are now locked up, so without anyone in front of her, she can only take the field herself.”
Tong Sanlang was driving the carriage at the door, and Qiao Xiaomai sat inside, leaning against his back. He heard her comnt, smiled, and patted the seat next to him, “Sit here.”
At his words, Qiao Xiaomai shifted her position and sat next to him on the outside of the carriage.
“I agree with your approach; save up enough lucky money for Xiaoxing and Xiaoyue. When they are ready to get married, give it to them all at once.”
To be honest, he was quite weary of his own family.
He didn’t want to get involved in emotional entanglents anymore.
If he could solve problems with silver, he found it easier.
“What about your parents? Aren’t you going to see them?” Qiao Xiaomai asked.
Ever since the last incident with the Zhang Family at the Extre Taste restaurant, Tong Sanlang hadn’t ntioned Zhang family again.
Such progress was a bit fast.
“Give them next year’s support money, other than that, they have food and drink in the old Courtyard and won’t be freezing; I’m now just a pretty face who lives off your charity, I have no energy to look after them,” Tong Sanlang said with one hand on the reins, a cold look on his handso face.
“How much to give?”
“When the family split, it was agreed at twenty taels a month, so give two hundred and forty taels. They’re confined in the old Courtyard with nowhere to spend money; two hundred and forty taels should be more than enough. As for Grandpa, hiring people to stay at the old Courtyard, we should give him so more silver.”
Upon hearing this, Qiao Xiaomai raised an eyebrow, “Done.”
Tong Tiehu’s decision to have soone guard those people was indeed wise.
She definitely had to support him more financially.
The two discussed and returned to the manor. The carriage didn’t enter the main gate of the manor, but went to the large Courtyard where the guards were stationed.
Next to the large Courtyard was an open space, where tents had been set up and stoves built, with people slaughtering pigs nearby.
Five pigs would be butchered today for a grand feast of at.
Fan Linong was calling out orders and keeping a group busy. Seeing Qiao Xiaomai and Tong Sanlang co over, he shouted with a smile, “You guys don’t need to get involved now, go ahead with your business.”
“There’s nothing busy to do, I think just butcher one and cook one is enough.”
Two big pots, over two hundred people to feed; this at would need to cook for a day.
And indeed, the cooking took a whole day. As the at in the two big pots cooked, it was scooped out for those guards off duty to co up with bowls and containers to collect it, and once done, they continued cooking.
Besides the at, there were also large Stead Buns laid out, made by the cooks, to be eaten freely with the at.
By evening, the guards had devoured all five pigs.
Qiao Xiaomai stretched lazily, took a basin, and ladled so of the leftover at Soup from the pot.
Carrying the basin, she returned to the manor.
At this mont, all the household laborers had gathered at the entrance to Mai Yuan, where Qiao Changshun was settling their day’s wages and the New Year’s bonus.
Wages were two hundred wen per person, and the red envelope was also two hundred wen. Every laborer who received it thanked Qiao Changshun with a wide smile, continuously voicing festive words, keeping a constant smile on Qiao Changshun’s face.
After settling with the household laborers, the remaining thirty were villagers who made bicycles.
With less than six hundred finished bicycles, considering one tael per bike, out of six hundred taels, subtracting half for costs, the remaining three hundred taels were divided among the thirty villagers, giving each person ten taels, plus a New Year’s bonus of two hundred wen.
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