Our Mommy is the Best Investigator!

  Chapter 403 Chaos before the opening of the restaurant

  Lin Jinxiao glanced over at the craftsmen who were busy all around, thinking that in the coming year, the courtyard will be full of flowers, and it will be very pleasant indeed.

  Looking up at the top of the head again, I saw pink oil-paper umbrellas propped up by bamboo poles standing neatly everywhere, with various patterns of flowers and birds interspersed in the umbrellas, which gave the whole garden a different kind of 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 small courtyards all around, she couldn't help explaining to him: "The guest rooms in the two-story pavilion on the right side of the restaurant are for ordinary overnight guests. Go inside These dozens of small courtyards can be provided to those distinguished guests who live here for a short time after they are fully completed."

  In my own world, it should be named after a holiday villa.

  "Many ordinary people may not be able to afford such a luxurious courtyard in their entire lives, but they can occasionally spend a few taels of silver to experience the life of this wealthy compound."

   After Chu Nanzhi finished speaking with a smile, Lin Jinxiao looked at her with admiration again.

   It seems that I have underestimated her again.

  She really has a business mind and has all kinds of novel ideas.

   It is quite a sentimental person to transform the originally boring yard into such an interesting one.

   The group listened casually to Chu Nanzhi's speech. 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 Mrs. Zhou and Liu Piaopiao who were arguing with others again.

  Liu Yun recognized 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, okay, why are you still arguing?"

   Liu Yun stepped forward and pulled the middle-aged woman who was arguing with Liu Piaopiao, and asked anxiously.

  Chu Nanzhi also glanced at the leading woman, and realized that she learned to cook with Liu Piaopiao.

   Then he looked at the pond. Ma Laifu was leading the fishermen from Haikang County to resettle the fish they sent.

  She had no choice but to look at Auntie and Zhou's side first, and looked at Zhang's with heavy eyes.

   Mrs. Zhang hastily walked up to Chu Nanzhi, and bowed respectfully: "Nan Zhi, ahhh, Mrs. Chu, it's not that my family has broken promises, it's just that there is nothing we can do, we have to go back to the village."

   "What happened?"

  Chu Nanzhi looked at the group of women surrounded by her, and asked hesitantly.

She asked Liu Yun to recruit a dozen women who came to help and a dozen male handymen in the village before. During these days, she had been letting them train with the Zhou family and the Chu family sisters on various matters in the kitchen and restaurant. It's about to open, and they actually want to give up the pick, which is embarrassing.

   Mrs. Zhang and the women around her looked at each other in blank dismay, still unable to speak, and finally had to grit their teeth and say, "Ms. Chu, Sister Liu, don't press me any more. Anyway, we have to go back."

Liu Piaopiao was panting with anger: "Miss Zhang, you are not being kind. When my second sister talked about this in the village, you all rushed to enter the city. Now my niece Nan Zhi is arranging for you After finishing the job and settling down, I have been training you for nearly a month, and you are only thinking of leaving at this time, which is unreasonable both emotionally and rationally."

  Chu Nanzhi stopped the angry aunt, and comforted everyone:

"Ladies and gentlemen, if you have any difficulties or concerns, you can tell me. I will help you as much as I can. Just as my aunt said, you have been here for almost a month, and you will be able to receive it soon." It’s a month’s wages, why should you leave if you’re so good, maybe you can earn more than one or two taels of silver a month in the village?”

  Although her tone was as calm as possible, these women and male handymen did not dare to speak.

  Lin Jinxiao roughly guessed something, looked at everyone with a cold expression, and said solemnly: "But the Qi family is embarrassing you?"

   As soon as he finished speaking, many villagers in Tong'an Village were startled and bowed their heads guilty.

  With Lin Jinxiao's reminder, Chu Nanzhi immediately realized that most of the fields in Tong'an Village belonged to the Qi family, and a small part was owned by Concubine Yue, the Shen family and several other big families.

   I hired these villagers myself, I am afraid that many families have hired Qi's land.

  Chu Nanzhi gritted her teeth secretly, this Qi family is really her nemesis, it is really hateful, but the land belongs to others after all, it is not illegal for him not to rent it.

  Lin Jinxiao couldn't swallow this breath, and said sharply: "The sky is bright and the sky is bright, I don't believe that the Qi family still has the ability to run amok under the eyes of this official."

Mrs. Zhang was so frightened that she fell to her knees and cried, "Master Lin, you also know that most of Tong'an Village relies on the Qi family's fields to support the whole family. The only official land in Tong'an Village is at the foot of Nanhua Mountain, and they are all leased to silkworm farmers. We can't go ten miles or eight villages away to cultivate other official land.

The autumn harvest is just now, and the year is not good. The harvested grain is limited, and we can't even pay the rent, let alone the imperial court's taxes. We can take care of one end but not the other end. I thought I went to Mrs. Chu's restaurant to earn some money to supplement the family and pay the rent earlier. I never thought that the Qi family would be urging for the rent, otherwise the land would be taken back. "

   "If you spend more than one tael a month in the city, wouldn't it be better to plant those acres of land in the village?"

  Lin Jinxiao was a little annoyed: "I'm afraid only my wife can give this kind of treatment."

   "What Master Lin said is very true, and we also know it."

Mrs. Zhang began to cry as she spoke: "But the Qi family said that if we fail to pay the rent on time, he will sell my two daughters to a kiln. We have just paid the imperial court's taxes. I can still pay the rent of the Qi family."

  As soon as this remark came out, several people knelt down and cried: "We are too, my little girl is young, how can I bear such humiliation."

  Chu Nanzhi suppressed her anger, then looked at the other people who didn't speak: "Then what about your situation?"

   "We, we are just worried that the whole family will lose their way of life if they are taken over by the Qi family."

   "Master Lin also said just now 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 the land."

  Chu Nanzhi looked at the crowd in confusion.

   Those people hesitated for a long time, and finally a little girl from the Chu family said what was in her heart:

"Sister Chu, we all know that you give a lot of monthly salary, and we want to stay here. A poor girl like us can earn at most five or six hundred yuan a month even if she goes to a rich family, and she doesn't care about food and lodging, sister Chu But it’s different, the most incompetent messengers among us can be given a monthly salary of one tael of silver, and they also take care of food and housing, and let them go home every few days, where can we ask for such a good salary.”

  The little girl frowned suddenly when she said this: "But we are worried that such a good job won't last long, so we still want to hold on to the few acres of land at home."

  Chu Nanzhi couldn't laugh or cry when she heard this.

  Can't this stinky girl expect her to order well?

  I originally wanted to give everyone better benefits to better retain people, but I didn't think about it, but it made them uneasy.

   After all, this is the inferiority of human beings, and there is no way to elaborate.

   After hearing the news, Butler Zhao who came over was so angry that his brows trembled, and he reprimanded angrily:

"What nonsense are you crows talking about? Miss Chu is being treated as a donkey by you despite her good intentions. Since you think the monthly salary is too high, you can take it like a servant of the Zhao family. There are many people in our house who are looking forward to it. What about the restaurant?

   Besides, Mrs. Chu’s restaurant also has my grandfather’s share, so it’s possible that I’m short of your one or two taels of silver every month, not to mention that Mrs. Chu is now the princess of Pingning, so I won’t miss you. "

  (end of this chapter)