After dressing up as a stepmother, I transformed the whole family into working in the fields

There were more than 200 people in Liujia Village. Thirty or forty young and strong men suddenly left after being recruited. Qin Yao was not used to it when the small mountain village, which was originally quite lively, suddenly became quiet.

Moreover, there are six fewer workers in the manufacturing plant.

When Carpenter Liu came to the door anxiously, Qin Yao slapped her forehead. She had never thought of this in the past three days, and was just watching Liu Ji tenaciously prepare for survival.

"What should we do now? With so many people missing, the goods that need to be delivered in mid-October will not be delivered. It seems that the time is less than a month. You should think of a solution quickly."

Carpenter Liu was also busy helping his son find a laborer for the past two days. Their family needed one person, but they couldn't catch up with the quota of six or two people in Kaiyang County, so they had to pay a high price, ten taels of silver, to hire someone to take over.

Fortunately, he, along with Liu Dafu and Old Man Liu, were the first to get the goods. Those who arrived in the afternoon could not find them at double the price.

But according to Liu Carpenter's opinion, if the price really reached twenty taels a piece, he wouldn't mind risking his life and running away.

Twenty taels of silver is not easy to earn. Besides, although it is difficult to be a food transporter this time, it is much better than going to the battlefield to be a soldier. If you are lucky and meet a reliable soldier, you have a high chance of coming back alive.

But now that all the people who had been recruited for corvee service had left, it would be meaningless for him to talk about it again.

It was the shortage of manpower in the manufacturing plant that made him angry. The corners of his mouth were blistered, and it hurt when he opened his mouth wider when eating.

Qin Yao poured a bowl of cold boiled water for him and herself, "Recruiting more people."

She also lost one of her quarry workers, Liu Qi, the eldest grandson of the village chief's family.

Every family has its own problems. The village chief's wife, Liu Qi's grandmother, is seriously ill, and all the money from the grain sold during the autumn harvest is spent on medicine.

The village chief was the first person to get the news, so it shouldn't be difficult to reduce the quota by two.

But in the end, there was only one substitute quota, and there was one left, so Liu Qi took the initiative to sign up.

Because it is difficult for the family to spend another ten taels of silver to find someone to replace him.

Fortunately, he is tall and has a stable temperament. The village chief has asked someone to take care of him, and he should be taken care of by then.

It was much worse for Carpenter Liu, who suddenly lost five workers. Fortunately, Yun Niang was a woman and did not have to do corvée work. She had such a skilled person remaining in the team, otherwise he would have been in trouble.

"Where can we recruit people now? All the men in Zijin Mansion have gone to work as husbandmen. There is still a wave of wheat to be planted before winter comes. How can a group of old, young, women and children recruit people?"

Carpenter Liu spoke in a hurry, and accidentally pulled the corner of his mouth, hissing and sucking in the cold air.

Qin Yao asked him to drink two sips of water, thought for a while, and said, "If we can't recruit men, then we can recruit women. It's not a heavy job for us to do the water tanker, and women can do it too."

As for the quarry workers she lacked, she had to do it herself.

It's too hard for women to do this job, and the team is all men, and they have to go into the mountains, so they feel uncomfortable working.

Qin Yao is now glad that the polishing people are still there, at least keeping a complete production line.

"Then give it a try?" Carpenter Liu no longer insisted on his previous idea. As long as the goods can be delivered on time, both male and female workers will do the same.

So the two borrowed a gong and beat it all over the village, shouting that they were looking for workers. There were no conditions, as long as they were willing to endure hardships and stand hard work.

Sister-in-law Zhou jumped out and asked, "Can I do it too?"

Qin Yao hurriedly pulled her forward and said, "Okay, of course, sister-in-law, you are so capable, how can you be just a carpenter?"

When Sister-in-law Zhou heard this, she smiled and rolled her eyes, "You are talking nonsense. How can you be so good? You can only do some embroidery work. I have never touched this carpentry before."

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter." Carpenter Liu hurriedly explained: "We have already prepared the wood for you, just follow them and put the pieces together!"

Having said this, Carpenter Liu was glad again in his heart that the assembly line Qin Yao had built was so good that everyone only needed to learn one process to get started.

Now I am not afraid of sudden changes in personnel. I will be familiar with it after two days of practice.

"Then let's give it a try?" Sister-in-law Zhou asked with a smile along with the women in front of her who were embarrassed to come.

No matter how busy you are at home, if you want to make money, you have to find a way to get out.

Previously, everyone was envious of the workers who were selected by the factory, especially Yun Niang. Last month, she took more than three yuan of silver home and her parents-in-law were very happy. They went around saying that they had married a treasure.

Now the opportunity is in front of them, and Mrs. Qin and Carpenter Liu encourage them to join, so just give it a try, since they can't bear the loss anyway.

Mr. He had previously said that there would be a meal of meat and vegetables every ten days. Occasionally, Mrs. Qin would go into the city and bring back a big bone stick to make extra meals and soup for everyone.

It's worth going just for a meal if nothing else.

Seeing that the eldest girl in the village and her daughter-in-law were interested, Qin Yao immediately went to bring his sister-in-law He and Yun Niang over and asked them to promote it to the big guys.

As a result, with the encouragement of the two, the five vacant carpenters in the manufacturing plant were quickly recruited.

The original male workers adjusted their positions and were responsible for the first process, and then left the remaining assembly, painting and other tasks to the female workers. The assembly line finally ran smoothly.

Seeing that the problem was solved and the goods in mid-October could be delivered as scheduled, Qin Yao breathed a sigh of relief.

However, her own work increased. After collecting all the stones needed for the remaining orders, at the urging of Old Man Liu, she picked up the hoe and started a new round of digging the ground.

Winter wheat had to be planted, even if she didn't want to take care of it, and the seeds had to be sown first for free-range farming. At least there would be some harvest.

After experiencing the recruitment of civilian laborers, the Liu family's old house will not have much money left from selling grain this year.

The grain stored in the house cannot be used as a last resort, so no matter how hard it is, we have to plant winter wheat and dare not stop at all.

I'm afraid that there will be a certain tax next year, or that there will be corvee labor for building water conservancy and other fortifications, and if I don't have money to buy a replacement, I will have to waste a few months of farming to do corvee labor.

Farmers who depend on the sky for food cannot withstand a little trouble, so they can only take good care of their fields and cultivate them carefully.

While Qin Yao was busy planting wheat with the villagers, the farmers who set out to transport grain had already left Zijin Mansion.

The 3,000 civilian men recruited were divided into three groups and two groups to escort the grain and grass.

There are two main reasons why Bauhinia Mansion was selected.

First, Zijin Mansion has a bumper harvest this year and has sufficient food reserves.

Secondly, Zijin Mansion is very close to the border, so grain and grass can be transported to the border as quickly as possible with the lowest loss.

All I can say is, this is life.

The civilian husbands recruited from Liujia Village were dispersed as soon as they arrived in Kaiyang County.

When Liu Ji saw this situation, he felt that something was not good. In a hurry, he only had time to stuff a few copper coins into the hands of the official responsible for escorting them.

But maybe because the money was not in place, or because the other party felt that a mere five cents was very provocative, he was assigned to a very cruel soldier.

Liu Ji had a premonition that the next journey would be very difficult when he met the soldier's eyes at the first roll call.