Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 193 The Generous Boss

Hualei also gave its employees a holiday.

After paying the full month's salary to the disabled soldiers in the village, they also gave them an additional half month's salary as a subsidy.

Each person was given a live chicken, a roast duck, a five-pound piece of pork, three pounds of tofu, three pounds of bean sprouts, and a piece of slightly defective cotton cloth, and then they were allowed to go home.

Thinking that they might need the pig's head for worship at home during the New Year, I half-sold and half-gave the pig's head to those in need. If I gave it away for free, I was afraid that those who didn't receive it would be unhappy.

We agreed to start work on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Since the restaurant and the Imperial College basically start work and classes on the 16th day of the first lunar month, we had to ask them to come a day earlier to prepare.

The slightly defective cotton cloth was also bought from Liang Xiangyi. Originally, they wanted to give each person a set of winter clothes, but the farm was too late to make them, so they gave them enough cotton cloth to make three sets of fabric, and asked them to take them home for their families. These disabled soldiers were moved to tears. Some of them couldn't even carry the clothes themselves, so they asked their families to come and help carry the clothes. The farm was bustling with laughter all day long.

After hearing the news, Mrs. Pei also sighed at Hualei's generosity for distributing such rich items to a soldier who had only served for two months.

There are not many such generous bosses in the capital city, not to mention that Hua Lei is only a thirteen-year-old girl. It is very rare for her to have such a broad mind and vision.

After finishing the tidying up at Yuanying Manor, Hualei went to Baihua Manor, where chili sauce was still being made in full swing. Many of the villagers originally invited from nearby had gone home for the New Year, and the delivery team vacated by Yuanying Manor took over, so the production of chili sauce was still going on continuously.

Hualei asked them to stop for a few days, take a rest, and resume work around the tenth day of the first lunar month after the Chinese New Year. However, they refused to listen and just let Hualei take a rest. They continued to work as usual. Picking, pickling, jarring, sealing, and recording dates were all done on an assembly line, without Hualei having to worry about anything.

Hualei let them do what they wanted. However, during the New Year, they gave the farmers an extra month's salary. They also slaughtered an extra pig, chickens, ducks and geese for the New Year's Eve dinner. They also gave them two extra pieces of cotton cloth. The farmers were very happy.

What's more gratifying is that Xiao Kongge's sister Kong Xiaoya and Wu Sansi from Yuanying Manor fell in love with each other after a few visits, and came to Hualei to ask for help. Hualei was of course happy to see it happen. She cleaned up a house for the two of them in Yuanying Manor as a new house, prepared some necessary furniture, and gave Kong Xiaoya a few pieces of red cotton cloth and a piece of red satin as a wedding dress, and also gave her a dowry. On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Kong Xiaoya happily married from Baihua Manor to Yuanying Manor. The people from the two manors took the opportunity to have a big party. Kong Xiaoya, who could read and count, officially became the accountant of Wu Sansi's fish farming.

On New Year's Eve, Hualei brought Xiaoyuan back to Qingyun Lane from Baihua Zhuang. Hualei also closed the steamed bun shop in Qingyun Lane. New Year's Eve was approaching, and all the people who had gone out to find work had returned home. Many people came out to buy things, but basically they went home after buying, and rarely went to the steamed bun shop for lunch.

However, the bookstore is still open, and students on vacation will come to buy stationery.

I cleaned the bun shop, bookstore, and rooms in Qingyun Lane, washed clothes, and tidied the rooms. Although I couldn't put up door couplets, window decorations, or hang lanterns because of the mourning period, I still started the New Year cleanly.

In the evening, the families of Tian Changmu and Tian Changshui were invited to Qingyun Lane. Three tables were set up, and they had a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner with Uncle Fu and Aunt Song. Hua Lei also distributed monthly wages and subsidies to everyone, and then began to stay up all night to welcome the new year.

Although the Tian Changmu brothers slept on the floor in the west wing because they could not leave the city to return to Yuanying Manor at night, they were so happy that they did not sleep all night. After only a few months in Shangjing City, the income of Tian Changmu's family far exceeded the annual income of a large family in their hometown, not to mention the income of Tian Changshui's family.

Now Tian Xiaohe and Tian Xiaolian received one and a half taels of silver every month, and with the year-end subsidy, they already had seven taels of silver in their hands. This was not counting the cotton cloth and winter clothes that Hualei gave them.

Tian Xiaohe thought about how her family scraped together money to return the five taels of betrothal money from the He family, and how she almost jumped into the river and lost her life. It seemed like a past life. Now she lives in Yuanying Manor. Although she is busy every day, she eats well, drinks well, sleeps well, and is happy every day. The monthly salary is paid on time every month. It's great!

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the two families of the Tian Changmu brother had lunch in Qingyun Lane before returning to Yuanying Manor.

Hualei and Xiaoyuan also went upstairs to the study. Hualei counted the banknotes in her hand and found that there were already tens of thousands of taels. It was great.

After buying Yuanying Manor this year, although the initial investment was indeed huge, the current return is indeed very good. With the harvesting of vegetables, the slaughtering of chickens, ducks, geese and pigs, the secondary processing of tofu, stewed food, germination group, salted duck eggs and roast duck, although everyone is very hard-working, they all make a lot of money. The canned fruits and chili sauce in Baihua Manor are also very profitable.

Together with the steady development of the steamed bun shop and bookstore, and the fulfillment of the contracts with the academy and private school, these sources of income are also very good. Although they are rather fragmented and tedious, they are very stable.

As the sales of grid paper, field paper, and square exercise paper steadily increase, the share of the profits from the printing house each quarter also increases steadily. In addition, there is also the 20% profit from the winery in the hands of Old Madam Pei. These two sums of money are relatively easy to earn, and the amount is not small. It's great.

The brother and sister were very happy when they looked at the banknotes in their hands.

Hualei carefully recorded the detailed accounts of income and expenditure, sorted out the banknotes, and after everything was ready, Hualei began to plan new goals for the new year.

Tian Xiaohe collects a lot of duck and goose feathers every day. If there are enough people at the beginning of the year, she can start a new project.

There are also quite a few pig bristles, so we should be able to set up a separate workshop for them.

Should we make salted duck eggs into egg yolk pastries? But it is not good to have only egg yolk pastries as desserts. You cannot open a dessert shop because customers will get tired of it very quickly. Flower cakes are only available in spring and you cannot make a lot of them for a long time.

Also, we will plant some lotus roots in the puddles next year. Not only can we enjoy the lotus in the summer, but we can also eat the lotus roots in the fall. The lotus root slices can then be added to the braised dishes.

I just don't have the skills to raise loaches myself. If I had good skills, I could raise loaches, eels, and snails in puddles. But loaches will escape underground, and now there is no plastic film as a partition, so it is probably impossible to raise loaches.