20demayo Chapter 147 The corn is growing well this year
Chapter 147 The corn is growing well this year
"Captain, the corn is growing very well this year!"
"Well, looking at the height of the corn and the size of the cobs, it's growing well."
In the cornfield, Accountant Lin and Zhang Shengjin were discussing corn. They both reached out and pulled the corn in front of them to have a look. Zhang Shengjin compared the height of the corn and the size of the cobs.
"Uncle Captain, you are here!" Song Cenyue originally planned to go to the office to find Zhang Shengjin first, and then go to Zhang's house if she couldn't find him. Unexpectedly, on the way to the office, she saw Zhang Shengjin and Accountant Lin in the cornfield.
"From what you said, it seems like you are looking for me!" When Zhang Shengjin heard Song Cenyue's voice, he immediately looked in the direction of the voice, and smiled when he saw her.
"Yes, I came here specifically to find you." Song Cenyue nodded and walked towards the cornfield.
"What do you want from me, girl?" Zhang Shengjin walked out of the cornfield and walked towards Song Cenyue.
"I want you to take me to the carpenter's house and ask him to make furniture for me." Song Cenyue said.
After reading the letters and packages sent by her boyfriend and trying on the skirt in the space, she remembered that she needed to ask the captain to take him to find a carpenter to make furniture, so she left the space and the new house to find the captain.
"Ah, I actually forgot that I should have taken the initiative to take you to see Carpenter Yan after I built your new house." Zhang Shengjin shouted and slapped his forehead. "Girl, I was so busy today that I forgot such an important thing. I should have remembered to take you to see Carpenter Yan when you shouldn't have mentioned it. I'm sorry!"
"Uncle Captain, please don't say that. Don't say sorry. You make me feel embarrassed." Song Cenyue waved her hands quickly.
"Xiao Lin, continue to inspect the corn in the field. After you check on the corn here, go to Sanpingpo to see how the corn is growing over there. I will take the educated youth Xiao Song to find Carpenter Yan to make furniture." Zhang Shengjin turned around and called to Accountant Lin who was still checking on the corn in the field.
"Okay! Captain, don't worry, I will inspect it carefully." Accountant Lin nodded and said.
"Cen Yue girl, let's go to the fields in Wudaogou. Carpenter Yan should be watering the corn in Wudaogou." Zhang Shengjin said to Song Cen Yue, walking towards the south. "When we divided the work this morning, I assigned Carpenter Yan to water the corn in Wudaogou."
As a member of the production team, Carpenter Yan also had to work in the fields.
"Uncle Captain, Carpenter Yan also has to work in the fields. Does he have time to make furniture?" Song Cenyue asked.
"Yes. Carpenter Yan only works half a day every day. He works in the morning and doesn't have to work in the afternoon and can go home. So he can make furniture in the afternoon... The reason why Carpenter Yan only works half a day every day and only works in the morning so that he has time to make furniture is because he has this side job as a carpenter. I wonder if you know what a side job is?" Zhang Shengjin said.
"I've heard a little about side jobs when I was in the city. It means that the members of the production team have other jobs. If you give the production team some money, you can reduce the production labor in the team and work less. If you pay more, you don't have to work at all." Song Cenyue nodded. "I wonder if this is true?"
"That's right." Zhang Shengjin nodded, "That's what you said. Carpenter Yan handed over three yuan to the production team every month, and he only worked half a day every day."
"In the past, Carpenter Yan discussed with me that if he paid five yuan a month, he would be able to completely withdraw from production and concentrate on his carpentry work, but I refused. Our production team actually does not have enough labor force and we lack strong laborers. He is considered a strong laborer, so we have to let him join the production and cannot let him leave production completely." Zhang Shengjin told Song Cenyue another thing.
"It seems that this carpentry work can make money, so he can ask for five dollars a month to completely withdraw from production." Song Cenyue said with a smile.
"He makes money. When his business is good, he can make up to 20 yuan a month. But his business has off-season and peak season. In the off-season, he can only make 7 or 8 yuan a month, but it is still much more than earning work points by working in the fields." Zhang Shengjin nodded. "The money he makes from furniture, plus the work points he earns from working in the fields, his family lives a very good life in the production team... He is a strong laborer and can earn a lot of work points. He can earn five work points even if he works only half a day."
"How come furniture making has peak and off-seasons?" Song Cenyue was a little surprised.
She thought that there was no distinction between furniture making. She also didn't know when was the off-season and when was the peak season, and was a little curious.
"In fact, no matter what you do, there should be off-seasons and peak seasons. For example, when milling rice, there are many people milling rice during the autumn harvest, which is the peak season, but after the peak season comes the off-season. For example, there are fewer people milling rice in spring and summer, because there is less grain stored after autumn and winter...
For example, Yan Carpenter makes furniture. In the second half of the year, especially in September, after the eighth month of the lunar calendar, business is very good. October, winter, and the twelfth month are the best months. The entire winter can be called the peak season. The first half of the year is not so good, it is the off-season. "
"Why? Why is the first half of the year the off-season, the second half of the year good for business, and the whole winter the best, the peak season?" Song Cenyue asked curiously. She couldn't think of the reason for the moment.
"Because many people get married in the second half of the year! People in our area have always believed that the second half of the year is the best time to get married, so most people choose to get married in the second half of the year, especially from October to December...
As long as the family is not extremely poor, they will buy new furniture for marriage. At the very least, they will have a new bed. At the very least, they will have a new table and two new chairs. Therefore, the second half of the year is the peak season for carpenters’ work, as Yan’s business is good. "Zhang Shengjin explained.
"So that's how it is!" Song Cenyue suddenly realized.
"It's summer now, so it's still off-season. If you go to Yan the carpenter, he shouldn't be busy and will make you the furniture you want quickly," said Zhang Shengjin. "If you go to him to make furniture during the peak season, you'll have to wait in line because there are so many people asking him to make furniture for you. Sometimes you have to wait for more than a month."
"Then I'm lucky." Song Cenyue said with a smile.
"Yeah, you're lucky..." Zhang Shengjin suddenly showed an expression as if he had thought of something, and asked, "By the way, you should have thought about what kind of furniture you want to make, right? What kind of furniture do you plan to make?"
The girl had not yet told him what kind of furniture she wanted to make.
"Yes, I've thought about it a long time ago. I definitely need a bed, and then a dining table, four chairs, two small stools, a wardrobe, a cupboard, a dressing table, and a writing desk." Song Cenyue nodded in response.
"Why are you still thinking of making a desk? There aren't many people in the countryside who make furniture and desks..." Zhang Shengjin was a little surprised to hear her last sentence. "You are indeed an intellectual from the city."
"There are children going to school in rural areas, but there are few families in rural areas who have desks. What do children do when they do their homework?" Song Cenyue was also a little surprised and asked curiously.
"Rural children don't have so many requirements for doing their homework. They don't write on a special desk. Why do they need a writing desk? Rural people have poor conditions. Children do their homework on the dining table and just wipe it clean." Zhang Shengjin said.
"If there is no writing desk, writing on the dining table is indeed a solution." Song Cenyue thought that since there was no condition to build a writing desk, there was nothing wrong with wiping the dining table clean and writing on it. She had to make do with the conditions.
She suddenly remembered that many families in the city did not have a desk at that time. When children in the city did their homework, they would definitely wipe the dining table clean and write on it.
Compared with children of that time, children today are so much happier.
Modern children not only do not have to worry about food and clothing, unlike children today who have to worry about food and clothing, but also every modern child has a desk to do their homework.
I thought of getting a writing desk because I thought that the college entrance examination would be resumed in the future, and it would be convenient to have a writing desk when I need to study.
I don't have to study yet, so it won't be a waste to have a desk there. I can put some things on it.