NOVEL NEXT Chapter 238: A Man Being More Kind-Hearted Was Not Bad
Mother Ji did go talk to Ji Jianyun about it.
Ji Jianyun said, “Okay, I will do the transfer for the orchard from Uncle Cai’s family this year.”
He was already planning on doing it. He had no worries. He had taken over the entire mountain area from his uncle, and so could do the same with other people.
It's just that Mother Ji's words were a bit exaggerated.
But that was for outsiders to hear. Mother Ji did not hold anything back with her son, and said, “As for Lao Ma's side, you should just leave them alone and wait until they go talk to you.”
“Yeah, I know.” Ji Jianyun nodded.
“The eldest son of Lao Cai's family, Zhan Guo, is a good worker. If he is willing, he can be hired,” Mother Ji added.
They were all from the same village, so they knew who was a hard worker and who wasn’t. What secrets could there be between people from the same village?
“Cai Zhanguo is good.” Ji Jianyun nodded. “But we won’t have enough manpower. Mother, go and see if you can find a few more men to hire.”
Mother Ji heard this and asked, “Then how is the salary now?”
“For new workers, the first half of the year is 35 yuan a month. It’ll be considered a trial run. If they can become a full time employee in the second half of the year, their salary will be the same as everyone else, 40 yuan,” Ji Jianyun said.
Those who were new must have a lower wage than those who came first.
“Okay.” Mother Ji nodded.
Although it was low, 35 yuan was nearly 10 yuan higher than that of those working at the clothing factory. So how could it be considered low?
However, she heard that wages in factories had been raised by two or three yuan.
When Ji Jianyun came back, he told his wife that he would take over the third mountain this year.
Su Danhong said with a smile:,“Big boss, are you planning on taking over all the mountains in this area?”
“If we can, we will take over the contract. Wife, what do you think?” Ji Jianyun asked.
“Those mountains are bare and not very beautiful. It’s not like ours, which are all lush and green. It would be great if it became like our orchard.” Su Danhong had huge ambitions. Even though she was a woman, her desires were not small.
Because of the movement back in the day, all the trees were cut down for making steel. They were cut down so badly that grass couldn’t grow there even now.
Su Danhong had a spiritual spring to help her. If she didn't, how could she dare to take over such a place?
“But how many people will we recruit this time?” Su Danhong asked.
Ji Jianyun made his considerations and said, “We won't recruit that many people for the time being. We will only recruit four people to be responsible for the watering.”
He was going to set up orchards first. As for whether he wanted to raise livestock, he’ll wait and see. The production of the chicken farms on the first mountain and the second mountain was enough. Of course, there would still be some shortage but this year he would add ducks and sheeps to the reservoir.
He also raised some sheeps in the first orchard, but not many. He could raise more sheeps at the reservoir this year, as there was a lot of land there.
This year, the number of pigs in the second orchard was reduced. He only brought ten back to raise. The price of piglets had increased a lot. Before, one piglet was five or six yuan. This year, one piglet cost almost twenty yuan. How many times has it doubled?
However, there were also so many people buying piglets that demand exceeded supply.
This year, everyone in the village thought Ji Jianyun would buy a lot of piglets, but they didn't expect him to only buy ten piglets. They kept asking him about it.
Ji Jianyun smiled without hiding anything. He said that he predicted that the price of pork would drop this year, and it would drop a lot, so he didn't plan to raise more.
How much did the price of pork rise last year? During the New Year, a pound was almost four yuan!
This was simply a sky high price for pork.
People who raised pigs last year really made a lot of money. For example, there was Ji Jianyun. The 29 big fat pigs last year weighed more than 300 kilograms each. They all weighed around the same.
The wholesale price was three yuan per pound, and the retail price followed the market. Many people in the village were calculating how much he made.
Some people asked Ji Jianyun, but he just smiled and said it wasn't much after deducting the expenses.
Some knowledgeable villagers asked him how much the expenses were, and how much the pigs earned after that.
Ji Jianyun took out his abacus and calculated it with them. They couldn’t believe the labor cost of raising pigs. For four people working on the mountain, it was 35 yuan a month for each person, and 140 yuan a month. That's more than 1,000 a year.
Everyone said to him, not only was he raising pigs, he was raising chickens. He was also taking care of the 30 acres of land.
Ji Jianyun avoided talking about the chickens, and talked about the things in the fields. He mentioned adding more things to his shop in the college town. They couldn’t make any money. He was very clear about these things.
There was also the expenses related to him and everyone in collecting sweet potatoes. Summer sweet potatoes and winter sweet potatoes required a lot of money, as well as the things that were usually given out during the New Year and holidays. These all had invisible costs.
But which festival didn’t require him to spend hundreds of dollars?
Everyone thought that this big man wouldn’t cry about poverty, but he did and made everyone speechless.
During the New Year this year, Ji Jianyun gave rice and flour to the elderly in the village. There were fourteen elderly people over the age of sixty five in the village. He drove to each house to deliver them. Each old person received 30 kilograms of white rice and 50 kilograms of flour, three pounds of eggs, a piece of fatty meat weighing one pound, a big fat fish from his reservoir, and two pound packs of brown sugar.
Fourteen elderly people in the village were given this.
Just talking about this kind of thing was a big deal. How much did it cost?
Therefore, Ji Jianyun's reputation in the village was good, especially those old people who received these benefits. They couldn’t listen to anyone in the village saying anything bad about Ji Jianyun.
The last time Aunt Li went out to speak ill of him, there was an aunt who spoke back. She was a filial married woman who was from the same village as him. Jianyun gave so many things to her lonely mother, so how could she just watch Aunt Li ruin Ji Jianyun's reputation?
Su Danhong knew about these things and understood the principle of praising the poor and punishing the poor. She had no objection to what her man did.
Her husband was kind hearted and wanted to bring happiness to other families, so she had no reason to not support him.
As for whether those who received the gifts would gradually take it for granted, Su Danhong didn't care. She knew what the limits of her man's consideration were. He was very open minded, and she believed that a man being more kind-hearted was not bad.
Even though Ji Jianyun was successful, he would still ask his wife first if he wanted to do something. If his wife said it's okay, he would do it. If she said no, he would just stop doing it without any hesitation.
So after Ji Jianyun got the approval from his wife that he could do the contract, he came to Lao Cai's house the next day to negotiate.