coobybook Chapter 440 Year-End Bonus
Chapter 440 Year-End Bonus
Mammy also came back from the city, having made a lot of money today. After coming back, apart from chatting with other mammies, she continued to watch TV series and study her clothes. Now she has nothing else in her eyes except making clothes and making money. She has the tendency to transform into a strong woman.
The weather outside was getting colder, and the first snow of the year arrived on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month. Fortunately, it stopped snowing after one day, and did not continue to snow endlessly.
As soon as the weather cleared up, Shen Ruyi began to arrange for the New Year gifts to be sent to each mansion, preparing things according to the closeness of the relatives. Things like bacon, sausage, fish, chicken, honey, medicinal herbs, etc., these are the most basic New Year gifts.
The first crop of vegetables in the greenhouse was ready to eat. Shen Ruyi selected a few families with whom she had good relationships and added vegetables and tea leaves.
Of course, we also added more chili sauce and various pickled vegetables to the little prince's side.
As cartloads of stuff were sent out, cartloads of stuff were brought back from other people’s homes. Daily gift-giving meant exchanging things one had at home for things that other people had.
The things that others gave back to Shen Ruyi were usually clothes and accessories. What Shen Ruyi always gave back were all kinds of food. She had her own unique advantage, and it was also something that others valued.
The ladies I met later were also very interesting. If they wanted to eat something from Shen Ruyi's place but were too embarrassed to ask for it directly, they would prepare a truckload or even two truckloads of food and send it over, and then wait for Shen Ruyi to return the gift.
They also figured out Shen Ruyi's style of doing things. Whenever they sent something to her, she would not let people make a wasted trip and would definitely send some gifts in return.
Because the food here at Shen Ruyi's place is so delicious. Even though it's the same thing, the food produced in their own farm is so different from that produced at Shen Ruyi's place.
The Big Buddha Temple sent back some tea and various vegetarian snacks to Shen Ruyi. There were also two Buddhist scriptures given by Master Lu Yuan, which had been offered in front of the Buddha for a long time. They were asked to be placed in the ancestral hall, saying that it would be good for the family.
Shen Ruyi accepted it very happily, which meant that it had been blessed.
The official presented an egg-sized luminous pearl to the emperor, and after the family members had looked at and admired it, they put it away.
Judging from the expressions of Dasheng and Changle, they were very interested in this thing and wanted to play with it. However, this time they were rejected by Shen Ruyi outright.
"This is a reward from the government. It is for collection, not for playing with. This thing cannot be lost or dropped, otherwise there will be big problems. In serious cases, you may even be beheaded. Just like this, with a click, everyone's head will be chopped off." Shen Ruyi said as he demonstrated. Only then did they realize the seriousness of the problem and never mentioned playing with it again.
Aunt Wang is about to give birth in the next few days. The things she brought back this time were all prepared by her, mainly clothes.
Shen Ruyi then began to arrange for bonuses and red envelopes to be distributed to the servants and tenants in other farms. Each tenant family received an additional 50 kilograms of wheat and two kilograms of meat.
I hope everyone can have a good New Year. By the way, I have improved the overall treatment of the servants and added one more meat dish. Of course, this is the daily food treatment.
The Chinese New Year period has its own standards. This year, everyone worked together and worked towards the same goal. We got along very happily. Everyone really worked hard.
Of course, Li Qi, the housekeeper, was given a red envelope of 3000 taels, Banxia was given 2800 taels, and Lu Mama and Li Mama were given 1000 taels each. The other housekeepers below were given 500 taels each, and no one was left without a payout.
Give the silver in place so that everyone has more money in hand, so that they don't have to think about embezzlement for a few taels of silver, or use the information in the mansion to exchange silver with outsiders, which is very troublesome.
Naturally, Shen Ruyi's actions made everyone very happy. What the master rewarded them with was not only money, but also recognition and respect for them.
Of course, 200 taels were given to each of these maidservants and guards, and they were asked to use money to solve as many problems as possible. Although their food and lodging were provided by the government, it would be more convenient and comfortable if they had more money.
The ordinary servants below were each given an extra 5 months' monthly salary as a New Year's reward.
It can be said that the whole mansion received the reward, and everyone was very happy.
Of course, Uncle Yang and Chen Liang were each given 600 taels.
2000 taels were given to Mr. Li, 600 taels were given to each of the people who followed Mr. Li to help from time to time, and 500 taels were given to each of those who were seconded by the Ministry of Works to help.
2000 taels were given to Manager Wang.
Mei Yuan and other ordinary employees of Tianxia Diyilou were each given 30 taels of silver.
The people who worked on the shipbuilding were each given several hundred taels of silver, depending on the project they were responsible for.
As for Lord Wei and his entourage, Lord Wei was given 1000 taels of silver, and the others were each given 500 taels of silver.
Shen Ruyi's actions were as fierce as a tiger, and he spent a lot of money, which intimidated many people and made many people more loyal. Even those who were not convenient to be loyal to Shen Ruyi were infinitely grateful for Shen Ruyi's generosity and kindness in their hearts.
Some people were extremely envious after knowing about it; some people scolded Shen Ruyi for being a fool and disrupting the market; some people thought that Shen Ruyi probably couldn't keep the money in his pocket.
Shen Ruyi had the audacity to give random rewards to the garrison troops. Besides, it was not her turn to give rewards. She just raised the standard of food supply during the New Year again and again, as an alternative form of thanks to them for their hard work.
The officials became introverted after hearing about this. They felt uncomfortable if they didn't mess with this little thing. This operation directly confused many officials.
Especially those small officials at the bottom level, who were not involved in daily corruption and had to rely on their salaries to make a living. Xiao Heitan's actions made the salaries of the court seem particularly small and worthless.
Isn't this deliberately trying to shake the morale of the army? Who would be willing to work for the court in the future?
But to be honest, even an official like him would be envious of the money he received. This is the advantage of having a small family. No matter how they spend it, they still have some money left.
But he, as an official, cannot do that. The country is too big, there are too many people, there are many things that need to be considered and taken care of, and even more things that need to be spent. He does not have the capital to be willful.
Even this little thing was too much to give away. So much so that the official always suspected that the child was too young to understand the benefits of silver and its charm, so he did not regard silver as silver.
I can’t understand it, I can’t understand it, but this child really has no selfish intentions at all. Children like him are so rare.
He conferred the title of a prince on someone, but in the end, his life did not change at all, as if the matter had never happened. It was still the same, and he lived his life as usual, without any change at all.
There was no news of her being conferred a title in the outside world, and she did not value power at all. She stayed in her villa every day, and no one knew what she was busy with all day.