Chapter 227: Overtime Pay

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

“Okay then. You should also rest earlier. If you’re too tired, let Erya and the Jiang siblings start work earlier tomorrow!” Aunt Wang said.

Lin Xiaoyue nodded with a smile.

“Got it.”

Back at the Liu Residence, Lin Xiaoyue found out that Wang Erya and Aunt Jiang hadn’t finished work yet.

Lin Xiaoyue asked Xiao Qing and Lin Xiaozhi to count the buckets of cold cakes in the stream, and found that there were as many as 64 buckets.

This amount far exceeded Lin Xiaoyue’s expectation.

In the kitchen, Lin Xiaoyue wanted to take over Erya Wang and Aunt Jiang’s work, but they refused.

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They said that when the last bucket of lime water had been used up, they would stop.

Lin Xiaoyue had no choice but to stand aside.

After the two finally finished the last 4 buckets of cold cakes, Lin Xiaoyue forced them to stop.

“Okay, we ll do the rest ourselves later. Thank you for your hard work today.” Lin Xiaoyue pulled the two of them aside.

“It’s already evening, you two have worked for at least an hour and a half more today.”

“I will pay you for the extra time. Erya will get 32 wen per hour. Aunt Jiang, you will get 24 wen per hour.”

The amount was about 1.5 times the basic hourly wage. She was calculating based on the standards in the 21st century.

The expressions of the two of them changed, and Aunt Jiang was the first to refuse.

“No, no. If we were faster, we wouldn’t have to do it for so long!”

“That’s right, you don’t need to pay us extra,” Erya Wang added.

Lin Xiaoyue smiled and took Aunt Jiang’s hand.

“You have worked hard, and you deserve more.”

“Erya will receive 48 wen, and Aunt Jiang, you will receive 36 wen. This money will be paid together with your wages in 10 days.”

How could she not pay them for working overtime?

Aunt Jiang and Erya Wang tried to refuse, but Lin Xiaoyue persisted, so they finally relented.

After a busy day, the two of them were very tired.

When they left, there were smiles on their faces.

Yue’er was very fair, so they felt happy working for her.

After dinner in the evening, the Liu family continued to work.

Li Xiao and Xiao Qing went to grind rice, while Lin Xiaoyue and Liu Shi made cold cakes.

Wang Erya and Aunt Jiang had already made 68 buckets of cold cakes, so they didn’t need to stay up as late as last night.

Lin Xiaoyue told everyone that they would be busy until midnight.

When they were done, everyone cleaned up, washed up and went to sleep.

Early the next morning, the Liu family got up very early.

Everyone in the family put on new clothes and prepared to set off to town.

As there were a lot of people going to town today, and there were a lot of cold cakes to bring, Lin Xiaoyue arranged for two trips.

The first trip was to transport the people.

Those who went were Lin Xiaoyue, Li Xiao, Liu Shi, Aunt Wang, Xiao Qing and Lin Xiaozhi.

Lin Xiaoyue only loaded 25 buckets of cold cakes on the ox-cart.

Li Xiao rode the ox-cart and first sent everyone to the entrance of Liu Shi’s Eatery to open the shop, and then went to Ruyi Pavilion to deliver the remaining 10 buckets of cold cakes.

Then he rode back to Dashi Village to bring more cold cakes to town.

Not long after Lin Xiaoyue and the others arrived, Li Juanzi also arrived.

Lin Xiaoyue assigned tasks to everyone, put out the billboards, and then waited for the time to set off firecrackers.

As the sky grew brighter, more people began to appear on the street..