Rocks or fixin' a roof? [Meaning, pear preserves, or potentially nothing?

Because Rhus knows how to extract goods and favours for a job well done, and will insist on getting paid. But he's doing this because he... he honestly feels terrible for the couple, knows how bad leaky roofs are, especially during the winter.]

I'll be asking those folk what they can give us in exchange, or mayhap wrangle a promise to be paid in some way later.