Farmer’s Blessed Girl

Cui Shi did not speak for a long time.

There are not only children in the shantang, but also widows who have been driven out without a livelihood, and some elderly widows and orphans. It is only because of the smallpox epidemic that the survival rate of children is higher, so they have more children.

The number of people in the shantang is about four times that before the disaster.

Cui Shi felt that Yang and Shu were too tired, and she took over Shantang because she really loved the children inside.

But she thought it was the limit to guarantee them food and clothing, and let them go home and divide the fields when they were fourteen years old, but Bai Shan said, do you want to invite them a husband?

Cui rubbed his forehead, feeling that his dowry might not be guaranteed.

However, because this was Bai Shan's proposal, she had a headache, but she still asked, "Do you want to ask a gentleman to teach them how to read and write?"

"Reading and literacy is too expensive, but if the sister-in-law chooses a few particularly smart and clever ones to cultivate, maybe she will be able to help the sister-in-law in the future."

Cui raised his eyebrows, "Isn't it literate?"

Bai Shandao: "You can teach them woodworking, sewing or embroidery, arithmetic is also good, and farming, these can be learned."

Cui Shi was surprised, "Farming?"

Bai Shan nodded, and seeing her surprised face, he was also surprised, "Sister-in-law doesn't think they can all farm, right?"

He said: "Cultivation is not so easy, they are still children, they must not have time to learn, such as farming time, when to sow, when to plant rice, when to fertilize, when to water, how to judge whether the crops have insects or what Worm, these are all learned from the old farmer."

"If their parents and elders are still there, they will naturally learn these things bit by bit through their work, but now that they have lost their relatives, they certainly don't know these things."

Cui Shi: ... She thought it was a well-known thing, after all, just follow it.

Bai Shan didn't think so. He grew up in the village, and even if he watched it once a year, by the second year, he would always make mistakes in judgment.

Even now, he couldn't understand why his father-in-law could squat on the edge of the field and reach out to touch a handful of soil to know when to plant, and frost would not knock the seeds off.

However, a few of Zhou's brothers can learn this skill, and Thursday's brother said bluntly, "Only my second and third brothers have learned this skill, and I have not yet learned it."

The old Zhoutou said directly: "If the fourth, fifth and sixth are allowed to farm the land by themselves, they will have to be patched and starved within three years."

Obviously, farming is not something anyone can do, even with Shiroulang and the others after so many years of farming, they can't independently complete an entire farming season.

"Since you want to allocate the land to them when they turn fourteen, you have to make sure that they can cultivate the land themselves."

Bai Erlang was very sympathetic to the children in the shantang, and said, "Cultivating the land is hard work."

Liu Huan and Yin may have never planted seeds before, and they can still understand the meaning of his words for the time being.

Man Bao, who has been silent, said, "The cost is too high."

Liu Huan and Yin or thought, is it a lot of money?

Why don't the two people who eat minced meat can't understand, after all, they are born to read, this is a must, a must, they know that most children rarely read, because reading costs money, but isn't it Master Yang and Madam Yang? ?

They shouldn't spend much money, right?

Good deeds. After getting the luggage from home, Liu Huan, who has a lot of money, said: "Why don't I donate some money, how much do they pay for two years of study?"

Bai Shan glanced at him and ignored him, and said to Mrs. Cui, "Sister-in-law can discuss with each family, and each family will produce a few people who can read and write arithmetic, embroidery, tailor, and carpentry to teach the children in the shantang. It shouldn't be difficult. Also, if you want to go back to farming now that you are old, you can also ask an old farmer in the village to teach him for two years. When he is fourteen years old, he will return to the village and divide the fields and grain and farming tools. You don't have to worry about supporting yourself."

Cui thinks this is a big project, but inexplicably a little excited.

After turning around twice, she said, "Your idea is good. You can decide after I think about it."

If you want to do this, you have to do it for a long time, not just one or two years, at least twelve years, or even longer.

But they may not be able to stay in Xiazhou for such a long time, then they have to form a rule, even if they leave, this thing can continue, otherwise things will be broken as soon as they leave, and the children who have learned half of them will have no whereabouts. By the time……

Choi pondered.

Seeing that she was thinking, Man Bao and the others stopped disturbing her and turned to leave.

After leaving the yard, Man Bao asked them, "Where have you been today?"

Bai Shandao: "Just walking around the city, we used to walk around the streets to arrange patients, knowing that some people have some resentment against Brother Yang, I just wanted to see how Brother Yang comforted them, but we walked Walk to Shantang."

He said: "Sister-in-law is right. There are many more people in the shantang than before. I remember that the shantang was also vacated to arrange disaster victims, but now there are more people living in it than during the disaster."

"so much?"

Bai Shan nodded, "Most of them are children whose parents lost their lives outside, and some were driven out after their fathers lost or their mothers lost, and some..."

He paused and said, "It was the parents who were still alive but were abandoned."

Man Bao was taken aback and asked, "Why?"

Bai Erlang was indignant, "Because they left too many pockmarks on their faces."

He is still angry to this day, "We spent a day in a shantang, and there were nine children who were abandoned by their parents because they had too many acne marks on their bodies."

Bai Shan also sighed. At that time, he thought that people were lucky if they survived. Who would have thought that after surviving, someone would abandon their children for such reasons?

"The steward in the shantang said that when the children were first thrown, they found them by themselves, but they were thrown away again. Three of them were thrown directly into the woods, and the mountain people who went into the mountains to find wild vegetables met them and hugged them. , then nothing happened." Bai Shan said: "Because of this, Brother Yang also arrested several people, but instead of letting them take the children back, they sent them all to the shantang and arranged for them. Cut off the book."

It was also because Yang and Shu intervened that the steward mentioned them when they were looking at the children in the shantang.

Bai Shan asked Man Bao, "Can't they get rid of the acne marks on their bodies?"

The images of those children flashed in his mind. Although he wouldn't be scared, but... the impact on them was really great. When he went to see the nine children, they were always alone, basically Don't look up at people.

Man Bao frowned, "There is currently no way to get rid of acne..." Or she could focus on discussing this aspect with Teacher Mo.

Woohoo, finally on time for a while, good night