Leisurely Daily [System]

During the Chinese New Year, the temperature is rising day by day.

After the fifteenth day, Gu Yuantao will start school, and Gu Fangqiu will also take a boat to go to Beijing. This time, Miao San and the others will also go to Beijing to deliver goods, so let Jiang Fan and the others rest assured.

Someone from the county came to propose marriage to Gu Fangqiu before, but Gu Fangqiu didn't resist. After all, it was impossible for her parents to force her to marry someone she didn't like, so she thought that it would be okay to take a look. The younger brother sat in the Guanyu Tower for a while and then went down. The matchmaker had already been sent away, and the parents still had anger on their faces.

After asking, I found out that the person was a matchmaker sent by a wealthy businessman in the county to marry the eldest son of the other family.Gu Changqing used to get acquainted with the county town for the raw materials of skin care products. Gu Changqing happened to know the situation of his family very well.

At that time, Gu Changqing heard the matchmaker boasting about the eldest son's beauty, but he knew that the hard-to-find good son-in-law in the other party's mouth was actually a flirtatious woman who could spend a lot of money in a brothel and compete with others for the top prize in a night. only.This man had married two wives before, one died of dystocia, and the other reconciled with him. The two wives did not leave him a man and a woman, but there were several children born to concubines in the family.

With such a thing, he actually has the face to ask his Qiu'er to marry him? !

Gu Changqing knew that the other party was bullying Gu Fangqiu, who had the stigma of being divorced, and also took a fancy to Jiang Fan's money, so he came here. Gu Changqing was very angry, but he didn't get angry, he just rejected it coldly. For this marriage, serve tea to see off guests.

Gu Fangqiu's reaction to the rich businessman's behavior was mediocre, but she kindly comforted her angry parents. Anyway, she will stay in Shangjing all year round, and she won't see the rich businessman if she doesn't stay in Shangjing.

Gu Changqing was angry for a while and it passed, but she told Gu Fangqiu privately that no matter whether she chooses to get married or not in the rest of her life, she must let them check the person she is looking for, so as not to cause trouble to Jiang Fan.And Gu Yuantao also told him to keep his eyes open when making friends, and not let people with ulterior motives get close to Jiang Fan through them.

Money touches people's hearts, as does power. Jiang Fan has a close relationship with King An now, and there are always many people who inquire about him in private. The two siblings said they understand this.

After the [-]th day, the year is over.

The school in Lishan Village has also been built, and all the desks and stools have been arranged.Behind the school is a row of houses for several masters to live in. There are also bathrooms and kitchens, and a special cook is responsible for their three meals a day.

Meng Yancui was hesitant to be invited by Jiang Fan to teach in Lishan Village at the beginning. She went back to the small town purely for retirement. In her perception, the life in the small town is better than the life in the village. But when she follows Jiang Fan Fan went to Lishan Village to have a look, and immediately agreed without hesitation.

Today's Lishan Village seems to be much more prosperous. There are several bluestone roads criss-crossing in the village, flower fields and paddy fields intersect. There are fewer dilapidated mud tile thatched houses and more blue brick and tile houses. The village is even more surrounded by mountains. Surrounded by flowers and trees, there are grass and flowers everywhere.

Although this scene is in a mountain village, it is even worse than life in a small town.

Several masters came to Lishan Village before the fifteenth day, and they lived in the school under the arrangement of the village head, and then he led the schoolchildren in the village to greet the master one by one.

On the first day of school, the noodle workshop and the weaving and dyeing workshop were closed every six days, so parents, regardless of whether their children were enrolled in school or not, gathered in the school to watch, watching the teachers and students solemnly salute the statue of Confucius.

Ordinary people are in awe of the school and the masters, so although there are many people watching, they dare not make noise, it is very quiet, and the masters did not drive them away.

Those who enter the school are basically students who have no foundation in reading. They are divided into several classes regardless of gender. Later, they will be divided into classes again according to their personal progress, and teachers will be assigned to teach different aspects.

Because of the arithmetic class, Jiang Fan ordered a batch of abacus and gave it to the school for free. Students can use it for free during arithmetic class every day.

In this era, not everyone is a material for reading. In the eyes of many people, mastering a survival skill is more important than being able to read, especially for women.Therefore, many schoolchildren doze off in front of "Zhihuzheye", but when it comes to arithmetic class, they are 100% energetic.

Jiang Fan had a list handed over by a group of stewards. They were some of the smarter and better-behaved servants in Zhuangzi. After being screened by Zhang Shumo, they were sent to him. The man temporarily stopped what he was doing, and went to the school to follow the study.

He has always been short of people, and the people he buys basically don't know a single word, and if they are recruited, they can't guarantee the character of the other party, so they can only be cultivated slowly in this way.

At the end of June last year, Jiang Fan planted cotton, and now the second crop has grown a little.

The dozen or so cotton plants planted last year all survived, and each plant produced six or seven cotton bolls, and each cotton boll contained five or six cottonseeds.The corner of Jiang Fan's Yilan Pavilion is not filled with flower pots like other houses, but he has pots, but the plants in them are not tree stones and tangle vines, or cotton and the like.Because there are more cotton seeds, the bamboo baskets have also increased a lot. When the third crop is planted, it is estimated that this corner will not be able to fit, and it will have to be planted outside.

As for the new cotton obtained last year, Jiang Fan asked someone to carefully clean it out and keep it.After the weaving and dyeing workshop started working, Jiang Fan found the best female workers to spin, spin and weave cotton, and finally made a pair of pure white modern cotton socks according to his requirements.

"Is this the sock?" When the finished product came out, several people looked around.

People in Dazhou also wear socks, but the socks here are called "foot clothes", which have to be tied on the feet, unlike modern socks, which can be put directly on the feet, which is more convenient and comfortable. .

"This fabric is really comfortable to the touch." The female worker who made the cotton socks touched the pair of cotton socks with her own hands and praised again.

Jiang Fan smiled and said, "In a few years, you should be able to have such a pair of socks."

The female worker pursed her lips and smiled happily: "Then I have to rely on the master's blessing."

The female workers knew that the cotton was cultivated by Jiang Fan. As their boss, looking at something young but able to be valued by him, it was extraordinary.Although she is a weaver who only knows how to weave, she has handled many kinds of fabrics, and she can tell one or two by touching them. The cotton is white and fluffy, and it feels extremely soft. If it is made into a jacket or quilt, I don’t know if it will how warm.

A little more than a hundred flowers of cotton are used to weave this pair of socks.Cotton socks are soft in texture, good in warmth retention and moisture wicking.In the past, Jiang Fan never lacked such a pair of ordinary cotton socks to wear, but it was different here, he was reluctant to wear them himself, and packed them in a high-quality wooden box like a treasure, intending to give it to Guan Xiujin.

After Gu Fangqiu left, Gu Changqing also left.

Before that, he bought nearly a thousand acres of land at the border, and Jiang Fan wanted to plant trees such as Chiyuan trees on it that can fertilize the land.Because of the long distance and the promotion and planting of cotton is still a few years away, I did not spend energy to buy saplings. I took the collected seeds and planted them for a few years. When cotton was planted, the land would also be fertilized. Can sell for a fortune.

A few days after Gu Changqing left, Guan Xiujin came back.

Jiang Fan counted the time, and Guan Xiujin came by boat before the Lantern Festival.

Thinking of the lively and bustling land on the Lantern Festival, Guan Xiujin was swaying on the boat with the river in the lonely night, but it made Jiang Fan feel distressed, "At least you come back after the Lantern Festival, you don't have to rush like this."

Guan Xiujin held his fingertips and said it was okay: "Time does not allow, otherwise I can spend the Lantern Festival with you."

Jiang Fan smiled and said, "We will spend the next Lantern Festival together."

Guan Xiujin didn't say anything, but just kissed him, which meant that he had made this promise.

At night, Guan Xiujin stayed in Jiang Fan's room. He and Jiang Fan sat cross-legged on the bed, watching Jiang Fan mysteriously take out a wooden box and put it between them. For you."

Guan Xiujin looked at the white thing inside, and thought it was a bit like the footwear he was wearing, but it was much smaller, not as complicated and cumbersome as the footwear.

"what is this?"

Jiang Fan picked up the socks, and put Guan Xiujin's feet on his knees.

Guan Xiujin's feet are beautiful, and they are rich and powerful, they rarely walk, and he also uses the skin care products of Jiaoyange, so his feet look very white and tender.

Jiang Fan touched the instep twice, put socks on Guan Xiujin, and looked at Guan Xiujin expectantly: "These are the socks I asked someone to make for you, are they comfortable to wear?"

"Socks?" Guan Xiujin repeated the name, and then looked curiously at the socks on his feet.

If you want to wear the footwear firmly on your feet, you need to tie it, but the socks that Jiang Fan gave him are very elastic, and they can be put on tightly without any discomfort. It is very convenient and easy to wear .

Guan Xiujin said: "This fabric seems to have never been seen before."

In fact, Guan Xiujin hadn't seen many of them. What he used were all good things, and what he saw were usually finished products.There is kapok in Dazhou, but the fiber of kapok cotton is short, and weaving is very troublesome. It is usually used as stuffing, and the kapok fluff is light and small, which can irritate the respiratory tract, so anyone who has a little money will not If he chooses to use kapok, Guan Xiujin will naturally not be able to use it.

Pure natural cotton doesn’t have these problems. Jiang Fan didn’t tell Guan Xiujin about the cotton thing at first, but told him that he wanted to surprise him, so he told him in detail now, and asked Guan Xiujin to put on his shoes and take him to He looked at the cotton planted in the corner, and showed Guan Xiujin a small lump of cotton that he left behind for knitting socks.

Guan Xiujin had actually seen cotton spinning in Jiang Fan's yard before, but he only glanced at it casually at that time, thinking that Jiang Fan was planting ornamental flowers, but he didn't expect that the flowers were indeed flowers, but the actual effect was Much more than for people to watch.

This is indeed a big surprise for him and Da Zhou.