A Timely Wife

The land purchase went very smoothly. Li Qi bought all the land around the house now. The village head brought people to measure it. The total land was more than nine mu. The village head gave them nine mu of land. Forget it, the three-entry courtyard of the school is relatively small, occupying two acres of land.

This school was built completely according to Cheng Dong's idea. The first courtyard is full of large rooms with high ceilings and no partitions. The surrounding windows are also relatively large, which is convenient for ventilation and lighting. There are three windows, which Chengdong specially requested.The main room in the middle and the wing rooms on both sides are all such buildings. According to Cheng Dong's idea, the middle of these three rooms is the so-called enlightenment class, the east wing is the imperial examination class, the west wing is the arithmetic class, and the enlightenment class Li Lianglai is the master of the imperial examination class, Li Qilai is the master of the imperial examination class, and Cheng Dong is the teacher of the arithmetic class.

The courtyard in the middle is temporarily unoccupied, but Chengdong is built according to the model of a modern single-person apartment. It is divided into six rooms in total, with beds, wardrobes, bedside tables, and some shelves for personal items. The shelves are also improved by Chengdong based on some modern storage cabinets. These things are very practical, so that the master carpenter who made these furniture chased Chengdong to worship Chengdong as a teacher, and Chengdong couldn't laugh or cry.

The Zangshu Pavilion at the back is similar to the house in the first courtyard, with a high roof and rows of bookshelves in the middle of the house. The books in the Zangshu Pavilion are basically bought by Li Guanshi from the town. Chengdong specially explained that if he saw some books that are helpful to farming, please bring them back with him.

Because of Chengdong's instructions, Li Guanshi almost broke his legs, and finally found "Shangnong", "Ren Di", "Biantu", "Judging Time" in the corner of a bookstore. ", "Qi Min Yao Shu" and "Chen Jianong Book", these six books on agriculture, when looking through, Li Guanshi also saw some strange books, thinking of Chengdong's hobbies, Li Guanshi didn't care about three or seven 21 all of them. Bought it back.

When Chengdong got the book, he felt a little regretful. There was no Ming Dynasty in this place. If there was a Ming Dynasty, excellent and practical books such as "Heavenly Creation" and "Qi Min Yao Shu" would have been published. It can save him a lot of trouble, and now it seems that he can only do it himself.

When doing these things, Chengdong did not hide from Li Ruosong and Li Ruoshan. To be precise, he always brought these two people with him. Li Ruosong listened more and asked less, while Li Ruoshan seemed curious Like a baby, Chengdong kept asking questions, and Chengdong patiently explained to Li Ruoshan why he did this.

These books seem to be useless, such as books on agriculture. No one in the village knows how to farm. Things like crops are directly proportional to people's efforts. The more you work hard on the crops, the harvest will The more seasons you will harvest, of course, sometimes it depends on God's will. If God doesn't show favor when it's time to harvest the crops and it rains continuously, then the harvest of the year will basically be ruined.

Although Chengdong has never been in the country, he is very aware of how important the summary and promotion of agricultural experience, the improvement and popularization of farm tools are to an agricultural society. It is a pity that Chengdong only has rough theoretical concepts about these, such as greenhouse farming , seed cultivation, soil transformation and so on, he knows that there are these things, but he has no idea how to do it.

Especially in the cultivation of seeds, he has known the scientist who successfully cultivated hybrid rice since he was a child, and he also has a general understanding of the theoretical knowledge of hybrid rice, but he has no practical experience at all, such as sterile lines and maintainer lines. Yes, he couldn't figure it out at all. He only remembered that if it wasn't for that old gentleman, maybe their country wouldn't be able to develop so fast. The problem of food alone would be enough to drag a country down. A country's emphasis on agriculture It is not reflected in the number of farmers or the amount of cultivated land, but in the innovation of agricultural technology and the protection of cultivated land.

Chengdong is not in a hurry about this, he has a specialization in the field of surgery, he has ideas, and there are always powerful old farmers with experience. The combination of the two may yield some gains, and their technology back then was hundreds of years ahead of the current technology. As far as this is concerned, it took many years to succeed in the research back then, so Cheng Dong is not in a hurry. As long as he can first innovate the farm tools, free manpower, and increase productivity, everything else can be done slowly.

On the one hand, agricultural books provide villagers with some ideas, and on the other hand, they also provide theoretical basis for their later research, and facilitate them to further optimize the content of these books, which is very helpful to them.

Considering that there will be villagers coming to Zangshuge to borrow books in the later period, the courtyard where Zangshuge is located has two doors, one door is connected from the front courtyard, which is convenient for the master who lives here and the children who study in the front to go to the library. Here to borrow books, the other door is specially used by the villagers. This door is on the right side and is completely separated from the front door. Even the books for the villagers are placed separately. Among the houses, this house is not connected to the other two houses, and only has a side door to the outside, which is also to prevent the villagers from coming in and out from causing a bad impact on the front.

Since the yard was relatively simple to build, after the land was bought, Manager Li arranged for people to start building it first. There was also something that moved Li Qi very much. When the news spread that the yard was about to start construction, the village All the people in the village came, not to see, but to work, from the elderly to the children of Zongjiao, no one was absent, even the sons and grandsons of Uncle Li Qi's family. All come.

Those who can carry bricks and soil should do physical work, and those who can’t do physical work will help wash vegetables and cook. The children will do what they can, such as helping with water, carrying dishes, cleaning tables and chairs, etc. , Because of this school, the whole village is in motion.

These villagers came to help every day, and the school was built at an astonishing speed. The project that originally took a month and a half was completed in less than a month. When the school was finally capped, all the people present Cheering, the children ran around in several courtyards, laughing loudly, while shouting that they can study, they can study.

While wiping away tears, the old man kowtowed to Li Qi's family, saying that Li Qi's family were living Bodhisattvas sent by God to save them. After hearing that even the adults in the village would find time to teach them how to read and write , the villagers burst into cheers.

You know, at this time, studying is a very honorable thing. If someone's child can be sent to the school to study, it is really a great thing, and reading is also a very expensive thing. The husband’s repairs are not a small expense. The average husband’s salary is about one and a half taels of silver, and the better one can get one tael of silver a year.

But for these villagers, two liang of silver is enough for several members of their family to live for a year. They worked hard in the fields for more than half a year, and they might only get a few hundred copper coins, so reading is a very luxury In the past, the villagers in Liujiagou could only look enviously at the children from other villages going to school, and their envious eyes turned red for the villages with schools.

Liujiagou is really poor, the geographical location is not good, it is too remote, the mountains are high and the forest is deep, and the only road leading to the outside is very narrow. If one is not careful, he may fall into the deep ditch. I can't climb out anymore, and the deep mountain is even more terrifying. Most people dare not go in. The villagers can at most get something under the mountain. Before, some people entered the mountain with a little strength, but they couldn't come out again. Since then, the village No one ever went in again.In some years, a herd of wild boars would come down from the mountains and harm the crops. At this time, the villagers dare not go out, but only dare to hide in their houses and wait for the herd of wild boars to leave.

It's not that no one is greedy for these wild boars, but when a few middle-aged men went to hunt wild boars together, but after being pierced by the intestines of the wild boars, no one dared to mention this matter again. There are things in the mountains that can only be watched. There is not much land and little harvest, and there is nothing good to sell in the village. Year after year, the people in the village are suffering.

Decades ago, when Mr. Dou went to Beijing to rush for the exam, he was accidentally in danger. Yihao was rescued by Li Qi's parents. Li Qi's parents asked them to take 170 taels of silver back to the village and build a road for the village. Mr. Dou felt that as long as the road was cleared, the situation here would naturally improve.

Li Qi's parents originally did not accept this huge sum of money, after all, it was 170 taels of silver. To Li Qi's parents, this was not only a huge sum of money, it was something they dared not even think about, let alone enough for them For a lifetime, even their sons, grandsons, and great-grandchildren can rely on this silver to live a good life.

But after Mr. Dou's persuasion, they felt that what Mr. Dou said was reasonable, and Mr. Dou also said that he lent the money to the villagers of Liujiagou. He just returned the pen and silver, but Li Qi's parents couldn't refuse several times, and what Mr. Dou said was very truthful, so they had to take it with the cheek.

Li Qi's parents, carrying a huge sum of money, didn't even dare to drink water along the way, they just buried their heads in the rush home. Once they got home, Li Qi's parents told their elder brother and sister-in-law about the matter, and Uncle Li Qi advised them After chasing Mr. Dou back, he said that the money could not be collected, and for this he gave Li Qi's parents a hard lesson.

Li Qi's parents were ashamed. After leaving Uncle Li Qi's house, they entrusted their youngest son to Uncle Li Qi to take care of them. The couple drove all night to catch up with Mr. Dou, but unfortunately, the couple never returned.