Ancient Fortune Records

"Newcomers, four people share a dormitory, work for two hours in the morning, one hour in the afternoon, and study for another hour. I have already told you about the wages. Be diligent, and your good days are still to come. "The lady in charge is only in her early 30s, but her hair is all gray, her face is weathered, and she only has one pair of hands that can still catch her eyes.This is the result of her deliberate protection. She was an embroiderer when she was young, and she could embroider all kinds of patterns. The way to embroider precious embroidery.

Everyone should be.

The workshop facilities are very new, and there are places to stay, places to work, and places to eat.Regardless of the two meals, the meals are very good, and the stewards will eat with the craftsmen.

The manager who spoke was very skilled in embroidery, even Shu embroidery and Su embroidery were so hard to put down. Shu embroidery craftsmanship was so difficult that there were only a dozen or so girls in the city who could embroider, and she was even more so. The best of men.

She is strict, but she treats the craftsmen very well, just like treating her own girl. Everyone loves and fears her.

The manager is from the countryside around Jicheng. Her husband's family name is Xue. She is a widow. Her husband died of a serious illness, and her son also disappeared outside the village a few years ago.It was a famine year and there was not enough food. Her son was only five years old. Because he was so hungry, he secretly ate a little food from a bully in the same village. Unexpectedly, the bully would not let him go and drove him out of the village, threatening to kill him if he was caught. He will beat him to death.He didn't dare to go back to the village, and the village was so big that he lost his way. When Mrs. Xue came back from looking for wild vegetables outside to find her son, the child had disappeared.The outside of the village is even more chaotic than the inside of the village. If a five-year-old child does not go home in time and wanders outside, one can imagine what will happen to him.

Either sold, or eaten by the very hungry.However, Mrs. Xue didn't believe it. She felt that her son had always been clever, and he was wearing the amulet around his neck that his father begged for him when he was born.

Mrs. Xue searched for a long time, but couldn't find it.She didn't remarry these years either, she was afraid of her son's return and dared not recognize her as a mother.

Later, she was kicked out by her husband's family.Before Mr. Shen came, there was no such thing as a female household in Youzhou. A woman, without her husband or children, is not worthy of staying in her husband's house. The clan will directly take over the house and give it to one of the same clan. Uncle without a house.

He has no private property, and was rumored by the mother of a bully in the same village to be unruly, and he didn't even care about his children in order to steal men, and the children he taught were thieves!Everyone in the village is watching with cold eyes. Reasonable people know that she has been wronged, but no one is willing to help her.There is a lot of gossip in front of widows, let alone a "widowed widow" like her.

At that time, she had no fixed place to live, but she did not give up looking for her child.She lived in a beggar's nest, and also in a ruined temple, and almost became a nun because she couldn't eat.But a nun can't do it either. To be a nun is to purify the six faculties. She still thinks about the child, how to purify the six faculties?The teacher is also unwilling to take him in.

In this way, she searched for food while begging until Master Shen came to Youzhou.

For a woman like her who has neither property nor children, Mr. Shen sent someone to allocate a small house for the family.They also assigned homework, daily homework, and free breakfast and dinner.It is said that this is relief food, but Mrs. Xue feels that this relief food is finer than the best food she ate in her previous life.

She found that Mr. Shen was very disgusted with child abduction, so she went to the government and reported the case, hoping to use the birthmark on the child's arm and the wooden amulet hanging around his neck to find him and reunite them.

Back then, in the border of Youzhou, there were not a few families with separated wives and children.Mr. Shen sent people to register one by one, and many children were found, but there was still no news of more children.

Mrs. Xue once met someone with a birthmark on her arm, but it was different from her son's, because the birthmark on her son's body was very round, like a copper coin.But seeing these children, she will treat them as her own children.

Life in Youzhou became better and better, and the people gradually had more money in their hands.Her embroidery business is getting better and better, and she is often overwhelmed.

Because she can earn [-] Wen a day by relying on her own skills, so after excluding her own expenses and the cost of finding her son by trustees, she also took in many children who were separated from their parents or were abandoned by their parents. It is particularly finely fed, but it can also ensure that they have a full meal normally.Later, she was noticed by the government.Both because of her craftsmanship, but also because of her kind deeds in helping orphans and women who lost their families in the past few months.She couldn't embroider too much by herself, so she took the initiative to teach some women who didn't know how to make red embroidery to do some embroidery, and exchanged their skills for money.

Maybe it was after the good things were done for a long time, the time came and it was noticed by the heavens.

Last month, the government hired her with a high salary as a steward here, and her rank was higher than other stewards.In the beauty workshop, she instructs the girls here to be female celebrities every day, and then she does embroidery for an hour by herself. She is leisurely and respected.Except for her son not being found, her life is considered complete.

Everyone in the workshop knew about this, and they often asked their family members to pay attention, hoping that one day, such a good manager would be able to reunite with his own children.The most conspicuous part of the official newspaper is the missing person notice that she asked someone from the newspaper office to publish. It costs [-] cents a day, and she publishes it almost every three days.

As for Xuejia Village, she never went back.It is said that many people in that village have committed serious crimes, such as theft, robbery and even murder. Some serious crimes have been committed. Mr. Shen investigated a case of a woman being abducted there, and it turned out that it was the bully's mother-in-law The lady married by the bully was sold because the girl would not have a son, and she pretended to quarrel with her and left by herself.

But now the household registration system is too perfect, and the small officials who investigate the case are becoming more and more professional. It is so easy to check a woman's movement track. After a while, she can find out the ins and outs of the matter and find out the money she got from selling her daughter-in-law.

This bully bullies men and women in the village, and he has long been called to build roads and bridges for free. It is said that he is exhausted, has no wages, and only eats half full every day.Mrs. Xue was extremely happy. She was drunk for the first time that day and embroidered the picture of fish playing with lotus all night. This is the most ingenious embroidery she has embroidered in these years. The price was sold to a wealthy merchant for 50 taels of silver, and the shop shared 45 taels of silver, and the remaining [-] taels were all her own.

As soon as this incident happened, more people clamored to worship her as a teacher in the workshop.

People from Xuejia Village also approached her, saying that they wanted to send the girl from the family over to teach her.She couldn't help laughing angrily. There are many villains in Xuejia Village, and most businessmen are unwilling to do business in Xuejia Village. Xuejia Village's notoriety has spread far and wide, and even food and vegetables are not easy to sell.Although the life of the people in Xuejia Village is better than before, the gap with other villages is gradually widening. They think of Mrs. Xue who was kicked out by them, and want the clan to come forward and let Mrs. Xue pass on the craftsmanship to the people of Xuejia Village. Don't be so stupid, listen to the government and teach those who don't know how to be female celebrities.

On this day, Mrs. Xue was stopped by people from Xuejia Village before she could go to the workshop.Lady Xue crossed her arms and leaned against her doorframe, patiently, intending to hear how shameless these people are.

Five people came, one woman was Mrs. Xue's cousin.The three are young and strong, they are the most tyrannical youngsters in the clan, and there is one older clan elder.

Just look at the uncle with a big belly, oily face, and seriousness, "You are a woman, it's not good to show your face. Well, our family plans to add your name to the family tree, so don't you Stubborn, come back with me, I will find you a house in the village, where you will teach the girls how to be a female celebrity. There is still a place for you in the village, and after you pass away, there will still be incense to enjoy, and there will be you The location of the cemetery... You are a woman's family, how bad is the influence from the outside. I heard that you have adopted a lot of boys and girls, and you have already remembered them. You are not familiar with them. What's the point of raising them? ? There are still a lot of people in our village who can’t raise their children? They are all young, why don’t you raise them?”

Mrs. Xue sneered, "Can't you support them? Now under Master Shen's rule, if Xue Family Village can't support their children, that's your own problem. You are lazy and greedy, greedy, not enterprising, and you deserve to die of poverty." !"

The uncle of the clan was furious, "You shrew, you are a widow! Your husband-in-law was killed by you, and our Xue family didn't settle accounts with you, and you made me tremble! You stinky bitch, relying on yourself now There are two stinky money, even your uncle looks down on it, this crime of disrespecting elders, in our village, you will be starved for three days!"

The woman also said: "Sister-in-law, I didn't say that we women should have someone to rely on? Everyone in the clan has promised to find someone to marry you when you come back. There are very few girls in our clan who remarry. You But our patriarch is gracious and specially allows you to remarry! Many people in our village want to propose to you! Why do you have to wait outside, that child is probably gone long ago, if you talk in your old age There are no people, so what's the use of having more money..."

"Shut up!" Mrs. Xue pointed at the courtyard door, "Please go out, my business has nothing to do with you. If there is any more trouble, I will report to the police!"

Mrs. Xue was too lazy to quarrel with such a person who couldn't understand the situation clearly. She only yelled twice, and three big boys appeared.They sell pork nearby. They look about fourteen or fifteen years old. Maybe they eat well. They are tall and strong. Seeing so many people in the yard, they don’t have any expression. .

Those young and strong people in Xuejia Village seem to be good fighters, but they can't help being timid when they face young people who are not shorter than them and stronger than them. After all, these young people still have kitchen knives, sticks and picks. Bone knives, with the smell of raw meat on their bodies, seem not to be trifled with, unlike those cowards in the village.

The teenagers pushed one at a time and blasted these people out.

But within a few days, there were rumors in the market, saying that Mrs. Xue did not obey women's morals. She was a widow and dared to adopt an adopted son who was not related to her. I am afraid that she was not supporting her adopted son, but raising a few children for herself. mistress.

Those with brains felt outrageous when they heard these words, and hurriedly scolded others not to ruin their reputation.But there are only a few people with brains, so there are more and more unfavorable words against Mrs. Xue. Some old ladies even spit on the ground when they see Mrs. Xue.

Mrs. Xue smiled wryly, meeting someone from Xuejia Village, it must be nothing good.However, the adopted children were afraid that she would be sad, and whenever someone was rude to her, they would glare at each other.They never stopped interacting with her because of gossip.

The Qing is self-clearing, and Mrs. Xue didn't take it to heart.

It just got worse.

Many girls in the workshop were taken away by their families, and the manager of the workshop came to comfort her.

"These people are short-sighted and have no understanding of people. You don't have to worry about it."

Mrs. Xue shook her head, "It is indeed because of me that our business has slowed down a bit recently."

The manager suggested, "Why don't you report directly to the official?"

Mrs. Xue smiled wryly, "Could it be that, just because others spoke sarcasticly to me, should I report to the government?" How can the government control this matter?

The manager is a 50-year-old man who doesn't talk much to Mrs. Xue on weekdays, but he can't bear to call the person who managed to live like a human being dragged into the mud again.

In this world, it seems that bad guys can easily destroy other people's original happy life, which makes him, a warm-hearted old man, really can't stand idly by.

The manager sighed: "You people always say that those who clean themselves will clean themselves, but there is no one who cleans themselves. There is a record in the official newspaper: A few days ago, some criminals who committed taboos were imprisoned in the big prison. They said Undisturbed, discussing the affairs of the court, dare to talk about who will be the prince today. Mr. Shen asked them to dig the river to prevent the river from being silted up. It is estimated that they will serve three years of corvee. It can be seen that the inappropriate words are also There should be punishment."

"A few months ago, some people made rumors about a certain workshop, cutting corners and materials, and the manager took bribes, but after investigation, there was no such thing. It was just that some people in the workshop held a grudge against the manager, and the competitors who competed with this workshop , take advantage of the fire to rob, and spread the rumors."

"However, soon, these people who spread rumors were all arrested. Mr. Shen once said in the official newspaper that we people should be responsible to ourselves, to others, to our family, and to Youzhou. Be responsible to others, that is to say, not be able to slander and slander others, and gossip hurting others is enough to be imprisoned, compensated, and apologized in public.”

Mrs. Xue said sincerely: "Thank you, I will report to the officials right now. If my son comes back and sees that I have a bad reputation and refuses to recognize me as a mother, wouldn't it be a small loss?"

The manager waved his hand, "Go, we, Youzhou, have been different for a long time. Those troublesome people, do you still think that the government is the government that didn't do anything before? Hmph, we have to kill their prestige so that they know how powerful they are!"

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Of course, Shen Li has no time to take care of these trivial matters. He has set a general direction now, and many people will expand and perfect this direction.Including slandering others, disseminating false information, etc., are all crimes that can be brought to justice.

The change of people's customs does not happen overnight, publicity and legislation is the key.

In the name of clan rules, many villages wantonly persecute the "heterogeneous" in the village. In fact, according to the law, no matter whether it violates the public order and good morals or the real law, the clan is not allowed to execute privately.

The distribution of the official newspaper is good. Whenever there is any unusual case, someone will write a story and publish it in the official newspaper.So that everyone can know what behavior is illegal and what behavior is commendable.It is not enough to have enough warehouses, enough people must know the etiquette, so that Youzhou can really take on a new look.

Shen Li pondered, besides this, what Youzhou lacks the most is doctors.The treatment of doctors is not high anywhere, but every place needs enough doctors.

In addition, women are even more in need of medical treatment.In particular, there are almost no doctors who treat gynecology.

For thousands of years, due to the great defense between men and women, women could not be healed, resulting in the death of many women.It was just a small problem at first, and it got worse as it dragged on.

Every time there is an epidemic, it is also because there are not enough doctors, which leads to the rapid and violent outbreak of the epidemic, and now it is going to winter.In winter in many places, there are small-scale influenza outbreaks.Or even more unfortunately, a plague that cannot be cured by the current level of medical treatment occurs.

Doctors are very important, and it is also important to open a large medical center.

Shen Li looked at Wei Zhi's letter, and wrote a memorial with a smile, "Brother Wei, I want you to come to my place, and I will serve you as an official. Don't be ungrateful, or I will ask the prince to clean you up."

The construction of this hospital and the selection of doctors are still inseparable from professionals!Every time Wei Zhi wrote letters, he would say that he was living a carefree life and spoke leisurely.

Shen Li had let him roam free for several months, and it was time to exchange feelings with him.

Shen Li thought, these ancient people are reserved, on the surface they are devoted to mountains and rivers, but in fact they wrote to me to express the thought that talents are not appreciated and ambitions are not rewarded.

As Wei Zhi's best friend, how could he turn a blind eye to his best friend's "difficult" situation?

Wei Zhi, who was far away in Langzhou, was taking the pulse of a patient when he suddenly shivered and sneezed twice.

"Hey, this autumn is different, is it getting colder?"

Wei Zhi thought to herself, she should wear more clothes in the future.However, I heard that the winter in Youzhou is colder than that in Langzhou, hehe, the Shen family boy is going to be frozen.