Farming and teaching across different worlds

The smile on Leo's face still hasn't faded.

Seen by the village chief's wife, she curiously asked him what happened to him, so happy.

The village chief replied with a happy face: "Old woman, our village will be different soon, it will be developed."

"Looks like you're an old bastard, it seems that there's really a big happy event." The wife of the village head couldn't help but said with a smile.

The village head nodded, affirming what his old woman said.

Isn't there going to be a big happy event? Think about it since Ji Xiuran was admitted as a scholar, the village seems to have changed fortunes, one good thing after another.

The village head quickly called everyone together on the same day and held a village meeting.

The whole village gathered under the old osmanthus tree in the village, waiting curiously.

After the village head saw that everyone had arrived, he announced loudly: "Today, I have two things to say. The first thing is that we will have a school in our village, and Xiu Ran will open a school in our village."

As soon as the voice fell, it was like a pot was exploding, and the villagers were talking excitedly.

Although the people in the village live in poverty, but given the opportunity, they naturally want their children to read and write, so that they can stand out from the crowd.

Even if you don't take the examination of scholar, you can write and count, and you will have more opportunities to work in the future than others.

Village head Li waited for the villagers to digest the news before continuing: "Xiu Ran is thinking about the people in our village. Each person in Shu Xiu pays one tael of silver a year, which is much cheaper than other places. Everyone in the village seizes the opportunity. , and adults over the age of 15 can also enroll, Xiu Ran said, if you have no money, you can sign an agreement, and after you find a job in the future, you can pay Shu Xiu."

When the villagers heard such a cheap price and such good conditions, their faces turned red with excitement.

If there is an opportunity, who would not want to read and write? The school run by Ji Xiuran this time can be said to be entirely for the sake of the villagers.

After the discussion subsided, the village head said: "Xiu Ran's school is still waiting to be built, and everyone in the village consciously helps."

The strong men in the village immediately expressed that they had plenty of strength and were willing to contribute to Ji Xiuran's school.

Seeing this situation, Ji Xiuran immediately said: "If you want to help, I won't let everyone work in vain. Each person pays ten yuan a day, and one meal at noon."

After these people heard this, someone immediately expressed that they were willing to help even if they didn't give money.

Ji Xiuran immediately waved his hand to express his refusal.

Seeing this situation, the villagers all said that Ji Xiuran was benevolent and righteous.

In fact, Ji Xiuran just felt that the original body received a lot of care from the villagers before, and that he did something for the villagers, which could be regarded as helping the original owner to pay back some favors.

In fact, he didn't have Guangwei's idea. Everything he did was based on repaying Yuanshen's debts, which were the last things he did to Yuanshen.

The village chief saw that everyone was talking about it, so he raised his hand and knocked on the trunk, and said: "Okay, after the rest of the matter goes back, we can discuss it slowly. If you want to help the Ji family, you can just ask Xiuran then. Let me talk about another thing, our village is going to build a flour mill, and if interested villagers can contribute, and when they make money, they can share dividends.”

Hearing that money was required, the villagers had mixed reactions.

And most people are unwilling to contribute money, but they all say they can contribute.

Ji Xiuran and the village head had expected this phenomenon a long time ago, and they didn't think there was anything wrong with it. What surprised him was that there were two families who clearly expressed that they wanted to contribute money. One of them was the village head's family, and the other had a good relationship with Shi Jingchen. Wang Dazhu.

Wang Dazhu and Shi Jingchen grew up together. They used to go hunting together in the mountains. There were old and young in the family, and the conditions were very poor.

Although Wang Dazhu and Shi Jingchen made a fortune by making chairs together before, it could only solve their urgent needs.

This time such a good opportunity, Shi Jingchen didn't want Wang Dazhu to miss it, so he let him know in advance.

Wang Dazhu trusted Shi Jingchen as a person very much, and he firmly believed in his words. In addition, his family's conditions really required him to make a desperate gamble.

In this way, the final determined division is that the village chief's family and Ji's family each take [-]%, Dazhu's family takes [-]%, and Qingshan Village takes the remaining [-]%.

After the matter was settled, they started to build the milling workshop and the house of Ji Xiuran's family.

The two blueprints were drawn by Ji Xiuran, so he was inseparable from everything in building the house. Shi Jingchen was very worried about his health, so he took the initiative to take the matter onto himself.

Every night, I will take the initiative to ask some questions and learn about building a house in advance.

Ji Xiuran was very happy to teach him everything he knew, and was very satisfied with this clever student.

The drawings of the milling workshop are very simple, except for the brackets for hanging the burden in the milling room and the racks for drying the powder in the yard, the more difficult thing is to build a sewage drainage place.

Ji Xiuran thought of all kinds of sewage pollution in modern times, so of course he would not let these powder washing water be discharged outside at will.

He thought of a way to ask the builder to dig a big pit in the ground of the mill, and cover it tightly with wooden boards or something.

The powder washing water is discharged here, and the sundries produced during other powder making processes can also be thrown into it.

In this way, after half a year, all the sundries and garbage inside will be fermented into fertilizer, which can be dug out and transported to the ground to increase fat, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

After making flour, the remaining sweet potato dregs can be fed to pigs. The families who run the flour mill plan to raise a few pigs next year.

Ji Xiuran felt that it was possible to build a pig farm in the village, but considering that there had been a lot of action in the past few days, he didn't say much, just thinking about it in his heart.

The milling workshop was completed soon, but the Ji Family Yard, which was started at the same time, was a bit complicated and completed later.

The house designed by Ji Xiuran has a total of four yards, which are divided into two parts. One side of the front yard is the residence of Ji's father and mother, and the one behind is the residence of Ji Xiuran and Shi Jingchen.

This arrangement, on the one hand, is to take into account that many people in the village interact with Ji's father and mother, so that it is more convenient for Ji's father and mother to communicate with the villagers.

The other one is for Ji Xiuran to have a quiet study environment, the backyard is secluded, it will be much quieter, and generally no one will break in at will.

The other side of the front yard is the classroom of the school, and the back yard is the residence reserved for the future hired teachers.

These four courtyards belong to the one where Ji's father and mother lived. It is the main courtyard, the largest and the most rooms.

Ji Xiuran also spent some thought on the design, just to make the second elder live with him more comfortably, which can be regarded as a filial piety.

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Now that they have finished their farm work, the young and strong in the whole village are basically busy with these two tasks, and there are enough people.

After the milling workshop was completed, the rest of the work was handed over to the village chief.

For recruiting manpower, harvesting sweet potatoes, etc., it is better for the village chief to come forward.

As for the construction of Ji Xiuran's own house, Shi Jingchen took over, and even his daily lunch was taken over by Ji's father and Ji's mother.

Just like that, Ji Xiuran, who was supposed to be very busy, was really free.

Ji Xiuran had nothing to do when he was free, except for the fixed daily study and exercise tasks.

Occasionally, he would go to the construction site to see that everyone was working in full swing and progressing smoothly, and there was no room for him to use his abilities at all, and he would still feel a little lost in his heart.

When the whole family was busy with their work, only a few nephews and nieces were left as idle as him.

Looking at the few children running around in the yard, he suddenly thought of the things that had stagnated due to busyness during this period of time.

Ji Xiuran gathered them together and continued teaching them how to read.

At the same time, I also told them stories, adapted some fairy tales and fables I heard before, and told them to a few children.

The stories he told were vivid and strange. After listening to them a few times, when the time came, several children came to him and asked to hear the stories.

Even Da Qing, who went out every day, was deeply attracted after hearing the story once, and went home to listen to the story when the time came, and brought a few of his little friends with him.

Ji Xiuran naturally welcomed this situation very much.

He will open a school in the future, and these children may be his first batch of students.

Now even feel the joy of teaching in advance.

After the number of children listening to the story has increased to ten, he will teach them to recognize characters interspersed after the story is told.

It can be regarded as an early start for these boys.

Even nine-year-old Dahong and two-year-old Erhong were not left behind.

Ji Xiuran knew in his heart that girls would not be allowed to go to school in this era, and even if he had such thoughts, the rest of the Ji family would not agree.

So even if it was his school, Dahong and Erhong were not eligible to enroll.

However, Ji Xiuran also has his own plans. In this era, the status of women is already low.

The whole society is not very tolerant of women. Survival is already difficult, and if you are illiterate and unreasonable, you will live even more ignorantly.

He can't guarantee how well his niece will live after they get married, but he can only do his best so that they can live a less aggrieved and depressed life after they get married in the future.

He let these two people read and write, not to ask them to be talented women, but to liberate their minds and broaden their horizons.

If you really feel unsatisfactory after you get married, you can face it calmly, instead of confining yourself to the one-third of an acre of land in the backyard and feeling sorry for yourself.

At the beginning, when Ji's mother knew that Ji Xiuran was putting all his effort into teaching his two granddaughters, she quite disapproved.

In her view, it is enough for a girl to marry, to be able to wash and cook, and to take good care of her husband and children. There is no need to be educated