Chapter 20 The Spring of Kong Xiucai
This teacher's surname is Kong and is known as Kong Xiucai.
Xiucai Kong is actually not a scholar. He has only been studying for more than ten years. He has absolutely no problem with his culture, but he has no diploma. Everyone laughed at him and called Kong Kong
Xiucai. He is a tenant from Xicun and rents five acres of land from the Chai family. However, his wife is the main force in farming. Xiucai Kong cannot pick up his shoulders and holds his hands, so he can only be regarded as a helper. The couple raised three children and looked forward to the five acres of land and barely fed.
Kong Xiucai usually helps people write couplets and other weddings and funerals to subsidize their family income. Life is tight. He usually goes to a small tavern in the village and doesn’t want to order a dish. He always orders a penny of fennel beans to drink.
Unexpectedly, his good days came seven days ago. The owner of Chai Jinchai found him and said that the village would open a primary school, and all children aged six to fourteen would study for free and also provide a free lunch. He wanted to hire Kong Xiucai as a gentleman, one and a half taels of silver per month, which was a rare good job. The Xicun School started classes and only 50 students were temporarily collected, all of which were students from the village. Kong Xiucai was a gentleman, and he also hired a clean and neat woman to serve as an intern and lunch for 600 yuan.
Today is the third day for the students to attend class, and they are already used to it. The get out of class is about to end at noon, and the students can no longer sit still. They are all thinking about what delicious food is available.
In fact, Kong Xiucai also wanted to have a meal because the lunch arranged by the owner was so good. He basically arranged one dish and one soup. In recent days, he has been stewed with wild boar meat. Although there are many radishes, each person can also divide it into several slices of wild boar meat. The soup is either millet porridge or sorghum porridge.
Everyone washed their hands, picked up their bowls and went to the canteen. The fragrant food was fragrant, and Kong Xiucai arranged for everyone to line up. As a teacher, he was the first to make a meal and respected the teacher.
Today's dish is a big goose stewed with iron pot, fifty students, one goose, and the others are carrots, but the dish is still very fragrant. The soup is egg flower shrimp skin soup. Although it is near the sea, not many children have the opportunity to drink this soup. Children are growing up. Eating more shrimp skin is good for the body. It is said that it can supplement calcium. As for what calcium is, no one knows.
"Oh, it was such a coincidence that everyone was eating?" Chai entered the cafeteria and everyone was having dinner.
Kong Xiucai and the students immediately put down their bowls and chopsticks and stood up to say hello: "Hello, the owner of the manor."
"Hello, Mr. Kong, hello, all students. Let's have dinner. I'm fine. I'm just going to see how your lunch is." Chai Jin said.
The one who was accompanying Wu Song and Wu Erlang. I originally thought that Chai Jin was just talking casually at that time and fooling the people, but I didn't expect what Chai Jin said was completely true.
The students ate very well, including dishes, rice, soup, one serving for each person. As long as children who are not particularly good at eating can eat enough. You can see a little meat every day, which is still good for your body's growth and development.
Every child eats properly and puts the dishes and chopsticks back after the meal. The in-house staff is responsible for cleaning. After cleaning the dishes and chopsticks, they have to boil them in a large pot of boiling water.
Chai Jin said: "What are the difficulties?"
Kong Xiu said: "I have no difficulties. I can teach Chinese, mathematics, and sports alone, but the owner said that I would like to offer courses such as agriculture and animal husbandry in the future, and I am afraid I can't teach it. Also, my three children are all studying in the school. Isn't this considered using public for personal gain?"
"Haha, Mr. Kong, don't worry, the East Village West Village School is currently in trial operation and has not yet been on track. In the future, I will definitely recruit more teachers, and you will not teach them all. As for the second problem you mentioned, no matter who the child in Chaijiazhuang is, he can come to read it as long as he is of the right age." Chai Jin introduced.
Kong Xiucai said: "I'll finish school. Don't worry, the owner of the manor. I will definitely teach students well according to your arrangements."
Chai Jin checked the classroom and the canteen, and asked several children. He felt that everything was okay, so he went out with Wu Song and led Ma out of the village.
Wu Song said: "Brother, you are so nice to these children. You don't feel sorry for spending so much money."
"These children are the hope of the nation, and the future of the country will naturally be good to them," said Chai Jin.
Wu Song asked: "Didn't it mean that the court is full of treacherous ministers like Gao Qiu and Cai Jing? Will these children serve them in the future?"
"Treacherous ministers and loyal ministers are just disputes of interests, and ultimately there is no supervision mechanism. What's more, the country belongs to the whole people, and it does not refer to a certain minister or monarch." Chai Jin said.
Wu Song shook his head and said, "I don't understand, nor do I understand. Anyway, I know that my brother is doing the right thing. What are the next arrangements? Where can we go?"
"Next, let's go to send charcoal to the helpless elderly in the village. Winter is coming, and most of the elderly have no money to buy charcoal. It will be cold in half a month. Prepare in advance."
There are not many helpless elderly people in the West Village, only thirty. These people were tenants of the Chai family when they were young and dedicated their youth to the Chai family. Most of them were unmarried, had no children, and were old and lonely. Wu Song drove a carriage and came to the door of a thatched house with Chai Jin. Chai Jin shouted: "Is the fifth uncle at home?"
The firewood in the yard stomped the feet and stood up in front of an old man, who was in his seventies.
"This is not the owner of the manor, why are you here?"
"Uncle Laowu, this is not going to be winter. I'll give you a hundred kilograms of charcoal to keep warm when it's too cold. Just be careful if the doors and windows are tightly closed when the charcoal is heating." Chai Jin said.
Wu Song took the charcoal in, and Chai Jin took another sheepskin coat and put it on the old man, saying, "Uncle Laowu, this is a sheepskin coat for winter."
The old man was moved to tears and sighed, "I'm old and useless. I'm playing with ten steel structures on the streets, but I can't hook my relatives' flesh and blood. My relatives hide, but I didn't expect the owner of the manor to think of me. I really wish I could be dozens of years younger, so I would work with the owner of the manor, and I would never frown."
Chai Jin sighed, "I used to blame Chai Jin for being inconsiderate, and I will come to deliver food to you every year."
After leaving the gate of the Wu uncle's courtyard, Wu Song's eyes were a little wet. While Chai Jin was not paying attention, he wiped the corners of his eyes with his hands. Wu Song remembered the scene of his brother raising himself.
Zhuangzi was not big, and after half an afternoon, Chai Jin and Wu Song finished the charcoal and sheepskin coat. The reason why Chai Jin brought Wu Song was because Wu Song was young and had an unstable personality, and was prone to going to wrong paths and could not tell the difference between good and bad, so he was allowed to follow the experience.
Establishing schools and free reading. I gave charcoal and cotton jackets in snowy days, and accumulated a lot of worship points. But this is not enough. This second factory system is a daily necessities factory production line, which requires 150,000 worship points. This number is considered very high. After fighting bandits, I only accumulated 20,000 points one after another.
If you want to accumulate worship points, you have to continue working hard. The next breakthrough point is Dr. Sun.
The original small clinic has been upgraded to a large clinic. In addition to Dr. Sun and his son, five new apprentices have been recruited. Apprentices have been studying medicine for a long time, but you can learn some simple bandaging and first aid first try, and you can take the initiative even if you have something to do.
There are free medical consultations for three days a month, and there are three consecutive days of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, and there are no medical fees. People from the east and west villages of Chaijiazhuang participate for free, and even if they usually only charge a five-cent medical fee, this fee is extremely low. The village will give Sun Gui a subsidy of 20 taels every year, and if you have any questions, you will calculate it separately.
Chapter completed!