Chapter 123 Scrap Iron
When Chu Qing returned to Baolu Group this time, Mr. Nie was the happiest person because Chu Qing brought back a batch of teaching materials.
Mr. Nie is worried about this. Teaching "Hundred Family Surnames" and "Three Character Classic" every day is not the same thing. But this is the simplest.
Well, now, there is the "Commonly Used Words in Daily Life" that Chu Qing brought back. Isn't it easy to teach? There is also "The Four Arithmetic Operations and the Multiplication Table". This book is well compiled.
Take a look, you will see that this multiplication formula has a short story, such as "Three Seven Twenty-One": There is a lazy man whose wife is usually very strict, and he raises chickens for laying eggs and is not allowed to eat them.
That day, when my daughter-in-law returned to her parents' house, she wanted to kill and eat the old hens while she was away. But he was usually lazy and did nothing. Not to mention not knowing how to kill chickens, he couldn't even catch them.
Besides, he was hesitant in his heart, fearing that his wife would make trouble with him after killing the chicken, so he cheered himself up: Good things only last three times, and I won’t do more than three!
In the end, I caught him three times, but I still didn’t catch him. I thought I should forget about it and not catch him anymore, but I’m greedy, what should I do? I made up my mind again: no more than seven good things can happen, and I won’t eat chicken after seven!
I've caught it seven times now, but I still haven't caught it. I have no choice, and the glutton in my belly has the upper hand: no matter what, I must eat chicken today!
Once this story is told, these little bastards will definitely be interested in learning it!
Zhang Erni heard Qiu Sheng say that Chu Qing was injured and rushed back to the village. The two were talking at the moment.
"Sister, why didn't you look for me yesterday? You should look for me when you come back!" Zhang Erni complained while combing Chu Qing's hair.
"Well, I came here because I wanted to find you. I didn't expect you to come back today after Qiu Sheng took a break. Is it the same as looking for you today?" Chu Qing enjoyed it very much and was finally able to do her hair neatly.
"Hey, let me tell you something for fun."
"Um?"
"The girls in our village have been very angry with you recently!" Zhang Erni couldn't help laughing.
"Ah? How could it be? I don't know them either!" Chu Qing wondered.
"Heh, let me tell you, there are many young men here, and they earn a lot. Everyone in the village is worried about them."
"Ah? Are you worried about me? Is my boy here in contact with them?"
"No. It's the workers in the village who have an idea for your family."
"The workers are all men, what are their intentions?"
"There are girls in the house, daughters in the house, and mothers-in-law who cook. There are a few girls in every house. You have many people, everyone is in good health, and you make a lot of money. How can you not worry about it?"
"That's right, that's right. So, my boys are quite likable."
"Yes! They are happy every day, and people in the village can hear them singing and working every time."
"Then what grudge can they have against me?"
"This group of people almost all have boys they like, and then they go home and tell their families. You don't even know that many of your boys have been booked privately by them."
"Private reservation? Do my boys know?"
"Then how do you know? It's because the people in the village think it's good, and they go home and teach it to their sisters and daughters, and then these young people come over from afar to look at it and recognize it. They've taken a liking to it."
"What happened next?" Chu Qing asked.
"Later you transferred them all away! They became very resentful towards you!" Zhang Erni said, feeling so happy that she couldn't stop.
"Pfft!" Chu Qing was also happy that there was such a thing!
This is just like the joke Chu Qing heard before traveling through time:
It is said that a man saved money to buy a house in a school district for his children. He finally bought it and ended up attending online classes at home for three years!
But it's strange to say that after such a long time, no boy has proposed to see the girl. Chu Qing asked Zhang Erni: "How do the girls in the village see each other? Boys like me are not young anymore."
Zhang Erni said: "We country people don't have many rules. We usually hear that someone's family has a good boy, so we can just go and propose marriage. The main reason is that the three villages are close to each other, so everyone knows about them almost as soon as they are mentioned."
He added: "But this is fine. It is better than blind marriages in the city. They can only listen to what the matchmaker says when they come to their door. They are not true and they get married as soon as their eyes darken."
Chu Qing nodded. There was no chance of falling in love.
"Hey, sister, um... have you ever thought about it..." Zhang Erni had a tentative look in her eyes.
"What are you thinking about?" Chu Qing didn't understand.
"That's it, just take one step forward?"
"Uh... no." Chu Qing looked a little confused: "Why do you want to take a step forward?"
"Well, for a woman, you have to have a man to support you." Zhang Erni combed her hair and inserted a hairpin. After a quick look, she looked pretty.
"Haha, no, I don't need it." Chu Qing said with a smile. The status of women in ancient times made such a capable person lose her self-confidence.
"That's right, no man in the village can compare to you in your ability." Zhang Erni said, feeling that she was really redundant. But she couldn't help but worry: "Sister, have you ever thought about what will happen to your business in the future without a man to help you?"
What to do? What should Xiaobao do if someone bullies you? "
I didn't say it clearly, but the meaning is very clear. If you have a family business, if someone cares about it and embezzles it, how will you raise Xiaobao in the future?
"Who dares! More than a thousand of our brothers can't kill him!" Chu Yuan came in carrying a medicine box and happened to hear these words.
Chu Qingyoule said: "Yes, I have more than a thousand brothers!"
Zhang Erni looked at the medicine box and then at Chu Yuan, her eyes a little strange. Seeing that Zhang Erni was there, Chu Yuan handed the things to her directly: "Here, it's just right. You can help change the medicine. I'll go check the medicine."
Are you done?"
When Chu Yuan stepped out with his front foot, Zhang Erni asked Chu Qing with a gossipy face: "Sister, Chu Yuan has been changing your dressing these days?"
Chu Qing used her right hand to untie her clothes and said nonchalantly, "Yes."
"Sister, you...he...you..."
"We...oh, hahaha, what are you thinking!" Chu Qing reacted and laughed.
"No, sister, don't take it seriously. You've been seen by others. You have to think about it!" Zhang Erni was a little anxious. He has shoulders and feet, and Chu Yuan is also a big boy! He must be twenty-two
Already?
"You're thinking too much!" Chu Qing said with a smile: "He's like a nephew, so I didn't take him out on him!"
"Big nephew! You're not much older than him, are you?" Zhang Erni looked suspicious.
"Oh, let me calculate, I seem to be three years older than him? Or two?" Chu Qing didn't know exactly how old he was, but he seemed to be twenty-five this year.
"That can't be the case!" Chu Qing thought back, "Didn't you call me sister?" She laughed again.
"..." Zhang Erni ended her sentence. Really, she is already thirty-two this year. How did she call her sister? When did she start?
Chu Qing also wondered, did she look old?
When Zhang Erni saw Chu Qing's wound, she forgot all about it. She "hissed" and sucked in the cold air while cleaning it. The expression on her face seemed to be that she was in pain.
"Boss, Baijiaxing is back!" Chu Yuan said while holding the medicine bowl and entering the room.
Zhang Erni's hand shook! Half of Chu Qing's shoulder was bare! This shake touched the wound, which made it even more painful. Chu Qing also gritted his teeth and shook.
"Ouch! You're not as good as me!" Chu Yuan hurriedly put down the medicine bowl, replaced Zhang Erni, and changed the medicine himself.
The movements were skillful, the gauze was tied unsightly, but the tightness was appropriate.
When Bai Jiaxing came in, he saw that half of the boss's arms were tied with gauze, and Chu Yuan was squatting on the ground to clean the wound on Chu Qing's ankle. He gritted his teeth and grinned. He remembered the time when he was tied into a hedgehog by a pile of wood.
"Boss, does it hurt?" Bai Jiaxing asked.
Zhang Erni was surprised to see them all. No one was embarrassed, except herself.
"It doesn't hurt. Do you believe it?" Chu Qing smiled.
"Believe it! I'm afraid of you, so I don't dare to hurt you!" Bai Jiaxing also laughed.
"Are you coming back from the mining area?" Chu Qing asked.
"Well, I heard something strange."
Zhang Erni saw that they were going to talk about something serious, so she packed up the waste gauze and went out.
"People from the arms shop said that if our supply of iron ingots hadn't been stable, they might not have been able to complete their mission," Baijiaxing said.
"Can't complete the task?"
"Yes, he said, they are running out of iron ingots."
"Now that it's not a war, aren't we less anxious to build weapons?"
"That's the fault. They used to work overtime to rotate weapons on the front line faster. Now they don't have to work overtime. They only need to meet the daily quota."
In today's weapons shops, the main areas that consume iron ingots are gun heads, arrowheads, and sabers. In this case, it is indeed very expensive, because these things can be made faster than swords and consume more iron.
"Don't they also make iron themselves? Why do they rely on our family to make these?" Chu Qing asked, she felt something was wrong here.
The mining area produces a large amount of iron ore. The laborers have never stopped mining. It is said that the iron ingots provided by Baolu Group are only a little more than 40%.
"It is said that their blast furnaces often have problems and the iron is broken," Baijiaxing said.
"Abandoned?" Chu Qing pondered.
"Yes, he said it was scrapped, but when I said I wanted their scrap metal, he said he didn't know how to dispose of it and where it was disposed of."
Chapter completed!