The empress is also very hot today

Chapter 68 Performing their duties
These people searched for a long time, and finally put everything on display in front of Ran Tong.

Among them, there are many Four Treasures of the Study and some books.Ran Tong was a little puzzled that these refugees who fled from the famine still carried these things on the way.

There are also some important bits and pieces for them, and what Ran Tong cares most about is money!

However, the sum of the money is only 100 taels.

"My lord, this is all the property, you take it away!"

The old man knelt and bowed with a solemn face.

Ran Tong originally wanted to give the other party a reason and find a way for herself, but when she ordered someone to take the 100 taels of silver away, Ran Tong carefully opened the workbench system, and she was always paying attention to the changes in the main task.

Sure enough, the moment my brother got the money in his hands, the description of the main task changed!
"Main task - [accumulate more], task description: accumulatively obtain 10000 taels of silver, and the current progress is 1322/10000."

Ran Tong was overjoyed immediately. It was 1000 taels before, but now there are 122 taels more, of which 100 belonged to these deserters, and 222 taels should be the turnover of the hot pot restaurant when Ran Tong was on the road these two days!

It seems that as long as it is her or even the money obtained from the property and territory under her name, it will be included in the calculation of the workbench.

If this is the case, although this main task is a bit exaggerated, it is not impossible to complete it.

Afterwards, Zhang Peng came out of the kitchen with a lot of kitchen workers and cooks, dragging a lot of sacks in his hands, and opened the sacks, which were full of buns and steamed buns.

Ran Tong glanced at the unheated steamed buns and steamed buns, and shook his head helplessly. It was steamed buns again. It seemed that it was time to improve the food in the manor.

But even these cold steamed buns taken out of the cold storage are as precious as rare treasures in the eyes of these fleeing people!
Seeing the fanatic expressions on everyone's faces, Ran Tong once again felt the pain of living in the ancient times.

Each of the nine people in 410 was allocated enough buns and steamed buns, and Ran Tong was not in a hurry, she waited for everyone to eat and drink enough, and the old man in the lead even burped.

"You can tell me if you are not full." Ran Tong said softly.

Everyone was happy, but there was a little...sorry in their pupils.

Especially the old man in front of him, he immediately prostrated himself on the ground and kowtowed to Ran Tong.

"We will never forget the Lord Lord's life-saving grace. If there is anything that needs us, we will definitely follow it to the death."

"Follow me to the death!" All the more than 400 people behind me knelt down on the ground, including some ignorant children who were kneeling on the ground with their heads held down by their parents.

Ran Tong sighed, she did not expect to capture a group of people with another meal.

But Ran Tong also knew that if there was no shelter in this kind of place, the fate of these more than 400 deserters would be one. In contrast, these people were probably still worried that Ran Tong would despise them and drive them away.

As long as they can survive, even if they are cattle and horses, these people probably have nothing to say.

Thinking of this, Ran Tong also planned to push the boat along.

"Okay, it happens that there are quite a few jobs in the territory. If you want to live here, raise your hands and let me see."

After the words fell, more than 400 people raised their hands in unison, and the unexplained children were once again pulled by their arms by their parents, and the younger children were even dragged off their feet from the ground.

No one dropped their arms.

Ran Tong had already guessed such a scene, she motioned for everyone to lower their arms, and then looked at these people with different expressions.

"Then tell me, what skills do you know?"

Following Ran Tong's questioning, a voice came out immediately.

"I know how to farm...does it count?" A gray-faced man raised his hand shyly. Seeing Ran Tong's gaze cast over him, his voice weakened obviously, and his raised hand began to bend.

But Ran Tong nodded: "Of course."

In this way, everyone's eyes are lit up!
"I can also farm! I can also build walls!"

"I, I can butcher pigs, I am a pig killer!"

"I can cook, I can do laundry, I can do any housework!!"

"I have great strength, as long as I have enough to eat, I can do any heavy work!"

"And I……"

"I also……"

People shouted one after another, fearing that their skills would not catch Ran Tong's attention.

After these people introduced themselves in a hurry, Ran Tong turned his head and said something in the ear of the military adviser Zhang Peng.

Zhang Peng nodded, turned around and entered the study.

Ran Tong's meaning is very simple. Since the manor needs to be expanded, and in order to always be on guard against the movement on the grassland, the inside and outside of the manor need to be repaired and expanded. When there is a shortage of manpower, he asked Zhang Peng to count everyone here. Except for some children, these people's crafts and occupations are all written down in small books, and then summarized and integrated into the manor.

But if there are those who refuse to obey the discipline, I hope Zhang Peng will not be polite.

Seeing that everyone had finished introducing themselves, the old man at the front raised his head tremblingly and said softly.

"My lord, the old man... the old man is a teacher and has never had any skills. Please don't abandon the old man, my lord..."

Mr. Teacher?

Ran Tong looked at the old man for a moment, and she immediately stopped the old man who was about to kneel down: "Old man, are you a teacher? Are you a teacher?!"

The old man nodded.

"Mainly responsible for teaching the Four Books and Five Classics Poems and Odes."

"That's great, Ah Qin, sister Ah Qin." Ran Tong called from behind.

"Sister, I'm here." Ah Qin hurried to Ran Tong's side.

Ran Tong looked at the old man: "What's your name, old man?"

"No expensive, the old man's surname is Meng."

"Mengfuzi, to tell you the truth, your role should be the greatest. If possible, I plan to let Mengfu continue to teach?"

"Teaching?" Meng Fuzi was slightly distracted: "Are...here?"

There is only a sudden mysterious manor here in the wilderness. If he has no place to teach?And... who do you teach?
"Yes, when the time comes, Mrs. Lao Meng will cooperate with Miss Aqin to teach the children in our manor the Four Books and Five Classics, lyrics and poems, and Aqin will be in charge of the children's piano, chess, calligraphy and painting."

The old man burst into tears of gratitude, he didn't expect to be able to resume his old career here, if Ran Tong didn't stop him, he could give Ran Tong, the reborn parent, a few more bangs.

But Ran Tong was in a good mood right now.

No matter how hard you are, you can’t suffer your children, and no matter how poor you are, you cannot have poor education.

Children... are the flowers of the future!It is the foundation of a strong country!
(End of this chapter)