delicious little cook

Chapter 643 Helpless

In the evening, when Gu Yun was saying good night to the elders, he sat in his father's study for a while longer. Earlier, the eldest lady mentioned to her husband what happened in the factory in the past few days. Now the father and son will discuss in detail. He has no objection to sending the boy to the mine, and the imperial court has given him some support and protection. There is no need to worry too much about the social morality of the entire Xilefang. The problem now is only the message transmission between the factory and Gu Yun.

The female workers go to school, and in the future they can write anonymous letters to report problems within the factory, but they need at least one year of study time to write a decent letter, so they can't be counted on right now. It's good enough to say something.

After thinking about it, the old man backed up his son and sent his men to the factory to watch in a few days. If he dared to be bold, it would not be the son who taught him a lesson, but the old man would come to deal with him.

In the early morning of the next day, the young men were brought out from the custody, and were weepingly put into the carriage. After hearing the news, the family members came to see them off, gave them some clothes and food, and said goodbye with tears in their eyes.

After eating breakfast, Gu Yun naturally went to school, so he handed over the opening of the school to Bai Kou. After finishing the daily routine in the house, she went to the street to look for Liu Daping. After the workshop moved away, there were fewer children studying with him. There are many, only the children of Lao Tie's family and the daughter of the eldest sister Bai Rui are left, and they all sit down in one room.

To open a school, it is mainly about enlightenment and literacy. Of course, Bai Kou has to come to consult experts, where to find the teachers he needs, especially the special thing about the new school is that it starts at night, and the male workers and female workers don't have time to study during the day.

There are a lot of down-and-out old scholars in the capital, but who among them is the real good teacher has to be carefully selected. Many people come out to become teachers for the sake of having a living. It doesn't matter how high their level is. It's easy to say, Bai Kou doesn't want to meet a gentleman who misleads his children.

Liu Daping readily agreed and would reply in a few days.

Two or three days later, the man dispatched by the master came to greet Gu Yun, and then Gu Yun and Bai Kou took the newcomers to the factory to show their faces. The house where the servants lived in happened to be for them, and all the living facilities were ready-made .

While the newcomers were walking around in the factory to familiarize themselves with the environment, Bai Kou went to the street to discuss renting a house to open a school with Marquis Wu of this workshop. The school for men and women does not need to be located in the same place, and during the day, children from ordinary families in the workshop can be accepted for classes, because the master The bundle repair is given by the prince, so the children who come to class only charge a little money for books and ink, and only after spending money can they study hard. If it is all free, no one will come after a few days.

Marquis Wu's family happened to have a few school-age nephews, and when he heard about this good news, he immediately promised that his children would definitely come, and parted ways with Bai Kou with a smile to find a house.

As he inquired around, it took only half a day for the whole workshop to spread the word. In the past half a year, with the opportunity to make money brought by the workshop, the residents have saved some money. I am wondering if my illiterate children are suitable for studying. Some want to send their children to study, and some are afraid that their children will not be able to study. It is a waste of family money, and only boys get such trouble from parents. Women Naturally, children still have to stay at home to be filial to their mothers and share the burden of housework for their mothers.

No matter how lively the residents in the workshop were discussing, it took four or five days for Marquis Wu to finalize two private houses suitable for the opening of the school, so that the master can also have a place to live in daily life. The nearest one was reserved as a girls' school, so that the female workers would go out to study after work at night, without having to take a long night's journey back and forth.

Taking advantage of the time when the craftsmen were painting the house, Bai Kou went to find Liu Daping and met with some old masters he had found. All willing wives were rejected by Liu Daping in advance.

Bai Kou has something to say before, girls’ schools do not accept boys, even if no girls come to class during the day, the masters have to be idle when they can only swatting flies, but at night, they must cheer up and give the girls in the factory a good class .

The conversation with Mengmei last time aroused her longing for redemption. Bai Kou was sure that she would study hard. As for the other female workers, she didn't care whether they read or not. Those who didn't want to study sat in the school Li also still couldn't hear a word, so she didn't force it, everything was voluntary.

Everything was properly arranged. The masters moved into Xilefang with their wives and luggage. The two new schools were freshly painted and decorated beautifully. A plaque was hung on the gate. After a long string of firecrackers was fired, the new students Under the leadership of the parents, they were either obedient or struggling and led in, paying for books, pens and ink.

The men's school was full of people, and the girls' school was only lively for a short time when the firecrackers were fired, and then it was deserted and deserted. Many girls in the crowd stared at the plaque and the gate in a daze, but none of the parents led their daughters. walk through the gate.

Bai Kou had expected this kind of situation long ago, and the master just smiled kindly, sitting in the room and reading a book by himself, ignoring the noise on the street.

The idlers outside waited for a while and saw that no one came, and felt bored, so they all dispersed one after another. Until the lunch break, Mengmei led six or seven female workers who were slightly younger than her into the girls' school, and asked The master signed up, received free books and pens and ink, and made an appointment to come to class in the evening.

Master Gu placed under Xilefang's subordinates, and reported the new situation to his master truthfully. Gu Yun explained to his parents that girls should study hard for a few years, so that they will have a greater chance of marrying business partners in the future, otherwise Why would they want to let everyone's lady and Xiaojia Biyu not marry, but choose to marry a factory worker who can't read big characters?

The Eldest Master and the Eldest Madam accepted his son's statement that he planned to arrange talents for the future. Anyway, opening a school is a good thing for good deeds, so he let his son do it freely.

Although Gu Yun persuaded his parents, he still felt a little unhappy. Bai Kou didn't say it clearly, and he could guess a little bit of the real reason why she insisted that girls go to school. At that time, the first batch of girls who went to school should be able to come out to do desk work, at least do some copying for her.

Bai Kou always makes the best use of things and people to make the best use of their talents, just like that Mengmei, because of her solid culinary skills, even though a lot of things happened, according to the rules of the inner house, Bai Kou would have moved. She used her brains to keep her and let her continue to do what she was best at.

So she let the girls go to school, they can marry outsiders, and they can keep it for themselves when they retire.

Realizing that Bai Kou was making the way back from leaving the mansion bit by bit, Gu Yun felt depressed, but he was the eldest son of Duke Ye's mansion, so he could only know some things, but he didn't know anything Can't do it, this kind of helplessness sometimes swallows people alive like a rising tide.

(Author’s words: When you can’t get it right for synchronizing contacts, you can actually rely on the QQ synchronization assistant in the WP7 era to fix it. Although the Win version only has the function of synchronizing, fortunately, the Apple version has complete functions, including merging duplicate contacts. function, synchronized back and forth a few times, and finally got it done.)
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