Medicine in Song Dynasty

Chapter 132 Envy
"The sisters in our workshop are very busy now, and there are not enough people working at home. Do you need to find more people?"

Su Tong suddenly thought that not only the workshop was short of manpower recently, but even the cooks in the kitchen, the needlewomen, and the women who did the laundry were a bit overwhelmed.

This is also normal. Originally, when the father and daughter came to Qingzhou, they did not bring many people with them. Now they are holding workshops and teaching classes. Everyone is very busy, and naturally there is not enough manpower.

"Then buy a few more."

A Xia thought about it, and felt that Mr. Su Lang was a passer at any rate, and he was a serious No. [-] figure in Qingzhou. As a result, not only did his family not have concubines, dancers, and even a working maid. It's too shabby.

There are many people in this world who hold the high and depress the low. Even if Su Wencheng has a high position, others dare not belittle him.

Su Tong thought about it, in addition to being able to do work, he might as well buy a few more girls who are seven or eight years old. The young girls are not deep in the world, their ideas have not yet been finalized, and they can learn things quickly.

Moreover, the loyalty of talents cultivated by oneself is always higher than that of others.

Even though it was a time of peace and prosperity, natural disasters and man-made disasters still occurred frequently in various places. It couldn't be easier to buy a few female envoys.

A group of seven or eight-year-old girls were quickly brought to Su Tong for her to choose from.

Miss Su is very familiar with choosing candidates now, she is not as cautious as she was when she first came here, but Qingzhou is not even comparable to Taizhou, and the little girls she brought are washed clean, and they all have big heads and small bodies , as thin as a stick, said to be seven or eight years old, Su Tong felt that he was worse than the four or five-year-old children of later generations.

Su Tong felt bad when he saw it. He really felt guilty for using such a child.

A Xia couldn't laugh or cry: "Since parents want to sell their sons and daughters, even if the little lady doesn't buy them, there are others. It's okay if you meet a good family, but if you don't find a good family, you may even sell them to such dirty places. These children are doomed for the rest of their lives, and the little lady bought them out of mercy."

Su Tong was stunned, and asked a few words, and sure enough, several of them escaped with their parents and were forced to sell because they couldn't make a living.

After thinking about it, Su Tong chose two girls.

Cuiping, the envoy who serves her personally, is getting married, and Ah Zhen is getting older, and she won't stay for a few years. If someone is going to marry, first pick the two younger ones to raise, and when they grow up, they will take over. Jane's class.

Seeing that Su Tong had finished picking, Ah Zhen led the rest down without thinking. Among the rest, one of the girls who looked eight or nine years old was teardrops falling one by one, her eyes were red, and she walked , while turning his head, looked at Su Tong pitifully.

Su Tong was stunned, sighed, called the person back, and wiped her face with a handkerchief.

She wiped it like this, and the little girl cried even harder, sobbing and saying: "Little lady, my younger brother is sick, and my father sold me so that I can have money to treat his illness. There is no food at home. I can do it." I can cook and embroider, so I can do it.”

Su Tong shook his head, glanced over, and saw the remaining five little girls, the older ones began to wipe their tears, and the younger ones were ignorant and howled too.

A Xia is used to seeing these things, so she doesn't feel sad, but just smiles wryly: "I haven't trained them before, if I want to use them, I'm afraid I have to work hard to train them."

Su Tong also knows that this is Qingzhou, and it is impossible for someone to train the servants to send them home like in the capital. People in this place can know how to give these people a half-full meal and let them take a bath. Combing hair is already considered good, and this batch of little girls is also considered to be of good quality.

"Leave them all, anyway, the family is short of manpower." Su Tong patted the crying little girl's head, and asked Ah Zhen to take them down to wash.

A Xia frowned, feeling that the young lady of the Su family was really soft-hearted, and then smiled again, if this was not a soft-hearted one, she would not be where she is today.

Su Tong could also guess what she was thinking, but she didn't really care. She wasn't soft-hearted. It's just that things like this are always within her power. It doesn't matter if there are more or less. If these people are left behind, they really treat her If there is danger, no matter how sympathetic she is, she will not do it.

Since the selection of candidates, of course not only girls.

Su Tong also chose two eight-year-old servants for Su Wencheng. They are not very old and it is convenient to move around in the inner courtyard. If they are 14 years old, it is taboo to come to the inner courtyard again.

It's just that the people who bought them are still young and can't do much work at all, and it's impossible for Su Tong to let them do heavy work. Master Ren stepped forward and found reliable Ren Yazi to select a group of people to come in.

The two girls that Su Tong chose at the beginning were given names, one named Yusheng and the other named Yuqin, and they were given to A Zhen to take with them, and Aunt Ma took the rest to teach them.

Although it is impossible for Su Tong to let these boys and girls do rough work, it is not for them to be idle. Some errands within their ability, such as cleaning the table and sweeping the yard, should still be done, and they should get up on time every day, exercise early, After eating, I went to the big study to read and read.

Now the Su family has no shortage of teachers who can teach people to read and write. The envoys who followed Su Tong in the early years have long been able to take charge of their own affairs. Literacy and counting are not a problem. Even if they are clumsy, they can read two thousand characters.

These people took turns teaching when they were free, and Su Tong also sorted out a set of 'primary school textbooks' and made a simple dictionary.

This is thanks to the 'school' she got. Without it, it would be up to Su Tong himself to write textbooks suitable for children of this age. The textbook was memorized, but she couldn't recite it.

It is estimated that in this world, there is no one who can still remember the textbooks of his primary and junior high schools after getting a Ph.D., except for some top students.

Su Tong is now, even if he uses self-hypnosis to recall the textbooks in elementary school, what he can remember is not comprehensive.

Now that there are serious textbooks and dictionaries, people can learn to read much faster. Ah Zhen remembered that when Su Tong taught them how to read and count, there was no system, and she couldn't help being envious.

There was a group of little guys in the house, and it became much more lively. Even Su Wencheng felt different when he came home, and sighed with Su Tong—"Erlang is not here, it is really too deserted. You can buy more children, they are very popular."

Xiao Yao was the happiest. She was young, but she liked children very much. Now she bought all kinds of snacks for the little girls in her family every now and then, and got acquainted with the girls in a few days.

A-Xia looked at Xiaoyao who was surrounded by little girls and called her sister, she didn't say much after all, but it was rare that she didn't stay in the workshop every day, and took more time to teach those girls how to behave, how to speak and behave, and to be strict , I did something wrong, even though I don’t know how to fight, the punishment is very severe.

Su Tong saw A-Xia make a little girl stand in the shade with a plate on her head to recite the text several times.

She didn't intercede, A Xia knew in her heart that she wouldn't really hurt the girls. After all, this was the Song Dynasty. If it was like the 21st century, the teacher was cautious about the students, which was totally inappropriate.

The sun-baked land is a little dry and cracked, but in fact Qingzhou is not bad, there are dense forests everywhere, and there are many rivers. There is a river near Zhuangzi where the government government uses it for experiments. The river is very fast, especially during the flood season. There is still a bit of danger of back pouring.

Chen Kun carefully wiped the sickle in his hand with his sleeve.

This sickle is made of iron, but the blade is extremely sharp, it looks like steel, it is very easy to use, it is many times better than the previous one.

"Drink some soup quickly, take a rest, and I will do the rest."

When Chen Kun was in a daze, his bride came forward with the teapot, first wiped the sweat off his forehead, gave him the teapot with the gap, snatched the sickle from his hand, bent down and fell to the ground.

If it was before, Chen Kun would be reluctant to let his bride go to work in the field. Although his bride is not good-looking and is three years older than him, she has been exposed to the wind and sun all day, and her face is slightly wrinkled, and her skin is even rougher. , but Chen Kun knows how to love a bride, how can a woman do the work in the field.

But since the neighbor's Ada joined Su Langjun's so-and-so... experimental farm, and brought back the replaced farm tools, and gave him two, the work in the field was much easier, and she was his bride To help with one or two, the effort is less than before.

After taking a sip of the cool mung bean soup, it feels refreshing and refreshing.

Chen Kun looked at the opposite side across a small ditch from a distance. Villagers in twos and threes gathered together, eating with coarse pottery bowls in their hands.

That fragrance can float for three miles.

"I heard that Su Langjun is a senior official in Qingzhou Prefecture, but I didn't expect him to be so kind. Even the Qiguan family may not be able to eat such oily food."

Chen Kun sighed inwardly, thinking of his neighbor Adana's increasingly ruddy face, beaming expression, and the grain piled up in the grain drying yard.

I heard that the food was left over after the tax was paid, and it all belonged to Ah Da himself, which was three times more than before the tax was not paid in previous years.

Chen Kun has been doing farm work for more than ten years, and he has never seen such a good crop. Now he regrets it more than once. When the people from the yamen came to their Chenjiazhuang, why did he refuse to do things for the government? If the two acres of land were not let go, if I agreed at that time, now I can eat delicious cooked rice for a year.

Thinking of this, even Bai De's mung bean soup is not as sweet as before.

"...If the government wants to hire people to do the work, that would be great." Chen Kun frowned, thinking of what his neighbor Ada seemed to be doing in charge, he wondered if he could pass a message through him, and he was willing to do the work. Acres of land, his bride and two boys in the family can take care of them.

(End of this chapter)