Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 20 Kong Xiucai's Spring
The teacher's surname is Kong, and he is known as Kong Xiucai.

Kong Xiucai is actually not a scholar. He has only studied for more than ten years. There is absolutely no problem with his culture, but he has no diploma.Everyone laughed at him
Scholar.He is a tenant in the West Village, renting five acres of land from the Chai family, but his wife is the main force in farming. Kong Xiucai can't lift his shoulders or hands, so he can only be regarded as a helper.The couple raised three children, counting on five acres of land, barely enough to eat.

Kong Xiucai usually helps people write couplets for weddings and funerals, and subsidizes the family. Life is tight. Usually, when he goes to the tavern in the village to drink, he is not willing to order a dish. He has always ordered fennel beans for a penny. .

Unexpectedly, his good day came seven days ago.Chai Jin, the owner of Chai Village, found him and said that the village would open a primary school, and all children aged six to 14 would study for free and provide a free lunch.To hire Kong Xiucai to be a gentleman, one or two and a half silver per month, this is a rare good job.The West Village School started classes, and temporarily only accepted [-] students, all of whom were from the village.Mr. Kong Xiucai hired a tidy woman for back office and lunch with another [-] Wen.

Today is the third day of class for the students, and they are all used to it.It was almost noon, and the students couldn't sit still for a long time, and they were all thinking about what to eat.

In fact, Kong Xiucai also wants to eat, because the lunch arranged by the owner is really good. The basic configuration is one dish and one soup. In the past few days, it has been stewed radish with wild pork. Although there are many radishes, each person can share a few slices of wild pork .The soup is either millet porridge or sorghum porridge or something like that.

Everyone washed their hands, picked up their rice bowls and came to the dining hall.The delicious food was so fragrant that Kong Xiucai arranged for everyone to line up.As a teacher, he was the first to cook, respecting the teacher.

Today's dish is actually a big goose stewed in an iron pot. Fifty students, one goose, and the rest are carrots, but the dish is still very fragrant.The soup is egg flower shrimp skin soup. Although this place is near the sea, there are not many children who have the opportunity to drink this soup. The children are growing up. Eating more shrimp skin is good for the body. It is said that it can replenish calcium. As for what calcium is? do not know either.

"Oh, what a coincidence, are you all eating?" Chai came into the dining hall just as everyone was eating.

Kong Xiucai and the students immediately put down their bowls and chopsticks and stood up to say hello: "Hello, owner."

"Hi Mr. Kong, students. Let's eat. I have nothing to do. I just want to see how your lunch is." Chai Jin said.

Accompanying him was Wu Song Wu Erlang. He originally thought that Chai Jin just mentioned it casually to fool the common people, but he didn't expect that what Chai Jin said was completely true.

The students ate very well. There were vegetables, rice, and soup, and each had one portion. As long as the children were not particularly big eaters, they could eat enough.It is good for the growth and development of the body to see a little bit of meat every day.

Each child eats in a proper manner, puts the bowls and chopsticks back after eating, and then the internal staff is responsible for cleaning. After cleaning the bowls and chopsticks, they have to boil them in a large pot of boiling water.

Chai Jin said, "Is there any difficulty?"

Kong Xiu said: "I don't have any difficulties. I can teach Chinese, mathematics, and physical education by myself. It's just that the owner of the farm said that he would set up agriculture and animal husbandry courses in the future. I'm afraid I can't teach them. Also, the three children in my family are all Studying in a school, isn't that considered seeking personal gain?"

"Hehe, don't worry, Mr. Kong, the schools in the East and West Villages are all in trial operation now, and they have not yet entered the right track. In the future, we will definitely recruit a few more teachers, and you won't be able to teach them all alone. As for the second question you mentioned, it has nothing to do with Ben No, all children from Chaijiazhuang, no matter who they belong to, can come and read as long as they are of the right age." Chai Jin introduced.

Kong Xiucai said: "I'll be out of school now. Don't worry, owner, I will definitely teach the students well according to your arrangement."

Chai Jin checked the classroom, the dining hall, and questioned several children, and felt that everything was okay, so he went out with Wu Song and led the horse out of the village.

Wu Songdao: "Brother, you are really kind to these children, and you don't feel sorry for spending so much money."

"These children are the hope of the nation, and the future of the country should be treated well," Chai Jin said.

Wu Song asked: "Didn't it mean that there are treacherous ministers like Gao Qiu and Cai Jing in the imperial court? Will these children serve them in the future?"

"Traitors and loyal ministers are nothing but conflicts of interest. In the final analysis, there is no supervision mechanism. What's more, the country belongs to all the people, not to a certain minister or monarch." Chai Jin said.

Wu Song shook his head and said, "I don't understand, and I don't understand. Anyway, I know what my brother is doing is right. What's the next arrangement? Where are we going?"

"Next, let's deliver charcoal to the helpless old people in the village. Winter is coming, and most of the old people have no money to buy charcoal. It will be cold in half a month, so prepare it in advance."

There are not many helpless elderly people in the West Village, only 30 of them.These people were tenants of the Chai family when they were young and devoted their youth to the Chai family. Most of them were never married and had no children. Now they are old and lonely.Wu Song drove the carriage, and together with Chai Jin came to the door of a thatched house.Chai Jin shouted, "Is Uncle Fifth at home?"

An old man in his 70s stood up in front of the firewood in the yard.

"This is not the owner, why are you here?"

"Uncle Fifth, it's not the winter, I'm here to give you a hundred catties of charcoal for heating when it's too cold. Just be careful not to close the doors and windows tightly when heating with charcoal." Chai Jin said.

Wu Song carried the charcoal in, and Chai Jin brought over a sheepskin jacket, put it on the old man, and said, "Old Uncle Fifth, this is a sheepskin jacket for winter."

The old man was moved to tears, and sighed: "I am old and useless. If you play ten steel structures on the street, you can't hook your relatives. Relatives hide away. I didn't expect the owner to think of me. I really wish I could I am dozens of years younger, and I also work with the owner, with firepower in water, without frowning."

Chai Jin sighed, "I used to blame Chai Jin for not being thoughtful, but I will come to deliver food to you every year from now on."

Walking out of Old Fifth Uncle's courtyard, the corners of Wu Song's eyes were a little moist, and while Chai Jin wasn't paying attention, he wiped the corners of his eyes with his hand.Wu Song remembered the scene where his brother raised him.

Zhuangzi is not very old, and it took half an afternoon for Chai Jin and Wu Song to distribute the charcoal and sheepskin jackets.The reason why Chai Jin brought Wu Song was because Wu Song was young and unstable, prone to crooked ways, unable to tell the good from the bad, so he was asked to practice along with him.

Set up schools and read books for free.Sending charcoal and padded jackets in snowy weather has accumulated a lot of worship points.But this is not enough. The second factory system is a daily necessities factory production line, which requires 15 worship points. This number is frighteningly high. After going through bandits, they accumulated [-] points one after another.

If you want to accumulate admiration points, you have to continue to work hard, and the next breakthrough point lies with Dr. Sun.

The original small medical clinic has been upgraded into a large medical clinic. In addition to Dr. Sun and his son, five new apprentices have been recruited.It's a long apprenticeship to study medicine, but you can learn some simple bandaging first aid and other attempts first, and you can make it if you have something to do.

Three days of free clinics per month, free consultation fee for three consecutive days.People from the east and west villages of Chaijiazhuang participated for free, even if they usually only charge five yuan for the consultation fee, which is considered extremely low.Zhuangshang gave Sun Gui a subsidy of 20 taels every year, and other things were calculated separately.

(End of this chapter)