He Yu is now in the second grade of junior high school, and I heard that because the questions in the first grade were too simple, he skipped one level, and now he talks in a clear manner, and he is no longer the boy who hid in the corner at the beginning.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, it was still February 22 of the solar calendar, and Fang Yanqing and his party set off to return to Shanghai.

"I wanted to stay here with you for a while, but I didn't expect things to be so rushed. Wei Chao said apologetically, the original plan was to stay until the eighth day of the first month, and tomorrow Ran Ran also arranged a place to play, but I didn't expect that there was something in the factory that couldn't leave.

"It's okay, it's still a long time, and it's the same to play later," Fang Yanqing said with a smile, "It's easy to slack off after playing for a long time, and I'm going to beat myself too." ”

The newspaper only went to work at the beginning of the ninth year, Fang Yanqing took it in Lin'an during this time, and finally learned to play mahjong, and occasionally he could make up a number for Yue Yao, Fang Yanqing knew that Wei Chao had received a batch of orders for military uniforms during this time, and it stands to reason that this kind of oily and watery business should be given to the official factory, not to himself.

Wei Chao was puzzled, chatted with the chief for a few phone calls, and then took the list, which was not like Wei Chao at all.

"It's so strange, this kind of list, with your fox character, shouldn't you have to inquire up and down before you move? So this time it's so refreshing?" Fang Yanqing leaned on Wei Chao's back, squinting at Wei Chao's way of reading.

Wei Chao put the book down, looked back and saw Fang Yanqing's squinting eyes, kissed Fang Yanqing, and said with a smile, "Then guess why I agreed." ”

"Remind me. Fang Yanqing pinched Wei Chao's face, it was soft and comfortable, I was sorry that Yue Yao liked to pinch my face so much.

Wei Chao watched Fang Yanqing's action of pinching his face, and hugged the person into his arms, "It was Hou Fei who gave me this list." ”

"Hou Fei," Fang Yanqing frowned and read his name, "It won't be Hou Nianci's second brother." ”

"Yes, he said that he should apologize for this list, and he poured dirty water on your newspaper before, saying that the sale of the author's information was written off. ”

"What kind of dirty water is he," Fang Yanqing said, some painless chasing after the wind and shadows, it can't attract attention at all, and it doesn't hurt him here, at most spend some silver dollars to settle it, looking at Wei Chao's face slightly gloomy, Fang Yanqing added, "But it's still a bit excessive, it should be compensated." ”

On the ninth day of the first month, on the 26th day of the second month of the solar calendar, the newspaper began to work, and the Fang Yanqing School only started work on the 16th of the first month, during this time, Fang Yanqing was in the newspaper office, and Xu Qingyi discussed the affairs of the place, and only after asking did he know that the land in Shanghai is so expensive, renting a small building is not cheap at all, when he was in Rongcheng, it was only a few dozen silver dollars a year, and a small courtyard house in Beijing was only 100 yuan a year, good guys, this Shanghai saw a few small buildings, 60 silver dollars in a month, it was really scary.

Fang Yanqing looked at the boundary, thought for a long time, and decided to choose the newspaper building on Baoshan Street, Baoshan Street is not far from Xilin, but also close to the prosperous boundary, the traffic is much more convenient than Shangxilin, Xilin here are many middle schools, few shops, most of them are students, the new place is on the tail of Baoshan Street, there are many shops, but not close, it is Fang Yanqing and Xu Qingyi who chose it for a long time, of course, one of the most important reasons is that this small building is big enough.

"Can this building be bought directly?" Fang Yanqing looked at this building, feeling that the way to rent once a year was too troublesome, or whether it was convenient to simply buy it.

When Xu Qingyi heard Fang Yanqing's words, his eyes widened suddenly, "What to buy? Just rent it! This newspaper office has to be stacked all year round, and it is not cost-effective to buy it!"

"Stacked places? why?" asked in a puzzled manner, "Uncle Xu has also stacked places before?"

"Of course I haven't stacked it, I haven't made this newspaper bigger, but the owner of your difference, now there are many newspapers are eyeing the owner's newspaper, we are not another family, there are many years of foundation, this is only half a year old, naturally there are many people who are not used to it. "Xu Qingyi said vaguely, but the dialect is clear, the tree is very popular, and he is still a new tree, so other people's families are not responding to me.

In the end, the price was set at 1,200 yuan a year, and the new place was rented with a deposit of 600 yuan and a final payment of 600 yuan.

The new building has a total of four floors, here is a new style of small building connected to each other, it seems to still adopt the style of Western Europe, the area is quite large, it is divided into large and small rooms, here and the bookstore is divided into two, only newspapers and periodicals, except for internal members, no one comes in, next to it seems to be another office place, the location is very quiet, the dialect Qing let the logistics buy a lot of new tables and chairs, installed in, before the old tables and chairs became the tables and chairs of their own school, in line with the principle that the secondary use is not bad, can save some is some.

The classroom with tables and chairs looked perfect, and they took a few newsboys who were selling newspapers to see the classroom together, they were very happy, looking at the things in the classroom happily, their eyes flashed with anticipation and couldn't hide, and they asked a little timidly, "Mr. Fang, is it really free here?"

Fang Yanqing rubbed the children's heads with his hands, the wages he gave to these newsboys were not low, two silver dollars a day, more than the hard-working adults, but newspapers and periodicals are the type of weekly magazines, and they can only sell them for two days a week, and the rest of the time, the newspapers and periodicals are placed in the newsstand, looking at the face that is not a few taels of meat, Fang Yanqing pursed his lips, "You may need to spend a silver dollar to buy a textbook." ”

"Can I buy textbooks for a silver dollar?"

"Yes with Mr. Fang. ”

Can one silver dollar buy teaching materials? Of course not, at least two silver dollars, at least for these children who have no money to read and write, two silver dollars is too much, one silver dollar is about the same, gritting your teeth and you can take it out, in fact, Fang Yanqing asked Zhou Dong about the cost of books before, since it is to do good deeds, why do you still need to collect money, so that it will not make those children embarrassed? At that time, Zhou Dong replied that if he did not collect a penny, good things would also be bad things.

As the old saying goes, if a human heart is not enough for a snake to swallow an elephant, if he does not give anything, but he can get a lot of things, and in the long run, he will take it for granted, and he will not be grateful, and take them money, although the money is small, but it can always remind them that no one owes anyone.

Fang Yanqing thought for a while, and felt that what Zhou Dong said was reasonable, and this time his school would learn from Zhou Dong's previous method of running a school.

The rest is about the name of this school, Fang Yan thought about it, wrote words on the paper, and finally decided what the name of his school was, it was called 'Literacy Hall', and the next day he asked someone to order a plaque.

The lace newspaper is selling well now, full of recruitment advertisements, Fang Yanqing looked at the piles of news of many factory recruitments, and asked if there is any place to find two part-time teachers for his school, and classes on weekends like this, and then the editor-in-chief of the lace newspaper Chen Changshou said in a vague way, even if you are my owner, I can't let you cut in line.

"Part-time teacher?" Wei Chao looked at Fang Yan's listless appearance and raised his eyebrows, "That's a good idea. ”

"I thought about it for several days, most of these children have to earn money from selling newspapers on weekdays, and they will only have the opportunity to come to the class when they are free," Fang Yanqing put his chin on his arm, "Most of these families don't have much money, and they can't afford to eat, so they have to let their children come out early to earn money. ”

When Wei Chao heard Fang Yanqing's words, he just glanced at Fang Yanqing, who had a sad face, and said, "If you do this, your money may be gone in less than three months." ”

“...... Not really. Fang Yan cleared up for a moment and stammered, "I have two classes a week, so it shouldn't cost much." ”

"If other children who haven't paid their tuition come to eat, will you stop them? If these children bring food home smugglingly, will you scold them?"

Looking at Wei Chao's flat eyes, Fang Yanqing suddenly felt a little overwhelmed, "This... This is naturally not stopped or scolded. "Originally, it was a kindness, because people couldn't eat enough, they took more, if they stopped it, it would seem stingy, and it might be for their younger brothers and sisters, and Fang Yanqing didn't bear it.

Wei Chao saw Fang Yanqing's confused appearance, and sighed helplessly, "Many times people's hearts are good, but everything has two sides, you can't figure it out now, then I'll tell you a story." ”

Fang Yanqing raised his eyes to look at Wei Chao and told a story to reason with himself? Could it be that there would be any way to deal with this kind of thing in this story, Fang Yanqing looked at Wei Chao seriously, and began to listen to Wei Chao's story intently.

"Do you know that many factories in Shanghai are recruiting child labor? I just took over when I knew, all of them were about ten years old, only up to my waist, but every day to cut cloth to work, my father at the beginning was pity these children have no job, so with the price of two days of one silver dollar, let them pick up the thread in the back, two days of silver yuan, two days of silver yuan, one month is fifteen silver dollars, and it is the light work of picking up thread, my father has a lot of factories, it is impossible to manage them all, other people's factories, are nine yuan a month, or 3-4 o'clock in the morning, to 7 o'clock in the evening or later off work. Eat for 30 minutes in between, and there are no days off. It is true that my father was right to do this, and his heart is good, but this is not the case in the eyes of others. ”

"Some children, day after day outside my father's factory, see those children take out the money and rob it, those skinny children, which is their opponent, all the money has been robbed, other people's factories look at the people under their hands are envious of the treatment of their father's factory, just in private voices, in the coming and going, those children did not help, my father also had a dislike with some factory owners. ”

Fang Yanqing pursed his lips and frowned, Fang Yanqing felt that Wei Shimu had not done anything wrong in this matter, it was those factory owners who were clearly wrong, such young children, who worked so hard every day, but gave such a little money, they were either beaten or scolded, which was really hateful, and those children who robbed money outside were also hateful, bullying the small.

Wei Chao looked at Fang Yanqing and frowned, sighed and said, "Businessmen value profits, but businessmen also value love, there are good-hearted people everywhere, and there are also people with evil intentions, but when you see these people, you have no choice, you still have to deal with them, these factory owners are really hateful, they don't treat these children as human beings at all, but what my father did is not appropriate, it is useless to save one person, if you want to save it, you have to pull everyone forward." ”