As soon as he heard Lotus's words, the village chief's face turned up, and he scolded his daughter, "What are you doing again?" Didn't you see Dad talking to your eldest brother and them about business? ”

"My mother is cooking, I don't have any effort, I'll pour tea, what's wrong?" Lianhua pursed her lips and said disdainfully, "Besides, can't I ask Brother Li Hua?" ”

The village chief waved his hand at her in disgust, "That's it, you come into the house quickly, Dad still has business to talk about here, and he doesn't have time to talk nonsense with you." ”

"Hmph." Lotus snorted coldly, twisted her bulky body and headed towards the inner room.

The village chief hurriedly said to Li Mo and Li Yan, and said helplessly, "She has been like this since she was a child, don't be surprised." ”

"It's okay." Li Mo said, "Actually, our brother came today to find out with the village chief, if you can agree, then we can make a feasible plan." ”

I still learned the word plan from Li Man, and Li Mo can now learn and use it.

The village chief said again and again that someone would contribute money to benefit the township, and he couldn't look forward to good things, but he didn't expect that the Li family brothers, who had always been looked down on by him before, would do it.

I can't help but sigh that the world is impermanent, and salted fish really have a time to turn over.

As soon as the year passed, in the first month, in addition to holding a happy event for Tian Ningan and Zhu'er, the next time was to start doing things for the village.

If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, Li Man originally wanted to build roads for the village, so that the transportation outside the mountain is convenient, and it is convenient to do whatever you do.

But this is not something that can be done with a little silver, and their economic strength is still far, far from being able to do so.

Therefore, it is the most practical and feasible to proceed.

It's still what Li Man meant before, in the goddess ditch to cover the school.

There is no private school in the whole goddess ditch, and the children have to go over the mountains and mountains to go to school, not to mention the hard work, it is too dangerous.

So, after some discussion, everyone decided to build a school first and get rid of poverty from the spiritual level.

Several big people in Shennugou personally measured a piece of wasteland at the foot of the back mountain, and did not charge a penny of silver, and allocated it to the Li brothers as a school site free of charge.

Once the site was decided, the next step was to start construction.

Building a school is a very good thing for children, and the masons within a radius of several miles have taken the initiative to come over to help when they hear about it, as well as the nearby villagers, who can find time to do their work.

Therefore, on the school side, there are many people who do the work every day, and there is no need to hire workers at all, and everyone seems to have a tacit understanding that after they are done, they will go back to their own homes and come back to work after eating.

In this regard, Li Man has to admire the simplicity of this ancient people.

Even so, she and Ying'er Xiaowu will send some snacks and water every day to reward these workers who are working silently.

Of course, in addition, she and Li Yan Li also painted three people, responsible for recruitment, mainly looking for teachers from the new school.

According to Li Man, the children here are not so much in need of knowledge as they need a skill to support their families.

Therefore, her plan is that in addition to reading cognition, the greater role of this school is to cultivate children's survival skills.

It's more like a modern technical school.

Therefore, the teachers she recruited, except for the two literati masters who could dance and write, were all skill teachers.

For example, a cook who can cook a good dish, a technician who can carve and weave, and even a person who can plant flowers and plants, make clothes and jewelry, and so on.

In the end, everyone discussed and started five classes.

Reading and literacy classes, accounting classes, chef classes, horticulturist classes, fashion design classes.

Each class has three teachers, one main lecturer and two teaching assistants.

The school provides co-educational buildings for teachers who are far away from the road to rest, and classes are also in a modern fashion, with five days a week and two days off.

Later, Xu Bo saw that they were busy every day, and he was impulsive, so he took the initiative to find Li Man, and he wanted to open a medical class, mainly to teach the treatment of some common diseases.

Li Man felt that this was feasible, so he added an extra shift.

When the school building is completed, enrollment begins.

Because the school's affairs have long been publicized, everyone has been looking forward to this day for a long time, so on the first day of enrollment, the entire admissions office was crowded, and in the end, Li Man and others all went to the school playground and were divided into four groups to register.

To everyone's surprise, there are people of all ages who sign up for school this time, from five or six-year-old babies to middle-aged and elderly men in their forties and fifties.

However, the younger ones are mainly literate and literate, and the older ones are mostly learning skills.

Li Man asked everyone to choose the class, and then divided it according to age, according to the age of 20, divided into two age levels.

In this way, it took about a week just to sign up for classes and arrange classes.

But things are finally on the right track, the school is open, even if there are still these and that problems, they are slowly overcome, and most importantly, the students are very active in learning.

Li Man occasionally goes to the school for a walk, and he can feel a learning atmosphere and a positive energy here.

Gradually, the appearance of each village has changed, in the past, when the farmers were slack, the men gathered together to either drink or play cards, and the women were gossiping, but now, they got together not to discuss and learn or to learn skills, and even, in the library run by Li Man, some people specially borrowed books, and took advantage of the time after dinner to read to the villagers at the entrance of the village to tell stories and tell history, and the cultural life of the villagers has been greatly improved.

was so busy, time passed in a flash, and letters from the capital came several times.

Xue'er said that she missed her sister, and Xue'er said that she had a big belly, and she seemed to be about to give birth, and she was very scared.

Li Man was most worried about this sister, but the affairs of the goddess ditch were almost busy, and it ended in May, and it was June.

Everyone discussed returning to Beijing, but Tian Ning'an and his son came to Li Man's side, saying that they didn't want to go back to Beijing, and the family wanted to be in Shennugou.

The main reason is that Li Xiangyu doesn't want to go far away, she always feels that she is old, and she still lives in her hometown.

As soon as Zhu'er came to Shennugou, she liked it here, she said that it seemed to remind her of when she was a child, even if it was not prosperous enough, but it was kind enough, especially in the days when she lived, the people in the village were very kind to her, and she wanted to form a family with Tian Ning'an here, and be filial to her father and mother together.

In addition, Tian Ningying, this girl, is very familiar with a newly recruited young master in the school, and she has no intention of returning to Beijing, and she doesn't have the strength to beg Li Man like the first time.

Helplessly, this time when I went out, only Li Man's family was left.

Actually, Li Man didn't want to leave, but he didn't worry about Xue'er.

Let's go see Xue'er, and when she gives birth to a child and finishes the confinement, she will come back.

The idea was certain, and the family set off.

When I arrived in the capital, it was already the hottest time again.

As soon as Li Man arrived at Shangguan Mansion, he heard from the housekeeper that the second lady had added a little son.

Already raw? Li Man didn't care about resting, only changed his clothes, and took his husband and children to Yan Jin and Shangguan Xue's new house together.

Knowing that her sisters, sisters, and husbands were back, Shangguan Xue was so excited that she hurriedly came to greet her in person.

This frightened Li Man, when she was in confinement, she was so particular.

But as soon as the two met, they asked and found out that Shangguan Xue was already out of confinement, and the child was almost fifty days old.

Li Man looked at the child and thought it was too beautiful, it was only fifty days, and the eyebrows and eyes were delicate and picturesque, like Yan Jin, and he would be as handsome as his father in the future, so that people couldn't look at him directly.

The two sisters talked a lot together.

Looking at Xue'er's round cheeks, crystal eyes, and sweet smile, Li Man knew that she was doing well, and for this, she was a lot more relieved.

In the evening, when the family returned home, Li Man was still very emotional, obviously she was still opposed to her sister being with Yan Jin, but now everyone has children, it's really fast.

Li Mo and others said yes.

This night, Xiao Wu couldn't sleep, he couldn't help but think of himself when he looked at the happy smile on Xue'er's face and the little poor baby beside her.

At the beginning, Li Man wanted to match him with Xue'er, but now, Xue'er is a mother, and what about him, do you have to continue to wait?

He wanted to be a father.

So, after struggling all night, early the next morning, when Li Man and the others were still asleep, Xiao Wu touched the eldest brother Li Mo's room, and the first thing he said after waking him up was, "Big brother, I want to have a round room with my daughter-in-law." ”

"What?" Li Mo thought he had heard it wrong, rubbed his eyes, sat up and asked again, "What did you just say?" ”

Xiao Wu looked at the eldest brother with a firm gaze and reiterated, "Eldest brother, I want to have a round room with my daughter-in-law, you choose a date." ”

Li Mo was stunned for a moment, and looked at his younger brother in amazement, "What's wrong with you?" Why did you mention this again? ”

"Xue'er can be a mother, why can't I have a room with my daughter-in-law? We're both the same age. Xiao Wu said confidently.

Li Mo sank his face, a little embarrassed.

Xiao Wu looked at him, a little annoyed, and snorted coldly, "I know, you have never wanted me to have a round house with my daughter-in-law, you are afraid that I will share my daughter-in-law's good for you." ”

"Nonsense." Li Mo interrupted him with a calm face.

Xiao Wu pouted, "Then set a date for me, Dabao Erbao would have been able to call dad a long time ago, but they only call you dad, but they always call me my brother and brother, what is this like?" ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Wu was very annoyed, in order to let the children call him five fathers, how many times he coaxed, but it didn't work, these two little things have always tacitly called him brother, even the uncle disdain, this generation is messed up.

"This matter has to be discussed in the long run, I will discuss it with your second brother and them." Li Mo hurriedly got up to go out.

Xiao Wu stopped him, "Don't, big brother, just sit and wait, second brother, I'll call them." ”

He didn't want his eldest brother to make an excuse to slip away, and he had to give him an explanation for this matter today.