The Chen family spent a month in a busy way. On Chinese New Year's Eve, the busy Chen family returned to the county government, and although Huang Xianling took office, he did not move in, so the Chen family continued to live. Also celebrating the festival with the Chen family are Hu and Mingzhu.

A table of people ate together, and the meal was very rich, which was made by Yin Hong herself. Chen Yuanheng looked at the people at the table, Hu and Bai were tired, but they were in good spirits, and the two Chen brothers, Wen Hui, and Mingzhu were all emaciated, but their eyes were brighter and they were more energetic.

Chen Yuanheng said: "Madame and Madame Hu have worked hard. Especially Madame Hu, you have healed so many victims, and now the victims call you a living bodhisattva. ”

Hu Shi was embarrassed: "What is this, I am a useless person, and now I am finally useful, this period of time, although I am very tired, but I have lived a happier life than in the past few decades." I thought about it, in the future, even if the victims are gone, I will follow you to Deqing, and I will also build a small shop to treat people. Specialized care for the poor. Anyway, I have a field and a shop, and Hui'er and I have no shortage of food and drink, and the rest of the money is in vain, so it is better to use it to administer medicine to the poor. ”

Chen Yuanheng and the Bai family were in awe, they didn't expect the Hu family to think like this again. was really about to speak, Hu Shi said again: "Even if the time comes, Lord Chen and his sister will take care of it more, after all, I am a woman who shows up, so I have to be on guard." ”

Chen Yuanheng immediately said: "Mrs. Hu, please rest assured, when the time comes, I will definitely send a special official to patrol your shop more to ensure that there is no door-to-door trouble." Besides, if your peers are jealous, it doesn't matter, they don't care about the poor people who can't afford to be sick, and you don't compete with them for business. Madame Hu does this, I must ask the court for a reward for you. ”

Hu Shi said: "There is no need to ask for a reward, since I heard from my cousin in Jingli in the street, my father was not only not decadent in the north, but started classes and lectures, and brought many students. He also helped the local people, taught them new farming methods, and designed water conservancy for them, and was respected by the people in the Northland. At that time, I thought, I am ashamed to be my father's daughter, I have lived so much for so many years, if I hadn't met my sister who was still alive in my nest. If I had the chance, I would also like to learn from my father. Right now. I just happened to have this opportunity, so I'm very happy. As I did it, I found that when I helped the patients remove their pain, when the patients were cured, I felt a sense of accomplishment, which should not be a woman's feelings, and I realized it now, and I was addicted, so. In the future, I will open a shop and give free medical treatment to the poor. ”

Chen Yuanheng nodded heavily and said: "I can understand Mrs. Hu's feelings, I think I used to be too, and I thought about how to get ahead and how to make people look up to me every day." Now, I see that because of me, because of the efforts that I have led people, thousands of people do not have to die, and they are alive and well, and this feeling is amazing. ”

Bai Shi also said: "Yes, I have been staying in the nursery for a while, because there are many orphans to take care of, and these orphans call me "mother", I was not used to it at first, but now I am very happy to listen to it." ”

The two Chen brothers and Wen Hui, Mingzhu also felt something when they heard it, yes, they have worked too hard for a while, you must know that they used to be young masters and girls with fine clothes and jade food, but this period of time they feel unprecedentedly fulfilling, and they all fall in love with this feeling.

Chen Wenhui thought for a while and said, "Father, I heard that there are too many disaster victims, and now the county can't accommodate so many disaster victims by building only one road, so two more roads are opened, right?" ”

Chen Yuanheng said: "Yes, it was not suitable to start construction in winter, but in order to resettle the victims, we had to build the road, fortunately, the south of the Yangtze River is very warm, this year is especially warm, even the snow has not fallen, the road is progressing very quickly, and there are too many victims, we had to borrow 100,000 taels from Wang Yihe's bank to repair the road, fortunately, the bank was opened before, what if you don't need silver?" Now the imperial court can't pay for it, and all the money is used to fight. ”

Speaking of this, Hu Shi said: "I heard that the three northwestern provinces are in chaos now, I wonder if Lord Chen has any news of my father?" ”

Chen Yuanheng shook his head, and for a while, the atmosphere became gloomy, and Bai Shi hurriedly said: "Lord Hu accumulates virtue and does good, and my sister also treats diseases and saves people, God will definitely bless Lord Hu if he is fine." ”

Hu nodded. Chen Wenhui hurriedly diverted the topic: "Father, I think that in addition to building roads, in fact, some disaster victims have also begun to do something else. ”

Chen Yuanheng asked: "What else do you have to do?" ”

Chen Wenhui said: "Actually, because of the help of a few little sisters these days, my work has been much easier, so I often chat with sick victims, and I find that many of these victims are skilled. For example, some are carpenters, some can make tofu, some can weave, and so on. There are also some readers. ”

Chen Yuanheng nodded and said, "Yes, I also found out when I looked at the registration of the officials. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "Then these people are not wasted doing the menial work of road construction and quarrying, I think we can gather these people to do something, so that they can make more money, just like we gather women who can needlework to do work." ”

When Chen Yuanheng heard this, he remembered something and asked Bai's: "Our Cuijin Building has concentrated women to do work, how is it now?" ”

Bai said: "In the previous period, we were mainly making clothes, bedding, shoes, etc. for the victims, and basically sold them, but we didn't make a penny, and we lost the lights and food." Now the victims basically have clothes, quilts, and shoes. This work can be stopped for a while. We started to let them continue to work again, specializing in making beautiful clothes and shoes. After all, when we open a branch after the year, and then open four branches at once, it is precisely to prepare more goods, take advantage of this opportunity to do more, save more, anyway, we have prepared more silver, and when the time comes, it is really not enough to borrow money from the bank, so that those women can have work to do and earn some money. ”

Chen Yuanheng nodded and said, "This method is good, if only there were a few more businesses like this." ”

Chen Wenhui said: "Now you can start now, for example, you can gather carpenters, specialize in building home furnishings, and then sell them, and also use our cuijin building to make clothes The assembly line operation method, so that you can quickly make furniture, and when the furniture is sold, you can give the carpenters money to start work." In this way, some of the victims will be solved, and they will not have to build roads. ”

Chen Yuanheng's eyes lit up: "It's a good way, and blacksmiths can do the same." I'll discuss with Ting Zhen tomorrow to find someone to set up a carpentry factory first, and then an iron workshop. This will solve some of the victims. ”

Chen Wenhui also said: "There are also scholars, in fact, you can ask the middle school readers of the disaster victims, and pay them to give lectures to the orphans in the nursery and teach them to read, so that the orphans can grow up to be literate and have a skill, and they can also be left without the government's management as soon as possible." There is also a school that can be set up among the victims to teach their children to read. The government can also pay for these people to go to the towns and villages of Ancheng to teach those children in the countryside to read. ”

Chen Yuanheng said: "Yes, I didn't expect this. ”

Chen Wenhui also said: "You can also take out loans to the victims, as long as there is a guarantor, let them open a food stall, sell tofu, snacks and the like, so that some of the victims can also be solved." ”

Chen Yuanheng became excited: "Yes, yes, hurry up and eat, I'll go to find Ting Zhen after dinner." ”

Bai Shi laughed: "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, where do you go to someone else's house, besides, Lord Huang is also tired for so many days, I also want to reunite the family for a while." ”

Chen Yuanheng patted his head and said: "Look at me, forget about the New Year, okay, let's not talk about business today, have a good New Year, and tomorrow I will give the four children New Year's money." ”

Hu Shi also smiled: "Yes, I have also prepared New Year's money, and I will send it to you when the time comes." ”

The children were all happy when they heard this, and even Chen Wenjun was happy.

Although the next day was the first day of the Lunar New Year, the Chen family and Hu Shiniang were only paying New Year's money at breakfast, and after breakfast, they went to their own businesses.

As soon as the third day of the Lunar New Year passed, the carpenters and blacksmiths among the victims were called away from the construction site, and they were told that the government wanted to open a carpentry workshop, and the wages of the iron workshop were higher than those on the construction site, after all, these were technical jobs. These carpenters and blacksmiths were very happy when they heard this, who doesn't want to do their job, and make more money, so that they can not only feed their own family, but also have some money left, and they will have to spend money on the way home after the war in the future, and they will have to spend money when they return home and start from scratch, and there are more places to use money, who doesn't want to make more money?

In this way, the carpentry and iron workshops were flourishing. It's just that these two workshops are not run by the government, after all, how can the government have that manpower now, and I don't understand it, this is opened by two families in Anseong, and these two families were originally engaged in the timber business and the agricultural tool business. Now it's just in the name of the government, but in fact it's up to them.

However, in the wood workshop, Chen Wenhui provided them with drawings such as shampoo basins and reclining chairs, and also taught them to use the assembly line method to produce furniture, so they accounted for 20% of the shares of the wood workshop. This timber merchant is the largest timber merchant in Anseong, the Ma family, and the head of the family is Ma Zuoyi. In this way, among Chen Yuanheng's refugeers, there is another Ma family. Of course, the Ma family didn't know that these reclining chairs, shampoo basins and other design drawings were made by Chen Wenhui, Chen Yuanheng claimed that he invented it, everyone knows that Chen Zhifu was born in a noble family, versatile, and it is reasonable to invent these. And because it was invented by the prefect, everyone rushed to buy it, which made the business of the wood workshop boom, and there was more work.

Iron workshop, Chen Wenhui didn't care, after all, Chen Wenhui didn't understand this, but the management of the workshop was the old blacksmith shop in Ancheng, most of the farm tools in Ancheng were built by them, very business acumen and technology, but the money was less, this was very easy to solve, Chen Yuanheng took the lead, Wang Yihe loaned to them, so the iron workshop also operated very well.

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Writing has become a good leisure for me now, and I am only happy when I am with my son and when I write.