"Actually, Gong Mou is not talented, he has read some books since he was a child, and he doesn't dare to say that he has read through those subsets of scriptures and history, but at least he still understands some literacy and arithmetic. My front yard has been empty, and it's okay to teach a few children to read and write. ”

When everyone heard the man's words, they looked at the man with straight eyes, and the five short men asked weakly: "The shopkeeper, can we teach these children by the way?" I don't want to have any knowledge, at least I can know a word and be able to write and calculate. ”

The man smiled.

"My family is almost six years old, and it's time to be enlightened. I thought I'd like to teach myself first. In the future, if you can meet a good gentleman, please come to the house and teach the child some skills seriously. If everyone is interested, teaching one is also teaching anyway, and teaching a group is also teaching. I'm afraid that my knowledge is too shallow and I will delay the children. ”

"Why delay or not, it's good that our poor children can read a few words, and we don't expect to take the top prize. As long as the shopkeeper is willing to promise to teach my children to read, tomorrow I will cut a piece of pork to make a bunch for you. ”

Other adults followed the man's voice and asked the man to teach his children to read. The man stretched out his hand and shook it.

"Everyone is a neighbor, so don't mention it. I'm not at the point where I can start teaching. However, teaching children to read and count can still be coped. If you can rest assured, I will let my children come to my yard every day in the future, and I will take the time to teach the children. ”

"Then how can you be, you also have to do business. Teaching children to read delays your business, how can we go carelessly. You teach when you have time, and let them play on their own when you don't have time. But we must give it. ”

The man repeatedly shirked, but everyone did not comply. I have to pay for it. In the end, the man had no choice but to agree, and by the way, he promised again that he would invite a real gentleman to teach in the future.

Ay! The ancients seemed to have a much greater understanding of knowledge than they imagined.

Just as the man sighed, a big black face came in front of him.

"My lord, I want to be literate too."

The man kicked out.

"Get out, you know a yarn, you can cut people!"

Uncle, I don't know a few of these weird 'little seal' laborers. It's also his mother's drinking too much, and his mouth is fast.

A few days later, the sound of children reading could be heard in the courtyard every morning.

Gongsun Jian's original intention was to find some playmates for his daughter, Gongyu Wu. However, considering that the child is older, reading and literacy is indeed needed. Besides, I still don't know a lot about the words of this life, and I also need a learning process.

At a high price of three taels of silver per month, an old Xiucai was specially invited from the county town to teach these children to read. The requirements are not high, there is no need to learn what the scriptures and meanings, only the children are required to be able to read and write. In the morning, Lao Xiucai taught, and in the afternoon, the noodle restaurant had no business, and Gongsun Jian taught it himself, teaching the children arithmetic. It's easy. You can learn it even if you are illiterate, anyway, it is all Arabic numerals and simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division that Gongsun Jian mastered in his previous life. It's easy to remember, and it's not troublesome for children to teach.

With the sound of children reading aloud, the business of Gongsun Jian's small noodle restaurant is getting better and better. Not for anything else, the publicity of the children's parents in the surroundings, plus the noodles of Gongsun Jian Noodle Restaurant taste very good. It's not the taste and character of this world.

For a while, the originally secluded alley became lively. Every day at noon or in the evening, people come to eat noodles. The taste is good and the price is cheap. A bowl of Yangchun noodles costs two cents, and a fried egg costs only five cents. If you want to eat meat, add another five words, four inches long, three inches wide and one finger thick button meat to cover the noodles. A man who has been busy and hard for a day takes a bite, which is called a pleasure.

The alley is not far from the wharf outside the west gate of the county seat. The men who carry the bags and do the physical work every day like to come to the noodle restaurant to eat a bowl of noodles after sunset. Some people like to drink, from the liquor store next door, put on a second corner of loose sake, sit in the store and drink two sips of shochu with fragrant noodles, and the fatigue of the day will gradually dissipate.

In the evening, in the northwest corner of the study room in the second entrance of the small courtyard, five people sat around the table, a few dishes of small dishes, and a pot of warm wine.

"My lord, I don't think I'm going to do anything with Lao Qi anymore, what a bullshit county lieutenant, I'll do the miscellaneous work for your little shop. It is estimated that in half a year at most, your small shop will earn more than the county master. Ding Feng complained.

Qi Shi glanced at Ding Feng,

"Nima, you think I'm willing. The entire county government, except for the county lord, is the most leisurely. ”

Gongsun Jian looked at the two of them and smiled.

"It's been almost a month since I became an official, and there is no news?"

"The news, it's all bullshit." Qi Shi said hatefully: "At the beginning, this family invited that family, and I was busy eating and drinking all day long. It's the same in the county office, but when it's time to get down to business, no one pays attention to you. The county magistrate didn't even have a fart. Everything is up to the county and the chief bookkeeper. ”

"Hehe, what about the others? You are a county lieutenant, in charge of the militia guards in the county, can't you get involved in this? ”

"My lord, it's not angry if you don't say this. Damn, the entire militia listens to the Chen family in the county seat. It's the home of the official in Beijing. I've been there a few times, but no one else has ever birded me. ”

Gongsun Jian shook his head and looked at Ma Teng again. Ma Teng smiled in a low voice, then looked around, lowered his head and whispered: "Fifty thousand stone salt, at the end of this month, it will pass from the wharf of our county." It's worth about 50,000 taels of silver! Hey. ”

"Don't be a thief, it's useless for us to have so much salt, and there is no place to store it if we can't finish it. We're new here. Cash is the real thing. Gongsun Jian glared at Ma Teng angrily.

"My lord, it's cash." Ma Teng looked at Gongsun Jian and smiled: "The batch of salt purchased by the Chen family, the Chu family and several other partners is ready to be sold to Wu Guo, and it will be handed over on the ground in our Linshui County." All the way to the border of Wu State, there is a water transportation department, and the Yamen is responsible for escorting. They take a percent. That is to say, at least 45,000 taels of silver at the time of the handover of our Linshui County. ”

"Shhh Gongsun Jian took a soft breath. The others swallowed their saliva.

"It's a pity that we don't have that much strength now, 45,000 taels of silver, and even the five of us can't carry it." Gongsun Jian frowned, his fingers kept tapping on the tabletop.

"My lord, how much can you grab! I, Wei Meng, can carry at least three thousand taels. ”

Seeing that Gongsun Jian didn't speak, he kept thinking deeply. Lao Qi knocked on Wei Meng's head fiercely, signaling him not to disturb the adult's train of thought.

After a while, Gongsun Jian raised his head.

"Old Ma, are you sure that the two sides are trading in cash?"

"Yes, sir. The subordinates have been working on the docks these days. I knew a steward of the Chen family, and later, in order to confirm the matter, Xiao sneaked into the Chen family in the middle of the night, and heard with his own ears that the Chen family and the Chu family were discussing this matter, and he would never be wrong. ”

"Hmm." Gongsun Jian nodded, still thinking.

"Today is the 15th, and there are more than ten days left at the end of the month. Old horse, you determine the exact date and time of the transaction as soon as possible. There is also the need to figure out the ships that deliver goods to both sides, and the ones that carry salt and silver are definitely different. Ding Feng did not go to the yamen to be on duty during this time, and acted with the old horse. Lao Qi, let's see if those people in the yamen can find out some useful information. Such a big deal, through Linshui County, it is impossible for the county and the main book to be without benefits. There must be more or less people below. In addition, the hooligans and ruffians on the streets in the county town will take advantage of them to fight a group and win over a group, and they will have something to do when the time comes. There are also people from poor families in the county government, so try to win them over. This aspect itself should be the responsibility of you, the county lieutenant, although the power is occupied by others, but there will be no opinion on inviting a few small catchers to eat and drink. Come to me and get the money in need. ”

Ma Teng, Qi Shi and others nodded one after another, but Wei Meng on the side was anxious.

"My lord, they all have something, but what about me?"

"Huh." Gongsun Jian sneered,

"Your business is more important. There is a group of strongmen in the loess gang fifty miles east of the county seat, about seventy or eighty, this is the news given by Lao Ma. It's up to the old horse. After speaking, Gongsun Jian looked at the old horse and smiled.

"Don't worry, my lord, my old horse's news will be accurate." Ma Teng said firmly.

"That's good, Wei Meng, you go up the mountain alone, kill the leader of the other party and grab the cottage. Do you dare? ”

"What?" Wei Meng was stunned for a moment,

"My lord, seventy or eighty people let me kill alone? You think too highly of me Wei Meng, right? ”

"Brother Wei, my old horse will accompany you." The old horse smiled and patted Wei Meng's shoulder.

"Don't worry, the second boss there is my former robe in the Northern Army. There are also seven or eight people who also came out of our northern army before. After returning home, I didn't have a way to live, so I walked this road. You go and kill the big boss and a few of his cronies, and I will keep you safe and take over the cottage. ”

Gongsun Jian stared at Ma Teng with his eyes, and said in a low voice: "Old Ma, this matter is not a joke, if you are not careful, Lao Wei's life will be over." If I'm not sure, I'll forget it, I have other options. Those people don't really use it easily. There will always be mistakes in the future. ”

Ma Teng pondered for a moment and said, "My lord, if you can still find helpers, then these people still don't need it." Dozens of miles away from the county seat, the land occupies the mountain as the king, if it has nothing to do with the county, it is impossible. I can't guarantee that no one will betray us. ”

Gongsun Jian nodded, touched his chin and said, "Forget it, let's not think about that cottage for the time being, take the second way." It's a big deal, we don't want 50,000 stone salt, and throw them all into the river. Earn less and earn less. Let's do this first, and wait for Lao Ma to determine the transaction date of the other party, and then everyone will come over to make specific arrangements. It's all gone. ”

The small courtyard is still the same small courtyard, but it is much more lively than before.

In addition to the sound of reading aloud in my ears, there is also the shouting of children playing in their spare time. Gongsun Jian sat in the front yard on a bamboo chair, drinking tea, watching the group of children rushing forward and backwards and suddenly climbing up and down, and felt that such days were also very good. Kindergarten and elementary school are combined, hehe. It turns out that being a school principal is also such a pleasant thing. It was an experience that I had never experienced in a previous life.

It would be even better if there was another cigarette!

"Daddy." A glutinous voice sounded in his ears, and he didn't have to guess to know that it was his precious daughter. Standing up, he turned around, pinched the two armpits of the little girl, lifted her up and threw her into the sky, and then held it firmly, and kissed the pink and cute little face fiercely.

"Say, what's the matter with finding Daddy?"

"Brother Tao said that his brother saw someone selling puppies in Nancheng the day before yesterday. I want to get a puppy. ”

"Hahaha, there are so many chickens, ducks and geese at home, and the fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs are not enough for you to play? Thinking about getting a puppy again? Gongsun Jian deliberately said with a straight face: "I don't have the mind to read these days, and I know how to play all day long." Have you memorized the homework assigned by the gentleman? Can Daddy's question be answered? ”

"Oh, Daddy. It's such a simple thing, just listen to it once. All the schoolwork was done long ago. After speaking, the little girl shook Gongsun Jian's arm vigorously.

I have to say that the daughter adopted by Gongsun Jian halfway can be described as extremely smart and amazingly talented. I don't dare to say that I will never forget it, but the three to five hundred words of the scriptures and meanings taught by Mr. Ordinary are basically not wrong after reading them once and then looking at them a few times. Even if Gongsun Jian teaches the arithmetic himself, and the other children have not mastered it, this little girl can already learn and use it. Even Gongsun Jian, who has lost his memory, sighs to himself.