The Chinese New Year is approaching here in Shanhai County, and Wang Lanling took three-year-old Boyan and Rengui to visit some elderly and lonely widows in the city door to door.

"I haven't been here for a long time, and I don't have much on my hands, and I don't have much savings in the county at the moment, so I'll give out some meat and oil for the Chinese New Year this year, and it will be better next year."

Wang Lanling sat in a mud house in Zhang Jiao, a low house of mud and thatch, with a cooking stove attached to the outside of the house, just a meter away from the gate.

Like a brick with a small brick in front of it, the stove house is on the side, you can enter the stove house when you go out, and you can go to the door when you go out of the stove house.

The stove house is suitable for the height of the elderly and children, and there is a mud stove inside, and in the middle of the black stove and the wall around it, the iron pot that has just been used for half a month and is still silver is the most valuable thing here.

Not only the steppe people like iron pots, but also bandits and horse thieves like iron pots, just because this is the most valuable thing in the poor people's homes.

There are only two rooms in the main house, the main house that enters the door is less than three meters long and more than two meters wide, this is a place for the elderly to live, and Zhang Jiao's old parents usually live here.

The inner room is for Zhang Jiao's family, less than 20 square meters of space for nine people, there are several large wooden cabinets in it, it is a very traditional kind of square cabinet, the kind that needs to be lifted and opened.

There are clothes and quilts and other things on the cabinet, but fortunately, the main house is much higher than the stove house, and as long as the thatched house does not leak wind and rain, the insulation effect is still okay.

Zhang Jiao's parents were sitting on the bed, and their family didn't know that Wang Lanling would come over, so they didn't make any preparations.

Wang Lanling sat by the window and asked, "Old man, are you in good health?" ”

Zhang Jiao's old father quickly said: "Okay, okay! ”

Zhang Jiao quickly said: "The old man has no problem working in the field!" ”

Wang Lanling nodded, "That's fine, there isn't much time to have leisure in a year, take advantage of the Chinese New Year to rest and eat something good." ”

Rengui looked at the place in the inner room, and when he followed Wang Lanling into the house just now, he saw that there were several big children and children inside, because he knew the relationship between the people inside, Rengui was very curious about the world behind the straw mat, and he wanted to go in and have a look.

Bo Yan also stood aside, he still wanted to go out and play.

The two little guys were taken down from the Xianshui Palace by Wang Lanling, and they didn't like the politeness of Wang Lanling and those adults, and they didn't care about what they were going to do, the two of them were still more curious about the outside world.

When Wang Lanling was talking to Zhang Jiao's family, he saw Rengui sneaking closer to the inner room, so he said with a straight face: "Stand up!" ”

Rengui quickly became honest, although Wang Lanling is easy to speak, but he is not as unrestricted as his grandparents, it is normal for children to be afraid of their parents.

After letting the two little guys stand obediently, Zhang Jiao quickly said to the back room: "Big baby, quickly move a place for the little boys to sit!" ”

The room was busy for a while, and soon a little girl came out carrying an orange pumpkin.

The pumpkin was the size of a basin, and the little girl was obviously nervous when she walked out with her hands in her hands.

After Zhang Jiao saw it, he quickly scolded: "How can you sit here?" I don't know how to find something cleaner! Raised you for nothing! ”

"It's okay, that's fine." Wang Lanling thought it was very good, stood up and took the pumpkin, "It's quite heavy, strong enough." ”

After putting the pumpkin on the ground, Wang Lanling pulled the collars of the clothes of the two little guys in front of him, and let the two little guys sit back to back on both sides of the big pumpkin.

The two young masters had never sat on such a vulgar thing, and the two ladies in the family would not let them sit on such a thing of food.

After Wang Lanling held down the two children's children, he said to Zhang Jiao: "I see that you also have a lot of children at home, and the old man's health is also good, if you are busy, let the children go to school, my two children will also go to school in two years." ”

When Zhang Jiao heard this, he quickly said, "That...... That's not good...... it costs money to study, and there are no scholars in our county. ”

Wang Lanling explained: "Don't worry about this, educating the people is what I want to do, so that young people can read and count from an early age, it is a good thing for everyone and me, whether it is a boy or a girl, as long as it is suitable to go to school, they should go to school to learn to read." ”

Zhang Jiao felt that this was a little unrealistic, and took the initiative to say: "The girl is also going to study? I don't have the money to pay for her education. ”

Wang Lanling said helplessly: "I said that I don't want money, and it's a good thing for girls to study, although they will get married and have children after graduation in the future, it's not useless, like my wife was raised by a woman who studied since she was a child." ”

"What I want is not a family-by-family education, but to let the entire county become scholars, cultural people, men will be able to know, and women will be more conducive to the spread of some basic knowledge."

Zhang Jiao said honestly: "I haven't studied, so I don't understand." ”

Wang Lanling is used to this kind of thing, "It's normal to not understand, this is a hundred-year plan, it's what I'm going to do, I've prepared it at school, and when I wait for next spring, I'll let my seven-year-old child go to school." ”

Zhang Jiao quickly said: "But I don't have money for my children to study, and my family still has to farm, and the crops in the field can't be sold." ”

"I said it, you don't have to pay for it, just hand over some food." Wang Lanling put it another way.

It's not okay to be free, if it's really free, these people will let Wang Lanling find them money.

Wang Lanling experienced this when he was in Heishui County, Wang Lanling took the initiative to let people go to school for free, and after many persuasions, someone asked Wang Lanling to borrow money......

The imperial court did not say that the tuition fee was free of tuition, and the tuition fee in Heishui County used to be two yuan a semester, but now the price has increased.

Free is not good, in this era of simple folk customs, some things are not suitable for free.

Zhang Jiao quickly asked, "How much does it cost?" ”

Although Wang Lanling repeatedly emphasized that he didn't want money, in the final analysis, others just didn't listen to him, and they just felt that they wanted money.

It's like persuading people to eat, no matter how many times the other party is polite, the persuader can't listen.

"A semester is half a year, and you can give fifty catties of grain, such as this pumpkin, not necessarily wheat."

Wang Lanling customized a standard, which is basically free.

Zhang Jiao said: "Can my little baby go to school?" He is seven years old. ”

Wang Lanling nodded and said: "Yes, the school's curriculum is not difficult, even if you can't become a scholar, you can learn some technology or something." ”

Shanhai County does not have as many talents as Heishui County, so Wang Lanling has to train himself.

After talking to Zhang Jiao for a while, Wang Lanling went to the next house to visit, sent some New Year's goods to the families of the martyrs, asked where the subsidies were used before, and also said that the children should be allowed to study.

In the evening, after Boyan and Rengui went home, they were ready to run to play in the sheepfold where the lamb was.

"Stop!" Zhao gently and majestically stopped the two little guys.

The two little guys quickly became honest, Zhao Wenrou was more frightening to children than Wang Lanling.

Behind Zhao Wenrou stood Zhao Gongru and Xu Baifeng, as the wife of a wealthy family, someone usually follows her in everything she does, this is pomp.

Looking at the two submissive little guys, Zhao Wenrou asked, "What did you do when you went out with your father today?" ”

What to do, Zhao Wenrou is clear, although Wang Lanling did not say, but Zhao Wenrou and Lu Leia both feel that Wang Lanling is ready to cultivate two children.

"Daddy has found someone to talk to, and we're eating out." Bo Yan didn't know what his mother was asking, so he said his answer.

Zhao Wenrou frowned, feeling that she couldn't ask anything, these two children were too young, and they forgot everything they said in a blink of an eye.

"Come back to school with me!" In short, learning is right.

Xiao Rengui shrank his neck and said carefully: "We are going to see the little lamb ......"

Zhao Wenrou's eyes glared, "What kind of lamb are you looking at?!" Come with me to school! ”

Zhao Wenrou didn't just pull Boyan alone, and by the way, he also took care of Rengui.

The two little ones reluctantly followed the buttocks of the three women, and were taken to the study with an unhappy expression.

It's nice to have two literate mothers.