The air was filled with the pungent smell of firecrackers burning, and in the streets and alleys, groups of babies ran in front of them from time to time with small red lanterns.

Tighten the rope on the shoulder, shout, the two little beggars in front of them tightened the rope tied to their waists, and the heavy cart was pulled up by three people, and the three Xiaolang shouted loudly, and the one two dragged the cart full of dry firewood into the back door of Zhang Yuanwai.

Where is it, Gou Yu grinned and said, "Steward Zhang, it's about to be the New Year, do you need to send another car of dry firewood?" We are resting for the whole New Year, and if you order firewood again, you have to arrange for someone to go to the house to pull it! ”

Steward Zhang was stunned and said: "It's okay to rest for half a month during the New Year, why do you want to rest for a whole month?" ”

Gou Yu hurriedly replied: "Brother Lang, oh no, it's the shopkeeper's dislike that we can't read, and we want to teach us to write in the New Year, the big guys are stupid and ruthless, so I just rested for a few more days, so that we can remember some words!" ”

When the steward heard what he said, he stretched out his finger and praised: "Good benevolent and righteous shopkeeper, it is really good to you, I think that in order to learn to read and write, I went to my master's house in the winter to ask for advice, I never thought that he disliked me and was not enough to be tied up, and was kicked out of the door, boy, you should cherish it, and when you learn to read, you can find a decent job like me!" ”

Gou Yu nodded quickly.

The steward said: "In this case, then you will send three more cars today, the New Year is about to begin, and hot water is always used for washing, and two or three cars of firewood are not enough!" ”

Gou Yu hurriedly replied: "Remember, Steward Zhang, we can send firewood in the afternoon!" ”

Steward Zhang nodded, and saw that a few people next to him had finished unloading the firewood, so he took out his money bag and counted out ten cents and handed it to Gou Yu: "It's not easy for a few Xiaolang in the winter, so take the rest to buy some hot cooking cakes to eat!" ”

A few of the dogs hurriedly took it, bowed down and thanked Steward Zhang, and then pulled the empty cart and walked out happily.

There is a saying called "gossip is terrible".

This time the dog really felt it once, and there was nothing to do in the morning, and the rest of the couplets were thirty or forty pairs, and a few acquaintances sent them to a visit, and the rest were thrown to a few of them to sell on the street, and they were already sold out in the morning.

I heard that the little beggar who went to the land temple came back and said that where there are a lot of talented people who sell words, as long as they can write a specific couplet for free for five cents, and the dog knows that this business has come to an end.

The East Market is already closed, and this tea shop is deserted, no! There is also a poor sour talent who drinks water for nothing.

If the plan is good, it is no problem to let this group of little beggars have a full year, and those who are busy in the New Year will have a hard life for the rest of their lives.

The dog didn't want to be tired and tired of serving them all his life, and then he took advantage of the good time in the afternoon to hold a meeting with all his subordinates, and the content of the meeting was:

It's the first month, and the master wants to have a good New Year, don't bother me if it's okay!

As for those who promised to make them new clothes, each of the dogs gave a hundred dollars as money to buy cloth, and due to lack of funds, they could only do this, and whether they could wear new clothes during the New Year was up to them!

Treat everyone equally, and the same is true for yourself.

Huang Cancan's copper coin was in his hand, and when he saw that the boss was the same, he smiled one by one, plus some people only had about 20 yuan, and everyone was satisfied for a while, well, they were not satisfied and drove out.

Second, I don't care about food here during the Chinese New Year! Then gave Wang Xiaoyi three times of money, whoever is hungry, look for him! Can you eat enough, in a word, on your own!

Third, everyone has to rest during the New Year, so the group that sells dry firewood should let the guests prepare more firewood in advance, preferably for a month.

There is no shortage of firewood for dogs here, and so far more than 40 men have routinely provided firewood to dogs.

Why? Because their firewood is no longer sold in Yuchuan County, so far, the dog has almost monopolized the firewood business in the entire Yuchuan County.

A month can bring at least six or seven yuan of income to the dog, to feed these more than 30 little beggars, about ten yuan a month, the tea shop here is only forty or fifty yuan a day, at most Liu Hong and their meal money, so there is a difference of three or four dollars inside and outside here.

These data are all on paper, save them every day, such as replacing cooking cakes with multigrain cakes, and replacing thick porridge with thin porridge, and it will come out after a month.

Besides, the dog has made a lot of money by selling the couplets for the past three days, anyway, the food money of these beggars has been settled in this New Year.

As the saying goes, if you have money in your pocket, you don't panic.

So the dog said generously to the beggars, and every afternoon they had lunch, and everyone had to come and learn to read, and whoever dared not to come would break his leg.

I don't know how it was spread, but the people of the whole city heard that the "Little Good People in Nancheng" were going to open a school for free in the first month of the year to teach the little dolls to learn to read and write, and men and women were not limited to anyone.

Although the literacy rate of the Song Dynasty was the highest among all feudal dynasties, it also did its best to achieve 30 percent, which means that only three out of ten people were literate, which is still the statistical rate of economically and culturally prosperous areas.

It's not that I don't want to study, the fundamental reason is that the family is poor, and the family can't earn money from chewing grain, who has spare money to send their children to school, and it's not to study and become an official, why waste that money! Besides, a half-sized child can more or less help the family do some work and reduce some of the burden!

The rumor of learning literacy for free spread all over the city at an unimaginable speed, and the people of those poor families clapped their hands one by one, and then, after the dog was "Nancheng Little Good Man", he got a new nickname "Nancheng Primary School"!

"Bullshit's elementary school" The dog scolded fiercely, and after scolding, he stretched out his finger and pointed at the dog's leftovers, and Dasha said: "Tell me about you, it's not good to find a bad reason, but find this reason to sell dry firewood!" In this way, I still have a fart mood to go to the New Year, the New Year, people are playing happily outside, and I have to teach a bunch of poor ghosts to read and write! Phew! ”

Can you not get angry? Since I took care of these little beggars, I have been looking for food for them everywhere every day, and I can't be irritable, and Sven Xiaolangjun, who never scolded rudeness before, is now scolding three times a day, or even five times!

The heart is not happy, and there is no patience to perfunctory, and the words that come out of the mouth are much more ugly, and finally they can have a good time during the New Year, who knows that these fools are actually making a big trouble for themselves.

Especially after waking up after a beautiful afternoon, suddenly hearing the news, it is really like a bolt from the blue, and the good mood of the day disappears without a trace in an instant.

"Brother dog, I, we didn't say that, we don't know who spread it, we ......"

Seeing that the dog was busy explaining incoherently, the dog stretched out his hand and interrupted him: "Forget it, it's useless to explain at this time, it's spread all over the city, and it's too late to change it now, fortunately, after the New Year, fortunately, it's only a month, otherwise I will be miserable by you!" ”

"By the way, do they have any time to pass it on?"

Gou Yu hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, I just said that after the first month, I didn't say that the hour!" ”

The dog nodded, thought for a while, and said, "After a while, you go to the tea shop and put a notice at the door, saying that it will start after lunch every day!" For an hour. ”

"Thirty is also rushing, and a hundred is also put! When the time comes, you will sit closest to me. ”

Several people quickly nodded.

Seeing that a few of them were still stunned, he sighed, and waved his hand: "Let's all go out to play, don't stay there and make me annoyed!" ”

A group of people hurriedly ran out.

Sighing, I didn't have the heart to sleep, I went out of the door and walked towards Xichengfang with my hands, first went to Wang Yong's house, and when I entered the door, I was pulled into the house by the enthusiastic Wang sister-in-law, Wang Yong father and son were squatting on the ground and didn't know what to do, and when they saw the dog, they just hurriedly said hello, pointed to the water cup and signaled the dog to pour water and drink it by themselves, and then the two of them lowered their heads and studied a pile of wood non-stop.

The dog took a glass of water, stretched out his head to look, and saw that the two of them were each holding a brush and gesturing something on a large wooden board, and from time to time they also argued a few words, and saw that the wooden board was a wheel, and the dog did not ask them.

He looked up at Sister-in-law Wang, who was taking the soles of her shoes, and said, "Sister-in-law, what about smiling?" ”

Sister-in-law Wang didn't look up, and said directly: "I'm sulking in the house!" ”

The dog was stunned and said, "What are you sulking?" ”

Sister-in-law Wang sighed, put the needle down, and then looked up and said to the dog: "Aren't you going to teach their babies to learn to read and write in the first month!" I said to Xiaoxiao, when the time comes, it will pass, who knows that this girl is twisting her head and doesn't want to go anything! ”

I joked a few words with her, and said that if you don't know how to read, you won't be able to marry when you grow up! Then the girl didn't know what was wrong, so she went into the house crying! When I went in, I saw that he didn't seem to cry anymore, but he was still sulking and ignoring me! ”

The dog was stunned and said, "I guess I don't want to huddle with them!" ”

After speaking, he stood up and said, "I'll take a look!" ”

Sister-in-law Wang picked up the needle and thread, and said while sewing: "Go and coax her well, if you don't go, you won't go, as for the stuffy mouth and ignore people!" ”

The dog nodded, and walked towards the West House, knocked on the door when he arrived, and when he saw that there was no movement in the house, he shouted in a low voice: "Xiaoxiao, open the door, I came to play with you!" ”

There was an exclamation in the room, and then the door opened from the inside, and I saw Xiaoxiao wearing a plush cotton jacket, and ran out with a smile, and threw himself into the dog's arms and said: "Brother dog, you are here, you don't know that your mother is bullying Xiaoxiao!" ”

The dog's embarrassment, holding someone's daughter in front of someone's father and mother doesn't seem to be very good!

So he turned his head to look at his father, and when he saw Wang Yong and his grandfather looking at the dog with a smile, he continued to lower his head and study their things.

Turning his head to look at Sister-in-law Wang, fortunately, there were some reflections.

Seeing that she threw the soles of her shoes in her arms on the table, she pointed and smiled and said: "What's wrong with you, you don't even know a word and say that you will marry your dog brother, I see, you are stupid and willing to marry you!" ”

When he heard this, he cried out with a wow, wiped his tears and ran into the house, slammed the door and said, "Don't marry my stupid brother, he's too stupid, and he grabs food with me!" I don't want to marry Dasha brother! Woooooo

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