The streets and alleys of Anhui Province were plastered with notices, people who read and hyphenated words shook their heads, and groups of people around them pricked up their ears to listen, and the Chinese liked to join in the fun, and the content quickly spread.

Chai Dongliang issued a circular in the name of the Jianghuai Patrol Embassy that the government plans to build 1,000 technical schools in Anhui and Jiangxi provinces within three years, and each school will enroll 100 to 300 students. One hundred and fifty were established in the first year, three hundred in the second year, and five hundred and fifty in the third year. All children of Anhui and Jiangxi provinces who have reached the age of 14, regardless of gender, are eligible to register. The duration of study is two years, one year of cultural courses, including literacy and arithmetic, the second year begins professional courses, half a year of technical training, and half a year of factory internship. After enrollment, students are exempted from tuition, food, and accommodation. During the school day, the school gave each person a pocket money of five dimes per month. After graduating, students will be arranged for employment by the political axe and the chamber of commerce. The guaranteed salary is not lower than the standard of ordinary workers, with a minimum of four yuan. After the students work, the employing enterprise pays a fee of 20 yuan to the chamber of commerce for each worker, which is counted as a training fee and returned to the technical school. After working for one year, graduates sign a formal contract with the company, enjoy the treatment of a large worker, and the salary is guaranteed to be six silver dollars. The contract between the worker and the factory is a minimum of three years, and the breaching party will be severely punished by law during the contract period.

The technical school is not very attractive to the locals of Anqing and Wuhu, and the economy in the city is already quite prosperous, and the common people have relatively more ways to make a living. And ordinary primary schools don't need money, so it's better to let children read and write, and it will be more cost-effective to find decent errands in the future. People in the city don't care, but the temptation for people in the countryside is almost unlimited, and the five-dimes pocket money issued by the school is higher than the income from farming. Moreover, the school also manages food and clothing, and once you go to work, you will get four yuan.

Many peasants have never seen what four silver dollars look like when they are put together in their lives. The dock porters who go to the city to make a living, the coolies who pull rickshaws, can earn up to two silver dollars a month, and these children can get four yuan after graduation, and six yuan a year later! People who can earn six dollars a month don't walk sideways in the countryside? Those small landlords can't make so much money! Building a house to beg for a wife, isn't it an easy task?

Surprisingly, the notice said that girls can also apply for the exam, but the condition is that they cannot bind their feet, and those who have already bound their feet must put their feet on their feet. The poor in the countryside even have a problem with eating, and many girls don't bind their feet. Most of the people who bind their feet are people who have two acres of thin land at home, and they want their daughters to marry a rich family in the future.

When the girls who had already bound their feet heard that the technical school was enrolled, they forced the adults to let them go under the guise of making money to support their families. The allure of six yuan a month is too great, and it is stamped with the official seal of the Military Advisory Office and the Patrol Embassy Office, so can it be fake? Chai Dongliang has always been in Anhui and Jiangxi to erect the image for himself, which has played a huge role, and the people's trust in the political axe is extremely high.

For the sake of six yuan, the girl must be allowed to let go of the footcloth, otherwise the school will not accept it! And the students who graduated from the new-style school are not willing to ask for a wife with small feet. If the child wants to marry a good family, he must also untie the footcloth. The Anhui Military Advisory Office has been implementing the prohibition of women's foot binding, but the effect is not good, I did not expect the popularity of the technical school, but indirectly let the bad habit of foot binding decline, which can be regarded as an unexpected joy.

In the small courtyard of the Wu family in Anqing, Wu Xingzhou, Wu Jintang and his son pricked up their ears to listen to the movement in the backyard, and finally heard Wu Meiqi laugh, and the hearts of the two of them relaxed. Wu Xingzhou glared at his son viciously: "Your sister is fine now, count your fate, otherwise I will beat you to death with a crutch!" ”

Wu Jintang kept silent with a bitter face.

In a room in the inner house, the red candle is still on. This is Wu Meiqi's room, she is sitting at the table, holding a book in her hand, and looking at it without a match. Mo Xiaolian took a copper chisel and picked out the dragon and phoenix red candle that had burned more than half of it, and the originally dim room was lit up again.

"You see the red candle bursting a happy flower, there must be something good!" Mo Xiaolian looked back at Wu Meiqi and smiled.

Wu Meiqi carefully folded a corner on the Qianlong version of the "Stone Record" loaded online, slowly closed the page and said, "What other happy events can there be now?" You also believe the nonsense of those village fools! ”

Mo Xiaolian smiled and said: "Your family is really good, our first electric light company in Anhui is your family, and it actually pulls the gate at night and does not use electric lights to light candles!" ”

Wu Meiqi smiled bitterly: "Originally, I didn't light candles, but after my father came, he said that he was afraid that the wires would catch fire at night, so he turned on the candles as soon as it was dark." ”

Mo Xiaolian covered her mouth and snickered, measured Wu Meiqi's waist with her hand, shook her head and said, "The King of Chu has a thin waist, if you go back to ancient times, you will definitely be able to be a princess." If you don't eat for a few days, do you want to slim down your waist a little more? ”

"I'm not unusual!" Wu Meiqi pouted.

Mo Xiaolian poked her forehead with her finger and said, "Yes, you are not uncommon to be a princess, and you are ready to be the wife of the governor." ”

Wu Meiqi feigned annoyance: "You still make fun of me? See if I don't tear your mouth! ”

The two chased each other around the table, and the laughter spread from the backyard to the front yard, and the hearts of the Wu family father and son were let go into their stomachs. Wu Jintang saw that his sister hadn't eaten or drunk for a few days, so he had to ask Mo Xiaolian to help persuade him, and it was often inconvenient for men to talk about girls, even if they were close relatives.

After chasing a few laps, Wu Meiqi's face suddenly turned pale, cold sweat broke out on her forehead, and she sat on the ground with weak legs and feet. ”

Wu Jintang rushed into the backyard with one arrow step, Wu Xingzhou hurried to the backyard with a cane, and saw Wu Meiqi's teeth clenched and her head covered with sweat.

"Go get a doctor!" Wu Xingzhou knocked on the ground with a cane and shouted, and then kept shouting Wu Meiqi's name: "Child, wake up, I'm your father, open your eyes and look at me!" ”

Mo Xiaolian remembered a little medical knowledge she had learned when she was in a girls' middle school, turned Wu Meiqi's eyelids to look at her pupils, and then pressed her chest, and after a while, Wu Meiqi finally opened her eyes weakly.

"Kid, you're scared to death!" Wu Xingzhou was in tears.

"Daddy!" Wu Meiqi cried loudly, hugging her father's neck and not letting go.

There is a medical hall near Wu's house, the doctor hurried over with a medicine box, and saw that Wu Meiqi had woken up, Wu Jintang breathed a sigh of relief, the doctor looked at the tongue coating, touched the pulse again, and said with a smile: "It's okay, Ling Qianjin is just a little weak, I have a fairy prescription here, and I will definitely be cured after drinking three days." ”

"Please prescribe a prescription."

"You don't have to open the recipe, you can hear it clearly! Half two japonica rice, two bowls of water, two green onions and half a spoon of vinegar, simmer into half a bowl over low heat, and drink it for three days to keep safe??? Leave! ”

After a while, Wu Jintang chased out the door and shouted, "Sir, the consultation fee has not been given to you yet!" ”

"Sister Ling is not sick at all, she is hungry! Since I am not sick, what kind of consultation fee do I receive? You can only drink porridge within three days, and don't use supplements such as ginseng! Young people are vigorous and healthy, and ginseng is nothing less than intestinal poison! The doctor walked away with his hands behind his back.

After Wu Meiqi cried loudly for a while, the depression in her heart was opened, and she felt much better, and the stuffiness in her chest that couldn't go up and down seemed to be much more relaxed. The next person went to boil the gruel according to the doctor's instructions, and after Wu Meiqi drank a bowl, her face gradually turned colored.

Mo Xiaolian sighed and said, "If that person knew that you had fainted just now, I don't know what kind of distress I would become!" ”

Wu Meiqi sighed: "Will he care about my life or death?" ”

Mo Xiaolian smiled slyly: "I saw that person yesterday, he looked at a pool of koi fish in a daze, hey, one is secretly crying here, and the other is sad there, what a pair of hard-working mandarin ducks!" ”

Wu Meiqi's eyes suddenly brightened, and her two eyes flickered, as if she wanted to say something.

Seeing the two girls talking to each other, Wu Xingzhou tugged on Wu Jintang's sleeve, pulled him outside, and glared: "Something without eyesight, this is what you should listen to as an old man?" ”

Wu Jintang couldn't cry or laugh, he had become a punching bag in the past two days, and two of his father's three sentences were scolding.

"You go and send a telegram to Yu Qiaqing in Shanghai, asking him to come to Anqing quickly, and it is best to invite Mr. Zhang Binglin to come over." Wu Xingzhou instructed in a low voice.

"What do you ask Uncle Yu to do? Why do you even want Mr. Zhang Taiyan? Wu Jintang was full of confusion.

Wu Xingzhou unceremoniously knocked a crisp sound on his head with his cane: "You're stupid!" What kind of identity is the governor, he doesn't come to propose, let's find a matchmaker ourselves! Du Du and Tao Chengzhang are sworn brothers, Mr. Zhang Taiyan is a revolutionary predecessor, moral articles are admired by the world, he is an old man with high morality and Tao Chengzhang is half a teacher and half a friend, it is impossible for him not to give face! Look at your sister's appearance, if this family business is not successful, will she still have a life? ”

Wu Jintang woke up like a dream and said: "I'm going to send a telegram to Uncle Yu, and I must ask him to invite Mr. Zhang Taiyan!" ”

"If you can't do this little thing, you will die outside for me!" Wu Xingzhou snorted angrily.

There was a scolding outside the house, but Wu Meiqi's laughter came from inside the house, and the sixteen-year-old girl was as pure as spring water, and her joy, anger and sorrow were written on her face.

"Hehe, an inch of acacia and an inch of gray, that person looked at the bloody handkerchief, and his face changed color in a hurry!" Mo Xiaolian quipped.

"Then why didn't he come to see me? Still don't have me in my heart! Wu Meiqi's heart was sweet and sad, and even she didn't know which emotion had the upper hand.

Mo Xiaolian snorted and said, "Who is to blame?" What business do you have to do with him? Is this something you're up to? Since ancient times, women are in charge of the house, men are outside, he is the governor of Anhui, the hero of the anti-Qing revolution, the most taboo for this kind of person is that women interfere in politics, you are guilty of a big taboo??? Fortunately, he is a person who values love and righteousness, if he changes me, he will never pay attention to you again, and let you regret dying at home alone! ”

Wu Meiqi said nervously: "I know it's wrong, I didn't mean it, it's my brother who has to ask me to help him talk, I also said it casually, I didn't expect him to be really annoyed." ”

"Know it's wrong?"

"Got it!"

"I know it's wrong, why don't you go to him to make amends?"

"How's that going to work? Is it good that people are girls, and they don't let him laugh to death? ”

Mo Xiaolian was about to leave: "Then I don't care about your business, don't regret it in the future!" ”

"I'll go, I can't go!" Wu Meiqi hurriedly grabbed her: "You also allow me to change my clothes and clean up, now I look like a ghost, I'm afraid he will dislike it." ”

Mo Xiaolian has been scaring her, and seeing that she is really anxious, she can't help but laugh: "He saw your disgraced appearance, and it was too late to feel distressed, where would he dislike it?" ”

Wu Meiqi came to her senses at this time, twisted Mo Xiaolian's ears and said, "You two joined forces to bully me." ”

Mo Xiaolian hurriedly begged for mercy: "Young grandma, the little one knows that he is wrong, you have a lot of adults." ”

Wu Meiqi puffed up her chest and said proudly: "You know you're afraid? Do you dare next time? ”

Mo Xiaolian pretended to be pitiful and said, "Don't dare, beg the young grandmother to spare her life." ”

Wu Meiqi let go of her hand, and Mo Xiaolian looked at her chest and laughed again.

"What are you laughing at?" Wu Meiqi wondered.

Mo Xiaolian first jumped back and kept a safe distance from Wu Meiqi, and then smiled: "When I pressed your chest just now, I found that you are really big there!" Older than Mary Ann from our Wuhu Girls' School! ”

Wu Meiqi blushed suddenly, and spitted: "You little hooves, your skin is itchy, right?" I'm not ashamed! ”

Mo Xiaolian chuckled and said, "What's so shameful about this? When I was a child, I grew up in the countryside, where women gave birth to babies and nursed them on the side of the road, which only you young ladies who grew up in the city squirmed. ”

Wu Meiqi suddenly remembered that day she was teased by Chai Dongliang, his big hand was stroking while saying things that made people blush, now she is ashamed to think about it, she seems to be enchanted, so let him be wanton and light. He almost took away his virginity.

He seemed to be particularly obsessed with his plump breasts, as if he couldn't touch them enough from beginning to end.

At that moment, he was such an amorous gentleman, and his love words made his heart drift to the clouds, but the next moment, he was so ruthless??? I have never been said so seriously in my life, and I have never been kicked out.

What a ruthless thief!

"What do you think? Thinking about the sweet times you both? Mo Xiaolian quipped.

The so-called prophetic prescience is often synonymous with mistakes, Mo Xiaolian's joke, but it happened to say Wu Meiqi's heart, she felt as if she had been stripped naked from the exhibition, and her ears were red with shame.

"That ruthless thief, told Mo Xiaolian about the events of that day? It's over, won't she be able to raise her head in front of her for the rest of her life? ”

Thinking of this, Wu Meiqi jumped on the bed and covered her head with her life.

Mo Xiaolian was shocked, she exclaimed: "Come on, it's not good!" ”

Wu Meiqi hurriedly said: "Don't shout, don't shout, I'm fine!" ”

"It's okay, what are you doing hiding under the covers?"

"Little mercy, we're good sisters, aren't we?"

"yes!"

Wu Meiqi gritted her teeth and whispered: "You must not tell others what happened to me and him that day." ”

Mo Xiao was pitiful for a moment, and suddenly realized: "You and him? Oh, what did you do that day that you couldn't see people, hurry up and summon it! ”

Wu Meiqi woke up to the fact that she didn't know anything at all, and she said that she had leaked her mouth!

(To be continued)