Chapter 57: The Plan
Shiro has been happy lately, she has found that she has not made a mistake, and that the kind gentleman has really fulfilled his promise.
In a rare way for this slum settlement, the slum settlement was erected and the stonemasons and carpenters who had previously been dismissive of the city gathered to build houses for them.
It was four large houses with bedrooms, bathhouses, and even a drainage ditch dug to bring water from the Blue River, so you didn't have to travel far to fetch water.
They didn't have any resentment about this, after all, Bai didn't have the luxury of expecting everyone to have a house, not to mention, not only a house, but also plenty of food, and new clothes, although they needed to start working now and help the workshop build the infrastructure, but also had a daily salary.
The kind gentleman made good on his promise and gave the monster hybrids a much better life than before, they didn't even have to stay up late or have to travel.
Thinking of this, Shiro felt like she was going to cry.
But she didn't cry, she still had things to do, and Mr. Kind told her that she had to learn a lot today.
Many, many things, the last few days, the gentleman took care of those things during the day, and at night came to her and to school, to teach them literacy, and to do arithmetic.
He said that he taught these people to himself, and then they taught the adults who had to work, and everyone had to learn so that they could earn more money later.
Although some people have doubts about this, and some people even say to Mr. What is the use of studying, it is better to do more work and get paid if you have time to study, but Bai knows that what Mr. said is right.
When she made a bag inquiry, she knew the importance of literacy, the illiterate ones earned a lot less than the literate ones, she also had a little bit of self-learning foundation before, she was self-taught in the market, those writing clerks or occasionally some guests did not mind teaching her two words, every time she would memorize it well, go back to practice for a long time, for fear of forgetting, because I don't know when I can learn again.
But now it's different.
Thinking of this, she took the expensive books and studied more seriously.
This settlement has gradually stepped into the right track, although the monster hybrids are not clear about the situation, but at least they will not live up to the good intentions, some of them still have doubts about Lu En, but suspicion is suspicion, at least one thing is beyond doubt, that is, the gentleman must have no ill will towards them.
"Xiaobai, the book you bought, and the clerk you invited came, didn't you say that this was ordered by the gentleman? Hurry up and go. At this time, a monster hybrids shouted outside.
It was a former monster mother, although she was not so glamorous, but this person was still doing nothing, and did not go out to work.
But Mr. doesn't seem to mind this, so there are still a lot of monster hybrids waiting for alms, anyway, they all have food, and the good old man doesn't care, they are happy to eat and wait for death, but it is still possible to help pass the message, as now.
Bai immediately stood up, thanked the monster lady first, and then ran outside quickly.
Outside, a horse-drawn cart was pulling a lot of books, and a bookstore clerk was waiting there in a horse-drawn carriage.
Seeing that Bai was coming, he also got out of the carriage.
"Welcome to patronize, this time you have ordered a total of fifty-five textbooks, thirty early childhood books, the money has been paid before, so I sent the books over, in addition, you also ordered the clerk service, my name is Kesto, I am a clerk." The bookstore clerk who came said politely, and didn't show any other expression because of the monster hybrid here.
The person who came was none other than Caesto in the bookstore that day, and the clerk couldn't help but look around in amazement.
While greeting him in business terms, at the same time, Kesto looked at this place with some surprise, he thought that this place was dirty, all of them were the rumored, lowly and vicious monsters, or monster girls who scratched their heads, but after arriving here, they found that this place was unexpectedly clean, a construction was in full swing, and it was a very cute little girl who came to greet him.
Although judging from the other party's white hair, there is no doubt that she is also a monster hybrid, but ...... Compared with the monster girls I saw in the red light district in the past, she was a little unusual, and she was-
There is a kind of vigor and vitality, which is invisible to those monster girls, every time he passes by the red light district and sees those monster girls standing on the street, he feels that the other party is just a walking corpse, and his eyes are dull.
But the monsters here are mixed, whether it is the one who led the way for him before, whether it is those who are working outside to cut down trees and smash stones, and the little girl who greets him in front of him, there is no such dead air.
Throwing these thoughts out of his head, Kesto immediately took out a piece of paper: "Then please sign it here, according to the market price, the price of hiring a scribe is 100,000 words and three Xingfeng silver coins, but I am a clerk, so my price is slightly more expensive, seven silver coins, and you need to bear the cost of pens, paper and ink, if it is not to transcribe books, but to let me write something new, then I will charge according to what I want to write." ”
It's strange what the situation is, but the money still has to be earned, and Caysto is not prepared to work for a day.
"Well, please come here, we need to transcribe a lot of literacy books, and we don't need to create our own, but you know...... If you buy it all, the price will be a little unacceptable. Bai nodded, these things were arranged before, and although there was a lot of money, Mr. had instructed that it was necessary for everyone to learn to read.
It's a pity that the books for literacy are too expensive, it should be said that no matter what the book is, the price is very high, this carriage of books cost more than 300 gold coins, more than the cost of building the entire settlement, you must know that there are hundreds of people here, and the daily food cost is only two or three gold coins, which is enough for hundreds of people to eat for a day.
So it was more common to buy paper directly and copy it by copying, and she was going to copy it herself, but she was illiterate, and the amount was too great, so she had to hire a clerk to do it.
The two men were talking as the carriage drove in.
What they didn't see was that on the other side of the road, the old man looked at the carriage and the clerk who walked in, and was a little surprised: "Are you going to teach these monsters to read?" What do you think, Mr. Lucian? ”
"What? Can't you read a monster hybrid? Lu En asked back with a smile.