It rained and rained and kept falling.

The already heavy mulberry leaves are wet, and they become even heavier. In addition, she had to bring a hat to wear a robe, Dong Wanniang carried a heavy bamboo basket on her back, and felt that her feet were swaying. The mountain roads are already slippery, and there are a lot of people walking these days. Dong Wanniang didn't step on it steadily, so she slipped and fell.

When she returned to the village silkworm breeding place with the dirty mulberry leaves on her back, the blood clot on the wound on her head looked as if it was oozing blood. Others looked at this situation with palpitations, Hu Da was a soldier all over his body and had received training in wound treatment, so he treated Dong Wanniang's wounds. Seeing Dong Wanniang crying for a while, she put away her crying again, and even her hurt mood was put away by her. At this time, Hu Daquan felt that he couldn't turn a blind eye.

In the army, when you are wounded, you must not scream, but hold back. Everyone is fighting, and the wounded are screaming nearby, which only affects the will to fight. Although Dong Wanniang did not receive such training and education, she showed such qualities. So Hu Daquan called Dong Wanniang's stepmother to the office, and he said to the woman who was about thirty years old: "Dong family lady, I saw your aunt fall today, I don't think a child of her age is not able to do such heavy work." I think you are working so hard, not just to earn more money to support your family. ”

When the lady of the Dong family heard this, her eyes became sharp. Hu Daquan already had a clear feeling in his heart, so he continued to talk about himself. "Lady of the Dong family, I think your family might as well go to the county's silk reeling factory to get an errand. The silk reeling factory in the county was repaired at the expense of the government, and now there is a shortage of people. The steward over there is my old comrade-in-arms, and he can be relied on. When you get there, you mother and daughter can have an errand, and your income is higher than that of raising silkworms at home. ”

"Thank you, Village Chief Hu. We didn't want to leave the village. The lady of the Dong family said.

No one wants to leave their hometown, and Hu Daquan can understand this problem. He took out a job profile and handed it to the lady of the Dong family, "Take it back and take a look, although you don't become a public family member when you go to work in the silk reeling factory, at least you have an errand in the public family." As far as I know, I can make a few dollars a month over there. It doesn't look like much here, but it's not a small amount of accumulation in a year. Now they are all unwilling to go like you, so there is no limit to recruiting people over there. Just like when I was a soldier, everyone refused to go, so the recruitment was more relaxed. But after being a soldier in the past few years, you can become a public family, you see what it looks like to be a soldier. ”

Regarding Hu Daquan's words, the Dong family lady did not answer immediately. Even if Hu Daquan is right, being a soldier now is really extremely difficult, and that is Hu Daquan's business. The lady of the Dong family took the introduction and left.

Hu Daquan felt that his kindness was in place, so he didn't think about it anymore. His attention was devoted to continuing to raise food during the rainy season. In the past, no one dared to do this, and the result of feeding silkworms with rain-soaked mulberry leaves must have been very bad. However, under the new treatment mode, although the mulberry leaves are relatively humid, the silkworms do not get sick after eating, and continue to grow. The villagers felt that this was a blessing from God, but Hu Daquan felt that this 'God' was undoubtedly Zhao Jiaren, the Son of Heaven. Heaven has existed for thousands of years, and every year a large number of silkworms raised by the people get sick and die. Only by adopting the technology provided by Zhao Guanjia can this problem be reluctantly solved, and this credit cannot be counted on God's account in any way.

Two days later, when Hu Daquan finally put his mind at ease, the lady of the Dong family came with her brother. After coming, the lady of the Dong family put the recruitment notice in front of Hu Daquan and asked the fifth article, "Village Chief Hu, in this fifth article, it says that workers with children can let their children go to school in the silk reeling factory." Is this true? ”

Hu Daquan didn't pay special attention to this issue, and when the Dong family lady said this, he picked up the profile and read it carefully, and then said: "Since it is written on the profile, it should be true." Zhao Guanjia's favorite thing is to teach us to read and write, and to teach us to read. Before I became a soldier, I didn't know a few big words, but after I became a soldier, I also learned hundreds of words in my stomach. That was before, and it should be better now. ”

Hearing Hu Daquan take himself as an example, the elder brother of the Dong family said: "May I ask Village Chief Hu, what is taught in this school?" The Four Books and Five Classics are still a system. ”

"Well, I don't know. According to the habits of the Zhao official family, it should be a science school. I have never heard of him running a school for the imperial examination in so many years. ”

A few days later, the lady of the Dong family came to Hu Daquan again, asked him to write a letter of recommendation, and went to the county. Looking at Dong Wanniang, whose wound on her head had completely scabbed, Hu Daquan said: "When you get to the county, you will work hard, and you will go to school when you should go to school." It was a factory run by Zhao Guan's family, and Zhao Guan's family liked educated people. ”

In fact, this has nothing to do with who Zhao Guan's family likes, the reason why he explained this is because Hu Daquan wanted Dong Wanniang to do what she could and not do errands that she couldn't afford. But thinking of this, it is likely to be understood as accusing the stepmother of the Dong family. So I can only change this statement to encourage Dong Wanniang to be motivated. After the Dong family's lady raised a question, Hu Daquan read the whole introduction again, and this time after reading it, he found that the factory not only provides learning for the children of employees, but also provides night school education for employees. If she can go to school, Dong Wanniang can also have some of her own abilities.

After the Dong family left, Hu Daquan felt that his responsibility had been fulfilled and quickly put the matter behind him. After the rainy season is over, the scorching sun shines brightly on the land again. Because the public side continues to provide freshly hatched silkworm seeds, the work of raising silkworms has never stopped. The heavy physical labor is repeated day after day, and it goes on and on.

When he collected money for the first few times, Hu Daquan was still very excited, he had never seen so much money. He can also imagine how to spend money with happiness. Later, after he received the money, he tiredly put it away and hid it. Being able to sleep well and relieve the soreness of the body is Hu Daquan's greatest expectation.

As the days passed, the summer of sweating and hard work finally passed, and the golden autumn festival arrived. In addition to harvesting grain, mulberry trees no longer grow, and the errand of raising silkworms has finally ended.

At this time, Hu Daquan received the latest order. A supply and marketing cooperative was established in the village to sell products to the village on a regular basis. Looking at the order, Hu Daquan felt that this was no different from an ordinary walking businessman. Until he saw one of the items above.