At three o'clock in the morning, the old ladies lined up and set off, went to the north and south of the official road, and went to the fork in the road, and the east and west teams embarked on the journey. Mrs. Niu and Mrs. Hua are in two teams, and Grandma Wang is not at ease, so she must follow to take a look.

Finally ushered in the day when the counties of Leping Mansion were in full bloom, Dong Xiaoying sat on the ox cart, thinking about how many orders she could bring back today, thinking that she would finally settle down and have her own home, and she was in a good mood to fly, entered the county, and when she arrived outside the restaurant, Dong Xiaoying smiled into a flower.

After sending goods to the restaurant teahouse, Dong Xiaoying sent the egg tarts she brought to Sister Zhang and bought a white cotton cloth, and the fabric of our work clothes must be unified.

The men in Fenggu Town were also busy, Fang Mingyuan led people to set up signs on the official road outside the town, and the three tung paint in Fenggu Town were written in large characters, and an arrow below pointed to the town.

Descending from the official road to the west, wooden stakes were driven on the south side of the road, and wooden planks were attached to them to separate the places that were to be used for the construction of schools at the back.

The boards are painted with black lacquer, and when the chalk is made, you can write on the boards. Yesterday, the master came and told Fang Mingyuan that Xiucai has the responsibility to teach his neighbors, so teach it!

In the future, every time there is a large set, a few words will be written on the wooden board, so that the children at home can teach people to read, and the people who rush to the market will watch it back and forth several times. Six times a month, stupid people can learn to recognize a few words.

The north of the road is painted with lime, like a modern parking lot, but it is marked here to allow everyone to set up stalls in a proper manner.

Then there are the official shops, and on the outer wall of the outermost shop, a simple map is drawn, where can we set up stalls, where we want to build schools, where are the private territories of the residents of our town, and where we can't go, all of them are marked, so that people who come to the market don't wander around.

Importantly, there are arrows pointing in the direction of the barn and the latrine.

The oven that has been burned overnight in the new oven is ready to be officially put into use today, but the big shopkeeper Mrs. Niu is not there, and Dong Xiaoying, who can make a decision, has not come back, so the daughters-in-law have to wait.

They are very nervous, and today they can know whether they will succeed or not, whether they will go into the baking room to be pastry chefs, or continue to apprentice, beat eggs, and wait for Aunt Niu to come back and announce it!

Dong Xiaoying, who went to Leping City, came back first, but she was not in a hurry to announce the results, since she let Mrs. Niu take care of the personnel, she could not overstep her authority.

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, let's move the butter boiling things in first!" Dong Xiaoying commanded, and explained to her sister-in-law and younger siblings with a smile.

"My sister-in-law, my second sister-in-law did the hardest work, refining the most essential ingredients in milk. It's hard to get butter out of milk! Moreover, we need butter very much, so we have to cooperate with them and don't bother, so that they can do it as soon as possible and save more butter for us. ”

The daughters-in-law had nothing to say, and they knew from the beginning that they were each practicing their own work, and there was nothing to envy.

Dong Xiaoying led everyone to set up the table, the table was arranged in an L-shape, took out the baking tray from the oven, turned right and put it on the table, picked out the pastry, turned the empty mold and pushed it to the table facing the oven, the apprentice who beat the eggs put the batter into the mold, and the master picked up the cake mold and turned around and sent it to the oven.

The northwest corner of the oven is used as a butter room, and there is only one oven on the west wall outside the butter room, which is used to bake egg tarts. Mrs. Niu's thoughts, Fang Minghui guarded the baked egg tarts outside the butter room, and helped the two sisters-in-law watch the door by the way.

Under the windows on either side of the door, there were long tables with sticks on top of the wooden piers, and on top of them was a wooden plate. The bottom of the bamboo cake box has been placed on the rotating wooden plate, and the oil paper with round hollow lace is cut on, which is the workbench for decorating cakes.

At present, the utilization rate of the workbench is very low, and only Zhao's sister-in-law and Fang Mingcai's daughter-in-law can stand here.

There is a row of log piers in the middle of the room, which is used for everyone to rest, and there is no time to make benches at present, so make do with the piers!

Mrs. Niu entered the town and walked all the way to see it, okay! This is our home, and it is to be cleaned up decently.

In the distance, the sound of the children collectively reciting poems came from the distance, "On the afternoon of hoeing day, sweat drops of grass go down to the soil, who knows that the food on the plate is hard!" ”

Mrs. Niu, Mrs. Jin, and Mrs. Li glanced at each other, and the smiles on their faces became loving. They couldn't tell why they were so excited, but when they heard the children studying, they felt that it was the most beautiful sound in the world.

Walking into the gate of the village, the children finished the last recitation and shouted: "Little girl, we can all carry it, can we eat cakes?" ”

Fang Yue shouted to his brother: "Brother, it's time for afternoon tea." ”

Mrs. Niu smiled and said, "Look, how can you make the whole scene?" It's also afternoon tea, we've lived most of our lives, and it's the first time I've heard that there is such a meal. ”

Jin Pozi said: "Let the babies eat!" Endorsement is tired of the brain, and it is necessary to make up for the brain. ”

Mrs. Li laughed and said: "Feelings, the two children of the Mingyuan family are all afternoon tea to replenish the brain?" Don't fool yourself, our baby, you give him monkey brains, it's still stupid and breathable. ”

Dong Xiaoying stood outside the new baking room and shouted: "Old lady, hurry! Waiting for you to announce your employment! ”

The roasting room was close to the south wall at the back, and Mrs. Niu asked Mrs. Jin to bolt the ox cart, and walked briskly and shouted at Dong Xiaoying: "You have announced!" What are you waiting for me to do! ”

Dong Xiaoying smiled and shook her head, you are the supervisor, let's listen to your arrangement.

Mrs. Niu smiled and shouted: This is coming! Are you waiting?

Mrs. Jin pulled Mrs. Li: "Don't wonder what the baby eats, let's hurry up to the meeting, listen to what to say, what happened to your daughter-in-law?" ”

Mrs. Li whispered: "I'll tell you, my daughter-in-law there is a big heart, and she wants to learn how to bake cakes and decorate flowers, and she wants to win both jobs!" ”

"I fancy it!" Mrs. Jin patted Mrs. Li, "Mingshan's daughter-in-law also wants to learn to decorate flowers, but her hands can't do it, I persuaded her, she is not a meticulous person, let's not worry about embroidery on the cake." ”

The two laughed and entered the big baking room, and Mrs. Niu read it seriously with a notebook. Dong Xiaoying is very convinced of Mrs. Niu's notepad, no matter who you are, don't try to understand what is drawn on it, the confidentiality work is absolutely in place.

"It's all good, officially become a master, the salary is different, mushroom cake is given to five wen a catty, and egg rolls are fifteen wen a catty. The cake blank is baked for thirty wen, no matter how big you bake it, it is thirty wen, don't quarrel with me, saying that you used to divide it equally with the decorating master.

There are only three masters who bake cake blanks, and the master who decorates the flowers will use twelve, and three people will provide twelve. ”

Mrs. Niu turned a page and began to read at the messy patterns on it:

"The masters of baking mushroom cakes and flower roll cakes, Mingxiang daughter-in-law, Mingwu daughter-in-law, Mingguang daughter-in-law, Mingyao daughter-in-law, came to get a pocket, take the form and find your oven."

"There are those who bake cake blanks, Mingshan daughter-in-law, Mingzhang daughter-in-law, Da Biaozi daughter-in-law, go to the collar and put it on, hurry up and work with the form, we have to use the cake blank in many places."

"There are all daughters-in-law, Mingcai's daughter-in-law goes to lead the pocket, hurry up and get the form to work, there is nothing to do with the two of you here, Mingchang daughter-in-law, Mingtong daughter-in-law, Changlu daughter-in-law, Changjin daughter-in-law, Changye daughter-in-law, Pinzhang daughter-in-law, received the master's things, go and practice framing, one by one, stupid, and the piping is not for you to kill, what are your hands shaking?"

Mrs. Niu squinted at the rest of the people, "I can beat eggs and milk clearly, I have a number in my heart, and when a new style is created, whoever learns it first will give her a pocket and a paper for counting, and let her be a master." ”

"Minghui and Changkun's daughter-in-law are the masters of roasting new styles of egg tarts, you all have a chance, let's prepare ......"

Dong Xiaoying hurriedly said: "I'm ready to make red bean cake similar to a wedding cake." ”

Mrs. Niu nodded, "Yes, red bean cake!" It is called joy cake to the outside world. "Add some braised red beans, it's not as big as a mushroom cake when baked, and the price is 30 yuan a pound more expensive, I'm very happy!

"Oh, don't talk about this, Mingxian daughter-in-law! You take a few people to help the babies, not to burn charcoal, but to make the soap we wash our hands, Mingyuan will teach you when he comes back, and it will be sold for money in the future! ”

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the patriarch suddenly rang the gong, without any mental preparation, in the newly built canteen, Fang Mingyuan was wearing a Confucian robe, standing on the podium and bowing to the villagers under the stage, about to start lecturing.

"What is this for?" Mrs. Niu asked in a low voice.

The patriarch reprimanded: "It's not okay to talk to each other, listen carefully, from now on, we will start school, and the whole village will learn." ”

What to learn? How old are you and how studious you are!

Fang Mingyuan pointed to the brand-new blackboard and told everyone: "Starting from the hundred family names, every day the old ladies come back, let's start lecturing, a stick of incense and a class, I finished the Chinese class, and the next thing is the money string called mathematics, which is to teach everyone to settle accounts." ”

Today, I only learn to know four words, Zhao Qian, Sun Li, and I will write it when I recognize it.

A stick of incense lasted a little more than forty minutes, Fang Mingyuan only stood on the podium for less than ten minutes, what is there to say about the four words, they are all surnames, there are these four surnames in our village, look at the blackboard, take the branches and learn some on the ground.

The next thing is to teach arithmetic with money strings, put out the calculation chips, draw horizontal and vertical lines on the blackboard, addition and subtraction within 20, and I was stunned that I didn't teach the old ladies to calculate in one class.

Dong Xiaoying pulled Fang Mingyuan and whispered: "If you use copper plates to teach, do you think the old ladies will do it?" The old lady calculates her own commission, and a few taels of silver are counted. ”