As soon as these words came out, everyone present showed a look of surprise.

As long as they could make better farming tools, it would be impossible for them to scatter this iron ore. After all, how important good farming tools are to farming can be imagined by anyone with a little brain.

The people regard food as the sky, and the community as the most important, and no one will make a fool of themselves in this regard.

And all the people were in good spirits.

Next, the masters will talk about the work carried out this year.

Yu Jingze felt bored after listening for a while, and yawned, "I'm a little tired, go and rest for a while, and you can find me at any time when you have any." ”

With that, he stood up and staggered away.

Yuan Ning didn't leave, listening to a few people outside talking about the people's livelihood in Tianqing County, listening very carefully, and occasionally putting forward a few opinions and suggestions of his own.

This "forum" lasted for an hour and a half before it came to an end.

Several masters got up first to leave, and Nan Chuan walked at the end and said softly: "Young lady, it's best not to show people those drawings of yours casually." ”

Yuan Ning smiled: "Don't worry, Heting also reminded me before, I will pay more attention." ”

Nanchuan nodded, said no more, walked a few steps quickly, and left the hall.

Yuan Ning sat in place for a while, then got up and went back to the inner house.

She hadn't been out in a while......

turned out the previous men's clothes, compared them, and they were a lot shorter, so I had to find Aunt Zhang and ask her to help change the clothes.

Aunt Zhang was surprised: "Mrs., what do you want to ......?"

"My current identity is a little embarrassing," Yuan Ning spread his hands, "I am biased, some things can't be done without me." Thinking about it, it's safer to show people in men's clothes. "At least it's not that glamorous.

Aunt Zhang can understand this, "Then you might as well change your grandfather's clothes." These clothes are too thin and small, and there are too many things that need to be changed, for fear that you will be delayed. ”

"That's right!" Yuan Ning was inspired, got up and went to the suitcase, and turned over Su Heting's two sets of clothes, both of which were unpretentious.

Su Heting is taller than her, and his shoulders are also broader.

But this is not difficult for Aunt Zhang, but she changed a set of clothes in an hour, and let Yuan Ning try it on her body, which is very suitable, so she continued to change another set.

Changing his clothes here, Fang Yan brought four girls over, two twelve or thirteen years old, and two seven or eight years old.

Yuan Ning looked over, and the four little girls looked timid, standing there with their hands and feet tied, and they didn't dare to raise their heads.

However, judging from the body shape, they are all from poor backgrounds, and they are all thin hemp rods.

Yuan Ning asked a few questions, and these girls, no matter how big or small, are good at work. Especially the two big ones, the strength is not small, and the sewing and mending are also very good, and the things in the kitchen can also be grasped.

Yuan Ning nodded, basically satisfied: "Do you have a name?" ”

The girls looked at each other and lowered their heads again, and one of them, a twelve-or thirteen-year-old, whispered, "We don't have names, and the house is called Niel or something." My family felt that they couldn't afford to live anymore, so they remembered to sell me for food. ”

The other three, one was sold for money in order to marry his brother's daughter-in-law, and the other two were all purely family members who did not want to support a female doll.

Fang Yan was used to seeing similar things, his expression was almost numb, and he stood aside with his hands down, without saying a word.

Yuan Ning couldn't help but sigh, her own experience told her that the ancient society was far from being as peaceful as modern people imagined, and the countryside people were not as simple as they imagined.

Under the surface of pure kindness, ignorance, selfishness and cruelty are often hidden.

In the eyes of most countrymen, girls are not even human. They can be laborers who can be exploited at will, they can be exchanged for money, they can be tools for inheritance, and they can be objects of venting emotions......

But she also doesn't have those overflowing empathies.

Being at the bottom, you must have the consciousness of being at the bottom, either by relying on your hands to change the living environment, or seizing the opportunity to get out of the predicament, but if you complain because of this, or feel that others owe you, you deserve to be at the bottom.

Although Fang Yan had already considered the selection of these four people, Yuan Ning still said with a straight face: "I will leave all four of you for the time being, but in the end, whether you can stay in this courtyard for a long time is not certain." ”

Fang Yan glanced at the four girls, "Don't you kowtow to our wife?" ”

The four girls all secretly looked at Yuan Ning, and when they saw that she was neatly dressed and had a strict bearing, they knew that she was not an ordinary person, but they didn't expect that she would already be a "wife" at such a young age.

It's just that they didn't dare to slack off, so they hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed.

Yuan Ning moved his body, although he was still not used to kneeling and bowing, he did not let them be exempted, which can be regarded as following the customs.

After all, if she was exempted from kneeling, she would look out of place in this era.

Aunt Zhang led the four little girls to bathe and change their clothes, and Fang Yan took the deed of the four people, "Young grandma, you can take a look, you can keep these for the time being, if you think which one is not good, you have to send it away, and I will send it to the tooth store again." ”

Yuan Ning nodded. Fang Yan took not only the deeds of these four girls, but also their simple resumes and specialties.

There were no clothes suitable for them at home, so Aunt Zhang took her and Aunt Luo's clothes for them to replace temporarily.

And Yuan Ning also asked people to pull the cloth back from the shop, no more, no less, just enough for each of them to have two sets of clothes.

Cloth and needlework were given to them, and the style of the garments was given, and they were allowed to sew by themselves.

The two big ones are named: green fruit and green pol, and the two small ones are red leaves and red silk.

Qingguo and Qingluo can be cut, but the red leaves and red silk can't, so the two big ones help to do the cutting, and the two small ones sew by themselves.

Aunt Zhang quietly observed and said to Yuan Ning: "It seems that they are all down-to-earth and willing to work." ”

Yuan Ning was noncommittal, "Let's watch first." ”

After roughly cutting the clothes, the four girls came out to find something to do, Qingguo took the red leaves into the kitchen, and Qingluo and Hongxuan cleaned up the house and cleaned up.

After school, Bo Zhong and the others came back and found that there were suddenly four more little girls in the house, and they were all stunned.

Yuan Ning smiled: "Didn't I tell you before?" There are not enough people in the family, this is the maid that Fang Yan bought back.

"You don't have to be arrogant, but you also don't have to be arrogant, you see?"

Shu Yu's eyes rolled, "What does the eldest sister mean that we can call them, but we can't treat them as inappropriate?" ”

Zhong Ling silently added: "I can't give them habitual problems. ”

Yuan Ning smiled, "That's what you mean." You must know that when they come to our house to do things, they are paid for their work, and it is natural for them to exchange their labor for wages.

"But insulting or even beating someone, or being suppressed by someone else, is a defect in our own self-cultivation."