There is still a month before the Chinese New Year, so the weather has entered the coldest period at this time, and it is not too hard to work in the fields at this time.

The homeless people have obediently gone to get farm tools, and the people on the clan side are still grinding, except for a few people who went to get farm tools, the rest of the people gathered together to talk, hesitating and refusing to go.

Lin Qingwan didn't urge them, and the people who let Lin Shun write down and those who didn't go, she had a scale in her heart.

Lin Chuan waited outside for a long time, and seeing that the people who went out to work had come back for lunch, Lin Qingwan still didn't show up, and couldn't help pursing his lips and said: "It's useless for us to stand here, it's better to go back to the patriarch first, the patriarch asked us to come, and he has to give us an explanation for this matter." ”

"Yes, go back to the patriarch's uncle, my aunt and grandmother always have to listen to the patriarch's grandfather."

It's no wonder that Lin Run didn't come to Lin Qingwan, but said directly to them: "Your aunt just asked you to work for twenty days and shouted that you were tired, so why didn't you learn a craft from her for nothing?" ”

"Hmph, whether it's studying, farming, or doing business, the first element is perseverance, you are now going to learn a craft, but you don't even want to suffer this little bit of hardship, let me wait how to believe that you can learn this craft well?"

Lin Chuan and the others bowed their heads, and those younger than him were in the back, and he was the leader, so he was the first to be caught by Lin Run.

He was not polite, and took the ring ruler to "pop" and pumped it on him, and said while smoking: "Good and easy work, not filial piety and immorality, they are either younger than you, or lower than you, you can't be a good example, even take them to make trouble with your aunt, say, should you fight?" ”

The patriarch was angry, and Lin Chuan was dissatisfied and didn't dare to show it, so he could only kneel down and listen to the training.

Lin Run slapped him more than a dozen times and then stopped and said, "Take them back to your aunt to plead guilty, and then honestly go to work in the fields for me." ”

Lin Run said with a calm face: "If you really don't want to study, then come back as soon as possible, don't go and cause trouble to others." ”

Most of the crowd immediately dispersed, and they went to the Lin family's courtyard to plead guilty.

Lin Chuan and a dozen others looked at each other, and finally decided to go home first to ask their parents for advice.

As a result, he was beaten out before entering the door, and his parents hated iron and steel: "It's really lacking in heart, do you think a craft is so easy to learn?" How many people have been beaten and called in order to learn a craft, and they have been beaten and called as apprentices? You just gave your aunt twenty days of work for nothing, why can't you? ”

"If you weren't the only son in the family, do you think I would just let you go......"

As a result, Lin Qingwan asked people to come back and say, "It doesn't have to be a boy, it's okay for a girl, it's not easy to make paper, but it's not tiring to say it's tired, and the girls in the family can do it with great perseverance." ”

The people in the clan who are qualified to go are suddenly boiling, some do not hesitate to call their daughters over, and some are unhappy, "The water spilled by the married daughters, won't they take the craftsmanship away when they leave?" That's a clan thing. ”

Lin Qingwan's words were announced directly by Uncle Lao Zhong, and he didn't say anything to Lin Run and the sect elders in advance.

In the winter, everyone had nothing to do, and most of the people gathered in the field to gossip or play, so the word quickly spread throughout Linjiazhuang.

Those who have a spirit and love their daughters immediately go home and go out with an ox cart after hearing this, while those who do not have an ox cart let their sons send their daughters over, and those who do not have sons are asked to send their daughters over, and those who do not have sons are put into battle by their parents themselves.

They were lucky, and when the patriarch said that the homeless people were pitiful, and when we could help a little, there were a few buckets of rice at home.

It's not much, but it's on the list, so they can call someone to learn the craft.

It's just that they only have a daughter in the family, so they are embarrassed to send it, so they wasted this qualification, and now they finally have a chance.

By the time the three sect elders reacted, there were already many people pulling the girl out of the village, and the three of them couldn't help but stomp their feet, "Sister Wan'er, this is nonsense, the craft has been passed on to the girl, can it still be kept?" ”

Lin Run went out to visit friends directly with a jar of wine, and he decided that it was better for him to "talk very happily" with his friends recently, so that he "lingered".

Father and two uncles are not easy to fool, but Sister Wan will not give in easily, no matter what he does in the middle, it is wrong.

And Sister Wan revealed that the straw paper formula will be passed on in the future, since outsiders can learn it, so what's wrong with letting the girls in the clan learn it earlier?

Naturally, these things are hidden from the people in the clan, otherwise they would have made a fuss.

Lin Run shook his head and went out, and there were sixteen new girls in the Lin family's courtyard.

Lin Qingwan remembered that they were girls, so she didn't let them run back and forth every day, but packed up a guest house for them to live in.

She saw that Lin Yubin was in a bad mood recently, so she said to her: "Pack up two sets of old clothes, and you can also go and learn the craft like them, so as not to be depressed alone." ”

The Lu family was thinking that there was instability outside, and the New Year was approaching, so they assigned a bunch of homework to the students very willfully, and then took a long vacation.

After the Lantern Festival, I will go back to class.

Lin Yubin has never been sad about his homework, and it is enough to spare only one hour every day. Recently, she is not in the mood, so she doesn't study by herself, and sits in a daze every day.

Lin Qingwan felt that it was because she was too idle, if people were busy, how could they have time to think about sad things?

And I have seen more people and experienced more, and when I look back, I will find that the big things I think are not a big deal at all.

Some of these sixteen girls are the same generation as Yubin, some are older than her, and naturally there are some younger than her, but they are all of the same age, the older is only fourteen years old, and the younger one is only eleven years old.

Lin Yubin was stunned, "Do they have enough strength?" ”

She knew that there were several steps in papermaking that required a lot of effort.

Lin Qingwan smiled, "Don't underestimate them, they have been doing farm work since they were children, but they are much better than you." ”

She didn't let the girls hoe the ground and bury the manure, but let them take care of the flowers and trees.

The New Year's Festival is coming, the flower market is also beginning to be lively, the other courtyard has planted a lot of flowers this year, plus the Wenyuan side, I dare not say that I dominate the flower market, at least the quantity and quality are among the best.

There was a shortage of manpower, and the arrival of these girls was just right.

The flowers are pruned or transplanted, carried out by the mothers-in-law and loaded into trucks, and then pulled to the flower market to sell.

Lin Yubin changed into half-new clothes, and followed them to squat in the yard to take care of the flowers and trees, but gradually forgot about the Shang family, felt less uncomfortable, and the amount of food was a lot longer.

Lin Qingwan was preparing New Year's gifts, for each family, and for the palace.

She put a pile of white bamboo paper into the box and handed it to Bai Mei, "This box is sent to Beijing, and the other families will change to a smaller box, and you can just pack it." ”

Bai Mei and Bai Feng should go down, hold the box and lock it.

"Auntie, the Southern Expeditionary Army won a great victory, and Zhou Tingshi held a banquet in the Assassin's Mansion and invited all families to the banquet," Steward Lin came in with a post, "This is a post sent to our family." ”

"We haven't been filial yet, just send a gift to the past." Lin Qingwan paused and said, "Fifth brother also received a post there, right?" ”

"Yes, the post to the clan side is separate."

"It's just that he won the first battle, Lu Jing is a genius who leads the troops, and it's too early to celebrate at this time."

Steward Lin smiled, "The Chinese New Year is approaching, and Zhou Tingshi also wants to be festive." ”

"But the soldiers at the border are still fighting bloodily."

There was joy inside and outside Suzhou, everyone stopped their work and seriously prepared for the New Year, and the busiest at this time were the merchants.

The Lin family's courtyard is also very busy, and Zhuangzi is working in full swing inside and outside.

Lin Chuan and the others occasionally saw a scene where a businessman came to buy flowers and trees in the morning, and was surprised by the lively scene, and listened to the quotation of those merchants, and couldn't help but secretly speak, "You can make so much money by planting flowers?" ”

"It seems that the big house is not poor......"

"No matter how poor we are, we won't be poor, that's a branch," someone whispered, "And you think flowers are so easy to grow?" If you don't have some skills, who can grow it? ”

That's the same, there are gardeners in the long house, do they have them?

Looking at the hoe in their hand, they still have to work for others if they want to learn a trade. Several people sighed and resigned themselves to carrying their hoes to work.

Lin Qingwan did not separate the clansmen and the displaced people, they all worked in the same field, and the words they heard from the displaced people were:

"Yesterday I saw a long-term worker going up the mountain to dig a pit, it seems that he wants to plant bamboo, let's go and help after work in the evening."

"Okay, I just don't know if Aunt Lin is willing to let us help."

"I learned a craft from her, if I can't help a little more, I'm really sorry."

"I have heard the story of Lin Gong since I was a child, but I have never seen it, and I thought it was nonsense from the elders, how can there be such a virtuous person in this world, but now I know that Aunt Lin and Grandma Lin are actually my villain."

"Yes, Aunt Lin and Grandma Lin are so kind and capable, and their ancestors are definitely not bad."

"The Lin family is a great good person, I heard that we can stay in Suzhou because Patriarch Lin persuaded the major families."

……

The children of the clan who worked with them were both proud and embarrassed, proud that the Lin clan in their mouth was their own clan, embarrassed by their previous behavior, and the gratitude of the displaced people made them very ungrateful.

Approaching the Chinese New Year, the originally impetuous people's hearts gradually settled down, and both the homeless people and the children of the clan slowly adapted to the work in the field, working hard every day like a competition.

Steward Lin looked satisfied, what Grandma said was really right, it was indeed much better to let the homeless people and the children of the clan work together.

As long as the clan children are prevented from oppressing the displaced people from happening at the beginning. However, Steward Lin didn't have a chance to make a move, because even if this group of children who were sent over were not convinced by Lin Qingwan, they were still very kind-hearted, and even if they were lazy, they would not oppress the homeless people to help them work.

On the contrary, they are very sympathetic to the homeless, and sometimes they will help the skinny teenager when he sees it difficult to drag the cart.

Seeing their performance like this, even Lin Qingwan was relieved, she was really afraid that what she was teaching was not human.