Jiang Yan patted him on the shoulder, and said indifferently: "The private school has been built, and these things are not bad, and the private school is almost finished, so it is better to take advantage of these few days, you can also count the specific children who want to study in the private school." ”

Qiao Le nodded, this time is the time of farming, and the children don't have to go to the field, so there are many people who come to the yard to read, and there are people of different ages, but there may not be many children who actually want to go to private schools to study at that time.

It is time to take advantage of this time to test the children's foundation, and then divide the classes according to their grades.

"The children have been writing on the mud with sticks, you see the yard at home, the ground was compacted before, and now it is softened by the children, so the reward is to prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone."

"Even if each child is rewarded with a set of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, they are reluctant to use it, and the pen and ink can be used for a longer time, but the paper is not used, and the children are only practicing calligraphy now."

Jiang Yan nodded, what Qiao Le said was true, the people in the village who have surplus food are now willing to send their children to school, because they have not really understood the cost of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and they want to buy a set, gritted their teeth and can accept it, and they have to buy it repeatedly every once in a while, but they are afraid that the children will drop out of school and go home to hoe the ground in the middle of reading.

Jiang Yan pondered for a few seconds, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

In ancient times, there was a sand table to practice words, and the existing water wrote stones.

"The problem of paper is easy to solve, you can find the lame uncle in the village to customize a batch of sand tables, not too big, boxy enough for children to write a few words, each square plate with a purse, which is filled with some fine sand or fine mud, and the children can spread it evenly when they practice calligraphy."

"But this method can only be practiced with a wooden stick or fingers, if you want to use a brush to practice words, you can burn a batch of smooth slate in the kiln, dip a little water to practice with a brush, but the slate will be heavier, inconvenient to carry."

After Qiao Le listened, he instantly had a prototype in his mind, he had heard of the sand table, but the conditions at home since he was a child were okay, and he had not used it, "I know how to do the sand table, I will draw it in a while, if the slate is not easy to carry, it can be placed directly on the desk, and the children can use it in class." ”

The two hit it off, Qiao Le immediately notified the children, and Jiang Yan also bypassed the upright little body one by one and followed the village chief outside.

The two walked to the private school at the entrance of the village, and the women who were idle on weekdays had to gather at the entrance of the village to gossip, and now the private school was built not far from the entrance of the village, and they also changed their positions, and they all gathered under a big tree not far from the private school.

"Hey, this time is different from the past, today's Aunt Jiang is terrible, the family uses servants, envy."

"That's it, oh! That house, though not yet built! But it's a big deal! Have you been there? That's even more magnanimous than the landlord's house. ”

"In the past, people were poor and ate wild vegetables, but now the rich eat white rice every day, my family just went to help build a house, and ate brown rice at noon every day, with meat and vegetables, and when he came home at night, he couldn't swallow the coarse grains at home!"

"Who says it's not, it's a pity, I also want to help, it's late, I didn't recruit me, otherwise I would have had a good meal at noon."

"What are we planting in our fields...... The peppers, I see they're all red, aren't they ripe......"

“……”

Listening to the women's discussions, and thinking about the chili peppers, Jiang Yan also had a plan in her heart, and the chili peppers in the field were almost all picked.

The private school in the village is not far from the entrance of the village, it is built in the open space behind the big tree, Lao Chu specially divided twenty people, two months, the house from the foundation to the playground required by Jiang Yan has been built, and now the hanging beam is about to be capped.

"This house is going to be on the beam in the next two days, and the road in the village is also finishing, this Shangliang wine I and Li Zheng are looking for Mr. to choose an auspicious day, just the day after tomorrow, and the main beam of your house, I have found it in Liujia Village, and I will let someone transport it to you tomorrow."

Jiang Yan nodded, she didn't know much about the custom of hanging beams in the village, and she had very little knowledge of this in her original memory, and she bought ready-made modern suites directly in the city in the original world houses.

But the village chief has been paying attention to this matter since the day of the start of work, not only the main beam of the private school he is looking around, but even the head of his own village is also helping to find it.

The material of the main beam is more exquisite than Jiang Yan imagined, she thought that she could use the ready-made wood directly up the mountain, but she didn't expect the village chief to say that the beams and beams of the house need to be completely dried and processed old wood, and new wood cannot be used.

For them, the upper beam is related to the safety of the whole family and the stability of the feng shui pattern, so the beam is also very particular, and it is necessary to use good cedar.

Because the fir grain is straight, the ground is tight, the corrosion resistance and compression resistance are very stable, not easy to be eaten by insects, and it is difficult to deform for thousands of years, it is undoubtedly the best choice to be used as the main beam.

In the entire Linjia Village, there are only a few from Uncle Cripple, but it is only enough for the private school, so the village chief went around several villages and found the main beam for Jiang Yan in other villages.

"Village Chief, when will our village private school be on the beam? Do you want to do Shangliang wine and house wine in the village? ”

"That's right, our village has a lot of money now, and this kind of big thing can't be saved by the village chief."

A few women who followed over sent a message to the village chief, although they did not pay taxes today, and everyone had surplus food in their hands, but no one was willing to eat more, so they looked forward to a good meal on the day of Shangliang in the private school.

The village chief waved his hand to a few people, his face was indeed full of wrinkles with a smile, and said to Jiang Yan: "I am looking for you today to discuss this matter, and you will find someone to help on the day of the beam in your house. ”

The private school is public, and it is not appropriate to put it in the house for wine, since Jiang Yan's house was changed together with the private school, there is no need to be extravagant and wasteful.

Jiang Yan nodded, she knew that the wine in the house was often called housewarming wine, and the wine was made when the family moved to a new home after the new house was built, one was to celebrate the completion of the new house and the joy of housewarming, and the other was to sacrifice to the ancestors of the gods in order to bless them.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yan smiled and said: "Since the village chief has found someone to calculate the auspicious day, then set the wine according to the day you set, and I will pay for the wine on Shangliang on this day, there are many people in the village, and I don't know how many tables to order, I will let Sanniang discuss with you later." ”

In addition to the people in the village, the construction team who helped had to celebrate together, Jiang Yan thought that it was similar to the flowing water banquet in the village, since the village chief thought about her, she simply bore the cost of the banquet, anyway, if the village chief didn't talk about it, later in the future, she would have to set up a hanging beam wine.

(End of chapter)