From the Oiran of the teaching workshop to the concubine of the civil official, how big the change is, Qiao Zhier has been prepared on the road.

Li Kui swaggered through the market and let her ride a horse, and Li Kui, who was a four-grade civil official, also led the horse to bring Qiao Zhi'er home, which shows that Li Kui attaches great importance to her, and even loves her.

She even secretly made a decision in her heart full of vitality, she must let Li Kui be fascinated by her, the poor daughter of the grassroots homeless family, to counterattack the daughter of the Taishi Mansion and reach the peak of her life.

But before that, she needs to lie dormant and not let people see her ambitions.

"Slave, I've seen the master's mother."

In the back house, the identity of the wife cannot be provoked, and it is an absolute authority. In the eunuchs' homes, the authority of the wife is more majestic than the queen in the palace. There is no such thing as a male owner pampering a concubine, which can challenge the status of the main wife. After all, in the harem, the queen may not be able to deal with even a concubine, but in the backhouse, this kind of thing will never happen.

After all, the empress's maiden family really had no deterrent effect on the emperor.

But the right wife and mother's family are not fake.

Liu Qingqian didn't care what Qiao Zhi'er thought in her heart, it didn't matter. The important thing is that she finally has one more person to train. Looking at Qiao Zhi'er's gaze, he suddenly softened a lot, and seemed to have great expectations.

The concubine bought by 20,000 yuan can't be broken.

What about the Oiran lady, there is a way that a generation of new people replace the old, and the Oiran lady is only a few years of hard work, and the short one is even only one or two years, and then everyone will be wiped out and disappear without a trace. But the identity of the concubine of the Taishi Mansion, the emperor's sister-in-law, this is a noble daughter for a lifetime, and she is not allowed to challenge it at all.

Qiao Zhi'er lowered her head, her eyebrows were lowered, as if she had just entered the teaching workshop, was reprimanded by the female officials, and did not dare to come out.

Liu Qingqian nodded with satisfaction: "What's your name?" ”

"Pretty branches." As soon as Qiao Zhi'er finished speaking, she realized that this name was inappropriate, she was now the concubine of the Li family, and she had to use a serious name.

Sure enough, after Liu Qingqian heard it, he frowned slightly and said, "This lowly flower name can't be called in the future." ”

"The slave family used to be surnamed Hua, called Hua Yuerong. Women are the joy of those who please themselves. ”

"Why does that sound like a flower name?"

The flower name is the stage name, and it is the name used by the Kabuki of the Church Boy. And a large part of this name is related to her characteristics, the name Qiao Zhi'er, first of all, is pretty, which shows that she looks outstanding, and Zhi'er has the meaning of superiority. But this name is a flower name after all, and it is definitely not suitable for the back house.

"This name is not good, change 'Yue' to 'Yue', and it will be used!" Liu Qingqian didn't bother to think of a name for Qiao Zhi'er, so she simply changed the word 'Yue', which had an obvious smell of wind and dust, to 'Yue'.

Qiao Zhi'er was aggrieved in her heart, why is this name not good?

She thought it was good.

Fortunately, Liu Qingqian did not delve into Qiao Zhi'er's name, but changed her expression, and even had a sense of demagogy, and said to Qiao Zhi'er: "Yuerong, do you have ideals?" ”

Ideal?

What is an ideal?

Liu Qingqian explained: "It's that if no one restricts you anymore, and you don't be controlled and enslaved, do you have anything you particularly want to do?" ”

Conspiracy, surely a conspiracy?

According to the painful experience of the seniors in the workshop, Qiao Zhier immediately felt the deep malice from Liu Qingqian. How can a noble housewife be so kind to a concubine from a lowly background. She must want to bully people, and she must not say what she thinks in her heart, otherwise she should be bullied to the point that she should not be in a desperate situation and that the earth is not spiritual.

However, her backer is Li Kui.

And after Li Kui took her home, he disappeared.

Without a backer, Qiao Zhi'er is only a seventeen-year-old woman after all. Even growing up in a quagmire-like and treacherous environment like a teaching workshop has long since lost its innocence.

But she also had fantasies, not the fantasies of a girl, but the thoughts after breaking free from the cage.

She wants to be in business and be a self-supporting woman.

With a hint of anticipation, Qiao Zhi'er cautiously tentatively said: "Back to the master's mother, the slave family thought about being a merchant before. ”

"What kind of businessman?"

"Open shop!"

Liu Qingqian said in disgust: "Be an old bustard? ”

Qiao Zhi'er hurriedly shook her head and said, "Master, it's a rouge shop." "For the old bustard, Qiao Zhi'er hates it so much, how can it be possible to take the old bustard as the target of lofty ideals? Of course, this is also the skill of how to please men that she has received since she was a young woman from a young school. When she finds that business is not so easy to do, she will eventually select a few beautiful female babies, and after careful training, she will be promoted to an old bustard at the age of a half-old.

Of course, there is a premise for this, when she is young, she must save enough money, enough money to redeem herself.

Fortunately, Qiao Zhi'er no longer has this problem, and she has successfully escaped from the magic cave of the teaching workshop. But her situation is not very good, and there seems to be a danger of 'just out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's mouth'.

"Doing business!" Liu Qingqian seemed to be quite interested, so she smiled and helped Qiao Zhi'er up from the ground. smiled: "This is easy, our Li family has too much business, and we can't manage it at all, if there is someone around me who can make the master believe to take care of part of the business, it is also good." ”

Qiao Zhi'er raised her head, looked at Liu Qingqian in disbelief, and said speechlessly: "Mastermother, you agreed?" ”

"Stupid words, this is a good thing, why should I refuse?" Liu Qingqian is as gentle as the sunshine of spring, infecting the people around her. Qiao Zhier even has a kind of loyalty to Liu Qingqian that she wants to dig out her heart and lungs.

But she didn't see it at all, Zhang Zhenniang and Nie Cuicui on the side shuddered violently, thinking of the days when they were dominated by Liu Qingqian's terror. I can't help but mourn silently for Qiaozhi'er, this stupid child, why is his heart so sincere?

Isn't it good to eat and wait for death?

Why can't you think about it?

As for why Zhang Zhenniang and Nie Cuicui decided that Qiao Zhi'er couldn't think about it, the reason was soon revealed. Liu Qingqian drew a big cake for Qiao Zhi'er, and raised her hand to make a big gesture: "But you don't know how to do business, there are many ways to do business, you have to study hard." If you finish learning, I'll call the shots for you, and I'll give you 20,000 guan to practice first. ”

What a family!

To practice your hands, use 20,000 to practice your hands?

What if you lose it?

The price of Qiaozhi'er's redemption is only so much!

Thinking of this, Qiao Zhi'er panicked for no reason, and said timidly: "Master, the slave family can't afford to pay!" ”

"Doing business is to make money and lose money, and if you lose money, you will lose money, how can there be any winning general." Liu Qingqian didn't care about it, she also remembered that Li Kui went to Yishui County to sell ginseng, thinking that he could sell it at a high price, and he was not worth a few dollars, so she chuckled. And the delivery was still from the pharmacy of her third brother-in-law's house. Even Li Kui will pit himself when he does business, let alone Qiaozhi'er?

Qiao Zhi'er didn't dare to respond, she suddenly found that she was narrow-minded, compared to the concubine of the Taishi Mansion, she was simply a frog at the bottom of the well.

Liu Qingqian opened her mouth lightly and said: "If you lose, you will lose." ”

But Qiaozhi'er was so heartbroken that she was about to suffocate. Isn't that she hasn't lost money yet? There was already a pain of not being able to breathe, as if someone had stabbed her in the heart with a knife. If she really loses 20,000 yuan, I'm afraid she will even have the heart to think.

However, Liu Qingqian can't take the liberty of handing over 20,000 yuan to Qiao Zhi'er like this. As a novice in the business world, Qiao Zhier needs to learn, and training is Liu Qingqian's strength. Although she has never succeeded in training talents, there are many people who have done it, but unfortunately they all ended in failure. Finally, a newcomer came, and being idle was idle, what if the training was successful?

But Qiaozhi'er is still stupid, and she doesn't know what she has to face. firmly believes that Liu Qingqian is for her good, especially in order not to lose money, even if she is playing with her life, she has to learn the skills of business.

So, after introducing the back house of Fuchu and arranging a house.

Qiaozhi'er began her study career.

On the first day of teaching, Liu Qingqian asked Qiao Zhi'er very cautiously: "Are you literate?" ”

The Oiran lady is illiterate, how can she charm the literati and make a name for her? Qiao Zhier is literate and very good at learning. At least it's a lot better than ordinary academy students, of course, she doesn't need to understand these strategies, and she can't learn them, but her skills in poetry and song are very solid.

"I've read a few books." Qiao Zhi'er didn't dare to say that it was full, but the confidence between her eyebrows betrayed her heart.

Liu Qingqian said with satisfaction: "Very good! ”

The rest of the lecture was very easy. Learn the numbers first, Tianzhu numbers from one to nine, which is not difficult to do. Soon, Qiao Zhi'er showed extraordinary talent and was able to draw inferences from others, and could easily count to a hundred, or a thousand.

When Li Kui returned home after letting go of the government, Qiao Zhi'er showed off her learning achievements to Li Kui, and also took notes carefully.

Li Kui's face was a little strange, Liu Qingqian was his disciple, and he was limited to arithmetic. But Li Kui taught Liu Qingqian more than just arithmetic. He handed over all the mathematical knowledge he could think of to Liu Qingqian.

There are many more disciplines that can be extended, such as bookkeeping, statistics, and so on.

Although they are all furs, these furs are estimated to have to hit the wall painfully if a student who studies arithmetic in Taixue comes to learn. Li Kui wanted to ask Qiao Zhi'er: "Who gave the confidence to say simple?" ”

But he didn't say that he still had to maintain the happy atmosphere of the back house. coughed, hiding his suspicions about Qiaozhi'er, and encouraged: "Then study hard." ”

Qiao Zhi'er nodded vigorously, her face was full of longing, and the innocence of wandering in the ocean of knowledge made Li Kui want to laugh when she looked at it.

"The housewife is so good, she also said that in the future, when I finish learning, she will give me 20,000 yuan to practice." The pretty branches chirped happily like birds in the forest in the early morning, unaware of the approaching danger.

20,000 is not a large amount for Li Kui. In fact, after he cooperated with Cai Jing, he found that money rushed into his home like a big flood, and he didn't spend money just to earn money, so he wouldn't be a miser.

Li Kui immediately said: "It doesn't matter if you lose, it's important to accumulate experience." Know how to grow through failure. ”

Qiao Zhi'er also said: "The housemother said that in the future, you can't use the stage name Qiao Zhi'er at home, you have to use a big name, my name is Hua Yuerong." ”

This name is quite nice, Li Kui smiled: "It's okay, you just like it." ”

It's night.

Li Kui asked Liu Qingqian curiously: "You don't still want to train a female shopkeeper, do you?" ”

"What? Reluctant? ”

Li Kui dared to refuse, and immediately said that it was all up to his wife.

And Liu Qingqian also drove Li Kui away from the room, and said angrily: "Go and accompany your beautiful girl, it's annoying to look at you." ”

In the next few days, Hua Yuerong felt the pressure. Of course, she is more motivated, because whenever she wants to be discouraged, Liu Qingqian will always encourage her: "Only when you eat hard can you become a master!" Think about the hardships you endured when you were a child, can you compare it with now? ”

Hua Yuerong recalled the scene of practicing dance, piano, and literacy and reading when she was a child, with tears in her eyes, the good days had just begun, how could she live up to her sister's kindness?

During the meal, Hua Yuerong was doing her homework, and late at night, she was still doing her homework.

Li Kui woke up and found that Hua Yuerong was muttering with her fingers crossed, her eyes were already sleepy, and she didn't forget to do the question.

The topic is that chickens and rabbits are in the same cage, with thirty heads and one hundred feet. Chicken geometry? Solve the problem in two different ways.

Li Kui put down Hua Yuerong's homework book and mourned for this unlucky girl for three minutes. I just learned to count, ninety-nine tables, and immediately jumped to the fifth grade of primary school, this girl is stupid to think she is stupid......

In the past, Liu Qingqian was always abused by Li Kui with this kind of topic, but he didn't expect that none of the women in the backyard of the old Li family could escape.

As for Zhang Zhenniang and Nie Cuicui...... gave up, not that Zhang Zhenniang and Nie Cuicui wanted to give up, but that Liu Qingqian gave up, it was too stupid, and the stupid Liu Qingqian wanted to hit the wall.

And Liu Qingqian likes to be like Qiaozhier, a simple child who is high-spirited but doesn't know the danger, listening to a good word, is as happy as eating honey.

Not to mention that the training of the Li family's back house is in full swing.

A big event also happened in the Great Song Dynasty.

The output of hemp steel in half a year exceeded 50,000 stones. Hemp steel is the name of the primary carbon steel of the Great Song Dynasty, and it has nothing to do with the special material hemp steel of later generations. This material can be used directly to make armor without the need for tedious refining and forging.

This is an achievement that brings tears to the eyes of all the iron prison officials.

Zheng Qi, the iron supervisor who was so happy, gave the emperor a piece of music and enthusiastically told the emperor Zhao Xu the great news. The emperor was greatly surprised, and asked Zhang Dian to accompany him to inspect the iron prison.

Li Kui, as the boss of the iron supervisor, had to wait for the arrival of the emperor and his party in the iron supervision workshop.

During this period, he also complained to Zheng Qi dissatisfiedly: "Lord Zheng, is it appropriate to alarm the official family if there is a big matter?" ”

Zheng Qi's eyes widened, and he reacted violently to Li Kui's words: "Fifty thousand stones in half a year!" In previous years, it was impossible to do 10,000 stones in a year, but now it is 50,000 stones in half a year, and 100,000 stones in a year. No, even 150,000 stones, do you know what that means, Lord Li? Zheng Qi feels that with more effort, he will be able to increase the output of hemp steel to a new level.

"Aren't you iron supervisors able to produce a million stones of steel a year? That's not a lot! Li Kui was a little disdainful of Zheng Qi's fuss, and the previous failure of research on high-range artillery made Zheng Qi very faceless for a while. Of course, the high firing range is not too far, the firing range of three miles, but unfortunately the cannon cast by the iron supervisor can only hit half.

Zheng Qi muttered, "Lord Li, can this be the same?" A million stones of steel, less than 10,000 stones of hemp steel. All the good materials were used in the armor, and it was not enough. But do you know what's going on now? As long as I am given three years, the Great Song Dynasty has 800,000 forbidden troops, and I can prepare a set of armor for each soldier. ”

"You can pull it down, do you know how much a set of step armor weighs?"

"It's less than sixty pounds."

"Less than sixty pounds? Add a big gun, an infantryman's long knife, or a bow and crossbow and a quiver, and you will get about eighty pounds. If a soldier wears such a turtle shell, after an hour of fighting, he is a pile of rotten meat, and he can't move, how can he fight? ”

Li Kui has a deep grudge against the heavy infantry, which tests the physical fitness of soldiers too much, and ordinary soldiers can't bear it at all. In addition, Song Jin was originally a big catty, one catty is equivalent to one catty and three taels in later generations, wearing such heavy armor, the two armies will not fight for half a day, and if you can stand and not lie down, you are a man who fights with iron.

Zheng Qi said aggrievedly: "But the output of hemp steel is so large, you can't make kitchen knives, right?" ”