Whether it is the Shen family or the wooden shopkeeper, his life is flamboyant, he is different, he has been hiding all these years.

But it's not much fun to have a good time...... He doesn't even have a descendant!

If only he could find his niece, who gave birth to a girl and is said to have been taken away by his niece......

That kid shouldn't be small now? You can be his granddaughter!

Qian Fugui agreed with Shen Zhilan on a time to go south, and gave Zhou Dao's true handiwork to Mrs. Shen, and left.

Shen Zhilan wanted to go back to Jiang'an Province for the New Year, so on the tenth day of the lunar month, they would set off from the capital and go to Jiang'an Province.

This year's New Year, he is afraid that he will spend it in Jiang'an Province!

Chapter 173: Lack of money

On the twenty-first day of November, Li Qing got up early.

Today he didn't cook, but went outside, looked for a steamed bun shop to get the steamed buns he asked the steamed bun shop to help make yesterday, and went to the soy milk shop again to buy a bucket of hot soy milk.

In Chongcheng County, soy milk is drunk lightly or salty. Put sugar in soy milk, that's what rich people do.

Sugar is too expensive.

Jin Xiaoye They don't like to drink light, they all like to drink salty soy milk.

The salted soy milk outside would add soy sauce, chopped green onions, minced mustard and fried dough sticks to the soy milk, but when Li Qingzhi took the soy milk home, it was not so hot, so he didn't toss it, only added some soy sauce.

Li Damao and the others didn't care at all, the four children ate with buns in one hand and scooped soy milk with a spoon in the other, and they were very satisfied.

The female workers in the Golden Leaf Embroidery Workshop who were rewarded with steamed buns because they did well yesterday were even more satisfied!

After eating, Li Qingzhi first sent Li Damao and them to the school, and then went to his own school.

His school, he called it Chongcheng Elementary School, and it looked a little bit modern, but it was his school, and he could start it whatever he wanted.

Wait for the future...... This could be the first elementary school in history?

Chongcheng Elementary School has two rows of 20 rooms in each row, with 10 south-facing rooms used as classrooms and 10 north-facing rooms used as dormitories.

That is, they can take 10 classes of girls, plus 10 classes of boys.

But they only have fifteen teachers now, which is a bit insufficient, and Li Qingzhi only plans to recruit seven classes of boys and seven classes of girls, with a tentative number of thirty students in each class...... It's about 200 male students and 200 female students.

In modern times, there are very few students at this point, but in this era, it is definitely a large-scale enrollment!

Of course, before recruiting students, he has to train the teachers of the school and teach those teachers.

When Li Qing arrived at the school, there were a few teachers who were far away from home who had not yet come, so he waited for a while, and after everyone was ready, he took them to print the textbooks first.

They first typeset the first part of the textbook and printed it on paper, and then Li Qingzhi took the paper and gave a lesson to the teachers in the school: "Everyone, in the future, you can teach your students like me." I'll give a demonstration in the first few lessons, and you'll try to do it in the next lessons. ”

He's going to start two days, and he's going to teach these teachers, and then ...... Let these teachers take turns in class, so that he can also see how good these teachers are.

Li Qing is very busy, while training these teachers, he also found four cooks in charge of cooking for his school, and a concierge in charge of guarding.

In the gatehouse, Li Qing insisted on looking for Zhao Laosan, as for the four cooks, they were Jin Xiaogu, Zhao Laosan's wife, Jin Sangshu's wife, and the aunt who accompanied Fang Jinniang to live in Fucheng for a period of time.

This aunt is the wife of the housekeeper of the Zhu family, Li Qingzhi met her when he first went to Fucheng, and later found that her house was quite close to the Golden Leaf Embroidery Workshop, so he had contacts.

The skills of the cooks who cook for the students in the school are not very good, so Li Qingzhi found some related households from relatives.

But there can't be only related households in the school cafeteria, and people like Aunt Jin...... If no one pressed her, she would probably do something speechless, such as stealing food from school and coming home.

Therefore, Li Qingzhi plans to find a person who can take the lead in controlling his subordinates and be responsible for buying vegetables and setting the menu.

He didn't know such a person, so he asked this aunt to recommend a person, but this aunt recommended herself, and Li Qingzhi used her.

This aunt is illiterate, but she used to work in the Zhu family and took care of a lot of people, and later left the Zhu family because of a falling out with the people around Mrs. Zhu because of the affairs of her children...... Running a kitchen is a trivial matter for her.

Li Qing insisted on preparing a little bit, and also cleaned up his new home by the way.

This time the house was newly built, and there were more rooms.

Li Laogen and Zhao Xiaodou don't have to live together anymore, they can live separately, and Chang Zhan and Chang Cui also have their own houses.

As for Li Damao and Li Ermao, they were unwilling to separate, so they continued to live together.

Li Qingzhi planned to move over in the lunar month, and they spent the Chinese New Year in their new home, and at the same time, the recruitment of the Golden Leaf Embroidery Workshop and his school enrollment were also completed in the lunar month.

He's got a lot to do.

Li Qingzhi is very busy, and in Chongcheng County, there are countless people who pay attention to his school.

Among the scholars in Chongcheng County, there are actually some who have always been dissatisfied with Li Qingzhi.

Among these people, there are Hong Hui's friends, as well as Sun Juren's students or relatives.

Although they hated Li Qingzhi before, they couldn't do anything about Li Qingzhi, and now Li Qingzhi opened a so-called "primary school" and accepted female students......

These people criticized Li Qingzhi's "Chongcheng Primary School" as worthless.

The people of Chongcheng County were inevitably affected, and some people who originally planned to send their children to study on Li Qingzhi's side have dispelled the idea of sending their children over.

In this regard, Wang Xianling also specially found Li Qingzhi and asked about the matter.

In fact, in Wang County's opinion, it was completely unnecessary for Li Qingzhi to let his school recruit female students.

Not to mention that doing this will not do Li Qingzhi any good, it will also ruin the reputation of the school, and even affect Li Qingzhi's reputation.

Even though the gold leaf embroidery workshop needs some literate female workers and female stewards...... Why don't you just ask a female gentleman to teach them in the embroidery workshop? Why teach in the school.

Li Qingzhi is not a rumor at all.

Those rumors discouraged some people who had planned to send their children to his side to study...... That's a good thing.

What he wants to recruit are children from poor families, even orphans, and his school can give these people a way out.

Those children who are pampered by their families, they don't have to come to his school.

As for his reputation...... He said from the beginning that he was not a school in the traditional sense, and that he would indeed teach students to read, but those students would work for him in the future!

Therefore, his academy recruits the equivalent of apprentices.

As for recruiting girls...... It will be used by large households

Maid, is it possible to use a maid, this family is not serious?

And for those poor families, it is better for them to send their daughters to study with him than to send their daughters to big families to be maids.

In fact, ordinary people still think so.

In Chongcheng County, some families live well, but there are also many difficult days.

At this time, there was a family in the east of the county.

The family has no land, and on weekdays, the man goes to a large family to do short-term work to carry goods to the dock to earn money, and the woman washes clothes to earn money, and the two live a very tight life.

At this time, they talked about Li Qingzhi's school.

The woman said: "I heard that the school accepts students between the ages of ten and fifteen, and I want the eldest and second to go to school, so that the life of the family can be better." ”

The man said, "Doesn't it mean that the school is not good, and men and women take classes together?" Forget the boss, the second ......"

The eldest of their family is a son, but the second is a girl...... If I go there to study, will I not be able to get married in the future?

"Don't you see those brightly dressed little girls in the Golden Leaf Embroidery Workshop? As long as the second child goes to study, she will be able to enter the Golden Leaf Embroidery Workshop in the future, if you don't let her study, what do you want her to do? Don't think I don't know that your mother has always wanted her to go to Master Wang's house to be a maid! Li Xiucai's school is more serious than Master Wang's family! The woman said.

The man was stunned for a moment, but he also felt reasonable.

In the south of the county seat, a woman who fled the famine and came to Chongcheng County six years ago, and could only do the skin and meat business in order to survive, said to her daughter again: "Ah Yue, wait a few more days, wait a few more days for Li Xiucai's school to start recruiting students, and then you will go alone, don't let people know that I am your mother, and when you get there, you will kneel down and beg him, no matter what, you must go in to study." ”

"Mother's ......" called Ah Yue's little girl to cry.

The woman touched her daughter's dark face: "Ah Yue, when you enter the school, you can wash your face, no, you can wash your face before you go." When the time comes, you see, if there is a good man, choose one to marry...... I don't have to worry about you here, my mother is fine! You just tell people that your parents are gone. ”

When she first came to Chongcheng County six years ago, her daughter was still young, only seven or eight years old. But she has consciously hidden her daughter, and has been wearing torn and dirty clothes and plastering her face all these years.

She is afraid that her daughter will go down the same path as herself.

Now there was an opportunity in front of her...... She wants her daughter to enter the Golden Leaf Embroidery Workshop and be a glamorous embroiderer.

To the west of the county seat, near the wharf.

An old beggar who lived here picked up and raised herself, and a little girl with a scar on her face said: "Little begging for food, I heard that Li Xiucai's school recruits students, and it also includes food and accommodation, you go and try it, if people want you, you don't need to ask for food!" ”

In the north of the county seat, in a dark and damp house where a large family lives for his subordinates, a man said to his skinny son: "Boy, I heard that Li Xiucai's school is going to recruit students, you can go, you will have to live by yourself in the future!" ”

This is true in the county, and it is also true outside the county.

Near Chongcheng County, in a simple shack built, there lives a family.

The man of this family worked as a tenant farmer for a large family to earn a living, and as for the woman...... The woman was much older than the man, and she was a widow in the neighborhood, who had been kicked out by her mother-in-law's house, and had nowhere else to go, so she lived with the man.

She also brought a son and a daughter from her in-laws' house.

The man was not in the slightest dissatisfied with the fact that the woman was older than himself, and as long as there was a woman, he was satisfied, but he was very unaccustomed to the two oil bottles that the woman had brought.

When he got home that day, he said to the woman: "I heard that Li Xiucai has set up a primary school and wants to recruit apprentices, you let your children sign up, don't eat white rice at home all day!" ”

The woman didn't dare not agree, so she could only nod silently.

In a village a little far from the county seat, the village chief walked into a dilapidated house at the head of the village, and said to a young man who was cooking porridge for himself in a clay pot: "Stinky boy, I'll find you a good place to go." ”

"Where is it?" The boy looked at the village chief curiously.

The young man's mother, when she gave birth to his younger brother, disappeared with his younger brother.

His father remarried not long after, and his stepmother was kind to him at first, but then gave birth to two sons in a row, and began to look at him unpleasantly, beating him all day long and scolding him for not giving him food.

His father doesn't care about him, but he doesn't have a son...... Their family had just a little land, and his father wanted to leave the land to his two younger brothers, but he didn't want to give it to him.

He had no choice but to run out of his house, live in a dilapidated house at the head of the village, catch some fish and dig up some wild vegetables to satisfy his stomach.

This boy has always wanted to find a job to do, but how easy is it to find a job? He never found it.

"What kind of primary school is going to be opened at the new wharf, that primary school includes food and housing, you go there to study, and when you read it, you can go to work in Juewei Zhai in the future." The village chief said.

The village chief was a little sympathetic to the child, so he got the news and came to tell him.

His own child was reluctant to be sent to that school, but what did this child say...... It was a good place for him.

"And such a good thing?" The teenager was overjoyed.