So Li Qingzhi asked the students in advance if they wanted to go home.

If you want to go home, you can go home, wait for half a month, and come back to school after the New Year.

As for those who don't want to go home, they can also spend the New Year at school, he won't starve them, and of course they have to help with some work.

In the end, five girls and nineteen boys remained, and the rest went home.

The children left behind are basically homeless, and it's normal that there are more men than women.

If an accident happens to her parents, the girl may be taken away as a child bride, and her relatives are willing to support her - let her work at home, give her food as she pleases, and raise her until she is fifteen or sixteen years old, and she can receive a bride price to marry her, which is very cost-effective for ordinary people at this time.

Boys are different, half the eldest eats the poor, and unless there is a shortage of people in the family to do farm work, or a lack of sons, otherwise...... What are you raising for?

Among the boys left behind this time, one was kicked out of the house by the stepmother, If he is a woman, he should not be kicked out of the house, of course, the end will not be good, then the stepmother will most likely find someone to marry her out for the sake of high dowry.

The five hundred students that Li Qing took in were all very thin, and the two dozen or so left in front of him were even more black and thin.

Several of them have white spots on their faces, which are characteristic of a lot of roundworms growing in their stomachs, as for their hair......

Li Qingzhi felt that if they grabbed their hair casually with their hands, they should be able to catch a bunch of lice.

In fact, when he first crossed over, the original owner also had lice on his body, Jin Xiaoye also had it, Li Damao and Li Ermao did not, and the two of them have always been bald.

Later, he paid great attention to hygiene, and gradually the lice disappeared.

It's not easy to raise these people well.

Li Qing insisted on finding a doctor to buy some black plum pills to cure ascariasis for his students.

As for lice...... At that time, the male students in the school will have shaved their heads, and the female students will use the grate to comb more.

In the end, it's a teenage girl, and he doesn't want people to shave their heads.

The students who were going home left early in the morning, and Li Qingzhi chatted with the remaining students.

Among those five girls, there was Ah Yue, the first girl he recruited into the school.

Ah Yue is still the best-looking among the five girls.

As for the remaining four, one is a beggar with a big scar on his face, another was kicked out of the house with his brother, and the last two are a pair of sisters who have lost their father.

The nineteen boys also have all kinds of situations, some of them have passed away, some of them were beggars before, and some of them were kicked out of the house by their parents after they broke their arms in an accident...... It's miserable anyway.

There were also only seven or eight years old inside, who lied about his age and said that he was ten years old, Li Qing insisted on seeing him pitiful, so he left people behind.

He can't save everyone, but when he sees it, he still has to help.

Of course, these people will also be going to help him in the future.

Li Qingzhi directly asked the nineteen boys to shave their heads, and then asked them to boil water and take a bath.

Those girls don't have to shave their heads, but they have to wash their baths.

Li Qingzhi also said: "You guys take a good bath, and when it's time to eat, I'll call you." ”

After saying that, Li Qingzhi went back to his house not far away.

He and Jin Xiaoye have already started to move.

At the Golden Leaf Embroidery Workshop, the furniture and beds they used were still very new, so they all moved over, and tonight, they will sleep here.

Approaching the Chinese New Year, Li Damao and they don't have to go to school anymore, and when Li Qingzhi went back, the two children were helping to carry firewood and were very energetic.

Chang Zhan is also here, making lunch.

Seeing Li Qingzhi, he laughed: "Mr. Li, Juewei Zhai is close to here, and I can come back to cook every day at noon in the future." ”

"Then I'll trouble you," Li Qing insisted, "When the time comes, you can go to the academy and pick a few people to be your apprentices." ”

As soon as his primary school opened, he was already worried about the employment of those people......

"Okay." Chang Zhan agreed.

He does plan to take in some apprentices and teach them the craft of cooking, so that in the future they can cook at the Li family or go to the Golden Leaf Embroidery Workshop to cook, so that he can save some things, and those apprentices will have a craft that can support their families.

Li Qingzhi and Chang Zhan made some more rice, steamed some salted fish, and cooked a big pot of kelp tofu soup for the students who stayed.

On the other side, the two dozen or so children had finished their showers, the female students were combing their hair with a grate, and the male students were playfully touching their hair.

They say they have shaved heads, but in fact their hair is not completely shaved...... There are no haircutting tools these days, and it is a bit dangerous to shave your head with a razor blade.

So Li Qingzhi actually used scissors to cut off their hair at the roots, so that they could take a head of the hair.

"It's nice to be able to eat every day."

"The gentleman even sent us a new quilt...... It's the first time I've covered a quilt so warm. ”

"It's just that the hair is gone, and I'm a little unaccustomed to it."

"I used to like to catch lice and eat them, but now I can't."

……

While they were talking, Li Qing came over and called them to eat.

A group of people immediately followed, and they became more cautious. At this time, people had never gone to school, and they had no concept of rules or anything, but as ordinary people, they were used to bowing their heads.

In this regard, Li Qingzhi was also quite helpless...... It can only be taught slowly.

Li Qingzhi took them to the courtyard where they lived, gave each of them a large pottery bowl and told them to serve the rice according to their own amount, and scooped a large spoonful of tofu soup for each of them, and gave them a piece of salted fish.

After the division was completed, Li Qing insisted: "I don't have tables and chairs here, you can go back to the cafeteria to eat." ”

The people were still a little stunned, and a male student stammered and asked, "...... first Sir, is this really for us to eat? ”

"I'll give you food, you can eat quickly, and you have to work in the afternoon." Li Qing said with a smile.

The students left in a daze, holding their jobs.

They have white rice in their bowls, freshly cooked, hot tofu soup, and salted fish!

They are all homeless children who used to not even have a hot meal, such a meal...... They don't know how long it has been since they eaten.

A group of people returned to the cafeteria, and the people who used to want to stuff all the food into their stomachs when they saw it were a little reluctant to eat it for a while.

A girl said: "Alain shouldn't go back, if she stays, she can eat so well, if she goes back, she may not be able to eat enough." ”

The girl's Alain is one of the schoolgirls in the school.

When her father went to the county town to carry goods for people, he fell into the river and disappeared, and her mother remarried, and she began to live with her uncle's family.

At her uncle's house, she had to work every day, not to mention, and she couldn't eat enough.

She is only eleven years old, thin and small, and it is impossible for her to marry out for a bride price for the time being, and her uncle will look at her unpleasantly.

Going to the school to study can not only save a ration for the family, but if she goes to work in the gold leaf embroidery workshop in the future, she will still get paid...... Her uncle sent her over.

After the girl spoke, the others mentioned people they knew.

If their friends knew they could eat so well if they stayed, they would definitely stay!

Mr. Li is also very good!

Most people felt the same way, but only one boy said, "He gave us enough food to work." ”

This male student is the elder brother of one of the five female students, named Liu Daniu.

After his father died two years ago, his uncle took over his land and kicked him, his sister and his mother out.

His mother took him and his sister with a tenant farmer, who was good to his mother, but he and his sister were always unpleasant, and they were scolded for eating more than one bite of food on weekdays.

This time, Li Qingzhi's school recruited students, and the tenant farmers even kicked them out of their homes and let them come here to study.

What to read...... In fact, it is just for them to work.

He had nowhere else to go but to stay, but he was somewhat reluctant in his heart.

Another boy said, "Isn't it the right thing to work?" ”

This boy's name is Zhang Zao, he was kicked out of the house by his stepmother, and after learning from the village chief that Li Qingzhi's school was enrolled, he came over early.

He was very pleased with the school.

He didn't have anything to eat before, and even earthworms were dug up to fill his stomach...... It's great for him to be able to eat enough now with a little work.

Liu Daniu glanced at Zhang Zao: "I'm just telling the truth." ”

Liu Daniu's sister Liu Erya is a little uncomfortable, she thinks it's good to live here, why is her brother not satisfied?

You can eat a full meal here, you don't have to listen to Uncle Wang's scolding, and after she and her brother leave, their mother's life will be better.

Why is her brother still not satisfied?

Although Liu Daniu complained, everyone still ate happily.

On the other side, Li Qingzhi was also eating, and then learned from Jin Xiaoye's mouth that Wu Baichuan had returned from the capital.

However, Jin Xiaoye hadn't seen Wu Baichuan yet, so he didn't know the specific situation on Wu Baichuan's side.

Li Qing insisted: "I'll visit Shopkeeper Wu in the afternoon." ”

Chang Duan must have brought him something, as well as news from the capital, and he also wanted to inquire.

Li Qingzhi ate and went to the school first.

The students had already eaten their meals and were gathering in the cafeteria to talk...... Li Qing insisted on asking if they would be able to cook rice.

Zhang Zao and Liu Daniu both said they would.

"Then in the afternoon, you will go and scoop some rice. Hull the rice first, and then scoop some white rice out. Li Qing was careful

Confess to them.

He had too many students and used a lot of rice.

In these years, it is much more cost-effective to buy rice than to buy white rice, and there are hundreds of catties of rice in the kitchen.

He didn't ask all of these people to be licked, how much they could, and no one was looking at them anyway.

Seeing that these students responded, Li Qingzhi went to Wu's house to find Wu Baichuan.

Wu Baichuan took a shower and was sleeping after returning home, and was a little unhappy when he was woken up by his family, but he heard that Li Qingzhi was here...... He immediately got up from the bed and went to see Li Qingzhi.

The last time he left the capital, although Duan Jin got a restaurant from Gonggong Lu, it was nothing more, but he went to the capital this time......

Duan Jin is in the capital, and he is already so famous!