Traveling through time as a peasant girl to turn things around

The next day, Ye Heng went to the North Courtyard and asked Jia Le, where are they training? Jia Le: In the woods to the west. They usually live in tents when they don't go out. They are building a house now. Ye Heng: Take me to see it? Jia Le: Okay, let's go. It took them more than an hour to walk there. Seeing the children training hard, they said, "Eat well. Are there any children with poor qualifications?" Jia Le said, "Yes, but the children are working very hard." Ye Heng: After each training, we will eliminate some of them and only accept those with good martial arts skills. Let's accept 80%, and give the 20% to Guo Guo. Jia Le: "Okay." It will be arranged tomorrow.

The next day, Ye Heng watched the entire process. "Not bad." Ye Heng: "Take me, the one who was eliminated." Two hundred children burst into tears. Ye Heng: "Don't cry, you're learning well, and you'll be very useful in the future. Let's go." The children, carrying their belongings, followed Ye Heng to the Chai residence. Little Tuanzi, seeing how young the children were, the oldest only eleven or twelve, said, "I want them all. All of them will go to school with me." She asked Wang Min to get out their clothes and change them into new, cotton ones. The children immediately felt warmer. She lowered her head. Still, she felt sad that she had been eliminated. Chen Jun examined the children one by one. They all had some issues, so he sent them to the north courtyard. Chen Jun examined them one by one. He said, "Rest first and get well." The children refused to obey. Guoguo looked at Ye Heng and said, "How come you've taught these children so little to talk?" Ye Heng: "That's how they're trained. No talking required, just doing your job well." Little Tuanzi: "It's so hard!" Years later, she understood the reality.

A few days later, little Tuanzi started school, carrying his bunny schoolbag, along with a host of new arrivals—the younger children from the north courtyard arrived first. Ye Heng wrote a letter, asking the secret guards to find a teacher to come to Taohua Village. He thought the eliminated children would learn some knowledge, and those who survived would also need to learn literature. From now on, it would not be enough to just know martial arts without knowledge; both civil and military skills would be needed. Ye Heng stayed there for half a month before leaving. Guoguo sent him to the county, and then they parted ways. Jiale took Guoguo home.

The four beauties came along, and Guoguo had them continue to teach martial arts to the 200 children. They studied literature in the morning, worked in the afternoon, and practiced martial arts in the evening. The schoolhouse was overwhelmed, so two more rooms were built. Eventually, all the children were enrolled in the school, and Guoguo finally felt relieved. However, these children only had to attend classes for half a day, work in the afternoon, and practice martial arts in the evening. Only then did they begin to smile.

After a few days, Guoguo adapted to going to school and listened to lectures at home in the afternoon. Her family's children only went to school for half a day and listened to Li Jingwen explain the way to govern the country in the afternoon.

Spring passed, autumn arrived, and three years flew by. Guoguo was nine years old. Summer was over, and they took the four beauties, two hundred other children, and the men in black, a total of over four hundred people, to the capital. Guoguo disguised herself as a man to take the autumn imperial examination, recommended by Li Jingwen. Also present were the children from the village school, young and old. The idea was to broaden their horizons.

The village school only had a few newly admitted children, all five or six years old, from the village.

The child's parents brought some spare clothes, and the adults didn't go because they knew Guoguo would arrange it.

That day, the entire village gathered at the village entrance to see them off. The men in black had left earlier, leaving only the children behind. They said goodbye to their families one by one, each carrying a backpack containing clothes and some loose change. Guoguo told them not to take more than they could, as they would earn more money. Chen Jun followed. Over the past three years, the women in the village had learned to spin yarn and weave cotton cloth. Guoguo opened a dyeing and weaving workshop, teaching them to dye and color cotton cloth, which they then sold to shops in the county. Hemp skins could be woven into sacks, made into clothing for farmers to wear in the fields, and used as door curtains—a wide variety of uses. The village collectively managed the production. Fine hemp skins were twisted into ropes for shoe soles and shoe strings, while cotton cloth was even more versatile for making comfortable clothing and quilts. Taohua Village was awash in wealth! Villages around the village flocked to learn how to grow cotton. Jiahe frequently sold spinning and weaving machines, new beds, clothes hangers, tables and chairs, and other wooden products. It brings profit to the village, and it's still producing various machines, which are sold far and wide by merchants. Fifty percent of the profits go to He, 40% to the village, and 10% to the carpenters, who earn their daily wages. Taohua Village now has a substantial collective income, and at the end of the year, everyone in the village receives dividends, leaving every household with a substantial income. Many students are going to the capital this time, and Sun Gui gave Guoguo a banknote to cover their expenses. Taohua Village is the wealthiest in Taohua County, but the other villages are also doing well. No one in the eighteen villages has starved to death; everyone has food to eat and a house to live in. And all the houses are new, just in varying sizes. The impoverished counties receive funding to build houses and help find work. The medical students in Taohua Village follow Chen Jun on his journey throughout the county, treating patients from door to door. The first batch of students can treat simple headaches and fevers, and they've been studying medicine for five years. This time, they're all taken to the capital to gain experience.

Old Lady Li was so reluctant to let Guoguo go that she burst into tears and finally asked Li Ru to go with her, otherwise she would be worried. Chai Ping'an was also reluctant to let her go, but Guoguo said, "After autumn is over, someone will come to pick us up." Only then could Guoguo leave.

The carriage was filled with children. Li Biaotou shouted, "Let's go!" The carriage slowly moved forward, and the people followed it for a long distance before returning home. Old Lady Li urged everyone to return to the fields and work. It was time to hoe the cotton. Every time you hoe, the cotton will grow whiter. The more you hoe, the better, and the stronger the cotton will be. Hearing this, everyone went home, grabbed their hoes, and went to work in the fields. They didn't care about anything else.