Otherworldly Days

The carriage returned home quickly, and at this time, the family brought back a lot of newly picked grapes. Cao Xiangnan took a look and knew that these fruits were picked by everyone in the afternoon.Qi Wanfeng in the kitchen also heard the voice outside, and when he came out, he saw Fu Lang who had come back, and Cao Xiangnan saw someone standing there in the distance, and he walked over, "I'm back." He said. "Well, I'm making dinner." Qi Wanfeng glanced back and said.

Sun Bailian stuck her head out from the inside, greeted Cao Xiangnan who had come back, and went in again.

"I'll go to Brother Cao Gang and the others to have a look. Master Feng will come over for dinner tonight. I'll invite Li Zheng over later. There are two more people at home for dinner." Master Feng came to talk about building the school, and Cao Xiangnan planned to bring Li Zheng together Please come here, as for the village chief, he will automatically ignore them.

Qi Wanfeng nodded, there are many people eating at home now, and the meals and dishes prepared are enough.

Everyone is working here, so they all eat here together, so that Bai Lian will not have to go home and start another fire. He said, "There are a lot of dishes in it. Cao Gang and the others went to the stream to catch a lot of fish and shrimp. Come back, Fulang, do you want to prepare some more dishes?"

"Let me take a look." Cao Xiangnan went into the kitchen to have a look, and gave instructions on how to make these things.Seeing a lot of snails in the bucket, he asked, "Why are there still this?"

Qi Wanfeng smiled after taking a look, and said, "It's not like a group of little ones went to pick it up."

"Haha, it's not bad to stir-fry late." Cao Xiangnan bent down and picked up one, looked at it, and put it back.

Hearing that Wan Feng said that the children went to pick fruit, and handed over the kitchen to Wan Feng, Cao Xiangnan and Liu Baishu looked for it here, and saw a group of young children in the fruit forest at the foot of the mountain. here.

"Uncle Xiang Nan."

"Uncle Xiang Nan."

When a group of young people saw Uncle Xiangnan coming, they all ran over one after another, and jumped down from the tree like a monkey.Seeing Dad, An An played with his red face and shouted "Daddy" while running.

"Xiangnan, Baishu, you are back." Gan Weilin looked at a group of small people here, and when he saw Cao Xiangnan and Liu Baishu coming, he walked over.

"I just came back from the town, come and see, are the others over there?" Cao Xiangnan knew they were picking grapes in there without seeing anyone else, fearing that there might be snakeworms over there, they never let these children follow them. past.

"Yeah, picking sour fruit over there." Gan Weilin said.

"Then Bai Shu and I will go over there, and I will trouble you to keep an eye on this group of children." You Gan Weilin is here looking at these little ones, Cao Xiangnan is also relieved, as long as an adult is watching.After saying hello to Gan Weilin, Cao Xiangnan and Liu Baishu walked over to the side where Cao Gang and the others were, and helped them pick fruit for a while.

Basket after basket of fruit was shipped back home, and everyone stopped after the last batch was shipped.

In the setting sun, the water of the creek is gurgling, and the fish swim happily in the water. There is a group of horses drinking water and grazing leisurely here. Several tall horses are mixed with two smaller black horses and The white horse, Dahei, who is usually very temperamental, came here and became a younger brother, following behind a white horse.

After the dinner was set on the table, everyone sat down. Cao Xiangnan went to invite Lizheng over, and Master Feng also came.When they heard about building a school, Sun Yanshan and Cao Dapeng also stayed, and even Chen Hong brought their two children here.

By the time the children finished their meal and went to play, their meal was almost finished.

The dishes on the table were removed, and tea was replaced. I heard that Cao Silang's family was discussing the matter of building a school.This matter is also related to the study of their children. Wu Yue, Li Mei and the others all came over after dinner.

Cao Xiangnan planned to start building the school after discussing it. Naturally, the more people involved in this matter, the better. Building the school was not just his own business.For a while, many people came to his house, some were standing and sitting, and the children were playing with theirs outside the yard, and it became a small meeting here.

Cao Xiangnan told everyone about his idea. This time he wanted to build a school instead of building a house and only a few children to study.The drawn drawings were sent to Master Feng, and we agreed with everyone on how to build the school.

"Xiangnan boy, you want to build such a big academy, it will cost a lot of silver." Building an academy is not a small amount of money, what Li is worried about is money.Although he knows that Mr. Cao is doing a good job in business and has made a lot of money, but this academy can't be built without a hundred taels.

But Li Zheng might not have imagined that Cao Xiangnan never thought of asking for all the money from one person.

"Well, since I proposed to build an academy, I have naturally thought about this issue. The money for building the academy now, and the future expenses of the academy, all of these issues involve money. Don't worry now, this issue Let's discuss it later." Cao Xiangnan smiled with confidence on his face, making people believe that his money is not a problem.

"Let's talk about this academy now." Cao Xiangnan felt that it was necessary for him to explain the usefulness of this academy to everyone first, so that no one would be willing to spend money to build the academy. "I thought about it when I bought the land. This place built by this academy, we can just go out of Caojia Village, and the nearby villages are not too far away."

"So when the college is built, not only people from our Caojia Village can go to study, but also people from several nearby villages." In addition, when the road is repaired, they will not be able to go to Fenshui Town. Far away, he has a feeling in his heart that when the academy is built here, Caojia Village will gradually move to this side, and there will be people building houses nearby, so there is no need to worry that this is just a lonely academy.

Like modern times, the place where the school was first built was remote, and later there was everything nearby.At that time, with the academy as the center, it will start to radiate in all directions in a concentric circle. People from several nearby villages will gather in the middle, and a new place will be formed here.

"The academy will start construction this year, and it should be almost completed before winter, and school will start in March next year. At that time, all those over the age of four in Caojia Village will have to go to study for three years. Children in these three years do not need to give Shu Xiu, their family only needs to pay for the children’s meals and books.”

"As for children between the ages of seven and ten, they have to pay half of the school fees, and the rest of the fees are paid by themselves. If the family members of the children after the age of ten still want them to take the exam, all the money will be paid by the family. No more responsibility for them. Children over seven years old, if their families are in difficulties and want to continue to study, they can work while earning their education fees." Cao Xiangnan does not feel guilty about using child labor at all.

I think that when he was seven or eight years old, he would have gone to work for others in exchange for some food. Children in this world are more precocious than those in his world, and working after the age of seven is no problem at all.If you can't do big things, you can always go out to cut grass and collect firewood.

Lizheng's face was filled with unconcealable excitement, with tears streaming down his face, he said, "If all the children can go to school, our Caojia Village will have hope in the future."

For the rest of his life, he never dared to think that all the children in Caojia Village could go to school. As long as everyone in the village could have something to eat, people would no longer be cold to death when it snowed in winter, and people would no longer starve to death during drought years. Lizheng no longer felt ashamed of the villagers.

"Shiro, if this is the case, what about the children who come to study from other villages? Can they also follow this standard?" Chen Hong asked.

If this academy is built, his natal nephews can also come to study.If there is no money for studying from the age of four to seven, wouldn't everyone send their children to study?

"Well, those who come to study at the age of four to seven are exempted from studying, and other expenses have to be paid by themselves. The children in other villages also have the same standards as the children in our Caojia Village." Cao Xiangnan probably calculated in his heart, four years old Children up to the age of seven may not be too many.

If it is outside the village, there is no compulsory study policy, and they may not send their children to study, even if they don’t want Shuxiu, but because of other tuition and miscellaneous fees, it is not likely that some parents will send their children to study.

Hearing this, my natal brothers in several nearby villages smiled, so that they could go back to their natal home to tell everyone the good news.

But they may not know that this is just a hole dug for them to jump.

Can all children read?Gan Weiqi looked at Cao Xiangnan with a little more interest in his eyes.Now that he knows that this person leads the people in the village to grow vegetables, raise chickens, and build roads, he will never feel that what Cao Xiangnan said is empty words.

He was really curious about how he could run this academy.

"And what I think is not only that the children can read, but also that the illiterate men in the village can also read and read." Cao Xiangnan has thought carefully about this question, and it is also a question he has always thought about. "It is possible for everyone to work during the day. I don’t have much time to study, but at night, it’s good to have a moment and a half to go out and study. Two words a day, seven or eight hundred words in a year, you say right?"

"For several months in winter, everyone is free and has nothing to do. At this time, everyone can arrange time to study. If it is not snowing outside, they will go to school. If it is snowing outside, they will stay at home. Learn." Cao Xiangnan found that people in this era lived too leisurely, eating and sleeping for a whole winter, and all the time was wasted.There is no work in the fields at this time, but you can use this time to go to school, can't you?

"Hey, is that when our buddies will be able to go to school?" Chen Hong asked with a look of surprise when he heard that these buddies could also go to school.

He is now in charge of growing vegetables for Cao Silang's entire village. At the beginning, he was able to manage the land when the bills were small, but when the bills started to increase later, he also felt the pressure.Seeing the children in the family come to Cao Silang to study, he would tell him what he learned every day when he went back. He was also interested in listening to it. Later, after consulting Cao Silang, Cao Silang taught him a set of numbers and asked him to use this to record , he found that it was much better than before.

The other brothers who stood here and listened were also surprised, but some brothers said very embarrassedly, "We are all very old, what kind of books are we still going to study, it is impossible."

This old face is too embarrassed to meet people.

"Well, yes, as long as they want to study, anyone, no matter they are old or young, can go to study." Cao Xiangnan said with certainty.

"At that time, reading and literacy will only be a basic course in the academy, and arithmetic courses can also be offered. If we can invite craftsmen, such as chefs and craftsmen, we can offer a cooking class, carpentry class, These are not only for children to learn, but also for you to learn." Cao Xiangnan wanted to let everyone learn a craft, and then the people in the village would have another way out besides farming. He said, "When the time comes, these The problems of the course will be re-arranged in detail."

"Oh, this is good. Let the children learn how to cook with the master, and then they can go to a restaurant to find a job." If they learn how to cook and then go to a restaurant to find a job, it will be a lot of money every month. .

"After the child has read the book, he doesn't have to farm all his life like his parents. If he can do arithmetic and find a job as an accountant, it will be much easier than farming."

The brothers discussed it, and suddenly felt that children can read and write, even if they don't take the exam, there are many other benefits.