latelenovela Chapter 110 Roll to Death
Chapter 110 Roll to Death
Ji Xiaohong finished her last account, stretched herself, walked out of the room, looked at the stars in the sky, raised her hand and gently grasped them.
"Mother, I am fine and very happy. You would never have thought that I am now the owner of a cloth shop."
After she was captured by Fang Tianhu and brought to the mountain, she was humiliated. She was later rescued by Master Yue and stayed in the village.
But because of her experience, she always felt that she was inferior to others.
Among the women who came out of Xilou with him, some became Yue Gongzi's secretaries, some became teachers, and some became Doctor Yu's apprentices... Only he followed Liu Caijing, living a mediocre life like a nobody.
It's not that she hadn't thought about contributing to the village, but she was just a farm girl and didn't have any skills. Her happiest thing every day was standing outside the classroom listening to Master Ouyang teaching and Liu Caijing teaching them arithmetic.
It's quite fulfilling.
She originally thought that this was how her life would be. Until a few days ago, Liu Lu called many people together and gave them papers, saying it was an exam.
The test paper contained arithmetic written using numbers that only people in their village knew how to use.
She knows all the answers to those questions.
On the third day after the exam, she was called into the meeting room with another woman and several young men. She was a little nervous facing the managers of the village.
Military Advisor Song asked them some questions one by one, and she answered them nervously.
After asking everyone, Finance Liu suddenly smiled and said to them, "You guys have the best exam results this time, and Ji Xiaohong and Jin Yu are the best. So are you two willing to be the shopkeepers of our cloth shop? You will get 6 taels of silver per month, and a bonus at the end of the year. The others will be assistants, and they will get 3 taels of silver per month. There will also be a bonus at the end of the year."
Ji Xiaohong felt dizzy from the news, and even her voice was a little shaky: "Can I...can I really be the shopkeeper?"
"Of course, your calculations and reactions are the best, so you are worthy of being the shopkeeper. Be more confident, you were brought up by me, Liu Lu!"
"I... I am willing." She also wanted to work for the village like Sister Lingyao and the others and become a respected person.
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"Mother, I like our village very much. This is my new home. Everyone here is very nice. If you were here, you would definitely fall in love with it. This place is different from anywhere else. So I will use my life to protect this home..."
Ji Xiaohong looked at the twinkling stars and smiled softly.
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At the end of October, Nirvana Village was very lively in the evening.
A lot of people gathered on the large open space in the village. It seemed that all the men, women, young and old in the village had gathered here, looking at the old man on the platform together.
The old teacher was writing words on the blackboard with chalk, stroke by stroke, then turned around and started teaching by pointing at the words.
The men, women, young and old in the audience all recited aloud.
Everyone's face shows a desire for knowledge.
This is an evening adult class opened in response to the requests of all villagers.
Ever since Ji Xiaohong and the others were arranged to be the shopkeepers and shop assistants, the villagers were envious! Not only did they earn several thousand silver coins a month, but they also received bonuses at the end of the year! The most important thing was that they could work in the county town!
Moreover, for those of them who have been working in the fields and relying on the weather for their livelihood, being a shopkeeper is no different from having their ancestors smoke a cigarette!
Secretary Liu and Manager Wang were very fair and open. Most people in the village took the exam. After the exam, they posted the test papers on the public notice board.
It's just that they don't live up to expectations. Looking at their test papers, which only scored a few points, they wish they could find a hole to crawl into. It's so embarrassing! They can't even compare to women, and those who have children at home will be laughed at by their own naughty children.
Manager Wang said that other shops will be opened in the village in the future, and the shopkeepers and clerks will be selected from the village first.
This is something they are looking forward to! But they have to work during the day. Although the children at home can learn a few words every day, it is not enough!
Those who don't have children are even more eager.
So everyone sent a representative to find Manager Wang, hoping that he could give them a small class after dinner. Even if they had to pay!
Wang Yu'er and the others were very happy. They were still thinking about how to make everyone literate before, but now they took the initiative, which saved them a lot of trouble.
It just so happened that there was an old student who had just arrived in the village with his son.
Wang Yu'er found him and asked him if he was willing to teach everyone in the village to read for half an hour every evening. The old student was very happy to do so. After all, he was just teaching everyone to read, and he would get paid for it, so he happily accepted.
Now a month has passed, and the atmosphere of learning in the village has not only not diminished, but has become stronger.
Everyone was trying their best to be better than the others. Those children could have been teachers to their parents, but now their parents were learning more words than them. How could this be tolerated? Wouldn't their parents nag them every day?
So I picked up the book.
Roll it up! Roll it up to death!
After Wang Yu'er discussed with Ouyang Shu, a library was opened in the village. It contained all kinds of books that Song Li had collected while going down the mountain, even books of calligraphy and painting by little people.
The old man works as a librarian here during the day.
Anyone who wants to read can borrow books here for free. But if you damage a book, you will not only have to pay for it, but you will also be scolded by others: "A book costs several taels of silver, and the village spent money to buy it for everyone to read, but you don't take good care of the books! You will be beaten by your ancestors in the future! And now everyone is a scholar! Books are your lifeblood! You must take good care of them!"
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Liu Lu looked at the account books and profits for more than half a month sent by the two cloth shops.
I can't even close my mouth when I smile.
"Oh my! The profits of our two shops have exceeded our expectations!" Liu Lu handed the account book to other sisters and asked them to pass it around.
"Jiaojiao! You and your disciples are all great contributors!"
Huang Jiaojiao puffed out her chest proudly, and her eyes narrowed into slits as she smiled.
Liu Lu took out some silver and said, "These are the rewards we agreed to give to Huang Jiaojiao and her colleagues in the Textile Department."
"Okay! Once we give everyone rewards, those sisters will be able to be the bosses when they go back!"
"Hahahahahahahahaha..." Everyone laughed at the same time.
Nowadays, the status of women in the village is getting higher and higher. Many people who used to treat their wives badly have changed now.
Who dares to beat his wife in the village nowadays? Not to mention whether he will be caught by the patrol team and put in solitary confinement, the other villagers will drown him with their saliva!
Now my wives and daughters are all working and learning from the managers of the village. If we beat them, wouldn’t that be slapping the managers in the face?
"Hasn't Doctor Ge come out of the room yet?" Wang Yu'er asked Yu Xiyun.
"No, the miracle doctor said he wanted to study the art of surgery carefully, so he couldn't be called out." Yu Xiyun felt helpless.
Since Ge Shenyi came to the village, he saw that he often practiced with small animals, so he also started practicing. But he was old, and his technique was not as precise as Yu Xiyun's. Basically, every animal he dissected died. Now there are more meat dishes than vegetarian dishes in the village. Many villagers came to find Liu Lu and reported that he was extravagant in purchasing! He said that if they had to eat meat every day, they were afraid that they would go bankrupt.
Now the chickens raised by the village are not enough for Yu Xiyun and the others. If the old man who raised the pigs had not been unwilling to do so, saying that his pigs were kept for the New Year, and anyone who dared to touch him would die in front of them! Doctor Ge would have taken those pigs and gutted them.
Just look, the rabbit whose belly he cut open and sewed up two days ago actually lived well for two days. Doctor Ge was so excited that he went straight to the operating room, saying that he wanted to observe his baby.
Yu Xiyun was worried that he would be too tired at his age.
"Go and call Divine Doctor Ge out, and tell him that Yun Yue wrote to say that if he doesn't rest well, Yun Yue won't want him as her disciple anymore."
Yu Xiyun covered her mouth and laughed.