You are unlucky and I am tough

Chapter 265

The school was built by the villagers together. It has a total of five classrooms, and two rooms were built next to it for the teachers to live in.

When Wei Qinglang went over, Cheng Li was talking to the villagers about going to Taohua Village in front to find someone to make a batch of tables and chairs.

Many villagers heard that the school was completed and came to see it, chattering about sending their children to study. Some of them surrounded the head of the village and asked when classes could start and when the teacher would arrive.

Seeing Wei Qinglang coming, Cheng Lizheng sent the villagers to take him around the school and talked about inviting a teacher.

"County Magistrate Shen gave our village the go-ahead to build a school. Now that the school is built, we still have to hire our own teachers. I asked people around and found a forty-year-old student in Yangshu Village downstream who could teach our children, but we still need to hire a scholar."

"Later, Mingli asked his classmates at the local academy for help, and they recommended an old teacher, a scholar named Yuan. He had taught in the county for over twenty years, but had stopped teaching two years ago because of his straightforward temper and some conflicts with others. I heard he was quite knowledgeable."

"So, I went to the county yesterday and wanted to invite him to come to the village to be a teacher. He used to teach in the county for a little over three taels of silver a month. I offered him four taels, but still couldn't get the deal."

Wei Qinglang listened carefully and asked, "Do you dislike the fact that this is a small village?"

"Not really." Cheng Lizheng said, "He's not short of money, he just doesn't want to come. He's been obsessed with studying the Exploitation of the Works of Nature lately. Do you know what he has in his yard?"

Wei Qinglang shook his head.

Cheng Lizheng said with a smile, "The rice hullers and fan wheels were dismantled piece by piece. And isn't the county magistrate promoting pressurized water wells? He sent people to replace all the wells in the county with pressurized ones. I heard that he goes to see the craftsmen working every day and can't be driven away."

Wei Qinglang understood and said with a smile, "Does the village head want me to go and help him solve his problems, and then invite him to teach in the village?"

Cheng Lizheng nodded. "A scholar who has taught for over twenty years, if he wants to teach, there are plenty of academies that want him. It's a bit of a waste of his talent to come to our village. But I see that he comes from a good family and is a kind person. If you can help him solve his problems, he might be willing to come."

"It's a small matter. Give me the address and I'll go there tomorrow to see if he is willing to come." Wei Qinglang agreed to the matter.

After returning home, he told Cheng Shuang what had happened. The next day, the two of them split up and headed for Huanhua County.

Cheng Shuang took Cheng Pan and Peng Laosan with him to purchase food for the workers. Wei Qinglang found Master Yuan's house according to the address, explained his purpose, and was invited in.

Last time, most of the people I wanted bought them in the city. This time, I chose to go to the dental clinic in the county and planned to select some more people.

Many vegetables in the field need to be planted at different times. Twenty or so workers are barely enough to plant and care for more than 300 acres of land. However, raising poultry also requires manpower, so Cheng Shuang decided to select four women to be responsible for raising chickens, ducks, geese and rabbits, and then select a few smart and trainable men to help manage some things in the future.

For example, you can make chili sauce, fermented black beans, preserved eggs, potato starch, sweet potato starch, etc. in the future.

After Manager Chang has completed the construction of the road up the mountain, he will also have to arrange for a few people to take care of the transplanted flowers, plants and trees.

After some selection, eight people were chosen, half men and half women, and the women were all in their thirties.

The men were young men in their teens and twenties. After asking everyone, none of them could read. Cheng Shuang picked out four that she liked, but their prices were still twice as high as those of the women.

But it is a little cheaper than the prices at the dental clinics in the city.

While waiting for the people from the brokerage firm to get the indenture, Wei Qinglang finished his business and came to join them.

"How is it?" Cheng Shuang asked curiously as soon as she saw him.

Wei Qinglang sat down opposite him and said, "Look at how quickly I came back, so you know it's done."

"What conditions?"

Wei Qinglang smiled proudly, "No conditions. I answered his questions and he considered me a close friend and agreed to teach in Chengjia Village."

"Then congratulations, you've made a friend regardless of age." Cheng Shuang found it funny to see him so proud.

After obtaining the indentures, they brought everyone home. The four women were assigned to take care of the livestock, while the four men were handed over to the two brothers of the Peng family.

I first followed them to help in the soap workshop and learn something at the same time. I also asked Wei Nanxing to be responsible for teaching them to read and write for half an hour every day.

The next day, Master Yuan fulfilled his promise and came to Chengjia Village, officially becoming the village teacher.

The villagers were extremely happy and sent their children to study. They received a monthly tuition of 200 coins, which could be used to pay for grain and cloth.

Cheng Shuang no longer went out. Every day, apart from seeing Lin Zelan, she would copy recipes and make fermented black beans at home.

Wei Qinglang, on the contrary, was out almost every day. There were a lot of things to do in the restaurant, and he and Xie Zhiyou were the ones running around to deal with them.

Eight or nine days passed in a flash, and it was May 1st. Zhao Xiuwen and several other scholars went to the academy to enroll.

Zhu Shaoyuan used to come almost every day, but recently he hadn't come for three days in a row. Then Cheng Shuang noticed that Lin Zelan's mood had improved, and the corners of her mouth were raised when she was sitting on the balcony basking in the sun.

Cheng Shuang took his pulse and found that the wound on his chest had not healed yet, but it was not a big deal. It was time to start conditioning his body.

At the same time, the potatoes in the field can be harvested. The ones bought from the mall are high-yield and early-maturing varieties, which can mature in 60 days.

When Cheng Shuang asked Wei Qinglang to go to the city, he also sent a letter to the prefectural government office, informing the prefect that potatoes could be harvested.

Who would have thought that just after the news was delivered, the next day, Magistrate Zhu came to the village with his lawyer, saying that they had planted late and it was still a few days before two months, so they came here to see with their own eyes how the potato harvest was.

Prefect Zhu was still wearing his casual clothes, which meant that he wanted to dig some dirt in the fields himself.