"Master Ning, you got it so soon?!"
Shen Youchu exclaimed in surprise.
at once.
Cheng Yi and others' eyes all fell on Ning Wuyan, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.
The villagers and village women who had lowered their heads just now, their eyes fell on Ning Wuyan like arrows.
Don't think what Cheng Yi just said touched their hearts, but they valued the immediate benefits more than the future losses for the children.
Pure scholars like Cheng Yi are easy to trick, but this guy named Ning, who looks easy to bully on the surface, is actually like the most cunning old fox in the mountains.
They all pricked up their ears.
If Ning Wuhao gives bad ideas to Cheng Yi and other scholars again, they will use their own special skills to let this boy know what is ginger or old and spicy!
Ji Jin noticed this, moved quietly, and stood between the village woman and Ning Wuyan.
They say that good men don’t fight with women.
Although Mei Xiang captured the drunkard, this group of villagers did not attack him. If these women were to attack Mr. Ning and Mr. Ning fought back, he would definitely be slandered by these people as having bad character.
After seeing the shamelessness of these people, Ji Jin was now worried that Mr. Ning's reputation would be tarnished by these people.
But at the same time, she was hoping that Mr. Ning could really turn the tide and give those children a chance to learn.
When Ning Wuyang saw Ji Jin bravely standing in front of him, he would be lying if he said he wasn't moved.
However, he still grabbed Ji Jin's sleeve, and then Shen Youchu's sleeve, pulling the two of them behind him.
"Miss Ji, stay away from them, lest they hurt you again when they rush over later."
"I'm not afraid!"
Ji Jin's expression looked like he was ready to die, which made Ning Wuyao dumbfounded.
He just came up with an idea, but he didn't mean to fight with these village women, so it wouldn't be a problem.
"Then Miss Ji, please stand here."
Ning Wuyan looked at the village women who also regarded him as a ferocious beast, cleared his throat, and expressed his initial thoughts.
Yes.
He was deliberately testing whether Cheng Yi could persist.
After all, he is not a heartless person, and these children are so close to the place where flowers are planted in Hanshan Temple.
Not to mention anything else, as long as anything happened to him when he ran into his garden, blackmailing him would be inevitable all year round.
In this case, it is better to join forces with Cheng Yi to run the village school and manage these children in a unified way.
Giving them a chance will also benefit him.
"Everyone, I haven't had a chance to introduce myself yet."
Ning Wuyan paused and saw Cheng Yi shaking his head at him, trying to persuade him not to publicize his reputation so as not to be taken advantage of by these villagers. He laughed it off and pointed in the direction of Hanshan Temple.
"Everyone should have heard that someone has bought the mountainous land over Hanshan Temple and the wasteland below, and the buyer is me."
When the villagers heard this, their expressions became subtle.
The atmosphere suddenly became less tense than before, like a secret confrontation.
"What's going on?" Wang Xuezi murmured to his classmates in confusion: "I thought Mr. Ning would say that he was the Jinling Poet Immortal. Thinking that this is really a scholar meeting a soldier, they will listen to whatever you say. I don’t understand the meaning, but I didn’t expect that when Mr. Ning said that he bought mountains and land, why do these people’s eyes become so much kinder?”
This question not only troubled Student Wang, but other students were also puzzled.
Only Yuan Bao, who had been watching the show silently, suddenly jumped up and stared at Ning Wuyan with burning eyes.
Others don't understand, but his family is a businessman, how can he not understand the ways.
These unscrupulous people dare to offend people like Cheng Yi and others who seem to be either rich or noble, because they have no intention of having too much contact with Cheng Yi and others except to kill their culprits.
Because they are not from the same class at all, the villagers do not want their children to go to the village school from the bottom of their hearts. If it were not to put money in Cheng Yi's pocket, they would not even lose a smile.
But Ning Wuchang, who bought nearby mountains and deserted fields, was different.
Mountains and wasteland require someone to take care of them. In order to save costs, you must choose local people.
Planting flowers does not necessarily require strong labor to be competent. The group of idle village women in front of them can all earn wages.
Offending Ning Wuhuang was equivalent to blocking a way to make money.
Ning Wuyan saw that these villagers were still smart and continued: "I came to your village this time not to learn things in the village, but to plant flowers and open up wasteland. I want to find some people to do things."
As soon as these words came out.
Cheng Yi and others felt what was happening in front of them. The village women who had almost pointed at Ning Wuchang's nose and scolded him for his black heart just now suddenly put on smiling faces.
He actually saw the flattery in that smile.
"Boss Ning, why didn't you tell me earlier? I heard that the mountainous area over there was bought by someone named Ning, and it belongs to the same family as the owner of Zhangjiazhuang."
"When the fruits in Zhangjiazhuang are ripe, they often ask us to help pick the peaches and pears. We are responsible for one meal a day and are paid ten cents."
"Boss Ning, when you come to our village this time, do you want to recruit people to open up wasteland, or go up the mountains to plant flowers?"
The village women gathered around Ning Wuyan and began to talk about anyone who could help him.
As long as they have to take care of one meal and the wages are ten cents a day, they are willing to work.
Only after Cheng Yi heard the salary did he realize how badly he had been cheated.
He heard from the villagers that a child could earn ten cents a day by collecting herbs in the mountains, so he decided to subsidize a child ten cents a day.
At that time, seeing the displeasure of the villagers, he felt that it was missing.
He had just learned that a strong laborer might only earn ten cents a day as a handyman, and he also felt that Brother Ning might have said less on purpose, it was just a matter of words.
But when I saw these villagers rushing to recommend themselves to Brother Ning for the opportunity of doing handyman work for ten cents a day, I realized that it was not just words.
That's reality.
In other words, these children go to the mountains to collect medicine or dig wild vegetables, and they cannot earn more than ten cents a day.
And based on the price of food and meat in Jinling, they may indeed not be able to eat a few meals of meat throughout the year, let alone waste money to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstones to study.
"Brother Qin, I am too narrow-minded."
Cheng Yi knew he was wrong.
But he also knew that if these children continued like this for generations, they would still live a life in which they would not be able to eat meat unless they started working from a young age.
What goes around comes around.
"Daxing has been prosperous for so many years. I really didn't expect that even under the rule of the richest Jinling, there are still so many poor people."
Cheng Yi burst into tears.
Qin Fenglan couldn't answer this.
It doesn't make sense to put it lightly, and it doesn't make sense to say it deeply...
Therefore, he was even more looking forward to how Ning Wuyang would solve the problem of the village school not being able to continue.
"Everyone, I know you are anxious to make money, but don't worry. I have regulations on this matter. The first to reclaim the mountains and wastelands will naturally require strong labor. The person in charge will tell you how to pay the workers specifically."
"The most important thing at the moment is the workers who will need to pick the flowers after planting them. I am going to let the children do this..."
Before Ning Wuyan finished speaking, an old woman over fifty years old interrupted him hastily.
"Why do you let your children do it? Do you want to pay less?"
"No, it's just that those flowers have just been planted in the soil, and the roots cannot bear gravity. Children are light in weight, and some plants are short. Children are more suitable than adults. Of course, adults can also work together. One day Maybe I can earn about 20 cash... Anyway, we will be paid according to the number of kilograms picked, and each person can be paid about 10 cash per day."
Upon hearing this number, the old woman who had just questioned immediately shut her mouth and stopped interrupting.
Although this young man has a dark heart about running village schools, he is really generous in giving money.
Cheng Yi and the others became anxious upon hearing this.
If we weren’t talking about setting up village schools, how could we start talking about letting children work and make money?
Brother Ning, what exactly does he want to do? !
