"Really?" The child's eyes widened with a look of joy on his face.
"I just happened to be helping the library take care of you." The student staff were equally delighted.
"Then I don't need to bring you any more rice and pickles? I've saved a bushel of food at home. I won't go back tomorrow. I'll eat here and save one person."
The child named Bubu told the reason for his joy, saving food.
His brother was not qualified to be a scholar, so he had to bring his own rice to cook in the official school, otherwise the official school would give him a little rice.
Normally speaking, if it were not for the early Ming Dynasty, those who did not have the reputation of being a scholar would not be able to enter the official school.
Scholars in the official school are given six buckets of rice per month. This rice is not distributed directly to the individual. It is made in the official school and everyone eats it together.
Those who did not have the reputation of being a scholar had to pay for their own rice and pickles, and the rice was given to the official school.
Fang Jiaoyu of Shangyuan County only received two bushels per person per month. He just wanted to let them eat together. Sometimes when there was meat, he would share some with them.
Now it is reduced to one bucket of rice per person, half a catty of pickles, and nothing else. Ink and paper are given back.
This was not given by the official school, but by Xiaqiu Village. The purpose of asking for the bucket of rice and half a catty of pickles was to distinguish everyone's status.
Xiaqiu Village will provide Ningguo Prefecture with 4,000 guan for the official school fee every year, and Taiping Prefecture with 2,000 guan.
When we arrived at Yingtian Mansion, we hadn't determined the quantity yet, but it was enough for them to eat meat every day, as well as clothes, pens, ink, and paper.
The thing is like this, but Bubu's brother's face is very ugly. That bucket of food... hurts his heart!
"No, I'll leave after dinner tomorrow morning." The elder brother firmly disagreed.
"Okay...let's do it!" Bubu lowered his head and left.
"Bubu, I'll bring you more buns when you leave tomorrow. You can take them back and give them to your mother and sister to try."
Wang Shu saw it from the side and shouted to the child that this child belonged to the Gu family.
"Ah? Thank you, Brother Wang Shu." Bubu returned to his lively look in an instant.
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At noon, people from Jiangning County Official School arrived at the place, but they were far away.
However, their students will still come to the library to borrow books, walk a few more steps, and borrow books for many days.
They put their luggage away first, wash their hands and faces, and eat.
In order to welcome them, I cooked a lot of meat dishes today.
In the afternoon, someone came to them to explain the situation. They had to look after the children together with the previous students and give lectures to the children at the same time.
The students explained the details to them and showed them short storybooks.
Early the next morning, all the students went home to rest. Their homes were in Yingtian Mansion, and they went to official schools in other houses.
Unless they can enter the Imperial College, which is in Nanjing.
Wang Shu's academic status is also registered in Shangyuan County. He is an exception. He does not go to the official school at all.
Every student received a large number of steamed buns to take home for their families to eat.
Those who have younger brothers and sisters here are taken back like Bubu.
When the students came back the next morning, 424 students were ready.
There are 104 department stores in Ningguo Mansion and 106 in Taiping Mansion. Two more are assigned to Shijiu Lake, with two people in each department store.
The remaining one hundred and one people will wait for the handover from the official school to be completed, and they will be the shopkeepers of the department store in Yingtianfu.
Everyone draws lots, whoever you catch is who.
Except for the four people from Shijiu Lake, they belong to Jiangning County and go directly. The others go to the government office first.
He told the government that the department store had opened and that it had to be taken care of. Every year, Xiaqiu Village gave him lots of things and also donated money to the almshouses and government schools.
The business in Xiaqiu Village came over, and if something went wrong it was the government's problem, because they didn't take care of it.
Four hundred and twenty-four people boarded the boat respectively, bringing lunch and dinner.
People going to Taiping Mansion can arrive in the afternoon, but they have to run to the village.
The trip to Ningguo Mansion had to be done at night, so they took the water route and would not get off the boat unless their physical problems were resolved.
The headmaster took his children and Zhu Xi to wave goodbye to the students on the pier. The students were all high-spirited, as if they were going to war.
When the last ship disappeared from sight, Li Chang followed everyone back to the library.
"Zhu Lichang, we are finally open for business. We have been working on it for so long." Zhu Ping felt much relieved.
"This is just the beginning. We may encounter different things later. Only by solving each thing and accumulating experience can we continue to expand externally."
The director didn't know what the problem might be. Anyway, Hanhan said, it would have to be adjusted when the time comes.
Now each village employs local people to look after the shops, and the manpower is arranged by the village chief. If something is lost, everyone will report it to the government.
In the future, department stores would hire people for a long time, usually four people, two to stack the goods, and two older people to keep watch at night.
This is to select the poorest families and provide jobs.
If there are any herbs, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and other things in the village that need to be sold, the department store will collect them.
Naturally, the basic function of a store is to allow others to buy things, so people don't have to travel far away.
Zhu Xi thought for a while and shook his head: "I don't know what will happen. At worst, I won't open a certain store. I will send people to deal with them."
What he was thinking of was that people were robbing department stores of things, or that the store would charge a high price for whatever they took without paying.
The two of them walked to the second floor while talking. There were health workers strolling around to see where the books were so that they could take them out and read them later.
Some ran to the place below, holding booklets of short stories in their hands to learn.
In addition, they were called by the students to help take care of their children. The children would attend class for a while, play for a while, and then go to class again.
Now it’s time for lunch, and I’m already hungry.
In the past, they had two meals a day. When they were hungry, they had no choice but to hold on. No matter how fast their metabolism was, they had no food to eat.
Now I eat four meals a day, three main meals and one extra meal.
Usually, a piece of bread or a piece of mahua is given during lunch. Some of the students and students are not very old, so in this case, they all have them.
"Seeing this makes me hungry." Zhu Ping swallowed. He was sixteen years old.
"Brother Hanhan, let's make some pancakes and some fruit! If you're younger, don't miss lunch." The little girl clicked her lips twice.
"Fry, fruit, eat, eh! Hey hey hey!" Zhu Wentian agreed.
Everyone turned and left the library and returned to the box lunch restaurant. Zhu Wentian and the little girl got busy making a set of pancakes and fruits.
The person who got it didn't eat it and stood aside to wait. Finally, after the director also got one, everyone happily took a bite.
"Is it delicious?" Zhu Xi asked the guards around him. There were also guards.
How could the guards say it was not delicious? They all nodded and chewed hard, using their actions to prove how delicious the pancakes were.
“I don’t know if they can adapt after they go out. Every store has a kitchen, so they have to cook by themselves.
The training lasted less than half a month. Some students were quite good and could do it right away. They had lots of work to do at home. "
Zhu Fang thought of the students who were sent out and were specially trained to chop vegetables, stir-fry, boil, stew, fry and steam. He didn't expect them to know how to cook.
(End of chapter)
