In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 167 I’m finally going to be a father

Although the conditions for teaching youth culture are very difficult, Lin Rui still doesn't want to give up.

After all, the benefits of being able to kill time and learn literacy at the same time were too great, so I decided to call Mrs. Lu over to find out about the situation of the young ladies and maids first.

But after a while, seeing that it was Miss Lu who came in, she suddenly asked in surprise: "Why are you here? Where is your mother?"

"Go back to the commander, my mother is ill."

Miss Lu lowered her head and whispered.

After saying this, his eyes became moist, and he had no intention of visiting this tall, wide and impressive ice house.

"What, your mother fell ill too, is it serious?"

Lin Rui's heart tightened. Mrs. Lu was now his treasure. Once she died, there would definitely be problems with the army's logistics in the future.

"It's quite serious..."

Miss Lu looked helpless and her voice was choked with sobs. It was obvious that Mrs. Lu was seriously ill.

Lin Rui also paid attention to it, and after some questioning, he learned that Mrs. Lu, like him, was also worried about the young ladies and maids, and often ran out to check on the situation, and then she caught cold and fell ill.

"Let's do this. I'll have your mother brought here, and you two will live here from now on."

Lin Rui thought about it and then asked Namuzhong to go out and make arrangements.

Miss Lu was a little surprised. She raised her head and opened her mouth. Then she looked at the spacious and bright igloo, as well as the floor and blankets. She did not say any words of rejection after all.

After a while, Mrs. Lu, wrapped in a thick fur coat, was carried in. The two soldiers looked at the environment inside and then reluctantly went out.

When Mrs. Lu learned that she would live here with her daughter from now on, she was immediately frightened and unwilling to live or die. However, her arms could not twist her thighs, and Lin Rui did not give her a chance to choose. In the end, mother and daughter had no choice but to accept their fate.

"How are the conditions of those ladies and maids? Are they all okay?"

"Back to the commander, everyone doesn't come out much. Except for a few weak ones, everyone can still bear it. However, sometimes some Mongolians will come to harass them, but we use daggers to drive them away."

Mrs. Lu replied feebly, and then she realized that Lin Rui seemed to be ill too, and her tense heart relaxed a lot.

However, looking at Lin Rui's frail appearance, my heart was extremely complicated. I was both hoping that he would die immediately, but I was also worried that he would die of illness just like that.

"Who are these people harassing? Do you recognize them?"

Lin Rui didn't know her complicated psychology, but asked in a deep voice, maybe those Mongolians thought he was going to die of illness, so they were so cowardly.

However, I am also glad that I took precautions at that time and gave them all daggers. Otherwise, those Mongolians might have succeeded. After all, everyone was holed up in the igloo, so defense was impossible.

Mrs. Lu shook her head.

Apparently they didn't recognize the Mongolians who were harassing them.

However, seeing that Lin Rui still paid attention to and cared about them as always, the balance in his heart began to tilt toward hoping that Lin Rui would get better soon.

No matter what, she had to admit that only this thief could protect them and was willing to protect them. Once he died, their fate would definitely be extremely miserable.

"I plan to ask you to teach our Han young officers literacy and arithmetic. What do you think? Are those young ladies and maids competent?"

"what?"

"This... Commander, you must not do it. It's definitely not possible to teach outside in such a cold weather. If you let them teach in a snow house, this person will really get hurt... Commander, think again!"

Mrs. Lu was so frightened that her face turned pale again, and she got up from the ground in excitement. There was a hint of pleading in her tone at the end.

"I will strictly instruct those officers not to act recklessly. One person will teach three. It should not be too crowded when sitting on the ground."

Lin Rui thought about it and said, anyway, these young ladies and maids will be rewarded to these young officers in the future. As long as they are not excessive, it is okay to take advantage of them.

"Commander, three people are too many, why don't you teach each one?"

Mrs. Lu obviously understood this and discussed it carefully.

Miss Lu on the side heard that Lin Rui wanted them to go to the igloo to teach the teenagers how to read and write. She was frightened for a long time. Only then did she come to her senses and quickly said: "Yes, Commander, let's teach them one by one!"

"Hmph! You are really good at planning. One of you teaches the other, but it's just nonsense. I might as well just reward you to them."

Lin Rui said in a bad mood, it's a shame they dared to think about it.

This person can only teach 300 people at most, not to mention not worrying about the scarcity but the inequality. Not to mention the Mongols, I am afraid that even other teenagers will be dissatisfied.

After all, the rules are there, and these young ladies and maids can only be rewarded after being promoted to generals.

Both mother and daughter lowered their heads, knowing that they were too naive.

"Rui Lang, why don't you build some bigger houses? As long as they are as big as a stable, they can easily accommodate a dozen people. The walls are made of snow, and the roofs are filled with water and ice.

In this way, there is no need to light candles, and more rooms can be built so that everyone can take turns to come out and move their hands and feet inside. "

Seeing the mother and daughter with their heads down, and Lin Rui sitting on the bed with his eyebrows furrowed, Na Muzhong suggested after thinking for a while.

When several people heard this, their eyes lit up, and then Lin Rui said with some worry: "But the weather today is no longer what it was a while ago. If you want to build so many large igloos, you will definitely consume a lot of wood. Our wood Is it enough?"

"Commander, it should be fine. So far our wood consumption has been less than [-]%. Even by April next year, we will only consume [-]-[-]% at most, so our wood is still very sufficient."

Mrs. Lu quickly replied, but she didn't even slap her chest directly to assure her.

"Okay then, let's build [-] classrooms and activity rooms first. We will work for an hour after lunch every day and then go back to the house to rest. Women don't have to work."

There was enough wood, so Lin Rui no longer hesitated and made arrangements with a nod.

After discussing the matter, Lin Rui took the weak and sick ladies to live in his igloo.

This made Mrs. Lu and Miss Lu feel more at ease. They honestly chose a corner and started laying the floor.

Sure enough, as there were more people in the igloo, it became warmer, and there were books to read and activities to do, and there was even a hut connected to the next door. Everyone's condition began to improve.In the next few days, Namuzhong and Habeier will take advantage of the highest temperature at noon every day to instruct the strong men to build large snow houses.

As a result, everyone was scrambling to get work, including the women, who were obviously bored.

Since they could be built close together and there was enough snow on the ground, it only took five days to build [-] large snow houses that were three feet long, two feet wide and one foot high.

The four walls are directly made of snow and then smoothed. The roof is first laid with formwork, and then directly poured with a layer of water. Finally, the formwork is removed, leaving only small beams, which are as thin as glass. The transparent roof is formed.

Of course, the reason why it is so thin is that it takes too much firewood to boil water, and secondly, although the temperature is low, there is not much snow, so there is no need to worry about the snow crushing the ice.

After the construction, one hundred of them were used by Lin Rui as classrooms, and the remaining two hundred were used as entertainment rooms. For this purpose, more than 200 sets of backgammon were made out of wooden boards for everyone's entertainment.

There was no way, Lin Rui couldn't think of anything else to teach these illiterate people to play besides simple backgammon.

An activity room can accommodate up to 20 people at a time, and 4000 seats can accommodate 1 people. One batch is in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening. In a day and night, there are more than [-] people, and each person can take about seven or eight days. Go in and play once.

But even so, it greatly relieved everyone's psychological depression, and the crazy incident never happened again.

And one hundred classrooms, even if 30 people are crammed into one classroom, can only accommodate 3000 people.

Therefore, in addition to the battalion commander and Qianhu, Lin Rui only carefully selected officers with more than 2000 years of experience to participate in the training.

When studying, most of the boys sat on the ground on cowhide, each with a small wooden board and a piece of charcoal. The ladies were also only given a larger wooden board and charcoal.

As a result, every time after teaching, everyone turned into a black-faced Mr. Bao.

"1 is like a spear standing up, 2 is like a duck swimming in the water..."

At the beginning, the girls did not teach Chinese characters, but ten simple Arabic numerals. Lin Rui also specially adapted a song for this purpose.

The effect is also very good. In just a few days, 3000 people can basically write and recognize ten numbers.

The ladies then began to teach simple Chinese characters and addition and subtraction. Chinese characters were also simplified. Otherwise, if you want to finish learning Chinese characters, you would probably have to study them for years and years.

And when there were more people and it was in broad daylight, the teenagers also had concerns. With Lin Rui's strict order, they didn't dare to tease the young lady who taught them knowledge.

The other teenagers who had no chance to learn were naturally very envious. Knowing that everyone would have the opportunity to learn to read, everyone became more mentally balanced.

Mongolians are also very envious. Of course, what they envy is not that they can learn to read, but that these people can stay in a house with heavy snow every day.

If it hadn't been for the two hundred-seat entertainment room, I would have probably stopped working long ago.

Lin Rui would take the time to teach the teenagers a lesson when he had time, but he knew that his level was limited and he only took political and ideological classes and military knowledge.

But most of the time I spent in the igloo reading books and playing chess, enjoying myself.

"Rui Lang, in two months it will thaw and the weather will get warmer. Where should we go then?"

As the pressure of survival further eased, Namuzhong began to think about where to go after spring.

"Commander Lu, what day is it today?" Lin Rui did not answer immediately, but looked at Mrs. Lu who was kneeling on the ground and playing chess with several ladies.

"Come back to Commander, today is the 28th of the first lunar month."

Mrs. Lu and the others did not dare to play chess anymore, they all sat upright.

Lin Rui waved his hand and realized that they were continuing to play. Then he looked at Namuzhong and Habeier and asked, "Well, Madam, Beier, do you think we should go to Hetao or Mobei after spring starts?"

"Husband, do you need to say this? Of course I will fight back to the Hetao!" Hubbell said without thinking.

"Rui Lang, how about we go to Ningxia first?"

Na Muzhong thought deeply for a moment and didn't agree with going to the Loop.

"Oh? Why do you want to go to Ningxia?" Lin Rui looked at her in surprise.

"Rui Lang, you may be going to be a father." Na Mu Zhong stroked her belly and said with a gentle look on her face.

"what?"

"Is Sister Namuzhong real?"

Lin Rui stood up in shock, but Ha Beier said happily.

"Congratulations, Madam, Marshal..."

Mrs. Lu had no choice but to congratulate her unconscionably, and Miss Lu and several other ladies also hurriedly congratulated.

"Rui Lang, don't you like it?" Na Muzhong looked at Lin Rui nervously.

"How could you not like it? I was just a little too excited."

Lin Rui took her into his arms and said softly. He was indeed caught off guard by the sudden news just now.

"Then let's go to Ningxia, shall we? After our child is born, we can go fishing in the Loop!"

Na Muzhong felt Lin Rui's heartfelt love for the first time, and her tone became gentler.

"Commander Lu, will our food be enough to support our trip to Ningxia after spring starts?" Lin Rui did not answer immediately, but looked at Mrs. Lu again.

Although it was not the right time for Namuzhong to be pregnant, now that he was pregnant, he also wanted to give his child a stable birth environment.

"Commander, Ningxia is too far away. I'm afraid it won't be enough. When the weather gets warmer, our food can at most provide us with going to Hetao or Mobei, unless we kill the last thousand horses."

Mrs. Lu thought for a while, then shook her head and said.

Apparently he is already a qualified logistics officer.

But this was also forced. Lin Rui almost didn't care about the logistics. He left everything to them. He only asked about the results. If he didn't do it well or something went wrong, he would be scolded and threatened at worst. She works hard, so now it can be said that Mrs. Lu is more concerned about logistical matters than Lin Rui.

(End of this chapter)