The late Ming Dynasty in the living room

Chapter 15 Uh...she's a fat lady
Liu Ji sorted out the recited data and replied: "85 items have been sent out. According to the total number of 800 items, there are still... 715 items to be done.

Now several tailor masters have brought apprentices and assistants. I asked Master Liu Scissor that they can make 40 pieces a day in the future, and it is estimated that they can be finished in 18 days. "

Liu Ji was illiterate, so he could only memorize a few figures, but he didn't know where they came from...Old Man Zhao?No, Old Man Zhao has a big opinion against him and just hopes that he will fall into the trap.

He must have consulted the tailors, Fang Yu thought.

Then Fang Yu looked at another old man. This old man's surname was Fan. He was not a refugee, but a "brick kiln expert" invited from the nearby Shiting Village.

The old man (actually he is only in his 40s) has red skin, which makes him look like he has an old career.

"In two days, the two brick kilns will be dug, and the excavated soil can be used to make bricks. Now it has been made for 400 yuan."

"When the brick kiln is dug, there will be almost enough mud bricks made. It will definitely be able to fill one kiln. If you give me more people, I can fill two more." Old Man Fan said with expectation.

According to Fang Yu's previous promise, Old Man Fan will be paid his daily salary, as well as a "technical consulting fee" of five taels of silver per month, and there is also a big bonus: a reward of ten taels for each kiln of bricks fired.

So he couldn't wait to drag everyone over, and it would be best to burn a kiln in one day.

However, this request immediately met with fierce opposition from Mr. Zhao: "There are less than 400 of us in total, and half of them are already working at your place. If you pull people over, will the homestead be destroyed? Water storage and drainage Is there still time to dig the ditch?”

Fang Yu waved his hand to stop Old Man Zhao, and then asked Old Man Fan, "What other difficulties are there?"

Old Man Fan said: "We still need refractory bricks."

Fang Yu asked other people present. They had representatives from various departments, such as Lao Cai, the tailor, and Lao Cui from the kitchen.The rest came to listen when it was their turn to take a break (half a day off in seven days).

Well... there is also a villain named Axiu.

Finally, Fang Yu stood up and said: "The problem of lack of people can only be dealt with slowly. People in the county are not very confident about us refugees and think we are lying to them."

"As for the supplies, you can figure out what exactly you need to buy here, and then we will go to the city to purchase them together tomorrow... There is another urgent matter that should be done immediately, and it should be done now."

Fang Yu said in a very serious tone.

Everyone is also thinking about what else is urgent?Then I heard Fang Yu say: "We are going to invite some scholars to come over and teach you how to read and write."

Old man Zhao: ...

Liu Ji and others:…

Fang Yu looked at their dull expressions and explained: "Now we only have these few things, and you can barely remember them. In the future, there will be eighty or one hundred things. Can you still remember them?"

"Just like Liu Ji, you must have memorized these numbers dozens of times, right? What will you do if there are ten or a hundred such numbers in the future?"

Liu Ji's face turned red.

In fact, he has recited it a hundred times since morning, and three times he forgot to ask Liu Scissors.

Come to a hundred numbers... Haha, it's better to just die.

Fang Yu left them inside to continue the discussion, and then walked out with A Xiu in his arms.

Axiu was as smart as a ghost, and she had already begun to beg for mercy: "Dad, Axiu doesn't want to read and write."

"Ha ha."

"Axiu is stupid, I still can't write the three words you taught me last time."

"I saw you wrote it to your uncle who is a sophomore in high school. He can't write, and you still called him stupid."

"...Axiu has gone to study, and there will be no one to play with sister Xiaoni. She will cry." (Pang Xiaoni, Pang Tiande's daughter)
"It's okay. I told Uncle Pang and asked him to send Xiaoni to study."

Axiu's struggle was ineffective and she immediately became dejected.

Fang Yu shook his head helplessly. This girl was actually very smart. She only had to write the words she was taught to write two or three times, and she had already learned addition and subtraction within ten.But she really hates studying. If she can't learn a few words, she starts to make excuses: Axiu is sleepy, Axiu is hungry.

Just as flexible as when I was a kid, Fang Yu thought.

He still remembers the final comment written by his teacher when he was a child: This student has a flexible mind, but his grades are not satisfactory. He probably has not found the correct learning method.

Before Fang Yu could reach his residence, he saw the second grade student coming over. When the second grade student saw Fang Yu, he said, "Then Dian Shi sent someone over again and said something, asking us to leave Lai in the next two days." Water County.”

"Don't say you didn't predict what you said." Fang Yu said.

"Yes, that's it!" The second grader nodded quickly and said, "He also said that the brick kiln he dug does not need to be filled, and he is willing to pay us ten taels of silver."

"Well, I didn't expect Master Dianshi to be quite generous." Fang Yu praised.

With Fang Yu's support, the second year of high school didn't take Wang Dianshi seriously. He smiled and said: "Now ten taels of silver can't buy one stone of rice, but you can buy two carts of black crotons."

Fang Yu actually never understood what kind of official Dian Shi was. Fortunately, he knew this in his second year of high school.

Dianshi belongs to the "unentered stream", that is, one level lower than the ninth rank, and is an official without rank.

According to official ranks, Dianshi ranked fourth after the county magistrate, county magistrate, and chief registrar, so they were all accustomed to calling him "Fourth Master" in their second year of high school.

Wang Dianshi, who was watching over there, naturally knew that Fang Yu and the others had made such a big noise outside the city.

Seeing the refugees starting to dig brick kilns and lay foundations, he also knew that the refugees were not planning to leave.

This definitely won't work.

There are so many refugees in Henan and Shaanxi, and almost all of them run towards Shuntian Prefecture, and Laishui County is right next to Shuntian Prefecture.

There are hundreds of refugees living today, and hundreds more tomorrow. Then someone will light a small fire...

So Fang Yu actually understands Master Dianshi quite well.

"Don't worry about him, maybe he just wants to scare us."

Fang Yu didn't take it seriously and asked instead: "What are we going to eat tonight? What delicious food did Lao Cui make?"

The second grade student said: "Tonight there are scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and beef roasted with potatoes, and the soup is seaweed and tofu soup... But Lao Cui is not here, so his wife is cooking tonight."

"Uh...she's a fat lady." Fang Yu's face changed slightly, and then he remembered that Lao Cui was still in a meeting.

"Dad, Axiu wants to eat instant noodles tonight."

A Xiu in her arms instantly changed her taste and stopped eating even her favorite tomato scrambled eggs.

"Um"

Fang Yu nodded and said to the second grade student: "Axiu and I are eating instant noodles together, please ask them not to bring food."

"Ding~ding~ding", the iron lump hanging at the door of the canteen was knocked.

"It's time to eat, it's time to eat, scrambled eggs with tomatoes! Roasted beef with potatoes!" someone shouted loudly outside.

The shed where the tailors made clothes was not far from the canteen. Hearing the sounds outside, Liu Xiangqian couldn't help but smile.

These days are the best days he has had since Liu Xiangsheng became a tailor.

When Chief Liu (Liu Ji) said that three meals must have meat, he didn't believe it at all.

Even if you go to a wealthy family, the first and last meal will be a little meaty.

(End of this chapter)