Republic of China: Guandong Ginseng King

Chapter 392 The Foreigners Are Back

In August, every household is busy with the autumn harvest.

The Qu and Liu families owned thousands of acres of land. The farmhands, servants, and tenants were all busy, getting up early and working late to harvest the crops and transport them back.

During the busy farming season, everyone is working hard, so the food naturally cannot be too bad.

Just when the guys were watching the show, they caught several wild boars and black bears.

Chen Xiuyun told the kitchen staff to cook as much as they wanted and not to be stingy with the food.

You must ensure that the food is oily and filling so that you can have energy to work.

As the farm work gets busy, the wall reinforcement project has to be suspended. Fortunately, only the northern section is left. If there is no time this year, we can wait until next spring.

Chen Xiuyun said that she wanted to open a dim sum shop, but she is so busy now that she can’t do it for the time being.

However, Taohua did lead the maids and wives in the family to make a lot of mooncakes.

Qu Shaoyang arranged for people to deliver some to the people in the county government office, and also gave some to the people in the inspection office and the general office.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, the gold mine stopped working for half a day for a break. Qu Laokouer and Qu Jiang came back from the gold mine to celebrate the festival.

The farmhands at home also went home early to rest.

Chen Xiuyun and Meng Lanxin led the maids and wives in the family to cook a lot of dishes and make dumplings.

Everyone gathered together and had a lively reunion dinner.

Meng Lanxin has been pregnant for four months. She is in good health and has almost no reaction to being pregnant with this child.

The first three months went by smoothly. Now the fetus is stable and I can do anything without any delay.

With Meng Lanxin as her helper, Chen Xiuyun felt much more relaxed. The two of them worked together to take care of things at home and outside, and Qu Shaoyang hardly had to worry about anything.

The day before was Mid-Autumn Festival, and the next day was Gensuo’s birthday.

For children, there are not so many things to pay attention to when celebrating birthdays.

When she got up in the morning, she cooked a few eggs in the kitchen. Before Gensuo got up, Chen stuffed the eggs into her grandson's quilt.

After Gensuo and Genyou got up, the two children played with eggs while getting dressed.

After they put on their clothes, the two children cracked the eggs, peeled them, and ate them bite by bite.

Genyou is still young, and egg yolk is too choking, so I dare not let him eat it, so he only eats egg white.

Gensuo had a strong mouth and ate whatever was given to him. Soon he finished the eggs.

After drinking some porridge and eating a bun or something, I packed up and went to the school to listen to the teacher's lecture.

The school has moved to a new building, which is much larger than the previous one.

At Qu Shaoyang's instruction, the school recruited another group of students, who were basically children of the patrol team and neighbors of appropriate age.

There were so many children that Fang Xingwen couldn't teach them all by himself, so Qu Shaoyang simply paid a large sum of money to hire the teacher who taught Xiaozhi.

In addition, Li Zongbin and Sun Huanzhang were asked to take turns teaching the children to read and write.

These children study in the Qu family's school free of charge and are provided with lunch.

Qu Shaoyang also promised that if there are students who are very good at studying, he would find a way to send them to Fengtian Academy to study.

Regardless of the era, most people are eager to learn culture and read and write.

But most families live a hard life, so how can they afford to send their children to school?

The Qu family now runs a school, not only do they not charge any money, they also provide lunch, so many families send their children here.

Moreover, each family also told their children not to make trouble in the school. If they were naughty and were chased back by the teacher, they would be beaten. These children not only learned cultural knowledge, but also followed Liu Dongshan to do horse stance and boxing at a fixed time every day to strengthen their bodies.

In addition, Fang Xingwen had a good way of teaching children. Those naughty and troublesome kids who were originally naughty and unruly had all changed their ways and behaved more properly after one month in school.

Therefore, everyone was grateful to Qu Shaoyang, and everyone gave him a thumbs up when talking about the inspector.

"Sir, the commander of the Kuandian militia, Sir Chen has arrived with a large amount of goods. He is waiting outside and said he wants to see you."

That morning, Qu Shaoyang was handling official business in the government office when suddenly a runner came in to report.

The officer was talking about Chen Yunhan. When Qu Shaoyang heard that his second uncle had arrived, he immediately put down his pen, stood up and went out to greet him.

When we arrived outside the yamen, we saw Chen Yunhan and a group of people, driving more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages, waiting outside.

"Hey, second brother, why are you back at this time?"

"Oh, the explosives, guns and other things you wanted just arrived in Yingkou a few days ago, and I delivered them here." Chen Yunhan said, pointing to the long line of carriages behind.

“By the way, Anders and Eric, they both came with their families.

From what I heard, it seems that they also brought some skilled workers from the factory, quite a few people, you can decide how to arrange it."

As Chen Yunhan spoke, he waved to the people behind him, and then Zhao Guangzhi trotted over.

"Greetings, sir." Zhao Guangzhi stepped forward and saluted.

“Your Excellency, Anders and Eric have both resigned from the explosives factory and brought their families to seek refuge with you.

In addition, they also recruited seven or eight skilled workers from the factory, all of whom came with their families.”

When Qu Shaoyang heard this, he was very happy, "Okay, that's great.

Guangzhi, don’t go back to Andong this time, stay in Maoer Mountain.

Normally, you will be responsible for translation. When you have time, go to my school and teach the children to speak some foreign languages."

Qu Shaoyang had wanted to transfer Zhao Guangzhi here for a long time, but Chen Yunzhe had just left and Gao Jiangcheng took over the Anton assistant office. Qu Shaoyang was not very reassured, so he let Zhao Guangzhi stay there for a while longer.

Now Gao Jiangcheng has successfully taken over the assistant government office and is doing a good job. Zhao Guangzhi will be of great use if he stays here.

Since Zhao Guangzhi had surrendered to Qu Shaoyang, he naturally obeyed Qu Shaoyang's arrangements, so he agreed without saying a word.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Guangzhi took Qu Shaoyang to the back of the team to meet Anders and others.

Especially the newcomers, they were introduced to Qu Shaoyang one by one. They were all workers in every stage of production in the explosives factory.

After listening to these people's introductions, Qu Shaoyang thought about it and thought, well, with these people, basically the entire process of explosives production can be put together.

Of course, these people are only responsible for operations, and they may not understand the most core chemical principles.

But it doesn't matter. Qu Shaoyang knows a thing or two about these things. If we all study them together, we might be able to come up with something good.

“Anders, Eric, welcome back, and welcome everyone to Maoer Mountain.

Don't worry, since you are here, I will definitely not treat you unfairly, and I guarantee that your salary will be higher than before."

Qu Shaoyang followed Western etiquette and shook hands and hugged each of these people to express his welcome to everyone.

There are so many people, and they can’t all stand outside the yamen and talk.

So Qu Shaoyang ordered his men to unload all the goods from Ma Che Shan into the ammunition warehouse used exclusively by the patrol team.

Then, he and Chen Yunhan, along with Zhao Guangzhi, Anders and others, returned to the compound.

(End of this chapter)