Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 223 Harvest Route
"My personal plan is this: while you teach the children, you can also teach some adult women. They can't take the imperial examinations, but they can't read and write, so I plan to give them a chance."

Xia Lin was explaining the significance of having them open this class. It was time to give Miss Tingyun some value. He said seriously and solemnly, "The master once said that women can hold up half the sky. I don't ask you to hold up half the sky, but at least live like a human being for the time being. I find that women are increasingly not treated as human beings in this world. They don't treat you as human beings, so you have to treat yourselves as human beings."

The source of this statement is the scene of collecting food during disaster relief. If the men in the family came to collect the food, there was a high probability that these men would take the food for themselves. The key point is that the women and children did not think there was anything wrong with this.

In other words, it was class Indianization caused by the aristocratic families. After the ideological stamp was stamped, those women did not regard themselves as human beings. This forced Xia Lin to propose to manage the old, weak, women and children separately from the young and strong men, and in the later period, only women, children and the elderly could receive relief, so that the men could leave a bite for these vulnerable groups in order to have food for the next meal.

So even if Xia Lin is not yet able to fight the whole world, he must at least plant the seeds. He doesn't expect to be able to turn the tide like that man, but at least he has to ignite his flame.

So he spent the whole afternoon praising Miss Tingyun, which made her blood boil, as if she had transformed herself into a great figure who could pull all the miserable women in the world out of the fire pit.

But to be honest, Miss Tingyun has a really thin waist, and her waist-to-hip ratio is amazing. Otherwise, how could she become an Oiran in a place like the capital? Even the little princess of Silla next door is not as worth as her. Now it seems that her claim does make sense.

"So can we start now?"

"Sure, I can directly approve the place for you under the official account, but there is one thing, this matter is not only tiring but also requires extreme patience. Before, you faced a group of stinky men who wanted to suck your dick, but in the future, you will face a group of little brats who you can't understand at all."

Xia Lin gave her a heads-up in advance. After all, they have a hundred tricks to deal with nasty men, but they only have a few tricks left to deal with nasty kids.

"It's just a trivial matter, not worth mentioning." Miss Tingyun raised her head and said proudly, "I have a good temper, no one can get past me."

"Then let's try, but what will the troupe say? You are the mainstay of the troupe, don't do anything stupid, you still owe a hundred thousand taels."

"Why are there still so many!?"

"You don't calculate the interest? This is not even including the compound interest. It's a favor from the master that you don't owe 300,000 taels."

"Then just kill me. I can't afford it." Miss Tingyun spread her hands and started to act like a spoiled child: "If you are willing to send me to your thousands of troops, I will consider myself dead. It doesn't matter."

Xia Lin tilted his head and looked at her: "No, you were quite unruly before, how come you act so naturally now?"

"Think it through. If it were someone else, I wouldn't dare to do that. As for you... you can't bear to leave me." Miss Tingyun raised her little face proudly: "Compared to Xiaoyue, you like me more, right?"

As she spoke, she supported her hands on Xiao Xia's legs, bent down and put her face forward, the hairpin on her head swayed, constantly reflecting the light of the setting sun.

"Wow, you're an oriental succubus." Xia Lin pushed her face aside and said, "Don't try that on me."

"You really don't understand romance." Miss Tingyun sat back down. "Now I have to open that calligraphy class and perform to make money. I'm not an iron man. What do you think I should do?"

Xia Lin thought for a while and asked, "Do you take a bath normally?"

After hearing this, Miss Tingyun looked at Xia Lin as if he were mentally retarded, and then took the initiative to move closer to him: "You can smell it yourself, I just took a shower before coming here."

Xia Lin leaned over to smell it, and it was indeed fragrant. He hummed and said, "Next, I plan to start selling the things that I haven't taken out before. Fuliang wants a lot of money. You come to help me with research and development. When the products are good, I will give you a share of the profits."

"But I can't." Miss Tingyun finally showed an embarrassed expression: "I'm not as good as Xiaoyue in this aspect."

"Then you are no match for her. If you disagree, I will go find her."

"I'm prettier than her!"

Xia Lin sneered: "If she hears it, she will tear your mouth to pieces. Okay, don't leave tonight. After dinner, come with me to the workshop for a walk."

"Oh..." Miss Tingyun's heart skipped a beat when she heard this. Born in that kind of place, how could she not know what the three words "don't go" meant.

Workshop? She didn't know what a workshop was. Maybe these officials liked something different.

But she didn't expect Xia Lin to actually take her to the street to have a simple meal, not a particularly high-end one, just wontons, fried noodles, and meat sesame cakes at a roadside stall...

These were things that she had never bothered to eat, but this noble man ate them with gusto.

"If you don't eat, you'll starve to death at night." Xia Lin slurped the cold noodles and drank a bowl of soup: "What class are you? You don't like such good food, do you?"

Miss Tingyun quickly picked up the bowl and started eating, but she, who had always lived a life of luxury, really didn't like these inferior foods. But she didn't dare to disobey Xia Lin, so she could only eat it all bit by bit.

"After you finish eating, come with me to the workshop." Xia Lin gave her the money and tugged at her sleeves. "I'm not saying anything bad about you, but people like you should be thrown into a famine-stricken area and starve for seven or eight days. By then, your eyes will light up when you see leaves."

Following Xia Lin for a walk after dinner, I heard Miss Yun curiously say, "Sir, sir, how are you different from those officials? They usually eat good food. When they eat carp, they only eat the belly and face, and when they eat sheep, they only eat lamb meat."

"I'm just a book boy who grew up eating slop in Luoyang City. I can't afford those good things. Eating meat every few days is enough. Extravagance doesn't suit my status." Miss Tingyun hesitated several times. She had seen many officials who came from poor families and were much more vicious than those from decent families. But in knowing Xia Lin for so long, he was indeed a bastard sometimes, but it seemed that she had never seen him accumulate wealth or live a luxurious life. The last time she saw him, he was eating mulberries with that cowherd boy at the foot of the wall.

"You can't say that, sir. The book boy at that time is now the Marquis of Baili. Besides, this place was made better because of you, sir. What's wrong with you eating something good?"

Xia Lin looked up at the stars, then smiled and said, "It's a good thing you weren't chosen to be a concubine to the emperor. By your standards, you'd be a demon concubine."

Miss Tingyun curled her lips and said, "I was so close to becoming the Crown Princess... but unfortunately, my father fell from power before I could accomplish my goal."

Xia Lin glanced at her but didn't say anything. He just walked away silently, then turned back and said to Tingyun, "There is nothing in this world that can test me."

Tingyun: “???”

Soon, they arrived at Xia Lin's R&D workshop, which was a secret base. It was usually where he conducted tests on mobile phones. Glass, cement, various acids and alkalis were all produced in this place. It was considered Xia Lin's super secret base.

"come in."

Xia Lin turned on the light, and the room suddenly became bright. This was the only place in the world with electric lights. The power source came from several water wheels outside. The filament was made of bamboo charcoal, the base was sealed with ceramic and resin, and the lampshade was made of glass. It was not a vacuum inside but filled with carbon dioxide.

When the lights came on, Miss Tingyun was so startled that she staggered back and almost fell. Fortunately, Xia Lin grabbed her collar.

"You're so scared."

"What kind of magic is this..."

Miss Tingyun looked carefully at the lamp hanging on the wall. This thing was countless times brighter than candles and torches, but it made people feel uneasy just looking at it. It was too bright, abnormally bright.

"It's just a trifle." Xia Lin walked up to a platform and said, "I'm planning to develop something that can earn a woman money. I need your advice. Don't touch me!"

At this moment, Tingyun's hand went up, and the moment it touched the glass cover, she screamed and withdrew her hand. A red spot suddenly appeared on her slender fingers.

"You owe it to me."

Xia Lin took her to a cabinet, rummaged around inside, found the paste he had made earlier, opened it, smelled it, and then applied it on her hands.

"So hot..."

"Nonsense, how can an incandescent lamp not be hot?" Xia Lin held her hand under the light and looked at it: "It's okay, not serious."

"What is this? It smells so good." Tingyun sniffed the scent on his hand: "Ointment?"

"No, it's used to clear away heat and repel mosquitoes. A lot of herbs are added to it. You can call it cooling oil."

"Yeah, it's really refreshing."

Xia Lin looked back at her for a while, then said, "Apply this, and be careful not to rub that place when you go to the bathroom."

"Why?" Miss Tingyun smelled her fingers, her eyes full of eagerness to try.

Xia Lin stroked his chin and thought for a moment, then rubbed some more on her hand: "Since you are so curious, go and try it now."

"Huh? Now?"

"Ah."

I have to say that Miss Tingyun was really curious. She actually went to try it out. Needless to say, there was some excruciating screaming. But the location was too private, so when she came out she was already in tears.

She bit her lips and her face flushed. Every step she took felt like she was walking on the edge of death. However, the intense pain was accompanied by an uncontrollable but indescribable feeling...

"All wiped off?"

"Um……"

Xia Lin clapped his hands with admiration: "You are such a talented person."

(End of this chapter)