Happy peasant girl

Chapter 242 Recruiting Apprentices (4)
At first, Lin Qingxi thought that there would not be too many female apprentices, but before the gate of the old Lin’s ancestral house was opened, there were girls standing outside. Keep it under control, and after the assessment, they can stay in Linjia Village.

"Mujin, are there many people outside?" Lin Qingxi set up a table in her yard, and she sat behind the table, just like a modern interviewer.

"Girl, let's say there are two to three hundred people, how many people should come in first?" Mu Jin asked.

"Let girls between the ages of 12 and [-] come in alone, and those who come with them wait outside the door without talking," Lin Qingxi said.

"Understood, girl!" Mu Jin followed Lin Qingxi's instructions and called all the girls outside the door in, a total of 320 girls who met the requirements.

These girls walked into the yard timidly, looking at Linqingxi they were also curious and uneasy, some girls were holding another girl's hand, it seemed that they were from the same village or acquaintances.

"Don't be afraid, I have some delicious pastries that I bought in the town. You can eat them right away, or you can eat them after I come back. I will reward those who can wait for me to come back with another pastry. " After finishing speaking, Lin Qingxi asked Qiangwei and Lily of the Valley to distribute a piece of delicious pastry to each of the children in the yard, and then they left.

However, Linqingxi and the others did not really leave, but observed the children's reactions in the dark.

The reason why Lin Qingxi thought of such an idea was that she once read a famous psychological test about children in the newspaper - "Candy Experiment", but she replaced the candies in the test with snacks.

She still remembers the conclusion of this psychological experiment that children who can delay gratification will have more self-control, better restraint of impulse and resistance to temptation, and they will be more tolerant and persistent in completing their goals.

The children in the yard were themselves on the verge of starvation, and if they could learn to delay their desire for snacks, they might be the apprentices she wanted.

Three quarters of an hour later, Lin Qingxi reappeared, and she fulfilled her previous promise. The girls who still held the pastry got another piece of pastry, and those children who ate the pastry also "eat" This gave them the opportunity to be apprentices in Nayuan.

In the end, Linqingxi asked Qiangwei and Linglan to count the number of children, and there were 210 in total. This number amazed Linqingxi, but also made her understand a truth, children in ancient times were really very patient.

Afterwards, Linqingxi registered these children and asked Qiangwei and the others to write the basic information of these children in a blank booklet, such as name, age, family members, home address, what they are good at, and so on.

After finishing these tasks, Linqingxi asked them to go home temporarily to prepare some clothes and bedding, and then come to Jiacun after three days. After that, they can only go home once a month, but their family members can visit them.

However, after everyone else left, Lin Qingxi found that three girls were still standing in the yard and did not leave.

"Why don't you go home?" There was no one waiting outside the door, and it seemed that their family members did not come with them.

"We don't have a home!" The three seven or eight-year-old girls all lowered their heads.

"No home? What's your name?" Lin Qingxi asked Qiangwei to take out the registration list just now.

"My name is Xiaoxiao!" the taller girl whispered.

"My name is Xiaobing!" said the thinnest girl.

"My name is Chun'er!" The girl who spoke this time looked very weak.

Lin Qingxi found three people on the roster and found that they came from different places, but the names of their father and mother were exactly the same, and the address written on it was unknown.

"You three are sisters?" Lin Qingxi asked.

The three shook their heads and said with a smile: "The three of us escaped from the prostitute. She wanted to sell us all to a brothel. We are all orphans."

"The matchmaker? Where is the matchmaker?" Lin Qingxi asked.

The three of them shook their heads together. They jumped off the carriage heading for the capital, and then escaped. They didn't know how far they ran, and then arrived in Fu'an County. Later, when they were begging for food, they overheard someone talking about Linjia Village recruiting girls. The matter of the apprentice, so the three of them washed their faces with cold river water and came here.

"Qiangwei, you take the three of them to Xiyuan first, and let them live there first." If a matchmaker comes over in the future, she will give the matchmaker some money to buy these three children, Lin Qingxi thought to herself.

Soon, the craftsman Jing Xiu said came to Linjia Village. He was an ordinary-looking old man, who seemed to be two or three years younger than Linyuanshan.Not only that, but the old man also brought ten people, all of whom looked like his apprentices.

These people are very respectful to Jing Xiu, even to Linyuan Mountain and Linzhong Kingdom, they are serious and efficient.

The female apprentices recruited by Linqingxi soon came to Linjia Village. The large grain warehouse in Xiyuan was already empty. After Linglan led people to clean it up, Linqingxi asked Baihua and the others to go to the town to buy a lot of wooden beds and Futons and stuff like that.

On the first day when the female apprentices officially moved in, Lin Qingxi asked Ling Lan to find a tailor to measure the size of each of their clothes, and then asked Bai Yang to go to Yunzhou Prefecture City to order two sets of uniforms for the apprentices. The top was a blouse and the bottom was It's pants.

Different from the female worker Nasole in the original Nayuan taught by the Ye family, these female apprentices were taught by Lin Qingxi himself, and he also set a very strict schedule and working time for them.

Get up at Mao every day, and then run around the stream garden for half an hour. After that, they wash up, wash the vegetables and cook by themselves. .

After eating at noon, Linqingxi began to teach them how to read, and after an hour, he taught them the most common embroidery stitches. After dinner, these female apprentices had free time. They could choose to continue to read, or embroider, Distributing their heads, Lin Qingxi let them do what they like.

Not only the female apprentices couldn't figure out why Lin Qingxi did this, but the people in Linjia Village, including the old Linjia, didn't know why Lin Qingxi taught these girls how to read and embroider.

"Xi girl, what are you doing here? I heard that your sister-in-law, the embroiderer over there in the embroidery garden, is already teaching them Hunan embroidery. Although they were given to you by Xuan'er, their surname is not Lin after all." When Tian was having dinner, Mrs. Ye looked at Lin Qingxi and asked in puzzlement.

"Grandmother, learning Hunan embroidery is not a matter of a day or two, and if you want to pass on a skill for a long time, you can't just rely on a few people, or just rely on people from one clan. Besides, I plan to let my sister-in-law and the others have their own embroidery. It doesn’t matter whether the surname is Lin or not by recruiting more apprentices.” Lin Qingxi didn’t figure it out at first, she and Mrs. Ye had the same idea at first, and felt that Hunan embroidery should only be left in the hands of Linjia Villagers. inside.

(End of this chapter)