Cui didn't speak for a long time.
There are not only children in the shantang, but also widowed women who have been kicked out and have no livelihood, and some elderly people who are lonely and widowed. It is just that because of the smallpox epidemic, the survival rate of children is higher, so more children are taken in.
Now the number of people in the shantang is about four times that of before the disaster.
Cui felt that Yang Heshu was too tired, and she took over Shantang because she really cared about the children there.
But she thinks that it is the limit to ensure their food and clothing, and let them go home to divide the land when they are fourteen years old, but Bai Shan said, do you still have to hire a husband for them
Cui rubbed her forehead, feeling that her dowry might be lost.
However, because it was Bai Shan's proposal, she still asked despite having a headache: "Do you want to ask Mr. to teach them to read and write?"
"Reading and literacy costs too much, but if the sister-in-law chooses a few particularly smart and clever ones to train, maybe she can help the sister-in-law in the future."
Cui raised her eyebrows, "Aren't you able to read and write?"
Bai Shandao: "You can teach them carpentry, sewing or embroidery, arithmetic, and farming, all of which can be learned."
Cui was surprised, "Planting the land?"
Bai Shan nodded, seeing her surprised face, he was also surprised, "Sister-in-law doesn't think they all farm land, does she?"
He said: "Farming is not that easy. They are still children, so they must not have had time to learn, such as farming time, when to sow seeds, when to transplant rice seedlings, when to fertilize, when to water, how to judge whether there are insects in the crops, and what Insects, you have to learn these things from Lao Nong."
"If their parents and elders are still there, they will naturally learn these things little by little during their work, but now that they have lost their relatives, they definitely don't know these things."
Cui Shi: ... She thought it was a well-known thing, after all, just follow along.
Bai Shan didn't think so, he grew up in the village, even if he watched it once a year, in the second year, he would always make mistakes in his judgment.
Even now, he can't understand why his father-in-law can squat by the field and reach out to touch the soil to know when to plant seeds, and frost will not knock out the seeds.
However, Brother Zhou was able to learn this skill, while Brother Zhou said bluntly, "Only my eldest brother, second brother and third brother have learned this skill, and I haven't learned it yet."
Old Zhou Tou said directly: "If the fourth, fifth and sixth children are allowed to farm the land by themselves, they will have to patch up and starve in less than three years."
Obviously, not everyone can do farming. Even Zhou Lang and the others couldn't complete a whole farming season independently after so many years of farming.
"Since we want to allocate land to them for farming when they reach the age of fourteen, we must ensure that they can farm the land themselves."
Bai Erlang sympathized with the children in the shantang, and said, "Farming is hard work."
Liu Huan and Yin may have never planted it before, and they can still understand the meaning of his words for the time being, and simply asked: "Why can't you just ask them to read and read?"
Man Bao, who had been silent all this time, said, "The cost is too high."
Liu Huan and Yin may think, is it expensive
Why don't the two people who eat minced meat can't understand, after all, they were born with the need to study, it is necessary, they must, they know that the children of ordinary families seldom study, because it costs money to study, but isn't there Mrs. Yang and Mrs. Yang?
It shouldn't cost much for them to pay, right
Doing good deeds, Liu Huancai, who had a lot of money after receiving the luggage from his family, said rudely, "Why don't I donate some money too, how much does it cost for them to study for two years?"
Bai Shan glanced at him and ignored him, and said to Cui: "Sister-in-law, you can discuss it with each family, and each family will send out a few people who can read, count, embroider, tailor, and carpentry to teach the children in the charity hall." It shouldn’t be difficult. Also, if you’re older and want to go back to farming, you can also ask the old farmers in the village to teach you for two years. When you’re 14 years old, you’ll go back to the village and share the fields and agricultural tools. You don’t have to worry about supporting yourself.”
Cui felt that this was a big project, but she was a little excited for no reason.
After turning around twice, she said, "You have a good idea. You can decide after I think about it."
If you want to do this, you have to do it for a long time, not just one or two years, at least twelve years, or even longer.
But they may not be able to stay in Xiazhou for such a long time, so they have to form a rule, even if they leave, this matter can continue, otherwise the matter will be broken once they leave, and the half-educated children will have nowhere to go. By the time…
Cui became thoughtful.
Seeing her thinking, Man Bao and the others stopped disturbing her and turned to leave.
After leaving the yard, Man Bao asked them, "Where did you go today?"
Bai Shandao: "Just took a walk in the city. We used to walk around the streets to arrange patients. I knew that some people had some resentment towards Senior Brother Yang. I just wanted to see how Senior Brother Yang comforted them. But we walked Walk to Shantang."
He said: "My sister-in-law is right. There are many more people in the shantang than before. I remember that the shantang was also vacated to accommodate disaster victims, but now there are more people living in it than during the disaster."
"so much?"
Bai Shan nodded, "Most of them are children who lost their parents and wandered outside, and some were driven out after their father or mother died, and some..."
He paused and said, "It's the parents who are still alive but were discarded."
Man Bao was taken aback and asked, "Why?"
Bai Erlang was angry, "Because they left too many pockmarks on their faces."
He is still angry now, "We stayed in the shantang for a day, and there were nine children who were discarded by their parents because they left too many acne marks on their bodies."
Bai Shan also sighed. At that time, he felt that people were lucky if they survived. Who would have thought that after surviving, someone would abandon their children for such a reason
"The steward in the shantang said that when the children were thrown at first, they found them by themselves, but they were thrown again later. Three of them were thrown directly into the woods, and the mountain people who went to the mountains to find wild vegetables met and hugged them. , Then nothing happened," Bai Shan said: "Because of this incident, Brother Yang also arrested several people, but he didn't let them take their children back. Cut off the book."
It was also because Yang Heshu intervened that the steward only mentioned them when they were watching the children in the shantang.
Bai Shan asked Man Bao, "Can't the acne marks on their bodies be removed?"
The appearance of those children flashed through his mind. Although he would not be frightened, but... it really had a great impact on them. When he went to see them, the nine children were always alone, basically Do not look up at people.
Man Bao frowned, "There is no way to get rid of acne at present..." Maybe she can discuss this aspect with Teacher Mo.