Ms. Cui didn't speak for a long time.

There were not only children in the shrine, but also widowed women who had been kicked out and had no livelihood, and some widowed elderly people. It was just because of this smallpox epidemic that the survival rate of children was higher, so more children were brought in.

The number of people in the shrine now is about four times that before the disaster.

Ms. Cui took over Shantang because she felt that Yang Heshu was too tired and she really felt sorry for the children there.

But she thought that ensuring they had enough food and clothing, and letting them go home and divide their fields when they were fourteen years old was already the limit, but Bai Shan said, she also wanted to hire a husband for them?

Mrs. Cui rubbed her forehead, feeling that her dowry might be at risk.

However, because this was Bai Shan's suggestion, she still asked, even though she had a headache: "Do you want to ask your husband to teach them how to read and write?"

"It's too expensive to study and read, but if my sister-in-law deliberately selects a few particularly smart and clever people and trains them, she might be able to help her in the future."

Ms. Cui raised her eyebrows, "Aren't you literate?"

Bai Shandao: "You can teach them some carpentry, sewing or embroidery, good arithmetic, and farming. They can all learn these."

Ms. Cui was surprised, "Farming?"

Bai Shan nodded. Seeing her surprised face, he also looked surprised, "Sister-in-law, you don't think they all farm, right?"

He said: "Farming is not that easy. They are still children. They must not have had time to learn, such as the farming season, when to sow, when to transplant, 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 the old farmers."

"If their parents and elders were still alive, they would naturally learn these things little by little through work, but now that they have lost their relatives, they definitely don't know these things."

Ms. Cui: ...She thought it was something everyone knew, after all, she just had to follow it.

Bai Shan didn't think so. He grew up in the village, and even if he saw it once a year, he would always make wrong judgments in the second year.

Even now, he still can't understand why his father-in-law can squat on the edge of the field and touch a handful of soil to know when to plant, and the frost will not knock the seeds away.

However, Brother Zhou can learn this skill, while Brother Zhou said bluntly, "Only my eldest brother, second brother and third brother have learned this skill. I haven't learned it yet."

Lao Zhoutou said directly: "If the fourth, fifth and sixth sons are allowed to farm the land themselves, they will have to patch up and starve in less than three years."

Obviously, farming is not something everyone can do. Even Zhou Lang and his friends cannot complete an entire farming season independently after so many years of farming.

"Since we want to allocate land to them for farming when they turn fourteen, we have to ensure that they can farm their own land."

Bai Erlang sympathized with the children in the charity hall and said, "Farming is very hard."

Liu Huan and Yin You had never had sex before, so they could 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 or thought, will it cost a lot?

The two people who are not eating meat can't understand. After all, they are born to study. This is a must, a must. They know that most children rarely study because studying costs money, but aren't there Mr. Yang and Mrs. Yang?

?

It shouldn’t cost them much money, right?

Doing good deeds, Liu Huan received the luggage from his family and had a lot of money. He said generously: "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 Mrs. Cui: "Sister-in-law, you can discuss with each family. Each family will send a few people who can read, do arithmetic, embroidery, tailoring, and carpentry to teach the children in the charity hall.

It shouldn't be difficult. If you are now old 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 are fourteen years old, you can return to the village and allocate the fields and grain farming tools.

You don’t have to worry about supporting yourself anymore.”

Ms. Cui felt that this was a big project, but she was inexplicably excited.

She turned around twice and then said: "Your idea is good, you can wait for me to think about it and then decide."

If you want to do this, you have to do it for a long time, not just one or two years, but at least twelve years, or even longer.

But they may not be able to stay in Xiazhou for such a long time, so rules must be formed so that even if they leave, this matter can continue. Otherwise, things will stop as soon as they leave, and the children who have learned half of their studies will be left without a place.

By then...

Ms. Cui pondered.

Seeing that she was thinking, Manbao and the others stopped disturbing her and turned around to leave.

After leaving the yard, Manbao asked them, "Where have you been today?"

Bai Shandao: "I just walked around the city. We went through the streets to arrange for patients. I knew that some people were resentful of Senior Brother Yang, so I wanted to see how Senior Brother Yang comforted them. As a result, I walked

We walked to the shantang."

He said: "Sister-in-law Xue is right, there are many more people in the charity hall than before. I remember that the charity hall was used 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 have lost their parents and are living outside. There are also some who were kicked out after their fathers or mothers died, and even more..."

He paused and then said: "My parents are still there but they were abandoned."

Man Bao was stunned and asked: "Why?"

Bai Erlang was indignant, "Because they have too many pockmarks on their faces."

He is still angry now, "We stayed in the charity hall for a day, and there were nine children there who were abandoned by their parents because they had too many acne marks on their bodies."

Bai Shan also sighed. At that time, he felt that people were lucky to be alive. Who would have thought that after surviving, someone would abandon their children for such reasons?

"The steward of the charity hall said that he retrieved the children when they were first thrown away, but they were thrown away again later. Three of them were thrown directly into the forest, and they were picked up by mountain people who went into the mountains to look for wild vegetables.

, so nothing happened," Bai Shan said: "Because of this incident, Senior Brother Yang arrested several people, but he didn't let them take the children back. Instead, he sent the children to the charity hall and did it for them.

Cut off the book."

It was also because Yang Heshu intervened that the steward only mentioned them specifically when they were visiting the children in the charity hall.

Bai Shan asked Man Bao, "Can't the acne marks on their bodies be removed?"

The images of those children flashed through his mind. Although he would not be frightened, but... they had a really great impact on them. When he went to see them, the nine children were always alone together, basically

Don't raise your head to look at people.
Chapter completed!