Otherworldly Days

Chapter 316

This year's season is early, and the crops in the field are ripening faster than in previous years. The golden fruits are golden, and people have smiles on their faces. , the rest is enough for the whole family to eat, and those who have a lot of fields at home still have surplus food, and they can sell it in the town for a few dollars.

Harvesting grain is the busiest time of the year, often a whole family, young and old, go to the field to collect the grain together, if there is a heavy rain in this season, the grain will be ruined.

At this time when the grain in the field is ripe, the men who come to work in Caojia Village are all worried about the harvest of the grain at home. Can't put it away, this is their family's food for a year, everyone is worried about it.

The big guy just started talking about the food collection at home, when he received the news from Master Feng that the boss would let them go home after work.The day before they got off work, all the money for their work was distributed to each of them, with a heavy amount of silver in their pockets, everyone had big smiles on their faces, thinking of taking the money home to give to their families daughter-in-law.

"The boss is really a good one. My old Liu has been working outside for so many years, and this is the first time I have encountered such a good boss."

"No, Mr. Cao's family is a good one."

"My boss treats us so kindly, but we have to work hard. If anyone is lazy, I, Lao Liu, will be the first to disagree." "Haha... count me in."

Knowing that it was the busy season of farming, Cao Xiangnan also gave three days off to the men and brothers who worked under him, and asked everyone to go back to collect the grain in the field, and then return to continue working. Even the wages were paid in advance.

Everyone's these are hard-working money, and what should be given is still given. Cao Xiangnan is not worried that everyone will stop coming back after taking the wages.Even if anyone wants to go back and not come, just tell him, he will also settle the wages and let people go back. These are what others deserve, and he cannot deduct them.

Because of this, Cao Xiangnan also gained a good reputation with this boss, and no one scolded him behind his back, most of them praised him for being a good boss.

Considering the problem that some people have too far to go home, the boss Cao Xiangnan personally told Master Feng to let him get off work half a day earlier for the men who went home from Lu Yuan, and let Lu Yuan go back first in the afternoon after finishing work in the morning. Get back before dark.

"You're just a good guy." Feng Guang has already fallen for Cao Xiangnan, why don't you find him something to do!Even after work here in the next few days, he still has no time to spare, and he still has to go to his old friend to ask how many people he wants to come.

The manpower for this new workshop has not yet been found, and it should be done with the manpower he has now hired.

"That is, I must be a good person, haha, old Feng, don't look at me like that, I will let Liu Ming drive you back in a carriage." Cao Xiangnan grinned, knowing that Feng Guang's dissatisfied eyes were accusing him Find him a job.

It's money that comes with work, isn't it?The most fearful thing is that there is no money to be made without work. How can anyone dislike having a job to do this.

For Feng Guang, he didn't treat Master Feng Guang badly at all, and he had to hold him well, otherwise he would make Master Feng unhappy and run away, and he would go there to find such a person who can take on multiple roles , The skilled master came to work for him?

"You kid will buy people's hearts, but it's good for the big guy to go back. The big guy hasn't returned home for a long time." Feng Guang glanced at the kid, not really angry, and picked up the big guy on the table. He drank the big bowl of tea in one sip, but he also laughed.

He is also satisfied with Cao Xiangnan's job of enlarging the guy for a few days. This kid still has a little human touch in his work.He respects him as a master, and he doesn't treat the men who come to work badly. It's no wonder that all the men under his work say that this guy is good. "Yeah, yes." Cao Xiangnan nodded. Two days off for rest, such a day is not enough time for some people to go back and forth home, most of them stayed here and never went back.

The houses in these places could not be built in a short while, and it would take a few days.Taking advantage of the three days at this moment, the big guys can go back, so they can take home the wages they have accumulated for several months to give to their daughter-in-law. This is a lot of silver that has been accumulated for several months.

The last time Shen Zhengyang mentioned to him about his old Mrs. Shen's birthday, young master Shen personally invited him, and he had to go. The gate of Shen's mansion is not something that anyone can casually step in. He still It won Shen Zhengyang's face.

So Mrs. Shen's birthday is approaching, and Cao Xiangnan has to rush to Nanyang.It just so happened that there were still some days left for the academy to have a holiday, and he planned to bring the evening breeze to go there with the children.

Cao Xiangnan came here today to tell Feng Guang that he is going to Nanyang. If there is no accident, they may go to Fengdu. Shen Zhengyang has opened a branch in Fengdu, so he can go to see it at that time look.It took a long time to go back and forth, so Feng Guang took care of the matter here. Cao Xiangnan threw it to Feng Guang without the slightest embarrassment, and said, "... I will trouble Master Feng here."

Before leaving, Cao Xiangnan had to give instructions one by one, and he was relieved of Feng Guang who had been working together for so long.

"You boy, I knew it would be no good for you to come, so you threw this big burden on me." Feng Guang heard that this kid had to go to Nanyang again, and it took him so long to leave, all the work was left to him alone. Responsible.While he was happy that this kid believed him, he also felt a headache because he was responsible for everything.

This kid has often traveled to Nanyang in the past year. Once there, all the affairs here are entrusted to him. Now that there are more people in charge, Feng Guang has gradually become familiar with it, and he can handle it with ease.

"Those who are capable work harder, and those who are capable work harder. Master Feng, you are capable." Cao Xiangnan just smiled, knowing that Feng Guang meant to agree, and he explained to Master Feng what he needed to explain without politeness. .

"Come on, don't bother to flatter me." Feng Guang nodded and agreed after hearing this, "Go, go, I will take care of the things here, you just go and come back soon."

This kid is now going to Nanyang more and more often. He also went to Nanyang when he was young, and finally returned to the small place of Fenshui.It's better to have a small place in a small place. If you have the ability, go to a bigger place. He sees that this kid is capable. This workshop is set up one by one, and the business is getting better and better.

It's also rare that this kid respects his little master as always, and based on this alone, he has followed this kid.

"Just trouble Master Feng." Cao Xiangnan smiled and picked up the tea on the table, replacing wine with tea, and toasted Master Feng.

I sat down with Master Feng and drank tea for a while, and explained the matter.

When the last day's work was over, everyone on both sides of the construction site and workshop was off work, and three days was enough for the big guys to go back and collect the grain in the field before rushing back to work.

At sunset, people who got off work went back home along the avenue, those who went back to the neighboring villages went to the other side, and those who went back to Caojia Village came to this side, pedestrians in groups of three or four, talking and laughing Go back in the direction of home.

The academy has not yet found a suitable person to be the dean. It is not easy to find this candidate, so the dean has always been represented by Cao Xiangnan, but Zheng Shubo and Zheng Daxiu usually come forward for most of the academy's affairs.After all, with the status of a scholar, Zheng Xiucai's words have some weight.

The academy only opened at the end of February this year, and all the students who came were sent from Caojia Village and nearby villages. Many of them sent their children here because they were young enough to be exempted from studying.However, this space is also limited, and the space inside is full, and the later ones will have to wait for the next year to start school.

The purpose of Cao Xiangnan building the academy at the beginning is to hope that every child can come to study. Now it is only in the initial stage, but the status quo needs to be changed step by step, and there is no rush. He believes that in the future, it will be better and better. good.

There are many things in the academy, and he is not alone in things here.When he set up the academy, he never thought of becoming the dean himself. Compared with just finding someone to manage the academy, if the academy falls into the hands of whoever manages it in the future, who would he cry to?It's better to stay in his hands for the time being and wait until a suitable candidate is found.

For the management of the academy, Cao Xiangnan has always adopted a fair and democratic way to manage this place. Everything in the academy is discussed by all the gentlemen in the academy at a meeting, following the principle of the minority obeying the majority. It is a good habit to start at the beginning, and it will be better to run according to this habit later.

This time, when the crops in the field were about to mature, Cao Xiangnan proposed that the academy also have a holiday and let the children participate in labor.The ancients all followed the principle of "keep your ears off the outside world, and read only the books of sages and sages", but they didn't know that this book was to be read, and this job had to be done. Those who only read and don't understand world affairs can only be called dead reading.

It is not an easy task to wash the brains of these ancients, but it is not a difficult task either.After all, it is thousands of years of education and thought, but it does not prevent him from instilling some ideas into these gentlemen, and then instilling them into the minds of the next generation of students.

At least on this point, Cao Xiangnan was successful. With his mind that has integrated the culture of China for 5000 years, as long as he wanted to do it, there was nothing he couldn't do.

In the season when the crops are ripe this year, the academy set a precedent for giving students a "busy farming leave" in the first year, which means that this holiday is for them to go back to participate in loving labor with their family members and help them clean up the land. The crops in the school, I have to submit an article when I go back to the academy.

Since then, this holiday has been maintained for hundreds of years. As long as this academy exists, this holiday has been passed down.

Therefore, on this day, the children in the school finished their last day of class, and the school also took a few days off for the children to go back.