Chapter 14 Chapter 14 Free Clinic (Catching Bugs)

In the end, Ding Pu was "forced" to take on this task and became the second servant besides Zhao An to have met Lin Si.

The other servants had different emotions about this, some were envious, while others spoke with a sour tone.

Zhao An came from Anjing, and they felt they could not compete with him, but Ding Pu was bought from Shizhou just like them, and Ding Pu did not work hard.

Ding Pu was already annoyed by having to do more work, and he retorted to all the innuendos made by the other servants.

"This blessing is for you. I'm going to tell Zhao An now that I'm quitting."

"I do want to...but how would I understand what a fire bed and a kang are?" the servant muttered to himself after being retorted.

There was no other way. In order to keep this wonderful job, Ding Pu started to turn things around. He worked hard to understand the principle of the kang and find the similarities between the kang and the fire bed.

Ding Pu even held a small meeting with Zhao An and Lin Si around the room that was to be used for the kang.

Then Ding Pu saw many drawings.

The picture clearly describes each step of making a kang and the specific matters. Even an illiterate person can understand what is going on. If you follow the above operations step by step, you will never make a mistake.

This made Zhao An and Ding Pu, two illiterate people, feel relieved. In addition, they now knew the principles of the kang very well, and they felt a little confident.

Ding Pu was also thankful that Zhao An was a good person and did not give him any trouble or give him a cold shoulder for interfering in the matter of building the kang.

After selecting the location, Ding Pu and Zhao An began to arrange other servants to do the hard labor and measure the dimensions.

Chun Yi was very curious and kept asking, "County Lady, is that kang really so magical that it can keep you warm just by lying on it?"

The servants in the county lord's mansion could use the charcoal provided by Lin Si to keep warm. Unlike the common people who were reluctant to spend money on charcoal, they did not need a kang as much.

Lin Si was reading the weekly manor report on Zuo Youjiao without looking up. "Well, wait until Zhao An and Ding Pu finish setting up the first kang, and then I'll let you try it out."

Chun Yi's eyes widened, and she said with a hint of embarrassment, "This is what the county lady promised me."

Lin Si continued to look down at the report. Chun Yi knew that Lin Si didn't need anyone around when he was reading, so she left on her own accord.

Although Qian Sui would give Lin Si an oral report every seven days, it was all about the overall management of the children.

Qian Sui could only recognize a few big characters, so she had no control over his studies.

Lin Si simply asked Zuo You to write a report and submit it to her every seven days. If Lin Si felt there was anything wrong, she would send someone to notify her.

"After the last fertilizer experiment, all the children were rewarded with rabbit meat. Everyone was very happy and became more serious about their studies. In Chinese class, basic literacy has been completed in an orderly manner. Math progress has been a little slower, but I still think that your previous lecture on the roundness of the earth during the labor and nature class was a bit inappropriate. Even if it was to test the children's obedience, you shouldn't say such nonsense."

Zuo You seemed to want to write something at the end, but finally crossed it out with a pen.

"The children are still writing on the grass and on the ground. They are very diligent and conscientious. I think we should put aside the midterm exam you mentioned to me before. After all, the children have not yet written properly on paper."

Lin Si put the report away.

What Zuo You said is indeed a problem. If we want to cultivate talents who can write and calculate, it is unrealistic to let them write on the ground and tree bark all the time.

Paper is expensive nowadays because the papermaking process is complicated, but it doesn’t matter. She has a golden finger and can improve the process to make paper herself, thus reducing costs.

Lin Si suddenly felt that it was so great to have a golden finger and have everything go smoothly.

Lin Si even felt that she could do a business by selling the cheap paper she made.

But Lin Si quickly rejected this idea. She had never done business before she traveled through the book, and she knew nothing about how to do business in ancient times. Not to mention the source of goods and sellers, she didn't want others to notice Li County.

This year, Li County will definitely have a higher yield than in previous years, and a much higher yield. However, under Lin Si's coercion and inducement, Liang Nian had no choice but to collude with her to conceal the truth.

The position of Li County Magistrate must go to Liang Nian, and Lin Si will not give Liang Nian any chance to leave.

So he decided to put the paper selling matter aside for now and wait until he met the right person and the right opportunity. Lin Si took out his six-year plan notebook and silently wrote down the item of making and selling paper.

Lin Si looked at the small notebook filled with her plans. At the top were a few words written from the bottom of her heart, even bigger than anything else.

"Lack of talent."

She really needs it.

The talent reserves are still primary school students, about the height of a bean. She is not so cruel as to employ child laborers.

Lin Si had just closed his little notebook and placed it in the compartment of his desk when he heard Chun Yi's crisp voice: "County Master, Zhu Shixi wants to see you."

Lin Si paused after putting down the notebook.

Zhu Shixi has now gone astray, and is completely different from the crybaby and weak girl in the original novel.

The last time she came to see Lin Si, she had just finished dissecting a wild rabbit. Perhaps she had made some major breakthrough. She held the knife in one hand, with a few drops of blood on her face and her hands covered in blood.

Lin Si was reading Dachen's history book at the time and heard her calling the county lady with a little excitement.

Lin Si subconsciously looked up, and when he saw her appearance, he felt his heart skip a beat.

Seeing Lin Si's expression, Zhu Shixi probably realized how rude she was. She panicked and put the knife on the table in the distance, then subconsciously wiped her face with her hands.

But the more I wiped it, the worse it looked.

Lin Si stroked his chest gently and said calmly: "Don't wipe it. What do you want to see me for?"

Zhu Shixi finally lowered her hand, her eyes lighting up again. "County Lady, I'm now adept at dissecting rabbits. This is the last rabbit."

All the rabbits in Li County had been bought by Lin Si. If Zhu Shixi wanted rabbits again, Lin Si could only ask Liang Nian and Zuo You to go to Shizhou to buy them.

"Just wait for a few days and take a rest during these days." Lin Si replied to her.

Now, not only the meat dishes that the children of the manor could occasionally eat were replaced by rabbits, but the meals of the slaves in the county lord's mansion were all replaced by rabbits.

Zuo You and Liang Nian were no longer surprised by Lin Si's strange requests. They had bought orphans, so why not rabbits?

Although Zhu Shixi showed a completely different personality from the original, Lin Si was somewhat relieved.

In the original novel, Zhu Shixi is described as a weak and tearful female doctor. She blushes when she sees the male protagonist and is delicate and weak. No one cares that under her beautiful appearance, she has been transformed from an official's daughter into a slave. She has suffered a lot but is smart and tough. No one cares that she has a high level of understanding in medicine and is actually a genius.

No one cares that her dream is actually to save the world.

Lin Si prepared herself mentally. If Zhu Shixi rushed in with blood all over his face or body, she must not be scared again.

This time, Zhu Shixi probably learned her lesson. She cleaned herself up thoroughly and even washed her hands.

I was mentally prepared, but a normal Zhu Shixi walked in.

Lin Si at this moment: ...

Zhu Shixi's eyes flickered. "County Lady, is there anything wrong with me? Why are you staring at me?"

Lin Si shook his head, "No, no, what are you here for?"

Zhu Shixi paused for a moment, then said shyly, "The county lady told me before that I should put my knowledge into practice and go to the grassroots more often. Now that it's cold, I want to provide free medical treatment to the servants in the county lady's mansion and the children in the manor. Is that okay?"

This is a good thing, Lin Si readily agreed.

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It's time to eat meat once every ten days.

The children in the manor had been looking forward to it since last night. When they ate meat for the first time, each of them had two slices of pork cut neither too thick nor too thin in their bowls, one lean and one fatty.

Half of the children were eating meat for the first time in their lives. They were amazed at the taste of meat. It was so delicious that it lingered on their lips and teeth, and was ten times more delicious than eggs.

Guo Han almost cried while eating. Although she was just a slave now, she was much happier than the days when she picked up filth.

The last few times they had eaten rabbit, they didn’t know how the cook cooked it, the taste was rich in sauce and flavor, each person had a spoonful of rabbit meat in their bowl, the children ate without even raising their heads.

After two or three months of raising them, the children in the manor had grown visibly, and some of them had even grown taller.

Guo Han didn't expect that before class, Grandma Qian came to bring him a message.

All the knowledge Guo Han learned came from the manor, so free medical consultation was an unfamiliar term to her.

She turned to ask Zhong Diyan, "What does free clinic mean?"

Zhong Diyan's pretty face showed some reaction. This Lady of Anping County actually cared about their health and asked a doctor to see them?

Are there really such good people in this world?

Zhong Diyan's initial self-proclaimed theory of being a death warrior had long since been refuted. He gradually began to learn to accept that providing children with food and clothing and teaching them knowledge were not really meant to kill these children.

But he didn't expect it to be this good.

The county lady only came to attend the labor and nature class twice. The first time was to teach them to cherish and respect life, and no matter what they did, they could not sacrifice their lives.

As for the second time, it was to tell them that the idea that the sky is round and the earth is square is wrong, and that the land under their feet is round.

Zhong Diyan initially disagreed, but when the Princess of Anping gave several more examples to prove that the earth was round, Zhong Diyan was unable to utter a single word of rebuttal and even began to doubt that everything he had learned before was wrong.

But now Zhong Diyan no longer wanted to care whether the ground was round or not. He replied to Guo Han: "Just let the doctor come and treat us."

Guo Han had only seen a doctor once in his life, and that was because Cong Yiner had a fever. The doctor told them that he would not treat a beggar without a hundred coins.

So in Guo Han's opinion, seeing a doctor is a very expensive thing.

But the county lady was willing to do such a thing.

Guo Hanjing was speechless, "Treat us?" But we are just slaves.

Guo Han did not say the second half of the sentence.

This news caused a stir among the children, and the topic of discussion suddenly shifted from whether today's meat dish would still be rabbit to what they should do when seeing a doctor.

As the only one who had lived a wealthy life in the past, Zhong Diyan was questioned by the children again.

In response, Zhong Diyan simply said, "You don't have to do anything."

“It turns out you don’t have to do anything when you see a doctor.”