The carriage quickly returned home. At this time, a lot of newly picked grapes were brought back to the house. Cao Xiangnan took a look and knew that these fruits were picked by everyone in the afternoon. Qi Wanfeng in the kitchen also heard the noise outside, and when he walked out, he saw his husband who had returned. From a distance, Cao Xiangnan saw the person standing there. He walked over, "I'm back." He said. "Well, I'm making dinner." Qi Wanfeng glanced behind and said.

Sun Bailian stretched her head out, said hello to Cao Xiangnan who came back, and got in again.

"I'm going to go see Brother Cao Gang and the others. Master Feng is coming over for dinner tonight, so I'll go and invite Li Zheng over. There will be two more people at home for dinner." Master Feng came over to talk about building a school, and Cao Xiangnan planned to go and invite Li Zheng over. He invited all the villagers to come over, and he automatically ignored the village chief and his men.

Qi Wanfeng nodded. There were many people eating at home, and the rice and dishes prepared were enough.

Everyone worked for him, so They could eat all the crispy food here, so Bai Lian wouldn't have to go home and cook another meal. He said, "There are quite a few dishes in here. Cao Gang and his friends went to the stream and caught a lot of fish and shrimp. My husband, take a look. Do you want to prepare a few more dishes? "

"Let me take a look." Cao Xiangnan went into the kitchen, took a look, and gave some instructions on how to make these things. Seeing that there were quite a few snails in the bucket, he asked, "Why are there still these?"

Qi Wanfeng took a look and laughed, saying, "Aren't they just a bunch of little ones who went to pick them up?"

"Haha, it's too late It's good to eat with wine." Cao Xiangnan bent down, picked up one, looked at it, and put it back.

After hearing Wanfeng say that the children went to pick fruits, Cao Xiangnan and Liu Baishu went to the kitchen. After searching for a while, they found a group of children in the orchard at the foot of the mountain.

"Uncle Xiangnan."

"Uncle Xiangnan."

When the children saw their Uncle Xiangnan coming, they all ran to him. He came over and jumped down from the tree as swiftly as a monkey. When An An saw his father, his face turned red and he ran while shouting "Dad."

"Xiangnan, Baishu, you are back." Gan Weilin was watching the group of children here. When he saw Cao Xiangnan and Liu Bai Shu came over and walked over.

"I just came back from the town. I came to see if the others are there?" When Cao Xiangnan didn't see the others, he knew that they were picking grapes inside. He was afraid that there were snakes and earthworms there, so he never went out.

"Yes, pick sour fruits over there," Gan Weilin said. "Then Bai Shu and I will go over

there. Please keep an eye on these kids." Gan Weilin is watching here. Looking at these little ones, Cao Xiangnan feels at ease as long as there is an adult watching over them. After saying hello to Gan Weilin, Cao Xiangnan and Liu Baishu walked over to where Cao Gang and the others were, and helped pick some fruit.

Baskets of fruit were brought back home, and the last batch After the transport, we did not go on.

Under the setting sun, the stream was gurgling, the fish were swimming happily in the water, and here a group of horses were leisurely drinking water and eating grass. There were two slightly smaller black and white horses. The usually bad-tempered Dahei became the younger brother and followed behind the white horse.

Dinner was served on the table and everyone sat down. Cao Xiangnan went to the table to pick up the food. Just as he was invited over, Master Feng also arrived. After hearing about the school building plan, Sun Yanshan and Cao Dapeng also stayed. Even Chen Hong brought her two children here.

By the time the children had finished their meal and went out to play, they were almost done with their meal.

The dishes on the table were removed and tea was served. I heard that Cao Silang's family was discussing the establishment of a school. This matter also concerned the education of their children. After dinner, Wu Yue, Li Mei and others

Cao Xiangnan planned to start building the school after the discussion. The more people involved, the better. Building a school was not just his own business. Many people came to his house . There were people standing and sitting, and the children were playing outside in the yard. It became a small meeting here.

Cao Xiangnan told everyone about his idea. This time he wanted to build a school not just a house for a few children to study, but a college. He gave the finished drawings to Master Feng and shared them with everyone. How to build the school.

"Xiangnan boy, you want to build such a big academy, it will cost a lot of money." Building a academy is not a small amount of money, and Li Zheng was worried about the money. I know that Cao is doing well in business and has made a lot of money, but if he wants to build a college, he probably can't do it without hundreds of taels of silver.

However, Li Zheng may not have thought that Cao Xiangnan never thought of asking someone to help him. All this money.

"Well, since I proposed to build a college, I have naturally thought about this problem. The money for building the college now and the expenses of the college in the future, all these problems involve money. Don't worry about it now. We Let's put it aside for later discussion." Cao Xiangnan smiled slightly, his face full of confidence, making people believe that money is not a problem for him.

"Let's talk about the problem of this academy now." Cao Xiangnan felt that it was necessary for him to put this The purpose of the academy was explained to everyone first, and then people were willing to spend money to build it. "When I bought the land, I considered building this academy in this place. Our Caojia Village is just outside, and the nearby villages are close to it. It’s not too far.”

"So when the college is built, not only people from Caojia Village can go there to study, but people from several nearby villages can also come here." In addition, when the road is repaired, they can go to Fenshui Town without any trouble. He had a feeling that when the academy was built here, Caojia Village would gradually move here, and people would come to build houses nearby. There would be no need to worry about this being an isolated academy

. It's like today. Schools are first built in remote places, but later everything is built nearby. By then, the school will be the center, radiating out in concentric circles, and people from several nearby villages will gather here. , a new place will be formed here.

"The construction of the academy will start this year, and it should be almost finished before winter. The school will start in March next year. By then, all the children over the age of four in Caojia Village will go there to study for three years. During these three years, the children will not need to pay for their studies. "For children aged seven to ten, they have to pay half of the tuition

, and they have to pay for the rest themselves. If a child over seven years old wants to continue studying in a financially difficult family, they can work and earn the money they want. "Cao Xiangnan doesn't feel guilty at all about using child labor.

I think when he was seven or eight years old, he would have worked for others to earn some food. Children in this world mature earlier than those in his world. After the age of seven, it is no problem for them to work. Come, go out and cut grass and collect firewood.

Li Zheng's face was full of excitement, tears in his eyes, and he said, "If all the children can go to school, there will be hope for our Caojia Village in the future. ”

He never dared to think that all the children in Caojia Village could go to school. As long as everyone in the village could have food to eat, snow in winter would not freeze people to death, and drought would not starve people to death, he would not feel guilty towards the villagers as the head of the village.

"Silang, in that case, what about the children from other villages who come to study? Can they also follow this standard?" Chen Hong asked.

If this academy is built, his nephews from his mother's side can also come to study. If it is free to study from the age of four to seven, wouldn't everyone send their children here to study?

"Well, those who come to study between the ages of four and seven are exempt from tuition fees, and they have to pay for other expenses themselves. Children from other villages also have the same standards as those in Caojia Village." Cao Xiangnan probably calculated in his mind that there might not be too many children between the ages of four and seven.

If they are from other villages, without a mandatory policy of studying, they may not necessarily send their children to study. Even if they don't have to pay tuition fees, some parents may not send their children to study because of other tuition fees.

Hearing this, the brothers from several nearby villages in her mother's family smiled, so that they could go back to her mother's family and tell everyone the good news.

But they may not know that this is just a pit for them to jump into.

Can all children study? Gan Weiqi looked at Cao Xiangnan with a little more interest in his eyes. Now that he knew that this man led the villagers to grow vegetables, raise chickens, and build roads, he felt that Cao Xiangnan's words were empty talk.

He was very curious about how he could run this academy.

"And I want not only the children to be able to read, but also the illiterate Han brothers in the village to be able to read and learn to read." Cao Xiangnan thought about this question carefully, and it was also a question he had always thought about. "During the day, everyone may not have much time to read because of work, but at night, it's good to have a little time to study. If you recognize two words a day, you will know seven or eight hundred words in a year, don't you think?"

"For several months in winter, everyone is idle and has nothing to do. At this time, everyone can arrange time to study. If it is not snowing outside, go to school. If it is snowing outside, stay at home and study by yourself." Cao Xiangnan found that people of this era live too leisurely. They eat and sleep all winter, and all their time is wasted. You can't work in the fields at this time, but you can use this time to go to school, right?

"Oh, then can we brothers go to school?" Chen Hong asked with a look of surprise when she heard that they brothers could go to school.

He is now in charge of the vegetable farming of the whole village for Cao Silang. At the beginning, he could still manage the land when the accounts were small, but later he felt the pressure as the accounts began to increase. Seeing that the children from his family came to Cao Silang to study, they would go home every day and tell him what they learned. He was also interested in listening. Later, after asking Cao Silang for advice, Cao Silang taught him a set of numbers and asked him to use them to record. He found that it was much better than before.

The other brothers standing here listening were also surprised, but some brothers said embarrassedly, "We are all old, why do we still go to school? It's not possible."

He was too embarrassed to face people.

"Well, yes, as long as one wants to study, anyone, no matter how old or young, can go to school." Cao Xiangnan said affirmatively.

"By then, reading and writing will only be a basic course in the academy, and we can also offer arithmetic classes. If we can hire skilled masters, such as chefs and craftsmen, we can offer cooking classes and carpentry classes. Not only children can learn these, but you can learn them too." Cao Xiangnan was thinking of letting everyone learn a skill, so that people in the village would have another way out besides farming. He said, "We'll make specific arrangements for these courses then."

"Oh, that's great. Let the children learn to cook from the master, and then they can find a job in a restaurant in the future." If they learn how to cook and then find a job in a restaurant in the future, they will earn a lot of money every month.

"After the child has finished school, he doesn't have to farm like his father and mother. If he knows arithmetic, he can find a job as an accountant, which is much easier than farming."

Several brothers discussed it and immediately felt that it would be beneficial for the child to learn to read and write, even if he didn't take the exam.