After a brief rest, Chunxi told Tian An that they had bought thirty-six children this time, thirty of whom were girls and only six were boys.
Including the eighteen people that Deng Xue and her friends brought back earlier, and Lixiang and her daughter, a total of fifty-six people were bought this time.
"Miss, when we left, new refugees continued to gather at the city gate. Should we continue to buy people?" Chun Xi asked.
She and Mangzhong were also bought by Tian An while fleeing famine. She empathized with the refugees and always hoped that they could all be saved, especially the girls.
Women are inherently weak, and people in the world tend to favor boys over girls, so they are always the first to be abandoned when disaster strikes.
Tian An said without thinking: "Buy it!"
Now, besides Li Xiang and her daughter, they only have fifty-four children, enough to open a class. It is definitely not possible to build such a large academy to teach only these few people.
When she wanted to build the college, she thought about enrolling children from poor families for free. Now it would be better to directly accept the unwanted children.
It not only saves her trouble, but also when these children have learned their lessons, they will remember her kindness in adopting them and will be more attentive when giving her work.
After getting Tian An's approval, Chun Xi quickly said, "Then I will go back to the city gate early tomorrow morning to buy someone."
Tian An nodded and said, "Bring more people and be careful."
"I will, thank you for your concern, Miss." Chun Xi said with a smile.
"Okay, it's getting late. Go check if Chen Qiang has bought his quilt. Go and make sure the kids can go to bed early!"
As soon as Chunxi received the order and left, Nanny Xiao went to find Tian An.
Her purpose was simple. She knew that Tian An was going to build a school for those children, so she wanted to recommend herself to be a teacher for those children and teach the first class in the academy.
"The young lady has spent so much energy and money to train them, but she can't raise some ungrateful people. I have to let them know that without the young lady, they won't have a good life. When they learn well and have a promising future, they must remember the young lady in their hearts."
Tian An knew that Nanny Xiao was doing this for her, otherwise who would bother to do such a thankless task!
She felt a little sour in her nose, and she stood up and hugged Madam Xiao, "Madam, you treat me so well."
Madam Xiao patted her back gently and said, "Young lady, you have a kind heart, but being kind doesn't mean you have to let others bully you. You are doing big things, so it is inevitable that you will neglect some small things.
Mammy doesn't have any special talents, so I can only help you keep an eye on these things."
Tian An naturally would not refuse Madam Xiao's kindness, so the matter was settled.
In the school, Chunxi arranged for people to build simple beds for the children with wooden boards on the ground, and also arranged for people to boil hot water for the children to take a bath.
These children are as dirty as mud figures. If they are not washed clean, the newly bought quilts will be ruined.
In the kitchen, Dashu, Qiushan and several guys from the guard team helped to carry water bucket by bucket into the big pot. They boiled water in several large iron pots at the same time. Just filling the iron pots with water made them sweat profusely.
After the water is heated, it has to be brought into the room, and then the dirty water from the children's bath has to be cleaned up. If it weren't for the frequent training by the soldiers during this period, my hand would probably be broken after doing all this.
With them helping to boil and fetch water, the aunts just had to bathe the children.
The wooden tub for bathing, shampoo and shower gel were brought from home by each aunt.
They made the wooden barrels themselves, and Tian An asked Chen Qiang to deliver the shampoo and shower gel to each household every month.
The children had no clothes to change after taking a bath, so Aunt Li discussed with Uncle Yonghui and asked him to talk to each family and ask them to lend a few pieces of clothes to their children to deal with the emergency.
After everyone knew about this, without Uncle Yonghui saying anything, they turned around and went home and asked their wives to pack the clothes and send them over.
After finally washing all the clay dolls clean, everyone was so tired that they couldn't even straighten their backs.
The aunts were tired after a day's work, and when they returned home at night they would go to Chunxi to get some cloth.
"We won't have much to do after we get back, so we can hurry up and cut the fabrics tonight so we can finish making the clothes sooner."
Chun Xi distributed the ingredients to them and said, "Aunts, please don't work too late. Everyone is tired today and should rest early."
"Oh! It's okay. It won't hurt to sleep a few hours less."
After distributing the cloth, Chunxi also took a piece of cloth and needle and thread and prepared to go back to her room to make clothes for the children who had stayed up late.
When passing by Tian An's room, she saw that the light was still on, so she went forward and knocked on the door: "Miss, are you asleep?"
Tian An, who was writing a plan, heard Chun Xi's voice and said, "You're not asleep yet, come in!"
Chunxi opened the door and entered the house, then closed the door quietly before walking towards Tian An.
Tian An looked up and saw her holding the cloth in her hands. He said casually, "You've been tired all day. You still have to go buy people tomorrow. Go back and rest! It won't take a while."
Chun Xi bowed and said with a smile, "Miss, you haven't rested either."
Tian An smiled and pointed to the stool beside him, "Since you're here, sit down for a while!"
"It's been a long time since I sat and talked with a girl like this." Chun Xi sat down as he was told.
While talking to Chun Xi, Tian An continued to write the construction plan for the new college in his hand.
Seeing this, Chunxi also took out a pair of scissors from the sewing box and started cutting cloth.
While chatting, Chunxi told Tian An everything the aunts had done today.
After hearing this, Tian An immediately asked Chun Xi to inform Chen Qiang and ask him to deliver bathing products to several households in the village again this month.
Then, a piece of cotton cloth was given as a reward to each family that lent clothes to the children, helped make clothes, or provided various kinds of help to the children.
Chunxi listened to Tian An's various instructions, quickly memorized them in her head, and worked tirelessly. Soon she had cut out a set of clothes.
Just as he was about to start sewing, Tian An stopped writing and said, "Let's stop here for today! You should also go back and rest! Don't make clothes anymore. Sewing at night will hurt your eyes."
"Then I will wait for you to rest first."
Chunxi put down the cloth, helped Tian An clean up the papers, pens and waste paper balls on the table, and then went to make the bed before leaving with her own cloth.
After returning, she looked at the moon in the sky, and finally listened to Tian An's words and stopped sewing.
Before dawn the next day, Chen Qiang and Chun Xi set off back to the city with Xiaokang, Xiaoqi, Tian Kai and Tian Zhuang, who were still going to school.
Because Zhao Yiming passed the imperial examination, he had some time off, which allowed him to take advantage of this time to accompany Tian An to implement the construction of the college.
The two of them first discussed the site selection with Mr. Han and An Rong. After roughly deciding on a few places, they went to inspect them one by one and finally chose a piece of land not far from the village.
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