After several nights of instruction in basic knowledge, the girls' attitudes changed from initial skepticism to making good progress after applying the knowledge. Their daily earnings were steadily increasing, and their enthusiasm for learning was also rising.
Ruan Meng asked them to come back and tell her about the problems they encountered each day. Ruan Meng would provide the girls with her own methods as a reference, and the girls suddenly understood.
In the following days, Ruan Meng went to Manager Yu again and asked him to arrange for his most skilled introducer to give the girls a few extra lessons...
Since then, the girls have had nothing left to ask Ruan Meng. Even A Yuan heard praise for the girls from the steward, who said they handled the situation with ease and were completely different from other girls.
The girls' wages increased from a few dozen coins initially, to several hundred coins, and eventually to a few taels of silver a month...
The threshold of the school was almost broken by the crowd of villagers.
Several girls who were originally engaged but not yet married were also sent by their families to study.
Fengjia Village School has been completely renovated.
The two classrooms that were originally attached to the Song and Fan families have now been divided into two parts.
According to the Ruan family and the village chief, the people of Fengjia Village originally gathered in this area, which was where the children went to school.
Ruan Qian no longer teaches specific content; instead, he is responsible for developing the students' learning plans. The teacher invites several close friends to the meeting via letters.
These individuals had secretly helped the Ruan family during their exile.
Ruan Qian was worried that they would be implicated, so he did not take the initiative to contact them. Six months after arriving on the island, he received a fake letter from the other party through the merchants who had landed on the island.
When Ruan Qian learned that the other party intended to visit, he wrote a letter inviting several of his illegitimate sons, who had no ambition for officialdom and were not valued by their families, to come and teach him.
The other party came gladly, originally intending to share weal and woe with Ruan Qian, but after seeing the state of Fengjia Village...
In an instant, we arrived at a paradise on earth.
They even blamed Ruan Qian for not letting them come sooner.
The able-bodied men of Fengjia Village returned home one after another after less than ten days of the school's operation.
Surprisingly, they heard that newly registered villagers were willing to send their daughters to study here...
But the real problem lies with his own wife.
The village's collective planting and breeding business has grown bigger and bigger, with the men responsible for planting various vegetables and raising livestock such as cattle and sheep.
Sister-in-law Song and Sister-in-law Fan hired almost all the women in the village to make braised dishes, grilled squid, seaweed rolls, grilled nori, grilled shrimp, grilled scallops, and other ready-made products and snacks...
Sister-in-law Fan led the village women to make oyster sauce, cooking wine, broad bean paste, fermented bean curd sauce, garlic sauce, sesame paste, and other products to supply the Sun family's shop.
The shops purchased by the Sun family are now bustling with activity, and the street where the He family's restaurant used to be located has become a main street with a constant stream of pedestrians.
As mentioned earlier, the school in Fengjia Village was expanded.
Besides recruiting students from the village, since they discovered that girls could not only earn money, but earn a lot of money, far more than the dowry obtained through marriage, and even less than the commission a girl could earn in a shop for a few months...
The villagers were no longer in a hurry to arrange marriages for the girl.
The age limit for marriage and childbearing in Fengjia Village has been extended.
Magistrate Deng and the county clerk even laughed, saying that changing customs and habits is so simple with the Ruan family around.
Seeing that everyone in Fengjia Village was making money, it was one thing for adults to make money, but even children who had learned to read and were just adults could make money. What was even more infuriating was that girls who had just reached the age of marriage could earn several taels of silver a month!
The other villages were not just envious, they were absolutely furious!
Every day, they do nothing but plead with Village Chief Feng and Ruan Qian, or stage a sit-in at the county government office, throwing tantrums and making a scene just to get their children into school!
Of course, they refused to pay tuition fees. Like the children in Fengjia Village, they were willing to pay for their meals by giving seafood.
In fact, Ruan Qian had already softened his heart ever since someone came looking for him.
Ruan Meng understood her elder brother's character. He was a broad-minded person who was willing to use his knowledge to influence the people. Perhaps he wouldn't see results immediately, but such things always require a start before you can persevere and eventually see results.
Without saying a word, Ruan Meng directly asked Feng Yun and Feng Xi to build a house, with the cost to be borne by their own family.
Ultimately, through the coordination of Magistrate Feng, all school-age children in the county were allowed to study at the Fengjia Village School, with equal fees and treatment. They were assigned to classes based on age and gender, without distinction based on village affiliation.
The villagers from the other three villages went too far, actually wanting to receive almost free medical care like the villagers from the Feng family, with Ruan Meng and Du Xiaocan treating them.
Without mentioning it to Village Chief Feng and Ruan Meng, Magistrate Deng directly ordered his yamen runners to pour water on the ground as a reminder to look in the mirror.
If you're willing to pay, you can see a doctor anywhere. Always trying to take advantage, even if you're not pretty, you still dream on!
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