Chapter 3045 Are You Satisfied?
She looked at the stunned mother and daughter in a friendly manner and said, "How about this idea of mine? Since you have such ambition, I believe you will achieve great things in the future."
The young woman quickly said, "Sir, my family is poor and I don't have any money."
"I've thought of it, so come back to the county government office with me later. I'll arrange for you to work at the farm. Don't worry, the pay is 20 wen a day, with food and lodging provided. You can save your wages completely," Zhou Man said after a pause. "By the way, you're taking care of a child, so the daily pay is supposed to be only 15 wen. I'll make up the extra 5 wen for you. I'll also talk to Zhao Ming, and when Yue Xiu Niang and the others are giving classes in the future, the farm will give you half a day off. Don't worry, we won't deduct your money. How about it?"
Before the young woman could say anything, the onlookers were already praising her, "Master Zhou is truly compassionate..."
"You can earn money and learn knitting at the same time. You've really thought of everything."
"Your Excellency is indeed a good person..."
Young woman: ...
Princess Mingda: ...
She couldn't help but turn her head to look at Zhou Man. Zhou Man was already smiling triumphantly, and when he saw her looking at him, he raised his chin proudly at her.
Princess Mingda couldn't help but smile and nodded, saying, "This method is indeed excellent. Let's do as Lord Zhou says."
The guards removed the knife from her neck, but did not sheath it. Instead, they shouted, "Hurry up and thank the emperor and stand up."
No one thought the guards were vicious. They looked at the mother and daughter with envy, thinking that they had left an impression on the princess and Lord Zhou, and that they would have a bright future.
Then some people were moved and asked, "Master Zhou, do you think I can go and learn?"
"Okay," Zhou Man didn't refuse. "Same conditions as theirs, 40 wen a month for tuition, and you have to bring your own needlework and fabric."
"Sir, my family is also very poor. Do you think I can go to the farm to work?"
Zhou Man waved his hand and said, "Go to the county government office and register. If you meet the requirements, Zhao Ming will arrange it for you."
They stopped talking.
Of course they had been there before, but they were not qualified.
It’s not that they don’t know how to farm and raise chickens, but because they can’t accept leaving the county town to farm government fields elsewhere.
You have to know that the farmhands recruited by the county government only stay in the farm outside the city for a period of time, and then they will be assigned to various villages to cultivate government fields. Firstly, they don't want to leave the county, and secondly, they can't be farmhands.
The county government requires that the long-term workers should work until after the spring plowing next year.
But they also have their own land for spring plowing next year, so due to various concerns, they did not go.
Hearing Zhou Man's words that he still wanted to follow the rules, she thought that although she had given preferential treatment to the mother and daughter, she was still a long-term worker, so it was not actually against the rules. So she sighed and stopped insisting.
Zhou Man and Mingda then got into the car and went back, taking the mother and daughter with them.
They went straight back to the county government office. Zhou Man was also straightforward and said to Daji, "Take the mother and daughter to the county government office to find Zhao Ming."
A guard immediately said, "I will go with Daji."
This mother and daughter are so suspicious. I don't know whether they are trying to get close to Lord Zhou or the princess.
He felt that both were possible and both were suspicious, so he wanted to go and see for himself.
Mingda and Zhou Man walked hand in hand into the backyard of the county government office. Bai Erlang and Yin Huo were working overtime in Bai Shan's study. Hearing the noise in the yard, he immediately knew that Zhou Man and the others had returned. He immediately dropped his pen and ran out, "You guys are back?"
Yin Huo also slowly put down his pen and leisurely walked out. He went to the gate of the courtyard to see them, "Why did you come straight back here? Didn't you say you were going to eat outside at noon?"
Bai Erlang then remembered, "Yes, yes, didn't you say we should eat outside?"
Zhou Man first took a sip of the almond tea offered by Wu Yue, then sat down on a chair under the tree and said with a smile, "Guess who we just ran into?"
Both of them were curious, "Who?" Could it be that another acquaintance came to Beihai County?
Zhou Man paused for a moment before remembering, "I don't know who it is, but he's definitely not an ordinary person."
Bai Erlang and Yin Huo: ...
Bai Erlang couldn't help but ask, "Manbao, have you ever felt that since you became pregnant, you've been habitually dropping the second half of your sentences?"
Zhou Man said: "I'm giving you the opportunity to ask me so that you don't think I'm being noisy."
Bai Erlang: "Alas, I have endured it for twenty years. Do I mind enduring it for a little longer?"
Mingda couldn't help laughing and said to him, "Manbao is worried that she is too noisy now and the child will look like her when he is born."
Zhou Man sighed, "There's nothing I can do. If it was a girl, it would be fine. But if it was a boy, he would be too noisy and would be disliked."
Bai Erlang: "Okay, okay, let's skip this topic. Anyway, you and Bai Shan are both noisy. No matter who the child looks like, he can't avoid this. What is the extraordinary person you met like?"
Yin Huo also looked at them curiously.
Zhou Man started to describe the whole thing vividly from the moment the mother and daughter jumped out. Not only Yin Huo and Bai Erlang, but even Princess Mingda, who had witnessed it, and the palace maids behind her could not help but be stunned.
Zhou Man snorted, "How could I be fooled so easily? As soon as she started crying, I knew something was wrong."
Bai Erlang couldn't tell what was wrong with her and said, "Although she's a bit too ambitious and might even be trying to hold your reputation hostage, it's normal for people to be greedy. How is that a problem?"
Zhou Man said seriously, "Because she cries so beautifully."
Bai Erlang's eyes widened. Even Mingda looked at Zhou Man in surprise and asked suspiciously, "Is this why you suspect her?"
"Yes," Zhou Man said as a matter of course, "Not only did she cry beautifully, but when she was kicked to the ground and a knife was held to her neck, although she was trembling with fear, when she raised her face, she was pale and very beautiful."
Yin Huo: "What kind of question is that?"
Bai Erlang seemed to be thinking about something, "He doesn't look like a farmer in the countryside."
Zhou Man nodded vigorously. "Yeah, not to mention us country folk, even many people in the city cry with tears and snot running down their faces. Even if they try to hold back, their tears definitely don't fall one by one. Everyone has snot all over their face, unless they've learned how to cry beautifully."
Mingda hesitated, "The concubines in the harem seem to cry like this all the time..."
Zhou Man asked curiously, "Can you cry like this?"
Mingda hesitated and shook his head, "No."
She could drop them one by one, but they would also fall on her face...
When I think about it, it really seems to be the case, “What kind of person would specifically learn to cry?”
Zhou waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "Who cares who she is? If we put her on the farm now, she's in our hands."
"Then why did you let Yue Xiu Niang and the others teach them how to knit?"
Zhou Man said: "This is also going with the flow. I think it's pretty good. Why would I be stingy with that little bit of technology?"
She said, "What they want is to enter the weaving workshop, not just to learn knitting."
If it was just for the sake of studying, she would admire them.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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