Chapter 206: Active Mind
Shuigu hid behind Shuisheng.
This palm hit Shuisheng's humeral condyle on his arm, and Shuisheng grimaced.
Shui Gu said angrily:
"Cousin, hit her! Why don't you fight back when you're being beaten? You're a man, are you afraid that you can't beat her?"
The fat bear girl snorted coldly.
Shuisheng turned his head.
"Cousin, please go back quickly and stop making trouble. It will not benefit anyone if you continue to make trouble."
Outside the house, many people were already craning their necks to look into the yard.
Fortunately, Father Xiong was recuperating in the clinic and not at home, otherwise this matter would have ended in a worse way.
Shui Gu said angrily:
"Why are you afraid of her? She's just a woman and her father is dying. What is there to be afraid of?"
Shuisheng was anxious. Is this a matter of fear? This is a matter of money!
If the woman divorces him, how much money can he get?
What he wants is to inherit the family business, so that he can have endless money!
He said sternly:
"What nonsense are you talking about? He is my father, why are you cursing him to death? This is outrageous, go back quickly!"
"you!"
Shui Gu was shocked, "How dare you yell at me?"
The fat bear girl sneered, Shuisheng had a frosty look on his face, and both of them remained silent.
Shui Gu was trembling with anger, pointing her halberd hand angrily,
"Okay, okay, I see you clearly now. Don't come to me again! You two bastards will get tuberculosis sooner or later. I'll see how you die!"
The fat bear girl was furious and rushed over to hit her again.
But Shuisheng stopped him. He couldn't continue making trouble. He still had to live in the Xiong family. As for Shuigu, he could only comfort her later.
Shui Gu grabbed her headscarf and ran out of the Xiong family angrily.
From now on, she will never come here again!
Shuisheng is just a big talker who can only coax and deceive her. In reality, he doesn't care about her at all and only thinks about his own little plans.
He was hit several times by the fat girl and his body was in terrible pain, but she didn't even try to comfort him.
In comparison, Zhou Laowu was indeed much better. He listened to her in everything and never said anything. If she said to go east, he would never go west. But it was a pity that he was too poor. He could not even earn one or two taels of silver a month. How could it be enough to live?
This kind of man is still not okay.
Now, what should she do?
She wrapped her headscarf around her neck and walked casually to the entrance of Ohara Academy.
Ohara Academy is a government-run school. The students there are of different ages, but most of them are young people. Looking at these energetic people, talking and laughing, she showed an envious expression.
None of her relatives and friends are educated people, and she has no contact with this circle. She never thought about it before, and didn't think it was a big deal when she couldn't see them. Now look, these people are all favored by heaven! They are likely to become officials in the future, and at the very least, they can become staff members in the government. If she can marry such a person, wouldn't her future life be wonderful?
Even if her cousin got the Xiong family's property, it would only be the savings of several generations of butchers. How could it be compared with that of an official?
It’s a pity that she has no connection with these people and can’t fit in.
Just when she was about to leave in despair, she suddenly saw someone.
This man was tall, handsome, and noble. She had seen him at home before. He must be the fourth son of the Zhou family!
She was too embarrassed to see anyone at the time, so she just took a glance, but she remembered this kind of person at first sight.
Several scholars surrounded Zhou Laosi, like a star among the crowd, and according to their discussions, it turned out that Zhou Laosi was actually the top scorer in the scholar examination!
Although she had never interacted with scholars, she had heard about what the title of "Scholar's Case Leader" meant. It was said that scholars could receive official rice, so it goes without saying that the treatment of the "Case Leader" would be even better. And from what these people were saying, Zhou Lao Si would definitely be able to become an official in the future!
Hearing this, Shui Gu's mind became active.
If this is the case, then wouldn't Zhou Laowu also benefit? As the saying goes, if one person succeeds, all his family members will benefit. If someone in the family becomes an official, then his brothers will definitely benefit as well!
It seems that she has to reconsider Zhou Laowu's worth.
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Familiar with the process, after preparing everything, Lin Shiqi's tofu shop reopened.
There was no big fanfare, they just set off some firecrackers to inform the neighbors that a tofu shop had opened here, and that they could just come and buy tofu if they wanted to.
Manager Xu instructed that the supply should be resumed as soon as possible. With ready-made orders, Lin Shiqi directly recruited eight workers to help with the work.
Mrs. Zhou couldn't help but complain, saying that hiring eight people was a waste of money. They had enough people at home to do more work, so they could hire fewer people.
But Lin Shiqi didn't listen to her.
The three most difficult jobs in ancient times were rowing a boat, forging iron, and making tofu.
Making tofu is actually very hard work. You have to get up early and work late, start working in the early morning, and sell it early, which leads to severe lack of sleep.
The process is complicated, including soaking beans, grinding, filtering residue, boiling, adding brine, pressing into shape... the whole process is done manually, with the worker bending over and hunching his back all the time, which consumes a lot of physical energy.
If it wasn't for making a living and there was no better way, Lin Shiqi would never have chosen this path.
Now she no longer needs to make money from tofu, but other people in the Zhou family need it, and the orders must be delivered on time, so she continues to do it.
But since it’s hard work, naturally we should reduce it if possible.
Moreover, the wages of these laborers were very cheap, which in her opinion was not a big deal at all.
So she not only recruited eight people, but also urged Zhou Pozi and others that making money was secondary, health was the most important, and they had to distinguish the primary from the secondary.
After hearing this, Mrs. Zhou appeared to disagree, but she was extremely comforted in her heart and even wiped away a tear in secret. She thought that the fourth son's wife was really a good one, and she was really blind before and didn't see it.
Lin Shiqi thought that this was a small matter and not worth worrying about too much. As a modern person, she did not have the idea of oppressing workers, so she was very popular among the workers.
Another thing is that Zhou Laowu no longer continued to work in the pawnshop.
According to Zhou Laosi and his wife, after working for several years, their monthly salary is less than one or two taels of silver. Isn't this naked exploitation!
Instead of earning that few pennies, it is better to work at home, which is guaranteed to earn more than working in a pawn shop.
With the support of Zhou Lang and Lin Shiqi, and no objection from Mrs. Zhou, Lao Wu quit his job and stayed at home to help make tofu.
In addition to making tofu, Lin Shiqi would also teach his family members some words when he had free time.
Zhou Lang is already a scholar and will definitely pursue a career in officialdom in the future. It would be bad if some of his family members did not know common sense and could not even recognize rice, flour, oil and tea.
At the very least, it would not be of any help to Zhou Lang, and might even hinder him; at the most serious level, it would be extremely detrimental to the Zhou family's progress.
Mrs. Zhou praised this decision highly and required that everyone in the Zhou family must be literate, no matter how much they knew, as long as they were not illiterate.
Well, the word "illiterate" was said by the fourth son's wife, and she thought it was very appropriate.
So these days, the Zhou family's house is bustling with activity, busy and fulfilling.
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