Chapter 286: Forming a Caravan
Cui Qingyi quickly reached out and patted Konjac's hand on the edge of the bed. "I couldn't be happier if you kept the girl. If you miss having a child, come back and see her."
Konjac finally smiled and said, "Don't worry about it. There are so many people at home taking care of him."
Ever since Konjac gave birth to the child, the Qiao family has also hired someone to help. Several people are more than enough to take care of a child.
I have to say that I didn't feel anything when Taozhi and Aunt Cui were serving me before, but after all, they grew up together, so Konjac was indeed more adept at taking over the care of Cui Qingyi, and Cui Qingyi herself felt inexplicably more comfortable.
During the time she took care of Cui Qingyi, Konjac felt like she had gotten to know her own girl again. Seeing her trying hard to eat, sleep and take care of her body every day, she inexplicably recalled the days when they were still in Cui's house when they were young. She felt both distressed and admired her.
The girl looks gentle, but in fact she is tougher than any man.
Some things were subconsciously ignored because I was young and couldn't think too much. But when I grew up and thought about them again, I felt that if the girl hadn't led her step by step, it would have been difficult for the master and servant to reach this point.
It was only after I became a mother that I realized that if I were a child of someone like Yuan, it would be very difficult for him not to grow up as a child.
But her girl not only did not grow up to be a bad person, she also knew how to distinguish right from wrong since she was a child. The master and servant did not die under the high pressure of Madam Yuan, nor did they die in the backyard of the Chen family, all thanks to the girl's clever heart.
Konjac thought that it was really lucky to be a girl's child.
A month passed in a flash for the busy people of Luhua Town, but for the tortured Cui Qingyi, it felt like a year.
But seeing the surprise on Doctor Lu's face after taking her pulse, Cui Qingyi still felt that the suffering she had suffered before was worth it.
Doctor Lu really found it unbelievable. According to the village master's previous pulse condition, he felt that the village master's pregnancy was most likely to fail. He had been checking the village master's pulse every day for the past month, but the pregnancy had inexplicably stabilized.
Cui Qingyi asked expectantly, "How's your pulse?"
Doctor Lu said bluntly, "It seems to be stable now. The village head can rest assured."
Finally getting the answer she wanted, Cui Qingyi breathed a sigh of relief. This result was worth all the suffering she had endured.
Although the days from that day on were still difficult, Cui Qingyi became more and more excited to endure them. As long as she could feel a slight curve in her belly, Cui Qingyi would take some time every day to talk to the baby in her belly.
She firmly believed that the little life in her belly could fully feel her expectations and love for it as a mother, and she also hoped that it would stay safely after feeling this love.
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Luhua Town began to form a caravan. In fact, in Cui Qingyi's plan, the Luhua Town caravan was not necessary, but any plan needed to be adjusted according to the actual situation.
If the business model of Luhua Town matures in the future and various industries reach the scale she originally envisioned, it will be able to attract caravans from outside to come to this place.
As the host, the people of Luhua Town must have a full understanding of the outside world, otherwise they will just wait to be slaughtered.
Cui Qingyi has her own set of standards for selecting people. When the people saw the notice posted at the gate of the ancestral hall, they talked about it a lot. The men, who were used to being patriarchal, whispered to each other for a while and then silently accepted it, while the women were mixed with joy and worry.
I was happy because I never thought that one day I would be able to walk out of the mountains and see the world outside Luhua Town. But I was worried because they had spent half their lives around the stove and men and children, and I didn’t know what I could do in the caravan.
But even though they felt sympathetic, it did not stop the men and women of Luhua Town from signing up enthusiastically. They now had a habit, that is, as long as the order came from the village chief, it must be good for their Luhua Town, and everyone just needed to follow the instructions of the village chief.
Cui Qingyi looked at the list of registered people and asked someone to go to the school to find all the children over the age of twelve or thirteen, regardless of whether they were boys or girls.
Cui Qingyi built a school in Luhua Town and hired teachers to teach them, but her expectation for these children was never to be able to pass the imperial examination and become an official. The Farmer and the Snake was not just a fable to Cui Qingyi, but a true portrayal of human nature.
She killed people in Luhua Town, even though she thought those people deserved it.
She would not look down on anyone. Who could guarantee that these seemingly innocent and harmless children would not criticize her for what she was doing if they really held power one day?
Sometimes I think that according to the imperial examination system of the Jin Dynasty, it is actually very difficult for children from poor families to go far on the path of becoming an official. Some of them, even if they are outstanding in knowledge, cannot even reach the threshold of the imperial examination. Cui Qingyi feels that she is worrying too much when she is on guard against these children. But what if things go wrong for thirty years?
Master Zhang had no objection to Cui Qingyi picking out the older children from the school and sending them to the caravan, even though he had discovered one or two smart ones during the six months of teaching.
The parents of these children did not think there was anything wrong with it. The village chief formed a caravan, and in the future the caravan would take the products produced in the factory out to do business. This was a very honorable thing for the people.
Children aged twelve or thirteen have become indispensable labor force in the family. It is because of the arrival of the village chief that they can sit comfortably in the school and learn to read and write. Otherwise, they should have gone to work in the fields to reduce the burden on the family.
Now the village chief has finally relented and allowed these children to join the caravan. It would be great if they could earn money to supplement the family income in the future.
The children themselves had no idea that they had to stay to study. Luhua Town was changing with each passing day, and the caravan was something they had envied in the past. Children of this age were very curious, and rather than sitting in school reading boring books, they really liked to go out with the caravan to see the world.
These children were gathered together by Cui Qingyi and handed over to special personnel for training. According to Cui Qingyi's idea, they will be responsible for the caravan's external communication in the future. Once the business in Luhua Town stabilizes, these children can also be slowly trained to become managers.
While the children were receiving training, the adults who were selected to join the caravan were also busy.
Luhua Town is isolated and there are few outsiders here throughout the year. In such an environment, except for those who like to do bad things, most people are fearful, shy and timid. Cui Qingyi does not want the caravan from Luhua Town to leave an impression of being a country bumpkin when it first appears.
Her minimum requirement for the caravan is that if they don't know something when they go out, they can slowly watch and learn, but being open and honest must be the tone of the Luhua Town caravan.
When Wang Xiaoqian learned that Cui Qingyi had come forward to rent a warehouse outside the city market for Luhua Town, he felt like he was being scratched by a cat. Not only were the merchants in Dongping County curious about what Cui Qingyi had done in Luhua Town, but Wang Xiaoqian was also very curious.
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