Chapter 151 The Sickly Villain in a Female-dominated World
Lin Qing felt as if he was playing an immersive holographic infrastructure game. Relying on the Lin family's reputation in the neighborhood and his own reputation, the major transformation of Shiyuan Village went smoothly.
If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. This year, the farmers in Shiyuan Village made some extra money by building roads during their free time. Even the villagers from the back mountain came to help under the leadership of Sister Yang Shu, and they were paid for their work.
Before the autumn harvest, this road paved with stones and cultivated soil was finally repaired. Apart from other things, for Lin Qing, the road from the village to the county town was finally not so bumpy.
After the road was repaired, the villagers started the intense autumn harvest. The weather was good this year and the harvest was very good. Standing on the edge of the field, the golden rice ears were bent heavy, and the breeze blew, and the rice ears collided with each other, singing a rustling song, which was very beautiful.
After the rice threshing box, Lin Qing developed the rice blowing cart, which uses hand-cranked fan blades to blow impurities, grains, and straw in the rice into the small side hoppers, and the full rice grains fall into the rice basket from the outlet at the rear. (Note 1)
As soon as this product came out, it was enthusiastically sought after by the villagers. The rice threshing box was used in conjunction with the wind-beating cart, and the process of threshing and screening rice, which usually took a family a lot of time and effort, could now be completed quickly.
After seeing the wonderful use of the Fenggu Cart, Zhao Zijun looked at Lin Qing in curiosity, secretly marveling at what was in Qing's mother's head that she could come up with such a magical thing.
Therefore, the autumn harvest in Shiyuan Village ended earlier than usual this year.
After paying taxes and grain, Chief Lin and the village chief called together the heads of each family to hold a meeting in the village. The farmers, who had money in their pockets and grain piled up at home, greeted acquaintances they met at the door with a smile.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, the village chief knocked on the wooden table with a wooden stick, and then gave the seat to Chief Lin.
The clan leader cleared his throat and pressed his hand: "Fellow villagers, we are finally going to have a good New Year this year. One reason is that God has mercy on us and it rains when it should rain and it is sunny when it should be sunny. The other reason is that the lady of the Lin Mansion made two new farm tools for us."
"So now every family has some food stored and some copper coins saved."
There was a burst of laughter in the ancestral hall. When the laughter died down, the head of the Lin clan continued, "Look, the lady of the Lin family wants to build a brick kiln in the back mountain. Now she needs some young, strong, hardworking girls to work as temporary workers in the kiln. Go back and discuss with your husbands and each family should apply for a quota."
"Also, the leaders of each tribe should stay for a while. We have other things to discuss."
After the villagers left, chatting and laughing, only a few leaders of the big families in the village were left looking at each other in bewilderment.
"Captain Jia, what are you keeping in suspense?" The scattered sunlight filtered through the gaps in the window and scattered on Miss Tian's white hair. She had been on the battlefield and her eyes were burning.
"Don't worry, ma'am." Chief Lin smiled. "Why do you think the Lady of the Lin Mansion wants to build a brick kiln?"
"Why?"
"The queen wants to build a school next to the ancestral hall before winter, and this brick kiln is prepared for this purpose." Patriarch Lin's low voice was full of excitement.
"Really?" Miss Tian stood up with a bang, a captivating look in her somewhat cloudy eyes.
"It is true." Patriarch Lin nodded, his eyes filled with awe.
"The distant guest who stayed at the Lin Mansion before was the queen of the Zhao family in Qingzhou. The Zhao family has produced several emperors' teachers. Now this queen wants to give classes in our village!" At this point, Patriarch Lin could no longer contain his joy and laughed out loud.
"What?! The Emperor's teacher!" The others were also dumbfounded. Oh my God, they actually have such good fortune!
After digesting the news, several responsible persons returned home with a lot on their minds, and then asked each family to report the candidates for the brick kiln overnight. Her father, this brick kiln must be built no matter what, and as soon as possible. If any kid in the clan dares to drag his feet, she will break their legs!
Therefore, under the day and night supervision of this group of old ladies, the brick kiln was quickly built.
After knowing Lin Qing's plan, Lord Lin hurriedly bought a group of top-notch craftsmen and sent them back to the Lin Mansion. The arrival of these craftsmen also greatly enhanced the infrastructure project of Shiyuan Village.
The blueprint of the school was drawn by Lin Qing. A row of courtyard-style brick houses is the main body of the kindergarten. On the left and right sides are the pharmacy for medical students and the craftsmen's houses for carpentry, bamboo craftsmanship, etc.
The first batch of blue bricks fired by the craftsmen were used to build the school. In addition to the mountain people who worked part-time, the idle girls in the village all came forward to help build the house. With the concerted efforts of everyone, Lin's School was finally completed before the first snow.
Throughout the winter, the little girls and boys who usually spend their winters away from home were forced by their elders to go to school.
After teaching for a whole winter, Zhao Zijun was unwilling to teach these children who were prone to spewing and rolling around. The noise they made really gave her a splitting headache.
So Lin Qing hired two old students to teach the children. If the children had a talent for reading, they would be taught by famous teachers. If they did not have a talent for reading, they would enter a pharmacy or a craftsman's studio to learn a craft after learning common characters.
In this way, amidst the bumps and bruises, Shiyuan Village, which left a heavy mark in history books, began to take shape.
Lin's School is also known as the first school to provide equal education for both men and women and to impart specialized knowledge.
Among them, the educational ideas such as "teaching without distinction" and "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" have had a profound impact on later generations.
Unfortunately, Lin Qing, who was later honored as the "people's teacher", was lying sick in bed at this time. He drank the black medicine in one gulp with frowned brows.
Chen Xi, who was standing by, immediately handed over a candied fruit. He vaguely knew that his wife was doing something beneficial to the people, so he couldn't even say a word of blame. He could only take care of her food, clothing, and daily life more carefully, and together with Mr. Lin, he recorded the details of the accounts and managed the logistics of the entire infrastructure work.
During the spring ploughing season of the following year, news of Lin Yong's passing the examination for a student reached the Lin residence. After that, good news continued to come in that she had passed the prefectural examination and the imperial examination and had topped the list. Her poetic talent was particularly evident at the spring banquet after the imperial examination.
At this time, Lin Qing was checking the growth of rice fish in the field. Under the green rice seedlings, fat carp and grass carp were swimming around in the mud field, and the straight rice seedlings were also growing well.
During the summer harvest, upon hearing the news of the successful fish farming in rice fields, County Magistrate Chen could no longer sit still. She hurried to Shiyuan Village in a horse-drawn carriage and saw a group of farmers catching fish with nets in the harvested rice fields. She was so excited that she even forgot to roll up her robe and sank one foot into the farmland. The movement of the fish swimming around her feet made her laugh out loud.
Soon the method of raising fish in rice fields was promoted throughout the county. By the end of the year, every household’s table was filled with fish. As a result, many new ways of eating fish were created in Qingchi County, which was later known as the "Fish Town."
The five-year period has come and gone, and under Lin Qing's painstaking efforts, Shiyuan Village and even Qingchi County have undergone earth-shaking changes.
The village is well connected by paths and the houses are neatly built. Flowers are planted in front of every house, fruit trees are planted in the afternoon, and chickens, ducks, geese, pigs and other livestock are raised.
After giving up being a teacher, Zhao Zijun imitated Lin Qing's Tongwen Pian and wrote many articles suitable for children's enlightenment. Her writing style is elegant and unique, such as the Wuchang Pian, which teaches children ethics, and the Zhili Pian, which teaches children behavioral norms. She even compiled the stories of aristocratic families into a poem, unveiling the noble veil of the aristocratic families and bringing them into the eyes of ordinary people.
As a result, she was expelled from the family and formed her own family.
Later generations praised her as the master of early childhood education research, and speculated that this woman must have loved children so much that she could write so many teaching materials for early childhood education.
Zhao Zijun: ...
Anyway, I have turned into a pile of dust, so let these future generations speculate about it!
In this life, the seemingly frail Lin Qing sent away her mother and father, Chen Xi, Zhao Zijun, and even the time-traveling heroine couldn't survive her.
When she returned to the system space, she was already eighty years old. This has become a major unsolved mystery in later medical studies. Countless descendants have studied her diet and exercise methods, trying to find the secret of her longevity.
(Note 1: Fenggu Chariot originated in the Western Han Dynasty of my country. Here the author assumes that this world has not yet appeared.)
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