Chapter 16 Chapter 16 Red Sleeve Supervision
The Shi Jin family was chosen as a pilot, which aroused the envy and jealousy of people in the alley.
But they didn't dare to say anything unpleasant or sarcastic. Everyone knew that there were only about twenty servants in the county lord's mansion. If they were asked to guide each household to build the house, it would only be slower. Those who were unlucky would not be able to use the kang during the coldest time of the New Year.
Kang Zhuqing thought it was a good deal as he only had to pay for the bricks. People who had lived in Li County for a long time knew how cold the winter was in Li County, so most people were still willing to pay.
Of course, there were also those who were stingy. Thinking that Liang Nian would give some charcoal to the people every winter, and this year was no exception, they thought of saving the money and living on that little bit of charcoal, as long as they didn't freeze to death.
Kang Zhuqing strongly despised the behavior of this kind of person. The reason was not without other reasons. This person lived next door to her. Last time, he wanted to save money on farm tools and approached her to discuss buying them together.
Shi Jin understood what Kang Zhuqing meant. Although the relationship between the two families was not good, they lived in the same alley after all. When the weather was the coldest, if they knocked on the door pitifully, begging that they were cold and wanted to come in to warm up for a while, would he help or not? That was what the wife of the Jiang family and the husband of his family were thinking about.
The two of them had a good idea. They heard that after the kang was built, the whole house would be warm. They brought their own linen quilts, and one family slept on it for one night, and the other family slept on it for one night, and the winter would be over.
In this regard, Shi Jin gave a profound education to Shi Tu and Shi Shi.
From now on, never open his door when someone knocks.
There were not many families selected as pilot families, and one servant was responsible for one family. Zhao An and Ding Pu were responsible for formulating the process for the servants to guide the stacking. Even the children in the manor were assigned tasks. Everyone wore a red cloth on their arm, saying that they were red armband supervisors, and they participated in guiding the servants throughout the process to prevent them from cheating.
The servant who came to Shijin's house to guide the stacking was a servant named Tao Yanghui.
Kang Zhuqing and Shi Tu thought about it and decided that they had to observe basic social etiquette, so on the day Tao Yanghui came, they got up early in the morning and boiled eggs, one for each of the four members of the family, and left two for the servant.
Kang Zhuqing has some extra money now, so she doesn't feel bad about the two eggs. As long as the kang is good, she would be willing to spend two more eggs.
Tao Yanghui arrived early, so he knocked on the door and waited for Shi Tu and Kang Zhuqing to open the door. After they exchanged names and information, he came in.
Kang Zhuqing and Shi Tu exchanged glances and enthusiastically stuffed two hot eggs into Tao Yanghui's hands.
"You came so early, Mr. Tao must have skipped breakfast. Here are two eggs to fill your stomach."
Unexpectedly, Tao Yanghui's face suddenly changed, and he immediately threw his hands away, as if the two eggs were hot potatoes. He was very flexible and did not make any contact with the eggs. He subconsciously blurted out, "What are you doing? Don't hurt me."
After saying this, he immediately turned around and shouted to Guo Zi, who was walking behind him and had not yet entered the yard, "Young Master Guo, please see clearly. They forced it on me. I didn't take it. I didn't even touch it."
Guo Zi held a piece of dogtail grass he had picked up from the roadside in his mouth and stood at the gate of the courtyard: "I saw it all. Mr. Tao, please rest assured that our supervisors will not wrongly accuse anyone."
Only then did Tao Yanghui feel relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.
Shi Jin looked towards the door. The young man looked quite young, but was actually taller than Shi Tou. He had a red cloth wrapped around his sleeves. He wondered if it had any special meaning.
Kang Zhuqing and Shi Tu looked at each other, not knowing what was going on. They held the eggs in their hands, not knowing what to do.
Tao Yanghui came to his senses and immediately explained, "I appreciate your kindness, but the county lady has set a rule that we cannot take things from the people's homes when we come here to guide them, especially eggs. This young man is my supervisor, and his job is to see if I do anything like that. If it's reported, it will be a big deal."
Shi Tu touched his head awkwardly, "Is that so..."
Guo Zi also took the opportunity to introduce himself. He raised the red armband on his arm and said, "My name is Guo Zi, and I am the supervisor in charge of you."
With Guo Zi by his side, Tao Yanghui did not dare to be negligent. He first went to check the condition of Shi Jin's stove, then marked out a space for the flue, and looked around Shi Jin's big house again and again, marking the location of the fire bed.
There are four people in Shi Jin's family, so he specially made the bed wider.
Kang Zhuqing and Shitu had no objection to the location and size of the bed. After agreeing, they immediately moved the bricks they had received from the county government and began to stack them.
While supervising, Guo Zi also helped out by moving things around.
Kang Zhuqing was unsure what kind of person this supervisor Guo Zi was, and seeing that he was young, she kept telling him not to interfere.
Guo Zichong grinned at Kang Zhuqing, "Madam Kang, it's okay, I'm very strong."
Shi Jin was doing odd jobs nearby. She looked at Guo Zi's red armband several times and couldn't help but sigh in her heart. Children younger than Shi Tou were helping the county lady, and she wanted to do things too.
Guo Zi thought Shi Jin was worried about whether the kang would be difficult to use, so he said to her, "Don't worry, young lady, the kang is ready and the room is warm."
The kang in the manor had been built and divided into two large bunk beds for the young lady and the young man. Guo Zi slept there for two days and it was really warm at night. He didn't feel cold when he got up and put on clothes in the morning. The room was warm.
Because they were pilot subjects, Kang Zhuqing and Shi Tu listened very carefully when Tao Yanghui explained the key points, and Tao Yanghui spoke even more seriously.
He is the person in charge of this family. If something goes wrong when this family teaches other people how to build the fire pit, it will be his responsibility. Later, when Zhao An and Ding Pu inspect the people's fire pits one by one, if any family builds it incorrectly, they will be held accountable at all levels.
When they catch up, it will be these servants who will be held responsible.
Tao Yanghui was afraid. He was afraid that this family would not understand what he said. What would he do if they held him accountable? That was why he did not want to leave such a good place as the County Lord's Mansion.
Guo boasted of his strength, but he was still a child after all, so at Shi Tu's strong request, he was just allowed to watch from the side.
Guo Zi simply stood in the yard and looked into the distance. The county lady said that one should do eye exercises and gaze into the distance every day. Today he could do the eye exercises when he got home, but he could gaze into the distance here.
Then Guo Zi discovered a sneaky figure at the door of Shi Tu's house.
At first he thought it was someone from another family peeking out of curiosity, so he didn't take it too seriously. But the man looked so much like a thief that he had no choice but to go into the kitchen and ask Shi Tu what was going on.
Kang Zhuqing reacted almost instantly. She asked Guo Zi why the person who was peeping looked like a mouse and had small eyes.
Guo Zi recalled the man's appearance and realized that he really looked a bit like a mouse, so he nodded.
Kang Zhu gently put down the brick and walked out of the kitchen, cursing as he walked, "God damn it! His family is too stingy to pay for the bricks and build a kang, and I don't know what he's snooping on. Maybe he's just trying to sleep over one house and another during the New Year."
Kang Zhuqing's voice was so loud that it could be heard in half the alley.
Everyone in the alley knew that this family was unwilling to pay for bricks to build a fire pit. Now when they heard Kang Zhuqing's loud voice at home, they shook their heads helplessly. Everyone figured out what his family was planning.
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