118. Increase employment
For these children in their homes, Luo Yong has always been herding sheep and eating grass. He did not ask them too much about how they want to do here and where they want to grow naturally most of the time. He only guides them when they are likely to grow crooked.
This is very different from the current general background. At this time, every household is in the master system, and the old man has the final say in the big and small matters at home. Young people rarely have the opportunity to make decisions on their own.
Luo Yong can't control other people's families, so he hopes that these children can let go of their hands and feet to live and study, and start with some small things and slowly learn to make their own ideas so that they will have their own opinions when they grow up.
Luo Yong is not afraid of them making mistakes. No matter what mistakes they make, as long as they can take it on their own, this will cultivate their awareness and sense of responsibility for their actions early, and when they do something, they should also let them feel the sense of accomplishment and satisfaction as much as possible.
Luo Yong has never raised a child and has little educational experience, but in his impression, children with healthy thoughts and healthy personalities should be raised this way.
So just now, when the boy Goro told him with a depressed look that this broom was used in the livestock, Mr. Luo was actually very beautiful in his heart. Look at his child, he began to feel responsible for these things at home at such a young age. When he grows up, he will definitely be a very reliable and good young man.
I had coarse noodles pancakes with tofu soup for dinner.
Aunt Luo and his wife sold dumplings, dates and bean cakes in the Xu family's house. They consumed a lot of white flour every day. The extra coarse noodles when grinding the white flour almost became the current staple food of the Luo family. They could not finish the food with just a few people in their family. The rest were sold to the Xu family's house, which was used when making mixed noodles and oil residue buns every day.
The newly ground noodles in the past two days still have a strong wheat aroma. Add water to make a paste, then spread it into a thin pancake, apply a little soy sauce, then add a few green onion leaves and a few shredded eggs, roll it up and take it in your hand and eat it. It is very fragrant.
The glutinous vegetables grown next to the pigpen are fat, tender and sweet. Put a spoonful of scallion oil and cook them together with tofu into soup, which tastes very sweet.
After dinner, Erniang and Peng Er went to wash the dishes together. Luo Yong brought a few small ones with him, and while cleaning the kang surface, he taught them to memorize the nine-nine formula.
The 99 mantras in Chinese history are divided into Xiaojiu and Dajiu. At this time, Dajiu had not appeared yet, and everyone just recited Xiaojiu. This is the multiplication table of later generations, but people at this time recited from Jiujiu81 to 81 until two or four.
Si Niang and Wuro are both old enough to memorize the 99th formula, and the other two young ones are still in the stage of calculating addition and subtraction with their fingers.
Listening to the brother and sister memorizing the Nine-nine mantras, Liulang and Qiniang also followed the two of them, but they couldn't recite them at all. They just learned to behave like this. Today, you see that he was learning quite well, but tomorrow he turned around and forgot again. When you ask him, Xiaoyang was confused and shook his head. It's like this to children. Teaching children requires special patience.
"...Our family soy sauce costs two cents per liter. People say they want to buy two liters. How much should you charge?" After memorizing the Jiujiu formula, Luo lay on his side on the head of the kang, supported his head with one arm, and gave arithmetic questions for the two little babies in his family.
Speaking of which, the Luo family’s soy sauce was originally sold for three cents a liter, but later it was reduced to two cents a liter. The main reason is that the raw materials for making soy sauce are relatively cheap, such as some soy sauce, which is a bit of soy sauce. It’s profitable for selling for two cents a liter. Everyone can afford it and everyone is happy.
"Four cents." The girl Qi Niang reacted quickly. In fact, this question was not difficult for them. She looked at the grocery store with Si Niang all day long, and after reading too many of them, this arithmetic question was nothing.
"..." Liulang lay on the side with some depression and fingers. He could do this question, but he just couldn't react quickly as fast as Qi Niang.
"What if he wants a piece of soap?" Luo Yong asked again.
"..." The two children counted with their fingers, and in the end, Qi Niang rushed to Liulang: "Nine Months!"
"Yes, it's nine cents." Luo Yong reached out and touched Qi Niang's head, and asked again: "Then he said, "Oh, your cement is so good, I have to buy a load of cement, so how much do you have to charge in total?"
"..." Both of the small ones were silent. Such a large number of ten fingers were not enough.
"Do you know how much a load of cement cost?" Luo Yong asked with a smile.
"Six cents." This time, Liulang rushed in front.
"How much did those two things add up just now?" Luo Yong asked again.
"Nine Cents of Coins." Qi Niang said loudly.
"Six cents plus nine cents, how much does that cost?" Luo Yong continued to ask.
"Woo..." Qi Niang counted her fingers, but didn't count them out, and rolled on the kang and played tricks.
"!" Liulang was relatively more patient, frowned, counted his fingers and toes, and finally counted it. He looked like he didn't have any confidence. He tilted his head and said to Luo Yong in a low voice: "Fifteen cents?"
"That's right! It's just fifteen cents! Well!" Luo reached out and dragged him into his arms, kissed him on the top of his head, making the boy giggle. His little arm wrapped around Luo Yong's neck, soft and tender, and his face was a little excited. He just answered the question given by his brother.
At first, the girl Qi Niang just lay beside her with envy, and then soon, she got into Luo Yong's arms and acted coquettishly. Although she didn't answer the question correctly, her brother was still her brother.
On the other hand, Siniang and Goro were gathering under the oil lamp to carve soap molds. The two of them were trying to carve the content of "Kai Meng Yao Xun" that Goro recently learned from the school, word by word, and finally make a complete set of soap molds engraved with the full text of "Kai Meng Yao Xun".
This is not a simple job. They are good at young age. Si Niang is too ugly to write and Wulang is not good at carving. The two of them cooperated and the soap mold they made was barely usable.
However, Luo Yong also said that after they really finish this set of soap molds, their skills will definitely be much better. In the future, they will definitely be much better than now. Only with practice will there be improvements.
Luo Yong is always encouraged when his children want to do something. If they want to make soap molds, Luo Yong provides wood and asks someone to help him cut it into the size of a suitable carved soap mold.
At first, Er Niang despised these two people making wood chips everywhere, but when they saw them cut their hands, they felt very distressed. Later, they got used to it and found some fun from this matter. They also suggested that Si Niang and the others carve some patterns on the soap mold.
Recently, because Peng Er didn't have to feed pigs anymore, Er Niang and the others often had some free time. Sometimes they would carve one or two pieces of scrapped wood from Si Niang and the others to play with it, but compared to the text, Er Niang was obviously more interested in patterns.
Peng Er's aesthetic is quite avant-garde. Once she said she wanted to carve some patterns of swords, guns, swords and halberds on the soap mold, which shocked Erniang. What's the good thing about that thing? In the end, she found some common language with Si Niang.
After a busy day, the time spent with these children at home always seems particularly comfortable.
However, such comfort is not available every day. For example, a few days ago, I dug holes, boiled cement and picked leaves. Luo Yong was busy all day long until he didn't touch the ground. After dinner, he usually fell asleep. Before dawn the next day, he went to the cement workshop again.
Now that these tasks have finally come to an end, cement production has been on track, fermentation ponds have been repaired, and people have been hired to pick Eucommia ulmoides on the mountain.
Now he can relax a little in the past few days. After a few days, he will almost start to think about the processing of Eucommia ulmoides. This busyness will probably be until the beginning of winter this year.
That night, Luo Yong slept particularly sweetly. When he got up, the sun was already high.
It was September at this time, and the weather was colder and the villagers had started the autumn harvest work this year one after another. The crop fields that Luo Yong had basically been handed over to his disciples to manage, and he didn't care much about it.
After breakfast, Luo drove a donkey cart to the city. He planned to ask Hengzhi to help him make a foot-pedal threshing machine. Using that threshing machine for threshing can greatly improve labor efficiency.
Luo Yong had thought of this before, but later he got busy and forgot about it. At this time, he went to Hengzhi to do it. He didn't know if it was too late, nor did he know if he could do it smoothly.
As a result, his donkey cart just walked to the sheep pen and met Tang Jian and others riding on the horse.
Luo Yong had to come back with those people, ordered some wine and food at the Xu family's guesthouse to entertain the group for dinner.
This time, Tang Jian seemed much more enthusiastic than the last time. When he became enthusiastic, Luo Yong naturally couldn't show him a cold face. The two of them had a good conversation for a while.
Tang Jian was very interested in Luo Yong's newly created cement item, but he also had a place he couldn't understand: "Xipo Village is far from Shi County, and it will take a whole day to go back and forth. If Sanlang built this cement workshop next to the county town, wouldn't it be convenient?"
"Your words are wrong." Luo Yong smiled and bowed to Tang Jian, saying, "If I built this cement workshop next to the county town, where would those porters go to make money?"
Tang Jian thought about it and said that there was something wrong, but he always felt that something seemed to be wrong, so he said, "There is no reason to leave the near and the far."
"Only people spend money and some people make money, so that people's livelihood economy can be achieved. The market is prosperous. What's the harm even if it is farther away?" Luo Sanlang still smiled.
Tang Jian nodded. This time he understood. This kid clearly wanted to cheat those rich people in vain money. No wonder he always felt a little uncomfortable. The reason was that Tang Jian himself was also a group that might be cheated.
Chapter completed!