Chapter 200 Delivery
The children in the Ding family are taught by other uncles and aunts of the Ding family.
The thirty children who were admitted for free received their initial instruction from Master Cheng in a room on the side of the school.
Mr. Ding, whom I met before, only comes occasionally.
Therefore, the situations faced by the four brothers and sisters are completely different. The focus of the three brothers and four sisters' side is enlightenment, and the atmosphere is relatively relaxed.
The atmosphere on Dalang and Erlang's side was much more serious, because the Ding family children of the same period all had a certain foundation, and the courses taught by the teacher were more in-depth.
In addition, the purpose of the lectures was to prepare for the imperial examinations, so the atmosphere was very solemn.
Fortunately, the two brothers also worked very hard. After returning home, they lit candlesticks and previewed tomorrow's homework in advance. At the same time, they supplemented the knowledge they had not learned before and secretly caught up with the progress of their classmates.
Now that I have just entered school, the gap is not yet noticeable, so I just need to make up for it as soon as possible.
Dalang is calm and collected, and Erlang knows how to disguise himself. The Ding family's children don't know what level they are at now, but they get along well with each other.
After finishing the discussion and washing up, the mother and her five children returned to the children's room. Qin Yao opened their books and gave the four brothers and sisters extra lessons.
I clearly divided for them what the teacher talked about in class during the day, what they didn't understand, and what they could learn in advance, etc. I guided them to study on their own and tried my best to make the boring text more interesting to arouse their interest.
Develop a good habit of independent learning, so that she won't have to go crazy tutoring four children!
Since the four children went to school, Qin Yao obviously felt that she was lacking energy.
I go to bed late and get up early, and I have to pick up and drop off my kids every day. When I get home I am busy making book boxes and trying to find ways to make money.
So, why can't Ding Family School have dormitories? !
On the day when she set out to deliver the book boxes to Ding Family School, Qin Yao first went to the village to find two Liu clan members who had already harvested wheat to help her harvest the wheat.
Twenty-five cents for an acre of wheat, not including food, is given directly to two people.
After the wheat was harvested, we helped her move it to the flat ground in front of her house and piled it up, and then she would carry it into the house by herself.
In order to prevent rain, Qin Yao specially asked someone to help her weave three drying mats this year. The two of them just used the drying mats to cover the wheat they had harvested.
Fortunately, tomorrow is a holiday and the busy farming season will last for three days, so the four children can go home and help thresh the wheat.
After arranging the work in the field and eating the simple meal that Dalang had prepared last night, Qin Yao drove the ox cart carrying twenty book boxes towards Jinshi Town.
Fifteen of them were delivered on order, and the remaining five were to be taken to town to see if they could be sold.
When Qin Yao arrived, it was noon and the students were having lunch.
Erlang and Dalang guessed that she should be able to arrive by now, so they called the classmates who had placed orders and went outside the school to wait together.
After a while, they saw a familiar ox cart coming at a steady speed. The two brothers looked at each other happily. Dalang went forward to greet it, while Erlang told his classmates that their magical book box had arrived.
Qin Yao drove the ox cart closer and thought that these classmates were only children around ten years old, but she didn't expect that the oldest one looked to be eighteen or nineteen years old.
Erlang, an eight-year-old boy, is actually the youngest here.
No wonder their purchasing power is so good. There are only about twenty people in a classroom, and fifteen of them bought magical book boxes.
Qin Yao parked the ox cart on the side of the road. Dalang came to help. Qin Yao smiled and asked, "Have you had lunch?"
Dalang nodded, "We ate. After we finished eating, we thought you would be here by now, so we came out to wait for you."
"Where are Sanlang and Si Niang?" Qin Yao asked again, and tied the cow rope to a tree trunk nearby to avoid hurting anyone.
Dalang explained, "They were all writing big characters. They were going to hand them in to the teacher this afternoon. Erlang and I didn't call them."
There are two doors in the school, and students on both sides do not use the same door when entering or exiting. Every day after school, Dalang and Erlang have to go around to this door to wait for the twins.
After all, it was the first year since the imperial edict was issued, and being able to study was already very good. It was understandable that the Ding family was worried that outsiders would influence their own children.
Erlang led a group of young men over. Qin Yao didn't waste any words. She smiled at them, took out the order form, and handed the magical book boxes to them one by one, asking them to check if there were any defects.
The boys had been looking forward to it for a long time and finally got the magical book box they ordered. They were very excited and immediately tried it out under the guidance of Dalang and Erlang.
Carpenter Liu polished the wooden wheels and pull-out handles until they were very smooth, making pulling and rolling very easy.
If the road is very flat, you can push it flat.
Even if there are some potholes, it is no problem to mop it.
However, one student said: "It would be nice if it could still be carried on the shoulders like the original bookcase."
Qin Yao's heart moved when she heard this. Yes, she almost forgot that shoulder straps are a necessity for older students.
Wouldn't it be invincible if the magic bookcase was equipped with shoulder straps that could be freely loaded and unloaded?
However, there was no time to add shoulder straps to the current batch of deliveries. Qin Yao's brain turned rapidly and she gave the student an idea.
"My classmate, this is a great idea. Go home and ask your family to make a net rope for you. It can be easily put on the wooden box, and then fasten the appropriate shoulder straps. It can be removed at any time. If it rains or gets muddy, you can carry it on your back."
Qin Yao took the bookcase from another student and pointed at the round hole on top of the bookcase.
"Look at this place. This is where you put the umbrella handle. When it rains, put the umbrella there and neither you nor the bookcase will get wet."
After all, it was modified from the original bookcase, so Carpenter Liu retained the position of the umbrella handle at the beginning of the design.
When the students heard this, they were surprised to find that not only could they insert the umbrella handle, but they could also design their own shoulder straps to carry the book box. It felt like they had gotten their own exclusive item.
After confirming that there were no problems with the book boxes, they went forward one by one to settle the balance.
More than five hundred coins were enough for a family of five in Liujia Village to buy twenty-five kilograms of pork. The students gave it without any regret and were as generous as if they were spending ten coins to buy a toy.
Moreover, very few people paid in copper coins, while most paid in six-cent silver coins. Fortunately, Qin Yao had the foresight to bring enough copper coins for change, otherwise she would not have been able to make the change all at once.
Fifteen magic book boxes were handed over, and eight taels, three qian and seventy wen were received.
The lunch break was very short. After the students had received their book boxes, they happily went home pulling their own magical book boxes.
Qin Yao asked Dalang and Erlang to wait for her to pick them up in the afternoon, as she still had to set up a stall in the town.
The two brothers were very surprised and agreed immediately.
Qin Yao watched the two of them enter the school, and then drove the ox cart and the remaining five book boxes toward the town streets.
Passing by Ding Xiang's house, he thought for a moment, went to the back door, and knocked on the copper ring on the door.
Zhang Ba, the palace guard, opened the door and opened his eyes wide in surprise, "Madam Qin, you are here!"
He then quickly opened the back door completely, without even notifying anyone, and invited Qin Yao in.