Chapter 360 They said they wanted to thank you as a benefactor!

General Zheng also looked at Qiao Ran in surprise.

Setting up a school is no small matter. There are so many villages in the suburbs of Beijing, but few can afford to set up a school.

Qiao Ran nodded:

"Well, now that we have settled down, we need to start making plans for the future. It's not a problem for children to play all day long, so I want to set up a school so that they can learn to read and write so that they won't become blind in the future. Maybe there will be some Those who can take the imperial examination, or those who go to the city to find easy jobs."

Not only the general's wife, but also General Zheng was impressed by the foresight of this little girl Qiao Ran.

For ordinary farmers, the biggest goal is to keep their family fed. Only families with a better financial situation are willing to devote their entire family efforts to send a child to school.

In other villages, if a village has one or two scholars, it is already a big deal.

But according to what this little girl said, their village had just fled famine and had not even organized the houses and fields yet, but they had first considered setting up a village school, and there were many children in the village who wanted to study.

Their village is in the deep mountains and old forests, and it is impossible for children from other villages to come here to study. However, they, a small village with only a few dozen households, have to bear the cost of setting up a school by themselves. Even the master has invited Okay, this courage is really impressive!

The general’s wife sincerely sighed: “Your village is so progressive and far-sighted, it will definitely have a bright future in the future!”

General Zheng also said: "If you need any help, just go to the general's residence to find me or my wife. We are happy to help."

With such a motivated group of people, everyone is willing to help. Maybe in the future, there will be a few people among these people who are very successful, and they can take advantage of each other in the future!

Qiao Ran quickly thanked the two of them and asked why they came.

The general's wife said: "Last time I came to express my gratitude, but I didn't wait until your mother came back to express my gratitude to her in person for giving birth to a kind-hearted girl like you. After we returned, the more we thought about it, the more rude we felt, but it was just the Chinese New Year. I was so busy that I couldn't take the time to come here again. I finally have some free time, and my husband has to go back to the military camp tomorrow, so I decided to come over again today to express my gratitude to your Majesty in person. "

Is that so?

Qiao Ran looked at the gifts piled up like a hill at the entrance of the tent with some suspicion, feeling that things were not that simple.

General Zheng and his wife are both informal people, so why would they come here again just for such a trivial matter?

But when they came, Qiao Ran said: "In that case, I will go to the valley now and call my mother back! In half an hour, she will be back to make lunch."

General Zheng and the general's wife looked at each other, and the general's wife quickly said: "You don't have to go out of your way to call me! It's okay. We'll just wait here and chat with the old lady. Time flies very quickly."

Qiao Ran said: "It doesn't matter. I want to go into the valley to see the progress of land reclamation anyway. I'll be back in a while, so I'll excuse you. Please talk to my grandma first!"

After hearing what she said, the general and his wife did not insist.

Sun Xiucai saw that there were distinguished guests in the Qiao family, so he said goodbye and went back to his tent. He had to start preparing what he would teach in class tomorrow.

Qiao Ran unloaded the carriage, led the horse to a place with a lot of hay by the stream, tied the rope to a bush branch, let the horse graze by the stream, and walked quickly towards Devil's Valley. .

In the past few days, she was busy with her fourth uncle's schooling and looking for a wife, so she didn't have time to go to Devil's Valley to have a look. This time she stopped by to see how the land reclamation was progressing.

When she reached a deserted place, she started running quickly, and it didn't take long to reach the land reclamation area.

I saw that most of the large wasteland that had been burned by the fire had been reclaimed, and it would all be reclaimed in a few days.

Everyone was working in full swing. Many people took off the jackets they wore in the morning and only wore short rough clothes suitable for work. Everyone was sweating from the heat.

If it weren't for the fact that there were women and older girls here, the men and young men would be tempted to take off their shirts and go shirtless.

Strong laborers wielding hoes, shovels, axes and machetes are digging the ground, digging rocks, digging roots, and cutting down tree roots.

The women and girls helped to carry smaller stones, pick up branches that were not completely burned on the ground, or tree roots that the men dug out.

Or use a smaller hoe, rake, etc. to break up the turned soil, pick up the tree roots and grass roots in the soil and throw them into a bamboo basket, collect them and burn them together or dump them into the nearby woods.

These lands are currently being reclaimed initially, with the land plowed and stones and weeds roughly removed.

Then before sowing in spring, the ground must be carefully plowed again, large pieces of soil broken up, gravel, grass roots, etc. carefully removed, and the ground leveled before sowing.

These lands have not yet been divided into pieces, let alone allocated to households, but everyone works very seriously and treats every inch of the land as if it is their own.

Chen Huiniang, who was bending down to rake the ground with a three-pronged nail to remove grass and tree roots, looked up and saw her daughter under the guidance of the woman next to her.

"Ran Ran, didn't you send Mr. Sun to visit relatives? Are you back so soon? Why are you still here at this time? Your third aunt and I will go back to cook in a while. Are you hungry? ?”

Chen Huiniang dropped the rake and walked quickly to the edge of the field. She wiped the sweat with the sweat towel around her neck and asked her daughter with concern.

Qiao Ran took her mother's sweat towel and wiped the sweat from the back of her neck.

"Mother, General Zheng and his wife are here again. They said they want to meet you and thank you in person."

Chen Huiniang was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then she said with a smile: "These big families have more rules than our villagers. I have given you gifts several times, and I have come to thank you in person, so why do you still need to thank me?" ?”

Qiao Ran hugged her shoulders affectionately and puffed up her chest proudly: "Because you gave birth to a smart, capable and kind daughter! And you are their daughter's lifesaver, so they said they would like to thank you for this." My benefactor!"

Chen Huiniang shook her head helplessly and said to her daughter: "Okay, you wait a moment, I will get the rake and bamboo basket back, and then tell your third aunt and the others."

Chen Huiniang went to get the rake and bamboo basket she had brought, and after saying something to Qiao Erhe, Qiao Dong and others, she followed Qiao Ran back.

A distinguished guest came to the house, and Lin Guizhen also went back to entertain the guests together. Qiao Erhe and others planned to stay busy for a while and finish work early to help greet the guests. It would not be nice for a female family member to entertain guests at home.

When Qiao Ran returned to the camp with the two women, as soon as they entered the tent, General Zheng, who had been a little absent-minded, immediately fixed his eyes on the woman wearing a blue coarse cloth with a blue cloth on her head. On the body.