A scholar becomes a landlord

Although there are fewer people in the family during the Chinese New Year this year, the taste of the New Year is not missing.Spring couplets with blessing characters and window grilles are pasted everywhere, and the whole Wei Zhai is bright red.

This year there was also a baby crying and laughing, and Yi Zhai and Cheng Zhai were even more lively.Although the masters are not there, under the control of a group of daughter-in-laws, the New Year's Eve dinner is better than going out.

Especially the pork was sent by Wei Zhai, needless to say the taste, I give it a thumbs up when I mention it!

This year, they all got two more months' money as red envelopes, and their daughter-in-law did the same, getting an extra month's money for doing things.There was a New Year's Eve dinner full of meat, and their daughters-in-law were sitting beside them. These veterans laughed so hard that there was only a slit in their eyes.

Seeing that they were eating happily, Yi Feng felt relieved.He and Wei Le walked slowly back to Wei Zhai, their New Year's Eve dinner was about to begin.

This year there were only three people at the host table, Wei Le, Yi Feng and Wei Fan, so Xiaoxue and the others made a small pot for them, instead of using red soup, they just ate with clear soup.

There were still a few stir-fried dishes, Wei Le and the others ate the stir-fried vegetables while waiting for the soup to boil.Then another jar of wine was opened, and everyone at the two tables poured a bowl.It was rare for Wei Le to allow everyone to drink, so for a while, everyone except Xiaoxue and Lixia Liqiu drank too much.

When the wine was gone, he opened the white wine. Wei Le started to feel dizzy after only drinking a bowl of wine, and leaned against Yi Feng, half asleep and half awake.

His drinking capacity is still so light, Yi Feng laughed when he saw it.After drinking the baijiu in his bowl in one gulp, it is better to drink slowly than wine, and baijiu is the best drink.

However, this wine has now become an income for Wei Zhai. The emperor and Wei Le jointly started a wine business. The prescription was given by Wei Le, and the winery was opened by the emperor. , the emperor's people are responsible for everything else. Except for the sales in the Daqing Dynasty, they really sold the grapes to the Western Regions, earning a lot of gold and gemstones.

The kings and nobles of the Western Regions were all stunned by the shameless actions of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty.I thought he was just talking to the emperor this day, but I didn't expect him to really do it!Thinking that the wine they brewed could no longer be sold, the kings of the Western Regions really wanted to drive the merchants from Daqing out of the Western Regions, but now even they themselves are obsessed with the wine of Daqing, let alone other nobles and ministers .

So it was obviously impossible to drive people away, so they had no choice but to resign themselves to watching Daqing go back with carloads of gold and gems that Daqing had earned in their Western Regions.

Wei Le had a lot of dividends, but he didn't ask the emperor to send them to him. Instead, he asked him to use the money to build many orphanages in the Daqing Dynasty, which specially adopted homeless orphans and the elderly.

Wei Le has done this as an ordinary person, why does the emperor not do it?He also paid half of the money himself, and started to set up orphanages in various provincial capitals. After the orphanages in the provincial capitals stabilized, he built them in the prefectures, and then in the counties and towns.But this is a huge project that cannot be completed in a year, two years or even a few years, so it can only be done slowly.Wei Le is not in a hurry. In fact, in ancient times, there were special places to adopt these orphans and elderly people, but it may have been because the Daqing treasury had no money in the past. Gradually, these institutions have become hidden. Although they still exist, few people know about them. up.

But this time Wei Le's actions reminded the emperor of this institution, and a new house was built on the original site, with more rooms and wider land, and a special department was set up to manage these orphanages.

Although orphanages are only opened in provincial capitals now, as the country becomes more prosperous and powerful, there will gradually be more orphanages. The number of orphanages across the country is definitely not a small number, so special departments are needed to deal with them.

Of course, this orphanage does not only adopt these people, but also invites people to teach these orphans survival skills. For example, let them learn carpentry if they like woodworking, and let them learn cooking if they like cooking.In short, except for the elderly who have been raised by the orphanage because of their age, these orphans will leave the orphanage to live on their own once they reach the age of 15.

In the beginning, Wei Le wanted to set it up, because in his concept, only adults are considered adults.But thinking that in ancient times, teenagers at the age of thirteen or fourteen could get married, so a median value was set-15 years old.

15 years old was not too young in ancient times, and Wei Le also felt that they could come out and find something to support themselves.It is not easy to raise a family, but it is not difficult to raise yourself!

In addition, these children also have skills after they come out, so it is not difficult to find work.So gradually these children who came out of the orphanage entered the eyes of all walks of life.

Among other things, these children's crafts are quite good. Although they are a bit slow at the beginning, they can get started quickly after being trained and taught, so they have become popular. After all, everything was made by hand in ancient times. The labor force is small, and the orphanage just happens to have a certain number of teenagers come out every year, which solves part of the labor problem.

Wei Le and the emperor probably didn't expect that one day these orphans would not be the objects that everyone would look down on, but the labor force that all walks of life would plunder.Wei Le found out later, but thought it was normal.No matter which dynasty they are in, people with craftsmanship are always respected and sought after.

The state paid to train these orphans, and let them leave the orphanage with their skills. Although they are a little younger, their skills are not low. Now it doesn’t matter if they have little experience in crafts, but after a few years of training and teaching, they will be able to work independently. Get out of the way.

It's much easier than finding those little apprentices to teach them slowly, so some shops that are in urgent need of people like this boy who came out of the orphanage very much.Of course, not everyone likes to find such people to do things, because there is a country as a backer, when they sign contracts with these orphans, the wages should not be too bad, and they cannot be treated as cattle and horses, otherwise officials will come to them Have a good chat.

But generally speaking, these teenagers are still very popular after they come out, and they are not afraid of not being able to find a job.With such a result, both Wei Le and the gray-haired emperor were very satisfied.

Their efforts were not in vain. Although they encountered many difficulties at the beginning, they thought everything was worth it when the ending was good.

Of course, at present, Wei Le and the emperor are still working hard to earn gold and gems, striving to open orphanages throughout the Daqing Dynasty one day, so that orphans and the elderly can have a place to live.

It's just strange to say that most of these orphans are boys, but there are not many little girls. Later, after someone talked about it, I found out that the little girls had better get rid of them. If the kidnappers see them, they will be kidnapped as long as they are not too ugly. , so generally speaking, there are very few little girls among orphans and beggars.

Wei Le was drunk and carried back to the room by Yi Feng. As for what the two of them did after returning to the room, no one was curious.Wei Fan was left alone at the table drinking wine.

Everyone is in pairs, even Xiaoshu and Xiaohan are attracted to Liqiu and Lixia. Of course, the two girls are still young at this time, so they can only watch.But it seems good to take care of it slowly, but Li Qiu and Li Xia don't have this intention now, the two girls only want to serve the good young master alongside Daxue and Xiaoxue sisters.

Daxue and Xiaoxue agreed with their progress, and encouraged them to study hard. Now the monthly money of the two girls has increased by dozens of cash, which is more than the second-class maids of ordinary people.

They also completely recognized the Wei family and the young master as their master.

The two girls are being taught by Xiaoxue to be controlled by the young master. What the young master says is right and what the young master does is good. When the young master hits someone, they are responsible for handing over the board. If the young master wants to swear, they don't need him. They are responsible for swearing.In short, the young master is their sky, and they will serve this sky for the rest of their lives.

At this time, Wei Le didn't know that he had two more loyal fans. Compared with Xiaoxue, he had the burden of relatives, but they didn't have any relatives, and if they had any, they would be dead.Usually, the two girls also learn some self-defense skills from Wei Fan, which is actually assassination skills, just changed their names.They are not particularly old, they learn faster than others in Wei Zhai, and they usually carry daggers on their bodies.

Regarding their sudden desire to learn the art of assassination, Wei Le said, did he hear it wrong?

But in fact, it was their own request. After hearing that Wei Le was a killer before, they asked him to teach them.They want to keep the young master, and must not let the young master be bullied.

Li Xia and Li Qiu still don't know that Wei Fan is the one who was sent to keep Wei Le, and they don't know that Wei Le is not a feeble scholar who has no power to restrain a chicken. They just want to do something for their master. Not as good as Xiaoxue, you have to work harder in other places, not to mention having the same status as Xiaoxue in the young master's heart, but also surpassing Dahan and the others.

As for the ambitions of his maids, Wei Le couldn't hurt them, so Wei Fan agreed.Of course, being able to persevere is a good thing. At least in ancient times, it was better for women to know how to protect themselves.

Of course, it doesn't matter if you can't persist, he doesn't believe that there are so many men in Wei Zhai and they can't keep these few women, that would make men too useless, not to mention that outsiders will despise them, even Wei Le himself will despise himself of.

So Lixia and Liqiu learn assassination techniques from Wei Fan when they have time, they are easier to ignore than men.After all, no one would have thought that such two weak women would actually kill someone.

Now men don't have to let men do the work of killing fish and chickens in the kitchen. In order to train his courage, Liqiu and Lixia start with these foods first.

The first time I didn't dare to do it, the chicken ran away bleeding, but in the end it was Dahan who moved.The next day they finally killed the chicken, although the chicken's neck was cut in two.

The third time I was able to cut the knife normally, although the chicken died a bit ugly.

In the end, the two of them cut the knife more quickly than the man, and they passed by with one stroke of the knife, tilted the head of the chicken and let out the blood, and then continued to kill the next one.

After seeing it, Wei Le felt that they were too cruel to him, so he felt uncomfortable and had to use other compensations.Let Xiaoxue take a few horses of good material to Lixia and Liqiu. No matter which way they go, they are girls first, and girls must know how to dress themselves up!In addition to giving them materials to make their own clothes, they also gave each of the two girls a head flower and a hairpin.

Even when they were about to forget their identities as women, the young master still remembered their identities and asked them to make new clothes and wear beautiful head flowers and hairpins.

They wore them out during the Chinese New Year, and their clothes were newly made. Even though they were only pretty, they looked straight at Xiaoshu and Xiaohan.