Chapter 44

After crossing the Wanhe River, Duke Qiao also moved towards shuobai village according to the address mentioned by Qin Shuo before.

However, on the way, he began to have some doubts about his daughter's words. Could such a remote place really have an ideal village?

Over the rugged mountain road, I also had to serve the old, only to be helped by his entourage to advance there.

Finally, after climbing over a small hillside, I saw a very secret valley. In the valley, there was a curl of smoke rising, which must be a village.

Outside the valley, there are still a lot of soldiers guarding. Most of them have iron weapons in their hands. Only a small number of people hold sticks and guns.

Although the management of iron weapons in the Han Dynasty was not as strict as that in the Qin Dynasty, it was a great thing to possess weapons on a large scale.

Even if he saw this scene, Duke Qiao didn't say anything. Now it's not the big man before. It's just taking precautions.

What's more, Qin Shuo is still the pavilion chief here. Once discovered by the imperial court, it can also explain that these are his subordinates.

After entering the village, he was stopped by the soldiers at the entrance of the village, and he had to ask him for an ultimatum.

Fortunately, many of the soldiers here had escaped from the city of Anhui. So naturally, they knew that the famous Duke Qiao was just interrogated and let him in.

Before that, Qin Shuo also said hello to them. If it was Qiao's family, he would let them into the valley.

But he didn't expect that it was Duke Qiao himself who came here. Before Qin Shuo had always thought that the Qiao family would only send a housekeeper to inquire about the real situation.

However, Duke Qiao also told these soldiers not to inform Qin Shuo. Now he is just like visiting in private in a micro suit to see if it is what big Qiao said.

These soldiers look very strong, from this point of view, at least in the military is ahead of many small villages, but there is no way to compare with the county.

From the narrow road, slowly forward, has not walked to dozens of steps, has reached the village.

At a glance, the houses are just like houses, the traffic between the fields, and the birds and dogs hear each other. Because it's 10:00 at noon, every family is covered with cooking smoke. It's really a scene of paradise.

Not only Duke Qiao, but also the servants on his side were surprised.

As an ordinary farmer's son, I naturally know the current situation of ordinary villages. However, where it looks like a village, it looks like a very rich scene.

Every villager's face is brimming with happy smile. It seems that they are telling others about their beautiful life. Everyone has a vision for the future.

Relative to the outside world, those insensitive eyes, those expressionless yellow faces, the people inside are already too happy.

Walking in the village, you can see that the shops next to you have basically everything they should have. The blacksmith's shop, the doctor's shop and the tailor's shop are all standing on both sides of the street, which is full of people.

The houses of these villagers are all neat and uniform, and only a few of them are thatched houses, and most of them are yellow mud houses that can keep out the cold in winter.

If my family lives here.

After seeing such a scene, each of the attendants came up with such a sentence in his mind and secretly wrote down the place in his mind.

If they have a chance in the future, maybe they will take the initiative to move their family here, but because they are slaves, they can't leave Qiao's family as long as they are slaves.

At this time, in front of Duke Qiao, a group of giggling children suddenly ran past, with a small cloth bag on his back. It seemed that there were bamboo slips in it, jingling.

Duke Qiao also went to a child's side, squatted down and asked, "boy, where are you going?"

Seeing the grandfather in front of him, the child suddenly remembered the teacher's instruction in the book school. He made a bow to Duke Qiao before he began to speak.

"The school will open in the afternoon. We are going to the school."

For the children just made a bow, Qiaogong is also very pleased, teaching and educating people, this education, shuobai village must have done.

If it's the clan members who put them outside, it's not surprising to meet the boy Qiaogong, who is such a Zhili Festival. But how do you think of this boy, he is also an ordinary peasant boy.

He also looked at the bamboo slips behind the children's back, but still slightly frowned, "Mathematics"?

In his mind, the mathematics itself is the end of a hundred studies, and it is far inferior to Confucianism. After learning this arithmetic, he can only be a businessman.

However, the other one is the Analects of Confucius. Seeing this, he also slightly softened his face. This is still OK, but it does not completely mislead people's children."How can children go to school to study geometry?" Qiao Gong asked again.

The child tilted his head and seemed to be thinking about what "shuxiu" meant. After he understood it, he said, "my mother said that the village head is a good man. He not only takes us to study, but also doesn't need us to pay tuition fees. Instead, they subsidize our family."

At last, Duke Qiao confirmed this, with both shock and joy on his face, as well as some worries.

It must not be a way to go on like this for a long time. The winery in the village also needs food to make wine. If you don't sell those wine quickly, maybe the money in the village will not be enough to support this matter.

Duke Qiao has always had a Confucian thinking, even a teacher's thinking. He still likes children very much, especially those who understand politeness and Confucianism.

After thinking of this, he immediately decided that even if he was willing to give up his old face, he should sell those drinks, and then he could support these children to read.

"Why are you here, Mr. Qiao?"

Just ready to leave the village, Qin Shuo met Qiao gong at the entrance of the village, which made him feel very surprised.

"I just heard my daughter's praise, so I came to the village to see the situation. I didn't expect that shuobai village was such a precious place."

Duke Qiao is also full of praise, looking at Qin Shuo in his eyes is more and more like.

Qin Shuo is just like a piece of precious jade. Before that, the Baoyu was too thick to be seen by himself. But now that the coating is washed away, the essence can be seen.

This son is definitely not a thing in the pool. If one day the dragon gets water, he will soar to the sky!

Qiao Gong's heart made such a comment, and even a strange idea appeared.