Chapter 319

August 16, the school resumed classes.

Looking at the students sitting in the classroom, song Xintong saw many new faces as well as many familiar faces.

In this era, many people drop out of school. Some of them can read and settle accounts, and then they are sent by their families to be apprentices in the accounting room. At that time, they will study with their masters, and then they will be able to be Mr. accounting room.

Only those who study in order to be the number one scholar will stay in school for a long time. The rest of the people go out to earn a living after one or two years of study. After all, many people are still in a bit of a dilemma when they spend four taels of silver a year on the bundle.

Many of the new faces were children from the village. Most of them were sent to the village because they earned several Liang silver by helping the workshop work.

There are also children of several workers who signed contracts. Because they made some money, they sent their children of the right age.

Because I sent letters to them and asked them before, they all said that there were children and old people at home. Song Xintong said that if he wanted to send them to study, it would be OK. In half a year, it would only take two or two students to fix up, and he could live in the room that Kung Fu arranged for them.

So those people who have sons in the family have all sent them here. There are seven little boys in total. They look very smart and sensible. They think that they chose sensible children to come here.

"Master, can we live in the workshop these days and wait for the work to start?" The workers who sent the children asked, "these people are all away. They are almost on their way at midnight. They didn't arrive at the village until early this morning. It's too far away from home.".

"We can't live in the workshop for the time being." As soon as song Xintong's words were finished, the faces of several workers changed. If they couldn't live, they had to build a shed in the woods. They couldn't go back and forth every day, could they?

"I haven't finished yet." Song Xintong said with a smile, "the workshop has been renovated these days, and the ground is still not dry. If you want to live, you can go to the chicken house in the back, but you should help me clean the chicken house, and then help me go into the mountain to cut more firewood and put it into the workshop's firewood room."

The workers immediately breathed a sigh, "OK, we're going to cut firewood."

After the workers left, song Xintong and Lu Yunkai spoke, and then they went into the back mountain with Daya and Yang Xiaoyue. The breeze in the forest was gentle, cool and comfortable, much cooler than basking in the sun outside.

Through the lush forest, go deep into the forest, and pick up mushrooms and fungus all the way. There are fewer people in the village who come to the deep of the forest, so there are more mushrooms and fungus.

Song Xintong bent down to pick up two gray spores and threw them into the basket on Daya's back. "Pick up more of these. They're delicious."

"Girl, there are many here." Yang Xiaoyue picked up more than a dozen gray spores, put them in her apron, and then poured them all into Daya's back basket. She also carried a back basket, which contained mushrooms and fungus.

Song Xintong walked over with a stick, and at the same time beat the grass on the side of the road with the stick to avoid snakes: "Xiaoyue, be careful, there are snakes in the grass."

Yang Xiaoyue said: "girl, don't worry, maidservant will be careful."

Song Xintong followed the big pine tree where he found matsutake last year. The ground was covered with golden pine needles, which spread flat on the ground like a golden carpet.

"Girl, these pines are so big." Yang Xiaoyue was surprised. It was the first time she saw such a big pine tree.

Daya said, "there are bigger trees in the mountains."

"I haven't seen that!" Yang Xiaoyue said.

Song Xintong went to this pine tree and looked for it carefully.

"Girl, what are you looking for? How about Ganoderma lucidum and ginseng Yang Xiaoyue asked curiously.

"Ganoderma lucidum should grow on the cliff, right? And I don't know ginseng leaves. Even if I pass by it, I can't recognize it. " Song Xintong found some protruding places under a piece of pine needles at the tip of his eyes. When he came near, he smelled the rich aroma. It was true.

Song Xintong carefully squatted on the ground, "Xiaoyue, take your apron to me."

Yang Xiaoyue quickly takes it off and hands it to song Xintong. She picks a few good-looking Tricholoma matsutake and puts them all in her apron to wrap them up. Then she spreads all the soil back, hoping to find them in the next year.

Seeing that song Xintong was very careful, Daya asked in surprise, "girl, what is this? Mushrooms? "

"Almost, but much more precious than mushrooms." Song Xintong went to the front again, strolled around all the big pine trees, and found a few more. This time, he found a total of 13, almost a kilo.

"We're late. We don't have any early ones." Song Xintong sighed. There are only a few of them. They are only enough to stew an old hen once.

"Girl, there are many big pine trees ahead. We can go and have a look." Daya didn't realize that there was any danger in it. He pointed to the forest in front of him and said, "but you can't go inside any more. There are big insects and wolves in it."

"Where did you hunt before?" Song Xintong then remembered that they didn't see any large prey so far away, most of them were rabbits and pheasants.

"Go inside." Big Ya said.

"And inside?" Song Xintong frowned, "you can't go inside any more. It's too dangerous inside."

Da Ya said straightforwardly: "don't worry, girl. If you are alone, you can get away safely."

"..." Hey, is she a burden? Song Xintong looked at his big belly, it is really a burden, very tired.

"Go and see if there are any mushrooms and such things. I'll have a rest here." Song Xintong found a stone to sit down, walking for so long, some legs soft.

"Wait for the maid." Daya quickly ran to the front of the forest, walking through the hard grass forest, and finally disappeared in their sight.

"Sister Daya is really good." Yang Xiaoyue looked at the direction of Da Ya's disappearance with special worship, "if only the maidservant had such a strong ability."

"You are also very good. You can embroider. The embroidered flowers are lifelike. Daya can't do it." Song Xintong said.

"But that's not the same. If you are as powerful as sister Daya, you can go out with the girl." Yang Xiaoyue said enviously.

"I wanted to go out to play. If I go to Lingnan city again, I'll take you with me. You can cook for us." Song Xintong said with a smile.

Yang Xiaoyue immediately nodded: "that slave girl and his mother learn some dishes, and later they can cook for the girls and CHILDES."

"Well." Song Xintong looked at the front, looking at Daya who came back soon: "Daya has come back, what is she holding in her hand?"

"Round, gray spore?" Yang Xiaoyue happily looked at the front: "or just the kind of girl you picked up?"

Soon, Daya came near, "the girl only found a few gray spores, not the kind you just picked up."

"No, forget it." Song Xintong put the matsutake wrapped in an apron into Daya's back basket. "It's late. Let's go back early."