The Blessed

This was not the first time Ling Jingxuan bought people. So after he made his request, Guarantor Liu personally picked twenty to thirty people that met his requirements. There were five old mama, and thirty-six from age twelve to seventeen young ones. Finally Ling Jingxuan chose two old mama, both of whom were in their forties who had no family, Lady Zheng and Lady Lan. It was said that Lady Lan had even been the madam of an official who had committed crimes. Her husband and son were both exiled, and she and the womenfolks in the family were also reduced to slaves. In this life, she wouldn’t have a chance to see her family again.

In addition, he also chose twenty young men, who were generally around 14 or 15. After he took them home, Lady Wang nagged about it inevitably, but Ling Jingxuan just didn’t take it into his heart at all. The next day, he ordered the two old man to teach Lady Wang and others rules and etiquettes. As for those twenty young men, he handed all of them to his little disciple Zhao Shan and let him teach them how to recognize human meridians, acupoints on the back, and some simple medical knowledge. In order to let them learn quietly, also afraid that they might disturb Ling Jinghan who was about to take the exams, Ling Jingxuan specially asked Song Gengniu and others to empty a room of the servants for them to learn.

Then Ling Jingpeng asked the village head to hire those women to wash those left mushrooms every day at the price of one cooper coin for five jin. Lady Zhang and Lady Wu were responsible for the acceptance check. They had already been strict, especially on food hygiene. But those women also had no complaints, instead, they were quite diligent. One should know at such a slack season, those strong labors could only earn about twenty copper coins a day, and the guarantor had to take the commission. But they could even earn money at home now. If quick enough with their hands, they could earn tens of copper coins a day. Such a good thing, even though there were a lot of requirements, they were willing to do it.

At the same time, those drawings Ling Jingxuan had handed to Wang Jinyu and others were all made into finished products. They all looked not bad. The second day, Ling Jingxuan went to look for the village head, ask him as the guarantor to find those handy women in the village to mass make the products. Of course, each group of them was responsible for different jobs. The next day, the village head had found him thirty people, but the number was far enough from Ling Jingxuan asked for. So he asked Song Gengniu to go to those nearby villages to talk to their village heads that they wanted to hire a hundred women workers a time at the price of twenty-five copper coins a day. He emptied the factories for making wine next year. And Wang Jinyu and Lady Wang were responsible for checking the products, with Lady Zheng and Lady Lan as the assistants.

Of course, before starting, be it people from their village or other villages, as long as one passed Wang Jinyu’s assessment, Ling Jingxuan would ask her to sign a one-year labor contract, and directly told them that those who were especially efficient could get five hundred copper coins and five jin of meat as the reward every month. On the contrary, those who loafed on the job, instead of getting paid, she had to bear the loss of back order. They were all village women, of course they wouldn’t say no to their god of wealth. Everyone stated that they would strictly stick to the rules.

After everything was arranged, it was already a few days later. And October was almost over. Ling Jingxuan specially asked Shuisheng to take good care of Jinghan, and nagged some words to his two younger brothers and parents, and finally went on their late honeymoon travelling with Yan Shengrui and the two little buns.

Since it was their honeymoon, except Ling Yun who had to take care of the little buns, they didn’t take any other people with them. But, seeing that Yan Shengrui had to drive the carriage in person, Yan Shan who had been hiding in the dark could only show up to shoulder the job of driving the carriage for him. All the way, they drove from Qingyang town to Shuangliu town, Yunyin town, and Liujiang town. The whole family was enjoying a good time. When in Linjiang town, they heard that the prune tree garden outside the town opened to the tourists, they even specially stayed two more days there.

In ten days, they had visited over ten towns. They climbed high hills, played drifting, and took a flower boat in the beautiful evening. After having appreciated those scenic spots and historical sites, they took another route to go home. They happened to pass Cangzhou, so Yan Shengrui suggested they stay in the prince mansion for a few days. At first Ling Jingxuan agreed. Bu later after Yan Yi and Yan Si came all the way and told them that the emperor’s decree was on the way, those two could only change the plan and headed back to Ling village.

When they were back, it had already been half a month later. During this period, early in this month, Ling Chenghua and others were beheaded at the busy streets for kidnapping and murdering people. As for whether it was real or not, no one dare ask. Anyway, Ling Chenghua died, and the old couple was so heartbroken that they fell ill in bed. At first, out of a good heart, Ling Chenglong and Lady Wang asked someone to send them two hens and some meat, of course Lady Wang’s family also didn’t miss it. But in the afternoon, Ling Chengcai came to tell them that the old lady wanted to see them. For the sake that she was seriously ill, Ling Chenglong and Lady Wang got soft-hearted and went to check on her, but she immediately accused them of bribing the yamen to sentence Ling Chenghua to death and cursed them and they had to pay for it, etc.. That really made hurt the couple’s heart totally, and they no longer cared about them.

After Ling Jingxuan learnt that, he didn’t say a word, even didn’t ask them about it after going back. Although his parents had been wronged, he personally thought that they asked for it themselves. If they hadn’t gotten soft-hearted, how would the other side have had the chance to do that to them? To people like the old lady, you shouldn’t have any sympathy. If you gave them face today, tomorrow they dare to climb over your head to poop. Finally he cut the connections between the two families, they…For this, after going home, he especially found Lady Zheng and Lady Lan and insinuated to them the whole thing. As shrewd and experienced like them, they immediately understood what he was trying to say, so they promised such kind of thing would never happen again, which made Ling Jingxuan much relieved.

Those two who rushed back arranged those newly hired tutors to live in the living quarters behind the new school. The second, they started to enroll students. Hearing that it was for free, those villagers in the nearby villages all sent the age-appropriate kids there. In only two days, they had enrolled over two hundred students aging from five to ten. As for the class grouping, Ling Jingxuan left it to an old juren called Zhang Huainian. No one knew where Yan Yi found him. With a look, one could tell Zhang Huainian was quite learned. So Ling Jingxuan directly left all things in the school to him. Of course, the few little buns also entered their own school. The only five-year-old little buns were not in the reception class, but in the first grade and learned together with those bigger kids.