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Chapter 277: Food in Hand, No Panic in Exile 20

Songling Town is just a small town in a desolate place. It doesn't have many people and outsiders basically don't pass by here, so it is not realistic to open a restaurant or an inn.

After several investigations, Chu Yuan discovered that what was most lacking here were medical and educational resources.

The Shu area nowadays is not as developed as it is in later generations. It is not a good place to live. It is hot and humid all year round, which makes it very easy to breed bacteria.

Local residents can easily get sick from eating improper food or drinking contaminated water.

However, local medical resources are limited, and seeing a doctor and getting medicine is a very costly thing for ordinary people.

Therefore, opening an affordable clinic can not only make it convenient for local people to seek medical treatment, but also be a way to make money.

Similarly, local educational resources are also very scarce.

Chu Yuan traveled all the way and only found a school in a small town five miles away. The teacher in the school was just a student. He could only teach the children to recognize words, but it was a bit difficult for him to teach them to write essays.

If this continues, it will be extremely difficult for the children here to go out of the mountains through studying.

Therefore, improving local educational conditions is also an urgent matter.

Chu Yuan decided to start from these two aspects. While making money, he could also improve people's lives to a certain extent and accumulate merits.

She doesn't have to worry too much about the clinic's affairs, Xia Yu is the best person to be in charge of this matter.

As for the school, the most difficult problem is to find teachers. Who would, after passing the imperial examination, travel thousands of miles to this remote place just to teach the children?

After Chu Yuan thought about it, a name appeared in his mind - Jiang Shang.

Jiang Shang was the high-ranking official who lived next door to her house. He used to be a tutor, but the crown prince was weak at the time and lost to the current emperor in the battle for the throne.

As the prince's teacher, Jiang Shang and his family were exiled to Shu.

For someone who can even teach the prince, it should be easy for him to teach a few children. It just depends on whether he is willing to come out of retirement.

Chu Yuan thought of countless excuses in his mind and offered a lot of gifts, but he was kicked out as soon as he told his purpose.

Jiang Shang had a very strange temper. He was smiling when she first came in, but when the topic turned to teaching, his expression suddenly changed.

As if this would cost him his life.

But Chu Yuan changed his mind and felt that it was normal for him to feel resentful because he was exiled just because he taught the prince.

It doesn't matter. Liu Bei had to visit Zhuge Liang three times to invite him to come out of seclusion. She only came once, which is not enough to show her sincerity.

So in the next few days, Chu Yuan rode a fast horse back and forth between Songling Town and Nanli Village, visiting the Jiang family almost every other day.

However, this method of visiting Chu Yuan three times did not work for Jiang Shang, because this was the fifth time Chu Yuan was rejected, and even her cousin Lu Haoyuan advised her to give up.

After spending some time together, it became clear that Jiang Shang was a person who was completely oblivious to what was happening outside.

It is extremely difficult to invite him to come out of retirement.

Chu Yuan tried every possible method, whether it was offering high rewards, giving expensive gifts, or even using delicious food to tempt, but he failed to achieve his goal.

Just when she was about to give up, Jiang Zixi, the youngest daughter of Jiang Shang, chased after her and said, "Ms. Chu, please stay."

Chu Yuan was still holding a gift for the visit, and turned around in confusion: "Miss Jiang, is there something wrong?"

"Miss Chu, are you leaving?"

Chu Yuan sighed softly: "Yes, your father has refused many times. It seems that he really has no idea about this matter. It is inconvenient for me to come again."

Jiang Zixi suddenly revealed a bright smile: "Miss Chu, what do you think of me? I have been studying with my father since I was young. The elders in my family said that if I were a man, I could definitely pass the imperial examination. It's a pity that I became a girl and have nowhere to display my ambitions. Now I have the opportunity. It would be nice if I could be a female teacher."

Chu Yuan didn't expect that she stopped him because of this matter. It really is true that there is always a way out.

"Of course, I am honored that Miss Jiang has not given up on me."

The two girls hit it off immediately and were determined to make a name for themselves in Songling Town.

In recent days, Chu Yuan has already selected a location for building the school, which is on a piece of wasteland in the west of the city.

It only cost her five taels of silver to buy this place. If she were in the capital, this amount might not even be enough to have a meal in a restaurant. Buying a piece of land? It was simply unthinkable.

The next step is to find workers to build houses. Most of the residents here make a living by farming, and they stay at home doing nothing during the slack season.

Once the recruitment notice was released, more than a dozen young and middle-aged men were recruited in just half a day.

And perhaps because the economy here is underdeveloped, the workers' daily wages are extremely low. Chu Yuan's offer of 20 cents has already made these people grateful.

As for the wood and adobe bricks, these were also taken care of by the workers. There were mountains nearby anyway, so as long as Chu Yuan could afford the wages, they could get her anything.

The customized desks and chairs were made by a local carpenter who had two apprentices. With the combined efforts of the three of them, they managed to make everything Chu Yuan needed in ten days.

Thus, a school named "Xiyuan" was officially established in Songling City.

The first batch of students were the children or younger siblings of the dozen or so workers who had worked there before.

As soon as they heard that Chu Yuan was going to build a school, they all worked as hard as they could.

I just hope that one day, my children can have a good learning environment.

After this incident, Chu Yuan discovered that although the people in Shu lived a hard life, they still attached great importance to their children's education.

In their words, no one wants their children to repeat the mistakes of the previous generation and be trapped in the mountains for a lifetime doing heavy physical labor.

It’s just that there were no good educational conditions before, and the only school nearby was too far from home, so I was delayed.

Moreover, people here rarely have the idea of ​​favoring boys over girls. As long as the children in the family reach the age, whether they are boys or girls, they will be sent to school.

This made Chu Yuan have a good impression of the local people, and he often sighed in his heart that his hard work was not in vain!

Since the people here did not live in wealth, Chu Yuan set a very low tuition. After deducting the daily expenses of the school and the cost of hiring a teacher, there was not much left.

Although this went against her original intention of making money, when she saw the students sitting in the classroom, their young faces and clear eyes, she felt as if everything was worth it.

It’s okay. Even if the school doesn’t make money, there are still clinics. You can always make some money by treating patients and prescribing medicine.