Chapter 370 Ci’an Hall reopens
Because the site of the old health center was large enough and there were enough houses, Chen Dongyue had people divide the dormitories into three areas for men, women, and young children.
In addition, a large shed was built on the large campus behind the health center, and then several chicken sheds and rabbit sheds were built.
When the time comes, she plans to let the able-bodied children and elderly people raise some chickens and rabbits on their own.
As for the big shack, Chen Dongyue specially prepared it for everyone to do chores.
She wanted to provide some handiwork for people who have limited mobility but are deft enough to do things like rattan weaving.
There are only four people left in Qingshan Handicraft Workshop, Song Changnian, his father and his son, so they are also currently in need of work abroad.
But because their handicraft workshop is really hard to find, few people can find the shop in the corner.
The new shopkeeper Song had to face the double dilemma of no one to buy goods and no one to do the work.
It is said that Song Changnian still has to drag his younger brother, nephew and son with him every day to work hard until late at night.
He also told Chen Dongyue many times and asked her to think of a solution.
Otherwise, if this continues, even if their fingers are made of iron, they will be ground into embroidery needles.
Now, with the labor force of Ci'antang, wouldn't Song Changnian's troubles be solved smoothly?
Of course, in addition to preparing to make full use of the labor force, Chen Dongyue also worked with Sun Zhifu to acquire two acres of wasteland.
Although two acres of land is definitely not enough to grow food, the key point is that almost all the people who come to Ci'an Hall are old, weak, sick and disabled, so growing food is too strenuous for them.
But growing some fruits and vegetables, I guess it won’t be a big problem.
It is said that the children of the poor should become parents early. In many ordinary families these days, the children can do some farm work skillfully by the age of five or six.
What's more, if children don't know how to farm, aren't there old people?
When the time comes, let the older ones teach and the younger ones do the work. She will also give them some pumpkin seeds, yam seeds, etc., plus the organic fertilizer produced by Ci'an Hall~~~~~Chen Dongyue thinks that two acres of vegetable land can be used It solves the daily food problem of people in Ci'an Tang.
For Ci'an Tang, Chen Dongyue's plan is to create certain conditions so that the people receiving assistance can continue to survive through self-reliance and social donations as a supplement.
She also planned to go to Mr. Sun's place every now and then to get some food and grass.
After these days of contact, she has a deep understanding of Master Sun's nature.
Asking him to pay would probably be a big deal, but if he was asked to pay for something that the government office had, he would probably be able to come up with a little bit of it.
In addition, she is also planning to hold charity auctions once or twice a day. With Mrs. Sun's appeal in Liaocheng, she will definitely be able to raise some charity.
With a few pronged measures, the Ci'antang matter will definitely be settled. Chen Dongyue's thoughts are really optimistic.
So, on a sunny morning in mid-March, Ci'an Hall announced its reopening.
Chen Dongyue asked people to set up two porridge shops at the entrance of Xinci'an Hall.
Magistrate Meng, who was finally freed from the pain of the golden snake around his waist, also came to the door of Ci'an Hall, shaking his hands, and giving porridge to the needy people.
Under the propaganda of Kong Jie and other people from the Inspection Department, a long queue formed at the door of the porridge shed.
Song Haopo took her sister-in-law Hu and several other women from the village to cook thick vegetable porridge for everyone.
Uncle Wang, who originally guarded the guardhouse alone, was responsible for lighting the fire.
But he said he was just here to help.
After these two days of work, he still had to go back to the academy to work.
Uncle Wang said that he had received the favor from the academy and naturally wanted to repay it.
Da Dunzi, who was captured by Chen Dongyue and came to help, said that Uncle Wang must have stayed in the academy because the food in the academy's cafeteria was better.
Uncle Wang became deaf on the spot. He put his head in the mouth of the stove and just kept lighting the fire. He couldn't hear what others said.
Because porridge is given to the public, not everyone who comes to receive porridge is eligible to be admitted to Ci'an Hall.
Chen Dongyue led Ji Pengfei and Hong Xiang to open a consultation desk, preparing to accept those who were eligible to live in Ci'an Hall first.
As for identity verification and other matters, Chen Dongyue planned to wait for two days to collect everyone before running to the Yamen to verify.
If we accept and verify each one, according to the current administrative efficiency, we probably won't be able to accept a few people in a day.
But what Chen Dongyue didn't expect was that the information desk had been open for a long time, and five or six buckets of porridge had been given out, but there were only a few lonely old people and children who came to inquire.
She didn't understand, "Isn't the condition of our Ci'an Hall very good? Why would you rather continue to beg for food on the street than come to live in our Ci'an Hall?"
"I just went to inquire about it." Although Hong Xiang is only thirteen or fourteen years old, he is very clever. "I heard from those homeless people that Ci'an Tang in Qizhou is used to deceiving people into doing gangs. work.
Most people never return, and those who occasionally manage to escape say that those who are deceived into doing illegal work are blindfolded and taken to the mountains to mine. "
"Opening a mine?" Chen Dongyue frowned and asked, "What kind of mine?"
"I don't know about that," Hong Xiang shook his head, "We all heard about the homeless people here. But one thing is true, the government in Qizhou is used to deceiving people into doing illegal work.
I heard from my uncle that Qizhou looks neat and beautiful, with not even a beggar on the road. In fact, the corvee there is very heavy! I have a cousin who went to Qizhou because the corvee was too heavy..."
"Are you exhausted?" Ji Pengfei, a big and timid man, asked in horror.
"What!" Hong Xiang challenged him, "She married into our Liaozhou and became our son-in-law."
Chen Dongyue tilted her lips, "You can be considered flexible and flexible. Okay, we don't have to worry about what happens to Qizhou, we just need to take care of ourselves."
You should hurry up and spread the propaganda again, saying that our Ci'an Hall will not let everyone do illegal work. In addition to taking care of the bedding, we also take care of two meals a day. "
"Director Chen," Ji Pengfei scratched his head and asked, "Then our Ci'an Hall accepts people like me?"
This is what Ji Pengfei was thinking.
The inspection department is responsible for one lunch, while Ci'an Tang is responsible for morning and evening meals.
If he could live here, he would have three meals a day~~~
In addition, their family only has a small courtyard and five rooms in Nancheng, but they have five brothers.
He is the youngest in the family, and the other four brothers are already married and have children.
These days, babies are born to three people~~~~~ The four older brothers in the Ji family even exceeded their quota.
The family has a small family, let alone a room for each person. They can't even accommodate a bed for each person.
If he could live in Ci'an Hall~~~~~ wouldn't that solve his food and accommodation problem? Ji Pengfei was even a little envious of those who could live in Ci'an Hall.
Unfortunately, Chen Dongyue only used the word 'go' to end his fantasy.