Facts have proved that Fang Bingsheng's vision: a person who refuses to cut his braids is a good coachman.

Zhou Hengfu did a good job, he was energetic and had eyes. Although he was too motivated at the beginning and pulled the cart too fast, Fang Bingsheng was often confused on the dirt road, but he quickly learned to slow down the speed of the train in a bumpy place, so that the master sitting behind him felt a little more comfortable.

Moreover, he really cherishes this opportunity to serve the masters from the capital: when the rainy day and the sun is heavy, he holds an umbrella to protect Fang Bingsheng from the sun; when there is a conflict with the locals, he knows how to take out sticks from the gadget and distribute them to everyone, and he always takes one, and then stands beside Fang Bingsheng with his eyes straight. It’s not that he dares to fight in groups and pretend to be brave, but that he wants to protect Fang Bingsheng. Whoever dares to get close to Fang Bingsheng will scream and smash the other party, and will never show mercy.

Zhou Hengfu's two scoops are also good. The saying "The poor children who are poor are early to be the family" is nonsense. The truth is "The poor children who are not good at being the family are long gone" or "you can do anything for food." His two 7-year-old and 4-year-old sons followed the construction site kitchen early, doing well in washing vegetables, dishes, and cooking, and giving them two of them a month is profitable.

Soon, Fang Bingsheng called Zhou Hengfu "Lao Zhou", and Zhou Hengfu also changed his words to call Fang Bingsheng "Boss". Later, he regarded Lao Zhou as his personal coachman, and when he went back to Haijing to do business, he also brought the loyal coachman "Lao Zhou". Later, because of the explosive development of telegraph and railway industry, Fang Bingsheng bought a small courtyard near Songyou headquarters within the city wall. He needed servants. What's better than the Zhou Hengfu family, who is well-known and knowledgeable, is easy to use, cheap, and loyal.

So two years later, the "Old Zhou" in Fang Bingsheng's mouth became "Afu", and the "boss" in Zhou Hengfu's mouth also became a more caring "master". Fang Bingsheng asked him to be his full-time coachman, his older son Zhou Lizai was a child laborer in the kitchen, and Zhou Quanzai, who was similar to his eldest son, became his son's book boy. The whole family became his servants. This is trust and a kind of praise;

For this, Zhou Hengfu, a family of three sleeping in the kitchen, was so grateful. In Zhou Hengfu's eyes, he had long forgotten that he was beaten, forced to buy the fields, and even his wife died. He would only ask himself who changed their lives: who took their family from a bankrupt and unemployed farmer to the capital, from a coolie to a decent slave, wearing a well-fitting clothes every day. From father to sons, everyone not only has tops, but also underwear and cloth shoes. Even Western socks - only the noble man in life - Fang Bingsheng - Mr. Fang.

Just bringing a countryman to the city is not enough to make him thank you: countless unemployed vagrants in the Changshou Temple and Shiligou in Haijing are waiting to be hired every day.

Zhou Hengfu was extremely grateful to Fang Bingsheng. In addition to being very polite and kind to his servants, he also changed the fate of his two sons. He turned them from being trampled into a top-notch person. It is not appropriate to say that, but without Master Fang, there would not be such a chance.

The thing is this: In 1864, Fang Bingsheng's eldest son Fang Bowen was 7 years old. As a successful person, Fang Bingsheng also wanted to give his son the best education he could get - this is the right of the rich (he really wanted to find a few Confucian scholars to teach his son (of course this is Fang Bingsheng's fantasy, unless you want to immigrate to the Qing Dynasty, the top elites will still be in line with the court's trend). Fang Bingsheng studied it for a long time and chose the Pede Primary School, a Tianen Road Baptist Church, which was just established near his home.

This is the result of the elites' analysis of information: the civil war between the north and the south of the United States is in full swing, and in the Song Empire, the Southern Protestantism in the United States is madly integrating various southern sects and other Protestants under the instructions of the emperor, gathering their own educational resources, and forming one Pede after another. Reading in the newspaper: It seems that the Pede New School is established every month, and there are also church schools that are renamed Pede.

This Pede system is the crown of the future imperial examination system. Fang Bingsheng, an elite like this, keenly realized this. After weighing the pros and cons, he sent his son Fang Bowen to Tian Enpede with pain and gratitude.

The pain is: Finally, this day comes, I will train my son directly into a foreign slave. Alas, I am sorry for my ancestors; the relief is: My son is going to be the foreign slave who is easiest to become an official, ha, bless my ancestors!

My son wore a foreign school uniform, leather shoes, and his bag contained foreign books. He rode his way to school in Afu's rickshaw every day, but he still lacked something to show his identity: he was undoubtedly a book boy.

Who doesn’t have a book boy in a rich family? This is a kind of personal servant, which helps the relationship between master and servant is unbreakable when you are young. In a word, cultivate a young man to be a loyal servant.

Therefore, thinking that Afu's family is tall and mighty, and that Afu's second son is also seven years old, Fang Bingsheng asked Zhou Quanzai to be his son's book boy. His duty was to follow the morning holding the young master's schoolbag, follow the rickshaw pulled by his father, and look up at the back of the handsome head in the car, and run all the way to school.

Ah Fu was so excited about this that he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night: This means that I served the master and the waiter served the young master. This is such a young and promising big man who served the master for generations. Where did this blessing be cultivated? It's all the blessing of my dead wife.

So he ordered Quanzi to follow the young master to go to school, not to leave the young master: the young master is waiting in school, and the young master comes out to rest after class and goes up to serve, and no one can bully his young master.

"Quanzi, this is all your dead mother bless you. You must do it for the master's house." Ah Fu told his son in tears.

But Tianen Lupeide Primary School is not the best primary school that Fang Bingsheng can send his children to. On the contrary, it was a bit inconspicuous at that time.

This is because it is a new school, and all teachers are mainly new people. Was it easy to find a foreign church teacher who knows some Chinese or a Chinese teacher who knows Western learning in Haisong? It's quite difficult. The church itself hires people while training.

Moreover, when Fang Bingsheng bought the first Beijing house as a family business, he was just a rising senior executive in the business world. His financial resources were not enough to allow him to enter the rich area in one step. The property he purchased was an old house, which must be in the middle-class circle. In such an area where old houses were gathered, it was difficult to raise funds for primary schools to set up a primary school, because the imperial court was insufficient, and the residential areas radiated by the church were mixed with various sects. There were still Catholics dominant, Baptist and Presbyterian believers. There were many non-believers. It was not an official area, an industrial upstart area, and a Protestant loyal area with a lot of veterans.

The reason why the Peide system is eager to build primary school on Tianen Road is that it also means to expand its influence.

Therefore, as a newly established primary school, Tian Enpeid has a weak faculty and the school's student dormitories are still under construction. It is still a day school system for the time being.

The strongest and oldest Peddy often has a school-based system. The school-based system has many advantages: first, it can have great advantages in the source of students. Residence can allow students from far away to come to study; second, cultivate team spirit according to Christian morality; finally, the most important thing is that the school dominates students' daily activities and allows students to immerse themselves in the halo of Jesus all the time every day; only Peddy who is not strong can go on a day.

Schools with a school-based system can allow students from anywhere in the country to study, while the current day-based system can only radiate to related areas.

Fang Bingsheng chose this place and thought it was a day school.

It can be imagined that for Fang Bingsheng, the "egg" of Confucianism outside and inside, immersing his children in the Christian environment all the time is undoubtedly giving the children to the wolf. He also thought: "Son, during the day, you can learn the activities of foreign slaves, and you can have the capital to be admitted to the imperial examination and become an official. When you go home at night, I have time to tell you the true right path (Confucianism)."

From his son's name "Bowen", we can see that this name comes from "The Analects of Confucius Zihan", and the Master said: "A gentleman is knowledgeable in literature and can be polite to him, and he can be without a strait."

Pan: same as "rebellion". Yifu: a tone, expressing a strong sigh.

In other words, Confucius said: "A gentleman can learn ancient cultural classics widely and restrain himself with etiquette, so he can never deviate from the truth." This clearly illustrates Confucius' educational purpose. Of course, he does not advocate being rebellious, so how to do it? He believes that ancient classics should be widely studied and "ritual" should be restrained. After all, he wants to cultivate a gentleman who understands "ritual".

In the subconscious or explicit consciousness: In Fang Bingsheng's eyes, the foreign religion was just a last resort to be forced to deviate from the truth in order to become an official. This view and understanding were imprinted in his son's name.

In general, in the few years since Fang Bowen entered school, the school of Tian Enpeid was a bit simple. It was still a dormitory building construction site and there was no activity venue in front. After walking two steps from the classroom, the streets were on the streets. There was a mess around. Fang Bingsheng was not worried about his son's safety, and Afu asked his son to protect him, and even kept his eyes in line with the young master. Fang Bingsheng's intentions: he was really afraid that a teacher would cut open his son's chest and let him go in.

Tian Enpeid is a new school, new teachers, new school nurses and even doorkeepers, and they are all recruited. They are not clear about the school rules at that time: a young master dressed in a custom-made children's dress with Samsung, got off his rickshaw in a very strong manner, and Shi Shiran walked into the school gate. What was the child with a bag next to him doing? Classmates? Bookkeepers? Who cares about this? Therefore, Zhou Quanzai often stayed at school with the young master. He was only seven years old anyway, and the school thought that the children from the neighbors outside came in to play. No matter what, he was just wandering in the school, swinging on the narrow playground swing, sitting on the steps and staring at the sky in a daze, or as he did later: his face was lying on the window, and he followed the young master to look at the Arabic numerals on the blackboard.

Until one day, the new math teacher Luo, who was a lame teacher, noticed the child who always leaned over the back door and looked at the child who was squatting in the back door. He limped to the front door of the classroom, stretched out his head to look at the child squatting in the back door, and wanted to ask him what was going on, but Zhou Quanzai immediately turned his head and ran away like a frightened stray dog, crawled into the bushes, disappeared on the noisy street. When he came back to the classroom, Teacher Luo asked. Fang Bowen, who was short in the first row, stood up and replied loudly: "That's a small circle, my schoolboy!"

The children in the classroom burst into laughter, but the children always like to laugh.

But Teacher Luo was concerned. After school, he confirmed that Zhou Quanzai was following Fang Bowen and Afu, so he walked out of the school gate to hold Afu and asked him to call Quanzai who had been hiding behind the tea stall when he saw him.

"Beast. I asked you to watch the young master, but I didn't let you make trouble!" As soon as I heard something happened, the coachman Zhou Hengfu was so angry that he grabbed his son's arm with one hand, and trembled with the other hand to take off his cloth shoes, and wanted to slap his son hard.

"I see you every day. I heard that the nursing staff in the school said that you like to listen to math classes the most?" Teacher Luo stopped Afu, who waved his hand and wanted to beat Zhou Quanzai. His father didn't want him to interfere with the teaching at the Holy School.

"Well, Xiaoquan, don't you like those earthworm-like numbers?" The young master next to him also encouraged his book boy, who shrunk his head and was so scared that he wanted to cry.

"Yes. My father said that he could only be a top-notch person like the butler." Zhou Quanzai replied tremblingly.

"You listen to the class every day. Let me ask you, what is this?" Teacher Luo squatted down, picked up a branch, and drew a figure on the ground.

"7!" Fang Bowen shouted.

Teacher Luo smiled and asked Fang Bowen to keep silent: "Don't say it first. Let your Shutong say it."

Zhou Quanzai knows Arabian digital and knows basic operations like 7+8=15. This is all taught to him by the young master.

"Old Zhou, please talk here." Teacher Luo stood up and threw the branch away. He called Ah Fu aside and said something for a long time.

From talking to Teacher Luo to returning home, even the two 7-year-old children felt that Ah Fu was different from usual. The first time he asked his son to get into the car, but he was not allowed to sit side by side with the young master, so he squatted on the young master's mat. Along the way, he pulled the car as fast as flying, and giggled, and almost loaded a four-wheeled carriage head-on, not to mention the stone arch bridge: a car, three people almost flew up in the air.

It turns out that because Tian Enpeid is a new school, the faith composition in the region is very complicated, and the first year's enrollment indicators have not been used up. But that doesn't matter. The church school always provides local poor people with free admission opportunities. The problem is that the 20% free admission opportunities have not been used up. In this way, Teacher Luo took a fancy to the book boy Zhou Quanzai, at least he had the motivation to learn. He asked Zhou Hengfu if he wanted his son to apply for free admission.

This incident made Zhou Hengfu excited. Which Chinese person doesn’t want his son to be best educated? But Zhou Hengfu, who was born in the lower class, really didn’t think about studying in elementary school. Because of non-compulsory education, Tian En Lu Peide starts at 20 yuan per year. This is not something that poor people can afford. Moreover, Zhou Hengfu and Fang Bingsheng are different. He doesn’t know what the word “Pedde” represents. Why do you have to study for 20% of the annual income of the father and son? This money should be left for the sons to marry their wives;

His greatest ambition was to let his second son take Butler Li hired by Fang Bingsheng as his adoptive father, and let the talented man who knew Western learning teach his son the ability to read and settle accounts. This is extraordinary among servants and has a bright future. It is easy to be a personal servant who can grind ink and moisten the pen for the men. At the worst, he is a kitchen manager who goes out to buy meat, eggs and vegetables every day, and some are oily and water.

Fang Bingsheng naturally had no objection to this. Originally, the book boy had to study with the young master according to common sense, so he had to pay the private school teacher double fees. Now Peide has a teacher asking you to study for free. Not only is it free, but he can also follow my son to protect my son. What a great thing.

So Zhou Hengfu excitedly took his two sons to do a transfer entrance exam together, but the two children had different situations: when Zhou Hengfu kowtowed and bleeding, he was 7 years old and the second and four years old. The railway company was still quite renowned and sent only a kitchen work because their work was too young. But any company that hired child labor would squeeze the children to death. At the age of seven, he could be used as a kitchen adult. The eldest child cooked vegetables and soup every day, and there were also the eldest child's scalding scars on the left side of his body.

It was left behind when he was cooking a big pot. He was always in the fire pit. He was always with the coolie. He was always with the coolie since he was a child. He learned gambling, swearing, fighting, etc. Every time his father accompanied the master to face the troublemaker, the child would curse and hold a stick to beat people. The hero in the boss's mind was a gangster thug from the railway company. If he didn't have to work, he would have a lot of money to beat people. He would eat delicious food every day, drink spicy food every day, and even please them by himself, and would be thrown into an expensive Western cigarette;

The second child was too young and could not even cook a big pot of rice. He could only serve tea and water to the big people in the mountain temple, sweeping the floor and wiping the table. This was the lightest servant job, so the second child saw all the cultural people who wrote and painted in front of the table and pointed out the country in front of the map. In his heart, he thought these people were the heroes in his mind.

In this way, the eldest brother likes to learn gangsters and doesn’t care about culture or anything else; while the second brother worships those literati and is enthusiastic about learning literacy and arithmetic.

The two of them came to the capital with the master and his father and were all in a state of water: the ten-year-old boss had the opportunity to gamble with the older servants and searched for yellow pictorials everywhere; the seven-year-old boy was inspired by the young master's house with a large number of books with pictures and words, and there was also a locomotive model!

In the free admission test for the poor in Tianenbed, the second son Zhou Quanzai was shortlisted, and the eldest son Zhou Lizai was beaten because he was old and could not do anything.

In fact, that year, almost all the wild children who like to go to Tianenpeid campus and like to peek at classrooms were recruited. For Peide's educational beliefs: they are not inferior people of small vendors and unemployed vagrants, they are innocent children, the population closest to the kingdom of heaven, the future of the community, the future of faith, and the future of the entire region. Whoever holds the child will hold the world.

From the night when Zhou Hengfu and his second son kowtowed in front of Teacher Luo's door and kowtowed in tears, Zhou Quanzai became the central figure of the coachman Lao Zhou's family: he studied with the young master, he would be able to read, and he might be able to take the science exam to become an official, and the Zhou family's dream was placed on this child.
Chapter completed!