With her father and brother banished, and her engagement to the marquisate broken, everyone eagerly awaited to see Xiao Jiuyue become a laughingstock.
Facing her frail grandmother, her beauti...
Chapter 700 Moon-Watching Academy
"Yue'er, you're here?" When Jun Lie saw Xiao Jiuyue, he immediately stepped forward, supported her, and said, "Look, what do you think of this academy?"
“Very good!”
Xiao Jiuyue nodded, her eyes gleaming with pride as she said, "It doesn't look like the dilapidated mountaintop it once was."
I still remember that time, looking at a deserted hilltop, listening to Shi Lizheng talking about their village, wanting to strive to set up a college, but they didn’t even have the money to build a school building, let alone a teacher.
As a result, the foundation of the academy, which had just been built, had to be abandoned.
I haven't seen it for a few years. It used to be just a small academy, but now it's becoming more and more magnificent. The most important thing is...
"Mr. Shi, why are there female students in the academy?" Xiao Jiuyue asked curiously.
"Replying to the Queen."
Shi Youchang saluted towards Xiao Jiuyue, not daring to even glance at her. He said, "The Emperor is wise. He has established a girls' school and allowed women to take the entrance exams. I thought the village wouldn't have so many concerns, so I took the initiative and admitted female students as well!"
"Your Majesty, please rest assured, the female students and male students are in separate academies and are not together on weekdays."
Shi Youchang quickly explained, "Most of the female students are from the village, and some are sisters of the students in the academy."
"very good."
Xiao Jiuyue praised and said, "Your Majesty, how about we build a girls' school here? That way, the girls won't have to crowd in with the boys!"
When there are outsiders around, Xiao Jiuyue never calls them by their names.
"If Yue'er wants to build it, then let's build it!" Jun Lie nodded in agreement and said, "How about we call this girls' academy Wangyue Academy?"
Wangyue Academy?
"It's naturally good if the emperor gives the name himself!" Xiao Jiuyue nodded in agreement.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, Your Majesty!" Shi Youchang knelt down immediately and said happily, "On behalf of all the students of Wangyue Academy, I kowtow to thank the Emperor and the Empress."
When Shi Youchang's voice sounded, in an instant, everyone in the academy knew that the emperor and the empress were going to donate to build a new academy, and cheers rang out.
After leaving the academy, Xiao Jiuyue asked, "Jun Lie, did you name the academy after me?"
"Yes." Jun Lie nodded. "In Wangyue Academy, Yue'er is like the moon in the sky. I hope that all women in the future can remember that without Yue'er, there would be no chance for this woman to study!"
"Jun Lie, you're so kind!" Xiao Jiuyue threw herself into his arms, tilted her head back and kissed him on the cheek, looking at him with a smile: "Without you, there would be no me, and there would be no Wangyue Academy!"
"Then this kiss is not enough." Jun Lie lowered his head and turned his other face over.
Xiao Jiuyue kissed him on the other side of his face and said, "I'll make it up to you tonight."
"Now?" Jun Lie put his arm around her waist.
"Mom, mom, I want to go to school!" Little Star's excited voice sounded outside the door.
Xiao Jiuyue's lips curled slightly, and she said with a smug smile: "Your daughter is here!"
Jun Lie lowered his head and quickly kissed her on the lips, as light as a dragonfly touching the water. Before his daughter came in, he sat down on the chair properly.
"Mom, I want to go to school!"
As soon as Little Star entered the house with her short legs, she said, "Mom, I want to go to Wangyue Academy!"
"Xiao Xingxing, why do you want to go to school?" Xiao Jiuyue asked curiously.
"Fighting." Little Star said in a baby voice, and then waved his little hands and fists and said, "Hey, ha!"
Little Star squatted in a horse stance, and his serious look amused Xiao Jiuyue. He said, "Little Star, learning martial arts is very hard!"
"Is it more difficult than climbing a mountain?" Little Xingxing's face wrinkled. Once, he wanted to pick peaches to eat, and he insisted on asking everyone to pick peaches early in the morning. He insisted that he could climb the mountain by himself without anyone carrying him!
When they went there, Little Star was very excited, but when they ate the peaches and went home, they couldn't walk anymore halfway.
So, in order to make Xiao Xingxing keep his word, Jun Lie made Xiao Xingxing walk all the way back home from the top of the mountain. When Xiao Xingxing returned home, he shouted that he never wanted to eat peaches again!
"That was too bitter." Xiao Jiuyue also remembered the time when they picked peaches. Little Xingxing climbed down the mountain while crying.
Xiao Jiuyue was reluctant to part with Xiao Xingxing at the time, but Jun Lie said, "If you don't let her suffer this time, she will think she can make boasts at will in the future. A man without integrity cannot stand."
In principle, Jun Lie would not give in at all, for he was afraid that his daughter would become arrogant, willful, and gullible in the future.
"Ah..." Little Star hesitated and turned around and said, "Then I'll think about it again."
The experience of picking peaches left a deep impression on Xiao Xingxing's heart. She always remembered a saying: once you say something, you must fulfill it.
"Yuer, don't you think it's not good to pick peaches and walk home now?" Jun Lie whispered in her ear.
Xiao Jiuyue glanced at him and said, "I don't know who was the one who applied the compress to Little Star's eyes and rubbed her legs all night long?"
He is stricter than anyone else, but Little Xingxing cries herself to sleep at night, complaining about her sore feet. But in the middle of the night, Jun Lie waits for his daughter to fall asleep, then applies eye mask for fear that her eyes will be swollen, and rubs her legs all night long!
"That's our daughter."
Jun Lie wasn't embarrassed at all about being discovered. He answered confidently, "Yuer, I want our daughter to be happy, but I'm also afraid she won't understand anything and will become someone who doesn't keep her word. I'm even more afraid she'll be naive and unaware of the dangers of the world!"
Jun Lie watched the child grow up little by little. He was afraid that something might happen to him and he would not be able to protect his daughter.
"You did a great job!" Xiao Jiuyue nodded in agreement. She was really afraid that Jun Lie would spoil his daughter mindlessly and make her forget her own limitations. In that case, the child would be ruined.
Xiao Xingxing thought about it for a long time and didn't mention going to school or learning martial arts again.
"Come on, I'll take you somewhere!" Jun Lie took her hand and walked towards the back mountain. When they reached the pavilion, overlooking the entire Fu'an Village, he asked, "Do you remember this place?"
"Of course." Xiao Jiuyue nodded affirmatively: "I often come here to play the piano."
In the past few years in Fu'an Village, Xiao Jiuyue has liked this place. Every time she plays the piano, her heart becomes extremely peaceful.
The Xiao family was confiscated and exiled. The women were old, sick, and weak. The whole family was like a headless fly. She couldn't fall down. She had to earn money to maintain the expenses of the Xiao family, and also find a way to take care of the Xiao family members exiled to Lingnan...
The scenes of those years flashed before Xiao Jiuyue's eyes like a kaleidoscope.
"Purple Bamboo Tune." Jun Lie said this.
Xiao Jiuyue turned around in shock: "You, did you eavesdrop on me playing the piano?"