Chapter 294: Staying Home to Take Care of Husband and Children
Wen Zhenyi sighed and looked at Zhu Tao: "Little Taozi, you are obviously worried and concerned, why do you have to hide it in your heart?"
Zhu Tao looked at Wen Zhenyi and laughed and cried: "Yiyi, you won't understand."
"What do I not understand? Is it because of your identity or because of your previous family environment?"
Zhu Tao bit her lip lightly: "I'm afraid of my uncle Klin."
"What does this have to do with you?" Wen Zhenyi was a little confused.
Zhu Tao thought about the big tree in the yard: "They all say that I have a hard life and it has brought bad luck to my family."
"Xiao Taozi, I never want to believe this. Everyone will experience birth, old age, sickness and death, and accidents will happen. As for when they will happen, it is not something we can control."
"Yi Yi, wasn't it me who killed him?"
"If you can bring death to others, have you brought death to us after all this time? Have you brought disaster and trouble to our family?"
Zhu Tao was slightly stunned. After thinking about it carefully, it seemed that there really wasn't any answer. She shook her head gently again.
Wen Zhenyi patted her shoulder and said, "Some things should be said boldly, don't let yourself regret it. You don't know when your life will end. We are not monsters and cannot live for ten thousand years. In the limited time, make yourself happy and don't let yourself regret it."
Zhu Tao looked at her: "What if you get rejected?"
"That's his loss. You deserve better." Wen Zhenyi didn't like to see Zhu Tao looking so lifeless.
"Okay." Zhu Tao nodded with a smile.
“I’ll take you back with me in the ox cart later. Grandpa Shen and the others just happened to be going back to the village after finishing their classes today.”
Zhu Tao smiled and nodded: "I'll go get busy first."
Wen Zhen nodded slightly, looked at her back as she walked away, and a smile appeared on his face.
At noon, Grandpa Shen and brother Wen Yongnan came to the store together. They were a little surprised to see Wen Zhenyi there.
When Wen Yongman saw her, he pouted and said, "You don't even come to see us."
Wen Zhenyi reached out and pinched his nose: "I haven't come to see you, and I haven't seen you lose weight. Look at your little face, you've gained weight."
Wen Yongman immediately covered his face: "You are lying."
"I didn't lie to you. If you don't believe me, ask my brother."
Wen Yongman turned to look at Wen Yongnan: "Brother, is it true?"
Wen Yongnan looked at it carefully, then nodded: "Yeah."
Wen Yongman cried out in complaint, "This shouldn't be the case!"
"That's because you've been lazy lately."
Wen Zhenyi looked at Wen Yongman and asked, "Are you lazy?"
"Just a few days."
"If you slack off, there won't be any delicious food next time."
"I promise, I won't be lazy anymore." When Wen Yongman heard that there was nothing delicious to eat, he immediately said that he would not be lazy anymore.
Mr. Shen looked at the three siblings with a smile. If he had a great-grandson in the future, he would probably teach Zhenyi well.
Wen Zhenyi looked at Shen Xiucai and smiled happily: “Grandpa Shen, did you figure out the things about the school when I told you last time?”
"I've figured it out." He took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to her: "Yi Yi, are you really planning to build such a fine school?"
"I have this plan, but there may not be so many teachers."
"I can write to my classmates and ask them about the Master's affairs."
"That would be great. I hope that in the future our school will not only be attended by children from the village, but also by children from other places."
"Your idea is good, but the area required to build it will be quite large."
“I know.” Wen Zhenyi thought for a moment: “Grandpa Shen, can girls read and write?”
"You want girls to learn to read too?" Shen Xiucai looked at her seriously.
"Well, they can't pass the imperial examinations, but they can understand things."
Shen Xiucai looked at her and sighed, "These teachers have rather stubborn ideas. Most of them think that women should be illiterate and stay at home to take care of their husbands and children."
"So no one wants to teach?"
"Not really. Some wealthy families would hire female teachers to teach them music, chess, calligraphy, painting, needlework, cooking, etc. It's just that such teachers are not easy to find."
“I’ll go and find out about this, I just want to ask Grandpa Shen to do me a favor when I’m looking for a master.”
"What's the matter?"
"I don't want teachers who stick to the rules and don't know how to adapt. I want them to be imaginative and adaptable."
Scholar Shen stroked his beard and laughed heartily, "The teachers in this private school all demand seriousness and rigidity, but you insist on being different from them. Why is that?"
"People who don't know how to adapt will get stuck in a dead end no matter what they do in the future, and they will only stick to their own ideas. People who know how to adapt, although they may be seen as unstable by others, have a lot of creativity."
"Your perspective is quite unique. If you ask me to find a serious and dedicated teacher, it might be difficult. After all, such teachers tend to teach in large colleges and private schools. They wouldn't want to come here."
"My school is not for the children to take exams to gain fame. I also want them to learn something that interests them."
"Tell me about it."
"For example, carpentry, blacksmithing, forging, etc. As long as they are interested, I plan to hire teachers to teach them."
"This doesn't look like a private school."
"You know, not every child can pass the imperial examination. There are only so many places available. The remaining students will strive hard for their future. As the saying goes, there are 360 professions, and every profession has its top talent."
"Every profession has its own top scholar." Shen Xiucai nodded repeatedly: "If you want a teacher like this, I have quite a few people I can recommend."
"A lot of people?"
"Others think people like them lack stability, so even if they open private schools, there are still few students who go, and most of them live in poverty."
“Then please ask Grandpa Shen for me, I will build the school as soon as possible.”
"Don't be so anxious. It takes quite a while for the letters to go back and forth."
Wen Zhenyi opened the detailed list of rooms he needed, and she added a lot of things to it.
After lunch, they had classes in the afternoon, so they agreed to go back to the village together and went back to the private school first.
Wen Zhenyi took the list of private school construction and prepared to go find Master Chang who lived in the town.
Master Chang and his team are currently dividing up some of the work at Wen Zhenyi's house, deciding who is responsible for which area, and the news of recruiting workers has also been released.
They also have to consider the manpower. After all, building a house requires some experienced hands, otherwise the efficiency will be reduced by half.
"Knock, knock, knock."
Master Chang and the others looked at the gate with some confusion: "Why is someone knocking on the door at this time?"
"I'll go open the door and take a look. Maybe they're here to see you, the master, building a house."
"Go ahead." Master Chang didn't think much about it. After all, few people asked him to build houses.
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