Chapter 3349 Extra Strong Sister 3
Mingda was surprised. "Take her with you personally? Do you have to take her with you even when you go to the government office or the palace?"
Zhou Man turned to glance at his daughter, who was looking down but pacing restlessly. He said, "There's a plague in a village in Yunzhou. The local magistrate failed to effectively prevent the disease, and someone secretly broke through the defenses. Now the entire Yunzhou is under siege, and the tribes to the north are also unstable. I heard that someone named Qu Lu has conquered the Three Arrows and Four Arrows tribes."
Mingda was surprised, "They dare to invade the Central Plains?"
Zhou Man said, "Of course he wouldn't dare to do that now. He sent people here to show his loyalty and explain why he attacked the two tribes. However, the instability on the grassland will naturally affect the neighboring Yunzhou. There's been a lot of chaos there recently. The Yunzhou governor contracted the plague while rescuing people and has already..."
Zhou Man sighed and said, "There aren't many people infected yet, but they're all sealed off in Yunzhou. If they can't get treatment in time and a civil uprising breaks out, as long as someone breaks out, it's bound to affect the entire Hebei Province, and even the neighboring Hedong Province won't be spared."
"I had already decided to go there myself, and now that something like this has happened, I might as well take her with me."
Mingda: “Are you crazy?”
She frowned, "You refused to take her to the plague in the south this spring. The plague is so dangerous, why did you..."
Zhou Man turned her head to look at Bai Jingxing, and Bai Jingxing also stared at her with wide eyes.
Zhou Man waved at her, and when she came over, he patted her head and said to Mingda, "Although it's not what we wanted, Bai Shan and I have rarely been with them in the past few years. We spend one-third of each year outside the capital, and the rest of the time is mostly busy with government affairs. We have little time to teach them, so they are confused. Especially Jingxing, she is already ten years old."
Mingda: "She is only ten years old."
"Yeah, she's only ten years old. If she's just mischievous like any other ten-year-old, it's nothing." Zhou Man said directly in front of Bai Jingxing, "She's smart. Like Bai Shan, she has a photographic memory and learns things very quickly. So at the age of ten, she's already learned how to form cliques and factions, and how to quietly isolate some classmates, provoke them, and bully them..."
Bai Jingxing puffed up her cheek in dissatisfaction, and Zhou Man poked her cheek and said, "Don't be unconvinced, these little tricks are just leftovers from your father's past."
"Jingxing, you are smart, but you don't have a tolerant heart. I'm afraid of you." Zhou Man gently embraced her, looked at her seriously and said, "So this time, will you come with me to Yunzhou?"
Bai Jingxing was not afraid of the plague. In her heart, her mother was very capable, especially in medicine. There might be no disease in the world that her mother could not cure. So she nodded and felt that she could go out and play again.
Zhou Man patted her head and said to Mingda, who was about to speak but hesitated, "Don't worry, she is my daughter. I am the last person in the world who would harm her."
In private, Zhou Man and Mingda sighed, "It's my and Bai Shan's fault. We paid too little attention to her and didn't even realize when she changed her temperament."
Mingda said, "You're exaggerating. I don't think she's changed her character. The factions in the school don't just happen to be formed on their own."
She smiled and said, "She was born into wealth and status. Her father is now the Minister of Revenue, and her mother is the Director of the Imperial Medical Bureau. Princess Liyang is deeply loved by the emperor, so naturally we can't expect her to be as plain and pure as you were when you were little."
Zhou Man shook his head. "Of course I know she's different from me, but that's not what I care about. My daughter lives a happy life, and I'm happy for her. I don't expect her to be the same as me."
She said, "What I care about is that her principle of dealing with things has become to be fair to people rather than to the matter."
"She's certainly not alone in forming cliques at school, but she'll do the opposite of what the other side wants to do, regardless of whether it's right or wrong. She'll target any classmates who align themselves with the other side, regardless of whether they're good or bad, and some of them are far below her in status," Zhou Man said, frowning. "She's completely lost her compassion. She was like this when she was little, so what's going to happen when she grows up?"
Zhou Man paused and looked at Mingda, "When did Mingxue become like this? The factional struggles in the court today are not this intense."
Mingda said helplessly, "Where do you think they learned this from? They learned it from the court and the Imperial Academy. If you say they are worse than the factional struggles in the court, I don't agree. They are only fighting for grades and some reputation in the school. How can that compare to the factional struggles in the court?"
She said, "They are still a group of children."
Zhou Man shook his head gravely. "While there are factional disputes among officials in the court, the vast majority are able to focus on the issue rather than the person. They won't oppose someone just for the sake of opposing their opinion, nor will they support something they deeply oppose just to oppose their opinion. You think their issues are minor, but that's simply because the things they can do right now are small. But if you look at their hearts, what do you think of them right now?"
"Mingda, Mingxue needs to be rectified." There are nearly three hundred students in Mingxue, but in fact, only a few dozen of them form cliques. The other students are still studying hard, but if it is not rectified from the beginning, Mingxue will definitely change in the future.
Mingda also turned serious, "Are you really going to take Jingxing to Yunzhou?"
Zhou Man said, "I've taken her on business trips before, but at that time I felt sorry for her young age. When we got to a place, I mainly asked someone to take her around to play and see the scenery and food in different places. I just wanted her to be happy, and I didn't think too much about it."
"But now, I feel that I have been too protective of her. Mr. is right. Bai Shan and I felt guilty about the children, so we lost our composure when facing them."
So Zhou Man decided to change it.
Mingda couldn't persuade him any further, so he could only say, "Then please be careful."
Zhou Man nodded and said, "Don't worry."
Zhou Man wrote a letter to Bai Shan, who was still on a business trip, and the two discussed the issue of children's education.
Bai Shan said that he would finish his work as soon as possible and return to Beijing, and then he would focus on educating his two sons who stayed in Beijing.
It’s better not to talk about the miserable childhoods of Xia Mu and Bai Changsong caused by this, because none of them were as miserable as Bai Jingxing’s.
Before arriving in Yunzhou, Bai Jingxing always felt that she was still young. After all, she was only ten years old, and her family always treated her as a child.
But after entering Yunzhou, she saw little girls younger than her struggling to survive, some even selling themselves just to get a bowl of medicine for their families, and she no longer felt so young.
Bai Jingxing sniffed, stacked the empty bowls on the tray and put them aside for the woman to wash. She glanced at the sign next to the stove, took six bowls of medicine, put them on the tray, and then took them to the shed for the patient to take.
Those who live here are all patients who are so sick that they cannot get up, and need someone to bring them medicine and water.
See you tomorrow, there is another chapter tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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