Queen Dugu chatted with the two elders for a long time. All the little boys on the ground were tired from playing and fell asleep, but she was still chattering away.
What she meant was that she would send one group of people, and the Great Zhou would send another group, to Dalang Prefecture to warmly welcome the King of Liusha and Gu Xin and their group, and also to welcome the princes and princesses from other countries in the west.
Grandma Gu had no objection to this, and Grandpa Gu agreed first, planning to have Qianliang cooperate more with the Goddess Kingdom. Their Xinxin had suffered for more than a year, and she needed to be properly welcomed back.
So, Queen Dugu stayed at the Gu family's residence for three days, discussed matters with Qian Liangduo and Madam Peng, and then went back to make arrangements.
As for her daughter, who had always sided with outsiders, she changed into boys' clothing and started attending classes with Gu Ren every day.
Gu Ren is six years old this year and has already gone to study at Gu's Academy with other children his age. Dugu Mingyue is four years old this year. She could recite poems with Gu Ren when she was three years old and knows some characters, but she can't write them yet. Going to the academy is a good thing for her.
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In the desert, the eastward-bound caravan was resting at an oasis, feeding the camels water and filling their containers with drinking water as well.
After traveling for several days, Cai Xiaolian was a little tired and was looking out from inside the carriage.
Gu Shouxin brought hot water and some dry food to the carriage, handed them to Cai Xiaolian, and asked, "Are you feeling unwell? Should we rest here for a couple more days? Or should Xinxin bring a jade bead to eat?"
Cai Xiaolian took the things and shook her head: "It's okay, I'll be fine after I eat some. I'm probably feeling a bit bored from eating dry rations these past few days."
Gu Shouxin sat down and patted Cai Xiaolian's back: "We'll reach Dalang Prefecture in about twenty more days. Just bear with it, it'll pass."
Cai Xiaolian laughed: "Speaking of Renren, I wonder if that kid is going to school seriously now. You're not home, and Dad spoils the child. That kid is very clever, I'm really afraid he won't want to go to school."
Gu Shouxin said, “He wouldn’t dare. Father might go along with him, but Mother wouldn’t. No matter how talented he is, he’s no match for Mother. My eldest brother, fourth brother, and I all studied until we were fourteen, and no matter how well we did, we had to go. In my mother’s heart, children, whether male or female, should be in school at a certain point in their lives. If there were no schools that accepted girls, I would have to come back and teach my third brother. In this respect, Mother is quite the same as people of your generation.”
Gu Shouxin had already integrated all of the original owner's memories several years ago, and now it was as if he had experienced the original owner's previous thirty years himself, which sounded very natural.
Cai Xiaolian also strongly agreed with what Gu Shouxin said. Perhaps because her adoptive mother-in-law had the blood of the Goddess Kingdom and lived in the Great Zhou Dynasty, where women were respected in one place and men were respected in another, she believed that men and women were equal.
The Gu Family Academy, run by the Gu family, had a girls' class. Girls aged six to twelve in Kunzhou Prefecture were required to attend the school, not for the imperial examinations, but simply to learn to read and do arithmetic. Moreover, it was free; only books were provided initially, and later students had to purchase their own writing materials.
After Cai Xiaolian and Gu Nian invented charcoal pencils, they saved the students at the academy a lot of money on ink and paper.
In present-day Kunzhou, the happiness level of its people has surpassed that of all other places because women in Kunzhou are treated much better than those in other prefectures.
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