Chapter 173
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Yang Shiming gave Xingxing a nickname called Cheng Zhao. The child is only three years old now. The fourth prince is just three and a half years old, and the fifth prince is a few months older than Cheng Zhao.
Cheng Yeran brought the children into the palace every day to teach these three little kids who couldn't even speak clearly.
He looked at the three three-year-old children and couldn't help but sigh, "I'm the principal of a kindergarten, and these young children can't even play house. Your Majesty is too anxious."
The three children didn’t know why Cheng Yeran sighed, but they imitated him and sighed.
Cheng Yeran: "You don't need to learn this!"
The three little kids tilted their heads and looked at him with puzzled eyes.
Cheng Yeran thought, it is difficult to disobey the emperor's order, forget it, since I am the principal of this kindergarten, I will run it well.
Although he has attended kindergarten, his memory of it is already very vague, but we must not be so serious.
He asked someone to come and remodel the classroom. First, he laid soft mats on the floor so the children wouldn't get hurt when playing on the floor. Then he replaced the tables and chairs with a large table so that the three children could sit around it together.
He also brought a blackboard, chalk, building blocks, craft books, origami books, toys, and drew some literacy cards...
He had other things to do. He taught a few children for an hour every day, and had to attend the morning court and work in the news department for the rest of the time.
He also didn't make things too boring for the kids. Sometimes he played the piano and taught them to sing, sometimes he let them draw freely, occasionally taught them a few words, sometimes he took them to do handicrafts, and even took them to catch insects or pick some flowers and plants.
That day he was taking the three little ones to pick flowers in a small garden outside the school. The emperor came over to see how his teaching was going.
The emperor saw that he had made the school look garish, and the children were all dirty. The fifth prince was holding a grasshopper in his hand, and the fourth prince picked a flower and wore it on his head. Cheng Zhao was standing behind them with his hands behind his back, looking like a little adult. The emperor was both angry and amused.
"Is this how you act as their teacher?" The emperor wanted the fourth prince to be the crown prince in the future. Now that he plays around with Cheng Yeran every day, he will become a fool in the future.
"I'm teaching them to observe and learn more about things." Cheng Yeran said with a straight face.
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Changing the color.
"Where are the toys in that room?" asked the emperor.
"Cultivate their hands-on ability and teamwork ability." Cheng Yeran continued.
"Where are those paintings?" The emperor asked, controlling his temper when he saw the messy paintings.
"This is to cultivate their creativity. Children this young cannot be forced, otherwise their natural talents will be worn away." Cheng Yeran called the three little ones over and said, "Show the emperor what you have learned recently."
A few children wrote a few words. Although their handwriting was crooked, they looked very skilled. Then Cheng Yeran started playing the piano and asked them to sing.
The emperor was originally impatient and asked them to stop singing, and even wanted to find someone else to teach the children, but then he heard them singing several poems.
It is impossible for a three-year-old child to memorize these poems, but Cheng Yeran composed the tune of a nursery rhyme to make it more interesting, so they sang it. Although they didn't know what they were singing, they remembered it. It won't be too late to slowly figure it out when they grow up.
The emperor originally thought that Cheng Yeran was just fooling around, but these children could write and recite poems. Other three-year-old children could not speak clearly, but they spoke fluently. Cheng Yeran’s teaching method seemed childish, but it was very efficient.
The emperor even forgot what he was doing when he was three years old. He was probably still peeing and playing in the mud. He didn't expect that these three children could write and recite poems. Cheng Yeran is really amazing.
He recalled that when he was a child, not just himself, but all the children in the academy were afraid of the teacher and were unwilling to study. They regarded studying as a very painful thing. However, he saw that these little ones all liked Cheng Yeran very much. He heard from the Fourth Prince's wife that the Fourth Prince clamored to go to school every day.
Although the Fifth Prince is a boy, he is also the first boy the Emperor has had after traveling through time. Although his mother is vicious, this also became a reason for the Emperor to feel even more sorry for the Fifth Prince. He handed the Fifth Prince over to the Queen to raise. The Queen also said that although the Fifth Prince was frail and sickly, he still clamored to go to school when he was sick in bed.
This may be Cheng Yeran's unique charm. Even if you change the teacher, you can't achieve this effect.
But the emperor still felt that what they did was too improper. What if the children became disorderly when they grew up? We still have to invite a proper teacher into the palace so that two of us can teach the child together.
Finally, the emperor chose Yang Shiming as the candidate. Yang Shiming inherited Feng Ge Lao's knowledge and was somewhat better than his teacher, so it was most appropriate to invite him.
The two of them taught the three little ones at different times. A serious person like Yang Shiming was speechless when he saw the colorful classroom decorated by Cheng Yeran on his first day in the palace. He thought that how could such a sacred place be made so fancy? How could the children be expected to respect knowledge?
Cheng Yeran drove the little ones over and asked them to sit in a row. "Children this young should not understand what reverence is. At least wait until they are six or seven years old, and then teach them seriously as you said."
Yang Shiming was very dissatisfied when he saw him driving a few children over like driving ducks in the countryside. The two of them rarely had disagreements on anything before, and they would give each other advice when encountering problems. He never expected that one day they would have a disagreement on the education of their children.
Finally, Yang Shiming compromised amid the loud crying and shouting of the three children.
The children were crying, and he put on a stern face, and the children cried even harder. His seriousness would only backfire, and Cheng Yeran was able to coax them quickly.
Yang Shiming said that he would only give Cheng Yeran three years, and after three years, this place must be transformed into a formal school.
In a few years, the Queen's children will also come here to attend classes, and the Queen will definitely not allow them to act like this.
Cheng Yeran said: "Then do as you say. Don't be too anxious. My happy education method is very useful. My child is also studying here. Can I harm him?"
After he finished speaking, Yang Shiming saw Cheng Yeran pick up the child, let the child ride on his neck, and then took the child out of the palace.
Yang Shiming felt that Cheng Yeran was spoiling the child, which was not good for the child, and he would have to be stricter in the future.
After get off work every day, Cheng Yeran would take the children to Jinyulou to find Shen Yuntang, and then the family of three would go home together.
Recently Shen Yuntang has organized a new activity. He made a three-layer birthday cake and offered it to his idol as a gift when anyone bought the cake. Many people lined up to buy it. The three-layer cake was very big and Shen Yuntang couldn't make it by himself, so he needed his apprentices to help him. He was busy until very late every day before going home.
Before, he went to bed early and got up early in order to keep his body healthy for having a baby. Now Cheng Zhao is three years old. After experiencing the pain last time, he was afraid that he would forget it again, so he wrote down the feeling of pain in a notebook. Whenever he wanted to have a child, he would take out the notebook and take a look at it to enhance his memory.
In fact, in addition to three-layer cakes, he has also made nine-layer cakes. Before the emperor's birthday banquet, Cheng Yeran discussed with him what to give to the emperor. Shen Yuntang suggested making a cake that is both beautiful and delicious, and different from others. A nine-layer cake can even outshine all the others.
Cheng Yeran felt that he had worked too hard, so he might as well just buy something decent. Shen Yuntang said that this was an opportunity to show off in front of the emperor. The emperor usually valued him so much, so they should let the emperor know that they were grateful.
If even the emperor says that the cake is delicious, it can be used as a gimmick in a magazine to advertise their cakes.
Shen Yuntang and his apprentices prepared for a long time, from designing the size and pattern of the cake to the taste, everything was carefully designed to be perfect.
After it was done, Cheng Yeran was surprised. He had seen such tall cakes at other people’s weddings. This was definitely a presentable gift.
After it was sent to the palace, the emperor liked it very much. He gave a piece to each of the concubines in the harem, and also gave a piece to the empress dowager and the grand empress dowager. Before all of them were distributed, he gave a piece to each of the ministers, and only then did he barely finish dividing the cake.
The Empress Dowager and the Grand Empress Dowager were old and had bad teeth, so they could not eat anything too hard. The texture of this cake was just right, especially the cream on top. The Grand Empress Dowager loved it so much that she wanted to ask the pastry chef to come to the palace to make cakes specifically for her.
The emperor knew that Shen Yuntang could not enter the palace to be an imperial chef, but his apprentice could. The emperor asked Shen Yuntang to choose an apprentice to enter the palace to be an imperial chef.
The first two apprentices Shen Yuntang accepted were two girls, and later he accepted several boys. There was no precedent for having girls and boys as imperial chefs, but in order to satisfy the Empress Dowager, the Emperor specially arranged a separate kitchen and residence for his apprentices so that they did not have to live with other imperial chefs.
When the Empress Dowager saw the apprentice who was sent to the palace, she found that she was a smart little girl and liked her very much. She often called her to her side to talk. Her status in the palace also increased because of the Empress Dowager's preference.
Shen Yuntang's cake also became famous because of this birthday party. More people would come to them to order a cake for their birthday, either to eat themselves or to give as a gift to others on their birthdays.
Shen Yuntang also planned to open a cake shop. He didn't have any apprentices before, and he was afraid that he would be too busy to take care of both the restaurant and the cake shop by himself. Now that he has more apprentices, he doesn't have to worry too much.
When Cheng Yeran brought Cheng Zhao over, Shen Yuntang had just baked a batch of cookies. He gave Cheng Zhao a bag and told him to play with it by himself first and he would play with him after he was done.
Cheng Zhao took the biscuits and ate them while following behind Shen Yuntang. No matter what Shen Yuntang did, he would watch him, and one of his little hands was pulling the hem of Shen Yuntang's sleeve.
Cheng Yeran looked at this little guy. He had gained weight recently and his little face was as soft as a bun. No matter how serious his expression was, it couldn't hide his cute appearance.
"Xingxing won't become a mama's boy when he grows up, right?" Cheng Yeran deliberately teased Cheng Zhao.
Although Cheng Zhao didn't understand what his father meant, he knew it was not a good thing. He snorted, ignored him, and continued to circle around Shen Yuntang.
After a while, people from the escort agency brought a few letters, saying they were sent from their hometown.
The escort agency was the one opened by Shao Hui. Over the years, it has opened branches all over the country. It uses the express delivery model that Cheng Yeran mentioned, and delivering letters is more convenient and faster than before.
"Letters from my parents, and also from Lu Wei and the others. They sent letters during this unusual time of year. Is there something wrong?" Shen Yuntang quickly put down the work at hand and opened the letters.
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