Mr. Xue first took out the "Book of Songs". The first poem in the "Book of Songs" is "Guanju". Mi Niang wanted to laugh when she heard the first sentence. Emperor Longping did say these words to her, but this was a love poem between adults. However, at their age, they were like half-ripe peaches, half red and half ripe.
At this age, she is not yet in puberty, but she knows a little bit, maybe only half of it, which is very embarrassing.
But Mi Niang's focus was on the rare characters in the poem. She still didn't recognize many of the characters. In her previous life, she learned to read from those female officials, but she only had a superficial understanding of them. So she always read more books for fear of showing her weakness.
Mr. Xue also spoke very carefully, explaining almost word for word. After listening, Mr. Xue continued to study "Ge Tan". He spent the first half of the afternoon reading except for drinking water.
After that, everyone was asked to take out their tracing books and start tracing the poems they learned today, "Guanju" and "Ge Tan". Mr. Xue saw that Mi Niang was not familiar with holding the pen, so he came down to teach her how to hold the pen and asked her if she could understand.
Because Mr. Xue did not teach according to the orthodox method of starting with the Three Hundred Thousands and then reading the Four Books and Five Classics, Mi Niang also thought that girls did not need to take the imperial examinations. Also, she heard that Mr. Xue only taught female students in the academy for three years at most.
The most important thing is to enable women to cultivate their temperament, be well-educated and well-mannered.
"Sir, I have marked the words I don't know. If you don't understand something, you can go back and look it up in the dictionary or in the pronunciation guide. But my own words..." Mi Niang felt embarrassed when she said this.
She had never received any systematic training in her previous life, and her handwriting was always wrong. The emperor doted on her and sometimes asked her to teach him how to write. However, the emperor was very busy and could not teach her often as he also had military and national affairs to attend to, as well as various sacrifices. So she had to write on her own.
Although he can write properly, the characters are like dog's handwriting and have no pen tip.
Seeing that she was so eager to learn, Mr. Xue gave her a copy of a calligraphy work, which made Mi Niang very happy.
Even during lunch class, she wrote tirelessly.
"You have to hold your pen still here, and your wrist can't move."
Mi Niang felt a dark shadow in front of her eyes. When she looked up, it was the second Miss Guo, Guo Yaoxian, who was looking at her with a smile.
"Thank you very much. This is my first time writing and I don't know anything."
Guo Yaoxian was surprised: "Your father is so talented, how come you have never held a pen?"
"I'm only six years old, it's normal that I didn't hold a pen." Even boys only start to learn at the age of five or six.
Guo Yaoxian nodded and said "tsk tsk" twice: "You are quite tall. I am eight years old this year, two years older than you. We are the same height."
"Hehe." Mi Niang laughed twice and continued writing.
Just as people often say that reading a book a hundred times will make its meaning clear, the same is true for writing. More haste makes waste, and you need to practice diligently.
The girls at the back were chattering because they had learned "Guanju" today. The little girls wanted to talk about that topic but were afraid of being accused of being disrespectful, so they had to hold back.
Ji Chunfang and Guo Yaoyu are the oldest and they interact the most with each other. If Mi Niang, Zhou Furou and Luo Qiujun are all children, then Ji Chunfang and Guo Yaoyu can be considered young girls.
When no one noticed them, Ji Chunfang pouted and asked, "Why didn't your sister-in-law come today?"
Guo Yaoyu shook her head: "Say less and don't mention what my sister-in-law said. If she heard it, she would be suspicious. You know, if there is a stepfather, there will be a stepmother. My father is a kind man. When she was three years old, she was engaged to my eldest brother. Later, her mother passed away and my father remarried. Her father's stepmother was not an ordinary person. That's why my father let my nine-year-old brother marry her when she was seven years old and brought her to our house. Although she is my sister-in-law now, my mother treats her as her daughter and she is studying like us, so don't call her that. Besides, she is weak and my mother doesn't allow her to go out in the wind."
Ji Chunfang laughed and said, "Please forgive me for being blunt. Well, to be honest, your mother treats her better than you treat all of you."
"Stop talking and talk about yourself. You went to the provincial capital this time. I have never been there since I was a child. Tell me about the hustle and bustle of the provincial capital." Guo Yaoyu looked at Ji Chunfang with sparkling eyes.
As for Mi Niang, she only then understood why Tao Chun'er mentioned Wang Sumin but didn't know how to introduce her. Wang Sumin had already married into the Guo family, and the Guo family treated her very well.
However, among the girls of their age, some are engaged, but most of them have never been married, which makes Wang Sumin different.
But Mi Niang envied Wang Sumin. At least the family she was engaged to was very trustworthy and kind, unlike the marriage her father arranged for her, where the man directly broke off the engagement.
However, it cannot be considered as a direct cancellation of the engagement. Originally, my father had planned for the two families to exchange tokens, and then get engaged after he became an official. However, he did not expect that my father would be found dead on the street that year.
After thinking for a moment, she continued writing and did not stop until lunch.
Although the lunch was simple, the dishes were not bad. There was a bowl of white rice, a plate of fried pork with pepper, and a plate of fish cake soup. I ate it all and then stood up and walked around.
The rest of the people didn't eat much. Guo Yaoxian and Guo Yaoyu didn't move their chopsticks much, while Ji Chunfang seemed a little dissatisfied with the food and took out a bag of snacks to eat.
As for Zhou Furou, she also took out a pack of snacks, which were packed in a box. When Ji Chunfang saw it, she smiled and said, "These snacks of yours were sent by Madam Zhang. They look like official snacks."
Zhou Furou was not stingy and shared it with everyone, even Mi Niang got a piece.
After the division, Zhou Furou asked in confusion: "Sister Ji, you are really smart. How did you know that?"
Ji Chunfang said proudly: "This plum blossom square cake is made by my uncle's family, how could I not know it? It is only used as a reward by the government, and ordinary people cannot eat it."
After that, Ji Chunfang spoke a lot more in a very proud manner.
Zhou Furou admired him very much and praised him several times.
Mi Niang had just arrived and didn't know anyone, nor was she easy to talk to. She got up too early today, so she stood to digest for a while and then sat on the table to take a nap.
She took a nap and went to the toilet again. Tao Chun'er took her there. Of course, Tao Chun'er's family was not idle either. Her family ran a rice shop and she was also a rich girl, but she was not as high-profile as Ji Chunfang.
In fact, her family background might be the lowest here. A girl like Ji Chunfang, whose family is rich, could hire ten teachers, but her family made her study in a private school, which shows that she was sent out to socialize.
Ji Chunfang's target is the Guo sisters, Luo Qiujun and others. She treats Tao Chun'er indifferently, and as for Zhou Furou, she wants to make friends with Mrs. Zhang, the inspector behind her.
This is easy to understand. The Guo sisters were born into a family of officials. Their father was a prison student. Prison students could take the imperial examinations or be sent out to serve as officials after serving in prison for about twelve years. Even Guo Yaoxian's brother was a well-known child prodigy, as Tao Chun'er had just mentioned.
No matter how powerful you are as a businessman, you can't compare to an official.
The same goes for Luo Qiujun. Her father is a county teacher, and she also has an elder brother who has passed the county examination at the age of fourteen, which is quite remarkable.
As for Tao Chun'er, although she is a nice person, her family is also a merchant like her. Mi Niang's father is only a scholar, so she is not worthy of Ji Chunfang's friendship.
It seems that wherever there are people, there is a world of martial arts.
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